News of Fellows and Scholars

NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS

PH. D.'S RECEIVED Columbia University ALEXANDER BLIGH - Succession to the Throne in Saudi Arabia: Court Politics in the Twentieth Century. MARK BRANDRISS - Domestic Constraints on Foreign Policy in Israel 1967- 1973: Negotiations for an Arab-Israeli Peace Settlement. JOSEPH COLLINS - The Use of Force in Afghanistan: Soviet Case Study. ABRAHAM MARCUS - Aleppo in the 18th Century. HAROLD RHODE - The Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safad in the Mid-Sixteenth Century. MARGARET VENTZKE - The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Sancak of Aleppo: A Study in Provincial Taxation. SUSAN LEE YAEGER - The Ottoman Empire on Exhibition: The Ottomans at International Exhibition 1851-1867, and the Sergi-i umumi osmani, 1863. Harvard University SELMA BOTMAN - Oppositional Politics in Egypt: The Communist Movement, 1936-1954. LUBOMYR HADJA - Two Ottoman Gazanames Concerning the Chyhryn Cam paign of 1678. PERWEEN HASAN - Sultanate Mosque Types in Bangladesh: Origins and De velopment. SANA HASAN - Bureaucracy and Political Participation in "Modern" Egypt. GARY SAMORE - Royal Family Politics in Saudi Arabia (1953-1982). State University of New York, Binghamton AHMED K. EL-DAHRY - Public Policy in the Egyptian Budgetary Process. RESAT KASABA - Peripheralization of the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, 1840-1918. MUNEERA MURDOCK - Sedentarization of Nomads in the Sudan. MUHAMMAD AL-MUSFIR - The United Arab Emirates: An Assessment of Fed eralism in a Developing Polity. Tufts University GuiVE MlRFENDERESKl - Legal Status of the Islands of Tunbs and Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf Prior to 1971. University of Birmingham HUGH PHILIP GODDARD - Christianity as Portrayed by Egyptian Muslim Au thors since 1950: An Examination in the Light of Earlier Muslim Views. The University of Chicago PAUL HANSON - Sovereignty and Service Relations in the Timurid Corporate Dynasty under the Babur: The Continuing Legacy of the Chingis Khanid Political System. University of Michigan BlROL ALI YESHILADA - Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey.

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Yale University ELISE W. CROSBY - Translation from the Arabic and Annotation of 'Abld b. Sharya aLJurhuml's The History, Poetry, and Genealogy of the Yemen.

PH. D.'S IN PROGRESS

Columbia University WADI' KANBAR - Spatial Continuity in Islamic City Design. ASEF KHOLDANI - The Image of Iran in Medieval Arabic and Persian Historical Texts. MARGARET LARKIN - The Intellectual Underpinnings of 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jur- jani's Theory of Stylistics. JEAN-MARC OPPENHEIM - The Alexandria Sporting Club: A History of Society in Egypt, 1900-1952. HOWARD ROSENBLUM - The New Zionist Organization: 1935 1940. ULI SHAMILOGLU - The History of the Nogay Horde. AHMAD EL-SHANBARY - Early Islamic History of Merv, Capital of Khurasan. DENISE SPELLBERG - The Historical Development of the Image of A'isha. Indiana University DOUGLAS HOWARD - Patterns of Change of Land Tenure in Ottoman Anatolia, 1566-1622. Princeton University MIRIAM LOWI - The Political Economy of Water under Conditions of Scarcity and Conflict. LOUISE MARLOW - Nasir al-Din Tusi: His Political Basis. AMY SINGER - The Peasantry of the 16th Century Arab Provinces. State University of New York, Binghamton MUHAMMAD ABD AL-GHAFFAR ABDULLAH The Historical Roots of Islamic Fundamentalism. IFTIKHAR AHMAD - State Formation in the Periphery: Afghanistan and Pak istan, 1875-1945. AMER ARA'IM - The Role of Multinational Economic Organizations in the Middle East. RAGAA EL-DAHRY - Labor Policy in Egypt. HALE DECDELI - Turkish Workers at Home and Abroad. SALIM FAHMAWY - Patterns of Colonial Settlement in Israel, South Africa, and Brazil. JOSEPH GUWEILY - The New International Economic Order. EDWARD HUNLEY - Evaluation of an Agricultural Development Project in the Sudan. LOIS KECK - Recent Egyptian Migrants to the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Area—Muslims, Copts, and Protestants. MARJORIE KELLY - The Changing Status of Professional Women in Jordan. ROBERT LATOWSKY - Regional Implications of the Factory System in Southern Egypt. SYLVIA MOLYNEAUX - Arab/Islamic Financial Development Institutions: Their Role in Middle East Regional Development.

