Martin Kramer is an Israeli-American historian and scholar of the Middle East, born on January 10, 1961. He began his undergraduate studies in Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University under Itamar Rabinovich but completed his BA in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He earned his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, supervised by Fouad Ajami, L. Carl Brown, Charles Issawi, and Bernard Lewis. Kramer had a 25-year academic career at Tel Aviv University, where he directed the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He served as a visiting professor at Brandeis University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and Georgetown University, and was twice a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. He was a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), editor of the Middle East Quarterly, and a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. Kramer founded Shalem College, Israel’s first liberal arts college, serving as its president and continuing to teach modern Middle East history. His personal website, martinkramer.org, hosts his weblog Sandbox and a collection of his published works.