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<blockquote>Daniel Pipes and Martin Kramer of the Middle East Forum now run a website in the United States to denounce academics who are deemed to have shown "hatred of Israel". One of the eight professors already on this contemptible [[McCarthyism|McCarthyite]] list - it is grotesquely called "Campus Watch" -committed the unpardonable sin of signing a petition in support of the Palestinian scholar Edward Said. Pipes wants students to inform on professors who are guilty of "campus anti-Semitism". <ref>(Robert Fisk, "[http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=344510 How to shut up your critics]", [[The Independent]], October 21, 2002). </ref></blockquote> |
<blockquote>Daniel Pipes and Martin Kramer of the Middle East Forum now run a website in the United States to denounce academics who are deemed to have shown "hatred of Israel". One of the eight professors already on this contemptible [[McCarthyism|McCarthyite]] list - it is grotesquely called "Campus Watch" -committed the unpardonable sin of signing a petition in support of the Palestinian scholar Edward Said. Pipes wants students to inform on professors who are guilty of "campus anti-Semitism". <ref>(Robert Fisk, "[http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=344510 How to shut up your critics]", [[The Independent]], October 21, 2002). </ref></blockquote> |
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According to ''Salon'' magazine, "Pipes has a Ph.D. from Harvard and is the author of 11 books, including the recent "Militant Islam Reaches America." Yet the professors he attacks say he's an outsider in the field. "The Middle East Forum is not really a forum. Somebody rich in the community has set [Pipes] up with a couple of offices and a fax machine and calls him a director," says [[Juan Cole]], a Campus Watch target and professor of Middle Eastern [[history]] at the [[University of Michigan]]. "They put out this '''Middle East Quarterly'''. It publishes scurrilous attacks on people. There's no scholarship. It's a put-up job. As for Pipes himself, let's just say that he's not a full professor at a major university." Indeed, aside from Pipes, the Middle East Forum has a single researcher, whose job, according to the Web site, extends into fundraising."<ref>Michelle Goldberg, "[http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2002/09/30/campus/index.html Mau-mauing the Middle East]," ''Salon'' (30 September 2002).</ref> |
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==Contributors== |
==Contributors== |
Revision as of 22:13, 15 July 2009
Middle East Quarterly (MEQ) is a quarterly peer reviewed(since 2009) journal devoted to subjects relating to the Middle East. A publication of the Middle East Forum (MEF) founded by Daniel Pipes, the journal was launched in 1994. Edited by Denis MacEoin, it is published in print, and all but the current issue are also available as full texts from the website of the Middle East Forum, which does, however, provide links to full texts of some selected current articles as "MEF's latest releases". Peer review was introduced in the winter 2009 issue.[1]
Focus of the journal and its content
According to the Middle East Forum, the Middle East Quarterly deals with "Middle Eastern affairs". It states that:
"[P]olicy-makers, opinion-makers, academics, and journalists" consult it "for in-depth analysis of the rapidly-changing landscape of the world's most volatile region" and that it publishes "groundbreaking studies, exclusive interviews, insightful commentary, and hard-hitting reviews that tackle the entire range of contemporary concerns – from politics to economics to culture, across a region that stretches from Morocco to Afghanistan."[2]
One of its goals was also to provide a voice to academics who felt that the mainstream academic press was not giving voice to their views on Islam. Until recently, it did no peer review at all, leaving nearly all publishing decisions with its editors. [1] Peer review was introduced in 2009.
"In the halls of academe, the Quarterly delivers a welcome balance to the many materials that relentlessly attack the United States and Israel."[3]
Criticism
Middle East Quarterly's Publisher Middle East Forum, founder Daniel Pipes from Jewish origin and its editors like Martin Kramer are criticized by SourceWatch[4], journalist Robert Fisk, professor Joel Beinin and other parties, by claimed pro-Israel bias.
