Center for Middle Eastern Studies

NEWS LETTERNo.28 The University of Texas at Austin Fall 2001/Spnng2002

Response to Events of September 11

Students and faculty discuss issues relating to Islam at

J nd i viduals associated with the Cen-Iter for Middle Eastem Studies con-tinue to respond publicly and privatelyto the horrific events of September 11

and their aftermath in a variety ofways. In accordance with the part ofits mission to educate the Americanpublic about the Middle East, the Cen-ter and its faculty sponsored lectures,symposia, short courses, roundtablediscussions, conferences and inter-views. Approxirnately 20,000 peoplewere reached through lectures andconferences alone; adding the num-ber reached through interviewsprinted in newspapers or held on ra-dio or TV programs, that sum is easilyin the hundreds of thousands. A fewrepresentative media where inter-views were given include the Associ-ated Press, local affiliates of NBC andABC, National Public Radio (NPR),the Christian Science Monitor,lhe SønAntonio Express-Nerus and the Austin

the conference on Presenting & Re-presenting Islam

Americnn-Støtesmøn (a complete list ison file at Center). Reporters, profes-sors, high school teachers, and averagecitizens called the Center looking forinformation about Islam, and over time,the political and historical backgroundof the Taliban in Afghanistan, as wellas a host of other issues.

Many professors sought to usethese events as opportunities for en-gaging students and colleagues in andout of class with the issues raised bythe changing situation. Responsesranged from the intensely personal-contributing funds to various reliefagencies and offering words of sup-port to concemed international stu-dents-to the very public-marchingin demonstrations and speaking orwriting on relevant issues.

The Center asked faculty and staffto report back how they personallyresponded, and here, in alphabeticalorder, are some of the early self-re-

ported responses received by the Cen-ter shortly after the events took place.

Kamran Ali, Assistant Professorin Anthropology, Carel Bertram, Lec-turer in Islamic Art History at theCenter, and Khaled Mattawa, Assis-tant Professor in English (CreativeWriting), along with two other pro-fessors, participated in a panel discus-sion and public forum sponsored bythe University of Texas HumanitiesInstitute titled "Lrtemational Perspec-tives on September lL and the CurrentCrisis" on November 6,2007, whichwas attended by approximately 250people. The goal of the event was tooffer interested central Texans infor-mation aboutthe perspectives of othercommunities around the globe on re-cent events.

Kamran Bokhari, MA Candidatein MES, spoke to 40 employees ofSupportKids about the Middle Eastand the events of September 11 onOctober 8,200I as part of a sensitivitytraining and cultural awareness pro-gIam.

Mounira (Maya) Charrad, Assis-tant Professor of Sociology, in an im-mediate response to the events of Sep-tember 11, asked students to observe aminute of silence and to be aware thatwhatever their own emotions andopinions, it was necessary to respectall opinions, to realize that achievingpeace in the world has to begin withachieving peace in the classroom. Shesuggested that these events, whateverthey ultimately meant and whateverissues were raised, would likely re-main with them for the rest of theirlives.

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John Downing, John T. Jones, Jr.Centennial Professor in Communica-tion, on September l2was in a gradu-ate video-conferenced course with hisown class, a class in the InstitutoTecnológico, Monterrey, Mexico, anda class at the Université de Quebec inMontreal. The prior agenda was re-placedinfavor of a spontaneous three-way discussion. About ten days later,he was one of five panelists in a Col-lege of Communication serninar onthe crisis. Having published a lengtþjournal article analyzing Soviet newsmedia coverage of the war in the lateeighties Afghanistan, Dr. Downingcontributed some thoughts from thatperspective. On the panel, he read ex-cerpts from a widely internet-circu-lated letter from an Afghani-Ameri-can writer living in San Francisco andanother from a prominent PakistaniMuslim commentator. Along with a

number of acadernic and graduate stu-dent colleagues, Dr. Downing co-signed a letter to President Faulkner,indicating their distance from thePresident's harshly worded attack intJ¡re Houston Chronicle, that was laterreprinted inThe Daily Texan, on Pro-fessor Robert Jensen's (Department of]ournalism) public expression of hisviewpoint.

Saba Ghori, graduate student inthe joint MES/LBJ program/ helpedorganize a panel at the LBJ School ofPublic Affairs entitled "Racial and Eth-nic Issues Post September 11." to dis-cuss the ramifications of these eventsfor Arab Americans, other ethnic mi-norities, and immigrants. Discussantsincluded Kamran Aghaie, AssistantProfessor of Middle Eastern Lan-guages and Cultures, State Represen-tative Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin), andArthur Sakamoto, Associate Profes-sor of Sociology and Asian Studies.Dr. Aghaie noted that racial profilingis an example of groups taking advan-tage of a generalbelief that heightenedsecurity is necessary, and Dr. Sakamotoadded that it "serves a psychologicalneed [for] people that something isbeing done."

Clement Henry, Professor in Gov-ernment, spoke onWednesday, Octo-ber 24,2001 at St. Mary's UniversityPeace Comrnission in San Antonio onthe current situation and prospectsfor peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Hillary Hutchinson, ExecutiveAssistant, on September 20, partici-pated in a discussion with the AustinArea Inter-religious Ministries on dif-ferences and similarities among Mus-lims, Christians, and Sikhs.

S. Akbar Hydar, Assistant Pro-fessor of Asian Studies, prepared a

second surruner session 2002 courseentitled, "Afghanistan: Religiory His-tory, and Politics" intended to ad-dress the increased interest inAfghani-stan post-September 11.

Akel Kahera, Assistant Professorof Middle Eastem Languages and Cul-tures, and Sulafa Abou Samra, Cen-ter Outreach Assistant, along withseveral other local Muslims, partici-pated in a two-and-one-half-hourrormdtable discussion sponsored bythe Austín Atner ican- S t qtes t nn andLedby religion writer Kim Sue Lia Perkes;the result of this discussion was a

lengthy and well received feature inthe "Life and Arts" section on Sep-tember 23, 2001.. Sulafa and KeithWalters, Associate Director of theCenter and Associate Professor of Lin-guistics, were members of a panel forthe Texas Department of Health onOctober 17, 2007 on understandingIslam, which some 125 employees at-tended.

