Duke Celebrates the Year of the Snake

Mbaye Lo has been appointed director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center, effective Aug. 1. Lo, a professor of the practice of Asian and Middle Eastern studies and international comparative studies, will se...

The music was provided by an oud: The base was a cooking pot, the neck created out of wood from a box of fruit, the strings made from sock threads and the pegs from fruit stems. The musicians were four Syrian men who had been through hell and survived ...