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Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh said yesterday that the program will not be “Arab-oriented...
Safran was the Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies. Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh ’60, who directed the center after Safran’s resignation, called him an expert in the politics of the modern middle east and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was “one of the luminaries of the field” of modern Middle Eastern politics, Mottahedeh said...
Safran was born in Cairo in 1925 and was of oriental Jewish heritage. He fought in the war for Israeli independence, Mottahedeh said. But he “remained very sentimentally attached to Egypt” and was very moved when he went back in the middle of his life...
...Mottahedeh described Safran as a “very affable” man who was “very good at handling people who had strong pro-Arab or pro-Israeli views...
Later in life, he was interested in painting, according to Mottahedeh...