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Malika Zeghal, an expert in religion who focuses on Islam, has been named the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, the University announced yesterday...
Leaving her post at the University of Chicago's Divinity School as an associate professor of the anthropology and sociology of religion, Zeghal will join Harvard's department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and the committee on the study of religion beginning on July...
...looking forward to learning from and contributing to the rigorous academic life at Harvard and to collaborating with some of the leading scholars of Islam and religion," Zeghal wrote. "I am eager to work with the students interested in Islam and politics and to use the extraordinary resources offered by Harvard...
Tova said Hillel proved that sense of commitement extended beyond religion early in their relationship. A former computer science teaching fellow, she recalled complaining to Hillel over Google chat one day that no one ever came to her scheduled office hours. He suddenly signed off and was in her office within minutes, stayed with her until the end, and walked her home...
...long series of political debates and snafus that would come to define fall 2009 and spring 2010. The tragic shooting at Fort Hood laid bare the inadequacies of mental-health offerings in the United States military and showed us that terrorism is not the sole province of religion. Similarly, reactions to the threat of terrorism represented not change that we could believe in, but rather the stasis that we feared. We were disappointed by Obama’s renewal of the Patriot Act, a bill whose overwhelming Congressional support was cause for alarm, not comfort, as the legislation remains...