American University of Beirut Annual Report of the Faculty of Arts And

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-2018

Dr. Fadlo Khuri President American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon October 19, 2018

Dear Mr. President,

Please find enclosed the Annual Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2017-2018. This report was written by the chairpersons and/or directors of the academic units and of standing committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and edited in the Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office.

Nadia El Cheikh Dean of the Faculty

Table of Contents

Part I Summary Report of the Office of the Dean Dean Nadia El Cheikh P.10

Part II Reports of the Standing Committees

Advisory Committee……………………………. Dean Nadia El Cheikh P.21

Graduate Committee……………………………. Dr. Samih Isber P.22

Library Committee……………………………… Dr. Rola Khishfe P.25

Research Committee……………………………. Dr. Bilal Kaafarani P.26

Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee…………. Dr. Tamer Amin P.32

Undergraduate Admissions Committee………….. Dr. Antoine Ghauch P.35

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee………….. Dr. Saouma Boujaoude P.49

Undergraduate Student Academic Affairs Committee Dr. Houssam El Rassy P.55

Part III Reports of the Academic Units

Anis Makdisi Program in Literature………………. Dr. Nader El-Bizri P.63

Art Galleries and Collections…………...... Dr. Henri Frances P.65

Arabic and Near Eastern Languages Department… Dr. Bilal Orfali P.69

Biology Department……………………………… Dr. Imad Saoud P.82

Center for American Studies and Research………. Dr. Amy Zenger P.106

Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies…….. Dr. Samer Frangie P.113

Center for Arts and Humanities………………… Dr. A. Abu-Husayn P.122

Chemistry Department…………………………. Dr. Tarek Ghaddar P.134

Civilization Studies Program…………………… Dr. Courtney D. Fugate P.156

Computer Science Department……………….. Dr. Wassim El-Hajj P.168

Economics Department……………………… Dr. Rabih Sultan P.182

Education Department………………………. Dr. Anies Al-Hroub P.197

English Department…………………………. Dr. Syrine Hout P.228

Fine Arts and Art History Department………. Dr. Walid Sadek P.263

Geology Department………………………… Dr. A. Abdel-Rahman P.280

Graduate Porgram in Computational Science Dr. Jihad Touma P.289

History and Archaeology Department….…….. Dr. Hermann Genz P.292

Institute of Financial Economics…………….. Dr. Leila Dagher P.306

Kamal A. Shair Central Research Science Laboratory Dr.Theodore Christidis P.319

Mathematics Department…………………….. Dr. Wissam Raji P.322

Philosophy Department………………………. Dr. Christopher Johns P.337

Physics Department…………………………… Dr. Jihad Touma P.349

Political Studies and Public Administration…… Dr. Ohannes Geujikian P.364

Psychology Department………………………… Dr. Arne Dietrich P.383

Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies…… Dr. Livia Wick P.401

University Preparatory Program…………………. Dr. Samar Harkouss P.440

Writing Center and Writing in the Disciplines…… Dr. Erin Zimmerman P.447

Zaki Nassif Music Program……………………… Dr. Nabil Nassif P.456

Part I

Summary Report of the Office of the Dean

OFFICE OF THE DEAN FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

This Faculty of Arts and Sciences report covers the period from September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2018.

Introduction During my second year as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), I prioritized enhancing of faculty research, strengthening the FAS educational mission, and increasing the faculty’s community outreach, visibility and fundraising. In light of this, I established an equitable and transparent workload for faculty members, consistent with other faculties as well as with the aspirations of FAS and the university at large. This step was taken towards achieving a higher research profile on both the regional and international stage. Departments were invited to develop plans to adopt a 2+2 load creatively, without the need for additional faculty lines or space. As such, the forthcoming 2018-19 academic year will be a 2+2 trial year for all FAS departments. Concurrently, I finalized a new compensation plan for faculty members, which I anticipate will contribute to an increase in retention rates and will allow us to continue attracting the best candidates to join our ranks. Additionally, I worked with FAS and AUB communications teams to increase the visibility of FAS both inside and outside AUB. I am also working attentively on plans to accommodate our largest programs as well as our fast-expanding programs. During the upcoming 2018-19 academic year, my aims include developing a clear mentorship process for junior faculty, creating a mechanism for the study and follow- up of the recruitment and renewal of part-time faculty members, closely following up on the initiative to reform General Education, developing initiatives to enrich undergraduate and graduate student research, and further advancing the visibility of FAS with the support of the Office of Development. As always, I will continue to strive towards strengthening FAS and cooperating very closely with its departments, other faculties, and AUB administration to achieve FAS’s full potential and aspirational goals.

Student Enrollment In 2017-18, FAS registered 385 new freshmen (compared with 355 in the previous year), 707 new sophomores (compared with 649 in the previous year), and 176 new graduate students (compared with 179 in the previous year). During fall 2017-18, there was a total of 2,952 undergraduates (compared with 2,842 in the previous year) and 499 graduate students (compared with 474 in the previous year), and in Spring 2017- 18, there were 2,782 undergraduates (compared with 2,691) and 487 graduate students (compared with 457 in the previous year). At the end of the academic year, 22 Ph.D. students were registered (compared with 31 in the previous year).

Academic Program Accreditation and Review During the 2017-18 academic year, the Arabic and Near Eastern Languages Department completed its first regular program review. At this date, all departments at FAS have undergone a first cycle of program review. This self-review process has allowed departments to examine their programs and practices critically and to evaluate new avenues for academic growth.

Strategic Planning In an attempt to strengthen collaboration among FAS Centers and across FAS and AUB units, Directors of FAS Centers were invited to a strategic planning meeting on February 23, 2018. During this meeting, Directors discussed ways to reinvigorate and refocus their research agendas within FAS. While each center will continue its own trajectory in specific areas of knowledge and expertise, all FAS centers will now collaborate towards promoting impactful research and knowledge production across disciplines. In the forthcoming academic year, a follow-up meeting will be held with the aim of creating a council of FAS centers which would serve to identify common ‘big questions’, encourage collaborations, and play an active role in defining the parameters of impactful research and intellectual explorations across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In addition, FAS Department Chairs and Center Directors were invited to a two- day strategic planning retreat on May 10 and 11, 2018 to discuss FAS graduate programs. This retreat facilitated a thorough evaluation of graduate programs in all FAS departments, in order to build on strengths and address weaknesses and further continuous academic development. Over the two days, the status of FAS graduate programs was discussed in detail, with the purpose of identifying short- and long-term strategies that can be used to enhance the quality of these programs, thereby ensuring that they support the educational mission of FAS and AUB, collaborate to enhance interdisciplinarity, and maximize the use of resources available to faculty and students.

New Academic Programs In fall 2017-18, the new MA in Fine Arts and Curating successfully welcomed its first cohort of students. A number of additional new programs, new tracks or program changes are nearing the end of the approvals process. A revised BA in Education was approved by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and will be implemented as of next year. A course-based master’s degree in Computer Science was approved by the New York State Education Department (NYSED). Additionally, two new tracks under the MS in Mathematics (a track in Applied Math and a track in Pure Math) were approved by NYSED. The revision of the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) program (launched in fall 2015-16 under the now defunct Division of University Interdisciplinary Programs [DUIP]) was also approved by NYSED. All of these revisions will take effect during Fall 2018-19. Furthermore, a Ph.D. program in Chemistry has been evaluated by external reviewers and was submitted to NYSED for approval. Other programs, including master’s degrees in Composition and Rhetoric, are

still going through the approvals processes and are being assessed at the AUB-level ahead of submission to NYSED.

Research, Publications and Grants During the academic year 2017-18, FAS faculty authored, co-authored, or edited at least 20 books. Around 750 research papers and articles were published by FAS faculty in regional and international journals. In addition, on April 19-20, 2018, as part of our efforts to best promote and foster research, the FAS Dean’s Office organized a two-day Publication Workshop for Assistant and Associate faculty members in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This workshop was co-led by editors at Harvard University Press and Yale University Press. Over the course of the two days, fourteen faculty members attended a panel discussion and met with the workshop co-leaders in one-on-one sessions to receive personalized and targeted advice on strategies for developing, planning, and writing successful book proposals. Furthermore, 68 FAS faculty members received, through the Dean’s Office, Short-term Faculty Development Grants supporting travel to present research results at international conferences. Eight faculty members also received Long-term Faculty Development Grants to conduct research during the summer. In addition, 13 faculty members received external research grants totaling $592,036. These grants were allocated from the University of Reading, Carnegie Corporation of New York, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Murex Services S.A.L., Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Acacia Water B.V., Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Princeton University, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), International Labour Organization (ILO), and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Fifteen FAS faculty members received grants (totaling $367,374) through the National Council for Scientific Research/CNRS- AUB Joint Grant Research Program for projects, which started in February 2018. The AUB University Research Board (URB) awarded FAS faculty members 28 grants amounting to $252,658 and renewed 15 grants. Thirty-five additional internal research grants were awarded during 2017-18 and funded through the Kamal Shair CRSL Endowed Research Fund (totaling $99,900), the Center for Teaching and Learning ($7,500), the Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources ($29,400), and the Collaborative Research Stimulus program ($159,950). Finally, in support of research at the undergraduate level, 10 Undergraduate Research Experience (URE) grants were awarded within FAS totaling $23,200.

Faculty and Students: Prizes and Awards Associate Dean and Professor Saouma Boujaoude (Education) received the prestigious 2017 Kuwait Prize in the category of Economics and Social Sciences for his accomplishments in the field of education. Professor Mahmoud Al-Batal (Arabic and Near Eastern Languages) received the CASA (Center for Arabic Study Abroad) Lifetime Achievement Award. Professor Rabih Talhouk (Biology) received the first place LIRA Award for his collaborative research project at Purdue University entitled "Harnessing

miRNAs to Prevent Early Breast Cancer Onset in Lebanese Women” and received the Indiana CTSI and IU Center for Global Health collaborative grant. Assistant Professor Pierre Karam (Chemistry) received the Georg Forster Research Fellowship Program and was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of the fifty extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 for his contributions to advancing science, engineering, and technology. In addition to FAS faculty members, FAS students received a number of prestigious prizes and awards. Ph.D. candidate in Cell and Molecular Biology Carine Jaafar was selected as one of the seven recipients of the 2017 Women in Science L’Oreal UNESCO awards. Ph.D. candidate in Cell and Molecular Biology Nataly Naser Al Deen was selected among 600 of the most qualified young scientists around the world to participate in the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. She was also invited to visit the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin at the Otto Warburg Laboratory and was selected as the 2017 Fulbright Digital Diplomat of the Year. Additionally, Ph.D. candidate in Cell and Molecular Biology Saad Omais received the CNRS-L/AUB Ph.D. Award for best oral presentation and achieved first place in a Lecture Respondent Quiz at the International Brain Research Organization’s Middle East and North Africa Advanced School in Neurodegenerative Disorders. Chemistry graduate Omar Tantawi was nominated as a candidate for the Fulbright scholarship to pursue his graduate studies in the USA, becoming the first graduate from the Department of Chemistry as well as the first USAID scholar to be nominated for this prestigious award. Political Studies and Public Administration graduate student Farah Abou Harb was selected as the AUB Student Delegation representative at the 2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities. She was also the 2018 Regional Winner of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration NASPA-Batten Student Stimulation Competition held at the American University in Cairo. Fine Arts and Art History (FAAH) student Katharine Gordon was highly commended in the International Undergraduate Awards for her paper entitled “Finding Common Ground in Benjamin and Rancière.” FAAH student Natasha Gasparian received the Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon scholarship for graduate studies. In addition, FAAH student Lama Khatib won an international essay competition for art history students at the 2017 Undergraduate Awards held in Dublin. Finally, AUB Computer Science students won first and second place in the annual Lebanese Collegiate Programming Competition (LCPC).

Student Services The new structure of the Student Services Office at the FAS Dean’s Office has proven successful and has allowed for the completion of several ambitious projects. The FAS Student Services Academic Advising Unit (AAU) has recruited new members in addition to a coordinator, expanding from three to six members. This year, the AAU introduced a peer-to-peer mentorship program for Freshman students. The Freshman Mentorship Program is responsible for ensuring the selection, training and evaluation of mentors who guide students through their first formative year of university. It is also responsible for organizing events throughout the academic year with the aim of

acquainting Freshman students with their university and campus. Additionally, to improve advising, the AAU is working closely with some of the largest departments of FAS – namely the departments of Economics, Psychology, and Biology – to support advising practices. Furthermore, with the help of FHS, FAS has taken the lead on the implementation of an online advising tool that displays important student/advising information. The FAS Student Services Office has also been working on the enhancement of the Online Petition and Forms System (OPFS), through modifying the petition workflow, fixing bugs, and initiating the integration of incomplete Forms 1 and 2 through the system. Accordingly, the Student Services Office has formulated a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document for undergraduate students which has been posted on the FAS webpage, and the graduate student FAQs is nearing completion. With regards to career services and counseling, FAS Career Services has been actively providing one-on-one career counseling sessions, in addition to delivering fifteen career development workshops targeted to both undergraduate and graduate students, a brown bag panel about internships as learning experiences, and a storytelling event about career planning. FAS Career Services has also published articles in listicle form in AUB Outlook and the Graduate Council Newsletter.

New and Promoted Faculty In 2017-18, FAS received 865 applications for faculty positions. Twenty new professorial-rank faculty joined FAS Fall 2017-18, and three joined in Spring 2017-18. By the end of the 2017-18 academic year, three faculty members retired and 14 faculty members resigned. In the academic year 2017-2018: thirty-three professors, 15 of whom were on Junior Faculty Paid Research Leave and 18 on Periodic Paid Research Leave, were on paid research leave; nine faculty members were on leave without pay (for either one semester or one year); and three FAS faculty members were fellows at the Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH).

Tenure The FAS Tenure Implementation Committee, chaired by FAS Associate Dean and Professor Colin Smith (Biology), completed its work, and the document they prepared entitled “Policy and Procedures for Tenure and Promotion Evaluation of Tenure – General Requirements and Domains of Excellence – Faculty of Arts and Sciences” was finalized and voted on by the Faculty. A total of thirty-one full FAS professors were granted tenure on June 11, 2018

Space and Facilities The paucity and quality of the available teaching and research space in FAS remains a major, pressing challenge for FAS. As part of our continuing renovation plans and space expansion, a heritage study for Fisk Hall was completed. We are currently in the midst of the planning phase, ahead of remodeling this space. Additionally, the space vacated by the AUB Bookstore in Bliss Hall was turned into four teaching labs and two

research labs for the department of Computer Science. The department will relocate to the new labs by Fall 2018-9. This will create extra office space for the departments of Mathematics and Computer Science. We are currently approving the plans and securing the budget to embark on this project. FAS also initiated a project to renovate classrooms in Nicely Hall. This project involves moderate renovation, which aims to enhance the infrastructure of the rooms (A/C, lighting, painting and audiovisuals). Four classrooms were completed in January; two are currently under renovation, and four more will be completed during Fall 18-19. We also received a gift from the President’s Club to renovate the Nicely 415 Lecture Room, which is currently under renovation. We also updated the audiovisual system in the Music Room to enhance the student experience. Additionally, classrooms in the Physics Building underwent some minor repairs. Finally, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (SOAM) is splitting an office to accommodate new recruits. Concurrently, we are obliged to locate some faculty outside their department’s premise until renovation plans materialize (specifically in the case of our MATH, FAAH and SOAM departments).

Academic Outreach and Social Impact FAS has been heavily involved in community outreach targeting Syrian refugees and Lebanese host communities, through the following initiatives: “Science Education: A Key to University Access for Refugee Girls,” “PADILEIA: Partnership for Digital Learning and Increased Access,” “AUB-World Food Program Digital Skills Training Program,” the “Maymouna School Project,” and “GHATA: Bringing Primary and Intermediate Education to Informal Tented Settlements.” Additionally, members of FAS departments frequently gave interviews in their areas of expertise on different television channels, radio channels, and local and international newspapers. The Organic Chemistry Club (OCC) coordinated with the Department of Chemistry, organized for the second-year running in a public event entitled “Chem- Carnival,” during which students conducted fun chemistry experiments in front of viewers from all ages from within and outside AUB. The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature continued to foster interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious dialogue and outreach activities in partnership with universities as well as cultural and public institutions in Lebanon in order to serve the local community, while also engaging with regional and international currents in academia and culture, as inspired by the liberal arts. In addition, the Zaki Nassif Program for Music organized several public concerts attended by a large number of people. Finally, a large number of FAS faculty members were involved in effective outreach activities through several AUB programs and centers such as the USAID University Scholarship Program, the Nature Conservation Center, the AUB4refugees initiative, and the MEPI Leaders for Democracy Program. Under the FAS-managed USAID University Scholarship program, scholarship students have been implementing thematically-diverse community service projects based on the most pressing societal needs. FAS faculty from the Department of Education continue to provide their

support to the GHATA project by providing technical assistance and capacity-building to teachers and school staff on teaching methods and approaches to psychosocial support, to help them deliver the Lebanese curriculum to refugee students.

Self-Study The self-study report for the decennial reaccreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) has been completed and was posted on the AUB website for review by all university stakeholders. FAS was heavily involved in this process. The self-study committee was co-chaired by Associate Provost and Professor Hala Muhtasib (Biology), with our Associate Dean and Professor Saouma BouJaoude serving as Vice Chair. Additionally, five FAS faculty members served as co- chairs, and 21 FAS faculty members, 3 students and 1 officer served as members in the self-study working groups.

Academic Initiatives A Mellon Presidential Grant is currently supporting three noteworthy initiatives at FAS, with the aim to develop programs under each initiative that would reinvigorate the liberal arts curriculum and augment our leadership in liberal arts education: the Women and Gender Studies Initiative, which seeks to place gender in the foreground of intellectual inquiry, critical thinking, and creative exploration; the Performing Arts and Theater Initiative, as a means to integrate theater and music in the academic experience at AUB through state-of-the-art performance spaces; and the Heritage Preservation and Religious Tolerance Initiative, to educate a new generation of students about the region’s multicultural and multi-religious heritage, preserve this rich heritage, and produce knowledge about the diverse cultural and religious heritage of the region. To this end, these three initiatives planned and organized a number of activities funded by the Mellon Grant during this academic year. The Women and Gender Studies Initiative organized a faculty-focused reading group/research workshop series and a student-oriented speaker series tackling gender beyond the curriculum. The Initiative also hosted an international conference on feminism and the Arab public sphere, entitled “Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere” held on January 19- 20, 2018. This interdisciplinary conference explored new feminist and gender scholarship about the Arab region and featured prominent scholars in the field as invited keynote speakers. The Performing Arts and Theater Initiative staged public readings and presented stage productions of Blood Wedding and Faust and hosted a three-day international conference on April 15-18, 2018 entitled “Latin America, Al-Andalus and the Arab World.” This conference was sponsored by the Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR), with the support of FAAH, CAH, and the Departments of English, Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. The Heritage Preservation and Religious Tolerance Initiative continued to catalog some archival and rare collections in an effort to encourage researchers to discover these hidden collections and incorporate them into grassroots research. Additionally, the Initiative worked on preserving some of the archival collections on

minorities currently held at the AUB Libraries in order to lengthen their shelf life and make them more accessible to researchers. With the support of the Honor Frost Foundation (HFF), FAS is introducing a new minor in Maritime Sciences and Culture. Expected to launch in Spring 18-19, this interdisciplinary minor marks a unique collaboration between FAS and the HFF, whose mission is to promote the advancement and research of maritime archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus. FAS and the HFF worked together closely on the planning, design, and implementation of the minor, which will involve the co-teaching of integrated courses by field specialists from AUB and other international institutions. Students who intend to pursue the minor will be required to take both technical and fieldwork courses, including an intensive summer school which will be carried out in the coastal zone of Lebanon. Students will also be able to take courses in the Departments of Biology and Geology to fulfill the requirements for this minor, which will be housed in the Department of History and Archaeology. Furthermore, and in order to support faculty research, FAS has pursued collaborations with various international universities and, accordingly, signed MoUs with the Graduate Center/CUNY, Princeton University, Université Grenoble Alpes, and Hamburg University. An advantage to these collaborations is providing natural scientists with access to top-of-the-line laboratory equipment currently unavailable at AUB. FAS is also exploring potential collaborations with Princeton University, which would involve a visit from a Princeton faculty member, in either Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy or Psychology. Additionally, Princeton has also established a fund for AUB’s use for faculty collaboration across our institutions under the direction of Dr. Amaney Jamal, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice. FAS is currently studying potential arenas of partnership under the umbrella of this fund and will have a plan and established timeline ready soon. Other potential initiatives currently under study include collaborations with the City University of New York, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Edinburgh, Ohio Wesleyan University, the Global Liberal Arts Alliance, the University of Hamburg, the University of Reading, Lindau Nobel Laureate, and the University of St. Gallen. A number of other possible links and collaborations with various institutions are also under discussion, namely with the University of Exeter, the University of Zurich, and the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg (possibly via the Erasmus+ programs).

Administrative Processes FAS has been working on improving efficiency by adopting policies to streamline processes, notably on funding activities and recommendations for recruitment and renewal of part-time faculty. It is also aiming to improve the overseeing of departments while promoting responsible empowerment through stricter enforcement of teaching

load policies, monitoring permanent academic hiring, part timers’ employment processes, and complying with Equal Opportunity Employer guidelines.

IT Services The FAS IT unit continues to support FAS operations. This year major IT projects included: automating the incomplete Forms 1 and 2 within OPFS and upgrading the audiovisual system in five Nicely Hall classrooms and the computers in CMPS labs. The unit also introduced a new IT field support team for lower campus. This team now handles all support calls from FAS lower campus buildings, thereby allowing for better response time, particularly for their classrooms. The FAS IT unit is also continuing with the replacement of the less efficient computer desks with more functional ones in various FAS classrooms across campus.

Events, Conferences, Seminars, and Concerts FAS supported more than 30 academic activities (conferences, talks, lectures, workshops, etc., including events sponsored by FAS-based centers), the most notable of which was the successful FAS weekly Research Lunch, which resumed in September 2017 and continued throughout the 2017-18 academic year. In addition, September 2017 saw the launching of the Tarjamat public lectures organized collaboratively by the Department of English and the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. In October, the Civilization Studies Program, in collaboration with the Sudanese Cultural and Social Club in Beirut and with the support of FAS and CAH, hosted an evening celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the publication of the seminal novel Seasons of Migration to the North by the acclaimed late Sudanese author al-Tayeb Salih. In November, FAAH organized the “Southern Question” Conference, and the Department of English launched an anthology of short stories entitled Arab Women Voice New Realities, co-edited by Roseanne Saad Khalaf and Dima Nasser and featuring the department’s very own Rima Rantisi, Reem Shaaban, Amany al Sayyed, Sima Qunsol, Fatima Bdeir, and Gabi Toufiq. Additionally, in November, the Kamal Salibi Annual Memorial Lecture took place and was preceded by the launch of In House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal S. Salibi, a book featuring leading historians. In December, the Department of Physics organized a full-day symposium on “Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy” and publicly launched the new Lebanese Linear Plasma Device (LLPD) and FAS co-organized, along with the AUB Libraries, an exhibition entitled “Jerusalem: A Photographic Exhibit.” Additionally, the Department of Psychology, in collaboration with Medecins du Monde-France, organized a one-day conference on “Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support (MHPSS) Research: Focus on the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis.” In February, the Department of Education hosted its annual Graduation Student Forum. CAH organized a workshop on “The Demography of British Mandate Palestine,” and held a lecture on “Storytelling with Settings and Environment” in coordination with the Department of English. CASAR, the Department of English, and the Theater Initiative organized two lectures: “Benjamin Franklin: Media Entrepreneur in the Republic of Letters” and “Theater Experiments: How the Marriage of Philosophy

and Performance Helped Create Harvard’s Program in Theater, Dance, and Media.” The SOAM Department, in coordination with CASAR, held a lecture on “The Moving Image in Carceral Spaces: Introducing Television to the American Prison.” The Departments of English, Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES), and Rusted Radishes continued with its Tarjamat public lectures, hosting three events, “Translation as a Creative Collaboration,” “Ways of Seeing and Not Seeing: Kenneth Burke’s Contributions Toward a Theory of Attention for Rhetoric and Composition, ” and “Poetry and Translation - Call and Response.” In honor of Nasri Chamseddine, the Zaki Nassif Music Program held a concert entitled “The Tenor of the Lebanese Song.” FAS also supported another concert entitled, “O Sweet Night”. In coordination with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), the Institute of Financial Economics organized a symposium series on economic policy. In March, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages held a lecture on “Translating Ḥaḍāra: Naguib Mahfouz and a World Ethos.” In celebration of International Women’s Day and in collaboration with Marsa Sexual Health Center, SOAM and the Women and Gender Studies Initiative organized an open discussion on “Women’s Sexual Health in Lebanon.” FAAH held a lecture on “The Hermeneutic Impulse: Aesthetics of an Untethered Past” as part of the Philippe Jabre Lecture Series in Art History and Curating. The Department of Physics organized two talks, “Spintronics: From Giant Magnetoresistance to Spin Transfer Torque” and “Optical Spectroscopy in 2D Materials Science.” Additionally, and together with the Department of History and Archaeology, the Department of Physics also organized a conference on “Numismatic Research in Lebanon: Past, Present, and Future.”

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Part II

Reports of the Standing Committees

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Nadia El Cheikh, Dean Members: Najat Saliba, Professor, Chemistry Murad Jurdak, Professor, Education Herman Genz, Professor, History and Archaeology Bashshar Haydar, Professor, Philosophy Kamal Khuri-Makdisi, Professor, Mathematics Rabih Talhouk, Professor, Biology Sari Hanafi, Professor, Sociology Anthropology and Media Studies

B. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The committee advised the dean on matters related to faculty appointments, reappointments, paid research leaves, and leaves without pay. Below is an overview of the main actions taken by the committee: 1. The committee approved two paid research leaves for spring 2017-18. It approved 30 professors for paid research leaves for the academic year 2018-19, of which 16 were approved for Periodic Paid Research Leaves (eight in fall 2018-19, four in spring 2018- 19, three in both fall and spring 2018-19, and one in spring 2018-19 and fall 2019-20), and fourteen were approved for Junior Faculty Paid Research Leaves (eight in the fall and six in the spring). The committee approved six Leaves without Pay for the academic year 2018-19 (two in the fall, three in the spring, and one in both semesters). 2. The FAS Advisory Committee recommended offers to 27 new faculty members at the professorial ranks of which 20 were accepted. These faculty members include: two Lebanese citizens, four US citizens, two Lebanese/US citizens, one Lebanese/French citizen, one Lebanese/Canadian citizen, one Turkish citizen, one Turkish/US citizen, one French citizen, one British citizen, one Canadian citizen, one Greek citizen, one Egyptian citizen, one Swiss citizen, one Indian citizen, and one Pakistani citizen. 3. The committee considered departmental recommendations for renewal or non- renewal of contract for all full-time faculty members whose contracts ended in either September 2018 or September 2019. The committee voted on appropriate action in all cases.

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GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Samih Isber, Professor, Physics

Members: Anaheed Al-Hardan, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies (Fall 17-18) David Currell, Assistant Professor, English Nabila Dandan, Associate Director, Admissions Sabine El Khoury, Associate Professor, Mathematics Dahlia Gubara, Assistant Professor, Civilization Studies Mohammad Hadi, Student Representative (17-18) Anzhela Harutyunyan, Associate Professor, Fine Arts and Art History (Fall 17-18) Ahmad Korfali, Administrative Assistant for Student Records, Registrar Kamal Khuri-Makdisi, Professor, Mathematics Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Assistant Professor, Political Studies and Public Administration (Spring 17-18) Rima Rassi, Officer for Curriculum and Graduate Studies, FAS Nisreen Salti, Associate Professor, Economics Wafic Sabra, Professor, Physics

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The committee acted on all matters related to graduate studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences according to the rules and regulations published in the 2017-2018 Catalogue and the scope of functions set forth in the Graduate Studies Committee bylaws.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The committee met ten times over the course of the academic year. The matters it addressed included: reviewing departmental recommendations regarding graduate admissions to the faculty for Spring 2017-2018, Summer 2017-2018 and Fall 2018-2019; acting on student petitions, incomplete requests, change of grade requests, and leave of absence requests; changing the status of prospective students and students on probation, proposals for the modification of existing programs, and other miscellaneous administrative matters related to graduate studies at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A summary of the main actions is presented below.

1. Graduate Admissions: With regards to applications for graduate studies in FAS for the academic year 2017- 2018, there were 561 applications; 376 were accepted and 174 students registered. There were 46 PhD applications, 4 of which were accepted and registered.

2. Administrative Decisions Concerning Graduate Students: The Graduate Studies Committee took 583 decisions on a range of matters: petitions, approval of thesis/project proposals and committees, updating student status, change of grade and others.

3. Modifications of Existing Programs and Catalogue Changes: The Committee discussed the new Policy on Graduate Fellowship and Assistantship Program and made several modifications and suggestions to the Graduate Council (GC). The committee also discussed the proposal of the GC on thesis registration.

Department-Specific Requests: Arabic Department: The Committee approved the deletion of ARAB 307 and the introduction of ARAB 319. Fine Arts and Art History Department: The Committee approved the introduction of four new courses: AHIS 349, AHIS 350, AHIS 385, and AHIS 390, as well as changes to the descriptions of AHIS 323 and AHIS 324. The Committee also approved the addition of the following statement to the Catalogue, for the program description of the MA in Art History and Curating: “All the elective courses taken outside the department must be approved by the Graduate Program Director.” The Committee additionally approved the addition of the following statement under AHIS 325A and AHIS 325B: “Those students who have taken AHIS 284A and AHIS 284B may petition to replace AHIS 325A and 325B with an approved alternative in curating.” However, the Committee approved a later request to change AHIS 325A and AHIS 325B, formerly taken over two semesters, into AHIS 325, which will be taught as a 3- credit semester-long course. Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies: The Committee approved the increase in the credit load for MEST 382 from 6 credits to 9 credits, in addition to the introduction of a new course: MEST 380. Computer Science Department: The Committee approved the deletion of CMPS 368, CMPS 372, and CMPS 393, as well as changes to the descriptions of CMPS 374, CMPS 375, and CMPS 392. Education Department: The Committee approved the elimination of EDUC 215 or equivalent as a prerequisite for EDUC 315. Additionally, the Committee also approved the elimination of EDUC 227 as a prerequisite for EDUC 321. The Committee also approved the reduction of the number of credits of the project track of the MA in Education from 33 to 30. Philosophy Department: The Committee approved the Department’s request to remove the GRE requirement for applicants to the MA in Philosophy. Political Studies and Public Administration (PSPA) Department: The Committee approved the request of the PSPA Department to make the GRE optional for

applicants to the MA in Political Studies and the MA in Public Administration. The Committee also approved the introduction of a cohort system for the MA in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) effective Spring 2017-2018, whereby the program receives applications only in the Fall. The Committee also approved the delinking of the internship from the project track under the PPIA program, in addition to a requested amendment in the admissions guidelines. In light of NYSED approval of the new PPIA 30-credit program, the Committee also approved the transfer of all current PPIA students to the new curriculum and approved the graduation of three students based on the fulfilling of the new credit requirement. Psychology Department: The Committee approved the Department’s request to make PSYC 302 a prerequisite for registration in PSYC 395A.

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

Academic Advising at the graduate level needs to be improved, particularly vis-à-vis the number of petitions received (late registration to courses, withdrawal, and theses registrations petitions were excessive for students at the graduate level).

Additionally, the role of the GC in conjunction with the Board of Graduate Studies (BGS) and the Faculty Graduate Studies Committees needs clarification. The current structure of the bodies in charge of graduate studies at AUB is not optimized (Faculty Graduate Studies Committee, Graduate Council, Board of Graduate Studies, Task Force on Graduate Studies). Special attention needs to be paid to streamline and simplify the current structure.

Samih Isber Chairperson

LIBRARY COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Rola Khishfe, Associate Professor, Department of Education

Members: Giuseppe Della Sala, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics Heinrich Dohna, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology Dahlia Gubara, Assistant Professor, Civilization Studies Program Tania Haddad, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies & Public Administration Patrick Kuehner Lewtas, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Lokman Meho, University Librarian Sophie Moufawad, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

Not Applicable

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The Committee met once on April 4, 2018 to discuss the following agenda: 1. Update on the Library Pending Budget. 2. Transfer of books from special collection to general stacks. 3. Update on the status and future of the library (e.g., projects, facilities).

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

The Committee asked the University Librarian to keep the Committee informed of any problems related to the 2018-2019 library material operating budget, which was frozen in 2012-2015 and has declined by 15% in the period 2016-2018.

Rola Khishfe Chairperson

RESEARCH COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Bilal R. Kaafarani, Professor, Chemistry

Members: Zahra Hussain, Assistant Professor, Psychology Zakaria Kambris, Associate Professor, Biology Leonid Klushin, Professor, Physics (Spring 2017-18) Robert Myers, Professor, English Bilal Orfali, Associate Professor, Arabic and Near Eastern Languages Digambara Patra, Associate Professor, Chemistry Sylvain Perdigon; Assistant Professor; Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies Helene Sader, Professor, History and Archaeology (Fall 2017-18) Haidar Safa, Professor, Computer Science Mohamed Salah, Associate Professor, Geology (Fall 2017-18) Alexis Wick, Associate Professor, History and Archaeology (Spring 2017-18)

URB Representatives: Digambara Patra, Associate Professor, Chemistry Helene Sader, Professor, History and Archaeology (Fall 2017-18) Alexis Wick, Associate Professor, History and Archaeology (Spring 2017-18)

Research Committee Coordinator: Heghnar T. Yeghiayan (Faculty Grants and Travel Officer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences)

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The FAS Research Committee (FAS-RC) authorized the Chair to approve proposals submitted for funding from CNRS and international agencies after checking that they comply with AUB rules and regulations.

All recommendations made by the FAS-RC were governed by the bylaws of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the various policies and guidelines established by the Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC).

The FAS-RC used five evaluation criteria for the review process of the URB grants: significance, investigator, methodology, feasibility, and budget. There was no weight allocated to budget; rather, the budget was reviewed to check whether all listed items are justified and are according to the URB guidelines. The weighting for the remaining four criteria was 25% each. The rationale behind this distribution is to put more

emphasis on the quality of the project and the investigator as compared to the budget, especially that several applicants in previous cycles received low scores because reviewers felt that URB funds of 10,000 USD were not enough to support the project costs. The following numerical rating was adopted for each criterion:

Score Descriptor 5 Strongly agree 4 Agree 3 Neutral 2 Disagree 1 Strongly disagree

In addition to these evaluation criteria, reviewers were asked to provide a concise summary of the proposal’s main strengths and weaknesses (mandatory), as well as confidential comments to the committee if need be (optional).

Grant applications were assigned to custodians within the committee based on their expertise and familiarity with the proposal area. Since the review process was fully online, custodians were responsible for assigning reviewers, sending template invitations for reviewers, sending reminders and monitoring in real time the reviewers’ decisions to accept or decline the review invitations through automatic email alerts sent to their email box with a copy to the FAS Faculty Grants and Travel Officer.

All new proposals received at least two peer reviews. In case a proposal received contradicting reviews, the committee solicited the opinion of a third reviewer before acting on the proposal. In all cases, the final score was an average of the scores given by the reviewers.

Based on the reviewers’ comments, feedback from custodians, and discussions by committee members, new proposals were classified into two groups: “fund with high priority” and “fund with low priority.”

All budget cuts were performed in alignment with the URB funding guidelines; only justified items were approved.

Each new proposal was assigned a fitness score as per the guidelines received from the Chair of URB. The technical score and fitness score contributed 70% and 30% to the final score, respectively.

Concerning renewals, progress reports were evaluated by committee members to check whether enough progress has been made to justify continued funding.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The committee met six times during the academic year 2017-18: (a) to discuss the URB review form and the online review process (b) to launch the review process (c) to discuss and evaluate the reviewers’ reports and (d) to discuss recommendations.

Proposals submitted for URB funding The committee received a total of 29 new and 15 renewal proposals during the current funding cycle. The distribution of the totality of these proposals per department in FAS is shown in Figure 1. Concerning new proposals, the committee recommended funding 24 proposals with “high priority” and five proposals with “low priority.” The committee recommended the continuation of funding for all 15 renewal proposals with “high priority.”

Figure 1.Distribution of URB proposals submitted to FAS departments.

All proposals went through peer review, and reviewers were meticulously selected to ensure a fair review process across applicants. A total of 275 invitations were sent to reviewers for the 29 new URB proposals: 76 (27.60%) reviewers declined the invitation, 124 (45%) did not respond to the invitation, 11 (4%) accepted but did not send their reviews and 64 (23.20%) reviewers provided complete reviews. The majority of invited reviewers were from international institutions (Figure 2). Among all submitted reviews, there were only three reviews received from AUB faculty members (Figure 3).

Figure 2. Distribution of solicited reviewers.

Figure 3. Distribution of submitted reviews.

The FAS-RC Chair sent a report to the Dean of FAS and the Chair of URB regarding the review process criteria, the committee's recommendations, and the ranking of proposals.

Proposals submitted for external funding The total number of applications to external funding agencies was 37, one of which was submitted to the Lebanese CNRS and another was submitted to the Lebanese Industrial Research Award (LIRA) whilst the remaining were submitted to international agencies, Table 1.

Table 1. Grants submitted for external funding Funding Agency Department Funding Budget

LIRA Fund (Lebanese Industrial Research Award ) BIOL $10,172 NIH BIOL $2,871,078 CONISMA (EU/ENI CBC MED) BIOL $366,040 Ragnar Söderberg research fellow in medicine BIOL $797,693 CNRS BIOL $21,181 Cornelia Parisius German Aerospace Center (DLR) CHEM $319,746 UN Environment Program (UNEP) CHEM $28,611 Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society CHEM $70,000 MUREX SERVICES S.A.L. CMPS $18,000 European Union CMPS $100,257 Cisco Systems, Inc. CMPS $120,750 EACEA Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of European Commission CMPS $97,773 Hubert Curien CEDRE program CMPS $43,364 European Union CMPS $1,240,219 Cedre Program CMPS $12,000 United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees ECON $37,400 Economics and Social Research Council EDUC $986,315 Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art FAAH $65,000 Eranet-Med Program CNRS GEOL $43,030 PRIMA GEOL $60,000 PRIMA GEOL $86,680 ACACIA WATERS GEOL $25,002 INRIA MATH $3,520 ASL-APS PHYS $4,000 National Science Foundation PHYS $165,367 International Atomic Energy Agency PHYS $40,000 Stavros Niarchos Foundation PSPA $210,000 Norglobal PSPA $40,000 Medical Research Council PSYC $34,882 Programme Hubert Curien - CEDRE SOAM $20,000 Doha International Family Institute (OSRA Grant) SOAM $49,405

The data in Table 1 was also plotted as graphic representations in Figure 4 showing the distribution of the proposals submitted for international funding across various departments in FAS.

Figure 4. Distribution of proposals submitted to external funding agencies grouped as per department.

Other Actions The FAS-RC Chair worked closely with Ms. Heghnar T. Yeghiayan and Ms. Razan Harb to finalize the format and content of the online review form.

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

The committee recommends the following:

1. Selection of referees: All referees for URB grants should be selected from abroad to minimize bias, since Lebanon is a small country, and most researchers working in similar fields know one another or sometimes even collaborate. 2. Fitness score calculation: A better matrix should be generated to award the fitness score, where the research output of the faculty as well as grants attempts/success to seek external funding should be better factored.

Bilal R. Kaafarani Chairperson

STUDENT DISCIPLINARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Tamer Amin, Associate Professor, Department of Education

Members: Mahmoud Al-Batal, Professor, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages Mohamad Chamas, Student Representative Rabih El-Mouhayar, Associate Professor, Department of Education (Spring semester) Joshua Gonzalves, Associate Professor, Department of English Kirsten Scheid, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (Fall semester) Charbel Tarraf, Associate Dean, Student Affairs Tamer Tlas, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics Erin Zimmerman, Assistant Professor, Department of English

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The committee considers accusations of violations of the student code of conduct as these pertain to academic matters such as cheating, plagiarism, class disruption and others. The committee considers the evidence supporting the accusation, provides the student accused with the opportunity share his or her perspective on the case and then recommends the disciplinary action (if any) considered appropriate to the Dean

The committee continued the practices of the previous year. For each meeting, the chair provided the committee members with the available documentation of all the cases to be considered about one week before the meeting. The chair prepared a summary of each case for quick reference during the meeting. Each student accused was invited to attend the meeting to share his or her perspective on the case. Approximately, three or four cases were considered per meeting.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The committee met 11 times during the 2017-18 academic year with a total of 34 cases considered. The three tables below summarize all the cases considered. It shows a breakdown of the kinds of accusations considered and their frequency, the class, the faculty, and the type of course.

Cheating Plagiarism Disruption Dishonesty Total Natural 1 8 - 2 11 science Mathematics and Computer - - - - 0 Science Social Sciences 3 2 1 1 7 Humanities - 6 - - 6 English - ENGL 102=2; - 10 (Writing) ENGL 203=4; ENGL 204=2; ENGL 204=1; ENGL 300 =1 - Total 4 25 1 4 34 (Excluding English)

Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Prospective Total Graduate FAFS - 2 - 1 - 3 FAS 3 11 4 8 1 27 OSB - 3 1 0 - 4 Total 3 16 5 9 1 34

Cheating Plagiarism Disruption Dishonesty Total Dismissed Case 1 - - - 1 Warning - - - - - Reprimand - 2 1 - 3 Dean's Warning 3 20 - 3 26 Double Dean's Warning - 4 - - 4 Suspension - - - - - Expulsion - - - - - Total 4 26 1 3 34

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

During the course of the committee’s work this semester a number of issues arose that need to be addressed.

First, as can be seen in the tables above, plagiarism is the most frequent kind of violation of the student code of conduct reported to the committee. More specifically, plagiarism is being reported most often in humanities (especially English writing) courses, with a good proportion of those cases being committed by sophomores. It is, therefore, recommended that the committee explore ways to proactively reach out to students taking humanities courses, especially sophomores, to increase their awareness of the types of plagiarism, why plagiarism is considered a violation of academic integrity, and what the disciplinary consequences are.

Second, currently there is no single document available that indicates the nature of the secondary disciplinary actions that result automatically as a result of a Dean’s Warning. While the Student Code of Conduct indicates broadly that a Dean’s Warning is typically accompanied by secondary disciplinary actions, it is not possible for the committee at present to know exactly what all the consequences of Dean’s Warning are. These consequences are implicit in the by-laws of various university units, committees and activities but are not collected in one place. The SDAC committee chair met with the Dean of Student Affairs who indicated his willingness to help compiling such a document.

Third, currently, once a student has received a Dean’s Warning there is no procedure in place that indicates how the secondary actions can be deactivated (e.g. whether and when a student can petition for this deactivation). It seems appropriate to give students in good standing who continue to respect the Student Code of Conduct after an initial violation an opportunity to deactivate secondary actions given that these can limit participation in aspects of student life.

Fourth, the current version of the Student Code of Conduct expired in March 31, 2018. It now needs to be reapproved. The committee feels that this is an opportunity to make some improvements. A list of the recommended improvements to the text can be made available on request.

Tamer Amin Chairperson

UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERS

Chairman: Antoine Ghauch, Associate Professor, Chemistry Hoda Baytieh, Associate Professor, Education (2019) Haidar Safa, Professor, Computer Science (2018) Ohannes Geukjian, Assistant Professor, PSPA (2018) Fatimah El Jamil, Assistant Professor, Psychology (2019) Jennifer Nish, Assistant Professor, English (2018) Abbas Alhakim, Member of the University Admissions Committee (2019) Zakaria Kambris, Associate Professor, Biology (2019) Salim Kanaan, Director of Admissions, Admissions Office Nabila Dandan, Associate Director, Admissions Office Leila Knio, Director of Student Services, FAS Dean’s Office Adam Chaar, Student Representative

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

As of September 2016, the Executive Committee (EC) that carried on undergraduate regular and early admissions, for the academic year 2017-18, was replaced by the Unified Admission Committee. This committee is chaired by the Provost with a representative from each Faculty.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The committee held two regular meetings and carried one circular vote during the 2017- 2018 academic year. The actions taken by the committee are summarized below.

In coordination with the chairpersons of various Departments in FAS and working with the Dean of FAS, the committee approved the enrolment cap for various Departments in FAS for the Fall 2018-2019. (See Table I)

In coordination with the departments concerned, the committee approved the following modifications for transfer policies for freshmen joining a major: 1. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Biology: a. Replace MATH 102 with BIOL 102 as a requirement, which drops the number of Math credits to 3 and increases Natural Science credits to 13. Note: Such changes will not affect the equivalence of Freshman class to Baccalaureate II by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE).

2. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Physics: a. “A cumulative average of 70 in MATH 201 and 202.” This change was implemented because the Physics department substituted PHYS 210 and 211 with PHYS 214. 3. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Psychology: a. “A minimum grade of 75 in PSYC 101 or PSYC 201, a minimum grade of 75 in ENGL 203, a minimum grade of 75 in ENGL 204 (if taken) and an overall average above 75” 4. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of the Department of Media and Communication: a. “A minimum cumulative average of 75 in MCOM 201 and MCOM 202, and a grade of 75 or more in ENGL 203. If students have taken any additional MCOM courses, the average grade of all MCOM courses must be 70 or more. If they have taken ENGL 204, their average grade in ENGL 203 and ENGL 204 must be 75 or more” b. Change the last sentence of the requirements to Join a Major in FAS from the Freshman Class to become “a minimum cumulative average of 70 in the freshman year and a minimum cumulative average of 70 in English courses taken in the freshman year”.

In coordination with the departments concerned, the committee approved the following change in catalogue for equivalences for freshmen: The following item was approved as per the request of the Department of History and Archeology: HIST 103 and 104 were added as electives.

Freshman credits equivalent to AP, IB and AL are listed in Table II

In coordination with the concerned departments, the committee approved the following departmental new policy for Interdepartmental Transfer: 1. The following item was approved as per the request of the Department of Psychology: a. “Transfer to Psychology from other departments within the university is academically competitive giving priority to students with higher averages” 2. The following item was approved as per the request of the Department of Media Studies and Communication: a. The first part of the sentence should read “a minimum cumulative average of 70 in MCOM 201 and MCOM 202 and a grade of 70….” instead of “a grade of 70 or more in MCOM 201 or 202, and a grade of 70 or more in ENGL 203.”

Admission of students through the MasterCard Foundation The committee was not consulted to look into the application of students through the MasterCard Foundation.

Admission of students through USAID University Scholarship Program USP The committee was not consulted to look into the application of the students through the USP program.

Policies for second degrees and double majors Policies for second degrees and double majors remain the same as for previous years.

Undergraduate Admission:

Mid-year admission (Spring 2017-2018): Out of 72 applicants to the freshman class, the UAC accepted 59, and out of 148 applicants to the sophomore class, the Committee accepted 109 students (with 117 FAS majors). The distribution of accepted sophomore applicants is shown in Table III.

First Semester Admission (Fall 2018-2019): The Unified Admission Committee (UA), in January 2018, accepted 332 applicants (279 sophomore and 53 freshman) who qualified for early admission (EA) to undergraduate study for the academic year 2018-19 (as stated in the AUB Undergraduate catalogue 2017-2018, pp.36-37). The distribution of accepted applicants is shown in Table IV.

The Unified Admission Committee (UA): The UA has reviewed and acted upon applicants to the undergraduate admissions. Counts done in June 2018showed that: out of 713 freshman applicants, 586 were admitted by the committee to the freshman class on the basis of Special University criteria including Children of Alumni, Faculty and Staff. In total, the Committee accepted 2263 out of 3640 applicants to the sophomore class. Children of Alumni, Faculty and Staff have been admitted to the Sophomore Class on the basis of Special University criteria. For the ninth year, admissions continue to implement the FAS norm and offer majorless admission to sophomore applicants who did not satisfy all the requirements for their indicated choices but who had attained SAT and CMS scores equivalent to or above the cut off score. A comprehensive distribution listing early and regular accepted applicants is shown in Table V.

University Preparatory Program (UPP): The UPP continued to prepare applicants to take the New SAT. (This includes both the verbal and mathematical reasoning parts). After completion of this program, applicants join the freshman class or request to be considered by Admissions for regular sophomore admission.

As previously agreed, consideration of UPP applicants has been dependent on the high scores (AV 800) calculated similar to regular applicants (see Table VI).

Junior Transfers from Other Universities: As per previous Annual Reports, the Committee continued to admit students at the Junior level if they had completed the equivalent of 60 credits (including freshmen credits). The Committee also agreed to admit transfer applicants to FAS majors at the sophomore level, depending on seat availability, provided they attained a GPA of 3.0/4.0 (80%) or above in at least 24 credits of coursework. A total of 120 credits (including freshman) is required for graduation. All transfer students are required to satisfy departmental, faculty and general university course requirements (at least 45 credits at AUB out of which a minimum of 21 credits should be in their chosen major). Exemption from any required course (including Arabic) will be determined on a case- by-case basis by the various departments after registration. As per previous years and at the Committee’s request, the Admissions’ Office notified transfer students that along with their application, they should submit the syllabi of the courses for early consideration by the Faculty. Upon confirmation of admission, accepted transfer applicants were instructed to contact the FAS Dean’s Office-Student section to finalize their potential transferrable sophomore credits. The Committee then communicates to the Offices of Registrar, Office of Admissions, Academic advisor and the concerned student(s) the exact number of transferable credits prior to advising and registration (see Table VI).

Transfers within Arts and Sciences: The Committee continued its periodic review and updating of requirements for transfer within the Faculty (interdepartmental and transfer of freshman to majors).

E. RECOMMENDATIONS

1. The Committee maintains that Admissions continue the FAS trend for offering unspecified choices of major to applicants who do not satisfy all the requirements for the indicated choices and whose SAT and CMS scores are equivalent to or above the cut off score.

2. The Committee urges the Office of Admission to scrutinize all transfer applications before transmitting them to the FAS Undergraduate Admissions Committee. Complete applications should include an updated transcript as well as course syllabi for all courses taken including those in progress. Such applicants must send their university catalogue as well, unless it is posted electronically.

3. As in previous years, the committee requires that filling “Form 3” in the application folder be mandatory for all applicants. The information to be given on this form includes the average of the class, the average of the applicant, the applicant’s rank in class and the number of students in that class. School records submitted in any other form must not be accepted.

4. The Committee understands that few applicants will still be at a disadvantage when

their school records are standardized against the general averages and standard deviations. Consequently, the Committee recommends that the UAC looks at each case individually (as it is the norm in FAS).

5. The Committee will continue admitting students coming from the different tracks of the Lebanese Baccalaureate to any major in FAS. It also asks admitted students to take certain supplementary courses for no credit (if they choose a field of study different from their Baccalaureate track). For example, students coming from the literary track may go into a science major if they complete the Freshman Science requirements for their chosen major.

6. The Committee insisted that Departments abide by their transfer requirements as per the catalogue. Exceptions may be considered by the Committee upon providing appropriate justification by the chairperson concerned.

7. The Committee recommended leniency regarding transfer deadlines and making decisions on a rolling basis when possible.

8. Based upon the grades and topics covered, the Committee approved the granting of credits for AP, GCE-AL in addition to IB holders who opt to apply to the freshman class.

9. The Committee reaffirmed its previous recommendation by stating that the English Language Proficiency Requirement (ELPR) will only be required from those applicants coming from institutions of higher learning where the language of instruction is not English.

10. The Committee recommended, for the second consecutive year, that a procedure should be put in place in order to recall academic advisors to act on petitions of students reaching them on time. In case an academic advisor does not act on a petition, he/she should receive an automatic e-mail reminding him/her to do so. This issue has to be discussed with the IT unit at FAS.

11. The Committee requested involvement in the selection of students joining FAS while being enrolled through the different scholarship programs at AUB that include USAID, Al Ghoreir and Master Card foundation.

12. The committee recommended that applications of IB students should be studied more closely at the level of the Admission office and readers. An articulation officer should be recruited to follow up on this matter by making IB and other Baccalaureate equivalence candidates (AP and AL) ready to join AUB with appropriate equivalencies given based on the syllabi of the courses taken in their respective schools. In fact, equivalences of AUB courses should be granted based on courses appearing on IB transcript (or other transcripts) of the student rather than providing same equivalences across the board for all admitted students. For example, some students are given MATH

101 and MATH 102 equivalences while they should not because they only took MATH 101 at school. Then, while joining their major at AUB, those same students take MATH 201 and fail it. Accordingly, the advisor, upon looking at the student’s transcript, can tell the student to take MATH 102 as a remedial course. There was a similar case with CHEM 201. Accordingly, students should be informed that remedial courses are mandatory in case they decide to join a specific major.

13. The Committee recommended that a sub-committee, composed of members from the Admissions Office including the newly recruited articulation officer and the UG Admissions Committee at FAS, should be assigned to look into IB, AP and GCE-AL applicants’ files in order to improve the advising process at a later stage.

14. The Committee requested that the Biology department review its requirements for transfer. The actual requirements are a grade of 75% in each of BIOL 201 and BIOL 202. The Committee required that the Biology department should be more lenient with transfer application by setting an average of more than 75% in BIOL 201 and BIOL 202 whatever the grade in each of these two courses is. A suggestion could be as follows: a minimum of 75% in at least one of the two Biology courses - BIOL 201 or BIOL 202 with an average of > 75% in both.

Antoine Ghauch Chairperson

Table I

FAS UG Enrollment Caps for AY 2018-19 Submitted on March 19, 2018

Department Remarks CAP Arabic & Near Eastern none Studies - New SO = 110 Biology -

Chemistry - New SO= 80 Computer Science - New SO= 50 Economics - New SO= 110 Education - none English - none Fine Arts & Art History - none New SO= 20

Geology & Petroleum Studies

- History & Archaeology - none Mathematics - none Philosophy - none Physics - none Political Studies & Public none Administration - Psychology - New SO= 40 Sociology, Anthropology & - none Media Studies - New SO= 30-35

Freshmen Class of 2017-18 - 300

Table II Freshman Credits Equivalent to AP, IB & AL

Subject*: AUB Equivalent Freshman Courses: BIOL 101(3 crs) or BIOL 105 (4 crs) or BIOL AL – Biology 106 (3crs) AL - Chemistry (AS - A2/total of six CHEM 101 (3crs), CHEM 101L(1cr) & units) CHEM 102 (3crs), CHEM 102L (1cr) CHEM 101 (3crs), CHEM 101L(1cr) & AL - Chemistry (AS) CHEM 102 (3crs), CHEM 102L (1cr) AL - Math (C1 + C2+ C3 + C4 + Two MATH 101 (3 crs) & MATH 102 (3 crs) application units) AL - Math (C1 + C2+ C3) MATH 101 (3 crs) AL - Math (P1 + P2) MATH 101 (3 crs) AL - Math (P1 + P2+ P3 + P4 + P5 + MATH 101 (3 crs) & MATH 102 (3 crs) P6) PHYS 101 (4 crs) & PHYS 101L (1cr) or AL – Physics PHYS 103 (3crs) BIOL 101(3 crs) or BIOL 105 (4 crs) or BIOL AP – Biology 106 (3crs) AP - Calculus (AB) MATH 101 (3 crs) AP - Calculus (BC) MATH 101 (3 crs) & MATH 102 (3crs) CHEM 101 (3crs), CHEM 101L(1cr) & AP – Chemistry CHEM 102 (3crs), CHEM 102L (1cr) AP - Economics (Mac) ECON 102 (3 crs) AP - Economics (Mic) ECON 101 (3 crs) AP - English Language & Composition ENGL 203 (3 crs) AP - English Literature & Composition ENGL 203 (3 crs) AP - English Literature & Composition ENGL 203 (3 crs) & ENGL 204 (3crs) AND English Language & Composition AP - Environmental Science GEOL 102 (3 crs) AP - History of Art (0319) AHIS 150 (3 crs) AP - Physics 1 PHYS 103 (3 crs) AP - Physics B PHYS 103 (3 crs) AP - Physics C PHYS 101 (4 crs) AP – Psychology PSYC 101 (3 crs) AP - US History HIST 200 (3 crs) AP - World History HIST 101 (3 crs) IB – Arabic - HL ARAB 200 (3crs) IB - Biology - HL BIOL 101(3 crs) or BIOL 105 (4 crs) IB – Biology-SL BIOL 106 (3 crs) CHEM 101 (3crs), CHEM 101L(1cr) & IB - Chemistry - HL CHEM 102 (3crs), CHEM 102L (1cr) IB - Economics - HL ECON 101 & ECON 102 (6 crs) IB - English B - HL ENGL 102 (3 crs) IB - Further Mathematics - SL MATH 101 & MATH 102 (6 crs) IB - History – HL HIST 102 (3 crs) IB – Mathematics - HL MATH 101 & MATH 102 (6 crs) IB - Mathematics - SL MATH 101 (3 crs) IB - Philosophy - HL PHIL 102 (3 crs)

PHYS 101 (4 crs) & PHYS 101L (1cr) or IB - Physics – HL PHYS 103(3 crs) IB – Psychology PSYC 101 (3 crs) IB – Visual Arts - HL AHIS 150 (3 crs) PHYS 101 (4 crs) & PHYS 101L (1cr) or PHYS AL – Physics 103 (3crs) AP - Physics 1 PHYS 103 (3 crs) AP - Physics B PHYS 103 (3 crs) AP - Physics C PHYS 101 (4 crs) PHYS 101 (4 crs) & PHYS 101L (1cr) or PHYS IB - Physics – HL 103(3 crs) AP – Psychology PSYC 101 (3 crs) IB – Psychology PSYC 101 (3 crs)

*Equivalence of: AP requires a grade of 4 or 5 IB requires a grade of 6 or 7 GCSE-AL requires a grade of B or A

Faculty of Arts & Sciences / Student Section

September 2017

Table III Distribution of Accepted Undergraduate Applicant Spring 2017-2018 MAJOR ACCEPTED Art History - Applied Mathematics 2 Arabic Language & Literature - Archaeology - Biology 11 Chemistry 16 Computer Science 11 Economics 17 Education/Elementary

English Literature 1 English Language

Geology - History - Mathematics Arts - Mathematics Science 5 Media & Communications 5 Philosophy - Physics 11 Political Studies 3 Psychology 16 Petroleum Studies 5 Public Administration 4 Studio Art 2 Sociology & Anthropology - Statistics - Total _Accepted Sophomore 109* Total _Accepted Freshman 59 Grand Total 168 *. Actual number of students is different from the number of accepted students; a student may be accepted to more than one major and this is what makes the count by major different from that of the applicants. 44

Table IV

Distribution of Early Accepted Undergraduate Applicants Fall 2018-2019

MAJOR ACCEPTED Art History 1 Applied Mathematics 10 Arabic Language & Literature - Archaeology - Biology 124 Chemistry 13 Computer Science 26 Economics 21 Education/Elementary - English Literature 2 English Language - Geology 1 History 2 Mathematics Arts 12 Mathematics Science 8 Media & Communications 0 Philosophy 22 Physics 6 Political Studies 17 Psychology 5 Petroleum Studies 1 Public Administration 3 Studio Art 1 Sociology & Anthropology 1 Statistics 1 Total _Accepted Sophomore 276* Total _Accepted Freshman 53 Grand Total 329

* Actual number of students is different from the number of accepted students; a student may be accepted to more than one major and this is what makes the count by major different from that of the applicants.

Table V

FAS Admissions Figures for Fall 2018- 19

2018 - 19 201910 MAJOR Expected CMS* AP AC C E Yield 18-19 AHST 15 3 1 1 0.33 APPM 140 49 13 14 0.29 500 ARLL 9 2 - 1 0.50 AROL 17 3 1 - 0.00 BIOL 645 1,066 330 118 157 0.48 CHEM 510 751 301 100 74 0.25 CMPS 550 968 305 68 102 0.33 ECON 749 367 85 97 0.26 ELEM 131 26 14 7 0.27 ELIT 164 25 11 8 0.32 ELNG 56 15 2 3 0.20 GEOL 20 5 2 1 0.20 500 HIST 23 4 2 2 0.50 MATA 142 15 4 - 0.00 MATS 431 129 28 29 0.22 MCOM 343 125 22 35 0.28 PHIL 29 5 2 2 0.40 PHYS 540 490 140 27 37 0.26 POLS 500 344 94 24 23 0.24 PSYC 550 660 164 56 57 0.35 PTST 194 68 7 6 0.09 PUBA 138 20 5 3 0.15 SART 500 146 35 1 4 0.11 SOAN 76 15 9 5 0.33 STAT 81 12 1 1 0.08 Total (UG)** 7,183 2,257 603 669 0.30 MJRL (FR) 468 713 586 282 364 0.62

Codes: AP: Applied AC: Accepted C: Confirmed E: Previous years’ data of Enrolled Expected Yield = previous years’ data of Enrolled / Accepted CMS: ( { [(School Av1-Mean1)/(SD1)] * 100 + 500 } + { [School Av2-Mean2)/(SD2)] * 100 + 500 } )/2 SD: Standard Deviation * Not an absolute cut off **Doesn’t represent counts per head

Table VI Distribution of Second Degree, Transfers, Special Not Working for a Degree and Old Returning for AY 2017-18

TERM S’16-17 App. A D E Readmission of Old Returning Students 17 17 - 17

TERM F’17-18 App. A D E I. Transfers Within FAS 160 160 - 151 A)FR Transfers 90 90 - 82 B)Inter-Departmental Transfers 70 70 - 69 i) SO 15 15 - 15 ii) JR 41 41 - 40 iii) SR 14 14 - 14 II. Interfaculty Transfers 26 20 6 14 II. Transfers From other Universities 41 23 18 7 IV. Second Degree 18 17 1 5 i) AUB 12 12 - 5 ii) Non-AUB 6 5 1 - V. Readmission of Old Returning Students 43 43 - 40 VI. University Preparatory Program 4 4 - 3

TERM SP’17-18 App. A D E I. Transfers Within FAS 25 9 16 9 A)FR Transfers 7 2 5 2 B)Inter-Departmental Transfers 18 7 11 7 i) SO 2 - 2 - ii) JR 9 4 5 4 iii) SR 7 3 4 3 II. Interfaculty Transfers 47 34 13 28 III. Transfers From other Universities 15 10 5 5 IV. Second Degree 5 4 1 3 i) AUB 3 3 - 2 ii) Non-AUB 2 1 1 1 V. Readmission of Old Returning Students 20 20 - 17 VI. University Preparatory Program 5 5 - 3

Codes: App.: Total Applicants; A: Accepted; D: Declined; E: Enrolled

UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Saouma BouJaoude, Professor, Education

Members: Faraj Hasanayn, Professor, Chemistry Michel Bariche, Associate Professor, Biology Gregory Burris, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies Shady Elbassuoni, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Noel Ghanem, Assistant Professor, Biology Tania Haddad, Assistant Professor, Political Studies and Public Administration Zeina Halabi, Assistant Professor, Arabic and Near Eastern Languages Niamh Kelly, Assistant Professor, English Ahmad Korfali, Administrative Assistant for Student Records, Registrar Rima Rassi, FAS Officer for Curriculum and Graduate Studies Najla Yakteen, FAS Undergraduate Student Officer Hussein Kharroubi, Student Representative (2018)

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

In its first meeting, the Committee voted to give the Chairperson a mandate to rule on any recurrent petitions and to sign all equivalence forms and transfer of courses from other universities. All remaining student petitions and proposals submitted by departments were discussed during meetings. Circular votes were used only when necessary; two times during the year.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

1. The Committee met eight times during the 2017-2018 academic year. It considered 332 petitions (291 were approved and 41 were declined), 184 course equivalences (176 were approved and 8 were declined), 26 co/pre-requisites (21 were approved and 5 were declined), 71 count course instead of another as part of the requirements for the major (60 were approved and 11 were declined), 17 exceptions related to GE requirements (6 were approved and 11 were declined), 6 follow old curriculum requirements (5 were approved and 1 were declined), 27 general petitions (23 were approved and 5 were declined), and 85 study abroad applications, and 14 course equivalence letters for students admitted as junior transfers.

2. The Committee approved the following: a. Substitute the first bullet point of “Other Requirements” that reads “A student must complete a minimum of 18 additional credits outside his/her major department” in the FAS catalogue with “A student must complete elective credits outside his/her major department as per the program requirements” with the rest of the sentence being the same.

The Committee also discussed and approved the following departmental requests: 1. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Biology: a. Add BIOL 102 to the Undergraduate Catalogue. 2. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of History and Archaeology: a. Change the following three special topics courses into regular courses with their own numbers: i. HIST 258AP to HIST 219 The Formation of Islamic Thought ii. HIST 258AN to HIST 210 Late Antiquity: Faith and Empire iii. HIST 258AQ to HIST 211 Muhammad and the Origins of Islam b. Introduce HIST 104: History of the Arabs and the Middle East, II: Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century as a new course. 3. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Fine Arts and Art History: a. Change in degree requirements: to amend a line that students find confusing and to encourage students to take more courses from the Islamic and Arab Art offerings. b. Change in the description of AHIS 203 “to remove the out of date terminology ‘classical’ and introduce a geographical delimitation of the course”. c. Combining 284A and 284B into AHIS 284, 1 course of 3 credits (previously a yearlong course, taken over two semesters – first semester 2 cr. and second semester 1 cr. and approved by the UCC). The rational for this is that the workload was too heavy, so the practical part has been converted into a course of its own (AHIS 285, previously approved by the committee), while the historical and theoretical components are now one course. d. Introduction of a new music course, MUSC 269 – Special Topics in Music Performance. e. The addition of a new course AHIS 285: Practices of Curating 2.2 3cr. to the catalogue. f. Change the pre-requisites of AHIS 252: Contemporary Art and Theory to the following: any two of the following: AHIS 203, AHIS 204, AHIS 207, AHIS 208, AHIS 209, AHIS 221, AHIS 222, AHIS 224, AHIS 225, AHIS 226, AHIS 227, AHIS 249, AHIS 250, AHIS 251, AHIS 261, AHIS 262, AHIS 263, AHIS 281, AHIS 282, AHIS 283, AHIS 284, AHIS 285. (circular vote)

g. Changes to the Minor in Studio Arts to require 15 credits as follows: i. Twelve credits taken from the following courses according to sequence and following prerequisites: SART 200, SART 201, SART 202, SART 203, SART 204, SART 206, SART 207, SART 208. ii. Three credits in art history taken from AHIS 203, AHIS 204, AHIS 207, AHIS 208, AHIS 209, AHIS 221, AHIS 222, AHIS 224, AHIS 225, AHIS 226, AHIS 227, AHIS 249, or approved alternative. h. Make all sophomore and junior SART studio courses open to all interested students without restrictions. 4. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Computer Science: a. Add a new study plan for students starting in the spring semester. b. update the description of CMPS 205 to sophomore standing and to remove CMPS 212 as a co-requisite c. Update the CMPS 212 description to remove CMPS 205 as a co-requisite. d. Update the description of CMPS 272 (Operating Systems) to become a co-requisite of CMPS 299, instead of a pre-requisite. e. Update the description of CMPS 253 and 277. f. Update the frequency of CMPS 211 to “each semester” and CMPS 274 to “annually”. 5. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages (circular vote): a. Add ARAB 210A, 210B, 219, 220, 221, 253, 254 and 258 to the Undergraduate Catalogue. b. Eliminate ARAB 201A and 201B and establish a new course as follows: ARAB 201: Issues in Contemporary Arab Culture(s). 6. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Psychology: a. Remove the pre-requisite for PSYC 229 (Cognitive Neuroscience). b. Restrict PSYC 282 to Psychology majors. c. Make STAT 201 or STAT 210 or equivalent as prerequisites for PSYC 284. d. Make PSYC 284 as a pre-requisite (instead of pre/co-requisite) for PSYC 288. e. Change course description of PSYC 284 in the catalogue. f. Change the title of PSYC 239 from “Trauma” to “Psychology of Trauma” and add pre-co requisite PSYC 214 or PSYC 215. g. Change the course number of PSYC 228 to PSYC 237 in order to change it from a category 2 course to a category 3 one. 7. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of English: a. Remove ARAB 201 as the prerequisite of ENGL 233. b. Add ENGL 227 as a prerequisite for ENGL 294A. c. Introduce a new course entitled ENGL 263 – Tutoring Writing.

d. Change the name of the minor in “Gender Studies” to “Women and Gender Studies”. 8. The following item was approved as per the request of the Department of Chemistry: a. Introduce CHEM 207 – Survey of Organic Chemistry and Petrochemicals as a new course. 9. The following items were approved as per the request of the Media Studies Program: a. Introduce MCOM 226 – Journalism and Society as a new course b. Eliminate pre-requisites for all four core courses (MCOM201, MCOM202, MCOM203, and MCOM204). c. Eliminate pre-requisite for MCOM247. d. Require English 203 as a pre- or co-requisite for taking any Media classes. e. Change MCOM296 (Internship) from 1-credit to 3-credits. f. Change MCOM291F (Introduction to Photojournalism) and MCOM293B (Writing for Advertising) from Special Topics to regular permanent course numbers (MCOM225 and MCOM249, respectively). g. Convert the lab Video editing (MCOM295) into a 3-credit course (MCOM 250). h. Introduce a new minor called Reporting in the Digital Age. i. Change the number of credits for the Minor in Film and Visual Culture from 16 to 15 hours. j. Change the description of MCOM205 (Interpersonal communication) to reflect new content. 10. The following items were approved at the request of the Department of Mathematics: a. STAT 210 is now a required course for the BS and BA in Statistics b. MATH 212 is now a required course for the BS and BA in Applied Mathematics c. MATH 204 is not open to ECON students d. Change in name of MATH 211 to the new name of “Discrete Mathematics” e. MATH 211 and MATH 212 do not count towards the major course requirements for the BS and BA in Mathematics, but may be counted towards the 90 credits required for graduation at FAS f. STAT 210 and STAT 233 are both required for students in the BS or BA in Statistics g. Students who are not statistics majors who take STAT 210 will not receive credit for STAT 201, STAT 230, STAT 233 or ECON 213 h. Students who are not statistics majors who take STAT 233 will not receive credit for STAT 201, STAT 230 or ECON 213 i. Students in the BA or BS in Applied Math can take credit for both MATH 212 and MATH 224 j. Change in the prerequisite of STAT 234 to the following: “STAT 210 and STAT 233, or a grade of at least 70 in STAT 230”

k. Change in the prerequisite of STAT 235 to the following: “MATH 218 or MATH 219, STAT 234 or STAT 230 with the consent of the instructor” l. Change in the prerequisite of MATH 251 to the following: “CMPS 200 or EECE 230 or EECE 231, and MATH 201. This course is equivalent to CMPS 251.” m. Change the requirements of the Minor in Statistics to include two options: i. Option 1: MATH 201, MATH 218 or MATH 219, STAT 210, STAT 233, STAT 234 and STAT235 ii. Option 2: MATH 201, MATH 218 or MATH 219, STAT 230, STAT 234, STAT 235 and one additional advanced course in statistical sciences to be selected with the approval of the department chair.” n. Establish the following new course: STAT 239 – Statistical Learning 3.0, 3 cr. Prerequisites MATH 218/219; STAT234. Open to students who have taken STAT230 with consent of the instructor. 11. The following items were approved as per the request of the Department of Economics (circular vote): a. Change the computer literacy requirement for ECON majors from CMPS 209 to CMPS 209 or CMPS 200 b. Add the statement: ECON majors should not get credit for both ECON 211 and HMPD 251 to the description of ECON 211 (noting that students already cannot receive credit for ECON 211 and AGSC 212). 12. The following item was approved at the request of CASAR: a. Re-add two courses (AMST 220 and AMST 230) on the AMST minor form. 13. The following items were approved as per the request of CAMES: a. Raise the credit load for MEST 382 Intermediate Lebanese Colloquial Arabic from 6 credits to 9 credits. b. Add the following course to the CAMES summer Arabic programs: MEST 380 Introductory Lebanese Colloquial Arabic (9 credit hours).

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

1. The Committee recommends that criteria be developed for the evaluation of proposals to establish minors. 2. The Committee re-iterated its recommendation to the Registrar’s Office to ensure that all catalogue restrictions are accurately implemented on the banner student information system; such restrictions include preventing students from registering for mutually exclusive or equivalent courses. 3. The practice of waiting to submit petitions during the semester when students are supposed to graduate should be discouraged.

4. The Committee recommends that learning outcomes be developed for all minors to ensure that students have the information necessary to make informed decisions about selecting minors.

Saouma BouJaoude Chairperson

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Houssam El-Rassy, Associate Professor, Chemistry

Members: Ghassan Antar, Associate Professor, Physics (Fall 2018) Lyall Richard Armstrong, Assistant Professor, History and Archaeology (Spring 2018) Joshua David Gonsalves, Associate Professor, English (2018) Mohammad Jaber, Assistant Professor, Computer Science (2019) Zakaria Kambris, Associate Professor, Biology (2019) Hiba Khodr, Associate Professor, Political Studies and Public Administration (2019) Sara Mourad, Assistant Professor, Sociology Anthropology and Media Studies (2019) Joshua Daniel Norton, Assistant Professor, Philosophy (Fall 2018) Dr. Heinrich Zu Dohna-Schlobi, Assistant Professor, Biology (Spring 2018) Elie Mansour, Student Records Administrator, Registrar Leila Knio, Director of Student Services Najla Yakteen, Undergraduate Student Officer Nour Monzer, Student representative (2018)

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The Committee has the power to make exceptions to academic rules and regulations in special cases, by ruling on requests and petitions from FAS undergraduate students pertaining to their academic status and records. During the 2012-13 academic year, the Committee, with support from the FAS IT department, has introduced the Online Petitions and Forms System (OPFS). It is a web application that automates the process of submitting petitions and forms in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Active FAS students can submit their petition forms online and track their progress. Advisors, course instructors, department chairs, as well as the chair of the committee and the Dean can submit their recommendation/decision electronically. Decisions are then forwarded to the registrar or other concerned parties for implementation.

The Committee authorized the Chairperson to act on “routine” requests such as correction of registration records, requests for make-up of incomplete course work and changes of grade.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS (See Appendix 1)

The Committee held 25 meetings throughout the academic year 2017-2018 to deal with the academic problems brought before it by undergraduate students.

1. Twenty-seven students should have been dropped for poor performance at the end of Fall 2017-18 but were given an extension of their probation status to the end of the Spring semester 2017-18. Out of these 27 students, 4 removed their probation and are currently students in good standing while 2 graduated. Eleven students should have been dropped for poor performance at the end of Spring 2017-18 but were given an extension of their probation status to the end of the Fall semester 2018-19.

2. The Committee reviewed the academic records of students on strict probation who had received letters stating that they would be considered for dismissal from the Faculty if they did not remove their academic probation at the end of the Fall and Spring semesters 2017-18. A total of 34 students were dropped from the Faculty because of poor academic standing at the end of Fall 2017-18, and 29 at the end of Spring 2017-18. Eight students were reinstated and were allowed to register and extend their strict probation status for Spring 2017-18 and after providing the Committee with convincing reasons for their reinstatement (see Appendix 2).

3. The Committee received readmission requests from students who were dropped from AUB after having spent one year at a recognized institution of higher learning. Four students have been readmitted on strict probation in Fall 2017-2018, one student was readmitted on strict probation in Spring 2017-2018.

Irregular Loads

Permission to take less than 12 credits was granted by the Committee to graduating students, new students in their first year at AUB, students with health or family problems, students working for a second degree and, in few instances, students with work employment outside AUB. Alternatively, 16 students were dropped from all their courses due to unapproved underloads.

Students were permitted to take more than 17 credits provided that their average was above 80 during the last two regular semesters. The Committee continued to allow graduating students whose cumulative average is 80 or above to take up to 21 credits either in their last semester or in the one that precedes it provided they secure their advisor’s approval (see Appendix 1).

Incomplete Grades, Grade Changes, Correction of Record

Requests for make-up of incomplete work were approved for students with health and/or family problems. Requests for change of grade were considered only for errors made by course instructors in calculating or reporting final grades. The Committee honoured all correction-of-record requests from students which were due to advising and/or registration issues (see Appendix 1). Requests for repeating a final exam were approved under very exceptional conditions such as a student suffering from a health problem while taking the exam.

D. RECOMMENDATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

1. FAS USAAC recommends reinforcing the newly adopted procedure concerning the minimum of 40% to be known by the student before the deadline to withdraw from courses. FAS USAAC also recommends the replacement of the word “expected” to “mandatory.” (At least 40% of the overall assessment is mandatory to be issued by the instructor before the last day of withdrawal). Exceptions need the approval of FAS USAAC prior to the beginning of the semester and must be included in the syllabus.

2. FAS USAAC recommends conducting regular advising workshops for new and continuing advisors to enable them to be more efficient in making the primary decisions on petitions.

3. FAS USAAC recommends setting a University-wide deadline for withdrawal from the entire semester. FAS USAAC recommends setting the last day of classes to be the deadline for withdrawal from all courses in a semester.

4. FAS USAAC recommends the completion of an incomplete work in a course within two weeks from the end of the Final Exams period for a student who is on strict probation or whose academic status is (2.2) or (2.3). This is crucial for the evaluation of the student and might affect his/her residency at AUB. FAS USAAC also recommends modifying the period given to complete the coursework from “no later than one month within the next regular semester” to “no later than the end of the drop and add period of the next regular semester.”

5. FAS USAAC recommends the strict application of the content of the UG Catalogue’s section about Repeating Courses (2017-2018 UG catalogue p. 55). FAS USAAC recommends that students who fail to pass a major course after three attempts, including withdrawals, be dropped from their major.

6. FAS USAAC recommends a resourceful coordination between the various entities of the Office of Student Affairs and FAS. Receiving specific and informative reports when required is highly appreciated by FAS USAAC.

7. FAS USAAC recommends avoiding scheduling the final exams of largely populated courses on the same day. FAS USAAC also recommends announcing the scheduling of the final exams as early as possible within the semester.

Houssam El-Rassy Chairperson

Appendix 1:

Major Actions Taken by the FAS USAAC, AY 17-18

Fall 2017-2018 Spring 2017-2018 Subject P1 A2 D3 Total P1 A2 D3 Total Correction of record/change in course schedule 0 144 32 176 0 199 29 228 Withdraw Late from a Course 0 108 57 165 0 99 50 149 Dropping students from a course for excessive absences 0 15 4 19 0 14 11 25 Extra Load for students in good standing TOTAL 0 51 38 89 0 48 14 62 18 crs 0 40 33 73 0 38 13 51 19 crs 0 10 2 12 0 7 0 7 20 crs 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 21 crs 0 1 3 4 0 2 1 3 24 crs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Extra Load for students on probation TOTAL 0 1 3 4 0 5 3 8 Readmission of dropped students after 1 yr at another 0 4 1 5 0 1 1 2 Univ.4 Reconsideration of 'drop from faculty' decision 0 8 2 10 0 0 0 0 Extension of Strict Probation 0 3 1 4 1 3 3 7 Repeating a course for the 4th time or more 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Underload for students in good standing 0 37 2 39 0 30 4 34 Underload for students on probation 0 5 0 5 0 7 0 7 Retake Final Exam 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 5 Audit a Course 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 Reinstate in a Course 0 6 0 6 0 2 0 2 Extension of Incomplete 0 17 0 17 0 12 2 14 Incomplete Course Work 'Form 1' 0 148 0 148 21 85 3 109 Change of Grade 'Form 3' 0 76 0 76 23 188 0 211

Summer 2017 Subject P1 A2 D3 Total Correction of record/change in course schedule 0 0 0 0 Withdraw Late from a Course 0 0 0 0 Extra Load for students in good standing TOTAL 0 0 0 0 10 crs 2 0 0 2 11 crs 0 0 0 0 12 crs 0 0 0 0 Extra Load for students on probation TOTAL 1 0 0 1 Readmission of dropped students after 1 yr at another

Univ.4 0 0 0 0 Reconsideration of 'drop from faculty' decision 0 0 0 0 Repeating a course for the 4th time or more 0 0 0 0 Retake Final Exam 0 0 0 0 Reinstate in a Course 0 0 0 0 Extension of Incomplete 0 0 0 0 Incomplete Course Work 'Form 1' 0 0 0 0 Change of Grade 'Form 3' 0 0 0 0 1Pending 2Approved 3Declined 4Students in this category are readmitted on strict probation

Appendix 2: Major Actions Taken by the FAS USAAC (AY 16-17) (Students on Strict Probation)

End of Fall 2017-18 Total* I. Drop from Faculty 34 II. Extend Drop till Spring 2018 27 III. Drop Automatically end of Spring 2018 0

End of Spring 2017-18 Total* I. Drop from Faculty 29 II. Extend Drop till Fall 2019 11 III. Extend Drop till Spring 2019 0

End of Summer 2017-18 Total* I. Drop from Faculty 0

*Final decisions after reconsideration

Part III

Reports of the Academic Units

THE ANIS MAKDISI PROGRAM IN LITERATURE

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL) was inaugurated at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut in October 2002. The aim of the program is to promote and support interdisciplinary dialogue, develop literary and humanistic studies at AUB, and encourage openness to different cultural forms and traditions in literature, in keeping with the approaches elaborated in the work of Anis K. Makdisi. The Program fosters intellectual dialogue and scholarly exchange among members of different departments, their students, and visiting scholars. The Program's activities include seminars, lecture series, workshops and conferences on various topics in cultural and literary studies, in order to provide a forum for scholarly dialogue among the various academic communities in Lebanon. In addition, two student scholarships are awarded annually; a graduate fellowship to support graduate studies in literature at AUB, and an undergraduate scholarship for undergraduate studies. A centerpiece of the program is the Anis K. Makdisi Memorial Lecture, held annually at AUB, and given by a leading scholar or author. The Program has continued its varied activities in the academic year 2017-2018 (as noted below), in addition to continuing to work closely together with different programs and departments at AUB as well as with educational, academic, and cultural institutions, in addition to scholars and intellectuals from Lebanon and abroad. Most of the events have been covered by various outlets of the media and press, and through online forums as well.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Director

El-Bizri, Nader Professor (assisted by Ms. Wadad Batrawi, FAS)

2. Advisors

Harb, Sirene Associate Professor Jarrar, Maher Professor Khairallah, Assad Professor Makdisi, Saree Professor

C. EVENTS

PUBLIC LECTURE Dr. Maya Haïdar-Boustani (USJ) “Les premiers sédentaires au Liban. Du village préagricole au village de producteurs (12 000 - 5000 av. J.-C.)” September 19, 2017

ANIS MAKDISI MEMORIAL LECTURE R.F. Prof. Salim Daccache s.j. (Rector, USJ) “AUB and USJ in Beirut: The Historical Depth of their Educational Mission and Horizons of the Future” November 8, 2017

PUBLIC LECTURE Dr. Ahmed Alwishah (Pitzer College, Claremont, CA) “Rethinking Avicenna’s Theory of Perception” December 13, 2017

AUB-NDU INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM “The Philosophical Works of Kamal Youssef Al-Hage” January 31-February 1, 2018

PUBLIC LECTURE “Al-Jihad al-ruhi ‘inda Ishaq al-Ninawi”

R. F. Dr. Boulos Matar (Maronite Patriarchate, Lebanon) April 18, 2018

AUB-USJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “The Cities of Syria in the Mamluk Epoch” May 17-18, 2018

D. PROJECT

Hosting the “Lotus Project” to document and study the legacy, impact and relevance of the works of the anti-colonial writers of the Afro-Asian Writer’s Association (AAWA) and their journal Lotus that was published in Arabic, English and French from Cairo and Beirut from the 1960s to the late 1980s.

Nader El-Bizri Director

ART GALLERIES AND COLLECTIONS

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

During the academic year, AUB Art Galleries and Collections mounted six exhibitions. Three of these were wholly or partly curated by students from either the newly founded MA in Art History and Curating, or the FAAH capstone course in curating. The close links between the Art Galleries and Collections and the FAAH department were further evidenced by the fact that one of these shows, The Horror, The Horror, The Horror - Harald Szeemann and the Archive, was overseen by the Jabre Visiting Professor in Art History and Curating, Prof. Beatrice von Bismarck (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig), and a second show, David Kurani: Reality, Composed, celebrated Prof. Kurani’s fiftieth anniversary as a professor at AUB.

Art Galleries and Collections also began an art project with the new Halim and Aida Daniel Academic and Clinical Center, which is part of the AUB Medical Center. Six new artworks, all of which are site-specific within the hospital, were commissioned from local artists and will be installed when the Daniel Center is completed in the upcoming year. All of these works will become part of the AUB Permanent Art Collection. Funding for this project was provided by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, with additional money raised from private donors.

A major addition to the AUB Permanent Art Collection was made with the installation of a large-scale sculpture, Poem IV by the late Saloua Raouda Choucair to the east of Jafet Library. The sculpture is 2.4 meters tall and weighs approximately seven tons. It was designed in the early 1960s and executed between 2014-17. It was donated by the Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation.

Art Galleries and Collections hosted four lectures, two of them within the framework of the Jabre Lecture Series in Art History and Curating.

A new sponsorship agreement was concluded with Commercial Insurance for the insurance of temporary art exhibitions.

Ongoing discussions were held about a possible move of the AUB Art Galleries to a single, unified space in Mary Dodge Hall, and detailed plans were drawn up for the creation of an Art Center with FPDU.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Franses, Henri (Rico) Director Ph.D. Esanu, Octavian Curator Ph.D.

2. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Tukan, Yasmeen

3. Non-Academic Staff

Dabbousi, Dania Exhibition Coordinator, Administrative Officer

C. EXHIBITIONS

Mimesis, Expression, Construction Dates: October 2016 – October 2017 Location: AUB Art Galleries, Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum (Sidani Street, Hamra, Beirut) Curator: Octavian Esanu, Art Galleries and Collections Curator

One Hundred Years Closer to Communism: Art and Revolution in the Middle East Dates: Nov. 23, 2017 - Feb. 9, 2018 Location: AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery, Ada Dodge Hall Curator: Octavian Esanu, Art Galleries and Collections Curator

Engaged Moroccan Comics & Street Art :كازا WLED Dates: March 7 - 23, 2018 Location: AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery, Ada Dodge Hall Curator: Lina Ghaibeh, The Mu’taz and Rada Sawwaf Arab Comics Initiative

David Kurani: Reality, Composed Dates: March 28 – September 1, 2018

Location: AUB Art Galleries, Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum (Sidani Street, Hamra, Beirut) Curators: Katherine Gordon and Lama El Khatib (Art History Bachelor’s Students, Class of 2018, AUB)

The Horror, the Horror, the Horror - Harald Szeemann and the Archive Dates: April 29 – May 30, 2018 Location: AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery, Ada Dodge Hall Curators: Natasha Gasparian, Lama El Khatib, Nare Sahakyan, and Yasmeen Tukan (The Curatorial: Time & Politics course, MA in Art History and Curating Students, AUB)

Face the White Cube: Interventions at the Limits of the AUB Art Galleries Dates: May 3 – 18, 2018 Locations: AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery, Ada Dodge Hall & AUB Art Galleries, Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum Curators: Andrea Comair, Louai Kaakani, Danielle Krikorian, and Noor Tannir (FAAH 284B, Curatorial Course Bachelor’s Student Projects)

D. LECTURES

Art Galleries and Collections, Visiting Lecturers

Règine Debaty (Writer, curator, and critic, Turin) Title: We Make Money Not Art Date: Friday November 24, 2017 | 6:00 pm | AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery

Sarah Pierce (Artist and Lecturer, National College of Art& Design Dublin, Ireland) Title: The Meaning of Greatness and other works Date: Friday, March 23, 2018 | 6:30 pm | College Hall, B1

Philippe Jabre Lecture Series in Art History and Curating, Visiting Lecturers

Beatrice Von Bismarck (Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig) Title: The Political Structure of the Exhibition Date: Friday December 1, 2017 | 6:00 pm | College Hall, B1

Juli Carson (Professor at the University of California, Irvine) Title: The Hermeneutic Impulse Date: Tuesday March 13, 2018 | 6:00 pm | College Hall, B1

E. ADDITIONS TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916-2017), Poem in Four Verses, stone, conceived circa 1965, commissioned by an anonymous donor as a gift from The Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation. The sculpture was installed in the area to the east of Jafet Library, March 10, 2018. To be housed in AUB Academic and Clinical Center: Hatem Imam, Untitled, metal structure, round plexiglas, LED light Tamara Al Sammeraei, Untitled, fabric curtains and light boxes Rayya Badran and Zeina Badran, Untitled, canvas & MP3 player Nadim Mechlaoui and Sharif Sehnaoui, Signs of Life, five audio tracks Lara Tabet, Untitled, light box; glass and steel Catherine Cattaruzza, Beneath My Skin, Home, light boxes, wooden frame, digital prints.

F. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

In the upcoming year, an exhibition of the Permanent Collection will open in the Byblos Art Gallery in the fall and will remain on display for the academic year. The David Kurani show in the Saleeby Art Museum will continue until the end of the calendar year, after which an exhibition overseen by the Jabre Visiting Professor, Juli Carson, will be on display in February, curated by students in the MA in Art History and Curating. Finally, an exhibition on the Japanese artist Adachi Masao will open in March and remain on display for the summer. In the Jabre Lecture Series on Art History and Curating, two guest lecturers will be welcomed.

Henri (Rico) Franses Director

DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC & NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department’s recruitment efforts were partially successful and able to fill one line in Nahda Studies. The Department revised the program learning outcomes for the undergraduate program and completed a self-study for a review process that was executed by Dr. Julia Bray from Oxford University. The graduate program continues to admit applicants at the master’s level and PhD levels. Several have been granted provisional admission pending their successful completion of remedial classes. The Department started following closely the development of graduate students. The Department revisited many undergraduate courses and designated them as Humanities or Arabic Communication Skills in accordance with the General Education guidelines. Dr. Mahmoud al-Batal was designated director for Communications Skills and Dr. Bilal Orfali was designated director for Humanities. The Department continues to offer new courses as part of the Special Topics Course (ARAB 251), and the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee approved a number of new courses. Most importantly the Department completely revised the ARAB 201 course and designated it as the main course for Arabic communication skills. One PhD student Mariam El Ali defended her dissertation in September 29, 2017. The Department developed a system to evaluate instructors and lecturers and started investing in their development. The Department hosted the visiting Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies this year (Dr. Radwan al-Sayyid) and continues to host the journal, al-Abhath. The Department has organized around two dozen events including book discussions, lectures, panels, international conferences, among others. These events were covered by the press and gave the Department much-needed publicity, locally and internationally. Many of the events were co-organized with the Department of English, the Center for Arts and Humanities, and the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies.

Events included: تاريخ دراسات النهضة: إيقاعات الحداثة وإنشطار النص برهان الدين البقاعي ُمن ِّظرا لغويا قادرون وبالعربية: ته َّيأ لدو ّي حضوري "الذي رأى:" محاول ٌة أخرى لقراءة ال ّن ّفر ّي )ق4هـ/10م) بناء قصيدة المدح عند األخطل ال َت ْغلِب ّي السحر القرآني ونهاية السحر في التاريخ: القرآن بإعتباره كتا ًبا للرحمة اللغة العربية ومهارات التواصل في القرن الحادي والعشرين: رؤى ومقاربات

Lecture: Reading S.Y. Agnon's "Agunot" in light of Freudian influence

Tarjamat Series: Translation as a Creative Collaboration Translating Hadara: Naguib Mahfouz and a World Ethos From Global Ethic to World Ethos? The Future of Hans Küng's Weltethos Project Poetry and Translation Call and Response

Discuss Award Winning Graphic Novel Metro

Bilal Orfali in dialogue with Chip Rossetti

The Salesman (Forushandeh in Persian)

Translating Untranslatables from the Arabic Tradition

International Conference: Elias Khoury (in collaboration with The Margaret WeWeyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic) International Conference: Towards the Reconstruction of Islamic Studies Workshop: Story I Weaving Speech

Workshop: Story II The Mystic and the Elephant

International Conference: Approaches to the Study of Pre-modern Arabic Anthologies (incollaboration with The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic) The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic (Prof. R. Baalbaki) continued sponsoring its “Distinguished Lecturer Series.” This year’s distinguished lecturer was Prof. Azeddine Bouchikhi, Executive Director of the Doha Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language. The title of his paper was “ معجم الدوحة التاريخ ّي للّغة العربية: المنهج

This paper will soon be published in paper form as well as on the Chair’s .والنماذج" Website. The Chair also sponsored several other lectures in collaboration with the Department of Arabic, CAMES, and CAH, as detailed elsewhere in this report.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Al Batal, Mahmoud Professor, Ph.D. Baalbaki, Ramzi Professor, Jewett Chair Ph.D. Halabi, Zeina Assistant Professor Ph.D. Jarrar, Maher Professor Ph.D. Khansa, Enass Assistant Professor Ph.D. Naimy, Nadeem Professor*1 Ph.D. Tuqan, Fawwaz Professor Ph.D. Orfali, Bilal Associate Professor, Chair Ph.D. Fakhreddine, Jawdat Lecturer Ph.D. Al-Sayed, Radwan Visiting Professor* Ph.D. Kozah, Mario Lecturer Ph.D. Al Zein, Abdel Fattah Senior Lecturer* 3eme cycle El Daif, Rachid Lecturer* Ph.D. Abboud, Hosn Lecturer* Ph.D. Attieh, Najah Lecturer* Ph.D. Bazzi, Tarif Lecturer* Ph.D. Caland, Brigitte Lecturer* Ph.D. Hajjar, Olga Instructor* M.A. Nahas El Zein, Raghda Instructor M.A. Malti, Samir Instructor M.A. Mallah, Jihad Instructor* M.A. Harb, Reem Instructor* M.A. EL Ounsi, Fadi Instructor* M.A.

