Word: nelc
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...interest in appointing Professor Lawrence E. Stager, the museum's director, as chair of the committee which was supposed to look into the affairs of that very same museum? In addition to Professor Stager, there were two other members of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) on the eight-member committee. Their recommendation that the current staff be fired resulted in a gain of four offices, two rooms in the basement, and two large galleries for the future use as office space for NELC. We are also astonished that the directors of two other museums, also...
...Committee, in the Harvard Gazette and in the statements made by the Dean and members of the Committee to The Harvard Crimson: How can the Museum remain open to the public when the entire staff was fired? Who is going to prepare exhibitions? Professor Stager or other members of NELC? Where are the exhibitions going to be shown if the top floors of the building where the galleries are located are going to be used by NELC...
...past errors." We witnessed Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani walking through that exhibition, just as a group of Jewish alumni were viewing "Harvard's Arabian Nights." We were present when Queen Noor of Jordan opened the exhibition "Monumental Islamic Calligraphy," brought to the museum at the request of then-NELC Professor Annemarie Schimmel, and met with Mrs. Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson who later established the Dorot Professorship which Stager now holds. We were honored be trained for "The City of David: Discoveries From the Excavations" by Tamar Shiloh, the widow of Yigal Shiloh who excavated the site. The Semitic Museum...
...wish to laud the loyalty of the four graduate students in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (NELC) who came to the defense of their professor, Lawrence E. Stager, in their letter to you published on December 10, 1993. But since they are also candidates for a degree at a university whose motto is "Veritas," we wish to correct some of their erroneous statements...
...know where the students found the statement which we supposedly sent to Dean Knowles saying that the report, and we quote: "[g]ave too much weight to academic needs of the NELC department and too little to the 'public component of the museum.'" The truth is that for years we worked with NELC and other members of the Harvard faculty in planning our public programs and our publications. We sponsored an academic symposium in 1982 with Professor Isadore Twersky which resulted in a book publication; we curated the exhibit "Harvard's Arabian Nights" when Professor Muhsin Mahdi published a book...