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A s I and ing-room-only audience attended theA inauguration of the Clovis and Hala Salaam

L Ilr4aksoud Chair in Arab Studies on October 23rd.The evening event introduc€d Dr. Fida J. Adely, th€ firstholder of the Chair established by friends of the centerfor Contemporary Arab Studies in honor of AmbassadorClovis Maksoud, founder and director of the Center fo!the Global South at Amedcan University, and his late wifeHala Salaam Mal(soud.

Robert L. callucci, dean ofthe Edmund A. Walsh Schoolof Foreign Service, served as the Master of Ceremonies,and Reverend Timothy S. codfrey, S.J., director ofcampusMinistry, gave the invocation. Dr. Michael C. Hudson,ccAs director, delivered the opening address, followedby some moving remarks by Ambassador Maksoud. TheAmbassador recalled the devoted commitment ofhis latewife. Dr. Hala Maksoud. who received her Ph.D. fromG€oqetown, to human rights, women's development, anda ploductive and rich dialogue between the AIab worldand the West.

Dr. Adely then delivered an incisive and criticalpresentation entitled "Education for Developm€nt in theArab World: Progr€ss, Dilemmas, and Choices." Drawingon her Fulbright-funded doctoral field research on genderand education in Jordan, Dr. Adely employed ethnogaphicdata to critique recent quantitative surveys concerningwomen's development in the Arab world.

Professor Adely, who holals a doctorate in comparativeeducation and anthropology from Teachers College,Columbia University, also ilrew on the experiences ofherfamily members in Jordan to illustrate the recent historyof public education in the Middle East.

In he! conclusion, Dr. Adely pinpointed avenues criticalfor academic work on developm€nt, noting that "qualitativeas well as quantitative research on development in theregion is vital. We have very litde understanding about howthe clramatic changes over the last few decades are affectingpeople's lives. We are accustomed to looking at nationaland regional indicators to understand developmeDt'simpad, but have little sense of the alay-to-day sbuggles

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and ambiguities tied to such transformations. Despitethe billions of aid dolla$ that pour into the region for'development,' very little objective resealch has beenundertaken to examine how these funds are actuallyemployed, and to what enals, with some exceptions...Formany young women, schools are $ucial to pe$onal socialand mental developmeDt, as they represent one ofthe fewspacesoutsidethehometowhichtheyhaveaccess. Schoolsare pivotal for understanding how young people grapplewith issues of faith and the lole of religion in public life;gender and the possibilities that have been opetred up fora Ilew generation of schooled women; and development,specificatly the significance of formal educatiotr for thefuture alevelopment of young wom€n, their families, andtheir counties,"

Dr. Adely's lecture was followed by closing remarksdelivered by James J. o'Donlell, Georgetown Universityprcvost. Imam Yahya Hendi, Georgetown UniversityMuslim chaplain, gave the benedicuol An elegant allDnerfollowed at the Riggs Libmry.

The week after her inaugural lecture, Dr. AdelyaccompaniedAmbassador Clovis Malsoud to Dubai, whereshe sewed as a discussant for a panel entided "AssessiDSEducational Reform Processes in the Arab world" at theKnowledge CoDference spoDsored by the Mohammed BinRashid Al Maktoum Foundation ofthe UAE

CCAS will publish an Occasional Paper based onProfessor A.Iely's inaugural lecture in 2oo8. a

Top: R€ception following the Maksoud Inaugural l€cture.Bonom: (from left to right) Dr. Hudson, Provost O'Donn€ll, Dr.Adelv, Ambasrador Maksood, and Dean Gallu(ci.

Sherene Seikaly Named 2007-2008 QatarPost-Doctoral Fellow at CCASn r. Sherene Seikalyhas been named $e 2oo7'2oo8 QatarI lPost-Doctoral Feuow at the Center for Contemporary

I-/tuab studies. Dr. seikaly receit€d ber do€toral degreeitr September from the Depaftnents of History and MiddleEastem and Islamic Studies at New York Unive$ity She isalso the co-editor of the Arab Studies JoumaL

Her dissertation, Meatless Days; ConsumPtion andCapitolism in Wortime Palesah€ r93q1948, offels the 6rstconcerted examination of the Pal€stinian fuab middle classunder the British Mandate (1918-1948). Situat€d at theintersection of stuahes ofconsumptioD, political economy, andcolonialism, her research baces the formation ofa Palestinianfuab miaLlle class before 1948, when Palestinian Arabs became€ither refug€es or second-class citizens.

Dominant historical accounts of the mandate period depictPalertinian AIab society as divided between poor, iliterat€masses of peasants and workers and a small group of notablesengag€d in intemecine competition. Dr. S€ikaly dbmPts thisIlattened topogaphy of Palestinian social lif€ by focusing orr

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Palestinian Arab businessmen and tleir efforts to mediatebetween Arab society and the colonial state duriDg World WarII. By exploringr€ried experiences ofma*ets and corunotlrtresas lived spacei ofnational and coloDia.l coDtestatioD, MeatlessDaUs cals into question the prevailing narratives ofhistoricaltriumph and defeat.

During her reridency at CCAS, Dr. Seikaly will prepa& amanuscript based on her doctoral IeseaJth and teach a graduateseminar in tlrc SpriDg semester. a

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CCAS Mourns the Loss of Dr. Faruk Tabakn r. Fafll Tabal, NesuliEnegiin Assistant ProfessorI fofModem Turkish Studies, passed away inAnkara.

-U Turkey, February r5. 2oo8, while visitinB familyand conductitrg rcsearch. A memorial sewice will be heldon Thursday, April 24 at 5:3o pm ir ICC 241, lower level,CCAS Boardroom. All those who wish to shar€ in thiscommemoration of Professor Taba}'s life are welcome toattend.

New Faces at CCASCAS welcomed 3r new MAAS students iD the fall-thelargest-ever incoming class. This academic year alsosees the retum ofDr. Micha€l Hudson, Saifchobash

Professor ofArab Studies, to the CCAS dLectorship.In addition, Ms. Hala Shah joined ccAs as Infomation

Officer in September 2oo7 following Greg Kruzcek'sdeparture for Lebanon, wher€ he is pursuing graduatestudies in Intemational Relations at the Amedcan Unive$ityof Beirut. Ms. Shah holds a B.A in Joumalism from NewYork University, with a minor in Middle Easlem Studies.She previously sewed as the president and editor ofAfabMagozine at lilYu, and intemed at Beliefiret.com. a

EiBht"Students Receive FLAS Awards

7T$xs year. a CCAS committee awarded eight studentsI FLAS (Foreign tanSuage and Area Studiei) grants.

I The awards, covering tuition and stipend, wereused to fuDd a year's tuition for seven students in theMAAS program (M.A in Arab Studies at the center forContemporary Arab Studies) and one student pusuing aPh.D. in the Ambic department.

In 1958, the Departm€nt of Education began fundingFLAS as part of the National Defense Education Act (ofwhich Title VI was a part) to help increase the number ofAmerican experts in area and language studies. The FI-ASaward consists ofa $12,ooo tuition palanent and a $15,ooostip€nd payable over one academic year; the MAAS programadils funals to each grant so that one full year of tuition iscovered. The application form and instructions for nextyear's FI,AS gants arc posted on tle National Resourc€Center on the Middle East's website at http://nrcme.georgetown.edu/fl as-nrcne.cft n.