EYUP OZVEREN - World Depression and the Middle East during the Inter-War Period. RlMA SALAH - The Changing Status of Women in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan. FAROUK TABAK - World Economic Integration and Changing Patterns of Agrar ian Structure in the Middle East. MOHAMMED TAMGIDI - The Revolutionary Crisis in Iran. RICHARD TUTWILER - Development Anthropology in Rural Yemen. SAUD ZEDAN - Methods of Evaluating United Nations Projects in the Middle East. Tufts University AHMED M. JEHANI - Law and Change: The Institutional Evolution, Applicable Law and Their Relationship to the National Control over the Oil Industry within the Context of the Libyan Development Experience. ETHAN KAPSTEIN - Economic Security and Alliance Relations: The Case of Petroleum International Law. MEHRDAD KHONSARI - Regional Sources of Interstate Conflict in the Persian Gulf: A Study of Local Security in a Regional Subsystem. MAUREEN LEBLANC - Institution Building and the Transfer of Technology—a Case Study of the Institut national d'electricite et d'electronique (INELEC) in Ageria. JOHN MROZ - The Impact of Third Parties upon Options to Meet Arab and Israeli Security Requirements. ABDULLA AL-MULLA - Saudi Arabian Industrial Development: A Study of Hydrocarbon Based Industry. THOMAS NEU - Employment, Labor Migration, and Economic Development in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1978. AHMED S. OSMAN - Arab Development Funds and Banks with Special Emphasis on Islamic Development Bank. JAMES PHILLIPS - U.S. Energy Security and Persian Gulf Oil: A Comparative Analysis of Four Petrocoercive Offensives. Zvi SHTAUBER - The Evolution of Soviet Policy towards the Question of a Political Settlement in the Middle East (1974-1977). The University of Chicago WlNSLOW CLIFFORD - The Northern Salient: Mamluk Anatolian Frontier Pol icy, 1260-1441. DANIEL GOFFMAN - The Jews of Izmir and the Ottoman Empire in the 17th Century. DOUGLAS GOLDHAMER - Abu'l Barakat's Idea of God. ANTONY GREENWOOD - The Provisioning of Istanbul in the 17th and 18th Centuries. KATHLEEN-HATCH - The First Wahhabi Movement, 1745-1811: An Investi gation into the Geo-Political Factors Contributing to Its Growth. RUSSELL KEMPINERS - The Struggle for Khurasan: Aspects of Mongol and Iranian Interaction in the Early 8th/14th Century. THOMAS S. KUTTNER - British Consular Courts in the Ottoman Empire: From the Tanzimat to the Treaty of Lausanne. RUTH MANDEL - Outsiders Inside: Interfaces and Interstices of Identity, Eth nicity and Migration among Turkish Guest Workers. MARCIE PATTON - Organizational Aspects of Industrialization in Turkey.

JUDITH MENDELSON ROOD - The Social and Economic Foundations of Power in Jerusalem: 1839-1922. ROBERT SCHICK - Christianity in Jordan and Palestine, 600-750 A.D. VIRGINIA TAYLOR-SAgLiOGLU - The Contribution of Orhan Veli Kanik to the Development of Modern Turkish Poetry. The University of Utah HUSSEIN M. EL-KHAFAIFI - The Role of the Arabic Language Academies in the Development of Modern Arabic Scientific Terminology. ABBAS HAMZA BAFAKIH - The Influence of Taha Husayn on the Development of Modern Arabic Literature. JUDITH LOUISE JARROW - The Literature of Feminism in Tunisia. MOHAMED MOHAMED BEN-GHALY - The Concept of Plagiarism in Medieval Arabic Literary Theory.

