Three-hour Airport Security Check: Run of the Mill or Just Plain Racist?

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a criminologist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was prevented from delivering a lecture at a women's rights conference in Tunisia last month. She maintains she was subjected to humiliating investigations at Ben-Gurion International Airport that lasted three hours. Finally, she was told that she could not board the plane with her laptop computer, which she needed for the lecture.