Middle East Studies in an Age of Post-Colonial Hegemony
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) will hold its next conference, as usual at the Keystone Marriot just over the river from Georgetown DC, this coming year on November 13-15. Hopefully it will be live.
ASMEA was created in 2007 as a counter to MESA’s (Middle East Studies Association) increasing politicization . To ASMEA’s chagrin, MESA’s politicized scholarship has dominated the area-studies to this day (certainly as measured in control of research resources and access to the public), as well as fed the culture wars on campus and beyond in the form of “Apartheid Weeks” and BDS. As such, the anti-Orientalism of post-colonial studies has played an important role in the 21st century response of Western thought leaders to the challenges from the regions involved, not least, to Global Jihad.
Professorship brings noted Middle East history scholar to Penn State
Laura Robson named inaugural William L. and Donna F. Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History in the College of the Liberal Arts
Middle East history scholar Laura Robson has joined the College of the Liberal Arts as the inaugural Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History.Image: Andrea Lonas Photography
Professorship brings noted Middle East history scholar to Penn State
Susan Burlingame
March 09, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Laura Robson has been named the inaugural William L. and Donna F. Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History in the College of the Liberal Arts.
Her appointment is possible due to the generosity of Penn State philanthropists Donna Oliver, a 1967 liberal arts alumna, and her husband William ( Bill ), a 1967 alumnus of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. The Olivers took advantage of the Tracy and Ted McCourtney Endowed Professorship Matching Gift Program to create the professorship.
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A Carleton University PhD student arrested while visiting Turkey last year will stand trial in April on charges stemming from protests in Turkey in 2014, his common-law partner says.
Cihan Erdal, 32, was detained on Sept. 25, 2020 along with 16 others, after Turkish officials accused the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey in which Erdal was once a high-ranking member of urging people to take part in protests across Turkey in 2014 that left 37 people dead.
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