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).

The University of Texas at AustinA1.iddle Eastern Studies

Austin, Texas 78712