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Middle East Studies in the News
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Publication |
Date  |
| Field of Fire: Fifty Years in Middle East Studies (Part III) |
Clarity with Michael Oren (Substack) |
April 18, 2024 |
| Pro-Palestinian Faculty Sue to Stop Penn from Giving Wide Swath of Files to Congress [incl. Huda Fakhreddine] |
Associated Press |
March 13, 2024 |
| Premier Middle East Studies Nonprofit Relocates Headquarters to Georgetown's School of Foreign Service |
The Hoya (Georgetown University) |
February 23, 2024 |
| Georgetown's Extremist Turn [incl. Joseph Massad, Nader Hashemi, John Esposito] |
City Journal |
February 23, 2024 |
| Qatar's Back Door to Higher Education [incl. Laurie Brand, Hamid Dabashi] |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
February 14, 2024 |
| Larry Summers Blasts Harvard for Inviting 'Antisemitic' Palestinian American Acholar to Speak [incl. Rashid Khalidi] |
The New York Post |
January 31, 2024 |
| Penn Violated Academic Freedom by Banning 'Israelism' Film, Middle East Studies Association Says [incl. Laurie Brand] |
The Daily Pennsylvanian |
December 5, 2023 |
| The Free World Must Recognize 'Intellectuals' Have Betrayed the Truth [incl. Ian Lustick, Juan Cole] |
Ynetnews |
December 2, 2023 |
| A Voice of Sanity in the Campus Effort to Demonize Israel |
The Algemeiner |
November 22, 2023 |
| Middle Eastern Studies Association Calls on Penn Admin. to Protect Faculty, Academic Freedom |
The Daily Pennsylvanian |
November 16, 2023 |
| The Academy Promotes Hamas |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
November 13, 2023 |
| Columbia Prof who Called Hamas 'Awesome' in 'Electronic Intifada' Article Faces Petition for Removal [incl. Joseph Massad] |
Campus Reform |
October 16, 2023 |
| Academically Approved Antisemitism [incl. Jasbir Puar] |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
September 27, 2023 |
| GWU Cuts Ties with Academic Group Following Support for BDS |
The College Fix |
August 11, 2023 |
| MESA's Anti-Semitism Got Evicted—But American Academia Has a Long Way to Go |
Minding the Campus |
August 1, 2023 |
| GW Ends Partnership with Middle East Studies Association After BDS Vote |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
July 26, 2023 |
| 'A Step Toward Eradicating Antisemitism on Campus': George Washington University Ends Partnership with Middle East Studies Association |
The Algemeiner |
July 25, 2023 |
| 'A Dark Day for Higher Education': American Anthropological Association Endorses BDS After Referendum |
The Algemeiner |
July 24, 2023 |
| SFSU Doubles Down on Investigation of Professor who Showed Class Muhammad Depiction |
The College Fix |
April 18, 2023 |
| The Flight from MESA |
Martin Kramer on the Middle East |
March 27, 2023 |
| To Boycott or Not to Boycott? |
Martin Kramer on the Middle East |
March 15, 2023 |
| Rewarding Anti-Israel Radicalism at SFSU [incl. Rabab Abdulhadi] |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
January 25, 2023 |
| California Professor with History of Pro-Terrorism Comments Honored [incl. Rabab Abdulhadi, Amer Zahr] |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
January 22, 2023 |
| CAIR Says Hamline University Teacher is not Islamophobic [incl. Todd Green] |
Religion News Service |
January 13, 2023 |
| SFSU Prof Abdulhadi Wins Middle East Studies Award |
Jewish Journal |
January 11, 2023 |
| The (Sad) State of Middle Eastern Studies |
Sandbox Blog (Martin Kramer on the Middle East) |
December 19, 2022 |
| Israel Boycotters Convene in Denver |
Martin Kramer on the Middle East |
December 1, 2022 |
| What a New Middle East Scholars Survey Says About the Campus Climate for Jews |
The Algemeiner |
November 29, 2022 |
| Surprise! Survey Shows Most Anti-Israel Academics Support Boycotting Israel |
Legal Insurrection |
November 27, 2022 |
| What Middle East Scholars Really Think About Boycotting Israel |
The Washington Post |
November 22, 2022 |
| Overwhelming Majority of Middle East Scholars Support Boycotting Israel, New Survey Shows |
The Algemeiner |
November 22, 2022 |
| The Hijacking of Middle East Studies |
Tablet Magazine |
November 4, 2022 |
| Report Exposes Rot In Middle East Studies Centers, Connection to CRT |
Legal Insurrection |
October 10, 2022 |
| Academic Israel-Haters Throw a Fit Over Israel Studies |
Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) |
October 6, 2022 |
| Palestinian Authority Security Forces Beat up University Students, World Condemnation does not Follow |
Legal Insurrection |
September 3, 2022 |
| It's Time to Implement Trump's Executive Order on "Combating Anti-Semitism" – Our Letter to the Department of Education |
Legal Insurrection |
August 20, 2022 |
| Middle East Professors Boycott Israel — Where's the Moral Outrage? |
The Algemeiner |
June 8, 2022 |
| Meet the Anti-Israel Organization Promoting CRT in the US |
Campus Reform |
May 5, 2022 |
| A Racist Boycott by Any Other Name |
The Jewish Standard |
April 28, 2022 |
| The Anti-Israel Bias of the Middle East Studies Association |
Front Page Magazine |
April 27, 2022 |
| Cut Off US Federal Funding for Anti-Israel Boycotters, Demand 87 Organizations |
United with Israel |
April 26, 2022 |
| 87 Groups To U.S. Dept. Education: Middle East Studies Programs Boycotting Israel Shouldn't Get Federal Funds |
Legal Insurrection |
April 24, 2022 |
| Watson Institute Hosts 'Race, Racism and Palestine' Panel [incl. Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill] |
The Brown Daily Herald (Brown University) |
April 19, 2022 |
| A Beckoning for UCLA Israel Studies [incl. Dov Waxman] |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
April 10, 2022 |
| 12 Universities Urged to Drop Middle East Studies Association Over BDS Endorsement |
The Algemeiner |
April 6, 2022 |
| Top Academic Group Endorsing Israel Boycott Sparks Growing Outrage, Calls for Schools to Cut Ties [incl. As'ad AbuKhalil] |
Just The News |
April 3, 2022 |
| NYU 'Deeply Disappointed' in MESA, Urges Reversal of Academic Boycott of Israel |
The Algemeiner |
April 1, 2022 |
| The Middle East Studies Association Betrays Academia |
Minding The Campus |
March 29, 2022 |
| MESA Partner Web Page Down as Schools Cut Ties Over Israel Boycott |
The Algemeiner |
March 29, 2022 |
| The Middle East Studies Association Chooses BDS Over Academic Freedom |
The Faculty Lounge |
March 28, 2022 |
| Which Will Matter More, Mesa's BDS Vote or the Negev Summit? |
The Duck of Minerva |
March 28, 2022 |
| SWC Calls on U.S. Universities to Sever Ties with Middle East Studies Association for Endorsing Academic Boycott of Israel |
The Simon Wiesenthal Center |
March 28, 2022 |
| MESA's Israel Boycott Encapsulates Everything Wrong with Academia |
The Jerusalem Post |
March 26, 2022 |
| Professors Who Teach Courses on Israel Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel |
The Washington Free Beacon |
March 25, 2022 |
| Brandeis University Affirms Support for 'Academic Freedom,' Severs Ties with Middle East Studies Association Over BDS Vote |
The Algemeiner |
March 25, 2022 |
| Academic Watchdog Groups Blast MESA for Adoption of BDS Resolution Against Israel |
Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) |
March 24, 2022 |
| Middle East Studies Association Endorses Israel Boycott |
i24 News |
March 24, 2022 |
| AMCHA Condemns Middle East Studies Association's Endorsement of Academic BDS |
The Jewish Press |
March 24, 2022 |
| Academic Ethnic Cleansing: Middle East Studies Association Signs onto Boycott of Israel |
Legal Insurrection |
March 24, 2022 |
| In Win for BDS Movement, U.S. Middle East Studies Association Endorses Israel Boycott |
Haaretz |
March 23, 2022 |
| Middle East Studies Association Endorses BDS |
Jewish Journal |
March 23, 2022 |
| Middle East Scholars Pass Resolution Endorsing Boycott of Israel |
Jewish Telegraphic Agency |
March 23, 2022 |
| Anti-Zionist Faculty Fueling Campus Antisemitism, Report Finds |
The Algemeiner |
March 17, 2022 |
| New Study Shows Faculty-Driven BDS Is Fueling Campus Antisemitism |
Jewish Press |
March 17, 2022 |
| Study Shows Pro-BDS Faculty Members Contribute to Campus Anti-Semitism |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
March 17, 2022 |
| The Role of Private Donations in the Academic Debate Over Israel |
The Algemeiner |
March 3, 2022 |
| Middle East Studies Association Defends Terror-Infused Palestinian University, While Moving to Boycott Israeli Academia |
Legal Insurrection |
February 13, 2022 |
| Middle East Studies Association Losing Institutional Members as Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution Voting Starts |
Legal Insurrection |
February 9, 2022 |
| University of Arizona Took a Meaningful Stand for Jewish Students. Others Should, too |
The Arizona Republic |
February 1, 2022 |
| Faculty Group Urges Middle East Studies Association to Support Dialogue on 'Discriminatory' BDS Resolution |
The Algemeiner |
February 1, 2022 |
| Will George Washington U let Middle East Studies Ass'n Operate International Anti-Israel Academic Boycott from its HQ on GWU's Campus? [incl. Ilana Feldman] |
Legal Insurrection |
January 25, 2022 |
| MESA Nostra Contest [incl. Hamid Dabashi] |
Jihad Watch |
January 23, 2022 |
| Middle East Studies Association Runs up Against State Anti-BDS Laws [incl. John Esposito, Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, Hamid Dabashi, Kylie Broderick] |
Jihad Watch |
January 22, 2022 |
| University of Arizona, Florida State University End MESA Ties Amid Israel Boycott Debate |
The Algemeiner |
January 18, 2022 |
| Florida State Drops Middle East Studies Association Membership as Group Moves Towards Israel Boycott |
Legal Insurrection |
January 16, 2022 |
| Middle East Studies Association's Members may Face Legal Jeopardy Over Israel Boycott |
Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) |
December 30, 2021 |
| Middle East Studies Association Boycotting Israel "is Basically the Old Anti-Jewish Boycott" |
Legal Insurrection |
December 25, 2021 |
| Exclusive — William Jacobson: BDS Boycotting Israeli Universities 'is Basically the Old Anti-Jewish Boycott' |
Breitbart |
December 23, 2021 |
| Florida Public Universities Expected to Reject BDS, Governor DeSantis Says |
The Algemeiner |
December 23, 2021 |
| DeSantis Office: Florida Opposes Middle East Studies Association Conducting BDS Anti-Israel Academic Boycott Through FSU |
Legal Insurrection |
December 22, 2021 |
| Progressive Academics Denounce Middle East Studies Association BDS Resolution |
The Algemeiner |
December 21, 2021 |
| MESA's Proposed Boycott of Israeli Universities Indicative of 'Spreading Intellectual Intolerance' |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
December 16, 2021 |
| Middle East Studies Association Moves Toward Endorsing BDS Academic Boycott Against Israel |
Legal Insurrection |
December 12, 2021 |
| Middle East Studies Association's Anti-Jewish BDS Backing is a Frontal Attack on Academic Freedom |
The New York Post |
December 10, 2021 |
| US Mideast Academic Group Opposes MESA's BDS Activity |
The Jerusalem Post |
December 7, 2021 |
| Academic Freedom Is Under Siege by Anti-Israel Politics |
Commentary |
December 6, 2021 |
