The Islamophobic-Neoliberal-Educational Complex

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[1] Adriaensens, D. 2010. Killing the Intellectual Class: Academics as Targets. In Baker, R., W., Ismael, S., T., & Ismael, T., Y. (Eds), Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered . New York: Pluto Press. 119–148.

[2] Agresto, J. (2004). What Higher Education in Iraq Needs Now. Chronicle of Higher Education , 50 (32).

[3] Al-Issa, A., & Dahan, L.S. (Eds). (2011). Global English and Arabic: Issues of language, culture and identity . Oxford: Peter Lang.

[4] Apple, M. (2006). Education the ‘Right’ Way: Markets, Standards, God and Inequality . London: Routledge.

[5] Baker, R., W., Ismael, S., T., & Ismael, T., Y. (Eds). 2010. Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered . New York: Pluto Press.

[6] Baudrillard, J. 1983. Simulations . New York: Semiotext(e).

[7] Bleich, E. 2012. Defining and Researching Islamophobia. Review of Middle East Studies , 46, 2, 179–88.

[8] Bowden, B. 2011. The Thin Ice of Civilization. Alternatives 36 (2), 118–135.

[9] Bremer, P. (2006). My year in Iraq: The struggle to build a future of hope . New York: Threshold Editions Coleman, I. 2006. The Arab world is experiencing the first tremors of a youthquake. Council on Foreign Relations . http://www.cfr.org/economic-development/arab-world-experiencing-first-tremors-youthquake/p9809

[10] Cahen. E. 2008. School Textbooks in France Display Anti-American Bias. Cnsnews.com .http://cnsnews.com/news/article/school-textbooks-france-display-anti-american-bias

[11] Center for Strategic and International Studies. 2007. CSIS Commission on Soft Power . http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/071106_csissmartpowerreport.pdf

[12] Chandrasekaran, R. 2006. Imperial Life in the Emerald City . New York: Knoff

[13] Churchill, W. (2011). Foreword. Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims . Atlanta: Clarity Press.

[14] Cooley, J., K. (1999). Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism . London: Pluto Press.

[15] Committee on Foreign Relations. (2005). Combatting Terrorism through Education: The Near East and South Asian Experience . http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-109shrg24020/html/CHRG-109shrg24020.htm

[16] Corporate Watch. n.d. Unilever: Corporate Crimes . (http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=260).

[17] Davis, C. 2002. “A” for Allah, “J” for Jihad. World Policy Journal 2, 90–94.

[18] Dorn, C. & Ghodsee, K. (2012). The Cold War Politicization of Literacy: Communism, UNESCO, and the World Bank. Diplomatic History 36 (2), 373–398.

[19] Dreyfus, B. 2013. The Israeli-Saudi Alliance against the US-Iran Talks. The Nation . http://www.thenation.com/blog/176836/israel-saudi-alliance-against-us-iran-talks#.

[20] Ferguson, N. (2012). Civilization: The West and the Rest . London: Penguin.

[21] Fisk, R. 2007. The Death of History. The Independent . http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-it-is-the-death-of-history-402571.html

[22] Fuller, M. & Adriaensens, D. (2010). Wiping the Slate Clean. In Baker, R., W., Ismael, S., T., & Ismael, T., Y. (Eds), Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered . New York: Pluto Press. 149–202.

[23] Gallup International. 2013. Global Vision . http://www.wingia.com/web/files/services/33/file/33.pdf?1393069414

[24] Gausse, G., F. 2005. Saudi Perceptions of the United States since 9/11. In Judt, T. & Lacorne, D. (Eds), With Us or Against Us: Studies in Global Anti-Americanism . New York: Palgrave 141–156.

[25] Gerges, F., A. 2011. The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[26] Glasser, S. 2003. Qatar Reshapes Its Schools, Putting English Over Islam. Washington Post A20

[27] Gor, H. (2003). Education for War in Israel: Preparing Children to Accept War as a Natural Factor of Life. In K, J., Saltman and D, A., Gabbard (Eds), Education as Enforcement: the Corporatization and Militarization of Schools . New York: Routledge. 175–184

[28] Grosfoguel, R. 2012. The Multiple Faces of Islamophobia. Islamophobia Studies Journal , 1(1), 9–33.

[29] Grosfoguel, R. 2013. The Structure of Knowledge in Westernized Universities Epistemic Racism/Sexism and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century. Human Architecture: Journal of the sociology of self-knowledge XI (1), 73–90.

[30] Hanafi, S. 2011. University systems in the Arab East: Publish globally and perish locally vs publish locally and perish globally. Current Sociology , 59(3), 291–309.

[31] Harding, L. 2004. The Other Prisoners. The Guardian . http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/may/20/iraq.gender

[32] Hudson Institute. 2011. Ten Years On: Saudi Arabia's Textbooks Still Promote Religious Violence . Center for Religious Freedom. http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/SaudiTextbooks2011.pdf

[33] Iannone, C. (2006). Disquieting Lessons from Iraq: A Conversation with John Agresto. Academic Questions , 19(3), 37–49.

[34] Jamail, D. 2010. Death, Displacement, or Flight. In Baker, R., W., Ismael, S., T., & Ismael, T., Y. (Eds), Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered . New York: Pluto Press. 203–211.

[35] Judt, T. (2008). Reappraisals: Reflections on the forgotten twentieth century . New York: Penguin.

[36] Judt, T. & Lacorne, D. (Eds). (2005). With Us or Against Us: Studies in Global Anti-Americanism . New York: Palgrave.

[37] Khalidi, R. 2009. Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. Boston: Beacon Press.

[38] Knuth, R. 2006. Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction . Connecticut: Praeger.

[39] Lando, B. 2012. A Strange Alliance: Are the Saudis Bankrolling Israel's Mossad? Counterpunch . http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/26/are-the-saudis-bankromng-israels-mossad/.

[40] Levy, A., T. 2010. Loss of moneyman a big blow for Al Qaeda. Washington Post . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060404271.html

[41] National Endowment for Democracy. 2012. 2012 Strategy Document . http://www.ned.org/docs/strategy/2012StrategyDocument.pdf

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[44] Peled-Elhanen, N. 2010. Legitimation of Massacres in Israeli School History Books. Discourse and Society 21(4), 377–404.

[45] Pew Research Center. 2007. America's Image in the World: Findings from the Pew Global Attitudes Project. http://www.pewglobal.org/2007/03/14/americas-image-in-the-world-findings-from-the-pew-global-attitudes-project/

[46] Phillipson, R. 1992. Linguistic Imperialism . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[47] Rosen, N. 2007. The Death of Iraq. Current History . 106 (704).

[48] Rothfield, L. 2009. The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[49] Said, E., W. (1997). Covering Islam . London: Vantage.

[50] Salem, P. 2009. Learning to leave extremism. Project Syndicate . http://www.projectsyndicate.org/commentary/learning-to-leave-extremism

[51] Saltman, K., J. (2009). Corporate Education and “Democracy Promotion” Overseas: The Case of Creative Associates International in Iraq, 2003–4. In N, W., Sobe (Ed) American Post-Conflict Educational Reform: From The Spanish-American War to Iraq . New York: Palgrave. 229–250.

[52] Scahill, J. (2013). Dirty wars: the world is a battlefield . New York: Nation Books.

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[54] Sheehi, S. (2011). Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims . Atlanta: Clarity Press.

[55] Show, J. S. 2013. Wither the Humanities? The John William Pope Center. http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2818)

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