Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from April 13- May 1, 2020:

Campus Watch Research

Campus Watch Blog

American Profs Advance Qatari Influence Operations on ‘Islamophobia’ (Winfield Myers): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60715/american-profs-advance-qatari-influence

Middle East Studies in the News

On two Palestinian art exhibitions by the Middle East Institute and the Museum of the Palestinian People (incl. Columbia U.'s Rashid Khalidi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60787/art-exhibitions-engage-in-palestinian-existential

Leor Halevi, professor of Islamic Studies at Vanderbilt U. will be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and use it to for a book project on Salafism: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60798/two-arts-and-science-professors-named-2020

The geopolitical ramifications of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ successful launch of the Noor satellite into space (incl. Johns Hopkins U.'s Narges Bajoghli): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60805/iran-satellite-launch-carries-more-political

A call to modernize Islamic mass prayers by making them virtual in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (incl. UCLA’s Khaled Abou El Fadl): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60804/all-the-earth-is-a-mosque-why-it-time-to

A critique of the New York Times for their coverage of how Saudi Arabia is handling the COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60801/the-new-york-times-should-worry-about-new-york

An interview with Rice U.'s Craig Considine discussing Islamic teachings, inter-faith dialogue, the Prophet Muhammad, Islamophobia, and Christianity: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60789/dr-craig-considine-his-newsweek-article-and-why

A blogger’s discovery about Yasir Qadhi’s shift from Salafism into a less conservative religious ideology: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60788/i-came-across-a-shocking-bit-of-news-concerning

Interview with Celene Ibrahim discussing her past and present views on interfaith engagement: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60738/an-interview-with-dr-celene-ibrahim

An anti-Zionist take on Ben-Gurion, the founding of the state of Israel, and the current “occupation” of Palestinian territories (incl. New York U.'s Zachary Lockman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60785/a-zionist-state-at-any-cost-incl-zachary-lockman

On the modern geopolitical history of the Iranian regime, a critique of Trump, and how the media is referring to Iran during the pandemic (incl. Baruch College’s Ervand Abrahamian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60712/us-plotting-with-coronavirus-to-overthrow-iran

Thoughts on U. North Carolina prof Charles Kuzman’s book The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60706/once-more-on-the-temple-in-dubai-incl-charles

On how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Ramadan and how best to celebrate in light of social distancing:

Moonlighters

On Jewish Voice for Peace’s virtual rally to “Free All Prisoners from Rikers Island to Palestine” (incl. Temple U.'s Marc Lamont Hill): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60727/marc-lamont-hill-ahed-tamimi-mariame-kaba

Harvard University Columbia University Georgetown University University of Oklahoma Brandeis University Rice University University of California, Los Angeles University Wisconsin - Madison Duke University University of Notre Dame Princeton University Saudi/Gulf Funding Juan Cole Rashid Khalidi John Esposito Zachary Lockman Islamophobia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Omid Safi Khaled Abou El Fadl University of Denver Nader Hashemi Craig Considine