AND IN BETTER BRANDEIS NEWS…: Kanan Makiya, a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis who was a leading Iraqi dissident for more than 20 years, recently returned from several months in Iraq and spoke at Brandeis about how his country is faring following the fall of Saddam; I really wish I could've been there. Now that's just about the best reason I've ever heard for a professor taking a leave of absence- because he was returning to his country after it was liberated.
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 24, 2003 03:38 PM