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Last March, Gordon Gray Jr. ’65 bestowed a $1.5 million endowment to encourage the study of Arabic language at Harvard, especially among undergraduates, after Sept. 11.
Gray, an alumnus of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) department, could not have found a more opportune time to support the program—enrollment in Arabic A, the introductory course, has nearly tripled from this time last year and the department has added a second teacher for...
“The money is basically covering the cost of the second preceptor,” says William E. Granara, Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment. “It’s a wonderful, very generous support and desperately needed.?...
“We go by how many homework [assignments] we need to correct,” says Granara, who is also the director of undergraduate studies of NELC. “It’s just my policy to allow any member of the University to audit Arabic. We...
Shattered by the event, Rumi is said to have undergone a period of profound mourning. Then, at a point of near-total hopelessness and emotional desolation, he experienced another mystical intuition. Though physically dead, Shams was in fact not gone from his life at all but more present than ever...