University of Denver Middle East studies professor Nader Hashemi provoked widespread shock recently by speculating that Israel orchestrated the August 12 attempted assassination of writer Salman Rushdie in upstate New York. Yet... 
The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) is an organization with the stated goal to "represent American institutions of higher education and research in the field of Iranian Studies." It has an impressive list of... 
Rutgers professor Sahar Aziz decries America's "systemic othering and consequent disadvantaging" of Muslims, but offers little evidence of their "traumatic collective experience." From Andrew E. Harrod. 
Pity the Bard of Avon. William Shakespeare has long been the subject of conspiracy theories, including some emanating from the Muslim world. Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi claimed in 1989 that Shakespeare was an Arab whose real... 
When students return to Oberlin College in Ohio in early September, some of them will be taking classes from religion professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who has been accused of helping to cover up a mass-murder while serving as...
A group of Iranian-American human rights activists and their allies will be protesting at Oberlin College's graduation ceremony in Ohio on Sunday, June 5 to draw attention to the Islamist leanings of one of its most prominent... 
Andrew E. Harrod picks apart the presentation of a "historically ignorant apologist for Islamism" at Georgetown's Saudi-financed Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. 
Andrew E. Harrod: "The hard realities of Israel's self-defense deserve critical analysis, not skewed polemics" on display at a recent Foundation for Middle East Peace webinar. 
Howler of the Month (archive)"The members of this association, now more than half a century old, have harnessed years of rigorous scholarship and intellectual output to conclude that solidarity with Palestinians must today deepen and expand." Noura Erakat, Rutgers University assistant professor of Africana Studies, defending the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) adoption of an academic boycott of Israel as its official policy, in "Why Our Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Will Hurt the Apartheid Regime"; Middle East Eye, April 13, 2022. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"Academics in U.S. universities are far more radical in many ways than the people who run some of the Arab Muslim countries." William Jacobson, founder of the Legal Insurrection website and clinical professor of law at Cornell University, in a discussion with the Breitbart News Network about the impending vote by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on whether to adopt BDS as its official policy. Interview posted at SoundCloud, December 19, 2021. (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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