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Libel Tourism: Silencing Scholarly Work on the Middle East
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Wed, 29 Aug 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: I have a new column at SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle, on the worrisome trend of "libel tourism" and how it's impacting various university publishing houses and, by extension, scholarly work on the Middle East. Authors who have ...

Academic Activism on Display in Berkeley: Bazian, Zunes, and "Friends of Sabeel"
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Thu, 23 Aug 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: UC Berkeley Near Eastern studies lecturer Hatem Bazian and University of San Francisco (USF) politics and international studies professor Stephen Zunes are among the speakers at a Friends of Sabeel – North America regional conference taking place on ...

Correcting the Record: Jesse Walker at Reason Misinterprets Campus Watch Archives on Nadia Abu El-Haj
By Winfield Myers  |  Mon, 20 Aug 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Writing at the blog of Reason Magazine, managing editor Jesse Walker assumes that articles posted under "Middle East studies in the News," one of the categories under which we archive articles on Middle East studies, should be critiqued by CW before ...

Appeasement Finds a Home in the Academy
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Sat, 18 Aug 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: I have a new Campus Watch column up at The American Thinker on the support for appeasement-based foreign policy among Middle East studies academics. Three in particular exemplify this trend. Read on: Instead of providing moral clarity in a time of war, ...

In Truth: Richard Silverstein's Fictions about Campus Watch, Paula Stern, and Nadia Abu El-Haj
By Winfield Myers  |  Fri, 17 Aug 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Richard Silverstein's blog is called, apparently without irony, Tikun-Olam: Make the World a Better Place. Silverstein apparently believes he can achieve this goal by lying about people, as he did this morning when he claimed that Paula Stern, a Barnard ...

Complementary Complaints about Campus Watch's Effectiveness
By Winfield Myers  |  Thu, 16 Aug 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt:   Lisa Anderson     Over the years Campus Watch has paid a good deal of attention to Lisa Anderson, former dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. So it was gratifying when she alluded to us in an article in Inside ...

"Indoctrinate U" Outtake on Columbia Exposes Hamid Dabashi's Bigotry
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Fri, 10 Aug 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature and Chairman of the Middle East Languages and Cultures department at Columbia University, figures prominently in the work of those of us trying to bring accountability ...

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