Terrorist in the Ivory Tower? The Curious Case of Hassan Diab

by Cinnamon Stillwell  •  Aug 13, 2009 at 11:26 am

http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2009/08/terrorist-in-the-ivory-tower-the-curious-case

My latest Campus Watch article, which is posted today at Frontpage Magazine, explores the intersection of Middle East studies and Islamic terrorism. It begins like so:

Do the ranks of Middle East studies professors include terrorists? If the allegations against University of Ottawa professor Hassan Diab are proved true, the answer will be yes.

Diab, a Lebanese-born dual Canadian citizen and author of Beirut: Reviving Lebanon's Past, is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Ottawa and until recently taught a part-time summer introductory sociology course at Carleton University in Ottawa. His job ended last month following allegations by French authorities that Diab was the leader of a commando team that perpetrated the 1980 bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris. The bombing, which was attributed to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Special Operations (PFLP-SO), a splinter group of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), killed three Frenchmen and an Israeli woman and wounded 20.

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