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 2011-2012

Dr. Peter Dorman President American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon

March 2013

Dear Mr. President,

Please find enclosed the Annual Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2011-2012. 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.

Patrick McGreevy Dean of the Faculty

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I Summary Report of the Office of the Dean Dean Patrick McGreevy P. 1

Part II Reports of the Standing Committees Advisory Committee………………………………………. Dean Patrick McGreevy P. 7 Curriculum Committee……………………………………. Dr. Tarek Ghaddar P. 9 Graduate Committee………………………………………. Dr. Sawsan Kreydiyyeh P. 14 Library Committee………………………………………… Dr. Sirene Harb P. 20 Research Committee………………………………………. Dr. Rabih Sultan P. 22 Student Academic Affairs Committee……………………. Dr. Malek Tabbal P. 29 Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee…………………. Dr. Joshua Andresen P. 35 Undergraduate Admissions Committee…………………… Dr. Hans D. Muller P. 38

Part III Reports of the Academic Units

Anis Makdessi Program in Literature…………………... Dr. Maher Jarrar P. 46

Arabic and Near Eastern Languages Department………. Dr. Assaad Khairallah P. 49

Biology Department…………………………………….. Dr. Colin Smith P. 63

Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies …………… Dr. Waleed Hazbun P. 90

Center for American Studies and Research …………….. Dr. Alex Lubin P. 102

Center for Behavioral Research ……..…………………... Dr. Samir Khalaf P. 108

Center for English Language Research and Teaching …... Dr. Kassim Shaaban P. 112

Chemistry Department …………………………………... Dr. Mazen El-Ghoul P. 114

Civilization Sequence Program ….………………………. Dr. Maher Jarrar P. 133

Computer Science Department…………………………... Dr. George Turkiyyah P. 152

Economics Department………………………………….. Dr. Simon Neaime P. 167

Education Department…………………………………… Dr. Ghazi Ghaith P. 180

English Department……………………………………… Dr. David Wrisley P. 207

Fine Arts and Art History Department……………….….. Dr. Thomas Kim P. 240

Geology Department…………………………………….. Dr. A. Abdel Rahman P. 249

History and Archeology Department…………….………. Dr. Helen Sader P. 258

Institute of Financial Economics………………………… Dr. Simon Neaime P. 275

Mathematics Department………………………………... Dr. Hazar Abu Khuzam P. 285

Philosophy Department………………………………….. Dr. Ray Brassier P. 300

Physics Department……………………………………… Dr. Samih Isber P. 311

Political Studies and Public Administration……………... Dr. Thomas W. Haase P. 324

Psychology Department……….……………………….... Dr. Shahe S. Kazarian P. 342

Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies…….....….... Dr. Nabil Dajani P. 356

University Preparatory Program…………………………. Dr. Samar Harkous-Rihan P. 370

Zaki Nassif Music Program……………………………… Dr. Nabil Nassif P. 375

PART I

SUMMARY OF THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN

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

This report on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences covers the period from June 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012.

A. NEW STUDENT REGISTRATION

During the first semester, the freshman class saw 347 new students registered, while the sophomore class saw 437 registered. This was a decrease in admission to both classes from the previous year.

During the second semester, the freshman class saw 32 new students registered while the sophomore class saw 49 new students registered which was a decrease in admission to the freshman class but an increase in admission to the sophomore class from the previous year.

The current policy of admission in FAS is to keep the student population in the sophomore class in FAS at the same level as in the previous academic years but to increase the number of students at the freshman level, if possible.

The graduate program saw 87 (79 graduates and 8 prospective graduates) new students enrolled during the first semester. During the second semester, the graduate class saw 44 (36 graduates and 8 prospective graduates) new students registered.

The UPP (University Preparatory Program) saw 16 new registered in September 2011 out of a total of 24 accepted applicants. This represents an increase in registration in this program in relation to the same period of 2010-11. Two new UPP students registered in the second semester out of six accepted applicants.

During the first semester, the total enrollment at the undergraduate level was 2,616 including 17 UPP, while at the graduate level it was 440 including 14 prospective graduates, in addition to seventeen students at the PhD level.

During the second semester, the total enrollment at the undergraduate level was 2,455 including 8 UPP, while at the graduate level it was 442 including 15 prospective graduates, in addition to seventeen students at the PhD level.

