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PH.D.'S RECEIVED Columbia University ASHRAF GHANI - Production and Domination: Afghanistan 1747-1901. BASSAM NAMANI - Crises in Lebanon, 1943-76: The Quest for Subsystematic Balance. REEVA SIMON - Iraq between Wars: The Creation and Implementation of a National Ideology. SUMMER SCOTT HUYETTE - Political Adaptation in Saudi Arabia: A Study of the Council of Ministers. ISADORE JAY GOLD - The United States and Saudi Arabia, 1933-53: Post- Imperial Diplomacy and the Legacy of British Power. ABDULLATIF HARES - Education and National Integration in Lebanon. Denver University RUTH RODED - Tradition and Change in Syria during the last Decades of Ottoman Rule: The Urban Elite of Damascus, Aleppo, Homs and Hama, 1876-1918. George Washington University SALLY ANN BAYNARD - Sudanese Foreign Policy under Nimeriri, 1969-82. GABRIELLA TOEPLITZ HEICHAL - Decision Making during Crisis: The Korean War and the Yom Kippur War. JASIM MOHAMMAD ABDULGHANI - Baathist Iraq's Relations with Iran, 1968- 78. EDWARD DOUGLAS MENARCHIK - The Politics of the Israeli Rescue Operation at Entebbe: Crisis Resolution between State and Terrorist Organizations. MAMUN ABDEL-GADIR YUSUF - The Sudanese Civil War: A Study of Conflict Resolution. Harvard University An ASANI - The Bujh niranjan: A Critical Edition of a Mystical (Sufi) Poem in Medieval Hindustani with Its Khojki and Gujarati Recensions. New York University SHAFIGA DAULET - The Rise and Fall of the Khanate of Kazan (1438-1552). LINDA KOMAROFF - Timurid Phase in Iranian Metalwork. PEARL PRESCHEL - The Jews of Corfu. Princeton University MARILYN MAYERS - A Century of Psychiatry: The Egyptian Mental Hospitals. RALPH M. COURY - Abd al-Rahman Azzam and the Development of Egyptian Arab Nationalism. ALISON LERRICK - Taghribat Bani Hilal al Diyaghim Variation in the Oral Epic Poetry of Najd. LARRY B. MILLER - Islamic Disputation Theory: A History of Dialectic from the Tenth through Fourteenth Centuries. PAULA A. SANDERS - The Court Ceremonial of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt.

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State University of New York at Binghamton SEYED T. BARAKCHIAN - An Annotated Translation of Nazim al Islam Kir- mani's Tarikh-i bidar-i Iranian (History of Iranian awakening), vol. 3. Tel-Aviv University DAVID MENASHRI - The Role of Higher Education in the Development of Modern Iran: The Educational System under the Qajar and the Pahlavi Dynasties. YOSEF OLMERT - British Policy towards the Levant States, 1940-45. JOSEPH KOSTINER - The Making of Saudi Arabia 1917-36. ROCHEL SIMON - The Ottoman Involvement in Libya during the War with Italy 1911 19. University of California, Berkeley JAMES WILLIAM WEINBERGER - Urban Life in Central Asia in the Early Middle Ages (850-1250). University of California, Los Angeles JUAN RlCARDO IRFAN COLE - Imami Shi'ism from Iran to North India, 1722- 1856: State, Society and Clerical Ideology in Awadh. University of Chicago AUDREY L. ALTSTADT-MIRHADI - The Azerbaijani Turkish Community of Baku before World War I. DELIA RARELA BARCELONA - A Sociology of Negative Beliefs About the Contraceptive Pill in Eygpt. STEVEN C. CATON - Tribal Poetry as Political Rhetoric from Khawlan at Tiyal, Yemen Arab Republic. CAROL L. DELANEY - Seed and Soil: Symbols of Procreation-Creation of a World (an Example from Turkey). MARGARET RUTH DITTEMORE - Zemsemiye: An Ethno-Archeological Study of a Turkish Village. MICHAEL FEDIDA - Honor, Kinship, and Marriage in Arab Culture. CYNTHIA GUY - The Bnei Israel Indian Community of Midbarit, Israel. NURCHOLISH MADJID - Ibn Taymiyya on kalam and falsafa (a Problem.of Reason and Revelation in Islam). TAMARA SONN - Bandali al Jawzi's History of Intellectual Movements in Islam Part One: The Social Movements—A Translation and Commentary. University of Edinburgh MAHMOUD ABDULLAHZADEH - Iran's Foreign Policy from the Inception of the Second World War to the Azarbaijan Crisis. HUSAIN AL DHAWWAD - The An-Nukat al hisan fi sharh ghdyat al ihsdn of Abu Hayyan an NahwT al AndalusT: Critical edition with introduction. AHMAD I. AL FAGIH - The Libyan Short Story. MESFER AL HARITHI - The Al Fara'id al wafiyya bi dhikr ma lam tahwihi al alfiyya of al Mansuri: A Critical Edition with a Comparative Study between it and the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik. MUHAMMAD AL MAHDI MUHAMMAD - An Inquiry into the Utilitarian Ten dencies in the Ethics of Miskawayh. ARSSAN RASHID - The Role of the shurta in Early Islam.