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Dabbagh, Racha Ramadan, Hani Diez, Ana Iriarte Jammal, Lina Gallorini, Louise

1 Part-Time.

Spring Semester Dabbagh, Racha Diez, Ana Iriarte Jammal, Lina Ibrahim, Ralph Raad, Philip Ramadan, Hani 3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Abu-Harb, Iman Ibrahim, Ralph Dabbagh, Rasha Ramadan, Hani Chehouri, Fatmeh Kayali, Alaa Aldeen

Spring Semester Abu-Harb, Iman Ibrahim, Ralph Chehouri, Fatmeh Ramadan, Hani Kayali, Alaa Aldeen

4. Non-Academic Staff

Abi Kaedbeh, Rana Jewett Chair Editorial/Administrative Coordinator Abbass, Aida Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2017 0 Feb. 2018 0 Jun. 2018 0

MA Oct. 2017 0 Feb. 2018 0 Jun. 2018 0

2. Number of Majors

Majors Summer ‘17 Fall Spring PhD 1 3 4 Graduates 9 10

Prospective 1 0 Seniors 0 1 Juniors 0 0 Sophomores 1 1

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 1 25 21 47 211-299 75 550 678 1303 200-210 94 250 206 550 100-199 0 22 32 54 Total 170 847 937 1954

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 3 21 9 33 211-299 12 105 111 228 200-210 15 62 48 125 100-199 0 3 3 6 Total 30 191 171 392

D. RESEARCH

Mahmoud Al Batal

1. Al-Kitaab, Part III, 3rd Edition (with Ghada Hosen & Zehad Sabry), Georgetown University Press, Fall 2019.

Ramzi Baalbaki

1. “The notion of ġarīb in Arabic lexica.” In press (Festschrift for Aziz al- Azmeh). 2. “al-Jawharī.” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (2016). In press. 3. “al-Bandanījī.” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (2017). In press. 4. “Lexicography, Arabic.” The Encyclopaedia of Isalm, Three (2017). In press. 5. “Bidāyāt niẓām al-taqfiya fī tartīb al-muʿjam al-ʿArabī.”(Revue de la lexicologie, Tunis). In press. 6. “Arabic Lexicography to c. 1800,” Cambridge World History of Lexicography, ed. John Considine. In press.

7. “Grammar for beginners and Ibn Hišām’s approach to issues of iʿrāb.”Acts of the Fourth International Colloquium on the Foundations of Arabic Linguistics, Genoa, 2016. In press. 8. Kitāb Khāṣṣ al-khāṣṣ fī l-amthāl by al-Thaʿālibī. Critical edition with Professor Bilal Orfali. In progress. 9. Kitāb al-anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya by al-Thaʿālibi. Critical edition with Prof. Bilal Orfali. In progress. 10. ʿUqalāʾ al-majānīn by Ibn Ḥabīb al-Nīsābūrī. Critical edition with Professor Bilal Orfali. In progress.

Zeina G. Halabi

1. Humboldt Research Fellowship Program for Experienced Researchers, Forum Transregional Studies/Philipps University of Marburg, Germany (2018-2020).

Enass Khansa

1. Real Colegio Complutense, at Harvard University, Fellow for "The Santiago de Compostela Cathedral Conservation Project" (2016-Present) 2. CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council), Visiting Scholar for "The Impact of the Maghrib on the Mashriq" Project (Summer, 2018) 3. "In Divine Robes": Caliphal Legitimacy in Tactile and Textual Iterations (Research project) 4. "Recognizing the Performative in Medieval Arabic Literary Production" (Research Project, from which a course will be designed, developed and taught in Spring 2019 with Dr. Bilal Orfali) 5. "The Story of Alfonso III and the Andalusī Umayyad Caliphs in Their Quest for Legitimate Rule," in Edited volume on Minorities and Interfaith Relations in Medieval Iberia, edited by Kurt Villads Jensen et al. at Stockholm University (Forthcoming) 6. "'Laḥ Allhu Qawlahum al-Faḍl li-al-Mutaqaddim': The Changing Perception of Authority in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Knowledge Transmission" (Forthcoming) 7. "From Umayyad Collectivity to Tawā'if City Identity?" (A Paper with Nasser Rabbat, Forthcoming)

Bilal Orfali

1. “Islamic Law in Literature: Some Contributions from Tanūkhī’s al-Faraj baʿda l-shidda,” forthcoming. [with Intisar Rabb, proof stage] 2. “Ibn Fāris and the Origins of the Maqāma Revisited”, Maurice A. Pomerantz and Bilal W.

Orfali (forthcoming) 3. The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, edited by Bilal Orfali and Maurice Pomerantz, translated by Sophia Vasalo, Library of Arabic Literature, NYU University, in press. 4. Food as Cultural Signifier: Middle Eastern Perspectives, edited by Kirill Dmitriev, Julia Hauser, and Bilal Orfali, Leiden: Brill, 2018 (submitted, in press) Early Sufi Poetry (Book in progress) 5. The Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhāni: Authorshop, Collection, and Textual History (with Maurice Pomerantz). 6. A Critical Edition of the Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī(based on 40 manuscripts, with Maurice Pomerantz). 7. A Critical Edition and Translation of the Letters of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib (with Roger Allen, and Ramzi Baalbaki) 8. A Critical Edition of Khāṣṣ al-khāṣṣ fī al-amthāl of Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī(with Ramzi Baalbaki) 9. A Critical Edition and Translation of ʿUqalāʾ al-majānīn of al-Naysābūrī(with Ramzi Baalbaki and Maurice Pomerantz)

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Mahmoud Al Batal

1. Towards a Linguistic Arab Spring, presentation made at the AGYA International Bilingual Summer School, September 2017. 2. Arabic Language Curricula: The need for a different Approach, presentation made at the AUB department of Education, December 2018. 3. Arabic for Communication Skills in the 21st Century: A forum for 60 college and schoolteachers from eight countries, May 2018. 4. Arabic Language: Present Challenges and Future Directions, presentations made at the AUB University for seniors, May 2018. 5. Chair of the search committee for Assistant Professor in Pre-Modern Arabic Literature, Fall 2018. 6. Elected member of the Students’ Disciplinary Action Committee, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. 7. Chair of the search committee for Instructor/Lecturer in Arabic. 8. Member of the search committee for a Chair/Professor in the Department of Economics, Fall 2018. 9. Member of the search committee for Assistant professor in Composition & Rhetoric in the Department of English. 10. Director of the Arabic for Communication Program, Spring 2018. 11. Member (representing FAS) of the Provost’s Tenure & Promotion Appeals Committee (TPAC)

Ramzi Baalbaki

1. Editor of the Occasional papers Series for the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic. 2. Co-editor (with Bilal Orfali) of al-Abḥāth. 3. Served as Chair of the Academic Board of the Arabic Doha Historical Dictionary, sponsored by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar. 4. Served on the following Editorial Boards: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill, Leiden. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Oslo. Journal of Arabic Linguistic Tradition, Washington D.C. Majallat al-Mu‘jamiyya al-‘Arabiyya, Tunisia. Langues et Littératures du Monde Arabe, Paris. The Arabic Historical Dictionary. The Arabic Language Academy, Cairo. al-Abhath. Romano-Arabica, Bucharest. Journal of the Jordan Academy of Arabic, Amman. Marāyā al-Turāth, Center of Lebanese Studies, LAU. Regular referee in several Arab and international journals. 5. Presented a lecture titled “Wāqiʿ al-lugha al-ʿArabiyya wa-mustaqbaluhā” at the Makassed Institute, Beirut, November 2017. 6. Presented a paper titled: “Dawr al-sawābiq wa-l-lawāḥiq fī l-muṣṭalaḥāṭ al- manqūla ʿan al-lughāt al-ajnabiyya” at the Conference on Ishkāliyyat al- muṣṭalaḥ al-ʿArabī fī l-ʿulūm al-ijtimāʿiyya wa-l-insāniyya, The Arab Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, December 2017. 7. Delivered a lecture titled: “al-lugha al-ʿArabiyya bayn al-tawassuʿ wa-l- inḥisār” at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, December 2017. 8. Presented a paper titled: “Tartīb al-mawādd ḍimn al-jadhr al-wāḥid: Muqāraba turāthiyya li-manāhij al-muʿjammiyyīn al-ʿArab” at the International Conference on Lexicography, Université Mohammad V, Rabat, April 2018. 9. Delivered a paper titled: “al-Anthulujia al-muʿajamiyya: Ḥaqāʾiq lam yatanabah lahā l-dārisun”, as the keynote speech at the conference: Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies, AUB, May 2018.

Zeina G. Halabi

1. Elias Khoury, al-rāthī al-akhīr, Literature, Culture, and the Political: A Conference on Elias Khoury, American University of Beirut, April 23, 2018 (Panelist). 2. Literature, Culture, and the Political: A Conference on Elias Khoury, American University of Beirut, April 23, 2018 (Conference Organizer). 3. Taqwīd al-muthaqqaf al-'arabī: al-nubuwwa wa-l-manfā, wa-l-watan, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, May 7, 2018 (Speaker). 4. ‘Obituary of the Word: Excavating the Self in the Demise of Print Media,’Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 18- 21, 2017 (Panelist). 5. ‘Archives, Excavation, and the Arab Present Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 18-21, 2017 (Panel Organizer). 6. Practicing “Blickwechsel ” Entangled Perspectives on Theory, Arts and History in the Field of Arabic Literary Studies, Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), American University of Beirut, September 22-24, 2017 (Senior Scholar Discussant). 7. Ghosts, Guests and the Canon. Writing (in) Exile: A Forum on Literature, Writing, and the Experience of Exile. The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Forum Transregionale Studien. Berlin, July 10-11, 2017 (Panelist). 8. Reading the '1979 Moment' in the Middle East, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, June 15-16, 2017 (Discussant). 9. “Young Writer Literary Award”, Qattan Foundation, Palestine (Juror).

Enass Khansa

1. “The Concept of Change in Faḍā’il al-Andalus Works,” Latin America, al- Andalus and the Arab World Conference, The American University of Beirut, April 17, 2018 (Panelist) 2. “The Miniaturization of the World in Pre-modern adab Anthologies,” Approaches to the Study of Pre-modern Arab Anthologies, The American University of Beirut, May 12, 2018 (Panelist) 3. “The Poetics of Affinity and the Question of Legitimacy,” Post-Eurocentric poetics: new approaches from Arabic, Turkish and Persian LiteratureThe American University of Beirut, May 21, 2018 (Panelist) 4. "This is Not a Tale" Panel, Approaches to the Study of Pre-modern Arab Anthologies, The American University of Beirut, May 12, 2018 (Panel Moderator) 5. "Culture and the Public Sphere" Panel, Literature, Culture and the Political: A Conference on Elias Khoury, The American University of Beirut, April 23, 2018 (Panel Moderator)

6. Blood Wedding Production by Sahar Assaf and Robert Myers, The American University of Beirut, February 10, 2018 (Discussion of Intercultural Exchanges in al-Andalus) 7. Medieval Rhetorical Performances in Text & Image, a Two-Session Workshop (for non-academic popular readership) with Jana Traboulsi, May 4, 7, 2018 The American University of Beirut (Contributor with Dr. Bilal Orfali)

Bilal Orfali

1. Co-editor (with Ramzi Baalbaki) of al-Abḥāth 2. Chair of the Department of Arabic and N.E.L 3. Chair of the Senate Committee for the University Press 4. Co-Chair of Accreditation Committee MSCHE Standard III: “Design and Delivery of the Student Learning Experience” 5. Advisor for Graduate Students 6. Advisor for Undergraduate Students 7. Director of Humanities Courses in the Department of Arabic&N.E.L 8. Member of REP steering committee 9. Member of Steering committee for Zaki Nassif Program 10. Member of CAH Steering Committee 11. Member of General Education Committee 12. Member of Search Committee for Position of Pre-Modern Arabic Literature 13. Member of the Committee for Graduate Open House 14. Co-editor, E. J. Brill's book series Text and Studies on the Qur'an 15. Co-editor, E.J. Brill's Encyclopedia of Islamic Mysticism 16. Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Islamic & Religious Studies (JIRS), UoH, Pakistan 17. Member of Editorial and Advisory Board of Romano-Arabica 18. Member of Editorial Board of Al-MACHREQ: Revue Catholique Orientale. Sciences, Lettres, Arts 19. Member of Editorial Board of al-Machreq al-Raqmiyya Member of Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities نحو دراسات عربية برؤى -Member of Arabische Philologien im Blickwechsel .20 متعددة 21. Member of Advisory Board of Literaturen im Kontext. Arabisch – Persisch – Türkisch 22. Member of the International Advisory Council of WOCMES 23. Moderated a discussion with International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlisted authors at NYU Abu Dhabi 24. Introduced and welcomed several writers, poets, scholars in around a dozen event organized by the Department of Arabic and N.E.L. and the Center for Arts and Humanities. 25. Attended MESA conference in Washington DC

26. Organized Conference at AUB: Approaches to the Study of Pre-modern Arabic Anthologies 27. Organized Conference at AUB: Towards a Reconstruction of Islamic Studies 28. Organized Workshop at AUB: Practicing ‘Blickwechsel’: Entangled Perspectives on Theory, Arts and History in the Field of Arabic Literary Studies”, AGYA International Bilingual Summer School, American University of Beirut (AUB), 22-24 September, 2017. 29. Presented a paper on Islamic Law in Literature at AUB conference: Towards a Reconstruction of Islamic Studies 30. Presented a Paper on “An Anthology within an Anthology: Poetry in Sufi Manuals’ at AUB Conference: Approaches to the Study of Pre-modern Arabic Anthologies. 31. Organized Conference in Meteora, Greece under the title of: “Buddha: The Story of a Christian-Muslim Saint” presented a paper: ““Buddha: The Story of a Christian-Muslim Saint” in Meteora, Greece. 32. Resented Paper in Amman on: “Maqāmāt: Tales that travel” in Panel on 'Storytelling Entangled between Entertainment and Education' in the German-Jordanian University. 33. Organized Conference on Water: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Uqsur- Aswan, Egypt Presented Paper on “Water in Pre-Islamic Poetry” in Conference on Water: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 34. Attended AGYA Workshop "Precision Engineering of the Genome - Ethical Perspectives in Societies with Islamic and Christian Heritage” Hammamat, Tunis. 35. Attended Workshop in Brussels, Belgium on: our “The EU and the Arab World: Current Challenges for Cooperation”. 36. A lecture on Arabic Literature for University for seniors: How Did the Qasida Change in the Abbasid Period? 37. A lecture for University for seniors: “Against Cities in Arabic Literature” Organized Conference in Salala, Oman on: Dynamics of Cultural Impact: Arab and German Cultural Heritage of Zanzibar 38. Presented a paper on the Architecture of Zanzibar in Salala, Oman. 39. Lecture on “Against Cities in Arabic Literature” at American University of Kuwait. 40. Presented a Paper on “Two picaresque Tales and a Yellow Cow: Black Humor and Qurʾānic References in Hamadhānī’s al-Maqāma al-Mawṣiliyya” in Rethinking Arabic Literature Conference, University of Chicago. 41. Lecture on: “The Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī: Manuscripts, Collection, and Early History” at Lund University, Sweden. 42. Lecture on “Walking in the Steps of Poets” at Lund University, Sweden 43. Attended a AGYA Annual Conference in Kuwait 44. Advisor for two MA thesis (in progress) 45. Advisor for two Phd students (in progress) 46. Served as blind reviewer for 5 articles in international refereed Journals

47. Organized Art Workshop on: ḥiyākat al-kalam at AUB.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Mahmoud Al Batal

1. Arabic as One Language: Integrating Dialect within the Arabic Curriculum (editor), Georgetown University Press, 2017, 332pp.

"تدريس مهارة االستماع: بين النظرية والتطبيق"في كتابدليل لتدريس مهارات اللغة العربية وعناصرها للناطقين بغيرها، تحرير الدكتور خالد أبو عمشة، كتاب في مشروع سلسلة "مباحث لغوية"، مركز الملك عبد اهلل بن عبدالعزيز الدولي لخدمة اللغة العربية، الرياض، الملكة العربية السعودية، 2017، 202-173. 2. “Dialect Integration in the Arabic Foreign Language Curriculum: Vision, Rationale, and Models,” in Arabic as One Language: Integrating Dialect Within the Arabic Curriculum, edited by Mahmoud Al-Batal, Georgetown University Press, 2017, 3-22. 3. “Dialect Integration: Students’ Perspectives within an Integrated Program,” with Christian Glakas, in Arabic As One Language: Integrating Dialect Within the Arabic Curriculum, edited by Mahmoud Al-Batal, Georgetown University Press, 2017, 260-278.

Ramzi Baalbaki

1. “The grammatical and lexicographical traditions: Mutual foundations, divergent paths of development,” The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics III, The Development of a Tradition: Continuity and Change, ed. Georgine Ayoub & Kees Versteegh. Brill (Leiden, 2018), pp. 50-75.

Zeina G. Halabi

1. Halabi, Zeina G. Al-manfā al-filasṭ īnī wa-ma’ālātuhu: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra WA Elia Suleiman. Majallat al-dirāsāt al-filasṭ iniyya. Fall 2017 (112): 128- 139 (Journal Article). 2. Halabi, Zeina G. Sex and the Perils of Travelling Authors and Notions.’ Review of Rashid al-Daif and Joachim Helfer. What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin. Translated by Ken Seigneurie and Gary Schmidt. Austin, TX: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2015. Journal of Middle East Womens Studies, 14:1 (2018) (Review Essay). 3. Halabi, Zeina G. In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt, Michael Allan, the Syndicate (11 November 2017) (Review Essay).

4. Review of Small Literature: Jordan, Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon, Association Kulturtreger, Zagreb, Croatia (Anthology Co-Editor), 2017: 9-11.

Bilal Orfali

1. “Against Cities: On hijā’ al-mudun in Arabic Poetry”, in The City in Pre-Modern and Modern Arabic Literature. Edited by Nizar Hermes and Gretchen Head. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 38-62 [with Huda Fakhreddine] 2. “Employment Opportunities in Literature in the 4th/10th Century Islamic Courts,” in Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1953-2018, edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Gorgias Press, 2018, 243- 250. 3. “Mystical Poetics: Courtly Themes in Early Sufi Akhbār,” in In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Premodern Middle East. Edited by Maurice Pomerantz and Evelyn Birge Vitz. NYU University Press, 2017, 196-214. 4. Al-Ḥadīth wa-l-taṣawwuf, qiṣṣat al-ʿAbbās b. Ḥamza maʿ Dhī l-Nūn al-Miṣrī, Beirut: Dār al-Machreq, 2018. 79pp. (with Francesco Chiabotti) 5. Al-Ghazal wa-l-naḥw: Taḍmīn alfiyyat Ibn Mālik fī-l-ghazal li-l-Bāʿūnī, Beirut: Dār al- Machreq, 2018, 79pp. 6. Rafʿ al-Iltibās ʿan munkir al-iqtibās li-Ibn Abī l-luṭf, Beirut: Dār al-Machreq, 2018, 79pp.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The Department has been attracting more undergraduate majors, and we have a growing master’s degree program. In the near future, we plan to expand our PhD program by attracting more international students. The description of the courses in the graduate catalogue needs to be spelled out.The Department will develop program learning outcomes for the graduate programs. The Department is planning to advertise two professorial rank lines in 2018-2019 and two lecturer positions. There is an initiative to name the Department.

Bilal Orfali Chairperson

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Four hundred thirty-two students were enrolled in the program. One hundred thirteen students are expected to have graduated with a BS in Biology between October 2017 and June 2018. Seven students are expected to have graduated with an MS in Biology between October 2017 and June 2018. Two students joined the program in Fall 2017-2018 and four in Spring 2017-2018. The total number of MS graduates enrolled in our program this year (2017-18) was 16. One student graduated from the PhD program. Two new students joined the PhD program in Cell and Molecular Biology in Fall 2017-2018. The total number of PhD students enrolled in our program this year was 16. Dr. Michel Bariche was promoted to the rank of Professor. Dr. Noel Ghanem, Dr. Diana Jaalouk and Dr. Zakaria Kambris were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. The Department hosted a seminar series in which the presenters were PhD students and MS students enrolled in BIOL 393 and 493, and five guest speakers, including Dr. Ahmed El-Yazbi of the American University of Beirut, Mr.Leon Chlon of the University of Cambridge, Dr. Hanna (Johnny) Fares of the University of Arizona, Dr. Kazuo Harada of the Tokyo Gakugei University and Dr. Victoria Seewaldt of the Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Department held 13 meetings during the 2017-2018 academic year. The Biology faculty continues to work towards improving and updating its programs. Several changes were introduced to the graduate and undergraduate programs: (1) to replace Math 102 with BIOL 102 as requirement for acceptance from freshman to sophomore Biology (2) to consider BIOL 223 (Genetics) as writing intensive course (3) to recommend MATH 204 not given credit as a free elective for Biology students (4) to regularize “Sp. Tp.: Cardiovascular Research to Cardiovascular Research” and give it the number BIOL 248 (5) change the syllabus for BIOL 262 (Virology). Two faculty members joined the department: Dr. Amal Rahmeh (New York Medical College, PhD, 2006) joined the department as assistant professor and Mr. Mohammad Al-Zein (American University of Beirut, MS, 2003) joined the department as instructor. Ms. Sawsan Al Lafi was appointed as Senior Technician effective September 2017. Ms. Ghida Itani, has been promoted to the rank of Administrative Officer. During academic year 2017-2018 several major laboratory items of equipment were received that will improve both research and teaching. Among those is a high- speed centrifuge, an autoclave, and a liquid nitrogen cryopreservation tank. Additionally, with newly received funds, several major equipment items were ordered. Some of these included: a new deep freezer, a cell culture biosafety

cabinet and CO2 incubators to complete the equipment requirements of the cell culture facility (room 218) which was renovated last year. New faculty also received new equipment, such as a PCR machine, gel sequencing apparatus and gradient fractionator, for their research. To protect the distillation systems on the roof from corrosion due to marine breeze, a shelter was built with proper ventilation and heat insulation. An agreement has been reached among faculty to assign the locations for sample cryopreservation in the liquid nitrogen tanks of the department giving chances to new faculty to store their samples.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Bariche, Michel Professor Ph.D. Baydoun, Elias Professor Ph.D. Gali-Muhtasib, Hala Professor Ph.D. Knio, Khouzama Professor Ph.D. Kreydiyyeh, Sawsan Professor Ph.D. Saoud, Imad Professor & Chairperson Ph.D. Smith, Colin Professor Ph.D. Talhouk, Rabih Professor Ph.D. Ghanem, Noel Associate Professor Ph.D. Jaalouk, Diana Associate Professor Ph.D. Kambris, Zakaria Associate Professor Ph.D. Osta, Mike Associate Professor Ph.D. Rahmeh, Amal Assistant Professor Ph.D. Sadek, Riyad Assistant Professor Ph.D. zu Dohna-Schlobi, Heinrich Assistant Professor Ph.D. Rizkallah, Hind Lecturer Ph.D. Sinno Saoud, Nada Lecturer Ph.D. Al-Zein, Mohammad Instructor M.S. Hajjar, Layane Instructor M.S. El Zein, Ola* Part-time Lecturer Ph.D. Kamar, Amina Part-time Lecturer Ph.D. Khoury, Noura* Part-time Lecturer Ph.D. Tarraf, Charbel** Part-time Lecturer Ph.D. Abdallah, Emane Part-time Instructor M.S.

* First Semester Only ** Second Semester Only

Abed Ali, Farah Part-time Instructor M.S. Abou-Matar, Tamara Part-time Instructor M.S. Babikian, Jessica** Part-time Instructor M.S. Chakkour, Mohamad Part-time Instructor B.S. Habli, Zeina Part-time Instructor M.S. Jaber, Hwaida Part-time Instructor M.S. Monzer, Samer Part-time Instructor M.S. Nasser, Nivin Part-time Instructor M.S. Raad, Nicole Part-time Instructor M.S. Rizk, Zeinab Part-time Instructor M.S. Soubra, Noura Part-time Instructor M.S. Toubia, Pamela** Part-time Instructor M.S. Wehbe, Nadine** Part-time Instructor B.S. Younes, Ingrid* Part-time Instructor M.S.

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Abed Ali, Farah Kanj, Malak Assaf, Mohammad Kawtharany, Reem Fatfat, Maamoun Rizk, Zeinab Ibrahim, Iman Siblani, Alaa

Spring Semester Abed Ali, Farah Kanj, Malak Chouaib, Rasha Kawtharany, Reem Fatfat, Maamoun Toubia, Pamela Ibrahim, Iman Rizk, Zeinab

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Awada, Mohammad Khaldieh, Nina Bejjani, Anthony Khalil, Christine El-Ayache, Farah Mostafa, Hasan Fatfat, Zaynab Wehbe, Nadine Halaby, Nour Zein Eddine, Razan

Spring Semester Awada, Mohammad Khalil, Christine Bejjani, Anthony Mostafa, Hasan El-Ayache, Farah Moubarak, Maya Fatfat, Zaynab Sarieddine, Rana Karaki, Aline Zeineddine, Suheir Khaldieh, Nina Zein Eddine, Razan

4. PhD Graduate Research Assistantships

Fall Semester Al Bitar, Samar Monzer, Alissar Ballout, Farah Nakhleh, Johnny El Moussawi, Layla Naser Al Deen, Nataly Fardon, Manal Omais, Saad Fostok, Sabreen Rida, Reem Jaafar, Carine Saab, Sally Jaber, Sana Dekmak, Amira San Janeh, Maria Zahr, Hind

Spring Semester Al Bitar, Samar Monzer, Alissar Ballout, Farah Nakhleh, Johnny El Moussawi, Layla Naser Al Deen, Nataly Fardon, Manal Omais, Saad Fostok, Sabreen Rida, Reem Jaafar, Carine Saab, Sally Jaber, Sana Dekmak, Amira San Janeh, Maria Zahr, Hind

5. Non-Academic Staff

Al Lafi, Sawsan Senior Technician Assaad, Najeh Assistant Technician El Osta, Rania Laboratory Manager Itani, Ghida Administrative Officer Kaissi, Maha Administrative Assistant Masri, Imad Senior Technician

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BS Oct. 2017 4 Feb. 2018 2 Jun. 2018 107

MS Oct. 2017 2 Feb. 2018 1 Jun. 2018 4

PhD Oct. 2017 1 Feb. 2018 0 Jun. 2018 0

2. Number of Majors

PhD 16 Graduates 16 Seniors 113 Juniors 121 Sophomores 166

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 49 61 110 211-299 147 396 684 1227 200-210 154 567 456 1177 100-199 0 147 113 260 Total 301 1159 1314 2774

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 18 28 46 211-299 27 70 104 201 200-210 20 30 31 81 100-199 0 12 9 21 Total 47 130 172 349

5. Program Learning Outcomes

A system to assess the Biology Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) was developed and implemented during the past few years. The evaluations are broadly divided into two categories: indirect and direct assessments.

The indirect assessments involve having Biology majors report whether they achieved the Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) for a specific course using Moodle-based surveys. On these surveys, each CLO was listed and the choice of poor, fair, good, very good, and excellent was to be indicated. All of the CLOs were linked to PLOs as all Faculty members were asked to match their CLOs with the approved PLOs. The data was collected at the end of Fall and Spring semesters, shared with concerned faculty members, and analyzed for all Biology courses: required, semi-required and electives. It also showed that all of the CLOs were linked to the PLOs.

The direct assessment was performed by administering an exit exam to graduating seniors and testing their general knowledge of the various fields of Biology, in addition to evaluating their English writing skills. The exam became mandatory as part of our curriculum. It consists of 56 multiple choice questions and an optional essay. Each of the 56 multiple choice questions is linked to a PLO. The scores related to each PLO were calculated, and the data was transformed to a graph that shows the degree of attainment of each program learning outcome in each academic year.

D. RESEARCH

Bariche, Michel

1. MarCons - Advancing marine conservation in the European and contiguous seas. Supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020, COST Association; Call & proposal reference: OC-2015-1-19601; Duration: 2016- 2020. 2. Investigating the presence of cryptic fish invaders in the Mediterranean Sea. Supported by URB. 3. Spatiotemporal spread of Lessepsian fish species in the Mediterranean Sea. Supported by URB. 4. Analysis of the population genetic diversity of the invasive lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea through RADSeq technology. 5. Identification of Lessepsian fish species using sagittal otoliths shape and morphometry.

6. Social networking against invasive species: an early detection mechanism via social media. 7. Manuscript: Niche analysis predicts a rapid spread of invasive lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea, submitted to Nature Communications 8. Manuscript: Consistency of impact assessment protocols for 1 non-native species, submitted to Journal of Applied Ecology 9. UNITED (UNIfied Conservation Strategies in MEDiterranean ICZM: risk assessment and blue growth opportunities), submitted to ENI CBC MED Programme (European Union funds)

Baydoun, Elias

1. Synthesis of new compounds for breast cancer treatment by targeting aromatase. Supported by URB. Research in progress 2. Effect of 7-O-methyl-3,9-dihydropunctatin on estrogen-induced alpha-2C adrenoceptors in human arteriolar smooth muscle cells (SMCs) (2017). Supported by K. Shair CRLS Research Grants. Research in progress 3. Synthesis of new compounds for breast cancer treatment by targeting aromatase. Supported by University of Petra, Jordan. Research in progress 4. Antipsychotics drug aripiprazole as a lead against breast cancer cell line (MCF-7) in vitro. Frontiers of Pharmacology. In press 5. Quality Assurance and Relevance in Academia: A Review in: Major Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Arab World: Quality Assurance and Relevance. Springer. In press

Gali-Muhtasib, Hala

1. Formulation, in vitro and in vivo uptake and anticancer activity of thymoquinone nanoparticles. Funded by Swedish Research Council. 2. Targeting Human Breast Cancer with Thymoquinone Nanoparticles: Bioavailability and Anticancer Activity in Human Breast Cancer Xenograft Model. Funded by Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research. 3. Construction of small diameter vascular grafts for coronary bypass. Funded by the Collaborative Research Stimulus. 4. Targeting Adult T-cell Leukemia with a Combination of Thymoquinone and Doxorubicin. Funded by Kamal Shair CRSL Research Fund. 5. Enhancing the Anticancer Activity of Doxorubicin against Adult T-cell Leukemia by Combination with Thymoquinone. Funded by Undergraduate Research Experience (URE). 6. Targeting colorectal cancer stem cells with the anticancer molecule thymoquinone. Funded by Medical Practice Plan and University Research Board.

Ghanem, Noël

1. Study of combined roles of the p53 and Rb pathways and the molecular mechanisms involved during adult neurogenesis in the olfactory bulb. 2. Study of the combined roles of p53 and Rb during kidney development and function. 3. Regenerative and Pathological Hallmarks Implicating the RB/E2F Pathway during Adult Neurogenesis in the Subventricular Zone and Olfactory Bulb 4. Combination of Drug and Stem cells Neurotherapy: Potential Interventions in Neurotrauma and Traumatic Brain Injury. (Publication under review)

Kambris, Zakaria

1. A comparative study of gut regeneration potential after damage in 3 different mosquito genera 2. Identification of a new Serpin that controls Drosophila melanization. 3. Investigating the role of a novel NF-kB transcription factor in Drosophila melanogaster’s immunity. 4. Effects of the endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia on the immune response of Culex mosquitoes.

Knio, Khouzama

1. Biology and Ecology of Tephritomyia lauta (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Lebanon. In preparation. 2. Resistance of the mosquito, Culex pipiens to pyrethroids in Lebanon.

Kreydiyyeh, Sawsan

1. Effect of FTY720P on lipid accumulation in HepG2 cells (ongoing project) 2. Effect of procyanidin B on hepatic lipogenesis (ongoing project) 3. Effect of S1P through its analogue FTY720-P on the Na+/K+ ATPase activity in LLC-PK1 (ongoing project) 4. Effect of FTY720P on colonic Na+/K+ ATPase (funded by URB) 5. Effect and mechanism of action of FTY720P on hepatic Na+/K+ ATPase (funded by CNRS/AUB) 6. Effect of leptin on hepatic de novo synthesis of lipids (funded by K. Shair ) 7. FTY720P stimulates the Na+/K+ ATPase in Caco-2 cells via PKC, PGE2 and PKA (manuscript in preparation) 8. The signaling pathway mediating the stimulatory effect of FTY720P on hepatic Na+/K+ ATPase (manuscript in preparation)

Osta, Mike

1. Characterization of mosquito immune responses against sporozoite stages of the malaria parasite (funded by K.A Shair CRSL Research Fund) 2. Functional and molecular characterization of CLIPA16 in the mosquito immune response (funded by URB) 3. Gut bacteria in vector mosquitoes: transmission, host dependency and effects on the immune system (funded by Sweden Research Links Program).

Sadek, Riyad

1. The taxonomic status, geographic distribution and ecological requirements of the toad species, Bufo cf bufo. (URB-funded) 2. Further geographic, ecological and behavioral studies of the Lebanon mountain viper Montevipera bornmuelleri including extraction, purification and pharmacological and toxicological characterization of bioactive molecules of its venom. (Funding: Lebanese CNRS and my advising grant) 3. MPH - Snake Bites in Lebanon: A Descriptive Study of Snake Bite Victims Treated at a Tertiary Care Center in Beirut, Lebanon (Submitted for publication)

Saoud, Imad

1. Imad Saoud Assessing the Potential of Using Restaurant Waste as Fish Feed (2017 – 2018). URB 2. Assessing the effects of exogenous probiotics on fish health. 3. Investigations on suitability of various anesthetics on the Australian fresh water lobster (crayfish) Cherax quadricarinatus. 4. Does irrigation with aquaculture water increase the incidence of aphids and mites on vegetable plants? 5. Effect of Cannabis Oil on Growth Performance, Haematology and Metabolism of Nile Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus. Aquaculture Research. (In press) 6. Evaluation of post-consumer food waste as partial replacement of commercial feed marbled rabbitfish, Siganus rivulatus aquaculture (submitted). 7. Using restaurant food waste as feed for Nile tilapia production (submitted).

Smith, Colin

1. Mutational Analysis of HIV Rev R35G-N40V" from American University of Beirut University Research Board, 2017-2018.

2. Altered-Specificity Mutants of Phage Lambda BoxB Loops.

Talhouk, Rabih

1. Preferential Growth Inhibitory Effect for Dinaciclib and Palbociclib on Breast Cancer Cells in 3D Cultures. Pending Grant 2. Connexin-43/Wnt signaling axis and miR-183 in early events of breast tumorigenesis. Pending Grant 3. Identification of miRNAs indicative of early-onset breast cancer risk. Pending Grant 4. Novel Biomimetic Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) device for studying cancer metastasis in ductal systems (funded by Lebanese Industrial Research Achievements) 5. Harnessing miRNAs to prevent early breast cancer onset in Lebanese women (funded by Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute) microRNAs Dysregulated in Early Onset Breast Cancer in Lebanon and Their Association with Morphogenesis of Breast Epithelium in a 3D Culture Model (funded by Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research) 6. Unraveling the role of sulfated glycosaminoglycans on the differentiation of normal and breast cancer epithelial cells using 3D and disease-on-a-chip (DOC) culture models. (funded by Collaborative Research Stimulus) 7. Is there interplay between Wnt/beta-catenin pathway and Cx43 in initiation of human breast tumorigenesis in 3D culture models? (funded by URB) 8. Temporally Orchestrated CDK2 and CDK4 Inhibition in a 3D Model of Breast Cancer Precursor Lesions. (funded by Kamal A. Shair CRSL) 9. Anti-cancer and Anti-inflammatory Activity of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria polii Aqueous Extract (submitted). 10. Connexin 43 maintains tissue polarity and regulates mitotic spindle orientation in the breast epithelium. (* Senior corresponding authors; to submit for eLIFE). 11. Gap Junctions as Regulators of Wnt Signaling (to submit to: Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia).

Al Zein, Mohammad

1. Towards a National Classification (and Lexicon) of Terrestrial Ecosystems and Habitats; funded by O-LiFE (Observatoire Libano-Français de L’Environnement), the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research 2. Urban Cemeteries: Their Flora and Potential as ex-situ Conservation Sites

zu Dohna-Schlobi, Heinrich

1. Niche analysis predicts a rapid spread of invasive lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports. (In review) 2. Selection favors different insertion locations for full-length and fragment LINE-1 in the human genome. (In preparation) 3. Profiling of nuclei from wild-type and lamin A/C-deficient mouse embryo fibroblast cells using direct and differential phage display biopanning. Scientific Reports. (In review) 4. Metagenomic analysis of gut microbiome of mosquitoes

F. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Bariche, Michel

1. Associate editor at BioInvasion Records – International Journal of Field Research on Biological Invasions (2018-present) www.reabic.net/journals/bir/editors.aspx 2. EASIN Editorial Board (2015-present) – European Alien Species Information Network – JRC of the European Commission easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/People/CollaboratingExperts 3. Editor at The Scientific World Journal – Zoology (2013-present) www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/editors/zoology/ 4. Focal Point for Lebanon for non-indigenous species by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture (2018-present). 5. Member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - Shark Specialist Group (2012-present) www.iucnssg.org/mediterranean.html 6. Member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Snapper, Seabream, and Grunts Specialist Group (2011-present) www.iucn.org/species/specialist-groups/about/ssc-specialist-groups-and- red-list-authorities-directory/fishes7. “Rapporteur” and member of the PhD thesis committee of Thibaud Moleana (Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa; 2013-2016). 7. Member of the European Freshwater fish team at FREDIE (Freshwater Diversity Identification for Europe) (2011-present) www.fredie.eu/index.php/the-european-freshwater-fish-team 8. Workshop on Marine Invasive Species management in Mediterranean marine protected Areas (IUCN), Ayia Napa, Cyprus. 9. Joint GFCM-UNEP/MAP Sub-Regional Pilot Study for the Eastern Mediterranean on Non-Indigenous Species in Relation to Fisheries (NIS workshop), Chania, Crete (Greece).

Baydoun, Elias

1. Organized and chaired an international conference on “Major Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Arab World: Quality Assurance and Relevance” Beirut, Lebanon, November 10-11, 2017 2. Currently organizing a conference on “Higher Education in the Arab World: Building a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, November 16-17, 2018 3. Advisor of Manal Fardoun, PhD biology student and Nadine Wehbe, MS biology student 4. Member of the thesis committee of Layal Slika, MS chemistry student 5. Member of the thesis committee of Bouchra Sayed Ahmad, PhD student at the Lebanese University and National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France 6. Member of the thesis committee of Hamza Olleik and Iman Ibrahim, PhD students at the Lebanese University and Aix Marseille University, France 7. Supervised undergraduate and graduate tutorial students 8. Member of the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature 9. Editor of the book “Universities in Arab Countries: An Urgent Need for Change”. Springer. To be published in June 2018 10. Editor of the Book “Major Challenges Facing Higher Education in the Arab World: Quality Assurance and Relevance”. Accepted for publication by Springer Served as a reviewer for international journals 11. Member of TWAS Advisory Committee (MAC) in Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology (2016 – 2018) 12. Member of the Board of Trustees of The Future University, Khartoum, Sudan. 13. Participated in the 3rd World Chemistry Conference and presented a poster entitled “ Fungal-mediated structural transformation of contraceptive drugs, drospirenone and etonogestrel into new metabolites”. Dallas, USA (September 11-12, 2017) 14. Participated in the 10th Annual Conference of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) (November 2-3, 2017) 15. Author of a presentation entitled “Cyclic fungal peptides: Toxin or medicine”, that will be presented in the 6th International Symposium on Antimicrobial Peptides, Poitiers, France (June 6-8, 2018) 16. Author of a poster entitled “Microbial biotransformation of drospirenone with Cunnighamella elegans into new analogues”, that was presented in the

6th International Symposium-cum-Training Course on Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, ICCBS, Karachi, Pakistan (November 6-9, 2017) 17. Presented a paper in the TWAS-ARO 13th Annual Meeting on “Roundtable Discussions on Responsible Science”. The meeting was held in Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (November 28–29, 2017) 18. Visited the International Center of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Karachi (January 2018) to discuss the results of collaborative research and sponsored it from my research funds 19. Invited Dr. Iqbal Choudhary and Dr. Atia-tul-Wahab from the International Center of Chemical and Biological Sciences (April 2018) to visit the Biology Department and discuss research collaboration. The visit was sponsored from my research funds 20. Member of the “Regional Advisory Committee of Ethics”; a committee founded at the Egyptian Academy for Scientific Research and Technology in collaboration with UNESCO 21. Member of the Arab Health Water Association (Affiliate-member of AHWA) 22. Interim Coordinator of the Lebanese TWAS Chapter. 23. Secretary General for the Arab Forum for Sustainable Science 24. Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) 25. Founding Fellow and Secretary General of the Arab Academy of Sciences 26. Founding Member of the Lebanese-Jordanian Friendship Association 27. Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences (elected in October 2017)

Gali-Muhtasib, Hala

1. Interim Associate Provost till July 31, 2017 2. Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the MSCHE Self Study Accreditation Committee 3. Chair of a Provost Committee for developing strategies for e-learning at AUB 4. Chair of a committee to develop guidelines and an online system for filing and tracking student complaints at AUB 5. Chair of the Steering Committee of LEAD (Leadership, Equity, And Diversity) Initiative 6. Member of the Search Committee for LEAD Director 7. Member of the Human Capital Management Steering Committee 8. Member of the Policies and Procedures Review Committee 9. Member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) 10. Member of the Medical Admissions Committee 11. Member of the Task Force for Revisiting Medical Admissions Requirements 12. Member of the Annual Biomedical Research Day Committee 13. Organizing Committee Member and Plenary Speaker at the upcoming 2nd Annual summit on Cell Signaling and Cancer Therapy, 19-20 September 2018, Philadelphia, USA

14. Organizing Committee Member, Plenary Speaker and Chair of Session at the upcoming International Conference & Exhibition on Cancer & Therapeutics (Cancer USA 2018), Las Vegas, USA, 29-31 January 2018 15. Organizing Committee Member and Chair of a Session, at the AUB-USJ Joint Conference on Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, 19 January 2018, USJ campus, Beirut 16. Panelist and Presenter in the CNRS-L and DAAD proposal writing workshop entitled “Successful research proposals for young researchers – from idea to implementation”, 30 November 2017, CNRS Headquarters in Jnah, Lebanon 17. Invited by Abdul Hamid Shoman Foundation to attend the 35th Anniversary of award distribution, Nov. 2017, Jordan 18. Invited by DAAD as the delegate from Lebanon to visit research labs in Germany, October 2017 19. Editorial Board member of the World Journal of Experimental Medicine 20. Member of the American Association for Cancer Research 21. Chair of the mentoring committee of an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences 22. Supervisor of three PhD students in the CMB program at AUB 23. Supervised the research tutorial projects of several undergraduate students at AUB 24. Supervising the Cancer Educational Module for Grade 10 students: a Fulbright funded project 25. Presented several papers and posters in international and local conferences 26. Reviewed manuscripts for several international refereed journals

Ghanem, Noël

1. Poster presentation at 22nd Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience in Nara, Japan, May 22-25th 2018. Cell cycle control by Rb during adult neurogenesis: direct implications on progenitor proliferation and neuronal survival inside the adult mammalian brain. R. Naser1, R. Vandenbosh2, S. Omais1, C. Jaafar1, A. Clark2, B.C. Fong2, D. Hayek1, A. Saliba1, S. Al Lafi1, D. Dugal-Tessier2, M. Baghdadi1, J. Dhaliwal2, L. Skaf1, D.C. Lagace2, D.S. Park2, R.S. Slack2 and N. Ghanem1* *corresponding author. Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 2 Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Kambris, Zakaria

1. Member of the FAS URB Research Committee 2. Member of the FAS SHAIR Grant Research Committee 3. Member of the Farouk Jabr Award Research Committee

4. Member of the Collaborative Research Stimulus Research Committee 5. Member of the Thesis Committees of 2 Masters and 2 PhD Students at AUB 6. Supervising 3 Masters and 2 PhD students 7. Supervising 6 undergraduate tutorial students. 8. Student advising: Academic advisor for approximately 70 students (sophomores, juniors and seniors). 9. Teaching Biol 201 (Fall), Biol 293 (Fall), Biol 223 (Fall and Spring), Biol 224 (Fall and Spring) and Biol 284 (Spring).

Knio, Khouzama

1. Member of the Natural History Museum Committee. 2. Main museum activities: curation and insect identification for the general public (including AUBH). 3. Serving as Title IX deputy and member of the advisory council. 4. Served in the Faculty Recruitment Committee for Geology, Fall 2017-18. 5. Advisor of the Syrian Cultural Club: 2013-present. 6. Advisor of the Youth Club: 2012-present 7. Reviewed 6 articles for international journals. 8. Served as committee member for the MS thesis committee of Riyad Homsi (advisor Dr. Zeina Nasr) at the University of Balamand, 15 January 2018; for Andre Abou Haidar (FAFS); and 4 Biology graduates. Also served as committee member for the PhD thesis of 2 Biology graduates. 9. Supervised 7 undergraduate tutorials in Spring 2017-18 10. Serving as majorless advisor: September 2016-present.

Kreydiyyeh, Sawsan

1. Biology academic advisor 2. Thesis advisor for 4 MS and one PhD Biology students 3. Member of the thesis committee of 1 MS and 3 PhD Biology students 4. Member of the general education board 5. Member of the general education academic subcommittee 6. Acting chair of the Biology department

Osta, Mike

1. Invited research seminar. The protease network that controls innate immunity in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Stockholm University, Sweden. May 14, 2018. 2. Supervising currently four PhD and one MSc students. 3. Member, review panel of the Farouk Jabre Biomedical Research Grants 4. Member, CRSL steering committee (Fall 2017-present) 5. Library Liaison for the Biology Department (Fall 2009-present)

6. Member, Freshman File Reading (Fall 2013 - present) 7. Advisor of several undergraduate students 8. Referee manuscripts submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals 9. Member, review panel of the Collaborative Research Stimulus grants 10. Member, Infravec 2 (European resource for insect vector research) Proposal Selection Panel (2017-18) 11. Member, Self-study working group VI (Planning, Resources and Institutional Assessment for AUB’s decennial reaccreditation (2017-2018)

Sadek, Riyad

1. Representing AUB at the Steering Committee of Biodiversity-Enabling Activity for Revision/Updating of The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). 2. Chairman (Director) of Natural History Museum Committee. 3. Academic advising for about 100 biology students. 4. Chairman of the West Asia Amphibian Specialist Group in the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Since 2008. 5. Chairman of “AUB Committee on Felines” since September 2015.

Saoud, Imad

1. Department Chair of Biology. 2. EFFECT OF CANNABIS ON GROWTH AND METABOLISM OF NILE TILAPIA Oreochromis niloticus. Abstract and presentation at the Asia Pacific Aquaculture meeting in Kuala Lumpur. 3. Roof gardens: It’s better to “chill” in a cool place. Presentation to Rotary Club Beirut. 4. Workshop on proper trout farm management for profit without environmental harm. Assi River Restoration Program. Hermel, Lebanon.

Sinno-Saoud, Nada

1. Attended a workshop on Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) on National Conservation Outcome Workshop on May 22, 2017 that was organized by Faculty of Science, Saint-Joseph University, Mar Roukoz, Mkalles

Smith, Colin

1. Smith CA. "Fire, Air, Water, Earth: Microbiology of Dust Rains." Seminar at FAS Research Lunch, 2 March 2018, American University of Beirut

Talhouk, Rabih

1. International Meetings: R. Talhouk. “The Nature Conservation Center: An interdisciplinary approach for sustainable biobanks of plant-derived protective compounds.” International Breast Cancer and Nutrition Symposium. Oct 2017; Uruguay) 2. International Meetings: Fostok, S., Bazzoun, D., Lelievre, S.A., El-Sibai, M., Talhouk, R. (2018). Silencing Connexin 43 Induces Cell Cycle Entry and Invasion in Non-neoplastic Mammary Epithelial Cells. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Chicago, IL, USA. April 2018. 3. International Meetings: Al GHURAIR/AUB/MIT Workshop on online learning. AUC, Cairo Sept 28 - Oct 2nd, 2017 4. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Waddah Malaeb, Zeina Habli, Ramsey Hamade, Rabih Talhouk, Rami Mhanna (2018). Biomimetic Lab-on- a-Chip (LOC) Device to Model Cancer Growth and Metastasis in Ductal Systems. AUB Biomedical Day March 2018 and LAAS Lebanese Association for Advancement of Science (LAAS) meeting April 2018. 5. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Zeina Habli, Waddah Malaeb, Diana El Hajj, Rabih Talhouk, Rami Mhanna (2018) Preferential effect of sulfated glycosaminoglycans on the proliferation and phenotype of normal and breast cancer cells in 3D cultures. AUB Biomedical Day March 2018 and Lebanese Association for Advancement of Science (LAAS) meeting April 2018. 6. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Nataly Naser AL Deen, Farah Nassar, Mounir AbouHaidar, Heinrich Dohna, Rihab Nasr, Rabih Talhouk (2018). Dysregulated MicroRNAs in Early Onset Breast Cancer in Lebanon and Their Association with Morphogenesis of Breast Epithelium in a 3D Culture Model. AUB Biomedical Day March 2018 and Lebanese Association for Advancement of Science (LAAS) meeting April 2018. 7. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Zaynab Fatfat, Mohamad Harajly, Raya Saab, Rabih Talhouk (2018). Temporally Orchestrated CDK2 and CDK4 Inhibition in a 3D Model of Breast Cancer Precursor Lesions. AUB Biomedical Day March 2018 and Lebanese Association for Advancement of Science (LAAS) meeting April 2018. 8. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Waddah Malaeb, Rami Mhanna, Rabih Talhouk (2018). Novel Biomimetic Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) device for studying cancer metastasis in ductal systems. Lebanese Industrial Research Achievements (LIRA) Program, May 2018. 9. FAS Advisory Committee (Oct 2017 – Present) 10. Member, AUB E-Learning Task Force (Dec 2017 – Present) 11. Accreditation (2016 – present) - Working Group: Support of the Student Experience 12. Advisor, Graduate Student Society (2015-present) 13. Advisor, Student Innovation Club (2016-present)

14. Thesis Committee Advisor for one M.Sc. Candidate namely Zaynab Fatfat 15. Thesis Committee Advisor for two PhD Candidates namely Sabreen Fostok and Nataly Nasreddine

Al Zein, Mohammad

1. Al-Akl, N. M. and M. S. Al-Zein. Urban Cemeteries in Beirut: Re- Questioning the Landscapes of Death. The Place that Remains: Recounting the Un-built Territory, 23-24 March 2018, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.

G. PUBLICATIONS

Bariche, Michel

1. Bariche M., Kleitou P.*, Kalogirou S.*, Bernardi G.* (2017). Genetics reveal the identity and origin of the lionfish invasion in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 6782. 2. Langeneck J.*, Marcelli M.*, Bariche M., Azzurro E.* (2017). Social networks allow early detection of non-indigenous species: first record of the red drum Sciaenops ocellatus (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Sciaenidae) in Italian waters. Acta Adriatica, 58(2): 365-370. 3. Gerovasileiou V*., Akel E.H.K*., Akyol O.*, Alongi G.*, Azevedos F.*, Babali N.*, Bakiu R.*, Bariche M. et al. (2017). New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2017). Mediterranean Marine Science, 18(2), 355- 384. 4. Shakman E.A.*, Abdalha B.A.*, Talha F.*, Al-Faturi A.*, Bariche M. (2017). First records of seven marine organisms of different origins from Libya (Mediterranean Sea). BioInvasions Records, 6(4): 377-382 5. Bariche M., Fricke R.* (2018). Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes, 1830) (Teleostei: Caesionidae), a new alien fish in the Mediterranean Sea. BioInvasions Records, 7(1), 79-82. 6. Deidun A.*, De Castro D.*, Bariche M. (2018). First record of the Azure Demoiselle, Chrysiptera hemicyanea (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Pomacentridae), in the Mediterranean Sea. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 48(1): 87-91.

Baydoun, Elias

1. Article: Dahdouh E, El-Khatib S, Baydoun E, Abdel-Massih R, 2017. Additive Effect of MCP in combination with Cefotaxime against

Staphylococcus aureus. Medicinal Chemistry: 13: 682-688. doi: 10.2174/1573406413666170306112444 2. Article: Baydoun E, Wahab A, Iqbal S, Smith C, Choudhary I, 2017. Biotransformation of drospirenone, a contraceptive drug, with Cunninghamella elegans. Steroids 126: 30 – 34 doi: 10.1016/j.steroids.2017.07.010. 3. Article: Kamar A, Fahed A, Shibbani K, BouSleiman S, Arabi M, Kurban M, Seidman J, Seidman C, Haidar R, Arabi M, Baydoun E, Nemer G, Bitar F, 2017. A novel role for CSRP1 in a Lebanese family with congenital cardiac defects. Frontiers in Genetics 8: 217 (Article 217) doi: 10.3389/fgene.2017.00217 4. Article: Harakeh S, Khalife J, Baydoun E, Azar R, Al Hejin A, Barbour E, Azhar E, Niedzwiecki A, Al Jaouni S, Diab-Assaf M, Kamal M, Rath M, 2018. Effects of ascorbic acid on Tax, NF-κB and MMP-9 in human T-cell lymphotropic virus type one positive malignant T-lymphocytes. Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry 18: 237-244 doi: 10.2174/1871520617666170725160628. 5. Article: Wahab A, Siddiqui M, Ibrahim I, Hussain A, Ajandouz E, Hijazi A, Baydoun E, Choudhary I, 2018. Cunninghamella blakesleeana-mediated biotransformation of a contraceptive drug, desogestrel, and anti-MDR- Staphylococcus aureus activity of its metabolites. Bioorganic Chemistry 77: 152-158 doi: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2017.12.027 6. Books: Hillman J, Baydoun E, 2018. The Future of Universities in the Arab Region: A Review. In: Badran A, Baydoun E, Hillman J (editors), Universities in the Arab Countries: an Urgent Need for Change. Springer 7. Proceedings of conferences, Abstracts and Posters: Hillman J, Baydoun E, 2017. An overview of quality assurance in universities: raising standards in teaching, research and administration and enhancing societal and competitive benefits. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Arab Academy of Sciences, 14-16 8. Proceedings of conferences, Abstracts and Posters: Baydoun E, Iqbal S, Shoaib N, Wahab A, Smith C, Choudhary I, 2017. Fungal-mediated structural transformation of contraceptive drugs, drospirenone and etonogestrel into new metabolites. Proceedings of the 3rd World Chemistry Conference 9. Proceedings of conferences, Abstracts and Posters: Iqbal S, Baydoun E, Wahab A, Choudhary I, 2017. Microbial biotransformation of drospirenone with Cunninghamella elegans into new analogues. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium-cum-Training Course on Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, 198 10. Proceedings of conferences, Abstracts and Posters: Olleik H, Roblin C, Tachon S, Nicoletti C, Lafond M, Jeannot K, Fons M, Hijazi A, Baydoun E, Ajandouz E, Perrier J, Maresca M, 2018. Cyclic fungal peptides: toxin or

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medicine. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Antimicrobial Peptides

Gali-Muhtasib, Hala

1. Ballout F, Habli Z, Rahal ON, Fatfat M, *Gali-Muhtasib H. Thymoquinone- Based Nanotechnology for Cancer Therapy: Promises and Challenges Drug Discovery Today, 2018 Jan 29. Pii: S1359-6446(17)30351-3. Doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2018.01.043. 2. Abdel-Samad R, Aouad P, Gali-Muhtasib H, Sweidan Z, Hmadi R, Kadara H, D'Andrea EL, Fucci A, Pisano C, Darwiche N. Mechanism of action of the atypical retinoid ST1926 in colorectal cancer: DNA damage and DNA polymerase α. Am J Cancer Res. 2018 Jan 1;8(1):39-55. 3. Bouhadir K, Atallah H, Mezher R, Fatfat M, Gali-Muhtasib H, Elaridi J. Synthesis and biological assessment of novel acylhydrazone derivatives of 2- methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone. Organic Communications, 2017, 10(4): 259. 4. Elaridi J, Bou Karroum N, Bouhadir K, Fatfat M, Gali-Muhtasib H. Preparation and biological evaluation of novel acylhydrazide derivatives of 2,3-dichloro naphthoquinone. Organic Communications, 2017, 10(2):122- 129.

Ghanem, Noël

1. Saad Omais & Carine Jaafar& and Noël Ghanem* (2018) “Till Death Do Us Part”: A Potential Irreversible Link Between Aberrant Cell Cycle Control and Neurodegeneration in the Adult Olfactory Bulb. & co-first authors Front. Neurosci. 12:144. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00144.

Kambris, Zakaria

1. Zu Dohna H, Houry C, Kambris Z. A comparative analysis of Wolbachia- induced host reproductive phenotypes reveals transition rate heterogeneity. Ecology and Evolution. 2018, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3789 2. Bardawil T, Rebeiz A, Chaabouni M, El Halabi J, Kambris Z, Abbas O, Abou Hassan O, Hamie L, Bitar F, Ghani Kibbi A, Nemer G, Kurban M. Mutations in the ABCG8 gene are associated with sitosterolaemia in the homozygous form and xanthelasmas in the heterozygous form. Eur J Dermatol. 2017 Oct 1; 27(5):519-523. doi: 10.1684/ejd.2017.3087

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Kreydiyyeh, Sawsan

1. Article: Jaafar K, Haydar J, Kuraydiyyah S, Ghaddar T., Khouzama Knio, Ismail B, Toufeili I. Physicochemical, melissopalynological and antioxidant properties of artisanal honeys from Lebanon. Journal of Food Science and Technology 2017, 54(8), pp. 2296-2305 2. Article: El Moussawi L, Chakkour M, Kreydiyyeh SI. Epinephrine modulates Na+/K+ ATPase activity in Caco-2 cells via Src, p38MAPK, ERK and PGE2.PLoS One. 2018 Feb 21;13(2):e0193139. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193139.

Knio, Khouzama

1. Machaka-Houri, N., Houri* A., Knio, K. and Westbury* B. D. 2018. Ecological interactions of the sexually deceptive orchid Orchis galilaea. Journal of Plant Interactions 13: 1, 315-320. DOI: 10.1080/17429145.2018.1478005

Osta, Mike

1. Nakhleh J, Christophides GK*, Osta MA. The serine protease homolog CLIPA14 modulates the intensity of the immune response in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae. J Biol Chem. 292(44): 18217-18226 (2017)

Sadek, Riyad

1. Khoury, J., Dabbousy, R, Sadek, R., Antoun, S., Hleihel, W., Legros, C. and Fajloun, Z, 2018. - Evidence for in vitro antiophidian properties of aqueous buds’ extract of Eucalyptus against Montivipera bornmuelleri venom. J Venom Res. 2017; 8: 25–30. 2. 2. Yacoub, T., Rima, M., Sadek, R., Hleihil, W., Fajloun, Z., and Karam, M., 2018. Montivipera bornmuelleri venom has immunomodulatory effects mainly up-regulating pro-inflammatory cytokines in the spleens of mice. Toxicology Reports 5: 318-323.

Saoud, Imad

1. Laura Sisco, Samer Monzer, Nadim Farajalla, Isam Bashour, I. P. Saoud (2017). Roof top gardens as a means to using recycled waste and A/C condensate and reducing temperature variation in buildings. Building and Environment 117: 127-134.

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2. Nivin Nasser, Jessica Babikian, Samer Monzer, &I. P. Saoud (2017). Toxicity of four chemotherapeutic agents to rabbitfish Siganus rivulatus. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 48(6): 877-886. 3. El-Asmar, J., Jaafar, H., Bashour, I., Farran, M. and Saoud I.P. (2017). Hydrogel Banding Improves Plant Growth, Survival, and Water Use Efficiency in Two Calcareous Soils. CLEAN – Soil Air Water. e201700251. doi: 10.1002/clen.201700251 4. Jessica Babikian, Nivin Nasser, Samer Monzer &I. P. Saoud (2017). Survival and Respiration of Marbled Rabbitfish (Siganus rivulatus) Fingerlings at Various Oxygen Tensions. Aquaculture Research 48(8): 4219-4227. 5. Jessica Babikian, Nivin Nasser &I. P. Saoud (2017). Effects of salinity on standard metabolic rate of juvenile marbled spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus). Aquaculture Research. 48(5): 2561-2566. 6. Mohammad T. Farran, Harout A. Akilian, A. M. Hamoud, G.W. Barbour, and I. P. Saoud (2017). Lignocellulose improves protein and amino acid digestibility in roosters and egg hatchability in broiler breeders. Journal of Poultry Science 54(3): 197-204. 7. Monzer S., N. Nasser, J. Babikian and I. P. Saoud (2017). Substitution of Fish Meal by Soybean Meal in Diets for Juvenile Marbled Spinefoot, Siganus rivulatus. Journal of Applied Aquaculture. 29(2): 101-116. DOI: 10.1080/10454438.2016.1272031 8. I.P. Saoud (2017). Aquaculture and Water Efficiency will help feed the world of the future; Part 3: Food Production Using Salt Water. Aqua Practical: 2(1): 11-15.

Smith, Colin

1. Baydoun E, Wahab A*, Iqbal S*, Smith C, Choudary MI*. 2017. Biotransformation of drospirenone, a contraceptive drug, with Cunninghamella elegans. Steroids, 126, 30–34. doi: 10.1016/j.steroids.2017.07.010.

Talhouk, Rabih

1. Soubra N, Talhouk R, Yazbek M, Karam N (2018). Evaluation of diversity and conservation status of Matricaria chamomilla L. and Matricaria aurea (Loefl.) Sch. Bip. In Lebanon. Journal of Biodiversity and Endangered Species. 6:1.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pharmthera.2016.11.012 2. Najjar, O., Talhouk R.S. (2018). Nanotechnologies for delivery of water- insoluble drugs. In: “Essential oils and nanotechnology for the cure of microbial diseases”. CRC Press, Chapter 11, 221-241.

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3. Farah J. Nassar, Rabih Talhouk, Nathalie K. Zgheib, Maya El Sabban, Arafat Tfayli, Nagi S. El Saghir, Fouad Boulos, Mark Jabbour, Claude Chalala, Rosemary Boustany, Zhou Zhang, Yinan Zheng, Brian Joyce, Lifang Hou, Ali Bazarbachi, George Calin, Rihab Nasr (2017). MicroRNA Expression in Ethnic Specific Early Stage Breast Cancer: A Comparative and Integration Analysis. Sci Rep. Dec 4; 7(1). 4. Nassar, F., Nasr, R., Talhouk, R. (2017). MicroRNAs as biomarkers for early breast cancer diagnosis, prognosis and therapy prediction. Pharmacol Ther.172:34-49. (Listed before as E-pub). 5. Patrick Aouad, Melody Saikali, Rana Abdel-Samad, Sabreen Fostok, Leeanna El-Houjeiri, Claudio Pisano, Rabih Talhouk, and Nadine Darwiche (2017). Antitumor activities of the synthetic retinoid ST1926 in two-dimensional and three-dimensional human breast cancer models Anticancer Drugs. 28(7):757- 770. (Listed before as E-pub).

Al Zein, Mohammad 1. Sabra, J., Imad, R., Miri, H., Yehia, Y. and M. S. Al-Zein. 2017. Restoration against all odds: the case of coastal sand dunes in Ouzai. Plant Sociology 54 (Supplement 1): 67-71.

Zu Dohna-Schlobi, Heinrich

1. Zu Dohna, H.1, Houry, C. and Z. Kambris 2018. A comparative analysis of Wolbachia-induced host reproductive phenotypes reveals transition rate heterogeneity. Ecology and Evolution 8: 1845-1953

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The department conducted a self-review in a retreat in the summer of 2017. We started implementing some of our decisions and are still discussing the best options to successfully implement some other necessary but difficult changes. We increased our course offerings at the freshman level both to prospective biology students and to non-science students. We are also in the process of adding a sophomore level course that will better prepare our students for a life in biology. Finally, we are testing some ideas to include writing in the major in some of our courses.

The department is still in the process of reviewing the current PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology program and finding ways of changing it into a PhD in Biology, which will be more inclusive.

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The Department will continue to work on optimizing the use of existing space with the understanding that additional space for expansion is not available in the near future.

The Department will continue to find ways to advertise graduate programs to students coming from other universities and from the region. The number of MSc applicants is decreasing, but the number of PhD applicants is increasing significantly. The department will start actively advertising for MSc students in the fall semester.

Ultimately, the academic year 2017-18 passed without major disruptions. Student enrollment is good. Professors are generally satisfied and, given all the problems we face in Lebanon, are quite productive. Faculty to student ratio in the department is about 1 to 80 because we teach a lot of service courses. However, the department chair is trying to set the full-time teaching load at 12 or 13 credits per year without disrupting the smooth flow of the department.

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PRINCE ALWALEED BIN TALAL BIN ABDULAZIZ ALSAUD CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH (CASAR)

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Center for American Studies and Research continued to foster transnational scholarship about the United States in the Arab world through its academic programs, lectures, and research. CASAR offers an undergraduate Minor in American Studies and an MA in Transnational American Studies.

In February, CASAR hosted a one-day visit from a representative of the Alwaleed Philanthropies, who consulted with the Director, Amy Zenger, and Program Coordinator, Nancy Batakji, members of the Executive Committee, Dean Cheikh, Provost Harajli, and President Khuri.

The center conducted a joint search for an assistant professor of American Studies and Media Studies and was successful in recruiting Ila Tyagi. Because her arrival was postponed until fall 2019, Kouross Esmaeli accepted a visiting assistant professor position for 2018-19. The search for the 2018-19 Edward Said Chair of American Studies did not lead to a new hire. The FAS Dean’s office conducted a search for the next CASAR Director and appointed Robert Myers to assume the role in 2018- 19.

In October 2017, CASAR held a retreat with its International Advisory Board, the President, the Dean, and the executive committee to discuss possible ways for the center to move forward. The participants decided to move towards organizing a smaller conference with a focus on American Studies outside the US.

In March 2018, CASAR organized a symposium on “Localizing American Studies.” Around 15 scholars from North Korea, Turkey, Denmark, Egypt, Latin America, and Lebanon discussed the pros and cons of doing American Studies outside the US.

The MA in Transnational American Studies accepted one new student in 2017-18. Because of the transitions in faculty and director positions, no new applicants were accepted this year in the MA program. The current graduate students all receive full graduate assistantships fully funded by CASAR. In spring 2018, two students graduated with an MA in Transnational American Studies.

Four conference travel grants amounting to $12,000 USD were awarded this year to AUB faculty members presenting at conferences outside Lebanon. One research

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travel grant was awarded to one faculty member to conduct research during the summer. related to American Studies The research travel grant amounts to $3000 USD. In addition, CASAR offered conference travel grants to graduate students to participate in American Studies conferences. Four graduate students were awarded these grants this year.

CASAR sponsored and co-sponsored a number of events related to American Studies throughout the year.

29 September- 13 October 2017: “We Have Started,” a photography exhibition inspired by the work of the American artist Allan Sekula exploring the unseen and neglected spaces of Lebanon and investigating the socioeconomic dynamics and actualities that have been ignored or purposely hidden away from social consciousness.

2 October 2017: “Futures of Black Radicalism: A Book Launch,” featuring Alex Lubin, University of New Mexico, and Greg Burris, Media Studies Program, AUB.

5 October 2017: “How does it Feel to Still Be a Problem? Writing about Arab and Muslim Americans since 2001,” a lecture by Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College, CUNY.

9 October 2017: “No Rights which the White Man was Bound to Respect:” Racial Capitalism and Empire in the Age of Dred Scott, a lecture by Walter Johnson, Harvard University.

2 November 2018: ‘Women on the Loose’ to ‘Women in the Lead’: Indian Nurses Navigate the International Division of Nursing Labor, a lecture by Sujani Reddy, Graduate Center, CUNY. This lecture was co-sponsored with CAMES.

6 November 2018: “NGO’s, International Aid, and the Savior Mentality,” a lecture by Sujani Reddy, Graduate Center, CUNY, and Jordan Flaherty, an award-winning journalist, producer and author. This lecture was co-sponsored with CAMES.

7 November 2018: “U.S. Journalism and Civil Rights Struggles in the Age of Trump,” a lecture by Jordan Flaherty, an award-winning journalist, producer and author. This lecture was co-sponsored with CAMES.

5 February 2018: “Benjamin Franklin: Media Entrepreneur in the Republic of Letters,” a lecture by Martin Puchner, Harvard University. This lecture was co- sponsored with the English Department and the Theater Initiative.

6 February 2018: “How the Marriage of Philosophy and Performance Helped create Harvard’s program in Theater, Dance and Media,” by Martin Puchner, Harvard

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University. This lecture was co-sponsored with the English Department and the Theater Initiative.

12 February 2018: “The Moving Image in Carceral Spaces: Introducing Television to the American Prison,” by Joshua Mitchel, a job candidate for the Assistant professor of American Studies and Media Studies.

16 February 2018: “Inscribing Ideology: Representing the Visually Elusive in the American Petroleum Institute’s Cold War Films,” by Ila Tyagi, a job candidate for the Assistant professor of American Studies and Media Studies.

20 February 2018: “Narrative Cartographies of Citizenships and Rights in the Age of US Empire,” by Carol Fadda, Syracuse University.

1 March 2018: “World Literature and the Post-Liberal Norm,” by Ken Seigneurie, Edward Said Chair of American Studies- CASAR/ Simon Fraser University.

12-13 March 2018: “Localizing Transnational American Studies,” a symposium organized by CASAR.

20 March 2018: “Corporate Conspiring: Techniques for Calibrating Our Futures,” by Joseph Dumit, University of California Davis.

22 March 2018: “Trump from Reality TV to Twitter: American Populism in the Digital Age,” by Brian T. Edawrds, Northwestern University.

15-18 April 2018: “Latin America, Al-Andalus and the Arab World,” an international conference sponsored by CASAR, the Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, which are part of the MOU with AUB and AUB’s Theater Initiative.

17-22 April 2018: Artist Book Workshop by Patricia Sarrafian Ward, a funded project that is part of the Festival of Writing.

18-20 April 2018: City Debates 2018 conference – keynote Dana Cuff lecture was co-sponsored by CASAR.

8 May 2018: “Gender and the Generic Muslim Subject,” a lecture by Faisal Devji, St. Antony’s College in Oxford.

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B. PERSONNEL

1. FacultyMembers

Zenger, Amy Associate Professor, Ph.D. Director Seigneirie, Kenneth Edward Said Chair of Ph.D. American Studies Temsah, Samar (PT Fall and Instructor M.A. Spring)

2. Executive Committee

Abdulrahim, Sawsan Department of Health Ph.D. Promotion and Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences Burris, Gregory Sociology, Anthropology, Ph.D. & Media Studies Frangie, Samer Political Studies and Public Ph.D. Administration/ CAMES Harb, Sirene (Spring) English Ph.D. Myers, Robert English Ph.D. Reiche, Danyel (Fall) Political Science & Public Ph.D. Administration

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Mawad, Cheyenne Makhoul, Tala Mansour, Salwa Doyle, Michael

Spring Semester Mawad, Cheyenne Makhoul, Tala Mansour, Salwa Doyle, Michael

4. Non-Academic Staff

Batakji Sanyoura, Nancy Program Coordinator

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C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

MA Oct. 2016 0 Feb. 2017 0 Jun. 2017 2

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 4 Seniors N/A Juniors N/A Sophomores N/A

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘16 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 9 12 21 211-299 0 98 73 171 200-210 0 0 0 0 100-199 0 0 0 0 Total 107 85 192

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘16 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 9 9 18 211-299 0 18 9 27 200-210 0 0 0 0

100-199 0 0 0 0

Total 0 27 18 45

D. RESEARCH

Zenger, Amy

1. “Writing Program Administration, Mobility, and Locality at the American University of Beirut, 1970 to Present.” Chapter in edited collection in press.

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2. “Xu Bing’s Books.” Essay in progress. 3. “Options, Strategies, Performances: AUB Faculty Members as Writers.” With Dr. John Pill. Ongoing research project. 4. Localizing Transnational American Studies. With Sirene Harb. Edited collected papers from CASAR’s symposium. 5. “Visuality of written texts: Multilingual writers making design choices.” Essay in progress.

Kenneth Seigneurie

1. “Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature.” General Editor of this five-volume, 1.5 million-word, project bringing together 297 contributors. Mss. due September 2018.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Amy Zenger

1. Director, Alwaleed bin Talal Center for American Studies and Research. 2016-17. 2. Board Member, Middle East North Africa Writing Center Alliance. 2014- present. 3. Member: Advancing Effective Institutional Models Towards Cohesive Teaching, Learning, Research and Writing Development. European Cooperation in Science and Technology Grant.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Kenneth Seigneurie

1. “The Role of Arabic Literature in World Literature.” Chapter for Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in English Translation. Ed. Michelle Hartman. New York: Modern Language Association, 2018. 21-40. 2. “The Real Problem with World Literature.” Le Comparatisme comme approche critique/ Comparative Literature as a Critical Approah. Local et mondial: circulations/ Local and Global: Circulations, Tome 5. Ed. Anne Tomiche. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017. 73-80.

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G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

CASAR will be hiring Professor Robert Myers to direct the center for the next three years.

Amy Zenger Director

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CENTER FOR ARAB AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES (CAMES)

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

During the 2017-2018 academic year, CAMES received 34 applications for the MA in Middle Eastern Studies Program and accepted 25 students, five of whom enrolled. CAMES also received seven applications for the MA in Islamic Studies Program and accepted 3 students, 1 of whom enrolled. One Islamic Studies student and two Middle Eastern Studies students graduated during the 2017-2018 academic year. For Fall 2018-2019, 36 students applied to the MA in Middle Eastern Studies Program and 10 students applied to the MA in Islamic Studies Program. CAMES accepted 23 students in the MA in Middle Eastern Studies Program and 2 students in the MA in Islamic Studies Program.

In addition to supporting its MEST and ISLM students, CAMES exceptionally offered graduate assistantships to a large number of students across FAS and the University. This was a one-year support that cannot be sustained over the long term.

There was a large increase in application numbers and attendance in the CAMES summer Arabic program of 2017, largely due to AUB’s recruitment of Dr. Mahmoud al-Batal, a leading scholar in Arabic pedagogy, to the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. In summer 2017, 87 students attended out of 124 applicants. With the approval of Provost Mohammad Harajli, CAMES will offer additional tuition waivers to outstanding students to attend the 2018 CAMES summer Arabic program. 125 students applied for the summer of 2018 and around 90 students are expected to enroll.

CAMES organized and took part in the following activities:

Public Lectures:

Beirutis on record: The emergence of musical consumption in Beirut at the turn of the 20th century, Diana Abbani, February 21, 2018

'Women on the Loose' to 'Women in the Lead': Indian Nurses Navigate the International Division of Nursing Labor, Sujani Reddy, November 2, 2017 [Co- organized by CASAR and the Media Studies program]

US Journalism and Civil Rights Struggles in the Age of Trump, Jordan Flaherty November 7, 2017 [Co-organized by CASAR and the Media Studies program]

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Dissolving the Fourth Wall, Professor Tony Cutler, September 27, 2017 [Co- organized by the Department of Fine Arts & Art History]

Phase “A”: Lebanese Engineers, the World Bank, and the Remaking of the Litani River, 1931-1970, Owain Lawson, April 25, 2018 [Co-organized by the Program in Public Policy and International Affairs]

The Spiritual Warfare of Isaac of Nineveh, Boulos Matar, April 18, 2018 [Co- organized by the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature]

Panel Discussions and Book Talks:

NGOs, International Aid, and the Savior Mentality Sujani Reddy and Jordan Flaherty, November 6, 2017 [Co-organized by CASAR and the Media Studies program]

Book reading and discussion: The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek, October 16, 2017 [Co-organized by the Department of English]

Book Talk: Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture by Mehammed Mack, Smith College, September 22, 2017 [Co-sponsored by the Media Studies Program & the Women and Gender Studies Minor]

Roundtable Discussion & Launch of "Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region", A special issue of Contemporary Levant, September 29, 2017 [Co-sponsored by SOAM and CAH]

Conferences:

Towards a Reconstruction of Islamic Studies, April 28-29, 2018 [Co-sponsored by the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Language, and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies]

Literature, Culture, and the Political: A Conference on Elias Khoury, April 23, 2018. [Co-sponsored by the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages]

MUPP-MUD City Debates 2018: Architecture-as-Urbanism: Agenda for the New Millennium, 18-20 April 2018 [Co-sponsored by the Graduate Programs in Urban Planning, Policy, and Design (MUPP-MUD)]

Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere. January 19-20, 2018

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[Co-sponsored by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, FAS Women and Gender Studies Initiative, Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation]

Majãlis in Islamic Studies Lecture Series:

The Quranic Image of Man in the World, Wissam Nuwayhid, March 21, 2018

:ترجمات – Tarjamat Series

Limbo Beirut: Readings and Discussion of Literature and Translation, Hilal Chouman and Anna Ziajka Stanton, November 24, 2017 [Co-organized by the Department of English]

Humphrey Davies in Conversation with Rana Issa Translating Untranslatables from the Arabic Tradition, April 24, 2018 [Co-organized by Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, and Rusted Radishes]

Roundtable Events:

A Conversation with Dr. Moustafa Bayoumi, October 5, 2017, [Co-organized by the Center for American Studies and Research]

Workshop:

Arabic Manuscripts Workshop, March 5-9, 2018 [Co-organized by Jafet Library, USJ, LU, IFPO, USEK and University of Balamand]

PEN Lebanon International Writers Tour:

PEN Lebanon collaboration: writer visits and readings in schools, November 2017 - May 2018

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Frangie, Samer Associate Professor, Director PhD Saidi, Aliya Assistant Director PhD

Sbaiti, Nadya Assistant Professor, Program PhD Coordinator for Middle Eastern Studies

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Kozah, Mario Lecturer, Program Coordinator PhD for Islamic Studies Kanawati, Rima Instructor M.A. Semaan, Rima Instructor M.A. Traboulsi, Fawwaz Senior Lecturer (part-time) PhD

2. Steering Committee

Frangie, Samer (PSPA), Chair Sbaiti, Nadya (CAMES/SOAM), Program Coordinator for Middle Eastern Studies Kozah, Mario (CAMES), Program Coordinator for Islamic Studies Alexis Wick (History/Archeology) Sylvain Perdigon (SOAM) Mahmoud al-Batal (Arabic) Zeina G. Halabi (Arabic) Rana H Issa (English) Aliya Saidi (CAMES), non-voting member

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Asli Altinisik Dima Mouallem Daryn Howland Emily Abreu Ralph Ibrahim Flaminia Baldwin Jack Davies Christian Thiele Hala Itani

Spring Semester Judith Gerrits Flaminia Baldwin Asli Altinisik Christian Thiele Daryn Howland

4. Non-Academic Staff Sibai, Barea Administrative Assistant

5. Research Affiliates Owain Lawson, PhD candidate, Columbia University Andrew Arsan, University Lecturer, University of Cambridge Menaal Munshey, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge Kelyne Rhodehamel, PhD candidate, Rice University Klaudia Rottenschlager, PhD candidate, University of Vienna Adriana Qubaia, Doctoral candidate, Central European University

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Suzanne Lugthart, MA candidate, University of Amsterdam Emily Whalen, PhD candidate, University of Texas, Austin Reda Mahajar, Independent researcher Jean-Baptiste Allegrini, PhD candidate, University College London Myrna Nader, Visiting Lecturer, Regents University Maria Gomez Lopez, PhD candidate, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Elisabetta Pietrostefani, PhD candidate, London School of Economics Mohammad Ataie, PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst Claire Alkouatli, PhD candidate, University of British Columbia Sara Swetzoff, PhD candidate, Howard University Carl Rihan, Program Coordinator, Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan Jon Armajani, Associate Professor, St. John's University Joaquin Urias, Professor, University of Sevilla Katelyn Cassin, PhD candidate, University of Ottawa Eliza Isabaeva, Post-Doctoral researcher, University of Zurich Javier Gil Guerrero, Professor, Francisco de Vitoria University Madrid Dylan Baun, Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama Tuba Yildiz, PhD student, Istanbul University Mounir Mahmalat, PhD Candidate, Dublin City University Hannah Scott Deuchar, PhD Candidate, New York University Arturo Marzano, Associate Professor, University of Pisa Peter Seljan, PhD candidate, Corvinus University of Budapest Gabriel Young, PhD candidate, New York University Jessy Nassar, PhD Candidate, King’s College London Angela Gissi, PhD graduate, University College Dublin

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

MA Oct. 2017 1 Feb. 2018 1 Jun. 2018 3

2. Number of Majors

Graduates MEST 12 Graduates ISLM 1

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3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall 18 Spring 18 Total 300 and above 87 40 52 179 211-299 0 23 23 46 200-210 0 16 0 16 Total 87 79 75 241

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall 18 Spring 18 Total 300 and above 72 117 117 234 211-299 0 12 9 21 200-210 0 3 0 3 Total 72 132 126 258

D. RESEARCH

Frangie, Samer

Please refer to the Department of PSPA section.

Sbaiti, Nadya

1. On research leave during Fall 2017-18. 2. Conducted research in new archives in the US (Smithsonian, Library of Congress, New York Public Library). 3. Invited lecture at Georgetown University (Washington DC), April 2018. 4. Invited lecture at CUNY Graduate Center (New York, NY), May 2018. 5. Served as external peer reviewer for articles for Journal of Palestine Studies; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Arab Studies Journal; Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 6. Served as external reviewer for promotion case for colleague at Shaykh Zayed University in the UAE. 7. Served as external reviewer for book manuscript for AUC press.

Kozah, Mario

1. Successfully completed year two of Qatar National Research Fund project in collaboration with Qatar University. Project title: "A Preliminary Syriac, Aramaic and Arabic lexical and toponymical survey of Beth Qaṭraye." Project duration: 3 years. Project number: NPRP9-002-6-001. Grant total amount: $808,534.

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E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Frangie, Samer

Please refer to the Department of PSPA section.

Sbaiti, Nadya

1. Taught full course load, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, during Fall 2017-18. On Leave during spring 2017-18. 2. Advised four MA theses and a reader on three others, and two MA final projects. A reader on a PhD History committee. 3. Organized and hosted different talks at CAMES, with several others in conjunction with other departments and programs. 4. Represented CAMES at the Middle East Studies Association annual conference in Washington, DC, in November 2017. 5. Co-organizer and co-director of Lebanon Dissertation Summer Institute, an intensive two-week institute for ABD doctoral students from around the world researching Lebanon. 6. Continued to serve as a co-Editor, Jadaliyya.com e-zine.

Kozah, Mario

1. Acting program director of Islamic Studies at CAMES academic year 2017/18. Conducted comprehensive examinations for all Islamic Studies MA candidates. Reviewed the ISLM section in the graduate catalogue and helped prepare a new ISLM leaflet. Vetted ISLM applications for year 2018/19. 2. Coordinator of the Minor in Semitic Studies. 3. Member of CAMES Steering Committee. 4. Committee member of the Mellon grant initiative “Heritage Preservation and Religious Tolerance Initiative.” Arranged for a GRA to work in Jafet library on the documentation of endangered Assyrian records from the Mandate period. 5. Gave a talk as part of the Arabic Manuscripts Conference program, which took place at various Lebanese universities including Balamand, Université Saint- Joseph, Lebanese University, Institut Français du Proche-Orient, and at AUB on Thursday 8 March 2018. Paper entitled “Biruni's Arabic translation of the Yoga- Sutras of Patanjali: a new critical edition.” 6. Organized a guest lecture as part of the AMPL/ISLM lecture series on 18 April 2018 by Dr Boulos Matar entitled: “The Spiritual Warfare of Isaac of Nineveh.”

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F. PUBLICATIONS

Frangie, Samer

Please refer to the Department of PSPA section.

Kozah, Mario

Book contract signed (April 2018) with New York University Press series Library of Arabic Literature for an introduction, full critical edition and English translation of an eleventh century Arabic version of the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali by Abu Rayhan al-Biruni. Anticipated delivery date: August 2019.

Sbaiti, Nadya

1. Books: Pedagogical Constituencies and Communities of Knowledge: Gender, Education and Nation in Lebanon. 2. Three articles submitted for review to International Journal of Middle East Studies; Journal of Women’s History; Journal of Historical Research in Marketing.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

CAMES has begun putting into practice the recommendations of the program review that we underwent in 2015-2016.

CAMES largely planned and funded the AUB presence at the 2017 MESA meeting in Washington DC, including the AUB reception, which attracted large numbers of researchers on the Middle East. CAMES will plan and fund the AUB presence in the upcoming MESA 2018 meeting which will be held in San Antonio, Texas. Currently, CAMES is working in formalizing its presence in international conferences to take advantage of the exposure this will offer the center.

CAMES was successful in securing, with other partners, a Mellon Supranational Grant, entitled “Other Universals: thinking from the South on traditions of politics and aesthetics”. In the future, CAMES will be relying on grants to sustain some of its activities.

In 2018-19 CAMES will continue offering up to 5 incoming MEST MA students 4 semesters of GA funding at the level of at least 3 credits per semester. With the extra funds available due to the retirement of the Shaykh Zayid Professor, we might be able to offer more GAships, but this might not be sustainable once a new Shaykh Zayid Professor is hired. During the academic year 2017-18, the search for a new

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Chair did not result in any positive outcome because of the low quality of applicants. This might be due to the narrow focus of the advertisement and the absence of a targeted search of suitable candidates. A new search will be initiated in the coming year. CAMES has also been offering GAships to ISLM MA students, which is critical for attracting more students to the ISLM program.

Samer Frangie Director

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THE CENTER FOR ARTS AND HUMANITIES (CAH)

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

CAH seeks to strengthen humanistic and art-based inquiry and education at the University and beyond. The center strives to advance the University’s liberal arts mission; it provides an intellectual environment for interdisciplinary and interregional humanistic dialogue. Additionally, it supports creative knowledge production from and about the region; it provides opportunities for research and professional development for faculty and postdoctoral fellows; it upholds and demonstrates the value of art and humanities for society; and it promotes collaboration both within AUB and regionally, in support of grassroots liberal arts teaching, research and knowledge dissemination. The teaching that CAH’s post- docs do and the courses developed by its faculty fellows, in addition to the yearlong activities that CAH organizes, co-sponsor or contribute to in a variety of ways, testify to its commitment to these objectives.

B. PERSONNEL

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Rashwan, Hany University of London, Qatar Sukkar, Ahmad University of Cambridge, London

1. AUB Faculty Fellows

Avant, Doyle Rexford Assistant Professor Department of English Newson, Paul Graham Associate Professor Department of History & Archeology Muller , Hans D. Associate Professor Department of Philosophy

2. Non-Academic Staff

Bassil, Rita Program Manager Abou Salha, Rania Administrative Assistant

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C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

2. Number of Majors

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses

Summer Fall Spring Total

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer Fall Spring Total

Introduction to Comparative Rhetoric (ARAB251Z-1) Introduction to Ancient Egyptian (ARAB251V-1) Syria Reconstruction (MEST 317 Y)

D. RESEARCH

N/A

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

N/A

F. PUBLICATIONS

N/A

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G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Build sustainable partnerships with local and regional centers and organizations that support humanistic-based inquiry. Incentivize interdisciplinary research within the humanities and with the social sciences and STEM fields. Increase and enhance the digital presence of our scholarly publications, and support digital humanities projects The long-term aim of CAH is to actively engage with the liberal arts education; to redefine and demonstrate the value of teaching and research in the liberal arts from the standpoint of the region and of post-colonial societies; and to support a grassroots candid South/South dialogue around the meaning and value of the liberal arts mission for society and future generations.

Artist/ Writer in Residence

1. Artist in Residence: Chaza Charafeddine

10th – 24th October 2017. After exploring the fields of education and dance for 15 years, Chaza turned to photography and writing. Her photographic works were shown in numerous galleries and artistic venues in Lebanon and abroad. She brought a different perspective to the field of arts in which she explored with students.

2. Writer in Residence: Jabbour Douaihy

5th – 23rdMarch 2018. Jabbour is the author of June Rain, a novel that was nominated for the 2008 Arabic Booker Prize and has been translated in several languages. He conducted a lecture discussing his famous written works as well as meeting with students and assisting them with translation topics and creative writing.

Workshops

1. Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab World by Livia Wick

29th September 2017 A roundtable discussion was organized on the launch of the special issue, “Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region,” published in Contemporary Levant in June 2017. The purpose was to elicit constructive feedback on the content of this journal issue with the prospect of expanding the scope of its timely

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contribution toward further debate and possible collaborative publication. This special issue looked at a) what preoccupied the ethnographer of this region today and b) what attention to ethnographic experience told us about the circumstances that come to bear on informants and researchers alike, in significant and sometimes unavoidable ways.

2. Creative Fiction in Translation by Rola Baalbaki & Nada Jarrar

20th November 2017 This creative fiction/translation event featured readings of students' original fiction pieces, and the translations thereof into the Arabic. A host of professors from Arts and Sciences at AUB read the selected fiction pieces and their translations. Mohammad Taha, accompanied by Rami Saleh on the oud, sang Ahmad Shawki's and Mohammad Abdel Wahhab's poem "MUDNAKA".

3. A Smile Can Open the Door by Antonello Ghezzi

20th – 24th November 2017 This workshop was directed by a duo of Italian artists, Nadia Antonello and Paolo Ghezzi, which involved expressing messages of peace through art and engineering. The workshop brought together students from art and engineering backgrounds in order to design a mockup of a door that opens when you smile. This event infused students with poetic artistry, imagination, and creativity.

4. The Demography of British Mandate Palestine: An analysis of Zionist settler colonialism, its effects on indigenous populations, and the redesign of population sources through Digital Humanities by Dr. Endika Rodriguez Martin

26th January 2018 The aim of this workshop was to challenge the conventional understanding of the roots of conflicts inside a settler colonial framework, focusing on the War of 1948 as the beginning of the process of Palestinian displacement and expulsion. The demographic contributions were filtered by tools in the Digital Humanities, in turn making the data analysis and outcome accessible to a range of audiences.The workshop stressed the importance and the use of Digital Humanities inside demographic approaches, in general, and Palestine Studies in particular.

5. Artificial Intelligence by Hans Muller (AUB-Faculty Mellon Fellow)

16th February 2018 This workshop provided a discussion on the exploration of the metaphysical, political and ethical implications of the current trend toward replacing multiple

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aspects of traditionally human activity with functions provided by computational systems that have been engineered to be adaptive and to learn in ways that are not fully anticipated, or anticipatable, by the people who designed them. Among the topics covered were the fact that intelligent systems are increasingly involved in making medical diagnoses, determining who gets a bank loan, and setting the length of prison sentences.

6. The Art of Calligraphy by Efdaluddin Kilic

February/March 2018 This workshop aimed at teaching the basic art of calligraphy writing in both Arabic and English. Master calligrapher Efdaluddin Kilic taught this hand on workshop.

7. Rusted Radishes by Rima Rantisi

March 2018 Founded in 2011 and in its fifth circulation, Rusted Radishes has become a publication where hundreds of local artists and writers have turned to feature their work; they push the envelope and create fresh, engaging, contemporary work. The interdisciplinary staff of faculty and students accept submissions from anyone with a connection to the MENA region. Meanwhile, they are keen on promoting AUB student work side by side with the works of professionals or emerging artists and writers. This unique concentration creates a continuous and unique dialogue that emerges from Beirut and AUB with the region, the diaspora, and beyond.

8. Syria Reconstruction by Ahmad Sukkar (Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow)

10 and 17 April 2018 The Middle Eastern Studies seminar workshop Syria Reconstruction introduced students to the theoretical, practical and technical aspects of reconstruction in Syrian cities. It engaged students in examining possible scenarios for Syrian postwar urbanism with special emphasis on the history of urban conflict, the methods and ethics of reconstruction, the problems of conservation, and new building materials and techniques. The course approached the topic of rebuilding Syria from the perspectives of culture, heritage, and sustainable development (social, economic, and environmental). Experts in the field were invited to enrich the ongoing discussion on this growing field of study and work.

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9. Stylometry by Najla Jarkas

April 2018 The aim of this workshop was to create new and interesting research questions about relationships between different books by the same author; between books by different authors; between authors differing in terms of chronology or gender; between translations of the same author or group of authors; helping, in turn, to find new ways of looking at works that seem to have been studied from all possible perspectives.

10. Weaving Words by Jana Traboulsi

4th& 5th May 2018 The objective of this workshop was to demonstrate and inspire students to explore innovative ways in which to illustrate pre-modern Arabic texts. The workshop focused on two medieval literary texts that students recreated into visual illustrations.

