July 10, 2024

An Impossible Friendship and the Possibilities of Friendship in Israel/Palestine

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

An Impossible Friendship invites us to glimpse alternative possibilities within and alongside the fraught history of Israel/Palestine.

January 15, 2024

Israel, Palestine, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Civil Rights Legacy

Roger Baumann

In mid-January each year, many Americans turn their attention to questions about the legacy of the historic civil rights era of the 1950s and ’60s in the United States. This annual period of national introspection focuses especially on Martin Luther...

February 6, 2015

"What Is Academic Freedom For?," by Robert J. Zimmer

Read “What Is Academic Freedom For?,” by Robert J. Zimmer, excerpted from WHO’S AFRAID OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM?, edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole.

February 5, 2015

"Exercising Rights: Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics," by Judith Butler

Read “Exercising Rights: Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics,” by Judith Butler, excerpted from WHO’S AFRAID OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM?, edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole.

February 4, 2015

"Academic Freedom and the Boycott of Israeli Universities," by Stanley Fish

Read “Academic Freedom and the Boycott of Israeli Universities,” by Stanley Fish, excerpted from WHO’S AFRAID OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM?, edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole.

June 13, 2014

Sharing Jerusalem: On the Geneva Initiative and the Jerusalem Old City Initiative

Read Michael Dumper’s take on Geneva Initiative and the Jerusalem Old City Initiative for sharing Jerusalem, excerpted from JERUSALEM UNBOUND.

June 12, 2014

Michael Dumper on Reparation and Restitution

Watch a lecture on reparations, restitution, and Palestinians given by Michael Dumper, author of JERUSALEM UNBOUND.

June 11, 2014

Introducing Jerusalem Unbound

Read the Introduction to Michael Dumper’s JERUSALEM UNBOUND!

February 21, 2014

Shifting Sands After the Arab Spring

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 20, 2014

The Yom Kippur War and the Changing Calculus of U.S. Foreign Policy

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 10, 2014

Marianne Hirsch on the MLA's Resolution on Israel and Palestine

“When it comes to the topic of Israel and Palestine, discussion is curtailed before it begins. In a debate that is structured to allow only two clear-cut sides, words lose their meaning.”—Marianne Hirsch Recent resolutions from the American Studies Association...

January 17, 2014

Rashid Khalidi on Ariel Sharon

Rashidi Khalidi, author of Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War (now available in a revised edition with a new introduction), has recently been interviewed and asked to comment on Ariel Sharon’s legacy and his impact on the Middle...