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The war in the Gaza Strip has hit the economy of the West Bank hard as well, leaving the Palestinian Authority in "a spiralling fiscal crisis."

The tunnels beneath Gaza's southernmost city provide Hamas with cash and weapons smuggled in from Egypt.

On Dec. 29, this paper published a second ill-considered piece by the writer of an ill-informed piece published on Dec. 16. This time the writer complains that we do not teach modern Hebrew at the University of Arkansas Middle East Studies Program. We also do not teach Turkish, although Turkey is a major Middle Eastern country. Each MEST program develops concentrations; few cover all the regions languages.

Recently, a piece in this newspaper maligned faculty members of the Middle East Studies (MEST) Program at the University of Arkansas. As our UA colleague, its author might have reached out to us, but instead quoted an unreliable news outfit. What concerns me most is that he misleads our students about our course offerings.

Under Mahmoud Abbas, the PA looks incapable of succeeding Hamas but after an interim regime, the PA under a new leader is the way forward preferred by the US.

The Department of Geosciences and the Middle East Studies Program are offering a new, innovative online course, GEOS 4043 Geography of the Middle East and North Africa this fall semester 2023.

This colloquium will explore the ways in which Arabs have defined, redefined, or contested their identity and how they have engaged with their social realities through a variety of media. 

UW Middle East Studies conference, 9:30 am-4:30 pm on 3/25 and 9:30 am-5 pm, 3/26, Pyle Center. Free, but RSVP (virtual option available)

Drew Paul, an associate professor and the chair of the Arabic program here at UT, delivered a lecture on Monday night about being LGBTQ in the Middle East and Northern