The following organizations
will hold meetings during the MESA
2001 annual meeting in San Francisco. Most of the functions are scheduled
on Saturday,
November 17, unless otherwise indicated in red. Please check with
the individual organizations for attendance policies. Please note that
room assignments are subject to change.
American Association of Teachers of Arabic
board meeting, 9:00am-1:00pm, conference style, 10, Boardroom A
editorial board meeting, 1:00pm-2:00pm, conference style, 7, Boardroom A
panel/poster session/business mtg., 2:30pm-5:30pm, theater style, 50,
Seacliff D
Contact: John Eisele jceise@wm.edu
New
Approaches and Directions in Teaching and Testing of Arabic
1.) Aman Attieh, Senior Lecturer at Rice University,
is the panel organizer.and will present introductory remarks.
2.) Peter Abboud, Professor
of Arabic Language and Linguistics at The University of Texas at
Austin
"Some Thoughts on the
Teaching of the Hal Construction." (in Arabic)
3.) Raji Rammuny, Professor of Arabic at The University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor
"Innovative Interactive Multimedia Arabic Applications".
4.) Paula Winke, Testing Coordinator at the Center for
Applied Linguistics
"Online Arabic Listening and Reading Proficiency Testing."
5.) Memorial for Selim Khaldieh
ABSTRACTS:
New Approaches and
Directions in Teaching and Testing of Arabic
2.) Peter Abboud, Professor
of Arabic Language and Linguistics at The University of Texas at
Austin
"Some Thoughts on the
Teaching of the Hal Construction." (in Arabic)
Following a brief survey of
the traditional treatment of Hal in most textbooks and teaching
materials, the paper will discuss (1) the place of "fadla"
or peripheral (vs.'umda) constructions such as Hal in the class
room syllabus, (2)principles of import to teachers and material
developers, such as inclusivity, exhaustiveness, gradation,
sequencing, and the type of expected student competence
(i.e. recognition and/or production), and (3) the pressing need of
exploring not only what but also how to teach them. This paper
will be delivered in Aabic.
3.) Raji Rammuny, Professor of Arabic at The
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
"Innovative Interactive Multimedia Arabic
Applications".
The first part provides an overview and primary goals of the multimedia
project. The second part deals with its content, design and methodology.
The third part includes a summary and conclusions, along ith recommendations
for developing multimedia materials. The presentation concludes
with a display of samples of the multimedia application presented
by Mr. Waheed Samy, a Ph.D graduate student in UM Near Eastern Studies
Department and instructional technology research assistant on
the Arabic multimedia project.
4.) Paula Winke, Testing Coordinator at the Center for
Applied Linguistics
"Online Arabic Listening and Reading Proficiency
Testing."
First, the presentation will discuss updating the current
paper-and-pencil Arabic Placement Test developed in 1992 by
Professors Raji Rammuny, Mahmoud Sieny and others to a Web-based,Computer
Adaptive Test (CAT) format. Second, it will demonstrate a
framework for adapting or developing proficiency tests for Less
Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) based on the revised ACTFL
Guidelines and discuss its review process. The last part will
discuss the software "Question Mark" used for developing
this project, demonstrate graphics used for the Arabic Script,
show sample items from the test, and explain the test's Graphic
Interface Design.
American Association of Teachers of Persian
business meeting, 12:00noon-2:00pm, theater style, 25, Seacliff B
board meeting, 2:00pm-4:00pm, conference style, 10, Boardroom B
Contact: Manouchehr Kasheff mk12@columbia.edu
American Association of Teachers of Turkic
Languages
business meeting, 9:00pm-10:00pm, theater style, 60, Bayview B
Contact: Erika Gilson ehgilson@princeton.edu
AATT will sponsor a roundtable entitled Effective
Classroom Strategies for Teaching Turkish on Sunday, November 18
from 10:30am-12:30pm.
