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QUOTES "Durán was trained in Middle Eastern languages and Islamic studies in Morocco, Bosnia, and Pakistan. From -- A Liberal Egyptian Historian, Language Reformer, and Muslim Reformist, 1886 - 1954 ". "From 1975 - 1977 Durán conducted field studies on Muslim society in transition. He was a Senior Fellow and Researcher with the German Institute For Middle East Studies ( Deutsches Orient-Institut ) in Hamburg from 1978 - 1986 . In 1984 - '85 he was also working with the Tokyo -based UNU ( United Nations University ). As a result of his previous work with Pakistan's Islamic Research Institute Durán was invited, in 1984, by the Tokyo-based UNU (United Nations University) to be part of a team working on a project titled 'Islamic Perceptions of an Ideal Society.' His assignment was a study on 'Islam and the State.' "Since 1986 , Durán has been a Visiting Professor of Middle East Studies at a number of universities in the United States, including Temple University ( Philadelphia, PA ); American University ( Washington, DC ); University Of California, Irvine ; University Of Louisville, KY . He also taught courses on Islamic Culture at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC ; 'Political Islam' at the University Of Oslo ; and served as a Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin . He worked as an Associate Scholar with the Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia) and the Institute For International Studies (Washington, DC). "Durán is editor of ''TransIslam Magazine'', (initially TransState Islam) a quarterly journal analyzing Islam-related political and sociological developments in a global perspective. He is President of the IbnKhaldun Society , a cultural association and forum of independent Muslim Intellectual s. "Durán is a frequent commentator on Voice Of America , in the Spanish program of CNN and Europe an radio and TV stations, such as ZDF (German TV). He has lectured at the National Defense University , the Pentagon and the Potomac Institute For Policy Studies . "Durán has testified on Capitol Hill, in the , Algeria , Bosnia , Iran , Sudan and Terrorism ." THE POLITICAL EPITHET ''ISLAMOFASCISM'' According to ''The Guardian'''s Albert Scardino, Duran coined the propaganda term " Islamofascism ": :s and The Qur'an ; the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan; Iranian clerics and Hitler . … Use of the term to describe Muslim clerics and stateless terrorists has neatly pre-empted any chance of labelling Bush a fascist - no matter how many suspects are kidnapped by the US authorities and tortured; no matter how impervious the border; no matter how effective the use of propaganda to destroy the opposition; no matter how many countries are invaded on false pretenses; no matter how strongly a minority religion may become a mark of guilt. —Albert Scardino, " 1-0 in the propaganda war ", ''The Guardian'', February 4, 2005. Note that the origins of the term ''Islamofascism'' are contested. Malise Ruthven used it in an article published in '' The Independent '' of 8 September 1990 (p.15), which gives him priority over Duran and other figures to whom it has been attributed. EXTERNAL LINKS
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