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Last month, Caton attended a faculdinner with University President Lawrence H. Summers to discuss a topic Summers has termed “Global Islam.” Summers called the dinner “fascinating” and says he looks forward to further discussion. “I think there’s a lot we need to think about on the inter-related but clearly separate studies of contemporary Middle Eastern studies and issues relating to Islam,” he says...
...says his proposal will stress the need for a modern historian, a political scientist, a scholar of contemporary Islam (in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world), an economist, a literary scholar, a public health specialist and an Islamic finance scholar...
...received a video that appeared to show her being shot in the head. The Irish-born aid worker fell in love with Iraq after moving there with her Iraqi-born husband in 1972. Through Saddam Hussein's rule and Gulf War bombings she stayed, learning Arabic and converting to Islam. She became a spokeswoman for Iraqi children suffering in the wake of the Gulf...
Vincent van Gogh's great-grandnephew is shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight on the edge of a city park. Streets fill with tens of thousands of angry protesters. Islamic schools are attacked and mosques vandalized and set ablaze--with a severed pig's head left as a calling card outside one of them. Can all that really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands? The answer is yes. Minutes after the Nov. 2 slaying of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with...
...speaker should know. He is Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, the second son of Libya's leader. Seif says he spent most of last year coaxing his father into transforming his 35-year-old revolution, which Gaddafi has led since he waged a military coup in 1969. The aging revolutionary has ruled over a centralized socialist system, repressing dissent and supporting armed attacks against American targets. Seif, 32, is believed by many analysts and diplomats to be Gaddafi's probable political heir. He is a doctoral student at the London School of Economics, a skilled artist and a keen tennis player...