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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...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘A War Over Memory’: Reconstructing a Nation’s Identity | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘A War Over Memory’: Reconstructing a Nation’s Identity | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing for Heart Risk More Cheaply | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Diana K Esposito, Benjamin Taylor, and Aaron D Williams | Title: The Adhan at Harvard | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babylon: Visions of Vice | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

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