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At least on the surface, Muhammad I. Kenyatta is a man of contradictions. He is 38 years old and a second-year student at the Law School. He is a Baptist minister who changed his name to that of the most sacred prophet of the Islamic church. He is a...
The leading Middle Eastern scholars at Harvard include Nadav Safran, professor of Government and reportedly a search committee member. A. J. Meyer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies and a lecturer on Economics: and Oleg Grabar '50, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art. All three were out of the country yesterday...
The gulf states know that only the U.S. has the power to deter major acts of aggression. But the U.S. is also the chief backer of Israel, and as such, it is the object of as much resentment as reliance. The gulf rulers are afraid that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem...
Bahrain's rulers are readier today to take the political risks of opening their country to a more substantial American military presence, because they are more worried than they were a year ago about their security. They are still recovering from the shock of an abortive coup d'...
Many officials in the gulf, and back in Washington too, are concerned about the possibility of an indigenous upheaval by Khomeini-style Islamic fanatics. On that point, Qaboos seems more confident than many of his fellow Arabs and his allies in the Reagan Administration. "Fundamentalism in and of itself is...