In the closing decades of the twentieth century, successive crises and cataclysmic events in the Middle East, though obviously not unique to this region, have been widely publicized by the American mass media. The 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the...

Middle Eastern studies is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the culture, politics, economy, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is generally interpreted to cover a range of nations extending from North...

Editors' Preface: Since September 11, 2001, public interest in Middle Eastern studies has surged worldwide. In the United States, the government has responded with a large public investment in Middle Eastern studies, pumping tens of millions of dollars into existing Middle East...

READING THROUGH THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, NOT a month after the World Trade Towers in New York City were reduced to smoking ash and twisted steel, I was not unnerved by the reactions contained therein. That one erudite scholar was unable to...

A debate over an anthropologist's book on ancient Hebrew history isn't just academic _ it's spilled over into an online dispute between critics trying to keep her from getting tenure and supporters who say the effort stifles scholarly freedom.Nadia Abu El-Haj has been teaching at...

Drew Gilpin Faust recalls her mother lecturing her that "this is a man's world, sweetie, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you'll be."It was a lesson she apparently never learned: Harvard University on Sunday named Faust the first woman president in the...