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...Center for Middle Eastern Studies affiliate had devoted the last decade to collecting documents to record the sufferings of his people under Saddam Hussein, a calling that led him to become an advocate for American invasion consulted by President Bush and his staff...
...professor of Middle Eastern studies at Brandeis, Makiya lives in a pale green Victorian house near Porter Square. His living room is decorated with embroidered wall-hangings and a table decked with candles...
...many ways, Americans of the 1970s may be more similar than not to populations elsewhere today. In the '70s, Americans smoked a lot more tobacco than today, and few were getting treatment for high blood pressure or high cholesterol. That's not so different from 21st-century Russians or Eastern Europeans, Gaziano suggests...
...Benjamin Taylor is a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Aaron D. Williams and Diana K. Esposito are graduate students at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
...Jews to help build his city. This brutal history would later color the portrayal of Babylon in the Bible. "In Christian culture, Babylon was quite deliberately developed as a broad symbol of the city of sin," says Michael Seymour, a curator of the British Museum's Middle Eastern collection. Indeed, over the centuries, Judeo-Christian texts would consistently imbue Babylon with a sense of evil. A 14th century Flemish manuscript of Saint Augustine's "City of God" contrasts Babylon with God-fearing Jerusalem; the former is invaded by diabolical creatures that embody the city's vices...