Middle East studies in the News

Scholar's Visa Denial Upheld [on Tariq Ramadan]

Insider Higher Education
December 21, 2007

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/21/visa

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4631

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The case of Tariq Ramadan has become central to efforts by academic and civil liberties groups to challenge the denial of U.S. visas to foreign scholars. And on Thursday, a federal judge handed those groups a defeat by upholding the right of the government to deny a visa to Ramadan, a prominent Muslim scholar who has been unable to enter the United States to accept a position at the University of Notre Dame.

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