Harvard’s Center for Middle East Studies has appointed Ali Akbar Alikhani, an assoc. prof at the U. of Tehran, as a visiting scholar according to Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon. Kredo reports that Alikhani “praised an Arabic language book titled ‘The Jewish Threat-Danger to Christianity and Islam’ as ‘strong and good’” and that it “should ‘show the quality and the method of the Jewish threat.’” He also said Israel is “based on force, coercion, and oppression of others,” and has cited approvingly the work of French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
