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But a few miles from Musawi's well-guarded office, visitors to the archaeological sites are pestered by the keepers of five camels with brightly colored saddlebags. "Have your picture taken on a camel. Only $1!" they shout in Arabic and French. Hucksters offer cold soft drinks, small brass replicas...
Still, she could not forget that she was Palestinian. Her parents allowed only Arabic inside the home and encouraged her to perform Palestinian folk-dances. And never did they forget their lost homeland.
Ilse Lichtenstadter, former senior lecturer on Arabic in Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, died of natural causes May 23 at Beth Israel Hospital. She was 89 years old.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Lichtenstadter taught Arabic and Islamic culture at several institutions, including the Asia Institute, New York University and Rutgers University. In 1960 she came to Harvard, where she remained until her retirement in 1974. Lichtenstadter lectured in Arabic first in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...
Much of Lichtenstadter's work focused on Oriental literature from 200 to 1600 A.D. But the lecturer called her sociological study of modern Islamic society in a 1951 Egyptian village "one of my happiest times anywhere," according to Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, who recently edited a literary volume...