Middle East studies

Peri Propper, who is completing her double major in global studies and Middle East studies with a minor in translation studies, received the Boren scholarship. “We are really proud of the accomplishments of our students,” said Jeffrey Stopple, the co-interim dean of undergraduate education at UCSB.

Six weeks ago in these pages, I panned an event — put on by Brown's Middle East Studies program — that promoted a boycott of Israeli universities. I argued that academic boycotts, no matter how righteous they might seem, should be rejected because they establish “one standard of pedagogy for ...

Maysam Behravesh, an Iranian analyst and research fellow at the Centre for Middle East Studies at Sweden's Lund University, told Middle East Eye: "The government usually sees the oil-rich province as a critical site of national security. "So events and protests there are quickly securitised and usually ...

Gary Grappo, a distinguished fellow at the Center for Middle East Studies at DU's Korbel School of International Studies, retired as US Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman in 2009 — yet many still defer to him as “Ambassador.” Grappo was head of mission for the Quartet's Special Envoy Tony Blair, ...

Commenting on the interdisciplinary nature of the book, Joe F. Khalil, Professor of Media and Communication at Northwestern University in Qatar, noted, “This ground-breaking collection is an important contribution not only to Middle East studies, but also to media and communication studies and political ...

“You are not punishing Assad, you are punishing the poor Syrian people,” said Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. “If America's objectives are countering terrorism, stabilization and the return of refugees, all of these will fail.” President Trump ...

... the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Yale Council on Middle East Studies, the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale College Council, and the Office of International Students and Scholars. The aim of the conference, according to the organizers, is “to promote a positive outlook on the future for the Arab ...

Dr Landis, Director of Centre for Middle East Studies, told Russia Today: “The US after all demonstrated that weapons of mass destruction work when it used the atomic bomb at the end of world war 2 and it brought about the end. “The surrender of the Japanese because as we recall in March 1945, the US ...

Campus Speakers Bureau provides knowledgeable speakers capable of relating accurate and balanced information regarding the Middle East and Islam to American university students. Campus Watch exposes the politicization and biases of Middle East studies in North American universities with the goal to improve them.

[Text differs slightly from the Jerusalem Post's.] Last November, when the crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), arrested dozens of wealthy royals and businessmen, many were stunned to learn that his cousin Alwaleed bin Talal was among those charged with ...

This critical survey of Georgetown University's programs and faculty of Middle East studies is intended to serve as a reliable source of information and insight for anyone interested in MES, Georgetown, trends in American higher education, and the Islamization of a key discipline. Campus Watch, a project of ...

Rojava is viewed as an oasis for certain groups of people in the region fleeing persecution, according to Melinda McClimans, assistant director of the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University. Many of the militia's soldiers are women, she said. Some of them have fled Islamic State and taken up ...

In Cairo, he took courses in Arabic and later went to graduate school at the University of Texas in Middle East studies where he refined his language skills. Former CIA Director John Brennan and his father Owen Brennan (originally from Clooneskert, Co. Roscommon) with Kathleen Brennan (the oldest woman in the Parish) ...

Rojava is viewed as an oasis for certain groups of people in the region fleeing persecution, according to Melinda McClimans, assistant director of the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University. Many of the militia's soldiers are women, she said. Some of them have fled Islamic State and taken up ...

A Connecticut native, Brennan graduated with highest distinction from the University of Virginia, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Affairs and Middle East Studies with a minor in Arabic. As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, she studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan. She is also the ...

As a prominent organizational supporter of the BDS movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, JVP sounded the alarm that “Pro-Israel advocacy groups” had torpedoed the search for the Edward Said Professorship of Middle East Studies at Fresno State University because all four finalists for the ...

Shahzad Bashir, professor of Islamic humanities, will become the new program director for Middle East Studies after Beshara Doumani, current director and professor of modern Middle East history, steps down this summer. Doumani, who has helped develop the program since 2012, served two three-year ...

But Director of Middle East Studies Beshara Doumani expressed uncertainty about the agenda behind the Israel Fund. Unlike the Middle East Studies program, which “was built slowly, organically, from the bottom up,” by students and faculty, Doumani said the Israel Fund “completely descends from the top ...

Steven Heydemann, Janet Wright Ketcham '53 Professor of Middle East Studies, published an essay, “Civil War: Economic Governance and State Reconstruction in the Arab Middle East,” in the Winter 2018 issue of Daedalus. Maggie Liu, assistant professor of economics, co-authored an article published ...