Sarah Ihmoud is an up and coming cultural anthropologist and currently a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University's Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. BU is reportedly close to hiring her for a full-time teaching... 
University of Delaware Professor Muqtedar Khan had a "very bad mix" of Islamic terminology and Western liberalism in his October 9 Georgetown University book presentation, according to Iranian scholar Amir Mohammad Soori. A... 
[Jihad Watch title is "Profs at Infamous Saudi-Sponsored Academic Center Advocate Iranian Hegemony, Downgrade Saudi-American Ties."] Speakers at a September 12 panel at a conference on democracy in the Muslim world reflected... 
On the same late September day that Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, a self-declared anti-Semite, spoke before a packed and supportive audience at Columbia University and questioned the number of Jews killed in the... 
[Ed. note: text differs slightly from the Daily Wire's.] "If you want to identify people who are okay with suicide bombing, I can give you a list," including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Michigan State University Professor of Religious... 
Since the trade publication Inside Higher Ed revealed on Sept. 17 that the Department of Education's Robert King, assistant secretary for postsecondary education, warned the Duke/UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies (CMES)... 
In the years since 9/11, the Islamic reform movement has advanced sufficiently that two distinct camps have emerged: reformers and bridge-builders. Genuine reformers seek to transform how Islam is practiced, while bridge-builders... 
[The Daily Wire's title is "In Whitewashing Islamism, Some K-12 Programs Advance Jihad."] You may have read about the proposed ethnic studies curriculum developed for California public high schools, which caused an uproar because... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"The intelligent-but-lost zombie character is brought to the very edge of anxious modernity. They have to look past modernity and colonialism and also reflect on their pasts to make sense of it all." University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Samuel England in a lecture on "Arab Zombie Arts" at Binghamton University; October 31, 2019. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"Then, in 1978, the entire field of Middle Eastern Studies was revolutionized by the late professor of English comparative literature at Columbia University, Edward Said, with the publication of his book, 'Orientalism.' The treatise was that no one could speak with any degree of scholarship and authenticity about the Middle East unless he or she was a native of the region (i.e., an Arab or a Muslim). . . . A cannon of almost biblical proportion developed. Edward Said was the grand master, and his disciples include (among many others) Rashid Khalidi, Hamid Dabashi, and Joseph Massad at Columbia, and Hatem Bazian, the founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, which has known links to terrorist organizations." Sarah N. Stern, founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), in the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), August 21, 2019. (link to source) CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds. |
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