This year's FI,AS awadees come from a wide array ofbackgrounds, and many have experience either studyingor working in such places as Bahrain, ES.pt, Jordan, and

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the occupied Palestinian Territo es. Most awardees,including joulnalists, gender studies specialists, mediastudies specialists, and political scieDtists, speak fuabicat an advanced level, or are fluent in Persian and otherrelevant languages.

This year's FI,AS full-year awardees are listed below.Check out thefu profiles and a description oftheir academicand research interests at http://ccas.georgetov,.n.edu/center-who-students.cft n.

Klrcdayar Al&avi - MAASAdam Coogle - MAASHarald Fuller-Bennett - MAASChristopher Gratien - MAASSamuel Harris - MAASSarah IAiksow - MAASYounus Mirza - A&bicDena Takruri - MAAS

CCAS congratulates thes€ students on this substantialachievement! a

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Fall Events 2007Rounaltable Assesses Annapoli,sM.eelimg December 6CCAS hosted atimelyroundtable e!€ntto anallze and ass€ss the Annapolismeetings sponsored by the UnitedStates. Speal@rs included H.E. Dr. ImadMoustapha, Syrian Ambassador to theU.S.; Ambassador Phillip wilcox, Jr.,President, Foundahon for Middle EastPeace; Ambassador clovis Maksoud,Director, Center for the Global south,Amedcan University; and Mr. NathanGuttman, Washington Bureau Chieflor The JeuIsh Daily Foruord. CCASDir€ctor Dr. Michael Hudson providedidtroductory comme[ts that {iamedthe ensuing discussion. Audio filesof the roundtable presentations andthe question-and-answer session aieavailable in MP3 format on the CCASwebsite at http://ccas.georgetown.edu/events-features.cfin?id=37.

orlardo, University of Maryland;Dr. Abdelfettah Kilito, Universit€Mohamed V; and Dr. Laila Lalami,University of California, Riverside.Dr. Osama Abimershed, assistantprofessor of history at GeorgetownUnive$ity, served as the event's facultychair.

Marcel Khalif6 & Al-MayadineEns€mble Nouember.I &2CCAS and the Jerusalem Fundfor Education and CommunityDevelopment co-presented twosold-out performances by reno nedArab musician Marcel Khalif6 atthe John F. Kennedy Center for thePerforming Arts. The Al-Mayadineensemble accompanied Khalif6, whoperformed selections ftom his latestwork, Taqasim, as well as a number ofhis classic pieces. The Arab-AmericanAnti-Discrimination Committeeand the Washington, D.C. chapterof the Network of American-ArabProfessionals also supported thecoordination of the peformances.

Media Development SymposiumOctober 31As part ofits AIab Media Series, ccAshosted the AIab Media DevelopmentSymposium. The eleven-memberpanelof mediaprofessionals, industryleaders, and seasoned journalistsadilressed the past, present, and futureof Arab media development throughan introspective lens. Participantsincluded Patrick Butler, vice presidentof programs, International Center

for Jourlalists; George Hishmeh,president, Washington Associationof Arab Joumalists; Rafiah El Talaei,Omad joumali.st and fomer EdwardR. Mu.ow Fellow; Moustafa Mourad,president, One Global EconomyCorporation; Leon Shahabian, vicepreside[t and treasurer, LayalinaMuctions; DaoudKuttab, Palestinianjournalist; Nadia Alami, regionaldirector, Middle East and NorthAftica, Internews; Christine Prince,Middle East/North Alrica Program,IREX; Crocker Snow, J!., dilectol,Edward R. Murrow Ce[ter for PublicDiplomacy, Fletcher School of Lawand Diplomacy, Tufts Unive6ity; AdelIskandar, G€orgetown UniveFity; atrdSilvio waisbord, George washingto[Udversity.

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Humanitarian Situation in tfreT€riitories October3oThose lMng in Gaza and the WestBank ha!€ o.?erienced dire emnomicand social ilifficulties as a result oftheprolonged lsraeli-Palestinian confl ict.Catholic Reliefservices (CRs) is one ofmany intemahonal tron-govenmentalorganizations working to providehumanitarian and developmentassistance to Paleshnian conmunitiesin need. GU alumnus Tom Garofalo,country representative for CRS inJerusalem, the west Bank, and Gaza,discussed the challenges of providingassistance in the Palestinian TeEitoriesftom an NGO perspective. Garofaloraised questions about recent actionsand events that have e-{acerbated thehumanitarian crisis, and discussed

M€Bh.d, Dr' susri Gikon-Mirr.i Di Moh.mmcd xcnbihaid

Morocco! Recent Trends andFuture I\:ospects NoDember 8& 9CCAS ard the Embassy ofthe KinSdomof Morocco sponsored a two-dayconference examining the country'srecent political, cultual and historicaltrenals as well as its lat€st economicdevelopments- Participants includedan impressive alray of academics andprcfessionals: Dr. Rahma Bourqia,president, Hassan II University;Dr. Mohamed Kenbib, Universit6Mohamed v; Dr. Susan Gilson-Miller,Hawad University; Dr. Ahmed Abbadi,director of Islamic A.ffairs, Kingdomof Morocco; Dr. Abdelhay Moudden,Universit€ Mohamed V; Dr. val6de

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prospects for peace in light of thecunent sifuation,

In Concer:t: The Sound.6 ofDesireOctober 1HeatlEr Raffo, author of and actor inthe award-winning, one-woman show"9 Parts ofDesire," which details the livesof nine ordinaryyet exEaordinary Imqiwomen, teamed up with Amir Elsaffar,accomplished Iraqi santoor player andjazz tumpeter, for a &amatic eveningof spoken word and music as part ofGeorgetown's Interfaith Arts Festival.Using characters from "9 Parts ofDesire,"Raffo and Elsaffar presenteda concert of classical and urbansounds that spring from th€ir Iraqiand Amedcan roots. Both mlthicaland contemporary, the women'swords wove beautifully in and outof the ancient quarter-tone scalesof Elsaffar's santoor as well as hisimprovisational jazz riffs. No wonderme Neu Yorker called Raffo's show"remarkable" and "an example ofho\ir art can remate the world." TheFestival of Intefaith Arts of the DavisPerforming Arts Center under thedirection of Professor Derek Goldmanand the Center for ContemporaryArab Studies co-present€d the eventin cooperation with the Institute forthe Study of Diplomacy, the Theaterand Peformance Studies Program, tleMusic Program, the B€rkley Center forReligion, Peace, and worldAffairs, andthe C€nter for Social Justice.

A Discu,ssion with Joeh RushingSeptenber 1BFormer U.S. Marine Corps captain JoshRushing, current\ a co$espondentfor Al-Jazeera English, shared hisexperiences as a soldier-turned-joumalist, In early 2oo3, when U.S.Centml Command set up a mediaoperations center in Doha, Qatar tocover the war in Iraq, Rushing receivedorders to become the military's liaisonto Al-Jazeera there. Unbeknownst toRushing, the dir€ctors and crew of.theacclaimed independent film Control

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Room captur€d his efforts tocommunicate the American messageon the channel. After he left the militaryin 20o6, Al-Jazeera approachedRushing aboutjoining its new 24-hourintemational nev,/s channel, Al-JazeeraEnglish, which is currently beamedinto roo million homes worldwide. Henowworks forthe station as a militaryand cunent affairs correspondent.Rushing's presentation was co-sponsored witli the Lecture Fund.

