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Fear and Trembling at the Annual MESA Meeting
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Thu, 29 Nov 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt:   MESA President Zachary Lockman     At the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in Montreal earlier this month, fear and trembling were the order of the day. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education article, ...

John Esposito Blames the Christians
By Winfield Myers  |  Mon, 26 Nov 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Who would assess the Christian response to the letter from Muslim leaders, "A Common Word between Us and You," in the following words: This is an initiative that I think has some traction. And I know, there's a desire on the part of a critical mass of ...

Campus Watch Critiques, UC Santa Cruz Paper Cries "Censorship!"
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Fri, 16 Nov 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: In the latest issue of City on a Hill Press, the student newspaper for the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), reporter Marc Abizeid spins a bone-chilling tale of silenced professors and a Middle East studies field threatened by a shadowy ...

Darfur for Dummies (Care of UCLA's Sondra Hale)
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Wed, 14 Nov 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: In an article that came out earlier this week titled, "UCLA's Politicized Middle East Studies Professors," Campus Watch shed light on anthropology and women's studies professor Sondra Hale. Hale was interviewed by UCLA Today in April, 2006 about the ...

UCLA's Politicized Middle East Studies Professors
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Mon, 12 Nov 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: My latest Campus Watch column - posted today at Frontpage Magazine - examines several professors from UCLA's Center for Near Eastern Studies and, as is all too often the case when it comes to Middle East studies, finds them wanting in balance, ...

USC "Middle East Awareness Week" Features the Usual Suspects
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Fri, 9 Nov 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Dueling "awareness" weeks seem to be all the rage on college campuses these days, both for better and for worse. Potentially falling into the latter category is the "Middle East Awareness Week" taking place at the University of Southern California (USC) ...

Worshipping Edward Said at San Francisco State University
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Thu, 8 Nov 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: After a contentious two-year campaign waged by the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) and other supporters, a mural dedicated to the late Columbia University English and comparative literature professor Edward Said was unveiled at San Francisco ...

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