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Archives: Posts From May 2007
Judith Shapiro Claims Nadia Abu El Haj Has Received a Death Threat; Will She Produce Evidence?
By Winfield Myers | Wed, 30 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: In email correspondence with Phil Orenstein, Barnard College president Judith Shapiro claims that archaeologist Nadia Abu El Haj, who is coming up for tenure at Barnard, has received a death threat. Shapiro's email was prompted by Orenstein's May 16 ...
The Muddled Mess of Middle East Studies
By Cinnamon Stillwell | Wed, 30 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: I've got a new Campus Watch article up at The American Thinker on a Stanford University symposium I attended earlier this month on the "state of Middle East studies." Speakers included Columbia University's Hamid Dabashi, UC Berkeley's Minoo Moallem, and ...
Correcting the Record: Inaccuracies in Bangkok Post's Portrayal of Campus Watch
By Winfield Myers | Tue, 29 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: The May 27 edition of the Bangkok Post carries an article by George S. McLeod titled "Witch Hunt." It purports to critique the "Israel lobby" for its efforts to influence the impending tenure decision of DePaul University professor Norman Finkelstein. ...
The Diversity Industry and Middle East Studies: A Whitman Sample
By Winfield Myers | Mon, 21 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: The intellectual and moral fraud that is "diversity" is on display in this job ad from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, is looking for a one-year sabbatical replacement in the history of the Islamic World. ...
Stanford Prof. Joel Beinin Dredges Up False "Death Threat" Claim Against Los Angeles Journalist
By Cinnamon Stillwell | Wed, 16 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: Stanford Middle East history professor and former president of the Middle East Studies Association Joel Beinin is known for letting his one-sided political perspectives invade the classroom. As former Stanford professor Steven Zipperstein told The Jewish ...
SPME Petition to Free Haleh Esfandiari
By Winfield Myers | Tue, 15 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) has launched a petition drive demanding that Iranian authorities immediately release Haleh Esfandiari of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She was imprisoned on May 10 at the infamous ...
UC Berkeley's Hatem Bazian: Academic or Activist?
By Cinnamon Stillwell | Thu, 10 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: Hatem Bazian is a senior lecturer in the department of Near Eastern studies, a member of the faculty advisory board in the religion, politics and globalization program, and an adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, ...
Iranian Ambassador Zarif to Address Columbia Middle East Seminar
By Cinnamon Stillwell | Wed, 2 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: Throughout the academic year, Columbia University holds a series of seminars, bringing together members of the university faculty and, as they put it, "experts and specialists in nonacademic pursuits," and "authorities in many fields of scholarship as ...
Campus Watch Article on Brown University's Middle East Studies Workshop
By Cinnamon Stillwell | Tue, 1 May 2007 | Permalink
Excerpt: My latest Campus Watch article looks at an upcoming Middle East studies workshop to be held at Brown University on May 3-4. Speakers include professors Stephen Walt (of "Israel Lobby" fame), Juan Cole (commented on below), Lisa Anderson, Elliot Colla, ...
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