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Center for Middle Eastern Studies
NEWSLETTERNo. 13 The University of Texas at Austin
Center Receives Rockefeller Grant
Fall 1989
Mohammad Arkoun andFedwa Malti-Douglas
The Center has received a fouryear grant from the RockefellerFoundation to form theInstitute
for the Study of Literature, Religion,and Society in the ContemporaryMiddle East. The Institute will investigate the new relations which have developed between literature, religionand society in the region as a result ofthe current religious revival. Institutescholars,who will be in residence withthe Center,may study the treatment ofreligion and social problems in contemporary literature; controversiesover the acceptabilityofsecular literature; the new religious literature andreligion; and the material and socialconditions of literary production. Themajor literatures (Arabic, Hebrew,Persian, and Turkish) of the MiddleEast will be considered.
'This first academic year of thegrant period at the University is devoted to a seriesoflectures to introducethe focus of the study. The visiting lecturers for the fall semester include Mohammad Arkoun (University of Paris,Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Dan Miron
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem andColumbia University). Speakers forthe spring will be Philippe Cardinaland SerifMardin. Also during the firstyear, the Institute will solicit applications for Resident Fellowships for thesecond year.
Each year for three years, twoscholars will begranted residencies topursue researchinassociationwith theCenter. TheCenterwillseekoutstanding qualified scholarswho expecttobeable to complete major research andwriting within the area of theInstitute's topic. During the last yearof the grant period, a major conference on the subject will be held.
Chosen fellows will have thefacilities of the University available tothem. In addition to faculty and programs in the major Middle Easternlanguagesand literature, the Universityhas one of the nation's largest generallibraries and outstanding vernacularcollections in Arabic, Hebrew,and Persianliterarymaterials. Professor FedwaMalti-Douglas (Arabic) will be the Director of the Institute. Malti-Douglas isalso Associate Director of the Center.
The Rockefeller FoundationsupportsHumanities Fellowships programsat some twenty-seven host institutions. Thegoal of these programsis tosupport scholars whose research furthers understanding of contemporary
social and cultural issues and extendsinternational or intercultural scholarship. The host institutionsselect scholars to receive Rockefeller Foundationstipends,and subsequentlyencourageinteraction between an institution'spermanent experts and the visitingscholars.
Tel Yin'am Site BecomesArchaeological Park
The Israel Department of Antiquities has decided to tum theTel Yin'am dig site, visited for
nine years by Harold Liebowitz (Hebrew) and students, into an archaeological park. Theexhibition area on thetell will complement a museum to beconstructed in the nearby village ofYavne'el, which will house the collection ofartifacts from Tel Yin'am spanninga period from 6,000B.c. to around600 A.D.
While in Israel for this pastsummer's trip with students, Liebowitz also conducted a trial excavation atthe site ofBeit Gan, an early Israelite tolate Islamic site. The site is large, according to Liebowitz, and has promiseof yielding important remains fromthe 12th century B.C. to the modemperiod.
Afghanistan Conference
AConference called "The Afghanistan Legacy" was heldon the University campusOc
tober 19-21. Cosponsored by the Centers for Asian Studies, Middle EasternStudies and Soviet and East EuropeanStudies, 'the event drew scholars fromaround the world. The Conference wasopened with a speech by Jagat Mehta,VisitingProfessorofPublicAffairsandAsian studies at UT.
Sheila Fitzpatrick,ProfessorofHistory and Soviet and East EuropeanStudies at UT, chaired a panel entitled"Soviet Lessons of 'the Afghan War."Speaker was Jiri Valenta, Professor ofPolitical Science, University of Miami;discussants were au'thor Henry Bradsher and Robert German, VisitingProfessor of Public Affairs at UT.
Thomas Thornton, from theSchool of Advanced InternationalStudies at Johns Hopkins University,spoke on "Afghanistan: As a CaseStudy in Superpower Crisis Management." Discussants were LawrenceFinkelstein, Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University,and VladimirPlastunfrom 'the Instituteof Oriental Studies in Moscow.
Robert Hardgrave, Jr., Professor of Government and Asian Studiesat UT, chaired a panel, "Afghanistan:The Regional Impact in South Asia."Selig Harrison, Senior Associate of theCarnegieEndowment for InternationalPeace,participated, and the discussantwas Jamsheed Marker, former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S.
