[Winfield Myers is director of Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.]
University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole is desperate for you to know that he is eminently qualified to speak publicly on the Middle East. He is, we are told in the opening paragraph of his recent response to the Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg,
[a] Middle East expert who lived in the Muslim world for nearly 10 years, travels widely there, speaks the languages, writes history from archives and manuscripts and follows current affairs ...
[Ed. note: The partial text of “Juan Cole: The Ted Williams of Middle East Studies?” follows.]