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Abbasi Program faculty members Alexander Key, Khaled Obeid and Saleem Aweiss will teach an intensive Arabic immersion course as part of the 2015 Sophomore College at Stanford. 

Called “Arabic in America,” the course aims to provide…

Award Winning novelist Mohsin Hamid visited Stanford to discuss the importance of an international perspective. The Stanford Humanities Center published an article about his visit to the Abbasi Program .

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Ryan Crocker, a former six-time U.S. Ambaassador sat down with the Stanford Daily for an interview. 

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Scholars engage with the ways top world religions relate to democracy. Read the articles below for more information.

 

Faith and Democracy 

Top world religions intertwine with democracy differently, profs say

Gilbert Achar (SOAS University of London) visited Stanford to discuss the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. 

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