Arab League: Zayed Center closure would be 'great loss' (Jerusalem Post)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBAI, United Arab Emirate
The Arab League was awaiting official word from the United Arab Emirates of plans to close a league-affiliated think thank that Western critics accuse of promoting anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism.
On Sunday an official in the Gulf state told The Associated Press that the Emirates was closing down and cutting off funding of the Emirates-based Zayed International Center for Coordination and Follow-Up � named in honor of the Emirates' president. The Emirates has funded and hosted the center, which is officially sponsored by the Arab League, since it opened in 1999.
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Their website is down.
There's more in the Boston Globe, including a discussion of a call for the Harvard Divinity School to return a $2.5 millon donation from Sheikh Zayed. The student who initiated the call, Rachel Fish, has a website on the issue here. As a Harvard alumnus (Ph.D., NELC, '88), I strongly encourage them to return the money. An elementary school in California finds itself in a similar position (USA Today). The Arabic News has articles here and here. The Gulf News reports that "Arab journalists and intellectuals flooded the Zayed International Centre for Coordination and Follow-up (ZICCF) with letters yesterday to express solidarity against a mounting Israeli campaign against the institution." Israeli campaign? Huh?
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