Campus Watch
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.
If the People Who Run the Most Exclusive Universities Don’t Appear to Be the Smartest, Most Impressive People in the Nation, the Brand Suffers
“A straight line extended from Harvard and Oxford, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts directly to a foreign policy bureaucracy that viewed Middle Eastern rulers as rational modernizers, Middle Eastern societies as ready to reconcile with a contrite and philanthropic United States, and the Arab-Israeli conflict as a core dispute which, if resolved, could turn the entire region into Switzerland.”
Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., in “Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies (Part II)"; in “Clarity with Michael Oren,” April 16, 2024. (link to source)
Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., in “Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies (Part II)"; in “Clarity with Michael Oren,” April 16, 2024. (link to source)
MESA is a pillar of the field, and a constant advocate for the best in scholarship and teaching, as well as the broader principles of academic freedom, with respect to both study and pedagogy,”
Asli Bâl, president of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and professor of law at Yale, on MESA’s relocation to the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in Georgetown University’s (GU) Walsh School of Foreign Service; MESA press release, February 21, 2024. (link to source)
Asli Bâl, president of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and professor of law at Yale, on MESA’s relocation to the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in Georgetown University’s (GU) Walsh School of Foreign Service; MESA press release, February 21, 2024. (link to source)
