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A. Partly because of the strength of the Arab hereditary monarchies or the military regimes or one-party regimes that have replaced them, partly the extraordinary range of internal conflicts within the region, partly the tug of Islamic fundamentalism. But even in a country like Iran, you see a remarkable...
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...
Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, who was the first woman to lead an Islamic state, spoke in 1989. She is the daughter of deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto, who was overthrown in a military coup by Gen. Zia ul-Haq and later executed.
In fact, there is no such thing as a private sector in Japan. Either that or there is nothing but the private sector. For years Japan Inc. has had a one- dimensional foreign policy: what's good for Japanese exports is good for Japan. Since there were many times more...