MIDEAST 1-A: The Middle East crisis is...
MIDEAST 1-A: The Middle East crisis is what’s fueling recession talk, but it’s also fueling interest in Ashraful Hasan’s classes at Cal State Fullerton. . . . Hasan, a political science lecturer, specializes in Mideast politics and stresses it in his comparative politics class. He expects the class to be much more popular this semester and is planning a future course devoted to the Middle East. . . . Most Americans don’t understand the situation, he says. “You have to understand the Muslim mind, to go beyond institutions and learn how they think.”
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