When I arrived in Cairo shortly after the official release by the U.S. government of the “Bin Laden Tape,” I was surprised by the way it was received in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East: barely anyone seemed to take notice of the tape, which was much fanfared in the US and Europe as… Continue reading What's In A Video Tape?
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Noted Harvard Prof Discusses Islamic Views of America
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Club launched its speaker series last Wednesday with a widely attended speaker event, featuring Professor William Graham, who gave a brief lecture on the historical roots of Islam before taking questions from the audience. Most questions were concerned with current events in the Muslim world as well as… Continue reading Noted Harvard Prof Discusses Islamic Views of America
Giving Up Mythologies: The Bridge to Peace
“The one thing that is unmistakable is that we are watching an escalatory cycle that has no endpoint. We’re as close to what it looked like before 1948 than we’ve been since that time.” So warned Amb. Dennis Ross in his opening remarks to a standing-room-only lunch audience in Spangler Auditorium last Monday. Amb. Ross,… Continue reading Giving Up Mythologies: The Bridge to Peace