American Institute of Iranian Studies
board meeting, 6:00pm-8:00pm, conference style, 25, Garden A
Contact: Maryam Ekhtiar mekhtiar@worldnet.att.net
American Institute for Maghrib Studies
board meeting, 12:00noon-4:00pm, conference style, 17, Golden Gate
business meeting, 6:00pm-7:30pm, theater style, 30, Seacliff B
GSO meeting, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
6:00pm-7:00pm, rounds of 10, 20, Hospitality Suite
Contact: Becky Schulthies beckys@u.arizona.edu
American Institute for Yemeni Studies
board meeting, 3:00pm-5:00pm, conference style, 25, Pacific Concourse B
general meeting, 5:00pm-7:00pm, theater style, 40, Pacific Concourse C
Contact: Maria Ellis mellis@sas.upenn.edu
American Research Center in Egypt
fellowships roundtable, 11:00am-12:30pm, theater style, 75, Garden B
Contact: Susanne Thomas sthom11@emory.edu
American University of Beirut
reception, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
8:00pm-10:00pm, scattered cocktail tables, 150, Grand Ballroom B
Contact: Lynn Mahoney mahoney@aub.edu
American University in Cairo
reception, 8:00pm-10:00pm, scattered cocktail tables, 150, Grand
Ballroom C
Contact: April Croft acroft@aucnyo.edu
ArabicNet
editorial board meeting, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
8:00am-10:00am, Hospitality Suite
Association for Environmental &
Developmental Studies in the Arab World
board meeting, 7:00pm-8:00pm, conference style, 5, Pacific Concourse A
business meeting, 8:00pm-9:30pm, theater style, 30, Seacliff D
panel, Sunday, 11/18/2001, 8:00pm-10:00pm,
theater style, 75, Seacliff C (see details below)
Contact: Gloria Saliba gsaliba@ucla.edu
AEDSAW Current Events Session 2001
The speakers in this panel will discuss the crucial topics dealing with
environment and development in different parts of the Arab world. These topics
include public health concerns and policies, environmental challenges and
environmental activism, gentrification and socioeconomic change, in addition
to discussing the development in technological applications, the
environmental, socioeconomic and political impact of water conflicts and land
reclamation projects.
Chair: Sandy Sufian, Rutgers Center for Historical
Analysis
Discussant: Gloria Saliba, UCLA
Osman Galal, UCLA
Food Safety and Health in the Middle East
Günter Meyer, University of Mainz
Water Conflicts and Environmental Impact of the New Mega-Projects in Egypt
Barre Ludvigsen, Høgskolen i Østfold/American University of Beirut
Creating Digital Books: Women’s Oral History and the Humor of Civil Strife
Gladys Nader and Nelly Abdallah, Association pour la Protection des
Sites et Anciennes Demeures (APSAP)/SOS Environment Section
Irreversible Changes in Lebanon’s Environment: Destruction of the Natural and
Architectural Heritage
Anton Escher, University of Mainz
Gentrification in Marrakesh
Association for Israel Studies
reception, 7:30pm-9:30pm, scattered cocktail tables, 50, Hospitality
Suite
Contact: Robert Freedman rfreedman@bhu.edu
Association for Middle East Women's Studies
board meeting, 3:30pm-5:00pm, conference style, 10, Boardroom A
business meeting, 6:30pm-8:00pm, theater, 75, Grand Ballroom
A
reception, 8:00pm-10:00pm, Grand Ballroom A
AMEWS-'Hawwa' discussion/no-host breakfast (by invitation only), Monday, 11/19/2001,
7:00am-8:30am, Hospitality Suite
Contact: Amaney Jamal amaneyps@umich.edu
Featured speakers at the AMEWS meeting are Goli Targhi,
Iranian Novelist, and Farzaneh Milani, University of Virginia.
Association for the Study of Persianate
Societies
board meeting, 2:00pm-4:00pm, conference style, 6, Pacific Concourse A
business meeting, 4:00pm-5:00pm, theater style, 12, Seacliff B
reception, 8:30pm-10:30pm, scattered cocktail tables, 25, Golden Gate
Contact: Said Arjomand said.arjomand@sunysb.edu
California Universities-Berkeley, UCLA, Santa
Barbara
reception, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
8:00pm-10:00pm, scattered cocktail tables, 150, Garden B
Contact: Larry Michalak otis@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Center for Arabic Study Abroad
executive council meeting, 6:00pm-11:00pm, conference style, 10,
Boardroom A
luncheon/business mtg., Sunday, 11/18/2001,
12:30pm-2:30pm, rounds of 10, 40, Hospitality Suite
Contact: Alayne Wood awood2@emory.edu
COLTIA
board meeting, 12:30pm-2:30pm, Pacific Concourse C
Contact: Gerald Lampe glampe@nflc.org
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
meeting, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
11:00am-5:00pm, theater style, 30, Pacific Concourse A
Contact: Jane Mitchell caorc@caorc.si.edu
The meeting topic will be Mapping an IT Strategy for American
Overseas Research Centers
Foundation for Iranian Studies
Iran Nameh editorial board meeting,
7:00pm-9:00pm, conference style, 15, Boardroom B
panel, Sunday, 11/18/2001, 8:00pm-10:00pm,
theater style, 150, Bayview A (see details below)
Contact: Mahnaz Afkhami mafkhami@learningpartnership.org
Iran's
Literature in Exile (in
Persian)
Chair: Hormoz
Hekmat, Editor, Iran Nameh
Discussant: Ardavan Davaran, University of Notre Dame
Speakers: Goli Taraghi and Majid Roshanger
During
the two decades after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Persian
literature in exile has come to claim its own identity through
distinctive expressive and textual innovations. The representatives of
this new genre comprise not only a growing number of expatriate
Iranian poets and writers but also some Iranian artists who have, for
the most part, remained in Iran and yet experienced the inner
vicissitudes of a semi-exilic life. Some of the salient
characteristics of this exilic literature, as well as the literary manifestations of an Iranian writer's inner conflicts in an
alien milieu, will be presented in this special session.
