Difference between revisions of "George Saliba"
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'''George Saliba''' is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science and affiliated with the [[MEALAC]] department. | '''George Saliba''' is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science and affiliated with the [[MEALAC]] department. | ||
| − | In the documentary ''[[Columbia Unbecoming]]'' he, together with some other professors, including [[Joseph Massad]], was accused of presenting anti-Israel viewpoints in his classes and of stifling students' dissenting opinions. Saliba rejected the accusations and published a rebuttal in the ''[[Spectator]]'' on [[November 3]], [[2004]], to that effect. | + | In the documentary ''[[Columbia Unbecoming]]'' he, together with some other professors, including [[Joseph Massad]], was accused of presenting anti-Israel viewpoints in his classes and of stifling students' dissenting opinions. Saliba rejected the accusations and published a rebuttal in the ''[[Spectator]]'' on [[November 3]], [[2004]], to that effect. He also tells student-athletes in his classes that "you must defeat Princeton!" because of their graceless handling of defeat in the game that snapped Columbia's 44 game football [[losing streak]]. |
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://www.columbia.edu/~gas1/saliba.html Personal website] | *[http://www.columbia.edu/~gas1/saliba.html Personal website] | ||
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Latest revision as of 05:34, 17 December 2013
George Saliba is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science and affiliated with the MEALAC department.
In the documentary Columbia Unbecoming he, together with some other professors, including Joseph Massad, was accused of presenting anti-Israel viewpoints in his classes and of stifling students' dissenting opinions. Saliba rejected the accusations and published a rebuttal in the Spectator on November 3, 2004, to that effect. He also tells student-athletes in his classes that "you must defeat Princeton!" because of their graceless handling of defeat in the game that snapped Columbia's 44 game football losing streak.
