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Understanding the Middle East

Martin Kramer Knows Why America Keeps Mucking Up The Middle East

By: Shepard Barbash

October 29, 2016

When Israeli historian and DC native Martin Kramer delivers the keynote in DC Friday for the annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, he will ask a question that no one has satisfactorily…

The Politicization of Middle East Studies

By: Efraim Karsh & Asaf Romirowsky

September 20, 2015

It has been a while since the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the largest and most influential professional body for the study of the region, whose 2,700-plus members inhabit departments of Middle East studies throughout the world, dropped its original…

Jonathan Goldstein: Teaching about Israel in the Bible Belt: An Experimental Course in the American South

By: Jonathan Goldstein

May 17, 2008

http://covenant.idc.ac.il/en/vol2/issue2/teaching-about-israel-in-the-bible-belt.html Abstract: This article explains the evolution of an academic course about the State of Israel at a medium-size public university in the American rural South. It defines the context in which I teach and describes my experience meeting the…

Teaching the Truth about the Middle East

By: Philip Carl Salzman

March 3, 2004

Philip Carl Salzman is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, author of Black Tents of Baluchistan, and a member of the Board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Last fall (2003), after a long lapse, in a senior…