Another panel, "Anatomy ofan Entanglement: Afghanistan andIran," was chaired by Clement Henry,Professor of Government and MiddleEastern Studies at UT. John Lorentz,Professor of History and InternationalStudies at Willamette Universi ty, participated, and David Champagne,Senior Middle East Analyst in the U.S.Army, was the discussant.
On the third dayof theConference, Richard Lariviere, Directorof 'theCenter for Asian Studies, chaired 'thepanel"Afghanistan: State Breakdownand Prospects for Reconstruction."
Speaker was Barnett Rubin, Professorof Political Science at Yale University,and journalist Lawrence Lifschultzwas 'the discussant.
An overview of 'the Conference was conducted by AmbassadorVasiliy Safronchuk (USSR), UnderSecretary General for Political andSecurity Council Affairs of the UnitedNations. The Discussant was RobertPeck, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia in the U.S. Department of State.
Texas Association ofMiddle East ScholarsMeets in Houston
The 1989 annual meeting ofTAMES was held at Rice University on October 20-21. Presi
dent Tom Thompson opened themeeting by dedicating it to formerpresident M.A. Jazayery (UT-Austin).
A graduate- student panelfrom UT-Austin was chaired byCa'therineand Najeeb Ahmad.Nabil Abdelfattah spoke on "Western WomenMeet Eastern Men: An Analysis ofThree Arabic Novels"; Moira Killoranon "TurkishCypriotIdentityContestation inLiterature";Roberta Micallefon"Hizir: A Cross Cultural Hero of theMiddle East and the Balkans"; andGregNoakeson "TheEmotional Tragedy of War: Mohammed Dib's WhoRemembers the Sea."
Byran Augustin (Sou'thwestTexas State University) and J. DavidMartin (Midwestern State University)presented slides and a talk on theMarch 1989 Joseph T. Malone FellowsStudy Tour of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain taken by the Texas Committee ofU.S.-Arab Relations Council. AliEftehkary (UT-Austin) also spoke ofsummer travelin his talkon "Travels inIran, Summer 1989."
On Saturday morning TomThompsonmoderated anopendiscussionon religion, politicsand literatureas seen through 'the works of MiddleEastern authors such as NaguibMahfouz, Jalal Al Ahmad, SalmanRushdie, Ali Shariati and others. Discussants were Mehdi Abidi (Rice Uni-
versity), M.A. Jazayery (UT Austin),Abazar Sepehri (UT Austin), and FredVan der Mehden (Rice University).
Panelli was chaired by ElizabethFernea. Speakers fromUT-Austinwere Aseel Dyck on "Gertrude Bell:Traveler and King Maker,"; CarolineAttieon"TwoContemporaryLebaneseWomen Writers: Layla Ba'albaki andHanan aI-Shaikh"; Annes McCannBaker on "Mo'thers, Sons, and Tribalism: Religion in Sitt Marie-Rose, Lebanon 1975"; and Elizabeth Fernea on"WritingCulture: The Issue ofGenderin 'the 'Production' of Ethnography."
Panel III was chaired by AnnBragdon. Speakers were Abdalla AlKurd (University of Houston) on''Popular Alternative Education in AlIntifada"; Nada Mardini (RiceUniversity) on "Language Modificationamong Arab Studentsat the AmericanUniversity of Beirut"; and SamirAshrawi (Texaco) on "ResistanceThrough Cultural Expression: PalestinianMusk Under the Israeli Occupation./I
Newofficersannounced at theBusiness Meeting are President Avraham Zilkha (UT-Austin) and CouncilMembers Ann Bragdon (Houston) andRobert Vitalis (UT-Austin).
Visiting Scholars
Abdulaziz Yassin al-Saqqaf,chair of the Department ofEconomics at Sanaa Univer
sityin 'theYemen ArabRepublic,visitedthe University during September.
Two visiting professors fromEgypt were Thana Aly El Kabani, Assistant Professor of Accounting atMonufia University; and Anwar AbdelSalama, Professor and Head of theDepartmentofPersonnel Managementat Sadat Academy in Alexandria,Egypt. Bo'th scholars were on campusunder the FacultyEnrichmentSummerProgram of the Binational FulbrightCommission.
TheCenter isglad to have Professor Cem Taylan here for the academicyear.HeisanAssistantProfessorat Fen-Edebiyat Fakultesi, BogaziciUniversity in Turkey.
