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...other hand, one expects faculty to monitor their own profession. For example, Harvard recently announced a $20 million gift from a member of the Saudi royal family. The gift is targeted for the study of Islam, and may legitimately enhance the University’s research in that area. Yet, without prejudging the uses to which the gift will be put, there is reason for careful scrutiny of this funding: Saudi Arabia exports and pays for the spread abroad of some of the most virulent forms of Islamism. Last year the Center for Religious Freedom (a division of Freedom House...
...Faisal asserted that Saudi Arabia, though it is a traditional and conservative country, is not extremist...
...ambassador stressed the importance of new Saudi initiatives to change the education system, which include increasing the number of schools and improving the quality of the textbooks...
Other students asked the ambassador about the election of Hamas in Palestine, the concept of democracy in Saudi Arabia, and the movie “Syriana...
...think the prince is an eloquent ambassador for his country in understanding what Saudi Arabia is trying to communicate to the United States and what we are trying to communicate to the Saudi Arabians,” Domandy said...