Saturday, March 12, 2005

Brandeis University creates Middle East Center to save the field from mediocrity

Saved at last!
Jerusalem Post Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World: "'My problem is not the anti-Zionism or even that many of them are anti-American, but that they are third-rate,' Reinharz said in a recent interview with the Jerusalem Post at his Brandeis office, referring to university Middle East studies departments. 'The quality of the people [in Mideast studies] is unlike any of the qualities we expect in any other field.'
Reinharz has set out to change that by creating a new center for Middle East studies at Brandeis, which he hopes will set a much-needed example of academic rigor in the field. "

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