Abraham Marcus, Center Direc-tor, and Clement Henry, Professor inGovernment, participated in two dis-cussions with the Liberal Arts Plan IIstudents on September 19 and Octo-ber 1,2001 onthe events of September11. Panelists tried to help studentsunderstand the root causes of the dis-affection felt by many Middle East-erners toward the United States.

Annes McCann-Baker preparedalistof twelve suitable scholarlybooksfor tJre Austin American-Støtesmøn as a

reading list to help the public under-stand the issues involved in the events

of September 11.

Esther Raizen Assistant Professorof Middle EasternLanguages and Cul-tures, gave a talk at a meeting of Hillel,Hadassah, and the UT Jewish WomenFaculty on November 1. The topic was"The Aftermath of the September 11

Events from the Perspective of an Is-raeli."

Christopher Rose, Outreach Co-ordinator, was frequently called uponin the days following September 11,

2001-. On September 14, he spoke to tenteachers at Hutto Middle Schoof Hutto,TX about September 11 events. A fea-ture he wrote, "Horrific Acts not Trueto the Faith of Islam" appeared on theop-ed page of the Austin Americøn-Støtesmøn (September 16). On Septem-ber L8, he spoke to 25 students in theCollege of Education and was a gueston Jay Trachtenburg's community call-in show on KUT radio. On September27, he spoke to the student body andfaculty at St. Andrew's Upper School,Austin. On September 26,he partici-pated in a panel discussion on "War inthe Middle East" sponsored by SigmaKappa Delta (Sociology Honor Frater-nity) with about 100 students and 5faculty in attendance. On September28, he spoke to 40 employees of AmbionInc. as part of sensitivity training andcultural awareness program. On Octo-ber 2, he spoke to 40 students andfaculty at School of Social Work. OnOctober 10,he participated intwo paneldiscussions (along with representativesfrom the Islamic Center of San Anto-nio) about Islam and the Middle Eastfor 100 reporters, editors, and staff oft}ne San Antonio Express-News and an-swered questions about accuracy andsensitivity needs in reporting. On Oc-lober 25, he spoke to 100 members ofthe West Austin Rotary Club. On No-vember 6, he spoke to 300 attendees atUT-QUEST program. With HillaryHutchinson, he led a book discussiongroup on November 28 on KarenArmstrong's Islam: A Short History.

Karen Wilkins, Associate Profes-sor RTF, with assistance from her col-league John Downing organized a one-day workshop in the College of Com-munication on teaching controversial

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Publications

-fh" University of Texas Press hasI recently published three works

pertaining to the Middle East by mem-bers of the University faculty. They areMo d er n H eb r era for In t er m e di øt e S tu dent s :

A Mul time di a P r o gr ømby Esther RaizeryTransløting the Gørden by M. R.Ghanoonparv ar, andD econstr u cting theAmericøn Mosque: Spøce, Gender, øndAesthetics by Akel Kahera.

Mo der n Hebr ew for Int er me di øt e S tu-dents, a sequel to Modern Hebrew forBeginners, is a combination of text andworkbook designed to be used withweb-based materials. Dr. Raizen isAssistant Professor of Middle EastemLanguages and Cultures and Directorof the Modern Hebrew Project.

Trønsløting the Gørden allows thereader to follow the author in the pro-cess of translating Shahrokh Meskub'sDialo gue in the G ør den fromPersianintoEnglish, focusing on the many deci-sions a translator must make. Dr.Ghanoonp arvar is Professor of Persianand Comparative Literature.

D e constr u ctin g the Am er i c øn Mo s q u e

explores the plurality of aestheticsfound in this country's collection ofmosques, which also reflects theheterogeneity of the Americal Mus1imcommunity. Dr. Kahera is AssistantProfessor of Islamic Studies in MiddleEastern Languages and Cultures.

Available also at UT Press, alongwith the Center's newbooksPassøge to

Duskby Rashid al-Daif and They DieS tr øn ger sby Mohammad Abdul-Wali,is the Center's tale of a childhood inMecca,The Shelt er e d Quar t er,byHamzaBogary, in reprint. Plønning the F ømilyin Egypt: New Bodies, New SelaesbyKamran Ali, the Center's newbookinits Modern Middle East Series, willbeout in August. All books are availablethrough the University of Texas Presswebsite: <http: / / www.utexas.edulutpress/>.

Outreach News

f he Center's oubreachprograrn wasI busy during the late summer and

fall of 2001. Following the successfulcompletion of the surnmer teachers'workshop, "World Cultures throughthe Arts," the Center, in conjunctionwith the three other Title Vl-fundedNational Resource Centers on cam-pus, launched a public relations cam-paign. The four outreach coordinatorsbegan meeting jointly with represen-tatives from school districts aroundCentral Texas to develop a long-rangeplan for educational outreach, includ-ing assisting with materials acquisi-tions, participating in new textbookselectiorç and fostering a closer link toschool districts throughout the state.

Outreach staff participated in theAustin Children's Museum's Interna-tional Children's Festival, held at

Palmer Auditorium on October 13.Thalks to graduate students from theCenter and volunteers from the Mus-lim Students' Association (MSA), thelarger-than-expected crowd of 3,500attendees was able to participate inhands-on crafts and traditional cloth-ing demonstrations.

The events of September LL cre-ated. a surge in demand for resources,classroom speakers, and interviewswith faculty and staff. By the end ofMay, graduate students and outreachstaff had spoken to nearly 3,000 K-12students and teachers throughoutCentral Texas and as far away as theNew Orleans, La. Events on campuswere arranged in conjunction with theCollege of Education, the School ofLaw, the College of Liberal Arts, theLBJ School of Public Affatus, and theSchool of SocialWork. The Center alsoprovided speakers to numerous com-munify and religious groups through-out the area. The Center's internetproject, the Middle East Network In-formation Center (UT-MEMC), expe-rienced a four-fold increase in use af-ter September 11, and a special pagewith links to resources about the trag-edy and its aftermath was set up.

The outreach program conducteda two-day workshop and field trip onworld religions on February 21.-22,2002 whic]i.2S teachers attended. Thisevent was co-sponsored by other areastudies Centers on the UT campus.Part of the experience was a full-dayfield trip to differentplaces of worshipin the Austin area, including a Hindutemple, a Buddhist shrine, a ChristianOrthodox monastery, and an Islamicmosque. The Outreach Program orga-nized another teacher's workshop forJune 4-7,2002 entitled, "On War andPeace." The focus of this workshopwas how to teach about conflict in thepre-college classroom. This event wasagain co-sponsored by the other areastudies Centers on campus, and in-cluded a film festival with award win-ning titles from around the world,such as the now-farnous Køndahar,filmed in Iran in 2001, about a womensearching for her sister in Ta-liban-con-trolled Afghanistan.

