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...depict. There are signs of hope residing in two universities that provide an American-style education: the Lebanese American University and the American University of Beirut. The LAU can trace its roots back to 1835, when a group of Presbyterians decided to establish a school for women in the Ottoman Empire. Despite the difficulties of providing a first-class education at times of unrest, the LAU continues to offer classes - and students continue to graduate. I firmly believe that education is the way to promote positive change in the Middle East. It will help bridge knowledge and technology gaps with...
...universities that provide an American-style education: the Lebanese American University (LAU) and the American University of Beirut (AUB). LAU can trace its roots back to 1835, when a group of Presbyterian adventurers decided to make a difference in the world by establishing a school for women in the Ottoman Empire. Since then, LAU has been educating youth in the Middle East. Despite the trials of providing a first-rate education during times of unrest, LAU continues to offer classes - and students continue to graduate. I firmly believe that education is the way to promote positive change in the Middle...
...when Bethlehem was a town in a sleepy province of the Ottoman Empire, a local man built a magnificent house on the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron. Made from the region's limestone-whose shades, from pale honey to dazzling white, give the Holy Land its distinctive palette-the house was built around courtyards and fountains in the Ottoman style; frescoes and mosaics graced its walls and ceilings. In the 1930s, the man's family went bankrupt. The house was later used as a prison by the British, when they governed Palestine under a League of Nations mandate...
...founding, such policies were revolutionary and far more progressive than those practiced by Christian and Jewish societies. Islam's problems, she contends, only began with the calcification of its progressive traditions in the 15th century, when the religion was reduced to a tool to consolidate the power of the Ottoman Empire...
...rebuke to the British Museum's continued possession of the most passionately disputed cultural property of them all, the 5th century B.C. Elgin Marbles. Those are carvings taken from the Parthenon in the early 19th century at the direction of Lord Elgin, who was then British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Together the Elgins constitute roughly half of the surviving figures from the Parthenon. Most of the rest remain in Athens...