Security. Surveillance. Diversity. Balance. These have been the contradictory catchwords of the Right’s attacks on academia since 9/11. Couched in the language of nationalism and advocating a hyperscopic regime of control through state and civil apparatuses, different right-wing organizations professing commitment to fairness and diversity have sought to regulate the work of postcolonialist Middle East studies scholars. Thus Daniel Pipes’s Web site, Campus Watch, published dossiers of eight prominent professors of Middle East studies who demonstrated “bias” in their teaching and promoted anti-Americanism. The targeted eight were inundated with hate mail and death threats. Although Pipes removed the dossiers after vigorous criticism from faculty nationwide, he continued Campus Watch’s project “Monitoring Middle East Studies on Campus.” Each month, the Web site showcases a “Quote of the Month” that demonstrates the “terrorist” sympathies of a Middle East studies professor. The stated objective of Campus Watch is to redress the “intolerance of alternative views” within Middle East studies.1
