Pardee School to Host Launch of Mudarri Fund
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University will host the launch of the Corinne Mudarri Arab Civilization Fund on October 26, 2016 at 5 p.m in the Kenmore Room located on the 9th Floor of 1 Silber Way.
The launch will feature a conversation entitled “The Arab Golden Age: Why Then; Why Not Now?” with speakers including Director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations and Associate Professor of History Betty Anderson, Professor Eman M. Ghoneim, Dr. Ehsan Masood of the Imperial College of London and Pardee School Dean Adil Najam.
The Corinne Mudarri Fund is designed to support thoughtful and wide-reaching programming and curricular innovation that explores and promotes the many contributions of Arab civilization, culture and society, including, but not limited to, innovations such as mathematics, science, medicine, philosophy, language, art, architecture and horticulture. The permanently endowed fund, to be administered by the Dean of the Pardee School, will provide support for annual student-focused activities, lectures and curricular innovation by faculty. This programming will be open to the entire BU community, and in some cases, to all BU friends and alumni throughout the Boston area.
Corinne Mudarri (DGE ’51) is a retired American Airlines official, where she worked for 25 years. Since retiring, she has published a Massachusetts Almanac of Arab Americans and retains a deep interest in developing better understanding of Arab civilization, especially amongst the young. Earlier, she had also endowed the Nicholas and Eugenie Mudarri Family Student Exchange Fund at Boston Univeristy, in memory of her parents.
Dean Adil Najam of the Pardee School thanked Corinne Mudarri for her generosity and her vision and the trust placed in Boston Univeristy and the Pardee School in advancing this vision.
“This is a most timely and gracious endowment gift that matches the needs of our times as well as the Pardee School’s strategic goal to educating globally-aware and globally prepared leaders of tomorrow,” he said. Moreover, he added, “I admire Corinne Mudarri’s passion and commitment to the idea that we need to provide our students with intellectually rooted and more wholistic view of key regions of the world than the narrow an stereotypical views often available in the popular media.”
The first set of activities under the banner of the Corinne Mudarri Arab Civilization Fund will take place within the current academic year.