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...university with global aspirations, it is crucial that Harvard have a strong program on Islam that is as worldwide and interdisciplinary as Islam itself. To this end, we welcome and are grateful for Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s $20 million gift to promote Islamic Studies at Harvard. This is as an opportunity to revive the discipline and improve upon what is already the largest single group of Islamic specialists in the English-speaking world. The addition of new scholars would also add to course offerings at the College, which suffers from a distinct lack of classes focusing...
Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D-N.Y.), wrote a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers on Tuesday urging him to return the recent $20 million gift for Islamic Studies given by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. Weiner said in a press release issued Dec. 13 that American universities should not accept gifts from the Saudi royals, who “have a record of funding terrorist organizations.” “August institutions like Harvard University and Georgetown University should not accept funding from a family that bankrolls terrorist organizations...
After Sept. 11, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud observed a wedge being driven between his native culture and the United States, he said yesterday in a phone interview from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Educated in the United States at Syracuse University, Alwaleed also has deep financial ties to U.S. companies and said he was shocked and saddened by the Sept. 11 attacks. He tried to donate to the Twin Towers Fund shortly after the attacks, but then-Mayor of New York Rudolph W. Giuliani rejected the donation after Alwaleed issued a statement arguing that...
Professors and administrators said yesterday that the Islamic studies program newly endowed by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud will likely focus on South Asia, rather than the Middle East...
CORRECTION: The print and original online version of the Dec. 14, 2005 news article "Use of $20M Donation Debated" incorrectly stated that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud is of Syrian and Lebanese background. In fact, he is of Saudi and Lebanese background...