Word: safran
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According to Zaki, the source of the account may have been confused about an incident which occurred in 1982 and had nothing to do with Harvard, Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran...
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...
...Islam scholar has been mentioned as a possible successor to Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran as head of the center. Following an investigation this winter into his use of CIA grants, Safran resigned the post effective July...
...Even before Professor Safran became director, there was talk of Graham's becoming director," said Ibrahim A. Sabra, a former member of the center's executive committee, which was disbanded following the Safran investigation...
...only comment to The Crimson in several months, Safran said of his Faculty Council bid: "I don't see that I need any vote of confidence...