Jimmy Carter's Middle East Legacies

Kenneth Stein is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science, and Israel Studies at Emory University and President of the Atlanta-based Center for Israel Education. He is the author of The Land Question in Palestine, 1917–1939 (1984) and Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab–Israeli Peace (1999). From 1982 to 2006, while teaching at Emory, he was an adviser to former President Jimmy Carter on Middle Eastern matters.

In addition, Stein co-wrote with Carter The Blood of Abraham (1984). Stein and Carter spent hundreds of hours in private discussions about the Middle East, including on three major trips to the region in the 1980s. Just after the publication of Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Stein resigned from the Carter Center and ended his association with the former president. Consequently, Stein in 2006 pointed out the shortcomings, inventions, and flat out untruths in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. For his integrity the ADL honored him. To read Stein’s solid criticism, see "My Problem with Jimmy Carter’s Book" (2007).