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WASHINGTON – The spokesman for the Saudi Embassy in the US has said that the Consulate in New York has assigned a lawyer to represent Saudi student Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, accused of murdering Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Richard Antoun last Friday.

Spokesman Nail Al-Jubair said an embassy representative was due to meet with 46-year-old Al-Zahrani before the end of the week and that no statement would be issued until the full details of the case were known. Authorities in New York, he said, informed the embassy Tuesday that Al-Zahrani had been charged with second degree murder crime.

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WASHINGTON: A graduate student from Saudi Arabia was charged on Saturday with killing a retired anthropology professor, a specialist in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies with whom he had worked.

Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, 46, a native of Saudi Arabia studying for a doctorate in cultural anthropology, was charged with second-degree murder, and is being held without bail after a brief arraignment.

Al-Zahrani allegedly pulled out a six-inch kitchen knife and stabbed Richard Antoun, 77, an emeritus professor of anthropology and peace activist, four times in the chest in the professor's campus office Friday.

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BINGHAMTON, New York – A graduate student from Saudi Arabia, Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, has been charged with fatally stabbing a Binghamton University anthropology professor to death.

Al-Zahrani, 46, was charged Saturday with murder in the death of 77-year-old Richard T. Antoun. The professor was stabbed in his campus office Friday, and the weapon was later recovered, authorities said. A roommate, Souleyman Sukho said over the weekend that Al-Zahrani came at him with a blade during the three weeks they shared an apartment with a third student, Luis Pena.

Sukho and Pena said they never heard their roommate mention Antoun, who was a professor with the anthropology department, where Al-Zahrani was working on a dissertation about early Arabic culture.

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