Monday, August 27, 2007

This obituary of Muhsin Mahdi* in Weekly Standard leaves out an important fact: that the late professor opposed US wars in the Middle East. I know that he opposed the 1991 war and the sanctions that followed. Politically, Professor Mahdi was not easy to classify--like many philosophers and professors of philosophy.
*I wrote a previous post on the first tenured Arab professor at Harvard University. Professor George Saliba confirmed that Professor Mahdi was indeed the first one, and that he helped bring professor Sabra.