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...Nadav Safran, an expert in Arab politics and controversial former director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies who resigned his post after accepting grants from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), died Saturday in State College, Pa. of cancer...
...Safran was the Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies. Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh ’60, who directed the center after Safran’s resignation, called him an expert in the politics of the modern middle east and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He was “one of the luminaries of the field” of modern Middle Eastern politics, Mottahedeh said...
...Safran agreed to a $107,430 book contract with the CIA that granted the agency the right to censor the book and required that Safran not reveal the CIA funding...
...Safran did properly disclose this to then Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, according to a three-month investigation in 1985 by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence. Rovosky made “administrative errors” in failing to review the terms of the contract and not responding to Safran’s disclosure, Spence determined...
...Everything Is Illuminated is written as a duet for two voices. One belongs to Jonathan Safran Foer (or his fictional alter ego of the same name), who relates the history of Trachimbrod, the East European village where his ancestors lived. Trachimbrod is a lyrical, fairy-tale creation, a Yiddish idyll of the Fiddler on the Roof variety, inhabited by randy, gossipy villagers like Bitzl Bitzl the gefilte-fish monger, and the melancholy maiden Brod, the narrator's great-to-the-fifth grandmother, who precociously enumerates 613 varieties of sadness by the time she's 12 years...