I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

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I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

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Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

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It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

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I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

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Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

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My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

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Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

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