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS J. A. ALLAN - Reader in Geography, SOAS. PETER AWN - Associate Professor of Religion, Columbia University. MICHAEL BAKER - Program coordinator, CCAS, Georgetown University. MAHMOUD AL-BATAL- Executive Director of CASA in Cairo. JONATHAN M. BLOOM, SHEILA BLOOM - visiting summmer semester, Centre d'etude du Proche-Orient ancien, University of Geneva. GERHARD BOWERING - Professor of Islamics, Yale University. JAMIE BRODERICK - Lecturer in Arabic, University of Chicago. M. A. COOK - Reader in the History of the Near and Middle East, SOAS. CARLETON S. COON, JR. - Director of Publications and Studies, Islamic In stitute, American University. N. J. COULSON - Dean of the Faculty of Laws, SOAS. MICHAEL DOLS - Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi C, Cambridge. MARK A. EPSTEIN - Executive Director, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Washington DC. LEILA FAWAZ - Associate Professor of Diplomacy, Tufts University. ROBERT A. FRADKIN - Assist. Prof, of Judaic Studies, Brown University. LOIS GlFFEN - Associate Professor of Arabic, University of Utah. HUGH P. GODDARD - Lecturer in Islamic Theology, U. of Nottingham (U.K.). ELLIS GOLDBERG - Assistant Professor of Political Science, U. of Washington. MARY JO DELVECCHIO GOOD - Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University. RALPH HATTOX - Assistant Professor, Emory University. ANDREW C. HESS - Prof, of Diplomacy, Director of the Program in Southwest Asian and Islamic Civilization and Foreign Affairs, Tufts University. ALAN HESTON - Acting Director, 1985, Middle East Center, U. of Pennsylania. FRED H. LAWSON - Assistant Professor of Government, Mills College. RACHEL LEHR - Lecturer in Persian, University of Chicago. DONALD P. LITTLE - Director, Inst, of Islamic Studies, McGill University. GLENN D. LOWRY - Curator of Near Eastern Art, Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. JULIE SCOTT MEISAMI - Lecturer in Persian, Oriental Institute, Oxford. RICHARD NOLTE - President of the Near East Foundation. H. T. NORRIS - Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, SOAS. ALFRED PALUDIS - Lecturer in Modern Hebrew, University of Chicago.

DAVID POLLOCK - Visiting Lecturer on Government, Harvard University. ALAN RICHARDS - Visiting Lecturer on Economics, Harvard University. ARON RODRIGUE - Assist. Prof, in History and Jewish Studies, U. of Indiana. HOWARD ROLAND - Instructor of Arabic, Defense Language Institute. PAULA SANDERS - Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University. KHALID BIN SAYEED - International Research Associate, American University. ZEINA AZZAM SEIKALY - Assistant director, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University. PRODS OKTOR SKJAERV0 (U. of Mainz) - Senior Assistant Editor, Ency clopaedia Iranica. NAOMI SOKOLOFF - Assistant Professor of Hebrew, University of Washington. EHUD TOLEDANO - Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv Uni versity. J. E. WANSBROUGH - Professor of Semitic Studies, SOAS. DAVID WHITEHOUSE - Chief Curator, Corning Museum of Glass. JUDITH WlLKS - Lecturer in Turkish, University of Chicago. CHRISTINE WOODHEAD - Lecturer in Turkish Studies, SOAS. JAMES YARRISON - Research Analyst, U.S. Air Force.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY George Louis Beer Prize -- 1984 WILLIAM ROGER LOUIS (U. of Texas at Austin) for The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism (Clarendon Press, Oxford).

