Newest Battlefield of Middle East Conflict Is Tenure Case at Barnard College

by E Wayne Ross on August 20, 2007

The Chronicle: Newest Battlefield of Middle East Conflict Is Tenure Case at Barnard College

Scholars of anthropology and of Middle East studies are rallying around Nadia Abu El-Haj, an assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard College whose tenure bid, like that of Norman G. Finkelstein at DePaul University earlier this year, has become the subject of an online skirmish in the larger conflict over research on the Middle East.