Center for Middle Eastern Studies NEWSLETT R
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Center for Middle Eastern Studies
NEWSLETT
The University of Texas at Austin
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Fall 1985
Center Director Walter Lehn Leads 1965 Symposium-The Conflict ofTraditionalism and Modernism in the Muslim Middle East
CENTER CELEBRATES25TH ANNIVERSARY
During the academic year1985-86, The Center for MiddleEastern Studies will celebrate the25th anniversary of its founding in1960. The year will be marked bya number of special activities andevents. On September 26 - aConference entitled "Iranian Nationalism and the International OilCrisis, 1951-1954," organized byJames A Bill and Wm. RogerLouis, will be held at the University. Lecturer Elizabeth Fernea(CMES) is planning for the springsemester a seminar, "New Directions in Middle East Studies," withnational and international scholarsrepresenting the disciplines ofGovernment, History, IslamicStudies, Anthropology, Literature,Philosophy, and Law.
Many scholars who were instrumental in founding the Center25 years ago are still connnectedwith the University. Professor W.P. Lehmann (Linguistics)remembers the need for Universityofferings concerning the MiddleEast that existed prior to the formation of the Center. The community of Lebanese then in Austinwanted Arabic instruction offered,and the course was finally offeredinformally and eventually underthe auspices of the GermanicLanguages Department, of whichProf. Lehmann was chairman.During the same period, BiblicalHebrew was offered from time totime through the Classics Department (often by a nonfacultymember), and a survey course wasperiodically offered in History.
Prof. Lehmann, himselfaware of the need for internationalstudies at the university level,knew also that the U.S. government, in the post-Sputnik era, hadsimiliar concerns. Title VI of theNational Defense Education Act(NDEA) had been created in 1958to support, among other programs,International Studies Centers andthe granting of Foreign Languageand Area Studies Fellowships.Prof. Lehmann went toWashington and came back withfunds and authorization for thecreation of Centers for both MiddleEastern and Asian Studies. Prof.Lehmann has continued his affiliation with both centers over theyears.
The Center for MiddleEastern Studies was first established as a small administrative operation, offering a limited number ofcourses in Arabic language and
linguistics and two or three areastudies courses. Other languageand area courses were added inrapid succession: Persian courseswere introduced in 1962 andHebrew in 1963. A B.A. and anM.A. in Hebrew were approved in1968. By 1969, language andliterature courses (offered in theDepartment of Linguistics) had expanded to a point that the University approved the establishment ofthe Department of Oriental andAfrican Languages andLiteratures. The B.A. in Orientaland African Languages andLiteratures, which providedspecialization in Arabic, Hebrew,and Persian, was introduced.
Area studies also expanded,and under Director Robert Ferneathe Center for Middle EasternStudies developed into a fullfledged administrative/academicunit, with expanded staff and
facilities. A B,A. In MiddleEastern Studies was introduced in1972, replacing the Concentrationin Middle Eastern Studies, Designed primarily for persons intending to enter government, industry, or other nonacademic, professional involvement in the Middle East, the M,A. in MiddleEastern Studies was inaugurated in1979 with an enrollment of sixstudents.
Expansion has continuedapace, Today, the University'sacademic program includes approximately 40 scholars in MiddleEastern Studies; courses in nearly20 disciplines in four thetwo undergraduate degrees andmany options for graduate degrees,Beginning in September 1985, twonew graduate degrees have becomeavailable to students in MiddleEastern Studies, both administeredthrough the Department of Oriental and African Languages andLiteratures: an M,A. in OrientalLanguages, Literatures, andCultures; and a Ph,D. in MiddleEastern Languages, Literatures,and Cultures, Both degrees provide specialization in Arabic,Hebrew, and Persian. Three othergraduate degrees providespecialization in Middle Easternlanguages: Linguistics (M.A. andPh.D.), Comparative Literature(Ph.D.), and Foreign LanguageEducation (M.A. and Ph.D.).
The University's total inventory of courses includes approximately 200 Middle EasternStudies titles, These include"topics" courses, under whichseveral different courses can betaught during any given semester.
During 1979-1985, 27students received B.A.s in Orientaland African languages andliteratures, with specializations inMiddle Eastern languages. Six
M.A,s were earned in Hebrew.During this time period, 33students received undergraduatedegrees in the interdisciplinaryB,A. in Middle Eastern Studies, Atotal of 40 received M.A. degreesand Ph.D. degrees in differentdisciplines; and 18 received the interdisciplinary M.A. in MiddleEastern Studies, However, theUniversity's Middle EasternStudies offerings are not forspecialists or would-be specialistsalone. Each semester, largenumbers of students take MiddleEastern Studies courses as electivesor minors to supplement variousmajors.
