Program in Middle Eastern Studies

ANNUAL NEWSLETTER May 2014

Dear Students, Alumnae, Colleagues and Friends of Middle Eastern Studies,

As another series of commencement exercises approaches and another academic year draws to a close, it is a pleasure to congratulate our graduating seniors and to convey our greetings to our continuing students and to our alumnae, colleagues and friends. In August 2013, I returned to the College after a sabbatical leave, and resumed the Directorship of Middle Eastern Studies. I should like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Lidwien Kapteijns for her skilled and dedicated leadership of the Program during my three-semester absence.

This year, Middle Eastern Studies offered two sections each of Elementary and Intermediate , as well as the two-semester sequence of Advanced Arabic (ARAB 301, 302). As this array of courses indicates, our Arabic Program continues to thrive. Once again, we are indebted to Rachid Aadnani for his excellent leadership and inspired teaching and cultural programming. This year we have been particularly fortunate to have with us Yasmine Ramadan, in her second and final year as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Arabic Studies, and Daniel Zitnick, Visiting Instructor in Arabic. We are grateful to Yasmine for her contributions to our Program, to which she has brought consistent dedication and creativity, and we wish her every success in her new position as Assistant Professor in Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Iowa. We are delighted to announce than Dan will remain with us as a full-time Lecturer in Arabic. We also benefited this year from the helpful contributions of our Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Lana Qaddoura, and from the activities of the Arabic Language Corridor. We take this opportunity to thank Lana for her assistance and express our best wishes for the future.

Owing in large part to a generous gift from Suzette Dauch ‘58 and Jay R. Schochet, Middle Eastern Studies has been able to mount an extensive set of programs this year. Our programming has included large-scale events, such as the two day-long conferences ‘War, Memory, and Nation-Building in the : Transnational Feminist Perspectives’ and ‘Text, Image, Form: Intersections of Literary Representation and Material Culture in Persianate Contexts,’ both of which included the participation of several internationally renowned scholars. Even larger in scope was the week-long residence of Ismaël Ferroukhi, the acclaimed filmmaker and director of Le grand voyage (2004), which won the award for First Feature Film at the . The retrospective of Ferroukhi’s work included screenings of Le grand voyage as well as his short film L’Exposé (1993) and his more recent Les hommes libres (2012). In addition, Ismaël addressed various audiences and attended numerous classes during his highly successful visit.

Throughout the year Middle Eastern Studies continued its monthly Film Series, and sponsored and co-sponsored several events and lectures. These events included the performance of the comedian Nader Uthman, and the lectures of Nancy Um ’93 of Binghamton University, Nabil Matar of the University of Minnesota, Lisa Hajjar of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Jasbir Puar of Rutgers University.

Once again, we offer our congratulations to our graduating seniors and their families, and our very best regards to our continuing students, alumnae, colleagues and friends. We wish you all a pleasant summer.

With best wishes,

Louise Marlow Suzette '58 and Jay R. Schochet Director of Middle Eastern Studies

CURRICULAR NEWS

COURSE OFFERINGS IN ARABIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES 2014-2015