Student News
Gwen Okruhlik has been accepted as a Fulbright scholar toresearch private sector busi
ness in Saudi Arabia dUring the 19891990academic year. She will spend themajority of her time inJiddah, butalsohopes to travel fo Riyadh for her research. Okruhlik was a State Department intern for the United Arab Emirates during the summer. Heroffice wasin Abu Dhabi. Okruhlik is completingher disserta tion fora degree inGovernment.
Anthropology graduate student Ann Gardner, a Fulbright scholardoing her research in Cairo and Sinai,received a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement grantto complement her Fulbright. She isstudying the effects on Bedouinwomen of recent sedentarization in theSinai desert, especially in regard towomen's status, women's health, andinformal tribal networks.
Kristen Stilt, honors graduatein Middle Eastern Studies, received aFulbright to study in Kuwait. She isworking at the Language Institute atthe University of Kuwait for the 198990 academic year.
Graduate students whoworked or traveled in the Middle Eastduring the summerof1989 were Catherine and Najeeb Ahmad, whoworked in Cairo and traveled throughEgypt, the West Bank, and Pakistan;and Moira Killoran, whodid thesis research in Cyprus and interviewedCypriot scholars. CASA fellowship recipientswhostartedstudyingArabicinCairo during the summer are MariettaMugford, Hosam Aboul-Ela, andMarc Moebius.
Undergraduates were alsobusy last summer pursuing MiddleEastern Studies overseas. Andy Wigginton, recipient this year of a University Presidential Scholarship, receiveda scholarship from the American Research Institute in Turkey to studyTurkishatBosphorusUniversity. ScottJensen worked in Washington as anintern in the House ofRepresentatives.Angela Assed traveled to Druze villages in Syria for research on changing
marital patterns. Scott and Angelareceived credit for their work under thePracticum (Applied Middle EasternStudies)courseoffered by the Centeraspart of its program for majors. AnnBaddour is a State Department internat the Amman desk in Washington,D.C. this fall. RobertFitzpatrick was aState Department intern in Riyadh.
FLAS recipients for the 198990 academic year are CatherineAhmad (Arabic), Najeeb Ahmad(Arabic), Linda Boxberger (Arabic),Rebecca Eaton (Arabic), ZjalehHajibashi (Persian and Arabic),Daniel Lefkowitz (Arabic), JamesPaul Tanner (Hebrew), Jenny White(Turkish), and Darrow Zeidenstein(Arabic). 1989 Summer FLAS recipients were Brian Evans (Arabic), CarlaHiggins (Arabic), and Daniel Lefkowitz (Arabic).
Tim Dickey, 1978 graduate,haswon a Peabody Award for his fourpart Christian Science Monitor television series "Islam in Turmoil." Theseries also won the National Headliners' second place award for "Outstanding Documentary bya Television Network" and the National EducationAssociation's award for the"Advancement of Leaming through Broadcasting." Another graduate, recent CMESmasters student Shannon Maher, hasbeen hired by the Department of theArmy at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,where she will be working with herknowledge of Arabic.
John and CarolineWilliams
Center faculty, staff, andstudentshave missed John andCaroline Williams and their
marvelous teaching and lecturingabilities, since the couple's move toVirginia. John and Carolinehad taughtat the University since 1973 withinterspersed periods at the AmericanUniversity in Cairo. John accepted theKenan Professorship in theHumanities at The College of Williamand Mary University in 1989. He hadbeen Professor in Art and Middle
Eastern Studies at the University.Among his publications are Islam(1961); Themes of Islamic Civilization(1971); The Abbasid Revolution, vol.XXVII History of al-Tabari (1985); TheEarly Abbasi Empire (1988). Carolinewas a lecturer in Architecture andMiddle Eastern Studies at theUniversity. She is coauthor of the 3rdedition of The Islamic Monuments ofCairo: A Practical Guide (1985).
Outreach Program
The Middle East ResourceCenter's Teaching MaterialsCatalogue is in print and avail
ablefree uponrequest. It listsaudiovisual as well as printed materials, and isorganized by subject and by country.TheCMES ResourceCenter isalsodistributing for the Middle EastOutreachCouncil a Teacher's Supplements forMiddle Eastern Studies, Folder #1. ItCOntains folksongs, folkdances,folktales, proverbs, recipes, a spreadsheet of facts and figures, and a glossarydrawnfromlanguagesoftheArabWorld, Israel, Iran and Turkey.
