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...Frye says that the students the department does recruit tend to be from Europe or the Middle East itself...
...University looks at the department and says, `You haven't got hundreds of students,' so it doesn't offer money." says Frye, who lectures in six different Indo-European languages. "The problem is that people haven't found out about the Middle East yet. There's a war in Afghanistan, but people in America think the country is in Africa...
...Frye says the center finally opened in 1956, at about the same time that Russian and East Asian Studies Centers were set up at the University. He also says that it was at this time that the Aga Khan endowed a chair for Middle Eastern history, to which Frye was appointed...
...This field has to be endowed," Frye says, "because no university will support it. It's too esoteric. `Iran? Iraq?' people ask, `Where is that?' No one wants to study anything west of Wooster...
With few students--there are about 14 graduate students in the center this year--and even fewer professors, Frye has had to expand his expertise to teach the myriad languages, art and anthropology courses that are required for the complete study of the Near East...