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...past weeks, HIS has worked with other student groups to organize events and relief efforts. HIS has already spoken and worked with SAS, the Harvard No War Coalition, the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice and the Afghan Refugee Fund, according to Ali and Yasin...
...competition with fellow seniors, Peng says, “there is more a sense of commiseration than of competition.” Yet the soft spoken Brookline native certainly has fire in her belly. She speaks with authority when discussing her experience and capability and she is positive that she is qualified for all the positions for which she is applying...
...that would sway a U.S. audience. But the messages have been crafted for Afghans not Americans. The 4th Psyops Group has teams of Arab and Southwest Asian experts and artists who've been working around the clock crafting the words and pictures. For the Afghans, the words to be spoken have to be chosen carefully and the ones printed on paper have to be few. "Our big problem in Afghanistan is that a vast majority of the people are illiterate," says a U.S. Army colonel. The leaflets therefore have to be mostly pictures so they are understood...
...reform did not take off. The Muhammad Abdu project to renew Islam the way Martin Luther reformed Christianity ended at the turn of 19th century in disarray, opening the way to more extreme versions of the religion. Efforts to modernize the Arab language and bridge the gap between the spoken vernaculars and the written classical did not materialize. Public spheres--such as a free press, trade unions, civil societies--for debating matters related to the common good were not established. And most important, Muslims and Arabs never resolved the question of political legitimacy. They failed to develop workable models, which...
...also, in her hands, one of the most polygenetic, drawing from sources East and West, new and old. "I've never thought of my work as innovative," says Neshat, 44, "but I never followed any set of rules." Spoken like a woman of her times--and her culture...