Bernard Lewis

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Person.png Bernard Lewis   Powerbase WikiquoteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(historian, neoconservative)
Bernard Lewis in 2012.jpg
Born1916-05-31
London, England, United Kingdom
Died2018-05-19 (Age 101)
New Jersey, USA
NationalityUS, British
Alma materSOAS, Sorbonne
ReligionJewish
Member ofCommittee for the Liberation of Iraq

Bernard Lewis was a British-American Jewish neoconservative historian specializing in oriental studies.[1]

He became a US citizen in 1982.

Background

He worked in the British Intelligence Corps in 1940–41.

Work

Lewis argued that the Middle East is currently backward and its decline was a largely self-inflicted condition resulting from both culture and religion.


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/197927 April 197929 April 1979Austria
Baden
Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf
27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria
Bilderberg/200124 May 200127 May 2001Sweden
Stenungsund
The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
Herzliya Conference/200721 January 200724 January 2007Israel
Tel Aviv
Reichman University
"The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action."
Washington Conference on International Terrorism24 June 198427 June 1984US
Washington DC
A key conference in establishing the "War On Terror", 5 years after the seminal Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism
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