http://nymag.com/news/features/46000/ NYU president John Sexton has been promised a blank check to duplicate his university on a desert island in Abu Dhabi. The expansion will leave both campuses flush with petrodollars. But to many faculty, the deal amounts to a…
read morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/education/12yale.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin After more than a year of talks, Yale University has backed away from its plan for an arts institute in Abu Dhabi, involving Yale’s art, music, architecture and drama schools. The stumbling block, ultimately, was Abu Dhabi’s insistence that…
read morehttp://web.mit.edu/cis/jerusalem2050/just_jerusalem/winners.html#tab_4 Cambridge, Mass, March 21, 2008–MIT’s Jerusalem 2050 Program, a joint initiative sponsored by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies, announced today the winners of its global Just Jerusalem competition. The open contest…
read morehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/08/MN9EU855F.DTL Almost 30 years after Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David peace accords, the normalization of cultural ties is still mired in a cold war. Since Egypt became the first Arab state to make peace with Israel, the two…
read morehttp://debatte.welt.de/kolumnen/73/periskop/67643/kritik+und+warnungen+iranischer+konstitutionalisten Iranische Konstitutionalisten sind demokratische, parlamentarische Monarchisten. Sie vertreten das säkular-liberale Bürgertum des Iran. Im Iran kamen sie nie zum Zug, auch wenn sie sich seit über 100 Jahren für ein demokratisches Parlament einsetzen. Für die iranischen parlamentarischen Monarchisten sind…
read morehttp://www.jewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?mode=a§ionid=61&contentid=30888&contentName=Columbia,%20Ahmadinejad,%20and%20Nazi%20Germany:%20Round%20Two Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concluded his speech at Columbia University last year by inviting the students and faculty to visit Iran. Some critics responded by comparing the idea of visiting Iran to the carefully-choreographed visits of Americans to Nazi…
read moreIsrael Biz at 60: Lessons and Directions in Israel’s Business and Economy American University Conference, March 3-4, 2008 Presented by the Kogod School of Business, the Center for Israel Studies, and the College of Arts and Sciences Schedule of Events…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/941732.html For many years the most influential Western cultural institution in the Arab world was the American University of Beirut (AUB). Founded in 1866 as the Syrian Protestant College, during much of the 20th century it was both an important…
read morehttp://www.zol.ch/zo/detail.cfm?id=428924 In Ägypten scheint Präsident Hosni Mubarak die Machtübergabe an seinen Sohn Gamal vorzubereiten. Politisch stagniert das Land am Nil. Das Regime setzt weiterhin auf massive Repression. «Die Quelle ihres Ansehens sind die Leistungen unserer Präsidenten», sagt Walid Kazziha in…
read moreSPME publishes this editorial as a matter of academic interest and not because it endorses this position. SPME is planning a formal academic critique of Walt and Mearsheimer, the details of which will be announced in coming weeks. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=52842 “Many…
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