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Committee on Academic Freedom

Anti-intellectualism
Israeli Violations of Academic Freedom in the occupied Palestinian Territories

Israeli Violations of Academic Freedom in the occupied Palestinian Territories

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association Joseph R. Biden President of the United States   Volker Türk UN High Commissioner for Human Rights   Ambassador Omar Zniber President, UN Human Rights Council   Francesca Albanese UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories   Dear President Biden, High Commissioner Türk, Ambassador Zniber, and […]

Anti-intellectualism
Protesting the Suspension of Professor Jairo Fúnez-Flores by Texas Tech University

Protesting the Suspension of Professor Jairo Fúnez-Flores by Texas Tech University

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Tedd Mitchell Chancellor, Texas Tech University System Tedd.mitchell@ttuhsc.edu   Lawrence Schovanec  President, Texas Tech University lawrence.schovanec@ttu.edu   Ron Hendrick Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Texas Tech University provost.communications@ttu.edu   Eileen Gianiodis  Assistant Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Texas Tech University  egianiod@ttu.edu […]

Culture
The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA

The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA

Committee on Academic Freedom

The Middle East Studies Association of North America | Letters from the Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | The Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association and its Committee on Academic Freedom condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing attack on Gaza by the state of Israel, which has now claimed […]

censorship
Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee

Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | Senator Richard Durbin Chair, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate fax: (202) 228-0400    Senator Lindsay O. Graham Ranking Member, Committee on the Judiciary  United States Senate fax: (202) 224-3808 Dear Senators Durbin and Graham:   We write on behalf of the Middle […]

Anti-intellectualism
US Mideast Experts Condemn Israeli Killing of Gaza Professors, University Administrators

US Mideast Experts Condemn Israeli Killing of Gaza Professors, University Administrators

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  pmoh@pmo.gov.il . . . Prime Minister, Ministers, Major General:   We write to you on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) to vehemently condemn the ongoing […]

Education
Condemning Punitive Measures against Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities

Condemning Punitive Measures against Palestinian Students in Israeli Universities

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Bar Ilan University Ben Gurion University of the Negev Hebrew University of Jerusalem Open University Reichman University Technion Tel Aviv University University of Haifa       Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pmoh@pmo.gov.il Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, sar@mops.gov.il Minister […]

Bill of Rights
Academic Freedom Violations at Indiana U against Professor Abdelkader Sinno and artist Samia Halaby

Academic Freedom Violations at Indiana U against Professor Abdelkader Sinno and artist Samia Halaby

Committee on Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Abdelkader Sinno Indiana University Samia Halaby Rahul Shrivastav, Provost and Executive Vice President provost@indiana.edu   Rick Van Kooten, Executive Dean, College of Arts and Sciences rvankoot@indiana.edu . . . Dear Provost Shrivastav and colleagues:   We write on behalf of the […]

Anti-intellectualism
Open Letter to Higher Ed Presidents on Palestine-Israel and Academic Freedom

Open Letter to Higher Ed Presidents on Palestine-Israel and Academic Freedom

Committee on Academic Freedom

Middle East Studies Association of North America | Letters and Statements from the Board | – Open Letter to US and Canadian College and University Presidents We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and its Committee on Academic Freedom to urge you to uphold academic freedom on your […]

censorship
Concerns about Treatment of Faculty Teaching Israel-Palestine by U of Arizona’s College of Education

Concerns about Treatment of Faculty Teaching Israel-Palestine by U of Arizona’s College of Education

Committee on Academic Freedom

Letter to the president of the University of Arizona expressing concern about the College of Education’s treatment of two faculty members by Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association. | – Robert C. Robbins President, University of Arizona president@email.arizona.edu   Dear President Robbins,    We write on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association […]

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