The Center has started concerted efforts to locate, and keep incontact with, all UT alumni inMiddle Eastern Studies. It will appreciate hearing from those alumniwho have not been in touch withthe Center in recent years, andfrom anyone who knows of suchalumni.
The University's regular offerings in Middle Eastern Studies arestrengthened by outstandingvisiting faculty from the U.S, andabroad, Visiting faculty over theyears have included ProfessorsHalim Barakat (GeorgetownUniversity); Harvey Goldberg(Hebrew University, Jerusalern);Reuven Kritz (Tel-Aviv University); Sepehr Zabih (St. Mary's Col-
Berkeley); Jacques Berque(College de Paris); Hamzael-Din (University of Khartoum);Jacob Landau (Hebrew U niversi-
Donald Cole (AmericanUniversity in Cairo); James Faris(University of Connecticut);Donald Quataert (University ofHouston); Ahmed Morsy (CairoUniversity); Refael Yankelovitch(Bar-Han University); Bernard
Kortum (University of Kiel);William L. Cleveland (Simon
Fraser University); Victor L,Levine (Washington University);and Peter Beaumont (University ofWales), In the spring of 1985, Professor Jacques Waardenberg (StateUniversity of Utrecht in TheNetherlands), and Professor HilaryKirkpatrick Waardenberg(University of Nijmegen in TheNetherlands) offered courses onIslam and on Arabic Literaturerespectively.
In addition, the Centerbenefits from the group ofResearch Associates connectedwith it, and consisting of distinquished retired scholars,diplomats, and members of thebusiness community, whosecareers have focused on the MiddleEast. Their areas of expertise arevaluable for guest lecturing in theclassroom, conferences, and consultation with students.
The Center, a division of theCollege of Liberal Arts, is staffedby a Director, Associate Director,Administrative Assistant,Undergraduate Advisor, GraduateAdvisor, Outreach Coordinator,Publications Editor, and other support personneL Since January1981, Dr. Mohammad AliI "7;lv,'rv has been Director. Dr.Ian R. lYfanners is Associate Director. Prof. is a scholar ofMiddle Eastern languages and
emphasizing Iranianlinguistics. He is also a student ofthe life and work of AhmadKasravi (1890-1946), Iranian socialthinker, scholar, and jurist. Prof.Manners is in the GeographyDepartment. His particular interests are ecological and socioeconomic aspects of resourcemanagement, with particularreference to the Middle East.
Directors for the Center overthe years include W. P. Lehmann(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
W. P. Lehmann Robert Fernea Paul W. English
James A. Bill and Ian R. Manners M. A. Jazayery
from 1960-62; Walter Lehn(Ph.D., Cornell) from 1962-66;Robert Fernea (Ph.D., Universityof Chicago) from 1966-73; Paul W.English (Ph.D., University ofWisconsin) from 1973-79 and M.A. Jazayery (Ph.D., University ofTexas) from 1981 to the present.Acting Directors have been JamesA. Bill (Ph.D., Princeton) from1979-80, and Ian R. Manners (D.Phil. Oxford) from 1980-81 andduring the spring of 1985.
A service used closely by theCenter's faculty and students arethe library facilities dealing withthe Middle East. The vernacularMiddle East Collection is one offive special collections containedwithin the University of Texaslibrary system. Now holding morethan 48,000 volumes and morethan 500 vernacular serial titles,the collection has gained distinction
in subjects such as Persian andArabic literatures, Islamicphilosophy, and jurisprudence. In1974 a Middle East Librarian wasappointed to the Collection. Booksand periodicals on the Middle Eastin English and West Europeanlanguages are located in the PerryCastanada Library. The University's Hebrew and Judaic collectionsare also housed in the generallibrary system.
The Center is involved in anumber of regional and national
projects. Individuals at other
Texas institutions whose teachingand research are directly related tothe Middle East have made contactthrough the Center in order to exchange information and collaborate on projects of mutual interest and benefit, as well asbenefit from the Center's programsand resources. A group of scholars
from throughout the state met mAustin in October 1981 andestablished the Texas Associationof Middle East Scholars(TAMES). At present there are 46members representing 15 institutions, who meet yearly in Austin.
