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Academic Freedom after September 11.
Academic Freedom after September 11, edited by Beshara Doumani. Zone Books, 2006. 250 pages. $21.95.
"Palestine," "Judea and Samaria," "Palestinians," "War of 1948," War of "Independence," "October War," "Ramadan War," "Yore Kippur War": a professor's choice to publicly utter any of these words can set off figurative bombs in lecture halls and seminar rooms across American university campuses. A name can signal the taking of sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict; and now university lectures, like the conflicts themselves, are fodder for articles, commentaries and perhaps Congressional intervention. In the essays of this persuasive collection, Academic Freedom after September 11, the situation looks threatening and grim. The authors cite an increasing number of cases...See the full content of this document
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