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Africans say their story, too, excluded from Middle East studies
150 150 Rachel Pomerance

NEW YORK, March 8 (JTA) – Daoud Salih, a Sudanese refugee, does not seem a likely advocate for revamping the Middle East studies department at Columbia University. But Salih says he shares the concerns of many Jewish students at the New York City school. His story, and the story of other Africans expelled from or…

Promoting Arab and Israeli cooperation: peace building through health initiatives
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Public HealthPromoting Arab and Israeli cooperation: peacebuilding through health initiatives Published online January 25, 2005 http://image.thelancet.com/extras/04art3217web.pdf Harvey Skinner, Ziad Abdeen, Hani Abdeen, Phil Aber, Mohammad Al-Masri, Joseph Attias, Karen B Avraham, Rivka Carmi, Catherine Chalin, Ziad El Nasser, Manaf Hijazi, Rema Othman Jebara, Moien Kanaan, Hillel Pratt, Firas Raad, Yehudah Roth, A Paul Williams, Arnold…

Healing and peacemaking in the middle east: challenges for doctors
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Comment Healing and peace making in the middle east: challenges for doctors The efforts noted by Harvey Skinner and colleagues in today’s Lancet would not have been possible 10 years ago, and the subject was taboo 15 years ago. The launching of the peace process in the middle east in the early 1990s has allowed…

Fighting Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism on the American University Campus: Faculty Grassroots Efforts
150 150 Manfred Gerstenfeld

Many new mutations of American anti-Semitism, and in particular its anti-Israeli forms, originate on the University campus. Much pro-Israel advocacy is carried out by new grassroots faculty groups such as Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). SPME’s preferred approach is through collegial professorial contact. Only if these efforts prove ineffective, cases of anti-Semitism…