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A Commemorstion of the IraqiPoet Nazik Al Mala'ikaSeptember IOne ofthe most importantArab womenwdters, Iraqi poet and critic Nazik Al-Mala'ika was a major advocate, withBadr Shakir al-SaD'ab, of the fteeverse movement in the Iate 194os. Herpoetry is charaderized by its terseness,eloquence, original use of imagery,and delicate ear for the music ofverse.Commemorative rcmarks were givenby Dr. Irfan Shahid, Oman Professorof Arabic and lslamic Literature,Georgetown Unive$ity; AmbassadorSamir al-Surnaidaie, Iraqi ambassador

to the United States; and Dr. AbdulHadi Al Khalili, cultural attach€, theEmbassy of the Republic of Iraq,Invited speakers included lameaAbbasImara, Dr. Abdelelatr Assayegh, andDr. Hussein Ali Mahfouz. Recitationsof Al-Mala'ika's poems were given byMAAS students Adam Coogle, JamieStansbury, Dahlia El-Z€in, MarwaAlkhairo, and Dena Tal(Iuri, as well asby CCAS stafi members Zeina Seikaly,Maggie Daher, Dr. taude King-Irani,and Dr. Mohammed Hussein. Thisevent was co-sponsored with theCultural Office of the Embassy oftheRepublic oflraq.

We Eaue No Microbea lIere: ABook Sitning witfr Sylvia OnderSeptember 6Protectingtlrchealthof hmilymembeNis one of the major responsibilities ofTurkish women. Sylvia Wing Onder'snew book, We llore No MicrobesHere: Healing Practices in aTl/rkish-Block Seo yilloge, looks at women'schanging caregiving roles ftom withina rural family. Onder's work presentsa netlvork of social r€lations whichincorporates both traditional healingmethods, such as bone-setting, andthesewicesof anationally-sponsoredclinic. Publishedby CamlinaAcademicPress, the study examines metapho$used to describe the body and itssuffering from birth to death, andplaces the village in the global contextof labor migration, religious trends,and medical technologies.

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Annual Summer Workshop Explores Var iedApproaches to Teaching the Middle EastZeina Azzam Seikaly

he teacher outreach program atCCAS held its annual workshopfor secondary school teacheN

during the week of June 25-29,2oo7.Titled "Approaches to TeachiDg theMiddle East," the program featuredmultiple disciplinary p€rspectiveson the region, including poli t ics,history,sociology,economics,religion,literature, and the arts.

Eight dist inguished speakers,representing a va ety of academicdisciplines within Middle Easternstudies, offered peNpectives on howto teach about the region. The programbegan with Dr. John Iskander, at thattime with Georgia State UniveNityand currendywith the Foreign se iceInstitute, who spoke about "Islamand Politics: Authority, Reform, andModemity." Starting with tle era oftheProphet Mohalnmed and conunuing tothe present day, Dr. Iskander offeredan historical overview of internalMuslim debates regarding successionandlegitimacy, leaderhip of tlrc ummdand of the state, and of issues in themodern period conceming reformistand lslamist movements.

Dr. Kimberly Katz of TowsonUniversity focused on the late 19thand early 2oth centuries in herpresentation, "Conflicting Histories:Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict."She explained the history of Zionismand of mandate Palestine, citing theimportance of historiography and howit has afrected people's understandingof the conflict. Dr. Katz showed thefi lm Al-Ndkbd. The PolestinianCatastrophe 1948, A Documentaryonthe Bbth ofthe Palestinian RefugeeProblem (directed by Benny Bnmnerarld Alexandra Jansse, 1998), whichfeaturcs interviews ofArab and lsraelieyewitnesses to the er€nts of 1948. Sheenmuraged teachers to use the two-narrat e historical approach to explain

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the conflict in class.Another session was devoted to

nation-states dealing with contestationand conflict. Dr. Shiva Balaghi ofNewYork Unive$ity explored ways to teachabout Imq and Iran tlrough history,geography, politics, and tle study ofsociety. Teachers received copies ofher recendy published book, ScddomHussein: A Biographa (GreenwoodPress, 2oos); Dr. Balaghi explainedhow such a biography can be usedto teach about the larger fo(es ofhistory that contoltualize the lives ofindividual leaders. Her presentationon Iran covered colonial influences, therole of the discov€ry of oil, the Pahlavi

CCAS displayed samples of workshopparti.ipants' forays into.alligraphy,

regime, the 1979 revolution, and thepolitical tensions within the Islamicrepublic.

Dr. Aklam Khater ofNoth CarolinaState University examined "Genderand History in the Middle East."He explained the two fundamentalproblems in teaching about gender inthe area: the perspective that Islamis static and that Muslim societiesare monolithic; and the conceptionthat women and men stand outsideof history and have not shap€d it ina significant way. Dr. Khater gavean overview of the development offeminist movements in the region,

the effects of o entalist images, thehiab, and th€ appeal of Islamism.Teachers appreciated receiving copiesof his book, Sources in ffte History ofthe Modern Middle East (HoughtonMifllin, 2oo3), a collection of readingsthat complement and enhance theteaching ofthe region."Geopolitics and the Structure ofOil Markets" was the title of thetalk by Fareed Mohamedi, a MAASalumnus who works at PFC Energyin Washington, D.C. Mr. Mohameditackled the relationship betweenoil production, pricing, and politicswithin the global context of supply anddemand. He explained that key eventsin history, such as the 1973 Arab oilembargo and the Iranian revolutionin 1979, have long-t€rm ramificationson th€ oil market. Volatile oil prices,he added, also afrect the d€"relopmentof states and feed a growing sense ofglobal enerry insecurity.

Dr. Amal Amireh of GeorgeMason Univelsity presented "ArabicLiterature: Traditions, Communities,and clobal Challenges," one of foursessions devoted to culture and theafts. She began with a suney of Arabliterature, from the poetry of theJahiliya period, the eloquence of th€Qur'an, passion plays, storltelling,and fables, to the rise of tle modemArab novel. She cautioned tle teachersabout the dangers of teaching Arabliterature as sociological texts; mther,novels should be treated as works ofart addressing the profound issuescharactedstic of the complexity ofArab society. Dr. Amiieh also discussedthe novella that the teachers had readbefore the worl."shop, Men in the 9un,by Ghassan Kanafani.

Dr. Laurie King-Imni, an adjunctprofessor at G€orgetolvn University,spoke on "Popular Culture, Youth,and ldentity in the Arab World." As

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$oup of undergraduates from Jam€sMadison University visited CCAS aspart ofan iftroductory program on theMiddle Ea.st held in Washington, D.C.CCAS Assistant Professor RochelleDavis gave a presentation on thecomplexity of identity in the MiddleEast, explaining the multiple factoisthat shape the dynamic personal arldsocial affrliations in the region. MAASstuderts Khody Alhavi and MarwaAlkhairo offered personal perspectiveson thei! identit ies as Iratr ian-American and lraqi-American citizens,respectively, and their experiences ofgrowing up in the United States.

