Tuesday, June 5, 2007
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.
Cinnamon Stillwell: The Muddled Mess of Middle East Studies [incl. Hamid Dabashi, Arzoo Osanloo, Minoo Moallem, et al.] - 'What's ailing contemporary Middle East studies? A symposium earlier this month at Stanford University provided a clue. A paranoid fixation on imagined American and Israeli "empire"; the refusal to accept legitimate criticism; an insulated, elitist worldview; an inability to employ clear, jargon-free English; and a self-defeating hostility towards the West: these vices and more were made clear at "The State of Middle East Studies: Knowledge Production in an Age of Empire."...'