An important developmentover the past three years has beenthe Center's participation in theConsortium of Western U niversities. Established in 1981, theConsortium now comprises theUniversity of California, Berkeley;UCLA; Portland State University;the University of Texas; theUniversity of Washington; theUniversity of Arizona; and theUniversity of Utah. The Consortium's goal is to provide annually afull-fledged Summer Institute onthe Middle East with both intensive language and area studies.The Institute was held at theUniversity of Texas in 1983.
The Center as an organization, and its members as individuals, are actively involved inMiddle Eastern studies at the national level. CMES holds institutional memberships in the MiddleEast Studies Association of NorthAmerica, the American ResearchCenter in Egypt, the AmericanSchools of Oriental Research, theAmerian Institute for YemeniStudies, the Institute of IranianStudies, and the Turkish StudiesAssociation.
Other activities of the Center,with far-reaching consequencesbeyond the campus, arerepresented by the Publicationsand Outreach TheCenter actively supports scholarlypublication on the modern MiddleEast. The Modern Middle EastSeries, developed and sponsoredby the Center and published by theUniversity of Texas Press, is committed to the publication of innovative works of the standards, focusing on the history,culture, and politics of the MiddleEast. The books are distributed internationally and are regularlyreviewed in leading American,European, and Middle Easternscholarly journals. Since 1976, theCenter has published 16 books,with three currently at the press.
The Center is now ha.ndlJ1D:gU.S. distribution of the Cairo
in Social Science, a seriesdevoted to research in social,economic, and political development conducted by scholars working in the Middle East. Publishedby the American University inCairo, the series has put out morethan 20 issues of collected articlesand monographs.
An important partCenter's Outreach I-'r(){rr"rn
Middle East Resource aresearch and documentation center
organized to serve K-12 schoolteachers and students, universityfacuIty and students, and community groups who need assistancein obtaining information about theMiddle East. It houses some 3,000current books, references, 10,000
and other primary andsecondary school teachingmaterials. The Resource Centersubscribes to 25 journals and maintains a weekly Middle East clippingservice, which provides students,faculty, and others with immediateaccess to information on currentevents. All materials, books andslides are available for loan.
A series of seven audio-visualunits has been prepared
through the Center's Outreach program. Designed as a single, integral unit in which visuals, commentary, and worksheetsare combined, each packet is contained in a sturdy looseleafnotebook. Available for rental or
the units concern theMiddle Eastern family,
costume, cel'enlOllie.s,and the culture and history ofTurkey. These and otherteaching materials are prepared fornational distribution.
Each year the Center invitesMiddle East scholars for short-termvisits to present public lectures.Some of the symposia and lectureseries have included Conflict ofTraditionalism and Modernism inthe Muslim Middle East (1965);The Arab-Israeli Cultural Symbiosis (1975); Images for Ete:rnity
Iran, the ContemporaryExperience and the PersianTranslation Workshop (1977); TheContemporary Arab World (1978);Architectural Trends in the MiddleEast and Energy, ACatalyst for Change: The MiddleEast and the United States (1980).
For students the Center administers the Foreign Languageand Area Studies (FLAS)Fellowship program, which provides tuition plus a yearly stipendto graduate students in languageand area studies. In recent years,most fellowship recipients havebeen in the social sciences (Anthropology, Geography, Government, History, andOther awards have been made tostudents 111 professional fields(Business, Education, and PublicAffairs) and in the interdisciplinaryMiddle Eastern Studies degreeprogram. Arabic has been theaward for the majority offellows. The Center also providesother grants for students,
In curriculum and other acthe Center has since its inplaced great on
the modern Middle East. This,however, has not resulted in the exclusion of the older periods. TheUniversity has for many years offered courses in Indo-Europeanlinguistics and related subjects. Italso offered courses in the archeology of the Middle East. Inaddition, since 1979, the Centerhas each summer co-sponsoredwith the Department of Orientaland African Languages andLiteratures an expedition at TelYin'am, under the directorship ofProfessor Harold Liebowitz of thatdepartment.
In its future efforts to improveand expand programs, theCenter for Middle Eastern Studiesplans to enhance its TurkishStudies program, continue thedevelopment of computer-assistedArabic language programs, anddevelop procedures for periodicevaluation of the Centers othervarious programs. The 25th Anniversity year promises a full andexciting send-off into the richpotential of the coming years.
