What Arab Academia needs is the opening of state archives!
A short comment on "The knowledge constituency versus the ignorance lobby" which a friend shared. I read this because you shared it. I didn't find it that outstanding and found it to be full of the same deafness it decries. it is way too simplistic--and if the man is an Arab--it is not clear whether it is a symptom of self-conceit or aw kward moment of self-loathing. While it is indeed great to know about all world's events and history and while it is great academically to make trips to see where events were transcribed into human living memory, while all of that is great--this is not as grand or as enlightening, or as vital or useful to the Palestinian national struggle as the article made it look like. While it is shameful that a professor is pressured to quit his post because of a choice of an academic experience he thought was useful--again the value of it could be debated--is condemnable, this is hardly the greatest problem facing Palestine. The event itself ...