Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hamid Dabashi | Times Higher Education Supplement | 18 October 2003 Fear of terrorism is fuelling a campaign of hate against Arabs in the US. Columbia University professor Hamid Dabashi describes his personal experience Late in June 2002, I came back to New York from a fortnight’s trip to Japan to find my voicemail

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Birzeit University News | 9 October 2003 On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, Israeli occupation forces closed off the Ramallah-Birzeit road, prohibiting even pedestrians from crossing the kilometer-long checkpoint situated near the village of Surda. Since the majority of staff and students live in Ramallah, they were denied access to the University. The University was

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jon Marcus, Boston | Times Higher Education Supplement | 3 October 2003 Websites that monitor university faculty for evidence of alleged bias against the US and Israel have made inroads in government despite their detractors labelling them little more than blacklists that “chill” free discourse. The sites’ efforts have resulted in a congressional panel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker A summary of this response appeared as a letter in the London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n17/letters.html In a recent article published in the London Review of Books, Judith Butler selectively refers to aspects of a disagreement we had on the Academics for Justice discussion list in December 2002 in order to level

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch | 13 August 2003 The distinguished British philosopher Ted Honderich, is threatening to sue the head of the Holocaust museum in Frankfort for calling him an anti-Semite. The director, Micha Brumlik , levelled the charge last week after Honderich’s book “After The Terror” was published in Germany in July. Suhrkamp,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Judy Maltz | Jewish Telegraph | 4 July 2003 AN Oxford professor has apologised for refusing an application by an Israeli student – because of his nationality. Pathology professor Andrew Wilkie issued the apology after the university announced it was launching an inquiry. Amit Duvshani, 28, who had been seeking a place in Wilkie’s

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jeremy Last | Totally Jewish | 3 July 2003 The Israeli student at the centre of the Oxford university admissions scandal has told TJ that his rejection has made him think twice about applying to other universities in Britain. Amit Duvshani, 26, was refused a work placement at an Oxford University laboratory by Professor

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) South End Press | South End Press | 7 May 2003 The U.S. publishers of Dr. Huda S. Ammash assert that there may be political motivations for her detention on Monday, May 5 in Baghdad by the U.S. military on allegations that she oversaw Iraq’s purported development of biological weapons. Dr. Ammash, Dean of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Email Circular by Ilan Pappe | 23 May 2003 Haifa The Conference Three weeks ago, my colleague in the University of Haifa, Dr. Asa’d Gahnim of the department of political science suggested convening a conference on the 1948 historiography. We agreed to present in the conference the recent developments in both the Israeli and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) American Association of University Professors | Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP | May 2003 This report deals with actions taken by the administration and the governing board of the University of South Florida against Dr. Sami Al-Arian, associate professor of computer science and engineering, beginning in the fall of 2001 and culminating with his