Terrorist in the Ivory Tower? [on Hassan Diab; incl. John Esposito, Zachary Lockman, Juan Cole, et al.]

Do the ranks of Middle East studies professors include terrorists? If the allegations against University of Ottawa professor Hassan Diab are proved true, the answer will be yes.

Diab, a Lebanese-born dual Canadian citizen and author of Beirut: Reviving Lebanon’s Past, is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Ottawa and until recently taught a part-time summer introductory sociology course at Carleton University in Ottawa. His job ended last month following allegations by French authorities that Diab was the leader of a commando team that perpetrated the 1980 bombing of the Rue Copernic synagogue in Paris.

[Ed. Note: The full text of “Terrorist in the Ivory Tower?” follows, with link.]

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