On October 28 the OutreachProgram conducted a teacher's workshop in Houston at the request of theTexas Committee for the NationalCouncil on U.S.-Arab Relations. Thetitle was "Cultural and Physical Geography of the Arab Islamic World."
Ou treach Coordina torAnnettePomeroyhasbeenselected forthe Advisory Committee forAMIDEAST's newsletter. She is alsothe Selection Committee Chair forAustin of the Malcolm H. Kerr HighSchool Scholars Program in Arab andIslamic Studies.
Scholarships in Hebrew
Scholarships for Hebrew Studiesare available for upper divisionand graduate students. The
deadlineisNovember20. Applicationsshould be submitted to Hebrew Studies, UNI 116, University of Texas,Austin,78712. (512)471-1365
during May, 1990. The lectures willsummarize her research and forthcoming book on the history ofwomen's education and its relationship to social change among IndianMuslims.
Denise Schmandt-Besserat (ArtHistory) had published "The Originsof Visible Language" in Anthropological Approach to the Origin of HumanLanguage,VoU, the proceedingsoftheNATO Advanced Study Institute atCortona, Italy. She was interviewed inJune for "The Nature of things" byRic h a r d Lon g ley, C ana d ianBroadcasting Corporation Television.Schmandt-Besserat was the coordinator of the Fifth Annual Meeting of theLanguage Origins Society, at UTAustin during August, where she organized the panel"The Origin of Visible Language in the New World."
A vraham Zilkha participated inaHebrew proficiencyworkshop in Chicago in conjunction with the annualmeetingof the National Association ofProfessors of Hebrew. In August hedelivered a paperentitled "TheUseofthe Dictionary as a Teaching Aid" atthe World Congress of Jewish Studieswhich was held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Zilkha's ModernHebrew-English Dictionary was published this year by Yale UniversityPress and has been nominated by thePress in competition for the NationalBook Awards in the scholarship category.
Publications Program
Arabian Oasis City, The Transfonnation of Unayzah by Soraya Altorkiand Donald Cole
is Number 15 in the Center's ModemMiddle East Series. Published in August, the book is based on extensiveinterviews and participant observation with both men and women in theancient oasis city Unayzah of centralSaudi Arabia. The authors recordedand analyzed the transformation thatoccured in this city during the twentieth century: the creationof the presentSaudi Arabianstateand of the newnational economy based on the oil boom
and the consequent slump in the industry. By demonstrating that the areawas not exclusively dominated bytribalism and Bedouin nomads, thisempirical case study destroys stereotypic views about Saudi Arabia. Itshows that women, although veiled,played active roles in workoutside thehousehold. Thesocial impactofchangeover theyears is, however, profoundeSpecially the gradual replacement oftheextended familyby thenuclearfamily,changingpatternsofhusband-wiferelationships, the impactofself-eamedincomeon thestatusofwomen, and theemergenceofa new middleclassofemployees and entrepreneurs. Cole andAI torki, both professors ofanthropology at the American University inCairo, provide aninterestingcollaboration between a Saudi Arabian femalescholarand an American malescholar.
The Center, in conjunctionwith the University ofTexas Press, hasrecently initiated a new series, theModern Middle East Literature inTranslation Series. Early books in theseries were By the Pen by Jalal AlAhmad (published by th~Center) andMaze of Justice by Tawfik AI-Hakim(publishedby thePress). ThisNovember brings publication of Year of theElephant, A Moroccan Woman's JourneyToward Independence by LeilaAbouzeid.
In Year of the Elephant, a fictional treatment of a Muslim woman'slife, a personal and family crisisimpellsthe heroine to reexamine traditionalcultural attitudes toward women. Castout and divorced by her husband, shefinds herself in a strange new world, asshe actively participates in the strugglefor Moroccan independence fromFrance. Year ofthe Elephant is uniquelyMoroccan. and emerges from NorthAfrican Islamic culture itself. Firstpublished in Arabic in Morocco in 1983,this novel almost immediatelysoldout.Leila Abouzeid is an author, scriptwriter, and journalist. ElizabethFemea(CMESandEnglish-UT Austin) wrotethe Introduction for the book.