MOHAMMAD SULEMAN - The Development of Military Intelligence in the Career of the Prophet at Medina. MARZOUK S. I. TENBAK - Tribalism and Political Change as Reflected in the Poetry of the Early Umayyad Period. DAVID C. NICOLLE - The Military Technology of Classical Islam. BERNARD O'KANE - Timurid Architecture in Khurasan. MUHAMMAD JABBAR MUAIBED - The dad Sound: A Historical Phonetic Study. PHILIP C. SADGROVE - The Development of the Arabic Periodical Press and Its Role in the Literary Life of Egypt. FADHL AL-AMMARY AD-DOUSARY - The Poetry of Taghlib. NAJLEH KHANDAGH - Political Parties in Iran (1941-47) with Special Reference to Firqa-yi Dimukrat Azerbaijan. AHMAD 'ALI MUHAMMAD 'ABD ALLAH - The Variant Readings of the Qur'an: A Critical Study of Their Historical and Linguistic Origins. MUHAMMAD A. ABUBAKAR - The Contribution of Muhammad al-Nuwayhl to Modern Arabic Literary Criticism in Egypt. ABD AL-RAFI'I OMOTOSHO - The Problem of al-amr in usul al-fiqh. University of London, SO AS M. E. MALKHUS - Syntax and Epistemology in the Kitab al~tarbi' wa-l-tadwir of al-Jahiz. University of Manchester ABDALLAH A. M. A. AL-SHAHHAM - Fadwa Tuqan, Her Life and Works. NOUREDDINE GUELLA - A Linguistic Investigation of the Arabic Dialect of Nedroma (Algeria). FAHMI T. M. MUKBIL - The Development of Reform Concepts in 19th Century Egypt, with Special Emphasis on Shaykh Muhammad 'Abduh and His Group. L. J. WARD - The Zafar-namah of Hamdallah Mustawff and the II-Khan Dynasty of Iran. YUSUF ABU ADDOUS - The Literature, Rhetoric and Literary Criticism of the Mu'tazila and Their Influence on Arabic Writing up to the 6th/12th Century. D. J. SCHROETER - Merchants and Peddlars of Essaouira: A Social History of a Moroccan Town (1884-86). NASIR A. A. AL-BARAKATI - Ithaf fudala' al-zaman bi-ta'rikh wilayat Bani 'l- Hasan of Muhammad b. 'All al-Taban al Husaynl al MakkT, critical edition with introduction, political-historical survey and summary of the unedited part of the ms. University of Michigan MOHAMMED ABDELAZIZ AL-GABBANI - Community Structure, Residential Satisfaction and Preferences in a Rapidly Changing Urban Environment: The Case of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. AZEEZAH A. AL-MANEA - Historical and Contemporary Policies of Women's Education in Saudi Arabia. SAMIR SHARIF ISTIETIYA - The Phonetics and Phonology of Classical Arabic as Described by al-Jurjanl's Al-Muqtasad. KAMEL KAMEL ABDELHAMID NIMER - The Role of Women's Education in Eradicating Illiteracy in Jordan. BlJAN RAFAILZADEH - The Economics of Bribery in Less Developed Countries with Special Application to Iran. NAHID RASHEDI - History of Iranian Education: Influence of Islam and the West.

