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Article: Ivory Towers on Sand: the Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. (Middle East Experts and September 11th). (book review)
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- January 1, 2002
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by Martin Kramer. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001, paperback $19.95.
Journalists covering the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in San Francisco last November reported that the one "universally acknowledged villain at the conference" was not Osama bin Laden, "mastermind" of the Arab massacres of September 11th, but Martin Kramer, every mention of whose name brought hissing from the assembled academicians. The reason was that Kramer had in October published -- though written prior to September 11th -- a slender but trenchant and incendiary volume about the tendentiousness, the ideological blinders, even the corruption of what ...