The speakers will be Goli Taraghi and Majid Roshangar. Taraghi is a
prolific writer whose works have won literary acclaim both in Iran and
in translation abroad. Her ties to Iran have withstood the test of
post-revolutionary strains. She will talk about her post-revolutionary
experiences that have found expression in her latest novel, Elsewhere,
published in Iran early this year. Roshangar is a literary critic and
translator who has edited and published the Persian Book
Review, a quarterly journal of Persian studies, since 1991. He
will explore the salient features of Persian literature in exile with
particular emphasis on novels and short stories.
Gulf/2000
reception, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
8:00pm-10:00pm, scattered cocktail tables, 100, Garden A
Contact: Larry Potter lgp5@columbia.edu
Harvard University
reception, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
8:00pm-10:00pm, scattered cocktail tables, 50+, Golden Gate
Contact: Ahmed Jebari jebari@fas.harvard.edu
Historians of Islamic Art
reception, 10:00am-12:00noon, scattered cocktail tables, 30, Hospitality
Suite
Contact: Heghnar Watenpaugh heghnar@po12.mit.edu
Institute of Islamic & Arabic Sciences in
America
panel/meeting, 10:00am-12:00noon, theater, 20, Marina
Contact: Muhamad S. Olimat olimat@hotmail.com
Kurdish Studies Association
panel, 5:00pm-7:00pm, theater style, 40, Garden B (see details below)
business meeting, 7:00pm-8:00pm, theater style, 40, Garden B
reception, 8:00pm-9:30pm, scattered cocktail tables, 50, Marina
Contact: Charles MacDonald cgmacdona@aol.com
Nation-Building: Kurdish Experiences
Chair: Charles G. MacDonald, Florida International
University
Carole A. O’Leary, American
University
Arabs and Kurds: Rethinking Federalism as a Model for a Future Iraqi State
Aram Nigogosian, University of Pennsylvania
Prospects of the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey after Abdullah Ocalan's
Capture
Abbas Vali, University of Wales, Swansea
Kurdish Nationalists without Kurdish Nationalism
Nazand Begikhani, Kurdish Women against Honor
Killing
Women and Nationalism
Mohammed Ihssan, University of Erbil
The Role of Barzani in the Construction of Kurdish Nationalism
Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Tech University
Renewed Kurdish Infighting: The PKK-PUK Conflict
Lebanese Studies Association
business meeting, 7:00pm-8:30pm, theater style, 45, Pacific Concourse B
Contact: Stephen Sheehi sheehi@duke.edu
Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program
Library of Congress meeting, 5:00pm-7:00pm, theater style, 15, Marina
Contact: David Hirsch dhirsch@library.ucla.edu
Middle East Librarians Association et al
MEMP executive board meeting, Friday, 11/16/2001,
9:00am-12:00noon, conference style, 10, Golden Gate
MEMP membership meeting, Friday, 11/16/2001,
2:00pm-5:00pm, theater style, 30, Golden Gate
OCLC Arabic users group, Friday, 11/16/2001,
7:00pm-9:00pm, Seacliff A
RLG users group, 7:00am-9:00am, theater style, 20, Seacliff C
MELA business meeting/election, 9:00am-12:00noon, theater style, 50,
Seacliff C
MELA luncheon, 12:00noon-2:00pm, rounds of 10, 50, Seacliff A
MELA program, 2:00pm-5:00pm, theater, 50, Seacliff C
MECAP (Library of Congress) meeting, 5:00pm-7:00pm, theater style, 15,
Marina
Contact: David Hirsch dhirsch@library.ucla.edu
Middle East Medievalists
board meeting, 6:00pm-7:00pm, conference style, 8, Golden Gate
business meeting, 7:00pm-8:30pm, theater style, 40, Seacliff C
Contact: Warren Schultz wschultz@wppost.depaul.edu
Middle East Microform Project
executive board meeting, Friday, 11/16/2001,
9:00am-12:00noon, conference style, 10, Golden Gate
