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Asaf Romirowsky

Asaf Romirowsky

Asaf Romirowsky PhD, is the Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). Romirowsky is also a fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Professor ​[Affiliate] at the University​ of Haifa. Trained as a Middle East historian he holds a PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King's College London, UK and has published widely on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict and American foreign policy in the Middle East, as well as on Israeli and Zionist history.Romirowsky is co-author of Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief and a contributor to The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel.Romirowsky’s publicly-engaged scholarship has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Interest , The New Republic, The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Ynet and Tablet among other online and print media outlets

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Whats next for Middle East studies?

Academic Middle Eastern studies at American universities for decades have focused mainly on a limited number of topics: the embrace of every academic fashion at the expense of language study, classical literature and history; the vilification of Israel and the…

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Call the Feds on Higher Education

What are the next steps for university leaders and donors after the Trump administration’s slew of executive orders on removing diversity, equity, and inclusion policies from American life, identifying and removing hostile foreign students, and protecting Jewish students? Some necessary measures are a…

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