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Forrest N. Blackwelder-Baggett, a former Harvard student in the class of 2011, was arrested Monday, May 3 for attempting to rob a restaurant near his hometown in Texas.
She is the author of two books, one on the religious institution of al-Azhar University in Egypt and another on the interactions of the Morocan monarchy with Islam. She is currently at work on a third book called "Sacred Politics: Political Islam and the State in the Middle East...
"I am looking forward to learning from and contributing to the rigorous academic life at Harvard and to collaborating with some of the leading scholars of Islam and religion," Zeghal wrote. "I am eager to work with the students interested in Islam and politics and to...
"Professor Zeghal's scholarship is grounded in her remarkable ability to win the trust and confidence of the Islamic religious actors about whom she writes," said Diana Sorensen, dean of arts and humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in the press release. "Her ethnographic approach, based on her...
An earlier version of the June 4 news article "Islam Scholar Malika Zeghal To Join NELC Dept." incorrectly stated that incoming Harvard professor Malika Zeghal's first book focused on the colonization of Egypt. In fact, the book focuses on the religious institution of al-Azhar University in Egypt, according...