University of Oxford MARY C. WILSON - King Abdullah of Jordan: A Political Biography. University of Toronto D. A. AGIUS - Arabic Literary Works as a Source of Documentation for Technical Terms of the Material Culture. GEORGE DIMITRI-SAWA - Musical Performance Practice in the Early 'Abbasid Era, 750-932 A.D.. University of Utah BALKEES AL-NAJJAR - The Syntax and Semantics of Verbal Aspect in Kuwaiti Arabic. ABDULMATLUB ABDULMATLUB - The Contemporary Libyan Short Story: Its Emergence, Development, and Dominant Themes. University of Washington RAFIK MOHAMED MAVRAKIS - Urban Design Principles and Guidelines for the Development of Cities in North Africa and the Middle East. University of Wisconsin, Madison HAROLD LEMEL - Urban Skill Acquisition and Job Attainment: A Study of Two Central Anatolian Villages. Yale University SETH WARD - Construction and Repair of Churches and Synaguogues under Islam: A Treatise by Taql al-Dln 'All b. 'Abd al-Kaff al-Subkl.

PH.D.'S IN PROGRESS The American University VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM - Accumulation Strategy and Class Formation: The Industrial Labor Force in Iran, 1960-80. Columbia University KHALIL I. SHIKAKI - Nuclear Deterrence in the Arab-Israeli Conflict. MUHAMMAD Y. MUSLIH - Political Change and Political Leadership: The Palestine Arab Nationalist Movement, 1935-78. DIRK VANDEWALLE - The Political Economy of Maghrib Oil: Political Change, Industrialization, and Development in Libya and Algeria (1970-84). LAURIE BRAND - Palestinian Diaspora: Origins and Development, 1948-70. SAM I. GELLENS - Social History at the Provincial Level: The 'ulama' of Pre- Fatimid Egypt, 800-1000 C.E.. George Washington University BRIAN FREDERICKS - The Evolution of Southwest Asia as a Strategic Frame work in U.S. Foreign Policy. JOHN H. McFADDEN - Institutional Failure and Civil Violence: The Turkish Republic. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ADEL MANA' - The Sanjak of Jerusalem between Two Invasions (1799-1831): Administrative and Social History.

NlSSlM QAZZAZ - The Iraqi Orientation among the Jews in Iraq, 1921-51. McGill University ABDIN S. CHANDE - Religion and Socio-Political Values in a Modernizing Soci ety: The Case of the Muslim Leadership in BAKWATA and Mosque Com mittees in Tanga (Tanzania). CEMAL KAFADAR - When Coins Turned into Drops of Dew and Bankers Became Robbers of Shadows: The Boundaries of Ottoman Economic Imagination at the End of the Sixteenth Century. RICHARD JOHN SCOTT - Mamluk-Mongol Relations (1260-1323). New York University JUDITH G. KOLBAS - The Monetary Reform of Ghazan Khan. Princeton University NOHA ABOULMAGD - Islam in an Egyptian Village WILLIAM BLAIR - Reform of the Ottoman Navy during the Tanzimat. MICHAEL BONNER - Byzantine Arab Diplomatic Relations. MICHAEL BORNSTEIN - Egypt, Israel and the Baghdad Pact. NATHAN J. BROWN - Rural Society in Modern Egypt. RUTH DAVIS - The Renaissance of Musical Traditionalism in a Climate of Cultural Innovation: The malouf in Tunis from 1935 to the Present. DAVID G. GIOVACCHINI - Ibn Tumart and the Origin of the Almohad Move ment. MUGE GOCEK - Western Cultural Diffusion and Social Mobility among 18th Century Ottoman Administrative Elites: A Study of tereke Registers. ARNON GROISS - Religion and Political Identity among the Orthodox Christians of Greater Syria, 1850-1914. AviS HARRELL - Cultural Influences on the Effect of Uncertainty in Joint Ventures. VICTORIA ROWE HOLBROOK - Sheikh Ghalib's (Seyh Galip) Hiisn ii Ask, an 18th Century Ottoman mesnevi. DlNA KEHAT - Intellectual History of Egypt in the Second Half of the 18th Century. LINDA LAYNE - The Theodicy of Inequality: Social Hierarchies in a Settled Bedouin Community in Jordan. CAROLYN MAKINSON - Distribution of Oral Rehydration Therapy Techniques in Egypt. STEFANIA PANDOLFO - The Cultural History of Production in a Moroccan Oasis. LESLIE PEIRCE - Political Role of the Ottoman Harem 1550-1650. DAVID SPIRO - Constraints on Arab Concessional Capital Flows to African LDCs: A Study in International Political Economy. State University of New York at Binghamton MARY E. HEGLAND - Changing Modes of Religious Symbolism and Local-Level Politics during the Iranian Revolution: A Case Study from Southwestern Iran. JAMES TOTH - The Political Economy of Labor Recruitment in Rural Egypt. Tel-Aviv University BRUCE MADDY-WEIZMAN - The Crystalization of an Arab System: Inter-Arab Relations 1945-54.