| Middle East Studies Association's Betrayal of Academic Freedom |
San Diego Jewish World |
December 5, 2021 |
| Boycotting Israel at the Middle East Studies Association |
The National Interest |
December 4, 2021 |
| Antisemitism Migrated from Academia onto Capitol Hill |
The Jerusalem Post |
September 22, 2021 |
| Academic Experts Believe that Middle East Politics Are Actually Getting Worse [incl. MESA] |
The Washington Post |
September 17, 2021 |
| MESA's Troubling 'Statement of Solidarity With the Palestinians' |
The Algemeiner |
June 18, 2021 |
| THE ANGRY ARAB: Michael C Hudson & the Arabs |
Consortium News |
June 8, 2021 |
| The Washington Post Uses Bad Social Science to Push Anti-Israel Propaganda |
National Review |
March 11, 2021 |
| Two-Thirds of Middle East Experts Want Biden to Return to Iran Deal Without Conditions: Poll [incl. Shibley Telhami] |
Newsweek |
February 16, 2021 |
| Here's how Experts on the Middle East see the Region's Key Issues, Our New Survey Finds |
The Washington Post |
February 16, 2021 |
| Bard Professor Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Wins Book Award |
Daily Freeman |
October 26, 2020 |
| Social Media Campaign Targeting Jew-Hating Professors Reaches 121,000 Across Four Universities [incl. Jasbir Puar, Joel Beinin, Yến Lê Espiritu] |
The Jewish Voice |
June 17, 2020 |
| Is this the Death of the Two-State Solution? [incl. Ian Lustick] |
The Real News Network |
April 6, 2020 |
| Palestinians Don't Honor or Respect Human Rights [incl. MESA] |
The Algemeiner |
March 26, 2020 |
| They Support BDS and Promote Draft Resistance: Is This Human Rights? [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Jerusalem Post |
January 17, 2020 |
| American Historical Association Rejects Anti-Israel Resolution for the 4th Time [incl. Middle East Studies Association, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Joel Beinin, Joshua Schreier, Ussama Makdisi] |
Legal Insurrection |
January 9, 2020 |
| Academic Groups Condemn Threat to Target Cultural Sites [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
January 7, 2020 |
| Losing the Semantic War on 'Palestine' [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Algemeiner |
December 5, 2019 |
| LAURELS: Suad Joseph Receives Service Award [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
News of the University of California, Davis |
December 3, 2019 |
| BDS Monitor [incl. Middle East Studies Association, Sarah Ihmoud, Marc Lamont Hill, Joseph Massad, Norman Finkelstein] |
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) |
November 27, 2019 |
| UNC to Update Policies Following Complaint of Anti-Semitism [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Associated Press (AP) |
November 26, 2019 |
| House Democrats Question the Education Dept's Criticism of Middle East Consortium [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Duke Chronicle (Duke University) |
November 7, 2019 |
| House Democrats Question Duke-UNC Inquiry [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 7, 2019 |
| Five Colleges File Brief in Support of Muslim Studies [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Amherst Student (Amherst College) |
October 29, 2019 |
| Education Department Will Fund Middle East-Studies Program After All [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
October 16, 2019 |
| Education Department Says It Will Fund Middle East Studies Program After All [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Washington Post |
October 10, 2019 |
| Letter: 62 Duke Faculty Respond to Department of Education Directive [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Duke Chronicle (Duke University) |
October 2, 2019 |
| Duke-UNC Consortium Received '19-20 Funding From the Education Department Amid Controversy [incl. Omid Safi, Ellen McLarney, Middle East Studies Association] |
The Duke Chronicle (Duke University) |
September 29, 2019 |
| US is Urged to End Probe of Middle East Studies Program |
Associated Press (AP) |
September 27, 2019 |
| Middle East Studies Program Comes Under Federal Scrutiny [incl. Middle East Studies Association, Joel Beinin] |
Inside Higher Ed |
September 25, 2019 |
| Michael Cook Awarded Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies |
Princeton University News |
September 9, 2019 |
| Institute for Middle East Studies Seeks to Raise its Profile Among Region's Researchers [incl. Dina Khoury, Nathan Brown, Sarah Pursley, Middle East Studies Association] |
The GW Hatchet (George Washington University) |
September 2, 2019 |
| Call to Release Ph.D. Student in Egypt [on Walid Khalil el-Sayed Salem; incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
August 21, 2019 |
| Ph.D. Student Prevented From Leaving Egypt [on Walid Khalil el-Sayed Salem; incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
August 21, 2019 |
| No Passage to Palestinian Universities [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 26, 2019 |
| U.S. Scholars Urge Turkish Judges to Protect Academic Freedom [incl. Baki Tezcan, Middle East Studies Association] |
Ahval |
July 25, 2019 |
| Peace Petition Signatories Face Continued Prosecutions [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 1, 2019 |
| American U. in Cairo Cancels an Endowed Chair; Questions Follow [incl. Middle East Studies Association, Judith Tucker, Laurie Brand] |
Al-Fanar Media |
June 14, 2019 |
| An Academic Umbrella for Bigots [on the Middle East Studies Association] |
American Thinker |
May 6, 2019 |
| Federal Court Rules Muslim Ban Challenge Can Continue [incl. Judith Tucker, Middle East Studies Association] |
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) |
May 3, 2019 |
| Saudi Arabia Temporarily Releases Some Detained Women's Rights Activists [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Hill |
May 2, 2019 |
| Arab Youth Survey: Religion 'Too Influential' in Middle East, Say Young People [incl. Nathan Brown, Middle East Studies Association] |
The National (UAE) |
April 30, 2019 |
| The Middle East Studies Association Moves to GW [incl. Judith Tucker] |
GWToday (George Washington University's Official Online News Source) |
April 22, 2019 |
| In Defense of Canary Mission [incl. Hatem Bazian, Steven Salaita, Middle East Studies Association] |
FrontPage Magazine |
April 22, 2019 |
| Congressman Demands Probe of Anti-Israel College Event [incl. Nathan Brown, Middle East Studies Association] |
Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) |
April 16, 2019 |
| USC Dornsife Professor Blends Academe and Activism [on Laurie Brand] |
News of USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences (University of Southern California) |
April 2, 2019 |
| Supporting Faculty on Israel: Now More Than Ever [incl. Jasbir Puar, Middle East Studies Association] |
The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) |
December 16, 2018 |
| What the UAE's Arrest of Matthew Hedges Means for Political Science Research in the Middle East [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Washington Post |
November 29, 2018 |
| Spy Conviction May Chill U.A.E. Research [incl. Middle East Studies Association, Laurie Brand] |
Al-Fanar Media |
November 27, 2018 |
| Life Sentence -- and Then a Pardon -- for a Graduate Student [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 26, 2018 |
| Warning of Threats for Researchers in U.A.E. [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 16, 2018 |
| An Israeli Agent on Campus [on Jens Hanssen] |
Quillette |
November 9, 2018 |
| Objections to SUNY Event With Turkish Partner [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
October 29, 2018 |
| University of Michigan Faces Mounting Criticism Over BDS Controversy [incl. Judith Tucker, Middle East Studies Association] |
Middle East Eye |
October 24, 2018 |
| Statements on Professor Who Wouldn't Write Recommendation [incl. the Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
October 17, 2018 |
| Controversy Over an ISIS Archive [incl. the Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
September 27, 2018 |
| U.N. Presses Iran to Free Princeton Scholar [on Xiyue Wang, incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The New York Times |
September 10, 2018 |
| Scholars Decry Arrest of Ph.D. Student in Egypt |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 9, 2018 |
| Newspaper Pledges to Return ISIS Documents to Iraq [incl. MESA, Judith Tucker, Laurie Brand] |
Al-Fanar Media |
June 11, 2018 |
| Bernard Lewis, 'the Imam' [incl. ASMEA, MESA] |
National Review |
May 20, 2018 |
| Bernard Lewis, Celebrated Middle East Scholar, Dies at 101 [incl. MESA, ASMEA] |
The Jerusalem Post |
May 20, 2018 |
| What Is the Agenda of the UC Irvine Center for Jewish Studies? [incl. Mark LeVine, Middle East Studies Assocation] |
The Times of Israel (Blogs) |
March 30, 2018 |
| Students, Academics and Business Travelers Affected by U.S. Travel and Visa Bans [incl. MESA, Beth Baron] |
Expat Forum |
February 14, 2018 |
| How A Turf War At Fresno State Turned Into An Anti-Zionist Witch Hunt [incl. Vida Samiian, Middle East Studies Association] |
Forward |
February 14, 2018 |
| A Year of Travel Bans [incl. MESA, Beth Baron] |
Inside Higher Ed |
February 2, 2018 |
| Advocacy Groups: Federally-Funded Mideast Studies Centers Being Misused for Anti-Israel 'Indoctrination' |
The Algemeiner |
January 30, 2018 |
| The Middle East Studies Association Imagines Its Future [incl. Noura Erakat, Judith Butler, Samera Esmeir, Joel Beinin, Shira Robinson, Joshua Schreier] |
Telos Press |
December 20, 2017 |
| Erdogan Keeps Alienating Everyone, including Distinguished Foreign Scholars [incl. MESA] |
Armenian Weekly |
November 28, 2017 |
| UCLA Professor Receives Award for Work Countering Travel Ban [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Daily Bruin (student newspaper of University of California, Los Angeles) |
November 28, 2017 |
| Middle East Studies Association Panel Considers Undue Influence of Jewish Campus Institutions |
Washington Free Beacon |
November 22, 2017 |
| Middle East Tensions, U.S. Classrooms [on MESA, incl. Joshua Schreier, Shira Robinson] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 21, 2017 |
| Travel Ban Affects UC Irvine Conference [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
KPCC (News of Southern California) |
November 10, 2017 |
| Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) Urges NYU to Bar Technological Research Council of Turkey From Convention |
NYU Local |
November 7, 2017 |
| Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) Urges NYU to Bar Technological Research Council of Turkey From Convention |
NYU Local |
November 3, 2017 |
| Call to Bar Turkish Scientific Agency From NYU [on MESA] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 3, 2017 |
| Issues for Trump's OCR Nominee: Sexual Assault and… Israel |
Inside Higher Ed |
October 30, 2017 |
| Oxford Don Who Advised Government on Religion Denies Raping French Author and Threatens to Sue After She Named Him on Facebook [on Tariq Ramadan] |
The Daily Mail |
October 21, 2017 |
| Just How "Afraid" are Muslims at Amherst College? [incl. the Middle East Studies Association] |
FrontPage Magazine |
October 17, 2017 |
| Turkey Now Targeting Academic Freedom in Europe [incl. MESA] |
