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...Yalman, Research Professor of Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies...
...Yalman has been teaching at Harvard since 1972 and he says that since then the field of Middle Eastern studies has never gotten a great deal of support. Yet Yalman remains confident in the future of Middle Eastern studies at Harvard, citing the brilliance of the University’s graduate students. “I have never had difficulty in finding superbly prepared teaching fellows for my courses,” he says...
...Yalman agrees with Caton that scholars in the areas of culture and literature and arts, as well as in current affairs, finance and the economy, are absolutely necessary additions to the faculty...
...Yalman hopes Middle Eastern studies will eventually follow the format which has worked well for the Far East region. Harvard’s East Asian Studies program, he says, has excellent institutes which focus on each critical country, from Japan to China to Korea. He says a similar form of specialization that is integrated within the various disciplines would work well for the study of the Middle East and also the greater Islamic world...
...Since the country is obviously involved with this part of the world in a fundamental way,” Yalman says, “it is important to have new positions in the critical departments...