News from the Middle East

NGOs Call for Continued International Funding of PA

A number of NGOs have recently criticized the decisions made by the U.S., Canada and the EU to suspend aid payments to the Palestinian Authority after the Hamas government took office on March 29. Despite Hamas’ violent rejection of Israel’s…

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Bar Ilan University International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) Raises Concerns of American Association of Petroleum Boycott of Manuscripts Submitted by Iranian Petroleum Engineers

Bar-IlanUniversity(RA) International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) Press Release: April 25, 2006 The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) is concerned by Political Boycotts in Academic Geology The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB), established at Bar-Ilan…

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SPME Launches New Website

Scholars for Peace in The Middle East is pleased and proud to announce its new website at spme.org as a result of a generous private grant. SPME would like to thank SPME Board Members Stanley Dubinsky, University of South Carolina,…

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SPME’s Case Western Reserve University Conference Proceedings to Be Edited by Philip Carl Salzman, Donna Robinson Divine, Efraim Karsh and Published in Israel Affairs and Routledge Press in Spring 2007

Post Colonial Theory and the Arab Israeli Conflict will be the title of the proceedings of the SPME/Case Western Reserve University Conference on Postcolonial Theory and the Middle East held at the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies.The will published…

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