ASHER SUSSER - Western Power Rivalry in the Levant and Its Inter-Relationship with Local Politics, 1941-46. ELIE REKHESS - Jewish-Arab Relations in the Israel Communist Party (Rakah) 1965-73. University of California, Berkeley PIERRE MICHEL BIKAI - The Dendrochronology of the Cedars of Lebanon. TERRI LYNN DEYOUNG - Use of Mythology in Post World War II Arabic Poetry. University of California, Los Angeles VINCENT CORNELL - The Jazuliyya Sufi Order in Moroccan Society: 1460- 1578. ANDREW NEWMAN - Religious Disputes among the Shi'i 'Ulema in the Early Safavid Period: Akhbarism in the Sixteenth Century. University of Chicago JAMES BRODERICK - Lahn Literature and Medieval Colloquial Arabic. PALMIRA J. BRUMMETT - Venetian Interaction with the Ottoman Empire and Its Opponents, 1476-1524. JOHN C. ElSELE - Syntax and Semantics of Tense and Aspects in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. RACHEL LEHR - The Syntax of Morphology of Tajik and Persian. LINDA DARLING - The Organization and Work of the Finance Department of the Ottoman Empire from the 16th to the 18th Century. MICHAEL KHODARKOVSKY - The History of the Mongol Kalmyks, 1670-1725. THOMAS E. HOMERIN - Mysticism and Its Expression in the Poetry of Ibn al Farid. BOYD JOHNSON - Centralization and Conflict - The Evolution of Ilkhanid Government, 1295-1335. PHILIP REMLER - Rashid as Din Fazl Allah and the Centralization of the Ilkhanid State, 1295-1318. SARAH SHIELDS - Southern Iraq 1817-1914: Confronting the Tanzimat and the European Economy. DOUGLAS STREUSAND - From Isfahan to Agrah: Migration of Members of the Safavi Political and Cultural Elites to Mughal India. ABDULLAH ZAID - The Najdi Ikhwan: A Social Historical Study. MOHAMMAD TAVAKOLI-TARGHI - Counter-Revolution in a Revolution? A Comparative History of the Iran Revolution of 1905-11 and the Revolution of 1977-79. University of Edinburgh SUAD SID AHMED ALI - An Analytical Study of the Book al Rawd al Unuf by al SuhaylT. QlBLA AYAZ - The Akhbar al dawla al saljuqiyya of al Husayni: An Unexploited Source for the History of the Saljuq Period. ABDULLA DREES - A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Ta'rikh al madina of al NahrawalT. OSMAN M. ElD - The khalwa as an Educational Institution in Sudan. MUHAMMAD F. ELSHAYYAL - A Critical Edition of Part of Ibn al Furat's Universal History (Ta'rikh al duwal wa'l muluk). IRAJ EMAMI - The Process of Traditional Theatre and Progressive Theatre in Iran between Two Revolutions (1905-79).

