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...experienced, on the ground, a lot of the issues that she herself will be addressing, so I think she will do an excellent job,” said Kay K. Shelemay, Watts professor of music at Harvard and a member of the Committee on Ethnic Studies. “She has a lot of experience...
...ostensibly in the name of their religion. Yet there is also anger - anger at the ignorance of some who view all Muslims as potential terrorists and, most bitter of all, at fellow Muslims who excuse or espouse terrorism. The London blasts exposed fault lines, not only between different ethnic identities but between generations and economic classes. In an effort to find a common front, 22 Muslim leaders and scholars issued a joint statement last week. They called the London attacks "utterly criminal, totally reprehensible, and absolutely un-Islamic." Sir Iqbal Sacranie, who heads the Muslim Council of Britain, an umbrella...
...stumbling block is the Sunni contingent, which opposes a partition along sectarian or ethnic lines and wants a strong central government. "The Sunni Arabs are already pushing back on this. They all hate it," said a U.S. embassy official familiar with the drafting process. Jawad al-Malaki, a Shi'ite committee member and adviser to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, calls the Sunni approach a nonstarter, warning that it could lead to a new dictatorship. Meanwhile, the U.S. is trying to convince the Sunnis that federalism is in their interest. "If you had the kind of system the Sunnis want...
Martin, who will also chair the Standing Committee on Women, becomes a special advisor to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, and the rest of the Faculty, on matters relating to gender, racial, and ethnic diversity, Kirby announced in a press release...
...experienced, on the ground, a lot of the issues that she herself will be addressing, so I think she will do an excellent job,” said Kay K. Shelemay, Watts professor of music at Harvard and a member of the Committee on Ethnic Studies. “She has a lot of experience...