PJ Media |
October 9, 2017 |
| CUNY Awards Top Faculty Honors to Proponent of BDS Movement [on Beth Baron] |
Washington Free Beacon |
August 24, 2017 |
| CCNY Historian Beth Baron is CUNY Distinguished Professor [incl. MESA] |
News of City College of New York |
August 22, 2017 |
| A New Boycott Battle [incl. MESA, David Palumbo-Liu] |
Inside Higher Ed |
August 11, 2017 |
| The Hypocrisy of the Middle East Studies Association |
AEIdeas |
June 30, 2017 |
| Did Jewish Faculty Pressure Fresno State Not to Hire a Middle Eastern Professor? [incl. Vida Samiian, MESA] |
The Fresno Bee |
June 6, 2017 |
| Push to Get More Anti-Israel Activists Into Power at American Anthropology Association [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Legal Insurrection |
May 26, 2017 |
| Muslim 'Sentiments' Defeated Trump's Temporary Travel Ban [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
American Thinker |
May 26, 2017 |
| The Truth About Academic Jihad: The Curriculum |
Crusade of Truth Blog |
May 9, 2017 |
| Scholars: Middle Eastern Studies Association's Vote to Remove Self-Description as 'Non-Political' Indicates It's Preparing to Pass Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution [incl. Rashid Khalidi] |
The Algemeiner |
March 29, 2017 |
| Israel's Travel Ban May Prevent Israel Studies Scholars From Entering the Country [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Haaretz |
March 20, 2017 |
| Israel Bars Boycotters [incl. MESA, Laurie A. Brand, Nadia Abu El-Haj] |
Inside Higher Ed |
March 10, 2017 |
| Now, More Than Ever, Scholarly Groups Must Engage in the Political Arena |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
March 6, 2017 |
| Why the Middle East Studies Association Must Remain 'Non-Political' |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
March 6, 2017 |
| Under Historic Challenge, What is the Future of Middle Eastern Studies? [incl. MESA, Nathan Brown] |
The National (UAE) |
February 16, 2017 |
| The Unbearable Hypocrisy of MESA |
Commentary |
February 8, 2017 |
| History Department Condemns Immigration Ban [incl. Mark LeVine, MESA] |
The New University (News of University of California, Irvine) |
February 7, 2017 |
| Eleven Former MESA Presidents Support Current Bylaw Amendment Proposal [incl. John Esposito, Rashid Khalidi, Joel Beinin, Juan Cole] |
Jadaliyya |
February 2, 2017 |
| Disruption and Uncertainty Ripple Across a Discipline [Interview with Beth Baron] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
January 31, 2017 |
| SPME BDS Monitor: Far-Left Groups Support BDS; US Congress Pushes Back [incl. MESA] |
The Algemeiner |
December 2, 2016 |
| Expert: Blatant Anti-Israel Slant 'Suicidal' for Reputation, Continuity of Mideast Scholars Association |
The Algemeiner |
November 22, 2016 |
| Taking Stands [incl. MESA] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 21, 2016 |
| Middle East Scholars Group Moves to Delete 'Nonpolitical' from Bylaws |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 21, 2016 |
| The Decline of Palestine Studies [on MESA, incl. Rashid Khalidi and Lila Abu-Lughod] |
Sandbox (Blog of Martin Kramer) |
November 18, 2016 |
| Middle East Studies Association About to Endanger its Very Existence Because of Hate for Israel |
Elder of Ziyon |
November 17, 2016 |
| Boycott Calls Against Israel [on MESA, incl. Zachary Lockman] |
Israel Academia Monitor |
November 2, 2016 |
| Martin Kramer Knows Why America Keeps Mucking Up The Middle East [incl. ASMEA] |
The Federalist |
October 28, 2016 |
| A Scholar's Example [incl. MESA, Rashid Khalidi] |
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East |
October 18, 2016 |
| 'Public' Information [on Simona Sharoni and Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
September 13, 2016 |
| Concerns Continue About Climate for Academics in Turkey [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
September 8, 2016 |
| Detained in Turkey [on Clyde Forsberg] |
Inside Higher Ed |
August 31, 2016 |
| How the Crackdown in Turkey is Affecting International Academic Collaboration |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 29, 2016 |
| Scholarly Groups Speak Out on Turkey's Purges [incl. MESA] |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 25, 2016 |
| Will Anti-Israel Academic Boycotters Now Also Boycott Turkish Universities? |
Legal Insurrection |
July 20, 2016 |
| Middle East Pundits and their Mainly Worthless Prophecies [on Bernard Lewis; incl. Richard Falk, Richard Bulliet, MESA] |
Mosaic Magazine |
June 8, 2016 |
| Targeting Jews in the Ivory Sewer [incl. Jasbir Puar, Steven Salaita] |
FrontPage Magazine |
April 15, 2016 |
| Concern For Imprisoned Iranian Chemist [on MESA] |
Inside Higher Ed |
December 22, 2015 |
| Ted Swedenburg Elected to MESA Board |
News of University of Arkansas |
December 14, 2015 |
| UCLA historian James Gelvin receives MESA Undergraduate Education Award |
News of UCLA International Institute |
December 4, 2015 |
| Boycott Israel Movement on the March Across College Campuses [incl. MESA] |
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) |
November 30, 2015 |
| Middle East Studies Group Issues Statement on Discrimination [on MESA] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 24, 2015 |
| A Political Stance [incl. Zachary Lockman, Sondra Hale, Jens Hanssen, Abdel Razzaq Takriti] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 23, 2015 |
| The Door for Many Middle East Scholars is Slamming Shut [incl. Nathan Brown] |
Al-Fanar Media |
October 27, 2015 |
| How "Islamic Studies" Swallowed Middle Eastern Academia [incl. MESA] |
World Crunch |
October 24, 2015 |
| Looking for Israel at Harvard [incl. MESA] |
The Jerusalem Post |
October 16, 2015 |
| Boycott Israel? Faculty Caught Up in BDS Dispute [incl. Mark LeVine, Joel Beinin, Nathan Brown, Rabab Abdulhadi] |
J. (Jewish News Weekly of Northern California) |
October 15, 2015 |
| Whatever Happened to Middle Eastern Studies? [incl. MESA] |
Mada Masr |
October 11, 2015 |
| Academic Boycotts and Beyond |
Inside Higher Ed |
October 6, 2015 |
| Middle East Studies Devoted to the Destruction of Israel |
Fousesquawk |
September 19, 2015 |
| The Kerr We Lost [on Malcolm Kerr, Middle East studies] |
Weekly Standard |
June 17, 2015 |
| Anti-Semitism on Campus: A Clear and Present Danger [incl. George Saliba, Hamid Dabashi, Joseph Massad, Steven Salaita, MESA] |
Simon Wiesenthal Center |
June 10, 2015 |
| First Annual Middle East Symposium Advocates for a Potential Minor in the Field [incl. MESA] |
The Pioneer Log |
March 4, 2015 |
| Radicals Strap Suicide Belt on MESA |
Commentary Magazine |
February 17, 2015 |
| BDS Focus Shifts to Academic Associations and Political Arena. BDS also Emerges as Israeli Political Issue. [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) |
January 28, 2015 |
| Anti-Israel BDS Movement is Fashionable in Academia, But Far From Invincible [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
JNS.org |
January 28, 2015 |
| Fall Semester Ends With Big BDS Push [incl. the Middle East Studies Association] |
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) |
December 30, 2014 |
| The Year BDS Became the Number One Concern for American Jews [incl. MESA] |
Haaretz |
December 27, 2014 |
| Messy Politics at the Middle East Studies Association [incl. Juan Cole, Lisa Hajjar, Nathan Brown] |
The Jerusalem Post |
December 3, 2014 |
| Boycott Fever at MESA |
Commentary Magazine |
December 3, 2014 |
| The Vote to Boycott Israel's Universities [on Middle East Studies Association] |
Foreign Policy |
December 1, 2014 |
| Evil Spirit Taking Over Middle Eastern Studies |
Ynet News |
November 25, 2014 |
| Middle East Studies Association Members Defend Boycotts of Israel |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
November 25, 2014 |
| Hero's Welcome for Hater of Israel at MESA [on Steven Salaita, incl. Lisa Hajjar] |
Commentary Magazine |
November 25, 2014 |
| Academics Vote To Be Forum On Israel Boycotts, Adopts No Stance For Or Against |
Associated Press |
November 24, 2014 |
| Leading Mideast Studies Group Expected to Back BDS Resolution Monday [on MESA] |
Haaretz |
November 24, 2014 |
| Me and My MESA |
Commentary Magazine |
November 23, 2014 |
| A Smoke Screen for Palestine-Pushers [incl. MESA] |
Commentary Magazine |
November 3, 2014 |
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Interviews Jadaliyya Co-Founder Bassam Haddad [incl. MESA, Elias Muhanna] |
Jadaliyya |
October 9, 2014 |
| Boycott Battles Ahead |
Inside Higher Ed |
August 19, 2014 |
| Turkish Scholar Denied Right to Board U.S.-Bound Flight [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
May 16, 2014 |
| Teaching Arabic in the United States After 9/11 [incl. MESA] |
Jadaliyya (Arab Studies Institute) |
April 11, 2014 |
| Scholars Protest Espionage Charges Against Egyptian Colleague [on Emad Shahin, incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
February 5, 2014 |
| Another Approach [on MESA] |
Inside Higher Ed |
January 14, 2014 |
| Boycott Me. Please. [incl. the Middle East Studies Association] |
Foreign Policy |
December 20, 2013 |
| American Studies and Israel [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 25, 2013 |
| Muslim Journeys: Let's Talk About It … Again [incl. Mehnaz Afridi, Bernard Lewis, MESA, ASMEA] |
World Magazine |
May 17, 2013 |
| Peter Sluglett on the End of a (Monolithic) Islamic History |
News of Middle East Institute (National University of Singapore) |
April 26, 2013 |
| Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said [incl. Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami, MESA, ASMEA] |
World Affairs Journal |
March/April 2013 |
| New Institute on Israel Studies [incl. Nathan J. Brown, Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
February 27, 2013 |
| The Mission of Middle East Studies [incl. Lisa Anderson, Middle East Studies Association, Bassam Haddad] |
The Cairo Review of Global Affairs |
February 10, 2013 |
| UT Student Omid Kokabee Gains More International Support Amid Prison Sentence [incl. Peter Sluglett, Middle East Studies Association] |
The Daily Texan (student newspaper of University of Texas at Austin) |
January 8, 2013 |
| Iran vs. Iranian Studies Association [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
September 11, 2012 |
| Leila Fawaz Owes Award to Her Childhood [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Daily Star (Lebanon) |
September 3, 2012 |
| The Echo Chamber of Campus Anti-Semitism [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Al Jazeera |
August 29, 2012 |
| Middle East Studies Association to Israelis: "Go to the Back of the Bus" |
History News Network |
August 13, 2012 |
| Superman and Academic Freedom [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 5, 2012 |
| Middle East Studies Group Blasts 'New York Times' [on Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
May 18, 2012 |
| An Academic Right to an Opinion [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
May 3, 2012 |
| 'Osama bin Laden Made Me Famous' [on Bernard Lewis, incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
April 22, 2012 |
| The Terrorists and Their Protectors [incl. Middle East Studies Association, John Esposito] |