ABDULLAH ALWI HAJI HASSAN - Sales and Contracts in Early Islamic Law. CHENG HSIANG HSU - The First Thirty Years of Arabic Printing in Egypt, 1238- 67/1822-51: A Bibliographical Study with a Checklist by Title of Arabic Printed Works. HUSSEIN YOUSIF HUSSEIN - A Comparative Study of the Historical Novels of Walter Scott and Najlb Mahfuz. JAVAD KARANDISH - The Resettlement of the Tribes during the Reign of Reza Shah. ARZINA LALANI - The Life and Career of Imam Muhammad al Baqir. SURAN MARDINI - Fundamental Religio-Political Concepts in the Sources of Islam. DURRESHAHWAR SAYED - Poetry of Shah Abdul Latif, Its Persian and Indian Aspects. MOHAMMAD TABATABAI - The Role of Shaykh Muhammad KhiyabanI and the Democratic Movement of Azerbaijan in the Socio-Political History of Iran 1910-20. University of Manchester TAYSSER ZAWAHREH - Religious Endowments and Social Life in the Ottoman Province of Damascus during the 17th and 18th Centuries. M. TAVANGAR-RIZVI - The Semantic Features Peculiar to Sa'dl's Diction in the Gulistan. M. H. SOLTANI - The Works and Ideas of Dr. Ali Shariati and Their Impact on the Iranian Revolution. ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN - The Concept of hijra in Early Islam and Its Impact on Some Modern Islamic Movements. AsiM H. HAMDAN - The Literary History of Medina in the 12th/18th Century. P. G. EMERY - Collocation in Modern Standard Arabic. R. DAVIS - The Religious and Ethical Presuppositions of Firdawsl's Shah-nama. ABDALLAH AL-DAUSARI - Islamic Influences in the Writings of Yitzhak Burla. JOAN A. BURTON - Bukharans in Trade and Diplomacy, 1558-1702. CHEIKH BELKACEMI - The Amplification of the Noun Phrase in Algerian Ara bic. SULAIMAN I. AL-ASKARI - An Edition of and study on part of al Azkawi's Kashf al ghumma. University of Toronto O. ABOUZEID - A Comparative Study between the Political Theory of al FarabT and Ikhwan al-Safa'. N. SADEK - The Art and Architecture of the Rasulid Period in Yemen, 1229- 1454. University of Utah ERNEST RANDA - Ahmad Ibn Tulun and the Decline of the ' Abbasid Caliphate. MICHAEL STATHIS - Non-Western Aspects of International Law: The Sources of Obligation. MARY MAUGHAN - Arab-Israeli Relations: A Case of International Law. University of Virginia JOSEPH A. KECHICHIAN: The Gulf Cooperation Council: Search for Regional Security in the Persian Gulf.

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS ADEL ALLOUCHE - Assistant Professor of Arabic, U. of Pennsylvania. ALI S. ASANI - Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture, Harvard U. JULIA ASHTIANY - Temporary Lecturer in Arabic Language and Literature. PETER AWN - Associate Professor of Religion, Columbia U. AvRAHAM BALABAN - Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature, U. of Michi gan. ELIZABETH BARLOW -- Board of Directors, Middle East Outreach Council. ROBERT BlANCHl - Assistant Professor of Political Science, U. of Pennsylvania. ARIEL BLOCH - Director, U. of California Education Abroad Program in Jerusalem. BENJAMIN BRAUDE - Half-time Visiting Professor of History, Harvard U. RICHARD W. BULLIET - Director, Middle East Institute, Columbia U. RICHARD L. CHAMBERS - Secretary, ARIT. JUAN COLE - Assistant Professor of History, U. of Michigan. HAMID DABASHI - Lecturer, Sociology Dept., U. of Pennsylvania. PAUL A. DRESCH - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, U. of Michigan. EVELYN A. EARLY - Dept. of Anthropology, University of Houston. DAVID HESS - Visiting Professor in History, Frostburg State College, Md. ERIKA GlLSON - Lecturer in Turkish Language, Princeton U. ANNE GRABHORN - Board of Directors, Middle East Outreach Council. ANTONY GREENWOOD - Director of ARIT. PAUL JABBER - Vice President, Bankers Trust Company, New York. CELIA J. KERSLAKE - Atatiirk Lectureship in Turkish Studies, U. of Edinburgh. PHILIP S. KHOURY - Class of 1922 Development Chair, MIT. CHANA KRONFELD - Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature, UC, Berkeley. J. D. LATHAM - President, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. JOHN LAW - Director of Policy Research, Nat. Assoc, of Arab Americans. SHLOMO LEDERMAN - Assistant Professor in Hebrew Studies, U. of Utah. ZACHARY LOCKMAN - Assistant Professor, Harvard University. MOSHE MAOZ - Chairman, Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem. ANNE ELIZABETH MAYER - Associate Professor, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania. SAMIA EMAD EL DIN MEHREZ - Instructor in Arabic, Cornell U. LARRY MILLER - Mellon Fellow, Columbia U. TOVA MOKED - Assistant Professor of Hebrew, Princeton U. KEN PERKINS - Board of Directors, Middle East Outreach Council. RALPH PINDER-WILSON - Regent's Professor, spring semester, UC, Berkeley. HOWARD A. REED (U. of Connecticut) - Hon. member, Turk Tarih Kurumu. ANN RlDWAN - Executive Director of the Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange between the U.S. and the Arab Republic of Egypt. RUTH RODED - Instructor, Islamic and M. E. Studies, Hebrew U. MARGARET ROOT - Associate Professor Ancient Near Eastern Art, Associate Curator of the Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology, U. of Michigan. MAURICE M. ROUMANI - Visiting Professor, George Washington U. GEORGE SABBAL - Director of the Middle East Center, UCLA. PAULA SANDERS - Assistant Professor, Harvard University. MOHAMMED SAWAIE (U. of Virginia) & MOHAMMED AWWAD (Yarmouk U.) - co-directors, intensive Arabic summer course, Yarmouk U.

