Will Georgetown University cut its ties to İbrahim Kalin, senior fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and sycophantic spokesman for Turkey’s Islamist, authoritarian president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan? In light of Erdoğan’s firings and arrests of thousands of professors and teachers, why does Georgetown coddle his official mouthpiece?
Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
