Scholar
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Led by a literary
scholar
and an astronomer, this new residential college aims to break down interdisciplinary boundaries and enable students to learn from one another.
For example, legal
scholar
Cao Siyuan began writing on, lobbying for, and organizing conferences about constitutional reform.
As John Limbert, the erudite Iran
scholar
and retired US diplomat (taken hostage in Iran for 444 days) once reflected on the 1979 Iranian revolution, “Our liberal-minded Iranian friends proved to be helpless in political turmoil....[T]hey could write biting editorials,” but lacked the stomach to “throw acid, beat up opponents, organize street gangs...and engage in the brutality that wins” in political uprisings.
According to the Argentine
scholar
Roberto Bouzas, MERCOSUR is in a critical state of affairs, owing to the inability of its institutions to maintain “the common objectives which drove its member states to engage in the process of regional integration and the consequent loss of focus and capacity to prioritize underlying political problems.
But perhaps the single most important modern source is the writing of the Egyptian
scholar
Sayyid Qutb.
Consider the mission entrusted to Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, the great Egyptian
scholar
sent to Europe by Mohammed Ali in 1826 to learn about Western civilization and to try to forge an understanding between it and Islam.
In The Africans: Triple Heritage, the Kenyan-born
scholar
Ali Mazrui expressed concern about what he perceived to be a Garden of Eden in decay.
Alain Peyrefitte, the scholar, politician, and confidant of Charles de Gaulle, said that “without Europe, France will be nothing”; but, without France, Europe, too, would be nothing.
During the early years of Zionism, the great Jewish
scholar
Gershom Scholem – who was born in Berlin – said that the Jews were embarking on a difficult journey, a return to history.
These younger people - the Iranian
scholar
claimed - are first of all Iranian nationalists, and would like to dissociate themselves from Middle Eastern politics, in particular the Arab-Israeli conflict.
China’s unique aid model is one of the main pillars of what the Chinese
scholar
Sheng Ding calls the country’s “soft power” strategy.
A true Muslim or Chinese
scholar
cannot be defined as a true Chinese or a true Muslim by being critical of his own world.
The Western
scholar
remains perfectly legitimate when putting to death Western values: there is no Chinese or Muslim Nietzsche claiming that his own God is dead.
With a doctorate in economics, he is a respected and widely published scholar, an experienced manager, and an able politician who was elected to Chile's Senate five years ago.
If this forces America back towards what the international-relations
scholar
Joseph Nye calls “soft power and multilateral diplomacy,” it may well be a good thing.
The social history of ancient India, as one
scholar
admits, "appears to be a string of conjectures and speculations."
Muslims should call on every eminent Islamic
scholar
and cleric in every country, representing every school of Islamic thought, to issue a legal opinion on the morality of al-Shabaab’s policies and behavior.
Perhaps Eban was too urbane, too much of a
scholar
and gentleman to be able to make it - in Disraeli's phrase - to the top of the greasy pole.
That this Arab renaissance - to use the phrase of the great Palestinian
scholar
George Antonius - did not take place may have been Eban's greatest disappointment.
Indeed, one distinguished scholar, Bassam Tibi of Gottingen University, has described Indonesia as “a model for religiously and ethno-culturally different communities to live together in peace and mutual respect.”
Nevertheless, Anita Silvers, a philosopher at San Francisco State University and a disability
scholar
and activist, has described such treatments as “tyranny of the normal,” aimed at adjusting the deaf to a world designed by the hearing, ultimately implying the inferiority of deafness.
Why should Obama, a constitutional scholar, be backtracking this way?
A Brief History of (In)equalityBERKELEY – The Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen recently gave a talk in Lisbon about inequality that demonstrated one of the virtues of being a
scholar
of economic history.
As the UCLA
scholar
Ananya Roy points out, people in absolute poverty are deprived of both the opportunities and the means to change their status.
Thailand Turns Banana RepublicBANGKOK – “Thailand’s future is up for grabs,” proclaimed the eminent Thai
scholar
Thitinan Pongsudhirak just before the country’s Constitutional Court ruled, in effect, that the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and its two smaller coalition partners are “illegal,” and hence must disband due to “election frauds” committed by party executives a year ago.
This parade of toppled and ousted governments has led Pavin Chchavalpongpun, another eminent Thai scholar, to call his country a “failed state.”
But such responses reflect the same narrow-mindedness that led to the notorious “pulping” of Sanksrit
scholar
Wendy Doniger’s erudite books on Hinduism.
A highly trained Islamic scholar, Rumi settled in Konya, Turkey, where he taught religion.
Although CEU, founded by the Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist George Soros and led by the human-rights
scholar
and former Canadian opposition leader Michael Ignatieff, is just 26 years old, many of its departments already rank among the top 50 in the world.
“That Myanmar could defy the Chinese,” wrote Indian
scholar
Sreeram Chaulia, “is being seen as a sign that political space exists for the US to work as a facilitator of the democratization process in Myanmar.”
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