Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Within Ideas beyond Borders, there is the initiative for translation on amass scale in the long term. What is the project? How are you executing it? Why is it important? Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: The name of the project is the House of Wisdom or Bayt al-Hikma 2.0. I will start with the last question. […]
Academic Advisor Dr. Oweidat is currently an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, teaching classes on Islamic thought and history and security of the modern Middle East. She is also a Non-Residential Fellow at New America where she conducts research on countering violent extremism and agents of positive change in the Arab world. Dr. Oweidat, originally from […]
Professor Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won numerous prizes for […]
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