Sunday, October 18, 2009

Saudi-Zionist alliance: the love story blossoms

So this Arabic website brags that an Arab professor was "chosen" as one of the "best teachers" of Middle East studies. The choice, however, is by Campus Watch: this is like being selected as a top contender for a beauty pageant by the Saudi mufti. This (ostensible) professor of Arabic and Islamic studies writes for the Hariri rag, Al-Mustaqbal, and is promoted by the website of Al-Arabiyya (the private station of King Fahd's brother-in-law). Campus Watch said that she teaches Arabic and Islamic studies at Georgetown University. So I asked Ahmad Dallal (currently provost at AUB, and formerly chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown) and he told me that he never heard of her. But the very link that is provided by Campus Watch does not lead to a reference to her on the website. Somebody is lying here. (thanks Z.)