The Jerusalem Post |
March 25, 2012 |
| Sex, Marxism and Fraud [on Marc Ellis; incl. the Middle East Studies Association] |
Frontpage Magazine |
February 29, 2012 |
| Why Is Marc Ellis on the Outs at Baylor University? |
JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) |
February 10, 2012 |
| Refusing to Back Down [incl. Keith David Watenpaugh] |
Inside Higher Ed |
December 6, 2011 |
| Disciplinary Groups Speak Out on Right to Protest [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 29, 2011 |
| University of Utah Historian Peter Sluglett to Head Mideast Studies Organization [on Middle Eastern Studies Association] |
The Salt Lake Tribune |
November 2, 2011 |
| Huron University College Appoints Former ISNA President As New Islamic Studies Chair [on Ingrid Mattson] |
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report |
October 16, 2011 |
| Since 9/11: Did Phyllis Schlafly Win the Foreign Policy Debate? [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Tenured Radical (Blog of The Chronicle of Higher Education) |
September 2, 2011 |
| The Revered and Reviled Bernard Lewis |
Moment: Independent Journalism from a Jewish Perspective |
September/October 2011 |
| The Islamic Supremacist Propaganda Machine Cranks Out Another "Islamophobia" Report [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
FrontPage Magazine |
August 26, 2011 |
| Professor denied appointment at Yale sues CIA and FBI [on Juan Cole, Middle East Studies Association] |
Yale Daily News |
July 16, 2011 |
| Yale Rejects Call for Inquiry on Treatment of Juan Cole [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 11, 2011 |
| Juan Cole's Fictions [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Weekly Standard |
July 11, 2011 |
| Call for Inquiry Into Juan Cole's Non-Offer From Yale [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 6, 2011 |
| Letter to Richard C. Levin, Peter Salovey Concerning Juan Cole |
Middle East Studies Association |
July 5, 2011 |
| Middle East Scholars Raise New Questions About Yale's Rejection of Juan Cole |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
July 5, 2011 |
| How The Bizarre World of Middle East Studies Messes Up U.S. Foreign Policy [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Rubin Report |
April 2, 2011 |
| Unusual Ruling for Academic Freedom [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
March 31, 2011 |
| Juan Cole's Map of Lies [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
FrontPage Magazine |
March 23, 2011 |
| Professor Arash Khazeni Wins 2010 Middle East Studies Association Book Award |
News of Pomona College |
March 22, 2011 |
| Middle East Studies Group Urges End to Suit Against U. of Minnesota [on MESA] |
Inside Higher Ed |
January 19, 2011 |
| A Brief MESA Nostra Taxonomy |
The Iconoclast - New English Review |
December 5, 2010 |
| Jean Campbell Receives Lifetime Award from Middle East Outreach Council [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Portland State Magazine (Portland State University) |
December 1, 2010 |
| Cruising Speed [incl. Bernard Lewis] |
Impromptus (National Review Online) |
November 23, 2010 |
| MESA Announces New Book Award Named for Roger Owen |
Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies News |
November 22, 2010 |
| Columbia U Creates Facts, Opens Study Center for 'Palestine' [incl. Amy Newhall, Rashid Khalidi] |
Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) |
October 18, 2010 |
| Columbia Launches Palestinian Center [incl. Joseph Massad, Middle East Studies Association] |
International Business Times |
October 6, 2010 |
| Learning Arabic Prepares Goshen Students for Semester in Egypt |
Goshen College News (Indiana) |
September 13, 2010 |
| Raising the Bar [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
September 10, 2010 |
| MTSU to Offer Kurdish Language Instruction |
The Murfreesboro Post (TN) |
August 18, 2010 |
| Arab Money in the US and a Vibrant 5th Column [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Caution America Blog |
July 31, 2010 |
| The Impresario: Gilles Kepel, Scholar of Radical Islam [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The National (UAE) |
July 15, 2010 |
| Arab Money in the US and a Vibrant 5th Column [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
JABEJA |
June 30, 2010 |
| Omid Safi Lies Again, Claims I Threatened To Kill Him |
Jihad Watch |
April 26, 2010 |
| Professor Delves Deeper Into Relations Between Iran and US [on Ali Banuazizi, incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Daily Free Press (student newspaper of Boston University) |
April 14, 2010 |
| MESA Names VanDenBerg Founding Member |
The Mirror (student newspaper of Drury University) |
April 7, 2010 |
| Why Do Anthropologists Have Their Own Foreign Policy? [incl. Fouad Ajami, Bernard Lewis, ASMEA, MESA] |
Minding the Campus |
February 24, 2010 |
| Is Israel-bashing Anti-Semitic? [incl. Juan Cole] |
CNN Opinion |
February 16, 2010 |
| MESA Conference Probes Themes in Armenian and Turkish Literature as Tools for Remembrance and Reconciliation |
Asbarez Armenian News |
January 21, 2010 |
| Abdul-Karim Rafeq Becomes Honorary Fellow of MESA |
Global Studies News of The College of William & Mary |
January 20, 2010 |
| Another Hotel Controversy for a Scholarly Association [on Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
January 18, 2010 |
| Collaborators in the Campus War against Israel and the Jews: Joel Beinin |
FrontPage Magazine |
October 16, 2009 |
| Should Neve Gordon Be Punished? [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
In These Times (Chicago, IL) |
October 12, 2009 |
| Arab Feminists Map Out the Status of Women's Rights in the Region [incl. Mervat Hatem, Middle East Studies Association] |
Al Bawaba (UAE) |
October 11, 2009 |
| MESA Letter To Khamenei |
Iranian.com |
October 7, 2009 |
| Alums Ask Yale to 'Reverse Mistake' [incl. AAUP, Middle East Studies Association] |
Yale Daily News |
October 1, 2009 |
| An Interview with David Silverstein [incl. ASMEA and MESA] |
National Association of Scholars |
September 18, 2009 |
| Free Speech and Academic Groups Blast Yale Officials Over Censorship of Mohammed Images |
National Coalition Against Censorship |
September 16, 2009 |
| Letter to Yale University Opposing Removal of Mohammed Images from Book |
National Coalition Against Censorship |
September 14, 2009 |
| On Academic Freedom [on Neve Gordon; incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
ForeignPolicy.com |
September 3, 2009 |
| Israel and Academic Freedom [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
August 31, 2009 |
| Middle Eastern Studies Association Defends Israeli Scholar [on Neve Gordon] |
Inside Higher Ed |
August 28, 2009 |
| Letter to Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel [in defense of Neve Gordon] |
Middle East Studies Association |
August 27, 2009 |
| New Shift in Middle East Studies? [incl. Marc Lynch, Roger Allen] |
Inside Higher Ed |
August 4, 2009 |
| Two Scholarly Groups Issue Statements on Iranian Crackdown [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
July 6, 2009 |
| Taking Sides on Professor's E-Mail Comparing Israel and Nazis [on William Robinson, incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
May 12, 2009 |
| Foul Play at Bard? [on Joel Kovel, incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Graduate Center Advocate |
May 2009 |
| Obama Administration Urged to End Viewpoint-Based Exclusion of Foreign Scholars [incl. Tariq Ramadan, Middle East Studies Association] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
March 18, 2009 |
| Pro-Hamas Prof Protests Suspension From Army War College [on Sherifa D. Zuhur, incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
Pajamas Media |
March 9, 2009 |
| Army War College Suspends Zuhur [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Investigative Project on Terrorism |
March 4, 2009 |
| U.S. Army War College Suspends Prominent Scholar of Middle East [on Sherifa D. Zuhur] |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
March 4, 2009 |
| Aramex Supports Scholars with Middle East Studies Association Partnership |
AME Info |
February 26, 2009 |
| The Normalization of Evil [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Lone Star Times |
February 3, 2009 |
| Fiasco at the War College: An Update [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
ForeignPolicy.com |
January 27, 2009 |
| New School Flunks Unity Test: Hebrew-Language Charter School Should not Have Been Approved [incl. Khalil Gibran International Academy; Hebrew Language Academy Charter School] |
The New York Daily News |
January 18, 2009 |
| Robert Spencer on 'Stealth Jihad' [incl. MESA] |
Family Security Matters |
January 16, 2009 |
| Juan Cole, The People's Oracle? [incl. MESA] |
The Volokh Conspiracy |
January 15, 2009 |
| Vanderbilt Scholar of Islam Awarded Third Major Book Prize [on Leor Halevi] |
Vanderbilt University News Network |
January 12, 2009 |
| Elizabeth Warnock Fernea [incl. MESA] |
The Telegraph (U.K.) |
December 22, 2008 |
| Challenging the Status Quo in Middle East Studies [incl. Juan Cole, MESA, Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami, ASMEA, Bassam Haddad] |
inFocus (Jewish Policy Center) |
Winter 2008 |
| The Israeli Lobby Fantasy: A Book Review [incl. MESA, Juan Cole] |
Spero News |
December 12, 2008 |
| MESA 2008: Put Said on the Backburner [incl. Mervat Hatem] |
CUMITet: Cophenhagen University Middle East and Islam Network |
December 1, 2008 |
| Stealth Jihad [incl. John Esposito and MESA] |
FrontPage Magazine |
November 27, 2008 |
| Israeli Human Rights Group Honored |
Jewish Telegraphic Agency |
November 26, 2008 |
| Scholars Weigh Merits of Western-Style Universities in Persian Gulf |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
November 26, 2008 |
| Hopes for Israeli-Palestinian Harmony? Not Many, Scholars Say [incl. Joel Beinin, Beshara Doumani] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
November 25, 2008 |
| Academics Struggle for Civil Society in Iraq [incl. Abbas Kadhim] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 25, 2008 |
| Middle-East Scholars Hear of Academic Repression in Iraq and Iran [incl. Abdul Sattar Jawad, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
November 24, 2008 |
| When Knowledge Is Critical [incl. Daniel Pipes, Bernard Lewis, Middle East Studies Association, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, et al.] |
National Review (Subscription) |
October 28, 2008 |
| UMES Teacher Visits Egypt [on Univ. of Maryland Eastern Shore] |
Delmarva Media Group |
October 16, 2008 |
| The Inevitability of 9/11 [incl. MESA] |
Family Security Matters |
September 11, 2008 |
| Middle Eastern Program Expands [at Syracuse University; incl. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Rania Habib, MESA] |
The Daily Orange (Syracuse Univ.) |
September 8, 2008 |
| Genocide Denial [incl. the Middle East Studies Association, Donald Quataert] |
Southern Poverty Law Center (Intelligence Report) |
Fall 2008 |
| A Minor Miracle [incl. Title VI, Juan Cole, MESA] |
FrontPage Magazine |
August 8, 2008 |
