"We should be skeptical, " said Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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Mr. AJAMI: There's no country in the Islamic world which has the industrial power of Germany.

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In November 2011, some time after his return to Qatar, Mr Ajami was arrested.

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The game is meant for a mainstream audience across all demographics, Ajami said.

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Stevens was well-regarded among Libyans, said Fouad Ajami, an expert on Islamic politics.

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It was on 24 August 2010 that Mohammed al-Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, visited an apartment in Cairo.

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In the company of seven other people, Mr Ajami recited his latest poem, a paean to the Tunisian Revolution.

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As he was led away after the hearing, Mr Ajami shouted "There is no law for this", Reuters news agency reported.

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Mr Ajami did not even recite it in public, but just "to his colleagues and friends inside an apartment", he adds.

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Mr. Ajami is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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Last week, a judge postponed Mr Ajami's trial for the fifth time.

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Mr. Ajami is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-chair of Hoover's Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.

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Mr Ajami, also known as Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb, had previously recited a poem that criticised Qatar's emir and was posted online in August 2010.

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Pipes's nomination has been endorsed by, among others, Fouad Ajami, Walter Berns, Donald Kagan, Sir John Keegan, Paul Kennedy, Harvey Mansfield and James Q.

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Mohammed al-Ajami's sentence was reduced to 15 years, his lawyer said.

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Outspoken liberals such as the Lebanese-American, Fouad Ajami, who wholeheartedly applauds the policy, are in a small minority, at least among Arabs prepared to go public.

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Professor Ajami, we were just speaking with Zbigniew Brzezinski, who said that the U.S. is getting deeper and deeper into a conflict which it, quote, fundamentally misunderstands.

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Mohammed Ajami, a father-of-four, has never disputed that he is the author of the poem, but has said it was not meant to be offensive or seditious.

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Professor FOUAD AJAMI (Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies): Well, first of all, it would stand to reason that Zbigniew Brzezinski would say so, and I think Mr. Brzezinski should know something about getting lost in the alleyways of the Middle East.

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Ibrahim Ajami, the CEO of ATIC, told me that government and business leaders had identified semiconductors as a core business to compete, part of a long-range 2030 plan to transition the economy from oil and gas business to high technology and to build its own chip foundries.

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