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Former HI Director Catharine Nepomnyashchy Delivers Plea to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Receives Response
Monday, 15 February 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has responded to the letter sent in January by Columbia faculty regarding the detainment of scholar Kian Tajbakhsh in Iran.

A Columbia faculty member in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Tajbakhsh was supposed to assume his faculty position in September 2009 but was arrested in Iran during the aftermath of the elections this past summer.

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Professor Lincoln Mitchell on US-Georgia Relations
Friday, 05 February 2010

Professor Lincoln Mitchell quoted in VOA News.com on the potential use of Georgia as a transit territory of US Arms to Afghanistan and the relationship between Georgia and the US.
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Professor Lincoln Mitchell interviewed for Radio Liberty
Friday, 05 February 2010

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