[Opinion] They Don’t Want to Learn About the Middle East (opinion)

They Don’t Want to Learn About the Middle East (opinion)

Being canceled by my hometown library speaks to the incredible breadth of censorship faced by Middle East scholars, Alex Boodrookas writes. Being arrested by armed riot police on my own campus was not, somehow, the most jarring thing that has happened to me since the spring of 2024. More disturbing was the experience of being canceled by my hometown. In June 2024, I was supposed to give the second of two lectures in a series entitled “History of…