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While Harvard has received prior gifts from other Saudi Arabian and Middle Eastern donors, there is no common formula for accepting or rejecting a gift. Rather, Harvard has chosen to evaluate the gifts, in accordance with the University’s extensive gift policy, on a case-by-case basis...
...Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) has its offices high up on the fifth floor of 1430 Mass. Ave. (better known as CVS). A narrow corridor leads to closet-sized rooms just big enough to fit a professor and an FM reporter. Framed, dusty posters in Arabic from the eighties line the dull white walls, and the sounds of a Middle Eastern chant play softly from a distant corner...
...accepted its first ever gift from Saudi Arabia: $300,000 from the government to establish a chair in Islamic law. In 1982, Harvard received two gifts within months of each other. The first, $600,000 tagged for the Semitic Museum’s efforts at preserving photographs of Middle Eastern life, came from the Saudi royal family. The second gift, this time from a Saudi businessman, aroused controversy because some alleged that it involved an unwritten agreement conditional on the hiring of a new faculty member with ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The allegations were never proven...
Currently, Islamic Studies is mostly confined to the religious and historical aspects of the faith, and especially to Islam in the Middle East. At this point, undergrads study Islam through NELC or the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Professors like Granara and Susan G. Miller, a senior lecturer in Islamic civilizations, stress the need for a more multidisciplinary program. “This is a disgrace,” says Granara. “Our field is vastly underrepresented...and increases [in funding] are very much necessary.” Ahmed points to Sufism, Islamic mysticism, as a key area...
...March 8 magazine article "No Strings Attached?" incorrectly stated that offices of the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) department are located at 1430 Mass. Ave., above CVS. While the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and some NELC faculty do have offices at the site, the department's headquarters are at the Semitic Museum on 6 Divinity Avenue. The Crimson regrets the error...