I am late with this this week, due to a number of commitments Friday, over the weekend and Monday. Please accept my apologies.
February 26 – March 5, 2010
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‘Book of the week: No University Is an Island’
The Times Higher Education, 3/4
‘Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets’
Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times, 3/3
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Academic Freedom Media Review, February 19-26, 2010
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(It was released by SAR on Friday. I apologize for posting it so late.)
Science-Rights Coalition Has Global Impact in First Year
Benjamin Somers and Becky Ham, Science Magazine Vol. 327. no. 5969, p. 1097, 2/26
Simon Singh and the silencing of the scientists
Sarah Boseley, The Guardian, 2/25
British Court Rules for Professor Whose Decision to Fail Students Was Overturned
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/25
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My Most Popular Tweets of this Week
I have not been active in social media much this week, having spent most of my time updating my web 1.0 personal site now that I am no longer with NITLE. I thought I had finished, but I’ve discovered a few things I still want to fix: Typos, a misplaced section divider, and other things of that nature. If you have a chance, look at it and send your comments. I welcome them all, whether it’s about a typo or the whole design.
Still, I did tweet a bit. The most popular ones this week were, most to least popular:
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Academic Freedom Media Review
January 30 – February 5, 2010
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Terror and academic freedom
Rizwaan Sabir, The Guardian, 2/5
China snubs U of C over Dalai Lama, Accreditation lost after honour for spiritual leader
Gwendolyn Richards, Calgary Herald, 2/4
Quebec physicians urge Charest to call for end to silence on asbestos
Rhéal Séguin, The Globe and Mail, 2/4
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Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Review
January 8 – 15, 2010
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Iran arrests father of U.S. think tank scholar
Laura Rozen, Politico, 1/14
When Tenure Means Nothing
Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 1/14
Academy’s freedoms threatened as libel law lands scholars in dock
Zoe Corbyn, Times Higher Education, 1/14
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Qantara: Mediterranean Heritage
I just wanted to take a moment to point out this site, which I just discovered tonight. It is a fantastic pedagogical resource, interactive and rich in media. The interactive maps are particularly particularly fun, but there is all kinds of rich media.
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The Qantara project is part of the Euromed Heritage programme, which hopes to contribute to mutual understanding and dialogue between Mediterranean cultures by highlighting their cultural heritage. It aims to encourage intercultural dialogue by supporting the preservation and promotion of the shared historical and cultural heritage of the Euromed region, through human, scientific and technological exchanges…
The Qantara Project is a reflection of the Institut du Monde Arabe in its pursuit of openness and peace, in its modern and multimedia format that targets specialists and non-specialists alike, and in terms of its organisation, which unites several partner countries – Algeria, France, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Spain – as well as a guest country, Egypt. Qantara’s goal is to build or rather consolidate the bridge between the North and South, and the East and West of the Mediterranean.
Six Killed, Sixty Year a Refugee
More than 80% of people from Gaza rely on UN aid ©BBC
BBC News reports:
Israeli troops have killed six Palestinians – three in the Gaza Strip and three in the West Bank.
The Israeli military said three Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate from Gaza were killed in an air strike near the Erez crossing.
Separately, Israeli forces said they killed three men in the West Bank city of Nablus who are suspected of shooting dead a Jewish settler two days ago.
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The UN agency which looks after Palestinian refugees commemorates its 60th anniversary this month. But there’s no celebration.
Prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement look dim and the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is keenly aware that its “temporary” mandate could continue for years, even decades.
Imagine that! A Palestinian refugee born that year would be close to retirement and still a refugee.
Three Interesting Links from Morocco
This post is simply to pass on a few links, all relating to Morocco.
The first is to the site for the Maroc Blog Awards. The title is slightly misleading because you don’t just vote on blogs. There is an award for the photo, Facebook group, and Twitterer of the year, among others. Morocco and Moroccans don’t have a huge online presence. It’s a small country. But they took to the internet relatively early in the global scheme of things. I attended a conference about the internet in Morocco in the mid 1990s and it was packed. It is also a pretty well wired country and lots of Moroccans who are active in online media outside of Morocco still prominently identify their online selves as Moroccan, so there is some good stuff for voters to choose from. It will be interesting to see, however, if any of the recently arrested bloggers. The latest was on December 8.
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Binghamton Faculty Remember Richard Antoun
In an article published yesterday by Inside Binghamton University, faculty members remember Dick Antoun, who was murdered a few days ago by a Ph.D student. For part of the time that I was a Ph.D. student there, Professor Antoun was director of the Middle East and North Africa Program, including when I and three of my friends organized a three week Maghrebi Arts Festival and when we organized a MENA Students Group. He was very supportive.
I think Steve Straight hit the nail on the head when he described Antoun as a peacemaker. Straight joined the Anthropology Department at the same time as Antoun, and noted
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Professor Richard Antoun
Richard T. Antoun, Professor Emiritus, Anthropology, Binghamton University
Richard T. Antoun — a respected Binghamton University anthropology professor who grew up in Shrewsbury — spent his entire career seeking peace. His work focused on bridging the divide between religions and cultures, particularly in the Middle East.
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The student, Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani, 46, was from Saudi Arabia. Mr. Antoun was serving on the dissertation committee for Mr. Zahrani’s graduate thesis and apparently had known him for quite some time, according to news reports.
The university’s Web site says Mr. Zahrani’s doctoral thesis is called, “Sacred Voice, Profane Sight: The Senses, Cosmology, and Epistemology in Early Arabic Culture.”
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