New Faculty at the Center

T-lr. Kamran Asdar Alijoined thel) Department of An thropologyand the Center for Middle EasternStudies in fall 2001. He graduatedfrom John Hopkins University withhis PhD in1997, and his revised doc-toral dissertation will be publishedthis summer by the University ofTexas Press as Plønning The Fømily inEgypt: New Bodies, New Selaes. T},:.e

book argues that development initia-tives in general and family plamingin particular, seen in the wider con-text of capital expansion and accumu-lation in the late twentieth century,help train and produce new bodiesand selves. Family planning pro-grams do not just reduce the nurnberof children and regulate reproduc-tion. They also introduce or fosternotions of individual choice and re-sponsibility, risk aversion, and per-sonal independence. In short, theyhelp construct a new kind of individu-ality guided by the legal rights of citi-zens rather than by communitarianand familial control. The fieldwork forthis project was conducted inSharqiya and in Cairo, Eg¡>tbetweenOctober 1992 and March 1994, withsupport from the Population Counciland the Department of Anthropologyat Johns Hopkins University.

Before joining the University ofTexas, Dr. Ali was an Assistant Pro-

fessor in the Department of Anthropol-ogy at the University of Rochester inNew York Írorn 1995-2001. Between1999 and the present, Dr. Ali has alsobeen the Research Co-Director for theProject on Tourism, The Mediterra-nean Program, Robert Schuman Cen-ter, European University Ûrstitute (Flo-rence, Italy), where he has organizedthree workshops in the last two yearson tourism in the southern Mediterra-nean. Another area of research for Dr.Ali is the history of the labor move-ment in Pakistan, and he was co-orga-rizer oÍ an international workshop on"Labor and Trade Union Politics" heldin Karachi, Pakistan on December 23-26, 1999. Additional research issuesthat interest Dr. Ali include gender,political economy, and post-colonial-ism.

I¡r addition to his research, Dr. Alihas recently also provided politicalcommentary ("Pakistan's Dilemma")in the form of Press Informøtion Notespublishedby the Middle East Researchand Information Report on September19 ,200L. A longer version of the samearticle was published on September30'h in lhe Austin Americøn-Støtesmøn.As he states, "the mass displacementof the Afghan populatiory the destruc-tion of their homes and villages andthe loss of 1.5 million Afghan livesduring that country's long civil warhas somehow been erased from theconsciousness of the Western media."The terrorist attack of September 11,

2001, brought these issues back to theforefront of public consciousness.Without any clearly defined US policyin the early 1990s to develop Afghani-stal economically, the Pakistanis sup-ported the Taliban as a way of creat-ing a stable goverrunent on its West-ern border, which could also serve as

a conduit for gas and oil from the land-locked Central Asian states to Paki-stani ports. Irr addition, Ali argues thatby accepting U.S. demands in ex-change for fresh promises of interna-tional largesse, the Pakistani militarymight be saving itself from the wrathof a US-led coalition. In the process/however, the regime appears willingto plunge Pakistan into an uncharted

future, with no regard for such stabil-ity as remains in Pakistani social life.

A ssistant Professor Dr. Samerll vtufray Ali joined the Depart-ment of Middle Eastern Languagesand Cultures in the fall 2001. Previ-ously a Fellow of The Working Groupon Modernity and Islam at the Insti-tute for Advanced Study in Berlin,Germany, he also taught Arabic litera-ture at the Free University there. Hefinished his doctoral degree at IndianaUniversity, Bloomington, in August2001, underthe supervisionof SuzanneStetkevychin the Department of NearEastern Languages and Cultures.While pursuing his doctoral degree,he worked as both a Proficiency Testerin Arabic and as Editorial Assistantfor the Journøl of Arøbic Liternture.Dr.Ali's research interests include classi-cal Arabic poetry, Islamic kingship,and women court poets as well as

ethno-poetics andfolklore. His disser-tation, Ardor for Memory: Mythicizingthe Pøtricide of øI-Mutøwøkkil in CourtP oetry, dealtwith the oralperformanceof poetry in Abbasid society. He usedmethods from anthropology and folk-lore to examine the function of publicdelivery in promoting culturalmemory. He was able to conduct hisdissertation research with the supportof a Fulbright-Hays doctoral research

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grant, which allowed him to visit ar-chives in Egypt, Spain, and Germany.The archival work yielded Arabicmanuscript descriptions of literary sa-lons in the Middle Ages.

In Fall 2000, he gave a paper atMESA entitled "Gatherings ulder theMoonlight: A Performance-CenteredApproach to Poetry and History." Thepaper investigated how poetry perfor-mance in literary salons helped formand disseminate historical memory inAbbasid society. At this year's MESAmeetings, he gave a paper entitled"Identity and Handicap: Praise Poetryas Image Making." The paper empha-sized the function of praise poetry inrepairing the public image of men ofstate. Dr. ALi hadtwo publications comeout in 2001. The first was "A Verdur-ous Encomium for a Murderous Pa-tron: Contradiction and Mythology inal-Buhturi al-Ta'|" inWriters and Rul-ers: Perspectiues from Abbasid to SøføaidTimes and the second was a review of"Muhamrnad in the Modern EgyptianPopular Ballad" by Kamal Abdel-Malek tn Edebiy at. In 2002, tl:.e Dictio-nøry of Literøry Biography will publishhis entry on al-Buhturi (d. 897), aninfluential poet whose art continuedto attract audiences ten centuries afterhis death.

In preparation are an article"Abbasid Islam-Monotheism orHenotheism? AView from the Court"and a book Generosity like God's: The

Cultur øl F oundøtions of øn Old Ar øb V ir -tue. Inthe fail 2001, Dr. Ali offered twonew courses entitled "Memory andIdentity in Ancient Arabia" aÍrd"Loy-alty and Rebellion in Arabic Litera-ture." In spring 2002,he taught "TheArabicNovel" and a course devoted tothe Arabian Nights.

Dr. Ali is also a board member ofthe Austin chapter of the Arab-Ameri-can Anti-Discrimination Committee.

