Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's handling of another major Saudi Arabian contribution generated confusion and criticism. In May of 1982, Harvard accepted a $1 million gift from a Saudi businessman to establish a professorship in contemporary Arab Studies that some faculty members of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies said was effectively conditional on the appointment of Walid Khalidi, previously a visiting professor and reportedly an affiliate of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to an unusual open-ended research post. As one official close to the center, who declined to be identified, described it last May, Harvard and the unnamed donor...
...Beyond the Veil, Gray almost novelistically traces his adjustment to the challenges and idiosyncracies he found in Saudi Arabia. Built with proceeds from the sale of Saudi Arabian oil, the hospital is "one of the newest and best-equipped in the world." Most of its patients, however, especially the desert nomads, have never seen a doctor before and believe no medical care can help them if Allah wants them to die. Better-educated Saudis, including numerous princes and princesses, rarely get medical care at home, preferring the better-known hospitals abroad. Gray's vivid anecdotes tell of other incongruities...
...experience into 300 pages; he shares dinner with a Bedouin tribe, attends a royal wedding, and spends a great deal of time in conversations with a wide range of Saudi patients and acquaintances, from poor farmers to members of the plush Arab-American Oil Company that first discovered Arabian...
Other speakers have had trouble lately being heard in academe. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, now, improbably, a conservative born-again Christian, was drowned out by several hundred screaming protesters when he tried to speak at the University of Wisconsin. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani began a talk at Kansas State University. A roar of protest erupted from the back of the auditorium. The hall had to be cleared for 80 minutes...
...campaign, which encourages campus groups to uphold the rights of speakers by letting them carry out their remarks, was spurred by Kirkpatrick's withdrawl as commencement speaker at Smith College due to widespread student and faculty opposition. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani have also recently cancelled addresses citing campus protests...