Word: granara
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...William Granara, Gray professor of the practice of Arabic, who was one of four panelists that took part in the roundtable discussion sponsored by the Humanities Center, began his portion of the program with a confession—in jest...
...name is William Granara, and I’m an Orientalist,” he said last night to the packed crowd at the Sackler Museum Lecture Hall...
...Last year and this year there have been precipitous leaps in the number of students in first year Arabic. Almost 90 students have enrolled,” said Director of the Arabic Language Program William E. Granara. “There are students from the Law School, the Divinity School and the Kennedy School of Government, but there are also more freshmen studying Arabic because of the issues in the Middle East which have received great national attention...
...Although Middle Eastern studies survives as a discipline, it is being reined in by academic departments,” Granara says. “Nowadays, to study Middle Eastern history, you have to study historical theory through the history department. In the 1960s you went into a university to become a Middle Eastern scholar, not a historian...
...place like Harvard is in an enviable position to watch what is going on in the world and help Americans to understand it,” Granara says. “However, to delve into a subject, we have to understand all aspects of it—you have to work in history, political science, cultural studies. We need to revamp...