He also taught at Georgetown University, was a resident Senior Associate Member at St. He taught mainly at the University of Haifa, where he also served as Head of the Department of Middle East Studies, Director of the Middle East Institute and the Jewish-Arab Center, and founder and first director of the Centers for Iraq Studies and The Ezri Center for the Study of Iran and the Persian Gulf. in 1986 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Amatzia Baram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Haifa in Israel. Then one of them grabbed it by the tail, threw it back into the water and said: "There is no such fish." This happened to me three time in my research: In each case, for many months, I threw impossible fish back into the water, until one morning I stopped, opened my eyes, and felt: "Ahaa!" Two new books, on Ba'thi Islam and Ba'thi territorial-Mesopotamian nationalism, and two new articles, on Ba'thi neo-tribalism and Shi'is in the Ba'thi elite were born."ĭr.
One morning the travelers found an amazing fish. Every morning they had a guaranteed breakfast because they just had to collect the fish that landed during the night on their raft (fish jump often out of the water as you know, and usually splash back, but some landed on the large flat raft).
"In my career as historian of the ME with special interest in Iraq I came three times across what I am calling, 'The Kon-Tiki Syndrome and the 'Ahaa' Awakening.' The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer, Thor Heyerdahl.
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