Campus Watch reports the following from September 29 – October 4, 2019:
Campus Watch Research
Islamic Reform: Craig Considine’s Bridge to Nowhere (A.J. Caschetta): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59485/islamic-reform-craig-considine-bridge-to-nowhere
In Whitewashing Islamism, K-12 Programs Advance Jihad (Mitchell Bard): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59483/in-whitewashing-islamism-k-12-programs-advance
Campus Watch Blog
‘Islamophobia’ Prof Khaled Beydoun Fine With Niqabs, Just Not the ‘Faceless’ Niqabis on Rapper’s Album Cover: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59479/islamophobia-prof-khaled-beydoun-fine-with-niqabs
French Police Expand Rape Investigation; Tariq Ramadan Declares Himself the Victim: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59476/french-police-expand-rape-investigation-tariq
Islamic Reform: Craig Considine’s Bridge to Nowhere (highlights Caschetta’s article): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59486/islamic-reform-craig-considine-bridge-to-nowhere
In Whitewashing Islamism, K-12 Programs Advance Jihad (highlights Bard’s article): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59484/in-whitewashing-islamism-k-12-programs-advance
Middle East Studies in the News
Ellen McLarney, director of Duke U’s Middle East Studies Center, gives a talk on Islam’s role in the Black Power movement: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59511/research-on-black-art-and-civil-rights-in-us
Washington Post on the DoE investigating foreign funding at U. of Maryland: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59512/federal-government-investigates-foreign-gifts-to
Jerusalem Post on the Tariq Ramadan rape case:: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59487/france-expands-investigation-into-prof-ramadan
On a protest outside the Modi/Trump event in Houston (incl. Rhodes College’s Yasir Qadhi, Southern Methodist U. adjunct Omar Suleiman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59496/houston-rally-featuring-india-pm-modi-and-donald
Middle East Monitor on the controversy over rapper French Montana’s niqabi album cover (incl. U. of Detroit-Mercy prof and UC Berkeley affiliate Khaled Beydoun): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59499/is-french-montana-sexualising-the-hijab-or
An Arabic music club at Colgate U. (NY) merges music with language instruction: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59522/new-club-offers-musical-arabic-experience
On the continuing controversy over the DoE’s letter to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies warning that it’s not meeting the requirements for Title VI funding (in chronological order):
The Duke Chronicle (confirms the Consortium received its ’19-20 funding; incl. Duke profs Omid Safi and Ellen McLarney, Middle East Studies Association): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59481/duke-unc-consortium-received-19-20-funding-from
The Duke Chronicle (student op-ed complains that concerns over anti-Semitic Consortium conference are being overshadowed by the DoE letter uproar): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59502/dsg-resolution-ignores-jewish-voices
The Duke Chronicle (Duke anti-Israel profs’ open letter opposing the DoE letter; incl. Middle East Studies Association): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59501/letter-62-duke-faculty-respond-to-department
The Hill (Cornell prof accuses Betsy DeVos of “political correctness”): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59482/betsy-devos-playbook-of-political-correctness
The Conversation (Fordham U. prof Nicholas Tampio defends the Consortium; quotes MEF’s Cliff Smith’s article on the subject: https://www.meforum.org/59491/trumps-doe-cracks-down-on-title-vi-abuse): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59493/cultural-studies-key-to-national-security
North State Journal (Miriam Elman addresses the topic during a N. Carolina lecture): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59495/icon-lecturer-calls-out-antisemitism-on-college
The Emory Wheel: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59497/trump-administration-title-vi-threats-are-weak
The Dartmouth: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59498/all-american-education
Moonlighters
Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald on Rutgers prof and Ahmadiyya convert Sylvia Chan-Malik: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59514/sylvia-chan-malik-celebrates-her-very-own-islam
2018 article on her that he references: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59513/author-shines-light-on-women-of-colour-role-in