Both books may be orderedthrough the University of Texas Press,P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713, (512)471-7233.
Lecturers
The ColloquiumSeriesheld at theCenter'sResourceRoomcontinues its Thursday afternoon lec
tures this year. Ali Ektekhary openedthe series on September 28 with a talk,"Observations on Iran, March-July,1989," resulting from his recent trip toIran. Eftekhary is a doctoral candidatein Foreign Language Education Studiesatthe University. OnOctober5RonHouston, Director of the UniversityFolk Dance Society, gave a lecture on"Choreography: The Influence of theOttoman Empire on World Dance."Fedwa Matti-Douglas, Associate Director of the Center, spoke of "Poetryand Patriarchy: The AutobiographyofFadwa Tuqan" on October 19. "TheSoberLogic ofTurkish" wasthe titleofEser Taylan, Lecturer in Turkish, onOctober 26.
Colloquium speakers for November include Makram Copty, doctoral candidate in Education with arnajorinPoliticsofEducation, speakingon "Education and Domination: TheCase of Palestinian Education in Israel." on November 2. New assistantprofessor of Arabic Sherman Jacksonlectures November 9 on ''The Muftiversus Medieval Muslim Society: AQarafi's Ten Tips to the Jurisconsult."On November 30 Shifra Epstein, lecturer in Hebrew, speaks on "Contemporary Hasidic Pilgrimages to Poland."
SamuelW. Lewis, PresidentoftheUnitedStatesInstituteofPea~andpast US Ambassador to Israel, willlecture as part of a program series sponsored by the United States Institute ofPeace. The Center is oneof the cosponsors of this program. This speech willbe held in the Bass Lecture Hall, LB]School ofPublic Affairs, onNovember13 at 4:00 P.M.
Faculty News
John Bordie (Foreign LanguageEducation) worked with theAmerican University of Beirutfaculty on a language teaching
workshop in Cyprus during August.Fulbright has awarded Bordie a twoyear sequential research lectureshipatthe UniversitiesofMosuland Baghdadto begin in December.
Shifra Epstein (Hebrew) was aguest editor of a special issue of theJewish Folklore and EthnographyReview, devoted to the study of material cuIture.
Elizabeth Fernea(CMESand English) was promoted from Senior Lecturer to ProfessorofEnglish during thesununer. She will continue to teachclasses cross-listed in Middle EasternStudies. Fernea waselected to thegoverning board for the Texas Institute ofLetters. During June she served as ajudge on the Paisano Committee thatawards two residency fellowships forthe arts each year.
Robert Fernea (Anthropology) aschairman of the Ethics Committee ofthe American Anthropology Associationdelivered a final reportonethics inthe profession at the Association'sannual meeting in November.
Kate Gillespie (Marketing) wasawarded the College of BusinessAdministration Foundation AdvisoryCouncilTeaching Award for AssistantProfessors. She published "PoliticalRisk Implications for Exporters, Contractors and Foreign Licensors: TheIranian Experience" in ManagementInternational Review, 1989, Vol. II.Gillespie traveled to Cairo during thesununer to explore opportunites forsummer internships for the jointMBAIMA in Middle Eastern Studies andBusiness. She then continued to theWest Bank with Catherine Ahmad tointerview Palestinian industrialists.
Clement Henry (Government) attended Tunisia Day in April at theSchool of Advanced InternationalStudies in Washington, D.C, and presented a paperonhisongoingresearch,to appear in a volume edited by William Zartman. Henry spent June con-
tinuing field work on comercial banking and political change in the Maghrib. He is organizing a Conference onTechnology and Social Change, to beheld in Tunis in the sununer of 1990,under the auspices of the Center ofMaghrebinStudiesand supportedbyaFord Foundation grant.
Michael Hillmann (Persian) presented two lectures at Columbia University in April. One of them, called"Hedayat's The Blind Owl: An Autobiographical Nightmare," was laterpublished intheinauguralissueofIranshenasimagazine. His reviewarticle onEdward Said's Orientalism appeareddUring the sununer in Salem Press'sMasterplots: Nonfiction. OrientalRugReview published his"A Cultural Analysis ofa Modem Persian Carpet," a discussion of a Persian carpet in theLyndon B. Johnson Museum collection. Hillmann's latest book, called Iranian Culture: A Persianist View, is inpress at University Press of America.The Social Science Research Councilawarded Hillmann a grant to conductresearch in Paris and Tehran duringDecemberandJanuary ona biographytentatively called An Iranian Mullah'sSon: The Ufeand Times ofJalalAl-eAhmad(1923-1969). While in Tehran, Hillmann will also work on materials forcompetency-based Persian instructionat UT Austin.