Conferences

1. The Southern Question by Professor Angela Harutyunyan 3rd& 4thNovember 2017 This 2-day conference aimed at providing critical frameworks for approaching the potentially political role of art and intellectual production: while one evokes the movement towards political solidarity and economic autonomy uniting the emerging nation-states of the global south as part of the Cold War Non-Aligned Movement, the other takes as its analytical framework the intertwined material and ideological conditions of determinate national social formations. Seeking inspiration in Gramsci’s treatment of the Southern Question it aimed at the potentials and limitations of the category of class for mass political organization.

2. Numismatic Research in Lebanon: Past, Present, and Future by Jack Nurpetlian and Malek Tabbal 23rd - 24thMarch 2018 This first of its kind conference held in Beirut promoted numismatic research in Lebanon by bringing together Lebanese numismatists and international scholars from the US, UK, France, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Palestine. Numismatic research in the given that the Middle East is lagging behind other regions and one in which AUB can play a leading role in bridging this gap, the conference focused on understanding and reconstruction of the human past by studying the material culture of ancient societies.

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3. Necropoleis Research Network (NRM) by Vana Kalenderian 12th to 14thApril 2018 The objective of this conference was to bring people working together on any aspect of mortuary archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East between the Iron Age and the Late Roman periods. It also aimed at involving museum personnel, members of Antiquities Services and scholars in universities and research institutes to discuss the methods for excavating human remains, storage and lack of fund for publication.

4. Latin America, Al-Andalus and the Arab World by Robert Myers 15th, 17th& 18thApril, 2018 A production called "Blood Wedding," a site-specific, Arabic-language version of the stage play by García Lorca in the village of Hammana, was the opening event for the international conference held at AUB on "Latin America, al-Andalus and the Arab World." The conference brought together scholars from North America, South America, the Caribbean, Spain and the Arab world in the fields of literature, theater, history and linguistics. The goal of the conference, which will lead to a volume of scholarly essays, was to explore continuities in the cultural field among the literary, theatrical and linguistic traditions of Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American drama, visual arts, literature and language.

5. Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies (CAH Main Conference) 10th to 12thMay 2018 The purpose of this conference was to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of classical Arabic anthologies. The conference welcomed contributions concerned with the study of oral, aural, and written sources of a certain work as well as the reasons and significance of the choice of these sources. The proceedings of the conference will be edited and published by the American University of Beirut Press.

6. Post-Eurocentric Poetics: New Approaches from Arabic, Turkish and Persian Literature by Hany Rashwan (Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow) 21st May 2018 The objective of this conference was to discuss different approaches that originated in Arabic, Turkish and Persian cultures and were overlooked or misunderstood under such long-established Eurocentric hegemony. The conference encouraged scholars to reconstruct the conceptual definitions of 'artistic' or 'poetic' language by effectively engaging with the literary treatments that were produced by the intellectual critics of these three non-Western cultures, which seem to be more or less "marginalized" for different reasons in the Western literary studies.

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Lectures

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Witnessing- Studies For a Self-Portrait by Chaza Charafeddine 10th October 2017 This lecture paid homage to the victims of the Syrian revolution who died under torture in Syrian jails. Ms. Charafeddine attempted to depict, through photographic images manipulated by light, the expressions of faces that have been through extreme hardship. She used her face to take on the form of her feelings; the pictures presented were the image of her face witnessing such devastation.

2. United We Fall: Difference and Disjunction in Islamic Art by Yasser Tabaa 11th October 2017 The objective of this lecture was to present various scholastic approaches within Islamic art and architecture. This field has been generally presented as a seamless conceptual continuum, divided mainly by dynasties and regions, but without questioning the deep ideological disjunctions that have raged throughout Islamic history. Placing these disjunctions front and center, the lecture reexamined central concepts in Islamic art--paradise, sacred scriptures, vision of God, and light--and argued through specific examples that these concepts responded to significant controversies and oppositions, some of which are still with us today.

3. An Evening on Tayeb Saleh: Season of Migration to the North... Half a Century On by Dahlia Gubara 12th October 2017 This event commemorated the 50th anniversary of the publication of the award- winning novel Season of Migration to the North by the late Sudanese author Tayeb Salih. The event featured literary readings and reflections on the novel and its author. The evening also marked the 50th anniversary of the Sudanese Club’s presence in Beirut and was attended by leading figures from the Sudanese community including the former and current Sudanese Ambassadors to Beirut.

4. Post-Eurocentric Poetics Arabic Jinās in ancient Egyptian Literature by Hany Rashwan (Post-Doctoral Mellon Fellow) 14th November 2017 This lecture explored the concept that ancient Egyptian rhetorical devices are most productively studied on a comparative basis and that Arabic, as a kindred language, offers a fruitful platform for exploring and analyzing these literary devices. The

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lecture demonstrated how linguistic kinship can form a fruitful standpoint for exploring the rhetorical devices of such related languages. The linguistic kinship between ancient Egyptian and Arabic offers an excellent starting point to stop the automatic application of Greco-centric rhetorical concepts, without fully understanding their confusing Eurocentric background.

5. Book Launch: “In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal S. Salibi” by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn 16th November 2017 In conjunction with the Kamal Salibi memorial lecture, the book launch event commemorated the work of Professor Salibi, depicted in a collection of articles published by the AUB press in one volume under the title: “In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal S. Salibi”.

6. Plagues and History of the Middle East by Professor Sevket Pamuk 16th November 2017 The book launch was followed by Dr. Şevket Pamuk’s lecture on the role of plagues in the history of the Middle East, a subject that has increasingly been studied only recently, with the rise of interest in the role of plagues in other regions of the world. The lecture focused on the impact of what was named the Justinian Plague that began in the 6th century, just before the rise of Islam, and kept re-appearing until the 9th century. Dr. Pamuk also addressed the Black Death, which first appeared in the 14th century and kept recurring in the Middle East until the 19th century.

7. Nation, Trauma, and Other Not-So-Universal Ideas Re-imagined in Arabic Literature by Nora Parr 28th November 2017 This lecture’s objective was to mark the development of a new research project: the re-examining concepts of ‘trauma’ and theory around the representation of violence. The presentation looked at why current frameworks don't fit literature of the Palestinian Nakba, the Lebanese Civil War, or the Arab Spring, as three preliminary examples, and put forward some hypotheses about why trauma here is not written as ‘out of time,’ or ‘other’ to the everyday, and why this matters.

by Diana Jeha رائد النحت األول في لبنان يوسف الحويك )-1883 1962( .8 8th December 2017 ولد يوسف سعدهللا الحويك في قرية حلتا في جرود البترون في 9 آذار عام 1883. ومن ثم عاش لفترة من الزمن في قرية عورا القريبة من حلتا.يتح ّدر يوسف الحويك من عائلة مسيحية. كان ج ّده مخاييل كاهناً، وعمه الياس الحويك بطريركاً للطائفة المارونية، وهو من أسس راهبات العائلة المق ّدسة في عبرين البترون، حيث انضم ّإلى هذه الجمع ّية عدد من شقيقاته.يهدف بح ُثنا إلى اإلضاءة على أعمال يوسف الحويك التشكيلية المختلفة من التخطيطات، الجداريات الدينية، اللوحات، والمنحوتات المختلفة من الوجوه، العاريات، المنحوتات النصبية، المنحوتات الدينية، والمنحوتات لشخصيات معروفة

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9. Social Science Research on, for, with, in, and of Africa by Saleem Badat (Mellon Foundation Program Director) 2nd February 2018 This lecture was given by the program director of the Mellon Foundation, Dr. Saleem Badat. The purpose of the lecture was to initiate questions regarding social science research in Africa. It raised awareness towards how non-African scholars, universities. and institutions apply for frequent requests to conduct social science research in Africa. However, such research does not always address African concerns, and questions were raised about which research actually advances African goals and priorities.

10. The threefold meaning of love in the Third Divan of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566) by Christian Czygan 7th March 2018 The lecture identified three aspects of love that are clearly visible in the Third Divan: Divine love (that is the love for God and the Prophet Muhammed), mystical love, and worldly love, which included the love for a specific woman and the love for the natural landscapes of the Ottoman Empire. These poems revealed the Sultan’s political purposes, and they illustrated how he appealed to emotions in order to promote them.

11. Who Shot the Arab? by Doyle Avant (AUB-Faculty Mellon Fellow) 23rdApril 2018 The objective of this lecture was to demonstrate how the multiple interweaving narratives follow historical and literary characters moving fluidly across decades and warzones – each trying to discover who they are and each striving to reach some form of peace.

12. Literature, Culture, and the Political: A Conference on Elias Khoury by Bilal Orfali 23rd April 2018 An international colloquium was held on the legacy of the Lebanese novelist and intellectual Elias Khoury, who has been recognized as a leading figure in the Arab literary field. Scholars, novelists, journalists from Europe, North America and the Arab world convened to discuss various aspects of Khoury’s writings in fiction, prose, and criticism. The aim was to discuss ideas of: - Postwar Beirut and the collective memory debate in Khoury’s writings - Khoury’s literary commitment to the Palestinian question - Mulhaq al-Nahar and the question of the cultural press - Khoury’s plays and work with playwrights Rabih Mroue and Roger Assaf - Gender and sexuality in Khoury’s writings - Khoury’s political essays from the “Damascus Spring” to the ongoing war in Syria

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13. Portraiture: Beyond Resemblance by Hala Auji 25thApril 2018 This project endeavored to explore aspects of portraiture, in its various forms, beyond the question of representation in order to consider the socio-political implications of this art form across temporal and spatial boundaries, with a particular emphasis on interactions between European and Islamic societies. Respective art history classes were involved (in curating/setting up the exhibit) to further engage the students with the question of portraiture across regional/temporal boundaries.

14. Defending Sentimentalism by Dr. Hans D. Muller (AUB-Faculty Mellon Fellow) 4th May 2018 The objective of this lecture was to discuss the originating concerns of sentimentalism and investigate the resources available to respond to the contemporary objection of inherent bias. In 21st century discussions of ethics, it is widely taken for granted that this is problematic because moral judgments are supposed to be unbiased and beholden to the principle of fairness, whereas emotions prompt us to focus on the concerns of ourselves—and of those close to us—at the expense of everyone else. However, 18thcentury sentimentalists, such as Adam Smith and David Hume, proposed to consider the distress one feels when encountering misery in others, and our propensity to join in the joy of those around us, as counter- examples to the claims of ethical egoists.

15. Panel on Youssef Habshi al Ashqar by Bilal Orfali and Zeina Halabi 14th May 2018 This year marked the 25th anniversary of the death of the Lebanese novelist Youssef Habshi al-Ashqar (1929-1992). Al-Ashqar’s characters navigate the violence of the civil war in a liminal space between a village that no longer exists and a city that does not embrace them. Although his oeuvre channels the concerns that have animated Lebanese intellectuals in the past decades, al-Ashqar has yet to receive the attention he deserves in translation and literary criticism. This lecture sought to examine the legacy of Youssef Habshi al-Ashqar and to reflect on the significance of introducing al-Ashqar to the growing repertoire of modern Arabic literature in translation.

16. Taught Abroad: Syrian Urban Conflict and Reconstruction in Higher Education before Practice by Ahmad Sukkar (Post-Doctoral Mellon Fellow) 25th May 2018 The aim of this lecture was to open discussions about the objectives and challenges of teaching Syria reconstruction to students from differing educational backgrounds.

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Exhibitions

1. Hijaz Railway Exhibition: The Holy Rail 2nd May 2018 The exhibition displayed a rare collection of photographs and archival documents that were obtained from the Prime Ministry Archives of Turkey in Istanbul. This material documented the establishment of the Hijaz railway, which is considered the first major infrastructure project that the Ottomans were able to build and finance on their own. Moreover, the tremendous public contribution to this project on an international level made it the first example of an international Islamic project funded by the public.

2. Solo Exhibition by Larissa Sansour and Dar El Nimr May 2018 Larissa Sansour was born in East Jerusalem; Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York. Her work is interdisciplinary and uses film, photography, installation and sculpture. Solo exhibitions include the Bluecoat in Liverpool, New Art Exchange in Nottingham, Nikolaj Kunst in Copenhagen, Turku Art Museum in Finland, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Kulturhuset in Stockholm and DEPO in Istanbul. Sansour's work has featured in the biennials of Istanbul, Busan and Liverpool. She has exhibited at venues such as Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; LOOP, Seoul; Barbican, London; Al Hoash, Jerusalem; Queen Sofia Museum, Madrid; Centre for Photography, Sydney; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Townhouse, Cairo; Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah, UAE; Empty Quarter, Dubai; Galerie Nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris; Iniva, London; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou , China; Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; House of World Cultures, Berlin, and MOCA, Hiroshima.

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn Director

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Undergraduate BS in Chemistry

The Chemistry department had served approximately 5,500 students, including 214 chemistry majors, during the 2017-18 academic year. More lecture sections and laboratory sessions were offered in order to accommodate the increase in demand. The renovation of the teaching laboratories, i.e.; installation of extra cabinets and furnishing with glassware, are in progress. The fund-raising committee formed of Drs. Kaafarani and Karam and chaired by Dr. Saliba was initiated by the Chairman, Dr. Ghaddar, early Fall 2017-2018. The committee requested professional help to conduct SWOT analysis of the Department in order to formulate a rebranding and fund-raising strategy. In its meetings extending over six months, the committee was able to formulate a fund- raising strategy that was shared with the Department. The strategy consists of a three-year plan in which improvement at the infrastructure, student engagement, and rebranding were suggested. In the first year, the plan calls for the renovation of the graduate and undergraduate lounges, the preparation of a fundraising document to solicit funding for the renovation of Chem001, and the establishment of the Chemistry Graduate Scholarship Fund. All three initiatives are in the implementation phase. The Student Development committee, chaired by Dr. Karam, actively worked to enhance the chemistry student experience. The committee established an internship program. Internships were secured for chemistry students in different industries ranging from journalism, food production, education, and NGOs. The Organic Chemistry Club (OCC), in coordination with the Department of Chemistry and the Environmental Health, Safety & Risk Management (EHSR) department, organized the “ChemCarnival 2” event for the second year, during which students conducted fun chemistry experiments in front of viewers of all ages from within and outside AUB. Our undergraduate student Ms. Jana Kobeissi won the Philip Hitti Prize of 2018, and Mr. William Abi Antoun won the received the Makhlouf Haddadin award, based on their outstanding academic performance.

Graduate MS in Chemistry with emphasis on one of the four following disciplines: i. Analytical ii. Inorganic iii. Organic iv. Physical

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1. Prof. John Brennan (Chair of Chemistry at Rutgers University, USA) and Prof. Masaad Dmaha (Chair of Chemistry at McGill University, USA) reviewed our PhD proposal and had a 2-day onsite visit. 2. We are in the process of replying to the comments of the review and will be sending the proposal to the New York Higher Education Commission Office in summer 2018. 3. Prof. Sihyun Ham (Director, Center for NanoBio Molecular Network Research from Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea), gave a condensed computational graduate course in the Fall semester, and students showed great interest and enthusiasm upon taking this course. 4. Our former graduate student, Mrs. Hala Abou Ass, won the prestigious Carl A. Winkler Award at McGill University Canada. 5. Professor Pierre Karam was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of the 50 extraordinary scientists under the age of 40 for contributions to advancing the frontiers of science, engineering and technology. 6. Our graduate student, Mrs. Maya Amasha, received the Makhlouf Haddadin award, based on her outstanding academic performance.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Al-Ghoul, Mazen Professor Ph.D. Ghaddar, Tarek Professor Ph.D. (Chairperson) Haddadin, Makhlouf Professor Ph.D. Halaoui, Lara Professor Ph.D. Hasanayn, Faraj Professor Ph.D. Saliba, A. Najat Professor Ph.D. Sultan, Rabih Professor Ph.D. Bouhadir, Kamal Professor Ph.D. Kaafarani, Bilal Professor Ph.D. El Rassy, Hussam Associate Professor Ph.D. Ghauch, Antoine Associate Professor Ph.D. Patra, Digambara Associate Professor Ph.D. Hmadeh, Mohamad Assistant Professor Ph.D. Karam, Pierre Assistant Professor Ph.D. Mohammad Hmaded Assistant Professor Ph.D. Abi Rafi-Jaber, Randa Instructor M.A. Deeb, Hana Instructor M.A. Sadek-Hajj, Samar Instructor M.A.

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2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester

Ammar, Manal El Araj, Lamis

Spring Semester

Ammar, Manal El Araj, Lamis

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester

Abou Khalil, Zahraa Fahda, Mohammad Abou Ibrahim, Fayrouz Farhat, Rida Al Hakim, Suha Ghazali, Sara Al Natour, Rawan Haddad, Christina Amasha, Maya Hilal, Hamsa Assaad, Nisreen Hussein, Fatima Bechnak, Linda Jilakian, Meghry Chaar, Maiassa Mallah, Josephina Chapoutian /Jabotian, Nayri Omar, Boushra Charabati, Christa Rahbani, Noura El Asmar, Rime Sabeh, Ghewa El Bitar Nehme, Melissa Yassine, Sarah El Bitar Nehme, Vanessa Zakhia Al Douaihy, Rita El Jamal, Salah Eddin

Spring Semester

Abou Khalil, Zahraa Fahda, Mohammad Abou Ibrahim, Fayrouz Farhat, Rida Al Hakim, Suha Ghazali, Sara Al Natour, Rawan Haddad, Christina

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Amasha, Maya Hilal, Hamsa Assaad, Nisreen Jilakian, Meghry Bechnak, Linda Mallah, Josephina Chaar, Maiassa Omar, Boushra Chapoutian /Jabotian, Nayri Rahbani, Noura Charabati, Christa Sabeh, Ghewa El Asmar, Rime Yassine, Sarah El Bitar Nehme, Melissa Zakhia Al Douaihy, Rita El Bitar Nehme, Vanessa El Jamal, Salah Eddin

4. Non-Academic Staff

Abramian, Lara Lab Manager Ala'eddine, Hassan Technician Al-Ghawy, Simon Senior Technician Kanbar, Hani Technician Ruzz, Adnan Senior Technician Sawaya, Butros Senior Technician Shebbani, Lama Clerk Typist Sleiman-Azar, Issam Administrative Officer

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BS Oct. 2017 0 Feb. 2018 2 Jun. 2018 27

MS Oct. 2017 0 Feb. 2018 1 Jun. 2018 5

2. Number of Majors

Fall Spring Graduates 28 27 Seniors 27 46 Juniors 60 60

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Sophomores 127 96

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 27 24 51 211-299 82 579 720 1381 200-210 504 1446 1385 3335 100-199 47 492 243 782 Total 633 2544 2372 5549

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above -- 9 6 15 211-299 6 30 34 70 200-210 26 21 22 69 100-199 6 6 8 20 Total 38 66 70 174

D. RESEARCH

Al-Ghoul, Mazen

1. Room-Temperature Synthesis of Bi- and Tri-Metallic MOF-199 and ZIF-8 Crystals Using the Reaction-Diffusion Framework, URB, July 1, 2016-July 2018 (in progress) 2. Novel Synthesis of Nano- and Micro-Structures of Lanthanum Hydroxide with Applications, LNCSR, Nov. 2016-Nov. 217 (in progress). 3. Synthesis, Characterization, and Control of Self-Assembled Lanthanum Hydroxide Particles within the Reaction-Diffusion Framework with Applications in Water Treatment: Experiment & Theory, July 2015-July 2017 (in progress).

Bouhadir, Kamal

1. Synthesis and evaluation of triazine-substituted nucleobase derivatives as potential antidiabetic agents. Funded by the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (LNCSR).

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2. Synthesis & cyclopolymerization of adenine-based hydrazine & acylhydrazide derivatives. Funded by the University Research Board at the American University of Beirut. 3. Preparation of nucleobase-substituted naphthalene-1, 4, 5, 8-Tetracarboxylic Acid Diimides. Funded by Kamal A. Shair CRSL Research Fund at the American University of Beirut.

El-Rassy, Houssam

1. “Bi- and tri-metallic oxide aerogels for removal of azo-dyes from aqueous media and simulated wastewater”. Supported by AUB-URB. Research in progress. 2. “Metal-doped alumina aerogels for the adsorption of nitrate, phosphate, and fluoride ions in aqueous media”. Supported by AUB K. Shair CRSL. Research in progress. 3. “Immobilized polyoxometalates onto silica aerogels for heterogeneous catalysis”. Research in progress (with R. Al-Oweini) 4. “Dry Reforming of Biogas for Cleaner Gas Production Using Heterogeneous Catalysis”. Research in progress (with M. Ahmad and J. Zeaiter). Supported by LNCSR. 5. “Alumina and Nickel-Alumina Aerogels for Adsorption of Toxic Effluents”. Research being completed and paper under preparation. 6. “CaO-Al2O3 aerogels for biodiesel production”. Research being completed and paper under preparation (with M. Ahmad). 7. “Molecularly-Imprinted Silica Aerogels for Molecular Recognition in Aqueous Media”. Supported by AUB K. Shair CRSL. Research being completed and paper under preparation (with D. Patra and A. Ghanem). 8. “Lanthanum hydroxide nanostructures for adsorption of dyes and toxic metals from wastewater”. Research being completed and papers under preparation (with M. Al-Ghoul). 9. “Amino-Modified Metal Oxide Aerogels for Toxic Metal Adsorption from Wastewater”. Supported by AUB-URB. Research being completed and paper under preparation. 10. “Polyoxometalates for Biodiesel Production”. Supported by Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy & Natural Resources. Research being completed and paper under preparation. 11. “Aerogel-Polyoxometalates Composites for Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysis”. Supported by Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy & Natural Resources. Research being completed and paper under preparation. 12. “Cobalt and cobalt-nickel Ferrite Aerogels as Potential Adsorbents for Azo-Dyes from Wastewater”. Supported by AUB-URB. Research being completed and paper under preparation.

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Ghaddar, Tarek

1. “Development of a Modular Integrated Device for Solar Energy Conversion” CNR-Italy-CNRS-Lebanon Mobility grant. Research is in progress. 2. “A New Strategy for Attaining High Photo-voltages in Aqueous Based Dye- Sensitized Solar Cells” Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research. Research is in progress. 3. “New Donor-Acceptor-pi-Acceptor Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells” University research Board. Research is in progress. 4. “Novel Donor-Acceptor-pi Dyes with Pyridinium Malonate Ester Anchoring Group for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells” Kamal Shair Research Fund. Research is in progress.

Ghauch, Antoine

1. “Photo-oxidation of theophylline using commercial UV lamps in combination with Persulfate in water effluents” 1-year project supported by KAS/CRSL (2016-2017). 2. “Investigation into the synergistic effect of different persulfate activation methods toward a sustainable treatment of organic contaminants in water effluents” supported by URB/OGC (2016-2017), 3-year project. 3. “Persulfate photolysis toward the generation of sulfate radicals for the treatment of organic residual contaminants in water and industrial effluents”. Two year project supported by the LNCSR (2016-2018), 2-year project. 4. “PEER (USAID/NAS): Enhancing Water Quality Monitoring and Improving Water Disinfection Processes in Lebanon (2016-2020), 3-year project.

Haddadin, Makhlouf

1. Makhluf J. Haddadin and Nayri Jabutian, Synthesis of new heterocyclic compounds as anticancer agents

Hasanayn, Faraj

1. Structure-Activity Study of a New Bifunctional Reaction between Transition Metal Nitrides Complexes and Carboxylic Acids. Supported by LNCSR

Hmadeh, Mohamad

1. Metal-organic framework catalysts for esterification reactions, URB 2. Development of new hetero-nanostructured photocatalysts for CO2 reduction, CRSL grant. 3. Design and synthesis of new Metal Organic frameworks for water purification, MASRI grant.

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4. Magnetic metal organic frameworks for environmental applications, CNRS

Kaafarani, Bilal

1. C. A. Charabati, A. Merhi, E. O. Shehayeb and B. R. Kaafarani, “Synthesis and Investigation of Novel Isoindigo Materials for Electronic Applications”. Research in progress. Supported by URB and CNRS. 2. C. A. Charabati, A. Merhi, W. Jo and B. R. Kaafarani,“Synthesis of Novel Discotic Liquid Crystals Materials”. Research in progress. Supported by Kamal A. Shair CRSL Research Fund.

Karam, Pierre

1. Tailoring Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Microenvironment for Enhanced Photostability, Biocomptability and Functionality, CNRS. 2. Improving the Photophysical Properties of Nanohybrid Fluorescent Particles Using Antioxidants and Exploring Their Cytotoxic Effects on Human Cells, URB

Patra, Digambara

1. Nanoparticle Reinforced Epoxy Composite with Enhanced Mechanical and Thermal Properties, Collaborative Research Stimulus Grant (AUB). 2. One pot green synthesis of novel metal nanoparticles using curcumin for biomedical applications, Lebanese National Council of Scientific Research. 3. Curcumin Mediated Polymer Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Biomedical Application, University Research Board (AUB). 4. Curcumin Mediated Solid State Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles for Catalytic Reduction Reaction, K. Shair-CRSL endowed research fund (AUB) 5. Quick assessment of petroleum products for water treatment and potential oil exploration, Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources Grant (AUB).

Saliba, Najat A.

Atmospheric Chemistry Projects 1. Establishing a correlation between air pollution biomarkers and coronary artery index. Research project in progress and in collaboration with Drs. Issam Lakkis, Alan Shihadeh, Nathalie Zgheib-Khoueiry, and Hussain Ismaeel. Salwa Hajir, a graduate student, is responsible for developing the analytical method to measure biomarkers in urine.

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2. “Beirut Pollution and Energy dynamic Model (Beirut-PoEM): Urban Heat Island effect and air pollution in a neighborhood in Beirut city. Research project in progress and in collaboration with Drs. Issam Lakkis, Alan Shihadeh, Aram Yeretzian, and Mona Fawaz. Project supported by the Collaborative Research Stimulus Grants, AUB. Ali Mohkaddar and Marya El Makki both undergraduate students are working on this project. 3. “Measurement of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in a background site in Beirut”. Fatima Hussein is the graduate student who is responsible for this project. Project supported by the University Research Board (URB).

Nicotine Delivery System Projects 1. “Identifying different toxicants in electronic cigarette” Project in collaboration with Dr. Alan Shihadeh (AUB). Ahmad Hellany; a postdoctoral visitor, and Rachel Hajj; a research assistant are the scientists responsible for this project. Project supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH)-USA and the US- Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 2. “Assessing the oxidative potential of the vapors of electronic cigarette” Project in collaboration with Dr. Alan Shihadeh (AUB). Ahmad Hellany, a postdoctoral visitor, and Christina Haddad, a graduate student, are the scientists responsible for this project. Project supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH)- USA and the US-Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 3. “Developing quick and easy method to determine nicotine in Saliva” Project in collaboration with Dr. Alan Shihadeh and Dr. Walid Saad (AUB). Maiassa Chaar, a graduate student who is responsible for this project. Project supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH)-USA and the US-Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The AUB Nature Conservation Center (AUB-NCC) projects 1. “Development of novel synthetic and nanoparticle derivatives of the anti-cancer drug Salograviolide A”. Extraction, isolation, structure identification, synthesis and formulation of biological activity studies is a work in progress. Project supported by AUB-NCC and HIKMA Pharmaceuticals. Lamis Al-Aaraj is the research assistant working on the project. 2. “University Support for Participatory Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan and Practices (USforISWM)” is in collaboration with Drs. Salah Zein El Din (FM), Majdi Abou Najm (FEA), Mahmoud El Hindi (FEA), Nadine Yehya (OSB), and Salma Talhouk (FAFS), USAID RFA 605100.06.RFA2.RFA, 2017- 2018

Sultan, Rabih

1. Random Spacing Between Metal Tree Electrodeposits in Linear DLA Arrays (With Jaad Tannous and Lina Anouti). Funded by FAS CRSL. Entropy, in preparation for submission.

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2. Revisited Chaos in a Diffusion-Precipitation-Redissolution Liesegang System (with Mustafa Saad and Hussein Safieddine). Funded by URB. Recommended for publication in J. Phys. Chem. A (is being revised). 3. Liesegang banding in a torus with diffusion from two opposite ends (With Huria Ibrahim and Dalia Ezzeddine). RA supported by URB. Research completed and paper being written. 4. Mechanism of Revert Spacing in PbCrO4 Liesegang patterns II (with Dalia Ezzeddine and Houssam El-Rassy). Funded by FAS CRSL grant. Research completed and paper being written. 5. Simulation of Geochemical Banding II: Theoretical modeling and simulation of banding and characterization of fractal contour structure in acidization- precipitation geochemical systems (with Mazen Al-Ghoul). In progress. 6. Patterned carbonation of Ca (OH)2 in gelled media, with application in-situ to portlandite rocks in lime mortars (with Amanda Diab El-Harakeh). Funded by URB. In progress. 7. Chaotic patterns in 2D periodic precipitation systems in a Constantly Fed Unstirred Reactor (CFUR) (with Leen Kalash and Dalia Ezzeddine). Funded by URB. In progress. 8. Effect of nano-particles on periodic precipitation [with Nour Younis, Sara Termos, Tarek Ghaddar (AUB) and Layla Badr (NDU)]. RA supported by URB. In Progress. 9. Effect of an electric field in a redox metal electrodeposit system. Funded by FAS CRSL grant. Initial exploratory stage.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Al-Ghoul, Mazen

1. Member, Masri Institute for Energy Studies Steering Committee 2. Member, Departmental Graduate Committee

Bouhadir, Kamal

1. Member, Editorial Board, Archives of Biological and Biomedical Research, an International Journal 2. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Nanomaterials and Chemistry 3. Member, Phi Lambda Upsilon (Honorary Chemical Society) 4. Member, thesis committee, Hamsa Hilal, Chemistry Department, AUB 5. Member, thesis committee, Nayri Chapoutian, Chemistry Department, AUB 6. Member, dissertation committee, Layal Harisse, Chemistry Department, Lebanese University 7. Chair, Chemistry Graduate Committee 8. Member, Advisory Committee of the Centre for Teaching & Learning (CTL)

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El-Rassy, Houssam

1. Member, University Policies and Procedures Review Committee. 2. Chairperson, FAS Undergraduate Academic Affairs committee. 3. Chairperson, Chemistry equipment committee. 4. Member, Chemistry curriculum committee. 5. Member, Chemistry PhD committee. 6. Academic advisor, Chemistry undergraduate students. 7. MS thesis advisor of Ms. Maya Chaaban (Chemistry). 8. MS thesis co-advisor of Ms. Fatima Kesserwan (Mechanical Engineering) 9. PhD thesis co-advisor of Ms. Fatima Yahya (Beirut Arab University) 10. PhD thesis co-advisor of Ms. Loubna Youssef (Beirut Arab University) 11. Member of the PhD thesis committee of: i. Mr. Bilal El-Assaad (Université Lyon I and Lebanese University) ii. Ms. Chantal Karam (Université de Montpellier and Lebanese University) iii. Ms. Diaa Mereib (Université de Bordeaux and Lebanese University) 12. Member of the MS thesis committees of: i. Ms. Maya Chaaban (Chemistry) ii. Ms. Fatima Hussein (Chemistry) iii. Ms. Josephina Mallah (Chemistry) iv. Ms. Fatima Kesserwan (Mechanical Engineering) 13. Member of the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports (Nature publishing Group). 14. Reviewer for Silicon (2 manuscripts) 15. Reviewer for Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (2 manuscripts) 16. Reviewer for Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2 manuscripts) 17. Reviewer for Chemistry Africa (1 manuscript) 18. Member of the Review panel for Farouk Jabre proposals 19. Reviewer for CEDRE research proposals 20. Research work was presented in the EUPOC 2018, May 20th – 24th 2018, Como, Italy. (Oral Presentation) 21. Research work presented in the 1st National Workshop on Innovative Materials and Applications - AUB, May 4th-5th 2018, Beirut, Lebanon. (Oral Presentation) 22. Research work presented at the University of Limerick, Ireland on May 30th 2018

Ghaddar, Tarek

1. Chairperson, Chemistry Department 2. Chair, Chemistry PhD committee

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3. Member, Nature Conservation Center, (NCC) 4. Member, Pro-Green Tempus team (FEA) 5. Member, Kamal Shair Research Fund committee (FAS) 6. Member, CRSL Steering Committee 7. Member, Undergraduate research initiative committee (FAS) 8. Member of the thesis committee of Mr. Hamsa Hilal (Chemistry) 9. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Maya Amasha (Chemistry) 10. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Josephina Mallah (Chemistry) 11. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Melissa Nehme (Chemistry) 12. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Vanessa Nehme (Chemistry) 13. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Meghry Jilikian (Chemistry) 14. Member of the Presidential Task Force Committee on the new master plan

Ghauch, Antoine

Talks 1. Ghauch A., Baalbaki A., Zeineddine N., Jaber S, Al Hakim S., Rapid degradation of theophylline drug in pharmaceutical effluents using UV/PS in an advanced oxidation persulfate system. 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Analytical Chemistry Session, August 20-24, 2017, Washington DC, USA. 2. Ghauch A., Amasha, M., Baalbaki, A., El Asmar, R., Tantawi, O., Degradation of antibiotics in UV-persulfate activated systems: Application to Chloramphenicol. 253th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Chemistry & Application of Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Detoxification, Treatment & Reuse, April 2-6, 2017, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Posters 1. Ghauch A., Baalbaki, A., Amasha, M., Al Hakim, S., Nehme, Y., El Asmar, R., Degradation of a toxic molecule in industrial effluents using UV/PS activated systems: Application to o-Toluidine. 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Chemistry & Application of Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Detoxification, Treatment & Reuse, April 2-6, 2017, San Francisco, CA, USA. 2. Ghauch A., Baalbaki A., Jaber S., Zeineddine N., Amasha M., Innovative and Rapid Method for the Quantification of Persulfate in Environmental Samples Using Customized HPLC System, 254th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Analytical Chemistry Session, August 20-24, 2017, Washington DC, USA.

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Haddadin, Makhlouf

1. Member of the Kuwait Prizes Committee (Travelled to Kuwait for this purpose) 2. Senior Advisor to the AUB President 3. Member of the Board of Trustees of Balamand University, Chair of the Academic Committee, and member of the Executive Committee of the Balamand Board of Trustees 4. Seminar Coordinator of the Chemistry Department 5. Member of the Advisory Board of Archive in Organic Chemistry (Declined a competing of scholars for naming a volume in my honor in 2020 ) 6. Spent July–August 2017 doing research at the Chemistry Department, upon the invitation of Distinguished Professor MARKJ J. Kurth at the University of California at Davis, CA, USA

Hasanayn, Faraj

1. Department Graduate Admission and Curriculum Committees. 2. Faculty Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Hmadeh, Mohamad

1. Oral presentation at the Materials congress 2017, Rome, Italy, June 12-14 2. Synthesis and structural Evolution of MOFs and ZIFs using Reaction Diffusion Process 3. Oral presentation at the First Lebanese Workshop on Innovative Materials and Applications, AUB, May 2018, Synthesis, structural evolution and applications of Metal organic framework and zeolitic imidazolate frameworks 4. Three poster presentations of my graduate students (Rita Douaihy, Fayrouz Abou Ibrahim, Mahmoud Elcheikh Mahmoud) at the First Lebanese Workshop on Innovative Materials and Applications, AUB, May 2018 5. Member of the equipment committee 6. Member of the Program learning outcome committee 7. Member of the student development committee 8. Supervision of undergraduate (2 students) and graduate students (6 students) at the chemistry department 9. Co-supervision of a PhD student at the mechanical engineering department. 10. Committee member of 2 master thesis at the chemistry department and one master thesis at the chemical engineering department

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Kaafarani, Bilal

1. Member, American Chemical Society 2. Member, Royal Society of Chemistry 3. Arkivoc Editorial Board of Referees, May 2009-preseent 4. FAS Research Committee, Chair, 2017-2018 5. Medical Admission Committee, member, 2017-2018 6. Financial Aid Committee, member, 2017-2018 7. MasterCard Foundation (MCF) Committee, member, 2017-2018 8. Committee on Teaching Effectiveness, member, 2017-2018 9. Manuscript reviewer: ACS Nano, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Journal of Photonics for Energy, and Lebanese Science Journal. 10. Grant Reviewer: Lebanese National Council for Research (CNRS) and K. Shair Central Research Science Laboratory (CRSL) of AUB 11. Organized the 2018 AUB Mentoring Talk on Feb 5, 2018 (https://youtu.be/rGE9r8o3jxk; https://youtu.be/jwuazU7_3W0; www.aub.edu.lb/mentoringtalks). 12. Organized the 2018 AUB ChemCarnival on April 20, 2018 (https://youtu.be/f83Mr4W1C4Y; https://youtu.be/OlEfFZo9wto; www.aub.edu.lb/chemcarnival). 13. Organized four workshops on research in the medical field for undergraduate students. 169 students from 18 majors across AUB (biology, business, chemical engineering, chemistry, economics, industrial engineering, mathematics, medical audiology sciences, medical imaging, medical lab, nursing, nutrition & dietetics, petroleum studies, philosophy, political sciences & public administration, physics, psychology, sociology) attended these workshops: a. “Ethical Considerations in Clinical Research”, Feb 1, 2018. YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/lxFE9k5khus. b. “Effective Literature Search”, Feb 8, 2018. YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/tH7GzlSNHvY. c. “Endnote: A Reference Manager”, Feb 15, 2018. YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/oA0akIUTwTg. “Basics of Statistics in Medicine”, Feb 22, 2018. YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/PR4-Zm4_Gfg.

Karam, Pierre

1. Chemistry Fund Raising Committee 2. Chair of the Chemistry Student Development Committee 3. Chair of the safety Chemistry Committee 4. Supervision of seven undergraduate students

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Patra, Digambara

1. Member, University Research Board, AUB 2. Member, General Education Board, AUB 3. Member, Member of Ad hoc Committee for Commencement Speaker and Awards, FAS 4. Bookstore Representative, Department of Chemistry 5. Member, Student Development Committee 6. Member, PhD Committee, Department of Chemistry

Saliba, Najat

Press Coverage 1. Press coverage of the air pollution research outcomes by local and international reporters 2. Press coverage of the electronic cigarette research work by international reporters 3. Interviews related to activities related to the Nature Conservation Center, local air pollution research findings and solid waste management have been covered by all local and international news media

Conferences Organized Conferences

1. IBDAA2018, April 2018. For the first time in the history of Lebanon, an undergraduate poster forum organized by AUB has gone nationwide. It included students from seven different local universities. 2. “Air pollution from generators and vehicles | HOW SEVERE AND WHAT CAN BE DONE?” - Collaborative for the Study of Inhaled and Atmospheric Aerosols (CARS) in coordination with UN Environment Program (UNEP); March 2018. Presented in Conferences

1. “Challenging Myths and the Waterpipe Lecture”, AUB, SMEC series, May 2018. 2. “The catalytic role of the metallic coils of electronic cigarettes in aldehyde formation”, SRNT 2018, Baltimore, February 2018. 3. “Air pollution in Beirut”, Sustainable Design Week, AUB, October 2017. 4. “Round Table Discussion on Exposing the factors/causes behind the low representation of female STEM faculty; challenges, and suggested solutions”,

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AUB, October 2017. 5. “What is the mixing effect of dust on the local air pollution and the ecosystem?” International Workshop on Middle East Dust Sources and Their Impacts, Turkey, October 2017. 6. “Transport and Air Pollution in Beirut”, IPT (Issa Petrol Trade)-Lebanon, September 2017. 7. “Short Lived Climate Pollutants in Beirut; A Case Study of a Developing Country”, Amman, May 2017.

Committees and Memberships

1. Director of the AUB Nature Conservation Center; AUB NCC. 2. Co-Chair of Working Group VI of the Middle State Committee of Higher Education Self Study Design (MSCHE) steering committee. 3. Member of the Advisory board at the Faculty of Arts and Science-AUB. 4. Founder and member of The Collaborative for the Study of Inhaled and Atmospheric Aerosols (CARS) at AUB. 5. Co-Chair of the committee for the development of the Integrative Health Master Program. 6. Member of the Vascular Medicine Program at AUB. 7. Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 8. Member of the IBDAA (International Biodiversity Day at AUB) poster forum committee 9. Member, American Chemical Society (ACS) 10. Chair of the thesis committee of Fatima Hussein, MS-Chemistry, AUB 11. Chair of the thesis committee of Maiassa Chaar, MS-Chemistry, AUB 12. Chair of the thesis committee of Christina Haddad, MS-Chemistry, AUB

Editor and Expert meetings

1. Editor for PEER J Journal 2. Associate Editor, Lebanese Science Journal 3. Member of the Search Committee for the Chief Editor of an American Chemical Society Journal (name to be revealed when process is completed) 4. WHO: Expert Consultation for Finalization a Regional Plan of Action for the Implementation of the WHO Global Roadmap for Addressing Air Quality and Health, Amman, Jordan, May 25-26, 2017. Also served as a Chair of a session on Day-2.WHO expert panel: Revision of the Air Quality Guidelines 5. UNEP: Regional Expert Meeting for the Middle East and North Africa on Climate and Air Pollution, Amman, Jordan, May 22-24, 2017. Invited Speaker 6. WHO: Working Group Meeting of the WHO Tobacco Laboratory Network on waterpipe tobacco Sigmaringen, Germany, 4-5 May 2017; presented two lectures on the need and applicability of developing Standard Operating Procedures for testing and regulating water pipe tobacco and smoke

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7. WHO: Third Meeting of the Global Platform on Air Quality at the Health Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment Madrid, Spain, 7- 9 March 2017. Also served as a rapporteur in the low-cost monitoring (WG-3) in one of the working group meetings in Day-2

Community Involvement and Services

1. Director of the AUB Nature Conservation Center; AUB-NCC 2. Member of the Solid Waste Management Coalition 3. Member and founder of the International Biodiversity Day at AUB (IBDAA) celebration at AUB.

Sultan, Rabih

1. Graduate Advisor 2. Acting Chair, Department of Economics 3. Chair, Chemistry Strategic Planning Committee 4. Acting Chair of Chemistry (occasionally) 5. Member of the thesis committees of Layal Slika, Linda Beshnak and Rita Zakhia Al-Douaihy 6. Coordinated the annual short presentations session by faculty members for the new graduate students, and the Chem. 361 seminar presentations. 7. Contributed to the recruitment task for finding a new Chair for the Economics Department 8. Reviewer for EJP (twice); Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 9. Attended the Conference: “Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry [Section: Entropy in action (applications)]”, Barcelona, Spain, May 14-16, 2018; presented a poster entitled: Random Spacing Between Metal Tree Electrodeposits in Linear DLA Arrays

F. PUBLICATIONS

Al-Ghoul, Mazen

1. B. Abu Tarboush, A. Chouman, A. Jonderian, M. Ahmad, M. Hmadeh and M. Al-Ghoul, “Metal Organic Framework-74 for Ultra-Trace Arsenic Removal from Water: Experimental and Density Functional Theory Studies”, ACS Applied Nano Materials (in press). 2. D. Saliba, M. Ammar, M. Rammal, M. Al-Ghoul and M. Hmadeh, “Crystal Growth of ZIF-8, ZIF-67 and their Mixed Metal Derivatives”, JACS 140, 1812- 1823 (2018).

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3. R. Issa, M. Hmadeh and M. Al-Ghoul, “Control of Particle Size and Morphology of MOF-199 Crystals via a Reaction-Diffusion Framework”, Defects and Diffusion Forum, 380, 39-47 (2017). 4. M. Al-Ghoul, R. Issa and M. Hmadeh, “Synthesis, size and structural evolution of metal–organic framework-199 via a reaction–diffusion process at room temperature”, CrystEngComm, 19, 608-612 (2017).

Bouhadir, Kamal

1. Hijazi*, M. A.; Aboul-Elab, M.; Bouhadir, K.; Fatfat, M.; Gali-Muhtasib, H.; Ellakany, A. Alkaloids of Papaver libanoticum and their Cytotoxic Activity. Rec. Nat. Prod. 2018, in press. 2. Elaridi, J.; Ezzeddine, A.; Abramian, L.; Koubeissi, A.; VladimirovN. and Bouhadir, K. H.*Synthesis and polymerization of 1-(2-diallylaminoethyl) pyrimidines. Des. Monomers Polym. 2018, 21(1), 64-74. 3. Bouhadir,K. H.; Atallah, H.; Gali-Muhtaseb, H.; Fatfat, M.; Elaridi, J.*Synthesis and biological assessment of novel acylhydrazone derivatives of 2-methyl-1,4- naphthoquinone.Org. Commun. 2017, 10(4), 259-272.

El-Rassy, Houssam

1. Huria Ibrahim, Houssam El-Rassy, Rabih Sultan. Liesegang bands versus random crystallites in Ag2Cr2O7 – Single and mixed gelled media. Chemical Physics Letters, 2018, 693, 198-201. 2. Rita Jalkh, Houssam El-Rassy, Ghassan R. Chehab, Mohamad G. Abiad. Assessment of the Physico-Chemical Properties of Waste Cooking Oil and Spent Coffee Grounds Oil for Potential Use as Asphalt Binder Rejuvenators. Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-017- 9984-z

Ghaddar, Tarek

1. K Jaafar, J Haidar, S Kuraydiyyah, T Ghaddar, K Knio, B Ismail, I Toufeili “Physicochemical, melissopalynological and antioxidant properties of artisanal honeys from Lebanon” Journal of food science and technology 54 (8), 2296-2305, 2017. 2. H Hilal, M El Bitar Nehme, T Ghaddar “Large Enhancement of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency by co-Sensitizing Pyridyl-with Carboxylic Acid-based Dyes” ACS Applied Energy Materials, (2018) In Press.

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Ghauch, Antoine

1. Malaeb, L., Ayoub, G.M., Al-Hindi, M., Dahdah, L., Baalbaki, A., Ghauch, A. (2017) A biological, chemical and pharmaceutical analysis of distillate quality from solar stills, Energy Procedia 119, 723-732. 2. Ghauch, A., Baalbaki, A, Amasha, M, El Asmar R., Tantawi O (2017) Contribution of persulfate in UV-254 nm activated systems for complete degradation of chloramphenicol antibiotic in water, Chem. Eng. J. 317, 1012- 1025. 3. Baalbaki, A., Ayoub, G.M., Al-Hindi, M., Ghauch, A. (2017) the fate of selected pharmaceuticals in solar stills: Transfer, thermal degradation or photolysis? Sci. Total Environ. 574, 583-593. 4. Ghauch, A. (2017) Editorial: The importance of advanced oxidation processes in degrading persistent pollutants, Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies 20 (1).

Haddadin, Makhlouf

1. Zhu, Jie S.; Duong, Matthew R.; Teuthorn, Andrew P.; Lu, Julia Y.; Son, Jung- Ho; Haddadin, Makhluf J.; Kurth, Mark J. Organic Letters (2018), 20(5), 1308- 1311PosterJabutian, Nayri; and Makhluf J. Haddadin. Biochemical Day in the Faculty of Medicine and AUBMC, April 26, 2018.

Hmadeh, Mohamad

1. Abdinoor A Jelle, Kulbir K Ghuman, Paul G O'Brien, Mohamad Hmadeh, Chandra Veer Singh, Charles A Mims, Geoffrey A Ozin. Highly Efficient Ambient Temperature CO2 Photomethanation Catalyzed by Nanostructured RuO2 on Silicon Photonic Crystal Support Advanced Energy Materials, 2018, 8 (9), 1870041. (COVER PAGE) 2. Daniel Saliba, Manal Ammar, Moustafa Rammal, Mazen Al-Ghoul, MohamadHmadeh* Crystal Growth of ZIF-8, ZIF-67, and Their Mixed-Metal Derivatives J.Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (5), 1812–1823 3. Hala Atallah, Mahmoud ELcheikh Mahmoud, Abdinoor Jelle, Alan Lough, Mohamad Hmadeh*A highly stable indium-based metal organic framework for efficient arsenic removal from water Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 799-806. 4. Mazen Al-Ghoul, Razan Issa, Mohamad Hmadeh* Control of Particle Size and Morphology of MOF-199 Crystals via a Reaction-Diffusion Framework. Defect and Diffusion Forum 2017, 380, 39-47.

Hasanayn, Faraj

1. Nicholas Lease, Elizabeth M Pelczar, Tian Zhou, Santanu Malakar, Thomas J Emge, Faraj Hasanayn, Karsten Krogh-Jespersen, and Alan S Goldman*. PNP-

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Pincer Complexes of Osmium: Comparison with Isoelectronic (PCP) Ir and (PNP) Ir+ Units Organometallics 2018, 37, 314. 2. Veeranna Yempally, Salvador Moncho, Faraj Hasanayn, Wai Yip Fan, Edward N Brothers, Ashfaq A Bengali* Ancillary Ligand Effects upon the Photochemistry – – of Mn(bpy)(CO)3X Complexes (X= Br , PhCC ). Inorganic Chemistry 2017, 56, 11244.

Kaafarani, Bilal

1. E. Z. Fratczak, T. Makowski, R. M. Moustafa, T. H. El-Assaad, M. E. Moneta, P.* Uznanski,B. R. Kaafarani*, “Spectroscopic Characterization of Structural Properties of Quinoxalinophenanthrophenazines Thin Films” Journal of Materials Chemistry C2018, 6, 781-789. 2. B. Wex, B. R. Kaafarani*, “Perspective on Carbazole-Based Organic Compounds as Emitters and Hosts in TADF Applications”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C2017, 5, 8622-8653. Featured on the inner cover of the issue

Karam, Pierre

1. T Abou Matar, P Karam; The Role of Hydrophobicity in the Cellular Uptake of Negatively Charged Macromolecules Macromolecular bioscience 18 (2), 1700309 2. S Abou Shaheen, HH Fakih, JM Kobeissi, P Karam Amplified Detection of a Unique Genomic Viral Marker Using Fluorescently Labelled Liposomes; Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1701527. 3. HH Fakih, MM Itani, P Karam; Gold nanoparticles-coated polystyrene beads for the multiplex detection of viral DNA Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 250, 446-452 4. B Morata, TA Matar, A Sakaya, H Atallah, Z Kara Ali, P Karam, M. Hmade; Postmetalated Zirconium Metal Organic Frameworks as a Highly Potent Bactericide. Inorganic chemistry 56 (8), 4739-4744 5. GH Darwish, HH Fakih, P Karam Temperature mapping in hydrogel matrices using unmodified digital camera The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121 (5), 1033-1040

Patra, Digambara

1. Riham El Kurdi, Digambara Patra*, Tuning Surface of Au Nanoparticles by Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(propylene glycol)-block-poly(ethylene glycol): An Enzyme Free and Label Free Sugar Sensing in Serum Samples using Resonance Rayleigh Scattering Spectroscopy, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 9616 – 9629 (2018)

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2. Riham El Kurdi, Digambara Patra*, Gold nanoparticles functionalized with Pluronic are viable optical probes for the determination of uric acid, Microchimica Acta, 185 (3), 185:1-8 (2018) 3. Zeinab Moussa, Mazhar Chebl, and Digambara Patra*, Fluorescence of tautomeric forms of curcumin in different pH and biosurfactant rhamnolipids systems: Application towards on-off ratiometric fluorescence temperature sensing, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 173, 307-317 (2017) 3. Digambara Patra*, reducing energy cost for wastewater treatment in the Middle East: a physio-chemical prospective, in Water. Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East, The Sustainability Triangle, Adnan Badran Chief Editor, Sohail Murad, Elias Baydoun, Nuhad Daghir Editors, Publisher: Springer, Switzerland, 223-244 (2017) 4. Mazhar Chebl, Zeinab Moussa, Markus Peurla, Digambara Patra*, Polyelectrolyte mediated nano hybrid particle as a nano-sensor with outstandingly amplified specificity and sensitivity for enzyme free estimation of cholesterol, Talanta, 169, 104-114 (2017) 5. Riham El Kurdi, Digambara Patra*, Amplification of resonance Rayleigh scattering of gold nanoparticles by tweaking into nanowires: Bio-sensing of a- tocopherol by enhanced resonance Rayleigh scattering of curcumin capped gold nanowires through non-covalent interaction, Talanta, 168, 82 – 90 (2017) 6. Riham El Kurdi, Digambara Patra*, Role of OH- in the formation of highly selective gold nanowires at extreme pH: Multi-fold enhancement in rate of catalytic reduction reaction by gold nanowires, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19, 5077 – 5090 (2017) 7. Zeinab Moussa, Mazhar Chebl, and Digambara Patra*, Interaction of curcumin with one, 2-dioctadecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine liposomes: Intercalation of rhamnolipids enhances membrane fluidity, permeability and stability of drug molecule, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 149, 30-37 (2017)

Saliba, Najat

1. M. Jawad, T. Eissenberg, R. Salman, E. Soule, E., K. Alzoubi, O. Khabour, N. Karaoghlanian, R. Baalbaki, R. El Hage, NA Saliba, & A. Shihadeh, “Toxicant inhalation among singleton waterpipe tobacco users in natural settings”, Tobacco Control, 2018, doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-054230 2. R. Baalbaki, J. Nassar, S. Salloum, A. Shihadeh, I. Lakkis and N. A. Saliba “Comparison of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon levels in three urban areas in Lebanon, Atmospheric Environment, 2018, 179, 260-267 3. R. El-Hage, A. El-Hellani, R. Salman, S. Talih, A. Shihadeh, and N. A Saliba “Fate of pyrazines in the flavored liquids of e-cigarettes”, Aerosol Science and Technology, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2018.1433293, 52 (4), 377-384 4. Soha Talih, Rola Salman, Nareg Karaoghlanian, Ahmad El-Hellani, Najat Aoun Saliba, Thomas Eissenberg, Alan Shihadeh, “Juice monsters”: sub-ohm vaping and toxic volatile aldehyde emissions, Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2017, 30

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(10), 1791-1793, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.7b00212 5. A. Shaito, J. Saliba, A. Husari, M. El-Harakeh, H. Chhouri, Y. Hashem, A. Shihadeh, A. & M. El-Sabban, “Electronic cigarette smoke impairs normal mesenchymal stem cell differentiation” Scientific Reports, 2017, 7(1), 14281. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14634-z 6. A. El Hellani, R. El-Hage, R. Salman, S. Talih, A. Shihadeh, N. A Saliba, “Carboxylate counter anions in electronic cigarette liquids: Influence on nicotine emissions” Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2017, 30 (8), 1577–1581. 7. M. Baassiri, S. Talih, R. Salman, N. Karaoghlanian, R. Saleh, R. El Hage, N. A Saliba, A. Shihadeh “Clouds and “throat hit”: Effects of liquid composition on nicotine emissions and physical characteristics of electronic cigarette aerosols”, Aerosol Science and Technology, 2017, 51 (11), 1231-1239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2017.1341040 8. E. Abou-Fakhr Hammad, M. Akkary, N. A Saliba, M. Farran, S. Talhouk Bioactivity of Indigenous Medicinal Plants against the Two-Spotted Spider Mite, Tetranychus urticae, Journal of Agricultural Science, 2017, 9, 7, 123. 9. S. F Schick, B. C Blount, P. Jacob, N. A Saliba, J. T Bernert, A. El Hellani, P. Jatlow, R S. Pappas, L.Wang, J. Foulds, A. Ghosh, S. S Hecht, J. C Gomez, J. R Martin, C. Mesaros, S. Srivastava, G. St Helen, R. Tarran, P. K Lorkiewicz, I. A Blair, H. L Kimmel, C. M Doerschuk, N. L Benowitz, A. Bhatnagar “Biomarkers of Exposure to New and Emerging Tobacco and Nicotine Delivery Products”, American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 2017, ajplung. 00343.2016

Sultan, Rabih

1. H. Ibrahim, H. Farah, A. Zein Eddin, S. Isber and R. Sultan, "Ag Fractal Structures in Electroless Metal Deposition Systems with and without Magnetic Field", Chaos, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 2017, 27, 083111. 2. H. Ibrahim, H. El-Rassy and R. Sultan, "Liesegang bands versus random crystallites in Ag2Cr2O7 - Single and mixed gelled media", Chem. Phys. Lett.2018, 693, 198-201.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The main future development will concentrate on the renovation of our main lecture room (room 001) that still needs a considerable budget to be completed. The Department’s fund-raising initiative with the help of the University will supplement the budget for such task.

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launching the Ph.D. program and 2- proposing a new undergraduate biochemistry track in the Department which could be in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine.

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CIVILIZATION STUDIES PROGRAM

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Civilization Studies Program (CVSP) is a non-degree program housed in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at AUB, and as such has neither an undergraduate nor a graduate program of study. Essentially, the CVSP is a service program that from its inception has offered all AUB students access to core general education courses. In more recent years, the CVSP has been at the center of the University’s General Education Program Humanities offerings, with 34 courses listed under Humanities List I.

The seven professorial faculty in the CVSP, along with numerous part-time instructors and professorial faculty housed in other departments that contribute to the program, administer over 40 courses to over 900 students per semester. The courses taught in the CVSP consist of electives, which meet three times a week. CVSP 201-206, have a mixed format of class sessions and common lectures. In recent years, an effort has been made (though it has been limited by issues of class space) to reduce the number of common lectures and to replace these with mandatory class sessions.

Faculty in the CVSP routinely teach CVSP 201-205 and various electives in the program, but also, in accordance with their 1/3 appointments in a home department, teach undergraduate and graduate courses in their fields of expertise. Members in the CVSP are highly active in research and often serve as advisors for graduate students.

Program Learning Outcomes

The revised Program Learning Outcomes for the CVSP (PLOs) for this academic year have been reduced from five to four: i. Acquire knowledge of human thought and culture in different historical epochs. ii. Identify main themes and concepts encountered in texts. iii. Interpret texts with increasing depth within their historical and intellectual context. iv. Formulate and synthesize creative and informed arguments in line with the standards of intellectual integrity.

At last completed 3-year cycle of PLO testing found that CVSP was achieving all these outcomes to a high degree. The new cycle of testing will be more focused on assessing the role and effectiveness of writing in the CVSP courses.

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Language

Although the CVSP has no official role in administering language instruction, it continues its historical role of housing courses in Chinese and French.

As with previous years, the CVSP was again successful in preparing students for the HSK (also named “Chinese TOFEL”), which is a worldwide exam for testing non- Chinese speakers’ proficiency in Chinese language. For the fifth year, this standard has been maintained as part of the Chinese language offerings at CVSP, now under the tutorship of Mrs. Yu Fen.

Ms. Astrid Kreidy continues her service teaching French as a part-time instructor and coordinator in CVSP.

Varia

In 2017-2018, Wissam Nuwayhid joined CVSP as a part-time lecturer.

In 2017-2018, the CVSP coordination was assigned as follows:

Core-courses: CVSP 201, Peter Shebaya; CVSP 202, Hani Hasan; CVSP 203, Eric Goodfield (fall), Courtney Fugate (spring); CVSP 204, Peter Bornedal; and CVSP 205, Dahlia Gubara.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members2

Bornedal, Peter Professor Ph.D. El-Bizri, Nader Professor Ph.D. Jarrar, Maher Professor Ph.D. Harb, Sirene* Professor Ph.D. Hout, Syrine* Professor Ph.D. Meloy, John* Professor Ph.D. Myers, Robert* Professor Ph.D. Nassar, Christopher* Associate Professor Ph.D. Bou Ali, Nadia Assistant Professor Ph.D. Fugate, Courtney Associate Professor Ph.D. Goodfield, Eric Assistant Professor Ph.D.

* Part-time basis, and/or primarily based at another AUB academic unit.

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Gubara, Dahlia Assistant Professor Ph.D. Newson, Paul* Assistant Professor Ph.D. Wick, Alexis* Assistant Professor Ph.D. Shebaya, Peter Senior Lecturer M.A. Bualuan, Hayat* Lecturer Ph.D. Arasoghli, Aida* Instructor M.A. Baassiri, Mahmoud* Instructor M.A. Yu, Fen* Instructor M.A. Hassan, Hani* Instructor M.A. Nasrallah, Tony* Instructor M.A. Sinjab, Nisreen* Instructor M.A. Youness, Mahmoud Instructor M.A. Wissam Nuwayhid Instructor M.A.

2. Graduate Assistants

Fall/Spring Semester Darine Howland, Ms. GA

3. Non Academic Staff

Khairallah, Randa Secretary

C. TEACHING

1. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall ‘17-18 Spring ‘18 Total 201 37 161 158 356 202 55 184 163 402 203 31 80 93 204 204 60 161 170 391 205 36 161 131 328 110 111 112 23 23 46 212 12 12 216 20 20 207I 22 22 44 208F 47 47 295X 20 19 19

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295S 10 10 295Y 12 12 250 251 FREN 201 21 25 46 FREN 202 22 24 46 CHIN 201 39 47 86 CHIN 202 1 1 Total 2070

2. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses All CVSP Courses are 3 credits.

Total 6500 credits

D. RESEARCH

Bornedal, Peter

1. Book: True or False, What is the Difference? - On Nietzsche’s Naturalist Deconstruction of Truth (working title). (Completed manuscript delivered to editors) 2. Translation/introduction: Richard Avenarius: Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses/Philosophy as Thinking the World according to the Principle of the Smallest Masses of Force 3. Article (accepted upon revisions): “Pragmatic versus Deconstructive Analysis of Speech” in The European Legacy (London, Routledge), approx. 25 pages. (article in process of revision) 4. Book Manuscript Proposal: Epistemology from an Economical Point of View: On the Thinking of Knowledge in the 19th Century (in progress) 5. Book Manuscript Proposal: Reading Derrida Reading: A Critical Reevaluation (in progress)

Bou Ali, Nadia

1. Visiting Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (April-May 2018), Paid Research Leave Spring 2018 2. Application for Mellon Early Career Grant with Dr. Surti Singh (American University of Cairo): Critical Theory and the Global South

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Bualuan, Hayat

1. Working on a book, two volumes: will be published by Notre Dame University, Louayze. Titles: Volume 1- Lebanese Historical Thought in the 18th Century. (expected in 2018) Volume 2- Lebanese Historical Thought in the 19th Century. (expected in 2019) 2. Translation, Lebanese thinkers from the 17th to the 20th century- biographies and writings- A project of translation from Arabic to English funded by “Institute of Lebanese Thought” Notre Dame University, Louayze, Lebanon.

El-Bizri, Nader

1. Ordered Universe Project: 13th century science (Oxford University and Durham University under an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant, UK). 2. Epistles of the Brethren of Purity bilingual book series (Oxford University Press) 3. Editorial Boards member and Referee (Oxford University Press, Indiana University Press, Springer, E. J. Brill, Routledge, Cambridge University Press) 4. Organized two international conferences in Spring 2018 and invited six lectures in 2017-2018 via the directorship of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature at AUB 5. Overseeing the revamping of General Education at AUB 6. Serving as Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences (with focus on collaboration frameworks between AUB and universities abroad in addition to internal institutional assessments)

Fugate, Courtney

1. Kant’s “Critique of Practical Reason”: A Reader’s Guide. Bloomsbury Academic. 2. Alexander Baumgarten’s “Introduction to First Practical Philosophy”: With Kant’s Elucidations, Notes and Related Materials. Translated with an introduction and notes by Courtney D. Fugate and John Hymers. Vol. 3 of Kant’s Sources in Translation.(under contract with Bloomsbury Academic) 3. Mankind’s Purpose: Philosophy and Teleology before Kant’s Critical Turn. An interpretation of Kant’s pre-Critical philosophy, which focuses on teleology in the young Kant and his predecessors.300pp. In draft. (Not under contract). 4. Kant’s Lectures on Metaphysics: A Critical Guide. Edited and introduced by Courtney D. Fugate. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). 5. “Cosmology, Miracles and the Autonomy of Reason,” in Kant’s Lectures on Metaphysics: A Critical Guide edited and introduced by Courtney D. Fugate, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). 15,000 words. 6. “Introduction,” in Kant’s Lectures on Metaphysics: A Critical Guide, edited and introduced by Courtney D. Fugate, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming). 6,000 words.

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7. “The Metaphysical Importance of Experience in Kant’s Prize Essay,” in The Experiential Turn in Eighteenth Century German Philosophy, edited by Karin de Boer and Tinca Prunea, Routledge (forthcoming). 8,500 words. 8. “The Organic Structure of Pure Aesthetic Judgment,” in Kant and the Feeling of Life: From the Beautiful to the Good in Kant’s Critique of Judgment, edited by Jennifer Mensch, SUNY Press (forthcoming). 8,500 words. 9. Creation and development of the Bloomsbury Series in Early German Philosophy. 10. Development of the edition: The Bloomsbury Edition of the Philosophical Works of Johann Nikolaus Tetens (3 vols.). All three volumes under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. 11. Development (with Anne Pollok) of the periodical: Bloomsbury Studies in Early German Philosophy. Editing (with Anne Pollok) volume one, “The Vocation of Man.” Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. 12. Development (with Jennifer Mensch and Michael Olson) of Theories of Generation and Race: Key Texts in the Eighteenth-Century Life Sciences. Proposal under review with Bloomsbury Academic.

Goodfield, Eric

1. Book project with Angela Harutyunyan: Past and Futureless Present: The Political and Cultural Amnesia of Post-Modernity

Gubara, Dahlia

1. Trans-African Slaveries Research Network: Ifriqiyya Colloquium, Institute for African Studies and Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York. (Active member since 2014) 2. Decolonization and the University: Mellon Foundation Supranational Program Grant. Institutional members: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Kolkata, India, and MISR, CHUSS, Makerere University, Uganda. (Concept approved by Mellon. Grant at logistical stage) 3. Tradition and its Circulation: Research collective based at AUB exploring the theoretical and methodological utility of notion of Islam as a discursive tradition, and the emergent directions in which it could continue to circulate as an interpretative framework. (Series of events planned for 2018-19) 4. Of Other Concepts: Perspectives from the Global South: International research project on the study of concept formation. (Funding proposal for Mellon Foundation’s Early Career Scholars Program in progress)

Jarrar, Maher

1. Maher Jarrar and Sebastian Günther. Religious Authority and Doctrinal Instruction in Early Islam. Leiden: Brill.

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2. Maher Jarrar and Adam Walker. Expansion and Succession in the Early Muslim Community: An Isnād-cum-Matn Approach. Princeton, NJ: Gorgias Press. 3. A critical edition of al-Ḥakīm al-Samarqandī’s (d. 342/953), al-Sawād al-aʿẓam (A Ḥanafite-Māturīdī confession of faith from fourth/tenth century Transoxania), based on three manuscripts. 4. “The Serpent Queen: A Case Study in ‘Travel’ and Appropriation,’” Narrative Culture, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI (forthcoming). 5. “Muḥammad b. al-Ḥanafiyya,” Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE. 6. “Muḥammad b. Zayd b. Muḥammad b. Ismā‘IL,” Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE. 7. “Muḥammad al-Murtaḍā li-Dīn Allāh al-Hādī ILA ’l-Ḥaqq,” Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE. Eds. Fleet, Kate, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill. 8. “Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya,” Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE. Eds. Fleet, Kate, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Bornedal, Peter

1. Staff Activities within CVSP 2. Invited Speaker, AUB. Epistemological Fictionalism in Nietzsche and Vaihinger. Seminar series held by the Philosophy Department, AUB.

Bou Ali, Nadia

1. “The Pathologies of Liberalism”, Regionalism and Borders, Bruno Kriesky Forum for International Dialogue, February 8-11, 2018 2. Mehdi Amel and the Colonial Mode of Production, Southern Questions, 2017 ARTMargins Editorial Group Meeting and Workshop Beirut, AUB November 2-3, 2017 3. The Fantasy of Subsumption” in Communism will be the collective management of alienation on September 5, 2017, documenta 14 Public Programs, Kassel Germany

Bualuan, Hayat

1. “Trilingual International Conference – on the Cities of Syria in the Mameluke Period” -17th 18 May 2018 at USJ and AUB. Moderated a session at AUB on “Damascus and the Urbanism of things.” 2. A Philosophical Forum on Kamal Yusuf el Hage, February 1 -2, 2018 at Notre Dame University and AUB.

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3. Presented a paper at AUB on 2 February: topic of the panel: Kamal el Hage’s conception of Philosophy and other human Sciences- title of my presentation: “Kamal el Hage’s Philosophical Conception of History”. 4. Moderated a panel at AUB on February 2 titled: “Philosophy and Modernity for Kamal el Hage.”

El-Bizri, Nader

1. “Ontological-Epistemological Directives in the Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Falsafa”, Keynote lecture, delivered at the international conference on Philosophical 2. Hermeneutics in the Islamicate Context, Institut supérieur de philosophie, Université Catholique de Louvain, 10 May 2018. 2. “Mediaeval Experimental Science and Mathematizing Physics: The Case of Alhazen”, delivered at the international Ordered Universe Conference on Mediaeval Sciences, Physics-Optics Cluster, Pembroke College, Oxford University, 3 April 2018. 3. “Science in the Classical Islamicate Milieu: The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham”: International Symposium on Jewish-Christian-Muslim Intellectual Exchanges in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut, 26 November 2018. 4. “Truth in Arabic/Islamicate Philosophy”: International colloquium on Faith and Truth in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; delivered a conference-paper on 27 October 2018, then participated in the formal roundtable on 28 October 2018.

Fugate, Courtney

1. Acting Director of CVSP 2. Member of Program Learning Outcomes Committee (Fall) 3. Head of Program Learning Outcomes (Spring) 4. Chair of CVSP 203 coordination and development committee 5. Reviewer for Oxford University Press, Routledge, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Mind, Kantian Review, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Ergo, British Journal of the History of Philosophy 6. Creator and Executive Editor of the Bloomsbury Series in Early German Philosophy 7. Common lectures: Introduction to 203, The Scientific Revolution.

Goodfield, Eric

1. AUB President’s University Accreditation Self-Study, Working Group I (Design Standard I, Mission and Goals), Subgroups A & B (Fall) 2. CVSP Forum Event Coordinator (Fall)

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3. CVSP 203 Course Coordinator (Fall) 4. PSPA, Program Learning Outcomes/PLO Report (Fall and Spring) 5. CVSP 201, 203, 204, 205 Common Lectures (Fall): Plato (2 Lectures), Marx, Rousseau 6. Junior Faculty Paid Leave (Spring) 7. Student Debate Club, Faculty Advisor (Fall and Spring) 8. CVSP 203, Course Recertification (Fall) 9. Conference, “Past and Futureless Present: The Political and Cultural Amnesia of Post-Modernity,” Debating the Contemporary: Issues in Contemporary Political and Social Philosophy, the University of Malta, Malta, Nov. 16-17.

Gubara, Dahlia

1. Convened Adab as a Way of Life: Symposium in Honor of Tarif Khalidi on his 80th Birthday. Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut. (October 2018) 2. Co-organizing Tradition and its Circulation: First International Workshop, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut. (April 2019) 3. Convened in collaboration with Sudanese Social and Cultural Club in Beirut: Season of Migration to the North: An Evening Commemorating Tayeb Salih, Half a Century On. Civilization Studies Program, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut. (October 2017)

Jarrar, Maher

1. November 29, 2017: Seminar on “Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Japan: The State of the Art” (Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES), Beirut). Commentary and discussion on: Ryo Mizukami’s paper “Shi‘i Ulama’s Writing Strategy on Imams’ Faḍāʾil in 12-14th Century Iraq.” 2. April 18, 2018: “Fawzī al-Maʿlūf and Francesco Villaespesa: Al-Andalus, Nostalgia, and Negotiating Identity,” a paper read at LATIN AMERICA, AL-ANDALUS AND THE ARAB WORLD: An International Conference at the American University of Beirut 3. Associate editor, Al-Abhath: Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut 4. Member, Promotion Committee, Fine Arts and Art History Department 5. Member, Advisory Committee, Anis Makdisi Program in Literature 6. Since October 2015: Advisory Editorial Board, Gorgias Press, Princeton, NJ: Islamic History and Thought

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7. Referee at The Arab Journal for the Humanities-Academic Publication Council, University of Kuwait 8. April 24, 2017: “Transformations of the Serpent Queen: The Arabian Nights and ‘Travel Theory,’” Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften und Das Seminar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft, April 24, 2017, 13:00 – 15:00. 9. April 25, 2017: “Al-Ghazālī, An Introduction,” Göttinger Orient Symposium, 10. October 12, 2017: “Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North: A Postcolonial,” The Sudanese Cultural Club, Center for Arts and Humanities (AUB), and College Auditorium B.

Shebaya, Peter

1. CVSPAssociate Director

F. PUBLICATIONS

Bornedal, Peter

1. 2018. Book chapter: “Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization,” in Chiasmatic Encounters, 2018, Lexington, New York; p. 169-184. [Eds: Profs. H. Silverman, K. Korhonen, et al].

Bou Ali, Nadia

1. “The Fate of Everything That is Written” in S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique, (final article delivered, accepted and now in press, 8000 words). 2. “Blesseth Him That Gives and not Him that Takes: Butrus al-Bustani and the Mercy of Debt,”Journal of Modern Intellectual History, Cambridge University Press, Vol.14, No.3,2017. pp.1-27. 3. “Bare Language: on Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and the Incitement to Nudity” in The Arab Nude, edited by Octavian Esanu, Routledge, 2018. pp. 113-128. 4. “Mehdi Amel and the Colonial Mode of Production” (Revise and resubmit, Critical Historical Studies, Chicago University Press). 5. Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, Politics, co-edited with Rohit Goel Bloomsbury Academic (final manuscript delivered, accepted, and now in press).

Bualuan, Hayat

1. “Christian Historical Writing in 19th Century Lebanon: Mikhail Mishaqa in Murder, Mayhem, Pillage and Plunder”, Parole de L’Orient, 41, 2017. 2. A Vision of a Historian, Hanania al Munayyir in al Durr al Marsuf fi Hawadith al Shuf, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia (CCO), vol 13, 2017.

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3. “Fikrat al Tarikh ‘ind Kamal Yusuf el Hage”- (Concept of History in the Writing of Kamal Yusuf el Hage), Notre Dame University, Louayze. 4. “Islam and Muslims in the Works of Christian Arab Historians of the 18th Century” in Christian Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, 1500-1900, Birmingham, Brill Publications.

El-Bizri, Nader

1. Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Composition and the Arts: Arabic Critical Edition and Annotated English Translation of EPISTLES 6-8, co-edited with Godefroid de Callataÿ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 2. The Occult Sciences in Pre-Modern Islamic Cultures, co-edited with Eva Orthmann (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2018). 3. Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon / Pratiquer la philosophie au Liban / Mumārasat al- falsafa fī lubnān, a trilingual volume (Beirut-Bonn: German Orient-Institut Beirut, in association with Dār al-Fārābī, 2017). 4. “The Occult in Numbers: The Arithmology and Arithmetic of the Ikhwān al- Ṣafā’” in The Occult Sciences in Pre-Modern Islamic Cultures, co-edited with Eva Orthmann (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2018), pp. 17-40. 5. “Qawl fī al-makān” in Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon / Pratiquer la philosophie au Liban / Mumārasat al-falsafa fī lubnān, a trilingual volume, ed. Nader El-Bizri (Beirut-Bonn: German Orient-Institut Beirut, in association with Dār al- Fārābī, 2017), Arabic division pp. 15-27. 6. “Ibn al-Haytham’s Discourse on Place” in Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon / Pratiquer la philosophie au Liban / Mumārasat al-falsafa fī lubnān, a trilingual volume, ed. Nader El-Bizri (Beirut-Bonn: German Orient-Institut Beirut, in association with Dār al-Fārābī, 2017), English division, pp. 47-78. 7. “Les Cahiers noirs de Heidegger”, in Amiel et le Journal Philosophique, ed. Nicole Hatem (Beyrouth: Presses de l’Université Saint-Joseph, 2017), pp. 253-277. 8. “Transnational Islamism and Heidegger’s Reflections on Technology”, in Heidegger and the Global Age, eds. Antonio Cerella and Louiza Odysseos (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017), pp. 43-62. 9. “Allah: Zât ve sifat iliskisi̧ problem”, Journal of Sakarya University Faculty of Theology (SAUIFD), Volume XIX, Issue 36 (December 2017) / Sakarya Üniversitesi Ilahiyaṫ Fakültesi Dergisi (SAUIFD), Cilt: XIX, Sayı: 36 (Aralık 2017): 199-217 (translated from English to Turkish by Ziya Erdinç).

Fugate, Courtney

1. “Baumgarten and Kant on Existence,” in Metaphysics in Baumgarten and Kant, Oxford University Press (forthcoming). 13,000 words. 2. “On Kant’s World Concept of Philosophy and Cosmopolitanism.” Archivfür Geschichte der Philosophie. 20,000 words.

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3. Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics. Edited with an introduction (with John Hymers), Oxford University Press. 4. “Introduction,” in Metaphysics in Baumgarten and Kant. 8,000 words. 5. “The Fundamental Ambiguity of Kant’s Teleology of Reason,” in Teleology in Kant’s Philosophy, edited by Anna Bechtel and Paula Ordenes, Springer Verlag (forthcoming). 10,000 words.

Goodfield, Eric

1. “Shariati, Enlightenment and the Return of the Universal for Comparative Political Thinking” in Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory: Religion, Revolution and the Role of the Intellectual, Dustin Byrd Ed. (Brill, 2017). 2. “Negating Negation: A Century of Revision in the Reception of Hegel’s Political Philosophy” (History of Political Thought, Volume 38, Number 2, 2017, 295-322). [peer review]

Gubara, Dahlia

1. Gubara, D.E.M. 2018. “Revisiting Race and Slavery through Abd al-Rahman al-Jabati’s ‘Ajai’b al-athar,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 38, no. 2 (in print)

Jarrar, Maher

1. “Strategies of Paradise: Paradise Virgins and Utopia,” Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam. Vol. 1: Foundations and Formation of a Tradition: Reflections of the Hereafter in the Quran and Islamic Religious Thought, eds. Sebastian Günther and Todd Lawson. Leiden: Brill, 2017, 271-94 (book review) Isabel Toral-Niehoff. Al-Ḥīra.Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im Spätantiken Kontext. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014 (Arabic) 2. “Asfār b. Shīrawayh,” Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE. eds. Fleet, Kate, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill 3. “Ibrāhīm b. ‘Abd Allāh b. al-Ḥasan,” Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE. eds. Fleet, Kate, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill. 4. “Mardāvīj b. Ziyār,” Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE. eds. Fleet, Kate, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill. 5. “Al-Mahdī li-Dīn Allāh al-Ḥusayn b. Qāsim al-ʿIyānī,” Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE. eds. Fleet, Kate, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Leiden and Boston: E.J. Brill.

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6. “Introduction” to Ghada Bualuan, Stories from One Thousand and One Nights: For Intermediate and Advanced Students. London and New York: Routledge, 2019 (forthcoming).

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Key discussions have been initiated on revamping the CVSP in the context of the ongoing self-study review and the implementation of the referee’s recommendations as highlighted in the program’s response and action plan. The CVSP will be also involved in discussions with FAS to deliberate on how to engage with the new GE proposal in view of establishing a core curriculum in the liberal arts at AUB that consolidates the existing CVSP/GE resources.

Courtney D. Fugate CVSP Acting Director

Peter Shebaya CVSP Associate Director

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The department of Computer Science offers undergraduate and graduate programs leading to BS and MS degrees in Computer Science. Students have the option of a registering for a research-oriented thesis-based degree or an MS degree which is a coursework-oriented project-based degree. The department also offers a number of service courses to suit non-majors from a variety of disciplines. The BS and MS graduates continue to obtain key positions in leading national and regional software and information technology companies.

The department continues to raise its admission criteria year after year to attract high quality students. Interestingly enough, the enrollment numbers keep increasing, indicating the demand for the program and the value students see in it. The graduate enrollment is also on the rise with 36 MS students, rendering the size of the MS program as the second largest in FAS.

A major achievement in 2017 was the winning of the first and second places in the prestigious ACM Collegiate Programming Contest in Lebanon. The two student teams who won the contest competed in a 5-hour problem-solving competition against teams from most Lebanon universities. Hence, this contest gathers the best problem solvers and programmers from all over Lebanon.

Starting December 2016 the department has been partnering with the World Food Program from the United Nations and the Civic Engagement Center from AUB with the objective of providing computer literacy and digital literacy to Syrian refugees and underserved Lebanese. In a given cycle, participants start with English sessions for a period of two weeks, followed by 6 weeks of computer and digital literacy. By the end of the cycle around 40% of the participants are selected to participate in another 8-week cycle where more advanced topics are covered such as web development, application development, and logo design. Given the vast success of the program, WFP decided to open two new locations in addition to the previous locations in Beirut and Bekaa. By the end of 2018, more than two thousand participants would have benefited from this training.

The department continues to organize and host many large-scale activities to strengthen the department’s outreach and visibility, for instance, the Future Developer Summer Program for students from ages 10 to 17 years (Summer 2017) - (with REP), where more than 200 students participated in the camp.

The department also continues its logistic assistance in hosting the annual reunion in the coordination with computer science alumni chapter. The event in 2017 Mega

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Two event, similar to the event of 2016, was heavily attended by graduating students, alumni, faculty, and IT companies. The fund-raising activity that accompanied the event, led to the establishment of a scholarship fund, from which computer science students already started benefitting.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Attie, Paul Professor Ph.D. Safa, Haidar Professor Ph.D. Turkiyyah, George Professor Ph.D. Abu Salem, Fatima Associate Professor Ph.D. El Hajj, Wassim Assoc. Prof. & Chair Ph.D. Dhaini, Ahmad Assistant Professor Ph.D. Elbassuoni, Shadi Assistant Professor Ph.D. Jaber, Mohamad Assistant Professor Ph.D. Nassar, Mohamad Visiting Assistant Ph.D. Professor

Jureidini, Wadi Senior-Instructor Ph.D. Bdeir, Mahmoud Instructor M.A. Sidani, Hayat Instructor M.A. Aoude, Loa Instructor M.A.

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Mohamad, Bohsaly El Feel, Roaa Hallal, Rayan Hatem, John Joudi, Reem Khalil, Hasan Shmeis, Zeinab

Spring Semester El Feel, Roa Hallal, Rayan Hatem, John Khalil, Hasan Reem, Joudi Mostapha, Jalal Zeineddine, Ali

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3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Abi Faraj, Bilal El Feel, Roaa El Zini, Julia Farroukh, Neam Hallal, Rayan Hatem, John Hijazi, Jaafar Khalil, Al-Abbas Khalil, Hasan Khoury, Joseph Sabeh, Ali Shmeiss, Zeinab

Spring Semester AbdelSater, Tarek Akhras, Raphael El Atie, Christine El Feel, Roaa El Masry, Bachir Faroukh, Neam Hatem, John Hijazi, Jaafar Hallal, Rayan Khalil, Al-Abbas Khalil, Hasan Khoury, Joseph Sabeh, Ali Zoughby, Yorgo

4. Non-Academic Staff

Hamam, Moustapha IT-Senior Analyst Maalouf, Rima Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Summer 2017 40 Fall 2017 6 Spring 2018 31

MA Summer 2017 2 Fall 2017 1 Spring 2018 5

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 73 Seniors 177 Juniors 196 Sophomores 339 IE 6

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3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 3 71 60 134 211-299 108 892 820 1820 200-210 81 1664 672 2417 100-199 0 0 0 0 Total 192 2627 1552 4371

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 18 72 99 189 211-299 18 67 74 159 200-210 15 45 32 92 100-199 0 0 0 0 Total 51 184 205 440

D. RESEARCH

Abu Salem, Fatima

1. Reinforcement learning for prescribing successful academic tracks. 2. Machine learning for predicting demand on Lebanese primary health care centers (CNRS award) 3. Machine learning for detecting fake news around the Syrian conflict (CRS award)

Dhaini, Ahmad

1. Energy Efficient Protocols for Future Access Networks This project is in collaboration with Universidad Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil and University of Waterloo, Canada. We propose new protocols and schemes for saving energy in future access networks. 2. Automated Detection and Classification of Corneal Haze in Optical Coherence Tomography Images (Funded by CNRS-L/GRP: $30,000) This project is in collaboration with the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC). We design and implement novel techniques for automatically detecting and classifying corneal haze in optical coherence tomography images.

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3. Optical Cloud Distribution Networks (Funded by URB: $7,300) In this project, we construct optical cloud distribution networks to enable Internet service providers to deliver to the end-users killer cloud applications in a must faster, cost-effective and efficient manner. 4. Secure, Scalable and Agile Integrated Cloud-Fog Networks (Proposal submitted to Cisco) This project is in collaboration with University of Waterloo, Canada, and Kyungpook National University, South Korea. We design and implement new architectures and frameworks to enhance IoT provisioning in integrated Cloud-Fog networks. 5. A new Mindset for Innovation & Industry 4.0 toward Novel Ecosystems for EU / MINE-EU (Proposal submitted to Erasmus+) This project is in collaboration with several EU universities and industry players from Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Portugal, and industry players from USA. We develop new methods for enhancing the entrepreneurship mindset and tools in EU and non-EU countries. 6. Predictive Resource Management using Machine Learning for Future Access Networks (Proposal submitted to URB) In this project, we design and implement new architectures and frameworks that exploit machine learning to perform predictive resource management in future access networks.

Elbassuoni, Shady

1. CrowdFair: A framework to quantify and address disparity in crowdsourcing 2. Arabic Named Entity Recognition via Deep Co-learning (URB) 3. Deep Co-learning Applications for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

El-Hajj, Wassim

1. Sentiment Analysis in Arabic: building models for opinion mining in Arabic. Funded by an QNRF-NPRP grant 2. Data Privacy and Security: Protecting personal data from being abused by service providers, and security in Software-defined networking (SDN). 3. Networking: Design and analysis of networking protocols in recent technologies such as LTE. Funded by AUB

Jaber, Mohamoud

1. Rigorous Design of Micro-services Architecture (Murex Award 2018-19) 2. Correctness-by-Learning of Component-based Systems (URB 2017-18)

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3. Rhetoric versus Facts: A Data Science Exploration and Visual Rendering of Credible Media In The Syrian Conflict (Collaborative Research Stimulus 2017- 19)

Safa, Haidar

1. Trust aware Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks 2. Counter measures against attacks on LoRaWAN based devices in IOT Networks 3. Improving gateway selection mechanisms and handling collisions in long- distance LoRaWAN protocol 4. LTE networks: Resource allocation, Virtualization of the LTE EPC using the SDN & NFV, and new approaches for Solving Tracking Area Reconfiguration Problem 5. Virtualization-enabled multi-RAT framework for dynamic QoS provisioning and resource distribution in 5G networks 6. Secure routing in P2P networks 7. Malware detection and classification using recurrent neural networks 8. Throttling Malware Families in 2D 9. Modeling Malware as a Language

Turkiyyah, George

1. Real-time simulation of cutting and suturing of soft tissue 2. Algorithms for second-order large scale PDE-constrained optimization

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Abu Salem, Fatima

1. Program Committee Member of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ACM Press 2. Reviewer for the Collaborative Research Stimulus 3. CNRS award 4. Title IX deputy 5. Women in Data Science speaker moderator

Dhaini, Ahmad

1. “Dynamic Wavelength and Bandwidth Allocation in Tactile-capable Optical Cloud Distribution Networks” IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC’18), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 2018

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2. “To Automate or Not to Automate: Machines vs. Ophthalmologists, Who Wins?”, at Western University, Canada, Oct. 2017 3. “Can Computer Science Help in Clinical Decision-Making? A Case study on Patients with Keratoconus using Optical Coherence Tomography”, at University of Waterloo, Canada, Sep. 2017 4. “Automated Detection and Measurement of Corneal Haze in Optical Coherence Tomography Images”, at Harvard University, USA, Sep. 2017 5. Associate Editor, IEEE Access (a leading multidisciplinary journal) 6. Editor for Springer’s Photonic Network Communications 7. Judge and mentor for local, regional and international business and engineering/science competitions (e.g., Hult Prize, MIT-EF Arab startup competition) 8. Member of the Advising Committee (and studying bids) for upgrading the IT infrastructure (IP telephony) at AUB. 9. Panelist, Writing Your STEM Thesis, Graduate Student Council, 2018 10. Technical program committee (TPC) member for IEEE ICC 2017, and IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 11. Technical reviewer/referee for top IEEE/OSA journals and conferences in the field of telecommunications

Elbassuoni, Shady

1. IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2017, New Applications 1 (presenter), New Applications 2 (session chair), Feature Exploration and Classification (session chair) 2. Erasmus Plus visit at Staffordshire university, UK 3. A workshop in collaboration with MIT and Al-Ghurair foundation for e- learning 4. PC member for COLING 2018, IJCAI-ECAI 2018, NAACL HLT 2018 and AAAI 2018 and PVLDB 2018 5. Member of the Academic Development committee (AUB), undergraduate curriculum committee (FAS), and e-learning task force (AUB)

El-Hajj, Wassim

1. Chairperson of the Computer Science Department 2. Coordinator for the Tech for Food program with the Civic Engagement Center at AUB and the World Food Program (WFP) – 2017 3. Initiated a corporate sponsorship program between the CMPS department at AUB and local companies. 2016 4. Design and development of Future Developer Summer Program for students with ages ranging from 10 to 17 years (2017) - (with REP) 5. Program Chair of The Forth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP-2017)

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6. Reviewer for multiple conferences and journals

Jaber, Mohamad

1. Member of the Graduate Program in Computation Science 2. Coach of ACM Collegiate Programming Contest. 3. Participation in FACS 2017 – Correctness-by-Learning of Infinite-State Component-based Systems. 4. Member of the FAS Undergraduate Student Academic Affairs Committee (USAAC) 5. PC and Reviewer in VECOS 2017, Coordination 2018, TASE 2017, TASE 2018, SAC 2017

Safa, Haidar

1. Primary Academic Advisor of more than 100 undergraduate students and Secondary advisor for all CMPS students 2. Supervising the theses of four graduate student and 2 PHD students. 3. Member of the thesis examination committees of several graduate students. 4. Presented in IEEE ICC 2017 5. Organized and co-chaired the second Workshop on Smart Environments & Urban Networking (SEUNet 2017) which was collocated with IEEE WIMOB 2017 6. Editorial board of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal 7. Reviewer: ACM\IEEE Transactions on networking, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, the computer journal, IEEE communication letters, Computer Communications, IEEE Transactions on mobile computing

Turkiyyah, George

1. Organized a workshop and short course on “Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) methods in large-scale computational models'' with lead lecturer Dr Habib Najm from Sandia National Laboratories, April 2018. 2. Attended and presented ``Optimized H2-matrix implementations on GPUs'' at the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing, Tokyo, March 2018. 3. Attended and presented ``Hierarchical Low Rank Approximations in PDE- Constrained Optimization'' at the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Hong Kong, May 2018.

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B. PUBLICATIONS

Abu Salem, Fatima

1. (with Mira Al Arab) Cache-oblivious Matrix Multiplication for Exact TU Factorization. PASCO @ ISSAC 2017, pp. 1-10. 2. (With Michael Abounabhan, Kassim Antar, Shady Elbassuoni, 3. Woody Hojeily and Sara Najem) Bridging the Gap between Data versus Technology Producers: An Interactive Visual Interface for Data Exploration

Dhaini, Ahmad

1. Ahmad R. Dhaini, M. Chokr, S. El-Oud, M. Abdul Fattah, S. Awwad, “System and Method for Automated Detection and Measurement of Corneal Haze and Demarcation Line in Optical Coherence Tomography Images”, U.S. Patent 6161- 021, June 2018 2. L. Peng, Ahmad R. Dhaini, and P.-H. Ho, “Towards Integrated Cloud-Fog Networks for Efficient IoT Provisioning: Key Challenges and Solutions”, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, May 2018 3. Ahmad R. Dhaini, M. Chokr, S. Oud, M. Abdul Fattah, and S. T. Awwad, “Automated Detection and Measurement of Corneal Haze and Demarcation Line in Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Images”, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp 3977-3991, Jan. 2018 4. Ahmad R. Dhaini, M. Abdul Fattah, S. Oud, and S. T. Awwad, “Automated Detection and Classification of Corneal Haze using Optical Coherence Tomography in Keratoconus Patients after Crosslinking”, Cornea: The Journal of Cornea and External Disease, Mar. 2018 5. J. Neaime, and Ahmad R. Dhaini, “Dynamic Wavelength and Bandwidth Allocation in Tactile-capable Optical Cloud Distribution Networks”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC’18), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 2018 6. S. Awwad, Ahmad R. Dhaini, M. Abdul Fattah, and M. Chokr, “Reproducibility and Repeatability of Corneal OCT Crosslinking Demarcation Line Measurement by Human Operators Compared to a Novel Automated Detection Software”, International CXL Experts Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, Nov. 2017

Elbassuoni, Shady

1. Arnaout, Hiba, and Shady Elbassuoni. "Effective searching of RDF knowledge graphs." Journal of Web Semantics (2017). 2. Singh, Manish, Ria Mae Borromeo, Anas Hosami, Sihem Amer-Yahia, and Shady Elbassuoni. Customizing Travel Packages with Interactive Composite Items."

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In Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 137-145. IEEE, 2017 3. Haidar, Rabih, and Shady Elbassuoni. "Website Navigation Behavior Analysis for Bot Detection." in Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 60-68. IEEE, 2017 4. Elrazzaz, Mohammed, Shady Elbassuoni, Khaled Shaban, and Chadi Helwe. "Methodical Evaluation of Arabic Word Embeddings." In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), vol. 2, pp. 454-458. 2017. 5. Yoghourdjian, Hrag, Shady Elbassuoni, Mohamad Jaber and Hiba Arnaout. “Top-Keyword Search over Wikipedia-based RDF Knowledge Graphs.” KDIR (2017).

