Cal State Fresno's Middle East Studies Project Raises Red Flags

I have a new post at the Campus Watch blog on Cal State Fresno's fledgling Middle East Studies Project, which, by all indications, may prove problematic in the near future:

California State University, Fresno (CSUF) is in the process of developing The Middle East Studies Project, a collection of interdisciplinary courses that, by 2009, it hopes to offer as a minor in Middle East studies.

But, already, some in the Fresno community are raising red flags about what direction CSUF's Middle East Studies Project will take. Considering the biased nature of Middle East studies departments across the country – and California is no exception – their concerns are not unwarranted.

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