YIISA CONFERENCE – 2 DAYS! “UNDERTSTANDING THE CHALLENGE OF IRAN”Tuesday, April 29 @ 6:45 PMThe Yale Club of New York City (50 Vanderbilt Avenue)*RSVP by April 22nd with meal choice: chicken, vegetarian or kosher to lauren.clark@yale.edu Formal Dinner & Lectures…
read moreJoin leading scholars of Middle Eastern and African studies, and related disciplines at the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa’s (ASMEA) inaugural conference this spring in our nation’s capital. Set for April 24-26, 2008 at the…
read morehttp://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2008/04/with-the-uk-academic-boycott-resurfacing/ Cluelessness: Pro-Israel leaders feel at a loss as renewed British academic boycott looms Senior academics and officials in the British Jewish community are gearing up for another boycott motion in their country against Israeli academia but lament they’ve lost…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/973991.html Senior academics and officials in the British Jewish community are gearing up for another boycott motion in their country against Israeli academia but lament they’ve lost a valuable resource which could lead the battle against well-funded proponents of the…
read morehttp://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=401482&c=1 The University and College Union has been criticised for donating £2,000 to a Palestinian charity whose trustees include the head of the union’s international department. The union made the contribution to the Friends of Birzeit University (FoBZU), a UK-registered…
read moreRead also Gerald Steinberg’s Reply: Internships with Radical NGOs Undermine Human Rights Education http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=drnVJwdrVvwvmyZPBSn6jQcvthzmCCW5 JerusalemA forthcoming report on American student internships in Israel and the Palestinian territories says that some programs are promoting extremist politics instead of academic values. The…
read morehttp://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2273939,00.html A closed meeting called by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) about Islamic studies will take place today amid fears that Saudi and Muslim organisations exert too much influence over UK universities as a result of donations…
read morehttp://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108138.html Britain’s University and College Union will reconsider supporting an academic boycott of Israel. Organizations opposing a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and individual researchers in the United Kingdom said they will consult their legal advisers following Wednesday’s decision to…
read morehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/13/nislam113.xml Extremist ideas are being spread by Islamic study centres linked to British universities and backed by multi-million-pound donations from Saudi Arabia and Muslim organisations, a new report claims. Eight universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, have accepted more than £233.5…
read morehttp://nymag.com/news/features/46000/ NYU president John Sexton has been promised a blank check to duplicate his university on a desert island in Abu Dhabi. The expansion will leave both campuses flush with petrodollars. But to many faculty, the deal amounts to a…
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