^ ssistant Professor Dr. Khaled

lì Muttu*a ioined the Departmentof English in the creative writing pro-gram in the Fall2000 and the CMESfaculty in Summer 2001. An ArabAmerican poet whose native languageis Arabic, he writes in English. Histeaching interests include writing po-etry, translation theory and practice,and postcolonial literature and theory.He is currently working on a new poemcalled "Genealogy of Fire."

Described as both "traditional"(partly for his use of the archaic pro-noun "thou") and "an original anddistinctive voice," Mattawa's work hasbeen published in a variety of literaryrnagazittes, including The Kenyon Re-

aiew, Poetry Eøst, Ploughshøres and Ex-quisite Corpse; it has also appeared innearly one dozen anthologies ofAmerican poetry. Mattawa is inter-ested in the role thatbilingualityplaysinhispoetryand the role of translationin the writing process generally. Hefeels that bilguality ought to be inte-gral to a composition and not treatedas merely a footnote and that transla-tion needs to be acknowledged as acreative act. Dr. Mattawa has himselftranslated Arab poets Hatif Janabi,Saadi Yousef, and Hassem Shafiq intoEnglish. Of writing poetry, Dr.Mattawa says thatthe most importanttask is to find the "exact" word or the"exact language" to express an idea.

A native of Llbya, he was origi-nally admitted to the United States as

a political refugee n1979. He lived inthe South for many years, finishinghigh school in Louisiana and complet-ing bachelor's degrees in Political Sci-ence and Economics at the Universityof Tennessee at Chattanooga. He wenton to earn an MA in English and anMFA in creative writing from IndianaUniversity in 7994, where he alsotaught creative writing and won anAcademy of American Poets award. Inaddition, he has won the AlfredHodder Fellowship at Princeton Uni-versity, the Pushcart Prize, and theBlementhal Award of the North Caro-lina Writers Network for 1998-1999.He finished his Ph.D. in Spring 2000 atDuke University. Dr. Mattawa joinedthe University of Texas after serving a

one-year term as a Visiting Professorat Denison University in Ohio.

Below is a reprint of one of hispoems that examines the topic ofbilinguality:

Borrowed Tongue

Maybe I'm a foolholding two threads,one black, one white,waiting for dawnto tell them apart.But I'm only practicingmy religion whichI neither borrowednor stole.Maybe I'm a foolthinking of a better ¿mswerthan the transplant patientwho said I'm sorr'¡someone had to die.

No, I haven't outgrownmy tongue. It's a coatyour mother gives yor¡crimson or cobalt blue,satin inside, the collarwide enough to coveryour whole neck.All winter you wear itthen spring comesbut never goes.That's Arabic to me.I wear a white shirt now-thin gray stripes,top button gone*and it fits.

Faculty and Staff News

ina Berman, formet AssociateDirector of the Center and Asso-

ciate Professor in the Department ofGermanic Studies, left UT in the sum-mer 2001 for Ohio State University,where she is Associate Professor in theDepartment of Germanic Languagesand Literatures. She hadbeen teachingat the University of Texas since 1994.We wish her well in her new positionand thankher for herhard work at theCenter, where she served as GraduateAdvisor before becoming AssociateDirector.

Carel Bertram, Lecturer inArtHis-tory in the Center for Middle EasternStudies, leaves for San Francisco StateUniversity where she becomes a mem-ber of the Humanities Facultyas of fall2002. Carelbrought zest and knowl-edge to the Study of Islamic art history,and willbe much missed after her threeyears with the Center.

Dr. Bertram also has has three ar-ticles forthcoming in 2002: "The Politicsof Architectural Language inBosnia," CENT RO P A,w ithDij ana Alic;"Buraq, Muhammed's Mount on His]ourney to Heaven," tnThe Encyclope-diø of Isløm and the Muslim World,(Macmillan Reference USA); and "TheOttoman House in the Turkish Imagi-nation: Monumentalizing the Quotid-ian," Y eniT ürkiy e D er gisi P r oj ect T urk, a

2O-volume research summary sup-ported by Ministry of Culture of theRepublic of Turkey, Turkish HistoricalSociety.

Mounira (Maya) Charrad, Assis-tant Professor of Sociology, has justpublished Støtes nnd Women's Rights:The Making of P ostcoloniøIT unisia, Alge-ria, and Morocco (University of Califor-nia Press). The book explains differ-ences in policies relating to women'srights in the three countries bycontextualizing them within the dis-tinct nation-building strate gies of eachcor.rntry. This bookwon a $10,000 Rob-ert W. Hamilton Award prize (see re-lated article on next page). Her article,"State and Genderinthe M aghrlb," ap-pearedin Wo men øndP ower in the MiddleEast, (Suad ]oseph and Susan

Slyomovics, eds., University of Penn-sylvania Press). In November 2001, she

spoke on "Challenging Stereotypes:Women's Rights inTr.rnisia" atthe Texas

Conference for Women in Austin. InAugust 2001, she presented "Gender,Power, and Islamic Law: IdentifyingLinkages in Postcolonial Tunisia, Alge-ria andMorocco" at the alnual meetingof the American Sociological Associa-tion,inAnaheim,CA.

Diana K. Davis, Assistant Profes-sorin Geography, willbe offering a newcourse in Spring 2002 entitled "Politi-cal Ecology in the Global South." Thecourse focused on political ecology as

an approach to studying environmen-tal change and degradation.

Robert and Elizabeth Fernea con-tinue to jointly teach a continuing edu-cation seminar with regularly sched-uled classes for older adults throughSAGE (Seminars for Adult Growth andEnrichment). The course is called "TheMiddle East Today." The first year itwas offered, it drew 65 students; thesecond year,58 students; this year, 120

students enrolled.Clement Henry, Professor of Gov-

ernment, and Robert Springborg re-cently published Globalization and the

P olitics of D ea elopment in the Middle E ns t(Cambridge University Press). It wasreleasedinthe UnitedKingdominSep-tember and in the United States in Oc-tober. Dr. Henry's recent academic pre-sentations include "Habib Bourguiba:La trace et l'héritage," Department ofPolitical Science, IJniversity of Aix-en-Provence III and "Commercial BankingSystems: The Neglected Variable inPolitical and Economic Development"and "Islamic Financial Movements:Midwives of Political Change in theMiddle East?" both with Dr. CatherineBoone (Government) for a panel on"Ideas, Movements, and States: Theo-retical Perspectives on Islam and Poli-tics" at the American Political ScienceAssociation meeting in August, 2001.

