Will UCLA Dispense with 'Eurocentric' Terms 'Middle East' and 'Near East'?

Will UCLA Dispense with ‘Eurocentric’ Terms ‘Middle East’ and ‘Near East’?

A Daily Bruin columnist has declared “Middle East” and “Near East” Eurocentric terms. She urges UCLA to rename its Center for Near Eastern Studies the “Center for Southwest Asian and North African Studies” in order to “challenge the Orientalist and postcolonial systems that reinforce the notion of the ‘barbaric Middle East’” and “the harmful stereotypes that exoticize and misappropriate their cultures.” The revolution devours its own.

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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.