March 4, 2005

Columbia Professor Banned From Teacher Training

By BROCK READ

The New York City Department of Education will prohibit a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University from appearing in an occasional training program for secondary-school teachers, citing the professor's criticism of Israel.

Rashid Khalidi, director of Columbia's Middle East Institute, had spoken in February at one of a series of teacher-development workshops, paid for by the university, about Middle Eastern culture and politics. But after The New York Sun published an article

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