El-Hajj, Wassim

1. R. Baly, H. Hajj, N. Habash, K. B. Shaban, and W. El-Hajj, “A Sentiment Treebank and Morphologically Enriched Recursive Deep Models for Effective Sentiment Analysis in Arabic,” ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 16 Issue 4, Article No. 23, September 2017 2. Al-Sallab, R. Baly, H. Hajj, K. B. Shaban, W. El-Hajj, and G. Badaro, “AROMA: A Recursive Deep Learning Model for Opinion Mining in Arabic as a Low Resource Language,” ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Volume 16 Issue 4, Article No. 25, September 2017 3. R. Baly, G. Badaro, A. Hamdi, R. Moukalled, R. Aoun, G. El-Khoury, A. El- Sallab, H. Hajj, N. Habash, K. Shaban, W. El-Hajj, “OMAM at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Evaluation of English State-of-the-Art Sentiment Analysis Models for Arabic and a New Topic-based Model,” Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval 2017), pages 594–601,Vancouver, Canada, August 3 - 4, 2017 4. J. Hatem, H. Safa, and W. El-Hajj, “Enhancing Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks,” IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), Valencia, Spain, June 26-30, 2017 5. M. O. Kayali, Z. Shmeiss, H. Safa, and W. El-Hajj, “Downlink Scheduling in LTE,” IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), Valencia, Spain, June 26-30, 2017 6. W. El Hajj, G. Ben Brahim, C. El-Hayek, and H. Hajj, “Feature Extraction and Large Activity-Set Recognition Using Mobile Phone Sensors,” International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2017), Salzburg, Austria, June 12-13, 2017 7. R. El Ballouli, W. El-Hajj, A. Ghandour, S. Elbassuoni, H. Hajj and K. Shaban, “CAT: Credibility Analysis of Arabic Content on Twitter,” The Third Arabic

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Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2017), co-located with EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain, April 3, 2017 8. R. Baly, G. Badaro, G. El-Khoury, R. Moukalled, R. Aoun, H. Hajj, W. El-Hajj, N. Habash, and K. B. Shaban, “A characterization study of Arabic twitter data with a benchmarking for state-of-the-art opinion mining models,” The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2017), co-located with EACL 2017, Valencia, Spain, April 3, 2017.

Jaber, Mohamad

1. Global and Local Deadlock Freedom in BIP. Paul C. Attie, Saddek Bensalem, Marius Bozga, Mohamad Jaber, Joseph Sifakis and Fadi Zaraket. ACM Transaction Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2018 2. From High-Level Modeling Toward Efficient and Trustworthy Circuits. Fadi. A Zaraket, Mohamad Jaber, Mohamad Noureddine and Ylies Falcone. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), 2018 3. Fine and Coarse Grained Composition and Adaption of Spark Application. Zeinab Shmeis and Mohamad Jaber. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2018. 4. From Global Choreography to Efficient Distributed Implementation. Rayan Halla, Mohamad Jaber and Racha Abdallah. HPCS - 4PAD 2018 5. Correctness-by-Learning of Infinite State-Space Component-Based Systems. Haitham Bou-Ammar, Mohamad Jaber and Mohamad Nassar. FACS 2017 6. Top-k Keyword Search over Wikipedia-based RDF Knowledge Graphs. Hrag Yoghourdjian, Shady Elbassuoni, Mohamad Jaber, Hiba Arnaout. KDIR 2017

Safa, Haidar

1. K. Dassouki, H. Safa, M. Nassar, A. Hijazi “Protecting from cloud-based SIP flooding attacks by leveraging temporal and structural fingerprints” Elsevier Computers & Security, vol. 70. September 2017, pages 618-683 2. Tawbeh, H. Safa, and A. Dhaini “A Hybrid SDN/NFV Architecture for Future LTE Networks” in proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2017), May 21-25, 2017, Paris, France 3. J. A. Hatem, H. Safa, and W. El-Hajj “Enhancing Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks” in proceedings of the IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), June 26-30, 2017, Valencia, Spain 4. M. O. Kayali, Z. Shmeiss, H. Safa, and W. El Hajj “Downlink Scheduling in LTE: Challenges, Improvement, and Analysis ” in proceedings of the IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), June 26-30, 2017, Valencia, Spain

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1. Gustavo Chavez, George Turkiyyah, Stefano Zampini, and David Keyes. “Parallel Accelerated Cyclic Reduction Preconditioner for Three-dimensional Elliptic PDEs with Variable Coefficients''. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2017.11.035 2. Wajih Boukaram, George Turkiyyah, Hatem Ltaief, and David Keyes. “Batched QR and SVD Algorithms on GPUs with Applications in Hierarchical Matrix Compression''. Parallel Computing, Vol 74, 2018, pp. 19–33 3. Gustavo Chavez, George Turkiyyah, Stefano Zampini, Hatem Ltaief, and David Keyes. “Accelerated Cyclic Reduction: A distributed-memory fast solver for structured linear systems''. Parallel Computing, Vol 74, 2018, pp. 65–83 4. Marc G. Genton, David E. Keyes, and George Turkiyyah. “Hierarchical Decompositions for the Computation of High-Dimensional Multivariate Normal Probabilities''. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol 27, 2018.

C. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Given the importance of computing in maintaining AUB’s legacy, the key role that the Computer Science department can play in graduating computing-savvy students and in enhancing the field of computing in the region and beyond, and the steady growth and quality of the MS program, the Computer Science department aims to become the computing hub within AUB and Lebanon, the region, and beyond. Achieving this aim can be achieved by adopting the following strategy:

1. Create a committee to draft a Ph.D program. 2. Increase the faculty capacity in computer science to leverage the University and the region. 3. Adjust faculty remunerations. 4. Increase the enrollment of qualified students. 5. Acquire appropriate space. 6. The department submitted a Notice of Intent to start a BS/MS program in Computer Science. If approved, the already drafted proposal will be submitted for approval in Fall 2018. 7. The department submitted a Notice of Intent to launch a blended MS program in collaboration with the Education department, entitled “Computing in Education”. The program will be the first blended program in AUB. 8. The department started offering specialized computing courses for the sciences. If successful, the science departments will adopt the courses in their curricula.

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the above goals by communicating with the various departments across AUB, senior administration, and local companies.

Wassim El-Hajj Chairperson

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A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

In 2016-17, the Department of Economics went through the first round of periodic review of its academic programs and received a set of recommendations from the external reviewers. The Department had several discussions about means of implementing those recommendations. A number of concerns were addressed such as, mainly, review of curricula, recruitment of new qualified faculty members to expand in both teaching and research missions, increase in the number of graduate students, better communication with part-timers, teaching loads, reduction of the reliance on part-timer faculty, etc.

In fulfillment of the reviewers’ recommendations, the Department decided to review both its undergraduate and graduate curricula. An undergraduate curriculum review committee was formed (Canaan, El-Joueidi, and Montero). Then the Department decided to delay this task slightly, to work closely with the new Chair. As a preliminary step, the Department reassessed its Math requirements and prerequisites in Economics courses, given the various difficulties faced by the Economics majors. The computer literacy requirement was changed from CMPS 209 to CMPS 209 or CMPS 200. There is an inclination to make CMPS 200 a required course in the future. The Department also voted that “Econ students should not get credit for both Econ 211 and HMPD 251”.

Dr. Ramzi Mabsout introduced a new graduate course on behavioral and experimental economics (ECON 303N) co-taught with Dr. Fadi Makki. Dr. Serena Canaan presented a proposal for the introduction of a new course at the graduate level, entitled “Methods of Research in Economics.”

This year, the Economics Department faculty made important contributions in University services, as well as many academic activities. Dr. Leila Dagher is Director of the Institute of Financial Economics (IFE). Dr. Nisreen Salti is faculty advisor for the program on Social Justice in the Arab World, Issam Fares Institute (IFI). Dr. Simon Neaime spent a year as a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, University of York, Canada. Dr. Pierre Mouganie was on leave during the Spring semester, doing research at the University of Texas A&M, Austin and the University of Southern California. In 2018-19, Dr. Serena Canaan will be on leave during the Fall semester, at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Hossein Radmard presented a collaboration initiative with the Institute of Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg and supported by DAAD. By virtue of the agreement, DAAD will provide funding for students or faculty for research and training.

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The Department also stayed wired on a number of external collaborations, programs and partnerships. With UNDP, it discussed ways of contributing to the “Arab Development Portal” (ADP), a wide database grouping and offering high quality data and knowledge on twelve key development topics in the Arab region. The ADP shall hopefully serve as the main reference for researchers, academics, journalists and civil society workers in the field.

As part of AUB’s partnership with the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Economics Department is also working on establishing a “Micromasters” in Economics, a professional and academic platform for online learners from anywhere in the world. Learners will earn a MicroMasters credential from MITx, and can then apply for an (‘accelerated’), on-campus master’s degree program at AUB.

This year the Department reinstated a thorough seminar program, coordinated by Dr. Pierre Mouganie. Twelve speakers were invited from prominent universities in the US, France, Sweden and Qatar, as well as local universities such as USJ, and last but not least, the faculty members of the Department.

The Department undertook a thorough recruitment exercise to hire a new Chair for the Department, hand-in-hand with the search by a recruitment committee appointed by the Provost and the FAS Dean, chaired by Professor Kamal Khuri- Makdisi, with Professors Leila Dagher and Nisreen Salti as department members. The search was thorough and culminated with the hiring of two full professors: Dr. Eyüp Özveren from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey and Dr. Sumru Altug from the Koç University in Istanbul. Professor Özveren will lead the Department as the new Chairperson.

The Economics Department experienced the sad passing away of one of its veterans: Professor Ghazi Sirhan, who served as Chair for twelve years. The Department mourned this great loss and considered ways of honoring the late devoted faculty member, including the naming of one of its rooms (computer lab or faculty conference room) after Professor Sirhan.

The Department had a significant input in the Graduate retreat organized by the Dean’s Office on May 10 and 11, 2018. Dr. Nisreen Salti presented the two MA programs in Economics; she discussed enrollment, faculty resources, program learning outcomes (PLO’s), job opportunities for graduates, as well as budgetary issues.

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local, regional and international levels, with contributions as attendees, speakers, panelists, session chairs and foremost, organizers.

Last but not least, seven outstanding Economics students received University awards from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Neaime, Simon Professor Ph.D. Salti, Nisreen Associate Professor Ph.D. Dagher, Leila Associate Professor Ph.D. Montero, Casto Martin Assistant Professor Ph.D. Mabsout, Ramzi Assistant Professor Ph.D. Radmard, Hossein, Assistant Professor Ph.D. Mouganie, Pierre Assistant Professor Ph.D. Canaan, Serena Assistant Professor Ph.D. El Joueidi, Sarah Assistant Professor Ph.D Ramadan, Usamah Lecturer Ph.D. Makdisi, Samir Professor Emeritus (P.T.) Ph.D. Sadaka, Richard Assistant Professor (P.T.) Ph.D. Bou Nassar, Makram Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Corm, Georges Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Calderon Mejia, Valentina Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. El Khalil, Youssef Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Harajli, Hassan Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Makki, Fadi Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Mansour, Layal Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Soueid, Mazen Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Alam, Jean Frederic Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Bou Diab, Sara Instructor (P.T.) M.A. El Khalil, Iyad Instructor (P.T.) M.A. El Baba, Nora Instructor (P.T.) M.A. El Hariri, Sadika Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Ghabboura, Yehya Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Halawi, Balsam Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Jibai, Rania Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Kanaan, Maya Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Kanaan, Niveen Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Khoury, Nicole Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Makki, Malak Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Mahfouz, Diala Instructor (P.T.) M.A.

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Nader, Pamela Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Rubeiz, Sylvia Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Srage, Souraya Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Serhal, Dana Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Tabsh, Ghina Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Tabsh, Hala Instructor (P.T.) M.A.

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Salamah, Samer Nasser Badra

Spring Semester Salamah, Samer Sadika El Hariri Nasser Badra

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Berro, Maya Makki, Ghina Choucair, Elias Mikdash, Maya Hamdan, Dana Yammine, Maher Hindy, Carla Zaiour, Reem Kontar, Jana

Spring Semester Berro, Maya Makki, Ghina Choucair, Elias Mikdash, Maya Hamdan, Dana Suidan, Namir Kontar, Jana Zaiour, Reem

4. Non-Academic Staff

Attieh, Silvie Secretary Abou Shakra, Mona Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

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BA Sep. 2017 13 Feb. 2018 10 Jun. 2018 76

MA Oct. 2017 0 Feb. 2018 0 Jun. 2018 6

2. Number of Majors

Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Graduates 2 16 16 Seniors 33 78 95 Juniors 41 76 71 Sophomores 48 133 114

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 54 72 126 211-299 177 1461 1408 3046 200-210 18 25 51 94 100-199 9 128 84 221 Total 204 1668 1615 3487

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 12 15 27 211-299 18 63 60 141 200-210 3 3 3 9 100-199 3 6 6 15 Total 24 84 84 192

D. RESEARCH

Serena Canaan

1. Parental Leave, Intra-household Specialization and Children’s Well-Being 2. Returns to Education Quality for Low-Skilled Students: Evidence from a Discontinuity. (with Pierre Mouganie) 3. The Long Run Effects of Postponing Middle School Tracking

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4. Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers? (with Anne Brenoe, Nikolaj Harmon and Heather Royer) 5. Maternity Leave Policies and Neighbors' Labor Supply. (with Pierre Mouganie) 6. Academic Advising, STEM Enrollment and College Completion rates. (with Pierre Mouganie)

Leila Dagher

1. The Institute of Financial Economics Financial Stress Index (Layal Mansour and Sadika El Hariri) 2. The predictive power of oil and commodity prices for equity markets: Evidence from rolling Granger causality tests (with Ibrahim Jamali and Nasser Badra) 3. A Review of Causality Studies in Economics(with Sadika El Hariri) 4. The Stock Markets’ Response to Oil Shocks: Revisiting the Evidence for the GCC, (with Ibrahim Jamali)

Sarah El Joueidi

1. Capital Regulation and Banking Bubbles (Revised and Resubmitted paper) 2. Housing Bubbles 3. Self-Regulation and Stock Listing Decision of Banks

Ramzi Mabsout

1. WTA/WTP gad experiments 2. Ethics and nudging 3. Transaction costs and the endowment effect

Casto Martin Montero Kuscevic

1. Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Spatial Study with Hossein Radmard 2. CO2, Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: An ARDL analysis for Bolivia (with Sebastian Leguizamon) 3. Party Cues, Political Trends, and Fiscal Interactions in the United States, (with Sebastian Leguizamón)

Pierre Mouganie

1. Conscription and the Returns to Education: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity. R&R Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

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2. Returns to Education Quality for Low-Skilled Students: Evidence from a Discontinuity. (with Serena Canaan) 3. Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools. (with Mark Hoekstra and Yaojing Wang) 4. The Impact of High Performing Peers on Female STEM Choices in High School. (with Yaojing Wang) 5. Maternity Leave Policies and Neighbors' Labor Supply (with Serena Canaan) 6. Academic Advising, STEM enrollment and College Completion rates. with Serena Canaan) 7. The Adverse Effects of Open Air Waste Burning on Infants’ Birth Outcomes. (with Ruba ajeeb).

Simon Neaime

1. Sustainability of Budget Deficits and Public Debts in Selected European Union’s Countries: An Overlapping Generation Approach, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (with L. Michelis) 2. Income Convergence and the Impact of the Euro-MED Trade and Financial Integration on Macroeconomic Volatility. Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (with T-L Segot and I. Gaysset) 3. Currency Devaluation in a Model with Habits and Durability in Consumption, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project 4. The Equity Premium Puzzle: New Empirical Evidence (with E. Appelbaum) 5. Twin Deficits and the Sustainability of Macroeconomic Policies in Selected European and Mediterranean Partner Countries: Post Financial and Debt Crises. Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (with I. Gaysset and T.L- Segot) 6. Lebanese Banks and US Anti-Terrorism Legislation. Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (with S. Hakim) 7. The Basel Accord and Market Risk of Lebanese Commercial Banks: A VAR Analysis Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (with W. Shahine) 8. The Sustainability of Debt and Exchange Rates Policies: Evidence from Canada and Mexico (with A. Mansoorian)

Hossein Radmard

1. "Effectiveness of Expert Appeals in Building Cooperation Across Sectarian Lines", this is a collaboration with two coauthors from NYU-Abu Dhabi (Leonid Peisakhin, Han Il Chang). We designed a few rounds of experiments and surveys. IRB approvals from both AUB and NYUAD have been obtained. The fund is provided by NYUAD.

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2. "Transaction Costs and The Endowment Effect", Coauthored with Ramzi Mabsout. It is currently under review in a peer reviewed journal. 3. "Five Experiments on WTA-WTP Disparity", this is joint work with Ramzi Mabsout, Fadi Makki and Ali Osseiran. The URB grant application is currently under process. 4. "Spatial Distribution of Megachurches in the UK", coauthored with Robbie Mochrie. The paper is in the early stage of data collection. 5. "Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Spatial Study", Coauthored with Martin Montero. The draft is in the final stage and will be presented in a conference in June.

Nisreen Salti

1. Analysis and Refinement of the Targeting Mechanisms for Food and Multipurpose Cash Assistance to Central African Republic (CAR) Refugees in the East, Adamaoua and North Regions of Cameroon. 2. The economics of NCDs in low- and middle-income countries, with Jad Chaaban, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), September 2017. 3. A multi-dimensional measure of vulnerability among Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian youth in Lebanon, with Jad Chaaban, Economic Research Forum, January 2018.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Serena Canaan

1. Member of the American Economic Association, European Economic Association and the Society for Labor Economists 2. Freshman Advisor 3. Referee for Demography 4. Presentation at the 2nd Lebanese Econometric Workshop 5. Economics Department library liaison

Leila Dagher

1. Director of the Institute of Financial Economics, FAS 2. Member of the General Education Board, AUB 3. Member, Department graduate admissions committee 4. Adjunct Professor at George Washington University (Summer 2017)

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5. ECON211 coordinator (around 275 students in Fall 2017), Economics Department 6. Economic Student Society Faculty Advisor, Economics Department 7. Supervisor of the Economics Clinic sessions, Economics Department 8. M.A. Thesis or project advisor (Ms. Dana Hamdan and Mr. Elias Shkeir), Economics Department 9. Served as a Ph.D. thesis committee member for Mr. Maher Al Sayah. Holy Spirit of Kaslik University 10. Served as a mentor at the 2018 Western Economic Association International Early Career Researcher Workshop in Newcastle, Australia 11. Member of the Board and Treasurer, Arab Energy Club 12. Referee: Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Lebanese Science Journal, and Macmillan Publishers 13. Chaired the session “Energy sustainability trends and transitions in the Arab World,” during the Arab Energy Club meeting, May 4-6, 2018, Kuwait 14. “The role of universities in spreading the culture of compliance,” panelist at the AML/CFT Forum organized by the World Union of Arab Bankers, April 4-5, 2018, Beirut, Lebanon 15. “Time-varying causality between oil prices and stock market prices: Evidence from oil-exporting and oil-importing countries,” WEAI 14th International Conference, January 11-14, 2018, Newcastle, Australia 16. Invited as a panelist on “A Twinning Partnership: Reconstruction & Development,” during the Annual Arab Banking Conference 2017, Nov. 23- 24, 2017, Beirut, Lebanon

Sarah El Joueidi

1. Seminar at the University of Miami - January 2018

Ramzi Mabsout

1. Academic advisor, Economics undergraduate students 2. Member, Department graduate admissions committee 3. Introduction of new course on behavioral and experimental economics ECON 303N co-taught with Dr Fadi Makki 4. A weeklong course teaching the teachers on institutions and behavioral economics co-taught with Dr. Stefan Voigt (Hamburg) at AUB

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Casto Martin Montero Kuscevic

1. Graduate advisor 2. Member, Department graduate admissions committee 3. Program Learning Outcome Coordinator. 4. Coordinator for Econ 212 5. Reader for two theses (Elias Choucair, Dana Hamdan) 6. Advisor for on thesis (Maya Berro) 7. Member of the recruiting faculty committee 8. Member of the Steering Committee IFE 9. Referee/judge for the Annual Research Contest sponsored by the Bolivian Central Bank 10. Guest speaker at the yearly panel discussion organized by the Spanish Embassy, AUB and IE Business School, November 2017, Beirut, Lebanon 11. 23rd EBES Conference, September 2017, Madrid, Spain 12. 10th International Conference Economic Challenges in Enlarged Europe, June 2018, Tallinn, Estonia 13. Referee for several journals

Pierre Mouganie

1. Member of the American Economic Association, European Economic Association and the Society for Labor Economists 2. Presentation at the University of Texas-Austin brownbag seminar in applied microeconomics 3. Presentation at the University of California-Santa Barbara Labor Lunch 4. Presentation at the Doha Institute for Graduation Studies 5. Presentation at the 2nd Lebanese Econometrics Group meeting 6. Visiting Scholar, Texas A&M University 7. Organizer of the 2017-2018 Economics department Seminar Series 8. Referee for Education Economics and the Journal of the European Economics Association 9. Discussant at the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Japan meeting

Simon Neaime

1. Invited to attend and present a paper titled: Twin Deficits and the Sustainability of Macroeconomic Policies in Selected European and Mediterranean Partner Countries: Post Financial and Debt Crises, at the FEMISE one-day workshop to launch the FEMISE Euro-Med 2017 Report, Brussels, Belgium, November 23rd 2017 2. Invited to attend and present some preliminary results of the paper titled:Income Convergence and the Impact of the Euro-MED Trade and

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Financial Integration on Macroeconomic Volatility at the FEMISE Annual Conference, 7-9 February 2018, Valetta, Malta 3. Participated in the Canadian Econometric Study Group Conference, October 20-22, 2017, York University, Toronto, Canada 4. Invited to attend the Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group Conference, November 10-11, 2017, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 5. Sustainability of Debt and Exchange Rate Policies in MENA: An Empirical Investigation. A paper presented at the 8th International Research Meeting in Business and Management, 5-6 July 2017, IPAG Business School, Nice, France 6. I have supervised as main advisor the following four Graduate Theses/Projects: Sonia-Lynn Gabriel (2017), the Economics of Natural Disasters: A closer look at the inequalities between countries=. 7. Amal Rifai (2017), Financial Development and Economic Growth in the MENA Region 8. Rima Al Mokdad (2017), On the Persistence of the Democracy Deficit in Lebanon 9. Diala Mahfouz (2017), Exchange Rate Arrangements: The Case of Lebanon.

Hossein Radmard

1. Presenting "WTA-WTP Disparity" (with Ramzi Mabsout) at Winter Experimental Social Science Institute (WESSI) in September 2017, Florence, Italy. 2. Presenting "Five Experiment on WTA-WTP Disparity" (with Ramzi Mabsout, Fadi Makki and Ali Osseiran) in Experimental Workshop at AUB, February 2018. 3. Launching and coordinating the departmental collaboration between Department of Economics and Institute of Law and Economics (ILE) at the University of Hamburg. The focus of the collaboration is to expand our exposure to Behavioral and Experimental Economics. We will have joint educational and research works. 4. Organizing the "Behavior and Institutions" workshop as the first joint work with ILE. The workshop took place on AUB campus for one week with twenty participants from AUB and abroad.

Nisreen Salti

1. Chair, Department graduate admissions committee 2. Department web site coordinator 3. Interim Acting Chair 4. Organized an international conference on the “Economics of Non- Communicable Diseases,” jointly with the Applied Economic Development

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Research Group and the Center for Research on Population and Health, February 2018 5. Organized a workshop on “Experimental Research Methods in the Social Sciences,” jointly with Princeton University and Issam Fares Institute for International and Public Affairs, February 2018 6. Commentator at the book colloquium “The devil is in the caveats: a critical analysis of Basic Income experiments for researchers, policy makers and citizens,” Karl Widerquist, Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar, March 2018 7. Invited talk: “Arab human development report 2016: main messages,” Casa Arabe, December 12, 2017 Madrid, Spain 8. Conference presentation: “The evolution in the determinants of inequalities in health among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon,” with Sawsan Abdulrahim, Lancet Palestine Health Alliance Conference, American University of Beirut, March 2018 9. Conference presentation: “Recent evolution in welfare indicators among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon (PRL),” Lancet Palestine Health Alliance Conference, American University of Beirut, March 2018 10. Conference presentation: “The macroeconomics of non-communicable diseases in the Middle East and North Africa,” with Jad Chaaban and Marie- Anne Boujaoude, the Economics of NCDs in Lower and Middle-Income Countries, American University of Beirut, February 2018 11. Conference presentation: “SDGs and the Arab world: questions about citizenship, gender and conflict,” Empowering Sustainability in a Fragile World, Conference by the Moscow State University, the University of California Irvine, and the Institute for Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Science), December 14-15, 2017, Moscow Russia 12. Conference presentation: “What do we know about inequality in the Arab world?” Inequalities within and among countries, Strengthening Public Policy for the 2030 Agenda, American University of Beirut Policy Institute and Arab NGO Network for Development, Issam Fares Institute, November 30, 2017, Beirut, Lebanon 13. Conference presentation: “SDGs and the Arab World: questions about citizenship, gender and conflict,” the 5th annual International Conference on Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, September 18- 20, 2017.

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F. PUBLICATIONS

Serena Canaan

1. Returns to Education Quality for Low-Skilled Students: Evidence from a Discontinuity. Canaan Serena and Pierre Mouganie. Journal of Labor Economics 2018 36:2, 395-436.

Leila Dagher

1. Residential Green Power Demand in the United States (with Lori Bird and Jenny Heeter) in Renewable Energy 114, 2017, 1062-1068. 2. The Institute of Financial Economics Financial Stress Index (with Layal Mansour and Sadika El Hariri) in IFE Working Paper Series, 2018 No. 2.

Ramzi Mabsout

1. The backward induction controversy as a metaphorical problem (Economic Thought) 2. Harnessing heuristics for economic policy (Economics & Philosophy, with Jana Mourad)

Casto Martin Montero Kuscevic

1. "Ideology and the Role of Natural Resources in Bolivia", Journal of Economic Issues (Forthcoming) 2. “Inflation Volatility and Economic Growth in Bolivia: A Regional Analysis”, with Marco del Río and Sebastian Leguizamon, Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies. (2018) vol.11, No. 1, pp. 36-46 3. “The Role of Spatial GDP Spillovers in State-level Okun's Law”, with Arabinda Basistha, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, October 2017, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp 353–360

Pierre Mouganie

1. Returns to Education Quality for Low-Skilled Students: Evidence from a Discontinuity. Canaan Serena and Pierre Mouganie. Journal of Labor Economics. 36 (2), 395-436 2. Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools. Mark Hoekstra, Pierre Mouganie and Yaojing Wang. Forthcoming. Journal of Labor Economics

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Simon Neaime

1. S. Neaime, I. Gaysset, and N. Badra, The Eurozone Debt Crisis: A Structural VAR Approach, Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, 43, 22– 33, 2018 3. S. Neaime and I. Gaysset, Financial Inclusion and Stability in MENA: Evidence from Poverty and Inequality, Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, 24, 230-237, 2018 4. S. Neaime and I. Gaysset, Sustainability of Macroeconomic Policies in Selected MENA Countries: Post Financial and Debt Crises, Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, 40, pp. 129–140, 2017 5. R. Safadi and S. Neaime, Syria the Painful Transition towards Democracy, in Democratic Transition in the Arab World, S. Makdidi and I. Elbadawi Eds. Cambridge University Press, pp., 184-208, 2017.

Nisreen Salti

1. The Ras Beirut Wellbeing Survey, (with Afamia Kaddour, Huda Zurayk, Cynthia Myntti, Livia Wick, Sawsan Abdulrahim, monograph,) American University of Beirut Press, Beirut, Lebanon (forthcoming) 2. “Equity impacts of price policies to promote healthy behaviors,” (with Franco Sassi, Annalisa Belloni, Andrew Mirelman, Mark Suhckre, Rachel Nugent, Sukumar Vellakkal, Barry Popkin), The Lancet, April 2018 3. “Popular grievances and perceptions of socio-economic conditions in the Arab region prior to the uprisings,” with Melani Cammett, Middle East Development Journal, Vol. 10, and Issue 1: June 2018, 64-96.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Four main headings prevail for immediate upcoming tasks in the Economics Department: curriculum review, faculty resources, increase in graduate enrollment and expansion in office, facilities, and commodities space.

The curriculum review discussion has been launched, and several ideas and directions have been proposed that need to be pursued and consolidated.

A task force including campaigns, lectures, recruitment visits, and other means of increasing the number of graduate students is necessary. A minimum of 30 graduate students should be targeted in the coming two years.

External reviewers, evaluators, visiting scholars, and candidates for the position of Chair of the Economics Department have all sensed the need for more recruitment and expansion in faculty resources for both research and teaching missions. The

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academic lines in Economics face a great competition with the external economic and industrial sectors where the market demand for economic specialists is broad and urgent. As a result, means of retention of qualified faculty members must be scrutinized, developed and fulfilled. These include generous salary adjustments, an increase in the number of recruited faculty, well planned reductions in teaching loads, and an increase in funding for conferences and research grants.

Although the involvement of part-time faculty from both Academia and the industrial, law and financial sectors continues to be an objective necessity, a strategy for the gradual reduction in the reliance on part-timers has to be developed. This requires a long-term planning, given that the enrollment in Economics courses is one of the highest in FAS.

One of the most urgent needs for our Department is the expansion in space. While being a department with one of the highest number of majors, it is one of the most restricted in space. The Department cannot expand in faculty resources and graduate student enrollment with the currently available space allotment. If more faculty members are to be recruited, there are not enough offices to host them. Part-time faculty members receive students in a small room linking two corridors in an S- shaped framework. Space planning and support from the Administration in this highly populated department is indispensable. External reviewers had recommended that part-timers be placed in a large room where they share desks, cabinets and lockers. Graduate students need office space both for their study and teaching duties (office hours and preparations). Awaiting some kind of a Master plan, one vacant office (Room 242) has been turned into a room for graduate students.

The Department needs a fixed allocated yearly budget to plan expenditures. If more space is granted, a special furniture budget is needed.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department offers a BA program in Education/Elementary Education as well as four Teaching Diploma and Diploma Programs (TD/D). In addition, the Department offers a graduate program in Education. The BA program prepares elementary school teachers, and the TD programs focus on the preparation of teachers at the elementary, intermediate, and secondary levels in science, math, English, Arabic and social studies. Meanwhile, the two Diploma programs focus on educational management and leadership, and special education. The Special Education diploma is offered with a concentration either in learning disabilities or in gifted and talented children. The graduate program offers MA degrees in education with concentrations in science, math, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, educational administration and policy studies, elementary education, and educational psychology. The educational psychology encompasses two subareas: school guidance and counseling, and tests and measurement. The enrollment in the Department’s MA program is larger than any other department in the FAS.

The number of majors averaged across the fall and spring semesters were as follows: BA (51), Teaching Diploma (15+), Prospective Graduates (5), and Graduates (81). However, it is hard to give an accurate number for the Teaching Diploma students, because most undergraduate students take diplomas combined with the BA, and this does not show on the records. Enrollment in education courses for fall and spring semesters was 967 for undergraduate courses, 161 for graduate courses, and 80 for the summer 2017 term. In addition, 64 students registered for theses and projects during fall and spring, and 6 defended their MA theses. Total enrollment in graduate and undergraduate courses was 1,327.

The graduate MA program continues to admit a large number of applicants. We received 114 applications from for fall and spring semesters of 2017-18. A total of 70 applications were accepted, and 44 applications were rejected.

BA PLO: The Department opted to re-assess the PLO’s that proved to be either problematic or yielded conflicting results as shown based on an analysis of the results of the previous three-year assessment plan. Consequently, the Department designed and implemented an interim assessment plan. Likewise, the Department utilized a wide variety of assessment methods including, examinations, demonstrations, projects, and written reflections as well as tools including rubrics.

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The following represents a summary of the Department’s accomplishments between June 1, 2017 and May 31, 2018. Restructuring the Department’s Programs in 2016-17

1. In response to the Department’s program review self-study in 2013-14, a BA- program restructuring ad hoc Committee examined the structure and various course clusters of the current BA Education/Elementary Program. The ad hoc Committee made progress on the structure of the program. This structure encompasses links to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCTQA). The Department discussed and approved the proposal in a retreat on January 26, 2018. The proposal was submitted to the FAS Curriculum Committee 2. In response to the Department’s program review self-study in 2013-14, a PhD program ad hoc Committee made progress on the proposal. The notice of intent to introduce a Ph.D. program in Education was shared with the FAS Dean Nadia El Cheikh. 3. The Department of Education completed the annual PLO assessment report of the BA Program/Education Elementary for the academic year 2017-18. The PLO Committee and the Chairperson identified the requisite data sources and determined the appropriate assessment tools and methods of data collection, analysis, and reporting. A total of 5 PLO’s was assessed and a variety of direct and indirect assessment methods and tools were employed. Triangulation of data was performed on certain PLO’s where feasible and appropriate quantitative and qualitative assessment techniques were utilized. 4. The Department discussed the notice of intent for “Computing in Education” Graduate Program, which was prepared by Dr. H. Baytiyeh and Dr. S. El Bassuoni, and was submitted to FAS dean as a potential collaboration between the Departments of Education and Computer Sciences and

Recruitment and Grants

1. For the third year, our recruitment efforts for the EAPS [Education Administration and Policy Studies] position have failed. However, the department recommended appointing Dr. Yara Hilal-Jurdi as a Visiting Assistant Prof. Dr. Hilal-Jurdi accepted the offer and will join the Department for one academic year, effective Sep 2018-19. 2. The Department will re-advertise for the position of Assistant Professor of Educational Administration and Policy Studies for Spring 2018-19 or Fall 2019-20. 3. The Department discussed applications of 40 part-time instructors in May 2018. Conveners of specialty areas and faculty members reviewed the

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applicants, and after thorough discussion, a motion was put to select the shortlisted candidates for Fall 2018-19. 4. The Department has been awarded a budget of $18,800. The requested grant will be used to refurbish Rooms 104, 106, and 001.

Conferences, Symposiums, and Lectures (June 1, 2017 – May 31, 2018)

The Department of Education organized a number of carefully planned conferences to discuss some of the most urgent problems facing education in the region today. In the last 12 months (June 1, 2017 – May 31, 2018), the Department held three regional conferences, the annual in-service training workshops, and a series of talks on several themes, as follows: a. October 27-28, 2017. The Department of Education and the National Institution of Social Care and Vocational Training organized the two-day 11th NISCVT Mental Health Conference entitled “Bridging Theory and Practice: Documentation and Research in Mental Health Programs”. The conference was held at AUB West Hall - Bathish Auditorium. The conference attracted speakers and experts from Italy, Norway, Finland, Lithuania, Britain, United Stated, Palestine and Lebanon– all of whom are concerned with mental health, education, and well-being. The conference was attended by more than 220 participants. b. November 16, 2017. The Department of Education organized an Education Forum talk entitled “Education in Lebanon: From Emergency to Development” by Mr. Fadi Yarak, Director General for Education at the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education. c. December 4, 2017. The Department of Education organized an Education Forum talk entitled “Arabic Curricula: The Need for New Perspectives and Approaches” by Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal from the Department of Arabic. Feb 23-24, 2018. The Department of Education at the American University of Beirut in collaboration with the Department of Education at the Lebanese American University held its 2nd “Graduate Education Research Forum,” under the title “Being a socially responsible researcher in graduate school: Critical actions and reflections” on campus. The Forum included a variety of sessions including panel discussions, poster presentations, three- minute research challenge, workshops, roundtable research discussions, and world Café, which was attended by graduate students from different universities and in which they participated. The forum’s goal was to build the framework of a network for graduate students to create a collaborative community of young researchers in Lebanon. More than 120 researchers attended this forum. d. Feb 16 – March 17, 2018. The Department of Education offered a series of 28 in-service training workshops for teachers K-12, school counselors’

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administrators and practitioners. More than 400 participants attended the workshops from Lebanon and the Arab region. e. March 10, 2018. The Education Student Society (ESS) celebrated the Teacher's Day with all education faculty members, staff and students. f. March 17, 2018. The Department of Education SMEC organized the twentieth Annual Science and Mathematics Educators Conference (SMEC 20). The theme of the conference was “Using Technology effectively in STEM Education.” [See appendix A]. g. March 19, 2018. The Department of Education organized an Education Forum’s talk entitled “Gender Equity in Education”, by Ms. Joumana Al- Halabi, Gender Coordinator at the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE). h. April 21, 2018. Education Student Society (ESS) organized the annual Reading Day for underprivileged children. i. April 26, 2018. The Department of Education organized an Education Forum talk entitled “Let’s Go Digital”, by Dr. Nayla Zreik Fahed, CEO and co-founder of Lebanese Alternative Learner (LAL), and Mr. Nagi Ghorra, Vice president and co-founder of LAL. j. March 27, 2018. The Department of Education organized a job talk by Dr. Rida Bleik-Hourni. k. April 10, 2018. The Department of Education organized a job talk by Dr. Yara Hilal-Jurdi. l. April 15, 2018. The Education Students Society (ESS) in coordination with the Science and Mathematics Education Center organized the 24rd Science, Math, and Technology Fair [See appendix A]. m. May 12-13, 2018. The Department of Education and the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, in partnership with Qatar Foundation International (QFI) and Qatar Foundation (QF), organized a forum entitled "Arabic Language and Communication Skills in the 21stCentury: Perspectives and Approaches,” Participants included lecturers who teach Arabic as a first and second language at university, primary schools, and secondary schools in Arab and foreign countries. The forum focused on developing communication skills in Arabic language curricula in the 21stcentury. It also provided an opportunity to meet within an academic gathering of 60 professors from 9 different countries working in the teaching of Arabic at different levels: university, secondary and preparatory, and in teaching Arabic as a first and second language. n. May 10, 2018. The Department of Education Practice Teaching Committee (PTC) organized a ceremony for thirteen students who received the Excellence in Practice Teaching Award. o. May 31, 2018. The Promotion Ad hoc Committee produced and finalized a short video about the Department of Education.

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p. June 6, 2018. The Department of Education organized the Annual Pledge Education Ceremony for education students graduating with BA (n = 16), TD and diploma degrees (n = 21). q. The Department revised and approved four policies in 2017-18: (1) modified Graduate Comprehensive Examination (new format), (2) Specialty Area Convener Role and Responsibilities, (3) Department’s bylaws; and (3) Guideline for Curriculum Examination Committee.

Faculty Awards

1. In December 2017, Dr. Saouma BouJaoude, Professor in Science Education and Associate Dean at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences received the prestigious 2017 Kuwait Prize in the category of Economics and Social Sciences for his accomplishments in the field of education. 2. In May, Dr. Anies Al-Hroub, Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Special Education received the Periodic Paid Research Leave for the academic year 2018-19. He will spend his research leave in the University of Connecticut at Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education and Talent Development (Neag School of Education). Student Awards 1. The Educator’s Award. This award is granted to undergraduate students who meet or exceed designated standards to receive recognition for their Innovation, Community Service, and High Academic Achievement. This year, the award was given to Ms. Elsy Ayoubi and Ms. Hajar Al-Dirani. 2. Fouad Haddad Prize for the best MA thesis. This year, the prize was given to two students: (1) Ms. Fida Almeddine for her thesis entitled “Women Becoming Leaders: The Case of Lebanese Women in Higher Education”, and (2) Stephanie Jreidini for her thesis entitled, “An Investigation of the Perceptions of Lebanese School Leaders and Teachers of Building School Capacity for Sustainable School Improvement”. 3. Excellence in Practice Teaching Award. This year, thirteen students received this award, as follows: Special Education: Leila Fakih and Lea Chawki Language Art: Lana Kabakibi, Hajar Al-Dirani, Hanadi Khoury, Lina Bantan, Najat Chehab. Math/Science Elementary: Elsy Ayoub, Maya Hamieh Math/Science Secondary: Mirna Sabbagh, Loubna Hamzeh, Aya Itani, Mariam Al Mikati, Aya Abou Housse.

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B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Full time Faculty

Al-Hroub, Anies Associate Professor Ph.D. & Chairperson Amin, Tamer Associate Professor Ph.D. Bashshur, Munir Professor Ph.D. Baytiyeh, Hoda Associate Professor Ph.D. BouJaoude, Saouma Professor Ed.D. BouZeineddine, Amal Lecturer Ed.D. El-Hassan, Karma Associate Professor Ph.D. El-Mouhayar, Rabih Associate Professor Ph.D. Ghaith, Ghazi Professor Ph.D. Jurdak, Murad Professor Ph.D. Karami Akkari, Rima Associate Professor Ed.D. Khamis, Vivian Professor Ph.D. Khishfe, Rola Associate Professor Ph.D. Vlaardingerbroek, Barend Associate Professor Ph.D.

Part-Time Faculty Hana Addam, El Ghali Lecturer Ph.D. Bashour, Najla Lecturer Ph.D. El-Khatib, Lara Lecturer Ph.D. El-Zein, Farah* Lecturer Ph.D. Hout, Hanin Lecturer Ph.D. Hilal-Jurdi, Yara Lecturer Ph.D. Istfan Dabbous, Samira Lecturer Ph.D. Gharzeddine, Marwan** Lecturer Ph.D. Mouawad, Reem Lecturer Ph.D. Osman, Enja Lecturer, (Coordinator of Ph.D. Practice Teaching) Shukri Balaa, Rola** Lecturer Ph.D.

Graduate Assistants

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Fall Semester

Siline Itani Fatimah Akhdar Yusra Khattab Nisreen Mashaka Siline Itani Fatima Akhdar Yusra Khattab Nayla Attar Serene Saab Rima El-Khatib Razan Noureddine Fatimah Bourbagher Shaghig Chaparian Zeinab Al Bast Jennifer DeKnight Nadia Annous Maha Ghanem Sarah Farhat Christine Dolmayeh Sarah Zreim

Spring Semester

Zainab El Bast Razan Noureddine Maya Maalouf Sarah Farhat Fatima Safieddine Fatimah Akhdar Mahmoud El Baba Nisreen Machaka Sara Al Beainy Fatimah Bourbagher Salwa Ali Christine Dolmayeh Ghada Merhi Bleik Nidal Jouni

Non-Academic Staff

Kashou’ Kabalan, Leila Department Administrative Assistant To’meh, Munir Department Messenger

SMEC El-Oud, Nahed Administrative Assistant Hilou, Hanna Assistant Technician

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2017 2 Feb. 2018 2 June 2018 13 TD Oct. 2017 6 Feb. 2018 2 June 2018 23 MA Oct. 2017 -

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Feb. 2018 4 June 2018 1

2. Number of Majors

Summer Fall 2017- Spring 2017 2018 2017-2018 Graduates - 81 80 Prospective Grad. - 6 3 Teaching Diploma 1 16 15 Seniors 4 20 23 Juniors 5 9 11 Sophomores 3 21 18

*Many students are presently completing the Teaching Diploma along with the bachelor’s degree. During the academic year 2017-2018, some students completing bachelor’s degrees they enrolled in the science, English, and math methods and practicum courses, courses that are required for completing a Teaching Diploma.

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Summer 2017 1st Sem. 2nd Sem. Total Courses numbered 300 and - 87 74 161 above Courses numbered 211 80 494 473 1074 through 299 Theses and projects - 30 34 64 Comprehensive - 7 7 14 Total 80 618 588 1327

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Summer 2017 1st Sem. 2nd Sem. Total

Courses numbered - 18 24 42 300 and above Courses numbered 24 90 96 210 211 through 299 Thesis and projects - 48 63 111 Total 24 156 183 363

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D. RESEARCH

Anies Al-Hroub

1. Title of Project: Understanding Risks and Opportunities for Improving the Education Experience of Vulnerable Lebanese and Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon, (Principal Investigator: Anies Al-Hroub, Co-PI Hana El Ghali, Maha Shuayb, Vivian Khamis). Sponsor: World Bank, August 2017 – November 2018. Budget: 399,852 USD 2. The Mutual Relationship between Families and Scholars’ Experiences in the MasterCard Foundation (MCF) Scholars’ Program at FHS/AUB. MasterCard Foundation. (Principal Investigators: Jocelyn DeJong & Anies Al-Hroub, PhD. Co-investigators: Aline Germani, Maha Haidar). 3. Metacognition and Problem-Solving Strategies among Mathematically Gifted Achievers in the UK”, funded by URB and the British Academy.

Tamer Amin

1. Teaching science in Arabic, this project is an examination of the effect of Arabic diglossia on discourse interaction in elementary science instruction. 2. Forms of ontological knowledge in novices and expert scientists. 3. Learning scientific concepts: A unified theory of conceptual change; I am currently preparing a book manuscript with this title (under contract with Routledge)

Huda Baytiyeh

1. Online learning 2. Use of social media tools in educational contexts 3. Use of social media tools in emergencies

Saouma BouJaoude

1. Teaching and learning science in complex multilingual contexts (ongoing project). The purpose of this study is to determine ways in which Arabic is used to scaffold the learning of science. In addition, it aims to use the Cultural Historical Activity System (CHAT) to analyze schools as complex systems and identify internal contradiction that can be used to plan professional development. 2. Analyzing science textbooks to identify educational, cultural, and religious factors that influence science learning in Arab states. This was accomplished

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by using a framework that includes the skills needed to live and work in the 21st century and to identify how religion is integrated in the textbooks.

Amal Bouzeineddine

1. Supporting Quality Education in Saudi Arabia Project-21st Century Competencies in Teaching and Learning Practices, KSA- MOE and World Bank 2. Technical Coordinator for Reaching All Children with Education (RACE II) DIFD & MEHE 3. Coordinator, proposal author, and training designer for Cedar International School Professional Development Program, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Karma El-Hassan

1. Assessing Lebanese teachers’ assessment literacy. Data was collected and now working on data analysis and writing manuscript. 2. Working Group 5 Co-Chair on Erasmus + Project ‘"Programme Evaluation for Transparency and Recognition of Skills and Qualifications / TLQAA+". Work Package 5, ‘‘Core Standards & Procedures for the Evaluation of Programmes’, aims at defining the standards and procedures for external quality assurance (QA) at the programmatic level. During the first year of the project surveyed existing standards and procedures, drafted a first set of standards and procedures applicable to Lebanon, and validated them through roundtable discussions. These need to be finalized in this year.

Rabih El-Mouhayar

1. Trends of progression of student level of reasoning and generalization in numerical and figural reasoning approaches in pattern generalization. Paper submitted to Educational Studies in Mathematics (under review). 2. Submitted a research proposal entitled “Studying the development of prospective teachers’ noticing of students’ mathematical reasoning at the elementary school level” (Author: El Mouhayar, Rabih) for a one year “Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL)” Grant program for the Academic Year 2018-2019, which is offered by CTL at AUB. 3. Submitted (in collaboration with Dr. Tamer Amin) a research proposal entitled “Teaching Science and Mathematics in English: Beliefs, Attitudes, Challenges and Current Practices in Lebanese Public Schools” for URB 2018-19 Funding Cycle at AUB.

Murad Jurdak

1. Social and political dimensions of mathematics education 2. Role of GeoGebra in teaching and learning school mathematics

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Rima Karami Akkary

Research Grants 1. Karami-Akkary, R., &Boujaoude, S. (2015-2020) (Co-Principal Investigator and Director). The TAMAM Lebanon Hub, a five-year ($600,000) research grant from the Lore Foundation to expand the TAMAM Project in Lebanon. 2. Boujaoude, S. &Karami-Akkary, R., (2015-2018) (Co-Principal Investigators). From research to practice: making a difference in the classroom (Part III), a three-year ($600,000) research grant from the Arab Thought Foundation to continue the TAMAM Project in Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar.

Research articles under review 1. Birjaoui, R&. Karami-Akkary, R. Distributed leadership as a path to organizational commitment: The case of a Lebanese school. 2. Karami-Akkary, R., & Harb, S. Lebanese Conceptions of Effective School Leadership: A Cross Cultural Analysis. International Journal of Leadership in Education. 3. Karami-Akkary, R., Mahfouz, J & Mansour, S. Sustaining School-based Improvement: Considering Emotional Responses to Change. Journal of Educational Administration. 4. Karami-Akkary, R., Mansour, S., & Bayyoud, J. Evaluating Teacher Professional Learning: The Experience of TAMAM Project. Vivian Khamis

1. Khamis, V. The Educational and Psychosocial Status of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. This research investigates the long-term war atrocities and displacement repercussions and effects on refugee children and parents. Grant award from the University Research Board of AUB. ($6000 US). 2. Research team member of a research project entitled“Understanding Risks and Opportunities for Improving the Education Experience of Vulnerable Lebanese and Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon”, sponsored by the World Bank, Aug 2017–Nov 2018. Budget: $399,852 (PI: Al-Hroub, El Ghali, Khamis, Shuayb).

Rola Khishfe

1. Khishfe, R. (2017, August). “Students’ nature of science views: Are they consistent across scientific and socioscientific contexts?” Paper presented at the biannual conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Dublin, Ireland.

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2. Khishfe, R. (2018, May). “A Review of the literature for contexts of explicit teaching about nature of science” Paper presented at the meeting of the International Conference of Education, Barcelona, Spain. Barend Vlaardingerbroek

1. Practical implications of abolishing the Brevet examination 2. Functions of laboratories (industrial, medical, etc.) cf. school science labs

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Anies Al-Hroub

Training Manuals 1. Al-Hroub, (2018). Teaching Children in overcrowded classrooms: A training manual. UNICEF and Tala Establishment for Educational Materials. 2. Al-Hroub, (2018). Teaching Children with Learning disabilities: A training manual. UNICEF and Tala Establishment for Educational Materials

Conference Symposia/Panels 1. Al-Hroub, A. (Nov 11, 2017). Innovating Education to Reform Arab Societies. Harvard Arab Conference, Cambridge, MA. 2. Al-Hroub, A. (Jan 27, 2017). Tackling Vulnerability: Psychosocial Activities for Syrian Children and Youth in Lebanon. AUB4Refugees. Innovative Responses to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: AUB Forum. Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, AUB. 3. Al-Hroub, A. (Jan 23, 2017). Identification of twice-exceptional learners. The Lebanese Association for Educational Research, Beirut, Lebanon.

Conference Presentations / Summer Institute Presentation 1. Al-Hroub, Al. (Jan 22, 2018). Unleashing Your Gifted Child. Saint Joseph School, Lebanon. 2. Al-Hroub, Al. (Oct 27, 2017). Palestinian Refugee Dropout in UNRWA Schools in Lebanon. The 11th Annual Mental Health. Bridging Theory and Practice Documentation and Research in Mental Health Programs 27 and 28 October 2017. 3. Al-Hroub, A. (June 13, 2017) Inclusive Education in Lebanon: Challenges and plans. Summer Institute on Comparative approaches to inclusive & special education, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 4. Al-Hroub, A. (June 13, 2017) School Dropouts in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: A Qualitative Study. Summer Institute on Comparative

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approaches to inclusive & special education, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 5. Al-Hroub, A. (June 2017) the Five Types of Twice Exceptional Learners. The 15th International Conference on Excellence, Creativity & Innovation in Basic-Higher Education & Psychology. Lisbon - Portugal: July 3 - 5, 2017.

Advisor for PhD Student 1. Asma Tilawi (defended proposal). Inclusive Education: Conceptions and Challenges of Policymakers, Principals, and Teachers in Mainstream Schools in Lebanon.

Advisor for MA Student Research 1. Ghada Bleik (in preparation) 2. Nidal Jouni (in preparation) 3. Nissrine Machaka (proposal defended). 4. Hind Sino (proposal defended). Personality traits as predictors of theoretical orientation of counselors and clinical psychologists. 5. Annous, Nadia. (Proposal defended). A Comparison of directive and non-directive approaches in art therapy with Syrian refugees. 6. Saab, Cyrine. (In progress). Examining day-to-day survival strategies for street children in Lebanon: A multiple case study design 7. Ghanem, Maha. (Proposal defended). The effectiveness of existing career guidance services in Lebanese private schools from the perspective of secondary school counselors, teachers, and students 8. Attar, Nayla. (Proposal defended). Effects of Music Therapy to Enhance Verbal Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder 9. El Helou, Maria. (2017). Lebanese school counselor has perceived self-efficacy in dealing with bullying at school. Unpublished MA thesis, American University of Beirut. 10. Iskandar Baba, Aline. (2017). Career choice guidance and identify development status of Lebanese high school students in Beirut. Unpublished MA thesis, American University of Beirut. 11. Shehab, Noha. (2017). Lebanese counselors’ conceptions and methods of intervention for students with ADHD. Unpublished MA thesis, American University of Beirut.

Workshops and Seminars 1. Al-Hroub, A. (Nov 20-25, 2017). The Education of Learners with Special Educational Needs: Learning Disabilities and Gifted and Talented (40 hours training program). UNICEF, Tunisia, Hammamat.

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2. Al-Hroub, A. (Nov 24, 2017). Overcrowded Classrooms: Methods, Strategies and recommendations (one-day training workshop). UNICEF, Tunisia, Hammamat. 3. Al-Hroub, A. (June 27, 2017). Palestinian Refugee Dropout in UNRWA Schools in Lebanon. A lecture organized by the School of Advanced Social Studies (SASS) and supported by Erasmus+ programme KA1 Mobility for higher education students and staff – cooperation between School of Advanced Social Studies and American University of Beirut. 4. Al-Hroub, A. (June 26, 2017). Identifying Twice-Exceptional Learners (Gifted children with Learning Disabilities). A workshop organized by the School of Advanced Social Studies (SASS), and supported by Erasmus+ programme KA1 Mobility for higher education students and staff – cooperation between School of Advanced Social Studies and American University of Beirut

Faculty/Department and University Committees 1. Member, Task Force Teaching Load Committee, Department of Education 2. Faculty Research Director for the Issam Fares Institute’s Education and Youth Policy Research Program 3. Advisor, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs - The Education Program 4. Advisor, New Lebanon Club 5. Member, the UPP Advisory Committee 6. Member, FAS Ad-hoc Committee for Special Needs Accommodation 7. Member, Curriculum and Examination Committee (CEC) 8. Member, Promotion ad hoc Committees 9. Member, Practice Teaching Committee 10. Advisory Committee Member, MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), 2012 – present 11. Reviewer (1) manuscript for the “Educational Review”, (2) for “Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education”, & (2) for Journal of the International Association of Special Education

Tamer Amin

1. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Dublin, August 21-225, 2017 2. Represented AUB at exploratory strategic meeting of university consortium involving AUB, University of Reading (UK), Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), University of Cape Town (South Africa) which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, November 21-22, 2017

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3. Co-organized 1st meeting of the study group on “Modeling Conceptual Knowledge and Conceptual Change” at the Hanse Wissenshaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst, Germany, February 6-7, 2018 4. Presented invited lecture in the Linguistic Usages and Inventive Practices series entitled “Arabic Diglossia and Discourse Interaction in Elementary Science Classrooms in Lebanon” at French Institute of the Near East (IFPO), May 10, 2018 5. In collaboration with Rabih El-Mouhayar, conducted a teacher training project “Meeting the Language Challenge in Science and Mathematics Instruction” as part of a project conducted by AUB’s Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service to improve instruction for Syrian refugee girls in middle school 6. Chaired FAS Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee 7. Directed the Science and Mathematics Education Center 8. Chaired ad hoc committee preparing proposal for a PhD in Education

Amal BouZeineddine

1. Associate Director for Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL): performing responsibilities and designing/implementing activities for AUB and beyond 2. Member of Thesis Committee: Silvia Ekzarkova: Teachers’ Practices and their Conceptions of the Impact and Barriers in Differentiated Instruction for English Language Arts at the Elementary Level at a Lebanese Private School: A Case Study 3. Member of the Self-Study working group addressing Standard III: Design and Delivery of the Student Learning Experience 4. Reviewer of Papers for the International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education CTL/AUB 5. Developed a new graduate course, Educ. 307: Issues in Elementary Education 6. BouZeineddine, A. (Reviewed in progress) Field Experience Manual and Procedures for Practice Teaching 7. Reviewer of Proposals forCTLSoTL Grants 8. Member of First Semester Forum Task Force/ Diversity 9. Member of LEAD Steering Committee 10. Co-organizer of the International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education CTL/AUB 11. Conference attended: ACE 100th Annual Conference (March 2018), Washington DC, USA 12. Panelist on the US-AID University Scholarship Program (USP), “Leadership and Civic Engagement”

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Departmental Committees

1. Chair of Practice Teaching Committee 2. Chair of Restructuring BA Program Committee 3. Chair of Comprehensive Exams Committee/Elementary 4. Member of Education Curriculum and Examinations Committee 5. Member of Comprehensive Exams Committee/ TEFL 6. Member of Promotion Committee

Hoda Baytiyeh

1. Workshop with the CTL: Using Social media in Teaching and Learning 2. Workshop in the Education department: Creating Portfolios using Google Drive

Saouma BouJaoude

Conference Presentations 1. BouJaoude, S. (2017). Enhancing the quality of science education in Arab States: The Responsibilities of multiple stakeholders. Paper presented at the College of Education, Kuwait University as part of the activities associated with the 2017 Kuwait Prize for Education. Kuwait, December 12, 2017 2. BouJaoude, S. (2017). Educational, cultural, and religious factors influencing science education in Arab States. Paper presented at the conference on Science Education in the Muslim World organized by Hamad Bin Khalifah University and the McGill Centre for Islam and Science, Doha, Qatar, December 9 & 10, 2017 3. BouJaoude, S (2017). A presentation on key themes regarding teaching and learning. Presented at the Quality Assurance Seminar organized by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, and Université Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon 4. BouJaoude, S. (2017). A study of the organizational and theoretical foundations of teacher education programs in Lebanon. Paper presented at the conference entitled “How to prepare teachers for life” organized by Queen Rania Academy, Amman, Jordan (In Arabic). (The presentation is partially based on El Mouhayar and BouJaoude, 2012) 5. Yarak, F., Kyriakos-Saad, F., BouJaoude, S. & Jarrar, S. (November 2017). Schools mapping and assessment in Lebanon. A panel organized by InfoPro (http://www.infopro.com.lb/profile.asp) to discuss a research study on schools in Lebanon. Beirut: Lebanon/ 6. BouJaoude, S. (November 2017). Supporting Syrian Teachers to teach the Lebanese curriculum to refugee students. Paper presented that the conference on the protective role of language in global migration and mobility: language policies

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and practices in refugee settings. Beirut, Lebanon: American University of Beirut 7. Salloum, S. &BouJaoude, S. (2017). Science teaching and learning in multilingual Lebanese middle school classrooms. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the European Science Education Research Association, Dublin, Ireland, August 20-25, 2017 8. BouJaoude, S., & Salloum, S. (2017). Development of an analytical framework for interaction analysis in multilingual science classrooms. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the European Science Education Research Association, Dublin, Ireland, August 20-25, 2017 9. BouJaoude, S. (2017). Professional teaching standards and their alignment with the progress scale. Presentation at the Center for Educational Research and Development, Dikwaneh, Lebanon, June 21, 2017 10. BouJaoude, S. (2018). Is there a place for nudging in educational settings? Presentation at the conference on “Behavioral economics and nudge in the Arab region: Lessons learned and challenges ahead. Beirut, Lebanon, May 11 and 12, 2018 11. BouJaoude, S. (2018). Lessons learned from studies on Christian and Muslim teachers and students' views of the theory of evolution. Lecture presented for members of the University for Seniors at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, April 26, 2018 12. BouJaoude, S. & Salloum, S. (2018) Contradictions and congruence in multilingual science classrooms: An activity theory perspective. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Atlanta, Georgia, March 9-13, 2018 13. Salloum, S. & BouJaoude, S. (2018). Development of an analytical framework for analyzing interactions in multilingual science classrooms. A contribution to a Symposium entitled “Interaction analysis in multilingual science classrooms: analytical frameworks and methods” presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Atlanta, Georgia, March 9-13, 2018 14. BouJaoude, S. (2018). Evolution education in the Arab states: Context, history, stakeholders’ positions and future prospects. A contribution to a Symposium entitled “Evolution Education around the Globe” organized at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Atlanta, Georgia, March 9-13, 2018 15. BouJaoude, S. & Salloum, S. (2018). Science Education in Complex Multilingual Contexts: The Case of Lebanon. Paper presented at the workshop on the Role of Science Education in Changing World at the Lorentz Center, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, January 8-12, 2018

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Service to the department

1. Member of the Departmental Ad Hoc Ph.D. Committee 2. Member of the Departmental Ad Hoc Program Promotion Committee

Service to the faculty

1. Associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2. Chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Service to the university

1. Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning 2. Co-Chair of the AUB Teaching Excellence Award Committee 3. Vice Chair of the University Accreditation Steering Committee 4. Chair of the Committee on Measuring Teaching Effectiveness 5. Consultant on REP projects

Service to the profession

1. Associate editor of the Journal for Research in Science Teaching 2. Board member of the International Society of Educational Research (ISER), Turkey 3. Consulting Editor for International Review of Education, Edited by the UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany 4. International editorial board member of the International Journal for Research in Education (IJRE) 5. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the McGill Journal of Education (MJE) 6. Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Science and Math Education 7. Member of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Independent Expert Committee (IEC) in Social Sciences 8. Member of the executive Committee of the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies 9. Member of the Board of Trustees of NUDGE Lebanon

Service to the Community

1. Member of the Board of Trustees of Al Ahliah School, Beirut, Lebanon 2. Member of the Board of Governors, Brummana High School, Brummana, Lebanon

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3. Member of the Board of Trustees of Marjeyoun National College 4. Member of the Trustees of Nudge Lebanon

Research and Development Grants: Ongoing Grants

1. BouJaoude, S., & Karami, R. (2015). From research to practice: making a difference in the classroom (Part II), a four year ($600,000) research grant in Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. 2. Karami, R. & BouJaoude, S. (2015). Toward an Educational Reform Movement in the Arab World: TAMAM’s Lebanon Hub. Grant of $600,000.00 from the LORE Foundation.

Karma El-Hassan

1. Continued serving on Steering Committee of MOEHE World Bank/DFID Research 4 Results as representative of Lebanese private universities. 2. Representing AUB on LIBNOR Technical Committee for development of education quality. 3. Continued serving on the National Task Force for Governance in Higher Education. 4. Worked on several Research & External Programs (REP) projects at AUB: a. Quality Assurance Consultant on Ahfad University for Women Project, Sudan b. Al Manaa College, Dhahran c. Middle East Airlines Cadet Pilot Project. 5. Reviewed manuscripts for Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, International Journal of School and Educational Psychology, Journal of Career Development, and Child Indicators Research Journal. 6. Reviewed manuscripts for Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL, AUB). Spring 2018 7. Served as a CERD Consultant on drafting the TIMSS and PISA Reports. Reports are now ready and will be published this month. Spring 2018 8. Served on national examinations screening and testing accommodations committee. 9. Organized a Road Show on Rankings attended by higher education institutions in Lebanon and the region. February 2018 10. At invitation of Minister of Education and World Bank participated in the panel organized on the occasion of the launch of World Bank 2018 Report on ‘Learning’ December 2017

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11. Presented in AUF/MOEHE Seminar on ‘Creation and Stabilization of a Quality Assurance System in A Higher Education Institution’. December 2017, 12. Presented in ‘Higher Education in 21st Century: Using Data to Respond to Opportunities and Challenges’ Conference on ‘Higher Education Transformation: Role of Technology in enhancing quality’, Dubai, UAE. November 2017 13. Presented in TLQAA Round Table on Standards for Program review. November 2017 14. Taught courses Education 217 and Education 318. 15. Supervisor of four MA and three PhD. theses; served on committees of two MA theses. 16. Served on the following AUB committees a. BA Education Restructuring Committee (Department) b. Program Learning Outcomes Committee (Department) c. Institutional Assessment Committee (AUB) d. Accreditation Steering Committee e. Accreditation Working Group IV Co- Chair f. University Admissions Committee g. LEAD Research & Evaluation Committee, Co-Chair overseeing US Aid, MEPI, and Master Card students

Rabih El-Mouhayar

1. A one-page research proposal entitled “Levels of generalization and the SOLO taxonomy” (Author: Rabih El Mouhayar) will be published in Bergqvist, E. & Österholm, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 42). Sweden: PME. The conference will take place July 3–July 8 in Sweden. 2. Reviewed one article for the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education; one article for the Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn); three research reports (each is formed of eight pages) for the 42nd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 42). 3. El Mouhayar, R. “Teachers’ forms of attention to students’ written responses in pattern generalization”. In Kaur, B., Ho, W.K., Toh, T.L., & Choy, B.H. (Eds.). 20 minutes Research Report oral presentation followed by 20 minutes discussion during the 41st Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 41). Singapore: PME. 4. Designed and implemented (in collaboration with Dr. Tamer Amin) a professional development workshop (one day - 6 hours) for mathematics and science in-service teachers teaching Syrian students. The focus of the

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workshop was to address challenges and difficulties related to teaching mathematics and science in a foreign language (in particular, English is the language of instruction) 5. Designed and implemented (in collaboration with Dr. Enja Osman) a professional development workshop (4 ½ hours) for mathematics and science in-service teachers from different cycles (Grades 1- 12). The focus of the workshop was to involve teachers in activities related to project- based learning.

Ghazi Ghaith

1. Presented a paper at the 8th International Conference on Language, Education, and Innovation, Kuala Lumpur 2. Member of the Ph.D. in Education Committee 3. Member of the BA in Education Committee 4. Chair of the PLO assessment committee in Education 5. Coordinated the Dar Jana In-service Teacher Training Program

Murad Jurdak

1. Member, FAS Advisory Committee 2. Student advisor, Teaching Diploma in Mathematics Education 3. Student advisor, MA in mathematics education 4. Member of the Department Practice Teaching Committee 5. Chair of the BOT of Marj’ayoun National College 6. Served as committee member on one MA thesis 7. Advisor for two PhD mathematics education students at the Lebanese University

Rima Karami

Invited Presentations and Keynotes 1. Karami-Akkary, R. Keynote speaker learning to lead: Contextualizing teacher professional learning for sustainable development. SDG 4 Teacher Conference, Arab States- Quality and Innovation in Teacher Professional Development: Issues and Challenges. UNESCO. Lebanon December 2017 2. Karami-Akkary, R. Presenter. Review of Educational Administration Articles in Shamaa Database (2007-2017): A decade of Challenges and Promises. Enhancing the Quality of Knowledge in Educational Arabic Journal. A Regional Seminar Organized by Shamaa, Beirut Lebanon December 2017 3. Karami-Akkary, R. Presenter. Emancipatory Action research: developing a contextually grounded model for school improvement. A

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presentation delivered to the FAS faculty in the FAS research Lunch at the American University of Beirut. Beirut, Lebanon. September 2017 4. Karami-Akkary, R. (Keynote speaker) Mentoring as a basis for a culture of continuous change. A presentation delivered in Al Mabarrat Association 26th Educational Conference. Beirut, Lebanon September 2017 Professional consultations 1. Consultant, Institutionalization of School Improvement Program. EDPII. Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Beirut, Lebanon 2. Consultant, Gulf Arab States Educational Research Center, Kuwait, Kuwait 3. Consultant, Communications Skills Program, Department of English, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon 4. Consultant, Arab World Horizons; Initiative for Education in the Arab world. Carnegie Middle East Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Amman, Jordan

Key TAMAM Project Activities 1. TAMAM Workshops: conducted 7 workshops in Lebanon and Jordan and Oman to support the teams in the participating schools in the TAMAM project. Between September 2017 and April 2018 2. TAMAM improvement journey: Designing and reflecting on the innovative intervention. A workshop delivered to the Communication Skills Program members. American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon January 2018 3. TAMAM: A school-based project. A presentation delivered to the faculty members in the education division in the Arab Open University, Jordan. December 2017 4. TAMAM: A school-based project. A presentation delivered to representatives from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Beirut, Lebanon. November 2017 5. TAMAM first Lebanon Hub Gathering. A two-day gathering delivered to all Lebanon TAMAM schools (10 public and private schools). American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon June-July 2017

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Vivian Khamis

1. Presented a paper “Religiosity as a mediator and moderator between war atrocities and hyperactivity in children exposed to armed conflict” at 2018 4th International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL), and Imperial College London, UK 2. Supervised the MA thesis of one student and served on MA committee thesis of two students. I also supervised two PhD dissertations of students at the Université St-Joseph 3. Served as external reviewer of a promotion file for one professor at Yarmouk University, Jordan, 2017 4. Reviewed articles for International Journal of School and Educational Psychology (7), Journal of Mental Health (2), International Journal of Psychology (1), International Journal for Research in Education, UAE (1). Also reviewed seven articles for Sultan Qaboos University as well as four research proposal for Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)

Services within the Department of Education and FAS 1. Member of the PhD Program Committee 2. Member of the Program Learning Outcomes Committee 3. Academic Advisor of the MA Program in Educational Psychology (EPSG) 4. Member of the Practice Teaching Committee (PTC) 5. External Member of the Psychology Department Search Committee.

University Wide 1. Moderator for the 49th MEMA Mental health across the life span April 19- 22, 2018 AUB 2. Moderating the session on school mental health. April 20, 2018. 3. Member of the Jury for the annual event IBDAA, April 27, 2018

Rola Khishfe

1. Program Committee Organizer, SMEC 2. Chair, Library Committee 3. Member, General Education Board 4. Member, Elections Committee, National Association for Research in Science Teaching 5. Participant in the 2018 IBDAA Event with my students in EDUC 274. 6. Member, Nature Conservation Center. 7. Member, BA Program Restructuring Committee. 8. Participant, PADILEIA project, a blended science program for Syrian Refugees, funded by UK Aid

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F. PUBLICATIONS

Anies Al-Hroub

1. El Khoury, S., & Al-Hroub, A. (2018). Gifted education in Lebanese schools: Integrating theory, research, and practice. Switzerland: Springer Publishing. 2. Al-Hroub, A., & El Khoury, S. (2018). Introduction to giftedness in Lebanon. In S. El Khoury, & A. Al-Hroub. (2018). Gifted education in Lebanese schools: Integrating theory, research, and practice (pp. 1-8). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 3. Al-Hroub, A., & El Khoury, S. (2018). Definitions and conceptions of giftedness around the world. In S. El Khoury, & A. Al-Hroub. (2018). Gifted education in Lebanese schools: Integrating theory, research, and practice (pp. 9- 38). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 4. Al-Hroub, A., & El Khoury, S. (2018). Giftedness in Lebanon: Emerging issues and future considerations. In S. El Khoury, & A. Al-Hroub. (2018). Gifted education in Lebanese schools: Integrating theory, research, and practice (pp. 95-110). Switzerland: Springer Publishing. 5. Kebbi, M., &Al-Hroub, A. (2017). Stress and coping strategies used by special education and general classroom teachers. International Journal of Special Education, 33, 43-61.

Tamer Amin

1. Amin, T. G. (2017). Articulating knowledge-in-pieces with other theories of conceptual change: Commentary on diSessa. Human Development, 60, 44- 54. 2. Amin, T. G. & Levrini, O. (Eds.) (2018). Converging perspectives on conceptual change: Mapping an emerging paradigm in the learning sciences. London, UK: Routledge. 3. Amin, T. G. (2018). Representation, concepts and concept learning. In T. G. Amin, &O. Levrini (Eds.), Converging perspectives on conceptual change: Mapping an emerging paradigm in the learning sciences. London, UK: Routledge. 4. Amin, T. G. & Levrini, O. (2018). Facing the challenge of programmatic research on conceptual change. In Amin, T. G. & Levrini, O. (Eds.). Converging perspectives on conceptual change: Mapping an emerging paradigm in the learning sciences. London, UK: Routledge.

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Hoda Baytiyeh

1. Baytiyeh, H. (2018). Progreen online engineering diploma in the Middle East: Assessment of the educational experience. European Journal of Engineering Education, 43(2), 264-277. 2. Baytiyeh, H. (2018). Online learning during post-earthquake school closures. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 27(2), 215-227. 3. Baytiyeh, H. (2018). Students' use of mobile technologies: Motivational factors. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE), 14(1), 73-85. 4. Baytiyeh, H. (2018). Education to reduce recurring conflicts. Peace Review, 30(1), 95-102. 5. Baytiyeh, H. (2018). Can disaster risk education reduce the impacts of recurring disasters on developing societies? Education and Urban Society, 50(3), 230-245. 6. Baytiyeh, H. & Naja M.K. (2017). Students’ perceptions of the flipped classroom model in an engineering course: A case study, European Journal of Engineering Education, 42(6), 1048-1061.

Saouma BouJaoude

1. BouJaoude, S., Dagher, Z., & Refai, S. (2017). The Portrayal of nature of science in Lebanese 9th grade science textbooks. In C. McDonald & F. Abd-El-Khalick (Eds.), Representations of Nature of Science in School Science Textbooks: A global perspective (pp. 79-97). New York: Routledge. 2. Osman, E., BouJaoude, S., & Hamdan, H. (2017). An investigation of Lebanese G7-12 students’ misconceptions and difficulties in genetics and their genetics literacy. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. 15, 1257–1280. doi:10.1007/s10763-016-9743-9

Karma El-Hassan

1. El Hassan, K., Abu Orabi, S., & Al-Zoubi, A. (2018).Benchmarking Tools for Good Governance in Arab Universities. Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Higher Education Research, 38(2), 1-24.

Ghazi Ghaith

1. Ghaith, G. (2017). Relationship between selected demotivation determinants and achievement in critical EFL reading and writing (8ICLEI-029). The 8th

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International Conference on Language, Education, and Innovation 2017, Kuala Lumpur, p. 10-24. 2. Ghaith, G. (2018). Teacher perceptions of the challenges of implementing concrete and conceptual cooperative learning. Issues in Educational Research, 28, 385-404. 3. Awada, G.& Ghaith, G.(2018). Effect of Paideia Seminar on the Comprehension of Poetry and Perception of Learning. Reading Psychology, 39(1), 69-89. DOI: 10.1080/02702711.2017.1382406 4. Ghaith, G. (2018). English as a second/foreign language reading comprehension: A framework for curriculum and instruction. TESL Reporter, 50(2), 1-17.

Rabih El Mouhayar

1. El Mouhayar, R. (2018). Exploring teachers’ attention to students’ responses in pattern generalization tasks. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10857-018-9406-6 2. El Mouhayar, R. (2017). “Teachers’ forms of attention to students’ written responses in pattern generalization”. In Kaur, B., Ho, W.K., Toh, T.L., & Choy, B.H. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 41st Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 41). Vol. 2, pp. 305-312. Singapore: PME.

Murad Jurdak

1. Jurdak, M., Vithal, R., (Eds.). (2018). Sociopolitical Dimensions of Mathematics Education-from the Margin to Mainstream (ICME-13 Monographs Series). New York: Springer. 2. Jurdak, M. (2018). Integrating the sociocultural and socio-political in mathematics education. In M. Jurdak, & R. Vithal, (Eds.), Sociopolitical Dimensions of Mathematics Education-from the Margin to Mainstream (ICME-13 Monographs Series), pp.15-33. New York: Springer. 3. Vithal, R. & Jurdak, M. (2018). Mainstreaming of the sociopolitical in mathematics education. In M. Jurdak, & R. Vithal, (Eds.), Sociopolitical Dimensions of Mathematics Education-from the Margin to Mainstream (ICME-13 Monographs Series), pp.1 -12. New York: Springer. 4. Jurdak M., Vithal R., Gates P., de Freitas E., Kollosche D. (2017). Topic Study Group No. 34: Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education. In Kaiser G. (Eds), Proceedings of the 13thInternational Congress on Mathematical Education, pp 537-542. ICME-13 Springer, Cham.

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Vivian Khamis

1. Khamis, V. (2018). How can gender affect psychopathology in Lebanese school-age children? Psychology in the Schools, 5, 404–418. DOI: 10.1002/pits.22119 2. Khamis, V. (2017). Psychological distress of parents in conflict areas: The mediating role of war atrocities, normative stressors and family resources. Journal of Mental Health, 26, 104–110. DOI:10.3109/09638237.2016.1139072 3. Khamis, V. (2017). Psychosocial sequelae of war-related disabilities on children. International Journal of Technology and Inclusive Education, 6, 1117- 1123. DOI: 10.20533/ijtie.2047.0533.2017.0138 4. Khamis, V. (2018). Religiosity as a mediator and moderator between war atrocities and hyperactivity in children exposed to armed conflict. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL), Imperial College London, UK.

Rima Karami

1. DeKnight, J, & Karami-Akkary, R. (February 2018). Diversity, tolerance and civic engagement in higher education: An evaluation of the University Scholarship Program in Lebanon. Center for Teaching and Learning. American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. 2. Karami-Akkary, R., Mahfouz, J., & Mansour, S. (November 2017). Sustaining School-based Improvement: Considering Emotional Responses to Change. University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) 31st Annual Convention. Denver, USA 3. Ghosn, E., &Karami-Akkary, R. (April 2017). The challenges facing teacher unions in Lebanon. Poster session presented at the 17th annual OISE Graduate Student Research Conference, Toronto, ON.

Rola Khishfe

1. Yacoubian, H., & Khishfe, R. (2018). Argumentation, critical thinking, nature of science and socioscientific issues: A dialogue between two researchers. International Journal of Science Education. doi: 10.1080/09500693.2018.1449986. 2. Khishfe, R. (2017). Consistency of nature of science views across scientific and socioscientific contexts. International Journal of Science Education, 39(4), 403-432.doi: 10.1080/09500693.2017.1287976. 3. Khishfe, R., Alshaya, F. S., BouJaoude, S., Mansour, N., & Alrudiyan, K. I. (2017). Students’ understandings of nature of science and their arguments in the context of four socioscientific issues. International Journal of Science Education, 39(3), 299-334. doi: 10.1080/09500693.2017.1280741.

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Barend Vlaardingerbroek

1. Vlaardingerbroek, B. (2018). Challenges to biology education from new reproductive technologies. Journal of Biological Education, 52(2), 231-234. 2. Vlaardingerbroek, B., Taylor, N., Bale, C. & Kennedy, J. (2017). Linking the experiential, affective and cognitive domains in biology education: A case study – microscopy. Journal of Biological Education, 51(2), 144-150.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

Similar to last academic year, and as response to the self-study program review conducted in 2013-14, we are still working on the process of implementing permanent changes aimed at: (1) Upgrading the Department to a “School.” The Department is planning to propose the creation of a School of Education within FAS to give their programs more flexibility, visibility, and prominence; (2) Developing a Doctoral program in Education; and (3) Introducing MEd (Professional MA degree).

In the upcoming year, we need to do the following: (1) Address the comments received from the FAS undergraduate committee on the BA proposal. The plan is to introduce this revised program, if possible starting Sep 2019-20. The focus of new BA program will be on homeroom teaching, (2) (3) Develop and discuss the financial report for the proposed MEd Professional degree. The MEd proposal was approved in the Department in May 2017, but we still need to discuss and approve the costs and financial report in Fall 2018/19, (4) Proceed in developing a proposal for a Doctoral program in Education. A departmental committee has been established in line with the recommendations of the 2015 Program Review Committee and is ready to proceed in drafting and submitting a detailed proposal; (5) Organize a two-day Education Research Forum for education graduate students in February 2019; (6) Organize the biennial interregional research conference for math and science education; (7) Write a booklet about the history of the Department of Education; (8) Refurbish two classrooms and the center for special educational needs (We received the fund, and selected the furniture, but need to follow up on it); (9) Increase the number of GAs to assist the fifteen full-time faculty in their research, maintain the psychoeducational center, SMEC library and the computer lab, and assist in the departmental academic activities (e.g. Graduate Research Forum, Education Forum, In-service teacher training, and Department and SMEC conferences); (10) Advertise for the Educational Administration and Policy Studies academic position, and (11) Fill a position in educational psychology/special education

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because since the resignation of Dr. Samar Mukkalid in 2012-13 [program review report, 2013-14], the Department did not advertise for a position to fill this line, given that the largest number of part-time instructors are teaching courses in special education and educational psychology.

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APPENDIX A: SCIENCE & MATH EDUCATION CENTER (SMEC)

A. SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

The following activities took place in SMEC between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018:

1. SMEC Faculty Teaching and Service Activities: Please refer to the annual reports of the faculty members presented to the Department of Education. 2. SMEC Faculty Research: Please refer to the annual reports of SMEC faculty members presented to the Department of Education. 3. SMEC Teacher Professional Development Initiatives: Please refer to the annual reports of the SMEC faculty members presented to the Department of Education. 5. 20th Annual SMEC Conference (SMEC 20): The Twentieth Annual Science and Mathematics Educators’ Conference (SMEC 20) was organized by the Science and Math Education Center on the campus of AUB on March 17, 2018. The conference program included two invited plenary lectures presented by and more than 30 peer-reviewed presentations that included research reports, developmental workshops, and innovative ideas in addition to a textbook exhibit in which four publishers or distributors participated. Over 500 teachers, coordinators, school administrators and university faculty attended the conference. 6. 24th Annual Science, Math, and Technology Fair: The Science and Math Education Center, in collaboration with the Education Students Society (ESS), organized the 24th Annual Science, Math and Technology Fair on the weekend of April 14 and 15, 2018. The fair provided K-12 students from 24 schools throughout Lebanon with the opportunity to share scientific, mathematical and technological projects with their peers from other schools. Over 400 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 participated in the fair. Science and Math education students, SMEC faculty as well as over 50 professors and advanced students from many science, technology, and math oriented departments at AUB and other universities in Lebanon participated as judges. 7. Science and Mathematics Go Public: The 3rd lecture in this series was organized on May 3rd, 2018. This lecture, entitled “Challenging myths about the waterpipe: The contributions of the Atmospheric and Analytical Chemistry Lab (AAL) at AUB”, was presented by Professor Najat Saliba, Department of Chemistry, AUB. The lecture was open to a wider audience both within and outside of AUB. It was attended by over 80 high school students and their teachers from several schools, including some from outside of Beirut as well as by AUB faculty and students.

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8. SMEC Library: The SMEC library continues to serve as a valuable resource and study center for both pre-service and in-service teachers and for BA and Teaching Diploma students in the department of education. The library is open daily M-F from 8 am-5 pm and is always attended by SMEC staff members or a student librarian. 9. FISK 208, SMEC Teaching Lab: An assessment of the safety conditions of the chemicals stored in FISK 208 was conducted and it was determined that it was time to dispose of these chemicals. With the support of AUB’s office of Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management these chemicals were disposed of safely. 10. SMEC Website: The SMEC Website (http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/smec/Pages/index.aspx) was updated with announcements regarding SMEC activities. The Website includes information about SMEC activities, conference proceedings, SMEC Faculty, SMEC Staff, and the SMEC Library. 11. Preparation for upcoming events: The 2nd Interregional Conference on Research in Science and Mathematics Education, which will be held on November 17-18, 2018 is currently being organized. The theme for this conference is “Bridging Research in the Arab and Asia Pacific Regions.”

B. PERSONNEL ACADEMIC

Amin, Tamer Associate, Professor Science Education BouJaoude, Saouma Professor Science Education El-Mouhayar, Rabih Associate Professor Math Education Jurdak, Murad Professor Math Education Khishfe, Rola Associate Professor Science Education Vlaardingerbroek, Barend Associate Professor Curriculum and Instruction/Science Education Non-ACADEMIC

El-Oud Haidar, Nahed SMEC Administrative Assistant Hilu, Hanna SMEC Assistant Technician

Tamer Amin SMEC Director

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

1. The Department of English continues to offer B.A. degree programs in Language and Literature, and minors in four areas: Language, Literature, Creative Writing, and Gender Studies. In addition, it offers three minors in collaboration with other departments and programs at AUB: a Minor in Translation with the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, a Minor in Theater with the Department of Fine Arts and Art History and the Civilization Studies Program, and a minor in Film and Visual Culture with the Media Studies Program of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies. At the graduate level, the Department offers MA degrees in Language and in Literature. The Department of English features a wide array of courses, which include courses in literature (English, American, and comparative/world literature), language, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, translation, theater, film and visual culture, gender and women’s studies, digital humanities, in addition to courses in academic writing offered by the Communication Skills Program (see Appendix A). The high enrollment in all categories shows a high demand for English courses, both for majors and for the university community at large. The Department qualifies as “the point of entry and incubator for new forms of inquiry that reach out to other disciplines,” as documented in the Department’s External Review.

2. This year, the department welcomed a new Assistant Professor in Gender Studies and medieval literature, Dr. Kathryn Maude. It also hired two new FT Instructors in the Communication Skills Program: Bruce Bartlett and Ryan Johnson. Dorota Fleszar continued to direct the Communication Skills Program in 2017-18.

3. The Department ran two searches in 2017-18: (1) in Language Testing and Assessment (replacement of Dr. John Pill) and (2) in Rhetoric and Composition (replacement of Dr. Ira Allen). Due to the non-suitability of the candidates for the first position, the search was ended in Fall. The second resulted in two campus visits (including job talks, class sessions, meetings with the Dean of FAS, Chairperson, faculty, and students). It was successful, and Dr. David Landes accepted the job offer.

4. One Associate Professor who was on a 2-year unpaid leave (Dr. David Wrisley) and two current Assistant Professors (Dr. Jennifer Nish and Dr. James Hodapp) have resigned and accepted university positions abroad.

5. The Department’s regular four internal committees (Assessment, Undergraduate, Graduate, and Communication Skills Program Committee) made significant achievements. (1) The Assessment Committee (chaired by Malakeh Khoury)

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developed rubrics for the revised PLOs for the Language and Literature programs, updated the curriculum matrix, and conducted surveys for graduating seniors. (2) The Undergraduate Committee (chaired by Dr. Niamh Kelly as Director of Undergraduate Studies) initiated a serious discussion about revising the undergraduate program in language and identified areas of concentration. (3) The Graduate Committee (chaired by Dr. David Currell as Director of Graduate Studies) oversaw the implementation of the new catalogue revisions of the graduate program in literature. These changes form the basis of a possible future PhD program in literature. The committee worked towards continuous improvement of graduate studies in Language and Literature and coordinated the critical reflections and regularly informed students about deadlines for theses proposal and defenses. (4) The Communication Skills Program Committee this year included Dr. Amy Zenger (in Rhetoric and Composition) and Dr. Niamh Kelly (in language) who gave close advice to the Director of the Communication Skills Program (Dorota Fleszar).

6. The Department continued to work closely with the English Student Society as well as with other clubs, not restricted to but coming out of the Department: The Africa Club, the Gender and Sexuality Club, and the Cultural Studies Club. In addition, the Department together with the English Student Society organized its third departmental graduation ceremony on June 1.

7. The Department’s website continues to be updated and redesigned as well as its Twitter account @AUB_ENGL and Facebook page (new) for the purposes of communication with students and community building within and beyond AUB.

8. The Department organized several conferences, among them a major conference in April, workshops, talks, and other events. It continued (in Fall) the Departmental English Colloquium, featuring talks by departmental faculty and advanced graduate students. 8.1. The Department of English organized a Public lecture 'John Milton in the Arab- Muslim World: Research and Reception' by Islam Issa (Birmingham City University). 9.12.2017. 8.2. Together with the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages: A Public lecture 'Pedagogies of Revolt: Translating Egypt in Flux' by Samia Mehrez (AUC). 9.13.2017. 8.3. A Public Seminar 'Taking Ownership: Shakespeare and Arab Popular Culture' by Islam Issa (Birmingham City University). 9.15.2017. 8.4. Together with CAMES: A Book Reading 'The Home That WAs Our Country; A Memoir of Syria' by the Author Alia Malek.10.17.2017. 8.5. Together with Rusted Radishes, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, CAMES, and ’series ترجمات - Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages: a Tarjamat Translating the Language of War” by the writer and translator Lina Mounzer. 10.23.2017.

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8.6. Together with the FAS, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, :series ترجمات - CAMES and in coordination with Rusted Radishes: A Tarjamat Vagabondsand Outcasts: A Reading of Ancient/Contemporary Sa’alik Poetry’ by SUNEELA MUBAYI. 11.8.2017. 8.7. Departmental English Colloquium: A Talk by Dr. Niamh Kelly “Phonetics Informs Phonology: Bidialectalism and Vowel Raising in Lebanese and Palestinian Arabic’’. 11.13.2017. 8.8. Together with the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages and the CAH: 'Creative Fiction in Translation' featuring readings of original creative pieces and their translations by the students of ENGL 249 and ENGL 262C/ ARAB 251T. 11.20.2017. 8.9. Together with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages and CAMES in coordination with Rusted Radishes: A Tarjamat series: ‘Translating Travel: A Writer Discusses the Craft of Nonfiction ترجمات - Storytelling by MICHELE MORANO. 11.21.2017. 8.10. Together with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, and CMES in coordination with Rusted Radishes: A Tarjamat series: Limbo Beirut: Readings and Discussion of Literature and Translation ترجمات - by Hilal Chouman and Anna Ziajka Stanton. 11.24.2017. 8.11. A Public Lecture 'Un Ego au féminin: Gender and Power in Fadhma Ait Mansour’s Histoire de ma vie' by the research affiliate Dr. Lynda Chouiten (University of Boumerdès). 12.4.2017. 8.12. A Book Presentation 'Le Roman des Pôv’Cheveux' by the research affiliate Dr. Lynda Chouiten (University of Boumerdès). 12.7.2017. 8.13. Departmental English Colloquium: A talk by Lara El Mekkawi 'One Foot out the Door: Indecisive Cosmopolitanism and Rabih Alameddine' by. 12.11.2017. 8.14. Together with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research and the Theater Initiative: A lecture on Benjamin Franklin: Media Entrepreneur in the Republic of Letters by Martin Puchner. 2.5.2018. 8.15. Together with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research, and the Theater Initiative: A talk ''Theater Experiments: How The Marriage of Philosophy and Performance Helped Create Harvard’s Program in Theater, DANCE AND MEDIA’‘ by Martin Puchner. 2.6.2018. 8.16. Together with the CAH: A Lecture by Melvin Burgess: 'Storytelling with Settings and Environment'. 2.15.2018. 8.17. Together with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, and CMES in coordination with Rusted Radishes: A series: ‘Translation as a Creative Collaboration' with Mexican ترجمات- Tarjamat novelist, Yuri Herrera, and award-winning translator, Lisa Dillman. 2.19.2018. 8.18. A Talk 'Embracing the Excess: William James and a New Materialist Ethics For Rhetoric and Composition' by Matthew Overstreet. 3.8.2018. 8.19. A Talk 'Ways of Seeing and Not Seeing: Kenneth Burke’s Contributions Toward a Theory of Attention for Rhetoric and Composition' by Dr. David Landes. 3.12.2018.

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8.20. Together with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages and CMES in coordination with Rusted Radishes: A Talk 'Poetry and Translation Call and Response' by Marilyn Hacker.3.13.2018. 8.21. A roundtable on 'Black Panther’ Film in collaboration with The Media Studies Program, The English Student Society and the African Cultural Club. 3.13.2018. 8.22. Together with the Media Studies Program, Program in Public Policy and International Affairs and CASAR: A Lecture 'Trump from Reality TV to Twitter: American Populism in the Digital Age' by Brian T. Edwards (Northwestern University). 3.22.2018. 8.23. Workshop entitled “Technology and Writing across the Curriculum” in collaboration with the Holy Spirit University, at the Fifth Annual Symposium on the Teaching of Writing in Lebanon. 4.14.2018. 8.24. Together with the CASAR, CUNY's PhD Program in Theatre and Performance and the Theater Initiative: A Conference "Latin America, al-Andalus and the Arab World." and stage play in a promenade theater performance of ''Blood Wedding''. 15- 17.4.2018. (http://website.aub.edu.lb/fas/english/Pages/Latin%20American%20Conference %20Program%20(3).pdf). 8.25. Together with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages and CAMES in coordination with Rusted Radishes: Tarjamat series event 'Magdy el-Shafee and Chip Rossetti Discuss Award Winning ترجمات - Graphic Novel Metro'.4.19.2018. 8.26. Together with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Arabic and series event “Bilal Orfali in ترجمات - Near Eastern Languages and CAMES: Tarjamat Dialogue with Chip Rossetti’’ 'LIBRARY OF ARABIC LITERATURE’’. 4.19.2018 8.27. Together with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, and CAMES in coordination with Rusted Radishes: A series event 'Humphrey Davies in Conversation with Rana Issa ترجمات - Tarjamat Translating Untranslatables from the Arabic Tradition' . 4.24.2018. 8.28. In collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the CAH, and AUB Libraries: A Workshop on 'Textual Analysis Using Stylometry’ by Dr. Maciej Eder.24-25. 4. 2018. 8.29. A Lecture ' A Forensic Examination of the Attempted Killing of a Film' by Ken Fero (The power of visual storytelling). 4.30.2018. 8.30. Together with CAH, the Zaki Nassif Program of Music at AUB, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Ahliah School and students from the Translation classes: A musical concert' Pot Fleuri in Translation'.5.9.2018.

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B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Avant, Doyle Assistant Professor Ph.D. Choueiri, Lina (Associate Provost) Professor Ph.D. Currell, David (Director of Graduate Studies) Assistant Professor Ph.D.

