From Classroom to Courtroom tells the story of how fifteen American
university academics in a Middle Eastern Studies department got
embroiled in serious unacademic conflicts with serious
consequences. From 1994 onward, these academic colleagues made or
faced official complaints and allegations of favoritism,
intimidation, abuse, harassment, and racism, and charges of
prevarication and dishonesty, and ethnic, religious, and gender
discrimination. They initiated three or four faculty grievances. An
exodus of graduate students from the department consequently took
place. Five or six faculty careers ended in the process, which
culminated in a law suit. From Classroom to Courtroom details
behavior of the author and six or seven of his departmental
colleagues and two university administrators in conflict situations
within, between, and among the department's Arabic, Hebrew,
Persian, and Turkish sections. The author develops this part of the
narrative mostly through a paper trail of official letters,
reports, memoranda, e-messages, and court deposition testimony In
highlighting cross-cultural dimensions of cited conflicts, From
Classroom to Courtroom suggests arguably culture-specific behavior
on the part of departmental colleagues, only two of them born in
America. Such behavior, the book implies, may derive from cultural
conflicts between some academics of Arab, Iranian, and Israeli
origin, on the one hand, and American academics of European origin,
on the other, between some Muslim and Christian Arabs and some
Jewish Israelis, and between some Middle Eastern and American men
and some Middle Eastern women. In its chronological narrative
leading up to a law suit filed by an Arab Muslim woman academic
against her department and college, From Classroom to Courtroom
also tells the story of the book's author and first-person
narrator, describing the daily life of a Middle East
language/literature professor at a large state university, a life
of teaching, writing, departmental politics, family, and travel.
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