A Sampling of Opinion on Title VI, H.R. 509 (formerly H.R. 3077) and Middle East Studies
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Kennedy, Michael D. 2004. Ideological Diversity and Intellectual Responsibility in Area Studies and International Affairs. The Journal of the International Institute, 11(2–3).
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Ramadan, Tariq. 2004. Too Scary for the Classroom? The New York Times, 1 September. http:// www.nytimes.com /2004/09/01/opinion/01ramadan.html.
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Scholes, Robert. 2004. An Advisory Board to Be Wary Of. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 May. http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i36/36b01301.htm.
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Roy, Sara. 2004. Short Cuts. The London Review of Books, 1 April. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n07/roy_01_.html.
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Heydemann, Steven. 2004. Warping Mideast judgments. The Chicago Tribune, 14 March. http://www.ssrc.org/programs/mena/MES_Opinions/heydemann.page.
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Jacobson, Jennifer. 2004. The Clash Over Middle East Studies. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 February. http://chronicle .com/weekly/v50/i22/22a00801.htm.
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Strindberg, Anders. 2004. The New Commissars: Congress threatens to cut off funding to collegiate Mideast Studies departments that refuse to toe the neocon line. American Conservative, 2 February. http://www.amconmag. com/2_2_04/article.html.
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Kramer, Martin. 2004. HR 3077: The dean's deception. 21 January.
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Whitehead, Kenneth D.. 2004. Learning the Language: Title VI is in need of reform. National Review, 14 January. http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/whitehead200401140823.asp.
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Dobbs, Michael. 2004. Middle-East Studies Under Scrutiny in U.S.: Watchdog groups alleges left-wing bias. The Washington Post, 13 January, A01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11400-2004Jan12. html.
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King-Irani, Laurie. 2004. Proposed Changes to Title VI Funding for Area Studies. Anthropology News, 45(1), January.
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Lockman, Zachary. 2004. Behind the Battles Over US Middle East Studies. Middle East Report Online, January. http: //www.merip.org/mero/interventions/lockman_interv.html.
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Gitlin, Todd. 2004. Culture War, Round 3077. The American Prospect, 15(1), January. http://www. prospect.org/print/V15/1/gitlin-t.html.
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Jones, Diane. 2003. House Bill Should Not Be Cause for Alarm. Yale Daily News, 10 December. http://www. yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=24398.
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Kramer, Martin and Stanley Kurtz. 2003. Can Congress Fix Middle Eastern Studies? The Washington Institute Policywatch, 9 December.
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Brodsky, David. 2003. HR 3077 - The Education for Empire Act. The Faculty Advocate, 4(1-2), December. http://iml.umkc. edu/aaup/facadv13.htm#HR%203077.
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Task Force on Middle East Anthropology. 2003. Action Alert: HR 3077 Talking Points. December. http://ga.berkeley. edu/academics/hr3077.html.
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Newburg, Paul R. 2003. Foreign Studies Poisoned by Politics; Ideology is infecting education, to the detriment of effective diplomacy. Los Angeles Times, 23 November, M02.
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Prashad, Vijay. 2003. Confronting Evangelical Imperialists: Mr. Kurtz: The Horror, the Horror. Counterpunch, 13 November.
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Goldberg, Michael. 2003. Ossama University. Salon, 6 November. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/06/middle_east/index_np. html.
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Burd, Stephen. 2003. House Approves Bill on International Studies that Worries Some Academics. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 23 October.
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Hamid Dabashi. 2003. Forget Reds Under the Bed, there's Arabs in the Attic. The Times Higher Education Supplement, 17 October.
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American Association of University Professors. 2003. Legislative Alert. 23 September. http://www.aaup .org/govrel/hea/2003/9-23alert.htm.
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Pipes, Daniel. 2003. Saving Mideast Studies. New York Post, 18 September. http://www.danielpipes. org/article/1251.
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Kurtz, Stanley. 2003. Hearing Both Sides of Title VI: Middle East studies critics and defenders clash on the hill. The National Review Online, 23 June.
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Kurtz, Stanley. 2003. Studying Title VI: Criticisms of Middle East studies get a congressional hearing. The National Review Online, 16 June.
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Committee on Education and the Work Force. 2003. Witnesses Debate Questions of Bias in International Studies Programs. 19 June, Press Release. http://edworkforce.house.gov/press/press108/06jun/heabiashrg061903 .htm.
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Cole, Juan. 2003. Why are Arch-Conservatives Ganging Up on the Middle East Studies Association? History News Network, 20 January. http://hnn.us/articles/1218.html
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Center for International Studies, University of Chicago. 2003. Title VI Reauthorization Information. 5 January. http:// internationalstudies.uchicago.edu/titleVI.shtml.
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McNeil, Kristine. 2002. The War on Academic Freedom. The Nation, 25 November. http:/ /www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021125&c=1&s=mcneil.
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Postel, Danny. 2002. Islamic Studies' Young Turks. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 September.
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Heydemann, Steve. 2002. Middle East Studies after 9/11: Defending the Discipline. Journal of Democracy, 13(3), July.
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Gause, Gregory F. III. 2002. Who Lost Middle Eastern Studies? The Orientalists Strike Back. Foreign Affairs, 81. March-April, 164-168.
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