Friday, November 18, 2005
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Campus Watch: The Middle East Studies Association in 2005: More of the Same by Alyssa A. Lappen - '...Martin Kramer has dared to hope that MESA will regenerate itself into an intellectually diverse society of true scholars but MESA members continue to stand aloof from the major new issues in the Middle East, such as opportunities presented by the growing cracks in autocratic regimes and the threats to the West from Iran and Islamist terrorism. Instead, they denigrate American involvement in the region and rail against Washington's leading ally there.'