Finally, on December 14th,MAAS student Joey Pearce visitedMontgomery Blair High School inSilver Spring, Maryland, to talk to anArabic language class about Chrishnastrailitions in the Amb world. Hedescribed his experiences in l€banonand gave an overiew of the Chdstiancommunity in the Middle East in orderto provide context for the studentaudience. After the visit, the teacherwmte that 'Joey's visit was wonderfrrl.The students leamed a lot and theyloveJoey. they want him to come back!"

Educators interested in hostingspeakers in their schools can contactZeina Seikaly, Ouheach Coorahnator,at seikalyz@georyetown.edu. a

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TTlhe CCAS outreach programI hcilitated the anangements for

I seveml Georeetown students andfaculty members tdmale prcsmtationsto student and teacher groups this pastsemester, both at local schools and oncampus.

available on YouTube, and highlightedtheir diverse themes, fiom Palestineand politics to lov€ and sex. Thesevideos, in their search for culturalautlenticity and a plaform for politicalcommentary, offer an "insider'sperspective" on AIab youth cultue.

Ms. Elinor Aishah Holland, arindependent calligrapher from NewYork City, conducted a hands-on On October sth, Master of Arts insession on Islamic calltraphy duling Amb Studies (MAAS) students Dal iawhich participants used stencils and El-Z€in and Detra Takruri visitedpaints to ceate an individual piece of Burgundy Farm Counhy Day Schoolart. The stencils featured the Arabic in Alexandda, Virginia, and offeredwordforpeace (saldcm) r€trdered in a a lively dabkeh (Arab line-dance)variety of caligraphic styles; teachers d€monshation to 4th and 5th graders.used different colors ofpaintto create The teacher described the "hugeand decorate their individual pieces, success" of the presentation: "Wewhich were then displayed in th€ had so much funl Dahlia and Denaworkshop room. The 28 attendees were terrific with the kids and had usalso took a bus to downtown D.C. for a all dancing. In fact, after they l€ft, Iguidedtourofthelslamicaftscoll€ction caughtsomeoftlekidsspontaneouslyat the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery breaking out into ddbkeh st€ps at theof Art. They then tour€d the Sackler end ofthe day."Gall€ry's exhibit, "Encompassing the On November 9th, AssistantGlobe: Potugal and the World il1 the Professor of Arabic Linguistics Reemr6th and 17th Centuries," with a focus Bassiouney spoke to a g.oup ofon the segment, "The Indian Ocean: teacheF participating in the CulturalFrom Muscat to the Spice Islanals." Ambassadors in Schools program,

The $oup compris€dsocial studies, orEaniz€dbyworldArtistsExpeiences,world history, U.S. history, global a group that fosters internationalstudies, geography, and literature underctanding through tle arts. Dr.teachers from public and private Bassiouney provided aa ovewiew ofschools in Washington, D.C. and the Arabic language and its populaisurrounding school systems in and literarj' roles inArab society.Virginia aDd Maryland. In addition, Thefollowingday, Novemb€r 1oth, atwo attendees came from abroad thisyear-a teacher from Kadena HighSchool, located on a U.S. military basein Okinawa, Japan, and another ftomthe American Intemational School inMuscat, Oman. FourteacheE elected totake the workshop for graduate ceditard wrote lesson plans based on sevemlofthe lectures they attended. A MiddleEastem lunch was another importanthighlight of each day, in additionto the friendships and networkingopportunities that de!€Ioped over thecourse ofthe week. a

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The Rise and Fal l o f ls lamic SpainZeina Azzam Seikaly

Film producer Alexander Kronemer giv€s a lively andengagin9 p.esentation about the makins of his film, Ciaies ofLight: fhe Rise an.l Fall of lslani. Spain.

n Thursday, November 7ti, over 70 teachers andeducational administrators from schools in theDistr ict of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia

attended a workshop on Islamic Spain. Most ofihe educatorshailed from the world history, world religions, and socialstudies fields, although the group also included otherdisciplines such as English, Spanish, and English as a SecondLanguage teach€$. The workshop was co-sponsored by theCenter for Contempomry AIab Studies, the Pince AllrzleedBin Talal center for Muslim-Christian UndeNtanding, thePrcgam for Jewish Civilizauon, and the National ResourceCenter on the Midtlle East.

The prograrn was inspiled by a new documentary filmon the subject, Citr'es o/tight: me Rise ond FaIl oJ Islamicspoin (Unity Productions Foundation, 2oo7), whichse ed as tle centerpiece of the day. A higltlight was the

Fesentation by Alexander Kronemer, one ofthe film's twoexecutive producers, who provided backgpund about howand why ihe film was made, and guided the teachers throughits major themes.

At the *quest of Unity Productions Foundation, a teamofexpelts and teachers had developed a companion website(www.islamicspain.tv) for the film. The website includesviewers' guides, maps, and comprehensioD lessons ofvarious t)?es, as well as efiensive background informationand histodcal en chment material on medieval Spainand its cultuml and intellectual history, which was deeplyintertwined with medieval and pre-modem Europeatrhistory as a whole.

wo d history educator and teacher train€r Susan Douglassoffered a presentation on these resources, introducingthe website and its classroom endchment materials andproviding examples of key discussion and analysis lessonsfor viewing the film. Ms. Douglass focu.sed on three lessonthemes: the geography of the Islamic Empire and Al-Ardalus; factors contributing to tolerance and intolemnce inthe history oiAl-Andalus, with a discussion of how to applythe 6lm's message to contemporary times; and a histodcalba&ground ofthe Abrahamic faiths.

An informative session followed, featuring Lobna"Luby'' Ismail, president of Conn€cting Cultures, Inc., andDaniel Ttrtt, Outreach Coordinator for Unity ProductionsFoundation, who introducedthe "2o,ooo Dialogues" project.This initiative suggests the use of frlms such as Clties o/zrigifto stimulate discussion about religious differences andsimilarities,andtobringpeopleofd €rsefaithstogethertoencourage mutual respect and tolerance.

Each workshop attendee received a complimentary copyol Aties of Light. Teache$ who were not able to attendthis program but who are intercstecl in using the film asa teaching tool can easily obtain a copy by visiting wuwislamicspain.tv. a

CCAS Teacher Outreach at MESA in MontrealCAS Outreach Coordinator Zeina Seikaly teamed up with Claire Pettengil l, l i terature teacher and chairof the Humanities Department at the Maret School in Washington, D.C., to offer a presentation atthe Middle East Studies Association's annual meeting in Montreal, held on November 18-21. The

presentation, "Learning about the Arab World Through Literature: A High School Curriculum Project,"was part of a larger panel targeting local K-12 teachers in the l\4ontreal area as well as N4iddle Eastscholars and outreach coordinators on "Learning about the l\4iddle East Through Youth Literature." Ms.Seikaly outl ined the aims and method of the project she and secondary school l i terature teachers havebeen involved in for the last two years, one of which was to produce curriculum units to assist otherteachers and their classes in exploring the Arab world through literature in translation by Arab writers.Ms. Pettengil l, who developed two of the units, described how she successfully taught Alifa Rifaat'scoffection of short stories, Distant View of a Minaret, and Abd al-Rahman l\4unifs novel, Endings, in her11th and 12th grade classes. a)

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Outreach News

A Visual Feast of Andalusian Arts

hag€s from the fifn, cifies of Llght:The Rise and Fau of lslamic spain, a.company a photo offilm producerAtexander Kronemefand his wife and panne., Lobna lsmail(bonom left), tak€n during the question and answer session of th€ Novcmber 7th tea<hers,workshop. Clockwise from top left Two views of the grear mosque at cordoba, and the interior of a synasogue in Totedo.

