“I got notice… very politely saying ‘this may not be the right time for you to come and lecture because of the Khashoggi affair,’” said Turki, the son of the late King Faisal, and former ambassador to the United States.
Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where the former head of Saudi intelligence has taught for a decade, allowed him to finish his fall course.
Harvard has had a long association with the Saudi royal family, accepting $20 million from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in 2005 to expand its Islamic studies, according to the Harvard Crimson.
Turki served as Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief until the summer of 2001. The body is now being reorganized in the aftermath of Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.