Who Lost Middle Eastern Studies? Pro-Israeli activist, author, attacks Middle Eastern studies group, centers in universities

From: The Arab American News | Date: September 6, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Martin Kramer, editor of the Middle East Quarterly and former director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, has rattled teacups at faculty clubs throughout the United States with a hard-hitting and personalized critique of the country's practitioners of Middle Eastern studies. Were it not for the attacks of September 11, the controversies occasioned by his short book would be confined to the academic world, where it has been noted that the fights are so bitter because the stakes are so small. But the fact that the attackers were Arab Muslim ...

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