Word: arabism
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...changed the tenor of those departments away from scholarship concerns and towards pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli activism. This has been especially true at Columbia, where the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department is notably prejudiced, and where the establishment of the Edward Said Chair of Arab Studies was steeped in allegations of everything from furtive donors to unscholarly candidates to unfair methods. This is not to assert the principle that professors should not be activists, but to lament a situation where an entire department falls into the uniformity of a similar worldview. For then students lose...
Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh said yesterday that the program will not be “Arab-oriented...
...Almost all of the stated goals of the program are not focused on Arab culture,” Mottahedeh said. “Most Muslims live east of the meridian of Karachi, [Pakistan...
...Alwaleed said he hopes the new program will look at both positive and negative aspects of Arab culture...
...both the President of Harvard’s Society of Arab Students, Rami R. Sarafa ’07, and the President of Harvard Students for Israel, Amy M. Zelcer ’07 said that Harvard does not offer enough classes focusing on the contemporary Middle East...