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Juan Cole Strikes a Pose as Freedom's Hero, but There's More to the Story
By Winfield Myers  |  Tue, 24 Apr 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Juan Cole, professor of history at Michigan, former president of MESA, and erstwhile chaired professor at Yale, will take part in a "workshop" on May 3 at Brown University. Titled "The Study of the Middle East and Islam: Challenges after 9-11," the ...

Walid Shoebat and "Three Ex-Terrorists" Deemed Too Controversial for Public Consumption at Stanford, No Such Problems With Finkelstein
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Fri, 13 Apr 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: On Monday, April 16, Walid Shoebat and two other former terrorists-turned-anti-jihadists, Kamal Saleem and Zak Anani, are slated to speak at Stanford University. Sponsored by the ASSU Speakers Bureau, the Stanford College Republicans, and The Stanford ...

The Apotheosis of Middle East Studies
By Winfield Myers  |  Fri, 13 Apr 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Campus Watch does not take a stand on questions of tenure. It does, however, insist that anyone concerned about the course of America's institutions of higher education has a legitimate role to play in public debates on academe. This debate has ...

DePaul University Director of Islamic Studies and Finkelstein Ally Helps Sabotage PBS Documentary on Moderate Muslims
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Tue, 10 Apr 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: In an example of Western academia trying to stifle the voices of reform from the Islamic world, it seems that Aminah Beverly McCloud, the director of the Islamic World Studies program at DePaul University, helped sabotage the airing of a documentary on ...

Speakers at UC Berkeley "Iraq: Four Years after 'Freedom'" Event Don't Bode Well for Balance
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Mon, 9 Apr 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: "Iraq: Four Years after 'Freedom,'" an event at the University of California at Berkeley tonight (April 9), is the kick-off for the Arab American Legal Services, a program founded in February, 2007 by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the ...

UCLA "Covering Lebanon" Conference: Media Criticism or Israel Bashing?
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Mon, 2 Apr 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: A conference on media coverage of the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict being held tomorrow (April 3) at the University of California, Los Angeles, looks to be yet another opportunity for anti-Israel invective. Titled "Covering Lebanon," the conference is ...