Each semester of ARAB 201 and ARAB 202 earns 1.0 FALL 2014 COURSES unit of credit; however, both semesters must be completed satisfactorily to receive credit for either ARAB 101 - Elementary Arabic (1.0) course. An introduction to the Arabic language. The course takes a comprehensive approach to language learning and emphasizes the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students are introduced to the principles of grammar, taught how to read and write in the Arabic alphabet, and trained in the basics of everyday conversation. Through the use of a variety of written, video and audio materials, as well as other resources made available through the Web, the course emphasizes authentic materials and stresses the active participation of students in the learning process. Instructor: Ramadan, Zitnick Prerequisite: None Term(s): Fall. MTWTh 8:30-9:40; MTWTh 9:50- 11:00 ARAB 307 – Readings in Classical Arabic Literature Each semester of ARAB 101 and ARAB 102 earns 1.0 (1.0) unit of credit; however, both semesters must be Close readings and study of selected prose and completed satisfactorily to receive credit for either verse from the rich repertoire of Classical Arabic course. literature. Readings will be selected in part in response to the interests of students enrolled in the ARAB 201 - Intermediate Arabic (1.0) course, but are likely to include some of the A continuation of ARAB 101-ARAB 102. The course following: readings from sacred texts and the takes students to a deeper and more complex level traditional scholarly traditions, mystical and in the study of the Arabic language. While philosophical writings, historiographical and continuing to emphasize the organizing principles geographical writings, collections of stories, of the language, the course also introduces travelers' accounts, letters and diaries, and various students to a variety of challenging texts, including kinds of poetry. All readings will be in Arabic, with extracts from newspaper articles, as well as literary discussion and written assignments mostly in and religious materials. Students will be trained to English. work with longer texts and to gain the necessary Instructor: Marlow communicative skills to prepare them for advanced- Prerequisite: ARAB 201-ARAB 202 or permission of level Arabic. the instructor. Instructor: Aadnani Term(s): Fall. W 9:50am-12:50pm Prerequisite: ARAB 101, ARAB 102 or permission of the instructor. Term(s): Fall. M,W,Th 8:30-9:40am; M,W,Th 9:50- 11:00am 3 Program in Middle Eastern Studies ARTH 247 - The Fabric of Society: Islamic Art and Architecture in their Social Context, 650-1500 (1.0) Until recently, most scholarship approached Islamic art through stylistic taxonomies or technical studies, while limiting its effects to aesthetic pleasure. In contrast, this course seeks to bridge Islamic art and social history, in order to show how Islamic objects and monuments served to mediate a broad range of social relations, which shaped in turn the formal characteristics of the artworks. We will look at the interplay between the invention of the mosque and the construction of the new Muslim community from the seventh century REL 261 - Cities of the Islamic World (1.0) onwards, the use of early Islamic palaces as stages An exploration of the religious and cultural history for political and disciplinary spectacles, the of selected cities across the Islamic world from late exchange of portable objects designed as gifts and antiquity to the present. Examines and critiques the commodities around the Mediterranean, the concept of "the Islamic city" while focusing on the female patronage of public devotional spaces. study of particular cities, including Damascus, Instructor: Balafrej Baghdad, Cairo, Istanbul, Isfahan, Samarqand, Prerequisite: None. ARTH 100 and ARTH 101 Lucknow, and Lahore. Topics include: migration, recommended. Term(s): Fall. settlement, and the construction of new cities; conversion; the emergence of "holy cities" as centers for pilgrimage, religious education, and Islamic legal scholarship; sacred space and architecture; religious diversity in urban environments; and the impact of colonialism on urban life. Instructor: Marlow Prerequisite: None Term(s): Fall

REL 240 - Romans, Jews, and Christians in the REL 267 - Muslim Ethics (1.0) Roman Empire (1.0) How have Muslims, over the course of a millennium At the birth of the Roman Empire virtually all of its and a half and in strikingly different environments inhabitants were practicing polytheists. Three and circumstances, conceived of human nature, centuries later, the Roman Emperor Constantine moral conduct and responsibility, and the good life; was baptized as a Christian and his successors and how have they formulated, debated and eventually banned public sacrifices to the gods and applied ethical principles? This course explores goddesses who had been traditionally worshipped these questions with reference to the rich materials around the Mediterranean. This course will that have informed the religious cultures of Muslim examine Roman-era Judaism, Graeco-Roman communities, including the sacred sources of the polytheism, and the growth of the Jesus movement Qur’an and the Prophet’s example, the reception, into the dominant religion of the late antique interpretation and development of late antique world. moral philosophies and wisdom literatures, the Instructor: Geller, Rogers evolving corpora of legal and theological Prerequisite: None scholarship, and the elaboration of rationally based Term(s): Fall. ethical systems. Issues are likely to include charity,

