Tag: Muslim

  • Nation & World

    ‘I’ve never done work that I was not interested in. That is a very good reason to go on.’

    Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.

    31 minutes
    Amartya Sen.
  • Nation & World

    FAS announces ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration positions

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will hire a cluster of faculty in the area of ethnicity, indigeneity, and migration during the upcoming academic year, Dean Claudine Gay announced.

    4 minutes
    Harvard gate
  • Nation & World

    Islamic studies scholar addresses myths and mores behind the veil

    Islamic studies scholar Celene Ibrahim discussed the myths and realities of Muslim Feminism at the year’s second Diversity Dialogue.

    3 minutes
    Celene Ibrahim leads a Diversity Dialogue titled Muslim Feminism.
  • Nation & World

    ClassACT casts a mold for leadership

    The classmates of Benazir Bhutto ’73 have established an international leadership program in her name.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The fears of American Muslims

    Vitriolic politics and terror strikes are fueling an increase in suspicion and mistrust of American Muslims, panelists say.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Muslims wonder what’s ahead

    As rhetoric against Muslims rises across the nation, members of the Harvard community increasingly are pondering how to safeguard and support the rights of all.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The Muslims rarely heard

    In a question-and-answer session, a Divinity School scholar discusses the sweeping breadth, complexity of Islamic culture. Ousmane Kane will deliver an inaugural lecture on March 6 at Harvard Divinity School to celebrate the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professorship of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A scholar’s brush with religious ire

    Reza Aslan, whose book “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” soared on the best-seller lists after an infamous Fox News interview last summer, spoke at Harvard Divinity School, saying that while he is a Muslim, he also is “a follower of Jesus.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fostering global understanding

    A panel of scholars made up of the directors of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centers met to discuss how to promote better understanding between the Islamic world and the West.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Promoting understanding through education

    Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and cultures and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, has been named the director of Harvard’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Exploring Islam in Nigeria

    A panel of scholars explored the topic of Islam in Nigeria in preparation for the visit to Harvard by Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Muhsin Mahdi

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Muhsin Mahdi, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Mahdi was respected for both his scholarship in Islamic philosophy and his critical translations of The…

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies receives $156,000 grant

    Harvard’s interdisciplinary Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies, led by Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, was recently awarded a $156,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    In the clutches of the Taliban

    New York Times reporter David Rohde discusses the seven months he was held captive by the Taliban on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Drawing attention

    Jytte Klausen, author and research associate at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, explored the cartoon controversy over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper in 2005, offering her take on the unrest chronicled in her new book, “The Cartoons that Shook the World.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Islam’s mystical dimensions take flight

    A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology explores the mystical dimensions of Islam with a series of photographs and multilayered, mixed-media compositions.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New Muslim cool

    “New Muslim Cool” documents an American Muslim’s rise from the tough streets and hip-hop beats to a creed of mercy and forgiveness.

    2 minutes