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Abu al-Haj
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The story mirrored the campaigns to deny tenure in the cases of Nadia Abu El-Haj at Barnard College and Norman Finkelstein at DePaul University. Barnard professor Nadia Abu El-Haj, who argues in her scholarly work that archeological evidence has been manipulated to justify the existence of a modem Jewish state, was granted tenure just last week following a year-long battle. Her bid for tenure drew fire from Barnard alumni, who threatened to withhold their financial contributions if the college lent its support to her scholarship. Scholar Norman Finkelstein, whose work has accused Jewish groups of exploiting the Holocaust and Israel of egregious human rights violations, was terminated at Chicago's DePaul University in September after the school's president rejected the overwhelming tenur...
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By Ahmed Al-Haj and Donna Abu-Nasr The Associated Press
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In the coming days or weeks, Columbia University is poised to decide on the tenure of controversial professor Joseph Massad, who has a reputation for intimidating Jewish and pro-Israel students in the classroom and has a well-documented history of shoddy scholarship, spinning paranoid conspiracies about "Israel" and "Zionists," and a decided affection for Hamas. This comes on the heels of Columbia's Barnard College last week offering tenure to Nadia Abu el-Haj, an anthropologist who wrote an archeology book in which she largely denied the Jewish historical connection to Israel. In key parts, she leveled shocking allegations based on anonymous, uncorroborated sources.
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The traditional legal definition of citizenship in the U.S. is linked to the granting of full membership and access to political, social, and civil rights by the government, yet there are numerous examples of these rights not being granted to all people equally (Hernández-Truyol, 2005; Johnson, 2002a; Hernández-Truyol and Hawk, 2005).\n Our analysis focused more on cultural citizenship, but the narratives of our participants highlight that legal citizenship is a reality that shapes one's access to education, employment, and safety. A clear link to how one's legal status in this country affords certain legal rights is revealed in statements such as that of the kindergartener, fearing her mother would be sent back to Mexico, or of the university student mentors who told us of the amount ...
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SAN'A, Yemen -- Yemeni forces raided an al-Qaida hideout and set off a gunbattle Wednesday as the government vowed to eliminate the group that claimed it was behind the Christmas bombing attempt on a U.S. airliner. The fighting took place in an al-Qaida stronghold in western Yemen, haven for a group that attacked the U.S. Embassy here in 2008, killing 10 Yemeni guards and four civilians. A government statement said at least one suspected militant was arrested during the clashes.
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SAN'A, Yemen -- Officials in Yemen were investigating Tuesday whether the Nigerian suspected in the attempted Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner spent time with al-Qaida militants in the country in the months leading up to the botched bombing. Administrators, teachers and fellow students at the San'a Institute for the Arabic Language, where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had enrolled to study Arabic, told The Associated Press that he attended school for only the month of Ramadan, which began in late August. That has raised questions about what he did during the rest of his stay, which continued into December.
