{"id":1647,"date":"2005-03-15T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.blog-city.com\/assigning_ivory_towers.htm"},"modified":"2005-03-15T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T04:59:00","slug":"assigning-ivory-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2005\/03\/assigning-ivory-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Assigning Ivory Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already given a couple of recent <a href=\"\/read\/1067311.htm\" target=\"_blank\">examples<\/a> of how my book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/o\/asin\/0944029493\/ref=nosim\/martinkramero-20?dev-t=D24ZY08I7E8YCH\" target=\"_blank\">Ivory Towers on Sand<\/a><\/em> is assigned in university courses. Here are two more.<\/p>\n<p>The first is from a Georgetown course offered last fall, called &#8220;The Middle East and the Political Economy of Development,&#8221; taught by Stephen J. King. (He&#8217;s author of a <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/o\/asin\/0253215838\/ref=nosim\/martinkramero-20?dev-t=D24ZY08I7E8YCH\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> on economic reform in Tunisia.) King assigned one chapter of the book (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/martinkramerorg\/IslamObscured.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Islam Obscured<\/a>&#8220;), along with critical reviews by Greg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.org\/20020301fareviewessay7979\/f-gregory-gause-iii\/who-lost-middle-eastern-studies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gause<\/a> and Rex <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/martinkramerorg\/NewsReviews\/Brynen.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Brynen<\/a>. Syllabus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetown.edu\/departments\/government\/faculty\/kings\/govt418F04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n<p>The second is from a graduate course at Georgia State University, called &#8220;Politics of the Middle East and North Africa.&#8221; It&#8217;s taught by Michael Herb, author of a <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/o\/asin\/0791441687\/ref=nosim\/martinkramero-20?dev-t=D24ZY08I7E8YCH\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> on Middle Eastern monarchies. Herb assigned the entire book, along with the Gause review and the introduction to Edward Said&#8217;s <em>Orientalism<\/em>. The syllabus also sends students to my website, as well as the websites of Juan Cole and Campus Watch. Syllabus <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.gsu.edu\/~polmfh\/sylb_meg.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I&#8217;ve no idea how <em>Ivory Towers<\/em> is taught in these classes, but the main point is that it&#8217;s being taught. Are you teaching the book? Drop me a line, and I might mention your course here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already given a couple of recent examples of how my book Ivory Towers on Sand is assigned in university courses. Here are two more. The first is from a Georgetown course offered last fall, called &#8220;The Middle East and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/2005\/03\/assigning-ivory-towers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}