| Classroom Battlegrounds: Good News from American Campuses [incl. Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami, ASMEA, MESA, et al.] |
The Jerusalem Post Blog |
July 23, 2008 |
| Board Members Quit Turkey-Funded U.S. Institute in Flap Over Armenian Genocide [incl. Donald Quataert, the Middle East Studies Association] |
Southern Poverty Law Center |
July 8, 2008 |
| Dispute Over Academic Freedom Roils Turkish-Studies Institute [incl. Donald Quataert, MESA, Mervat F. Hatem] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog |
July 6, 2008 |
| Board Members Resign to Protest Chair's Ousting [incl. MESA, Donald Quataert, Laurie Brand, et al.] |
The Washington Post |
July 5, 2008 |
| American History Textbooks: More Revisionist Dreck [incl. the Middle East Studies Assocation, Council on Islamic Education] |
The Doughout Blog |
June 8, 2008 |
| Closely Watched Tenure Case at Columbia U. Is Still Unsettled [on Joseph Massad; incl. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Zachary Lockman, et al.] |
After provost rejects his bid, a professor of Middle East studies awaits the verdict of a new review panel |
June 6, 2008 |
| Institute of Turkish Studies Chair Forced Out For Rebuking Genocide Deniers [incl. Merv Hatem, the Middle East Studies Association] |
Hatewatch (Southern Poverty Law Center) |
June 6, 2008 |
| Turkish Ambassador Dismisses U.S. Scholar For Telling the Truth on Armenian Genocide [incl. Donald Quataert, Fatma Muge Gocek, Mervat Hatem, the Middle East Studies Association] |
Huffington Post |
June 3, 2008 |
| US: Challenge Israel's Restrictions on Gaza Students [incl. the Middle East Studies Association] |
Human Rights Watch |
June 3, 2008 |
| Between the Trenches [on Bernard Lewis; incl. Khaled Abu El Fadl] |
The National (UAE) |
May 22, 2008 |
| Academic Point Counterpoint [incl. Nadia Abu El-Haj, MESA] |
On the Square Blog (of First Things magazine) |
May 16, 2008 |
| The Other Middle-Eastern Struggle [Letters to the Editor from Amy W. Newhall, MESA; incl. ASMEA, Bernard Lewis] |
The Wall Street Journal |
May 16, 2008 |
| Learned Societies' Gathering Delves Into Political and Publishing Challenges [incl. Amy Newhall, MESA] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Today's News |
May 12, 2008 |
| Bernard Lewis Strikes Back [On the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa] |
Faith Freedom International |
May 10, 2008 |
| News Analysis: Competing Meetings Kick Up Sand in Middle-East Studies |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
May 2, 2008 |
| Balance of Power: A New Group Counters |
The Wall Street Journal |
May 2, 2008 |
| Spencer and Pipes Explain Jihad |
The Stanford Review |
April 22, 2008 |
| Lisa Anderson, former SIPA Dean, Named Provost of American University in Cairo |
The BWOG (by the staff of The Blue and White, Columbia U. undergraduate magazine) |
April 15, 2008 |
| The Fate of Jewish Anti-Zionists [incl. Joel Beinin, MESA] |
Israelenews.com |
March 31, 2008 |
| Shilling for Sharia at Harvard [on Noah Feldman] |
FrontPage Magazine |
March 27, 2008 |
| Religion Isn't Going Away, but It Needs Examination [incl. Carleton Univ., MESA] |
The Vancouver Sun |
March 25, 2008 |
| Studying Religiously [ref. Muslim studies at Carleton U. in Ontario, the Middle East Studies Association] |
The Ottowa Citizen |
March 1, 2008 |
| Making Islam the Problem [incl. the Middle East Studies Association, John Esposito, Rashid Khalidi, Laurie Brand, Joel Beinin, et al.] |
Jihad Watch |
February 13, 2008 |
| The Spirit of the Oxford Union [incl. Juan Cole, MESA] |
National Review Online |
January 17, 2008 |
| Experts and Authorities [on Stephen Coughlin, MESA] |
Jihad Watch |
January 11, 2008 |
| Taking Sides on Title VI |
National Review Online |
December 12, 2007 |
| Mideast Scholars, Meeting in Montreal, Worry About a Splinter Group and Academic Freedom [incl. Zachary Lockman, Laurie Brand, Amy Newhall] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
November 30, 2007 |
| Meeting in Canada, Middle East Scholars' Group Worries About Academic Freedom [on the Middle East Studies Association; incl. Laurie Brand, Gershon Shafir, Amy W. Newhall; also the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, Bernard Lewis, Fou |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
November 19, 2007 |
| Impromptus: How Original, etc [incl. Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami, MESA] |
National Review Online |
November 15, 2007 |
| House Democrats and Saudi Money [incl. Juan Cole, MESA, Title VI] |
The Corner at NRO |
November 14, 2007 |
| Studying Middle East Studies: Editors' Introduction [on Nadia Abu El-Haj, refs. the Middle East Studies Association] |
The Current (Columbia University) |
Fall 2007 |
| The "New McCarthyism": Are Left-Wing Academics Being Persecuted? [incl. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Joseph Massad, Rashid Khalidi] |
Pajamas Media |
November 8, 2007 |
| Group Formed to Improve Middle East Scholarship [on the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa; Bernard Lewis, Mark Clark, Middle East Studies Association, Zachary Lockman] |
The New York Sun |
November 8, 2007 |
| A Different View of the Middle East [on Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa; quotes Bernard Lewis, et al., Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 2, 2007 |
| Spooking Middle East Profs on Halloween: The Anti-MESA [on the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa] |
The Jewish Policy Center Blog |
October 31, 2007 |
| The Failure of Western Universities [incls. Middle East studies, MESA, Saudi funding at Georgetown and Harvard, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, John Esposito, Martin Kramer, Daniel Pipes] |
Global Politician |
October 14, 2007 |
| El-Haj and the Wall of Silence [on Nadia Abu El-Haj] |
Democracy Project Blog |
September 16, 2007 |
| Controversy over Barnard Professor up for Tenure [on Nadia Abu El-Haj; Laurie Brand] |
Associated Press |
September 11, 2007 |
| A Book on Hold [incl. Laurie A. Brand, MESA] |
Inside Higher Ed |
September 11, 2007 |
| Fracas Erupts Over Book on Mideast by a Barnard Professor Seeking Tenure [on Nadia Abu El-Haj] |
The New York Times |
September 10, 2007 |
| Now Here is a Syllabus [on Rice University professor David Cook's course, "Jihad and the End of the World," refs. MESA] |
Jihad Watch |
September 6, 2007 |
| MESA Protests Cancellation of Mearsheimer-Walt Talk [on the Middle East Studies Association, Juan Cole] |
The Chronicle of Higher Education Blog |
September 6, 2007 |
| Middle East Tensions Flare Again (in U.S.) [incl. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Middle East Studies Association] |
Inside Higher Ed |
September 5, 2007 |
| MIT's Jerusalem Contest: A "Veneer" of Neutrality Can't Conceal Bias [incl. Leila Farsakh, Philip Khoury, MESA, et al.] |
Camera Media Analysis |
July 23, 2007 |
| Divide and Conquer [on evangelical support for Israel; MESA] |
The American Thinker |
July 11, 2007 |
| Center for Near Eastern Studies Celebrates Golden Anniversary [at UCLA; incl. Khaled Abou Al Fadl, Gabriel Piterberg, Saree Makdisi, et al.] |
UCLA International Institute |
July 3, 2007 |
| Support the Arab People [ref. MESA, Edward Said, Middle East Studies professors] |
The Ottawa Citizen |
June 15, 2007 |
| MESA Letter Objecting to U.S. Civil Rights Commission's Report "Campus Anti-Semitism" |
Middle East Studies Association |
June 11, 2007 |
| AHA Supports the Middle East Studies Association's Protest of the Detention of Scholars in Iran [on Haleh Esfandiari, Kian Tajbakhsh] |
American Historical Association |
June 4, 2007 |
| Middle East Scholars Protest Iran's Arrest of Wilson Center Scholar [on Haleh Esfandiari; quotes Juan Cole] |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
June 1, 2007 |
| Academic Fallout From Middle East [on UCU's vote to boycott Israel; incl. reaction by MESA] |
Inside Higher Education |
May 31, 2007 |
| Joint letter with ISIS to Iran regarding Dr. Haleh Esfandiari and Dr. Kian Tajbakhash |
Middle East Studies Assoc. and the International Society for Iranian Studie |
May 30, 2007 |
| Statement of Concern Regarding Travel to Iran [re Haleh Esfandiari, Kian Tajbakhsh] |
Middle East Studies Association |
May 29, 2007 |
| A Balancing Act [on Joel Beinin] |
AUC [American University of Cairo] Today |
Spring 2007 |
| Academia Sees "Chilling Message" in Iran's Detention of Scholar [on Haleh Esfandiari; cites MESA, quotes Zachary Lockman, Juan Cole] |
USINFO, Department of State |
May 23, 2007 |
| New Iranian Hostage Crisis [on Haleh Esfandiari] |
The Washington Post |
May 23, 2007 |
| A Scholar Detained [on Haleh Esfandiari] |
Inside Higher Education |
May 22, 2007 |
| Iran Accuses American of Revolution Plot [on Haleh Esfandiari; ref. Juan Cole, MESA] |
The New York Times |
May 22, 2007 |
| Iran: What Is a Good Reason for a MESA Academic Boycott? |
Zionism and Israel News |
May 20, 2007 |
| Imprisoned in Iran [on Haleh Esfandiari; ref. Juan Cole, Zachary Lockman, MESA] |
The Spine (TNR Online) |
May 20, 2007 |
| An Ominous Arrest in Iran [on Haleh Efsandiari, references MESA] |
Guardian Unlimited |
May 14, 2007 |
| Middle East Studies Association Letter to Ahmadinejad Regarding Haleh Efsandiari |
Middle East Studies Association |
May 11, 2007 |
| Spengler, Spencer, Armstrong, Adonis [on Edward Said, Joseph Massad, MESA, et al.] |
Jihad Watch |
May 9, 2007 |
| Zachary Lockman's Letter of Support for Norman Finkelstein [president of MESA to president of DePaul Univ.] |
Blog of Peter N. Kirstein |
April 11, 2007 |
| Students Who Grade Themselves [on Title VI and MESA] |
NRO's Corner Blog |
March 27, 2007 |
| Waging Peace: MESA Discusses Academic Boycott Of Israel |
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs |
March 2007 |
| Intellectual Leader [on Bernard Lewis] |
News & Notes (from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies) |
March 13, 2007 |
| Enough Said [review of Robert Irwin, Dangerous Knowledge] |
Commentary |
March 2007 |
| MESA & Academic Freedom [email to MESA members from MESA Exec. Dir. Amy W. Newhall of U. Arizona] |
MESA Membership Email List |
February 5, 2007 |
| Turks Investigate U Prof [on Taner Akçam of the University of Minnesota] |
The Minnesota Daily (student newspaper of the U. of Minn.) |
January 31, 2007 |
| Bernard Lewis and What He Ignores |
Dhimmi Watch |
January 17, 2007 |
| Education Vs. Jihad [on Middle East studies] |
Homeland Security Today |
November, 2006 |
| Old MESA President [on Juan Cole] |
NRO's Corner Blog |
December 11, 2006 |
| Middle East Academics Disregard Quest for Balance |
Indianapolis Star |
November 23, 2006 |
| Debating the Place of Israeli Academics [report on conference of the Middle East Studies Assoc.] |
New York Sun |
November 20, 2006 |
| Actions Have Consequences [on Alberto Fernandez, MESA] |
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
November 5, 2006 |
| Alberto Fernandez, Another State Department Disaster in the Karen Hughes Mold |
PipelineNews.Org |
October 23, 2006 |
| Letter to Condalezza Rice [from MESA on Tariq Ramadan] |
Middle East Studies Association |
October 3, 2006 |
| Questions Surround the Decision by a Dean to Leave Columbia |
The New York Sun |
September 29, 2006 |
