What Bernard Lewis Taught, and Learned from, World Leaders in a Lifetime of Conversations https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2023/06/what-bernard-lewis-taught-and-learned-from-world-leaders-in-a-lifetime-of-conversation/

June 26, 2023 | Martin Kramer
About the author: Martin Kramer is a historian at Tel Aviv University and the Walter P. Stern fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He served as founding president at Shalem College in Jerusalem.

In his long career as the preeminent scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis was consulted by numerous heads of state and high-ranking officials, including from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, the Israeli prime ministers Golda Meir, Yitzḥak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Moammar Ghaddafi, and, most famously, Dick Cheney. Martin Kramer describes and analyzes many of these encounters, and reflects on the relationship between scholarship and the wielding of political power. (Video, 1 hour.)

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