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Ivory Towers on Sand
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Martin Kramer, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America.
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Columbia searches for Israel
posted Saturday, 30 April 2005
So Columbia tries to dissipate the crisis by announcing the creation of a chair of Israel studies. Today we learn from the New York Sun that the university has placed two Palestinians, Rashid Khalidi and Lila Abu-Lughod, on the search committee. Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor, seems to support a one-state solution (and that state isn't Israel); Abu-Lughod is a Said-worshipping signer of Columbia's divestment petition. Is this any way to run a university? I offer details and full commentary in an entry at Sandstorm.
