Tag: Middle Eastern Studies

Geoffrey Levin, Assistant Professor at Emory University, discusses the overlooked history of American Jewish dissent regarding Israel in his book "Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978."
Dr. Michael Milstein from Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and former Head of the Palestinian Department for IDF intelligence discusses the misunderstandings Israeli military leaders and policymakers have about Hamas, emphasizing that Hamas is a persistent force.
Israel Studies and Jewish Studies programs within academia are facing a problem of bias and hostility towards Israel.
The University of North Carolina's decision to have graduate student Kylie Broderick teach an undergraduate course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has sparked controversy.
In this discussion, Dr. Arik Rudnitzky examines the shifting voting patterns within the Arab community in Israel leading up to the fourth general election in two years.
Philip Glass's Egyptian opera "Akhnaten" is set to be staged at the Metropolitan Opera, marking its American production story, which has been more modest than its numerous European stagings.
In a recent discussion, Bernard Lewis criticized the dominance of Saidian views in American academia regarding Middle Eastern studies.