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...Harris, teacher of the popular core course Foreign Cultures 56: "Jewish Life in Eastern Europe," received tenure this week in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (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...
...astonished that his students condone his actions. Deeds speak louder than words, and there is no use in offering students two hundred courses in ethics, when a senior faculty member sees nothing wrong in spying on his staff (as well as having access to all the faxes sent by NELC and by the Center for Jewish Studies who share the same fax machine.) We do not care whether reading letters not addressed to him was legal or not, and would like to refer the students to a higher ethical and moral law, one instituted in Germany a thousand years...