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Arab world lecture links Middle East to Western culture

Ted Swedenburg, a professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, came to Eastern Michigan University to deliver a lecture Monday about “Youth and Popular Music in the Arab World.”

At the latest lecture in the Perspectives in the Middle East series, sponsored by the Division of Academic Affairs, EMU history professor John Knight introduced speaker Swedenburg by saying, “Ted is one of those annoying scholars.”

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