If the economy stalls, people will not have money to spend in bars like Khalili's.
Professor Khalili is an entrepreneur as well as a scholar, collector and philanthropist of international standing.
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Professor Khalili has made notable contributions to the scholarship of Islamic art, including the founding of the Nasser D.
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The Khalili Collections are fully represented in a series of over 40 volumes, 90% of which have already been published.
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Lakshmi Puri, Wole Soyinka, Arjun Appadurai, Jeffrey Sachs y Nasser David Khalili.
"Encouraging a kind of economy that you can spend, that there's money to spend, that you can consume, in the same time you're living on the edge of, not a catastrophe, of economical catastrophe, " said Khalili.
Professor Khalili has been awarded various honours, which include Trustee of the City of Jerusalem, an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Boston University, and Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Francis I (KCFO).
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Although a row with the local military commander has forced them in the last few days to pack their bags and leave, Professor Tarzi hopes to return next year with permission from Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai or Vice-President Karim Khalili.
"The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings, " said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss.
The opening addresses were followed by a debate between prominent intellectuals and peace advocates -- including UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Forest Whitaker, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, Lakshmi Puri, Wole Soyinka, Arjun Appadurai, Jeffrey Sachs, as well as Nasser David Khalili.
Even if you did not understand a word - and, to be fair, it was aimed at real students of science - it was hard to dislike what Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist and TV presenter describes as "the undiluted geekiness of it".
He has also endowed the Khalili Research Centre for the Arts and Material Culture of the Middle East at the University of Oxford, and is the co-founder and chairman of the Maimonides Foundation, which promotes peace and understanding between the three great monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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