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...contortions to become “merit-based.” More seriously, it’s led to the notoriously haughty induction process at some of Harvard’s student organizations. At the Crimson, potential execs have to face an annual torture called “The Turkey Shoot.” After months of sucking up, the month-long process kicks off with position papers and the “schmooze,” a series of meals and coffees with assorted Crimson higher-ups. The final week consists of interviews in front of a semi-circle...
BRITAIN BELGIUM FRANCE GERMANY ITALY BOSNIA ALBANIA BULGARIA MOROCCO TUNISIA TURKEY SYRIA JORDAN SAUDI ARABIA KUWAIT ETHIOPIA TANZANIA KENYA SOMALIA ERITREA UGANDA RUSSIA UZBEKISTAN BANGLADESH
...there's no way of proving whether Kamel "worked for bin Laden." But, they say, it is clear that in the decentralized, compartmentalized and intersecting root system of Islamic networks, Kamel had been given the responsibility for creating and transporting false ID documents used by militants being assembled in Turkey, Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Bosnia and North America...
...people, Christians as well as Jews and Muslims, Arabic speakers, Turks, Greeks and Armenians, Circassians, Georgians, Kurds and many others besides who may have very different ideas about all these events. And in terms of states, what do Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, let alone NATO member Turkey have in common? Much the same can be said of the category Arab which includes all those from quite diverse origins who happen to speak Arabic, many of whom are Christians of diverse denominations. Many in the great cities of the region would have used the term for camel-herding...
Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies Nur O. Yalman, a native of Turkey, teaches Foreign Cultures 17: Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East...