Professor Joel Beinin, Middle East History department at Stanford University and President of the Middle East Studies Association(MESA) of North America, who is named on the Campus Watch website, highly criticizes its publisher, the house organ of Middle East Forum as a neo-conservative think tank supportive of the Israeli right wing, which founded and directed by Daniel Pipes who he claims "evidently decided to take revenge on the scholarly community that rejected him", after his "failed" academic career, for establishing Campus Watch website as an "effort to police dissent is focused on those who teach Middle East studies on college campuses".[5] He also criticizes Martin Kramer, senior editor of Middle East Quarterly and claims Pipes "has a long record of attempting to incite Americans against Arabs and Muslims" for his 1990 text:[6]
"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene . . . All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most"(3) National Review, 19 November 1990
Journalist Robert Fisk:
Daniel Pipes and Martin Kramer of the Middle East Forum now run a website in the United States to denounce academics who are deemed to have shown "hatred of Israel". One of the eight professors already on this contemptible McCarthyite list - it is grotesquely called "Campus Watch" -committed the unpardonable sin of signing a petition in support of the Palestinian scholar Edward Said. Pipes wants students to inform on professors who are guilty of "campus anti-Semitism". [7]
According to Salon magazine, "Pipes has a Ph.D. from Harvard and is the author of 11 books, including the recent "Militant Islam Reaches America." Yet the professors he attacks say he's an outsider in the field. "The Middle East Forum is not really a forum. Somebody rich in the community has set [Pipes] up with a couple of offices and a fax machine and calls him a director," says Juan Cole, a Campus Watch target and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan. "They put out this Middle East Quarterly. It publishes scurrilous attacks on people. There's no scholarship. It's a put-up job. As for Pipes himself, let's just say that he's not a full professor at a major university." Indeed, aside from Pipes, the Middle East Forum has a single researcher, whose job, according to the Web site, extends into fundraising."[8]
Contributors
A full list of contributors can be found at http://www.meforum.org/docs/order/author
Staff
From the organization's website:
- Dr. Daniel Pipes, publisher
- Dr. Denis MacEoin, editor
- Dr. Patrick Clawson, senior editor
- Dr. Michael Rubin, senior editor
- Judy Goodrobb, managing editor[9]
Board of editors
From the organization's website:
- Dr. Fouad Ajami, Johns Hopkins University
- Dr. Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Dr. Khalid Duran, TransState Islam
- Dr. David Fromkin, Boston University
- Dr. Paul Henze, RAND Corporation
- Dr. Eliyahu Kanovsky, Bar-Ilan University[10]
- Dr. Geoffrey Kemp, The Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom[11]
- Dr. Martin Kramer, The Shalem Center
- Dr. Habib C. Malik, Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights in Lebanon[12]
- James Phillips, the Heritage Foundation
- Dr. Steven Plaut, University of Haifa
- Amb. Dennis Ross, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Dr. Barry Rubin, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel.
- Dr. Saliba Sarsar, Monmouth University[13]
- Dr. Robert B. Satloff, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Dr. Sabri Sayari, Georgetown University[14]
- Dr. Haim Shaked, University of Miami[15]
- Dr. Steven L. Spiegel, University of California, Los Angeles[16]
- Dr. Kenneth Stein, Emory University
- Dr. Marvin Zonis, University of Chicago[17]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Editors' Note: On Peer Review, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2009, p. 3 [1] Cite error: The named reference "PeerReview" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Middle East Quarterly. Publication website hosted by its sponsoring organization Middle East Forum, accessed February 19, 2007.
- ^ http://www.danielpipes.org/mef.php
- ^ Middle East Quarterly, Campus Watch, Middle East Forum by SourceWatch
- ^ Joel Beinin, Who's watching the watchers?, [[History News Network]], September 30, 2002
- ^ Watch and Tell Tel Aviv's Influence on American Institutions Monde Diplomatique English edition, July 2003
- ^ (Robert Fisk, "How to shut up your critics", The Independent, October 21, 2002).
- ^ Michelle Goldberg, "Mau-mauing the Middle East," Salon (30 September 2002).
- ^ Board of Editors, Middle East Forum: Middle East Quarterly.
- ^ Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR).
- ^ Geoffrey Kemp at The Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.
- ^ National Geographic Biography of Habib C. Malik.
- ^ Saliba Sarsar, "US and 'The Other': The Social Sciences and Our Age of Crisis," Keynote Speaker, 30th Annual Conference of the Eastern Community College Social Science Association (ECCSSA), Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey, March 26, 2004; incl. "Biographical Sketch."
- ^ General Profile of Sabri Sayari, Georgetown University faculty webpage.
- ^ Director of the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and Founding Director, Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
- ^ Faculty and Staff listing for Steven L. Spiegel at The Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA.
- ^ Board of Editors, Middle East Forum: Middle East Quarterly.
External links
- Middle East Quarterly. Publication website hosted by its sponsoring organization Middle East Forum. Contains full-text versions of all but current issue of the print edition of Middle East Quarterly, with links to selected current articles provided as "MEF's latest releases". Accessed February 19, 2007.