| Liberal Professor Takes On Conservative Firebrand in Federal Lawsuit |
Forward |
May 31, 2006 |
| Joel Beinin: Apologist for Terrorists |
FrontPage Magazine |
May 19, 2006 |
| Overview of MESA's 2005 Annual Meeting |
Campus-Watch.org |
November 30, 2005 |
| Middle East Studies Association Salutes University of California Press for Publishing Beyond Chutzpah |
normanfinkelstein.com |
November 22, 2005 |
| Disconnected [on the MESA annual conference] |
Inside Higher Ed |
November 21, 2005 |
| MESA: The Academic Intifada. |
MartinKramer.org |
November 21, 2005 |
| MESA Chooses and You Can Too |
MartinKramer.org |
October 3, 2005 |
| Letter of Dissent regarding the CAFMENA statement dated May 13, 2005, condemning the AUT boycott of two Israeli Universities. |
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign |
June 21, 2005 |
| Open Letter to MESA Members [regarding the AUT boycott of two Israeli universities] |
Middle East Studies Association |
May 20, 2005 |
| MESA letter regarding the Association of University Teachers boycott of two Israeli universities |
Middle East Studies Association |
May 13, 2005 |
| In These Times |
Middle East Studies Association |
April 28, 2005 |
| Exclusion of Rashid Khalidi from participation in NYC teacher development workshops. |
Middle East Studies Association |
April 7, 2005 |
| From the Editor's Keyboard |
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin |
June 2004 |
| Try saying it in Arabic |
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
February 19, 2005 |
| Hugh Fitzgerald Announces the MESA Nostra Contest, and Makes You An Offer You Can't Refuse |
Jihadwatch.org |
January 27, 2005 |
| Islamic scholars face visa issues |
Daily Bruin |
January 26, 2005 |
| MESA Nostra |
FrontPage Magazine |
January 26, 2005 |
| MESA Lunacy Continues |
Striding Lion |
December 7, 2004 |
| On the MESA conference in San Francisco |
History News Network |
December 3, 2004 |
| Middle East Scholars Voice Concerns About U.S. |
New York Sun |
November 24, 2004 |
| Gullible MESAn Walked the "Arab Street." |
MartinKramer.org |
November 21, 2004 |
| Pressure to dismiss Columbia U Prof Joseph Massad |
Middle East Studies Association |
November 5, 2004 |
| The Middle East Studies Association's letter in support of Tariq Ramadan |
MESA Newsletter |
August 30, 2004 |
| Islamic study rises a level at DePaul |
Chicago Tribune |
June 1, 2004 |
| Bernard Lewis and MESA's Shame |
MartinKramer.org |
March 9, 2004 |
| The Clash Over Middle East Studies |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
February 6, 2004 |
| President's Letter |
Middle East Studies Association |
February 2004 |
| Culture War, Round 3077 |
American Prospect |
January 2004 |
| In Memoriam: Edward W. Said (1935-2003), Honorary Fellow of MESA |
MESA Bulletin |
December 2003 |
| Title VI Fix Passes in House |
MartinKramer.org |
October 30, 2003 |
| Concealment Continues at Columbia |
MartinKramer.org |
September 8, 2003 |
| Diverse viewpoints need to be heard at Stanford |
Stanford Daily |
August 28, 2003 |
| Saudi Prince on Academic Shopping Spree |
MartinKramer.org |
July 9, 2003 |
| Embedded Terrorist |
FrontPage Magazine |
May 14, 2003 |
| The Expulsion That Never Was |
MartinKramer.org |
April 25, 2003 |
| Edward Said and Twelve Disciples at Post-Orientalist Passover |
MartinKramer.org |
April 16, 2003 |
| Saudi Oil Lobby Puffs Middle East Centers |
MartinKramer.org |
April 8, 2003 |
| We Must Always Remain Critical |
Stanford Review |
February 26, 2003 |
| Beinin Watch |
Stanford Review |
February 26, 2003 |
| Professors for Terrorist Al-Arian |
FrontPage Magazine |
February 24, 2003 |
| America: The Victim Is Not the Guilty One [on MESA] |
Liberty for All |
February 9, 2003 |
| Moral commitments, emotions can't be kept from the classroom, professor |
Stanford Report |
February 4, 2003 |
| Why Are Arch Conservatives Ganging Up on the Middle East Studies Association? |
History News Network |
January 20, 2003 |
| The New Push for Middle East Studies |
Saudi Aramco World |
January/February 2003 |
| King Fahd's plan to conquer America |
TownHall.com |
December 20, 2002 |
| Lessons in hate, on a campus near you |
Ottawa Citizen |
December 14, 2002 |
| Middle East Studies After September 11 |
Middle East Studies Association |
November 23, 2002 |
| MESA: Nothing Learned, Nothing Forgotten |
MartinKramer.org |
October 2, 2002 |
| MESA Culpa |
Middle East Quarterly |
September 2002 |
| Scholars Revive Boycott of U.S. Grants to Promote Language Training |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
August 16, 2002 |
| The See-No-Evil Middle East Experts |
Weekly Standard |
July 29, 2002 |
| Treason of the Academics |
FrontPage Magazine |
July 22, 2002 |
| Jihad 101 |
Middle East Quarterly |
Spring 2002 |
| Professors of Palestine |
Middle East Quarterly |
Winter 2002 |
| Academic blindsight |
Ha'aretz |
December 14, 2001 |
| Disoriented |
New Republic |
December 3, 2001 |
| Not Academic: The Middle East Studies Association Wards Off Rebukes |
American Prospect |
November 29, 2001 |
| MESA Madness |
National Review |
November 19, 2001 |
| AT WAR |
National Review |
November 19, 2001 |
| Pro-Israel lobby trying to hijack the hearts and minds of US policy-makers |
Daily Star (Lebanon) |
November 17, 2001 |
| Terrorism? What Terrorism?! |
Wall Street Journal |
November 15, 2001 |
| It's a Volatile, Complex World... |
New York Times |
November 11, 2001 |
| Middle East-Studies Programs Are Accused of Scholarly Orthodoxy |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
October 26, 2001 |
| Policy Entrepreneurs: The Third Dimension in American Foreign-policy Culture |
Middle East Policy, Vol. 5 Num. 3 |
September 1997 |
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Surveys
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| Title |
Publication |
Date |
| Message from Joel Beinin, MESA President |
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July 16, 2002 |
| MESA Presidents' Letter |
Wall Street Journal |
November 19, 2001 |
| Is There a Future for Middle East Studies? |
Middle East Studies Association |
July 1995 |
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Campus Watch in the Media
|
| Title |
Publication |
Date |
| GOP Probes Academic Group After it Defends Professor who Blamed Rushdie Attack on Israel [incl. Nader Hashemi] |
The Washington Free Beacon |
September 15, 2022 |
| GOP Congressman Expresses Concerns About Anti-Israel 'Scholarship' at Georgetown University [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
December 13, 2019 |
| A Plague Of Col(e)itis In Academia... [on Juan Cole] |
GeraldHonigman.com (website of Gerald A. Honigman) |
August 24, 2019 |
| Denying Omar Barghouti Admittance to the U.S. is a Free Speech Issue |
History News Network |
May 5, 2019 |
| Why the Middle East Studies Association Raised Concerns About the Publication of Stolen Iraqi Documents |
History News Network |
October 21, 2018 |
| Vote Yes on MESA Bylaw Amendment: Roundtable by Elyse Semerdjian, John Chalcraft, and Asli Bali |
Jadaliyya |
February 22, 2017 |
| Middle East Studies Professors Back Antisemitic BDS Campaign [incl. Beth Baron, Richard Bulliet, Judith Butler, MESA] |
The Algemeiner |
November 15, 2016 |
| Middle East Studies Profs Back Anti-Semitic BDS Campaign [incl. MESA] |
The Jerusalem Post |
November 3, 2016 |
| Radical Student Union Labelled Anti-Semitic by Off-Campus Group |
The Observer (student newspaper of Case Western Reserve University) |
October 28, 2016 |
| New Attack on Free Speech: Pro-Israel Groups Wage War on Campus Freedom |
Salon.com |
September 24, 2016 |
| Letter to San Francisco State U. President Leslie Wong [in Support of Rabab Abdulhadi and SFSU's MOU with An-Najah U.] |
Middle East Studies Association (MESA) |
September 19, 2016 |
| Turkey Cracks Down on Academics, Anti-Israel Scholars Silent [incl. MESA] |
CAMERA |
July 25, 2016 |
| A Rebuttal and Rejoinder to 'Preserving Integrity in Middle Eastern Studies' |
Commentary Magazine |
September 20, 2015 |
| The Political Nature of Today's Middle East Studies |
The Jewish Voice |
August 19, 2015 |
| Campus Watch Response to Chronicle of Higher Education |
Fousesquawk Blog |
December 9, 2014 |
| Steven Salaita - The Left's New Martyr [incl. Lisa Hajjar] |
Fousesquawk Blog |
November 25, 2014 |
| Middle East Studies Association Fights a Rising Tide of Critics |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
November 21, 2014 |
| Another Islamist Conference Coming Up in Washington DC [on MESA] |
Fousesquawk Blog |
November 5, 2014 |
| Middle Eastern Studies Association Mocks Academic Freedom |
Commentary Magazine |
February 16, 2014 |
| The Middle East Studies Establishment vs. Walid Phares |
Jihad Watch |
November 11, 2011 |
| Berber Autumn... |
Ekurd.net |
August 29, 2011 |
| Cinnamon Stillwell: Target Israel |
Solomonia Blog |
June 15, 2010 |
| Meet Suad Joseph, President-Elect Of MESA NOSTRA |
The Iconoclast - New English Review |
May 21, 2010 |
| How Do We 'Know' the Middle East? [Middle East Studies Association 2009 Presidential Address] |
Middle East Studies Association |
November 22, 2009 |
| Talkin' Sarah, &c. [incl. Joel Beinin, the Middle East Studies Association] |
National Review Online |
July 2, 2009 |
| Orientalism: Something Like A Disclaimer [incl. Daniel Pipes, Martin Kramer, MESA, Juan Cole] |
CUMINet (Copenhagen University Middle East and Islam Network) |
December 17, 2008 |
| Tales From The Inside…The Real Problem With Obama's Khalidi [incl. MESA and the Kevorkian Center For Near Eastern Studies] |
Israpundit |
November 1, 2008 |
| 2007-2008: Another Year of Global Academic Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism [incl. MESA, ASMEA, Joseph Massad, Nadia Abu El-Haj, Yinon Conen, et al.] |
Institute for Global Jewish Affairs |
October 2008 |
| Sidestepping the Sandstorm? [incl. ASMEA, Bernard Lewis, Bassam Haddad, Juan Cole, Laurie Brand, et al.] |
National Review Online |
September 11, 2008 |
| Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa: Update on Its Activities (Interview) |
History News Network |
July 2, 2008 |
| ASMEA To the Rescue |
Phi Beta Cons |
July 2, 2008 |
| Cinnamon Stillwell: Truth About Islam in Academia? |
Solomonia Blog |
July 2, 2008 |
| Saudi Giving at the Heart of a Great Debate Over Middle East Studies |
Congressional Quarterly |
April 11, 2008 |
| Profile of Juan Cole |
DiscovertheNetworks.com |
January 23, 2008 |
| Juan Cole and the Eyes of the Canary |
The Greycat Blog |
November 28, 2007 |
| Mideast Civil War: MESA vs. ASMEA [incl. Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami] |
The Middle East (Time magazine blog) |
November 19, 2007 |
| Winfield Myers: MESA Turns Down Campus Watch Ad |
Solomonia Blog |
November 17, 2007 |
| The New McCarthyism [refs. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Norman Finkelstein, Beshara Doumani, Khalil Gibran International Academy, MESA] |
The Nation |
November 12, 2007 |
| MESA Turns Down Campus Watch Ad |
History News Network |
November 11, 2007 |
| Input or Intrusion? |
Inside Higher Education |
November 21, 2006 |
| Beinin chosen as face of terrorism for book cover, sues publishing company |
Stanford Daily |
May 15, 2006 |