FACULTY NEWS
M.A. Jazayery (DOALL,CMES) spent most of the month of
in London, where he conducted research at the Library ofthe School of Oriental and AfricanStudies and visited with colleaguesCOllce:rnmg his subject: the life andideas of Ahmad especiallyhis views on Shi'ism and onclassical Persian poetry. ProfessorJazayery was in Paris from June14-21 to visit the Institut d'EtudesIraniennes for research on Persianlinguistics and literature and tofamiliarize himself with the IranCenter for Documentation. Hehas just published an article on theIranian language academies in thenew edition of Encyclopedia if Islam,Fasciculus 95 -96, pp. 1094-1099,
The article appears as section (ii) of the entry entitled "Mad
" with the other three sec-Arab countries,
Turkey, and India. ProfessorJ azayery's article "Recent PersianLiterature: Observations onThemes and Tendencies" has beenreprinted in Thomas Ed.,Perspectives on Persian Literature(Washington: Three ContinentsPress, 1984).
Fedwa Malti-Douglas(Arabic) has two books ap'peclrirlgin 1985: Structures if Avarice: TheBukhala in Medieval Arabic Literaturewith E. J. Brill and The Stru~ture qfthe Classical Text: Studies in Adab and
(in Arabic) with theGeneral Book organiza-tion. Professor Malti-Douglasserved on thc faculty of theSalzburg Seminar in Salzburg,Austria, in October 1984 and hasrecently been to theEquipe de Recherche: Documents,Histoire, et Pensee en IslamMedieval, at the Centre Nationalde la Recherche Scientil'ique.
Elizabeth Fernea (CMES) hasbeen asked by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland to speak at its International Festival of
Film to be heldSe!)teJl1ber 23-27 in London. Ms.Fernea's film, Women Under Siege,about women in Palestinianrefugee camps in Lebanon, will beshown at the National FilmTheatre. She has been asked alsoto take part in discussions onfeminist anthropology and the roleof ethnographic film inment education. The purpose ofthe Festival is to encourage greaterinternational awareness of theachievements to date and thefuture potential of documentalYethnographic film-making.
Denise Schmandt-Besserat hasreturned from a year sabbatical asguest of the Institute for Researchin the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison whereshe pursued her studies on theorigin of abstract numerals. Shehas just been appointed to the Advisory Board of Visible Language.Professor Schmandt- Besserat isalso on the governing boards of theArchaeological Institute of Americain New York and of andCulture.
Kassim Shaaban (AmericanUniversity of Beirut) has been aVisiting Scholar at the ForeignLcm~;uclge Education Center. Professor Shaaban is Director of theCenter for English LanguageResearch and Teaching at AUB.
Caroline Williams (Architec-ture) an article, "Cairo,
Legacy," as the leadarticle in the Middle East Journal forSummer, 1985. The article dealswith medieval sections in Cairo.
John Williams (Art History)did research on 19th centmytravellers to Egypt and on Persian
miniatures III the British LibraryJuly 15 - 23. His book TheAbbasidRevolution, a translation of alTabari on the years 744-754 A.D.is to appear in October with SUNYPress. He is working with JamesBill (Government) on a paper comparing Catholicism and TwelverShi'ism. In March, ProfessorWilliams and Hafez Farmayan(History) attended a colloquium atPrinceton on Justice and Injusticein Islamic Political Thought. Professor Williams' article on "TheKhangah of Siryaqus, A MarnlukRoyal Religious Foundation" hasrecently appeared in The OYestAn Islamic Humanism, a volume ofStudies in 'Memory of ProfessorMohamed al-Nowaihi, publishedby American University of CairoPress.
AND STAFF
The Center is pleased to haveDr. Izzat Ghurani returning asVisiting Professor for the 1986
semester. Dr. Ghurani,Professor of Economics and VicePresident for Administration andFinance at Birzeit University, wasa Visiting Scholar at the Universityin the fall of 1984. He holds a
Ph.D. from the University ofHouston, and has at The
University of Texas at Arlington,Pahlavi University in andthe University of Abadan beforejoining the Birzeit faculty in 1977.While at UT, Dr. Ghurani willteach two classes and continue towork on preparing an economicprofile of Palestine in the 16th century.
