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...prayer leader is Amina Wadud, an Islamic scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the organizers who invited her claim that she is the first woman to have presided over a mixed-gender prayer service in public since Islam's earliest days. The event was held in a cavernous hall on the grounds of New York City's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine because no major mosque would play host to it. "There are still men who believe women are not allowed to be leaders. They're bullies," says organizer Asra Nomani, author of the new book Standing Alone...
Finding a job in the investment world was always going to be easy for Navroz Udwadia, a second-year student at Harvard Business School and a former Rhodes scholar at Oxford. But what made him stand out was not just his brain?it was that he'd grown up in Bombay and had a passion for Indian equities. "Every hedge fund I interviewed with was fascinated by my Indian background," says Udwadia. Four of them offered him jobs. One didn't even wait for him to graduate?the fund's managers gave him $5 million to invest in Indian stocks...
...said Johansen specializes in “early classical Islam, particularly Fiqh, which is a kind of religious law, focusing on relations between the legal and ethical laws of Islam.” According to Ahmed, Johan will compliment the role played by Graham, who is also an Islamic scholar...
Although C-SPAN may seem like a straight shooter, blogs across the political spectrum, from RESPECTFUL OF OTTERS to ELEPHANTSBUS, lambasted the channel last week for planning to "balance" its coverage of a lecture by Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt with a speech by Holocaust denier David Irving, who has argued that the Nazis' crimes have been overplayed. Amid the kerfuffle, some conservative bloggers even found a way to blame Bill Clinton--for how far the once noble C-SPAN has fallen--while LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS featured the best one-liners: e.g., "What's next, bin Laden rebutting Wolfowitz...
Vendler’s 30-minute speech, entitled “The Ocean, The Bird, and The Scholar,” was the reprise of a speech she gave last year in Washington D.C. upon receiving the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Jefferson Lecture award...