Joseph Massad is the Palestinian scholar of Middle East Studies who was the focus of the campaign against criticism of Israel at Columbia that was led by the David Project a few years back. Word has it that his prolonged battle for tenure is over, and he has gotten tenure. A friend at Columbia tells me that Massad, who is in Cairo on leave, emailed friends to say that he had been approved; and that his appointment was pushed by provost Alan Brinkley, a mensch who also stood up for Rashid Khalidi last fall.
