Where are America's Iraq experts? According to one view, the media are hiding them from you. That's the claim of Juan Cole, University of Michigan historian. He's one of the establishment boosters of Middle Eastern studies, and a staunch defender of the Middle East Studies Association against all comers. (He also edits its quarterly journal.) …
Tag: Middle Eastern studies
Interim assessment
From Martin Kramer, "Jihad 101," Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2002, pp. 87-95. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. The autumn of 2001 will be remembered in Middle Eastern studies as the best of times. The media besieged the profs, who became "experts." On campus, at special events and teach-ins, they commanded audiences of hundreds and even thousands. …
Book launch: Ivory Towers on Sand
Remarks by Martin Kramer upon the October 2001 launch of his book Ivory Towers on Sand.
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