Patrick McGreevy

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Media coverage of the latest crisis in the Middle East is

adequate. Same old story, different day.

13%

totally insufficient. The conflict is ongoing, but it's important we keep up.

19%

biased in favor of one side...the wrong side.

25%

anyone know where I can get a copy of Middle East Conflict For Dummies?

I don't know. I avoid news like the plague.

war is so last century.

31%

Total votes: 16

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Patrick McGreevy joined American University of Beirut (AUB) as the Director of CASAR in 2004. Prior to that, he was Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Geography and Earth Science at Clarion University in Pennsylvania. He served as a Fulbright Chair of American Studies in Hungary in 1999-2000. His research focuses on the meanings Americans find in landscape and comparative studies of Canadian and American identities. Dr. McGreevy's publications include Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls (1994). Prof. McGreevy received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota in 1984. phone: 961 1 350000 extension 4197 Fax: 961 1 744461 College Hall 452, 4th Floor