By Julia I. Bertelsmann
Julia I. Bertelsmann ‘09 attends Harvard College and is an Economics concentrator living in Eliot House.
NEW SOCIETY was born in late December 2006 when twenty-seven Harvard undergraduates visited the Shalem Center in Jerusalem as participants in the Harvard Israel Leadership Initiative (HILI). Like the initiative, the journal aims to encourage students and [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Editor’s Note
Posted in Editorials on September 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ladan Boroumand: From Iranian Revolutionary to Human Rights Advocate
Posted in Interviews on September 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
By Abigail R. Fradkin
Abigail R. Fradkin ‘09 attends Harvard College and is a Classics and Government concentrator living in Lowell House.
Shahla Ka’bi. Age: 34. Nasrin Ka’bi. Age: 27. Date of Execution: August 27, 1980. Location: Sanandaj, Iran. Mode of Execution: Shooting. Charges: “Corruption on earth”; Providing medical care to counter-revolutionaries; Unspecified counterrevolutionary offense.
Remember: Shahla and [...]
Iran: The Inside Story
Posted in Reflections on September 7, 2007 | No Comments »
By James R. Russell
James R. Russell is the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at the Near East Department and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.
The first confusing and inconvenient thing to know is that Persia and Iran are the same thing. Iran (note to self: look at map) resembles a comfy [...]
Anti-Arab Racism in the Military
Posted in Reflections on September 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
By Michael A. Carey
Michael A. Carey is a graduate of Brigham Young University, a veteran of the Iraq war and a pilot in the Rhode Island National Guard. He is a first-year student at Harvard Law School.
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I spent just over three months at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait during my last active duty [...]
The Case for Kurdistan
Posted in Opinion on September 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
By Chia N. Mustafa
Chia N. Mustafa ‘09 attends Harvard College and is a Government concentrator living in Kirkland House.
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As I learned it growing up in Kurdistan, the myth of the creation of the Kurdish people goes something like this: long ago there lived an evil Assyrian king named Dehaq, cursed with two giant man-eating [...]
Toward a Positive Palestinian Nationalism
Posted in Opinion on September 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By Joel B. Pollak
Joel B. Pollak is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Cape Town. He was a political speechwriter for the Leader of the Opposition in South Africa from 2002 to 2006 and is a first-year student at Harvard Law School.
“The Palestinian situation itself is remediable, since it is human beings [...]
Liberté, Egalité, Futilité
Posted in Politics on September 7, 2007 | No Comments »
By Gabriel M. Scheinmann
Gabriel M. Scheinmann ‘08 attends Harvard College and is a Government concentrator living in Eliot House. He is a dual citizen of France and the United States.
On March 12, 2003, French-American relations were at their lowest nadir since General Charles de Gaulle occupied L’Elysee. Congressman Bob Ney of Ohio, Chair of the [...]
Saudi Arabia in the Post-Gulf War Era
Posted in Politics on September 7, 2007 | No Comments »
By Ondrej Beranek
Ondrej Beranek is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. In 2003, he received a scholarship from the University of King Saud in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he underwent intensive training in the history and culture of [...]
The Unmaking of U.N. Resolution 242: The Story of how Resolution 242 was Undone Before it was Even Finished
Posted in Politics on September 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
By Danielle R. Sassoon
Danielle R. Sassoon ‘08 attends Harvard College and is a History and Literature concentrator living in Dunster House.
Five years ago, sixty-one Harvard professors and fifty-two MIT professors signed a petition calling for universities and American companies to divest from Israel, partly due to Israel’s failure to comply with United Nations Security Council [...]
Familiarity Breeds Contempt: Dialogue at Harvard on the Middle East
Posted in Campus News on September 7, 2007 | No Comments »
By Jacob M. Victor
Jacob M. Victor ’09 attends Harvard College and is a Social Studies concentrator living in Leverett House.
When Mark Twain coined the famous phrase “familiarity breeds contempt” he was describing the human tendency to look down upon those closest to us. Unfortunately the opposite is also true: a constant exposure to familiar ideas [...]
Circle of Women
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By Cristina M. Ros
Cristina M. Ros ‘08 attends Harvard College and is a Comparative Study of Religion concentrator (with a focus on Islam and Christianity) living in Quincy House
Most Harvard students agree that the best education comes from classmates. On a late Thursday night in March 2006, B. Britt Caputo ’08 and Clotilde Dedecker ’09 [...]
The Falafel Stand
Posted in Falafel Stand on September 7, 2007 | No Comments »
5 Recommended Books
Martyrdom in Islamic History by David Cook (Cambridge University Press: January 2007)
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present by Michael Oren (W.W. Norton: January 2007)
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Free Press: February 2007)
Iran: A People Interrupted by Hamid Dabashi (New Press: March 2007)
Once Upon a Country: A [...]
