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Terrorist in the Ivory Tower?

Friday, August 21st, 2009

by Cinnamon Stillwell | San Francisco
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 [...]

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Ahmadinejad’s Academics

Friday, July 10th, 2009

by Cinnamon Stillwell | San Francisco
It seems like just yesterday that the Middle East studies establishment was busy defending Iran’s theocratic regime and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from the alleged predations of U.S. and Israeli foreign policy. Yet in the wake of the unrest in response to the stolen election, suddenly American academics have succumbed [...]

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The Return of Joel Beinin

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

by Cinnamon Stillwell | San Francisco

“The American empire is going down.”
So declared history professor and former president of the Middle East Studies Association, Joel Beinin, on the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (PPJC) cable television program, “Other Voices” (watch here) last week in Palo Alto.

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