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Later this month Britain’s largest university and college lecturers union will vote on a motion recommending its 67,000 members boycott their Israeli counterparts and Israeli academic institutions. The move by the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education…
read moreBelow please find the link to the sixth Middle East Brief: “Turkish-American Relations Since the 2003 Iraqi War: A Troubled Partnership” by Banu Eligur This Brief closely examines the steady decline in Turkish-American relations since the 2003 Iraqi War. Eligur…
read moreOn May 7, Lebanese Druze leader and member of parliament Walid Jumblat told reporters in Cairo that Hizballah should disarm. These comments came just four days after Jumblat offered his assistance to the Syrian opposition in establishing “a democratic and…
read moreA string of scandals have revealed the positions of Arab governments on the issue of aid to the Palestinian people amid the war of famine being waged by America, Israel and European states. The first scandal is that Arab governments…
read moreA string of scandals have revealed the positions of Arab governments on the issue of aid to the Palestinian people amid the war of famine being waged by America, Israel and European states. The first scandal is that Arab governments…
read moreWith regard to your item on the proposed boycott of Israeli lecturers by the British union for college and university staff (“Israeli lecturers targeted,” May 13), perhaps they can also call for a boycott of British and American lecturers. The…
read moreOn December 27, 1962, President John F. Kennedy told Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir: “The United States has a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East really comparable only to what it has with Britain over a wide range…
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Amir Taheri was born in Iran and educated in Tehran, London and Paris. Between 1980 and 1984 he was Middle East editor for the London Sunday Times. Taheri has been a contributor to the International Herald Tribune since 1980. He…
read moreJacqueline Rose, at a conference last September became exasperated by patient logical arguments against boycotting Israeli academics. In the end she fell back on the desperate exclamation, “We have to do something!” Never mind that a blacklist of Israeli academics…
read moreThe Crown Center for Middle East Studies presents the fifth Middle East Brief: “Nuclear Decision-Making in Iran: A Rare Glimpse” by Chen Kane. This Brief provides a unique and in-depth analysis of Iran’s decisions to advance its nuclear program. By…
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