| Researchers and Reporters Misread the Struggle for Democracy in the Muslim World, Scholars Say |
Chronicle of Higher Education |
November 23, 2005 |
| Critique from the Right: The Neo-Conservative Assault on Middle East Studies |
CR: The New Centennial Review 5.1 (2005) 63-110 |
August 2, 2005 |
| Report on the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference |
Campus Watch.org |
December 15, 2004 |
| Scholars For Terror |
FrontPage Magazine |
December 7, 2004 |
| Ivory Tower Angst |
New Voices |
December 2004 |
| Middle East Studies in the U.S. |
AMIT |
Fall 2004 |
| Is the ‘Orientalist' past the future of Middle East studies? |
Third World Quarterly Vol. 25, Num. 2 |
March 2004 |
| Pipes stifles debate |
Eagle (American University) |
January 26, 2004 |
| True patriotism from MESA, whatever its critics say |
Daily Star (Lebanon) |
November 22, 2003 |
| Scholarship, Policy, Debate and Conflict:Why We Study the Middle East and Why It Matters |
Middle East Studies Association |
November 2003 |
| Pipes Declares War on Militant Islam |
Stanford Review |
October 30, 2003 |
| Khalidi's Hiring, Columbia's Bias |
FrontPage Magazine |
October 3, 2003 |
| Calling the shots on the Middle East |
Daily Star (Lebanon) |
September 13, 2003 |
| Hauser Helped Fund Professor of Hate |
New York Sun |
July 23, 2003 |
| à÷ãîéä úçú ç÷éøä |
Maariv (Hebrew) |
July 4, 2003 |
| Congress Probes Middle Eastern Studies |
MartinKramer.org |
June 23, 2003 |
| Daniel Pipes |
freeforessays.com |
June 22, 2003 |
| Studying Title VI |
National Review |
June 16, 2003 |
| The Arabist Predicament |
Azure |
Summer 2003 |
| Important alert re USIP [US Institute for Peace] nomination |
Middle East Studies Association [listserv] |
April 11, 2003 |
| Glasnost in MESA |
MartinKramer.org |
April 2, 2003 |
| Playing watchdog to Middle East scholars |
Cleveland Jewish News |
March 14, 2003 |
| U.S. Mideast Academics Fight Charges of Bias |
Reuters |
February 12, 2003 |
| President's Letter |
Middle East Studies Association |
February 2003 |
| Pipes to speak at York despite earlier veto |
Canadian Jewish Times |
January 30, 2003 |
| Getting Nervous? |
National Review |
January 28, 2003 |
| After threats and postponements, pro-Israel scholar allowed to speak |
JTA |
January 2, 2003 |
| President Beinin's Farewell Address |
MartinKramer.org |
December 30, 2002 |
| The 'Hate Israel' Faculties (Hebrew) |
Maariv |
December 17, 2002 |
| Middle Eastern Studies: What Went Wrong? |
Policywatch |
December 16, 2002 |
| The Two Faces of Islamic Studies |
Boston Globe |
December 15, 2002 |
| What's MESA's alternative? |
United Press International |
December 2, 2002 |
| The Incredible Shrinking MESA |
MartinKramer.org |
November 16, 2002 |
| MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom in a Time of Crisis |
Middle East Studies Association |
October 23, 2002 |
| Letter attacking Campus Watch from MESA |
Middle East Studies Association |
October 3, 2002 |
| Academic Freedom in Times of War |
Emory University Academic Exchange |
September 24, 2002 |
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Campus Watch Research
|
| Title |
Publication |
Date |
| Campus Watch Update |
|
March 18, 2024 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
February 26, 2024 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 16, 2024 |
| Rashid Khalidi's Palestine Myths: Part I |
New English Review |
January 10, 2024 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
December 20, 2023 |
| Professorial Propagandists for Hamas, Part II: Sherene Seikaly & Zachary Lockman |
New English Review |
December 13, 2023 |
| Professorial Propagandists for Hamas, Part I: Juan Cole |
New English Review |
December 12, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
December 12, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
December 4, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
November 27, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
November 20, 2023 |
| A Devil's Bargain on Campus: What Compels College Students to 'Stand in Solidarity' with Hamas? |
The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal |
November 1, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
November 1, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
October 22, 2023 |
| Are 'Palestine Scholars' Really Denied Academic Freedom? |
The Investigative Project on Terrorism |
October 5, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
August 28, 2023 |
| George Washington University Still Has an Antisemitism Problem |
The Investigative Project on Terrorism |
August 23, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
August 14, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
August 7, 2023 |
| American Anthropological Association Boycott of Israel Will Be to Its Detriment |
The Jerusalem Post |
July 30, 2023 |
| Middle East Studies Association Expelled from George Washington University |
Investigative Project on Terrorism |
July 24, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
May 22, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
April 18, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
March 27, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 30, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 23, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 16, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 9, 2023 |
| 2022 Was a Bad Year for Academia and Especially for Middle East Studies |
The American Spectator |
January 4, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 2, 2023 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
December 5, 2022 |
| The Navel-Gazing Inanities of MESA |
National Review |
December 1, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
November 28, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
November 6, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
October 23, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
September 19, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
September 5, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
August 21, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
June 19, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
May 9, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
May 3, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
April 25, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
April 11, 2022 |
| Nobel Prize Winner Tries to Make the Case for BDS — And Fails Spectacularly |
The American Spectator |
April 5, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
April 4, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
March 28, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
March 20, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
March 7, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
February 14, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
February 8, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 31, 2022 |
| The UAE's New Academic Enemies |
Arutz Sheva |
January 25, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 24, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
January 10, 2022 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
December 27, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
December 20, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
December 14, 2021 |
| Condemning the Middle East Studies Association's Race to Embrace BDS |
Change.org |
December 13, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
December 5, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
September 27, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
September 21, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
August 23, 2021 |
| The Palestinian Solidarity Statement I'd Like to See |
Arutz Sheva |
August 22, 2021 |
| Confusion, Blame-Shifting, and Inaccuracy: Academia Reacts to the Fall of Afghanistan |
National Review |
August 20, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
July 13, 2021 |
| Solidarity with 'Palestine' Means Kalashnikovs for Kids |
National Review |
July 13, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
June 28, 2021 |
| When It Comes to Israel, Academia Agrees |
The American Spectator |
June 25, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
June 21, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
March 15, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
February 22, 2021 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
November 2, 2020 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
September 14, 2020 |
| Anti-Israel NYU: The Gaza of Greenwich Village |
The American Spectator |
September 10, 2020 |
| MESA Defends Canceling Supporters of Israel at USC |
JNS |
September 8, 2020 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
June 22, 2020 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
June 8, 2020 |
| Georgetown Gets a Title VI Wakeup Call |
The American Spectator |
January 10, 2020 |
| Why Are Academics Ignoring Iran's Colonialism? |
National Review |
December 27, 2019 |
| MESA Again Demonstrates Its Contempt for Israel |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
December 19, 2019 |
| Campus Watch Weekly Update |
|
September 8, 2019 |
| Middle East Scholars Blame Trump for an Iran Policy 40 Years in the Making |
The Hill |
August 20, 2019 |
| MESA Demands U.S. Welcome Palestinian Terrorist Apologist Hanan Ashrawi |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
June 16, 2019 |
| Zachary Lockman Ignores Inconvenient Facts About Omar Barghouti's Ties to Terrorists |
|
May 6, 2019 |
| Why the Middle East Studies Association Should Not Defend Omar Barghouti |
History News Network |
May 5, 2019 |
| In Criticizing Israel, MESA Ignores Terror Threats on Palestinian Campuses |
The Tower |
February 5, 2019 |
| Why Is the Middle East Studies Association Trying to Stop the Online Publication of Islamic State Documents? |
History News Network |
October 8, 2018 |
| No Surprise that MESA Opposes the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act |
JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) |
June 11, 2018 |
| Jewish, Civil Rights, and Educational Groups Urge Higher Education Reform -- Letter |
Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law |
January 24, 2018 |
| Middle East Studies Association (as Usual) Singles Out Israel for Attack, Excuses Palestinian Perfidy |
The Algemeiner |
January 3, 2018 |
| Middle East Studies Association Panel Reserves Outrage Only for Israel |
The Algemeiner |
December 21, 2017 |
| Islamists, Apologists, and Fellow Travelers: Middle East Studies Faculty at Georgetown University |
|
December 4, 2017 |
| Where is Western Academia's Outrage at Turkey? |
Gatestone Institute |
August 5, 2017 |
| Professors Spin Anti-Semitic Conspiracies at Cal State-Fresno |
The Algemeiner |
June 25, 2017 |
| The Anti-Israel Brigade Rallies Around San Francisco State U. |
Independent Journal Review |
November 17, 2016 |
| Erdogan's Academics: Middle East Studies Scholars Shill for a Tyrant |
The Daily Caller |
October 28, 2016 |
| The Middle East Studies Establishment Goes Full Warrior |
History News Network |
October 9, 2016 |
| Infiltrating Islamists and Palestinian Extremism in U.S. Universities |
Global Patriot Radio |