Gonsalves, Joshua David Associate Professor Ph.D. Harb, Sirène Associate Professor Ph.D. Hodapp, James Assistant Professor Ph.D. Hout, Syrine (Chairperson) Professor Ph.D. Issa, Rana Assistant Professor Ph.D.

Jarkas, Najla Lecturer Ph.D. Kelly, Niamh Assistant Professor Ph.D. (Director of Undergraduate Studies) Khalaf, Roseanne Associate Professor Ph.D. Maude, Kathryn Rebecca Assistant Professor Ph.D. Mehmood Ali, Tariq Assistant Professor Ph.D.

Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja Associate Professor Ph.D. Myers, Robert Professor Ph.D. Nassar, Christopher Senior Lecturer Ph.D.

Nish, Jennifer Marie Assistant Professor Ph.D. Shaaban, Kassim Professor Ph.D. Vermy, Arthur Michael Assistant Professor Ph.D. Waterman, Adam Assistant Professor Ph.D. Wrisley, David Joseph Associate Professor Zenger, Amy Alice Associate Professor Ph.D. Zimmerman, Erin (Director, Writing Center Assistant Professor & Writing in the Disciplines) Ph.D. Al Sayyed, Amany Instructor Abou Shakra, Zena (PT Fall, spring) Instructor Ph.D. Awada, Ghada (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Ayache, Milia (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. M.A.

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Ayoubi, Rula (PT Fall) Instructor M.A. Baalbaki, Rula Bartlett, Bruce Instructor M.A. Instructor M.A. Bauer, Christopher Instructor M.A. Bioghlou Karkanawi, Lina Instructor M.A. Bissal, Jessy Instructor M.A.

Chami, Yomna (PT Fall) Instructor M.A. Dabaja, Sarwat (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Danaoghlian, Gacia (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Deeb, Rima Instructor M.A. El-Cheikh Ali, Sarah(Assistant Instructor M.A. Director of Communication Skills Program) El-Den, Najwa Mukaddem El Mekkawi, Instructor M.A. Lara (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Fakhreddine, Juheina Instructor M.A. Farah, Jacqueline (PT Fall) Fleszar, Dorota Instructor M.A. (Director of Communication Skills Program) Instructor M.A.

Haidar, Rana Instructor M.A. Harmoush, Leila (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Hodeib, Heba Instructor M.A. Iskandarani, Rima (New Faculty Facilitator) Instructor M.A. Jaber, Nagham Instructor M.A. Jaafar, Amina (PT Spring) Instructor M.A. Jarrar Awar, Nada (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Johnson, Ryan Instructor M.A. Kfouri, Yara (PT Fall) Instructor M.A. Khoury, Malakeh Instructor M.A. (FAS Assessment Coordinator) Kodeih, Rabab Instructor M.A. Kurani, Amin Instructor M.A. Lincoln, Kathryn Instructor M.A. Maktabi, Sawsan Instructor M.A.

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Mehio, Marwa Instructor M.A. Mikati, May Instructor M.A. Maatouk, Rola (PT Fall) Instructor M.A. Moughabghab, Emma (Assistant Director of the Writing Center) Instructor M.A. Naamani, Reem (PT Fall, Spring) Najjar, Jasmina Saghbini, Paul (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Rantisi, Rima Riman, Souha Instructor M.A. Sfeir, Maya (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Shedrawi, Shadi (PT Fall) Shadid, Rima Instructor M.A. Shayto, Haifa Shmaysani Instructor M.A. Shweiry, Zinnia (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Tarraf, Zena (PT Spring) Sinno, Zane Instructor M.A. Ward, Abir Zantout, Lana (PT Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Instructor M.A.

2. Research Assistants

None

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Noureddine , Rasha Nasser, Rawan Farhat , Rita Haddad, Patrick Amro , Xena Antonios, Ghenwa Choueiri , Christie Baghdadi, Rana Bou Nasser Eddine, Leen Kaissi, Iman Koujou, Sanaa Jaramani, Susan Karakazian, Helena

Spring Semester Bechara, Elias Karakazian, Helena Saad, Elissar Nasser, Rawan Maan, Dana Haddad, Patrick Ghorayeb, Brigitte Antonios, Ghenwa Amro, Xena Farhat, Rita Choueiri, Christie Baghdadi, Rana Bou Nasser Eddine, Leen

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Koujou, Sanaa Kaissi, Iman Jaramani, Susan 4. Non-Academic Staff

Haidar Issraoui, Yolla Secretary Attieh, Jebara Leila Administrative Secretary Ramadan-El Roz, Marwa Administrative Officer Tomeh, Yusuf IT Technician

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Literature Oct. 2017 2 Majors Feb. 2018 2 Jun. 2018 9

B.A. Language Oct. 2017 0 Majors Feb. 2018 1 Jun. 2018 5

MA Oct. 2017 3 Feb. 2018 2 Jun. 2018 5

2. Number of Majors (Language)

Graduates 25 Seniors 11 Juniors 7 Sophomores 10

3. Number of Majors (Literature)

Graduates 64 Seniors 27 Juniors 20 Sophomores 33

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4. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 9 92 76 177 211-299 170 397 711 1278 200-210 424 2050 1719 4193 100-199 18 531 224 773 Total 621 3070 2730 6421

5. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 48 129 129 306 211-299 33 72 129 234 200-210 75 267 237 579 100-199 3 63 36 102 Total 159 531 531 1221

D. RESEARCH

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

(On leave; not submitted)

Doyle Avant

Research done as part of a fellowship this year with the AUB Center for Arts and Humanities. 1. Meursault’s Labyrinth (play) A collosion of The Battle of Algiers and The Stranger; 25-minute excerpt workshopped/performed as part of Lincoln Center Directors Lab/Beirut. Script completed. Planning fall production. 2. Maman est Morte (novel) A reworking/rethinking of The Stranger – resetting the story on the eve of the Algerian Revolution and making Meursault the author of an autobiographical novel. Draft completed. 3. Who Shot the Arab?

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A talk delivered to Center for Arts and Humanities (and the foundation for an article) exploring artistic re-creations of and responses to Albert Camus’ The Stranger.

Rula Baalbaki

1. “Translation Strategies as Identity Preservers for Literary and Poetry Writing” Paper based on presentation at the 1st World Congress on Translation Studies conference at University Paris Ouest-Nanterre (April 10-14, 2017). Research completed. Paper being written. 2. “Arabic, as a Home Language, Acts as a Resource in an English Writing Class: Borrowing Translation Strategies in a First –Year Writing Course.” Chapter submitted in January 2018 to TRANSLINGUAL DISPOSITIONS: THE AFFORDANCES OF GLOBALIZED APPROACHES TO THE TEACHING OF WRITING, a volume edited by Magnus Gustafsson et al. Co-writers: Juheina Fakhreddine, Malaki Khoury, and Suha Riman.

Lina Choueiri

(Not Submitted)

David Currell

1. “Epic Satire,” book project on the literary-historical and intellectual-historical currents informing and arising from the interaction of satiric and heroic modes in 16th- and 17th-century English poetry and drama (manuscript in progress). 2. Digital Milton, collection coedited with Islam Issa presenting new research on the study of Milton using digital tools and in digital environments, including coauthored introduction, individually authored chapter, and coauthored chapter (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). 3. Chapter manuscript “Milton’s Epic Games: War and Recreation in Paradise Lost,” in Games of War in Early Modern English Literature, ed. Jim Daems and Holly Faith Nelson (under review, Amsterdam University Press). 4. Chapter manuscript “Milton among the Satirists” (invited initial drafting stage). 5. Other articles, chiefly on Milton and Shakespeare, at various stages of preparation.

Joshua Gonsalves

1. Invasion Panic: Military Historicism and British Romantic Media-Culture, 1805-1835 Book project: Copy-editing MS. 2. Brutal Melodrama: A Geo-Politics of the Cinematic Ikon Book Project: Research phase on Egyptian melodrama upcoming: Sabbatical Fall 2018.

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3. “Accelerating Auto-Nomos: Gramsci, the Fiat Occupations & the Aesthetics of Car Design/Art” (Paper in Progress).

Sirène Harb

1. Book project, Strategies of Resistance in Arab-American Poetry: Transformative Practices and Articulations (under contract with Routledge) 2. “Figurations of Space and Loss in Arab-American Literature,” initial exploratory stage

James Hodapp

(Not submitted)

Syrine Hout

1. “Whose War is it anyway? Multilingual Games as Political Encoding in De Niro’s Game”. In Press. Middle Eastern Literatures 21.1 (2018). 2. “Novel(istic) Realities in/of An Unsafe Haven: Crossroads for Refugees and Scholars”. Forthcoming in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies in an early issue of vol. 46 (2019). 3. “Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places: The Various Lebanons of/in De Niro’s Game”.Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage. Ed. Krzysztof Majer. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Forthcoming in 2018. 4. “To paint and die in Arabic: Code-switching in Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids: The Art of War”. To be submitted in June 2018. 5. “Twenty-first-century Anglophone Arab Literature as Deconstructive Historical Interventions”. In preparation.

Rana Issa

1. The Modern Arabic Bible and Literary Commodities. Preparation of monograph is ongoing. 2. Al-Shidyaq’s Mumahakat al-Ta’wil fi Munaqadat al-Injil. A very short introduction for an encyclopedia entry. تحرير رنا عيسى. األسباب التاريخية واالجتماعية والدينية لترجمة الكتاب المقدس سنة ١٨٦٥. .3 .(In print)كلية الالهوت للشرق األدنى. بيروت: 4. “The Fallibility of Tradition in al-Shidyaq:̄ The Case of Islam.”Journal of Arabic Literature. (Under review). 5. “Missionary Philology and the Invention of Bibleland.” In Ragnhild Zorgati et al (ed.) The Jerusalem Code. Vol 3. (Under review). 6. Issa, Rana and Einar Wigen, eds. Levatine Chronotopes. Journal of Contemporary Levant.

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(Under review). 7. Reviewed Zeina Halabi’s Book the Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual. For Middle East Journal of Media and Communication. (Forthcoming). 8. Translating lesbian sonnets of American Poet Marilyn Hacker to Arabic. 9. Translating Kurdish Syrian Write Golan Haji Short story to English.

Najla Jarkas

1. “Enabling Partners Rather than Embedding Gatekeepers in the Digital Humanities” accepted for publication in a joint AMICAL-ACRL book on the scholarship and practice around library partnerships in international liberal arts education, IRB approval complete, and data collection in progress. Expected publication in December 2018. 2. “On Translating Voyant Tools into Arabic”. Accepted for publication in Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, to be published by the University of Minnesota Press, March 2019. Co-authored with David Wrisley.

Kathryn Rebecca Maude

1. Addressing Medieval Religious Women across the Norman Conquest, monograph under review with Boydell and Brewer publishers in their Gender and the Middle Ages series. 2. Mary, Emperor and Evangelist: Gender, Authorship and Authority in the Frontispiece to BL Additional 33241, article in preparation for Anglo-Saxon England.

Niamh Kelly

1. “Tonal alignment, vowel length and syllable complexity in Lebanese Arabic”. (URB funding.) Stage: Data collection completed; analysis and write-up about to begin. 2. “Phrase-final pitch accents in Lebanese Arabic”. (URB funding.) Stage: Data collection completed; analysis and write-up about to begin. 3. “Sounds of Armenian”. (No funding. Co-PI Lara Keshishian.) Stage: IRB approval received May 2018. Data collection about to start. 4. Mennen, Ineke, Kelly, Niamh, Mayr, Robert & Morris, Jonathan. “Welsh English as a contact variety: The acoustic correlates of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English”. Stage: Final write-up.

Roseanne Saad Khalaf

1. I am currently crafting a personal memoir that incorporates narrative research, lived experiences and student nonfiction pieces.

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2. Gathering and examining narratives of transformation by Arab women to include in a book chapter.

Tariq Mehmood Ali

1. Fiction: a) The Coming: A triptych. Three novels set in one dystopian environment being written by one three diverse writers. Myself, Melvin Burgess and Peter Kalu. Research ongoing and involves studying interviewing people, and also of studying present economic, social, historical and political scenarios, in order to develop a fictional landscape into which the triptych novels can fit. b) Short Stories: Researching new short stories for a completed anthology (supported by Dean Nadia el Cheikh). The anthology is entitled, The Maid, The Madam and The Minister and Other Stories. It has been submitted to Daraja Press (Canada) and Peepal Tree Press (UK). Research ongoing for a number of short stories. 2. Non-Fiction: The Poetry of Lotus (1968-1973). My first draft complete. Poet Jehan Bseiso is writing on the contemporary value of this poetry, and I have interview for inclusion from Adonis. Following competition of the English Edition, I will work on an Arabic edition

Robert Myers

1. Sentence to Hope: A Sa’d Allah Wannus Reader. Editor, translator with Nada Saab. Forthcoming from Yale University Press’s Margellos World Republic of Letters. 2. Modern and Contemporary Levantine Political Theater. Editor, translator with Nada Saab. Forthcoming from Brill. 3. “From Cairo to Camagüey: Iban Daniyal’s The Shadow Spirit, Sarduy’s Cobra, and Rojas’s Celestina as a Bawd Between the Arab World and Latin America.” Submitted to Comparative Literature Studies.

Christopher Nassar

N/A

Jennifer Marie Nish

(Not submitted)

Kassim Shaaban

1.Covert shifts in language policy in Lebanon. Paper at the writing stage.

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2. Language unites, religion divides: The politics of identity in Lebanon. Data collection stage. 3. The Demise of the English as a medium of instruction in K-12 education in Qatar. Paper written and submitted to Language Policy. Co-authored by Eiman Mustafawi. 4. Language policy in higher education: Qatar University as a case study. Data being collected through documentation and structured interviews. Co-investigated by Eiman Mustafawi.

Michael Vermy

N/A

Adam John Waterman

Completing revisions on book manuscript The Corpse in the Kitchen, a study of the archival representation of Indian war in the US and the cultures of US settler colonialism.

David Wrisley (On leave; not submitted)

Amy Alice Zenger

(Not submitted)

Erin Zimmerman

1. “Locating Visual Communication across Disciplines: How Visual Instruction in Composition Textbooks differs from that in Science-writing Textbooks” will be resubmitted at Across the Disciplines, summer 2018. 2. “Plagiarism across the disciplines at the American University of Beirut: A study of faculty and students” with Sarah Elcheikhali; IRB approval received May 2018; data collection to begin in fall 2018. 3. “Communication Instruction between Disciplines: Using Auto Cross Confrontation as a Research Methodology,” in early stages of drafting. 4. “Responding to Assignment Prompts: How Writing Center Tutors can Support Writing Instructors” with Emma Moghabghab; IRB proposal being prepared. 5. Book Review: Writing Centers in the Higher Education Landscape of the Arabian Gulf, edited by Osman Barnawi and Emerging Writing Research from the Middle East-North Africa Region, edited by Lisa R. Arnold, Anne Nebel, and Lynne Ronesi for Writing Center Journal, forthcoming.

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E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

(On leave; not submitted)

Doyle Avant

1. Coordinator of Creative Writing Program 2. Thesis Advisor: Franjie Tannous 3. Video Consultant, Blood Wedding

Rula Baalbaki

1. Presented at LAU’s International Translation Day a paper entitled “Translation as Preserver of Identity of Creative Writing Texts” (October 2017) 2. Designed and taught a new translation undergraduate course: English 262C (cross-listed with Arabic 251T) The title of the course is Special Topics in Translation: Translation as Preserver of Identity of Creative Writing Texts (fall 2017). 3. Coordinated with Nada Jarrar a creative writing/translation event funded by CAH in which the fiction texts of English 249 students were translated by the students of English 262C/Arabic 251T. The readers included faculty from FAS, USJ, and publishing houses (November 2017) 4. Presented a lecture at UfS (University for Seniors) entitled: “Translation Strategies as Preservers of Identity of Creative Writing and Poetry Texts (April 2018) 5. Collaborated with the Zaki Nassif Program and Ahliah School Choir to organize and coordinate a concert featuring lyrics in translation (by students of English 233 and 262 courses) The title of the concert was “Pot Fleuri in Translation” (May 2018).

Lina Choueiri

(Not submitted)

David Currell

1. Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English 2. Graduate Studies Committee, FAS (Spring) 3. Tenure Implementation Committee, FAS (Spring)

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4. “At Peace, At War, and the Time Between in The Two Noble Kinsmen,” paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America Annual Convention, Los Angeles, March 2018 5. “Apt Numbers: On Line Citations of Paradise Lost,” lecture at Birmingham City University, UK, February 2018 6. “Epic Satire in Milton,” paper presented Early Modern Satire: Themes Re- evaluations and Practices conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2017 7. “Willingly to School? Shakespeare and Milton at the Syrian Protestant College,” paper presented at Folio to Tercentenary: Becoming Global Shakespeare 1623- 1916 conference, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 2017 8. Moderator, “Spain and Al-Andalus: Dramatic Continuities,” Latin America, Al- Andalus and the Arab World conference, AUB, April 2018 9. Member, Search Committee in Media Studies 10. Title IX certification training 11. Manuscript reviewer, Renaissance Studies 12. Proposal reviewer, AUB conference on Effective Teaching and Learning 13. Academic advisor to current and incoming MA students 14. Advisor for one defended MA thesis and one defended proposal; committee member on three defended MA theses and two defended proposals.

Joshua Gonsalves

1. Standing Committees: 3 (see above; 2 FAS—USAAC/SDAC–-and 1 University- level UDC) 2. Departmental Committee (Assessment 2016-18) 3. Departmental Graduate Committee (Spring 2018) 4. MA Supervisor: 3 (Lara Jubeily; Rana Baghdadi and Ghenwa Antonios: both defended proposal Spring 2018) 5. Paper presented: “Accelerating Auto-Nomos: Gramsci, the Fiat Occupations & the Aesthetics of Car Design/Art”@ The “Southern Questions” Art Margins Conference at AUB, October 20, 2017 6. Taught 7 courses: ENGL219 Film as Text (Summerx2; Fallx2; Springx2); ENGL221 Introduction to Literary Theory 7. Undergraduate/Graduate Student Advisor 8. Consulting Editor, The Explicator (USA; On 18th and 19th Century British Literature 2007- ); Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK: On Cinematography 2017- ). 9. Reader, Papers on Language & Literature (USA); Regards: Revue d’arts du spectacle (USJ, LB). 10. Script Consultant on Theoretical Aspects (Accelerationism, Speculative Realism, etc.) of Experimental Video, Ultima Ratio ∆ Mountain of the Sun by B.Noorizadeh (upcoming Tate Modern show, Summer 2018) ; invited to opening of Installation at Forum Expanded Exhibition, Arsenal, Berlinale Film Festival, February 2018 (see Appendix A).

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11. Invited Dr. Faisal Devji , University Reader in Modern South Asian History at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, to speak on Gender and the Generic Muslim Subject (via CASAR)

Sirène Harb

1. Workshop participant, AUB Equity & Title IX Training & Certification, ATIXA Civil Rights Investigator Level II, May 2018. 2. “Experimental Spaces, Ghostliness, and Violence in Arab-American Literature,” paper presentation at the MELUS 2018 Conference, May 2018, Las Vegas, Nevada. 3. Panel chair, “Latin America, Al-Andalus and the Arab World" International Conference, AUB, April 15-18, 2018. 4. Moderator, Roundtable Discussion, CASAR International Symposium: Localizing Transnational American Studies, AUB, March 12-13, 2018. 5. External member, search committee for the Assistant Professor position in Educational Administration and Policy Studies (EAPS), Education Department. 6. Advisory Committee Member, Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL). 7. Executive Committee Member, CASAR. 8. Thesis Advisor and Reader, English Department. 9. Advisory Board Member, Palimpsest: A Journal of Women, Gender and the Black International, published by SUNY Press. 10. Project Member, Digital Humanities Project “Their America: America in the eyes of the world”. 11. Article Reviewer, MELUS and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 12. External Examiner, PhD dissertation committee, Ecole Doctorale de l’Université Saint-Joseph and Ecole Doctorale de l’Université d’Aix – Marseille 1

James Hodapp

(Not submitted)

Syrine Hout

International Conference Presentations: 1. “Twenty-first-century Anglophone Arab Literature as Deconstructive Historical Interventions”. Contribution to “Re-thinking and Re-defining the Arab World within Area Studies”. A Roundtable Discussion. Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018. 2. “To paint and die in Arabic: Code-switching in Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids: The Art of War”. BRISMES Annual Conference 2018: “New Approaches to Studying the Middle East”.Department of Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London, UK, 25–28 June 2018.

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Lectures at AUB and in Lebanon 1. “Turning 20: Anglophone Lebanese literature Today”, Guest Speaker, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Balamand (21 Feb. 2018). 2. “Turning 20: Anglophone Lebanese Diasporic Literature Today”: Presentation in the FAS Research Lunch Series, AUB, and 10 Nov. 2017. 3. “Edward Said’s Orientalism”. Civilization Sequence Lecture Series, April 2018, Nov. 2017.

Service in FAS and at AUB: 1. Spring 2018: Departmental Member of Reappointment Committee of Dr. Ahmad Moussalli. 2. Spring 2018: Departmental Member of Reappointment Committee of Dr. Maher Jarrar. 3. Fall 2017–Spring 2018: Member of the Search Committee for the Altaf S. Al Sabah for Visiting Chair in Women and Societal Development Studies 4. Spring–Summer 2017: Expanded departmental voting member for the Philippe Jabre Visiting Professorship in Art History and Curating for 2017–18 in FAAH 5. Spring 2017–Summer 2017: Co-Chair of the Faculty Grievance Committee 6. Spring 2017–Spring 2019: Member of the Steering Committee for AUB’s Self- Study for Reaccreditation by Middle States Commission on Higher Education; Member of the Editing Subcommittee

Departmental Service: 1. Chair of Department of English: 1 Sep. 2017–31 Aug. 2020 2. Reader for “Creative Writing in Translation”: 20 Nov. 2017 3. Spring 2017: Academic Mentor of Dr. Rana Issa 4. 2017–2018: Member of Graduate Committee 5. Secondary advisor to 93 UG and Graduate students

MA Thesis Supervisions: 1. Abou Mrad, Nibal. “The Evolution of Images during the Lebanese Civil War in Nathalie Abi-Ezzi’s A Girl Made of Dust and Zeina Abirached’s A Game for Swallows”(January 2018). 2. Breeding, Vanessa. “Historicizing the Arab Apocalypse with Walter Benjamin: Etel Adnan’s ‘Master of the Eclipse’ and Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History” (January 2018).

Service to the Profession: 1. Moderator of Panel titled “Writing Loss and Memory” at “Literature, Culture, and the Political: A Conference on Elias Khoury”. AUB, 23 April 2018.

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2. Chair of Panel 6F titled “Migration in Fiction and Cultural Narratives” at BRISMES. 3. Annual Conference 2017: “Movement and Migration in the Middle East: People and Ideas in Flux”. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, 6 July 2017. 4. Member of the Editorial Board of Middle Eastern Literatures 5. Submission Reviewer for College Literature

Rana Issa

1. Located and procured for the AUB press the first Arabic novel written by a woman, Alice al-Bustani’s al-Ṣā’iba. 2. Peer reviewer for Journal of Arabic Literature two times. 3. Peer Reviewer for Journal of New Philology. 4. Peer Reviewer for Abhath. 5. Two Interviews with Humphrey Davies on his work as a translator as part of Tarjamat and the Elias Khoury Conference. 6. March 22-26. “Everyday Temporalities in Syria Film.” In Maerzmusik Festival for Time Issues. Berlinerfestspiele. 7. March 22-26. Organized and led When Time is All you Have Left: a SPACE Reading Circle. Week long readings with artists and academics on Issues pertaining to Syrian culture. In Maerzmusik Festival for Time Issues. Berlinerfestspiele. 8. February 14. “Translations of the Bible and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” 9. Workshop for a Funding Application. Norwegian Institute in Athens. 10. Organized and Led Tarjamat Series for Histories, Theories and Practices of Translation. 11. Assumed Editorial responsibilities for Translation Content in Rusted Radishes. 12. Gave interviews and produced short essays about contemporary culture for the local presses. 13. Wrote two funding applications for 1- Butrus al-Bustani initiative and 2- Translation studies initiative.

Najla Jarkas

1. Designed and taught a new course: Engl 256B Introduction to Digital Humanities. 2. Served as Chair, Digital Scholarship Committee, AMICAL Consortium; 2017- present.

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3. Served as organizer of the DHSI 2018 cohort, AMICAL Consortium. 4. Served on the AMICAL 2018 Conference Program Committee.

Conference Presentations and Workshops: 1. “Open Data for Teaching and Learning in the Humanities” Open Access Day organized by AUB Libraries; October 24, 2017. Presenter. 2. “The Transformative Potentials of Open Data for Teaching and Learning” Eighth International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, AUB, February 16, 2018. Presenter. 3. “Textual Analysis Using Stylometry” organized and sponsored by the Department of English, in collaboration with the Center for Arts and Humanities, FAS, and AUB Libraries. 2-day workshop led by Dr. Maciej Eder: AUB, April 24-25, 2018. Research, organization and participation. 4. “Digital Tools for Teaching, Writing, and Research” 2-day workshop at the AMICAL 2018 conference, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, May 2-8, 2018. Workshop leader and organizer.

Digital Humanities Summer Schools: 1. 9th European Summer University in Digital Humanities (ESU DH C & T) The University of Leipzig, Germany, July 17-27, 2017. 2. The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, June 2-16.

Kathryn Rebecca Maude

Paper presented at the Gender and Medieval Studies conference in Oxford, January 2018: ‘Mary, Emperor and Evangelist: Gender, Authorship and Authority in the Frontispiece to BL Additional 33241’.

Niamh Kelly

1. Sound booth purchased with URB funding and in use in Fisk 204. Conferences 2. Kelly, Niamh E. "A phonetic case study of a bidialectal speaker of Lebanese and Palestinian Arabic". Workshop on Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway, 25-26 October 2017.

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Roseanne Saad Khalaf

1. Presented a paper "Sexual Harassment: The Voices of AUB Creative Writing Students". KIP Conference on Harassment, AUB Business School, Beirut March 31-April 2, 1917. 2. Second Supervisor to Sleiman El Hajj who completed his Ph. D. in Creative Writing, I Am Not Naked: A Novel of Lebanon and Syria (University of Gloucestershire, England, 2017). 3. Book Launch of Arab Women Voice New Realities (Artisan du Liban et d'Orient, Beirut: November 24, 2017). 4. Round Table discussion of Arab Women Voice New Realities (Aaliya's Books, Beirut: November 24, 2017). 5. Talk presented at Michael Zakkour Award Ceremony (Villa Sursock, Beirut, June19, 2017. 6. Interviewed in BESPOKE, a pan-Arab lifestyle magazine, about my research on Arab youth (Millennials Issue: February 2017.

Tariq Mehmood Ali 1. Breaking the Master’s Prisms, a paper I presented at the Arab Council for Social Sciences’ annual conference in Beirut, 2017. 2. The first Global Conflict Medicine Middle East Medical Associated (MEMA) 2017, where I gave a talk entitled, Poetry of the Wounded; I also held an in- conversation, with the re-known trauma surgeon, Dr Hans Husam on his new book Stealth: The New War.

Fund raising: 1. Along with Anaheed al-Hardan of Sociology, and a partner in Africa, I have developed a $500,000 bid to the Mellon foundation for early career scholars. This bid was initially approved by Dean Cheikh as the official AUB nomination, but as the deadline from Mellon was extended, the dean is now going to re-consider it. 2. I raised $2000 from CAH for storytelling and with this hosted to visits: (I) Author Melvin Burgess, and (II) Film-maker, Ken Fero 3. AUB Library Archive: I have located and purchased copies of the journal The Call – this was the predecessor of Lotus and its competitor during the 1960s. I will be added this to the AUB Lotus archive, which I helped to establish. 4. School Workshops: For past three years, I have been giving an annual a talk at Al-Qala school in Saida, where my books are set for the students. This year, some of the students who I talked to three years ago, will be joining the AUB.

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5. Festival of Stories: I have been in discussions with AUB’s neighborhood initiative with a view to having a festival of stories in and around the AUB. 6. Creative Writing In Arabic And English: I have initiated a process of involving the English Creative Writing Students (mine and Nada Jarrar’s so far) in the work of Najat A. Saliba of the Nature Conservation Center, NCC, and also Bilal Orfali of Arabic. We aim to develop a cross-listed course as well. 7. YASHOT 2018, London, April 2018, conducted workshop and launched of new novel, you’re Not Here.

Robert Myers

1. “The Task of Translating Modern Arabic Theater: Poetics, Diglossia, and Arabic Grammar in The Dictator by ‘Isam Mahfouz.” With Nada Saab. “Drama Across Borders.” Cornell University, 2018. 2. “Brecht, Wannous and Arab Theater.” With Nada Saab. On panel “Brecht in the Arab World. MLA. New York, 2018. 3. “Latin America, al-Andalus and the Arab World.” Organizer of international conference at AUB. 2018.

Jennifer Marie Nish

(Not submitted)

Kassim Shaaban

Thesis Work: 1. Thesis Committee Membership: Ziad Farran; Krystel Francis 2. Continued work on MA theses in role of thesis advisor: Fatmeh Ossaily; Lara Keshishian

Contribution to Profession: Association with Professional Journals 1. Associate Editor of Al-Abhath 2. Editorial Board Member Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT) 3. SAGE Open

Refereeing Articles: 1. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2. AJELT 3. Arab Journal of Humanities 4. Refereeing 6 promotion cases from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Palestine 5. Editorial Board Member, Routledge Studies in Arabic and Identity Series

Paid research Leave for second semester spent at Qatar University:

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Researching Language Situation in Qatar:

1. Sociolinguistic profile 2. Language policies 3. Language as identity 4. Consultations 5. Administering the CELRT-prepared English Language Proficiency Test to MEA Cadet Pilots

Administrative and Committee Work:

1. Chair of the University Committee on Student Affairs (first semester)

Michael Vermy

N/A

Adam John Waterman

1. Co-organizer and presenter, “Black Panther: Afrofuturism, Blackness, Representation,” AUB, 13 March 2018.

Amy Alice Zenger

(Not submitted)

Erin Zimmerman

Presentations/Keynote Addresses: 1. Conference Presentation, “Decoding difference: Tutoring multilingual writers with learning disabilities at a multilingual university’s writing center” with Emma Moghabghab, at the International Writing Center Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2017. 2. Conference Presentation, “Negotiating Accessibility in the Writing Classroom and the Writing Center,” with Emma Moghabghab and Jasmina Najjar at the International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Beirut, Lebanon, February 2018. 3. Keynote Address, “Writing across the Curriculum: How it Fits in Lebanon,” at the Symposium on Teaching Writing in Lebanon, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, April 2018.

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Disciplinary Work: 1. Board Member, European Association of Teaching Academic Writing 2. Ex-officio Board Member, International Writing Center Association 3. Article Reviewer, Journal of Academic Writing 4. Proposal Reviewer, International Writing Center Association 2018 Conference. 5. Proposal Reviewer, Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

University Work: 1. Member, First Semester Forum Task Force of the General Education Program. 2. Member, University Committee on Student Affairs. 3. Member, Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee. 4. Chair, Founder’s Day Student Essay Contest Selection Committee. 5. Ex-officio Member, Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee. 6. Presenter, New Faculty Orientation “Life at AUB” Panel for Center for Teaching and Learning.

English Department Work: 1. Chair, Rhetoric and Composition Job Search Committee 2. Member, English Department Assessment Committee 3. Reviewer, Graduate Student English Writing Proficiency Exam

F. PUBLICATIONS

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

(On leave; not submitted)

Doyle Avant

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Rula Baalbaki

In Translation: 1. “Nude in Waziriyya of Baghdad” by Inaam Kachechi in Arab Women Voice New Realities. Khalaf, Rosanne and Dima Nasser (eds.) Turning Point Publishing (November 2017).

Lina Choueiri

(Not submitted)

David Currell

1. Currell and F.-X. Gleyzon, eds. Reading Milton through Islam (London: Routledge, 2018). [Reprint of special issue of English Studies 96.1 (2015)] 2. D. Currell, “The Better Part of Stolen Valour: Counterfeits, Comedy, and the Supreme Court,” Critical Survey 30.1 (2018): 98-114. 3. D. Currell, “The Poetic Soundscape of Macbeth,” in Critical Insights: Macbeth, ed. William W. Weber (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017), 51-66. 4. D. Currell, “The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science,” Marginalia Review of Books, 2 February 2018. [Review essay] 5. Review of I. Issa, Milton in the Arab-Muslim World, English Studies 99.5 (2018) 6. Review of L. Munro, Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590-1674, Milton Quarterly 51.4 (2017).

Joshua Gonsalves

1. “Stranger Things, “Binging on Demand” & the Serialized Symptoms of Late Capitalism” Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry (November 2017) https://blindfieldjournal.com/2017/11/28/stranger-things-binging-on- demand-the-serialized-symptoms-of-late-capitalism/amp 2. “Reading Race and “Rita”: Geo-Politicizing Mogul, Auteur and Star in The Lady from Shanghai,” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (2017) 50.2. :Re: E10: See APPENDIX A

Sirène Harb

1. “An Aesthetics of Haunting: Negotiating Borders and Loss in Arab American Poetry.” Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theater. Ed. Therí A. Pickens. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. 29-41. 2. Review of Therí A. Pickens’ New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States. African American Review 50.2 (2017): 243-244.

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James Hodapp

(Not submitted)

Syrine Hout

Article in Refereed International Journal: “Artistic Fallout from the July 2006 War: Momentum, Mediation, and Mediatization.” Arab Studies Quarterly 39.2 (2017): 793–814.

Encyclopedia Article: “Lebanese Anglophone Diasporic Literature”. The Literary Encyclopedia: Exploring Literature, History and Culture. Vol. 6.1.4: Arab Diasporic Literature and Culture (Anglophone and Francophone), 1900-Present. Vol. editors: Ruth Abou Rached, Anna Bernard, Rita Sakr, and Anastasia Valassopoulos. Gen. Ed. Robert Clark. Published online 20 July 2017. http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19487

Book Reviews: 1. New Voices in Arab Cinema by Roy Armes. Journal of Contemporary History 52.2 (2017): 476–478. 2. Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon by Michelle Hartman. Comparative Literature Studies 54.1 (2017): 270–274.

Abstract: “Novel(istic) Realities in/of An Unsafe Haven: Crossroads for Refugees and Scholars”. “Mobilities, Literature, Culture”, 21–22 April 2017, Lancaster University, Conference Handbook. https://moblitcult.wordpress.com/abstracts-and- biographies/

Rana Issa

1. (2018) “Butrus al-Bustani.” Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Ed. John Esposito. http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t343/e0275 2. (2018) Interview with Ottoman History Podcast on my Bible research. http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/02/arabic-bibleland.html 3. (2017). Philologers in the World: Essays in Honor of Professor Gunvor Mejdell. Ed Rana Issa and Nora Eggen. Oslo: Novus Press.

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4. (2017). “The Arabic Language and Syro-Lebanese National Identity: Searching in Buṭrus al-Bustānī’s Muḥīṭ al-Muḥīṭ.Journal of Semitic Studies. (forthcoming in the fall) 5. (2017). Al-Shidyaq-Lee Version: An Example of a Non-Synchronous Bible.” Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition. The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Ed. Miriam Lindgren Hjälm. Leiden: Brill. 6. (2017). “Rakākah and the Petit Quarrel of 1871: Christian Authors and the Competition over Arabic.” Between the Lines: Language, Politics and Society in the Middle East Studies in Honour of Professor Yasir Suleiman. Ed. Yonatan Mendel and Abeer al-Najjar. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Forthcoming in May) 7. (2017) Trans Rana Issa, “Prince and Princess: A Satirical Porno Fable.”, Georg Johannesen. Rusted Radishes.

Najla Jarkas

N/A

Kathryn Rebecca Maude

1. Berhtgyth’s Letters to Balthard, ed. and trans. by Kathryn Maude, Medieval Feminist Forum Subsidia Series: Medieval Texts in Translation, 4 (December 2017) ‘Look at my Hands’: Physical Presence and the Saintly Intercessor at Wilton’, Dealing with the Dead: Mortality and Community in the Middle Ages, ed. by Thea Tomaini (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

Niamh Kelly

1. Kelly, Niamh E. and Rajka Smiljanic. (2017). Perception of the Lexical Accent Contrast in One Variety of East Norwegian. Language and Speech. Online first http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7DiiH4F7NfNBS8sbUjgn/full

Roseanne Saad Khalaf

1. Khalaf, Roseanne and Dima Nasser (Eds.) Arab Women Voice New Realities, Beirut: Turning Point Books, 2017.

2. Khalaf, Roseanne. Introduction, "New Realities" In Arab Women Voice New Realities, Roseanne Khalaf and Dima Nasser (Eds.) Beirut: Turning Point Books, 2017.

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Tariq Mehmood Ali

1. You’re Not Here, Tariq Mehmood, Daraja Press, Montreal, Canada, 2018 2. The White Man in the Corner, (short story, Tariq Mehmood) Shot In The Dark, Anthology, Crocus Books, Manchester, 2018 3. Song of Gulzarina, Tariq Mehmood, Daraja Press, Montreal, Canada, 2017

Robert Myers

1. Blood Wedding, by García Lorca. Producer and dramaturg of play produced in Hammana, Lebanon by AUB Theater Initiative. 2018. 2. “Rituals of Signs and Transformations,” by Sa’d Allah Wannus. Article commissioned for Global LGBTQ Encyclopedia. Published by Gale Cengage. 2018. 3. “Sa’d Allah Wannus.” Article commissioned for Wiley Companion to World Literature. Published by Wiley-Blackwell. 2018. 4. “Brecht, Wannous and Arab Theater.” With Nada Saab. ECIBS: Communications of the International Brecht Society. 2018.

Jennifer Marie Nish

(Not submitted)

Kassim Shaaban

1. Shaaban, K.(2018). Language and religion in the construction of Lebanese identity. In M. Wong and A. Mahboub (Eds). Spiritual Dimensions of Second Language Education: Exploring the Connections of Religious Faith & Language Teaching (Chapter 10). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 2. Shaaban, K. (2017). The ongoing rivalry between English and French in Lebanon. In A. Gebril (Ed.). Applied linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current practices and future directions (Chapter 7). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Michael Vermy

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Adam John Waterman

N/A

David Wrisley

(On leave; not submitted)

Amy Alice Zenger

(Not submitted)

Erin Zimmerman

1. “Reconsidering Assumptions of Beginner Teachers’ Needs: An Examination of Commonly Used Pronunciation Textbooks,” The CATESOL Journal, Volume 30, Number 1, 2018, pp. 231-248.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The Department proactively embraces the multilingual context we live and work in and does its best to advance language and literature study at AUB – both as a specialization leading to BA and MA degrees and in partial fulfillment of General Education requirements.

The Department will fully revise its language program requirements; first at the BA then at the MA level in line with peer institutions in the next two years. It will further revise its graduate program in literature, as needed, in view of a possible PhD program. With the new hire in Gender and Women’s Studies on board, we also seek to further contribute to the growth of Gender and Women’s Studies across AUB at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels.

The Department continues its full support of the initiatives in Theatre and in Digital Humanities.

The Department is in a process of consolidation. To do so, it requests 2 replacement lines and 1 new line, thus running three searches in AY 2018-19: (1) a joint appointment (with OIRA) in Language Testing and Assessment (replacement of Dr. John Pill) which did not materialize this year and (2) in world/comparative literature and postcolonial studies (replacement of Dr. James Hodapp) and (3) a new line in literary history 1500-1900.

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The Department has actively contributed to defining benchmarks and criteria for tenure and promotion in FAS and is committed to developing these further in the interest of continuing and new faculty members.

The Department also submitted a proposal for a 2x2 teaching load to the Dean and hopes to fuse the two current directorships, of the undergraduate and graduate studies, into a post of Associate Chair.

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APPENDIX A

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

A. PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT/CHANGES

1. Administrative Structure: a) Dorota Fleszar, Director Fall 2016 – spring 2019 inclusive b) Following a revision of course releases in the Program by FAS Dean Nadia El Cheikh, three coordinator positions were replaced mid-year with one assistant director. Sarah Elcheikhali was appointed Assistant Director Spring 2018 – Spring 2019 inclusive. In Fall, three Program Coordinators supported the Program: Sarah Elcheikhali, Curriculum Coordinator; Heba Hodeib, Assessment Coordinator; and Jasmina Najjar, Events and Development Coordinator. c) Administrative Secretary, Leila Attieh Jbara, supports the Director and faculty of the program with a variety of administrative tasks. d) Communication Skills Program Committee: Program committee tasked with supporting the Director of the Communication Skills Program in directing the Program’s development and making administrative decisions, such as managing the program budget, vetting applicants for development opportunities and professional development grant, and making recommendations for new hires or program positions. Members: Dorota Fleszar (Chair, fall 2016 -- current); Heba Hodeib (Fall 2017); Rima Iskandarani (spring 2018), Niamh Eileen Kelly (AY 2017-18); Najwa Moukadem (AY 2017-18); Amy Alice Zenger (AY 2017-18) e) Major Accomplishments: i. Revised the functions and make-up of the Communication Skills Program Committee to increase its leadership role and improve participatory nature of Program leadership. ii. Approved projected budget for the Communication Skills Program for AY 2017-18. iii. Approved Professional Development Grant: i. Emma Moughabghab: co-deliver a presentation at International Writing Center Association (IWCA) conference in Denver, November 9-14, 2017. ii. Jessy Bissal: deliver a presentation at International Writing Center Association (IWCA) conference in Denver, November 9-14, 2017. iii. Zinnia Shweiry (Part-timer): deliver a presentation at (DAKAM) conference on language LILA’18, Istanbul, March 29th-April 1st iv. Jasmina Najjar: deliver a presentation at (AMICAL) conference in Bishkek-Kyrgyzstan, May 2-9, 2018.

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v. Hiring: vi. Approved recommendation for hire: part-time hire, Zeina Tarraf and Amina Jaafar; four full-time instructors for Fall 2018, one for immediate replacement of Chris Bauer who is retiring at the end of this academic year; placement consultant for AY 2017-18. vii. Revised part-time and full-time hire process and criteria. viii. Participated in job talks and teaching practice of rhetoric and composition candidates and through their written responses to the candidates’ performance participated in departmental hiring decision iv. Implemented a revised mentorship program for new full-time and part-time faculty. v. Revised the Program’s mission statement. vi. Lead the effort to apply new procedures and measures of placement into English 203. Coordinated among the CSP, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, and the Office of Admissions. vii. Submitted Proposal for Establishing a Promotion Path for Writing Instructors in the Communication Skills Program viii. Submitted Program’s response to the FAS draft on Workload ix. Started a CSP Library housed in Reynolds Hall 403, the Program’s Conference/Multipurpose Room

B. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Major Program Activities: a) Co-organizer of Eight International Conference on the Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (in collaboration with CTL) and solely responsible for the writing strand in the Conference: February 15-19, 2018; two keynote speakers, Dr. Angela Creese and Dr. Adrian Blackledge. b) Main organizer of the Fifth Annual Symposium on the Teaching of Writing in Lebanon: April 14, 2018, at the Holly Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), with major intellectual, leadership, organizational, and public relations contributions from AUB. Its topics revolved around the theme of Technology and Writing across the Curriculum. Over 140 teachers of English from twelve universities and high schools (private and public) around Lebanon as well as representative from the Ministry of Education attended the Symposium. The core Committee of the Symposium at CSP announced in the fifth symposium that the sixth symposium will be held next spring 2019, in collaboration with the Rafik Hariri University, Meshruf campus. In addition, the Committee received two invitations from two different institutions of higher learning to host the sixth Annual Symposium. c) Second Annual Working Retreat for full-time writing instructors and input from rhetoric and composition faculty, May 14, 2018. Major working areas

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include: new placement and revision of English 102, establishing of Program’s curriculum and assessment committees, revision of English 206 with participation from the MSFEA task force on writing, CSP teaching of integrity and handling of student plagiarism, increasing consistence among multi-section courses, shift to a new Program website. d) Board of editors recruited from among the CSP faculty finalized the fifth edition of the Program’s custom-made reader for English 203, Academic Writing course, to be used as of fall 2018. With the support of Procurement Office, Communication Skills Program Committee chose the publisher and printing house for the fifth edition.

Professional Development Opportunities a) Writing Center Professional Development: collaboration with the Writing Center in which two CSP instructors per semester combine teaching at CSP with tutoring and research work in the Writing Center b) Writing in the Disciplines: two CSP instructors per semester serve as WID consultants while also teaching at CSP. c) Five reading and discussion groups on: digital pedagogy, teaching of writing, theme-base teaching, writing in the disciplines, and writing center d) Workshop series on action research e) Professional development Grant used for conference travel

C. CONFERENCE ACTIVITY AND PUBLICATIONS

1. The 8th International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: a. Professors Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham, presented a keynote entitled: “Translanguaging as Transformative Pedagogy in Higher Education.” b. Communication Skills Program instructors gave one workshop and three presentations at the conference, including Dorota Fleszar, Malakeh Khoury, Zane Sinno, Jasmina Najjar, Emma Moughabghab and Juheina Fakhreddine. 2. Fifth Annual Symposium of the Teaching of Writing in Lebanon: Four CSP instructors delivered presentations. 3. Other Conference Activity: a. Jasmina Najjar presented (1) on gamification in higher education via Skype to faculty at Forman Christian College in Pakistan via their Center for Learning and Teaching (16 May 2018); (2) a Community Idea Exchange on “Creating Fake News to Spark Information Literacy” and “Archives VS. This Generation of Students”– AMICAL 2018 - The American University of Central Asia (4-7 May 2018); (3) Co-presented a virtual forum organized by AMICAL’s Information

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Literacy Committee on “Strategies for Teaching about Fake News” (17 Apr 2018). (4) Co-presented a webinar organized by AMICAL’s Digital Pedagogy Committee on blended learning (18 Oct 2017). (5) Co- presented paper on “Joining Forces to Put the Spotlight on Fake News”- AMICAL 2017- The American College of Thessaloniki, Greece (17-20 May 2017). b. Emma Moughabghab presented at (1) International Writing Centers Association Conference in Chicago – November 11, 2017, and at (2) First Annual Works in Progress Symposium in Writing Center Studies – October 19, 2017. c. Jessy Bissal presented at International Writing Centers Association Conference in Chicago – November 11, 2017 d. Zinnia Shweiry presented at (DAKAM) conference on language LILA’18, Istanbul, March 29-April 1 e. Sarah Elcheikhali delivered a workshop on “How to Write a Literature Review for a Thesis Dissertation” as part of the forum “Being a Socially Responsible Researcher in Graduate School: Critical Actions and Reflections", which was hosted by AUB’s education department and organized in collaboration with LAU’s department of education

D. PROGRAM COORDINATORS’ ACTIVITIES

Work rhythm of three program coordinators was dictated by a set of fixed responsibilities and their individual projects. Each semester, fixed duties shared by all three included: co-chairing orientation meetings and break-out sessions that take place shortly before semester starts, calling for and chairing course meetings, organizing Moodle access for part-timers, review and feedback on instructors’ individual course syllabi, observation of part-time instructors, mentoring new instructors, ordering books for following semesters, as well as regular meetings with the program director. In addition to these, in AY 2017-18 coordinators began or completed the following projects: Jasmina Najjar, Events and development Coordinator: led the ENGL 204 and ENGL 206 meetings for instructors teaching those courses; updated information on the Communication Skills Program’s website in Fall 2017-2018; facilitated a reading group. Heba Hodeib, Assessment Coordinator: collaborated in the creation of the Rubric for PLO4 and PLO5 Sarah Elcheikhali, Curriculum Coordinator (Fall) and Assistant Director (Spring): Responsible for mentoring new full-time and part-time faculty; participated in search committee for part-time positions; managed course syllabi submission and book orders; held program course meetings (course specific and topic specific meetings); led three reading groups; co-leading the alignment of CSP courses vis-à-vis new placement procedures and measures

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E. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

1. Sustained Program Activities: Several ways of professional development activities, including reading groups, themed workshops and an annual working retreat, will be offered next year in order to continue encouraging instructors’ active engagement with scholarship and teaching methods in Rhetoric and Composition. 2. Changes to the Program: First, the CSP plans to establish curriculum and assessment committee to more comprehensively lead the Program. Second, the name of the Communication Skills Program is awaiting revision as it does not accurately reflect the actual practice or philosophy of the program.

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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS AND ART HISTORY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The BA in Studio Arts (SART) is currently in its second year after the complete restructuring of its curriculum. Accordingly, June 2019 will see the graduation of the first group of students that has gone through the new curriculum.

The BA in SART conducted a search for a replacement line. After a thorough search, the department decided not to make any recommendation and looks forward to revising the job description and starting another search, pending the approval of the Dean. The BA in SART reviewed the catalogue entries and titles of the courses offered in the new curriculum and recommended changes that have been approved and will be implemented in the next AUB catalogue.

The BA in SART has reorganized and re-programed many of the art studios to accommodate new needs: Nicely 213 was remade into an oil painting studio fitted with a system for air-circulation. Nicely 408 was rearranged to accommodate a small printing studio. Nicely 102 was remade into a sculpture studio and a wood-shop while works continue in Nicely 401 on the analog photo-lab with a completion date scheduled for spring 2019.

The BA in SART organized a number of activities: field trips to the Dalloul Art Foundation, Saleh Baraket Gallery, Beit Beirut with SOAM and Mona Hallak (Neighborhood Initiative), Beirut Art Center and Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture. Moreover, SART students mounted a photographic exhibition at AUB in conjunction with CASAR and the Allan Sekula show at the Beirut Art Center and participated in a performance project with Beirut Art Residency and visiting artist Valentina Medda.

The roster of visiting artists included Eileen Cooper, Chaza Charafeddine, George Azar, Ken Ehrlich, Kianoosh Motallebi, Mary Jirmanus Saba, and Michael Taussig in cooperation with SOAM and Aggeliki Brisnovali (Erasmus+).

Extracurricular projects included weekly life-drawing sessions that will continue throughout the summer months.

To conclude the academic year, the BA in SART organized an exhibition by its senior class in the studios and foyer of Nicely’s 4th floor on the 11th of May.

The PLOs of the BA in SART are: 1. Have an applied knowledge of studio art techniques. 2. Have an ability to carry out skilled visual representations.

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3. Know the history of these techniques and their development. 4. Understand the technical specificity of each technique and its conceptual extension. 5. Know the art theories of the late 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries 6. Understand how to apply these theories in developing their own projects. 7. Know how to think creatively about art and theory. 8. Have a critical enthusiasm for the role of art in society.

The BA in Art History (AHIS) continues to show progress, developing new courses (AHIS 203 Medieval Art) and offering vibrant learning opportunities beyond and in association with the classroom. This year BA students in the AHIS 284 course presented exhibitions at the AUB Byblos Bank Galleries. Other students participated in the cross-course research led Portraiture Beyond Resemblance project (led by Hala Auji and including courses by her, Rico Franses and Joseph Hammond). The Portraiture project also involved a roundtable discussion with guest speaker Dr. Sean Roberts (Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar) and student work has been included in an on-line component.

The addition of the new MA program in Art History and Curating this year has caused the faculty to rethink the balance of its BA offerings. Significant curriculum changes were requested and approved and will come into effect next AY.

The Art History reading group organized by Angela Harutyunyan was led in Fall 2017 by a colleague from CVSP Courtney Fugate on Immanuel Kant’s 3rd Critique. During the Spring term the department hosted Dr. Juli Carson (University of California, Irvine) as the Jabre Lecturer who spoke about the authorial voice of the curator in contemporary exhibitions. The PLOs of the BA in AHIS are: 1. Describe the art, culture and institutions of various periods and places. 2. Carry out visual analysis of art. 3. Conduct research on art and art theories. 4. Explain a variety of art theories. 5. Apply art theories to art. 6. Critique art and texts. 7. Argue persuasively about art using well-founded reasoning. 8. Adapt theories to art. 9. Develop new interpretations of art and theory.

The FAAH Department launched its new graduate program in Art History and Curating in 2017-18. The program offers an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree grounded in arts and humanities that teaches students art history, curating, critical theory, and art criticism based on research and practice. The program encourages active engagement with local, regional and international art contexts through research, practice, invited lecture series and internships.

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The Department of Fine Art and Art History’s MA in Art History and Curating received its first cohort of students in Fall 2017: three students were admitted as regular students, and one was admitted as a prospective graduate student (one of these three students later transferred to another graduate program). The program was offered two GA lines, which was awarded to two international students based on merit. The strength of the incoming cohort was most evident in the fact that one of our three students received the competitive APEAL scholarship for the AY 2017- 18. In Spring 2018, the program accepted a total of two graduate students (both of whom deferred their enrollment to Fall 2018) and two prospective graduate students. Our prospective graduate from Fall 2017 successfully transferred to the regular graduate track.

The MA in Art History and Curating organized a number of activities: An Art History e-newsletter (designed and edited by the GA), involved MA students in the international forum, a conference entitled The Southern Question organized by the journal ArtMargins (MIT), initiated the bi-monthly Art History Reading Group, a week-long visit by URB Visiting Scholar, Anneka Lenssen (UC-Berkeley), mounted an art exhibition in the AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery with Beatrice von Bismarck, the Jabre Chair in Art History and Curating and developed in collaboration with students from the Cultures of the Curatorial graduate program at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig.

The minor in Music (MUSC) organized two public concerts by the AUB Choir and Choral Society the musical direction of Dr. Thomas Kim: The first in December 3rd and 4th offered music by A. Dvorak and A. Part, the second in April 23rd and 24th offered music by F. Mendelssohn, J. Brahms and M. Siegesgesang.

The minor in Theatre (THTR) organized the major production of THTR259- ENG244 Workshop in Theater Production and the Theater Initiative: Blood Wedding written by Federico Garcia Lorca. The play was produced by AUB in collaboration with Hammana Artist House and it was performed as a site-specific promenade in Hammana village from April 15-22.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Sadek, Walid Professor MFA Franses, Henri Associate Professor Ph.D. Harutyunyan, Angela Associate Professor Ph.D. Assaf, Sahar Assistant Professor MA Auji, Hala Assistant Professor Ph.D. Du Quenoy, Paul Ass. Prof. (pt., fall) Ph.D

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Esanu, Octavian Assistant Professor Ph.D. Genadry, Daniele Assistant Professor MFA Hammond, Joseph Assistant Professor Ph.D. Kim, Thomas Assistant Professor DMA* O’Brien, Heather M. Assistant Professor MFA Kurani, David Senior Lecturer Dipl.** Al-Amine, Gheith Instructor (pt.) Master(1) Badran, Rayya Instructor (pt.) MFA Baki, Sany Abdul Instructor (pt., fall) MA Bothwell, Beau Visiting inst. (pt., fall) Ph.D Harb, Nazha Instructor (pt.) MA Kcheich, Rima Instructor (pt.) Dipl.*** Khoury, Joelle Instructor (pt.) MA+Dipl.† Maalouf, Maya Instructor (pt.) M.Mus.†† Saadawi, Ghalya Instructor (pt.) Ph.D. Sabbah, Yasmina Instructor (pt.) M.Mus.†† Sabban, Sarah Instructor (pt.) MA Soubra, Soulafa Instructor (pt., fall) MA Von Bismarck, Beatrice Jabre Visiting Prof. Ph.D

* Doctor of Musical Arts ** Diploma in Acting *** Dipl. in Oriental Music. † Diploma in Piano. †† Master of Music

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Ismail, Joy

Spring Semester Ismail, Joy

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Sahakyan, Nare

Spring Semester Sahakyan, Nare Tukan, Yassmeen

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4. Non-Academic Staff

Jebara Kidess, Adiba Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2017 1 Feb. 2018 2 Jun. 2018 9

MA Oct. 2017 0 Feb. 2018 0 Jun. 2018 0

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 3 Seniors 11 Juniors 6 Sophomores 7

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall ‘17 Spring ‘18 Total 300 and above 0 13 8 21 211-299 170 438 357 965 200-210 66 128 166 360 100-199 28 41 73 142 Total 264 620 604 1488

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall ‘17 Spring ‘18 Total 300 and above 0 8 6 14 211-299 24 79 69 172

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D. RESEARCH

Sahar Assaf

1. Performed at Al Madina Theater in “Come Back to Bed, Love!” directed by Lina Abyad, Nov-Dec 2017. 2. Presented No Demand No Supply at Between the Seas Festival in Athens, Sept 2017. I conceived and directed the performance with the support of the Centre of Arts and Humanities (Mellon Grant) and Kafa NGO. 3. Talk on Contemporary Theater in Lebanon and a short reading of my recent play No Demand No Supply at CUNY PhD Theater Program and Martin Segal Theater Center, October 2017. 4. Co-investigator of “Ethics in Simulation” a quality improvement research by the Graduate Medical Education Office. 5. Launched my research on Shoushou’s Theater 1965-1975. 6. Translated Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca from Spanish to Lebanese colloquial Arabic, January 2018. 7. Directed the major production of THTR259-ENG244 Workshop in Theater Production and the Theater Initiative: Blood Wedding 8. Panelist in a roundtable discussion on the role of cinema and theater in promoting women’s rights organized by ESCWA and Asfari Institute Lazem Campaign on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. 9. Organized a Directors Lab Mediterranean Retreat at AUB end of January 2018.

Hala Auji

1. “Technical Imagery and Novel Modes of Visual Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Scientific Publications.” Invited presenter at “Making Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Islamic Art and Architecture” conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, March 1-2, 2018. 2. “Contemporaneity, Visuality, and 19th-century Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals.” Paper selected and delivered at “Visual Design: The Periodical Page as Designed Surface,” University of Marburg (Germany), November 23-25, 2017.

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3. “Illustrations of the ‘Modern Sciences’ and Contemporaneity in 19th -Century Arabic Periodicals.” Invited presenter at the conference “Synchronizing the World: Historic Times, Globalized Times, Anthropogenic Times,” University of Oslo (Norway), June 12-14, 2017. 4. “Scientific Literacy from Islamic Manuscripts to Arabic Periodicals.” Lecture delivered in the Art History Department, Chapman University (Orange, CA). Feb. 26, 2018. 5. “Scientific Literacy and the Illustrated Arabic Periodical in the Late Ottoman Levant.” Lecture delivered in the Art History Department, Tyler School, Temple University (Philadelphia). Feb. 26, 2018. 6. “First Impressions: The Printing Press,” invited panel member (with Rajan Datar, Cristina Dondi, John Man, and Michael Bashkar), podcast episode of The Forum, on BBC-World Service Radio, 2017. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv0rr 7. “Neither Good, Fast, nor Cheap: Challenges of Early Arabic Letterpress Printing,” American Printing History Association (blog), 1 11. Oct 2017. https://printinghistory.org/challenges-of-early-arabicprinting/ 8. “Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut,” podcast interview with Nadirah Mansour for New Books Network, June 2018. 9. Roundtable participant, Portraiture: Beyond Resemblance, April 25, 2018, AUB.

Octavian Esanu

1. Curator One Hundred Years Closer to Communism: Art and Revolution in the Middle East. AUB Art Galleries (Beirut, Fall 2017). 2. Curator Contemporary Artistic “Revolutions”: An Institutional Perspective. AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery (Beirut, Winter 2017). 3. Curatorial Instructor Face the White Cube: Interventions at the Limits of the AUB Art Galleries FAAH course 284B student exhibition (AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery, and AUB Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum, May 2018). 4. Curatorial Assistance David Kurani: Reality Composed (curated by Katharine Gordon and Lama el Khatib), AUB Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum, March 2018). 5. Conference presentation: “The Other Contemporary” in the panel “Anthology of Contemporary Middle East Art” at the College Art Association (CAA), Los- Angeles, February 2018 6. “Art and Counter Revolution” presentation in the context of the 100 years anniversary of the October Revolution at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santiago de Chile. October 20, 2017 7. Presentation to curatorial students from Leipzig fine arts academy. 8. Main organizer of “Contemporary Artistic ‘Revolutions’: An Institutional Perspective,” AUB, Beirut, College Hall (Auditorium B), February 2017.

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9. Moderator section in The “Southern Questions:” Conference ARTMargins (http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/artm) The Department of Fine Arts and Art History, American University of Beirut.

Henri Franses

1. Keynote Lecture, “Optical Fluctuations in Byzantine Art.” Conference Othello’s Island, Center for Visual Arts Research, Nicosia, Cyprus, 25 March 2018. 2. Invited lecture, “The Facialities of Byzantine Art.” Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 10 April 2018. 3. Presentation “Deleuze and Guattari and the Byzantine Portrait.” Round table Portraiture, Beyond Resemblance, AUB, 25 April 2018.

Daniele Genadry

1. Exhibition: Biennial Sur: “Poetics, Politics, Places”, curated by Nayla Tamraz, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Tucuman, 2017. 2. Exhibition: “Kindling”, curated by Rachel Dedman, FOTOPUB, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, 2017. 3. Invited Lecture, FAS research lunch April 27, 2018: “Slow Light: The (Dis) Appearing Image”. 4. Conference Participant: Sharjah Biennial (Part II, Beirut), Ashkal Alwan, October 2017. 5. Visiting Artist Lecture, BeMA Residency (organized by TAP), Lebanon, 2017.

Joseph Hammond

1. Development of ‘Remaking Titian’s Venus with a Mirror” into a potential book project. 2. Work on chapter about serial portraits for book project “Reconsidering Renaissance Portraiture”. 3. Presentation and participation in Portraiture Round-Table with, Hala Auji (AUB), Rico Franses (AUB) and Sean Roberts (VCU-Doha) 25 April 2018. 4. Contributed to the Portraiture Beyond Resemblance, cross teaching and research project lead by Hala Auji.

Angela Harutyunyan

1. Invited lecture: “The ‘Soviet Man’ as a Subject of History: Between Typicality and Monumentality”, Institute of Media and Communications at Alpen-Adria- Universität Klagenfurt in Austria.

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2. Invited lecture: “The Reality of the Ideal: Socialist Realism and the Figures of Anti-Soviet Consciousness”, National Museum of Ukraine, Kiev. 3. Invited lecture: “Dead Heroes and Living Zombies: The 3rd Floor and the Ruins of the Soviet”, Gafesjian Museum Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia. 4. Invited lecture: “Socialist Realism and the Communist Ideal”, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany. 5. Conference Paper: “Periodizing the Soviet: The Advent of the Contemporary, and the Ghosts of Historical Time” in 1917/2017: Revolutions, Communist Legacies and Spectres of the Future”, European University of Saint Petersburg. 6. Conference Paper: “The Past and Futureless Present: Contemporaneity and Stalinism”, with Dr. Eric Goodfield in Engaging the Contemporary 2017: Issues in Contemporary Political and Social Philosophy, University of Malta. 7. Guest Lecture: “The Limits of Representation: Enlightenment and Art”, CVSP common lecture, CVSP 203, AUB, Beirut. 8. Guest Lecture: “Simone De Beauvoir: The Second Sex and Feminism in Art”, with Dr. Nadia Bou-Ali, CVSP common lecture, CVSP 203. 9. Invited Seminar: The Communist Ideal: Mikhail Lifshitz and Evald Ilyenkov. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine. 10. Curated Exhibition: “Dreams that Money Can’t Buy: ¬The 3rd Floor and “Contemporary Art in Armenia”’, contribution to the exhibition Contemporary Artistic Revolutions: An Institutional Perspective curated by Octavian Esanu, AUB Art Galleries. 11. This is the Time. This is the Record of the Time. Book Launch at Salon Arabe, Sursock Museum. Conversation with artists and writers who contributed to the edited volume. Ray Brassier, Daniele Genadry, Walid Sadek and Cynthia Zaven 12. “The Southern Question”, workshop with ARTMargins, AUB, Beirut, organizer, moderator.

Thomas Kim

1. Anilhoub by Fortunat Frölich. AUB Choir and choR InteRkultuR (Switzerland). Thomas Kim and Fortunat Frölich, conductors. Martinskirche, Chur, Switzerland. August 22, 2017. 2. Aanilhoub by Fortunat Frölich. AUB Choir and choR InteRkultuR (Switzerland). Thomas Kim and Fortunat Frölich, conductors. Predigerkirche, Zurich, Switzerland. August 23, 2017. 3. Berliner Messe by Arvo Pärt and Mass in D by Antonin Dvorak . AUB Choir and Choral Society. Thomas Kim, conductor. December 4 and 5, 2017. 4. Mirjams Siegesgesang by Franz Schubert, Hear My Prayer by Felix Mendelssohn, Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir by Felix Mendelssohn, and Four Songs, Op. 17 by Johannes Brahms. AUB Choir and Choral Society. Thomas Kim, conductor. April 23 and 24, 2018.

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5. Delalande, Michel-Richard, “My Soul Has Trusted in God,” arranged by Thomas Kim. In Children Sing the Classics, ed. C Carver and S. Wudali, 12-19, 64-65, 78-81. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2018.

David Kurani

1. One-man show “David Kurani: Reality Composed” Rose & Shaheen Museum AUB, March-Sept, 2018. 2. Group Show” “Beirutiyat”. Eight watercolorists: entry by invitation: April 2018. 3. Wrote 2 songs for musical comedy – part of larger work in progress 4. Wrote a duet for two female voices, harp & flute composed and performed at solo show opening. 5. Participation in Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab Mediterranean Weekend Workshop – AUB – January 2018 (by invitation). 6. Participation in Theater Directors’ Forum with Lincoln Center Director, Ms. A. Catalano, AUB – October 2018, (by invitation).

Heather M. O’Brien

1. Conference Paper: “Undoing Conditioning”, Society for Photographic Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2018. 2. Conference Participant: “Realty”, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017. 3. Conference Participant: “At Work with Allan Sekula”, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon, 2017. 4. Residency/Fellowship: Summer Academy Paul Klee Fellowship, Bern, Switzerland, 2017 – 2018. 5. Residency/Fellowship: Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights Residency, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2017. 6. Exhibition: “Windows of Little Tokyo”, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2018. 7. Exhibition: “Video Snack”, El Museo de los Sures, New York, NY, USA, 2017. 8. Exhibition: “In search of lost time”, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA, 2017. 9. Exhibition: “Overcrossings”, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2017. 10. Visiting Artist Lecture: University of the Aegean on Syros Island, Greece, 2018. 11. Visiting Artist Guest Lecture: Sea & Society course (SOAM), AUB, 2018 12. Visiting Artist Guest Lecture: Photojournalism course (SOAM), AUB, 2017.

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Walid Sadek

1. Workshop and lecture: “Towards a Theory of the Neo-Victim”, HWS, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Feb. 21-22.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Sahar Assaf

1. Tenure Committee: Contribute to developing tenure criteria for practice-based majors (SA, Music, Theater), Fall 2017- Present 2. Program Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee, Fall 2017- Present. 3. Drama club Advisor. 2013-continuing. 4. Consultant for the Standardized Patient Program at the School of Medicine. 5. Reader for Franjie Tannous, MA candidate at the English department. 6. Lecturer at UfS. 6. Committee member at the Center of Arts and Humanities since Sept 2016.

Hala Auji

1. Graduate Director, MA in Art History and Curating, Spring 2018. 2. Committee member, Tenure and Promotion Guidelines Committee (FAAH), AUB, Spring 2018. 3. Committee member, MA in Art History Graduate Admissions Committee (FAAH), AUB, AY 2017-18. 4. Library liaison, Department of Fine Arts and Art History (FAAH), AUB, 2015- present. 5. Freshman Advisor, Spring 2018. 6. Consultative Board Member, Public Art Commissions Project at ACC, AUB Medical Center, 2017-present 7. Committee member, Art Steering committee, AUB Art Galleries, 2015-present. 8. Peer reviewer, AUB Press, 2018. 9. Organized the event “Exploring 19th to early 20th-Century Photographs” in collaboration with AUB’s Archives and Special Collections. 10. Majlis on Translation and the Syrian Avant-Garde, guest leaders Anneka Lenssen (UC-Berkeley, URB Visiting Scholar) and Rana Issa (AUB), Salon Beyrouth, April 28, 2018. 11. Organized lecture by Anneka Lenssen, “False Gods and Demonic Attachements: Fatteh al-Moudarres’s Critical Surrealism,” AUB, April 30, 2018.

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12. Organized “Archive Discussion of Artist Primary Documents” with guest leader Anneka Lenssen (UC-Berkeley, URB Visiting Scholar), Archives and Special Collections, AUB, May 2, 2018. 13. Panel Moderator, “Early Salons and the Politics of Taste-Making,” in Contextualizing the Art Salon in the Arab Region, Orient-Institut and Sursock Museum, Beirut October 27-28, 2017. 14. Guest lecture, “Smelling Roses & Keeping Time: Early Modern Imperial Album Portraiture from the Islamic World.” Delivered in AHIS 208 – Italian Renaissance Art (taught by Joseph Hammond), FAAH, AUB, April 10, 2018. 15. Guest lecture, “Debating ‘the Modern’ in Arab Art Since 1900.” Delivered in MEST 301-Middle East Studies (taught by Samer Frangie), MA program in Middle East Studies, CAMES, AUB, May 3, 2018. 16. Lebanon Liaison, Syrian Studies Association (MESA-affiliate), 2018.

Octavian Esanu

1. Committee member, Tenure and Promotion Guidelines Committee (FAAH), AUB, Spring 2018. 2. Committee member, MA in Art History Graduate Admissions Committee (FAAH), AUB, AY 2017-18. 3. MA Advisor, 2018-2019 4. Committee member, Art Steering committee, AUB Art Galleries, 2013-present. 5. Fulfilling the role of technical director of AUB Art Gallery performing a range of functions related to preservation of AUB art collection and maintenance of AUB Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum and AUB Byblos Bank Art Galleries (2014-present) 6. Worked with the architectural division of FPDU in preparing the plans for the relocation of AUB Art Galleries to its new Mary Dodge location on-campus. 7. Peer reviewer for ARTMargins (MIT Journals Press), 2012-present. 8. Editor, regular shepherd editor tasks for various submission to ARTMargins (MIT Journals Press), 2012-present.

Henri Franses

1. Member, search committee for new professor in Studio Arts program. 2. Member, search committee for Whittlesey professor in Music. 3. External referee, promotion case, American University of Kuwait. 4. External reviewer for European Commission Funding Evaluation Services, European Union. 5. Director of AUB Art Galleries and Collections. 6. Chair, Art Galleries Committee. 7. Convener, Jabre Lecture Series in Art History and Curating.

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8. Five exhibitions opened over the course of the year, including a retrospective of the work of David Kurani, and a project curated by the Jabre Visiting Professor in Art History and Curating, Beatrice von Bismarck. 9. Ongoing project of commissioning artworks for Academic Medical Center at AUBMC. Exhibition slated for opening in fall semester, 2018. 10. Installation on campus of monumental sculpture by Salwa Raouda Choucair. 11. Agreement secured in principle for donation of works on paper of Omar Unsi, and for funding of conservation of those works, from family of Mrs. Houda Unsi Zaabri. 12. Sponsorship agreement concluded for insurance of temporary exhibitions with Commercial Insurance. 13. Organized Public lecture by Prof. Anthony Cutler, Penn State University, “Dissolving the Fourth Wall,” 26 September 2017.

Daniele Genadry

1. FAS Freshman Advisor. 2. Member, SART Full-time Faculty Search committee 3. Member, FAAH Tenure Guidelines Committee. 4. Member, AUB Art Galleries and Collections Steering committee. 5. SART Major Advisor. 6. Collaboration with Dima Ahmadieh, MLS (Collection Development Librarian) to update collection of Contemporary Art monographs for SART that compliment new curriculum. 7. Initiated collaboration with CUB Gallery and BAR and three major students have exhibited there to date (Nataly Al Hindouy in May 2018; Karima Elgilany, Danielle Krikorian November 2017).

Joseph Hammond

1. Was coordinator for the BA Art History program. Including drafting the Feasibility Report on moving the program to a 2:2, teaching load for 2018-19. 2. Developed a schedule for designating selected required courses as Writing in the Discipline. 3. Committee member of AUBMC Art Collection. 4. Committee member of SART Assistant Professor job search. 5. Committee member of Jabre Visiting Professor in Art History.

Angela Harutyunyan

1. Art History program-director 2. AHIS curriculum changes 3. Art history graduate and undergraduate student advising 4. Chair of the MA in Art History Graduate Admissions Committee

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5. Thesis committee member and reader for Asli Altinsik (SOAN) 6. Thesis committee member and reader for Richard Kline (PSPA) 7. Faculty representative in GA policy discussions with the administration 8. Editor of ARTMargins (MIT Press) 9. Peer-reviewer for Manchester University Press 10. Per reviewer for Études arméniennes contemporaines

Thomas Kim

1. Chair, Whittlesey Visiting Professor search-committee. Sept 2017 - March 2018. 2. Head, AUB Music Program.

David Kurani

1. Member of the Zaki Nassif Music Committee – Academic section.

Heather M. O’Brien

1. Member, AUBotanic Committee. 2. Committee Chair, Studio Arts Full-time Faculty Search. 3. Member, Search Committee for Whittlesey professor in Music 4. SART Major Advising. 5. Coordinated the Major Budget Request for the Photographic Lab Building Project in Nicely 401 (in collaboration with Procurement and Contracts Administration (PCA) Department). 6. Coordinated a Photographic Research Project and Exhibition for SART Major Students (in collaboration with CASAR and the Beirut Art Center). 7. Thesis committee member and reader for Tracy Nehme (Department of Public Policy and International Affairs). 8. Initiated a photography collaboration for SART Major students with the Lebanese Office of the Minister of State for Women’s Affairs. 9. Erasmus+ teaching mobility with University of the Aegean, Syros Island, Greece.

Walid Sadek

1. Department’s chair. 2. Member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee, FAS. 3. Member of the AUB Core curriculum Task Force. 4. Member of the search committee for the Edward Said Chair in American Studies.

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F. PUBLICATIONS

Sahar Assaf

1. Assaf, S. 2017. "Political Theatre Between Wars: Staging An Alternative Middle East", Paj: A Journal Of Performance And Art, vol.39, no.3, pp. 65-76.

Hala Auji

1. “Early Representations of Nudity in the Ottoman Press: A Look at Nineteenth- Century Ottoman and Arabic Erotic Literature,” in Art, Awakening and Modernity in the Middle East: The Arab Nude. Ed. Octavian Esanu. 44-68. New York; Oxon: Routledge, 2017. [refereed] 2. Review of “Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World, edited by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz.” Al-Abhath 64 (2017): 171-175.

Octavian Esanu

1. Art, Awakening and Modernity in the Middle East: The Arab Nude (New York and London: Routledge, 2018) 2. Chapter “The Cultural Transition: The SCCA Model” in Art and Theory of Post- 1989 Central and East Europe: A Critical Anthology eds. Ana Janevski and Roxana Marcoci (New York: MoMA, 2018) 3. “Arte y contra-revolución: ¿una estética neoliberal?” in the special issue of “La Raza Cómica,” Santiago de Chile, 2017 4. “Realism Today? A Roundtable” with Dave Beech, Christoph Cox, Sami Khatib, John Roberts and Marina Vishmidt ARTMargins Winter 2018, Vol. 7 No. 1 5. “The Role of the University Art Gallery Today” in the special issue of Keio University Art Center (KUAC), Tokyo, Japan, Newsletter (English and Japanese) 6. “A Study in Artist Locomotion” in Essays and Stories on Photography in Lebanon edited by Clémence Cottard Hachem & Nour Salamé (Beirut: Kaph Books, 2018, pp. 140-145.) 7. Contemporary Artistic Revolutions: An Institutional Perspective, 300-page exhibition publication (AUB Art Galleries, 2017) 8. One Hundred Years Closer to Communism: Art and Revolution in the Middle East, exhibition pamphlet, (AUB Art Galleries Beirut, 2017)

Henri Franses

1. Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art. On the Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine. In Press (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, November 2018).

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2. “To not know God. Geometrical Abstraction and Visual Theology in Islamic Art." Festchrifft for Erica Dodd, ed. L. Jessop (Leiden, Brill, forthcoming, December 2018). 3. “The Deleuzian Spatiality of Landscape in the Menologion of Basil II.” From the Human Body to the Universe - Spatialities of Byzantine Culture, ed. M. Veikou (Leiden, Brill, forthcoming, 2019).

Daniele Genadry

1. Beirut: Top Down Views - Artist interview and work publication, Canvas Magazine, October 2017, pp. 110-113. 2. It's Always Been: Contemporary Artists from Lebanon (Imago Mundi) 3. Antiga Edizioni, 2018, pp. 134-136. ISBN: 9788899657796 4. Exhibition Review: Heron, Fergus, “Daniele Genadry: The Slip (Missing Real),” Photographers’ Gallery Blog, August 24, 2017. 5. Exhibition Review: Smith, William S., “Sharjah Biennial”, Art in America, pp. 140-141, May 2017.

Joseph Hammond

1. Hammond, Joseph. ‘[Review of] Tom Nichols. Renaissance Art in Venice: From Tradition to Individualism. London: Laurence King, 2016’. CAA.Reviews, 6 December 2017. https://doi.org/10.3202/caa.reviews.2017.186.

Angela Harutyunyan

1. “The Lebanese Landscape and its (Trans) Historical Ideal”, with Natasha Gasparian (commissioned essay), Saradar Collection, catalog. 2. Review: “How Artists Strive to Make Sense of the Archive in the “Middle East.” Downey, Anthony, ed. Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East. In Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/378108/dissonant-archives-contemporary-visual- culture-and-contested-narratives-in-the-middle-east/

Heather M. O’Brien

1. “Cranes on the horizon, the towers have shadows”, Overcrossings, No Style Press, 2017. 2. “Americans in Switzerland: A Creative Summer in Bern”, ch.usembassy.gov, 2017.

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Walid Sadek

1. “On the Double Indexicality of One Photographic Image” in Essays and Stories on Photography in Lebanon edited by Clémence Cottard Hachem & Nour Salamé (Beirut: Kaph Books, 2018, pp. 64-69.)

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

1. Furthering develop the MA in Art History and Curating by developing its Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs). 2. Reviewing and assessing the PLOs of the BA in Studio Arts and in Art History that were articulated and submitted this year. 3. Initiating a search to fill the replacement line in SART. 4. Developing an annual series of lectures and workshops, following the new restructuring of budgetary spending that enriches all its programs. 5. Continuing the dialogue with the Dean’s Office in order to shift to a 2:2 annual teaching load. 6. Completing the analog photo-lab in Nicely 401 and initiate the teaching of courses in spring 2019. 7. Initiating a project for transforming Nicely 409 into a performance space in consultation with CVSP and the Dean’s Office that would boost the growth of the Theatre and Music programs. 8. Forming a departmental planning committee for an MFA in Studio Arts.

Walid Sadek Chairperson

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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

During this 2017-18 academic year, and despite the fact that two of the five Geology professorial rank faculty members (Drs. Doummar and Salah) have taken a semester research leave, our course offerings continued to grow. We have offered for the first time two GE natural science courses, one on Building & Destruction of Mountains (Geol-209), and the other on Alternate Energy & Climate (Geol-227). In this academic year, Dr. Tony Nemer has joined our department as an Assistant Professor in the area of structural geology and has very capably taught these two GE courses as well as specialized courses in his domain. The Geoscience freshman-level courses, along with our GE natural geoscience courses at the higher (sophomore to senior) levels, continue to attract a large number of students from other majors in FAS, Engineering, Business, and other faculties. A major effort was devoted to the recruitment of a faculty member in the area of petroleum geology. Thus, the welcome addition of Dr. Hammad Tarek Janjuhah as a Visiting Assistant Professor will have a significant impact in this vital area of Geosciences will contribute to the enhancement of petroleum geology research and also contribute to the training and supervision of graduate students in this domain.

The falling of oil prices during the past few years has affected our graduates negatively. In fact, our graduating students are facing difficulties in joining the already strained petroleum industry, but some are managing well in competing with European and North American graduates and in obtaining scholarships to pursue graduate studies abroad. With Lebanese government’s success in signing some contracts with international petroleum companies for off-shore hydrocarbon exploration, the industry might pick up and this may provide the opportunity for petroleum geology work in the country. A number of other developments have occurred during this academic year, such as the efforts to establish a two-two teaching load for Geology faculty members (i.e., 6 credits per semester) to be equitable with all other natural science departments at AUB, and to allow faculty members to further develop their own research and strengthen their research records. In terms of student activities, most of our students have joined the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). This year, two of our top undergraduate students presented a scientific paper and participated in the Young Professionals & Students Activities Program (YPSS) in conjunction with 2018 GEO Conference held in Bahrain in March 2018; their participation was fully funded by the organizing bodies. Two other graduate students were also sponsored by the Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and attended the SPE workshop held in Beirut in April 2018.

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B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Abdel-Rahman, Abdel-Fattah Professor (Chairman) Ph.D. Salah, Mohamed Associate Professor Ph.D. Doummar, Joanna Assistant Professor Ph.D. Nemer, Tony Assistant Professor Ph.D. Sanjuan, Josep Assistant Professor Ph.D. Haidar, Ali Lecturer Ph.D. Khadra, Wisam Instructor M.S. Oueida, Raghida Instructor M.S.

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Kassem, Assaad Shwairi, Eliane

Spring Semester Eid, Celine Shwairi, Eliane

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Aoun, Michel Ghadban, Samar Khairallah, Catherina

Spring Semester Ghadban, Samar Ghawi, Reda

4. Non-Academic Staff

Ijreiss, Maroun Consultant Technician

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Lababidi, Nisrine Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

B.S. Oct. 2017 1 Feb. 2018 8 Jun. 2018 4

M.S. Oct. 2017 0 Feb. 2018 1 Jun. 2018 0

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 8 Seniors 15 Juniors 11 Sophomores 16 Total 50

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 8 9 17 211-299 14 45 38 97 200-210 43 225 187 455 100-199 9 113 92 214 Total 66 391 326 783

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 15 12 27 211-299 6 12 15 33 200-210 9 31 28 68 100-199 3 15 12 30 Total 18 73 67 158

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D. RESEARCH

Abdel-Rahman, Abdel-Fattah

1. The petrogenetic study on the large Mons-Claudianus TTG batholith and its role in uniting plates of Gondwana has been completed, and one paper has been accepted in the Geological Magazine (Cambridge Univ. Press) and is now in press. 2. Research work on Mount Noslah calc-alkaline magmatic complex of the Nubian shield is continuing. This work aims at determining the nature of mantle source materials, degree of partial melting, and the overall petrogenetic evolution of this complex. Work is in progress. 3. The study of the Mount Tiyour anorogenic pluton of eastern Egypt is continuing. Data obtained so far will shed light on trends of rare-metal mineralization and on the post-orogenic geodynamic regime that witnessed the initiation of extensional tectonics in the region. Work is in progress. 4. Petrography and Geochemistry of the Albian rock sequence, North Lebanon, using field, petrological and geochemical data to assess the sedimentology and diagenesis of the Albian rock sequence in Lebanon. Work on this project is still in progress.

Doummar, Joanna

1. September 2014- June 2018. PEER (USAID-National Science Foundation). Assessment of real evapotranspiration and recharge processes on two karst pilot groundwater catchments (Lebanon) using an integrated spatially distributed numerical model: Applications for water resources management purposes (160,000 USD). 2. March 2018-March 2019. ACACIA Waters. Testing of the applicability of Managed Aquifer Recharge on a pilot well site-Bekaa- Lebanon, part of the Project ‘Strengthening Lebanese Water and Agriculture Sector’ (25,000 USD).

Nemer, Tony

1. Study of the Roum Fault and its seismic hazard in relation to the proposed Bisri Dam in south Lebanon. 2. Study of the Hasbaya Fault in south Lebanon, as one of the five main branches of the Dead Sea Transform Fault in the Lebanese Restraining Bend.

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1. I am continuing my research focusing on the 3-D seismic structure of the eastern Mediterranean region using seismic wave arrival times generated by local and regional events. Upon applying different inversion algorithms for determining 3D crustal structures, the obtained velocity models are interpreted for the possible locations of major earthquakes, active fault zones, and areas of high seismic hazard potential. 2. I am also conducting research in other applied geophysical methods such as the effects of depositional conditions and diagenetic processes on the petrophysical characteristics of sedimentary rocks.

Sanjuan, Josep

1. I am continuing my research on pre-Quaternary non-marine European and American microfossils (charophytes) from the viewpoint of biostratigraphy and paleoecology in collaboration with the Weber State University and Barcelona University. Three works based on Paleogene charophyte biostratigraphy of Utah (USA) and Spain has been published during this academic year (Sanjuan & Eaton 2017; Sanjuan et al. 2017; Martín-Closas et al. 2018). Other works are in progress. 2. I am continuing my research based on a multidisciplinary study (sedimentology, micropaleontology, charophyte biostratigraphy and paleoecology) of Neogene and Cretaceous non-marine deposits from Lebanon (Bekaa Valley and Mount Lebanon). One work has been accepted for publication in an international journal (Sanjuan & Alqudah in press). Other works are in progress. 3. I am starting a new research project focused on Eocene/Oligocene macrofloral remains (fossil plant leaves) from the Ebro Basin (NE of Spain) in collaboration with the University of Barcelona. One work has been published in an international journal (Tosal et al. 2018). Other works are in progress.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Abdel-Rahman, Abdel-Fattah

1. Member, Steering Committee of the Central Science Research Laboratory. 2. Member, Steering Committee of the Masri Institute of Energy & Nat. Res. 3. Chairperson of the Department of Geology 4. Chair of the Departmental Program Review Committee 2016-18. 5. Chair, Geology Faculty Recruitment Committee. 6. Member of the university General Education Board. 7. Member of the FAS Administrative Committee.

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8. Academic advisor; Geology and Petroleum Studies students. 9. Mentoring of new Geology faculty members. 10. Book Coordinator of the Department of Geology. 11. Program Learning Outcomes Committee (Geol-Dept.). 12. Chair, Geology Staff Recruitment Committee. 13. Advisor of the Geology Student Society (GSS). 14. Advisor of the Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Middle East Student Chapter. 15. Member of M.S. Thesis committee of Geology graduate students. 16. Provided Geol. Museum tours to Univ. & School students.

Doummar, Joanna

1. Co-organizer of FAS Research Lunch since 2016. 2. Advisor of M.S. graduate students (Ahmad Hamdan; thesis defended on January 18, 2018). Michel Aoun, Jessica Nicholas, Reda Ghawi; ongoing). 3. Academic Advisor for Freshman Students 4. Replacing member of the K-Shair Research committee (Spring 2017-18) 5. Member in the PhD thesis of Mr. Amir Safi (FEA); Civil Engineering. 6. Deputy Safety Warden for Post Hall (Responsible for Safety issues and reorganization of the Laboratory in the Geology Department) 7. FAS representative in the organizing committee of Big Games (2018). 8. Member in the ad-hoc committee for the Computational Science Graduate program (2018-19) 9. Associate Editor for the Journal “Grundwasser” (2018-2021) 10. Nominated and elected member of the International Karst Commission (International Association of Hydrogeologists).

Haidar, Ali

1. Academic Advisor, sophomore Geology students. 2. Expert appointed by the Lebanese Court in Geology .

Nemer, Tony

1. Library liaison of the Department of Geology 2. Member of the recruitment committee of the Department of Geology. 3. Served as acting Chair of the Department of Geology 4. Served as evaluator for the Masri Institute Research Grant Proposals

Salah, Mohamed

1. Member of FAS Research Committee (2017-19). 2. Member of the FAS K-Shair - CRSL Review Panel for 2017-18.

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Sanjuan, Josep

1. Member of the Geology faculty recruitment committee. 2. Advisor of two M.S. Geology graduate students.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Doummar, Joanna

1. Margane, A., Makki, I., Raad, R., Schuler, P., Abi Rizik, J., Doummar, J., Königer, P., Hahne K., Stoeckl, L. 2018. Hydrogeology of the Jeita Groundwater Catchment in Lebanon. Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe B, Heft B 106. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany (in a Book). 2. Safi, A., Rachid, G., El-Fadel, M., J. Doummar, J., Abou Najm, M., & I. Alameddine. 2018. Synergy of climate change and local pressures on saltwater intrusion in coastal urban areas: effective adaptation for policy planning, Water International, DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2018.1434957. 3.Doummar, J., Margane A., Geyer T., and Sauter M. 2018. Assessment of key transport parameters in a karst system under different dynamic conditions based on tracer experiments: the Jeita karst system, Hydrogeology Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10040-018-1754-x. 4. Doummar, J., and Aoun, M. 2018. Occurrence of selected domestic and hospital emerging micropollutants on a rural surface water basin linked to a groundwater karst catchment. Journal of Environmental Sciences. pp. 77: 351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7536-x.

Salah, Mohamed

1. Lemnifi, A. A., Elshaafi, A., Karaoğlu, Ö., Salah, M. K., Aouad, N., Reed, C. A., Yu, Y., 2017. Complex seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics beneath Turkey. Journal of Geodynamics, 112, 31-45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2017.10.004. 2. Tawfik, H. A., Salah, M. K., Maejima, W., Armstrong-Altrin, J. S., Abdel-Hameed, A. T., El Ghandour, M. M., 2017. Petrography, geochemistry and depositional setting of the Lower Miocene Moghra Formation, Qattara Depression, north Western Desert, Egypt. Geological Journal, 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3025.

Sanjuan, Josep

1. Sanjuan, J., Eaton, J. 2017. Charophyte flora from the Claron Formation (Aquarius Plateau, Southwestern Utah). Biostratigraphic implications. Micropaleontology 62(4): 323- 330.

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2. Sanjuan, J., Eaton, J., Rafferty, K., Biek, R. 2017. Charophyte flora from the Brian Head Formation, Southwestern Utah, and its biostratigraphic implications. Micropaleontology 63 (1): 1-14. 3. Tosal, A., Sanjuan, J., Cartañà, J., Martín-Closas, C. 2018. Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the uppermost Eocene flora from Sarral (Eastern Ebro Basin). Palaeoclimatic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 497: 66-81. 4. Martín-Closas, C., Vicente, A., Pérez-Cano, J., Sanjuan, J., Bover-Arnal, T., 2018. On the earliest occurrence of Tolypella (Section Tolypella) in the fossil record and age of major clades in extant Characeae. Botany Letters 165 (1): 23-33.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Short-term developments (planned for the up-coming few years) are in place and on several fronts. These include teaching and research facilities, curricular revision, the Geology Museum and its role in student’s recruitment, building strong links with some US universities, and with the industry when off-shore detailed exploration work begins, among other future developments. The process of improving the laboratory teaching materials is continuing, as we have managed to improve and enlarge the microscopy laboratory needs (in terms of student microscopes and of thin section materials). The department has been granted funds requested for the refurbishing of the optical mineralogy/petrology laboratory with special set-up and work-stations that allow the use of the microscopes and the stereoscopes more comfortably, and orders will be made during the summer of 2018. In the petrography laboratory, we have also acquired the needed spare parts for equipment and also sufficient materials needed for thin-section preparations, as this laboratory serves both teaching and research needs. In connection with this issue, we are currently in the process of preparing the necessary detailed form and sample advertisement to recruit a suitable person to replace the Geology Senior Technician who has recently retired. We have also continued to fulfill our needs for field–related tools and materials (as maps and air photos) necessary for student’s field work and field-based research work. In the three areas of sedimentology, petroleum geology and structural geology, productivity in research has been somewhat on the low side. As the positions in both structural geology and petroleum geology have been recently filled, good-quality research in these two areas is expected. The proposed departmental revision of the undergraduate curricula, and as approved by the University’s Program Review Committee (PRC) will soon be submitted to the FAS Curriculum Committee, hopefully for implementation soon after approvals have been secured.

As some teaching components on basic concepts of geological sciences have been part of the Lebanese school curricula in recent years, we have been receiving a large number of school students visiting the Geology Museum annually. Thus, we continue to provide significant service to the community, as numerous schools, as well as some university students (particularly those in Civil Engineering) continue to visit the AUB Geology

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Museum annually, and we do provide illustrated scientific tours to all visiting students. We have also been using this opportunity to advertise for the Geoscience major. However, a fund-raising effort via the AUB Development Office could help in obtaining a fiber-glass replica of a full-size Dinosaur skeleton, and this would play a significant role in igniting the sense of scientific enquiry in the young minds of visitors of the Geology Museum, and hopefully attract more future AUB students to join the major. This year, and in collaboration with the Masri Institute for Energy & Natural Resources, a two-day visit by a prominent Geoscientist (Prof. David Mohreg) from the University of Texas at Austen took place in April 2018, and his visit included two major seminars attended by many Geology faculty and students, as well as a meeting with Geology faculty members. During that meeting, we have discussed and proposed developing some strong links with UT at Austen. We are also hoping to build some strong links with the petroleum industry when off-shore detailed exploration work begins, hopefully by the end of this year.

Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Rahman Chairperson

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GRADUATE PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (GPCS)

A. THE PROGRAM: WORK IN PROGRESS:

More than a decade after its inception, the Graduate Program in Computational Science (GPCS) is in state of radical reconstruction. The overhaul is partly motivated by internal changes (a recently appointed director and a newly formed ad-hoc committee), but mainly ushered by the evolved ecosystem of computationally driven research around AUB, as well as promising new trends in the field.