Professor Henry received researchfunds from AIMS (American Institutefor Maghrib Studies) for his work on"The Structural Adjustment of theCommerical Banking Systems of theMaghrib."

Virginia Howell, the accountantfor the Center for Middle Eastern Stud-ies since February 7997,was recognizedfor her outstanding service at a lun-cheon on May 29,2002 given by theDean of Liberal Arts, Richard Lariviere.Virgini a received a pl a que recognizingher enormous contributions to the Cen-ter, a cash award of $3,000 and a dinnercertificate for two at The University ofTexas Club.

Virginia Howell receives Liberal Arts Award

Carol Justus, Adjunct AssociateProfessor in Classics, continues tobe in-volved with the administration of agrant from the Diebold Foundation f or$1 1,000 for the development of anlndo-European Documentation Center. In2001, she published a journal volume,"On Language Grouping and Archae-ology" General Linguistics 37 (PegasusPress) and a book chapter, "Flittite" inthe Inter continentøl D ictionary S eries,

Mary Ritchie, ed., which includes anonline hypertext lexical implementa-tion. She also recently published twoarticles, "WordOrderandtheFirstPer-son Imperative" in Støbility, Variøtionand Chøn ge ofWor d- Or der P øtterns T hne

(Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe, &Ariel Shisha-Halevy, eds., JohnBenjamins) and "English'have' :

'heave', anArchaic Paradigm," in a vol-ume edited by Valerij DemJankov &TatianaYanko.

Deborah Kapchan, Associate Pro-fessor in Anthropology, has received a

three-summer Fulbright-Hays grant tostudy zøj øl,Morocc¿mpoetry in dialect.

Dan Laufer, lecturer in business,has been cited in The Middle East Re-view of lnternational Affairs (MERIA)October 2001 for his Israel coursewebsite <http: / / menic.utexas.edulmenic/cmes /hufer /Iinks.html> as animportant source of information for re-searchers and practitioners on the topicof the business environment in Israel.He has also recently accepted a job asAssistant Professor of Business Admin-istration at the University of Cincinnati,where he will begin teaching in the fall2002.We thank Dan for his contribu-tions to the Center and its mission overthe past few years and wish him well inCincinnati.

Harold Liebowitz, Professor ofMiddle Eastern Languages and Cul-tures, received a2001 University Coop-erative Society Subvention Grant forpublication o I Excøaøtions øtT el Yin' am197 6-19 89 : Vol. IThe LøteBronze Age anda special grantfrom the Rapoport-KingScholarship fund for directing researchundergraduate Lydia Bloom.

Annes McCann-Baker, CenterEditor for the Middle EastTranslationSeries, journeyed to Cairo to workwithvarious authors and translators, and toconsult with AUC Press on joint futureprojects.

Abraham Marcus, Associate Pro-fessor of History and Center Director,was associate editor of two recentlypublished encyclopedias : The En cy clo -pedia of World History (HoughtonMifflin) and tlne G ørlønd Ency clop e din ofWorld Music: The Middle East(Routledge).

Lisa Patterson, Administrative As-sistant for the Center for Middle East-ern Studies, gavebirth to ahealthyboy,IanMarcus Patterson (IMP) onApril 23,2002. Mother and child are doing well,and Lisa returned to workpart-time onJune3rd.

EstherRaizen, Assistant Professorof Middle Eastern Languages and Cul-tures, has a new book, Modern Hebreut

for Intermediate Students, for which shewas awarded aUniversity CooperativeSociety Subvention Grant. It was pub-lished by the University of Texas Press

in November 2001. The book is part of amulti-media program which includesMo dern Hebr an for Be ginner s and an ac-companying Website <http:/ /www -lamc.utexas.edu/hebrew>. Rai-zen's Foreign Language Teachers' Tml-box, created in collaborationwith Pro-fessor jane Lippmann from the Frenchand Italian department and supportedby a FASTTe< award and a Liberal ArtsInstructional Technology Servicesaward, is now also available on the Webat <hlfp : / lwww.lamc.utexas.edu/he-brew /pers onal / toolbox/bolbox.shtmb.Additional units ontheHebrewlanguage and music are linkedto thesites listed above. Dr.Raizen spenttime in Israel in the summer of 2001collecting materials for her nextbook onenvironmental concerns in HebrewIiterature. The bookmanuscript will becompleted in the sumrner o1 2002.

Christopher Rose, Outreach Co-ordinator for the Center, has beenelected to the Board of Directors for theMiddle East Outreach Council (MEOC)and is now editing the newsletter forthat organization.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Pro-fessor of Art History, spent spring 2001at the American Center for OrientalStudies in Amman, Jordan studyingplaster skulls from the Neolithic site ofAin Ghazal, ca. 7000-6500 BC. Recentpublications include "Feasting in theAncient Near East " inFeøsts, Archøeo-logicøl and Ethnogrøphic Perspectiues onFood, Politics, ønd Power (MichaelDietler and Brian Flayden, eds.,Smithsonian Institution Press) and"Registrazioni proto-stor iche" tn S t or i ø

della S cienza, Ency clop edie Itnlianø(Rome). Her book How Writing Cameøbout is now available on the web at<http: / / www.netlibrary. com> (partof the University of Texas eBook collec-tion), where it can be read online. Dr.Schmandt-Besserat is beginning aphased retirement program at UT, andwillbeteachingonlypart-time as of thefa]-l'2002.

Yaron Shemer, Lecture in MiddleEastern Languages and Cultures, waskeynote speaker last August for "LaSemana de Cine Israelí"(AWeek of Is-raeli Cinema) in Mexico City. He was

interviewed by reporters and film crit-ics of Mexicannewspapers andmaga-zines, including, Reþrmn, Excélior andLølornøda. TV and radio interviews in-cluded Canal22,Canalll, Cita Con LaCultura, Radio Centro, and Antena Ra-dio. Shemerwas also a guestspeaker atthree press conferences in conjunctionwith the festival. This eventwas orga-nized and sponsored by CinetecaNacional and the Israeli Embassy inMexicoCity.

