... publication, the issue came to a vote at the American Anthropological Association. Abu-Lughod asks the authors whether their research enables us to understand the outcome of the vote. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 American Anthropological Association Middle East anthropology academia Israel...

...Fan-sen Wang This article discusses various aspects of the current status of the humanities in Taiwan. First, the “indicator frenzy” that has prevailed in East Asia over the past twenty years has caused a major problem in humanities in Taiwan's academia. Second, in the past twenty years...

... was later canonized in Egyptian academia, so that Egypt's Ottoman history was defined as beginning in 1517 and ending in 1798. However, the vagaries of Egypt's relationship with Istanbul meant that this periodization was neither obvious nor uncontested. The purpose of this article is to compare evolving...

... academia or global knowledge production tends to be equated with scholarship that is published in English and in academic journals based in the United States and Europe and that defines the dominant understandings of what academic research should be. To have any visibility, importance, or relevance...

... of a fully subcontracted model of academia in which little if anything is left that cannot be separated and farmed out for others to be paid to do on a temporary and delegated basis. 14 There is important intellectual work to be done if we want to extend ethical considerations to different elements...

... systems, the place of science and humanities in society, globalization and soft power, the meaning of humanistic inquiries, and so on. Wang Fan-s­ en is a preeminent historian and vice president for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His discussion suggests that the biggest...

... and by her questions about what she would gain from such an interview. Although we would not be able to receive the information we hoped to get, I was impressed: finally, someone challenged the whole edifice, the rules and the roles and the gains and losses set by Israeli academia, for us, the Palestinians...

... reason. know each other better and will, consequently, Comparative Literature Iran in Since the marginalization of the pro- bring deeper understanding of the other and gram in Iranian academia, comparative litera- enhances friendship among...

... reviewers for their insightful feedback. 1. On Pang, see Ben-Dor Benite, “Nine Years in Egypt,” and Chen, “Re-Orientation.” On Hai, see Chen, “Islam's Loneliest Cosmopolitan.” 2. Academia Sinica (Taipei), Modern History Archives 11-WAA-00004. 3. Not entirely new: anti-communism...

... on Woodson, James-who had done so much to link their declining presence in academia. Meanwhile, the emancipatory struggles of Africans at home and Fyfe noted, British Africanists are being confronted abroad. Martin and West insist that these linkages by a new constituency of Black British students...

..., “Subcontracting Academia.” 8. Sukarieh et al., “Mayssoun Sukarieh.” 9. Gupta and Stoolman, “Decolonizing U.S. Anthropology,” 782 . References Bishara Amahl . “ Decolonizing Middle East Anthropology: Toward Liberations in SWANA Societies .” American Ethnologist 50 ( 2023 ): 1...

... on the politics of the academy. In recent years, scholars in the United States and elsewhere have returned to the debate about the way Middle East politics shapes the possibilities for creating critical knowledge about the region. In Middle East Politics in US Academia: The Case of Anthropology, Lara Deeb...

... theorists mistakenly tend to assume that such a critique has been exhausted by Edward W. Said's book, 2 this necessary interdependence between construction and critique is too often overlooked. While writing about Islam in the allegedly post-orientalist space of Western academia, we might be more...

... of the Soviet-s­tyle institution from which it derives its basic framework and the Academia Sinica of the Republican period. The founda- tion of CASS, therefore, also symbolized China s attempt to distinguish itself from the Soviet system while still remaining within the bounds of Marxism. Within this new frame...

...? Who owns the knowledge/data produced, and who can use it? My own experiences as an academic working at a Jordanian university and in conversations with Jordanian colleagues in academia and civil society organizations suggest that despite the discourse on decolonizing research, little has changed...

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... of Western academia, where Ahmed spent much of his scholarly life before it was regrettably cut short by illness. He composed this unconventional work at the end of a conventional scholarly career that began with great promise but did not end well. His specialization was in early Islam. He wrote a doctoral...

... and Zionist interests in Middle East social science. 9. Sukarieh and Tannock, “On the Problem of Over-researched Communities” ; Sukarieh and Tannock, “Subcontracting Academia.” 10. Gupta and Stoolman, “Decolonizing,” 779 . 11. Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies , 3 . 12...