Middle Eastern Studies
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Housed in the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies offers language and content courses, and comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs of study. Housed within the Department are six specialized programs that offer additional degree programs, methods of study, events, and public resources.
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Item Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter Fall 1982, No. 2(1982-12) Godwin, Daniel; Watts, DianeMiddle East Summer Institute; Middle East Film Festival; new research associates; publications; Naional Resource Center fellowships, faculty news; outreach news; Middle East week; visiting lecturers.Item Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter Fall 1983, No. 3(1983-11) Godwin, Daniel; Watts, DianeNew faculty; re-establishment of Turkish language program; NRC refunding; summer institute; Middle East week; publications update; visiting scholar Izzut Ghurani; new databanks; publication of slide packages.Item Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter Fall 1985, No. 5(1985-10) McCann Baker, Annes; Watts, Diane; Jazayery, M. A. (Mohammad Ali); Payne, MarjorieCMES celebrates 25th anniversary; summer institute for teachers; new books; conference on Iranian nationalism; obituaries: Anne Royal and Arthur B. Allen.Item Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter No. 21 (Fall 1994)(1994) McCann-Baker, AnnesIstanbul exhibition; launch of UT-MENIC; Gale Lecture Series on the Dreyfus Affair; Robert Fernea receives CMES Award; establishment of MELC; new faculty: Faegheh Shirazi; obituary: Makram Copty; honorary LLD for Elizabeth Fernea; summer program at Boğaziçi University.Item Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter No. 22 (Spring 1995)(1995) McCann-Baker, AnnesNew director Abraham Marcus; conference on Istanbul; conference on Israeli peace accords; conference on civil society; outreach and publications updates.Item Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter No. 24 (Spring 1998)(1998) McCann-Baker, Annes; Watts, Diane; Marcus, AbrahamIncrease in NRC/FLAS funding; new fellowship in memory of Ann Grabhorn Friday; new joint degree program with law; Istanbul summer program; special courses on Middle East business; expansion of academic ties with Morocco; new faculty: Zilla Goodman, Akel Kahera, Daniel Laufer, Adam Zachary Newton, Mark Southern, Barbara Wolbert; outreach; publications; new bibliography on Muslim women online; donation of Persian book collection; obituary for Robert W. Stookey.Item Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter No. 25 (Fall 1999/Spring 2000)(2000) Berman, Nina; McCann-Baker, Annes; Rose, Christopher SMediterranean Crossroads 2000; 1999 Middle East Summer Institute; Women of the Book Conference; conference on Hassan Fathy; Legacy of the Middle East exhibition; new joint degree with Information School; Outreach news; Publications news; panel discussion on Middle Eastern jounralism; film festivalsItem Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter No. 26 (Fall 2000)(2000) Berman, Nina; McCann-Baker, AnnesItem Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter No. 27 (Spring 2001)(2001) Berman, Nina; McCann-Baker, AnnesItem Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter No. 28 (Fall 2001/Spring 2002)(2002) Marcus, Abraham; Walters, S. Keith; Hutchinson, Hillary; Watts, DianeItem Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter No. 29 (Fall 2002/Spring 2003)(2003) Marcus, Abraham; Walters, S. Keith; Hutchinson, Hillary; Watts, DianeItem Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter Spring 1982, No. 1(1982-05) Godwin, Daniel; Watts, DianeCMES publications; international studies; computer-assisted instruction; Middle East film festival; TAMES; Middle East Week; Middle East collection; slides for the classroom; visiting scholars.Item Center for Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter Spring 1985, No. 4(1985-04) McCann Baker, Annes; Watts, DianeNew slide packets; Elizabeth Fernea elected president of MESA; Ian Manners appointed Acting Director; awards for W. Roger Louis; upcoming programs; development of Turkish Studies; lectures; publications; faculty news;visiting faculty Jacques Waardenburg and Hilary Waardenburg-Kilpatrick; student awards; computer assisted instruction in Arabic; obituary: Victorine Abboud; new staff Annes McCann-BakerItem Egypt: A Land of Firsts (Elementary Lessons on Egypt)(2005-10) Brodigan, JudyCurriculum unit of five lessons about Egypt for grades K-5. (1: Egypt: Where is it and What is is Like? 2: How long have the communities of Egypt and the United States existed? 