Title: Overcoming Orientalism

Middle East Studies is in peril. Today, we are facing the biggest threat to academic freedom since the founding of the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) in 1915.

It is difficult to know with certainty the regional impact of the 2022 Iranian protest movement. The main reason for this is because these are dark days for the Middle…

Professor Nader Hashemi, a scholar who has consistently written about democracy and human rights about the Middle East and Islam, wrote a report titled "Women, Life, Freedom: A Human Rights…