In an article published yesterday by Inside Binghamton University, faculty members remember Dick Antoun, who was murdered a few days ago by a Ph.D student.  For part of the time that I was a Ph.D. student there, Professor Antoun was director of the Middle East and North Africa Program, including when I and three of my friends organized a three week Maghrebi Arts Festival and when we organized a MENA Students Group.  He was very supportive.
I think Steve Straight hit the nail on the head when he described Antoun as a peacemaker.  Straight joined the Anthropology Department at the same time as Antoun, and noted

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“in a department that over the last 39 years could be fractious, he was always the peacemaker, never taking sides and always ready to lend a hand to make for a happy outcome, or at least a peaceful one. He was able to seek an amicable way out of any dispute and make it come out the best for everyone.”

The MENA program was at least as fractious at the Anthropology department, if not more so, and I would agree.  Read more thoughts about Professor Antoun and impact at Binghamton, continue reading.