ANNUAL NEWSLETTER May 2014 4 the environment, gender, dispute resolution, communicative skills to prepare them for advanced- violence and non-violence. level Arabic. Instructor: Marlow Instructor: Aadnani Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: ARAB 101, ARAB 102, ARAB 201 or Term(s): Fall. permission of instructor. Term(s): Spring Each semester of ARAB 201 and 202 earns 1.0 unit SPRING 2015 COURSES of credit; however, both semesters must be completed satisfactorily to receive credit for either ARAB 102 - Elementary Arabic (1.0) course. An introduction to the Arabic language. The course takes a comprehensive approach to language ARAB 310/MES 310 - Resistance and Dissent in learning and emphasizes the four skills of listening, North Africa and the Middle East (1.0) speaking, reading, and writing. Students are An exploration of themes of resistance and dissent introduced to the principles of grammar, taught in the literatures and cultures of North Africa and how to read and write in the Arabic alphabet, and the Middle East since the early 1980s. Topics trained in the basics of include the rise of democratic everyday conversation. movements, such as political Through the use of a variety parties, associations, and NGOs; of written, video and audio the role and importance of materials, as well as other Islam to the identity of resources made available contemporary nation-states in through the Web, the course the region; the status of emphasizes authentic women and minorities in the materials and stresses the ideologies of the movements active participation of under study; and the status and students in the learning implications of dissent. process. Materials studied include works Instructor: Ramadan, Zitnick of fiction and nonfiction, films, speeches, song Prerequisite: ARAB 101 lyrics, and online publications. Term(s): Spring Instructor: Aadnani Each semester of ARAB 101 and ARAB 102 earns 1.0 Prerequisite: Open to students who have taken at unit of credit; however, both semesters must be least one course in Middle Eastern studies, and to completed satisfactorily to receive credit for either juniors and seniors by permission of the instructor. course. Term(s): Spring

ARAB 202 - Intermediate Arabic (1.0) ARTH 215 - The Medi-terranean(s) (1.0) A continuation of ARAB 201. The course takes This course surveys the circulation of artistic forms students to a deeper and more complex level in the and aesthetic values in premodern times. We will study of the Arabic language. While continuing to first focus on art transfers around the emphasize the organizing principles of the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe, Islam and language, the course also introduces students to a Byzantium in the Middle Ages. This should help us variety of challenging texts, including extracts from conceptualize the Mediterranean as a Medi- newspaper articles, as well as literary and religious terranean, that is, as an intermediary space, a space materials. Students will be trained to work with that mediates different lands. We will then apply longer texts and to gain the necessary this concept of the Medi-terranean to other geo- cultural zones of interaction, such as the Read Sea,

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the Indian Ocean, and Central Asia in the same REL 105 - Study of the New Testament (1.0) period. The writings of the New Testament as diverse Instructor: Balafrej expressions of early Christianity. Close reading of Prerequisite: None the texts, with particular emphasis upon the Term(s): Spring Gospels and the letters of Paul. Treatment of the literary, theological, and historical dimensions of HIST 115 - First-Year Seminar: Routes of Exile: Jews the Christian scriptures, as well as of methods of and Muslims (1.0) interpretation. The beginnings of the break This course will examine exile—both internal and between the Jesus movement and Judaism will be geographic—through contemporary memoirs, specially considered. let¬ters, novels, and films. Our primary focus will be Instructor: Geller on Jews and Muslims living in North Africa and the Prerequisite: None Middle East. Questions to be asked include, How Term(s): Spring was community defined? What provided the author with a sense of belonging? What prompts his/her exile? Is the homeland portable? If so, how, and on what terms? Each week we shall explore a different expression of exile. Discussion will include comparisons and contrasts with previous readings. Instructor: Malino Prerequisite: None. Open to first-year students only. Term(s): Spring

REL 269 - Religion and Culture in Iran (1.0) An exploration of the history of Iran and its peoples from antiquity to the present. Topics include cultural and religious life; social and economic developments; government and court politics; the HIST 219 - The Jews of Spain and the Lands of interactions among rural, urban, and nomadic Islam (1.0) communities; the lives and roles of women; The history of the Jews in Muslim lands from the commerce, cultural exchange, and the impact on seventh to the twentieth century. Topics include Iran of European imperial rivalries; the forging of Muhammed's relations with the Jews of Medina; the nation-state, discontent and dissent; the Islamic poets, princes, and philosophers in Abbasid Iraq Revolution, post-revolutionary Iran; and the Iranian and Muslim Spain; scientists, scholars, and diaspora. translators in Christian Spain; and the Inquisition Instructor: Marlow and emergence of a Sephardic diaspora. Twentieth- Prerequisite: None century focus on the Jewish community of Term(s): Spring . Instructor: Malino Prerequisite: None Term(s): Spring

