SPME
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is an organization devoted to the academic study of two of the world’s most important regions. Uniquely for an academic organization, it is predicated on the belief that…
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Tony Badran points out that Iran helped coordinate the brutal attack on Israel as well as reinforced the Hezbollah threat to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Tony Badran is a research fellow at FDD, where he focuses on Lebanon, Hezbollah, Syria,…
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The shock of the monstrous Hamas attack on Israel continues to reverberate as the death tolls continue to rise as well as the casualties. For context and analysis please join us for a briefing with Brigadier General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser.…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) – a global network of over 40,000 academics – is shocked and heartbroken by today’s shameful surprise attack on the people and land of Israel. The violent acts perpetrated by the Iranian…
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Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute’s Linda and Tony Rubin Program on Arab Politics, where she focuses on Shia politics throughout the Levant. The longtime managing editor of Lebanon’s NOW news website, Ghaddar shed light…
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The beginning of the academic year sees the BDS movement focusing attacks on the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which are making inroads among faculty and students alike. Meanwhile opposition to BDS in politics has largely split along party lines with…
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Izabella Tabarovsky is a Senior Advisor at the Kennan Institute (Wilson Center), a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP), a founding fellow of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA),…
read moreThis membership-wide vote will be the second time that the AAA has considered whether the organization and its members should sever ties with Israeli academic institutions. Back in 2016, the AAA’s full membership was also asked to endorse a similarly…
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A Professor at Bar Ilan University’s Faculty of Law and at the University of San Diego School of Law, Avi Bell is among the world’s leading scholars of property and intellectual property law, international law, and economic analysis of law,…
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This webinar was held jointly by ASMEA and SPME on April 4, 2023. Neil Rogachevsky is assistant professor and associate director at the Straus Center of Yeshiva University, where he teaches Israel studies and political thought. His writing has appeared in the…
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