Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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.
Martin Kramer: Rashid Khalidi (Obama's pal/Pal) - 'Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor at Columbia University, is much in the news these days, for his connection with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The Los Angeles Times did some digging around the story last spring, and most of the facts are there. I don't know anything about the connection that I haven't read elsewhere, so I have nothing original to say about it. But this seems like an opportune moment to flag my own writings on Khalidi, going back a number of years...'
