Category: Academics Under Attack

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JACOB GERSHMAN | The New York Sun | 20 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don’t believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this article. Joseph Massad is an extremely well educated, articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jacob Gershman | The New York Sun | 22 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don’t believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this article. Joseph Massad is an extremely well educated, articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential Edward

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omayma Abdel Latif | Al-Ahram Weekly | 21-27 October 2004 Tariq Ramadan speaks to Omayma Abdel-Latif about the future of Muslims in the West. “Some in the West cannot get themselves to believe that you can build an identity that is truly Muslim and truly Western at the same time. They are so obsessed with a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Maria Misra | 22 October 2004 … is not always good news, Maria Misra discovered on a recent visit to India. I will watch at least some of David Starkey’s new 20-part series on the British monarchy with interest, even though it’s not quite my kind of history. As an academic who has put her

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Malise Ruthven | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 22 October 2004 Tariq Ramadan is a European Muslim who could help transform Islam’s relations with the West, so why is the US trying to keep him out? asks Malise Ruthven. It is not often that the US Secretary of State intervenes publicly in rows

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Luke Harding | The Guardian | 23 September 2004 Broken or antiquated equipment, and too few chairs to go round. Luke Harding in Baghdad reports on what Saddam, sanctions and ‘shock and awe’ did to science. Standing in the physics laboratory of Baghdad University, Professor Raad Radhi points to the machine for measuring liquid

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alan Wolfe | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 10 September 2004 At the behest of the U.S. Homeland Security Department, the State Department has revoked a visa for Tariq Ramadan, a theologian of Swiss nationality, thereby preventing him from assuming a teaching position at the University of Notre Dame. The damage done to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview with Tariq Ramadan | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 9 September 2004 Has academic freedom fallen victim to post-September 11 efforts to safeguard the country’s borders? For some people, the U.S. government’s revoking of a visa for Tariq Ramadan, a controversial Muslim scholar, has raised such questions. Are their concerns valid? Why

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Andrew Rubin | New Statesman | 6 September 2004 Since the occupation began, some 200 leading Iraqi academics, most of them in the humanities and social sciences, have been killed. Is the CIA responsible?  Control, intimidation, and even murder of Iraqi intellectuals, professors, lecturers and teachers has become more or less systematic since the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al-Jazeera | Al-Jazeera | 28 August 2004 Unknown assailants have shot dead a university lecturer in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, ambushing the teacher as she was driving to work. Police said on Friday the men had blocked a road and opened fire on Dr Iman Abd al-Munim Yunus with AK-47 assault rifles