ANNUAL NEWSLETTER May 2014 6 REL 361 - Seminar. Studying Islam and the Middle examine sexuality as a form of governmentality in East (1.0) local and global contexts. An exploration of the study and representation of Instructor: Shakhsari Islam and West Asia/the Middle East in European Prerequisite: None and American scholarship, literature, arts, and Term(s): Fall journalism, from the Middle Ages to the present. Topics, studied in historical context, include medieval European images of Islam, translations of sacred texts and literary works, religious polemic, colonial histories and correspondence, Orientalism and post-Orientalism, new and emerging scholarship, the modern press and popular culture. Students will participate in focused discussion of primary sources and works of criticism, including Edward Said's Orientalism, and will undertake individual and group-based research projects. Instructor: Marlow Prerequisite: Open to juniors and seniors, and sophomores who have taken at least one unit of Middle Eastern studies, or by permission of the instructor. MES 250 - Research or Individual Study (1.0) Term(s): Spring Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

WGST 299 - Sexuality and Gender in Muslim and MES 250H - Research or Individual Study (0.5) Arab Worlds (1.0) Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. This interdisciplinary course seeks to understand sexuality in the Muslim and Arab worlds in a matrix MES 350 - Research or Individual Study (1.0) of gender, race, class, geopolitics, and religion. It Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Open to expands beyond the arbitrary designation of the juniors and seniors. “Middle East” and examines old and new diasporas in areas that include East and South Asia, Europe, MES 350H - Research or Individual Study (0.5) and North America. It takes a relational approach Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. that highlights historical and transnational linkages and relations of power between socio-cultural, MES 360 - Senior Thesis Research (1.0) political, and economic structures that construct Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. sexuality in different locations and historical junctures. The course challenges mainstream MES 370 - Senior Thesis (1.0) representations of sexuality in the Muslim and Arab Prerequisite: MES 360 and permission of the worlds, interrogates binaries of religious and instructor. secular, and applies micro and macro methods to

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Louise Marlow returned from Chair of the History and more of dialogue, all but sabbatical in the fall and Department will be teaching forgotten by contemporary resumed her position as Middle International History Seminar in historians, between Irish Eastern Studies Program Chair the fall semester. nationalism and Zionism. The in July 2013. In the coming second article, "Oriental, year, Louise will be teaching In the spring, Frances G. Feminist, Orientalist: The New Readings in Classical Arabic Malino will be teaching a First- Jewish Woman," explores how Literature, Cities of the Islamic Year Seminar called Routes of participating in the civilizing World, and Muslim Ethics in the Exile: Jews and Muslims and a mission of the Alliance Israélite fall semester and Universelle made its Religion and Culture female teachers in Iran, and agents of French Seminar: Studying colonialism while Islam and the simultaneously Middle East in the structurally spring. underscoring their outsider status. Rachid Aadnani will be teaching Yasmine Ramadan Intermediate Arabic completed her in the fall and second year Mellon spring semesters as Post-doctoral well as the course Fellowship in Arabic Resistance and Studies and will be Dissent in North Africa and the course titled The Jews of Spain moving on to the new pursuits Middle East in the spring. and the Lands of Islam. Fran co- in the fall. During the 2013- published an article in Jewish 2014 academic year, Professor Daniel Zitnick, now entering his Social Studies titled "Its Best Ramadan taught Elementary second year of teaching at Face Packed in Twelve Cases: Arabic and conducted her Wellesley, will offer Elementary The Alliance Israélite research as a fellow at Arabic in the fall and spring Universelle and the 1893 Wellesley’s Newhouse Center semesters. Chicago World's Fair," with for the Humanities. We would Alma Heckman ‘09. It explores like to thank Yasmine for her Barbara Geller, Chair of the the participation of Jewish contributions and wish her well Religion Department, will be schools throughout North as she moves on. teaching Romans, Jews, and Africa and the Middle East in Christians in the Roman Empire the 1893 World's Fair. Roxanne Euben, in the fall semester and Study Emerson/Palmer Professor in of the New Testament in the She also completed two Political Science will be in spring. shortly. "Robert Briscoe Jewish residence in 2014-15. Lord Mayor of Dublin: Lidwien Kapteijns, Revisiting the Irish Jewish Kendall/Hodder Professor and Connection" explores a century

