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Fatima Farideh Nejat

Being bilingual isn’t enough

Following one of the Curriculum Development Department’s quarterly presentations titled “Translation: How does it fit into a curriculum for an intensive basic language course,” I

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Returning to Rome

  I had a memorable semester at the American University of Rome in Fall of 1996. Watching the procession of Pope John Paul II panders

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ABC’s of democracy

Would electoral reform make the political system more democratic? The following is a discussion about the possible benefits and the inherent limitations of the following

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Money talks

The following case study (written in 1998) might shed some lights in transforming the old to a careful selection of the new. To address the

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Homework

What is followed is a case study in Bangladesh about the plight of women, but every woman from a Muslim society could identify with a

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Divine inferiority

The question of women's status has acquired great importance in communities throughout the entire world. For centuries it was a “natural law” in many parts

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Declining goddess

It is important to examine the history of legal changes in different societies that have made an effort to correct the flaws of their legal

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From cave to cathedral

The Platonists pursued the prolegomena of “dialogue,” (free speech) and animated ideas in individuals in search of wisdom. Humans, from the beginning of their socialization,

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