Angela Thompson has beennamed Outreach Coordinator forthe Center. Ms. Thompson comesto us from where she wasconducting research on her Ph.D.Prior to that, she taught Spanishand Social Studies in Chicago. Ms.Thompson is not a newcomer toAustin; in 1977-1979 she didOutreach work for the Institute forLatin American Studies. At that
she published curriculumunits for use at the high school andjunior level. Ms. Thompson received her B.S. in Spanishand International Studies from theUniversity of North Carolina andher M.A. from The University ofTexas. While at the Center, shewill be running the ResourceCenter and directing the otheraspects of the Outreach Program.
The Center and DOALLhave been successful in hiring aLecturer in Turkish Studies for the1985-86 year. Dr. Guliz Kuruoglucomes to the University from theUniversity of California atBerkeley, where she taught for fouryears. Prior to that, she .taughtEnglish at Bosphorus University inIstanbul. Dr. Kuruoglu received
her M.A. and Ph.D. from theInive:rsity of Washington in Seat
tle. She will teach undergraduateand courses in Turkish.
Dr. Esther Fuchs (Hebrew) hasresigned from The University ofTexas to join the University ofArizona at Tucson, effectiveSeptember 1985. Professor Fuchs,who is a scholar of modern Hebrewliterature, and a poet in her ownright, joined The University ofTexas faculty in 1979. We wishher well in her new position.
Dr. Vicente Cantarino (~l)arlJsj.l)
will be on leave of absence from theUniversity in 1985-86. He will beon the faculty of Ohio StateUniversity.
DR. SILBERSCHLAGISRAEL
Dr. Eisig Silberschlag, ResearchAssociate of the Center, has justreturned from an extensive tripabroad where he supervised thepublication of some of his recent
In the Bialik Institute,m with the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem, ispublishing his Menander translations. The book of five comedies- The Grouch, The Woman ifSamos, The Shield, The Arbitrants,and The Rape if the Locks-will appear within the next two months;
with the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes published in
it will add to Hebrewliterature a new dimension ofclassic literature.
Dr. Silberschlag also participated in the Ninth World Congress of Hebraic Studies, heldunder the of HebrewUniversity, and delivered a lectureon "Hebrew Versions of ClassicalHumor," which will be publishedin a Congress Volume. At the\.Aml~ress, he also chaired a sessionon Recent Hebrew Poetry.
Just released III Oxford,England, IS Dr. Silberschlag'sessay, Philosophy," in aFestschrift in honor of Dr. SaloRappaport, Professor Emeritus ofvVitwatersrand University ofJohannesburg. Also in Oxford, hisarticle on "Enlightenment inWestern Europe," delivered as alecture in an 1984 Oxford
on Hebrew Literature, isscheduled to appear in the nearfuture.
SUMMER INSTITUTEFOR TEACHERSOFFERED
An intensive four-weekworkshop entitled "Computers,Social Studies, and the MiddleEast" was presented from June 10through July 6 the Center inconnection with the College ofLiberal Arts, the Department ofCurriculum and Instruction of theCollege of Education, and theAustin Independent SchoolDistrict. Organized to informsecondary Social Studies teachersabout the Middle East, themutilitze computers in the classroom,and improve their pedagogicalskills, the workshop was held atLBJ High School in Austin. Participants earned six hours ofgraduate credit - three in Education and three in Middle EasternStudies.
Instructors for the workshopwere Elizabeth Fernea, Lecturer afldCoordinator, Center for MiddleEastern Studies; Gary McKenzie,Associate Professor, Curriculumand Instruction; Gulp of theUT Computation Center; and Barbara Roberts, Social Studies teacher,LBJ High School. Guests andU. T. faculty offered lectures each
day in their special fields of expertise. The program was funded inpart the U.S. Department ofEducation.
Gordon Brown, of the U. S.State Department, opened the conference by speaking to participantson U.S. strategic interests in theMiddle East. "The U.S. will continue its involvement in the MiddleEast," he "for geographical aswell as political reasons. Oil is alsoa factor. Since one-half of theworld's known oil is in the Middle
the U.S. has a commitmentto other nations to be sure there isaccess to that oil."
Throughout the workshop,lecturers with many viewpointsand backgrounds were presented.Speakers included Abdul Shuriedeh,
of Arab States, Dallas;Shmuel Ben Shmuel, Vice-Consul,Israeli Consulate, Houston; and
Omar Kader, Director, ArabAmerican Anti- DiscriminationCommittee, Washington" D.C.Mr. Shuriedeh spoke on "Arab Nationalism and the of ArabStates," while Mr. Ben Shmuel's
lecture was entitled "Israel Today."Mr. Kader discussed the growingrole of Arab Americans in the U. S.political process. Suzanne Weidel
Pace, Public Affairs Officer, MobilOil Corporation, New York, lectured on "The Role of AmericanOil Companies in the MiddleEast." Ms. Weidel-Pace relatedcultural changes in certain MiddleEastern countries to the presence ofthe oil industry in the area.
