Middle East studies in the News

AAUP Blasts Move by Yale University Press

Inside Higher Ed
August 14, 2009

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/14/qt/aaup_blasts_move_by_yale_university_press

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8011

The American Association of University Professors issued a statement Thursday sharply criticizing a decision by the Yale University Press, first reported by The New York Times, to exclude from a book about the controversy over cartoon images of Muhammad the images themselves. The AAUP statement said that Yale's position effectively was: "We do not negotiate with terrorists. We just accede to their anticipated demands." The AAUP said that the issues involved are: "1) an author's academic freedom; 2) the reputation of the press and the university; 3) the impact of these twin decisions on other university presses and publication venues; 4) the potential to encourage broader censorship of speech by faculty members or other authors."

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