Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) South End Press | South End Press | 7 May 2003 The U.S. publishers of Dr. Huda S. Ammash assert that there may be political motivations for her detention on Monday, May 5 in Baghdad by the U.S. military on allegations that she oversaw Iraq’s purported development of biological weapons. Dr. Ammash, Dean of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Email Circular by Ilan Pappe | 23 May 2003 Haifa The Conference Three weeks ago, my colleague in the University of Haifa, Dr. Asa’d Gahnim of the department of political science suggested convening a conference on the 1948 historiography. We agreed to present in the conference the recent developments in both the Israeli and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) American Association of University Professors | Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP | May 2003 This report deals with actions taken by the administration and the governing board of the University of South Florida against Dr. Sami Al-Arian, associate professor of computer science and engineering, beginning in the fall of 2001 and culminating with his

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) NOTE: This message was sent by Professor Judith Butler to the Academics for Justice list on Monday 5 May 2003. On Thursday May 1st., Israeli Occupation Forces invaded El-Shujaea neighborhood in Gaza city, and arrested Dr. Fadel Abu Hein, a well-known professor of Psychology in Al-Aqsa University and director of Community Training Center for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Blue Triangle Network (Refuse and Resist) | Blue Triangle Network – Solidarity USA | April 2003 The Blue Triangle Network expresses grave concern over the arrest of Professor Sami Al-Arian in Tampa, Florida and four others on terrorism-related allegations. Professor Al-Arian has undertaken a hunger strike in jail to protest his arrest, and this

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Will Woodward | The Guardian | 31 January 2003 Academics at King’s College, Cambridge, have split over a decision to turn down Edward Said, the distinguished Arab-American intellectual, for an honorary fellowship. One senior fellow at the college, a locus for leftwing radicalism, said they believed the award would have been “provocative” – fuelling

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 18 March, 2003 A court in Cairo has acquitted a leading human rights activist, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, after a second retrial for defaming Egypt. Dr Ibrahim has dual US and Egyptian nationality, and the case has strained relations between Washington and Cairo. He was also cleared of illegally accepting and misusing

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JOHN F. SUGG | Weekly Planet | 26 February 2003 Here’s what you’re supposed to know: Sami Al-Arian was indicted as a terrorist leader on Feb. 20.Here’s what you’re not supposed to think about: Sami Al-Arian never, even according to the indictment, committed violent acts. His nemesis Israel, on the other hand, will conduct

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Muslim Association of Great Britain | 3 March 2003 Friends, colleagues, students and readers of Dr. Basheer Musa Nafi’ have been dismayed by the recent allegations made by U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft who associated the Palestinian London-based academic with terrorism. In a sensational and highly inflammatory presentation the Attorney General made unfounded and unsubstantiated

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Goddard | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 28 February 2003 Colleagues of Basheer Nafi say he “encourages critical thinking about religious issues and academic balance in his students and thus encourages social responsibility”. But last week, the US attorney-general charged him with 50 counts of supporting and financing the Palestinian terrorist group