Harvard University’s Middle East Outreach to Schools Run By Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Supporter By Aigle Middle East • December 2011 • Views: 1,485 The recent uproar over material defaming Israel assigned to students at a local high school highlights the problem of finding credible material to educate students about the Middle East. Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies exemplifies the problem providing unsuspecting educators with biased, ideologically-tainted material.