September 30, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Sep 30 2007

The controversy over Nadia Abu El Haj’s tenure case at Barnard and debates over the role of archaeology in Israel/Palestine; plus interviews with Alyson Cole, author of The Cult of True Victimhood, and Lore Siegal, author of Shakespeare’s Kitchen

Episode segments
  • Nadia Abu El Haj
    American Politics
    Jennifer Wallace, fellow, Cambridge University, author of Digging the Dirt: The Archaeological Imagination (Duckworth, 2004) and the article “Shifting Ground in the Holy Land: Archaeology Is Casting New Light on the Old Testament.”  
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    The controversy over Nadia Abu El-Haj’s tenure case at Barnard College and the related debates over the role of archaeology in Israel/Palestine

     

  • The Cult of True Victimhood
    National Politics
    Alyson Cole is an assistant professor of political science at Queens College
    Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

    An interview with Alyson Cole about her new book, The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (Stanford University Press)

  • Shakespeare's Kitchen
    Literature
    Lore Segal is the author of Other People’s Houses and Her First American
    Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

    An interview with Lore Segal about her new short story collection, Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories (New Press), her first major work of fiction in 20 years