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...community of scholars strongly welcomes the extension of Islamic studies to areas beyond these regions.” Jewett Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, a member of the steering committee for the new program, said that the program will help address glaring gaps in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations that he says an “unsympathetic administration” has ignored. “We just lost two fields, Persian Languages and Literatures, and Turkish Languages and Literatures, and we cannot accept any AM or PhD candidates for these fields,” he said...
...wall of silence in the Arab media also hinders efforts to spread awareness about AIDS. Even though the rate of growth in HIV infection in the Arab world is second only to Eastern Europe, most people in the Arab world are barely aware that the disease exists in their society. Amr Moussa, the Secretary General of the Arab League, warned the conference that failure to respond aggressively to the threat of AIDS will reverse economic and development and will cost the region 35% of GDP in the next 25 years...
...last week’s elections, it remains to be seen if President George W. Bush will stubbornly cling to his rhetoric on spreading liberty across the globe. Iraq has failed, and the population has caught on, but the battle to hold the White House responsible for its Middle Eastern mess is far from over and the media’s ongoing failure to analyze critically promises to spoil the occasion yet again...
...photo “Waiting for School,” a depiction of a meditative boy in Thailand, earned first prize in the People category. Megan E. Camm ’07 won best in show from 220 submissions, gaining a $75 gift certificate from Eastern Mountain Sports. Her piece “Remembering Our History,” shot in Joza, Grahamstown, South Africa, portrayed a local fruit stand, with undertones provided by a photo in the background showing a victim of apartheid. “A picture can help you sort through some of the emotions you can?...
Seventh place was not the prize the Harvard men’s water polo team was looking to take home from the Eastern Championships hosted by Princeton this weekend.Entering Saturday’s game as the underdog, fifth-seeded Harvard managed to take an early lead against Princeton in the first half. But the Crimson couldn’t keep up with the Tigers for long, as it yielded its advantage in the second, giving up the game in the final moments, 9-8.Unable to recover in time for its next game, Harvard lost its edge against John?...