New Muslim Cenerations of Europe Workshopfln*n Dialosue

Abdulkader Sinno, a political science professor at IndianaUniversity, anallzed Muslim political replesentation in\?dou.s European parliame[tary bodies in hjs prcsentatioD,"Muslim American Representation in ComparativeContext."

Dr. Katrin Sieg, professor of cerman at GeorgetowtrUniversity, explored the notion of Westem ve$us Mustmconceptions of gender and sexuality through the lens ofGeman films that focus on Turkey. Her prcsentation wasentided "c€nder, Sexuality, and the Question of Belodgingin Turkish-German Literatue alld Cinema."

A lively question and answer period followed thepresentations, undeNcoring the depth ofintercst itr the roletlat Arab and Muslim communities will play in Europeanpolitics and society in the decades to come. a

' l l , / r o re than 50 l oca l s tuden ts , academics ,

l\/l businesspeople, and others attended a recent.l-v .|-Center for Muslim-Christian Understaddinefaculty development workshop entitled "The New Muslirn-Generations of Europe," held on November lst, Thisconference, funded by a Title \1 grant ftom the U.S.Depaftment of Education, brought totether experts in thefiel<ls of Muslim youth, identity, and political representation.Professor John Esposito, director of the Prince Aftral€edCenter for Muslim-Christian Unalerstadding, welcomedguests and introduced the preseDters.

In "Muslim Youth and Religious Authodty in Europe,"Peter Mandaville, co-director of the Center for GlobalStudies at George Mason University, discussed the sourcesofreligious authority in Muslim communities in Europe. Dr.

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Outreach Workshop Explores Painting, Art,Wr i t ing, and lmaginat ionRia 1,,1. Riesner

eachers who arose early onSaturda, October 2oth to attenda CCAS Outreach workshop

entitled "Art and Writing, Inspirationand lrnagination: Leaming about ArabCulture" were rewarded when theyentered the CCAS Boardroom andbeheld tle visual feast of lush colorsin tle paintings of Helen zughaib, aLebanese-born, washington, D.c.-based painter.

Ms. Zughaib's paintings have beenexhibited nationally and internationallyat insti tut ions including the U.S.Library of Congress, tle World Bank,the United Nations, tle Amb AmedcanNational Museum, the U.S. Embassy inBaghdad, and the white House.

workshop attendees included 3sart and literature teachers, English asa Second Language instructors, andhistory and social studies educatoNof grades S-1o from the District ofColumbia, Mar'/and, and Virginia.

Zeina Seikaly, CCAS OutreachCoordinator, welcomed the Broup,explained the day's program, andirtroduced Ms. zughaib.

The aftst e,plained the inspimtionsand ideas behind her paintings. Uponfirst arriving in Washington, she wasimpressed by all of the monuments."They were so beautiful," she said,"but they Deeded some color!" Soshe painted stripes and dots in herrendit ions of them, adding gem-like tones to the Capitol and theWashington Monument.

In another col lection, entit led"Stories My Father Told Me," Ms.zughaib composed several gouachepaintings illustrating her family'shistory and their cultural and religioustraditions. In one, a colorful carpetis tuck€d Dnder her grandmother asshe sits on a boat bound for America.Othe$, done in both watercolor andgouache, charmingly depict the prccess

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Artist Helen zughaib,

lebanon and is nowbased in washington,

been widely exhibited

oi making foods traditional in hervillage in labanon.

Ms. zughaib's artwork can be viewedat her website: www.hzughaib.com.The site also includes informationabout her exhibits and collections ofher work as well as a way to sign up foremails about upcoming events.

Ms. Seikaly then presented notedEgyptian writer and i l lustratorMohieddin Ellabbad's ?h e llhtstrator'sNoteboot-an eye-catching book thatincorporates both Arabic and Englishtext and drawings and introducesreaders to tioughFprcvohng questrorssuch as: Why are maps and atlasesoriented in the direction they are? Howis it that the "flesh" color ofpaint, whichis supposed to represent Eurcpean andwestern skin, is marketed in otherparts of the world under the samename? Could tle reader produce theexact shade of his or her own skin?could the reader produce art based ontle pattems oflines in the palm ofhisor her hand?

Ms. Seilcly disbibuted copies of thehardcover book to tle teachem to usein their classes- She also passed outa culriculum unit that she developedbased on Mr. Ellabbad's book, a setof go classroom exercises entitled"Creative Journaling Activities for

Middle School Students."The set of exercises encourages

writing and creative expression whilealso nurturing a cudosity about Arabculture. It includes a mapping activitythat tums the world "upside-down" andan inhoduction to the Ambic alphabet.The final step invites students to writeMr. Ellabbad to tell him what mostinspired them about his book, and toinclude copi€s ofthe original artworkbased on activities suggested in ?ieIll strotor's Notebook.

In her own session, Ms. zughaib alsoexplored the idea of creating a joumalbased on Mr. Ellabbad's book usingpictures, newspapers, and varied itenscollected from students'own lives. Shepresented teache$ with a joumal shehad composed herself, and encoumgedthem to use it as a model for futurejournaling or collage projects in theclassroom.

The workshop comprised twosessions-one in the morning forteachers of grades 5-7, and one in theaftemoon for teachers of grades 8-1o,BotI groups met over lunch and sharedideas with the spealels and each other.CCAS sponsored the program withpartial funding from ceorgetown'sNational Resource Center on theMiddle East. a

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Occasional Paper Asks: " ls the Maghreb the'Next Afghanistan'?"Laurie K ng lran

l-f-the Cenler forContemporaryArab Srudies is pleased loI announce the publication of i15la lesl Occasional Paper.

I- "ls tie Maghreb lhe Nefi Alghanislar?': Mapping t}|eRadicalization of tle Algedan Salafi Jihadist Movement,"by Dr. Noureddine Jebnoun, an adjunct professor anda former Mediterranean Dialogue Fellow at the NATODefense College of Rome. Jebnoun, who holds a Ph.D. inPolitical Science and Sbategic and Secuity Studies ftom tleUnive$ity of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, former\ taughtStrates/ and Geopolitics at the Tunisian war College.

Dr. Jebnoun notes tlat 2oo7 was one ofAlgeria's mostviolent years since the "red decade" of the 199os. TheDecember uth attacl..s in Algie$ were the latest in a longline ofbombings that have increased in intensitysince lastFebruary, when seven bombs exploded simultaneously,killing at least six people in the southeast area ofihe city.Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) modus operandihas shifted fiom targeting Algerian security and militaryinstallations to attacking govemmental facilities and foreigninterests with simultaneous suicide attack.

