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Middle East Studies Specialists Get It Wrong [on Bruce K. Rutherford] 21 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
An occasional series of bloopers. 1. Bruce K. Rutherford, associate professor of political science at Colgate University, published a book titled Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy ...
'Islamophobia' in the Bay Area? 13 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
Is the San Francisco Bay area a hotbed of "Islamophobia"? According to a new study by UC-Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian and his co-author, the counterintuitive answer is yes. But as journalist Stephen...
'Islamophobia' in the Bay Area? 13 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
According to "The Bay Area Muslim Study: Establishing Identity and Community," (BAMS) the San Francisco Bay Area, long known for its tolerance towards minorities and adherence to multiculturalism, is...
Columbia's Hamid Dabashi Uses BDS to Condemn Iranian Filmmaker's Trip to Israel 31 Jul 2013 | 04:15 am
Middle East studies scholars of Iranian descent, including Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, are among the signers of an op...
Academia's Love Letter to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood 22 Jul 2013 | 10:18 pm
In a Campus Watch article that's posted today at Frontpage Magazine, I take a look at the reaction of Middle East studies scholars to the overthrow of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and find that, by and ...
Academia's Love Letter to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood 22 Jul 2013 | 08:12 pm
Now that Egyptians have overthrown the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) government of former president Mohammed Morsi, how have scholars of the Middle East responded? With encomia, nostalgia, and conspiracy th...
Prof Quotes on the Overthrow of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood 21 Jul 2013 | 05:29 am
A sampling of commentary from Middle East studies scholars and moonlighters, non-specialists who write about the region, on the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt follows: Invoking conspirac...
Why Saudis Send Their Kids to the Islamic Saudi Academy 8 Jun 2013 | 01:33 am
For some time Campus Watch has followed the dubious goings-on of the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), a Saudi government-funded private pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade school in Fairfax County, Vir...
Berkeley Profs: 'Islamophobia' Greater Threat Than Islamic Terrorism 28 May 2013 | 12:01 am
Four years ago, the Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project (IRDP), a program of UC Berkeley's Center for Race & Gender, opened its doors and the politicization hasn't stopped since. The IRDP's ...
Berkeley Profs: 'Islamophobia' Greater Threat Than Islamic Terrorism 27 May 2013 | 10:10 pm
The false narrative that "Islamophobia" is a growing threat received a boost at the "Fourth Annual International Conference on the Study of Islamophobia: From Theorizing to Systematic Documentation," ...
