Sudan’s Civil War: A New Haven for Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda may be exploiting a weakness in an African state in crisis. In today’s Academic Minute, a Student Spotlight, American University’s Sara Harmouch explores how.
In today’s Academic Minute, Cornell University's Ross Brann traces the similarities of Hebrew and Arabic to a time when they were considered a single language. Brann is the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell and author of The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain. Find out more about him here. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.