Campus Watch in the Media

Campus Watch Issues Challenge to Juan Cole

by Winfield Myers
History News Network
March 25, 2010

http://hnn.us/roundup/14.html#124824

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9366

[Winfield Myers is director of Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.]

University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole is desperate for you to know that he is eminently qualified to speak publicly on the Middle East. He is, we are told in the opening paragraph of his recent response to the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg,

[a] Middle East expert who lived in the Muslim world for nearly 10 years, travels widely there, speaks the languages, writes history from archives and manuscripts and follows current affairs ...

But from this triumphalist beginning, the story takes a tragic turn...

[Ed. note: The partial text of "Juan Cole: The Ted Williams of Middle East Studies?" follows.]

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