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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...
Harvard has a reputation as the leading academic institution in the world. Now it has the task of living up to its reputation in an area most faculty members agree is not as developed as it could be. And so such a gift will be a great help in determining a future for Islamic studies, which will be guided by officials in the Development Office, Divinity School, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Looking a gift horse in the mouth...
...School 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...
...March of 2004, after Harvard chose to hold on his gift, the president of the United Arab Emirates rescinded his $2.5 million offer to the University. Harvard Divinity School students had been critical of a think tank to which the president had ties—they claimed that the organization propagated anti-American and anti-Semitic sentiment...