The paper illustrates how forecasts about Islamistpolitical e\tremism in North Aiiica have enhanced regionalgovemments' geostrategic positioning in the "Global War

on Teror" by strengthening their diplomatic and militaryties to tle United States. Speculations and wamings aboutthe "Afghanistan-ization" ofNortl Africa have not, however,contributed to the development of a viable interpretiveframework for assessinB the contexts and interestsunderpinning radicalization. "In reality, the threat level inthe Maghreb in general, and in Algeria in particular, can onlybe unde$tood by taking the internal political situation intoconsideration," Jebnoun stressed,

Dr. Jebnoun aryues that a completely reformed Americansecurity plan for the Maghreb region is imperative. Hesuggests tlat tle U.S. incorporate "soft polrer" initiativesin order to shengthen regional economic progress, promotegood governance, and facilitate political transition. "U.S.policymakeN should understand that the war againsttenor cannot be won by security and armed force alone.A "kill or capture" approach does not acknowledge thed]'namics ofsociocultural and political facto$ in tle NorthAfrican environment, Poverty, cultural alienation, andauthoritadanism conthue to tueljihadi violence. The Salafistmovement remains an atbactive life choice for disftanchisedand disillusioned North Afiican youth." To order CCASpublications, visit ccas.georgetown.edu/research.cftn a

CCAS Occasional Papers Avai lable Onl ineLaur e Krng rani

issemination of infomation and analyses within andbeyond the scholarly community is a key priorityfor the Center for ContemDorarv Arab Studies. The

Center's Multimedia, Research and Publications officepublishes a prestigious Occasional Paper series featuringworks by scholars, journalists, policy make$ and fieldexperts three to four times each year, This series nowincludes nearly roo work covering a wide variety ofsubjectsand perspectives on the Arab world. Forty of the Cente/soccasional Papers are now online,

The following six occasional PapeN have just beenadded to the group available in PDF format, two of them,Talal Asad's The Ideo of on Anthropologg of Islam, ̂ (d.the late Hanna Batatu's me Eglptian, Syrian and IraqiReDolutions: Some Obsen)ations on Their UnderlaingCa ses anil Social Character, have been among the mostpopular and requested occasional PapeN over t}Ie last tlvo

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decades. They are both out of print.

. me Political Orientation of Islamic Philosopha,byDr. Muhsin S. Mahdi (1982)

. me Egaptian, Sarian and lraqi ReDolutions: SomeObseruations on meir Underlying Ceuses anal SociolC,hdracter, by Dr. Hanna Batatu (19B3)

' Religion and Political DeDelopment: ComparatiueItleas on Ibn Khaldun and Machiauelli,by Dr.Barbara Freyer Stowasser (1983)

' me lilea of an Anthropology of Islam, by Dr. TalalAsad (1986)

. Militant Islomic Mouements in lgbanon: Origins,Sociol Basis, and ldeology, by Dr. Marius Deeb(1986)

. Refhmking Islam, by Dr. Mohammed Arkoun (1987)

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Arademic News

CCAS ADelegat

eera ShaI, who graduated fiomthe Center for ContemporaryAIab Studies with a Masters

degree in Arab Studies in 2oos, helpedlead a two-week Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation to Israel andPalestine in the summer of 2oo7.The puryose of the delegation wasto educate North American citizensabout the r€gion and deepen theirunde$tanding of its conflicts.

Until recently, Ms. Shah was mediacoordinator at the Midalle East Reserrcland Informahon Project (MERIP), anindependentandprcgrcss eadvocacyorganiztion located in washington, D.C.that publishes the quarrerly MiddleEast Report. She is now attendingColumbia University Law School, andplans to focus her studies on hurnandghts andintemationalhumanitarian

Ms. Shah said that "the tr ipunde$corcd for me the critical needfor North Americans to go to Israeland Palestine to witness the situation

with their own eyes. After two weeks oftraveling with open eyes and open ears,the immediate need for ajust rcsolutionthat addresses the basic human dghtsand neeals ofthe Paleshnian and Israelipeople is crystal clear...Living in theMiddle East quickly taught me tlat theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict is not at allwhat we are shown in our mainstreammedia." Meera added that "CCASgave me the academic grounding and

confrdence to attempt to communicatethe history and politics ofthis conflictto othefs."

The delegation focused on women'sroles in achieving peace, and met witha diverse array of Palestinians andIsraelis who shared their observationson the current situation, the effectsof United States foreign policy in theregion, and the possibilities for a justand sustainable peace. a

August 15,2oo7.

Elizabeth Hiel (1994) just rctumedfrom Iraq and continues to selve as thecairo-based foreign correspondent forthe Pift sburgh Tribune-Reuieru. Shehas a chapter addressing women's qotparties in Yemen in an upcoming booke\ntled, Encounters uith the MiddleEdst.

Sandra Samaan Tamari (199s) isback at work after a six-year hiatusraising her eight-year-old daughterAmal and five-year-old son Jad. Shehas just started a new position withthe Office of Intemational Programsat Southern I l l inois UniversityEdwardsville (SIUE). Her primary

umna Helps Lead lnterfaithon to lsrael and Palestine

CcAs alumna tueera shah, pos€s, bottom left, with the members of her Pea(e_Builders delesation, and rakes a pause, raght, along a road nearlerusalem.

S tudent and Alumni NewsBeshara Doumani (198o) hasreturned to the east coast for the2oo7-o8 academic year as a fellowat Hafiard's Radcliffe lnstitute forAdvanced Studie-s. He is working on ahistory of family relations in GreaterSlria dudng the late Ottoman periodwith a focus on gender, property, andthe praris of Islamic law. His editedbook, Acailemic Freeilom Afer 9/11,was published last year and his article,"Palestine Velsus the Palestinians?The Ironies and lron Laws of a PeopleDenied," recently appeared in theJoumal of Polesttne Studies.

Anita Fabos (1988) is on sabbaticalthis year from her post at tle UniversityofEast Irndon. She will be conduding

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ethnographic research in the UnitedKingdom on the topic: "BetweenCitizenship and Belonging: Islam,morality and transnational genderstrategies for Muslim Amb Sudanese inthe diaspom." She also just published^book, "Brothers" or Others? MuslimArab S danese in Egupt, in BerghalnBook's Forced Migmtion series.

Elizabeth Deedy Magill (1988)recently adopted a baby girl fromGuatemala. Marisol Emilie Magill wasborn November 10, 2006 and camehome on June r,2oo7.

Judith Scholar rlvinfield (1992) andher husband Steve welcomed their firstchild, Charlie Joe, into tle world on

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responsibilities are recruiting intemational students andintemational visiting faculty. Sandra w tes "SIUE has somegreat, affordable programs in business, the humanities,nursing and engineering. Ifyou have contacts abrcad thatare interested in studlng in the U.S., please email me atsatamar@siue,edu."

Raya Chaabane (1996) repofts, "I am still living inI€banon, my home country, since I graduated from CCASback in 1996. I am working at the Centlal Bank of Lebanonin the real €state and financial assets department. My sonis now tlree and-a-halfyears old and I have a two-month-old daughter."

John M. Willis (1997) was recently hired at ColoradoUniversity. Willis' research area is the social and culturalhistory ofthe modem Middle East, particularly the ArabianPeninsula. He is interested in the relationship betweenstate power and the geographical imagination, botl as partof colonial modernity and movements of Islamic rcform.His current work deals with these concems through acomparison of colonial indirect rule in South Yemen andthe rule of a reformist Zaydi Imamate in North Yemen inthe fiIst half ofthe 2oth century.

