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Day 9 — September 19

The Professors Who Stopped Studying the Threat

After 9/11, a grad student was warned that studying jihad would end his academic career. That knowledge gap still shapes how little the public understands.

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September 19

After 9/11, a grad student was warned that studying jihad would end his academic career.

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Remember + Honor + Stand Together

Day 9 — September 19

The Professors Who Stopped Studying the Threat

After 9/11, a grad student was warned that studying jihad would end his academic career. That knowledge gap still shapes how little the public understands.

Of all the institutions that failed to prepare the public for 9/11, universities failed earliest and most completely.

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September 19

After 9/11, a grad student was warned that studying jihad would end his academic career.

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Readings & sources

  • Martin Kramer, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (2001)
  • Discussion theme: “Towers on Sand, 25 Years Later” — proposed participants Martin Kramer, Niall Ferguson, Cole Bunzel, Daniel Pipes
  • Phyllis Chesler, on the hostility toward the US among US academics and their response to 9/11
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