Israpundit: Columbia University's Hysterical Professor

Columbia University's Hysterical Professor

Daniel Pipes challenges "Columbia University's Hysterical Professor":

Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University, felt threatened by a graduate student at his own university, but not me.

The incident began late on Sept. 27, 2004, when Victor Luria, a Ph.D. candidate in genetics and a former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, wrote Dabashi an e-mail taking strong exception to what Dabashi had written about the IDF in an article, "For a Fistful of Dust: A Passage to Palestine," he published in the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Ahram. In response, Luria wrote to Dabashi: ...

Posted by Andrew Jaffee at December 1, 2004 10:12 AM

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1. ijaffe said:

trade Barghouti for Pollard

Posted by: ijaffe on December 1, 2004 11:57 AM

2. AV said:

broken link in post.
New link courtesy FrontPageMag: http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16163

Posted by: AV on December 1, 2004 06:07 PM

3. ptah said:

Good for victor, although the provost definitely came up short: He should have reminded Hamid that Academic freedom belongs to everyone at the university, not just to professors. Still, I should be satisfied that he DID imply that Hamid has a thin skin when it comes to taking what he dishes out.

Posted by: ptah on December 2, 2004 09:43 AM

Columbia University's Hysterical Professor

Columbia University's Hysterical Professor

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