Middle Eastern Studies

Although some academic programs combine Middle Eastern Studies with Islamic Studies , based on the preponderance of Muslim s in the region, others maintain these areas of study as separate disciplines.

CONTENTIOUS ISSUES

In 1978 Edward Said , a Palestinian American professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University , published his book '' Orientalism '', in which he accused earlier scholars of a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arab o-Islamic peoples and their culture", claiming the bias amounted to a justification for Imperialism . While other academics challenged Said's conclusions, the book soon became a standard text of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies .

American-Israeli historian . In a '' Wall Street Journal '' article published in 2001, Kramer claimed that Middle Eastern studies courses, as they stood, were "part of the problem, not its remedy". In a '' Foreign Affairs '' review of the book, F. Gregory Gause said his analysis was, in part, "serious and substantive" but "far too often his valid points are overshadowed by academic score-settling and major inconsistencies."

In 2002 , American writer Daniel Pipes established an organisation called Campus Watch to combat what he perceived to be serious problems within the discipline, including "analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students". He encouraged students to advise the organisation of problems at their campuses. In turn critics within the discipline such as John Esposito accused him of " McCarthyism ".

SEE ALSO

Orientalism

EXTERNAL LINKS

Middle East Studies Association

Middle East Institute

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at University of California Berkeley

Middle East Center at the University of Utah

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago

The Middle East Studies Center at the Ohio State University

Middle East Institute at the Georgia State University

Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies at the University of Tel Aviv

Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University

Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Daniel Pipes article "Middle Eastern Studies: What Went Wrong" 1995-1996

Campus Watch

Martin Kramer's ''Wall Street Journal'' article

"Can Congress Fix Middle Eastern Studies?" by Martin Kramer

''Foreign Affairs Review of ''Ivory Towers on Sand'' by Martin Kramer March/April 2002

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