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Schimmel and Associate Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani are the only professors at the University who teach courses specifically on South Asian Islamic culture and civilization. In addition, Schimmel teaches Persian and Turkish while Asani is the only scholar who teaches Hindi and Urdu.
If rebuilding is well advanced, the country's psychic rehabilitation has barely begun. The seven-month occupation left deep scars that will take years to heal. Iraqi soldiers tortured or brutalized an estimated 15,000 Kuwaitis, including more than 1,000 female victims of rape, who are considered unmarriageable or...
And there's the rub. With no clear constitutional standing and with allegiance from few outside the military's high command, the council is trying to impose its authority on a restless nation that could erupt any day in civil strife. Short of martial law, it is unlikely the council...
At the heart of the drama is the question of what is better for Algeria's democratic aspirations: a military intervention that claims to safeguard democratic ideals by robbing fundamentalists of electoral victory, or the full play of the electoral process, which risks empowering radical fundamentalists who might prove antagonistic...
The least likely scenario is that Algeria's three main parties will sit idle and permit the Council of State to serve out the two remaining years of Bendjedid's aborted five-year term. There is also no guarantee that the army rank and file, more than half of whom...