Keith Walters, Associate Professorin Linguistics and Associate Director ofthe Center, gave two conferencepapersthis spring. krmid-marcþ hepresenteda talk entitled "Tunisian Women's Ac-cess to Literacy and the Languages ofLiteracy" on a p anel on "New FrontiersinResearch and Gender and Literacy"at the Annual Conference on CollegeComposition and Communication inChicago, Illinois. InApril, he presenteda paper on "Gendering French in Tuni-sia" at IGALA2, the second meeting ofthe International Gender and Lan-guage Association, at the University ofLancaster in the United Kingdom.

Robert W. Hamilton Award

Tìr. Mounira Charrad (Sociology)l-r/ was awarded the top honor of$10,000 at the spring2002 Robert W.Hamilton Awards Dinner. Her booþS t ates øndWomen' s Rights, the Møkin g ofPost-coloninl Tunisiø, Algeriø, ctnd Mo-rocco, published by the University ofCalifornia Press, won the prize for bestbook. The Hamilton Book Awards,sponsored by the University Co-op,recognizes outstanding works by aca-dernics at the University. Forty-sevenauthors from across the campus werenominated this year.

Professor Charrad said of theaw ard, "This kind of recognition takesus out of theboundaries of our own dis-cipline to make us feel part of the richand stimulating intellectual commu-nity of UT." Herbook, focusing on thedevelopment of states, considers whywomen's rights were expanded in Tu-nisia, but not in Algeria or Morocco.

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Middle East Studies Association Held November 17-20,2001

f,/ amran Aghaie presented a pa--Ñ,p", entitlãd "ñlåshm and Euro-pean Perspectives on the Crusades."

Samer Ali gave a paper entitled"Identity and Handicap: Praise Poet-ry as Image-Making."

Mounira (Maya) Charrad pre-sented apapff entitled "Structure andAgency: Towards a TheoreticalFramework on State Formation inTunisia" at a panel on the nation andits representation in North Africa.

Elizabeth Femea chaired a panelon "Strategies of Women's Mobiliza-tion in the 20th Century" and partici-pated in a Roundtable discussioncalled "Forces of ContemporaryChange inEgypt."

Robert Fernea was honored at areception sponsored by the Centerand the University of Texas Press forhis 25 years of service as Editor of theModern Middle East Series.

M.R. Ghanoonparvar, professorin Middle Eastern Languages andCultures, gave a paper on "Kasravi'sConcept of Pøkdini and His Rational-ist Approach to Religion."

Clement Henry chaired a panel"Islamic Capital and Islamist Poli-tics," where he gave a paper called"Islamic Banking and Globalization inthe Middle East and North Africa."

Deborah Kapchan gave a paperon "Marketing Trance: Music, Mon-ey and the Spirit in Three MoroccanGnøwø."

Christopher Rose chaired a pan-el on "Issues in teaching about theMiddle East at the Precollegiate Lev-el," where he gave a paper entitled"'When the Mumrnies Ruled Egypt':Presentations and Perceptions ofEgypt in the Precollegiate Class-room."

jonathan Shannon, formerly aVisiting Lecturer in Anthropology atthe University of Texas at Austin andnow an Assistant Professor of Anthro-pology at Hunter College in NewYorþ received the 2001 Malcolm H.Kerr Dissertation Award for his irrno-vative work on music in Syria.

Jl lizabeth Warnock Fernea, knownl-, as BI tocolleagues and Êriends, was

presented with the 2001 MESAMentoring Award. Established in 1996,the award recognizes the contributionsof individuals to MESA and the profes-sion of Middle Eastern Studies. Serviceis "defined broadly to include work indiverse areas," andinBJ's case, shewascited for introducing the Middle East tostudents and the generalpublic throughteaching, writing, translations and film-making. She was also cited forher " ef-forts to forge links with Middle Easternscholars."

At MESA, BJ served on the boardand as president from 1985-86. She wasa member of the committee to choosethe first awardee for the AlbertHouraniPrize for Best Book in Middle EasternStudies, and for many years has been amember of the Filmfest Committee forthe annual MESA meetings.

In her long and distinguished ca-reer, BJ has written or edited nearly adozenbooks and written and producedseven documentaryfilms. FIer mostre-centbook, R ememb ering Childho o d in the

Middle Eøst: Memoirs ftom ø Century ofChange, is a collection of personal"growing-up" narratives of 36 differentmen and womery representing 14 coun-tries. Itwillbepublishedinthe fall2002with the University of Texas Press.

BJ's latest film, LiaingWith the P øst:

Historic Cøiro, premiered atMESA2001,

and was then shown again at the Uni-versity of Texas on January 29, 2002 toan audience of approximately 150. Itwill be shown in Germany in Septem-ber at the First World Congress ofMiddle Eastern Studies. The film is aportrait of Darb al-Ahmar, the historicneighborhood in Cairo thatis currentlyundergoing radical change. Medievalmonuments are being restored and amassive social and economic project isunderway, funded by the Aga KhanTrustfor Culture, to improve the livesof the people who live daily with themomrments. The film is accompaniedby a study guide, and aninteractive CD-ROM focused on Darb al-Ahmar is inProcess.

Bj graduated fromReed College inPortland, Oregon where she receivedher undergraduate degree and didgraduate work in English at MountHolyoke College. She was awarded anhonorary LL.D. (Doctor of Letters) bythe State University of New YorkSystem in 1993. She began teaching atUT in 1-975, and retired in 2000 as

professor emeritus of English andMiddle Eastern Studies. She continuesto work in the areas of her majorinterests: women and the family in theMiddle East; literary translation ofMiddle Eastern literatures; and thecontinuing struggle for a workablePalestinian-Israeli peace process.

Elizabeth Fernea with Mentoring Award from 2001 MESA meeting.

/- enieve Abdo, BA 1982, in Gov-\-f e-- e.r t is currently Nieman Fel-low at Harvard University.

Elizabeth N. Bouri, PhD 1993, inLibrary and Information Science, isworking withthe UnitedNations De-velopment Pro gram under whose aus-pices she gave a paper at MESA en-titled "E-Government in the Making. "Dr. Bouri worked at the Center in1994-L995 and helped to set up theMENIC website.

Maria Curtis, P}¡.D2002, receivedresearch funds from AIMS (AmericanInstitute for Maghrib Studies) for herwork on "The Fes Festival of WorldSacred Music."