A survey of computational needs across faculties ascertained the continued relevance of the program as a flexible, multidisciplinary platform for articulating, supporting and featuring computational science at AUB. The ad-hoc committee then embarked on an internal review, which is ongoing, and which aims to reconsider the programs' mission, clarify its learning outcomes, and revisit its curriculum with a view to updating and expanding core courses, and delineating elective tracks that reflect computationally intensive specialties across faculties.

In the midst of its soul searching, GPCS graduated three students (Sakina Takache, Monzer Hamwi, and Esmail Abdul Fattah), and is following up with the remaining six students to make sure that all are on track towards timely engagement with and completion of their research projects. It received nine applications from a diverse body of graduates of Lebanese and international universities and granted acceptance to five who are expected to start in Fall 2018-2019.

B. PERSONNEL

Director

Touma, Jihad Professor and Chair of Physics, FAS

Ad-hoc Committee

Name Department Position Dohna, Henrich Biology, FAS Assistant Professor Ph.D Doummar, Joanna Geology, FAS Assistant Professor Ph.D

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Jaber, Mohamad Computer Science, FAS Assistant Professor Ph.D Kazan, Michel Physics, FAS Associate Professor Ph.D Lakkis, Issam ME, MSFEA Professor Ph.D Monni, Stefano Mathematics, FAS Assistant Professor Ph.D Najem, Sarah CNRS-L/BRIC Research Fellow Ph.D Zaraket, Fadi ECE, MSFEA Associate Professor Ph.D

Non-academic Staff Kaissi, Dina, Secretary

Enrolled Students

Fall Semester Abdul Fattah, Esmail Takache, Sakina Al-Hamwi, Monzer Ghaddar, Mohammad Skafi, Mohammad Jallad, Maher Sharafedin, Batoul Alameddine, Reem Achour, Rim

Spring Semester Ghaddar, Mohammad Skafi, Mohammad Jallad, Maher Sharafedin, Batoul Alameddine, Reem Achour, Rim

Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Achour, Rim Takache, Sakina Abdul Fattah, Esmail

Spring Semester Alameddine, Reem Sharafedin, Batoul Achour, Rim

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C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors June 2018 3

2. Number of Majors

Graduates Fall Semester (9) Spring semester (9)

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

The current ferment will surely lead to significant changes in the program, its mission, and the ways that it goes about bringing it to life. We shall have more to say on these changes next year. What is clear in the short term is that director and committee members will be actively engaged in GPCS related outreach efforts, whether by organizing an open house featuring the diversity of computational work across AUB, or reaching out to students in AUB faculties and universities in Lebanon with presentations on the Program, its offerings, and the ways it prepares its graduates for an increasingly quantitative/computational work place, the whole supported by a website which reflects the richness and dynamism of GPCS and the faculty associated with it at AUB.

Jihad Touma Director

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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department of History and Archaeology offered a wide range of courses during the academic year of 2017-2018. Professor Newson was the Mellon Research Fellow for the fall of 2017. Professor Sader was on research leave in the spring semester. Professors Saikaly and Seeden were not teaching in spring of 2018 due to their upcoming retirement. Professor El-Cheikh was not teaching during the academic year due to her position as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

At the graduate level, the program accepted 5 MA students (3 in history, 2 in archaeology), 1 prospective MA student (archaeology) and 1 Ph.D. student (history). The Howell Endowed Chair was filled by Professor Andrew Petersen (Archaeology). As in previous years, the Department welcomed a number of researchers as visiting affiliates.

The Department hosted the following lectures and events during the academic year: 1. Michael Reimer (Department of History at the American University in Cairo): Jewish Interpretations of the Balfour Declaration, 1917-1937. 2. Denys Pringle (Cardiff University): Castles and Churches of the Templars in Syria and the Holy Land (in collaboration with the Orient Institute Beirut) 3. Kamal Salibi Memorial Lecture: Şevket Pamuk (Boğazici University): Plagues and the History of the Middle East 4. Conference: Numismatic Research in Lebanon: Past, Present and Future (co- organized with the Department of Physics) 5. The Department assisted in the organization of the 3rd annual meeting of the Necropoleis Research Network Group Concerning Program Learning Outcomes, evaluation for the program in History and Archaeology is running smoothly, despite the recurrent issue of the low enrollment in both majors. The Department’s PLO committee is composed of Professor Paul Newson (archaeology) and Professor Alexis Wick (history).

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Abu-Husayn, Abdulrahim Professor Ph.D.

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Abou Nader, Marwan Part-time Instructor Ph.D. Armstrong, Lyall Assistant Professor Ph.D. Petersen, Andrew Visiting Professor Ph.D. (Howell chair) Du Quenoy, Paul Associate Professor Ph.D. Genz, Hermann Professor Ph.D. Kaidbey, Naila Part-time Lecturer Ph.D. Meloy, John Professor Ph.D. Newson, Paul Associate Professor Ph.D. Nurpetlian, Jack Full-time Lecturer Ph.D. Rabah, Makram Part-time Lecturer Ph.D. Sader, Helen Professor Ph.D. Seeden, Helga Professor Ph.D. Seikaly, Samir Professor Ph.D. Tohme, Hicham Part-time Instructor Ph.D. Wick, Alexis Assistant Professor Ph.D.

2. Research Assistants

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Arnold, Michael Tribble, Megan ElJilani, Badria Wannessian, Berj Tavakol, Mahdieh Zaher, Rana Torosian, Bedros

Spring Semester Arnold, Michael Torosian, Bedros Eljilani, Badria Tribble, Megan Elkoury Salem Youssef Wannessian, Berj Hoffman, Daniel Tavakol, Mahdieh

4. Non-Academic Staff

Osailly, Nabeeha Administrative assistant

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C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2017 1 Feb. 2018 - May 2018 3

MA Oct. 2017 - Feb. 2018 - May 2018 -

2. Number of Majors

History Archaeology Total Ph.D. 5 - 5 Graduates 5 3 8 Prospective - 1 1 Seniors 1 1 2 Juniors 5 2 7 Sophomores 2 1 3

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 2 17 25 44 211-299 16 288 260 624 200-210 - 24 - 24 100-199 - 183 217 400 Total 18 512 502 1092

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 3 12 15 30 211-299 15 57 51 123 200-210 - 3 - 3 100-199 - 21 24 45 Total 18 93 90 201

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D. RESEARCH

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn

1. “The Junblat Family”, entry for the 3rd edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam. 2. “The Hamada Family”, entry for the 3rd edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam. 3. “A Preliminary Syriac, Aramaic and Arabic Lexical and Toponymical Survey of Beth Qatraye”, Principal investigator of a three year research project funded by QNRF. صناعة األسطورة وبناء الدولة: قراءة في تاريخ لبنان في العهد العثماني. كتاب قيد الطبع .4 لدى دار الساقي، لندن، بيروت.

Du Quenoy, Paul

1. Imperial Russia and the Middle East

Armstrong, Lyall

1. “Divorce and Re-marriage in Early Islamic Law.” (Article in progress). 2. “On Death and Dying: Ibn Abi al-Dunya’s Kitab al-mawt.” (Article in progress).

Hermann Genz

1. The Tell Fadous-Kfarabida Archaeological Project (2004-2016). Project leaders: Hermann Genz (2004-ongoing), Alison Damick (Columbia University, 2014-ongoing).Funding Agency: AUB-FAS (URB) and Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany).Continuing to process the material excavated between 2014 and 2016. 2. Publication of the excavations at Tell Hizzin, Lebanon, undertaken by M. Chéhab between 1949 and 1950 (2007-ongoing). Project leaders: Hermann Genz, Helen Sader. 3. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Lebanon from Prehistory to Hellenistic Times (2006-ongoing). Project leaders: Helen Sader, Hermann Genz. 4. Baalbek in the Bronze Ages: A Sounding in the Courtyard of the Jupiter Temple (2012-ongoing). Project leaders: Margarete van Ess (German Archaeological Institute), Hermann Genz. Funding Agency: AUB-FAS (URB), German Archaeological Institute (Germany). Work has been on hold since 2013 due to the security situation in the Bekaa.

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5. Excavations at Tell Mirhan and a Survey of the Chekka Region (2016- ongoing). Project leaders: Hermann Genz, Karin Kopetzky (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities). Funding Agency: European Research Council, AUB-FAS (URB), Preparations for the excavation season in the summer of 2018. 6. Genz, H., Badreshany, K. and Jean, M., A View from the North: Black Wheelmade Ware in Lebanon, in: Dever, W. and Long, J. (eds.),Essays on Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in Honor of Suzanne Richard(submitted). 7. Seeher, J. and Genz, H. The Late Iron Age at Boğazköy, in: Draycott, C. (ed.), Festschrift Geoffrey Summers (submitted). 8. Genz, H. Heterarchy or Hierarchy: Tell Fadous-Kfarabida and Byblos during the Early Bronze Age, in Maila-Afeiche, A.-M. (ed.), Proceedings of the International Symposium ‘Tyre, Sidon, Byblos: Three Global Harbours of the Ancient World’, Beirut 2017. Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, Hors Série (submitted).

Patrick McGreevy

1. The University and the World. (Book-length research, project in preparation). 2. “Empire Interrupted: “Trump. Trepidation, and World Order,” article in preparation, to appear in in Liam Kennedy, editor, Trump’s America, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2019).

John Meloy

1. “‘Enlightened Patriots’: Area Studies, Nationalism, and the Arab World.” Paper presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC. 2. “Mecca Entangled.” The Mamluk Sultanate and its Neighbors. Bonn: Bonn University Press/V&R Unipress. (Forthcoming in 2018). 3. “‘Aggression in the Best of Lands’: Mecca in Egyptian-Indian Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century.” Mamluk Cairo: Crossroads for Embassies. Leiden: Brill. (Forthcoming in 2018). 4. “The Judges of Mecca and Mamluk Hegemony.” Whither the Early Modern State? Fifteenth-Century State Formations across Eurasia. Leiden: Brill. (Forthcoming in 2018). 5. “Processions, Religious.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Medieval Studies. (Submitted)

Paul Newson

1. “Central BekaaValley Project” (URB Grant funded). As Principal Investigator multi-period fieldwork project: collection and analyses of a variety of archaeological data.

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2. “Settlement and Landscape in the Basalt Region of Homs, Syria”. In the role of a principal Investigator engaged in final stage writing up stage for the multi-authored monograph is continuing. 3. “Tyre (Sur) Environs Settlement Project, Lebanon”. Founding Co-Director of an exploratory investigation into ancient settlement within the hinterland of Tyre. 4. Article in preparation: Newson, P, Hamel, H., et al. Archaeological assessment of the site at Niha; preliminary report 2014-2017. BAAL: Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises. 5. Article in press: Newson, P. Establishing partnerships and values in urban post-conflict archaeology. In: S. S. Damluji and T. Harrison (eds), Urbicide Syria II. London: I.B. Tauris.

Helen Sader

1. The Tell el Burak Archaeological Project (2001- ). Name of project leaders: Helen Sader: AUB Jens Kamlah: University of Tübingen, Germany; Aaron Schmitt Mainz, Margarete van Ess DAI Berlin. This project aims at studying the settlement history of a Lebanese coastal site. After having excavated the complete plan of a Middle Bronze Age palace, the project is now investigating the Phoenician settlement (8th-4th c. BC). 2. The Tell el-Burak Survey Project (2017-2019) A survey of the area extending from Zahrani to Sarafand and from Deir Zahrani to Dweir. A first phase of the 3-year survey was completed in September 2017. A second season will start in May 2018. 3. The Tell el-Kubba Archaeological Project (2014-) Name of project leaders: Helen Sader: AUB, Graham Phillip, University of Durham; Kamal Badreshany, University of Durham. The project aims at conducting an investigation at two sites in the village of Kubba-Batrun. Kubba I is a Neolithic site and Kubba II is an Early Bronze Age site. 4. The Tell Kubba Survey Project (2016-2018). A survey of the area extending from Batrun to Chekka and directed by Jennie Bradbury-Oxford University- is also part of the above project. Two phases of the 3-year survey were completed in 2016 and 2017. 5. The Tell Hizzin Archaeological Project (2009- ) Name of the project leaders: Helen Sader, AUB; Hermann Genz, AUB; Inventory and publication of the artifacts excavated in 1949-1950 and stored in the storage of the Directorate General of Antiquities. 6. Sader, H. The History and Archaeology of Iron Age Phoenicia: ca.1200-332 BCE commissioned by Society of Biblical Literature Press, Atlanta, GA. Due January 2019. (Book project). 7. Kamlah, J., and Sader, H. et al. The Tell el-Burak Archaeological Project Volume 1: Area I-II: Final Report on the Middle Bronze Age and Late Medieval Period Remains of the 2001-2011 Seasons of Excavation. Preparation of PDFs. (Book project).

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8. Finkbeiner, U. and Sader, H. Final Report on the Excavations of Beirut, Site BEY 020. (Book project). 9. Sader, H. and Genz, H. An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Lebanon from Early Villages to the Coming of Alexander the Great. (Book project). 10. “Inscriptions phéniciennes inédites du Liban”, to appear in the Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Tunis: Institut National du Patrimoine. (Proofs corrected, article in press) 11. “A Phoenician Stamp Seal Impression from Tell Hizzin-Lebanon”, to appear in Festschrift Frances Pinnock to be published in the series Alter Orient und Altes Testament. (article in press). 12. “The Neo-Assyrian Empire and Phoenicia’s Cultural Resistance”, to appear in up-coming volume of Rivista di Studi Fenici. (Proofs corrected, article in press). 13. The Archaeology of the Phoenician Cities“, to appear in the Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean.(Proofs corrected, article in press). 14. The History of Phoenician Epigraphic Discoveries in Lebanon“. To appear in Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici.(Proofs corrected, article in press). 15. Aramaic and Phoenician Sources and Neo-Assyrian History”, to appear in Raija Mattila, Robert Rollinger and Giovanni Lanfranchi eds., Writing Neo- Assyrian History: Sources, Problems and Approaches. Proceedings of the International Meeting, University of Helsinki, September 22nd – 25th, 2014 (State Archives of Assyria Studies), Helsinki 2015/2016.(Proofs corrected, article in press). 16. “A New Phoenician Weight from Tell el-Burak”. To appear in a special issue of the journal Byrsa in honor of Giuseppe Garbini edited by Anna Chiara Fariselli and Pierfrancesco Callieri. (Article in press).

Helga Seeden

1. AUB BEIRUT SOUKS Publication Project (with Tim Williams, Dominic Perring, Paul Reynolds, Reuben Thorpe, Kevin Butcher). 2. Collaboration with the DGA and Atelier Brückner (Stuttgart): Project BEIRUT CITY MUSEUM. 3. Collaboration with Winfried Held (Marburg University) and Hans Curvers: Project BERYTOS (Archäologie einer antiken Handelsmetropole in der Levante, Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit). 4. “Alms for Oblivion Revisited”, Synthesis of ethnoarchaeological fieldwork and research (working title of book).

Samir Seikaly

1. Completing the intensive exploration of the local press, in Egypt and the Arab provinces of the late Ottoman Empire, referring to tribal life and activity in

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order to re-inscribe them into the historic record. The results are meant for publication. 2. Initiating a study of the Constantinople based rare Arabic periodic publication, Lisan al-‘Arab, 1913 issued by the Arab Club, a l-muntada al- Adabi. The purpose is to analyze the nature of late Arab-Turkish relations and to trace the evolution of a nascent cultural and political identity.

Alexis Wick

1. We Other Europeans: Genealogies of Geography – research project on the emergence of the concept of Europe as a geohistorical entity (ongoing research project). 2. Different Places – research project on the scientific production, poetics and practice of space in the Islamic discursive tradition (ongoing research project).

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn

1. Continue to serve as editor, Handbook and Entries sections, 1914-1918- online. International Encyclopedia of The First World War, published online since 1914, Free Univ. of Berlin. 2. Coeditor of the Proceedings of the conference “1516: The Year that Changed the Middle East and the World”. 3. Invited and attended the Doha Arab Center for Research and Policy Studiesconference” The Nakba after 70 years”, May 12-14, 2018. 4. Co-organized with Bilal Orfali the CAH annual conference on “Approachesto the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies” May 10-12, 2018. 5. Serve as director of the Center for Arts and Humanities. Du Quenoy, Paul

1. Conference Paper: "Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Godfather’s Social Critique in Vietnam-Era America," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 11, 2017. 2. Roundtable Participant: “Russia and the Syrian Crisis,” Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, DC, April 2, 2018. 3. Frequent music criticism.

Armstrong, Lyall

1. “On Death and Dying: Ibn Abi al-Dunya’s Kitab al-mawt.” Paper presentation - Conference on Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies, AUB, May 10-12, 2018.

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2. Committee member –CAMES MA Thesis: Dima Mouallem “Colloquy and Soliloquy in the Arabo-Islamic Heritage: Three Religious Interlocutors;” Defended April 30, 2018. 3. Pre-publication review of manuscript for Gorgias Press. 4. Member of Undergraduate Student Academic Affairs Committee, spring 2018. 5. Freshman Advising. 6. Participant in NACADA Advising Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 2017.

Hermann Genz

1. Chair of the Department of History and Archaeology (since January 2016). 2. Advising of undergraduate archaeology majors. 3. Editorial board for the journal “Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant (Vienna)” (2011-present). 4. Co-editor (with Marc Lebeau) of the monograph series ‘Levantine and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology’, Brepols, Belgium (since April of 2018). 5. Supervision of MA thesis of Rana Zaher (AUB): Deconstructing the Leonine Image: A Stylistic and Iconographic Analysis of Iron Age Syro-Anatolian Monumental Lion Sculptures (in progress). 6. Committee member for Ph. D.-Thesis of Alison Damick (University of Columbia)(in progress). 7. Second advisor for M.A.-Thesis of Metoda Peršin (Free University of Berlin) (defended in October of 2017). 8. Presentation at the International Symposium ‘Tyre, Sidon, Byblos: Three Global Harbours of the Ancient World’, Beirut 2017: ‘Heterarchy or Hierarchy: Tell Fadous-Kfarabida and Byblos during the Early Bronze Age’. 9. Presentation at the International Conference ‘The Connected Iron Age. Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE’, Chicago 2018: ‘Iron Age Burial Customs in Central Anatolia: Local Traditions versus Foreign Influences’. 10. Presentation at the 11. International Conference of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Munich 2018: ‘Towards a Definition of the Early Bronze Age Glyptic Styles from the Central Levant: New Evidence from Tell Fadous- Kfarabida (Lebanon)’ 11. Peer review of article for the journal ‘Anatolian Studies’ 12. Peer review of article for ‘Journal of Anthropological Archaeology’. 13. Peer review of one contribution for the Conference proceedings ‘Surplus without the State. Political forms in Prehistory’.

Patrick McGreevy

1. “Five Propositions Concerning the University and the World,” Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Lunch, American University of Beirut, 16 February, 2018.

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2. “De-Marking the University: Hierarchy, Walls and Critique,” in a session I organized entitled “Knowledge, Globalization, and Institutions,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 10-14, 2018.

John Meloy

1. Reviewed manuscripts at the request of editors of the following journals: Al-‘Usur al-Wusta: The Journal of the Middle East Medievalists, Chroniques du Manuscript au Yémen, Levant, Œconomia: History, Methodology, Philosophy 2. Search committee for Middle East acquisitions specialist (representing the Faculty), Jafet Library. 3. Re-appointment committee for Civilization Studies Program. 4. Advisory Board, General Education Program. 5. Steering Committee, Center for Arts and Humanities. 6. Academic advisor, History undergraduates. 7. Academic advisor for visiting and non-degree students, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 8. Taught a new freshmen course, History 103, “History of the Arabs and the Middle East: Seventh to Fifteenth Centuries.” 9. Taught a new senior seminar, History 291, “AUB and its Archives.”

Paul Newson

1. Conference: Landscape Archaeology in the Central Bekaa: Challenges and Opportunities. ASOR conference, Boston, MA. November 20, 2017. 2. Associate Editor, of journal Levant (International Journal). 3. Editor of journal Berytus Archaeological Studies. 4. Member of the University Publications Committee. 5. Member of departmental committee for Program Learning Outcomes. 6. Mellon Research Fellow (Fall 2017).

Helen Sader

1. Participation in International Conferences: Eleventh International Congress on the Archaeology of The Ancient Near East (ICAANE 11), April 3-7, 2018. Munich-Germany: “Wine Industry at Tell el-Burak”.(2018) 2. University Research Board, Member. (2009 - ). 3. PPRC, member. (2017 - ).

Helga Seeden

1. Editorial board Membership of International Journals.

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2. Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology (peer reviewer since 2012). 3. Public Archaeology (Ed. Adv. Board member since 2000) Maney Publishing, UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Archaeology_(journal)

Samir Seikaly

1. Continued to serve, intermittently, as graduate academic advisor. 2. Served on the Governing Directorate of the International Committee for Pre- Ottoman and Ottoman Studies.

Alexis Wick

1. Conference: Co-organizing conference in honor of Tarif Khalidi (due to take place at AUB in October 2018). 2. Lecture: “Europe: The View from the Edge,” American University of Beirut, September 29, 2017. 3. Lecture: “Other Geographies: Narrating the Indian Ocean before European Hegemony,” Koç University, February 9, 2018. 4. Member of departmental committee for Program Learning Outcomes. 5. Member of CAMES Steering Committee. 6. Chair of the FAS Library Committee. 7. Teaching in the Civilization Sequence Program. 8. Freshman advising. 9. Research committee. 10. Book review editor for al-Abhath.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn

1. Co-editor and contributor, In the House of Understanding: Histories in memory of Kamal Salibi, 2017. 2. “The Ottomans in Lebanon: Coercion vs. Accommodation”, A. Abu Husaynet.al. (Eds.), In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal Salibi, 2017. 3. “Kamal Salibi: A Life in Books”, In A. Abu Husayn et.al. (Eds.), In the House of Understanding: Histories In Memory Of Kamal Salibi, 2017. في الطريق إلى دار السعادة : مشاهدات عالم شامي في األناضول و إسطنبول سنة 1530. المجلد .4 السادس 2017 باالشتراك مع طارق أبو حسين.

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Du Quenoy, Paul

1. Review of Robert Service, The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution, forthcoming in Revolutionary Russia. 2. Review of Eileen Kane, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Russian Review, 76: 1, 2017.

Hermann Genz

1. Genz, H. 2017. Hittite Gods Abroad: Evidence for Hittite Diplomatic Activities? In: E. Kozal, M. Akar, Y. Heffron, Ç. Çilingiroğlu, T.E. Şerifoğlu, C. Çakırlar, S. Ünlüsoy, É. Jean (eds.), Questions, Approaches, and Dialogues in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: Studies in Honor of Marie-Henriette and Charles Gates (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 445, Münster), 243-255. 2. Matisoo-Smith, E., Gosling, A. L., Platt, D., Kardailsky, O., Prost, S., Cameron- Christie, S., Collins, C., Boocock, J., Kurumilian, Y., Guirguis, M., Pla Orquín, R., Khalil, W., Genz, H., Abou Diwan, G., Nassar, J. and Zalloua, P.2018Ancient Mitrogenes of Phoenicians from Sardinia and Lebanon: A Story of Settlement, Integration, and Female Mobility. PLOS One 13(1) 3. Fischer-Genz, B. and Genz, H. 2017. Review of: Cole, D. P., Lahav V. The Iron, Persian and Hellenistic Occupations within the Walls at Tell Halif. Excavations in Field II, 1977-1980. With Contributions by J. P. Dessel and Joe. D. Seger. Reports of the Lahav Research Project Excavations at Tell Halif, Israel V (Winona Lake 2015). Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 133: 237-239.

Patrick McGreevy

1. “Unlearning in Beirut,” The Arab World Geographer / Le Géographe du monde arabe Volume 19, No. 3-4 (2016), 248-260. 2. The University and the World,” in The Boston College Center for International Higher Education Year in Review, 2016-2017, CIHE Perspectives No. 6, edited by Ayenachew Woldegiyorgis, Laura E. Rumbley, and Hans de Wit; Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, 2017, 27-29 (internally refereed publication).

John Meloy

1. “World Citizens and Enlightened Patriots: The Arab Studies Program at the American University of Beirut.” Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports. (http://rockarch.issuelab.org/resource/world-citizens-and-enlightened- patriots-the-arabs-studies-program-at-the-american-university-of-beirut.html).

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Paul Newson

1. Newson, P. and Young, R. (eds) 2017. Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Rebuilding Knowledge, Memory and Community from War-Damaged Material Culture. London and New York: Routledge. 2. Newson, P. and Young, R. 2017. Conflict: people, heritage and archaeology. In P. Newson and R. Young (eds), Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. London and New York: Routledge: 3-19. 3. Newson, P. and Young, R. 2017. Maximising information from conflict- damaged sites: a case study from Lebanon. In P. Newson and R. Young (eds), Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. London and New York: Routledge: 154-73.

Helen Sader

1. Ancient Lebanon in the Visual Arts“, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 15. De Gruyter. 1201-1203 (2017). 2. Book Review of Lawson Younger Jr.‘s book: A Political History of the Aramaeans. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 77: 134-136 (2017). 3. “Prophecy in Syria: Zakkur of Hamath and Lu‘ash”; in Christopher A. Rollston Editor: Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context, Publisher: Eisenbrauns. 115-134 (2018).

Samir Seikaly

1. “Khalil Sarkis: Out of the Shadow of the Master,” in A. Abu-Husayn, ed. In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal S. Salibi, Beirut, 2017. 2. “Tribes in Late Ottoman Syria: Local Representations,” Archivum Ottomanicum, 34(2017).

Alexis Wick

1. Book review of Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921, by Daniel Foliard, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, forthcoming. 2. Co-editing conference proceeding of 1516: The Year that Changed the Middle East and the World.

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G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The Department is currently in a challenging, transitional phase. One archaeology and one history professor will retire at the end of this academic year. Another history professor will retire in the near future. The archaeology position has already been filled by Dr. Claire Malleson, who will cover the fields of Egyptology and Palaeobotany. For history, at least one, but ideally two positions, will be advertised in the next academic year. Preferred fields of specialization should be the history of the Modern Middle East and /or Economic History.

It is hoped that the inclusion of the application of natural sciences in archaeology will attract more students.

Concerning the interdisciplinary Minor in “Marine and Cultural Sciences” in collaboration with the Departments of Biology, Geology and the Honor Frost Foundation (Southampton), the contract with the Honor Frost Foundation has been signed and the program will become active in the spring semester of 2019.

The Department needs a working area for archaeologists and graduate students to process material from the excavation projects for publication. A temporary space is available in the basement of Fisk Hall, but space is not sufficient for the large number of projects currently conducted, and the space is not suitable for sophisticated equipment.

One of the main problems is the low number of graduate students in both history and archaeology. The graduate programs need to be advertised more aggressively. The idea of developing exchange programs with various British and American universities is currently being explored.

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INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

A. RESEARCH PROGRAM

A major objective of the Institute is to promote research and other academic activities in the above-mentioned fields. Gaining increasing recognition (the Institute is a founding member of the Forum for Euro-Med. Economic Institutes- FEMISE headquartered in Marseilles, France), it aims to become a major research center in particular as concerns Arab and other developing economies. Emphasis is placed on policy-oriented empirical work that could be of benefit to governments and organizations concerned with the design of economic, financial, and developmental policies. Towards this objective it also holds seminars, workshops and lectures that, among other things, bring together academicians, experts, and policy makers to analyze issues of relevance at the policy level.

The Institute encourages collaborative work with renowned national and international organizations and research centers. It also accommodates visiting scholars and experts for various intervals of time to conduct research at the institute.

In 2017, IFE launched its Symposium Series on Economic Policy, which has experienced huge success so far. Previously, in 2003, the Institute initiated a guest lecture and working paper series. The lectures are by invited scholars and experts. The working papers incorporate preliminary findings of ongoing research work being undertaken at the Institute and elsewhere.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Director

Dagher, Leila Associate Professor Ph.D.

2. Faculty Fellows

Mansour, Layal Post-Doctoral Fellow Ph.D. Makdisi, Samir Prof. Emeritus/ Ph.D. Senior Fellow Neaime, Simon Professor/Fellow Ph.D.

3. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Badra, Nasser

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Spring Semester Badra, Nasser El Hariri, Sadika Fattouh, Rasha

4. Graduate Research Assistants

Fall Semester Mekdash, Maya Zaiour, Reem

Spring Semester Hamdan, Dana

5. Non Academic Staff

Shaar, Rima Secretary

6. Steering Committee

Attie, Paul Professor Chahine, Salim Professor Chehab, Ali Associate Professor Jamali, Ibrahim Associate Professor Makdisi, Samir Professor Emeritus Montero, Martin Assistant Professor

C. CONDITIONS GOVERNING APPOINTMENT OF FELLOWS, SENIOR FELLOWS AND ASSOCIATES AT THE INSTITUTE3

Normally, the research interest of candidates for appointment of Fellows, Senior Fellows and Associates should pertain to the primary areas of concern to the Institute, namely, international, monetary, and financial economics. They should demonstrate evidence of active research e.g. internationally refereed publications and ongoing research projects and they are expected to be actively involved in and contribute to Institute activities: research, workshops, seminars, lectures and the Institute’s working paper series, among others. Recommendation for appointment of Senior Fellows is made on the basis of their recognized and long-established research record.

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Appointments are made by the Dean on the recommendation of the Director of the Institute. The period of appointment is usually for three years.

D. RESEARCH

1. Institute Sponsored Research

This past year the Institute concluded a major research project on: “Transition from autocracy to democracy in the Arab World”, supported by IDRC funding and co-managed by Professor Samir Makdisi. The project was completed with the publication in early 2017 by Cambridge University Press of a book under the title of Democratic Transitions in the Arab World. A notable research project launched this year is the construction of the first Financial Stress Index for Lebanon, dubbed the IFEFSI (Institute of Financial Economics Financial Stress Index), by Layal Mansour, Leila Dagher, and Sadika El Hariri. This is a broad coincident composite index that includes three different market segments; the banking sector, the stock market, and the foreign exchange and debt sectors. It is constructed as a continuous real-time measure that quantifies the level of systemic stress by measuring latent conditions. As a metric for financial conditions, the IFEFSI should provide valuable information to macroprudential regulators whose aim is to maintain a smooth and resilient financial system. By using it as a tool to help monitor, identify, and address any potential crisis, they are better equipped to maintain financial and economic stability in Lebanon. The work has been published in the IFE Working Paper Series. Moreover, a project entitled “The predictive power of oil and commodity prices for equity markets: Evidence from rolling Granger causality tests”, co-authored by Leila Dagher, Ibrahim Jamali, and Nasser Badra, has been presented several times throughout the year both locally and internationally, and was accepted to be submitted to the special issue of a highly-ranked journal.

2. Faculty and Fellows’ On-Going Research

Leila Dagher

1. The Institute of Financial Economics Financial Stress Index, with Layal Mansour and Sadika El Hariri. 2. The predictive power of oil and commodity prices for equity markets: Evidence from rolling Granger causality tests, with Ibrahim Jamali and Nasser Badra. 3. A Review of Causality Studies Between Stock Market Returns and Other Variables, with Sadika El Hariri. 4. The Stock Markets’ Response to Oil Shocks: Revisiting the Evidence for the GCC, with Ibrahim Jamali.

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Layal Mansour

1. The Institute of Financial Economics Financial Stress Index, (with Leila Dagher and Sadika El Hariri). 2. The Impact of Exchange Rate in determining SWFs investments, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project, (with L. Dagher and S. Elhariri). 3. Thresholds Matter: Resource Abundance, Policy Regimes, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (with S. Makdisi and I. Elbadawi).

Samir Makdisi

1. Major international research project: have been managing a multi-year major research project, in collaboration with the Economic Research Institute (Cairo) on “Post-conflict transitions in conflict-affected Arab countries”. Numerous researchers from various universities and economic institutions in the Arab region and abroad are involved. Building on the received literature, the project focuses among other themes, on the economic agenda for post-conflict reconstruction: the role of macroeconomic policies (monetary and fiscal) in the context of growth and reconstruction strategies. Three thematic papers have already been prepared by internationally recognized economic scholars, and four teams of researchers will be undertaking in-depth studies of the role of macro-economic policies in the following conflict affected countries, Irak, Libya, Syria and Yemen. The expected outcome of the project: Eight research papers plus workshops and conferences. 2. Working (in collaboration with Ibrahim Elbadawi and Layal Mansour) on the preparation of a research paper on the “The Sustainability of GCC Growth Under the New Oil Order”. Given the new oil order the paper argues that growth sustainability in the GCC would require effective macroeconomic policy institutions for stabilizing revenue streams from much lower resource rents as well as switching from resource and factor-intensive growth to productivity-led growth. The paper is to be presented at a conference at Cambridge University end of August 2018. 3. Completed preparation of research paper on: “Integration of a Euro-Arab Med Region”; paper will be published in Italian by the Institute of Studies on the Mediterranean Society, Naples, Italy.

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3. Currency Devaluation in a Model With Habits and Durability in Consumption, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project 4. Convergence and the Impact of the Euro-Med Trade and Financial Integration on Macroeconomic Volatility, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (With T-L., Segot and I. Gaysset). 5. The Sustainability of Debt and Exchange Rates Policies: Evidence from Canada and Mexico, (with A. Mansoorian). 6. Twin Deficits and the Sustainability of Macroeconomic Policies in Selected European and Mediterranean Partner Countries: Post Financial and Debt Crises, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (with I. Gaysset and T.L. Segot). 7. Lebanese Banks and US Anti-Terrorism Legislation. Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (With Sam Hakim). 8. The Bassel Accord and Market Risk of Lebanese Commercial Banks: A VAR Analysis, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project (With W. Shahine).

E. OTHER ACTIVITIES

Staff Activities

Leila Dagher

1. Director of the Institute of Financial Economics, FAS. 2. Member of the General Education Board, AUB. 3. Adjunct Professor at George Washington University (Summer 2016, 2017, 2018). 4. ECON211 coordinator (around 275 students in Fall 2017), Economics Department. 5. Economic Student Society Faculty Advisor, Economics Department. 6. Supervisor of the Economics Clinic sessions, Economics Department. 7. M.A. thesis or project advisor (Ms. Dana Hamdan and Mr. Elias Shkeir), Economics Department. 8. Served as a Ph.D. thesis committee member for Mr. Maher Al Sayah. Holy Spirit of Kaslik University. 9. Served as a mentor at the 2018 Western Economic Association International Early Career Researcher Workshop in Newcastle, Australia. 10. Member of the Board and Treasurer, Arab Energy Club. 11. Referee: Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Energy Reports, Lebanese Science Journal, and Macmillan Publishers. 12. Chaired the session “Energy sustainability trends and transitions in the Arab World,” during the Arab Energy Club meeting, May 4-6 2018, Kuwait. 13. “The role of universities in spreading the culture of compliance,” panelist at the AML/CFT Forum organized by the World Union of Arab Bankers, April 4-5, 2018, Beirut, Lebanon.

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14. “Time-varying causality between oil prices and stock market prices: Evidence from oil-exporting and oil-importing countries,” WEAI 14th International Conference, January 11-14, 2018, Newcastle, Australia. 15. Invited as a panelist on “A Twinning Partnership: Reconstruction & Development,” during the Annual Arab Banking Conference 2017, Nov. 23-24, 2017, Beirut, Lebanon. 16. Visiting scholar at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability for summer 2018. 17. Organized more than 10 workshops/symposia/seminars at the IFE.

Layal Mansour

1. Presented the paper “Targeting debt in Lebanon: A structural macro-econometric model,” at the 38th ASSA annual meeting, January 6-8, 2018, Philadelphia, USA. 2. Presented the IFEFSI at IFE’s First Financial Economics Workshop on April 11, 2018, AUB. 3. Invited to present the IFEFSI at a seminar held at ESCWA on May 23, 2018, Beirut, Lebanon. 4. Invited to present the IFEFSI at Byblos Bank on May 29, 2018, Beirut, Lebanon.

Samir Makdisi

1. Invited by the Comenius School (Holland) to give a lecture to a group of Dutch scholars on: “The Political Economy of Lebanon: Consocialism and Development”, (Haigazian University) April 23, 2018 and (Near East School of Theology) May 8, 2018. 2. Moderated IFE policy session on: “The New Middle East Economy”. Speaker: Dr. Rabah Arazki, Chief Economist of the Middle East and North Africa Region, the World Bank, April 12, 2018. 3. Chaired IFE panel on: “Rethinking Fiscal Policy in the Arab Countries”, February 27, 2018. 4. Invited to participate in the annual conference of the Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institutes on: “Neighbours of Neighbours: Relations and Cooperation of EU-Med Towards Africa”, February 7-9, 2018, Valetta, Malta. 5. Invited by the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) to participate in a workshop on “Economic Liberalism, Democracy, and Transitional Justice”, and presented a paper on : “On post conflict, democratic and developmental transitions in Conflict Afflicted Arab Countries and the Question of Economic Liberalism”, January 8-10, 2018, Ulster University , Belfast. 6. Chaired IFE panel on “Challenges Facing Lebanon’s Banking Sector”, December 4, 2017. 7. Chaired Institute of Financial Economics (IFE) panel on: “Addressing Lebanon’s Fiscal Deficit: Economic and Financial Implications” October 23, 2017.

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8. Invited by Economic Research Forum to participate in workshop on “Economic Policy in Post Conflict Transitions”, September11, 2017, Cairo. 9. Invited by the Institute of Studies on the Mediterranean Society to participate in an International conference on: “Inequalities in the Mediterranean”; presented a paper on: “Constrained Democratic Transitions in the Arab World and the Question of Inequality in the Mediterranean Region” June 23, 2017, Naples, Italy. 10. Invited by the International Affairs Institute to present a paper on “The Arab World in Turmoil: a Political Economy Perspective”, June 21, 2017, Rome. 11. Invited to join the Editorial Board of ERF Policy Portal. 12. Invited to be a Reviewer of the ESCWA project on “Post Conflict Reconstruction in Syria.” 13. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey (Headquarter Cairo). 14. Member of the Board of Directors of the Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institutes (Headquarter Marseille).

Simon Neaime

1. Invited to attend the FEMISE Annual Conference to present some preliminary results of the paper titled: “Income Convergence and the Impact of the Euro- Med Trade and Financial Integration on Macroeconomic Volatility”, Valetta, Malta, February 7-9, 2018. 2. invited to attend and present a paper titled: Twin Deficits and the Sustainability of Macroeconomic Policies in Selected European and Mediterranean Partner Countries: Post Financial and Debt Crises, at the FEMISE one-day workshop to launch the FEMISE Euro-Med 2017 Report, Brussels, Belgium, November 23rd, 2017. 3. Invited to attend the Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group Conference, November 10-11, 2017, Carleton University, and Ottawa, Canada. 4. Participated in the Canadian Econometric Study Group Conference, October 20- 22, 2017, York University, and Toronto, Canada. 5. Sustainability of Debt and Exchange Rate Policies in MENA: An Empirical Investigation. A paper presented at the eighth International Research Meeting in Business and Management, 5-6, July 2017, IPAG Business School, and Nice, France.

Institute Activities

The Institute organized the following events:

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1. The Institute of Financial Economics held its first Symposium on Economic Policy entitled: “Addressing Lebanon’s Fiscal Deficit: Economic and Financial Implications” on October 23, 2017. Participants: Dr. Leila Dagher (Director of IFE), Dr. Samir Makdisi (IFE Senior Fellow), Mr. Alain Bifani (General, Lebanese Ministry of Finance), Dr. Youssef El Khalil (Executive Director, Financial Operations Department, Banque Du Liban), Dr. Hassan Khalil (Hassan Khalil, Co-Founder Pembroke Capital). 2. The Institute of Financial Economics held its second Symposium on Economic Policy entitled “Challenges Facing Lebanon’s Banking Sector” on December 04, 2017. Participants: Dr. Samir Makdisi and Dr. Leila Dagher (IFE, AUB), H.E. Mr. Raed Khoury (Minister of Economy and Trade), Mr. Samir Hammoud (Chairman of the Banking Control Commission of Lebanon), Dr. Freddie Baz (Chairman of the Board, Bank Audi). 3. The Institute of Financial Economics and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) held the third Symposium on Economic Policy entitled: “Rethinking Fiscal Policy in the Arab Countries” on February 27, 2018. Participants: Dr. Samir Makdisi (IFE, AUB), Dr. Leila Dagher (IFE, AUB), Mr. Moctar Mohammed El-Hacene (UNESCWA), Mr. Niranjan Sarangi (UNESCWA), Mr. Khalid Abu-Ismail (UNESCWA), Dr. Mazen Soueid (Bank Med). 4. The IFE held its fourth Symposium on Economic Policy entitled “The New Middle East Economy” on April 12, 2018. Participants: Dr. Rabah Arezki (Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region, the World Bank),. 5. The IFE and UNESCWA held the fifth Symposium on Economic Policy entitled “The IFE Financial Stress Index (IFEFSI) for Lebanon” on May 22, 2018 at the UN House. Participants: Dr. Mohamed El-Hacene (Director, EDED, UNESCWA), Dr. Leila Dagher (IFE Director, AUB) and Dr. Layal Mansour (Post-doc Research Fellow IFE, AUB). 6. The IFE and UNESCWA held the sixth Symposium on Economic Policy entitled: “Economic Implications of Global Oil Market Transformations”, on May 23, 2018. Participants: Dr. Bassam Fattouh (Director, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies), Dr. Leila Dagher (IFE Director, AUB) and Ms. Radia Sedaoui (Chief of the Energy section, UNESCWA).

Workshops

1. The Institute of Financial Economics and The Lebanese Econometric Study Group held their 2nd annual meeting on December 15, 2017, sponsored by the Institute of Financial Economics. Participants: Leila Dagher (AUB), Dr. Davidson (McGill University), Dr. Karim Chalak (University of Virginia), Dr. Rami Tabri (University of Sydney), Dr. Lynda Khalaf (Carleton University), Abdallah Zalghout (Carleton University), Dr. Elie Tamer (Harvard University), Dr. Pierre Mouganie (AUB), Dr. Serena Canaan (AUB), and Dr. Ibrahim Jamali (AUB).

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2. The Institute of Financial Economics held the First Financial Economics Workshop on April 11, 2018. Participants: Dr. Leila Dagher (IFE, AUB) Dr. Mehmet Balcilar (Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus), Dr. Ibrahim Jamali (OSB, AUB), Dr. Mohamed Arouri (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis), Dr. Layal Mansour (IFE, AUB).

Seminars

1. Christos Koulovatianos "Asset Pricing Under Rational Learning About Rare Disasters" on November 14, 2017. 2. The IFE in partnership with the AUB Investment Club organized a talk by Karim Chedid on “Asset Management” on March 27, 2018. 3. The IFE in collaboration with the Olayan School of Business, The Abdul Aziz Al Sagar Chair in Finance and the Union of Arab Banks (UAB) held a seminar on : “The Financial Sector Challenges in the 21st Century: A post global crisis perspective” by Sarkis Youghourtdjian (Former Advisor and Assistant Director, Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C), on April 17, 2018.

Student Events

1. The Institute of Financial Economics in partnership with the Business Student Society and the Investment Club organized the first Career Conversations lecture with Mr. Fadi Assali (Chairman and General Manager of Cedrus Investment Bank), held on October 30, 2017. 2. The Institute of Financial Economics in collaboration with the Economics Student Society and the Economics Alumni Chapter held a Career Speed Networking event on March 1, 2018. Furthermore, “in house” discussion meetings on topics pertaining to ongoing research were held.

Lecture and Working Paper Series:

As part of its role in making available ongoing research, within and outside the University related to economic issues of special concern to developing countries, the Institute has initiated in 2003 a series of guest lecture and working papers made available in print as well on its website. The series has been steadily gaining recognition abroad. The working papers reflect ongoing research intended to be polished, developed, and eventually published. The series’ advisory committee includes I. Elbadawi, (Managing Director, Economic Research Forum), H. Esfahani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Raed Safadi (Dubai Department of Economic Development). As of end of June 2018, the series’ papers included (in reverse chronological order):

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1. Layal Mansour, Leila Dagher and Sadika El Hariri (AUB), The Institute of Financial Economics Lebanese Financial Stress Index (IFEFSI), (2018, No. 2) 2. Samir Makdisi (AUB), On Prevailing Economic and Political Disparities and the Prospects for close Integration of a Euro-Arab Med Region, (2018, No. 1) 3. Simon Neaime and Isabelle Gaysset (AUB), Financial Exclusion and Stability in MENA: Evidence from Poverty and Inequality (2016, No. 1) 4. Mongi Boughzala (Al Manar University, Tunisia), and Saoussen Ben Romdhane (University of Manouba, Tunisia) Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in Tunisia, Factors Underlying the Tunisian Uprising and the Prospects for Consolidating the Transition To Democracy (2015, No. 3) 5. Simon Neaime (AUB), and Marcus Marktanner (Kennesaw State University, US and AUB) The Role of Capital Flows for Economic Development in the MENA Region, (2015, No. 2) 6. Samir Makdisi (AUB), On Transition, Democracy, and Socio-Economic Justice in the Arab World, (2015, No. 1) 7. Ibrahim Elbadawi (Center for Global Development, Washington DC), and Atif Kubrusi (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario), Kuwaiti Democracy: Illusive or Resilient? (2014, No. 1) 8. Samir Makdisi (AUB), and Youssef El Khalil (Bank of Lebanon and AUB), Will Lebanon transit to a fully-fledged Democracy? Economic and Political Perspectives, (2013, No. 1) 9. Summaries of presentations made at a workshop organized jointly at AUB by the Institute of Financial Economics and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, The Arab Uprisings-What Happened, What’s Next? (2012, No. 1) 10. Samir Makdisi (AUB), Remarks on Autocracies, Democratization, and Development in the Arab Region, (2011,No. 1) 11. Samir Makdisi (AUB), Development without Democracy in the Arab World, (2009, No.2) 12. Jean Philippe Platteau (University of Namur, Belgium),The Causes of Institutional Inefficiency: A Development Perspective, (2009,No. 1 ) 13. Marcus Marktanner and Nagham Sayour (AUB), Initial Inequality and Protectionism: A Political-Economy Approach,(2008,No. 3) 14. Simon Neaime (AUB), Twin Deficits in Lebanon: A Time Series Analysis,(2008,No. 2) 15. Samir Makdisi and Marcus Marktanner (AUB), Trapped by Consociationalism: The Case of Lebanon(2008,No. 1 ) 16. Salwa Hammami and Simon Neaime (AUB), Measurement of Financial Integration in the GCC Equity Markets: A Novel Perspective,( 2007,No. 4) 17. Samir Makdisi (AUB) , Rebuilding without Resolution: The Lebanese Economy and State in Post-Civil War Period, (2007,No. 3) 18. Salwa Hammami (AUB) , Horse Race of Utility-Based Asset Pricing Models: Ranking through Specification Errors, (2007,No. 2) 19. Henrik Huitfeldt (European Training Foundation and Nader Kabbani (AUB) , Returns to Education and the Transition from School to Work in Syria,(2007,No. 1)

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20. Marcus Marktanner and Joanna Nasr (AUB), From Rentier State and Resource Curse to Even Worse? (2006, No. 3) 21. Pierre-Guillaume Meon (University of Brussels) and Khaled Sekkat (University of Brussles), Institutional Quality and Trade: Which Institutions? Which Trade?(2006, No. 2) 22. Mario Rui Pascoa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Abdelkrim Seghir (AUB) , Harsh Default Penalties Lead to Ponzi Schemes , ( 2006, No.1) 23. Ibrahim Elbadawi (The World Bank) and Samir Makdisi (AUB), Democracy and Development in the Arab World, (2005, No.2) 24. Nada Mora (AUB), Sovereign Credit Rating: Guilty Beyond Reasonable Doubt? (2005, No.1) 25. Simon Neaime (AUB),Portfolio Diversification and Financial Integration of MENA Stock Markets, (2004, No.3) 26. Ibrahim Elbadawi (The World Bank),The Politics of Sustaining Growth in the Arab World: Getting Democracy Right, (2004, No.2) 27. Mustapha Nabli, Jennifer Keller and Marie-Ange Veganzones, (The World Bank),Exchange Rate Management within the Middle East and North Africa: The Cost to Manufacturing Competitiveness, (2004, No. 1) 28. Samir Makdisi and Richard Sadaka (AUB),The Lebanese Civil War 1975-1990,(2003, No. 3) 29. Richard N. Cooper (Harvard University), Prospects for the World Economy,(2003, No. 2) 30. Hadi Salehi Esfahani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),A Re-examination of the Political Economy of Growth in the MENA Countries, (2003, No. 1)

Several papers, from outside and within the university, are currently under consideration for inclusion in the series.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Leila Dagher

Layal Mansour

1. The Institute of Financial Economics Financial Stress Index (with Leila Dagher and Sadika El Hariri), IFE Working Paper, No. 2, 2018.

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Samir Makdisi

1. “Sulle disparita’ economiche e politiche e sulle prospettive di integrazione nella regione euro-mediterranea”, Rapporto sulle economie del Mediterranea (Institute of Studies on the Mediterranean Society, Edizione 2018 , E. Ferragina (ed) 2. “On Prevailing Economic and Political Disparities and the Prospects for Close Integration of the Euro-Arab Med Region”, IFE Working Paper, No. 1, 2018. 3. “Prospects for development with democracy in the Arab World”, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal, October 2017.

Simon Neaime

1. “The Eurozone Debt Crisis: A structural VAR Approach”, Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, Vol. 43, pp. 22-33, 2018. (With I. Gaysset and N. Badra). 2. “Financial Inclusion and Stability in MENA: Evidence from Poverty and Inequality”, Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, Vol. 24, pp. 230-237, 2018. (With I. Gaysset). 3. “Sustainability of Macroeconomic Policies in Selected MENA Countries: Post Financial Crises”, Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, Vol. 40, pp. 129-140, 2017, (with I. Gaysset). 4. “Syria the Painful Transition towards Democracy in Democratic Transitions in the Arab World, S. Makdisi and I. Elbadawi Eds. Cambridge University Press, pp. 184-208, 2017, (With R. Safadi).

G. FUTURE PLANS

1. In partnership with UN-ESCWA and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, the IFE has started organizing an international conference “Energy Transitions in the Middle East: Economic Implications and Structural Reforms”, to be held at AUB in December 2018. 2. As part of the research project being managed by Dr. Samir Makdisi, in collaboration with ERF, on “Post conflict transition in conflict-affected countries,” the IFE will host workshops on themes pertaining to the economic policy agenda in the transition process. 3. Apart from its own resources, the Institute will continue to seek additional research funds from outside sources that will help it launch new research projects some of which will be carried out in collaboration with outside research centers and experts. For the coming year a few projects have already been planned.

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4. Seminars, workshops, and symposiums will continue to be organized periodically dealing with major economic/financial issues facing Lebanon, the Arab World and developing countries more generally. 5. The Institute plans to continue hosting visiting scholars, post-doctoral researchers, and Ph.D. students to conduct their research at the IFE. In addition to their own research activities, they will give talks on select economics and financial topics.

Leila Dagher Director

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THE KAMAL A. SHAIR CENTRAL RESEARCH SCIENCE LABORATORY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Kamal A. Shair Central Research Science Laboratory (KAS CRSL) at the American University of Beirut is a central instrumentation facility that accommodates major research instrumentation for use by university graduate students, research assistants and faculty and their collaborators – a complete equipment list is available on KAS CRSL website. The KAS CRSL serves research in basic sciences, health sciences, agricultural and food sciences, and engineering. Its mission is to provide our researchers with facilities that help them compete at a global level.

B. PERSONNEL

Director Youssef Mouneimne, Director (up to Dec 31, 2018) Theodore Christidis, Acting director (as of January 1, 2018)

Manager Rania Shatila

C. SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

1- Achievements and Challenges Another year has elapsed with myriad activities, achievements and challenges. Through the Academic Year 2017-18, a good portion of our effort was geared toward demonstrations, teaching and training sessions serving more than 200 users coming from different faculties and departments with the following approximate breakdown: FAS 52% FEA 25% FM 13% FAFS 10%

The Lab contributed to work resulting in 22 published papers and the graduation of 15 graduate students (MS and PhD). Because the Lab is understaffed, providing user training and services was rather challenging.

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2- Equipment a. A New Microwave digester was received in August 2017 b. A New -150 deep-freezer was installed in September 2017 c. The old flow cytometer that was purchased in 2001 was scrapped; a replacement had already been purchased in 2014. d. It was decided to repair the NMR 300, which will be used for solid state work and backup - if necessary. e. It was also decided to refurbish – if feasible - the AFM, which has been defunct for the past two; negotiation for refurbishment are being conducted with the manufacturer. f. XOMAT was transferred to Biology department in May 2018. g. The 40 KVA UPS was decommissioned in March 2018; the 125KVA UPS carries the load of the whole Lab now. h. Through shuffling and cancellations, it was possible to purchase a titrator for the recently added DLS machine. i. The 2018/9 capital CRSL budget includes an HPLC-MS for $350k and a BET for $102k. Vendors have been approached for quotations; most vendors that were approached have started to make presentations of their related technology to AUB potential users; it is hoped that these presentations will help us in making informed selections j. The Lab was granted an additional $37k for the replacement of the air conditioning units that are 17 years old; it is hoped that the new AC’s will be installed by the end of June. k. The laboratory access and surveillance systems are also defunct and need replacement. Some savings have been already used to place an order for a new access system. Replacement funds for the surveillance system are presently unavailable; however, the AUB IT department has already assessed our needs.

3- Events a. New bylaws were drafted by the chairs of the science departments for a steering committee for the Lab – at the request of the Dean. The Dean approved the bylaws, which became effective as of Sept. 1, 2017. The new Steering Committee, which is chaired by the associate dean for research, is to assist the Director in running the Lab. Furthermore, the science chairs also drafted an equipment-acquisition-policy for the Lab. The Steering Committee met a number of times and drafted a general Lab policy that regulates laboratory operations.

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b. Y. Mouneimne, the director, resigned as of Feb 1, 2018; T. Christidis was appointed as acting director. The Steering Committee met in April and drafted an advertisement for the position of the Director. c. Faculty members were asked whether they were willing to go on application training on the newly acquired DLS machine, after which they would support the lab manager in training and operation of the machine. No one expressed interest. This means that we can only depend on the lab manager and possibly the Director for the training, which makes it imperative to employ another manager – in order to make the load manageable and not to “put all of our eggs in the same basket”. The Steering Committee decided to postpone hiring a new manager until the new Director takes office. In the meantime, Medical Engineering has been asked to assist in user-support and training – in addition to maintenance. d. Rania Shatila went to Limerick University, Ireland under Erasmus staff mobility program (April 30-May 4, 2018). The objective of this program is to give the staff the opportunity to meet with counterparts from different institutions to share good practice, acquire new skills and establish networks.

D. FUTURE NEEDS

a. Monitoring lab operations is imperative. Hence, it is a must that we install a system that monitors the use of equipment. We need to make sure that users have access to equipment only when properly trained for that particular piece of equipment. Furthermore, machine usage is not always being recorded in logbooks. b. The Lab needs to be manned at all times; users should be aware that the lab is being monitored. This is possible only if we recruit another “lab manager,” which would also improve user-support and training.

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The department almost fulfilled all the recommendations of the external reviewers back in 2013. Moreover, the departmental 5-year strategic plan has been implemented with all the tasks according to the planned timeline.

Two new faculty members will be joining the department this year in an effort to cope with the increasing number of students. Moreover, more students are joining the applied Math program.

The average ICE in the department has been increasing in the last couple of years and it is now about 4.2.

The department in coordination with CAMS organized a conference on modular forms and related topics where several international and local speakers presented their latest research results. Moreover, other local and international speakers presented their research results in the departmental seminar series. .

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Abi-huzam, Faruk Ph.D Professor Abu-Khuzam, Hazar Ph.D Professor Khuri-Makdisi, Kamal Ph.D Professor Nassif, Nabil Ph.D Professor Shayya, Bassam Ph.D Professor Raji, Wissam Ph.D Associate Professor (Chairperson) Alhakim, Abbas Ph.D Associate Professor Aoun, Richard Ph.D Assistant Professor Bertrand, Florian Ph.D Assistant Professor Della Sala, Giuseppe PhD Assistant Professor El Khoury, Sabine Ph.D Associate Professor Mascot, Nicholas Ph.D Assistant Professor Monni, Stefano Ph.D Assistant Professor Moufawad, Sophie PhD Assistant Professor Sabra, Ahmad Ph.D Assistant Professor Taghavi Chabert, Arman Ph.D Assistant Professor Tlas, Tamer Ph.D Associate Professor Yamani, Hussam Ph.D Lecturer

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Fayyad, Dolly Ph.D Lecturer Achkar, Alice M.S. Instructor (part-time) Bou Eid, Michella M.S Instructor Fuleihan, Najwa M.S. Instructor Itani Hatab, Maha M.S. Instructor Karakazian, Hagop M.S. Instructor (part-time) Khachadourian, Zadour M.S. Instructor Mroue, Fatima M.S. Instructor Nassif, Rana M.S. Instructor Rahhal, Lina M.S. Instructor Tannous, Joumana M.S. Instructor (part-time)

2. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Abdo, Elie Abi Khalil, Charbella Al Baini, Alina Badawi, Heba El Zini, Najwa Hussein, Ahmad Kaddoura, Sara Khoudari, Nour Krayem, Jinan Salem, Joan Nadia

Spring Semester Abdo, Elie Abi Khalil, Charbella Al Baini, Alina Badawi, Heba El Zini, Najwa Hussein, Ahmad Kaddoura, Sara Khoudari, Nour Krayem, Jinan Saleh, Adel Salem, Joan Nadia

3. Non-Academic

Akl Abou Zaki, Lina Administrative Assistant

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C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA or BS Oct. 2017 4 Feb. 2018 2 Jun. 2018 10

MA or MS Oct. 2017 Feb. 2018 2 Jun. 2018 4

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 24 Seniors 60 Juniors 49 Sophomores 169

3. Student Enrollment in Mathematics Courses

Course Summer 17 Fall 18 Spring18 Total 300 & above 00 37 21 58 211 - 299 302 846 820 1968 200 - 210 286 1550 1344 3180 100 - 199 47 287 199 533 Total 635 2720 2384 5739

4. Student Enrollment in Statistics Courses

Courses Summer 17 Fall 18 Spring 18 Total 300 & above 00 00 00 00 211 - 299 399 145 147 691 200 - 210 25 231 136 392 100 - 199 00 00 00 00 Total 424 376 283 1083

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5. Number of Credit hours Offered in Mathematics Courses

Courses Summer17 Fall Spring 18 Total 18 300 & above 00 12 6 18 211 - 299 33 60 60 153 200 - 210 39 54 48 141 100 - 199 9 12 9 30 Total 81 138 123 342

6. Number of Credit Hours Offered in Statistics Courses

Courses Summer17 Fall18 Spring18 Total 300 & above 211 - 299 30 21 24 75 200 - 210 6 12 9 27 100 - 199 00 00 00 00 Total 36 33 33 102

D. RESEARCH

Abi Khuzam, Faruk 1. Decay estimates for the arithmetic means of coefficients connected with composition operators, (submitted).

Abu-Khuzam, Hazar 1. Hazar Abu-Khuzam “On certain Von-Neumann regular Rings and π-regular Rings” (Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the American Math Society and MAA, Jan. 2017 (Revised and re-submitted)). 2. Hazar Abu-Khuzam, “On π-regular Rings where Certain Subsets are Multiplicatively Generated by Idempotents” (In Progress) Nassif, Nabil 1. Progress on Project: “Existence and Simulation for solutions of the Hasegawa-Mima Plasma Equations.” Preprint in: http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05524 (co-author: Hagop Karakezian) 2. Progress on paper: “Existence of Solutions the Semi-Variational Model for the Physiological Tick Life Cycle,” co-author: Dania Sheaib) 3. Paid Research Leave, Spring 2018: a. Seminar at INRIA, Rennes, March 2018 b. Seminar at American University of Sharjah, April 2018 c. Seminar at ENIT, Tunis, May 2018

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4. President of Jury of PhD thesis defense of Mouhammed Ghader on “Stability and Exact Controllability of Coupled Distributed Systems with Different Damping Types.” Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences. April 2018. 5. President of Jury and referee of PhD thesis of Rola Ahmad on “Theoretical and Numerical Analysis of the Dirichlet to Neumann Semigroup.” Beirut Arab University May 2018.

Khuri-Makdisi, Kamal Work in progress: 1. Hilbert modular forms and equations for Hilbert Abelian surfaces, investigations in progress. 2. Values of L-series of Hecke eigenforms, in collaboration with Winfried Kohnen and Wissam Raji.

Shayya, Bassam 1. “Weighted restriction estimates for paraboloids’’ in preparation.

Alhakim, Abbas 1. Connectedness of the Cross-Join graph of de Bruijn Sequences, submitted 2. Hadamard Matrices, Quaternions, and the Pearson Chi-square Statistic, submitted 3. Sample Size for Concurrent Species Detection in a Species-Rich Assemblage, posted on arxiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11226 and submitted to Paleontologia Electronica, with Ali Haidar and Zhiyi Zhang Aoun, Richard 1. CNRS-FRANCE Grant: invited Professor at Rennes 1 University France from May 28, 2018 to August 24, 2018 2. MEMBER of GDR PLATON (international research network)

Bertrand, Florian 1. Gluing techniques in almost complex geometry. 2. Mapping problem and the analytic disc technique. 3. Geometry of invariant metrics (funded by CEDRE). 4. Zero sets of holomorphic functions in several variables.

El khoury, Sabine 1. Almost complete intersection generated by quadrics with low multiplicity (under preparation). 2. On the minimal number of generators of I^2 in k[x, y,z] (under preparation).

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Giuseppe, Della Sala 1. Algebraic properties of germs of solutions of integrable systems 2. Mapping problems and the analytic disc technique 3. Local rigidity for holomorphic embeddings of CR manifolds 4. Zero sets of holomorphic functions in several variables.

Mascot, Nicolas 1. Improvement of the efficiency of my algorithms to certify Galois representations (→ article to be submitted this summer) 2. Algorithms for p-adic lifting of torsion points on Jacobians (→ other article to be submitted this summer) 3. Collaboration with A. Page (Bordeaux) on the computation of Galois representations attached to Hilbert modular forms 5. Implementation of 2-descent on hyperelliptic curves

Monni, Stefano 1. Linear regression with multivariate responses.

Moufawad, Sophie 1. Numerical Stability and Parallel Performance of Enlarged Krylov Subspace Methods (Submitted URB Grant)

Raji, Wissam 1. Non-Vanishing of L-functions of Hilbert Modular Forms inside the Critical Strip. (Joint work with Alia Hamieh). 2. Values of L-Series of Hecke Eigenforms. (Joint work with Kamal Khuri- Makdisi and Winfried Kohnen)

Sabra, Ahmad 1. Working on problems related to Partial differential equations and Geometric Optics, collaborating with C.E. Gutierrez from Temple University and A Karakhanyan from University of Edinburgh. 2. Research on minimal surfaces and least gradient functions, collaborating with P. Rybka from University of Warsaw.

Taghavi-Chabert, Arman 1. Decomposable (4,7) solutions in eleven-dimensional supergravity (joint work with Dmitri Alekseevsky and Ioannis Chrysikos) 2. Distinguished curves and integrability in Riemannian, conformal, and projective geometry (joint work with Rod Gover and Daniel Snell)

Tlas, Tamer 1. Dynamical systems and renormalization group. 2. Construction of measures in infinite dimensions.

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E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Abi Khuzam, Faruk

1. Star function .. invited lecture, JMM, San Diego, CA, January 2018. 2. Member TEAC committee. 3. Member committee for commencement speakers, award recipients.

Abu Khuzam, Hazar

1. PhD Thesis Committee: Member of PhD Thesis committee of Mohammad Chreif (Beirut Arab University-December 2017). 2. Attended and gave a talk at the Joint Meeting of the American Math Society and MAA, 2017. 3. Academic Advisor for about 38 students (Freshman and Majorless Students).

Nassif, Nabil 1. Acting Director, master’s Program in Computational Science, Fall 2017 2. Advisor Sophomore students in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Continuing 3. Member of the Mathematics department Curriculum Committee, since Fall 2017 4. Member of the research group for Mathematical and Computational Modeling in Life Applications (MCLA), in partnership with colleagues in AUB, USJ, LAU, UL, and BAU. 5. Coordination with Amel Ben Abda (ENIT Tunis) of PICOF 2018, the biannual International Conference on “Inverse Problems, Control and Shape Optimization,” June 19-19-20, 2018 6. Member of the Accreditation Task Force Working Group V 7. Member of the General Education Core Mandatory, Elective, Capstone Courses Task Force 9. Member of the General Education Quantitative Thought Task Force 8. Project leader of “Lebanon Trade Gate,” a start-up within AUB Center of Research and Innovation (CRinn) 9. Director, AUB Zaki Nassif Program for Music

Khuri-Makdisi, Kamal

Seminar and conference talks given:

1. Periods of modular forms and identities between Eisenstein series, Algebraic 2. Geometry and Number Theory conference, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, December 2017.

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3. Jacobian group operations for typical divisors on curves, Workshop on Algorithms in Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, University of Leiden, August 2017.

Scientific visits/hosting visitors and conferences attended: 1. Conference on Modular Forms and Related Topics, CAMS/Mathematics Department, AUB, May 2018. Attending, and suggested a number of invited speakers. 2. Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory conference, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, December 2017. 3. Workshop on Algorithms in Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, University of Leiden, August 2017. 4. Rational Points 2017 workshop, organized by University of Bayreuth, in Schney, Germany, July 2017. 5. Arithmetic Geometry and Computer Algebra (3 days), University of Oldenburg, Germany, July 2017. 6. Scientific visitor (two months) at Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette, France, June-August 2017. 7. AGCT-16 Conference (Arithmetic, Geometry, Cryptography and Coding Theory), C.I.R.M., Luminy, June 2017. 8. Facilitated departmental visits and seminar talks by Alp Bassa, Satoshi Kondo, Hisham Sati, and Francois Brunault, 2017-18. Other 1. Refereed an NSERC grant proposal (Canadian funding agency) and four mathematical articles in: Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Mathematics of Computation, Research in Number Theory (preliminary report only), and Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics series. 2. Hiring committee chair, AUB economics department, 2017-18. Managed the search for a full professor who would join as chair of the economics department. 3. Member, AUB Self-Study Steering Committee for reaccreditation of AUB; co- chair, Working Group I on Mission and Goals. Expected duration of term: 2017-19. 4. Member, FAS Advisory Committee. Expected duration of term: 2017-19. 5. AUB University Senate Board of Graduate Studies (includes ex officio in the FAS Graduate Studies Committee). Expected duration of term: 2016-19. 6. Helped put together (for the fifth time) a trainer and a team of high school students to participate in a mathematics summer competition in Italy.

Shayya, Bassam

1. Member of the Self-Study Working Group on Ethics and Integrity, AUB. Member of the Board of General Education, AUB.

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2. Member of the University Publication Committee, AUB. 3. Member of the PhD committee of Mr. Youssef Jaffal, ECE Department, MSFEA, AUB. 4. Supervised the MS thesis of Ms. Joan Nadia Salem, Department of Mathematics, and AUB.

Alhakim, Abbas

Advisor of Master’s Thesis for Esmail Abdul Fattah, Computational Science Program 1. Invited Speaker, Applied Statistics Day, Beirut Arab University, April 24, 2018 2. Referee for Discrete Mathematics, Designs; Codes; and Cryptography, European Journal of Combinatorics, Journal of Theoretical Computer Science 3. Reviewer, Mathematical reviews (of the American Mathematical Society) 4. Member, representing FAS at the University Admission Committee 5. Member, Core Curriculum Committee Task Force for Quantitative Thought 6. Chair, Curriculum Committee of the Mathematics Department 7. Vice President, Lebanese Society for Mathematical Sciences, ending July 2018 Aoun, Richard

1. Member of PhD Committee (In Particular I Designed 4 Courses For The Program) 2. Preparing Comprehensive Exams In Algebra 3. Book Manager AUB Representative of Lau Math Annual Competition 4. Member of The Scientific Committee at Lsms (Lebanon)

Bertrand, Florian

1. Co-organizer of the annual Lebanese Society for Mathematical Sciences meeting in May 2018. 2. Fellow, Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS). 3. Talks: conference on Geometric Analysis of PDE’s and Several Complex Variables in Serra Negra (Brazil), CAMS Seminar, conference in honour of Bernard Coupet in Marseille (France), workshop for Mathematicians and Physicists at LIU, colloquium in Fribourg (Switzerland). 4. PI with Hervé Gaussier of the project CEDRE 35398TK “Geometry of Invariant Metrics”. 5. PI of the URB grant “The Method of Analytic Discs”. Three graduate students (Elie Abdo, Nour Khoudari, Najwa El Zini) were consequently hired as GRAs.

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6. Chair of the departmental hiring committee. 7. Chair of the departmental PhD program committee. 8. Member of the departmental comprehensive exam committee. 9. Freshmen advisor. 10. Master’s thesis advisor for Elie Abdo and Noiur Khoudari. 11. Master’s thesis committee for Heba Badawe.

El Khoury, Sabine

1. FAS Advising Unit Coordinator 2. Advisor for students with undeclared majors 3. Member of the FAS Graduate Studies Committee

Della Sala, Giuseppe

1. Fellow, Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences 2. Member, Departmental Hiring Committee 3. Member, Departmental PhD Committee 4. Member, Departmental comprehensive exam committee 5. Member, FAS Library Committee 6. Organizer of the Seminar of the Mathematics Department 7. Presented talks at LIU and at the LSMS meeting 2018 8. Member of M.S. Thesis Committee for Joan Salem 9. PI of the URB grant “Topics in CR geometry”

Mascot, Nicolas

1. Participation in the PhD committee

Monni, Stefano

1. Freshman advisor 2. Member Hiring Committee, Mathematics Department 3. Talk at Applied Statistics Day, Beirut Arab University

Moufawad, Sophie

1. Presented a contributed talk at the International SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra Conference (SIAM LA18) in Hong Kong on May 4, 2018 (http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/siam-ala18/). 2. Co-organizing the bi-annual International Conference on Inverse Problems, Control and Shape Optimization (PICOF2018), which will be held at AUB on June18-20 2018 (http://www.cs.aub.edu.lb/picof2018/index.html).

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3. Refereed one journal article for Parallel Computing (ParCo) Member of the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra (SIAG-LA) Member of the AUB HPC steering committee 4. Member of the Math department Curriculum committee 5. Presented a talk at the CAMS seminar on October 25, 2017.

Raji, Wissam

1. Organizing a conference on modular forms and related topics, AUB, May 2018. 2. Refereed 4 papers for peer reviewed international journals such as Journal of Number theory, Bulletin of London Math Society. 3. Gave 3 talks; one in the US, one in Qatar and one in Lebanon. 4. Invited speaker to Texas A&M in Qatar. 5. Invited speaker to East Tennessee State University, USA.

Sabra, Ahmad

1. Invited to Temple University for three weeks, November 2017. 2. Invited speaker, University of Catania, duration 1 week, December 2017. 3. IMSE conference, accepted abstract for a talk, July 2018.

Taghavi-Chabert, Arman

1. Teaching MATH 202 2. Teaching MATH 227 3. Talk “Conformal Patterson-Walker lifts of projective structures”, NDU, 21/02/2018 4. Talk “Conformal Patterson-Walker lifts of projective structures”, CAMS, AUB, 15/03/2018 5. Talk “Lorentzian geometry and CR structures”, LSMS meeting, 12/05/2018

Tlas, Tamer

1. FAS Student Disciplinary Committee

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E. PUBLICATIONS

Abi Khuzam, Faruk

1. Inequalities and Asymptotics for some moment integrals, J. Inequal. Appl. 2017, no. 257 2. The star function for meromorphic functions of several complex variables, 3. Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations, DOI:10.1080/2017.1410797 (with F. Bertrand and G. Della Sala). 4. La reve d’Euclide, Promenades en geometrie hyperbolique by Maurice Margenstern, Book review, published in both Zbl 1367.51003 and Newsletter, European Mathematical Union, (106), December 2017

Nassif, Nabil

1. N. Nassif, D. Sheaib, G. El Jannoun, A Simulation Model for the Physiological Tick Life Cycle. In Modeling, Dynamics, Optimization and Bioeconomics III Editors: Alberto Pinto and David Zilberman. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics Modeling. ISBN: 9783319740850 ISBN- 10: 3319740857 (2018) Chapter 13.

Khuri-Makdisi, Kamal

1. Upper bounds for some Brill–Noether loci over a finite field, International Journal of Number Theory 14 (2018), no. 3, 739-749. 2. On Jacobian, group arithmetic for typical divisors on curves, Research in Number Theory 4 (2018), no. 1, article 3, 29 pp.

Bassam Shayya

1. “Weighted restriction estimates using polynomial partitioning’’, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 115 (2017), no. 3, 545--598.

AlHakim, Abbas

1. Stretching De Bruijn Sequences, Des. Codes Cryptogr. November 2017, Volume 85, Issue 2, pp 381–394 2. A Module for Protecting Data Location Privacy on Mobile Devices, IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2018), Limassol, Cyprus, June 25-29, 2018, with Fatima Makki, Wassim El-Hajj, Haidar Safa

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Aoun, Richard

1. Random Matrix Products When The Top Lyapunov Exponent Is Simple, Joint With Yves Guivarc’h: Submitted, Under Review 2. Random Subgroups of Linear Groups Are Free, Duke Mathematical Journal, 160 (2011), 117-173. 3. Transience of Algebraic Varieties In Linear Groups – Applications To Zariski Density, Annales De L’institut Fourier, 63 (2013), 2049-2080. 4. Comptage Probabiliste Sur La Frontiere De Furstenberg, L’enseignement Mathématique, and Monographie Numéro 43 (2013): Géométrie Ergodique Édité Par Françoise Dal’bo Milonet, 171-198.

Bertrand, Florian

1. With H. Gaussier, “Invariant holomorphic discs in some non-convex domains”, Proceedings of the AMS 146 (2018), 1197-1205. 2. With U. Kuzman, “Local approximation of non-holomorphic discs in almost complex manifolds”, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 458 (2018), 123-133. 3. With F. Abi-Khuzam and G. Della Sala, “The star function for meromorphic functions of several complex variables”, accepted in Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations. 4. With G. Della Sala and B. Lamel, “Jet determination of smooth CR automorphisms and generalized stationary discs” (submitted for publication). 5. With G. Della Sala, “Riemann-Hilbert type problems with constraints” (submitted for publication). 6. With G. Della Sala and J.-C. Joo, “Extremal and stationary discs for the Kobayashi k-metric” (submitted for publication

El Khoury, Sabine

With H. Srinivasan, “A note on the subadditivity of syzygies”, Journal of Algebra and Its Applications, September 2017, Vol. 16, No. 09

Giuseppe Della Sala

1. With F. Abi-Khuzam and F. Bertrand, “The star function for meromorphic functions of several complex variables” Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations, published online (Dec. 2017) 2. With F. Bertrand and J-C. Joo, “Extremal and stationary discs for the Kobayashi k-metrix” (submitted for publication) 3. “Nowhere analytic smooth curves with non-trivial analytic isotropy” (submitted for publication).

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4. With B. Lamel and M. Reiter, “Sufficient and necessary conditions for local rigidity of CR mappings and higher order infinitesimal deformations”, submitted for publication 5. With F. Bertrand and B. Lamel, “Jet determination of smooth CR automorphisms and generalized stationary discs” (submitted for publication). 6. With P. Cordaro and B. Lamel, “The Borel map in locally integrable structures” (submitted for publication)

Nicolas Mascot

1. Certification of modular Galois representations Math. Comp. 87 (2018), 381-423 2. Companion forms and explicit computation of PGL2-number fields with very little ramification to appear in Journal of Algebra, 2018 3. Rigorous computation of the endomorphism ring of a Jacobian with E. Costa, J. Sijsling and J. Voight. To appear in Math. Comp., 2018

Monni, Stefano

1. Invited comment on Article by Wade and Ghahramani, Bayesian Analysis, 2018

Moufawad, Sophie

1. Numerical Stability of s-step Enlarged Krylov Subspace Conjugate Gradient Methods (Submitted to a SIAM journal) 2. Numerical Stability of s-step Enlarged Krylov Subspace Conjugate Gradient Methods (Technical Report: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10629)

Raji, Wissam

1. Kohnen W. and Raji W. Non-Vanishing of L-functions associated to modular forms of half-integral weight in the plus space, Research in Number Theory, 3 (2017), 3:6. 2. Kohnen W. and Raji W. Special values of Hecke L-functions of modular forms of half-integral weight and cohomology, Res Math Sci (2018) 5: 22.

Sabra, Ahmad

1. Gutiérrez, Cristian E. and Sabra, Ahmad, Freeform Lens Design for Scattering Data with General Radiant Fields, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, May 2018, Volume 228, pp 341–399 2. Rybka, Piotr and Sabra, Ahmad, The planar Least Gradient problem in convex domains,arXiv:1712.07150v1 3. Gutiérrez, Cristian E. and Sabra, Ahmad, On the existence of dichromatic single element lenses, arXiv:1801.07223

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G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The department will continue to work on the quality of the undergraduate and the graduate programs. The quality of research and teaching will always be at the center of the tasks in the department.

Wissam Raji Chairperson

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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

A. SUMMARY PROGRAM

Numbers: The total number of students enrolled in philosophy courses for the year 2017-18 was 1871, compared with 1847 for the year 2016-17 and 1890 for 2015-16. The bulk of these students (1326 of them) enrolled in courses numbered 200-210. We had 7 graduate students, same as last year, and 9 the year before. We had 18 undergraduate majors, same as the previous two years. It is difficult to obtain an exact number of minors, but we estimate approximately 60. Two graduates earned an MA this year.

Activities: A total of seven colloquia were hosted by the department’s colloquia series, coordinated by Joshua Norton. Names: Rami Ali and Noah Martin (LAU); Bana Bashour and Pat Lewtas (AUB); Tarun Menon (TATA Institute); Matthew Silverstein (NYU Abu Dhabi) Odai Al Zoubi (East Anglia). In the spring, we held a workshop with members of the philosophy departments of NYU-Abu Dhabi and NYU-Shanghai. In spring we also held a large international conference on “Moral Psychology, from neurons to norms,” featuring some 25 speakers (including Daniel Dennett) from roughly six different countries. In addition, we hosted two minor talks: one on Heidegger and the other on the ethics of torture.

Teaching: we initiated a program to improve the teaching of PHIL 210. The program consisted of periodic meetings for the instructors, along with Bashshar Haydar coordinating.

The department continues to collect data on our Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs). This year, each professor/lecturer/instructor with philosophy majors in his or her class was given a questionnaire. It asked to assess how well each of those students was able to meet each of the department’s three PLOs in that class.

Faculty There has been an unusually high number of faculty on leave this year. Chris Johns and Bashsar Haydar were on leave in the Fall, and Ray Brassier and Joshua Norton were on leave in the Spring. Chris Johns began serving as Chair in Spring of 2018. While the faculty taught fewer courses than usual, it was especially productive in research. The totals are as follows:

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Bana Ray Hans Pat Josh Chris Bashshar TOTALS D. Research 3 1 5 7 6 5 3 29 Sub/forthcoming/prog

E. Other staff Activities 11 5 12 12 10 8 4 62

F. Publications 0 4 1 2 1 0 1 9

Due to the retirement of long-standing faculty member Waddah Nasr, whose term officially ends this spring, the department underwent a faculty hire for an ethics/political philosophy position. The search began in the Fall of 2017. Forty-nine applications were received, which is lower than in past years, when there have been as many as 90 and even 120. We narrowed the pool down to eight for skype interviews, then down to three for on- campus interviews. Our chosen candidate is Quinn Gibson. Quinn negotiated to begin his appointment in the term of January of 2019.

B. PERSONNEL

Johns, Christopher Chairperson, Ph.D C Associate Professor Brassier, Raymond Professor Ph.D. Haydar, Bashshar Professor Ph.D. Bashour, Bana Associate Professor Ph.D Courtney, Fugate Associate Professor Ph.D. Lewtas, Patrick Associate Professor Ph.D. Muller, Hans Associate Professor Ph.D. Nasr, Waddah Associate Professor Ph.D Norton, Joshua Assistant Professor Ph.D. Abou Zaki, Nadine Lecturer Ph.D. Agha, Saleh Lecturer Ph.D. Daher, Abdallah Lecturer Ph.D Broucek, James Lecturer Ph.D. Rasmi, Mahmoud Lecturer Ph.D. Spohr, Paul Lecturer Ph.D. Barakat, Karim Instructor M.A. Chalabi, Fares Instructor MA Dimirdji, Ali Hocine Instructor MA

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Dib, Nelly Instructor MA Hassan, Hani Instructor MA Salloum, Rabih Instructor MA Wahab, Karam Instructor MA

1st Graduate Assistant Fall Semester Mr. Nerses Arslanian Mr. Ziad El Danaf Ms. Huria Ibrahim Mr. Raed Khelifi Ms. Fatima Sadek

Spring Semester Mr. Nerses Arslanian Mr. Ziad El Danaf Ms. Huria Ibrahim Ms. Fatima Sadek Mr. Alejandro Suarez

2nd Student Employment a Fall Semester Ms. Jana Kasab b Spring Semester None

3rd Non-Academic Staff Rawas, Samar Secretary

C.TEACHING

1st Number of Graduating Majors B.A. Oct.20 1 Feb.17 1 Jun.2012018 6 8 M.A. Oct.2017 0 Feb. 2018 0 Jun.2018 2

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2nd Number of Majors Graduates 7 Seniors 9 Juniors 7 Sophomores 2

Student Enrollment in Courses Courses Sum2017 Fall Sem SpringSem Total Courses numbered 300 and above 0 10 20 30 Courses numbered 211through 299 3 194 142 349 Courses numbered 200 through210 120 534 672 1326 Courses numbered below 200 15 86 65 166 Total 148 82412 899 1871

Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Sum2017 FallSem SpringSem Total Courses numbered 300 and above 0 9 9 18 Courses numbered 211through 299 3 30 21 54 Courses numbered 200 through210 18 72 90 180 Courses numbered below 200 3 12 9 24 Total 24 12312 129 276

D. RESEARCH

Bana Bashour

1. ‘Reactive Attitudes and Effective Punishment’. Journal of Applied Philosophy Special Edition on Non-paradigmatic Views of Punishment, (forthcoming) 2. “Why Moral Philosophers are not the Most Virtuous People”. Routledge Handbook on Skill, (forthcoming) 3. “A Critique of the Davidsonian View of Action” with Hans Muller. Southern Journal of Philosophy. (Revise and Resubmit)

Ray Brassier

1. Practices and Processes: Sellars and Marx, book in progress

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Chris Johns

1. “Kant’s Criticism of Leibniz on the Two Sources of Cognition,” submitted to Kant Studien. 2. “Locke, Leibniz, and the Possibility of a Demonstrative Science of Morals,” submitted to Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 3. Leibnz’s ‘Discourse on Metaphysics,’ a new translation and commentary, book proposal submitted to Edinburgh University Press. 4. “From Natural to International Law: Leibniz, Wolff, Vattel,” chapter in Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact, Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century (forthcoming 2018). 5. Book Review of Massimo de Illius’ translation of Leibniz’s Nova Methodus, Discendae Docendaeque Jurisprudentiae, for The Leibniz Review (forthcoming 2018).

Bashshar Haydar

1. “A Moderate Principle of Assistance: A Critique", (accepted) forthcoming in Global Ethics & Politics. 2. “Creativity as an Artistic Merit: A Critical View”, (work in progress) This paper examines the claim that creativity is an artistic merit in works of art and contrasts it with the alternative view that creativity is only a causal antecedent to aesthetic or artistic merit, but not a merit in itself. I argue mainly in favor of the latter view. 3. “Literature, Ethics, and Cognition” (about to be submitted) this paper argues moral merits or flaws in works of literature are ultimately grounded in cognitive merits or shortcomings.

Hans Muller

1. Book manuscript with the working title, A Defense of Sentimentalist Ethics, (In progress) 2. “The Belief Problem in Action Theory” (with Bana Bashour), revise and resubmit decision from the Southern Journal of Philosophy received in February 2017 (in progress) 3. “Phenomenal Properties: Deflationism without Eliminativism,” in collaboration with Ray Brassier (in progress) 4.“Does Hume Have a Cognitivist Account of Sympathy?” in collaboration with Raed Khelifi (in progress)

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Joshua Norton

1. “Incubating a Future Metaphysics: Quantum Gravity”. This paper argues for the importance of emerging quantum theories of gravity for our understanding of metaphysical facts. It was published in the journal Synthese in the Fall of 2017 as part of the special issue “New Trends in the Metaphysics of Science.” 2. “The Hole Argument Against Everything”. This paper argues that the form of the Hole Argument is unsound as it makes unreasonable demands of the notion of determinism as applied to physical theories. The response I provide defends an account of “sophisticated determinism”. This article is under review in the journal Foundations of Physics. 3. “Out-of Space Physics” This paper argues that modern theories of quantum gravity are physically opaque from the perspective of our current scientific paradigm and that in order to have a philosophically robust account of spacetime emergence, we need to account for all of spacetime’s essential properties and not merely its geometric ones. This paper has received referee comments and is in the process of being revised. 4. “Spin-Networks as Real as Spacetime” This paper argues that if one takes spin- networks (putative objects in the theory of loop quantum gravity) in an ontologically serious fashion then one has to assume a substantive view of spacetime. This result runs counter to the claim that spacetime emerges from non-spatial spin-networks in the theory of loop quantum gravity. A version of this paper is complete but needs to be modified to be appropriate as a journal article. 5. “The Ontology of Noncommutative Spacetime”. This paper is still in its infancy. I am currently doing research on the subject, but the primary questions are: (a) In what sense does spacetime disappear in noncommutative geometry? (b) Does its disappearance jeopardize substantive interpretations of spacetime? (c) What account of spacetime emergence is applicable in this context? 6. “Chaos in Consequentialism” This paper is still in its infancy but argues that rule base consequentialism is unable to guide ethical decisions due to chaotic relations in how preferences are held among agents. The chaos being referenced here is the same phenomenon which prevents meteorologists from making accurate weather predictions. In the long run, weather predictions are arbitrarily wrong (in a technical sense). Similarly, chaos in preferences prevents rule-based consequentialism from discovering ethical truth. All calculations, short of perfect knowledge of initial preferences of the entire population, result in an ethical norm that is arbitrarily wrong (in a technical sense).

Patrick Lewtas 1. “Passive Causation: Making interactionism work” This paper, accepted for publication by Journal of Consciousness Studies, develops an interactionist account

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of mental causation according to which physical entities respond actively to otherwise passive conscious properties. 2. “Conservation of Almost Everything” This paper, under review during the year, argues against the possibility of creation out of nothing and destruction into nothing, then explores the significance of this result. 3. “Causal Problems with Natural Teleology” This paper, under review during the year, argues against the possibility of natural teleology. 4. “The Explanatory Gap: Springboard, hurdle, or proof?” This paper, under review during the year, argues that the explanatory gap, serves on its own as a compelling argument against physicalism. 5. “What happens when something happens?” This paper, under review during the year, argues in favor of powers-based theories of causation. 6. “Inner Sense Theories and the Explanatory Gap” This paper, under review during the year, argues against inner sense theories of consciousness. 7. “Sourcing, Conservation, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason” This paper argues against the possibility of beings whose existences lack any cause or reason. It then develops some implications of this result. Fully outlined, the paper now exists as a first draft.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Bana Bashour

1. Presented ‘Why Moral Philosophers are not the Most Virtuous People’ at For an Extended Actionism Symposium, Nicosia, September 2017 and Philosophy Colloquium at AUB in September 2017 2. Presented ‘Reactive Attitudes and Effective Punishment’ at AUB-NYU Abu Dhabi – NYU Shanghai Workshop, May 2018 3. Participated in Faculty Research Workshop on Jeremy Koons’ “The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars”, Georgetown Qatar, November 2017 4. Associate Dean for Students, Faculty of Arts and Science 5. Chair, Philosophy Department (Summer 2017) 6. Member, University Senate. 7. Primary Organizer, Neurons to Norms: Moral Psychology Conference May 24-26 8. Founding Co-organizer, FAS Research Lunch 9. Advisor, Philosophy Students Society 10. Member, Accreditation Working Group VII on Leadership and Administration 11. Member, New York City Project Steering Committee

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Ray Brassier

Invited talks 1. ‘Concrete-in-Thought, Concrete-in-Reality: Marx, Materialism and Real Abstraction’ presented at the conference ‘Technology, Knowledge, Truth’, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, 13-15 December 2017. 2. ‘Concrete-in-Thought, Concrete-in-Reality: Marx, Materialism and Real Abstraction’ presented at the conference ‘Continental Realism’, Munich School of Philosophy, 8-9 December 2017. 3. ‘Communism Will be the Collective Management of Alienation.’ Workshop at Documenta 14, Kassel, 5 September 2017.

Other activities 1. Philosophy Department Chair, Fall 2017-2018. 2. MA thesis supervisor, Raed Khelifi.

Chris Johns

1. Conference presentation: Moral Therapy in Princess Elisabeth’s Correspondence with Descartes.” Lehigh University 5th Annual Philosophy Conference, “Women in Early Modern Philosophy,” October 19 – 20, 2017 2. Chair for “Locke and Spinoza” Colloquium, Eastern APA, January 3-6, 2018. Served as Chair of Department, Spring 2018 3. Continued serving on General Education Board 4. Director of MA thesis for Asma’a Ayoubi, defended May 2018. 5. Organized workshop with NYU Abu Dhabi & NYU Shanghai, held May 4-5 at AUB 6. Presented, “Perfections as “completable qualities” in Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics,” at the AUB-NYUAD-SH workshop, May 5, 2018 7. Co-organizer of “Moral Psychology: From Neurons to Norms, May 24, 25, 26 at AUB

Bashshar Haydar

1. Presented a paper entitled “Innocently Benefiting from Wrongful Harm: A Counter-Intuitive Conclusion” at The Inaugural AUB-ABU DHABI Philosophy Workshop, AUB, 2018 2. Presented a paper entitled “A Demanding Principle of Precaution”, at the Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, University of Stockholm, June 2017 3. Presented a paper entitled “Politics and Identity”, at the International Congress on Freedom and Democracy, Berlin, September 2017 4. Presented a paper entitled “Two Types of Emergencies: Hypocrisy and Assistance”, at Moral Philosophy Symposium, the University of Oxford, November 2017

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Hans Muller

1. Awarded a fellowship by AUB’s Center for Arts and Humanities for the academic year 2017-2018 2. Led the panel discussion, “How is Artificial Intelligence Changing our World?” as a CAH event on February 16, 2018 3. Led a teaching workshop with OSB on improving their Business Ethics course during the fall of 2017 as part of my CAH fellowship 4. Gave the talk, “Defending Sentimentalism” at the AUB/NYU-Abu-Dhabi joint conference on May 4, 2018 (this talk was also a CAH event) 5. Participated in the FAS Publication Workshop on April 19-20, 2018 and submitted a draft book proposal on February 16, 2018 6. Served as master’s thesis director for Nerses Arslanian, philosophy graduate student 7. Continued as secretary of the AUB Faculty Senate 8. Continued as senator in the AUB Faculty Senate 9. Continued as member of AUB Faculty Senate Steering Committee 10. Continued as member of the General Education Board 11. Continued as chair of the Department of Philosophy’s subcommittee on Program Learning Outcomes 12. Continued as an FAS advisor for visiting international students

Joshua Norton

1. Member of USAAC (Fall) 2. Freshmen Advisor (Fall) 3. Philosophy Major Advisor (Fall) 4. Philosophy Department Colloquium Coordinator (Fall) 5. Gave lecture for the University for Seniors 6. Gave two CVSP Common Lectures 7. Gave the following talks at international conferences/workshops: b. “Observing Out-of Space”, at POND’s Aspects of Objectivity in Science conference, Athens (September 2017) c. “Out-of Space Physics”, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago (January 2018) d. “No Time for the Hamiltonian Constraint”, Pacific APA, San Diego (March 2018) e. “The Hole Argument Against Everything”, Southern California Philosophy of Physics, Irvine (May 2018)

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Patrick Lewtas

1. Referee for Topoi. 2. Member, AUB Accreditation Working Group on Ethics and Integrity 3. Member, FAS Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee 4. Member, Quantitative Thought Task Force for AUB's New Core Curriculum. 5. Member, Library Committee 6. Member, Philosophy department Subcommittee on comprehensive exams 7. Member, Philosophy department textbook coordinator 8. Philosophy department library liaison 9. Philosophy department minutes-taker 10. Teaching observations of two department instructors 11. Organized the Philosophy department's 2017-2018 job search 12. “Uncaused existence: possible or not?”, a presentation at the AUB-NYU Philosophy Workshop, May 2018

D. PUBLICATIONS

Bana Bashour

None

Ray Brassier

Journal articles: 1. ‘Concrete-in-Thought, Concrete-in-Act: Marx, Materialism and the Exchange Abstraction’ in Crisis and Critique, Vol. 5, No.1, 2018. Chapters in books: 1. ‘Pratiques et processus: à propos du naturalisme’ in Choses en soi. Métaphysique du réalisme, Emmanuel Alloa and Elie During (eds.), Presses Universitaires de France (forthcoming) 2. ‘Abolition and Aufhebung: Reply to Dimitra Kotouza’ in What Is To Be Done Under Real Subsumption? Martin Artiach and Anthony Iles (eds.), Mute Books (forthcoming) 3. ‘Transcendental Realism: A Conversation with Anthony Morgan’ in The Kantian Catastrophe? Conversations on Finitude and the Limits of Philosophy, Anthony Morgan (ed.), Newcastle: Bigg Books, 2017

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Chris Johns

None

Bashshar Haydar

1. “Benefiting from Injustice and Climate Change", in Practical Philosophy in a Global Perspective Yearbook, 2017, Verlag Karl Alber Freiburg / Munche

Patrick Lewtas

1. Lewtas, “The Impossibility of Emergent Conscious Causal Powers,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 95, No. 3, 2017, pp. 475-487 2. Lewtas, “Building Minds: Solving the combination problem,” Inquiry, Vol. 60, No. 7, 2017, pp. 742-781

Hans Muller

1. “Hume on Sympathy, Pity and Impartiality” in G. Boros, J. Szalai, and O.I. Tóth (eds.) The Concept of Affectivity in Early Modern Philosophy (Elte Eötvös Publishing: Budapest, 2017), pp. 257-270.

