Columbia’s ‘The Current’ on Nadia Abu El Haj
The current (Fall 2007) edition of The Current (’A journal of contemporary politics, culture, and Jewish affairs’ published at Columbia University) has a special focus on ‘Studying Middle East Studies’, sparked by the Nadia Abu El Haj controversy. Three essays relate Abu El Haj’s work to wider currents in contemporary anthropology and Middle East studies. They are all well worth reading, but I would particularly recommend David Rosen’s discussion of Facts on the Ground.
- David Rosen, ‘Searching for Facts on the Ground‘
- James R. Russell, ‘Ideology over integrity in academe’
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, ‘Is truth attainable?’
This will probably be my last posting on Nadia Abu El Haj for a while. I think it’s time to let her get on with her work and see what she comes up with - not, I suspect, that it will contain many surprises.
