Word: suleimane
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...week's end the chances for Gemayel's survival improved slightly. After meeting in Damascus for two days, the leaders of the National Salvation Front, including Jumblatt, former President Suleiman Franjieh and former Prime Minister Rashid Karami, listed their demands. The trio asked for a hand in rebuilding the Lebanese Army and rescinding legislative decrees that they contended favor the Christians; as expected, the group also insisted on scrapping the May 17 Israeli-Lebanese accord. Significantly, the front did not call for Gemayel's resignation. His aides greeted the declaration with guarded optimism. According to a Gemayel...
...Suleiman says she thinks the three tenures of women last semester were "more of a coincidence than anything else," but credits Harvard for taking affirmative steps, both in hiring and in women's studies: "When Harvard does not think it is in the forefront of things, it acts...
Born in Hungary. Suleiman came to the United States when she was 11, and graduated from Barnard College in 1960 with a B.A. in--of allthings--Chemistry. But at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, she began to study and teach French literature, earning a departmental teaching prize in 1965. While finishing her Ph.D. thesis, Suleiman taught at Columbia University for three years, then moved out West. From 1976 to 1981, she taught at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she gained tenure...
Lured back to Harvard in 1981, Suleiman taught literary theory and a year-long course on 20th century French fiction. The latter, French 132a, "The Realist Mode," and French 132b. "The Experimental Mode," are highly praised by students. According to class members. Suleiman graded and wrote comments on all 60 students' papers, and took the trouble to learn everyone's name. "She is extremely friendly--very approachable," says one student, Elizabeth E. Porter...
...modern literature course had previously been taught by a medieavalist and a poetry expert, and the introduction of Suleiman represents the last stage of the rebuilding of the department. Says Brody: "We have reached a plateau at which we are very comfortable, for a change...