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Johansen, who has been at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris for a decade, will assume tenure at HDS in July 2005, filling a position that has been marked by controversy in recent years...
...Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), pledged a $2.5 million donation to HDS to create a faculty position for Islamic studies...
...gift was later called into question, following an investigation into ties between the chair and the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, an institute based in Abu Dhabi that, some HDS students alleged, promoted anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism...
...center, founded in 1999, hosted some speakers that HDS students claimed placed blame on Zionists for the Holocaust and said that Israel was behind the Sept. 11 attacks...
...January 2003, Dean of HDS William A. Graham responded to the students’ allegations, saying he had “no intention of keeping the gift if we find that the obvious problems with the center’s website do represent the donor’s views—something we have no concrete evidence of at present...