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Any Blue Devils basketball fans worth their horns can recite the illustrious career of Coach K by heart. While Coach K may be retired, fear not, there’s an unassuming faculty member well on her way to pulling down equally impressive stats for Duke: Coach H, or Maha Houssami, faculty advisor for the Arabic debate team.

Task Forces on Antisemitism, Islamophobia Announce Listening Sessions for Harvard Undergraduates | News | The Harvard Crimson

Browse Ramadan news, research and analysis from The Conversation

Traversing a century of revolution, counter-revolution, and regime change in Iran, Arya Zahedi traces out the social, political, and ideological tensions that continuously push the country toward the brink of insurrection. Originally published in Ill Will Editions. www.illwill.com/iran

“So many of us are frustrated with what Congress is right now,” Jared Young said. “We complain and we moan, but if we want something significantly different, we have to try something significantly different.”

Doha, Qatar: The conference of The Social and Cultural History of the Mediterranean World: Literature, Folklore, and Photography kicked off today,...

Rutgers University is being slammed for "antisemitic" lectures that critics say spread "vitriolic hate" -- including one from a law professor who allegedly appeared on a panel alongside a senior Hamas official.

Arabic as a heritage language conference kicks off at DI Language Centre

Robin Kelley, professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at the University of California, Los Angeles, visited the University of Illinois on Wednesday to explore past historical movements and figures, such as Martin Luther King Jr., and their synonymy with the Israel-Hamas conflict. The talk, titled “Gaza: What Would MLK Do?,” primarily...

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