Roger Louis (History) edited,withRoger Owen,Suez 1956: theCrisisand itsConsequences, which was publishedthis year by the Oxford UniversityPress. The book is the product of twoconferences sponsored by theWoodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C and the Middle East CentreatSt. Antony's College, Oxford. In October1988hegave apaper atthe meetingof the German Historical Associationon the dissolution of the Europeancolonial empires, and participated in aDitchley Conference on political biography. In January 1989 he visited NewDelhi to help make arrangements for aseries of conferences to be sponsoredby UT Austin, theNehru Memorial library and St. Antony's on "India: theFirst Ten Years of Independence." InMarch 1989 Louis cochaired with
Robert Ferneaa conference on the IraqiRevolution of 1958. In April he lectured.at the University of the South and-theUniversity of Southern California. InJune he presented a paper at a conference at the Hebrew University inJerusalemon "Crossroads in the Palestine Problem." At Present, Louis is ona Faculty Research ASSignment and isspending the semester as a VisiitingFellow in the Middle East Program atthe Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C He is to give the ChicheleLectures on "Leo Amery and theMiddle East and India" at All SoulsCollege, Oxford in May 1990.
Fedwa Malti-Douglas published''Mentalites and Marginality: Blindness and Mamluk Civilization," in TheIslamic World, eds. CE. Bosworth et aI.Her review essay, "AnEgyptian iconoclast: Nawal el-Saadawi and FeministFiction," appeared in a special issue ofthe American Book Review in Sununer1989. Malti-Douglas delivered publiclecturesat the Universityof California,Berkeley (May 1989) and at Middlebury College (July1989). She wasalsoinvited to speak at the Levi Della VidaAward Conference at UCLA in May.
Ian Manners (Geography) waselected to the Governing Board of theHoly Land Conservation Fund. InOctoberhe visited Turkeyas a lecturerfor the American Geograhical Society,speaking on current developments inthe discipline and on contemporaryissues in environmental resourcemanagement.
Abraham Marcos (History) hadhis book, The Middle East on the Eve ofModernilty: Aleppo in the EighteenthCentury, published by Columbia University Press this year.
Gail Minault will attend in December an international conference inNew Delhi to mark the centennial ofMaulana Abul Kalam Azad, the leadingIndianMuslimnationalist. She willpresent a paper entitled "The ElusiveMaulana:SomeReflectionsonWritingAzad's Biography." Minault has beeninvited to give a series of seminars atthe Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et del'Asie du Sud of the Ecole des HautesEtudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris
New Faculty and Staff
Sherman Jackson
The Center is very happy towelcomeSheIn\anJackson asanew assistant professor in
Arabic. He comes to the Universityfrom the Center for Arabic StudyAbroad in Cairo, where he wasDirector. Professor Jackson's areas ofexpertise include classical Arabic andinterpretationofIslamic textsand legalmaterials. He is currently a candidatefor the Ph.D. at the University ofPennsylvania. He has previouslytaught at Villanova University,Middlebury College and theUniversity of Pennsylvania.
Center for Middle Eastern StudiesThe University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas 78712
Also welcome is Eser Taylan,Visiting Associate Professor in theDepartment of Oriental and AfricanLanguagesand Literatures, where sheteaches Turkish. Born in Turkey, Professor Taylan received her Ph.D. atUCLA. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley andBogazici University in Turkey.
Esser and Cern Taylan
The Center's new staff member is Deborah Littrell, who has beenappointed as Resource CenterCoordinator. Sheisresponsible for managingthe Resource Center, reserving booksand films for Middle Eastern Studies
Deborah Littrell
courses,coordinatingtheannual meeting of TAMES, and arranging schedules for visitors to the campus. Ms.Littrell holdsmastersdegrees in libraryscience and public administration, andhas had more than 12 years of experience in library and administrativepositions.
Editor: Annes McCann-Baker
Production, Design, and Photographs:Diane Watts