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Does Sharia Law Promote Women’s Rights? – by Cinnamon Stillwell
In thinking about women’s rights, sharia law, or Islamic law, doesn’t typically come to mind. Yet, according to a survey conducted by Dalia Mogahed, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup...
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Mogahed’s Excuses Don’t Add Up – by Cinnamon Stillwell
As reported last week by Campus Watch, Dalia Mogahed, appointee to President Obama’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, executive director and senior analyst of the Gallup Center...
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The Professor’s Islamist Call to Battle
Sherman Jackson, also known as Abdal Hakim Jackson, is a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. Jackson specializes in Islamic...
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Target Israel
In recent months, two University of California campuses, Berkeley and San Diego, have been embroiled in fierce debates following the introduction of anti-Israel divestiture resolutions by their...
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UC Berkeley and the ‘Islamophobia’ Lobby
The Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project (IRDP)—a program of the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender (CRG)—recently held its third annual conference, “Critical...
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Ten Years of Campus Watch
It was ten years ago this week, on September 18, 2002, that Campus Watch—a project of the Middle East Forum that reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving...
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Profs. on Mideast Turmoil: Blame America, Israel, and Free Speech
In the wake of the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, the seizure of the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and the ensuing anti-American protests and riots...
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Manufacturing ‘Islamophobia’ at UC Berkeley
Scholars of the Middle East would do well to follow the lead of the Associated Press (AP), which last year struck the political term “Islamophobia” from the new edition of its widely used Stylebook,...
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Profs on Boston Bombing: Blame Right-Wingers, ‘Islamophobia,’ and Blowback
University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole How did scholars of the Middle East and those engaged in moonlighting (non-specialists who write about the region) react to the Boston Marathon bombing on...
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Academia’s Love Letter to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Now that Egyptians have overthrown the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) government of former president Mohammed Morsi, how have scholars of the Middle East responded? With encomia, nostalgia, and conspiracy...
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Spies in the Classroom: CAIR vs. Campus Watch
When on October 1, 2013, Samantha Bowden crept unannounced into the classroom of University of Central Florida communications professor Jonathan Matusitz, she wasn’t hoping to advance her education on...
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