September 14, 2016 |
| Assault on Academic Freedom? UCLA Conference Blames Israel |
Jihad Watch |
December 22, 2015 |
| The Politicization of Middle East Studies |
The American Interest |
September 18, 2015 |
| Educators, Don't Let Yourselves Be Used by Middle Eastern Autocrats |
Commentary Magazine |
September 16, 2015 |
| BDS Profs vs. the Muslim Leadership Institute |
FrontPage Magazine |
August 21, 2015 |
| The Political Nature of Today's Middle East Studies |
National Review Online |
August 10, 2015 |
| No Jihad in Gaza, Says George Washington U's Nathan Brown |
Jihad Watch |
August 3, 2015 |
| NYU Prof Zachary Lockman Admits MESA's Anti-Israel Stance, Rails Against 'Israel Lobby' |
Jihad Watch |
March 4, 2015 |
| Mark LeVine Unhinged on Facebook |
FrontPage Magazine |
December 12, 2014 |
| Campus Watch's Mission Was Mischaracterized |
Chronicle of Higher Education (Letter to the Editor) |
December 9, 2014 |
| MESA Resolution Shows What's Wrong with Academe [incl. Steven Salaita] |
Commentary Magazine |
December 2, 2014 |
| MESA and IIIT: Islamists Infiltrating Academia |
American Thinker |
October 30, 2014 |
| Defending Salaita: Anti-Israel Profs Unite! |
American Thinker |
September 21, 2014 |
| An Apology Posing as a Bibliography [incl. Middle East Studies Association] |
The Washington Times |
May 23, 2013 |
| The Middle East Studies Establishment vs. Walid Phares |
American Thinker |
November 11, 2011 |
| John L. Esposito: Apologist for Wahhabi Islam |
American Thinker |
September 18, 2011 |
| California's Middle East Studies Profs Target Israel |
FrontPage Magazine |
June 15, 2010 |
| William Quandt's Embarrassing Memo |
Daniel Pipes Blog |
May 24, 2010 |
| Suad Joseph, President-elect of MESA, Defends Status Quo of Middle Eastern Women |
FrontPage Magazine |
May 21, 2010 |
| Middle East Studies – A Dangerous Profession [on Richard Antoun] |
Daniel Pipes Blog |
December 6, 2009 |
| Middle East Studies on the Mend? |
The American Thinker |
January 4, 2009 |
| The Academy and the Palestinian Refugees [incl. Fawaz Gerges, Joseph Massad, Hatem Bazian, Rashid Khalidi, et al] |
inFocus |
Winter 2008 |
| Looking Ahead By Looking Back [on Colin Shindler; incl. Bernard Lewis, Edward Said, Joseph Massad] |
The Jerusalem Post |
October 12, 2008 |
| PARC's Anti-Israel Polemics [incl. Joel Beinin, Rashid Khalidi, Ian Lustick, MESA, et al.] |
National Review Online |
July 11, 2008 |
| Truth About Islam in Academia? |
FrontPage Magazine |
July 2, 2008 |
| Profs Hammer Israel, Fail to Predict Palestinian War [incl. Fawaz Gerges, Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, et al.] |
The American Thinker |
March 12, 2008 |
| Seeking True Diversity in Middle East Studies |
FrontPage Magazine |
January 16, 2008 |
| Juan Cole's Crooked Tales of Hormuz |
FrontPage Magazine |
January 15, 2008 |
| MESA Turns Down Campus Watch Ad |
FrontPage Magazine |
November 16, 2007 |
| USC "Middle East Awareness Week" Features the Usual Suspects |
|
November 9, 2007 |
| Middle East Studies Self-Parody |
The Corner at NRO |
September 18, 2007 |
| Librarians Say No to Censorship While MESA Stays Silent [on the Middle East Studies Association, "Alms for Jihad," Cambridge University Press] |
The Corner at NRO |
August 17, 2007 |
| Shedding Light on the Professoriate [on Lisa Anderson, Arzoo Osanloo, Joel Beinin, Kathryn Babayan, Middle East Studies Association, et al.] |
The Washington Examiner |
August 16, 2007 |
| Book Banning and the Middle East Studies Association [on "Alms for Jihad," Khalid bin Mahfouz, Cambridge U. Press, Juan Cole] |
The Corner at NRO |
August 6, 2007 |
| Middle East Studies Association Hypocrisy [refs. Haleh Esfandiar, Juan Cole, Walid Phares] |
The Corner on National Review Online |
June 20, 2007 |
| Can Middle East Studies Regain Credibility? [on MESA, Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, et al.] |
The Washington Examiner |
January 18, 2007 |
| A Witch's Brew: The Gutmann Affair and Middle East Studies |
The Washington Examiner |
November 16, 2006 |
| Planned Obsolescence [on the Middle East Studies Association] |
The Daily Standard |
August 2, 2006 |
| MESA Looks in the Mirror |
DanielPipes.org |
November 21, 2005 |
| The Middle East Studies Association in 2005: More of the Same |
FrontPage Magazine |
November 17, 2005 |
| Academic freedom in Gaza and beyond |
American Thinker |
July 13, 2005 |
| Juan Cole, Media -- and MESA -- Darling |
FrontPage Magazine |
December 7, 2004 |
| Traveler's Check |
New Republic |
April 29, 2004 |
| The Middle East Studies Left |
FrontPage Magazine |
November 6, 2003 |
| A Saudi Education, Right Here at Home |
National Review |
June 19, 2003 |
| Academia Silent on Militant Islam |
FrontPage Magazine |
November 25, 2002 |
| Middle Eastern Studies: What Went Wrong? |
Academic Questions |
Winter 1995-96 |
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Moonlighting: Non-Specialists in the News
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| Title |
Publication |
Date |
| Simona Sharoni Receives Threats After Interview [incl. the Middle East Studies Association] |
Cardinal Points (student newspaper of Plattsburgh State University College) |
September 23, 2016 |
| Salon.com's Sordid Journalism [incl. Steven Salaita and Norman Finkelstein] |
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America |
December 15, 2015 |
| Fired Anti-Israel Professor Receives Standing Ovation at Middle East Studies Conference [on Steven Salaita] |
The Algemeiner |
November 26, 2014 |
| Disgraced Anti-Israel Professor Cheered in Washington [on Steven Salaita, MESA] |
The Washington Free Beacon |
November 25, 2014 |
| Professor Norman Finkelstein Denied Entry into Israel |
Committee on Academic Freedom Letters, Middle East Studies Association |
June 3, 2008 |
| Academic Repression Update / A Question of Scholarship: On the Tenure Controversy of Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein |
The Advocate (CUNY Graduate Center) |
May 4, 2007 |
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Campus Watch Blog
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| Title |
Publication |
Date |
| Anti-Israel NYU: The Gaza of Greenwich Village |
Campus Watch Blog |
September 10, 2020 |
| MLA and MESA Seek Financial Gain from America's Strife |
Campus Watch Blog |
June 5, 2020 |
| MESA Hits Bottom, Continues Digging in Support of Anti-Israel Activism |
Campus Watch Blog |
January 30, 2020 |
| Georgetown Gets a Title VI Wakeup Call |
Campus Watch Blog |
January 10, 2020 |
| MESA Again Demonstrates Its Contempt for Israel |
Campus Watch Blog |
December 20, 2019 |
| MESA's Statement Defending Academic Freedom and Condemning Anti-Semitism Does Just the Opposite |
Campus Watch Blog |
November 15, 2019 |
| Why is Marc Lamont Hill Giving the Keynote Address at MESA? |
Campus Watch Blog |
November 13, 2019 |
| MESA Objects to DoE Insisting Taxpayer-Funded Duke/UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies Maintain Balance |
Campus Watch Blog |
September 25, 2019 |
| Middle East Scholars Blame Trump for an Iran Policy 40 Years in the Making |
Campus Watch Blog |
August 21, 2019 |
| UC Davis Prof Baki Tezcan Arrested in Turkey for Signing Pro-Kurdish Petition |
Campus Watch Blog |
July 8, 2019 |
| MESA Demands U.S. Welcome Palestinian Terrorist Apologist Hanan Ashrawi |
Campus Watch Blog |
June 17, 2019 |
| CW's Response to MESA's Zachary Lockman: Stop Ignoring Omar Barghouti's Terror Ties |
Campus Watch Blog |
May 7, 2019 |
| Why the Middle East Studies Association Should Not Defend Omar Barghouti |
Campus Watch Blog |
May 6, 2019 |
| Academic Appeasers Appeal to European Commissioner to Keep Iran Deal Alive |
Campus Watch Blog |
June 22, 2018 |
| No Surprise that MESA Opposes the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act |
Campus Watch Blog |
June 12, 2018 |
| NYT Responds to MESA's Opposition to Publishing ISIS Documents |
Campus Watch Blog |
June 4, 2018 |
| Zuhdi Jasser Blasts MESA for Trying to Suppress ISIS Documents |
Campus Watch Blog |
May 16, 2018 |
| MESA Opposes Israel Arresting Student Terrorists at Birzeit University |
Campus Watch Blog |
March 14, 2018 |
| Cancellation of Fresno State Professorship Not a Zionist Plot |
Campus Watch Blog |
February 16, 2018 |
| Middle East Studies Association (as Usual) Singles Out Israel for Attack, Excuses Palestinian Perfidy |
Campus Watch Blog |
January 3, 2018 |
| Middle East Studies Association Panel Reserves Outrage Only for Israel |
Campus Watch Blog |
December 21, 2017 |
| MESA Panel Blames the Jews |
Campus Watch Blog |
November 22, 2017 |
| MESA Still Railing Against Outside Criticism |
Campus Watch Blog |
November 20, 2017 |
| MESA 'Crying First Amendment Wolf' in Opposing Israel Anti-Boycott Act |
Campus Watch Blog |
August 16, 2017 |
| MESA Sides Against America on SCOTUS Decision |
Campus Watch Blog |
June 27, 2017 |
| This Week at Campus Watch |
Campus Watch Blog |
March 23, 2017 |
| Campus Watch and Islamism: A Guide for the Perpetually Perplexed Elyse Semerdjian |
Campus Watch Blog |
February 22, 2017 |
| MESA Up in Arms Over Trump's Executive Order on Immigration |
Campus Watch Blog |
January 31, 2017 |
| MESA President Warns That U.S. Academic Conferences Will Be Boycotted |
Campus Watch Blog |
January 31, 2017 |
| MESA Moves to Remove 'Nonpolitical' from Bylaws |
Campus Watch Blog |
November 21, 2016 |
| Erdogan's Academics: Middle East Studies Scholars Shill for a Tyrant |
Campus Watch Blog |
October 28, 2016 |
| The Middle East Studies Establishment Goes Full Warrior |
Campus Watch Blog |
October 11, 2016 |
| The Latest on MEF's Campaign to End San Francisco State's MOU with An-Najah U. |
Campus Watch Blog |
October 3, 2016 |
| MESA Condemns Turkish Purges, but Won't Mention Erdogan, Islamists by Name |
Campus Watch Blog |
July 21, 2016 |
| Still Waiting on MESA to Condemn Erdogan's Purge of Turkish Universities |
Campus Watch Blog |
July 21, 2016 |
| How Will Middle East Studies Profs React to Erdogan's Purges? |
Campus Watch Blog |
July 19, 2016 |
| After Paris and San Bernardino Attacks, MLA Condemns 'Islamophobia' |
Campus Watch Blog |
January 5, 2016 |
| The Politicization of Middle East Studies |
Campus Watch Blog |
September 21, 2015 |
| The Political Nature of Today's Middle East Studies |
Campus Watch Blog |
August 10, 2015 |
| No Jihad in Gaza, Says George Washington U's Nathan Brown |
Campus Watch Blog |
August 3, 2015 |
| NYU Prof Zachary Lockman Admits MESA's Anti-Israel Stance, Rails Against 'Israel Lobby' |
Campus Watch Blog |
March 4, 2015 |
| MESA and IIIT: Islamists Infiltrating Academia |
Campus Watch Blog |
October 30, 2014 |
| Stacked MESA Panel to Praise Steven Salaita |
Campus Watch Blog |
October 24, 2014 |
| MESA Letter on Gaza Aid Ignores Hamas, Blames Israel |
Campus Watch Blog |
October 16, 2014 |
| MESA Attacks Efforts to Reform Title VI of the Higher Education Act |
Campus Watch Blog |
September 18, 2014 |
| California's Middle East Studies Profs Target Israel |
Campus Watch Blog |
June 15, 2010 |
| Suad Joseph, President-elect of MESA, Defends Status Quo of Middle Eastern Women |
Campus Watch Blog |
May 21, 2010 |
| USC "Middle East Awareness Week" Features the Usual Suspects |
Campus Watch Blog |
November 9, 2007 |