DANIEL J. SCHROETER - Visiting Lecturer in Hebrew, U. of Paris-Vincennes. OVADIA SHAPIRO - Visiting Scholar, International Studies, U. of Washington. STANFORD J. SHAW (UCLA) - Honorary member of the Turk Tarih Kurumu. ROBERT STAAB - President, Board of Directors, Middle East Outreach Council. MARY E. SUBTELNY - Mellon Professorship in Persian Language, Literature and Cultural History, U. of Toronto. KENT WEEKS - Director, U. of California Education Abroad Program in Cairo. BERNARD WEISS - Associate Professor in Arabic Studies, U. of Utah. JOHN R. WILLIS - Professor, Princeton University. MARY C. WILSON - Visiting Assistant Professor of History at NYU. F. A. K. YASAMEE - Lecturer in M.E. History, U. of Manchester.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT Fellows — 1984-85 NOHA K. ABOULMAGD (Princeton U.): Islam in an Egyptian Village. JOSEPH N. BELL (U. of Bergen): Ethical and Religious Motifs in Egyptian Sung Narratives. MICHAEL W. DOLS (California State U.): Insanity in Medieval Arabic Litera ture. BOYCE N. DRISKELL (U. of Kentucky): Egyptian Basketry Technology in Cul tural and Historic Perspective. ARTHUR C. ECCEL: Ad-Da'wa wa-1-Irsad, a Study in Social Change and Change Inducing Institutions. JOHN C. EISELE (U. of Chicago): A Syntactical and Semantic Study of Tense, Aspect, and Temporal Reference in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. [Fulbright] SALWA A. ELSHAWAN (New U. of Lisbon): Arabic Music in Twentieth Century Egypt: Tradition and Innovation. PATRICK D. GAFFNEY (U. of Notre Dame): The History of the Wa'iz of the Azhar and the Reform of the Islamic Sermon in the Modern Era. YVONNE Y. HADDAD (Hartford Seminary): Toward an Islamic Theory of So ciety: A Study of Contemporary Muslim Arab Contributions. [Fulbright, SSRC] WILLIAM M. HUTCHINS (Appalachian State U.): Tawfiq al Hakim Biography. MlROSLAV KREK (Brandeis U.): Research in Arabic Block Printing as a Pre cursor of Printing in Europe. BARBARA K. LARSON (U. of N.H.): An Intensive Study of Egyptian Weekly Markets and Marketers in Two Egyptian Villages. [Fulbright] TIMOTHY P. MITCHELL (NYU): Body, Street, Text: Egyptian Political Writing, 1865-1885. CARL F. PETRY (Northwestern U.): The Political Economy of Egypt on the Eve of the Ottoman Conquest. ERNEST W. RANDA (U. of Utah): The Tulunid Dynasty in Egypt: 868-905. JANE E. REAS (U. of Washington): Information, Innovation, and Entrepreneur- ship: Market Dynamics in al Bassateen. [Fulbright] SUSAN E. SLYOMOVICS: Sirat Bani Hilal: ,The Text of an Arabic Folk Epic. ROBERT J. VITALIS (MIT): The Politics-of Economic Liberalization: The Or ganization of Business and Business Interest Groups in Egypt.

AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY Fellows — 1985-86 MARGARET DITTEMORE (U. of Maryland): An Updated Bibliography of Rural Turkey. CORNELL FLEISCHER (Washington U.): The Rise in Bureaucracy and Dynastic Law in the 16th Century Ottoman Empire. [SSRC] HASAN KAYALI (Harvard {/.): Turco-Arab Relations and the Ottoman Rule in the Arab Provinces: The Case of the Hijaz 1908-18. NANCY MlCKLEWRlGHT (U. of Pennsylvania): Tokat: Traditional Costume and Textile Manufacture. GRACE SMITH (UC, Berkeley): The Food of Turkish Religious Institutions from the 15th to the 20th Century. BETTY SLADE YASER (U. of Houston, Clear Lake): An Analysis of the Impact of Monetary and Fiscal Policies on Turkey, 1965-82. AY§E YONDER [UC, Berkeley): Land Development Processes at the Urban Fringe: A Comparative Study of Formal and Informal Land Markets in Istanbul, Turkey. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE COLLEGE DARSP Research Study Contracts — 1982-8S The Center for Research and Development, Binghamton, N.Y.: The Future of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Arab World in the 1980's; Prospects for the Growth and Influence of the Gulf Cooperation Council; Syria and Iraq— Relations and Prospects. The Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.: The West Bank—An Assessment; The Iranian Islamic Clergy, Governmental Politics, and the Theocracy. The Orkand Corporation, Silver Spring, Md.: Manpower [to include women] and Military Establishments in the Middle East and North Africa. The University of Pennsylvania: Water as a Source of Cooperation or Conflict in the Middle East.

FULBRIGHT-HAYS Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad — 1984 WILLIAM M. BLAIR (Princeton U.): The Reform of the Ottoman Navy: The Tanzimat Applied, 1828-1878. JAMES D. DEEMER (Harvard U.): The Development of Umdurman as a Physical Statement of Mahdist Ideology. JOEL S. GORDON (U. of Michigan): The Struggle to Consolidate the Egyptian "Revolution," (1952-54). JUDITH G. KOLBAS (NYU): The Monetary Reform of Ghazan Khan. LESLIE P. PEIRCE (Princeton [/.): The Political Influence of the Ottoman Imperial Harem, 1550-1650. DENISE A. SPELLBERG (Columbia U.): A'isha: The Origin and Evolution of a Historical Personality in Muslim Society. [And SSRC] JAMES A. REILLY (Georgetown (/.): Landownership in a Semicolonial Economy: The Case of Damascus. [And SSRC] Faculty Research Abroad Program — 1984 YAEL FELDMAN (Columbia U.): The Use of Psychoanalytic Models in Modern Hebrew Literature and Literary Criticism. DAVID M. NACHMIAS (U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): The Political Culture of Senior Civil Servants in Israel.

BARBARA R. F. STOWASSER (Georgetown U.): The Status of Women in Or thodox Islam. [And SSRC] Grantees to the Middle East — 1984 BARBARA K. LARSON: Lecturing on anthropology, Ain Shams U. DIANA F. ACKERMAN: Lecturing on philosophy, Hebrew U. WILLIAM ADLER: Lecturing on religion, Hebrew U. VIRGINIA R. DOMINGUEZ: Lecturing on anthropology, Hebrew U. ZVI Y. GlTELMAN: Lecturing on Political Science, Hebrew U. MARTIN DALY: Lecturing on M.E. history and literature, Khartoum. MAHMOUD H. FOUAD: Lecturing on economics, Damascus U. CAROLYN G. KILLEAN: Research on linguistics, Damascus U. JOHN P. ENTELIS: Lecturing on political science, U. of Tunis. KEITH A. ACHEPOHL: Lecturing on art, Hacettepe U. CAESAR E. FARAH: Research on M.E. history and literature, at large. HUSAIN F. HADDAWY: Lecturing on literature, Istanbul U. RONALD T. MARCHESE: Research on M.E. history and literature, Istanbul. Scholars in Middle East Studies Fields — 1984 DAVID MENASHRI (Tel-Aviv U.): Higher education and social and political modernization of Iran. [Princeton] SAMIR KHALAF (AUB): Socio-cultural, psychological and political consequences of civil strife in Lebanon. [Princeton] HUDA ZURAYK (AUB): Migration study and family demography. [Georgetown U. and Johns Hopkins U.] KHALID YOUSEF OMARI (Yarmouk U.): University education and its role in community development. [U. of Wisconsin] FOUZI ElD SAHAWNEH (U. of Jordan): Ethnic Minorities in Jordan: A Demo graphic Study. [USC] SAYYID HAMID HURREIZ (U. of Khartoum): Applied folklore and oral tradition and history. [Indiana U.] MUSTAFA MOHAMMED KHOGALI (U. of Khartoum): Management of arid and semi-arid lands. [Lecturing, Clark U.] ABDEL MOHSIN MUSTAFA SALIH (U. of Khartoum): Macrodynamics of In flation and Balance-of-Payments Disequilibrium in the Economy of Sudan, 1970-83. [UC, Berkeley] SADOK BELAID (U. of Tunis): Comparative Law and Politics in the Maghreb. [Lecturing, Johns Hopkins U.] SECIL SAADET AKGUN (Middle East Technical U.): American Women Mission aries in Turkey (1914-1924). [Columbia U.] NURHAN ATASOY (U. of Istanbul): Art conservation and conservation education in the U.S. [NYU] DOGU ERGIL (Ankara U.): Study of the functioning of American political in stitutions. [Johns Hopkins U.] DURSUN YILDIRIM (Hacettepe U.): Textual analysis of Turkish epics published in the 19th-20th centuries. [U. of Washington] HELMI ABOL-HAG (Mansoura U.): The influence of Walt Whitman on the Egyptian poet Salah Abdel Sabour. HEBBA AHMED NASSAR (Cairo U.): Comparative health policies in developing countries. FAROUK MOHAMMED SHALABY (Suez Canal (/.): Egyptian foreign policy to wards the Arab world.

