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...Dari has sought since his return to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Having spent much of the adulthood teaching Islamic law and history in various Arab universities, he was nonetheless able to adjust quickly to the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq. As an Islamic scholar of note, few questioned his right to lead the AMS, and he organized the clerics' body into a stridently anti-American organization that gave voice to the Sunni community's anxiety and resentment over the loss of their centuries-old grip on political power...
What does it take to reach the pinnacle of academia and receive tenure at Harvard? While nearly everyone agrees that a faculty member must be a top-notch researcher and scholar, the relative importance of a variety of other factors is highly debatable. Harvard’s president has a hand in every tenure offer the University extends; our next president must understand the importance of this power. Weighing these other factors will be one of the most critical judgments that he or she will have to make. We find two criteria that are particularly undervalued in the current system...
...that the intent is “to increase coverage of Islamic civilization” with no interest in political issues. “The Islamic Studies for the Islamic Middle East and North Africa at Harvard is very strong,” Mottahedeh, himself a Middle East scholar, wrote. “The present community of scholars strongly welcomes the extension of Islamic studies to areas beyond these regions.” Jewett Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, a member of the steering committee for the new program, said that the program will help address glaring gaps...
...you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Dad, this is making me uncomfortable. Favorite childhood toy: Soccer ball, my father’s firearms. Sexiest physical trait: My RAZR, the soaring eagle tattoo across my chest. Favorite part about Harvard: Clifton Dawson. Describe yourself in three words: Scholar, lover, UC vice-presidential candidate. In 15 minutes you are: Trying to make friends. In 15 years you are: Buying friends...
Repatriating one’s search records is kind of like wrapping one’s head in tinfoil and running for the border. Beyond the Bush administration’s gaze and shrouded in Canada’s more privacy-friendly (and, perhaps, terrorist-friendly) institutions, a scholar can only hope against hope that research in apparently fringe subjects like nuclear proliferation and Islam won’t lead to her becoming the subject of a (secret) investigation...