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On March 6, 2005, I delivered this speech at a historic conference that drew more than 500 people to Columbia University. The conference was co-sponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and by The David Project, the group…
read moreMarch 6, 2005 was an historic day in the history of Academic Freedom and Academic Integrity in Higher Education in America. It was the day when three determined grass-roots faculty, 20 distinguished scholars, intellectuals, activists, alumni and 700 registrants served…
read moreNEW 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…
read morePresident Bush’s democracy muse Natan Sharansky, the Israeli minister, suggested to a daylong gathering at Columbia University yesterday that the way in which the Middle East is studied and taught at Columbia and other schools reminds him of Soviet-era propaganda.…
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Columbia professor of epidemiology Judith Jacobson, vice president, Scholars for Peace in the Middle Eastphoto: Leslie Van Stelten In December, with the approval of Columbia University president Lee Bollinger and Provost Alan Brinkley, Nicholas Dirks, vice president for Arts and…
read moreIn the past year there have been press reports of a problem at Columbia University. The New York Sun has been the leader in exposing the details but the New York Post has also gotten involved. The New York Times…
read moreAs they say in Columbia University President’s Lee Bollinger’s neighborhood in Harlem’s Morningside Heights, “You got served….” Columbia’s been served notice by its faculty, students and alumni are mad as hell and are not going to take any more of…
read moreIt’s not often that a professor tells a packed crowd at Columbia University that Edward Said was a political extremist and that faculty members in the school’s Middle East studies department encourage Islamic terrorism. The professor who made those statements…
read moreURL: http://www.nysun.com/article/8812 No, Eurabia does not mean a strong influx of Arab-Muslim immigrants into European countries, though it does include demographic input. Eurabia does not mean the European Union after Turkey has been admitted, though welcoming Turkey with its 80…
read moreURL: http://www.nysun.com/article/8725 You might think that Columbia University would be on its best academic behavior on the issue of the Middle East conflict these days. After all, several professors in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, known as…
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