Word: nadav
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Unlike the old director, Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran--who earned headlines for accepting, without publicly disclosing, money from the CIA to sponsor a conference on modern diplomatic affairs--the center's new administrator, Professor of Islamic History Roy P. Mottahedeh '60, has little scholarly interest or experience with current events...
...graduate of the University of Iowa is taking full advantage of Harvard's academic offerings. "It's like a smorgasbord of desserts a mile long," says Pippert of his program this spring. He is auditing courses by three big-name professors--John Rawls, Robert Coles and Nadav Safran--as well as a Business School course on "Power and Influence...
Here is a brief recap of the case surrounding Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran, the Harvard faculty member who prompted the recent debate...
Foremost among the issues facing the faculty was the thorny problem of government-supported research. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran was forced to resign as director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies after secret CIA funding for his research and a conference was made public. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence eventually published a report which shifted much of the blame onto some supposedly sloppy administration by Spence's predecessor, Henry Rosovsky. The report was widely perceived both inside and outside of the faculty as a whitewash, and a superficial one at that...
...more intensive concerns, both moral and academic, have invaded Harvard's graduate schools and advanced-study centers. Last year a mini scandal at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies raised new questions about whether Government funding of university research might encroach on academic freedom. The center's director, Professor Nadav Safran, broke university policy by planning a conference on Islamic Fundamentalism without first notifying Harvard or participants that it had CIA underwriting, and further offended colleagues by publishing a book on Saudi Arabia that contained no acknowledgement of similar financing. Safran has since resigned as director. "These are serious issues...