Columbia University crafted a search committee for an Israel studies chair that includes prominent Palestinian activists. Rashid Khalidi, director of Columbia’s Middle East Institute, and Lila Abu-Lughod, a professor of anthropology, are members of a committee to select Columbia’s new Yosef Haim Yerushalmi chair of Israel studies.
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