Change in Middle Eastern Scholarship

Submitted by Ilbert Phillips (United States), Jul 5, 2011 at 07:37

It was with great pleasure that I read your article on the changes in Middle East Scholarship. When my son took a class at Berkeley in the early ninties (his major was Middle Eastern Studies), his professor (a female muslim), had a map of the Middle East on the classroom wall that did not include Israel. It was a challenging class for a young Orthodox Jew.

The professor's explanation: There are plenty of classes at this institution that discuss Israel. The inaccuracy of the map was irrelevant. This omission was only one of many in a class that supposedly dealt with the current dynamics of the Middle East.

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