[robowombat]

Somemore background on this interesting academician.

Mine Ener is receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan where her studies included modern Middle East, early Islamic and North African history. Her language facility ranges over modern Arabic, Egyptian colloquial Arabic, modern and Ottoman Turkish, and French.

At Villanova, in addition to offering a one-year survey and electives in Middle Eastern history, Ener will also help to team-teach the core course required for first-year undergraduates, Themes of Modern World History. She will also serve as a member of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies. At Michigan, Ener was a teaching assistant in history and also taught in the Women's Studies Program.

For her dissertation, "Managing the Poor in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt," Ener did research in Egypt during 1993-1995 aided by a Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship, a Social Science Research Council and American Council for Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship, and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Grant.

[A_perfect_lady]

Well, this woman was doomed by her own politics. You can't care about women's lives and immerse yourself in Islamic culture without being plunged into depression. You can't publish anything on either topic without being a lefty (or faking it well). You can't be a lefty these days without hating the US, so here you have someone who must embrace a vicious culture that victimizes women, hate a culture that empowers them, and make herself believe that she's holding a defensible position. This is a recipe for depression and madness.

Frankly, she should go for the insanity defense and offer her own publications as proof. Liberalism is a mental illness.

[onehipdad]

Then there should be no problem placing her in a self-fulfilling position of helping others, within the US Dept. of Corrections.