MESA Up in Arms Over Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration

January 31, 2017

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The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has drafted a memo in opposition to President Trump’s executive order on immigration. MESA is up in arms over the “challenges and burdens” members could face, particularly the “violent ideologies” provision, which, it warns, could lead to “misinformed understandings of the Islamic faith.”

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.