Persis Karim, MA in Middle East-ern Studies 1993 and PhD in Com-parative Literature 1999, is an Assis-tant Professor in the Department ofEnglish at SanJose State UniversityinCalifornia. She was married Septem-ber L6,2001 to Craig Strang in SanFrancisco.

Roberta Micallef, MA in MiddleEastern Studies 1990 and PhD in Com-parative Literature 1997, is now at theUniversity of Utah as an AssistantProfessor of Turkish Languages andLiterature and is also currently serv-ing as the Undergraduate Advisor forthe Middle East Center.

Michael Penn, MA in MiddleEastern Studies (1996), is lecturer inthe University of Kitakyushu inJapanand is engaged in research on Otto-man-Japanese relations.

William Rowe, MA in MiddleEastern Studies1996, offered a coursethrough the Department of Geogra-phy entitled "Cultural Crossroads inAfghanistan and Central Asia" in thespring2002.

John Schaefer, PhD candidate, re-ceived research funds from AIMS(American Lrstitute for Maghrib Stud-ies) for his work on "Gnawa Musi-cians and Moroccan World Music."

Pamela Stafford, MA in MiddleEastern Studies jrL 1995, is teachinghistory at Santa Teresa Fligh SchoolinSan Jose, CA. She has been grving

Student and Alumni News

regular talks on the Arab-Israeli conflict at Santa Teresa High School, where sheteaches history, and is putting together a panel discussion at the high school on theMiddle East and Islam.

Awards and Scholarships

Academic Year FLASAfra Al-MussawirKimBakerSusan CurrieHananH. HammadAlan LockettThomas MaguireAlisa PerkinsRachel Proctorfohn SchaeferLaura Tamayo-GamborinoR. David WalkerMa¡k Westmoreland

Andrea AllenNidal DaraisehWilliamEdmondsTeresa KeckTomMaguireAlisa PerkinsJohn SchaeferYaron ShemerBahji Sumpter

Arabic,2nd-3rd year PhD candidateHebrew,2nd Year MA candidateArabic, Lst year MA candidatePersian, 1st year MA candidateArabic, 1st year MA candidateArabic, 1st year PhD candidateArabic,2nd year PhD candidateArabic, Lst year MA candidateArabic, 4th year PhD candidateHebrew, Lst year PhD candidateArabic, 2nd year MA candidateArabic,2nd year PhD candidate

Summer FLASUniversity of Washingtory Summer InstituteUniversity of Washington, Summer InstituteArabic Language Ûrstitute, Fez, MoroccoMiddlebury College, VermontUniversity of Washington, Srrmmer InstituteArabic Language Institute, Fez, MoroccoArabic Language Institute, Fez, MoroccoUniversity of Washington, Summer InstituteBögaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

ArabicTurkishArabicArabicArabicArabicArabicArabicTurkish

Ann Grabhorn Friday ScholarshipAndreaAllen

Turkish Studies ScholarshipBahjiSumpter

Iranian Studies ScholarshipHananH.Hammad

Marshall ScholarshipfackTannous

Presidential Management InternshipSteve Berkowltz,SabaGhori, Sarah Fox Ozkan, Daniel Stein

University Continuing FellowshipSaharAziz

Colloquium Series

I s usual, the fall and spring-{-l,brought a variety of lectures,films and other events sponsored bythe Center. Belowis abrief listof titles,presenters, and dates.

Banafsheh Madaninejad, graduate studentin Middle Eastern Studies

"13 Abøn: Actiuism in SouthTehrøn," afilm by Banafsheh Madaninejad (Oc-tober 22,2001).

"Ahmød Køsrøoi's Critique of Europism(Urupugarayi) and Orientølism," alec-ture by Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi(November 13,2001).

"Women in Afghanistan," a lecture byNooria Noor (November 76,2001).

" Gender and Dia er sity in Islam, " a p aneldiscussion chaired by ElizabethFemea (January 24, 2002).

"Liaing with the Pøst: Historic Cniro," afilm by Elizabeth Fernea (January 29,2002).

"The Chønging (? ) Situation of Women inAlgeria since IndE endence, " alectarc byFatiha Hamitouche (February 14,2002).

"Løpløce des immigrés maghrébiens dønsla société française," a lecture by RabiaBekkar (February 22, 2002).

"Irøn - US Relntions: What's the Prob-Iem?" a lecture by Patrick Gibbons(February 25,2002).

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"The Andalusian Music of Algeria: AnOoeraiew nnd ø Liae Demonstration," alecture by Yahia Ghoul (April 8, 2002).

"Where Were the Arnb Nationnlists?Populør Nationalism and Syriø's GreøtReaolt of 1925," a lecture by MichaelProvence (April 1,6, 2002).

"Stories of the Arabinn Nights," per-formed by storyteller Elida GuardiaBonet (4pri117,2002).

"The Films of Rakhsøn Bani-Etemad: ARetrospectiae," a film festival organizedby Mohammad Ghanoonparvar(April 1.5-19,2002).

" T empor ølit ies, Trqnsløtions, and theWriting of Social Histories: The Stories ofAhmad at-Tayyib and Others," a lectureby Martina Reiker (4pri124,2002).

"Rethinking the Middle East Field: TheProblematic lntegrøtion of Gender Stud-ies," alecture by Martina Reiker (April25,2002).

"Priaøtizøtion by Frønchising: A Cøse

Study from Turkey," a lecture byMehmet E. Karaaslan (April 30, 2002).

"The Implementøtion of the Hudood Or-dinance and Its Effect on Women in Pøki-stan," alecture by Saba Ghori (May 2,2002).

Saba Gohri, graduate student inMiddle Eastern Studies and Public Affairs

Conferenceshree major conference were heldin spring 2002. They are as fol-

lows:

Diversity in Islam: A PanelDiscussion

On January 24, 2002 facultyaffliated with the UT Women's Studiesand the Center for Middle EasternStudies sponsored a "teach-in" on thediversity surrounding Muslim womenfrom Morocco to Indonesia.Moderated by Ehzabeth Fernea, thepanel included Denise Spellberg on"Gender in the Hadith and Qu'ran;"Mounria Charrad on "Women's Rightsin Tunisia;" Kamran Aghaie on"Modern Iran-Women in Shi'aMuslim Rituals;" Gail Minault on"Muslim Women in South Asia;"Kamran Ali on "The Self andReproductive Choice in Egypt;" andKeith Walters on "Changing IslamicDiscourse of Gender." Well over 100

people attended this event.

