Saudi Prince Gives Millions to Harvard and Georgetown

Saudi Prince Gives Millions to Harvard and Georgetown

By KAREN W. ARENSON
Published: December 13, 2005

Harvard University and Georgetown University each announced yesterday that they had received $20 million donations from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a Saudi businessman and member of the Saudi royal family, to finance Islamic studies.

Harvard said it would create a universitywide program on Islamic studies, recruit new faculty members in the field, provide more support for graduate students and convert rare Islamic textual sources into digital formats to make them widely available.

"For a university with global aspirations, it is critical that Harvard have a strong program on Islam that is worldwide and interdisciplinary in scope," said Steven E. Hyman, Harvard's provost, who will coordinate adopting the new program.

Georgetown said it would use the gift - the second-largest it has ever received - to expand its Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which is part of its Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. It said it would rename the center the H.R.H. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/education/13donation.html

To hasten our collapse... Acting like a friend only gives us a greater false sense of security.

On the plus side, we needn't worry about the Saudis asking for the money they loaned us back...

tax free foundations and alphabet agencies. the elite dont pay taxes.