Trump’s war on Columbia comes for Middle East studies

Columbia is reportedly close to an agreement that would put its Middle Eastern Studies department, an anti-Israel epicenter, under an academic receivership

The field of modern Middle Eastern studies was born at Columbia University in the 1970s under the influence of Edward Said, the prominent Palestinian-American literature scholar and political activist. 

Now, the discipline as it currently exists may die there,...

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