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...government. “We need women at the core level of decision-making,” she concluded. “It’s been a long struggle for women,” she reflected, “and they deserve to be rewarded.” Deena S. Shakir ’08, president of the Harvard Society of Arab Students, the group that organized the event, said that she liked that the discussion focused on very important, yet often overlooked, topics. “Issues related to Iraq have been widely debated...
...Deena S. Shakir ’08, also a co-chair, said that Chomsky’s ideas will help guide the group’s proposals for governance in Iraq...
...stereotyped representations of Islam and its adherents.” Many Harvard Muslims say students have never had a direct confrontation, but others do sense a menacing undercurrent of misconceptions on campus.“Here we think we know everything there is to know,” Deena S. Shakir ’08 says. “A lot of those misconceptions come out through intellectual or academic windows.”Shakir, the president of the Society for Arab students, says that Islamophobia—or, by extension, Arabophobia or Middle East-phobia—stems from...
...each school they visited, the students gave a short PowerPoint presentation—created in conjunction with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions—followed by a question-and-answer session, according to SAS President Deena S. Shakir...
...paid for through a center at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The admissions office has provided logistical, but not financial, support.While the group has sought assistance from a variety of sources, the trip is “student-run from A to Z,” according to Deena Shakir ’08, who is participating in the trip.“It was single-handedly masterminded by the students,” said Juhi G. Dagli, a research fellow at the Belfer Center who assisted in the organization of the trip. “Who to meet...