For two sessions during thethird week of the workshop, agroup of Arab women on a toursponsored by the U. S. InformationAgency spoke on "Education in theMiddle East" and "Role of 'Nomenin the Middle East." The womenwere Dr. Anwar Kordofani, ahematologist from the Sudan; NohaGhoul, principal of a vocational school in Jerusalem; Buthaina
}ardaneh, Director of the Consultation Service of the Office forWomen in Jordan; and Dr. IlhanKallab, of Beirut University College in Lebanon. Speaking
throu State Departmentappointed translators, the women
a wide variety of opinions on the development of education and the rapidly changing rolesof women in their respective countries. While in Austin, they alsomet with Texas women in politicsand public affairs.
Workshop participants received computer instruction and worked on computers each day, underthe direction of Culp andBarbara Roberts. McKenzie
outlined and demonstrated newteaching strategies. In the afternoon, they were treated to lecturesby U. T. specialists and the showing of films on a wide variety ofMiddle Eastern topics. Lecturersfrom the University i~cluded Professor Robert Fernea on "Archeologyand Anthropology of the Middle
" Professor Robert Holz on"Computers with Geography --Factor Fancy," Professor John Williamson "Islam," Professor IrvingMandelbaum on Judaism," ProfessorJames Bill on "Iran and Iraq,"and Research Associate Arthur Allenon ~Political and Social Effects ofOil." "Approaches to MiddleEastern History" and "Islam inAfrica" were lectures given by Professor Ed Steinhart from Texas TechUniversity. Eric Mueller, U.T.graduate student, spoke on"Revitalization of Islam."
Films to supplement the different topics discussed were showneach day. These included Book ofKings, Pioneers cif Science, AncientEgypt and Ancient Mesopotamia, TwoGrasslands- Iran and Texas, twosegments of thc PBS series Historyof theJews, There Is No God but God,Battle of Algiers, Kibbutz KjarMenachem - Crossroads, PalestiniansDo Have Rights, A Veiled Revolution,,saints and Spirits, The Price of Change,
Women Under Siege, Algeria, Impossible Independence, and Oil, Money andPolitics.
On the last instructional dayof the workshop, Philip Stoddard,Director of the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., spokeon "Future Directions for the Middle East.» When asked whatAmerican policy makers might doin order to avoid recurring problems in the Middle East, Mr.Stoddard replied that moreworkshops such as the one theteachers were attending were needed. "More people in the U.S. needmore information, moreknowledge, and in greater depththan one can get from television'stwo-minute instant analysis on theevening news," he said.
In the final week of theworkshop, the participatingteachers presented the projects andcomputer components they haddeveloped during the workshop.Such projects, they said, "will beshared with other teachers as wellas with students.»
Jenny B. White received aTurkish Studies Fellowship for theacademic year, and Victoria Hammond was hired for theAssistantship in the lower-divisionbasic survey of the Middle East.
Typesetting:CMAS PublicationThe Center for Mexican American StudiesU.T. Austin
STUDENT AWARDS
Through funding from theU.S. Department of Education,the Center is able to awardfellowships to qualified graduatestudents in and areastudies. Congratulations to thispast year's Fellowship holders forthe Summer of 1985: Sharon Bray(Arabic), David McMurray (Arabic)Steven Perry (Hebrew), Robert Sweet(Arabic), and Virginia Timmons(Hebrew); and for the full year of1985-86: Jennifer DeCamp (Arabic),James R. Dempsey (Turkish), GwennOkruhlik (Arabic), Joseph j. Hobbs(Arabic), and Robert Sweet (Arabic).
Production, Design & Photographs:Diane Watts
Editor: Annes McCann-Baker
The tentative schedule beginsI'hun;da.Y night, October 24, witha 7:30 lecture by Professor AlanW. Fisher, Ottoman Historianfrom Michigan State University.His presentation will be followedby a reception at the Center in Student Services 3.102. Allmeetings on Friday and Saturdaywill be in the Texas Union 4.224.A panel on Turkey will take placeon Friday from 9:00 to 12:00,followed by lunch and a business
A panel on Iran will befrom 1: 30-4: 30. Par
ticipants will have dinner at a localcafe, Armen's. On Saturday, apanel on the Arab world will be offered in the and a panelon Israel in the afternoon. TheCenter will present exhibitson Turkish history and culture andthe Turkish-American communityin Texas.
