Al-Qaeda Goes to College

Al-Qaeda Goes to College: Impact of the War on Terror on American Higher Education (Praeger, April 30, 2009) by James Ottavio Castagnera (Rider University) is the first book-length treatment of how the 9/11 attacks and the American political scene afterward have affected higher education in this country. It covers topics such as: universities' roles in training counter-terrorism experts, particularly anthropologists working in Iraq and Afghanistan; bio-terrorism research on campuses; inflammatory critiques by the likes of Ward Churchill; the conspiracy theories advocated by some academics regarding 9/11; lawsuits against universities by terror victims trying to get settlements from countries like Iran by seizing archaeological artifacts in American universities; accused Islamists teaching at American colleges, like Sami al-Arian at USF. See Mitchell H. Rubinstein's review on Adjunct Law Prof Blog. [JH]