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Lamia Balafrej In the fall queer and transgender Iranian January 2014. After semester Professor Balafrej will refugee applicants in . ethnographic fieldwork in teach ARTH 247 Islamic Art and Her ethnographic research in Turkey, Sima helped form Architecture, 650-1500 and co- the summer of 2013 in several the Sayeh Network, an teach ARTH 100 Global Turkish satellite cities organization that consists of Perspectives on Art and culminated in an article titled queer and trans* refugees in Architecture: Ancient to “The Queer Time of Death: Turkey and has helped several Medieval. Temporality, Geopolitics, and refugees access healthcare. She Refugee Rights,” forthcoming will be offering her course In the spring semester, she will (2015) in the peer-reviewed WGST 299, Sexuality and teach ARTH 215 The Medi- journal, Sexualities, as well as Gender in Muslim and Arab terranean(s) and ARTH 345 an article in Jadaliyya titled, Worlds in the fall. Seminar. Methods of Art “The Irony of Rights: Healthcare History. for Queer and Transgender Nadya Hajj, Assistant Professor Refugee Applicants in Turkey.” in Political Science will be on Sima Shakhsari Another article titled, “Killing leave for the 2014-15 academic Professor Shakhsari’s current Me Softly with Your Rights: year. research focuses on biopolitics, Queer Death and the Politics of necropolitics, and the discourse Rightful Killing” appeared in the of rights in relationship to book, Queer Necropolitics in

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NEWS FROM OUR ALUMNAE

Parnian Nazary '10 moved to started as the Operations writing, she does outreach DC in January to take on the Manager at PublicStuff, a start- speaking at area high schools position of Advocacy Director up creating mobile 311 services for Penn's Middle East Center, with Women for Afghan for cities to better interact with and is planning to teach An Women (WAW). WAW is a their citizens. She's currently a Introduction to the Middle East women's human rights New Leaders Council Institute at Penn this summer. She is organization based in 2014 fellow; NLC is helping the always happy to speak to Afghanistan and New York. This next generation of progressive Wellesley students considering year, she started their DC political and entrepreneurial graduate programs, and can be branch. The non-profit was leaders and has chapters across reached at founded in April 2001, six the US. Kacie would be happy [email protected]. months before 9/11, and since to talk with any alumnae or then has advocated for the current students: Grace Abuhamad ’13 was rights of Afghan women and [email protected]. published in August by the build programming to secure, Washington Institute for Near protect and advance Afghan This fall, Tara Siegel returned East Policy where she had women's legal, social, and from two years in to formerly interned after 8 economic rights. In begin a Master's in Public Policy months of research on the Afghanistan, the bulk of their at Georgetown University. Syrian conflict. You can read work is against gender-based While abroad, Tara worked on the analysis here: violence. The organization also a number of refugee response http://www.washingtoninstitut works with women and projects, including an IIE- e.org/policy-analysis/view/all- children who went to prison in sponsored needs assessment of the-tyrants-men-chipping- Afghanistan. They are Syrian refugee academics. Tara away-at-the-assad-regimes- continuing to look for interns took the long route back to the core. In October, she joined the and volunteers in our New York States, stopping to swim in Internet Corporation for and DC office. Lebanon, climb mountains in Assigned Names and Numbers Switzerland, and (very safely) (ICANN) as their public policy Kacie Lyn Kocher '09 is excited hitchhike through southern manager. She no longer focuses to return to Wellesley for her . Here in D.C., when not on the Middle East, but rather first reunion. In five years, she's struggling with statistical her organization's relationship lived four of those abroad, software, Tara interns with with the U.S. government. working in Turkey and IREX's Justice and ICANN is a part of many Morocco, and completing an Accountability Centre. Internet governance debates: MSc at the London School of determining how to, if at all, Economics. In Turkey she Carolyn Brunelle ’07 is a PhD govern the Internet in a global founded Canimiz Sokakta, Candidate at the University of context. If anyone is ever in DC, which sought to use mobile Pennsylvania. She is currently please send a note her way. technologies to address working on her dissertation in She would be delighted to meet problems of street harassment Islamic Law, and is very pleased up and/or show you around. and other forms of gender to have been awarded based violence, and in April Wellesley's Eugene L. Cox Christina Satkowski '07 is living 2013 she gave a TEDx talk on Fellowship for medieval history in Washington, DC and has her work. She moved to New to help support her graduate been spending the last year and York City in 2014, where she studies next year. In addition to a half working with another

