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...Patel, the fact that France's North African citizens don't feel at home is simply a shame. To others, it's much more dangerous than that. Three years ago, Princeton University Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis said that, thanks to immigration and Europe's low birthrate, Western Europe will have Muslim majorities by the end of the century: "Europe will be part of the Arab West, the Maghreb." He's not alone. The fear of a Eurabia (capital: Londonistan) populated by poor, angry, fervent Muslims is gaining ground. Islamists are "determined to subdue and colonize Europe," claims American essayist...
Indeed, many scholars who have known Faust in a professional context praised her scholarship and intellectual engagement with work. John C. Inscoe, a professor of history at the University of Georgia and the secretary-treasurer of the Southern Historical Association (where Faust once served as president), says that Faust has “more than proven herself as a scholar and historian.” Inscoe also commented on Faust’s deft leadership of the Radcliffe Institute, where the intellectual and creative environment that Faust fosters keeps visiting scholars happy. “They all come back singing...
...Harvard in his column, which will run on alternate Mondays. "Hub Happenings": Stephen C. Bartenstein ’08 is a government concentrator in Lowell House and a proud Lexington, Mass. native. His column will provide mischievously mordant commentary on Bay State life as it relates to the Harvard scholar. On alternate Mondays, Stephen will opine on everything from breaking state news to the more outlandish stories unique to the People’s Republic. "Thoughts en Masse": Malcom A. Glenn ’09, an associate sports chair, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column will tackle...
...Cubism, as in his Flowers of the World Blooming (1915), he did so like no one else. "Picasso was preoccupied in Cubism with finding forms and artistic language to render an object," maintains Avtonomova. "Filonov's concern was that object's philosophical core." She sees Filonov as an artist-scholar who first defines a key idea, then gears his vision, palette and expression to that idea...
Students in the Adams House dining hall can ignore the noise of people eating and remind themselves of jazz and blues by looking at the newest painting on the wall. A portrait of music scholar Eileen Jackson Southern was unveiled yesterday night in an event sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). In 1976, Southern became the first black woman to receive tenure at Harvard. She held a joint appointment in the Music Department and in the Afro-American Studies Department, which she chaired from 1975 to 1979. Knafel...