membership meeting, Friday, 11/16/2001,
2:00pm-5:00pm, theater style, 30, Golden Gate
Contact: David Hirsch dhirsch@library.ucla.edu
Middle East Outreach Council
business meeting, 3:00pm-6:00pm, theater style, 50, Bayview A
luncheon, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
12:30pm-1:30pm, rounds of 10, 50, Seacliff D
Contact: Larry Michalak otis@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
reception, Sunday, 11/18/2001, 8:00pm-10:00pm,
Grand Ballroom C
Contact: Chris Toensing ctoensing@merip.org
New York University, Department of Middle Eastern
Studies and Hagop Kevorkian Center
reception, Sunday, 11/18/2001, 8:00pm-10:00pm,
Marina
Contact: Bill Carrick (william.carrick@nyu.edu)
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
Arabic users group, Friday, 11/16/2001,
7:00pm-9:00pm, Seacliff A
Contact: David Whitehair (whitehad@oclc.org)
Palestinian American Research Center
business meeting, 12:30pm-2:00pm, theater style, 30, Garden B
Contact: Ann Lesch ann.lesch@villanova.edu
Research Libraries Group
users group, 7:00am-9:00am, theater style, 20, Seacliff C
Contact: Lynn Pazar lynn_pazar@notes.rlg.org
Social Science Research Council-MENA
reception, Sunday, 11/18/2001, 8:00pm-10:00pm,
Grand Ballroom A
Contact: Nazli Parvizi mena@ssrc.org
Society for Armenian Studies
board meeting, 5:00pm-6:00pm, conference style, 8, Pacific Concourse A
business meeting, 8:00pm-10:00pm, theater style, 40, Pacific Concourse C
Contact: Barlow Der Mugrdechian barlowd@csufresno.edu
Society for Gulf Arab Studies
board meeting, 5:00pm-6:00pm, conference style, 10, Boardroom B
business meeting, 6:00pm-7:30pm, theater style, 75, Seacliff D
reception, 7:30pm-9:30pm, scattered cocktail tables, 100, Bayview A
Contact: Joseph Overton overton21229@yahoo.com
Society for Iranian Studies
board meeting, 9:00am-11:00am, conference style, 30, Bayview B
business meeting, 4:00pm-6:00pm, theater style, 100, Grand Ballroom C
Contact: Monica Ringer ringer@iranian-studies.org
Society for Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Studies
panel, 5:00pm-7:00pm, theater style, 45, Grand Ballroom B
Contact: Sholeh Quinn quinn@ohio.edu
St. Mary's College
panel, 8:00pm-10:00pm, theater style, 100, Grand Ballroom B (see details
below)
Contact: Sepher Zabih szabih@stmarys-ca.edu
Iran on the
Threshold of the New Millennium
Sepehr Zabih, St. Mary’s
College of California (chair)
Reform or Status Quo
Ahmad Goreishi, U.S. Naval Post-Graduate School
Military Policy and Capability: The Persian Gulf and the Region
Fred H. Lawson, Mills College
Relations with the United States, Prospects and Problems
Barry Preisler, Sonoma State University
Iran and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Syrian Studies Association
board meeting, 3:00pm-5:00pm, conference style, 20, Garden A
business meeting, 5:00pm-8:00pm, theater style, 50, Seacliff A
panel, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
7:00pm-8:00pm, theater style, 120, Bayview B
reception, Sunday, 11/18/2001,
8:00pm-9:00pm, Bayview B Foyer
Contact: Birgit Schaebler bmschaeb@mail.gcsu.edu
The SSA presents a special panel on
The Civil Society Debate in Syria
featuring guest speaker Sadeq al-Azm
Following the panel, the SSA and the Middle East Centre at Oxford
University will co-host a reception in the Bayview B Foyer.
Turkish Studies Association
board meeting, 11:00am-1:00pm, conference style, 10, Garden A
reception, 6:00pm-7:00pm, scattered cocktail tables, 70, Bayview B Foyer
business meeting, 7:00pm-9:00pm, theater style, 60, Bayview B
Contact: Marcie Patton mpatton@fair1.fairfield.edu
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