From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jacob Gershman | The New York Sun | 22 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don't believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this article. Joseph Massad is an extremely well educated, articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential Edward Said in the making. What can possibly be worse for Zionist defenders of Israeli war crimes?
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omayma Abdel Latif | Al-Ahram Weekly | 21-27 October 2004 Tariq Ramadan speaks to Omayma Abdel-Latif about the future of Muslims in the West. "Some in the West cannot get themselves to believe that you can build an identity that is truly Muslim and truly Western at the same time. They are so obsessed with a clash between the two cultures, that they don't see this happening"
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Maria Misra | 22 October 2004 ... is not always good news, Maria Misra discovered on a recent visit to India. I will watch at least some of David Starkey's new 20-part series on the British monarchy with interest, even though it's not quite my kind of history. As an academic who has put her toe into TV history, I think the more history on TV the better, and Starkey certainly produces a polished and entertaining product.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Malise Ruthven | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 22 October 2004 Tariq Ramadan is a European Muslim who could help transform Islam's relations with the West, so why is the US trying to keep him out? asks Malise Ruthven. It is not often that the US Secretary of State intervenes publicly in rows between warring departments within the Bush Administration. But in the case of Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss citizen, Colin Powell let his displeasure be known when the Department of Homeland Security revoked Ramadan's visa nine days before he was due to take up a prestigious appointment as the Henry R.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Luke Harding | The Guardian | 23 September 2004 Broken or antiquated equipment, and too few chairs to go round. Luke Harding in Baghdad reports on what Saddam, sanctions and 'shock and awe' did to science. Standing in the physics laboratory of Baghdad University, Professor Raad Radhi points to the machine for measuring liquid helium. "It hasn't worked for two or three years," he says, in front of a twisting assembly of pipes.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alan Wolfe | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 10 September 2004 At the behest of the U.S. Homeland Security Department, the State Department has revoked a visa for Tariq Ramadan, a theologian of Swiss nationality, thereby preventing him from assuming a teaching position at the University of Notre Dame. The damage done to academic freedom is serious, but the harm to our country's efforts to combat Islamic extremism is worse.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview with Tariq Ramadan | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 9 September 2004 Has academic freedom fallen victim to post-September 11 efforts to safeguard the country's borders? For some people, the U.S. government's revoking of a visa for Tariq Ramadan, a controversial Muslim scholar, has raised such questions. Are their concerns valid? Why do other people consider him such a threat?
The guest Tariq Ramadan, 42, is a professor of Islamic studies and philosophy at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Andrew Rubin | New Statesman | 6 September 2004 Since the occupation began, some 200 leading Iraqi academics, most of them in the humanities and social sciences, have been killed. Is the CIA responsible? Control, intimidation, and even murder of Iraqi intellectuals, professors, lecturers and teachers has become more or less systematic since the US-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003. Under the subsequent occupation, initially governed by a body called the Coalition Provisional Authority, US military officials dismissed many Iraqi intellectuals from university positions, often on spurious grounds; and a surprisingly large number fell victim to assassination.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al-Jazeera | Al-Jazeera | 28 August 2004 Unknown assailants have shot dead a university lecturer in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, ambushing the teacher as she was driving to work. Police said on Friday the men had blocked a road and opened fire on Dr Iman Abd al-Munim Yunus with AK-47 assault rifles when her car approached. Yunis was head of the translation department at Mosul University's College of Arts.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tariq Ramadan | The Chicago Tribune | 31 August 2004 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, without offering an explanation, has revoked a visa that was granted to me to teach at the University of Notre Dame. In Sunday's Chicago Tribune on the Commentary page, Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, provided his "explanation" for this action. In what follows I respond to his unfounded allegations.