Word: nahyan
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...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...
...August 2003, the position was suspended and the UAE closed the Zayed Center, but in December of that year, Graham announced that the school would make an appointment in Islamic studies—financially backed by special University funding—to replace the controversial Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan Professorship...
...donation, pledged in 2000 by UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, had been put on hold by the University in May 2003 while it examined his alleged ties to the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow...
While Harvard depends on the generous donations of its benefactors, nothing is gained from a gift that taints its integrity. The University is right to freeze a $2.5-million donation from Shiekh Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), until the full extent of his connection to an extremist think tank that he founded, the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, is brought to light...
...recently learned that Harvard Divinity School accepted money from the President of the United Arab Emirates, His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, for the creation of an endowed professorship in Islamic Religious Studies. As a student of Islam, I was pleased that the Divinity School sought to expand its scholarship of religious studies to Islam. However, upon detailed research I discovered that the man donating the money, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, was involved in egregious acts that I could not condone and toward which I could not remain indifferent...