Dana (Hearn) Leigh (1999) has wo&ed as an Arabic:English translator on a lreelanc€ and contract basis for thepast five years. She was also a wr:iter/editovresearcher forihe Johns Hopkins Unive$ity Center for Technology inEducation. Most recendy, Dana lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand,but last summer moved to Nelson, British Columbia,whereshe is studying Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Academyof Classical Oriental Sciences.

Dan Cork (2oo1) and his wife Marie-Ange Vitali celebratedthe birth oftheir firct child, Marjolaine Claire Vitali-Cork, onWednesday, July r 1, 2oo7. Marjolaine, weighing B lbs.,6 oz,was born at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dan happilyclaims, "I am sure Marjolaine will have no trouble learningArabic in the future, sinc€ she will already be eryosed to twolanguages at home-English and French."

Seth Schleicher (2oor) reports, "After eight years in theArmy, including one in Mosul, Iraq, I now work at the StateDepartment's Imq desk." Seth and his wife are expectingtheir second child soon.

Halah Al-Jubeir (2oo2) began a Masters in BusinessAdministmtion (MBA) at the Harvard Business School.Halah hopes to spend the following summer working insome part of the Arab world.

Olivia Orozco (zoo3) started working as a researcherin Casa Arabe and its International Institute of Araband Muslim World Studies, a newly established Spanishinstitution located in Madrid and Cordoba that is creating

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a consortium in which the Spanish Ministry of ForeignAffairs, the Autonomous Communities of Madrid andAndalusia, and the City Councils of Cordoba and Madridare all represented. The pdncipal goal is to strengthen andconsolidate relations between Spain and Arab countriesthrough academic, economic, cultural, and educationalevents and activities.

Cha es E. Kianie, III (2oo4) is a Foreign Affails Ofncerin tle U.S. Department ofstate's Middle East PartnershipInitiative, Bureau ofNear Eastem Affairs. Charles is also anadjunct faculty member at C€orge Washington UniveEivsHonorc Program and Elliott School oflnternational Mairs,where he teaches courses on the Middle East and Islamistpolitics.

Kara Lloyd (2oo4) and SaIn Parker (2006) celebratedthe birth of their first child, Pam€lla Maude Parker, onAugust 7, 2oo7. Pamella is named aller Kara's mother andSam's Aunt Maudie.

Nicholas Reith (2oo4) has accepted a position at theUnited Nations Development ProSramme. He will serveas special assistant to the dircctor of the Regional Bureaufor Arab States, which he reports "will be a perfect plac€to use my Arabic and French often, get a great overyiewof the global politics of development as well as the specificwork the uN is doinS in the Arab World, and also m€€t lotsof interesting people-" His position at the LINDP includesresearch, writing for the dircctor on a variety oftopics, andpulling together the rest of the team's work.

Nora Achrati (2()06) recently accepted tle position of€ditorial assistant at the Joumal of Palestine Studies.

A{ter graduation, Sam Blafteis (2oo7) was hired as aMiddle East and Asia Specialist at the global investmentbank Lehman Brotlerc in Times Square, NYC. For thoselooking for work in investment firms in New York, he wouldbe happyto helpl s blatteis@yahoo.com.

ryler Golson (2oo7) is in his fall semester at the NSEPArabic Flagship Program at the Univercity of Maryland,studying intensive Aiabic, including the Esptian dialect,five dals a week. [n June, he will travel to Damascus to attendtle second year ofthe program. Tyler had an article featuredin tI€ August/September issue of the Joumol o/ Churchdnd ̂ State, co-authored with Professor Yvonne Haddad andentitled "Overhauling Islam: Representation, Constr rction,and Cooption of'Moderate Islam'in Western Europe."

After graduation, Kin Stoltz (2oo7) accepted a positionas a research assistant at the Brookings Institution with theBrookings-Bem Prcject on Internal Displacement, whichenables her to utilize h€I graduate certificate in Refugee andHumanitarian Emersencies.

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Michael Fourni€ (2oo8) will marryLindsey Ankele in Big slv, Montana onAugust 16, 2oo8.

saln Harris (2oo8) will wed MelissaKuhlman in Morgantolvn, Westvi8iniaonAugust 2,2oo8. Melissa currendywo*s at the Institute of IntemationalFinance in washington, D.C. and isa graduate stud€nt in Georgetown'sEurasian, Russian, and East European

Sarah Kaiksow (2oo8) recentlygot engaged to Ahmed AlumEn fromBahrain.

Tim Kaldas (2oo8) presented apaper enhded "French Feminists to theRescue: A Centenary of MetropolitanDiscourses on the salvation of the'Distressed Muslim woman,' 19ooand the Present" at tle Association ofMuslim Social Scientists Conference atUMD-College Park in october.

Natalia Sancha-Garcia (2008)married fellow Georyetown graduatestudent Ka m Sadek on october 12,2ooTinVirginia.

Kala carruthers (2oo9) madedl,ouay Azar on October 11, 2oo7 at theNazarene church in Bloudan, Slria.

Faculty NewsFida J. Adelydelivered a paper entit led "NewPossibilities and New Exclusions:Education as Development in Jordan"on a panel addressing "Hierarchiesof Difference: Histodcal Perspectiveson Ircal, National, and TransnationalIdentity Formation and Inequalitiesin the Middle East" at tle AmericanAntlropological Associatron meetingsin washington, D.C. in November. Atthe Middle East Studies Associationmeetings in Montreal, Dr. Adelyprcsented a paper on "Education asCrisis and Cure: Women and Educationin the Arab Human Developm€ntReport."

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Gaoor Agosronis pleased to report that tle Turkishtranslation of his book, Guns for theSultan, was published in Fall 2006 inIstanbul by Kitap Ya)rnevi. In additiontohis articles and chapters in Hungaianard Turkish, his publications in Englishinclude "Disjointed Historiographyand Islamic Mil i tary Technology:The European Military RevolutionDebate and the Ottomans" in MustafaKaear and Zeynep Durukal (eds.),Essaas in Honour of Ekmeleddin-ahsonoglu (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2006),ard "Information, Ideolory, and Limitsof Imperial Policy: Ottoman CrandStrategy in the Context of Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry," in Virginia H.Alsan and Daniel cofftnan (eds.), ?heEarlA Moalern Ottomans: Remappingthe Empire (New York: CambridgeUniveNity Press, 2oor. Thanks to aSenior Research Grant awarded byGeorgetown's Graduate School, Dr.Agoston devoted last spring to his newbook project, entitled The nuilightoJ Islomic Power. He also finishedThe Encyclopedia of the OttomanEmpire, which he co-authored andco-edited with Bruce Masters. He isspending this spring term in Tbrkey atceorgetown s Alanya Progmm, wherehe will offer two courses.

Jon W. Andersongave a kelalote address on "BetweenFreedom and coercion: Inside IntemetImplantation in the Middle East" fora conference on Media and ImageChange ofthe Middle East at the Schoolof Covernment and InternationalAffairc at Durham University (UK),and another on "Reformattins theInternet in the Middle East" at aconference on Science, Technolory andEnteFeneurship in the Muslim Worldat Lund University (Sweden)-both inSeptember.

