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While Harvard depends on the generous donations of its benefactors, nothing is gained from a gift that taints its integrity. The University is right to freeze a $2.5-million donation from Shiekh Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), until the full extent of his connection to an extremist think tank that he founded, the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, is brought to light...
...Center. The government of the UAE claims that the center’s views are inconsistent with the values of Sheikh Zayed. If this is the truth, the donation should be used to fund the Islamic studies professorship as was originally intended. However, if HDS should find that the Shiekh was aware of the views propogated by the Zayed Center, the money should be promptly returned. No donation is worth indebting the University to practioners of hate and bigotry...
...then did Israel want? For simple security, it wanted at least a buffer strip on the rocky heights of Syria and a slice of West Jordan to fatten out its own narrow waistline. It also wanted free passage through Aqaba, perhaps guaranteed by an Israeli garrison at Sharm el Shiekh...
...FANZIA SHIEKH...
...fact-finding tour of Egyptian parts. One of his interesting discoveries was that of the empty sarcophagus that once contained the mummified body of Queen Hetep-Heres I, mother of Cheops. Another was a "haunted" fort, which no one dared investigate, because the natives feared being punished by the "shiekh" for a crime committed generations before...
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