Middle East Scholars (TAMES)are Friday, October 25, and Saturday, October 26, 1985. This FifthAnnual Meeting will take place onthe campus of UT Austin, Theformat will consist of four panels,one each on the Arab world, Iran,Israel, and Turkey, None of thepanels will overlap or run concur-
The 19th Annual Meeting ofthe Middle East Studies Association of North America will be heldin conjunction with the AfricanStudies Association at the HyattRegency in New fromNovember 22-26. Friday,November 22, will be devoted toaffiliated organizations, whileSaturday, Sunday, Monday, and
morning will consist ofpresentations.
MEETING INNOVEMBER
The Center is proud to haveone new book in its Modern Middle East Series, and to expect threeothers out in the fall and winter.Available now through Universityof Texas Press is Ylana MilldsGovernment and Society in RuralPalestine, a detailed analysis of therelationships between the PalestineMandate government and therural population under its authority.
FOUR NEW TITLESIN l\10DERNMIDDLE EAST UJ_I.,'-J..!..-v
September willtion of Islam Against theArslan and the Campaign for IslamicNationalism by William Cleveland.This book is biography of thewriter and politician Arslan, whoadvocated solidarity after WorldWar I among all Islamic peoples asa means of defense againstWestern encroachment.
The End of the Pn/~d,'no It1all'dat'e,edited by Roger Louis and RobertStookey, will be released theend of November. This series ofessays concerns the whenBritain relinquished its control over
and the State of Israelwas established. The points ofview of the British, Arabs, Zionists,Russians, and Americans arepresented
The first of the year will seepublication of Kristina Nelson'sThe Art of Reciting the Thesubject of lhis is thepractices for reeiling the mEgypt (and, by extension,throughout the Arab
The dates for the annualmeeting of the Texas Association of
ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLEEAST SCHOLARS MEETING
ALLENARTHUR
M.A.CMES Director
The Center is sad to announce the death of one of its collea:gues, Arthur B. Allen, in Austinon July 3,1985.
Mr. Allen received a B.S.from John Hopkin's in 1941, andgraduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1964.In 1947, he started his diplomaticcareer, which lasted almost threedecades and took him all over theArab world. Shortly after hisretirement, he joined the Center asa Research Associate in 1977.
At the he wasalways andstudents for consultation and guestlectures in the classroom. He alsohelped the Center's Outreach Program in many ways, drawing uponhis close and profound knowledgeof the Arab world. He will be
both as a friend and as acolleague. We offer his familyheartfelt condolences.
M~orie
CMES Administrative Assistant
as a program officer for the CairoFulbright (1980-81).
Anne was the klnd otdedicated, student whosework is described in superlatives.In the words of her professors, shewas"... as close to an ideal studentas any I have ever supervised," and"one of the very best students I'veever had at UT." Warmth, sensitivity, and receptivity to ideaswere the hallmarks of her personalrelationships. The Center has lost,a valued friend and the field ofMiddle Eastern Studies a scholar ofenormous potential.
Her friends and atthe Center for Middle EasternStudies were deeply shocked andsaddened last June to learn thatA nne Royal had been killed in abicycling accident m Qanada.Anne had just received her Ph.D.in from UT in May andhad this fall to teachcourses in the Asian Studies Program at Dartmouth, where herhusband, Kevin Reinhardt, is avisiting lecturer in the ReligionDepartment.
In addition to study andresearch, Anne's Middle East experience included teaching Dlli-\11~i1
at the Ahfad College for Women inthe Sudan (1977-78) and working
of the Americans' need to bringthemselves out of isolation,and ofthe obligations of the educationalsystem to shoulder the bulk of theresponsibility. Our Center openedits doors in 1960.
The history of the Center iselsewhere in this Newsletter,
and its present activities described.I write these words in the nature ofa personal remllllscence,more important, to expressgratitude to those who, through theyears, have worked to make theCenter what it is now, under thedirection of myWalter Lehn, Robert PaulEnglish, James Bill, Ian Manners- and with the much-needed,much-appreciated support of anumber of in theUniversity Administration. Tothem my thanks. And to W. P.
the greatest tribute forthe vision that started it all.