Presenting & Re-presenting IslamIn response to the increased inter-

est in Islam following the September1L tragedy, the University of Texasprovided an opportunity for discus-sion of contemporary issues related toIslam. In an effort to provide a deeperunderstanding of Islam and Muslimsaround the world, the conference ad-dressed issues of interest to teachers,students, the generalpublic, and espe-cially the challenge of teaching aboutIslam in American public schools. Is-sues on the representation of gender,pluralism and diversity, political im-plications of Islam, and the long-termeffect of the terrorist attacks of Sep-tember 11were also addressed. A spe-cial session for K-12 educators washeld on the firstmorning of the confer-ence.

The conference was made possibleby the generous support of the Deanof Liberal Arts, and was convenedjointþ by the Centers for Asian Stud-ies, Middle Eastern Studies and Rus-siary East Europeary and EurasianStudies on M arch27-22, 2002. ln addi-

tion to the speakers from the faculty atthe University of Texas, several speak-ers came from outside organizations(in alphabetical order): Salam al-Marayati, MuslimPublic Affairs Coun-cil, Patrice Brodeur, Connecticut Col-lege, Farad Esack, College of Williamand Mary, Peter Gottschalk, South-western University, Sohail Hashmi,Mount Holyoke College, Sherman|ackson, The University of Michigan,Kathleen Moore, University of Con-necticut, Shirin Sinnar, Stanford Uni-versity Law School, and Nargis Virani,Washington University (St. Louis).Approximately 500 people attendedone or more sessions at this confer-ence.

Afghanistan: Cultural Loss and Re-construction

A one-day synnposiumwasheld onAprll26,2002to focus on the culturalupheavals in Afghanistan that haveaccompanied a period of tumultuouspolitical change. For millions of Af-ghans,the experiences of war, exile, andsuppression have profoundly alteredthe possibilities for cultural expression.Since the fall of the Talibary Afghani-stan has begun to re-define itself as anation-state. Five distinguished spe-cialists addressed the issues associatedwith this changed political landscape.The morning session focused on spe-cific cultural forms the changes mighttake,witharthistorian Catherine Asherof the University of Minnesota,ethnomusicologist Lorraine Sakata ofUCLA, and f olklorist Margaret Mills ofOhio State University, all specialistswho havebeentoAfghanistan and con-ducted researchthere. In the afternoon,Alicia Luckstead described the educa-tional activities of RAWA (Revolution-ary Association of Women of Afghani-stan), an NGO working with womenand children. Polticial scientistMansour Farhang concluded the pro-ceedings with a discussion of the inter-relationships betweenreligiory cultureand U.S. foreignpolicy in CentralAsia.

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Visiting Faculty

Th" Center has been privileged toI host a Fulbright-Hays scholar

from Algeria during the spring 2002semester. Fatiha Hamitouche receivedher Masters and PhD in Linguistics atEssex University in England. Sincethen, she has been teaching linguisticsat the University of Algiers. She cameto UT to do research in sociolinguistics,looking at the field of language varia-tion and comparing the American andAlgerian contexts . She is working withKeith Walters in this field. During thespring semester, she gave talks to fac-ulty and students on language varia-tion in Algeria at the Anthropologydepartrnent, and lecfures on the chang-ing status of women in Algeria at theCenter for Middle Eastern Studies,the Center for Women Studies, andthe Department of Sociology.

Dr. Hamitouche is co-author of atextbook entitled S amples ønd Analysisof United Støtes Literøture aimed atuniversity students, originally

published in 1993 andagalr.tr.lgg7 tnAlgeria by the Office of Publication atthe University of Algiers. She recentlyco-authored a new textbook that willappear in the fall 2002 calledIntroducing Linguistics: A Student-Friendly Approach. She also publishedarticles on languages in Algeria, in1999 tn the Journal of FrancophoneStudies, Great Britain, "fuste Apres løF r ønce " arad " The Humanistic Appro achin Lnnguage Teøching: Discussion of ltsApplicøtion," published in Dialogue ofLønguøges, CDELT, Cairo, Egypt in7995.

l{er research interests includesociolinguistic subjects, like languageand identity, language and gender,language policy, languages anddialects, as well as women's studies,culture, and various other issues onNorth Africa. She is currently workingon a textbook on sociolinguistics forAlgerian University students.

Major Slide DonationTh" Center received a gift of aboutI 3,000 slides on the Middle East,

made by Mr. Peter Lillys of San Anto-nio. The slides come from the collec-tion of his late brother William Lillys,an art historian and museum curatorwho made manyvisit to differentpartsof the Middle East over the years The

slides provide detailed photographicportraits of numerous historic sitesand monuments, and represent a ma-jor addition to the Center's slide col-lection, which is currently being digr-tized. The Center thanks Mr. PeterLillys for his kind generosity.

Response to Eztents of September 11

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topics in which Professor Sut Jhally ofthe University of Massachusetts atAmherst spoke on teaching about thePalestinian situation in the context ofthe crisis.

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The faculty in Middle EasternStudies was well represented amongthe remaining awards. GlennPeers (ArtHistory) wonthe $3,000 HamiltonBookAward for Subtle Bodies: RepresentingAngels in Byzøntium, published by theUniversity of California Press. KeithWalters (Linguistics and Middle East-ern Studies) won the $3,000 award fortextbooks for Eaery thing's øn Ar gument,published by Bedford/St. Martin'sPress and coauthored by John J.Ruszkiewicz (Rhetoric and Composi-tion) and Andrea Lunsford (StanfordUniversity).

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Turkish Perspectives

D ecause of the events of SeptemberD t t, th" vted iterranean CrossroadsProgram 2002 was cancelled. The pro-gram was replaced with a two-weekseminar based at Bögaziçi Universityin Istanbul entitled "Challenges of Sep-tember 11: TurkishPerspectives." Tenstudents were competitively selectedfor the program and departed May29'h for this intensive two-week semi-nar accompanied by ProfessorsAbraham Marcus and Keith Walters.Students will have the opportunity tohear a variety of Turkish scholars lec-ture in English on how the events ofSeptember 11 changed the Turks'per-spective on themselves, their country,and its role in the Muslim world as

well as the larger world community.Students will also have a chance toexplore the city of IstanbuI, a clty o11.4

million inhabitants and rich in cul-tural heritage.

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