Ivory Towers on Sand
Subtitle: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (Policy Papers (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), No. 58.)
Publisher: Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780944029497
Subjects: Higher & further education; Multicultural studies; Teaching of a specific subject; Political Science / International Relations; Middle East; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; USA; International Relations - General; Middle East - General; International Relations; Education / Higher; Study and teaching; United States
First sentence: Are Middle Eastern studies in America in trouble?
Description: "In this iconoclastic expose, Martin Kramer surveys the ruins of Middle Eastern studies, to ask how and why they went wrong. Ivory Towers on Sand is the most thorough critique of Middle Eastern studies in America ever published - and a necessary step toward their reconstruction."--BOOK JACKET.