Mohammad Ali Jazayery
CMES Director
ANNE ROYAL
From September 1951, whena still young man from Iran arrivedat Austin, Texas, to attend TheUniversity, to September 1985,when he, no longer "still young"writes these words, much has happened at The University of Texasat Austin, and in the United Statesin general. This Newsletterrepresents one of the occuring in Texas, and in the countryas a whole.
I was shocked in 1951 to hearan American fellow student casually state that Iran was in CentralEurope! The shock was greaterwhen I heard another Americandeclare that everybody knew Iranwas in South America!
This ignorance of the outsideworld - "isolation" is a kinderword- was to make itself evidentto me, and others, numeroustimes, not just in Texas butthroughout the country. Thenthere was Sputnik!
The U.S. set out to discoverthe Old World! When the Government decided to introduce theworld to Americans, it wisely choseeducation - in "critical"and cultures- as the tool. Whenthe National Defense EducationAct was in 1958, TheUniversity of Texas was among thefirst to seek funds for establishing aCenter for Middle Eastern Studies,and one for Asian Studies. Theman with the foresight to see theneed for the Center and the determination to convince the University of that need, and the competence and perseverance to applyfor, and secure, funds from theGovernment was W. P. Lehmann.
An Indo-Europeanist, he nevertheless was, and is, very muchaware of the contemporary world,
A REMINISCENCEAND A TRIBUTE
CONFERENCE ON IRANIAN NATIONALISM
On September 26-27, the Center will sponsor a conference entitled "Iranian Nationalism and the International OilCrisis, 1951-1954." Organized by Professors James A. Bill (Government) and Roger Louis (History), the conference will beheld in the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center, Room 3.102. Cosponsors at the University are the Departments ofHistory and Government, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Graduate School. The following lectures will be given.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Morning Session: Nationalism and Nationalists in Iran
Paper: "Nationalism in Twentieth Century Iran"Richard W. Cottam, University of Pittsburgh
Comment: Ervand Abrahamian, Baruch College, City University of New York
Paper: "Profile of a Nationalist: Dr. Muhammad Musaddiq"Fakhreddin Azimi, St. Anthony's College, Oxford
Comment: Marvin Zonis, University of Chicago
Paper: "Islam and Iranian Nationalism: The Role of the Clerics"Shahrough Akhavi, University of South Carolina
Comment: William R. Royce, Voice of America
Afternoon Session: Britain, the United States and the Crisis of 1951-1954
Paper: "Iranian Nationalism, the Oil Crisis, and the Dilemmas of British Imperialism"W. Roger Louis, University of Texas
Comment: R. M. Burrell, University of London
Paper: "America, Iran, and the Politics of Intervention, 1951-1953"James A. Bill, University of Texas
Comment: R. K. Ramazani, University of Virginia
Paper: "Recollections of Dr. Muhammad Musaddiq"George C. McGhee, Washington, D.C.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Morning Session: The International Oil Crisis
Paper: "The Strategy of Non-oil Economics: Economic Policy and Performance under Musaddiq"Homa Katouzian, University of Kent
Comment: Habib Ladjevardi, Harvard University
Paper: "The British Government, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and Iranian Oil"Ronald W. Ferrier, British Petroleum
Comment: R. M. DUlin:ll, University of LondonThomas University of Texas
Paper: "The American Oil Industry and the Fifty-fifty Split"Irvine H. Anderson, University of Cincinnati
Comment: Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas
Afternoon Session: Conclusions
Paper: "Dr. Muhammad Musaddiq and the Oil Crisis of 1951-1953: The Perspective of the Islamic Republic ofIran"Farhang Rajaee, University of Virginia
"Intellectual Trends in the Politics and History of the Musaddiq Era"Rouhollah Ramazani, University of Virginia
"Iranian Nationalism and the International Oil Crisis in Historical Perspective"Albert Hourani, Oxford University
Other will be Jonathan C. Brown (Univ. of Peter R. Chase (Mobil Oil Corp.), Hafez Farmayan(Univ. of Lewis Hoffacker (Shell Oil Co.), J. C. Hurewitz (Columbia Univ.), Mehdi Noorbakhsh (Univ. ofHouston), F. Rose (Univ. of Texas), Donald Snook Middle East), Robert Stookey (Univ. of Texas), JohnH. Waller (Washington, D.C.), Donald N. Wilber (Princeton, N.J.), and Sir Denis Wright (St. Anthony's Oxford).
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