Joshua Norton

1. Norton, “Incubating a Future Metaphysics: Quantum Gravity,” Synthese (2017), Special issue: New Trends in the Metaphysics of Science.

F. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

For the year 2018-19 the department will undergo several substantial changes. Professorial faculty will begin teaching a 2/2 load. To make up for the loss in the number of students taught, the course capacities for courses taught by professorial faculty will be raised from the current 20 to 26. We will have two new faculty members: Emma Gannage (see below) will start in fall and Quinn Gibson in spring. Two members will be returning from leave (Brassier and Norton). We are looking forward to a full and productive year. The department has been informed that the position in Islamic Philosophy has been filled by Emma Gannage That line was approved by the administration six years ago and we conducted a search during the 2012-2013 academic year.

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FAS is planning to hire an ethics specialist to run the Ethics Center. We are uncertain how this will affect our program in terms of teaching loads. A hiring committee is currently being formed. We have four continuing MA students and two new applicants have been accepted for admission in Fall 2018. A third student has received the Alajlan Scholarship for students having graduated from an Arabic-speaking university—the first such scholarship for the philosophy department.

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Having assumed the position of Chair of Physics in January, 2018, I have little to add to the lists and tables below when it comes to the bread and butter activities of the department and the remarkable staff that keeps it going. We will have more to say on such logistical matters when they start factoring in the planning that will keep us busy in the months to come. A perhaps more appropriate use of this year’s preamble is to highlight research and scholarly activities of our faculty, the world class network of collaborations within which they are embedded, initiatives that reflect the maturing of research directions in our department, and activities within the department which, for some reason or another, did not find their way within the formatted sections of our report:

a. Cutting edge research in theoretical physics (Quantum gravity, physics of polymer brushes, statistical mechanics of self-gravitating systems, star formation, and exo-planetary physics to name a few of the active directions), and state of the art experimental physics laboratories and associated research (PLD, EPR, thermal physics, physics of fluids and plasmas), complemented by novel locally built experiments (new EPR Spectrometer operating at E- Band (78 GHz), a collaboration between Prof Isber and Prof. Christidis). b. Home grown Physics disseminated through invited talks, review talks, lecture series, in conferences and workshops dedicated to the state of the art in their respective fields (lectures by Prof. Chamseddine at Ecole Normale and IHES; invited seminar by Prof. Tabbal at University D’Orlean; invited talk by Prof. Kazan delivered at the International Materials Research Congress; “Dix Planetary Science Seminar”, delivered by Prof. Touma at the Division of Geological and Planetary Science, Caltech…etc.). c. Physics faculty holding positions in prestigious research institutes (Prof. Chamseddine, Chair Louis Michel at IHES 2009-; Prof. Touma, Member at IAS, Fall 2017, and Visiting Scientist at RRI, 2015-2018), and research fellowships in cutting edge laboratrories (Prof. Tabbal, Invited Scientist at GREMI, Universite d’Orleans, France).

d. Physics Department hosting two remarkable young material scientists (Dr. Roy Aad and Dr. Mohammad Haidar), contributing to the state of the art in their respective fields, sharing their work through core-course lectures and seminars, and making Spring 2018 a material science semester by excellence. e. Regular series of seminars, and physics lunches vitalizing collegial public exchange among faculty members, students and visitors (most notably Prof.

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Tamer Amin from Education/SMEC discussing work on metaphors and the teaching of the concept of energy). f. Co-organization of a conference on “Numismatic Research in Lebanon: Past, Present and Future” (March 2018), a joint Physics-History & Archeology conference (Prof. Tabbal, co-organizer); g. Material Scientists in Physics co-organizing the first “National Workshop on Innovative Materials and Applications (NWIMA)” (May, 2018), bringing together colleagues from laboratories within AUB (chemistry, engineering and physics) with counterparts in Lebanese universities, and national laboratories. h. Graduating five MSc students in astrophysics, polymer physics, material science, and physics of fluids respectively, and a cohort of remarkable physics undergrads most getting a taste of undergraduate research (in astrophysics, material science, fluids and plasma), with one (Ms Tala Al Saleh) chosen as commencement speaker for the class of 2018; i. Physics Department contributing significantly to collaborative initiative between AUB and CMS/CERN.

B. PERSONNEL

1. FACULTY MEMBERS

Aad, Roy1 Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D. Antar, Ghassan2 Professor Ph.D. Bitar, Khalil Professor Ph.D. Chamseddine, Ali Professor Ph.D. Christidis, Theodore Associate Professor Ph.D. El-Eid, Mounib Professor Ph.D. Haidar, Mohammad1 Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D. Isber, Samih Professor Ph.D. Kazan, Michel Associate Professor Ph.D. Klushin, Leonid Professor Ph.D. Sabra, Wafic3 Professor (Director of CAMS) Ph.D. Tabbal, Malek4 Professor Ph.D. Touma, Jihad4 Professor (Chairman) Ph.D.

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2. LECTURERS & INSTRUCTORS (PART-TIME)

Summer 2017 Abou-Hamdan, Loubnan Assistant Instructor B.S. Alameh, Kafa Assistant Instructor B.S. Bader, Rodrigue Assistant Instructor B.S. Bodakian, Berjouhi Lecturer Ph.D. El-Daif, Ounsi Lecturer Ph.D. Hadi, Mohammad Assistant Instructor B.S. Hossieky-Malaeb, Ola Lecturer Ph.D. Ibrahim, Rowaida Assistant Instructor B.S. Lalti, Ahmad Assistant Instructor B.S. Merhej, Melissa Assistant Instructor B.S. Roumieh, Mohammad Lecturer Ph.D. Al-Sayegh, Amara Lecturer Ph.D. Sleiman, Wassim Assistant Instructor B.S.

Fall Semester Bodakian, Berjouhi Lecturer Ph.D. El-Daif, Ounsi Lecturer Ph.D. Masri, Carmen Assistant Instructor B.S.

Roumieh, Mohammad Lecturer Ph.D. Al-Sayegh, Amara Lecturer B.S.

Spring Semester Bodakian, Verjouhi Lecturer Ph.D. El-Daif, Ounsi Lecturer Ph.D. Malaeb, Ola Lecturer Ph.D. Roumieh, Mohammad Lecturer Ph.D. Al-Sayegh, Amara Lecturer Ph.D.

1. Spring semester only 2. Acting Chairman – Fall semester only; Research Leave – Spring semester only 3. Position shared between Physics & CAMS Research Leave – Fall semester only

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3. RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

Summer 2017 Hammoud, Hassan Merhej, Melissa Iskandar, Abdo

Fall Semester Lalti, Ahmad Salam, Mohammad Hadi

Spring Semester Chebly, Judi Iskandar, Abdo Hadi, Mohammad Khalil, Mahmoud Hijazi, Lara Lalti, Ahmad

4. GRADUATE ASSISTANTS

Fall Semester Abou-Hamdan, Loubnan Hadi, Mohammad Abu-Diab, Sara (Ph.D.) Ibrahim, Rouwayda Akkoush, Alaa Karimi, Hosein (Ph.D.) Alameh, Kafa Lalti, Ahmad Barakat, Nourhan Makki, Tahani (Ph.D.) Baroudi, Hana Al-Saghir, Rawan Dakik, Marwa Shahbary, Hadeel Dbouk, Rola Sleiman, Wassim Farhat Mohammad

Spring Semester Abou-Hamdan, Loubnan Ibrahim, Rouwyada Abu-Diab, Sara (Ph.D.) Ibrahim, Rim Akkoush, Alaa Karimi, Hosein (Ph.D.)

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Alameh, Kafa Lalti, Ahmad Barakat, Nourhan El-Masri, Carmen Baroudi, Hana Nour El Deen, Ibrahim Dakik, Marwa Saad, Cynthia (Ph.D.) Dbouk, Rola Shahbary, Hadeel Farhat, Mohammad Sleiman, Wassim

5. NON-ACADEMIC STAFF

Abboud, Jad* Senior Technician Abi Falah, Jumana Administrative Officer Al-Ghawi, Simon** Senior Technician Majdalani, Elissar Lab Manager Melki, Elie Chief Technician Srouji, Ibrahim Chief Technician

C. TEACHING

1. NUMBER OF GRADUATING MAJORS

B.S. Oct 2017 - Feb 2018 1 June 2018 2

M.S. Oct 2017 2 Feb 2018 1 June2018 4

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Ph.D. Oct.2017 - Feb.2018 - June2018 -

Summer ‘17 Fall Semester Spring Semester Graduates 2 27 28 Senior 1 5 8 Juniors 3 8 14 Sophomores 11 45 21

3. STUDENT ENROLLMENT IN COURSES

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 2 47 53 102 211 – 299 65 289 177 531 200 – 210 180 806 522 1508 100 – 199 40 30 255 325 Total 2466

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Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 18 99 111 228 211 – 299 14 46 30 90 200 – 210 27 95 58 180 100 – 199 8 3 28 39 Total 357

D. RESEARCH

Roy Aad

“Growth of 2D Materials by Pulsed Laser Deposition,” in collaboration with Prof. Malek Tabbal.

Ali Chamseddine

Project: “Quanta of Geometry,” supported by NSF ($50,000/year).

Theodore Christidis

Construction of a high frequency EPR system (with Samih Isber).

Mounib El-Eid

1. “Magnetic Reconnection”, exploring the effect of magnetic field annihilation in stellar plasma (MGR) with application to heating of the solar corona. PhD thesis subject by Mr Mostafa Hammoud. Collaboration with Dr. Marwan Darwish (Mechanical Engineering, AUB).

2. “Dissipation processes in the diffusion region where magnetic reconnection occurs”, MSc thesis completed by Mrs. Fatima Saffieddine in October 2017. 3. “Early star formation under cosmological conditions”, investigation of the process of the first star formation in the universe after the dark age. PhD thesis subject Mrs. Cynthia Saad. 4. “Li-problem in the early universe”, understanding the physical reasons why the element Lithium is overproduced under primordial physical conditions as

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indicated by observations of the halo stars. PhD thesis subject Ms. Tahani Makki, supported by a CNRSL award. 5. “Rotational effects in stellar evolution”, including rotation into the existing stellar evolution program, and investigating the effect of rotation on the structure and evolution of stars of different masses, especially how mixing of chemical element is modified. M.Sc. thesis project by Mr. Jaad Tannous.

Samih Isber

1. “Optical and Magnetic properties of Lead chalcogenides doped with Eu2+”. 2. “High frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy”. We will be working on setting up a new EPR Spectrometer operating at E-Band (78 GHz). Such system will provide an increase in the resolution of EPR spectra; the system is currently ready for testing. In collaboration with T. Christidis.

Mohammad Haidar

“Growth and characterization of Heusler ferromagnets Co2MnAl on GaAs by pulse laser deposition,” in collaboration with Prof. Samih Isber.

Michel Kazan

1. “Measurement of heat transfer between nano-particles via near-field thermal radiation.” 2. “Measurement of heat transfer by two-dimensional electronic gas.”

Leonid Klushin

1. “Compressed polymer brushes.” Study of lubrication properties of brush-coated surfaces by analytical theory and simulations. Supported by German Science Foundation (DFG) grant. 2. “Ejection kinetics of a flexible polymer from a capsid-like confinement.” Exploration of the basic mechanisms, driving forces, and mean ejection times by MD simulations and analytical theory. Supported by CNRS grant. Malek Tabbal

1. “Growth and characterization of functional oxide thin films by plasma and laser- based processes”, on-going research, funding from URB, LCNRS and FAS. 2. “Synthesis of 2D nanomaterials by pulsed discharges in liquids” on-going research with Universite de Lorraine, Nancy.

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3. “Modification of the physical properties of materials by surface nano-structuring” on-going research funded by the LCNRS and Masri Institute in collaboration with Prof. M. Kazan and the Univ. de Technologie de Troyes.

Jihad Touma

1. “Resonant relaxation in spherical stellar clusters around supermassive black holes.” Massively parallel simulations, and semi-analytic studies of the dynamics and thermodynamics of spherical stellar black hole nuclei, with and without a loss-cone. 2. “Shepherding of Trans-Neptunian Objects by a massive disk of planetesimals.” Dynamical study of a promising alternative to Planet 9. 3. “Resonant dynamical behavior around tight relativistic binaries.” Novel resonant dynamical processes disrupting particles around tight relativistic binaries. 4. “Particle-mesh algorithm for orbit-averaged self-gravitating systems.” Construction of a novel algorithm for the numerical solution of the orbit- averaged Poisson-Vlasov equations.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Roy Aad

1. “Optical Spectroscopy in 2D Materials Science.” Public talk at the Physics Department. th th 2. “Giant MoS2 Optical Gain.” Talk at NWIMA workshop, May 4 & 5 , AUB. 3. Member of the organizing committee of the first national workshop on innovative material and application (1st NWIMA).

Ali Chamseddine

1. “Quantum Gravity in Paris,” Institute Henri Poincare, 20-23 March 2017. 2. A Celebration of Alain Connes’ 70th Birthday, “Noncommutative Geometry: Index theory and its Ramifications in Geometry, Topology and Physics”, Fudan Institute for Advanced Study, Shanghai, China, 23-27 March 2017. 3. Series of four lectures: Two lectures held at Ecole Normale Superieure on June7 and June 14, 2017, and two lectures held at IHES on June 21 and June 28, 2017. 4. Lecture held at the 9th Pan African Congress of Mathematics, PACOM, July 3- 7, 2017, Rabat, Morocco. 5. Lecture held at the Ludwig Maxmillians University, Munich on July 25 ,2017. 6. Quantum Space-Time and Physics, September 16-23, 2017, Corfu, Greece.

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7. Workshop on Testing Fundamental Physics Principles, September 22-28, 2017, Corfu, Greece. 8. Tropical Workshop on Dark Matter, November 13-15, 2017, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 9. Editor Journal of Noncommutative Geometry. 10. Associate Editor Annales Institute Henri Poincare.

Theodore Christidis

1. Assistant to the Dean for laboratory affairs 2. Acting Director, CRSL (as of Jan. 1st, 2018) 3. Member: Radiation and Laser Safety Committee 4. Member: University Academic Budget Committee 5. Member: Faculty Workload Taskforce 6. Member: University Inventory Taskforce 7. FAS-REP Liaison officer

Mounib El-Eid

1. Advisor of undergraduate physics students. 2. Member of the task force for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the CNRSL. 3. Elected member of the upper committee of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Science. May 2, 2018.

Samih Isber

1. Poster presentation, “Magnetic properties of NiO/(Bi,Pb)-2223 Composite,” 28th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics – LT28, August 9- 16, 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2. Oral presentation, “Magnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors DMS,” 1st National Workshop on Innovative Materials and Applications, May 4-5, 2018. Charles Hostler Auditorium, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. 3. Poster presentation, “Growth and characterization of Heusler Co2MnAl ferromagnet on GaAs by PLD,” 1st National Workshop on Innovative Materials and Applications, May 4-5, 2018, AUB, Lebanon. With E. Bou Farhat and M. Haidar. 4. Chair, FAS, Kamal Shair CRSL Review Panel. 5. Member, Financial Aid Committee, AUB.

Mohammad Haidar 1. “Spintronics: from Giant Magnetoresistance to Spin Transfer Torque,” public talk at the physics department.

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2. “Intrinisc spin torque nano-oscillators,” talk at NWIMA workshop, May 04-05, AUB. 3. “Growth and characterization of Heusler ferromagnets Co2MnAl on GaAs by pulse laser deposition.” 4. E. Abou Farhat, M. Haidar and S. Isber, poster at NWIMA workshop. 5. Member of the organizing committee of the 1st National Workshop on Innovative Material and Application (NWIMA).

Michel Kazan

1. Invited talk at the XXVI International Materials Research Congress, Cancun, Mexico. “Thermal conductivity in alloys nanostructures”, (20-25 August 2017). 2. Nominated member of the board of advisors at the faculty of natural and applied sciences at Notre Dame University – Louaize (NDU).

Leonid Klushin 1. International Symposium, “Molecular Mobility and Order in Polymer Systems.” St. Petersburg, June 19-23, 2017. 2. Oral presentation, “Polydispersity effects in polymer brushes.”

Malek Tabbal

1. Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (L-CNRS) Excellence Award 2017. 2. SAFAR Research Exchange Award France-Lebanon, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy, France. 3. Research Fellowship as Invited Scientist at GREMI (Groupe de Recherche Energetique et Milieux Ionises), Universite d’Orleans, France. 4. Director of the USAID University Scholarship Programs. 5. Director of the Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE) STEM scholarships program at AUB. 6. Member of the CEDRE Committee (LCNRS & MEHE). 7. Reviewer for several scientific journals and international funding agencies such as Applied Physics A and Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). 8. Co-Organizer of the “Numismatic Research in Lebanon: Past, Present and Future”, a joint Physics-History & Archeology conference, AUB, March 2018. 9. Co-Organizer of the “1st National Workshop on Innovative Materials and Applications”, AUB, May 2018. 10. Presentations at research conferences, 8th International Conference on Innovations in Thin Film Processing and Characterization, Nancy (France), October 2017 & Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston (USA), November 2017.

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11. Invited public seminar, “Lasers at the heart of materials science” at Universite d’Orleans.

Jihad Touma

1. “Dix Planetary Science Seminar”, delivered at the Division of Geological and Planetary Science, Caltech, May 30, 2017 (ASL-APS Lectureship). 2. Lecture on “Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Black Hole Nuclei”, Galactic Centre Group, UCLA, June 6, 2017 (ASL-APS Lectureship). 3. Invited lectures, Workshop on “Numerical Integration Methods in Planetary Science”, University of Toronto, August 2017. 4. Invited Lecture, workshop “Collisionless Boltzmann (Vlasov) Equation and Modeling of Self-Gravitating Systems and Plasmas”, CIRM, Marseille, Oct 30- Nov 3, 2017. 5. Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Sep 2017-Jan 2018. 6. Review talk titled “Whither Resonant Relaxation”, Workshop on “Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei”, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Nov 29- Dec 1, 2017. 7. Visiting Professor, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore India, 2015-2018. 8. Chairman of Physics, spring 2018. 9. Director of the Graduate Program in Computational Sciences, Spring 2018-. 10. FAS Member on High Performance Computing steering committee, 2017-. 11. Member of the FAS Tenure Implementation Committee (TIC), 2017-2018. 12. Member of Working Group I (Mission and Goals), Self Study for AUB reaccreditation, 2017-2018. 13. Co-Organizer of the “1st National Workshop on Innovative Materials and Applications”, AUB, May 2018.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Ali Chamseddine

1. H. Chamseddine and V. Mukhanov*. “Resolving Cosmological Singularities.” JCAP 1703 (2017) 009. 2. A. H. Chamseddine and V. Mukhanov*. “Nonsingular Black Hole.” Eur. Phys. J C77 (2017) 183. 3. A. H. Chamseddine. “Quanta of Space-Time and Axiomatization of Physics.” arXiv: 1702.08180, to appear in “Foundations of Mathematics and Physics one Century after Hilbert: New Perspectives”, Editor J. Kouneiher. 4. A. H. Chamseddine. “Quanta of Geometry and Unification.” Memorial Volume on Abdus Salam 90th Birthday, World Scientific, 207. 5. A. H. Chamseddine and V. Mukhanov*. “Ghost Free Mimetic Gravity.” arXiv:1805.06283.

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6. A. H. Chamseddine and V. Mukhanov*. “Mimetic Massive Gravity: Beyond Linear Approximation.” arXiv:1805.06958. 7. A. H. Chamseddine. “Noncommutative Geometry and Structure of Space- Time.” arXiv:1805.08582.

Mounib El-Eid

1. M.F. El Eid. “Nucleosynthesis in Relation to Cosmology.” Physica Scripta, 93, 044001 (2018). Based on an invited lecture in the meeting “Frontiers in Theoretical and Applied Physics” (FTAPS), AUS, Sharjah, Feb. (21-25), 2017. 2. T.R. Makki, M.F. El Eid. “The Lithium problem: New Insight into the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis beyond the standard model.” Journal of Phys. Conf. Ser., 869, 012091 (2017). 3. M. Hammoud, M.F. El Eid, M. Darwich. “Effect of Magnetic Reconnection in Stellar Plasma.” Journal of Phys. Conf. Ser., 869, 012076 (2017).

Samih Isber

1. S. Isber, M. ME. Barakat*, N. Al-Sayyed*, S. Noureddine* and R. Awad*. “Ac Magnetic Susceptibility and EPR Studies of (Co0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4) x/(Cu0.5Tl0.5)-1223 Composites,” J. Supercond. Nov. Magn. 30, 1673-1680 (2017).

Michel Kazan

1. A. Iskandar, A. Gwiazda*, J. Younes, M. Kazan (corresponding author), A. Bruyant*, M. Tabbal, and G. Lerondel*. “Interaction between confined phonons and photons in periodic silicon resonators.” Physical Review B., Vol. 97, p. 094308 (2018). 2. M. Kazan. “Application of Houston’s method to the calculation of the direction- dependent thermal conductivity in finite crystals at low temperatures.” Journal of Heat Transfer-Transaction of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 139(10), p. 102004 (2017). 3. H. Karakashian and M. Kazan (corresponding author). “Harmonicity and anharmonicity of phonon and surface phonon-polariton in high symmetry directions in wurtzite AlN.” J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 122, p. 045103 (2017).

Leonid Klushin

1. S. Zhang *, S. Qi*, L. Klushin, A. Skvortsov*, D. Yan*, F. Schmid*. “Anomalous critical slowdown at a first order phase transition in single polymer chains.” J. Chem. Phys, 147, 064902 (2017). 2. S. Zhang *, S. Qi*, L. Klushin, A. Skvortsov*, D. Yan*, F. Schmid*. “Phase transitions in single macromolecules: Loop-stretch transition versus loop

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adsorption transition in end-grafted polymer chains.” J. Chem. Phys, 148, 044903 (2018).

Malek Tabbal

1. A. Iskandar, A. Gwiazda*, J. Younes, M. Kazan, A. Bruyant*, M. Tabbal, and G. Lerondel*. “Interaction between confined phonons and photons in periodic silicon resonators.” Phys. Rev. B 97, 094308 (2018). 2. H. Ghamlouche*, N. Choueib*, M. Tabbal, R. Sayed Hassan* and M. Hassan*. “Characterization of Ge15Sb85 phase change material grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition.” Appl. Phys. A: Materials Science and Processing, 124, 200 (2018).

Jihad Touma

1. A. Sefilian*, and J. Touma, “Shepherding in a Self-Gravitating Disk of Trans- Neptunian Objects.” arXiv: 1804.06859. 2. K. Kaur*, M. Kazandjian*, S. Sridhar*, & J. Touma. “Secular Instabilities of Keplerian Stellar Disks”, MNRAS, 476, 4104-4122 (2018).

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

The Physics Department is due for a self-study in the coming year. It will make for some serious internal discussions and evaluations, in addition to external reviews of our program. This will coincide with our intention to examine past/current experience with the PhD program in theoretical physics and consider the possibility of expanding into a full-fledged PhD program in physics (both theoretical and experimental).

Hiring of permanent faculty is on the agenda, and this with a view to enhancing research programs in the department, as well as expanding the course offerings to reflect the broad appeal and relevance of Physics to the wider community of AUB students. In the meantime, two visiting professors will be with us next Fall, one in material science and one in planetary physics. We shall structure activities around their visit in ways similar to the lively program that was stimulated by visitors in Spring 2018.

Material science work was featured in Spring 2018. Theoretical physics will get its fair share in the coming academic year, with a venerable high energy physicist joining us as URB scholar in Fall 2018, and a plan for a series of public events dedicated to astrophysics related research, exo-planetary science in particular.

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We will build on last spring’s ferment by continuing with the series of physics lunches and associated informal presentations and discussion and expanding the pool of potential contributors to include researchers from the faculties of medicine and engineering, as well as historians and philosophers of science. We will further organize a series of physics colloquia meant to interest the wider public.

We will also work intently on undergraduate student recruitment by structuring innovative programs for gifted high school students and reaching out to their campuses with wide audience lectures on fields represented in the department, and more generally on the career potentials of an academic adventure in physics

Jihad Touma Chairperson

* Not Associated with A.U.B.

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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL STUDIES AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The PSPA Department continued to play a major role in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) became part of the department. In addition to boasting 228 students in its combined undergraduate, graduate (199 students) and PPIA (29 students) programs, it served a big number of AUB students who expressed interest in its courses. With its three programs in political studies, public administration and public policy and international affairs, the PSPA Department aspires to continue to grow, especially since its courses and programs are very appealing to students from across the globe.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Khashan, Hilal Professor Ph.D. Moussalli, Ahmad Professor Ph.D. Frangie, Samer Associate Professor Ph.D. Hazbun, Waleed Associate Professor Ph.D. Khodr, Hiba Associate Professor Ph.D. Makdisi, Karim Associate Professor Ph.D. Pison-Hindawi, Coralie Associate Professor Ph.D. Reiche, Danyel Associate Professor Ph.D. Geha, Carmen Assistant Professor Ph.D. Geukjian, Ohannes(A/Chair) Assistant Professor Ph.D. Goodfield, Eric Assistant Professor Ph.D. Haddad, Tania Assistant Professor Ph.D. Kosmatopoulos, Nikolas Assistant Professor Ph.D. Porras-Gomez, Antonio-Martin Assistant Professor Ph.D. Tell, Tariq Assistant Professor Ph.D. Riachi, Roland Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D.

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Part-Time

El-Khazen, Farid Professor Ph.D. Hanafi, Sari Professor Ph.D. Abboud, Farid Lecturer Ph.D. Awada, Ghada Lecturer Ph.D. El-Zein, Fares Lecturer Ph.D. Haidar, Mahmud Lecturer Ph.D. Jurdi, Nidal Lecturer Ph.D. Kavran, Olga Lecturer Ph.D. Krayem, Hassan Lecturer Ph.D. Maalouf, Rabih Lecturer Ph.D. Mirza, Zeinab Lecturer Ph.D. Nahas, Charbel Lecturer Ph.D. Shaar, Rima Lecturer Ph.D. Taha, Hebatalla Lecturer Ph.D. Smaira, Dima Lecturer Ph.D. Ajamian, Melissa Instructor M.A. Bitar-Ghanem, George Instructor M.A. Ekmekji, Karma Instructor M.A. Hankir, Samer Instructor M.A. Kahil, Angela Instructor M.A. Lebbos, Amanda Instructor M.A. Mohanna, Zeina Instructor M.A. Osserian, Ghia Instructor M.A. Yacoubian, Vera Instructor M.A. Saba, Habib Instructor M.A.

2. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Abou Harb, Farah Harper, Alexander Acaf, Yara Makki, Rana Al-Muslimi, Farea Matar, Melissa Avanzato, Michael Merhi, Zeina Basaran, Soraya Rijpkema, Radboud Bou Fadel, Mireille Tashjian, Yeghia Durmaz, Ezgi Touma, Hoda El Mortada, Cynthia Vidigal, Renato

Spring Semester

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Abou Harb, Farah Jalil, Alexander Atallah, Pamela Kassem, Ratiba Avanzato, Michael Matar Boulos, Melissa Basaran, Soraya Mrad, Tony Bou Fadel, Mireille Tashjian, Yeghia Chokr, Hussein Touma, Hoda Durmaz, Bushra Ezgi Vidigal , Renato

3. Research Assistant

Joumana Talhouk

4. Student Assistants

Fall Semester Spring Semester Layal Salman Al Katranji, Hadi Amina Shehab El Hoss, Ali

2. Non-Academic Staff

Abdel Sater, Elias Program Administrative Officer (PPIA)

Hitti Bou Fadel, Milia Administrative Assistant (PSPA)

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2017 12 Feb. 2018 18 Jun. 2018 38

MA Oct. 2017 0 Feb. 2018 2 Jun. 2018 8

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 114 Seniors 121

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Juniors 77 Sophomores 140

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer 2017 Fall 2018 Spring 2018 Total 300 and above 1 141 104 246 211-299 44 619 549 1212 200-210 98 318 240 656 100-199 15 52 44 111 Total 158 1130 937 2225

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer 2017 Fall 2018 Spring 2018 Total 300 and above 6 96 117 219 211-299 15 84 78 177 200-210 12 32 24 68 100-199 3 6 6 15 Total 36 218 225 479

D. RESEARCH

Ahmad Moussalli

1. A multi-volume publication, “Islamic Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries”. It deals with all aspects of Islamic civilization: the state, society, economics, jurisprudence, theology, politics, and culture.

Frangie, Samer

1. Book Project: In the Aftermath of Critique: Marxism, Tradition, Temporality 2. Mellon Supranational Grant: Other Universals: thinking from the South on traditions of politics and aesthetics 3. ACSS Research Group: Arab Theory: Critiques of Power

Hiba Khodr

1. The Interplay Between Politics, Policy and Economics in The Environmental Policy in Lebanon: A Comparative Case Study Analysis

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2. A Step Closer Towards Peace Through the Regulation of Economic and Political Aspects of Energy Policy: A case study from Lebanon 3. A new counterterrorism Policies and Administrative Initiatives in the UAE: Dynamics, patterns and perspectives. Karim Makdisi

1. Research on Disarmament of Chemical Weapons in the Middle East and in particular Syria. 2. Research on International Intervention 3. Research on shifting geopolitics of the Middle East regional order. 4. Research on the role and politics of the United Nations. 5. Research that explores the United Nations as a site of conflict during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war.

Coralie Pison Hindawi

1. Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), project started in Spring 2012. 2. Knowledge Production and Doctrine Formation in the Security Sector: Deconstructing Narratives in the Case of Iraq, project started in Fall 2014 (funding through a yearlong research scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in 2014- 15) 3. Creative Diplomacy Amidst a Brutal Conflict: Analyzing the OPCW-Un Joint Mission for the Elimination of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Program, project started in Spring 2015 (United Nations funding for travel and translation). 4. Critical Studies on Security in the Arab World, project started in Fall 2016 (funding through the Arab Council for the Social Sciences).

Danyel Reiche

1. Revising and resubmitting article “The Role of the Australian-Lebanese Diaspora for the Establishment of Rugby League in Lebanon 2. Writing and submitting article “Policies for naturalization of foreign-born athletes: Qatar and Turkey in comparison” (in cooperation with Dr. Cem Tinaz/Istanbul Bilgi University) 3. Writing book chapter “Legacies of mega-sporting events in developing countries: A case study of Lebanon” 4. Editing book “Sport, Society, and Politics in the Middle East” (in cooperation with Dr. Tamir Sorek, University of Florida) 5. Paid research leave at Department of Sport Pedagogy and Sport History at the Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences of the University of Münster, Germany (spring 2017/2018)

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Ohannes Geukjian

1. Book proposal: The Russian Military Intervention in Syria: Political and geostrategic Objectives beyond the Middle East 2. Russia’s Mediation in the Syrian Civil War.

Eric Goodfield

1. Book project with Angela Harutyunyan: Past and Futureless Present: The Political and Cultural Amnesia of Post-Modernity

Tania Haddad

1. Ongoing project on governance of Nonprofit Sector in Lebanon. 2. Ongoing project on civil society and advocacy in Lebanon 3. Ongoing project on volunteering in Lebanon

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

1. Master peace: violence and experts in Lebanon (book manuscript to be submitted to Cornell University Press) 2. The floating laboratory on action and theory at sea (collective research platform initiated by me with the first meeting this summer – funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation)

Tariq Tell

1. Book project Historical Dictionary of Jordan* 2. Military Politics in Jordan

Roland Riachi

1. “A Political Ecology of Water in Lebanon”,book manuscript in preparation. 2. “Food Politics and Policies in Lebanon”, research paper funded by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC). 3. “Arab Food Systems under Global Food Regimes” research paper funded by the Arab NGO Network for Development. 4. “Critical Discourse Analysis of Lebanese Politicians’ Narratives and the Syrian Refugee Policies” working paper. 5. “Social Scientists Mobility in Lebanon”, research in progress with the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). 6. “Water and the Arab Uprisings: exploring the cases of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Tunisia”, monograph in preparation.

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7. “Point Four Legacy in Lebanon: Development Assistance or Aid Geopolitics? research in progress.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Hilal Khashan

1. Lectured on the blockade of Qatar at the Columbia Center, Amman on Aug. 17, 2017. 2. Chaired a panel on quality in teaching public service, held at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, on Nov. 13-14, 2018. 3. Gave two lectures at the Jakarta State University on Nov. 22-23, 2017.

Ahmad Mousalli

1. "Middle East Regional Security & Cooperation Meeting," August 17-19, 2017 2. "Wahhabi ideology and Arabism," Casablanca, July 20-24, 2017 3. “Religion, Politics and Terrorism,” Sofia, May 18, 2017 4. “Regional Struggle in the Arab World,” Lebanese Army, Beirut, May 17, 2017 5. “The Ideological Foundations of Islamic Radicalism and Violence and their Contextualization,” Beirut, 15 May 2017 6. “The Future of Political Islam in the Arab East,” Cyprus, May 9, 2017 7. “Terrorism: A Long-Lasting Threat: A New Future for European States,” Bruxelles, April 26th, 2017 8. “Middle East Regional Security and Cooperation Meeting,” Prague, February 9- 11, 2017

Frangie, Samer

1. Talk ‘Excavating Criticism from the Archive of the Left’, MESA, Washington DC, Nov. 2017. 2. Talk Syrian Reconstruction, PRIO, Oslo, Mar. 2018 3. ‘Excavating the Archive of the Left in Post-War Lebanon’, Literature, Culture, and the Political: A Conference on Elias Khoury, Beirut, Apr. 2018 4. Talk ‘Revolutions After the Future, or the Impasse of the Present’, Imagining the Future: the Arab World in the Aftermath of Revolution, Berlin, Jun. 2018

Waleed Hazbun

Invited Lectures

1. “The IR of the Middle East and the Politics of Insecurity,” Summer Institute on Critical Security Studies in the Arab World, Beirut, Lebanon, June 23, 2018.

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2. “Teaching IR in the Middle East,” The Making of Middle East IR / IR in the Middle East, American University of Beirut, June 22, 2018. 3. “Towards A Beirut School of Critical Security Studies?” The Making of Middle East IR / IR in the Middle East, American University of Beirut, June 21, 2018. 4. “Towards a 'Beirut School' of Critical Security Studies” Internationalizing IR Theory, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, May 17, 2018 5. “US Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of Insecurity in the Middle East,” Guest lecture for MEST 301: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies, American University of Beirut, April 19, 2018. 6. “Lebanon and the Geopolitical Rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran,” Guest lecture for PPIA 302: International Affairs, American University of Beirut, April 19, 2018. 7. “Tourism, Place-Making, and Urban Transformations,” Wise Cities in the Mediterranean: Challenges of Social and Environmental Sustainability conference, sponsored by Sciences Po Paris and CIDOB. Paris, France. March 8-9, 2018. 8. “Routes of Travel and Tourism,” at Global Middle East Workshop, Sponsored by Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. January 25-26, 2018. 9. “On a ‘Beirut School’ and Global IR as a Constellation,” Towards a Beirut School of Critical Security Studies Workshop, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Villanova University, November 17, 2017. 10. “On a ‘Beirut School’ of Critical Security Studies and Global IR as a Constellation,” Workshop on How scholarly identities shape the making of Middle East international relations, Aarhus University, Denmark. November 3, 2017.

Presentations in Annual Conferences

1. “The Middle East Regional System: Mapping Insecurity in an Era of Turbulence,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 4-7, 2018.

2. “Writing Insecurity: Sources of Disruption in Middle East IR Theory,” Middle East Studies Association, Washington DC, November 18-21, 2017.

Thesis Supervision (as advisor only)

1. Joe Boueiz, “External and Internal Security In Egyptian Foreign Policy Following The 2011 Arab Uprisings, “Thesis Defended May 2018 2. Michael McCall, “Alignment under unipolar decline: Why Middle East regimes turn to China,” Thesis to be Defended June 2018 3. Matthew Cronin, “Lebanese Sectarianism & Attitudes Toward the Influence of regional Political Actors,” Thesis to be Defended June 2018

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Hiba Khodr

1. ‘Toward quality in public service education’ conference, Doha institute, November 2017 2. Naspaa faculty seminar/workshop, Cairo, February 2017 3. ‘enhancing domestic accountability in Lebanon in light of the cedre’ conference, IFI, Beirut, march, 2018 4. Aalims conference-bobst center for peace and justice at Princeton university, Princeton, NJ, April 2018 5. Member of the undergraduate student academic affairs committee

Karim Makdisi

1. Program Faculty Committee Member, Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA), AUB. 2. Committee Member, Graduate Student Applications, PSPA, AUB. 3. Committee Member, Nadim Makdisi Memorial Fund, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB. 4. Invited participant, “A Cold War in the Middle East?”, International Institute for Strategic Studies meeting, Rome (Italy), November 2017. 5. Invited participant, Academic Friends of UNRWA meeting, Oxford (UK), December 2017. 6. Invited Lecture, “The Joint Mission to Disarm Syria’s Chemical Weapons,” Beirut Exchange, January 2018. 7. Paper Presentation. “Contesting and Legitimizing the UN at Headquarters and in the Field: Crises in the Middle East.” International Studies Association’s Annual Convention, San Francisco (USA), April 2018. 8. Paper presentation. “Intervention and the Arab Uprisings: From Transformation to Maintenance of Regional Order.” International Studies Association’s Annual Convention, San Francisco (USA), April 2018. 9. Interviews on various international media outlets. 10. Primary Investigator (PI), MENARA Research Project, European Commission 2020 Horizon Program (100,000 Euros). 11. Senior Advisor, University of Toronto Journal of Political Science.

Danyel Reiche

1. Teaching at AUB in fall 2017/2018 the following classes: Globalization and Culture, Politics of Sports (ICE Scores 4.3; 4.5) 2. Delivering lectures at Georgetown University Qatar Center for Regional and International Studies (September 25, 2017); North American Society for the Sociology of Sports (NASSS) 2017 Conference in Windsor/Ontario, Canada (November 2, 2017); International Sport Sciences Congress, Antalya, Turkey, (November 16,

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2017); University of Münster (January 11, 2018); Political Studies Association Sport and Politics 2018 Conference at the University of Stirling, Scotland (March 21, 2018); German Sport University Cologne (May 16, 2018); North American Society for Sport History2018 Conference. Winnipeg, Canada (May 27, 2018); Technical University Berlin, Germany (June 12, 2018); University of Saarbrücken, Germany (June 19, 2018); State parliament of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany (June 25, 2018); Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (December 14, 2017 and June 28, 2018); Rhine-Waal University of Applied Science (June 29, 2018). 3. Media appearances in The National (UAE), The Main Gate (AUB), Spiegel Online (Germany), Engaging Sports (U.S.), The Daily Star (Lebanon), Sportmagazin (Austria), Radio Student (Slovenia), Handelsblatt (Germany). 4. Co-founder of the Lebanese Sports Scholars/Sports Scholars in Lebanon Network (LESSN). Inaugural meeting held at AUB on December 2, 2017. 5. Reviewing manuscripts for the following journals: Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Diplomacy & Statecraft, InternationalJournal for Sport Policy and Politics, Journal of International Communication, Managing Sport and Leisure, Zeitschrift für Fußball und Gesellschaft. 6. Reviewing a book manuscript for Palgrave Macmillan. 7. Member of the Executive Committee, American University of Beirut's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR). 8. Liaison between the Library and PSPA. 9. Organizer of the PSPA brown bag series. 10. Responsible for the PSPA Twitter account and Facebook page. 11. Conference travel grant, Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR), AUB (November 2017). 12. Periodic Paid research leave, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, AUB (spring 2017/2018).

Carmen Geha Awards 1. Co-awarded FAS award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, FAS Women and Gender Studies Initiative and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – for conference on Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere 2. Awarded University Research Board grant for project: Lebanon’s Power Sharing System and the Syrian Refugee Crisis 3. Awarded Peace Research Institute Oslo Grant for Project: Refugee Education: Building Durable Futures (Rebuild) 4. Appointed by Presidential Decree to membership of the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW)

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Lectures 1. Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Research Workshop in Middle Eastern Politics, Cambridge February 2018, presentation entitled “Informal Institutions and Power-Sharing: Exploring Lebanon’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis.” 2. Middle East Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge March 2018, invited public lecture “Women’s Political Empowerment in Lebanon.” 3. American University of Beirut New York Office, briefing videoconference, invited lecture, March 2018, entitled “The Myth of Women Political Empowerment in Lebanon.” 4. Bobst Center, Princeton University, invited lecture, March 2018, entitled “Coping with Political Deadlock and the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: Exploring (Non) Policy-Making” 5. Tufts University, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, invited public lecture, April 2018, “Grassroots Organizing in Lebanon’s 2018 Parliamentary Elections” 6. Harvard Graduate School of Education, April 2018, invited lecture, entitled “Donors Exporting ‘Active Citizenship:’ Exploring the Myths of Civic Education in the Arab Region”

Presentations in Conferences

1. American University of Beirut, FAS funded conference “Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere,” January 2018, presentation entitled“Sectarian Power-Sharing and the Myth of Women Political Empowerment in Lebanon." 2. Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), academic conference on Asserting and Contesting the ‘Good Citizen’, Norway May 2017, invited presentation entitled “Formal and Informal Pedagogies of Active Citizenship: Lessons Learnt from the Middle East, Gulf and North Africa.” 3. International Workshop: Deconstructing Unitary Statehood: Hybrid Governance in Comparative Perspective (Island of Procida, Naples), Organised by Università L’Orientale di Napoli, May 2017, trip supported by Faculty Development Grant entitled “Co-optation of Protest Movements in a Power-sharing System: The Case of Lebanon.” 4. The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, the Alliance of Lead Universities on Migration, and the LSE Institute of Global

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Affairs, November 2016, presentation entitled“The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: Resilience in Times of Political Deadlock and No-Policy.” 5. American University of Beirut, Knowledge is Power conference, April 2017, presentation entitled“Sectarian Power-sharing as Accommodation not Inclusion: Unpacking the Challenges to Women’s Political Representation in Lebanon”

Ohannes Geukjian 1. Supervising the thesis of Farah Abou Harb “The Lebanese Civil War 1975- 1990: Examining the Internal and External Causes”. 2. Supervising the thesis of Edward Brozs “The Success of Irish Republican Terrorism: How the Decisions of the Few Dictate the Result for Many”. 3. Supervising the thesis of Lea Layoun “The Impact of the Syrian War on Lebanon”. 4. Supervising the project proposal of Zeina Kaabachi “Culture Aspect of Peacekeeping: Case Study of the Indonesian Contingent (GARUDA) in the UNIFIL”. 5. Supervising the thesis of Hallal Zeinoun “Political Mobilization in Lebanon: Clientelism and Sectarian Identities, the Case of Secular Political Parties”. 6. Panelist “The Objectives of Russia’s Military Intervention in Syria, 2015- Present”, Panel R14, Inside Out, Domestic Drivers of Russian Security Policy, in the ASN conference at Columbia University, NY, 4-6 May 2017. 7. Panelist “Russia’s Mediation in the Syrian Conflict: Using Leverage to Make Peace?” Panel R6, Moscow’s Geopolitics, Russia’s Security Policy in Europe and the Middle East, in the ASN conference at Columbia University, NY, 3-5 May 2018. 8. Chair, Panel K7, “Traumas, Diaspora, and Geopolitics in Armenia”, in the ASN conference at Columbia University, NY, 3-5 May 2018. 9. Acting Chairperson 10. Academic advisor to BA and MA political science students 11. Faculty advisor to the PSPA society 12. Faculty advisor to the UNICEF club and the LAHC 13. Faculty coordinator of the Inter-University Program (IUP) on international criminal law funded and sponsored by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) 14. Founding member and vice president of the NGO International and Transitional Justice Resource Center (ITJRC) 15. Media appearances in Internationales and Infobae in (Argentina) 16. Moderator of a panel on “Role of Education in Preventing or Combating Genocide”, Issam Fares Institute (IFI), 7 December 2017 17. Book presentation “Lebanon after the Syrian Withdrawal”, German Orient Institute, 20 July 2017. 18. Reviewer for: British Journal for Middle Eastern Studies, International relations, The International Journal of Human Rights, The Extractive Industries and Society, Journal of

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Society for Armenian Studies, Europe Asia Studies and Center for Arab Unity Studies. 19. Participated in AALIMS-Princeton Conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World, 20-21 April, 2018.

Eric Goodfield

1. AUB President’s University Accreditation Self-Study, Working Group I (Design Standard I, Mission and Goals), Subgroups A & B (Fall) 2. CVSP Forum Event Coordinator (Fall) 3. CVSP 203 Course Coordinator (Fall) 4. PSPA, Program Learning Outcomes/PLO Report (Fall and Spring) 5. CVSP 201, 203, 204, 205 Common Lectures (Fall): Plato (2 Lectures), Marx, Rousseau 6. Junior Faculty Paid Leave (Spring) 7. Student Debate Club, Faculty Advisor (Fall and Spring) 8. CVSP 203, Course Recertification (Fall) 9. Conference, “Past and Futureless Present: The Political and Cultural Amnesia of Post-Modernity,” Debating the Contemporary: Issues in Contemporary Political and Social Philosophy, the University of Malta, Malta, Nov. 16-17.

Tania Haddad

1. Academic Advisor for graduate and undergraduate Public Administration students 2. Thesis Advisor for two Public Administration graduate students 3. Faculty Supervisor on the TL Capstone projects 4. Leaders for Democracy Fellows, American University of Beirut and World Learning Academic Technical Coordinator (2018) 5. Member of Ad hoc committee to review the nominees for the 2018 FAS general awards 6. Member of Ad hoc Commencement Speaker Selection Committee 2018 7. Member of the committee to review and write the strategic plan for the department for academic year 2018-2019 8. Member in the committee for revamping the Master’s program at the PSPA department (Fall &Spring 2018) 9. Member in the committee for revamping the minor in “Civil Society, Citizenship and the Nonprofit Sector”. 10. Member in the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Fall 2018-Present) 11. Member in the Library Committee (Fall 2018-Present) 12. Coordinate the “Learning in the Discipline” courses between the department and the writing center.

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Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

1. Organized Workshop Floating Laboratory on Action and Theory at Sea. Two three-day workshops on maritime politics, Lesvos July 2018 & New York November 2018. 2. Redemption and Punishment: The emergence of techno-morals in contemporary Middle East, Public seminar in Anthropology, History and Philosophy, Aristoteleio University in Thessaloniki, November 4 2017. 3. Ethnography and downscaling international affairs: Peace, Crisis, Solidarity, invited lecture in the Masters’ Seminar International Affairs in the University of Macedonia, Greece, November 2, 2017.

Tariq Tell

1. Presentation ‘The Regional Context of War and Displacement,’ to the Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance Special Session on Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon in the Local and Regional Context, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB, March 22, 2018 2. Paper presentation ‘Rents and Royalty: Power, Politics and Uneven Development in Jordan 1974-1989,’ in panel entitled Focus on Jordan, BRISMES, conference 2018, Kings College London, June 26, 2018.

Roland Riachi

1. “The Political Ecology of Food in Lebanon under Confessional Politics and Neoliberal Policies”, presented at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung conference: Economic Policies for a Socially Just Future, November 24-25, 2017, Tunis. 2. “Food and the Concealed Market Politics in the 2030 Agenda”, presented at the International Workshop in partnership with the Issam Fares Institute, the Arab NGO Network for Development, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the United Nations Democracy Fund, and the Global Policy Forum Strengthening Public Policies for the 2030 Agenda, November 30th - December 1, 2017, Beirut. 3. “A Historical Perspective of Water Provision in Beirut”, presented a talk for the European Association of Urbanism, May 9, Beirut. 4. Supervisor of Stephanie Clough’s MA thesis: The Donor-NGO Relationship and Humanitarian Assistance: Monitoring and Evaluation in The Syrian Refugee Response in Lebanon. 5. Supervisor of Alexander Harper’s MA research project: Remote Management in the International Humanitarian Response in Syria: A Paradigm Shift?

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6. Co-supervisor of Rayane Kahale’s MA thesis: Unpacking Water Service Provision Through the Lens of Political Ecology: The Case of Ras Beirut. 7. Advisor of senior students’ projects at the Computer Science Department for the development of a GIS tool for crowd-mapping and urban reporting. 8. Served as reader for 5 M.A. thesis for the academic year 2017-18. 9. Coordinated the PSPA Department’s PLO activities for the academic year 2017-18.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Hilal Khashan

1. “The Sinai Bedouins: An Enemy of Egypt’s Own Making,” April 1, 2018. https://www.stratfor.com/article/sinai-bedouins-enemy-egypts-own- making 2. “’Un-Brotherly” Saudi-Emirati Ties,” Middle East Quarterly, vol. 25,. No. 2, March 1, 2018. https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/unbrotherly-saudiemirati-ties 3. “In Egypt, the Revolution Rolls on,” February 11, 2018. https://www.stratfor.com/article/egypt-revolution-rolls 4. “Iran Aspires to a Former Glory,” December 27, 2017. https://www.stratfor.com/article/iran-aspires-former-glory 5. “For Saudi Arabia, All Politics is Local,” November 22, 2017. https://www.stratfor.com/article/saudi-arabia-all-politics-local

Waleed Hazbun

1. “Towards a Beirut School of Critical Security Studies: A Manifesto,” under review at Critical Studies in Security. [Co-authored with Samer Abboud, Omar Dahi, Nicole Sunday Grove, Jamil Mouawad, and Coralie Hindawi]. 2. “Tourism as a map of political economy and geopolitics,” in Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera, eds. Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, forthcoming). 3. Tourism, Place-making, and Urban Transformations in Barcelona and Beirut,” in Eckart Woertz (ed.) “Wise Cities” in the Mediterranean? Challenges of Social and Environmental Sustainability, (Barcelona: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, forthcoming). 4. “Scholarly Identities and The Making of Middle East IR: Lessons from the Global/Post-Western IR Debate,” APSA MENA Workshops Alumni Newsletter, Issue 3 (Fall 2017), pp. 3-6. [Co-author with Morten Valbjørn]. 5. “Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: Mapping Geopolitical Shifts, Regional Order and Domestic Transformations,”

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MENARA Methodology and Concept Papers, No. 5, November 2017. [Co- authored with Karim Makdisi, Sabiha Senyucel̈ Gundö gar̆ and Gul̈ saḩ Dark].

Hiba Khodr

1. Khodr, Hiba. 2018. Policies And Politics Surrounding Islamic Studies Programs In Higher Education Institutions In The Us: The Perfect Storm In The War Against Terrorism, Extremism And Islamophobia. Contemporary Arab Affairs. 2. Alameddine, M, Murad, Y, Khodr, H., Yassoub, r. (2017). Inquiry: The Journal of Healthcare Organization, Provision and Financing. 54 (1-8).

Karim Makdisi

1. Makdisi, Karim (co-edited with Boserp et al.). 2017. Between Regional Autonomy and Intervention: New Conflict Dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa (Copenhagen: Danish Instituter for International Studies, 2017). 2. Makdisi, Karim. 2017. “The Syrian Chemical Weapons Disarmament Process in Context: Narratives of Coercion, Consent, and Everything in Between,” Third World Quarterly, Issue 8, 2017 (with Coralie Hindawi). 3. Makdisi, Karim. 2017. “Intervention and the Arab Uprisings: from Transformation to Maintenance of Regional Order,” in Between Regional Autonomy and Intervention: New Conflict Dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa. 4. Makdisi, Karim. 2017. “Lebanon Dispatch,” Middle East Report, No. 283.

Coralie Pison Hindawi

1. K. Makdisi and C. Pison Hindawi, ‘The Syrian chemical weapons disarmament process in context: narratives of coercion, consent and everything in between,’ Third World Quarterly (2017), vol. 38/8, pp. 1691-1709.

Danyel Reiche

Peer-reviewed articles 1. Publication of article Reiche, D. (2018): Not Allowed to Win: Lebanon’s Sporting Boycott of Israel, The Middle East Journal, Vol. 72, No. 1, Winter 2018, p. 28-47

Book reviews 1. Review for The International Journal of the History of Sport (IJHS) of the book Gems, Gerald R., Borish, Linda J., and Pfister, Gertrud. 2017. Sports In

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American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Human Kinetics: Champaign (published online March 12, 2018). 2. Review for Journal of Sport History Sotomayor, Antonio. 2016. The Sovereign Colony. Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska (Volume 44, Number 3, Fall 2017, pp. 533-534).

Other publications 1. “Kritik an Olympischen Winterspielen. Kein Fest der Völker.” By Danyel Reiche in Spiegel Online. February 9, 2018, http://www.spiegel.de/sport/wintersport/olympia-2018-kein-fest-der- voelker-eine-kritik-a-1192424.html 2. “Winter Olympics, the Games of the Few.” By Danyel Reiche in Engaging Sports. February 5, 2018, https://thesocietypages.org/engagingsports/2018/02/05/winter-olympics- the-games-of-the-few/

Carmen Geha

1. Carmen Geha (2018) Understanding Arab civil society: functional validity as the missing link, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2018.1434611

Ohannes Geukjian

1. Ohannes Geukjian, Lebanon after the Syrian Withdrawal: External Intervention, Power Sharing and Political Instability (London and New York: Routledge, 2017) 2. Ohannes Geukjian, “The Role of the Lebanese Armenian Diaspora in Conflict Resolution”, in Armenians of Lebanon (II) (Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2017) 3. Ohannes Geukjian, “The Objectives of Russia’s Military Intervention in Syria”, The Maghreb Review, Vol. 42, No. 2 (2017), pp. 274-306

Book Reviews 1. Review for The Arab Geographer: “Intractable Dilemmas in the Energy-Rich Eastern Mediterranean” (London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), Vol. 20. No. 1 (2017), pp. 98-100 2. Review for Europe Asia Studies: “Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin” (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), Vol. 70, Issue 3 (2018), pp. 491-92

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Eric Goodfield

Tania Haddad

1. El Hindi, Elie and Haddad, Tania (eds) (2018) " Religion and Civil Society in the Arab World: In the Vortex of Globalization and Tradition”, Routledge, NY (in Print, June 2018) 2. El Hindi Elie and Haddad, Tania (2018) “Lebanese Civil Society and Civic Engagement: Factors of Success and Failure" (Civil Society Knowledge Centre, Lebanon Support, in print) 3. Haddad, Tania (2018) Confrontation, co-optation, and cooperation civil society in post-war Lebanon book chapter in Raffaele Marchetti: Government–NGO Relationships in Africa, Asia, Europe and MENA Routledge, NY. 4. "Amanda Lashway, Christian Vannier and Steven Sampson (eds.): Culture of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs" in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 2018. First published online April 2018 (Book review) 5. Haase, Thomas W; Haddad, Tania; EL Badri, Noura (2018) Public administration higher education in Lebanon: An investigation into the substance of advertised courses. Journal of Public Affairs Education Volume 24- Issue 1 6. Haase, Thomas W; Haddad, Tania (2017) Analysing State–Civil Society Associations Relationship: The Case of Lebanon VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 08/2017, Volume 28, Issue 4 7. Haddad, Tania (201X) “Governance and Accountability of NGOs in the Arab World” Working paper 8. Haddad, Tania (201X) “ Volunteering in Lebanon: An exploratory Study” Working paper 9. Haddad, Tania (201X) “Governance and Accountability of Nonprofit Sector in Lebanon” Working paper 10. Haddad, Tania (201X) “Assessing the legal framework governing nonprofit sector in Lebanon” Working paper.

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Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

1. (Forthcoming) FLOW REASONING: THE INVENTION OF POPULAR THALASSOPOLITICS ABOARD THE SHIPS TO GAZA, Environment and Planning D: Space and Society 2. Make America Israel Again: Targeting Empathy At The Border, Political And Legal Anthropology Review, February 2017, https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2017/02/22/make-america-israel-again- targeting-empathy-at-the-border/

Roland Riachi

1. “A Genealogy of Dams in Lebanon under a Political Ecology Lens”, Journal of Sustainable Development and Territories, Vol. 9, 2018 (under review)

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The PSPA Department has formed committees to assess the three MA programs (PS, PA and PPIA). The committees would also assess the future vision of the department and strategic plan. The department has been actively promoting the three MA programs to attract more applicants and improve the quality of accepted students. In addition, the department has met with the Director of the Asfari Institute of Civil Society and Citizenship and discussed the inclusion of the MA in ‘civil society and rule of law’ in the MA PA program. The department continues to maintain close ties with the Issam Fares Institute, the Asfari Institute, and also with the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, and it aspires to develop these ties further. This includes sponsoring joint activities and cross listing of courses. The department is determined to expand its cooperation with these centers and other University institutes and programs, as well as regional and international programs and research projects. A committee to coordinate the PLOs is formed to continue evaluating and upgrading the existing programs and integrating them what we are learning through our full immersion in the Program Learning Outcome (PLO). This has been benefitting our activities exceptionally and enriching the content of our courses, as well as the process of disseminating knowledge to our students. The department has succeeded in establishing an internship program with the Lebanese Ministry of Justice and another internship program with the Lebanese parliament.

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DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Student Population: The Department of Psychology remains one of the largest and fastest growing departments in FAS, with a student body of 262 majors in 2016- 2017. The growth of the student population is faster than the department’s ability to recruit, and the number of students who can enter the major from the freshmen class was capped at 40. Transfer requirements to the major were changed to be: a minimum grade of 75 in Psyc 201, Eng 203, Eng 204, and a cumulative average greater than 75. These restrictions turn Psychology into one of the most competitive majors in FAS.

Faculty Recruitment: The Department of Psychology posted three advertisements for faculty positions. However, only one was filled. Dr. Ghina Ismail will be joining the department in 2018- 2019. Four positions will be advertised in 2018-2019. Also, Shahe Kazarian, who was a faculty member for 15 years before retirement in 2016, re-joined the Department as Professor Emeritus.

Psychology Labs: Two psychology labs continue to be fully used by faculty and students for research and educational purposes: the Psychology and Communication Lab (Nicely 207) which is mostly used for pedagogic purposes (SPSS and R training), and the Experimental Psychology Lab (Jesup 107) which is mostly used by faculty and graduate student research. Importantly, the department acquired a new Vision and Perception Lab in the Fisk Hall basement, which raises the total number of lab spaces to three.

Research: The Department remains active in several research areas spanning the disciplines in psychology. Faculty research areas include neuroimaging of creativity, dual pathways of collective action, inter-sectarian relations, post-traumatic growth, positive psychology, visual perception, personality dimensions, and the neuroscience of perception.

MA Programs: The department offers two successful MA programs (MA in Psychology and MA in Clinical Psychology) and serves 16 graduate students. Recruitment to the MA in Clinical Psychology remains highly competitive, with a less than 30% acceptance rate.

Psychology Colloquia: The Department of Psychology hosted nine colloquia which were well attended.

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Awards: Several awards were bestowed on student and faculty members of the department. Most importantly, one of our students in psychology, Zainab Nasrallah, received the Penrose Award for FAS. Psychology Website: The Department of Psychology’s website is available at http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/psychology.

Civic Engagement and service: The Department of Psychology continued to engage the wider community, and collaborated with various partners (e.g. AUBMC Psychiatry, AUB counseling etc.) to promote mental health issues. Faculty are also involved with the Lebanese Ministry of Health in its efforts to develop a national mental health strategy. Furthermore, faculty in the department continue to dedicate their time and expertise to service the community through applied research projects or training and supervision (e.g. Medecins du Monde, Syrian refugees in the Bekaa Valley).

Psychology Student Society: The Psychology Student Society (PSS) continued to be one of the most active student societies in FAS. The PSS organized a series of events during the academic year that included presentations and talks, Autism awareness bake sale, a mental health sensitization event, a trivia night, an event with EDUCOM, registration guiding sessions, farewell gathering to graduating students, and extra-curricular social events for the society’s members.

A. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Dietrich, Arne Chairperson Professor Ph.D. Harb, Charles Professor Ph.D. Shahe Kazarian Professor Emeritus Ph.D. Besle, Julien Assistant Professor Ph.D. Bosqui, Tania Assistant Professor Ph.D. El-Jamil, Fatima Assistant Professor Ph.D. Hussain, Zahra Assistant Professor Ph.D. Saab, Rim Assistant Professor Ph.D. Zeinoun, Pia Assistant Professor Ph.D. Diedreich, Joachim Visiting Professor Ph.D. Hoffman, Tony Visiting Lecturer Ph.D. Hijazi, Alaa Adjunct Assistant Professor Ph.D. Awaida, May Lecturer Ph.D. Boyadjian, Maral Lecturer Ph.D. Chedid, Joyce Lecturer Ph.D.

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Ghorayeb, Jihane Lecturer Ph.D. Atweh, Mia Instructor M.A. Bassil, Margaret Instructor M.A. Ghanem, Lama Instructor M.A. Naffah, Hala Instructor M.A. Nakhle, Pascale Instructor M.A. Nakhle, Sinine Instructor M.A.

2. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Abi Ghannam, Ghina Al Amine, Mortada Dakkak, Muna Hashem, Zeena Jabbour, Salam Nawfal, Melissa Vosgeritchian, Hrag Zakka, Sandra

Spring Semester Abi Ghannam, Ghina Al Amine, Mortada Dakkak, Muna Hashem, Zeena Jabbour, Salam Joudieh, Reem Ouayda, Abdul Sattar Nawfal, Melissa Vosgeritchian, Hrag Zakka, Sandra

3. Non-Academic Staff

Baramakian, Maria Administrative Assistant

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C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

General Psychology Clinical Psychology

B.A. Oct. 2017 9 Feb. 2018 13 Jun. 2018 48

M.A Oct. 2017 1 1 Feb. 2018 2 1 Jun. 2018

2. Number of Majors

Psychology

Graduates 18 Seniors 84 Juniors 88 Sophomores 72 Total Enrollment 262

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Course Summer Fall Spring Total 2017 2017 2018 Courses numbered 300 and above 0 21 36 57 Courses numbered 211 through 299 47 501 561 1109 Courses numbered 200 through 210 40 480 311 831 Courses numbered 100 through 199 0 60 35 95 Total 87 1062 943 2092

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

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D. RESEARCH

Arne Dietrich

Paid research leave Fall 2017 (development of 4 papers) 5 invited conference presentations

Julien Besle

1. Single-subject, in vivo parcellation of human auditory cortex using functional, structural and diffusion MRI, URB Grant. 2. Plasticity of tonotopically-organized cortico-cortical projections in auditory cortex. Collaboration with Marc Schönwiesner, Université de Montréal, Funding: Erasmus Mundus Exchange grant. 3. Tonotopic reorganization in auditory cortex in simulated hearing loss using fMRI. Co-supervision of Benjamin Gurer, PhD student at the University of Nottingham. 4. Cortical tonotopic magnification in primary auditory cortex, Co-supervision of Benjamin Gurer, PhD student at the University of Nottingham. 5. Frequency selectivity in human auditory cortex measured using fMRI adaptation at 7T, Manuscript in preparation. 6. Impact of Biofeedback on Attentional and Cognitive Performance, collaboration with Zahra Hussain (Psychology) and Zaher Dawy (Electrical and Computer Engineering).

Bosqui, Tania

Current projects 1. Local Principal Investigator: The development, piloting and evaluation of a phone-delivered psychological intervention (t-CETA) for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon (Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) grant funded

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by Save the Children, Department for International Development (DfID), and the Welcome Trust - grant number: 28371) 2. Visiting Research Fellow: Using data linkage to obtain accurate population estimates of migrants in Northern Ireland and their needs for and use of mental health and social care (Economic and Social Research Centre (ESRC) - grant number: ES/L007509/1) 3. Co-author: Psychosocial interventions for reducing the harmful effects of war and conflict-related violence on young children aged 0-11 years (Campbell Collaboration Systematic Review) (Funded by Una: The Global Learning Initiative on Children and Ethnic Diversity grant funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Bernard van Leer Foundation)

Papers in progress 1. Bosqui, T., Kouvonen, A. & Kawabata, Y. (In Press). Ethnic inequalities in psychological distress: A population data linkage study on the Pacific island of Guåhån/Guam. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 2. Bosqui T, Väänänen A, Koskinen A, Buscariolli A, O'Reilly D, Airila A, Kouvonen A. (Under Review). Antipsychotic medication usage among working age first-generation migrants residing in Finland: An administrative data linkage study. Psychological Medicine. 3. Bosqui, T., Väänänen, A., Buscariolli, A., Koskinen, K., O’Reilly, D., Airila, A. & Kouvonen, A. (Under Review). Antidepressant medication usage among working age migrants residing in Finland: An administrative data linkage study. BMC Psychiatry. 4. O’Donnell, D., Bosqui, T., Mulholland, C. & Shannon, C. (In Preparation). Religious density and the incidence and severity of psychosis in Northern Ireland. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 5. Bosqui T, O'Reilly D, Patel K, Donnelly D, Wright D, Väänänen A, Close C, Kouvonen A. (In Preparation). First-generation migrant’s use of psychotropic medication in Northern Ireland: A record linkage study.

Fatima El-Jamil

1. The impact of a low intensity psycho-social intervention on the utilization of select sexual and reproductive health services, in refugee Syrian women ages 15- 24. Funded by the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health – Adolescent and at-risk unit

Charles Harb

1. Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., et al. (2017). Being oneself through time:

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2. Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures. Self and Identity. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2017.1330222 3. Smith et al. (2017). Culture as perceived context: An exploration of the distinction between dignity, face and honor cultures. Psychological Research Records [Acta de Investigacion Psicologica], 7, pp. 2568-2576, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aipprr.2017.03.001 4. Saab, R., & Harb, C., Moughalian, C. (2017). Intergroup contact as a predictor of violent and nonviolent collective action: Evidence from Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

Conference presentations 1. Harb*, C., Parriera C., & Tavana, D. (April 2018). “Elite Preference Formation in Divided Societies: Evidence from the American University of Beirut” Annual Princeton-AALIMS Conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World 2. Harb*, C. (April 2017). Understanding support for an Islamic State, and why the war on “Islamic Terror” is bound to fail. Invited Talk for the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, & the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Princeton University, US. 3. Saab, R., Harb, C., & Hijazi, A. (July 2017). Social psychological predictors of attitudes towards ISIS among Sunnis from Tripoli, Lebanon. Symposium Paper presented at the 18th General meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain. 4. Harb*, C., & Saab, R. (July, 2017). Understanding violence against Syrian refugees in the Lebanese context. Symposium Paper presented at the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) conference, Edinburgh, UK.

Zahra Hussain

Accepted Grants 1. AUB URB grant titled: Perceptual benefits of expertise in medical imaging. Approved for two years, 2017-2019. Publications: 1. Hussain Z, Astle A, Webb B, McGraw P. (2018). Position matching between the visual fields in strabismus. Journal of Vision, 18(9), doi:10.1167/18.1.9 2. Hussain Z, Bennett PJ. Perceptual learning of detection of textures in noise. (in preparation) 3. Hussain Z, Astle A, Webb B, McGraw P. The effects of separation and eccentricity on positional judgements in the strabismic extrafoveal visual field.(in preparation)

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Invited conference presentation 1. Hussain Z, Sekuler AB, Bennett PJ. Perceptual learning of complex patterns. Talk delivered as part of a symposium at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Berlin, Germany, August 2017.

IRB Applications: 1. PI: Hussain Z. Title: Perceptual benefits of expertise in medical imaging. Submitted: October 11, 2017. Approval received: March 21, 2018. (approved) 2. PI: Dawy Z (Faculty of Engineering & Architecture). Collaborators: Hussain Z, Besle J. Title: Joint EEG/ECG data analysis for determining the impact of biofeedback on attentional and cognitive performance. Submitted: May, 2018. (pending)

Research Assistant RA (Elias Abou Samra) hired for period February 2018-July 2018 to work on URB project

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1. Faculty of Arts and Sciences grant for Conference organization: Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere. (Co-organizers: Rim Saab, Carmen Geha, Sara Mourad). Value: around 11,000$. (June 2017-Jan 2018). 2. URB Grant: Gender differences in political attitudes and participation in the Arab world: A cross-national longitudinal analysis of public opinion. (PI: Rim Saab; co-PI: Prof. Charles Harb and Charlotte Karam). Value: 7,200$. (June 2017-June 2018).

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Arne Dietrich

1. Chairperson activities including development of 2 new programs 2. Several university committees, including as Chair and Co-Chair 3. Thesis supervision: Sandra Zakka 4. Teaching PSYC 280 and 222 in the spring

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Julien Besle

1. Improved Psyc284 course “Statistical Analyses in Psychology”. 2. Introduced free and open source statistical software (R) in the undergraduate program and in two computer labs on campus. 3. Created a module on the “Neuroimaging of face perception and modularity” for the Psyc237 “Introduction to Cognitive Science” course. 4. Master’s thesis committee member: Sandra Zakka 5. Reviewer for Cerebral Cortex and Neuroimage. 6. Overhauled and maintained departmental website. 7. Co-wrote a proposal for a 2:2 teaching load. 8. Planning and coordination of refurbishment of Psychology labs in Jesup Hall (Jesup 107) 9. Upgraded and maintained EEG lab 10. Member of the Social and Behavioural Sciences IRB. 11. Member of a departmental committee on Tenure and Promotion criteria. 12. Member of a departmental graduate program task force.

Bosqui, Tania

Master’s thesis advisor - Reem Joudieh: In Progress - Victor Karim: In Progress - Badih Karim: In Progress

Master’s thesis committee member - Zeena Hashem - Khadijah Mokbel

Invited talks and conference presentations 1. Pluess, M., McEwen, F., Moghames, P., Chéhadé, N., Bosqui, T., Hijazi, A., Murray, L., Skavenski, S., Bolton, P., Weierstall, R. Legoff, S. & Hassan, Z. (2018, Apr). Telephone intervention for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. Paper presented at the 49th Middle East Medical Assembly Conference, Beirut. 2. Pluess, M., McEwen, F., Moghames, P., Chéhadé, N., Bosqui, T., Hijazi, A., Murray, L., Skavenski, S., Bolton, P., Weierstall, R. Legoff, S. & Hassan, Z. (2017, Dec). Telephone intervention for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. Paper presented at the Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support (MHPSS) Research Conference of Médecins du Monde (France), Beirut. 3. Bosqui, T. & Marshoud, B. (2017, Nov). Mechanisms of change for children affected by war. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Mental Health Conference of the Mental Health Program of Beit Atfal Assumoud, Beirut.

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Clinical work and training 1. Clinical consultancy for Médecins du Monde (France) 2. Trained in the Common Elements Therapeutic Approach (CETA) for children (Médecins du Monde, Beirut 5-10.02.2018) 3. Trained in CETA clinical supervision (Médecins du Monde, Beirut 5-10.02.2018) 4. Trained for MINI Kid structured diagnostic interviewing (University of South Florida, online 02.02.2018) 5. Training on psychosocial support for children on the move (Child Protection Hub, online 20.05.2017) 6. Training on the impact of six years of war on the mental health of Syria’s children (The Mental Health & Psychosocial Network, online 15.05.2017)

Fatima El-Jamil

Courses Taught

Fall semester - Advanced Psychopathology (PSYC 350) - Clinical Intervention II (PSYC 350)

Spring semester - Introduction to Clinical Psychology (PSYC 230) - Abnormal Psychology (PSYC 214)

Master’s Thesis Advisor - Minerva Fadel: Defended - Rima Aboud: Defended - Khadija Mokbel: In Progress - Ghina Ghanem: In Progress - George Saade: In Progress - Mohamad Naamani: In Progress - Batoul Safieddine: In Progress - Anas Maya: In Progress

Master’s Thesis as Committee Member - Leila Talhouk - Carole Abi-Ghanem - Aya Adra - Omar Awad

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Academic Services - Graduate Program Coordinator - Clinical Program Coordinator - Undergraduate Admission Committee - Graduate and Undergraduate Academic Advisor - Psychology Student Society Faculty Advisor

Charles Harb

Courses Taught

Fall Semester - Social Psychology (PSYC 212)

Spring Semester - Social Psychology (PSYC 212) - Avanced Social Psychology (Psyc 310)

Master’s Thesis Advisor - Aya Adra: Defended

Services: 1. Faculty United – AUB Fun President of the faculty association at AUB (2017-2019) Elected president of the AUB faculty association, chapter of the AAUP 2. Department of Psychology (2012 – 2018) Chairperson of the Department of Psychology 3. AUB Senate Steering Committee (2017-2018) President appointed Senate-at-large member of the Senate Steering Committee (SSC). 4. AUB Self-Study – Workgroup VI (AUB MSCHE Self-Study 2017-2019) Member of Workgroup VI, tasked with assessing standards from planning, resource allocation, and institutional improvement. 5. AUB Senate Re=Elected member of the AUB Senate (2017- 2020)

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Grants 1. URB: URB project entitled: “Explaining the gender gap in political participation in the Arab world: a cross-national longitudinal analysis of public opinion” has been

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approved for funding. The duration of the grant is from July 1st, 2017 to June 30th, 2018. 2. LCNRS Grant (with Tavitian) - 2017-2018

Talks and workshops 1. Saab, R., & Harb, C. (May 2018). The many faces of Arab refugeehood: Survival, stress, and seeking a home. Invitation to roundtable discussion organized jointly by AUB and Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

2. Saab, R., & Harb, C. (May 2018). The many faces of Arab refugeehood: Survival, stress, and seeking a home. Invitation to roundtable discussion by the AUB New York-Beirut Briefing, AUB, New York, USA. 3. Saab, R., Harb, C., Karam, C, Gorska, P., Mohanna, N., & Rayes, F. (Jan 2018). Politically engaged women from different corners of the Arab world: Is there a common profile? “Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere” regional conference, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. 4. Saab, R., & Harb, C. (Dec 2017). Research and Applications of Social Psychology in the Arab world: Challenges and Strategies. Invited workshop by the School of Psychology and Social Work, Doha Institute, Qatar. 5. Saab, R., Harb, C., & Hijazi, A. (July 2017). Social psychological predictors of attitudes toward ISIS among Sunnis from Tripoli, Lebanon. European Association of Social Psychology Meeting, Granada, Spain.

Zahra Hussain

Teaching

Fall Semester - Sensation and perception (PSYC 224) - Cognitive Methods (PSYC 314)

Spring Semester - Undergraduate Seminar in Psychology (PSYC 288) - Statistical analyses in Psychology (PSYC 302) - Introduction to Cognitive Science (PSYC 237) - Senior Tutorial in Psychology (PSYC 292)

Three new course preparations: PSYC 314 (Graduate course: Cognitive Methods), PSYC 292 (Senior Tutorial in Psychology), three modules for PSYC 237 (Introduction to Cognitive Science)

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One course revised: PSYC 288 (Undergraduate Seminar in Psychology): new readings chosen to span four topics in psychology, with greater focus on research methods

Academic and other service

Departmental - Organizer: Departmental Colloquium Series (7 talks organized) - Planning and coordination: Psychology lab refurbishment, Jesup 107 - Liaising with FPDU and Procurement for soundproofed testing booths - Liaising with Physical Plants for refurbishment of the space - Planning of hardware, software and other requirements - Software development: Application for calculation of student load and teaching capacity - Co-wrote proposal for 2:2 teaching load - Member of departmental graduate program committee - Coordinator: Introduction to Cognitive Science, PSYC 237: Rewrote the syllabus for the course and enlisted contributors from Departments of Engineering, English, Computer Science, AUBMC and others. - Student advising

University - Committee member: AUB Research Board (Chair: Prof. Bilal Kaafarani) - Volunteer Judge: 24th Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair, AUB (Organizer: Prof. Tamer Amin)

External - Accreditation committee member: American University of Sharjah, BA Psychology program, March, 2018 - Reviewer (for one grant or article from each of the following for the period 2017-2018): National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Vision Research

Master’s Thesis Advisor - Abdul Satter Ouyada: In Progress

Master’s Thesis as Committee Member - Sandra Zakka

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Rim Saab

Thesis supervision - Carol Abi Ghanem: defended

Master’s Thesis as Committee Member - Leila Talhouk: defended - Aya Adra: defended - Rima Abboud: defended - Minerva Faddoul : defended - Mohamad Naamani: In Progress

Member of master’s Thesis Committee for two non-AUB students: Eva Kubitz (undergraduate honors thesis at University of Bielefeld, German), Mirijam Schuldt (graduate thesis at University of Osnabrück, Germany).

Teaching

Fall Semester - Political Psychology (PSYC 235) - Psychology of Gender (PSYC 240K)

Spring Semester - Political Psychology (PSYC 235) - Psychology of Gender (PSYC 240K)

Developed a new special topics course on the psychology of gender (PSYC 240K).

Services to the Department/University 1. -Conference Organization: Co-organizer of a regional interdisciplinary conference on gender studies held at AUB on “Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere” (2017). 2. Member of the General Education Board (renewal of course certifications in general education) 3. Panelist on: Writing your Humanities/Social Sciences thesis: Advice from a panel of AUB professors. Organized by the Graduate council, University libraries and the Writing centre (Oct 2017). 4. -Panelist on leadership and civic engagement interviews for the USAID University Scholarship Program (May-June 2017) 5. Advising: academic advisor to around 60 undergraduate and graduate students each term 6. Statistical advising for graduate students

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Journal ArticleReviewer reviewed articles for Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology.

3. Saab, R., Harb, C., Karam, C, Gorska, P., Mohanna, N., & Rayes, F. (Jan 2018). Politically engaged women from different corners of the Arab world: Is there a common profile? “Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere” regional conference, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon.

4. Saab, R., & Harb, C. (Dec 2017). Research and Applications of Social Psychology in the Arab world: Challenges and Strategies. Invited workshop by the School of Psychology and Social Work, Doha Institute, Qatar.

5. Saab, R., Harb, C., & Hijazi, A. (July 2017). Social psychological predictors of attitudes toward ISIS among Sunnis from Tripoli, Lebanon. European Association of Social Psychology Meeting, Granada, Spain.

Pia Zeinoun 1. Paper at the International Test Commission (ITC 2016), Vancouver, Canada. Personality in the Arab-Levant: Quantitative and Qualitative Findings.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Arne Dietrich

1. Dietrich*, A., & Haider, H.(2017). A neurocognitive framework for human creative thought.Frontiers in Psychology: Cognitive Science, 7, 2078-2085. 2. Tian, F., Hou, Y., Zhang, Q., Zhu, W., Yang, W., Chen, Q., Sun, J., Dietrich, A.,

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Qiu*, J., & Cao, G. (2017). Getting the joke: Insight during humor comprehension. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition. 3. Dietrich*, A., & Al-Shawaf, L. (in press). The transient hypofrontality theory of altered states of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 4. Dirani*, J., & Dietrich, A. (in press). An analysis of letter representation using Latin and Arabic scripts. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 5. Dietrich, A. (in press). Types of creativity. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 6. Dietrich*, A., Dirani, J., & Yaghi, Z. (2018). The reticular-activating hypofrontality (RAH) model. In R. Carlstedt (Ed.), Handbook of Sport Neuroscience and Psychophysiology. London: Routledge. Invited

Julien Besle

1. Sanchez-Panchuelo R.M., Besle J., Schluppeck D., Humberstone M. & Francis S. (in press) Somatotopy in the human somatosensory system. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2. Besle J., Mougin O., Sanchez-Panchuelo R.M., Lanting C., Gowland P., Bowtell R., Francis S. & Krumbholz K. The functional organization of human auditory cortexis inconsistent with the non-human primate model: evidence from 7 Tesla functional and structural MRI. In review at Cerebral Cortex.

Bosqui, Tania

1. Bosqui, T. & Marshoud, B. (2018). Mechanisms of change for interventions aimed at improving the wellbeing, mental health and resilience of children and adolescents affected by war and armed conflict: A systematic narrative review of reviews. BMC Conflict and Health 12:15. 2. Close, C., Bosqui, T., O’Reilly, D., Donnelly, M. & Kouvonen, A. (2017). Migrant mental health and representation in routine administrative registers. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, doi: 10.1108/IJMHSC-09-2016- 0035 3. Bosqui, T., Maguire, A., Kouvonen, A., Wright, D., Donnelly, M. & O’Reilly, D. (2017). Explaining the effect of ethnic density on the risk of mental ill health using the unique context of religious sectarianism in Northern Ireland. Health and Place, 47; 29-35. 4. Bosqui, T., Marshoud, B. & Shannon, C. (2017). Attachment insecurity, post- traumatic stress and hostility in adolescents exposed to armed conflict. Peace & Conflict, doi: 10.1037/pac0000260.

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Rim Saab

Publications 1. Saab, R., Harb, C., & Moughalian, M. (in press). Intergroup contact as a predictor of violent and nonviolent collective action: Evidence from Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 2. Saab, R., & Ayanian, A. A critical review of social psychological research produced in Arabic in the Arab world (2000-2016) (in press). Background paper for the Second Arab Social Sciences Research Monitor, produced for the Arab Council for Social Sciences (in Arabic). Note: this is not a peer-reviewed article.

Pia Zeinoun

Publications 1. Pia Zeinoun. Mar 2018 Correlates of bullying and its relationship with psychiatric disorders in Lebanese adolescents.

2. Pia Zeinoun. Sep 2017 A mixed-methods study of personality conceptions in the Levant: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the west bank.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

The department continues to grow in terms of student enrollment and faculty recruitment. With nearly 300 undergraduate and graduate students served by the department, a cap in enrollment and a more selective graduate process were put in place this year. Furthermore, the department successfully recruited several new faculty members, but further expansion is necessary. The department hopes to hire an four new faculty for 2018-2019 to bring the ratio of faculty to students closer to expectations. While the department acquired a new lab space in Fisk Hall (bringing the total number of spaces to three), the department still struggles with office space as the number of faculty members continues to expand.

A community-based center for psychological services, clinical training, and researchoperated by the Department of Psychology has been proposed for a 2 million USD USAID grant. At this center, the Department aims to fulfill a dual purpose of establishing high quality, evidence-based mental health services to students and to the community, while also providing evidence-based clinical training to graduate and post-graduate students. Students will be trained to offer psychotherapy and psychological testing services while at the same time serving

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those most in need. Because the Department of Psychology is committed to the science of clinical psychology, the center will also serve as a research facility.

Plans are also being developed to create a diploma or certificate on ABA techniques for children on the Autism Spectrum. The concept is being developed in association with the Department of Education, the Dean’s office, and a member of the Board of Trustees. The department is also planning mofre testing and measurement workshopss for the coming years, bringing local and international expertise (ITC) to the wider research community in Lebanon.

Arne Dietrich Chairperson

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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND MEDIA STUDIES

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies consists of two independent programs—Sociology/Anthropology (SOAN) and Media Studies (MCOM). The Department offers two BAs and three MAs.

The SOAN program offers a BA in Sociology/Anthropology, an MA in Anthropology and an MA in Sociology as well as three undergraduate minors in Anthropology, in Sociology and in Human Rights and Transitional Justice.

The MCOM Program offers a BA in Media and Communication, a thesis-track MA in Media Studies, a project track MA in Media Studies, and three undergraduate minors: in Communication, in Film and Visual Culture and in Reporting in the Digital Age. In addition, MA Students in Sociology may earn a concentration in communication if they take SOAN 313/MCOM 301.

Undergraduate courses are offered throughout the day, while most graduate courses are offered in the afternoon. Both programs offer lectures, seminars, and tutorials.

The SOAN BA program has 17 current undergraduate students. The MCOM BA program has 176 students. There are 14 students enrolled in the MA in Anthropology. There are 16 students enrolled in the MA in Sociology and there are 19 students enrolled in the MA in Media Studies.

As the newly appointed chairperson of SOAM, I spent the first semester of my tenure consulting with Dr. May Farah, the Director of Media Studies, and with the various constituencies in the department including full-time and part-time faculty of each of the three disciplines, students, and the administrative assistant, Mrs. Maysaa Kobrosly. Through this process, I became acquainted with the problems and challenges SOAM was facing as perceived by the different groups. In the Spring semester, I started working on what was identified as the most important challenge, which was promoting a collaborative and supportive work culture. Some changes were implemented right away by the Dean. The Dean of FAS committed to parity between the disciplines of Sociology and Anthropology and continued her commitment to the growth of Media Studies. In addition, the Director of Media Studies and I facilitated continued communication between the different constituencies in the Department. These changes have started to transform the work

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environment. Next year, SOAM will be working on continuing these efforts. In addition, it will be reviewing its curricula and underlining mechanisms for more trans-disciplinary work among the Department’s programs.

SOAM is growing and changing in many ways. Dr. Samir Khalaf, a long-time member of the Department, resigned in September. Dr. Sari Hanafi earned a substantial grant through the Department from the Carnegie Foundation (worth $395 000) for which he is doing research and implementing with the Portal for Social Impact of Scientific Research Targeting Research in the Arab World (PSISR). In addition, several positions were filled this year. Sociology filled an opening for an assistant professor. Dr. Marc Michael will start in the Spring of 2019-2020. Media Studies filled two assistant professor positions. Dr. Blake Atwood and Dr. Zeina Tarraf will start in the Fall. In addition, Media Studies filled a joint assistant professor position with the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR). Dr. Ila Tyagi will start in the Fall of 2019-2020. A visiting professor, Dr. Kourouss Ismaeli, was hired for 2018-2019.

The student community in SOAM has been particularly active and vibrant this year. Two students, Nora Bakhsh and Talah Hassan, (under the supervision and mentorship of Dr. Kirsten Schied) ran the monthly meetings of the Anthropological Society in Lebanon (ASIL), bringing a researcher per month to discuss his/her fieldwork at Beirut’s Mansion. MA students also participated regularly in the Graduate Research in Progress (GRIPS) talk series organized by Dr. Rima Majed. Finally, to bring students and professors together, Sociology/Anthropology students co-organized a field trip to Tripoli.

The Department is particularly proud of the quality and engagement of many of its majors and for the graduate students the quality of the MA theses they produce.

MAs in Anthropology:

1. Araz Kojayan: Her Thesis is entitled “Breaking away from and being grounded in Beirut: contemporary dancers in movement.” Her thesis advisor was Dr. Kirsten Scheid. 2. Jude Wafai: Her thesis is entitled “Education as Future-Making: the Dual Experience of Displaced Syrians.” Her thesis advisor was Dr. Kirsten Scheid. Jude received the competitive Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence and for her thesis which the committee deemed publishable and worthy of this award. 3. Micheline Ziadee graduating with an MA in Anthropology. Her thesis is entitled “Migrants in Beirut: Parallel Infrastructures and the Right to the City.” Her thesis advisor was Dr. Sylvain Perdigon. She received the Fuad Khuri Award in Anthropology for her outstanding fieldwork and thesis in anthropology.

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MAs in Sociology:

1. Dana Al Hajj: Her thesis is entitled “Where the Sidewalk Ends: Reimagining Care in the Lives of Children Working on Beirut’s Streets.” Her thesis advisor was Dr. Sylvain Perdigon. 2. Wajih Hassan: His thesis is entitled “Video Games: Beyond entertainment.” His thesis advisor was Dr. Nadia Bou Ali. 3. Mona Khneisser: Her thesis is entitled “The specter of ‘politics and antimonies of collective organization- the development of ‘alternative’ organization and action in Lebanon (2015-2017): case of Al-Hirak, Beirut Madinative and Sabaa.” Her thesis advisor was Dr. Rima Majed. 4. Christine Sweid: Her thesis is entitled “Education-job nexus among AUB graduates of the years 2006 until 2010 from six different disciplines (architecture, business, economics, engineering, political science and sociology/anthropology).” Her thesis advisor was Dr. Sari Hanafi.

MAs in Media Studies:

1. Alissar Daher: Her thesis is entitled “Charlie Hebdo and the Myth of Sameness: Race and Gender in the French Secular Imagination”. Her thesis advisor was Sara Mourad. 2. Ramee Deeb: His thesis is entitled “Lebanese Short Films’ Narrative on the Civil War”. His advisor was Greg Burris. 3. Reem Joudi: Her thesis is entitled “Visions of the South: Precarity and ‘The Good Life’ in the Visual Culture of Tyre”. Her advisor was Sara Mourad.

SOAM has 9 prize winning students this year:

Sheikh Fawzi Azar Memorial Prize This award is given to a student from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, for a “commendable paper or study submitted to the department.” This year the award went to Media Studies and Communications BA student, Tamara Deek for her podcast entitled “The Quiminboos Project: the secretive Lebanese Band and its rise to popularity during the Civil War”.

Assad Khairallah Endowed Award in Social Sciences It awards $1,000 for the best student paper (2,000 - 5,000 words) written in Arabic that engages with knowledge produced in the Arab region as well as the disciplines of Sociology/Anthropology at large. Eligible candidates are undergraduate students pursuing a Sociology/Anthropology BA or graduate students in Sociology. This year

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the award went to Sociology MA student, Hind Akooly for her paper entitled “The Iraqi Commission of Integrity: Fighting Corruption in Iraq.”

Fuad Khuri Award in Anthropology This award is given to an outstanding Lebanese student graduating with a master’s degree in Anthropology. This year the award went to Micheline Ziadee for her thesis entitled “Migrants in Beirut : Parallel Infrastructures and the Right to the City”

Kamel Mrowa Award in Media Studies This award honors a master’s graduate in Media Studies who demonstrated outstanding academic achievement (a 90+ average), and successfully completed his/her end-of-year project or thesis with a topic revolving around the past, present or future of journalism (whether offline or online). This year the award went to Reem Joudi. Her thesis is entitled “Visions of the South: Precarity and ‘The Good Life’ in the Visual Culture of Tyre”.

M&C Saatchi MENA Award This award was established to support one or more graduating students in the Media Studies Program, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, with the highest academic achievements. This year the award went to BA in Media Studies and Communications student, Mariam Shour.

Amal Saidi Memorial Prize This award is given to a graduating senior excelling in the subject of anthropology or sociology. This year the award went to Sociology/Anthropology BA students Nour Hashem and Aya Jamaleddine

The Selma Mirshak and Mohsen Slim Award This award is granted to graduate students in sociology The Award of $1000 as subsidy for fieldwork is given annually to a graduate student in sociology. This year the award went to Nour Saffieddine for her proposed research project entitled “The Decline of Muslim Youth Religiosity in Lebanon in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings and Other Political Changes”.

The Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence This award was received by Anthropology gradate, Jude Wafai, for her excellent academic achievement and her thesis which the faculty deemed publishable. Her thesis is entitled “Education as Future-Making: The Dual Experience of Displaced Syrians”.

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SOAM EVENTS in 2017-2018:

The SOAM department took part in numerous activities that provide service to the university, the profession, and the community, thanks to the efforts of its dynamic faculty. Dr. Anaheed Al-Hardan organized the monthly SOAM brown-bag series in the Fall semester bringing members of the department to present their research-in- progress. This forum has proved to be an informal format that promotes collegial discussions. Dr. Kirsten Scheid continued to mentor the graduate student organizers of the monthly Anthropological Society in Lebanon (ASIL) meetings, where researchers in Beirut present their fieldwork at Beirut’s Mansion. Dr. Scheid and her students have been able to construct the most pedagogical, research-oriented and student-centered forum I know of in Beirut. Dr. Sylvain Perdigon has run a Gregory Bateson reading group with some of our graduate students. Dr. Sara Mourad has co- coordinated the Feminist Theory Reading Group with Kathryn Maude and has supervised the student run talk series entitled Body Talks about sex, gender and sexuality. Tony Oyri has run the media studies brown-bag series and the media studies internship.