Islamic Civilization Research Scholars — 1984-85 MUHSIN S. MAHDI (Harvard U.): Identity and Difference: Aspects of the Maghrib's Islamic-Arab Cultural Experience. DAVID W. ROBINSON (Michigan State U., E. Lansing): From Confrontation to Cooperation: French Colonialism and Islamic Authority in Senegal, 1850- 1930. ALFORD T. WELCH (Michigan State U., E. Lansing): History of the Arabic Text of the Koran and Preparation of a Critical Edition of the Koran.

JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION Fellowships — 1984 BARBARA D. METCALF (UC, Berkeley): The pilgrimage to Mecca as recorded by South Asians.

ANDREW W. MELLON FELLOWSHIPS LINDA KOMAROFF (NYU): A stylistic, epigraphic, and technical study of the Islamic metalwork collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1983-84).

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Grants — 1983-85 EHSAN YARSHATER (Columbia U.): Continuation of support for the edition, translation, and commentary on al Tabari's world history. FREDERICK H. VAN DOORNINCK, JR. (Texas A&M U.): The study and recon struction of the hull of an eleventh-century Islamic ship. HENRY T. WRIGHT (U. of Michigan): A survey of early mosques on the Comoro Islands. ARTHUR VOOBUS (Lutheran Sch. of Theology, Chicago): Sources for the history of culture of the Syrian Orient: the discovery of new manuscript sources. KARL STOWASSER (U. of Maryland): Annotated translation of Al MaqrTzT's Khitat (1420), a history and topography of medieval Egypt.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Fellowships — 1983-84 RITA WRIGHT (Harvard University): The development of ceramic technology and craft specialization on the Indo-Iranian border.

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL Dissertation Fellowships — 1983-84 STEFANIA PANDOLFO (Princeton U.): Social History of Production in a Moroc can Oasis. THEODORE R. SWEDENBURG (U. of Texas): Popular Memory in a Peasant Society: The 1936-39 Rebellion in Palestine (The West Bank). Postdoctoral Research Grants — 1983-84 NANCY E. GALLAGHER (UC, Santa Barbara): War and Disease: Egypt in the 1940s. DONALD C. HOLSINGER (George Mason U.): The Evolution of Urban Guilds in 19th Century Tunis. STEPHEN R. HUMPHREYS (U. of Wisconsin): Tabari and the Art of Narrative in Early Arabic Historiography.

FARHAD KAZEMI (NYU): Peasantry and Rebellion in the Middle East. WILFRID J. ROLLMAN (U. of Michigan): Islam, the Ulama and the "New Order" in 19th Century Morocco. MARIA E. SUBTELNY (U. of Toronto): The Timurid Patronage State: The Economics of Culture. MARY C. WILSON: King Abdullah and the Emergence of Jordan.

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA Research Fellowships and Grants — 1984 GEORGE DIMITRI-SAWA: Postgraduate research grant to study iqa' (rhythm) from the 8th to the 20th century, using Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman musical sources. DONALD P. LITTLE (McGill U.): Research on Haram Mamluk documents of Jerusalem.