Campus Watch reports the following from September 6 - September 19, 2022:
Campus Watch in the Media
GOP Probes Academic Group After it Defends Professor who Blamed Rushdie Attack on Israel: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63598/gop-probes-academic-group-after-it-defends
Middle East Studies in the News
San Francisco State U. prof Rabab Abdulhadi hosts unauthorized university event with Beirut speakers linked to terrorists:
Israellycool Blog: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63597/sfsu-department-hosted-beirut-conference-with
J. Weekly: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63596/sf-state-professor-hosts-speakers-in-beirut
Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63595/sfsu-event-with-terrorist-speakers-was
Students decry the loss of federal funding to U. of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center:
Daily Pennsylvanian: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63586/students-demand-penn-support-middle-east-center
Daily Pennsylvanian: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63555/penn-middle-east-center-loses-all-federal-funding
New Recommended Professors
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/campus-resources/recommended-professors
Shawkat Toorawa
Professor of Arabic Literature
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Yale University
Areas of Expertise: Classical and medieval Arabic literature, especially the literary and writerly culture of Abbasid Baghdad; the Qur’an; the Waqwaq Tree and islands; Indian Ocean studies; modern poetry; translation; and SF film and literature.
https://nelc.yale.edu/people/shawkat-toorawa
https://shawkutis.weebly.com/
Steven E. Zipperstein
Lecturer, Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Assistant Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA
Distinguished Senior Fellow, UCLA Center for Middle East Development
Distinguished Senior Fellow, UCLA International Institute
Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University Law School
Areas of Expertise: Law; Israel-Palestine conflict; advanced technology.
https://www.history.ucsb.edu/lecturer/szipperstein/
https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/steve-zipperstein
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cmed/person/2421
https://www.international.ucla.edu/institute/person/2421