CENTER FOR ARABIC STUDIES ABROAD Full-Year Fellowships — 1985-1986 THEA ABU EL-HAJ (U. of Pennsylvania); WALTER ARMBRUST (U. of Michi gan); EVA BELLIN {Princeton U.); ELIZABETH BERGMAN (U. of Michigan); JONATHAN BERKEY (Princeton U.)\ MARC BERNSTEIN (UC, Berkeley); CATH ERINE CALHOUN (Ohio State U.); JOHN CROFOOT (U. of Michigan); EERIK DICKINSON (Yale U.); ROBERTA DOUGHERTY (U. of Pennsylvania); ANN FISHER (Georgetown U.); FAHRLI HASHISH (Cornell U.); JOSEPH LOWRY (U. of Washington); ORAN MCCUNE (U. of Chicago); MATTHEW MANZELLA (Georgetown U.)\ CHASE ROBINSON (Brown U.); DANIEL SlSKEN (Indiana U.)\ REGINA SOOS (U. of Chicago); EMIKO TERASAKI (UCLA). CASA Summer Fellows — 1985 DANIEL BEAUMONT (U. of Washington); MATTHEW GORDON (Columbia U.); JEAN HACKLANDER (U. of Wisconsin); GEOFFREY HATHAWAY (SAIS); EDWARD HOYT (U. of Pennsylvania); JOEL KASPARIAN (BYU); KATHRYN KAUFMANN (U. of Michigan); JEFFREY KENNEY (UC, Santa Barbara); JOHN MELOY (U. of Chicago); FRANCIS MULLANEY (Harvard U.)\ DONNA PEP- PERDINE (BYU); IRIS REASON (Georgetown U.); WARREN SCHULTZ (U. of Chicago); MARA THOMAS (UC, Berkeley); JAMES WALSH (U. of Chicago). CASA III Fellows — 1985 1986 CARL BROWN (Princeton {/.); CHARLES BUTTERWORTH (U. of Maryland); JUAN CAMPO (UC, Santa Barbara); SABRA WEBBER (Ohio State U.).

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES Research Appointments 1984 1985 RlAD AJAMI: Multinational business development in the Middle East. SELMA BOTMAN: The life and work of Egyptian novelist and short story writer Albert Cossery. ABDULAZIZ FAHAD: The legal, doctrinal and political origin of the Saudi state. ALI GALAYDH (Syracuse U.): The Conflict on the Horn. RAPHAEL ISRAELI (UC Berkeley): A Muslim State in Confucian China. WALID KHALIDI: The Arab-Israeli conflict. HABIB LADJEVARDI (Oxford U.): The Iranian oral history project. ABRAHAM LAVI (Bar Ilan U.)\ The Maqamat of al-Hariri. BEATRICE MANZ: Politics and control under Tamerlane. AFSANEH NAJMABADI (U. of Manchester): The building of an Islamic State in Iran. AMOS EIRAN: Israeli politics.

FOUNDATION FOR IRANIAN STUDIES Award for best dissertation on Iranian Studies, July 1983-July 1984 FARAH GiLANSHAH: The Iranians of the Twin Cities. (U. of Minnesota.)

JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION Fellowships — 1985 ANDRAS J. E. BODROGLIGETI (UCLA): The Chagatay language. GERALD L. BRUNS (U. of Iowa): The practice of interpretation in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

TENTH GIORGIO LEVI DELLA VIDA AWARD University of California, Los Angeles — 1985 CHARLES ISSAWI (Princeton University).

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Translations Grants in Oriental Studies RICHARD C. STEINER (Yeshiva U.): Deciphering and translation of an ancient Aramaic papyrus written in Demotic (1984). ROBERT H. DYSON, JR. (U. of Penn.): Translation of excavation reports from Haft Tepe, Kuzistan, Iran, 1965-80, by E. O. Negahban (1983). Fellowship - 1985-1986 SHEILA BLAIR: A corpus of inscriptions from Islamic Iran.

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION Social Science Research Fellowship in Agriculture and Rural Development DENNIS TULLY: Also post-doctoral fellowship at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, 1984-1985.

VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION Fellowship — 1985 AHMET EVIN (U. of Pennsylvania): Study on the bureaucratic culture in Turkey, through the Deutsche Orient Institut, Hamburg.