Sandra Naddaff snaddaff@fas.harvard.edu, 5-4835 Hometown: Dedham, MA Education: AB, English, Harvard/Radcliffe, 1975. Graduate work in Islamic History, American University in Cairo, 1975-77. PhD, Comparative Literature, Harvard, 1983. Currently: Director of Studies and Senior Lecturer in Literature; Director, Freshman Seminars Program. Interests: Cross-cultural literary relations, especially between the Arab Middle East and Western Europe; modern Arabic literature; women's literature; narrative theory; translation theory; film; music.	Leigh Hafrey lghafrey@fas.harvard.edu, 5-4835 Hometown: Cambridge, MA Education: AB, English, Harvard/Radcliffe, 1973; PhD, Comparative Literature, Yale, 1978. Currently: Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, MIT, in ethics and communication. Previous work includes teaching at the Harvard Business School, editing at the New York Times Book Review, translating novels and non-fiction prose from French and German, and consulting in international development in Africa. Interests: China, corporate social responsibility, non-profit organizations, the impact of humanistic studies on the world at large, stories and story-telling-see The Story of Success (Other Press, September 2005).
Ben Naddaff-Hafrey 12th grade, Milton Academy Interests: Listening to and playing music (piano, harmonica, guitar), businesses of all kinds, acting, and reading.	Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey Harvard Alum '08, Interests: Guitar, music of all kinds, writing, and languages. Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey
Q & A with the masters Q: What did you do for your first job? Sandra: I was a chambermaid when I was 14, much to my mother’s horror. I made 75 cents an hour. Leigh: I was a counselor at a martial arts training camp in the Vosges, in eastern France. We lived in dorms that had no heat and shuttered holes in the walls for windows, which wasn’t great because it rained sporadically for thirty days straight. When it wasn’t raining and I wasn’t supervising hikes, baseball and soccer games and our version of capture-the-flag, I donned the padded armor and helmet of a kendo novice, and brandished a bamboo sword. Q: What was your most embarrassing moment? Sandra: Ninth grade, first formal: the zipper on my evening gown broke. Leigh: I’ve repressed most of them. Longterm memory dredges up bad moments in PE, and more recently a cross-goal defensive shot in IM soccer for Mather that gave the opposing team a chance to score (which they did). Q: What is your favorite Mather moment? Sandra: Processing to the Yard on commencement morning. Leigh: Just a few days before Commencement 2000, a few seniors succeeded in winging a paper airplane from the Tower across the Charles River. That seemed to me a fitting culmination to four years at Harvard. Q: Describe the worst paper you ever wrote. Why was it so bad? Sandra: Senior year in college, a paper on Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. I wrote it following our senior dinner which ended with the ritual brandy and cigars. Leigh: It was actually a novel, not a paper; it was bad because the characters were all disguised versions of me, and because it had no plot. Q: What is your favorite thing about Mather? Sandra: That we’re all connected. Leigh: The architecture–it isn’t pretty to look at, but it’s great to look from, and has a sense of humor about itself.