John Duke An thonytaught what is believed to be the firstacademic course in an ADericanuniversity on "Saudi Arabia and GulfPolitics."Hewasalsotheor yAmericanto contribute an essay to a volume

commemorabng the zsth Anniversaryofthe Gulf Cooperation Council (Gcc),in addition to authoring the annualessay on "Gulf-U.s. Relations" forthe Gulf Yearbook's zo06 and 2oo7editions. Dr. Anthony's essays onthe cCC and on Gulf-U.S. relationsappeared in Saudi-U.S. RelationsInfomation sewices (SUSRIS). Eachof tlese publications can be accessedelectronically at www. susns. org, orat w\4w.ncusar.org. Dr, Anthony alsopenned the foreword to the secondedition ofJ.E. Pete$on's DeJense andRegional Securita in The ArabianP eninsula and GUA S tute s, 1973- 2 o o 4 :An Annototed Bibliographa,p\blishedby the Gulf Research Center, andessays on oman, Qatar, and "TheBoom in the culf' for the 2oo7 editionof Encyclopedia Britannica. Headdressed Al-Hewar on "The ChangingNature of American Interests in theGulf: Implications for U.S. Policies"and spoke to th€ Baltimore Council onForeign AffaiE on "America, the GCCCountdes, Imq, and Iran"-which wasaired three times on Maryland PublicTelevision. He also provided briefingson Gulf-U.S. relations to bo{onMobiland Perot Systems executives as wellas American defense attach6s andsecurity assistance officers bound forthe Gulf countdes. He did the samefor U.S. Foreign Senice officers postedto Ame can embassies throughouttle culf. Dr. Anthony addressed thelnternational Association of PublicRelations conference in Bahrain;attended the 28th ministerial and hea<lsof state surnmit of the culf CooperationCouncil, in Doha, Qatar, at whichhe was interviewed by Radio Sawaand satellite television networks Al-Jazeem andAl-Huna;was one oftwoAmerican primte sector representatives,together with representatives fromthe American Embassy in Riyadhand more than a thousand otherinternational repr€sentatives, toobserve the proceedings of th€ firctconference on Informahon Technoloryand National Secudty held in Riyadhand organized by the Presidency ofceneral Intelligence headed by HRHPrince Muqrin Bin 'Abdalaziz Al Sa'ud.

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Dr. Anthony also served as scholarescort for a cultural immersion visitto oman for offcers selected by theU.S. Central Command. Last, hepresided over the 17th annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers conference inWashington, D.C. Starting in February,Dr. Anthony became a DistinguishedVisiting Professor at the AlwaleedCenter for American Studies at theAmerican University in cairc.

Rochel le Dav issupervised 6ve MAAS student r€sea(hassistants (RolaAbimourched, DalliaEl-Zein, El izabeth Forster, BdanSiebeking, and Dena Takru ) overtle summer in a rcsearch project thatincluded interviewing former U.S.military personnel who sened in Iraqabout their experiences with Iraqisand their attitudes and views aboutImqi culture and society. In November,Dr. Davis prcsented a paper at MESAentitled "Preserving the Past for theFuture: Palestinian Memorial Booksand the Writing of History." At theAmerican Anthropology AssociationAnnual Meetings, also in November, sheco-organized a workhop for the TaskForce on Middle East Anthropolograbout how to speah to the media. Theworkshop included a number of well-known anthropologists of the MiddleEast and others with media er?erience.Dr. Davis also presented a paper inDecember at AUB in Lebanon at aPalestinianCitizenships andldentitiesconference sponsored by tle InstitutFranqais du Proche-Orient ([FPO)and tle Institute for Palestine Studies.She will be on sabbatical in the spingto complete her book manuscript onPalestinianvillage memorial book.

Sylvia W. Onderworked in T\.rrkey this summer as co-director and Istanbul site investigatorfor the CAORC Critical LanguageScholarship Turkish summer Program.This year, 35 students fiom 22 stateswon scholarships to study eitherbeginning or intemediate Turl.jsh inthree locations: Bosphorus Universityin Istanbul, Active I-anguages in Anhan,and Georgetown's own Mcchee Center

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in Alanya. While visiting Alanya, Dr.Onder gave a talk on "Gesture inTurkish Music Videos" to the summerprogram participants. Dr. Onder alsotook her newly published book, WeHaue No Microbes Here: HealingPrcctices in a Turkish Black geayilidge, to the village to show it to thepeople featured in its te^t and images.

Jean-Franqois Seznecgave a lecture on the Gulf to k€y mem-bers of the Raltheon Corporation inTucson, Arizona in October, andthen traveled to the Gulf to makepresentations in Dubai and Abu Dhabito visiting U.S. business people. InNovember, Dr. Seznec gave a lecture toGeorgeton'n University alumni at thehomeofPaul Bagatellas in Dubai, andalso made a presentation on Gulfstates'petrochemical policies to the WorldRefiners' Association. In Dec€mberhe gave a lecture at the NationalDefense University on Saudi Arabia.Among Dr. SezneCs recent pDblicationsare "Changing Circumstanc€s: GulfTrading Families in Light of Free TradeAgreements, Globalization and theWTO," in Alanoud Al-SharelJr, (ed.),Iie G l/Fdmihes, SOAS Middle EastIssues, london, which was published inAugust; and "WIO and the Dangers ofPrivatization: An Anal)sis of the SaudiCase," in Kartjl C. Roy andJtim Sideras,(eds.), Inshtutbn, Globolization andEmp ow ement, Elw ar d Elgar, Irndon,which was pubiished in June. ProfessorSeznec has been interviewed numeroustime this fall by Radio Canada on culfaffairs as well as oil and financial issues.He was also interviewed twice on drenationally-sl,ndicated Todd FeinburgShow, and three times on NationalPublic Radio.

lr fan Shahidcompleted work on the seventh volumeof his ser ies, Byzant ium ond the,4rabs, of which six volumes have beenpublished. l,ast summer, Dr. Shahidpresented a paper in Washington,D.C., entitled "On the Ethnic Originof the Edomites" at a conferenceexamining the History andArchaeolos/ofJordan.

Samer Shehataparticipated in a conference on non-violent political action in Cairo inMay. He also chaired a session on"Civil Society and Political Parties" atthe Second Forum on Democracyand Political Reform in the ArabWorld held in Doha, Qatar in lateMay. While in Doha, Shehata metwitl Qatar UniveEity faculty and staffto coordinate the Arabic LanguageScholarship Program, which hedirects. Over the summer, Shehataalso completed an encyclopedia aticleentided "Demoqacy: Tte Middle East,"for the new O.dord Encuclopedia oJthe Modern tvorld. In addition, heco-authored an article (with JoshuaStacher) ent i t led "Boxing in theBrothers," which appeared in MERIPOnline about the recent crackdownon tie EBDtian Muslim Brotlerhood.In September, Dr. Shehata served onthe National Democratic Institute'slntemational Election ObseFationMission to Morocco, which monitoredthe Moroccan Parliamentaryelectionsof September 7. He also prcvided anumber of media interiews duringthis period to Al-Jazeem English, CBC,Canadian TV, CBS Radio, IranianTV, Bloomberg and other mediaoutlets, most recently appearing on A1-Jazeen's Min Washington to discussU.S. foreign policy toward Pakistanand the wider region following theassassination of Benazir Bhutto. Mostimportandy, Professor Shehata becamea father on June 29,2oo7.

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