SOAM lectures, panel discussions, conferences and workshops:

The Politics of Asylum Flows and Syrian Refugees in Turkey: the politics of Inclusion and Exclusion. Lecture by Sebnem Kocer Akcapar, Koc University, co- sponsored by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs IFI September 9, 2017

Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region Panel Discussion and Launch of the Special Issue of Contemporary Levant 2(1) with Michelle Obeid, Muzna Masri, Zina Sawwaf, Helena Nassif, Hania Sholkamy and Roosbelinda Cardenas. This event was co-organized by Livia Wick and Muzna Masri. Co-sponsored by the Council for British Research in the Levant, the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies CAMES, and the Center for Arts and Humanities CAH, September 20, 2017

Affective Geographies of a Revolution: The Aftermath of Trauma and the Politics of Emotions in Post 2011 Egypt. Lecture by Dina Makram-Ebeid, American University of Cairo, organized by Sylvain Perdigon, November 29, 2017

“Mobilizations in the Age of the Arab Uprisings: Perspectives from Lebanon and Iraq” A regional conference co-organized by Rima Majed and Nada Ghandour- Demiri, co-sponsored by Lebanon Support, the Lebanese Sociological Association, Jadaliyya and the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship January 26-27, 2018

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Women’s Sexual Health in Lebanon. Panel discussion with Sara Abu- Zaki and Hala Aaraj. Organized by Rima Majed, co-sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies March 9, 2018

Fracking Systems, Earth Dispossessed: Social Research and Pedagogy through Game Invention. A workshop for MA students in Anthropology, Sociology and Media Studies by Joseph Dumit, University of California at Davis. Organized by Livia Wick, co-sponsored by the Center for American Studies and Research CASAR, March 19, 2018

Screening of Documentary entitled Hunna: Mothers of the Revolution followed by a discussion with film-makers, Tory Brykalski, Mohammad Al-Junde and Mustafa Kharnoub. Organized by Livia Wick, co-sponsored by the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, March 19th, 2018

Corporate Conspiring: Techniques for Calibrating our Futures. Lecture by Joseph Dumit, University of California at Davis, organized by Livia Wick, co-sponsored by the Center for American Studies and Research CASAR, March 20th, 2018

Political Emotions and Engagement Feelings of Injustice and Moral Shocks, Lecture by Penelope Larziliere, Institute for Research on Development, Paris. Organized by Sari Hanafi, March 26th, 2018

Sociology Café: Fault Lines of the Workers Movement. Panel discussion with Lea Abu-Khater and Mohammad Zbeeb. Organized by Rima Majed. Co-sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and Lebanon Support March 29th, 2018

Mooning Texas. Lecture by Michael Taussig, Columbia University, organized by Nikolas Kosmapotoulos, co-sponsored by the Fine Arts and Art History Department, April 5th, 2018

Discourses of a National Cinema in Transnational Space: Transpolitics of Kurdish Media A lecture by Suncem Kocer, organized by Josh Carney, co-sponsored by the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship April 16th, 2018

Practice-based Research in Media Anthropology: Reflections on the politics of media production, ethnography, and public scholarship in Turkey Workshop by Suncem Kocer for Soc students, organized by Josh Carney, co-sponsored by the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship April 17th, 2018

Towards a Reconstruction of Islamic Studies. Workshop co-organized by Sari Hanafi, Bilal Orfali and Radwan El-Sayyed. Co-sponsored by the Cheikh Zayid Chair in Islamic and Arabic Studies, the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern

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Languages and the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies CAMES, April 29th, 2018

Resilience and Informality: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon. Panel discussion with Sophie Richter-Devroe, Veronica Buffon, Georgios Karyotis and Elisabeth Saleh. Organized by Nada Ghandour-Demiri. Co- sponsored by Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar Foundation, University of Glasgow, Global Challenges Research Fund and the Doha International Family Institute, May 17, 2018

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Al-Hardan, Anaheed Assistant Professor Ph.D. Burris, Greg Assistant Professor Ph.D. Bou-Ali, Nadia (CVSP) Assistant Professor Ph.D. Carney, Joshua Assistant Professor Ph.D. Dajani, Nabil Professor Ph.D. Farah, May (Director) Assistant Professor Ph.D. Ghandour-Demiri, Nada Visiting Professor Ph.D. Hanafi, Sari Professor Ph.D. Kosmatopoulos, Nikolas Assistant Professor Ph.D. (PSPA) Majed, Rima Assistant Professor Ph.D. Mourad, Sara Assistant Professor Ph.D. Sbaiti, Nadya J. (CAMES) Assistant Professor Ph.D. Scheid, Kirsten Associate Professor Ph.D.

Perdigon, Sylvain Assistant Professor Ph.D. Wick, Livia (Chairperson) Associate Professor Ph.D. Atwood, Blake Lecturer Ph.D. Gaafar, Rania Lecturer Ph.D. Oyry, Toni Instructor M.A. Al-Masri, Muzna Lecturer (PT) Ph.D. Barakat, Rabie Lecturer (PT) Ph.D. Comaty, Lyna Lecturer (PT) Ph.D. Fathallah, Zeina Lecturer (PT) Ph.D. Mhaissen, Rouba Lecturer (PT) Ph.D. Tohme, Hicham Lecturer (PT) Ph.D. Agha, Dina Instructor (PT) M.A. Azar, George Asst. Instructor (PT) B.A. Battah, Habib Instructor (PT) M.A.

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Bibi, Karma Instructor (PT) M.A. Boustany, Nora Instructor (PT) M.A. Daou, Marc Instructor (PT) M.A. Ghanem, Samar Instructor (PT) M.A. Hamdan, Redha Instructor (PT) M.A. Ghazal, Jimmy Asst. Instructor (PT) B.A. Jaber, Rania Instructor (PT) M.A. Khouri, Rami Instructor (PT) M.A. Khoury, Rana Instructor (PT) M.A. Khneisser, Mona Instructor (PT) M.A. Mallat, Sarah Instructor (PT) M.A. Mawas, Nidal Instructor (PT) M.A. Osman, Zeina Instructor (PT) M.A. Papazian, Arev Instructor (PT) M.A. Sabban, Sarah Instructor (PT) M.A. Sagieh, Khaled Instructor (PT) M.A.

2. Research Assistants

None.

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Abu Gazaly, Tanya Houbeish, Houda Alawiyeh, Mohamad Khaled, Alaa Bakabas, Marwa Kiblawi, Ziad Batlouni, Rayan Jodeh, Rima Chamoun, Zeinab Joudi, Reem Deeb, Rami Liu, Zhixi Daher, Noor Mehra, Shantanu El Ayach, Abdallah Nassar, Tahani El Wazze, Saly Shukr, Ramy

Spring Semester Alawiyeh, Mohamad Kiblawi, Ziad Al Rammal, Rayan Jaber, Rayan Al Zaiat, Yasser Jodeh, Rima Bakabas, Marwa Joudi, Reem Batlouni, Rayan Liu, Zhixi Chamoun, Zeinab Mehra, Shantanu El Ayach, Abdallah Nassar, Tahani El Wazze, Saly Shukr, Ramy Khaled, Alaa Vestergaard, Karen

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4. Non-Academic Staff

Kobrosly, Maysaa Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors SOANMedia BA Oct. 2017 0 15 Feb. 2018 1 13 Jun. 2018 4 50

MA Oct. 2017 1 0 Feb. 2018 3 1 Jun. 2018 3 2

2. Number of Majors Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Graduates 4 49 49 Prosp. Graduates 0 0 3 Seniors 36 47 65 Juniors 35 66 63 Sophomores 14 83 61

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 69 71 140 211-299 43 416 498 957 200-210 97 520 516 1133 100-199 0 110 100 210 Total 140 1115 1185 2440

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘17 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 42 48 90 211-299 1 89 94 184 200-210 21 69 69 159 100-199 0 15 15 30 Total 22 215 226 463

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D. RESEARCH

Anaheed Al Hardan

1. Submitted co-edited monograph proposal for the University of California Press, Decolonizing Knowledge and Research: The Case of Settler Colonized Palestine. 2. Submitted “The Sociological Canon Reconfigured: Empire, Colonial Critique and Contemporary Sociology” to International Sociology.

Greg Burris I recently submitted a proposal to Wayne State University press to write a book on the cinema of Elia Suleiman. The proposal was positively reviewed, and I was offered an advance contract. Tentatively titled Elia Suleiman: Palestinian Cinema Beyond Borders, the book is to be part of the “Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media” book series edited by Barry Keith Grant.

Josh Carney This year I continued to pursue research on multiple fronts, all of which relate to the dynamic situation of media in Turkey. My primary project is a revision of my PhD dissertation into a monograph on the mediation of the Ottoman past in Turkey. Both the graduate course that I taught in the spring of 2018 and a solicited journal manuscript that I’m currently working on have been pursued with this broader goal in mind. A related project explores necropolitics in Turkey through media, and a journal article from this project—the first of what I envision as a three-article series on the topic—is set to be published by Review of Middle East Studies this month (May 2018). I was recently invited to Berlin to present this article in Turkish. I am in the process of writing the other two articles. A third project explores the relationship between crowds and public screens at demonstrations ın Turkey, and the first of two articles on this topic, a co-authored piece, was printed in Ridiculosa at the end of 2017, while the short form of the second is currently under consideration by a journal. I will move forward on the latter with reference to the response I receive from the journal. A fourth project relates to the censorship of cinema in Turkey, and I am working on two papers and a solicited book chapter on this topic. The papers relate to a presentation I gave in Istanbul in September 2017 and another that I will give in Prague later this month (May 2018). A final project continues my long-term work on media, nationalism, and conspiracy theory in Turkey, and I currently have a journal article on this topic in the proof stages.

May Farah

Based on new research started last year, involving women’s involvement in behind- the-scenes work and representations on Lebanese television, I submitted two abstracts to two conferences taking place in June (the gender differentiation in media

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industries conference at the University of Ljubljana, and the International Association of Media and Communication Research conference). Although I was accepted to both conferences, I had to withdraw from both because of time conflicts. I hope to be able to present this current research at a conference this coming year to get feedback before proceeding.

Sari Hanafi

In 2017, I engaged in a wide range of research activities and was granted external funding from Carnegie Corporation. I conducted in-depth research on different topics related to areas of knowledge production. I concentrate my work mainly on two topics. The first is a follow-up of my work on knowledge production and knowledge used in the region, through my work with IFI on “social impact of scientific research”. In March 2017, I launched the Portal for Social Impact of Scientific Research Targeting Research in/on the Arab World (PSISR). The second topic is the rupture between social science and religious knowledge. Fieldwork was conducted in Morocco, Jordan and Lebanon. I am working on a book manuscript proposal to be submitted to publishers. The output of my research has been published in one chapter in edited refereed volumes and 5 refereed journals articles, published in English and Arabic. In addition, I published 2 book reviews and 7 op-eds and interviews in local and regional newspapers and TVs. Finally, during 2017, I organized or co-organized one regional workshop and was invited to several academic conferences, workshops, and seminars, and delivered three keynotes and was a guest lecturer at other universities and professional meetings.

Rima Majed

During my second year as an Assistant Professor at AUB, I finalized two book chapters; they were peer reviewed and are now ready for print. I hope to have them published by the end of 2018. One of those articles was selected by the book editors for submission to a Spanish peer reviewed journal (Revista cidob d'afers internacionals). The article was modified based on the reviewers’ suggestions and was published in May 2018. In addition, I have also worked on a new journal article that is going to be submitted in early June, upon my return from the POMEPS conference this week in Washington (May 24-25, 2018) where two reviewers will be reading and commenting on my paper. This article is entitled: “The Fast Remodeling of Sectarian Saliencies in Lebanon (2000-2010): From “Christian-Muslim” to “Sunni-Shia” Divide”. Moreover, I am working on a research paper for the Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung on “Social Movements and Alternative Politics in Post-2011 Iraq”. This paper should be published by November 2018, and I plan to use the data gathered for this project to work on a journal article.

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As for my book manuscript, I will be on leave all of next academic year (Junior Faculty Leave for Fall 2018 at the University of Princeton, and Fulbright Fellowship for Spring 2019 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to finalize my book. The data needed for the manuscript has been updated and I am in the process of finalizing the coding of the data. My plan for the coming academic year is to finalize the book and get two journal articles out.

Sara Mourad

Consultant with CRTD-A and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Beirut office on a research project titled “the Psychic and Bodily Lives of Refugee Women from Syria.” Co-organizer, “Feminism in Crisis? Gender and the Arab Public Sphere” (January 19 & 20, 2018 - AUB)

Sylvain Perdigon

I continued working on my book manuscript, currently titled 'Ṣilat al-Raḥim: Kinship, Birth and the Pursuit of Worldliness in a Palestinian refugee community (SAR). Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, including a two-year continuous period living with a joint family in al-Baṣ camp in Tyre, this manuscript builds on a paradox that binds birth, kinship and worldliness for long-term refugees. Obligations between kin can and are often reflexively interpreted as reverberations of the gift and debt of an individual's birth or appearance into the world. The thisness of kinship ties, in this basic sense, presupposes the prior presence, and amenability, of a world into which to be born and dwell. Refugees, however, come into being with arts of governmentality that disjoin birth from the world. Citizenship laws typically minimize their share of the ordinary modes of practical involvement by way of which worldly reality, and worldly selves, are made to appear for full subjects of the state. SAR traces everyday events by way of which kinship ties acquire shape, substance and force as refractions of birth for Palestinian men and women divested, by law, of much of a world into which to appear, and it explores the paradoxical figurations of worldliness that such events and relations entail. In 2017-18, I completed a 20,000-word chapter (Kinship and Islamic Arts of Worldliness) which lays out the interpretative framework for the rest of the manuscript. In addition, I developed a research proposal in Fall 2017 that I submitted for the Mellon Fellowship at the Center for Arts and Humanities at AUB. My application was successful, and the Mellon Fellowship was awarded to my project for the year 2018-19. The title for this project is The Space of Refuge. As a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Arts and Humanities, I propose to conduct a set of research and teaching activities organized around a sustained, multidisciplinary investigation of the notion of refuge. The project builds on the premise that the continuing viability of human and other-than-human forms of life — interrupting ongoing processes of extinction of cultural and biological diversity — will depend, on a damaged

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planet, on the capacity to bring into being spaces of refuge. This, in turn, requires relearning, rethinking and replenishing the meaning and praxis of refuge by availing ourselves of a variety of resources ranging from evolutionary biology, environmental and political history, religious traditions, philosophy, refugee studies and the rich anthropological record on flight, hospitality and multispecies living. It also entails a critical inquiry into current orientations to life and imaginaries of human freedom, autonomy and sovereignty that have made spaces of refuge such a rare or difficult social, political and ecological achievement in late modernity. The escalating ecological and social challenges facing all life on Earth under anthropogenic impact confront us with fundamental questions concerning human agency, purpose and the relation between human cultures and the more-than- human world in which they evolved. As a CAH Fellow, I am particularly interested in drawing on and promoting at AUB lines and methods of inquiry opened by the environmental humanities. Finally, a last component of my research activities in this period concerns an article I had submitted for publication in HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory in September 2015. I finally received notice that this article was accepted for publication pending some revisions in March 2018. Because of the requested revisions, but also because my thinking evolved quite a bit in the 2 ½ years that the piece spent under review, the final version that I am scheduled to submit at the end of May 2018 will consist in an almost entirely new essay. The piece (current title: The New Cosmopolitics and the Space of Appearance: On a form of life called al-Qireyne in the Palestinian refugee camps of Tyre, Lebanon) is scheduled for publication in HAU and an edited volume at the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2018.

Kirsten Scheid

Since submitting my last report which covered my achievements through December 2016, I have received 4 grants—including a visiting fellowship at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paris Descartes (5) and a traveling lectureship sponsored by the EHESS for 2019—and $8000 towards my fieldwork (from the Palestinian American Research Center). (A fifth grant application, to the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, was not successful.) I have published 3 book chapters, 1 invited journal article, 1 critical exhibition review, 2 translations, 1 editorial, and 1 obituary – thereby using my scholarship to reach a wide range of local, regional, and international audiences of scholarly and popular character. I also submitted an article for peer-review, and it is under consideration. In the meantime, I have been working on my book manuscript and was able to complete a new chapter over the summer of 2017. I am writing one more (entirely new) chapter and then will be able to submit the revised manuscript to the press, Indiana University that has requested revisions for its “Public Cultures in the Middle East and North Africa” series. I have had a Paid Period Research Leave (PPRL) this spring semester and spent 3.5 months of it in Paris, where I was able to scour the Archives Nationales, containing

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the files of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, the Institut National d’histoire de l’Art, the Bibliothèque Kandinsky, among others, to expand my document source for my book on Lebanese modernist art. I also met with Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian artists in Paris and Berlin during this period, towards my second book project. Most excitingly, I found a trove of untouched personal archives belonging to the granddaughter of an artist born in Beirut in 1875, active in Paris until 1970, and virtually vanished from Lebanese art historiography. I received complete access to the archive, and in return prepared an index of the material for the owner. I plan to prepare at least two articles on this material in the coming year. During my stay in Paris I attended a wide variety of art shows. Taking notes on them and document their art allowed me to develop a new graduate course, tentatively titled “Power in the Museum,” which I will introduce in coordination with my colleagues in FAAH. It is noteworthy that 2 of the published book chapters mentioned above are re- issues of peer reviewed journal articles (which appeared 8 and 3 years ago respectively). One of these, “Towards a Material Modernism” (ART Margins 2015), is in turn scheduled to be translated into French for yet another volume next year. The republication of another, “Necessary Nudes” (IJMES 2010), was required by the fact that it had spawned all the other articles that appeared in the volume with it. Together these republications indicate the high impact my articles have had in the fields of anthropology of art and Middle East art historiography. As an extension of the international recognition entailed by my research, I received invitations in the past year to join 3 scholarly networks, each hosted by a major university: Wellesley University, Université de Paris (5), and Cambridge University, respectively. The inaugural meeting of the first network, led by sociologists Peggy Levitt (Wellesley) and Maurice Crul (University of Amsterdam), led to our launching a center, The Global (De)Center for Diversity, Mobility, and Culture (see http://www.globaldecentre.world), and a summer school to be held in Budapest kin July 2018. The second research network launched with a “journéedes études” last September, for which I received a SAFAR grant from the French Embassy; this has led to my co-authoring with Pénélope Larzillière (IRD) an Hubert Curien grant, to be submitted this week, pending approval. This grant will allow us to expand the network to include post-doctorates, PhD and MA students from Lebanon. My former advisee, Rania Jaber, is one of the post-doctorates we have engaged. We will use the forum to examine possibilities for developing art studies in Lebanon at the PhD level. In the past 18 months, I have shared my ongoing research at 1 invited talk at the Centre Population et Développement (CEPED) and 3 invited conference interventions (at the Fondation Maison de l’homme in Paris (for the “Art Global ?” journée des études; at the “Islamic Visualities” conference at the University of Leiden; and at the conference on “Modern Bodies” co-sponsored by the London Fashion Institute and the Lebanese American University. I also participated at the College Art Association (New York) in the “Getting Nude: Artists, Audiences, and the Present Past in the Middle East,” which I organized and chaired. This panel was

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selected by the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Turkey, and Iran (AMCA) as its invited panel at that conference. For my program, SOAN and ANTH, I continued to cover core undergraduate needs (teaching 2 sections each of SOAN 103, “Reading Other Cultures”—ICE 4.1 and 4.2--and SOAN237 “Arab Culture and Society—ICE 4.5 each) and graduate needs (SOAN 301 “The Ethnographer’s Craft,” ICE 4.8), and I gave a tutorial to one advanced undergraduate, Aya Jamaleddine, which she was able to turn into several conference presentations. I look forward to being able to teach in my specialty in the Fall, as our current rotation in Anthropology precludes that from occurring more than triennially. In the ICE comment section, some undergraduates bemoan the hard work, but many note how beneficial they find the tasks assigned and the feedback given. As one said (in SOAN 237-section 2, “[Prof. Scheid] She is professional and makes us all work a bit harder than usually I think, which is a good think.” The graduate students remarked very positively on my clear articulation, ability to engage each student’s contribution, skill in facilitating discussion and “reading” the students individually, too, as one noted. Despite my being away from campus this spring, graduated 4 MA students in 2017-2018, 2 from Anthropology (Aras Kojayan and Jude Wafai) and 2 from CAMES (Camilla Garder and Asli Altiniçik). A fifth student defended his proposal (Abdallah Ayache). I served as a reader for 5 MA students in Anthropology (Noor El Daher, Shantanu Mehra, Ramy Shukr, Natalie Wilkinson, and Ziad Kiblawi) and 1 in Sociology (Dana Halwani), and as the provisional Chair for a Political Science student whose advisor, Dr. Kosmatopoulos, was on leave. Being one of the few female associate professors in FAS means that I am frequently called upon to provide my long-term insight on a variety of FAS committees. I was the Chair of the Student Disciplinary Affairs committee through spring 2017, leading an exhaustive study of the committee’s performance and obstacles and authoring a report of recommendations. I served on the FAS-Tenure Implementation Committee, the Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee (as a member in fall 2017), and (by election) the Executive Committee of Faculty United. I moderated the FAS Career Day on April 22, 2017. At the level of university service, I served on the Art Galleries Committee. I also served my department as the Anthropology Graduate Student Advisor, the Writing in the Disciplines coordinator, reviewed the reappointment files for Hatem El Hibri, Anaheed El Hardan, and Sylvain Perdigon. I served as the faculty advisor for the Student Society for Sociology and Anthropology and attended most of their events. I also chaired a panel at the Media Studies conference in Spring 2017. For the Anthropology profession, I accepted requests to review 3 blind-peer review article manuscripts for top-tier American journals: American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. I also blind-peer reviewed, upon request, a book manuscript for I. B. Tauris because it was very close to my research specialty. In addition, I organized the Anthropology Society in Lebanon (ASIL) for the monthly meetings of its fourth consecutive year running (bringing ABDs from Lebanon or doing research in

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Lebanon, visiting professors, and senior scholars, such as Seteney Shami, to address our graduate and undergraduate students in an intimate format of intense discussion with 12-30 attendees). I also organized the book launch for Ghassan Hage’s Is Racism an Environmental Threat? at the Issam Fares Center in June 2017. With several fellow local anthropologists, I participated in the Anthropology Post- Graduate Writing Group for the fall semester of 2017. For the arts community, I served as the moderator of “The Art Salon in the Arab Region,” a panel held at Nicholas Ibrahim Sursock Museum (January 2017), and I consulted (pro bono) for the Beirut Museum of Modern Art (BEMMA) and Sursock Museum. In April, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York) launched its Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, on which I served as an international consultant and to which I contributed several translations and an essay (see publications above).

Livia Wick

In September 2017-2018, I started my tenure as chairperson of the Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department. My first semester was dedicated to organizing meetings with each discipline in the Department to listen to what the faculty members would like me to work on during my tenure as chairperson. I also met individually with faculty members in the Sociology/Anthropology program twice a month and I held meetings with SOAN undergraduate students (for whom I served as advisor) and Anthropology MA students twice per semester. I also familiarized myself with chairing meetings, the AUB systems to process petitions, affiliation request, hires and renewals. By May 2017-2018, it was clear to me that my goal during my tenure as chairperson was to cultivate an environment of collaboration and trust in the department which it had been lacking for decades. To this effect, I shared a document entitled “SOAM as Working Group” to members of the department, which we discussed at the SOAM meeting of May 16, 2018 and agreed that it reflected the work we had done this year and the way forward. In particular, it highlighted the Dean’s office parity plan between Sociology and Anthropology and the relationship between Sociology/Anthropology and Media Studies. In April of 2018, SOAM’s plan to go down to 2/2 was approved and will be tested in the Spring of 2018-2019. In addition, the Sociology Program ran a successful search for an assistant professor and the Media Studies ran 2 successful searches for assistant professors in addition to a joint search with CASAR. In addition, I co-organized a number of departmental events including: 1. A panel and launch of special issue of Contemporary Levant entitled “Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab World at AUB. 2. A Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department Public Lecture by Dr. Joseph Dumit entitled “Corporate Conspiring: Techniques for calibrating our futures.”

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3. A workshop for MA students in Anthropology, Sociology and Media Studies by Dr. Joseph Dumit entitled “Fracking Systems, Earth Dispossessed: Social Research and Pedagogy through Game Invention” 4. A SOAM screening of the documentary entitled “Hunna: Mothers of the Revolution” followed by a discussion with the film-makers, Mohamad Al-Junde, Mustafa Kharnoub and Tory Brykalski. 5. A SOAN fieldtrip to Tripoli with Professors, part-timers, graduate students and undergraduate students in Sociology/Anthropology

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Anaheed Al Hardan

Grants and Awards 1. Awarded the Arcapita Visiting Professor of Arab Studies at Middle East Institute and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society of Columbia University of New York for Spring 2018. 2. Invited to become a Visiting Scholar in the Bandung Humanisms Initiative at Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University of New York in June-August 2018. 3. Invited to become a resident in the Summer Program in the Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton in June 2018.

Invited Lectures

1. “On South-South Circulations, Histories and Possibilities in the Arab World,” Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University of New York (March 2018). 2. “The Coloniality of Power and Resistance in the Arab World: Counter- memory, Decolonial Knowledges and South-South Philosophies of Liberation,” Ethnic Studies, University of California San Diego (Jan 2018).

Service 1. Department Chair of Program Learning Outcomes Committee (2016-19) Monthly Department Brownbag (Fall 2016-present) Undergraduate Advisor (Fall 2016-present) 2. Faculty Graduate Studies Committee (Fall 2017-present)

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Greg Burris

Service 1. I served on three search committees, two for media studies, one for CASAR. All three searches were successful. 2. I am the faculty advisor for the student organization, the Palestinian Cultural Club.

Committees 1. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2. Center for American Studies (CASAR) Executive Committee

Thesis Committees 1. Ramee Deeb (chair), successfully defended in Spring 2018 2. Reem Joudi (committee member), successfully defended in Spring 2018 3. Elsa Maria Karam (chair), planning to defend by September 2018 4. Tanya Abu Ghazaly (committee member), planning to defend by September 2018 5. Alissar Daher (committee member), successfully defended in Fall 2017

Conferences 1. I submitted an abstract to the First International Media and Nostalgia Network conference to take place at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden this upcoming November. The paper’s title is “Still Blissing Out: It, Stranger Things, and the Politics of Trumpian Entertainment.” 2. “Knocking on Wood: Humanist Openings in The Babadook and Under the Shadow,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference, Toronto, March 2018. 3. “Dreams/Cinema/Palestine: Unoccupied Spaces in The Dream and My Love Awaits Me by the Sea,” American University of Cairo, “Cinema of the Arab World” Conference, March 2018.

Other 1. I organized and presented on a panel, “Futures of Black Radicalism,” sponsored by CASAR, October 5. The other panelist was Alex Lubin. 2. I presented the film I Am Not Your Negro to the University for Seniors and led a discussion about it on October 11.

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Joshua Carney

Academic Employment American University of Beirut (Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department) Assistant Professor August 2017 – Present 1. Design and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in media studies; advising graduate and undergraduate students; research on media from Turkey. Courses taught include: a. Introduction to Media Studies (1st year). An introductory course that highlights the key questions, methods, and movements in the study of media, as well as the history of the discipline. b. Mediating the National Past (Graduate). A seminar that examines how mediation of nationalism, nostalgia, and trauma affect our understanding of the past, through a case study of Turkey.

Invited Talks/Seminars 1. 2018. “Gösterisli̧ bir kahramanı diriltmek: Türkiye’de popüler kültür, nekropolitika ve Dirilis ̧ Ertugrul.̆ ”Panel titled “Politicization of television in Turkey: revisiting the past, constructing the present,” at Blickweschel Contemporary Turkish Studies Program, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 25 April. 2. 2017. “Theaters of inhibition and cinemas of strategy: film festivals and the sites of struggle over censorship in Turkey.” Workshop on Anthropology of Media in Turkey at Kadir Has University, Istanbul,8-10 September.

Academic Presentations 1. 2018. “Theaters of inhibition and cinemas of strategy: censorship, space, and struggle at a film festival in Turkey” in panel titled “Understanding Kurdish Media and Communications: Space, Place and Materiality” at the International Communication Association annual meeting, Prague, 24-28 May. 2. 2018. “Resur(e)recting a spectacular hero: Diriliş Ertuğrul, necropolitics, and popular culture in Turkey. “Presenting at workshop titled “The politics of culture in contemporary Turkey” sponsored by the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, 14-16 February. 3. 2017. “Resur(e)recting a spectacular hero: Diriliş Ertuğrul, necropolitics, and popular culture in Turkey. “Presenting in panel titled “Right and far-right politics and movements: ethnography/ic matters,” at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Washington DC, 29 November-3 December. 4. 2017. “Channeling tombs: memorials sites and/as media in neo-Ottoman Istanbul.” Presenting at conference titled “Through the Looking Glass of the

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Local: Rereading Istanbul’s Heterogeneous Pasts, “sponsored by the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, 28-29 September.

Special Programs 2017. Anthropology of Media in Turkey – Istanbul, September – a by-invitation workshop sponsored by Wenner-Gren Foundation and Kadir Has University – delivered a paper on film festivals and censorship.

AUB Service 1. Thesis Committee Chair – Bervian Aydın, CAMES – guided project through proposal and IRB submission. 2. Thesis Committee Member – Reem Joudi, SOAM – provided feedback on proposal and thesis defense. 3. Served on two faculty search committees – SOAM spring 2018. 4. Organized visit of scholar Suncem Koçer from Turkey, April 2018. 5. Organizing visit of scholar Nicholas Mirzoeff through URB program for October 2018. 6. Shepherded ENI CBC MED Programme application, in which AUB’s Media Studies and Department of Psychiatry are joint stakeholders with a local budget of €432,443, through the EU and AUB application process.

Other Academic Service Scientific Committee Member, International Media and Nostalgia Network conference, Communicative forms and practices of nostalgia: conceptual, critical and historical perspectives, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Nabil Dajani

1. Headed a UAE Ministry of Higher Education team for the accreditation team of programs in history and mass communication at United Arab Emirates University, el Ain, February 2018. 2. Presented the opening talk at the 10th Annual ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism) Conference on “Investigative Journalism in the face of fake news”, December 2017, Jordan. 3. Member of a panel on, “The Making of Public Opinion: Amidst objectivity and positive interaction”, at the Lebanese Ministry of Information Conference on “Positive Communication”, January 2018. 4. Presented a paper on “The role of communication teaching institutions in the rehabilitation of media graduates”, at the First Conference of the Association of

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Media Educators in Lebanon, Lebanese Media Education: New Directions”, September 2017. 5. Presented a paper, “The role of media in the culture of dialogue” at the Lebanese Directorate of Media Studies and Publications conference on “The Culture of Dialogue and Communication Media”, March 2017. 6. Presented a paper on “The future of media graduates in light of the present economic crisis” at the Lebanese National News Agency conference on “Media as diffuser of civilizations and focal point for dialogue”, April 2017. 7. Served as thesis committee member for: Rami Deeb, Elsa Maria Karam, Diala Daoud.

May Farah

1. Managed a program with over 200 students (undergrad and grad), 6 full time faculty members, and around 7 to 10 part-time faculty. 2. Drafted and had approved a proposal that will allow Media Studies faculty to experiment with a 2-2 teaching load beginning Fall 2018. 3. Served as committee chair for two faculty searches in Media Studies and was an active member of another committee for a shared CASAR-Media Studies faculty search. These searches, combined, received about 100 applications. 4. Lead the search for a new full time instructor to begin Fall 2018. 5. Drafted and introduced a new minor in Reporting in the Digital Age, which will officially begin in Fall 2018. 6. Helped to draft and submit to the relevant committee general tenure criteria for media studies programs. 7. Coordinated t and put forth recommendations to hire new part-time faculty. 8. Continued to lead and propose minor revisions to the new curriculum for the Media Studies BA program. 9. Began to draft and put forth changes to the MA program (which will continue in the coming year). 10. Serving as the chair for 1 thesis committee (Basma Tabaja – the plan is for to be completed this coming fall) and a committee member on two theses, both inside and outside our program (Elsa Marie Karam – MDST and Mathew Cronin -- PSPA).

Sari Hanafi

Teaching and Supervision These courses I taught: Fall: SOAN/MCOM 300 /PPIA 308: Graduate Research Methods Spring: SOAN 210 Social Research Methods

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SOAN 245/307 Transitional Justice (for Graduates and undergraduates) I taught 2 Graduate tutorials Spring 2017-18: Sociology of Religion Fall 2017-18: Sociology of Religion

PhD Supervision (Advisor) 2017: Fanny CHRISTOU. PH D. « La territorialisation de la mobilisation politique de la diaspora palestinienne en Suède ». Université de Poitiers, U.F.R. Sciences humaines et arts, Département de géographie. Ecole Doctorale Sociétés et Organisations and Laboratoire MIGRINTER.

PhD Supervision (Committee Member) 2017: Hala Caroline Abu Zaki, Ph. D. « Chatila à la croisée de chemins : guerres, mémoires et urbanités dans les camps de réfugiés palestiniens ». Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

MA Thesis (Advisor): submitted 1. 2018: Hanan Hasson “UNHCR’s Refugee Status Determination”. MA Project for Public Policy and International Affairs. 2. 2018: Christine Amine Sweid “Education-Job Nexus among AUB Graduates of the Years 2006 until 2010 from Six Different Disciplines (Architecture, Business, Economics, Engineering, Political Science, and Sociology/Anthropology)”. MA Sociology. 3. 2017: Megan Lee Alcantar “Refugee Policies of Host Governments in Protracted Refugee Situations: A Comparative Approach to Palestinians in Lebanon”. MA Political Studies. 4. 2017: Sarah Juliachs: “Hospitality and Migration: A Comparative Study of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Europe and the Gulf”. MA in CAMES.

MA Thesis (Committee Member): Submitted 1. 2018: Dana Fadi Hilwani “Where the Sidewalk Ends: Reimaging Care in the Lives of Ten Children Working on Beirut’s Streets”. MA sociology 2. 2017: Mona Khneisser “The Specter of ‘Politics’ and Antimonies of Collective Organization: The Case of Lebanon’s Trash Crisis & Collective Actions (2015- 2016)”. MA sociology. 3. 2017: Alia Hussein Sabra “The Impact of Public Acceptance on the Future of Nuclear Energy in the Middle East: The Case Study of Jordan”. Master of Science in Energy Studies.

MA Thesis (Committee Member) outside AUB 2018: Nasser Fouad Geratallah “Religion and Politics in the Syrian Crisis: A Study of Islamic Discourses on Refugees (2011-2017)”. College of Islamic Studies. Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

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Service to the university In addition of being faculty member in SOAM, I am faculty member in the Public Policy and International Affairs Program since September 2015. 2017: Promotion committee of Nadal Najjar. (Chair) 2015-: Steering committee of IFI (Member) 2018- : Sub-Committee of ethics in the Core Curriculum Task Forces. (Member) 2017-18: Search committee for the Chair of Economics (Member) 2017-18: Search committee for the Chair of Sheik Zayed in Islamic Studies (Member) 2017-18: Search committee for Sociology position in SOAM (Chair) Spring 2017-2018: convener of SOAM brownbag. 2017: co-organizer of the Antoun Saadeh Memorial Lecture. Talk of this year was by George Corm. 2017: co-organizer of the talk with IFI of Prof. Michel Wieviorka “From Political Violence to Exiting Violence in a Global Perspective”. 2017: Organizer of the workshop “Transitional Justice and Democratic Transitions: Comparative Evidence from Eastern Europe and the Arab World”. 2017: Organizer of the SOAM talk “The Politics of Asylum Flows and Syrian Refugees in Turkey: A Question of Inclusion and Exclusion” by Sebnem Koser Akcapar. 2018: Co-organization of the workshop “Towards the Reconstruction of Islamic Studies". Organized by: Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, and the Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies. 2017: Co-organization of the workshop “A Tribute to Sadiq Jalal Al Azm: His Thought and Legacy”. International Symposium. AUB. (Co-organizer)

Service to the profession I have always been active in services to my profession, including Vice President of the International Sociological Association (ISA) (since 2014). Since 2007, I have been the editor of Idafat, Arab Journal of Sociology, published in Arabic by the Association of Arab Sociology and a member of al-Mustaqbal al-Arabi [Arab Future], published by the Center for Arab Unity Studies. I have been on the editorial board of many journals. Below you find two lists: list of membership in editorial boards of scientific journals and list of professional associations. List of Membership in Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals 2017-: Editorial board, Migration and Society. (Oxford) 2016-: Associate Editors, Sociology of Islam. (Brill) 2017-: Editorial board, Migration and Society. (Oxford) 2016-: Associate Editors, Sociology of Islam. (Brill)

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2014-: Advisory board, Middle East - Topics & Arguments. Philipps-Universität Marburg. 2014-: Editorial board, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. 2014-: Editorial board, Global Sociology, India International Institute of Social Sciences. 2014-: Editorial board, Journal of Iranian social Studies. 2014-: Editorial Board, Global South Sephis E-Magazine. 2012- : International Advisory Committee. South African Review of Sociology. 2012- : International editorial board. Istanbul Journal of Sociological Studies. Istanbul University. 2012- : international editorial board, International Sociology Review of Books (ISRB) 2011-: Consulting Editor of Global Dialog (Newsletter of the ISA) 2011- : Editorial Board of International Sociology 2010- : Editorial Board of Sociopedia.isa. International Sociological Association. 2007- : Editor, Idafat, Arab Journal of Sociology, Association of Arab Sociology. (Arabic) http://www.caus.org.lb/Home/electronic_magazine_list3.php?CatID=4 2007-: Editorial Board of Mustaqbal al-Arabi [Arab Future]. Beirut: Center of Arab Unity Studies. (Arabic) 2007- : Advisory Board of Journal of Diaspora Studies. School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi. 2006- :Correspondance for the Middle East, Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. Poitiers (France): CNRS. List of Professional Associations 2017- : (Member, International Advisory Council) World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) 2017-: (Member) French Sociological Association 2016-: International Center for the Sociology of Religion. (Rome- Italy). (Member of International Advisory Board) 2016- : (Founding Member and Vice-President) Syrian Sociological Association. 2016- : (Board Member) Palestinian Sociological Association. 2014- (Vice President) International Sociological Association (ISA) 2011- (Member of the International Board of Consulting Editors) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2005-: (Member) Lebanese Association of Sociology. 2004-: Partners in Development for Research, Consulting and Training (PID), Cairo (Board Member) 1999-: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Ramallah (Board Member)

Selected Conferences and Seminar Papers 1. 21 April 2017: My talk in A Tribute to Sadiq Jalal Al Azm: His Thought and Legacy”. International Symposium. AUB. كلمتي في مؤتمر "تكريم صادق جالل العظم: أفكاره وإرثه"، 21 نيسان 2017

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الجامعة األميركية في بيروت بعنوان "تحوالت اتجاه مابعد الكولونيالية في العالم العربي: نحو مقاربة ما https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5gJm8hHEg"بعد االستبدادية “Transnational movement of Islamic reform: New configurations”. In International Workshop “Doing Religious Studies in the Periphery”. University of Cape Town.

2. 23-24 March 2017: “The Moral and the Legal about the discrimination of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon”. The Collective of Lebanese Female Researchers (Bahithat): Beirut (in Arabic) القانوني واالخالقي في التمييز ضد الالجئين الفلسطينيين في لبنان". برنامج "لقاءات" في "تج ّمع " الباحثات اللبنانيات". 3. 28 Feb. 2017: Talk in ArabNet Beirut 2017, Digital festival of innovation and entrepreneurship. “The role of R&D in strengthening and supporting Entrepreneurship”. Beirut. February 22, 2017

Rima Majed

Service to the University, Faculty and Department 1. FAS representative to the USFC for Spring 2018. 2. Organized the Graduate Research in Progress Seminar (GRIPS) for the academic year 2017/2018. 3. Organized the regional conference “Mobilizations in the Age of the Arab Uprisings: Perspectives from Lebanon and Iraq” (January 2018). 4. Organized a talk on “Women’s Sexual Health in Lebanon” for Women’s Day (March 8th, 2018) 5. Introduced and tailored three workshops for graduate students in sociology in partnership with Jafet library: i) Referencing, ii) Plagiarism, iii) Thesis Writing 6. Member of the search committee for Sociology 7. Graduate Advisor (Sociology) 8. Coordinator of the Introduction to Sociology courses (SOAN101 & SOAN201) 9. Theses Supervision: 4 students (one successfully passed in September 2017: Mona Khneisser, and 3 in progress: Rayan Batlouni, Saly El Wazze and Hoda Touma from PPIA) 10. Thesis Committees: I sat as an examiner on the committees for following students: Houda Houbeish (MA in Media), Wajih Hassan (MA in Sociology), Abdallah El Ayach (MA in Anthropology), Christine Sweid (MA in Sociology) 11. Supervised the work of ACSS post-doctoral fellow Dr. Lea Bou Khater

Award Fulbright Visiting Scholar for 2018-2019

Talks given 1. Presented a paper at the Andres Bello University in Santiago, Chile as part of the ISA organized “Redefining Political Sociology” Conference (December 2018).

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2. Presented a paper at Koc University during my ERASMUS+ exchange (April 2018). 3. Presented a paper at the University of Washington as part of the POMEPS conference (May 2018) 4. Was supposed to present a new research paper at the ISA Congress in July 2018, but I won’t be able to attend due to lack of funding.

Other 1. Nominated for the International Sociological Association’s (ISA) Executive Committee- Council of National Associations. 2. Member of the Executive committee of the Lebanese Sociological Association. 3. Member of the Editorial Board of Social Forces (May 2018 to Dec 2022) 4. Member of the Asfari Institute Steering Committee for MA in “Civil Society and Collective Action” 5. Member of Advisor Committee of the IFI project on "Breaking the Mold: Arab Civil Society & their Quest to Influence Policy-making” 6. Member of the Asfari Institute Steering Committee of the Transnational Social Movements project 7. ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility for 5 days to Koc University, Istanbul 8. Organizing an international conference on Social Inequalities in September 2018 with UNESCO.

Sara Mourad

Grants and Awards Global Visiting Scholar in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University (fellowship term is September 2018- January 2019)

Service 1. Coordinator, Women and Gender Studies Initiative. Activities include: Member of search committee for the Altaf El-Sabbah Visiting Chair. Coordinator, Feminist Theory Reading Group. Advisor, Minor in Women and Gender Studies. Coordinator, Body Talks, a student-led series of talks and discussions on sex, gender, and sexuality. 2. Member, Undergraduate Students Academic Affairs Committee. 3. Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies departmental searches. 4. Graduate Advising: Theses Directed: Completed: Advisor Alissar Daher (MA in Media Studies), “Charlie Hebdo and the Myth of Sameness: Race and Gender in the French Secular Imagination” (deposited February 2018).

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Reem Joudi (MA in Media Studies), “Visions of the South: Precarity and ‘The Good Life’ in the Visual Culture of Tyre” (deposited in May 2018). Tala Makhoul (MA in American Studies), “Identity Construction and Community Formation in Technosocial Spaces” (deposited May 2018).

Reader Camilla Garder (MA in Middle East Studies), “Becoming Beiruthless: Studying Sensations and Subjectivities with Beirut’s First Roller Derby Team” (deposited February 2018). Wajih Hassan (MA in Sociology), “Video Games: Beyond Entertainment” (deposited May 2018) Rami Deeb (MA in Media Studies), “Lebanese Short Films’ Narratives on the Civil War” (deposited May 2018)

In Process: Advisor Tanya Abu Ghazaleh (MA in Media Studies), “Representations of Migrant Domestic Workers: Challenging Oppressive Visibility” (proposal defended in September 2017). Houda Houbeish (MA in Media Studies), “Media Activism in Lebanon: The Cases of Lil Madina (Saida) and Public Works (Beirut)” (proposal defended in September 2017).

Reader Natalie Wilkinson (MA in Anthropology), “The Emergence of Queer safety in Beirut” (proposal defended February 2018). Saly El-Waze (MA in Sociology), “Gender-Based Violence in NGO Representations” (proposal defended in March 2018).

Sylvain Perdigon

Teaching I designed and taught two new courses in 2017-2018: 1. SOAN290AP/323Z: The Space of Refuge (Seminar, Fall 2017) 2. SOAN212: History and Theory in Anthropology (Spring 2018)

Service within the University 1. Serving on the SBS Internal Review Board (duties include writing reviews of proposals and participating in the deliberations of the Board). Sept. 2016-Present. 2. FAS Research Committee. Sept. 2017-Present. 3. Anthropology Program Coordinator. Sept. 2016-Present. 4. Anthropology Program Graduate Advisor. Jan. 2018-Present. 5. CAMES Steering Committee. Sept. 2014-Present.

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Service outside the University I was invited and accepted to lead a workshop on Ethnographic Research Methods on May 24-26, 2017 at the Ludwig-Maxmillan University in Munich for a group of 14 young researchers (4 from Lebanon, 6 from Palestine and 3 from Germany) working on Violence, Forced Migration and Exile: Trauma in the Arab World and in Germany. Grant Faculty Fellowship at the Center for Arts and Humanities at AUB. Title: The Space of Refuse. Submitted in November 2017. Awarded on January 19, 2018 for the academic year 2018-19.

Students Theses

As primary advisor: 1. Micheline Ziadee, Migrants in Beirut : Parallel Infrastructures and the Right to the City. Thesis defended in September 2017. 2. Dana Al Hajj, Where The Sidewalk Ends : Reimagining Care in the Lives of Children Working on Beirut's Streets. Thesis defended in April 2018. 3. Noor Daher, Governing Life: An Ethnography of Hawza Women in Action. Proposal defended in October 2017. 4. Shantanu Mehra, Practicing Piety as Critique: Ethnography of a Mosque in Dahiya. Proposal defended in December 2017. 5. Ramy Shukr, Transgender Attachments, Space, and Political Economy in Beirut . Proposal defended in December 2017. 6. Romy Attieh, Adopting Kin, Adapting Kinship: Transnational Adoption within the Context of Lebanon. Proposal defended in January 2015, ongoing. 7. Daryn Howland (CAMES), Nora Bakhsh (ANTH), Rayane al-Rammal (ANTH).

As reader: 1. Giulia Guadagnoli (FEA, Department of Architecture and Design, MUPP), Tools for Tactical Neighborhood Planning and Design: Lessons from User-Led Small Scale Physical Interventions in Municipal Beirut’s Open Spaces. Thesis defended in September 2017. 2. Camilla Gardner (CAMES), Becoming Beiruthless: Studying Sensations and Subjectivities with Beirut's First Roller Derby Team. Thesis defended in January 2018. 3. Jude Wafai, Education as Future-Making: The Dual Experience of Displaced Syrians. Thesis defended in April 2018. 4. Araz Kojayan, Deciphering the Body with Contemporary Dancers. Thesis defended in February 2018. 5. Berivan Aydin (CAMES), Reneging on Turkishness? Proposal for an ethnographic study of national identity and news making in Turkey. Proposal defended in December 2017.

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6. Marwa Bakabas, Negotiating the concept of need and refugee experience in the Beqaa Valley. Proposal defended in February 2018. 7. Karina Goulordava (MUPP), Micro-Businesses, Informal Economy and Gentrification: The Case of Mar Mikhael. Proposal defense on June 1, 2018.

Kirsten Scheid

Academic Positions 2018-spring: Visiting scholar, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Université Paris Descartes (5) -- Centre Population et Développement.

Grants and Fellowships 1. 2018: Institut de recherche pour la développement France (IRD), 2-month scholarly exchange to support « Art Global ? Lebanese and Palestinian Artists in Diaspora» March 17 – May 17. 2. 2017: SAFAR, French Embassy in Lebanon bourse for research in France. 3. 2017: Palestinian American Research Center Research Fellowship, “Global Art at Home: An Ethnography of Art and Palestine” (June-September). Field Research 2018: Archival research in the French National Archives (Pierrefittes-sur-Seine) and private holdings in Paris.

Research Networks 1. Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK), “Living with Remnants: Politics, Materiality, and Subjectivity in the Aftermath of Atrocities in Turkey,” led by Yael Navaro. 2. Wellesley University (Boston, USA), “Towards a New Global Center for Transnational Studies,” led by Peggy Levitt and Maurice Crul. 3. Université Paris (5) & Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris), “Art global ? Circulations et engagements artistiques, une approche compare,” led by Pénélope Larzillière.

Invited Talks 2018 “Acts of Art: Palestinian En-corporation and Circulation” Université Paris Descartes (I), May 24.

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2017: “Getting Nude: Artists, Audiences, and the Present Past in the Middle East,” College Art Association, Feb. 16-17.

Papers Presented: 1. 2018“Learning to Look As/At Nudes,” for “Modern Bodies: dress, nation, empire, and gender in the modern Middle East,” conference at London Fashion Institute and the Lebanese American University (Beirut), March 15. 2. 2017“Thinking about the Painting: Palestinian Global Art?” for “Art Global ? Circulations et engagements artistiques Monde arab/Europe,” symposium at Fondation Maison de l’homme, Paris. Sept. 29. 3. 2017“Re-imagining the Publics Created by Discourse about Islam and/against Art,” Islamic Visualities, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), Dec. 13-15. Discussant: 2017: “The Art Salon in the Arab Region,” Nicholas Ibrahim Sursock Museum (Beirut), Jan. 26.

Teaching Experience Art, Aesthetics, and Social Change (S-12, F-15, F-18) The Ethnographer’s Craft (F-08, F-10, F-12, S-17) Arab Culture and Society (S-06, S-07, S-09, S-11, S-15-2x, F-16, F-17-2x) Reading Other Cultures (S-07, F-07, F-08, Summer 2009-2x, F-10, S-11, F-11, S-12, F-12, S-16 x 2, S-17 x 2) Advising of MATheses (at AUB) 1. Chairing: Abdallah Ayache, “Constructions of the Secular.” 2. 2018: Jude Wafai, “Education as Future-Making: The Dual Experience of Displaced Syrians.” 3. 2018: Asli Altiniçik, “The National Museum of Beirut: A Study.” 4. 2018: Araz Kojayan, “Deciphering the Body with Contemporary Dancers.” 5. 2018: Camilla Garder, “Becoming Beiruthless: Sutdying Sensations and Subjectivities with Beirut’s First Roller Debry Team”

Service to the Professional Community 1. I.B. Tauris, blind peer book manuscript reviewer (2017) 2. American Anthropologist (2018),Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (2017), Cultural Anthropology (2018). 3. Anthropological Society in Lebanon (ASIL) – founding member and organizer (2005-2009, 2014-2017). 4. Anthropology Post-Graduate Writing Group – participant (2017).

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Service to the University Community 1. Faculty United Executive Committee – Member at large (elected position) (2017 to present). 2.Anthropology Graduate Advisor – 2016-present (15 students) 3.Faculty of Arts and Sciences Student Disciplinary Action Committee – member (2013 – present); Chair (2016) 4.Faculty of Art and Sciences Tenure Implementation Committee – member (2017) 5.University Art Gallery Steering Committee – member (2012 – present) 6.Faculty Advisor to Student Society for Sociology and Anthropology (SASS) (2016- present)

Livia Wick

Teaching and MA Thesis Committees: I am on a 50% course reduction for the work as chairperson. I taught one new graduate course in the Fall SOAN 310 Seminar in Anthropological Theory and one undergraduate course in the Spring SOAN 225 Gender and Culture. I served as reader on 7 MA thesis or thesis proposal committees and am directing 3 theses. Member on M.A. Thesis Committees: 1. Araz Koyajan, “Deciphering the Body with Contemporary Dancers,” MA in Anthropology, (Advisor: Kirsten Scheid) 2018 2. Asli Altinsik, “The National Museum of Beirut: A Study,” MA in Arab and Middle East Studies, CAMES (Advisor: Kirsten Scheid) 2018 3. Jude Wafai, “Education as Future-Making: the Dual Experience of Displaced Syrians,” MA in Anthropology, (Advisor: Kirsten Scheid) 2018

Theses in process: 1. Ramy Shukr, “Transgender Attachments, Space, and Political Economy in Beirut,” proposal defended towards an MA in Anthropology, Fall 2017-2018 (Advisor Sylvain Perdigon) 2. Ziad Kiblawi, “Mehdi ‘Amel ‘s theoretical Mode of Production: On fikr and waqi’”, proposal defended towards an MA in Anthropology, Fall 2017-2018 (Advisor Nadia Bou Ali) 3. Rayan Batlouni, “Between the two extremes of “Hebbouni style” and “Army style”: Exploring Paradigms of Women Leadership in NGOs in Lebanon,” proposal defended towards an MA in Sociology, Fall 2017-2018 (Advisor Nada Ghandour-Demiri) 4. Shantanu Mehra. “Practicing Piety as Critique,” proposal defended towards an MA in Anthropology, Fall 2017-2018 (Advisor Sylvain Perdigon) 5. Natalie Wilkinson, “The emergence of Queer Safety in Beirut,” In process. Defended proposal towards an MA in Anthropology, Fall 2017-2018 (Advisor Livia Wick)

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6. Marwa Bakabas, “Negotiating the Concept of Need and Refugee Experience in the Beqaa Valley” In process. Defended proposal towards an MA in Anthropology, Fall 2017-2018 (Advisor Livia Wick)

Other Service: I served as advisor for undergraduate SOAN students in the Spring of 2017-2018. I chaired the Altaf Al-Sabah Chair in Gender and Societal Development Studies Visiting Position Search committee. I reviewed one manuscript for Cultural Anthropology and for Social Science and Medicine. I was a member of a writing group with colleagues.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Anaheed Al Hardan

Publication of peer-reviewed article, “Memories for the Return? Remembering the Nakba by the First Generation of Palestinian Refugees in Syria,” in Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 16, no. 2 (2017).

Greg Burris

1. The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination (Philadelphia: Temple University). Part of the “Insubordinate Spaces” book series edited by George Lipsitz. Status: final draft submitted and awaiting page proofs. 2. Review of When I Saw You, Journal of Muslim Studies 2.1 (2017), pp. 92-7. 3. “Birth of a (Zionist) Nation: Black Radicalism and the Future of Palestine,” in Futures of Black Radicalism, edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (New York: Verso, 2017), pp. 120-32.

Josh Carney

1. 2018. “Resur(e)recting a spectacular hero: Diriliş Ertuğrul, necropolitics, and popular culture in Turkey.” In Review of Middle East Studies, 52/1. 2. 2017. (co-author Valentina Marcella) “Screens of satire and commons of resistance: the place and role of humor in the Gezi Park protests of Turkey.” In Ridiculosa, 24, 151-164.

Nabil Dajani

The Media in Lebanon: Fragmentation and Conflict in the Arab East, I.B. Tauris, in press, expected late in 2018 or early 2019.

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May Farah

I didn’t receive feedback for an article, “Places of belonging: un-essentializing Palestinian refugee experiences in Lebanon” which I submitted last spring until mid-October. The response required major feedback and to resubmit. I have been working on the revisions, which have required additional research and major re- writing, which I am in the process of completing.

Sari Hanafi

Articles in Refereed Journals معرفة ُم ْن َتجة ولكن غير م ْنتِجة". إضافات- المجلة العربية لعلم االجتماع. عدد40. ص-4" :2017 .1 15.“Knowledge produced but not used”. Idafat. The Arab Journal of Sociology. Issue 40. Pp 4-15. 2. 2017: “‘We Speak the Truth!’: Knowledge (and) Politics in Friday’s Sermons in نحن ننطق بالحق!" المعرفة والسياسة في خطب " .Lebanon.”. Umran. No 22. Pp. 7-34 .صالة الجمعة في لبنان. مجلة عمران. عدد 22. صص 34-7 https://omran.dohainstitute.org/ar/issue22/Documents/SARIHANAFI.pdf 3. 2017: Bruce Currie-Alder, Rigas Arvanitis and Sari Hanafi “Research in Arabic- speaking countries: Funding competitions, international collaboration, and career incentives”. Science and Public Policy. 45:1. 1-9. https://academic.oup.com/spp/article/doi/10.1093/scipol/scx048/4107903/ Research-in-Arabicspeaking-countries-Funding التجديد اإلسالمي من الداخل: تكوينات جديدة”. إضافات- المجلة العربية لعلم االجتماع. عدد “ :2017 .4 .38-39. ص.49-26 https://staff.aub.edu.lb/~sh41/files/2017_islmaic_reform_new_config_Ar.pdf “Islamic Reform from inside: new configurations”. Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology. No. 38-39. pp. 26-49. (in Arabic) تم تلخيص هذا البحث من قبل هاشم الرفاعي في This paper was summarized by Hisham al-Rifai in http://www.islamtoday.net/nawafeth/artshow-42-238878.htm 5. 2017: “Gulf Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Facts, Debates and Fatwas”. Sociology of Islam. 5 (2017). Pp. 112-137. http://www.academia.edu/33591358/Gulf_Response_to_the_Syrian_Refugee _Crisis_Facts_Debates_and_Fatwas

Chapters in Edited Books 2017: Sarah El Jamal and Sari Hanafi*. “Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study”, in Questioning Social Inequality and

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Difference in the Arab Region. Arab Council for Social Science. Pp. 61-81. (in Arabic) سارة الجمل وساري حنفي.* "تأطير إنتاج المعرفة حول الفقر في العالم العربي: دراس ٌة إجتماع ّي ٌة وببليومتر ّي ٌة ". مسائلة الالمساواة والفوارق االجتماعية في العلم العربي. المجلس العربي للعلوم االجتماعية. .ص 81-61

Book Reviews 1. 2017:Review of François Burgat (2016) “Comprendre l'islam politique. Une trajectoire de recherche sur l’altérité islamiste, 1973-2016”. In French: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM) http://remmm.revues.org/9782 In Arabic: al-Mustaqbal al-Arabie. no 463. فهم اإلسالم السياسي. مسار بحث حول اآلخر المسلم، 1973-2016" فرانسوا بورغا. المستقبل العربي. " .عدد 463 http://www.caus.org.lb/Home/down.php?articleID=6151 in English: Comprendre l‘islam politique. Une trajectoire de recherche sur l‘altérité islamiste 1973–2016, Contemporary Arab Affairs, 10:4, 623-626.

2. 2017:Review of Saoud al-Mawla (2016) Salafism and the Neo-Salafis: From Afghanistan to Lebanon. Omran. Issue 5/19. Pp. 205-211. مراجعة كتاب "السلفية والسلفيون الجدد: من أفغانستان إلى لبنان" سعود المولى )2016(. عمران. عدد .5/19. ص. 211-205

Selected Newspaper, Electronic Articles or interviews 1. 2017: Interview with me in French Newspaper La Croix “Quelles conséquences aurait un transfert à Jérusalem de l’ambassade américaine ?”https://www.la- croix.com/Journal/Quelles-consequences-aurait-transfert-Jerusalem- lambassade-americaine-2017-12-05-1100896961 . 5 Dec. 2. 2017: Participation in "Al-Qabas" Newspaper Symposium on "Extremism: The reasons are many ... The confrontation is possible." 2 December. المشاركة في ندوة »القبس« عن "التطرف: األسباب كثيرة.. والمواجهة ممكنة". 2 ديسمبر http://alqabas.com/469539/ نوفمبر 2017"المرأة في داعش" مقابلة معي في المياديين مع عمر نشابة والنائبة 20 . :2017 .3 https://youtu.be/ZrOEQNKl_XUالتونسية مباركة البراهيمي حوار مع األكاديمي الفلسطيني ساري حنفي"، حاوره: المهدي مستقيم حول قضايا الهجرة " :2017 .4 وسياسات االستقبال. مجلة "يتف َّكرون". العدد 11. ص -74 80.https://staff.aub.edu.lb/~sh41/files/2017_migreation_yatafakkaroun.pdf 5. 2017: “Interview with the Palestinian scholar Sari Hanafi”. Interviewed by al- Mahdi al-Mostakeem about issues related to migration and politics of hosting. Yatafakaroun. No 11. Pp. 74-80. 2017 محاربة الجهاديين أم الكف عن صنعهم ؟". مقابلة اجريتها مع فرانسوا بورغا. ”. " :2017 .6 .إضافات- المجلة العربية لعلم االجتماع. عدد 38-39. ص.26-11 https://staff.aub.edu.lb/~sh41/files/Burgat%20interview.pdf.

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Interview I conducted with François Burgat in Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology: “Jihadistes, les combattre ou cesser de les fabriquer”.

7. June 18, 2017:Interview with me in Al-Mustaqbal newspaper: http://www.almustaqbal.com/v4/Article.aspx?Type=np&Articleid=741270 مقابلة طويلة معي عن مواضيع شتى .. أجراها الصحفي يقظان التقي لجريدة المستقبل. األحد 18 8. May 7, 2017: Interview with me in the program (Here and Their)- Orient TV. (in Arabic) مقابلة معي في برنامج أنا من هناك. تلفزبون أورينت، في ذكرى صادق جالل العظم إعداد وتقديم / ديمه http://o-t.tv/rdY . ونوس 9. 2017: “In the face of Trump’s Muslim ban, all academics have a responsibility to act”. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/in-the-face-of-trumps- muslim-ban-all-academics-have-a-responsibility-to-act- 72068?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Con versation%20for%20January%2030%202017%20- %206643&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%2 0January%2030%202017%20- %206643+CID_cd00afc9e3619b7d44b1ba592916815b&utm_source=campaig n_monitor_global&utm_term=In%20the%20face%20of%20Trumps%20Musli m%20ban%20all%20academics%20have%20a%20responsibility%20to%20act. January 30. Translated into Portuguese “em meio ao banimento de Trump aos muculmanos todos os academicos tem uma responsabilidade para agir. In Circuito Academico. https://circuitoacademico.com.br/2017/02/01/em-meio-ao-banimento-de- trump-aos-muculmanos-todos-os-academicos-tem-uma-responsabilidade-para- agir/. 01/02/2017. 10. 2017: “Voluntary and forced Migration between text and context: three schools of Fatwas”. The World Institute. 19 January. (in Arabic) .الهجرة واللجوء بين التأصيل والتنزيل: فتاوى لثالث مدارس" . . موقع العالم. 19 كانون الثاني" http://alaalam.org/ar/religion-ar/item/463-573190117

Rima Majed

1. Majed, R. "Born to be Exported? The Post-Civil War Lebanese Youth(s) and the Rupture between Education and Employment". In Youth at the Margins: Perspectives on Arab Mediterranean Youth . Eds, J.S. Garcia & E.Sanchez- Montijano. Routledge (Forthcoming, 2018) 2. Majed, R. (2018). Nacida para ser exportada? Juventud en Líbano, ruptura entre educación y empleo. Revista cidob d'afers internacionals. Vol.118, p. 77-101. 3. Majed, R. “The Theoretical and Methodological Traps in Studying Sectarianism in the Middle East”. In Routledge Handbook on the Politics of the Middle East . Ed. Larbi Sadiki. Routledge (Forthcoming, 2018). 4. Research Methods for Civil Society Organizations (Manual and Guidebook) - Lebanon Support - June 2018

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5. Book Review of China Mieville’s “October: The Story of The Russian Revolution” (2017) - Published (in Arabic) in Biddayyat (Vol. 18-19, 2017/2018) 6. Book Review of Hashemi and Postel’s “Sectarianiazation: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East” (2017) - to be published in Global Change, Peace and Security (Vol.30, No. 3, 2018)

Op-eds & Short Articles 1. Mar 2018: “In defense of accurate categories: A rejoinder to Loubna El Amine” Published by Al Jumhuriya (March 2018) https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/defense-accurate-categories- rejoinder-loubna-el-amine 2. Dec 2017: “Consociationalism: A False Remedy Prescribed on a Misdiagnosis?” Published by Al Jumhuriya (December 2017) https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/consociationalism-false-remedy- prescribed-misdiagnosis 3. Nov 2017: “The Political (or Social) Economy of Sectarianism in Lebanon” Published by the Middle East Institute of The Middle East and Asia (MAP) Project (December 2017) http://www.mei.edu/content/map/political-or-social- economy-sectarianism-lebanon 4. Oct 2017: “From “Exceptionalism to Particularism”: How Not to Approach the Question of the Christians in the Arab Countries” Published by Qantara, Issue n. 103. Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, France) 5. Oct 2017: “Gutes Medikament, Falsche Diagnose: Ist das Modell der Konkordanzdemokratie die richtigeAntwort auf Post-Konflikt-Gesellschaften?” Published by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/37843/ 6. Aug 2017: “Understanding Racism Intersectionally: Right-wing Politics and Its Social Repercussions in Lebanon” Published in the UNDP Peace Building Supplement, Issue n. 16, p. 8-9 August 2017 http://www.lb.undp.org/content/dam/lebanon/docs/CrisisPreventionRecove ry/SupplementArticles/16Supp/PEACE%20BUILDING2%2016%20july%20 2017%20p8-9.pdf?download

Sara Mourad

1. “Mothering Feminist Thought” (In review). Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. 2. “Bad Women: Review of Frances Hasso & Zakia Salime (Eds.) Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke University Press, 2016) and Nadia Yaqub and Rula Qawas (Eds.) Bad Girls of the Arab World (University of Texas Press, 2017) ”(In review). Women’s Studies Quarterly. 3. “Sexual Politics in Postwar Lebanon” (March 2018). Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

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Sylvain Perdigon

1. Perdigon, Sylvain. "As’lem, Forms of Life, Uncertain Otherwise (A Response to Fassin, Wilhelm-Solomon and Segatti)". Current Anthropology 58, no. 2 (2017): 181-182. (Published in June 2017) 2. Perdigon, Sylvain. "The New Cosmopolitics and the Space of Appearance : On a form of life called al-Qireyne in the Palestinian refugee camps of Tyre, Lebanon". Accept for publication pending revisions in HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory on March 20, 2018. Final version due on May 30 with expected publication date of October 2018.

Kirsten Scheid

Books Revising per review: No Art Here?: Modern Art and the Fantasmic Formation of Lebanon, Indiana University Press, Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa Series.

Refereed Journal Articles Under review: “The MoMA’s Fantastic Rehang: Stage Audiences, Closeted Modernisms, and the Perpetuation of the White Nation Fantasy,” to Anthropology Now.

Book Chapters 1. 2018: “Cultivation Discourses in the Arab East,” in Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, eds. Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, and Nada Shabout (New York: The Museum of Modern Art and Duke University Press). Pp.76-77. 2. 2018: “How the Arab Understood Visual Art,” by Saloua Raouda Choucair [republished translation] in Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, eds. Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, and Nada Shabout (New York: The Museum of Modern Art and Duke University Press). Pp.145-149. 3. 2018: “Necessary Nudes: Hadatha and Mu`asara in the Lives of Modern Lebanese,” in Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East: The Arab Nude, ed. Octavian Esanu. Pp. 17-43. New York: Routledge. (Reprint)

Invited Journal Articles 2018: “The Agency of Art: When Will We Take Art Seriously?” Interview conducted by Annabelle Boissier for Arts Cabinet (December). URL:

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Book and Exhibition Reviews 2017: “The MoMA Visa: Modern Art after the Trump Ban,” Review of Museum of Modern Art, New York, Installation Following the Executive Order of January 27, 2017. H-AMCA, H-Net Reviews. August, 2017. URL http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=49264

Translations 1. 2018: “Guest book entries for Moustafa Farroukh, 1933,” in Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, eds. Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, and Nada Shabout (New York: The Museum of Modern Art and Duke University Press). Pp.79-80. 2. 2018 “Art and Religion,” by Moustafa Farroukh in Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, eds. Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, and Nada Shabout (New York: The Museum of Modern Art and Duke University Press). Pp.80-81.

Editorial Pieces 2017: “Everything Living Also Grows (Obituary for Saloua Raouda Choucair),” The Daily Star, January 30, 2017.

Livia Wick I have made some progress on my book manuscript entitled Sumud: An Ethnography of Birth and Survival in Palestine. My peer-reviewed journal article entitled “Survival and negotiation: narratives of severe (near-miss) neo-natal complications of Syrian Women in Lebanon.” was published in Reproductive Health Matters: an international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Volume 25, October 2017: sup1, 27-34. Other Publications I wrote a book review of Julie Peteet’s new book entitled Space and Mobility in Palestine for Anthropological Quarterly. Books and Monographs 1. In Progress Sumud: An Ethnography of Birth and Survival in Palestine 2. Forthcoming 2018 The Ras Beirut Well-Being Survey: Profile of a Neighborhood co-authored by Afamia Kaddour, Cynthia Myntti, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Nisreen Salti, Livia Wick and Huda Zurayk. American University of Beirut Press. Peer-Reviewed Articles

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2017 “Survival and negotiation: narratives of severe (near-miss) neo-natal complications of Syrian Women in Lebanon. Reproductive Health Matters: an international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Volume 25, October 2017: sup1, 27-34. Commentaries and Review Articles Forthcoming 2018 Invited book review of Space and Mobility in Palestine. by Julie Peteet for Anthropological Quarterly

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

SOAM will continue to work on re-constructing a collaborative and supportive work culture. Some of the planned initiatives include: 1. Reviewing and changing the mentorship system for full-time faculty to try to align the Department with the new tenure and promotion system that is in the process of being implemented 2. Continuing the Review the Graduate and Undergraduate programs and exploring the ways programs could work in a more trans-disciplinary manner. 3. The SOAN program will be growing, with a replacement position expected for Anthropology. In addition, lecturers will be hired to assure continuity of teaching staff and to offer better working conditions to part-time faculty. The chairperson, director and SOAM as a whole will continue to carefully monitor the hiring processes in order to have a productive process as it did in 2017- 2018 hires. 4. SOAM will continue to organize Lecture Series, brown-bag talks, social/academic activities and conferences that bring different constituencies of the Department together. In particular the SOAN program is planning a Lecture Series entitled: The Making and Unmaking of the Social World and the Media Studies program is planning their second international conference.

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UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY PROGRAM

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

During 2017-2018, the University Preparatory Program (UPP) implemented its regular English, Humanities, Science, Information Technology and Mathematics course offerings designed to prepare college-bound high school graduates to join AUB or other English-medium universities. In addition, UPP offered two summer intensive English courses to graduate students admitted to AUB but needed to improve their English proficiency. The total number of students enrolled in UPP courses during 2017-2018 was 236 during the fall, 182 during spring and 39 during summer.

Through its outreach programs, UPP has continued its efforts in designing and implementing a basic English training program to Syrian refugees funded by the World Food Program. The goal of the program is to teach preparatory technical English language and basic conversation skills as well as Information Technology to Syrian refugees. Material was created to target these skills and prepare students for the IT training component that follows the language component.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Communicate appropriately in a variety of academic and social settings 2. Discuss various topics of interest 3. Deliver research-based presentations using relevant technology 4. Apply writing skills based on a comprehensive view of the writing process 5. Compose unified and well-developed essays of various rhetorical modes (illustration, narration, description, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, opinion, argumentation) 6. Write in clear, correct, Standard English 7. Use different reading strategies to aid comprehension 8. Comprehend various written texts at the literal and higher-order levels 9. Acquire generic and discipline specific vocabulary, idioms and expressions 10. Apply listening skills to various types of spoken discourse (e.g. lecture, news broadcast, reports, conversation, etc.) 11. Appreciate cultural differences 12. Respond to texts from different contexts: history, philosophy, literature, & the arts 13. Apply the required mathematical knowledge and skills for college study: Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, data analysis & probability

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14. Use various computer programs (MS-Office text editing programs: Word, Excel PowerPoint) and Internet search engines in academic projects and presentations. Transfer the analytical skills acquired across subjects 15. Increase students' scientific literacy by providing them with learning opportunities where they tackle issues from different angles 16. Engage students in interdisciplinary learning that requires a "synthesizing mind" where they purposefully and reflectively integrate and synthesize multiple perspectives from different disciplines (biology, chemistry & physics) in order to solve real-world problems 17. Raise students' standard of English which allows for proper understanding, effective communication and accurate writing of scientific vocabulary used in an English context.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Full Time Academic Faculty Members

Harkouss-Rihan, Samar Director UPP/USP VII PhD (USP Associate Director) El-Harake, Rima Instructor MA Associate Director Awwad, Mohamad Instructor MA

Peltekian, Katia Instructor MA

2. Part Time Faculty

Al Sayegh, Haneen Instructor MA Caponis, Philippe Instructor MA Hamieh, Samar Instructor MA Hamdan, Hiba Instructor MA Jreidini, Najwa Instructor PhD Ramadan, Mahassen Instructor MA Nabbouh, Salam Instructor MA Saghbini, Paul Instructor MA Mekkawi, Rola Instructor MA Saab, Hala Instructor MA Osman, Enja Instructor PhD Sadaka, Nadine Lecturer PhD Rahme, Joseph Lecturer PhD Muhtasib, Huda Instructor MA Rachidi, Rima Instructor MA

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3. Research Assistant

Hadla, Fatima Assistant to the Director

C. TEACHING

Student Enrollment in Courses

Summer’17 Fall Spring Total UPEN 001 04 04 UPEN 002 33 08 41 UPEN 003 07 20 30 57 UPSC 001 33 08 41 UPSC 002 07 20 30 57 UPMA 001 33 08 41 UPMA 002 07 20 30 57 UPHU 001 07 20 30 57 UPIT 001 33 08 41 UPIT 002 07 20 30 57 UPGR 001A 04 04 UPGR 001B UPGR 004 ______Total 39 236 182 457

D. RESEARCH

KatiaPeltekian

1. Peltekian, K. “Armenian Footprints in South Asia”. [soon to be published by the Armenian Institute].

Mohamad Awwad 1. Awwad, M. “Logic, Minds, and Machine Learning”. [in progress].

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E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Samar Harkouss-Rihan

UPP Activities

1. Served as Director of UPP. 2. Updated and implemented the mission, vision, organizational structure and strategic goals of the program consistent with the overall goals of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 3. Ensured and maintained the highest standards in the implementation of the curriculum and instruction through continuous assessment of the effectiveness of IEP material; programs and student services. 4. Developed and integrated new practices to help the diverse body of UPP students adapt to and integrate in the AUB scholarly community, specifically by introducing a number of high impact practices to the curriculum. 5. Commitment to outreach activities: Teaching English to needy Lebanese and refugees in Beirut, Bekaa and Mount Lebanon through a grant from the World Food Program (WFP). 6. Taught Critical reading courses and developed reading material for UPP students.

USAID – University Scholarship Program

1. Served as Director for USP VII, USAID- University Scholarship Program. 2. Served as Associate Director and Academic Monitor for USP IV, V & VI. 3. Followed up on 242 USP students’ academic progress and administrative needs. 4. Prepared regular narrative reports, Performance Measurement Plans, Work Plans, Performance Indicator Reference Sheets, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Plans to USAID on all USPs. 5. Followed up closely on the USP VII selection of 73 USAID/USP scholars. 6. Participated in writing the USP VIII proposal to recruit Lebanese and refugees students starting 2018-2019.

Rima El-Harake

1. Taught Critical Reading, Integrated Skills and Extensive Reading. 2. Created Moodle components for all the courses. 3. Updated UPP syllabi. 4. Worked on class and exam schedules.

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5. Coordinated with the UPP Director in organizing and implementing placement exams to determine student levels and language placement. 6. Coordinated with the UPP Director in organizing on and off campus enrichment activities for the UPP students. 7. Coordinated with full time and part time UPP instructors. 8. Followed-up on student progress through the implementation of online shared documents with faculty members. 9. Followed up on scholarship student progress and met with scholarship directors and program officers for that purpose. 10. Updated program material for the 6th Annual Graduate Open House. 11. Assisted UPP Director in the beginning-of-the-semester orientation for new UPP students. 12. Compiled and edited the Fall and Spring UPP Newsletter in coordination with UPP faculty and students. 13. Updated UPP website information.

Katia Peltekian

1. Taught Academic Writing, Critical Reading & Vocabulary, and Listening & Oral Communication skills. 2. Coordinated the following courses for all levels: (1) Academic Writing Skills & Structure, (2) Listening & Oral Communication. 3. Updated syllabi based on student needs. 4. Attended the 4th Convention of the Arab Forum for Puppet Theater and Folklore organized by the Arab Theater Institute in Tangier, Morocco in Nov. 2017.

Mohamad Awwad

1. Taught several courses in Mathematics and Information Technology during the fall 2017 and the spring 2018. 2. Delivered a set of e-Portfolio workshops to USAID students (USP4, USPV, and USPVI) during December 2017 and January 2018. 3. Managed and improve my academic Website exclusively dedicated to my teaching responsibilities in UPP. 4. Created and uploaded (to the mentioned website) many IT and Math documents to help students enlarge their knowledge. 5. Focused on the e-Portfolio technical tasks in the requirements of the “Information Technology” course. 6. Coordinated these e-Portfolio tasks with other instructors in order to make students create their own comprehensive e-Portfolio. 7. Continued managing and updating the USP and the UPP websites under the AUB official website.

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8. Added new pages containing text, images, links and gadgets (basically for graduate students profiles, UPP Exchange Program, e-Portfolio initiative and sample of documents). 9. Participated in Judging the 23rd Science Math and Technology Fair organized by the Science and Mathematics Education Center (SMEC) at AUB on April 14th and 15th, 2018.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Samar Harkouss-Rihan

1. Harkouss-Rihan, S. (2018). The Role of Motivation in Teaching Speaking in ESP: A Case Study of a Lebanese Private University. Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, 5(1).

Katia Peltekian

1. Edited My Grandparents’ Odyssey: From Urfa and Germir to Beirut. Memoires translated by Shushan Artinian-Tokatlian. Beirut: Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, 2016.

Mohamad Awwad

1. Awwad, M. (March 2018).Influences of Frege’s Logic on some Computational Models. Future Human Image Journal. 2. Awwad, M. (2018). Frege’s Logic and the Origins of Computing. The 8th International Conference "Teaching Logic and Prospects of its Development", Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

UPP is continually striving to grow in three main areas: the teaching of English, implementation of high-impact practices, and community outreach. Short-term and long-term goals will primarily strive to enhance students' English language skills through the on-going and continuous improvement of teaching methods and approaches.

Potential growth for the program will be accomplished through the implementation of high impact practices, like the student e-Portfolio launched last Fall 2016-17, orientation and training of new students from a variety of backgrounds. Since UPP will be expecting an influx of students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, some of whom will be refugees from countries around the region,

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these students will need special orientation and training to be able to cope with social and academic requirements. Accordingly, new syllabi and courses will need to be developed for these students, in addition to teacher training and development.

Because UPP is committed to the surrounding community and region, both its short-term and long-term goals entail the implementation of outreach projects similar to the World Food Program (WFP).

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WRITING CENTER AND WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES PROGRAM

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Writing Center—comprising the Writing Center and the Writing in the Disciplines Program—is an academic support program reporting to the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Writing Center plays a key role in realizing the university’s liberal arts mission and strategic goals: working directly with students, faculty, and staff on developing rhetorical competencies at all levels. The Writing Center offers individual tutoring consultations for writers in the AUB community, leads graduate and undergraduate workshops on writing, and conducts writing- and tutoring-related research. In coordination with the General Education Program and the mandate that every graduating senior take at least one certified Writing in the Disciplines (WRIN) course in his/her major in order to graduate, the Writing in the Disciplines Program collaborates with faculty members, departments, and other academic support programs to facilitate Writing in the Disciplines throughout the AUB curriculum.

In the 2017-2018 academic year, the Writing Center expanded its outreach through several events designed to publicize the services offered to AUB students and faculty as well as promote writing as a central component to life and work at the university. Our tutors, along with their one-on-one tutoring duties, spent a significant number of their hours participating in training activities and researching and developing resources for writers and future tutors. Much of their work will be located on the new website.

Likewise, the Writing in the Disciplines Program held several workshops and meetings with faculty from across the university to offer support for their writing instruction activities. Some of this work was centered on helping programs develop their WID courses, while some dealt with specific concerns individual faculty have teaching with writing in their classes. More meetings will be held during Summer 2018, and by the end of summer term, all programs’ WID courses should be certified.

B1. PERSONNEL - WRITING CENTER

1. Director - split between WrC and WID Program, (Asst Prof – 50% course release) Zimmerman, Erin Asst. Professor Ph.D.

2. Assistant Director - (Instructor – 2-2 course release)

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Moughabghab, Emma Instructor M.A.

3. Tutors Fall Semester 3 Instructors from the Department of English 4 Graduate Assistant tutors from the Department of English 1 Graduate Assistant tutor from AMST 2 Graduate Assistant tutors the Department of Arabic & Near Eastern Languages 7 Student Work Study peer tutors

Spring Semester 1 Senior Tutor (part-time Instructor) 2 Instructor tutors from the Department of English 3 Graduate Assistant tutors from the Department of English 2 Graduate Assistant tutors the Department of Arabic & Near Eastern Languages 7 Student Work Study peer tutors 2 Affiliates/Volunteers

B2. PERSONNEL - WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES PROGRAM

1. Director - split between WrC and WID Program, (Asst Prof – 50% course release) Zimmerman, Erin Asst. Professor Ph.D.

2. Consultants - (Instructors – 1 course release each) Fall Semester Jarkas, Najla Instructor in English Department Ph.D. ElcheikhAli, Sarah Instructor of CSP M.A. Lincoln, Kathryn Instructor of CSP M.A.

Spring Semester ElcheikhAli, Sarah Instructor of CSP M.A. Mehio, Marwa M.A Instructor of CSP

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Abi Ghannam, Niveen Visiting Instructor, MSFEA Ph.D.

D1. RESEARCH - WRITING CENTER

Erin Zimmerman. 1. Book Review: Writing Centers in the Higher Education Landscape of the Arabian Gulf, edited by Osman Barnawi and Emerging Writing Research from the Middle East-North Africa Region, edited by Lisa R. Arnold, Anne Nebel, and Lynne Ronesi for Writing Center Journal, forthcoming. Erin Zimmerman, Emma Moghabghab, Marwa Mehio, and Lana Zantout. 2. “Tutoring, Teaching, and Implementing Writing Processes across Genres” Middle East/North Africa Writing Centers Alliance Conference, proposal submitted for November 2018 Emma Moghabghab. 1. “The Concept of a Writing Center” Symposium on Teaching Writing in Lebanon, April 2018 2. “Evaluative Language and Critical Writerly Empowerment” article in process Erin Zimmerman and Emma Moghabghab. 1. “Responding to Assignment Prompts: How Writing Center Tutors can Support Writing Instructors” IRB proposal in progress 2. “Negotiating Accessibility in the Writing Classroom and at the Writing Center” ELTHE Conference at AUB 2018; with Jasmina Najjar 3. “Decoding difference: Tutoring multilingual writers with learning disabilities at a multilingual university’s writing center” International Writing Centers Association Conference, November 2017 Jessy Bissal. 1. “Between remedies & roadblocks: Matching up L2 writers with L2 tutors who share the same [non-English] Mother Tongue” International Writing Centers Association Conference 2017 Emma Moghabghab, Najla Jarkas, Kathleen Saville, and Ira Allen. 1. “Archiving Writing Center Community Engagement: Perspectives from Lebanon and Egypt” article in process

D2. RESEARCH - WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES

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1. “PLAGIARISM ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT: A STUDY OF FACULTY AND STUDENTS” DATA COLLECTION IN PROGRESS 2. “Plagiarism across disciplines in an international setting” accepted at the International Writing Researchers Consortium at the College Composition and Communication Conference in March, 2019

E1. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES - WRITING CENTER

TUTORING Summer Semester, 2017(because we did not have this data for last year’s report) Tutors available 18 hours/week 59 students served 134 appointments made 61 new clients registered

Fall Semester Tutors available 138 hours/week 426 students served 1213 appointments made 167 clients (39%) scheduled two or more consultations 459 new clients registered

Spring Semester Tutors available 94 hours/week 278 students served 835 appointments made 103 clients (37%) scheduled two or more consultations 223 new clients registered

Course-Specific Tutoring Fall Semester 10 tutors worked with 8 courses in - Communication Skills Program - Sociology & Anthropology - Engineering and Architecture - Health Sciences - Health Promotion and Community Health

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Spring Semester: 4 tutors worked with 2 courses in - Communication Skills Program - Health Promotion and Community Health

Key Data from User Surveys on Tutoring Sessions 97% reported that they “agree” or “strongly agree” with the statement “The tutoring session was useful for helping me develop as a writer” (71% strongly agree; 26% agree) 96% reported that they “agree” or “strongly agree” with the statement “I know what my next steps are for writing this paper or for moving forward with my writing in general” (72% strongly agree; 24% agree) 99% reported that they “agree” or “strongly agree” with the statement “The tutor treated me and my writing with respect” (89.8% strongly agree; 9.3% agree)

WRITING CENTER OUTREACH Fall Semester 1. Open House for faculty: October 11th 2. Works in Progress Symposium in Writing Center studies: Participants from LAU and NDU attended on October 19th 3. Thesis Writing Workshop(s) (with the Library): Fall 2017: August 8th, October 20th, and November 28th 4. 19 Tutor Class Visits in classes in the following faculties: FAFS, FAS, HSON, OSB, UPP

Spring Semester 1. Thesis Writing Workshop(s) (with the Library and Graduate Council): Spring 2018: February 16th, February 22nd, and March 15th 2. Thesis Write-in (with Graduate Council): April 3rd,4th, and 5th 3. Professional Writing Workshop(s): CV workshop on March 15th 4. Open House for all AUB community: February 28th 5. Writing Center Practices Outreach meeting with University of Balamand Writing Center staff: March 2nd 6. Write-ins: February 23rd and April 13th 7. 22 Tutor Class Visits in classes in the following faculties: FAS, FHS, OSB

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E2. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES - WRITING IN THE DISCIPLINES

EXTERNAL PRESENTATIONS Erin Zimmerman 1. “Writing across the Curriculum: How it Fits in Lebanon,” Keynote Address at the Symposium on Teaching Writing in Lebanon, April 2018. Sarah Elcheikhali 1. “How to Write a Literature Review for a Thesis Dissertation” as part of the AUB/LAU Education Forum on Being a Socially Responsible Researcher in Graduate School: Critical Actions and Reflections,

WRIN COURSE DESIGN MEETINGS WITH FACULTY Fall Semester 1. Department of Biology 2. Department of Mathematics 3. Department of Philosophy 4. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies

Spring Semester 1. Chemical Engineering Program 2. Department of Fine Art & Art History 3. Department of Political Science and Public Administration 4. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies 5. Medical Audiology Sciences Program 6. Medical Imaging Sciences Program

WRIN Course Certifications Completed Spring Semester 1. Medical Imaging Sciences Program

WRIN Course Certification Documents Reviewed and Awaiting Final Revisions 1. Department of Biology 2. Department of Fine Arts and Art History 3. Department of Mathematics

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4. Department of Political Science and Public Administration 5. Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies

WID University-wide Workshops Fall Semester 1. WID Conversation: Writing to Learn 2. CTL Coffee Hour: Plagiarism Concerns 3. WID Conversation: Plagiarism

Spring Semester 1. WID Conversation: Crafting Better Writing Prompts 2. WID Conversation: Grading Student Writing Faster and Smarter

General Teaching-with-Writing Faculty Consultations Fall Semester 1. Maya Maalouf, FAAH 2. Joseph Hammond, FAAH 3. Ramsey Hamade, MECH 4. Engineering Improving Writing Task Force

Spring Semester 1. Joseph Hammond, FAAH 2. Rima Majed, SOAN 3. Ali Tehrani, CHEN – co-created a “Guidelines for Writing in Engineering” document for all MSFEA students 4. Jason Amatoury, BMEN 5. Rima Akkary, Educ 6. Engineering Improving Writing Task Force

General WID Course and Program Workshops Fall Semester 1. Writing Music Research in FAAH 2. Engaging Sources: Avoiding Plagiarism through Referencing in FHS graduate seminar 3. Scientific Writing in AGSC 4. Writing a Literature review in Dr. Rima Karami’s Educ 313 5. Medical Research Writing for FM Residents through the Clinical Research Institute 6. Writing Literature Reviews in CIVE 626

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7. Writing as Engineers in MECH FYP seminar 8. Scientific Writing in NSFC 299 9. Writing a Thesis for OSB graduate students

WID Reading Group Fall Semester 1. WID Reading Group with Communication Skills Program Instructors

D. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

The main goals of the WrC and WID Program for the next few years include expanding our support for writing and writing instruction across campus and increasing visibility of our available support to students and faculty at AUB as well as of our programs to establish AUB as a hub for writing and the tutoring of writing in Lebanon and the Middle East region.

The WrC team is working to expand several of the current services so that more people will be aware of them and can take part. For instance, tutors will continue to create resources on writing-related issues, training and implementation processes for course-specific writing tutors will be revised; faculty and graduate student summer writing groups will be offered again in the summer; and regular Write-Ins will occur to offer individuals the time and a quiet space to write.

The WID Program team will have three main tasks for the upcoming year: First, we will be crafting criteria to re-assess all WID-designated courses; second, we will continue to build and promote our outreach to faculty for enhancing their confidence and abilities with writing instruction; and third, to better meet the vision of the General Education Program’s mandate for writing in the disciplines, we will begin applying the Writing Enriched Curriculum model from University of Minnesota’s Writing across the Curriculum Program to “ensure the intentional and sustainable infusion of relevant writing instruction into diverse undergraduate curricula.” WEC’s main goal is to shift faculty’s perceptions about writing and writing instruction, with the realization that in doing so, writing instruction and the curriculum changes, and there ends up being more satisfaction with student writing. We already have interest from the Medical Audiology Sciences Program and from the Dean and Improving Writing Task Force in MSFEA to pilot such endeavors.

One request the Center has in order to fulfill its mission is for the creation of a University Writing Board. This board should comprise one member from each AUB Faculty with undergraduate programs (FAFS, FAS, FHS, HSN, MSFEA, and OSB), one WID Program staff member, and one member from General Education (or, if preferable, from the Undergraduate Curriculum or Dean of Students’ Office). The

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board is vital to ensuring the perception that writing is valued by the university as a whole, and not just within the WID Program. This board will be tasked with assessing WID courses, and if the WEC model is implemented, to evaluate WEC Writing Plans.

Erin Zimmerman Director

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ZAKI NASSIF PROGRAM FOR MUSIC

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAM

Since its founding in December 2004, the Zaki Nassif Program for Music has acted to preserve his musical heritage and simultaneously, organize competitions, concerts, conferences, and seminars. On several occasions, the Program has also proposed strategic lines that may contribute in strengthening music education and programs at AUB.

Since October 2007, more than 1,000 Zaki Nassif’s scores were donated to AUB with his heirs granting the University legal title and intellectual property rights of the composer’s music. What is now identified as “Zaki Nassif Archives,”are safeguarded within AUB’s Jafet Library special collection and made available for music researchers and students who are interested in Lebanon’s musical heritage. The collection is also catalogued in the AUB Library system. Also, every year, the legal advisor of the Program acts on tens of requests from artists (in Lebanon and abroad) seeking licenses for commercial use of Zaki Nassif’s scores and lyrics. On the other hand, the late composer archives are still incomplete.

Until beginning of 2018, we had at hand 250 recordings out of the total 1100 compositions indexed in Jafet’s repertoire. However, this academic year, thanks to an approval from the Minister of Information, about 100 recordings from Radio- Liban’s archives were duplicated and are now available in the Program’s archives. On the other hand, in coordination with the Office of Communications, the Program has achieved the fifth edition of AUB Zaki Nassif Program’s festival “Remembering and Discovering;” and the ninth edition of the School Choir Competition “A Choir from every School.”

Committees

Academic Committee of the Program Wadi’ Jureidini, Ali Taher, Thomas Kim, David Kurani, Nabil Nassif (Chairperson) and Jihad Touma

Executive Committee of Zaki Nassif Program for Music Friends Club Leila Bissat (President), Ali Ghandour (Honorary President), Sawsan Maktabi, Nabil Nassif (Vice-President), Salma Oueida (Treasurer), Mayssam Skaff

Research Assistants Gisele Hebbou (Part-Time) BA (“Maitrise” Musicology from USEK) Roula Hassoun (Part-Time) Software Engineer from CNAM

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Arabic Ensemble Georges Herro (Part-Time) PhD from USEK, Ensemble conductor Manal Bou-Malhab (Part-Time), Diploma from Conservatoire, Choir Trainer Rami Saleh (Part-Time) Band Conductor

B. ACTIVITIES (within the 5th AUB Zaki Nassif Music Festival “Remembering and Discovering”)

I. Activities a. Tuesday September 19, 2017: “Chanting our Music Renaissance,” performed in Assembly Hall by the Arabic Music Ensemble of AUB Zaki Nassif Program; Conductor: Ret. General Georges Herro. b. Friday November 24, 2017: SOS Village Choir performs with Fayhaa Choir in Assembly Hall a concert entitled: “Singing Hope for the Future.” c. Wednesday, January 10, 2018: Quatuor Music Del Tempo with En Fa Mi Ensemble, performs in Assembly Hall “Discours Musical.” d. Wednesday February 21, 2018: “Tribute to Nasri Chamsedine” performed in Assembly Hall by Arabic Music Ensemble of AUB Zaki Nassif Program; Conductor: Ret. General Georges Herro. e. Wednesday May 9, 2018: “Pot fleuri” performed in Assembly Hall by the Arabic Music Band of AUB Zaki Nassif Program and Ahlia’s School; Training and direction: Manal Bou Malhab and Rami Saleh; organized in coordination with the English department and the Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH); f. Wednesday June 27, 2018, “Music in Colors, ” a concert on AUB Green Oval featuring Jamal Aboul Hosn with the Lebanese National Conservatoire’s Oriental Orchestra and Fayhaa choir; Conductor: Maestro André Hajj.

II. Competitions

April 13 and May 19, 2018: Rounds 1 and 2 of the 9th Zaki Nassif’s Schools Choir Competition. From 42 competing schools, the top winners of this year are as follows: 1. College des Freres Maristes Champville, Deek el Mehdi (Gold) 2. International College - Ain Aar (Silver) 3. College Patriarcal, Raboueh and College des Soeurs des Saints-Coeurs, Hadath (Bronze) Nabil Nassif Director

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