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November 18, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111602120.html

U.S. National Security Council Puts Scholar in Charge of Middle East

(Washington Post) Robin Wright - Michael S. Doran ended up at the National Security Council staff in charge of the Middle East because of his unusual specialty: He is a 21st century scholar of Muslim extremist Web sites. Doran deals with topics including Iran's nuclear program, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Syria's ties to terrorists, and reform in the oil-rich Persian Gulf kingdoms. Doran described Middle East studies on American campuses as "stultifying, homogenous, and conformist." The field has "gone into a dead end. It's highly politicized and dominated by one point of view," reflecting the pro-Arab "orientalism" of the late Palestinian-born Columbia University scholar Edward W. Said.

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