3: Using Artifacts to uncover culture. 4: Earning a Living: Farming and Tourism in Egypt. 5: Children in Egypt and the United States: What do we share?) Ties into educational standards dealing with families and communities.Item Leaving Iberia: A Mufti, His Fatwa, and the Islamic Obligation to Emigrate(2014-04-11) Hendrickson, JocelynDuring the fall of al-Andalus (known to Christians as the reconquista) some of the first substantial Muslim populations came under permanent non-Muslim rule. For centuries, Muslims had lived alongside Jews and Christians who accepted a subordinate, dhimmī status. Christian conquest inverted this hierarchy and thus presented novel and difficult questions for Muslim jurists. Could Muslims accept minority status under Christian rule, or must they emigrate to Muslim-ruled territory? Scholars interested in Islamic legal responses to Christian conquest have devoted generous attention to the legal opinions (fatwās) of one jurist in particular, Fez’s chief muftī Ahmad al-Wansharīsī (died 1508). In this talk, I explore multiple ways o reading al-Wansharīsī’s infamous fatwās obligating Iberian Muslims to leave their conquered homelands. Did these texts speed the “downfall of Spanish Islam”? Do they represent Islamic law at its medieval worst, strict and inhumane? Or were they a thinly veiled commentary on the lesser-known Reconquest, the expansion of Portugal into Morocco? Are the questions posed to al-Wansharīsī “true” stories? This talk critiques the perceived exceptionalism of the Iberian Muslim predicament, takes a fresh look at Muslim-Christian relations in North Africa, and considersfatwās as narratives of indigenous resistance and political critique.Item Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Newsletter, Vol 1 (October 15, 1998)(1998-10-15) Liebowitz, HaroldSpecial events and upcoming talks; new Tajiki program; new faces Kamran Aghaie and Monica Yaniv; visiting scholars Simin Karimi; faculty highlight: Yaron Shemer; Esther Raizen heads research team; lectures by faculty; student news.Item Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Newsletter, Vol 2 (Fall 1999)(1999) Aghaie, Kamran ScotSymposium on pilgrimage to holy sites; graduate student news; brown bag luncheon series; Tracking Cultures; conference on Hassan Fathy; faculty publications; new assistant professors Kamran Aghaie and Yildiray Erdener; faculty profile Mohammad Ali Jazayery; faculty workshops.Item Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Newsletter, Vol 3 (Spring 2000)(2000) Aghaie, Kamran ScotItem Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter 2006-2007, No. 30(2006-10) Aghaie, Kamran Scot; Rose, Christopher; Herman, JeanetteNRC refunding; new faculty Mahmoud al-Batal and Kristen Brustad; Fulbright-Hays seminar in Egypt; off-campus workshops fior K-12 teachers; K-12 curriculum development; Islamic Movements conferenc; Urban Geographies conference; new fiction translations; grant from SIAWE for Persian translations; new publications; Mediterranean Crossroads 2006; online Persian language learning resources; new faculty Sonia Seeman, Nader Morkus; visiting professor Yoav Gelber; new librarian Robin Dougherty.Item Middle Eastern Studies Newsletter 2007-2008, No. 31(2007-11) Rose, Christopher; Moore, Wendy; Raizen, EstherArabic Flagship Program; ROTC Language and Culture Project; Farewell to Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Robert Fernea; Middle East Ensemble "Bereket," New faculty Hina Azam and Fehintola Mosadomi; faculty and staff news; obituaries: Carol Justus and Winfred Lehmann; outreach news; new publications and excerpts from Women on a Journey and Siraaj.