ANNUAL NEWSLETTER May 2014 10 journalist on research for a Middle East (on a Wellesley- study childhood in the context book in Afghanistan. This fall funded traveling fellowship!) to of political change she will be heading back to the

STAFFING TRANSITIONS

As most readers will know, Dianne Baroz has been the mainstay of the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Programs since their inception over a decade ago. In January Dianne assumed a new position in the College, as Personal Assistant to the Vice President for Finance and Administration, Ben Hammond. We thank her for her superb management of our programs and wish her continued success in her new position. At the same time, it is with very great pleasure that we welcome our new Administrative Assistant, Robin Lush, who generously agreed to assist us during the transitional months and now joins us on a full-time basis. We look forward to working with Robin in the future!

NEWS FROM OUR CURRENT STUDENTS

The Middle Eastern Studies University, where she will study Talin Ghazarian ’16 (Middle Program congratulates our business and economic Eastern Studies Major). graduating Middle Eastern journalism. She hopes to Studies Majors and Minors and pursue a career as a business Katherine Glouchevitch ’14 offers best wishes to all journalist and she believes that (Middle Eastern Studies Major). continuing Middle Eastern in doing so, she’ll be able to Studies Majors and Minors: further explore the Middle East Shawna Kleftis ’14 (Double and its role in the global Major in International Relations Andrea Aguilar ’16 (Double economy. & Political Science, Middle Major in Political Science & Eastern Studies Minor). Middle Eastern Studies). Hannah Benson ’16 (Middle Eastern Studies Major). Anissa Malik ’16 (Political Emily Bary ’14, Political Studies Science Major & Middle Major & Middle Eastern Studies Micah Budway ’16 (Double Eastern Studies Minor). Minor, has enjoyed being able Major in Middle Eastern Studies to take advantage of & Peace & Justice Studies). Eliza Marks ’15 (Middle Eastern Wellesley's course offerings Studies Major). related to the Middle East. She Julia Foster ’16 (Middle Eastern is finishing up her third year of Studies Major). Dahlia Rawji ’16 (Economics Arabic language study and has Major & Middle Eastern Studies been able to study the Middle Greta Gangestad ’16 (Middle Minor). Eastern region further through Eastern Studies Major). her Political Science classes. Deanna Schiffman ’15 (Middle She’s interested in journalism Siqi Gao ’15 (Double Major in Eastern Studies Major). and plans to continue her International Relations & education at New York Middle Eastern Studies).

11 Program in Middle Eastern Studies Kaitlyn Schwartz ’14 Jordan, and also performed Hailey Webster ’17 (Middle (Mathematics Major, Middle research with a political science Eastern Studies Major). Eastern Studies Minor). professor on the 2011 and 2013 Egyptian revolutions. Next year Laura Yan ’14 (Double Major in Elena Scott-Kakures ’15 she will be writing a thesis in History & Middle Eastern (Double Major in Political the Political Science Studies). Science & Middle Eastern Department with Professor Studies). Christopher Candland on the Asia Young ’14 (Women’s & effect of American occupation Gender Studies Major, Middle Jillian Seymour ’15, Double on Iraqi-based humanitarian Eastern Studies Minor). Major in Middle Eastern Studies NGOs. & Political Science, spent last summer interning at the Center Ramisa Shaikh ’15 (Double for Cross Cultural Learning in Major in Economics & Middle Rabat, Morocco, where she Eastern Studies). assisted in their Arabic department and library. She Emma Smith ’14 (Double Major traveled extensively in Economics & Middle Eastern throughout the country, from Studies). the Sahara to the Rif Mountains in the north. Last fall, she Lillian Stuart ’14 (Double Major participated in an intensive in Economics & Middle Eastern Arabic language program at Studies). Yarmouk University in Irbid,

______DONORS

The Program in Middle Eastern Studies gratefully acknowledges the generous support it has received from Suzette Dauch ’58 and Jay R. Schochet of Newport, Rhode Island.

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