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Umm Kulthum Ibrahim

Brief life of "the star of the East": 1904?-1975

Dividing Lines

Fresh perspectives on Americans' persistent disagreements about race.

McCordiana

A Formidable Woman

Mary Fasano, A.A.E. '93, addressed the Extension School on June 5.

What is Yiddish?

From Lonely to Alone

Until the night before I left for winter break my first year, Harvard was enchanted. The people were winged, the ideas were utopian, the Yard was sylvan bliss. But that night, Harvard gave up another side of itself: its loneliness.

by Miriam Udel

Read Better, Sleep More

A primer on teaching undergraduates how to read the right way

by Miriam Udel

Frank Roosevelt at Harvard

A profile of the president as alumnus

by John T. Bethell