B. STUDENT ADMISSIONS

The University Unified Admissions Committee (UUAC), with representation from all faculties, met and acted on all applications. Early admission to the University by the UUAC has resulted this year in 249 applicants being admitted to the sophomore class and 81 to the freshman class in FAS. Furthermore, 1,020 applications for admission to the freshman class were received and 661 applicants were issued letters of acceptance to-date for the first semester of 2012-13, including early admissions. Additionally, 1,676 out of 2,238 applicants for admission to the sophomore class (including early admissions) were issued letters of admission. It is to be noted that many of these accepted applicants represent students applying to other faculties at AUB also.

The faculty acted on 58 applications to the UPP (University Preparatory Program), and to date 42 have been accepted for the first semester.

C. CURRENT FACULTY NUMBER AND COMPOSITION

The teaching program involved the equivalent of 318 full-time faculty members, plus 163 graduate assistants for the first semester and 166 for the second. During the first semester, a total of 6,281 students were enrolled in 504 different courses (equivalent to 1,177 courses and sections). A total of 6,159 students were enrolled in 543 different courses (equivalent to 1,166 courses and sections) during the second semester.

There were 318 budgeted full-time faculty lines in FAS for 2011-12, all of which were filled. Of these, 234 were used for full-time contracts with the balance used for part-time appointments. Fulltime appointments were distributed as follows: 168 in the professorial ranks (assistant, associate, and full professors), 64 in ranks of instructor and lecturer, two assistant instructors. This includes all faculty members on paid junior and research leaves (28 in total for both semesters.)

D. PROFESSORS ON LEAVE, 2011-12

Twenty-one professors were on paid research leaves during the academic year 2011-12. Eleven were on Periodic Paid Research Leaves (five in the fall and three five in the spring, and one for both semesters). Another nine were on Junior Paid Leaves (six in the fall and three in the spring). Two faculty members were on leave without pay during the fall and four for the academic year 2011-12. In addition, two faculty members were on maternity leaves in the fall and one in the spring. Two professors were seconded on REP assignments for the academic year 2011- 12.

E. PROFESSORS ON LEAVE, 2012-13

At least eighteen professors will be on paid research leaves during the academic year 2012-13. Eleven will be on Periodic Paid Research Leaves (Eight in the fall, three in the spring, and one for both semesters). In addition five others have applied for spring leaves whose cases are still pending. Another seven will be on Junior Paid Leaves (three in the fall and four in the spring). One faculty member will be on leave without pay during the fall semester. In addition, two faculty members will be seconded on REP assignments for the academic year 2012-13.

F. FACULTY RECRUITMENT

A total of 577 applications have been received for faculty positions due to start September 15, 2012 that were advertised by the Faculty. After consultation with the departments and the Advisory Committee, 28 offers have been accepted. These faculty members include 6 Lebanese, 7 US citizens, 1 US/Lebanese, 1 US/Moldova, 1 US/French, 2 British, 1 British/Lebanese, 1 British/Egyptian, 2 Canadian and one each from Australia, Turkey, Germany, France, Egypt and Austria. Visiting chairs include Dr. Jasbir Puar (Edward Said Chair in American Studies), Emily O’Dell (Whittlesey Chair in the History Department), and Dr. Selim Deringil (Howell Chair in the History and Archaeology Department).

G. APPLICATIONS FOR PROMOTION

Nine applications for promotion were received by the deadline of September 15, 2011. Four applications were for the promotion to the rank of full professor and five for the rank of associate professor. One of the four applying to the rank of full

professor was successful, and four applying to the rank of associate professor were successful.

H. FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

In the 2011-2012 fiscal year extending from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012, seventy- one faculty members were granted short-term faculty development grants. FAS received eighty-six short-term faculty development grant applications, seventy of which got were granted coverage of their conference costs while sixteen were granted partial coverage. During the same fiscal year fourteen faculty members were granted long-term faculty development grants. Twelve received full coverage of their trips, while two faculty members received only partial coverage. Five faculty members received travel funding for their Junior faculty leaves (three in the Fall Semester and two in the Spring Semester.)

I. GENERAL REMARKS

FAS began a process of strategic planning in February 2011. In the last six months, the deans and other senior leaders have been working to meld the goals of the various faculties and units into a comprehensive strategic vision for AUB. The dean presented an update on FAS future plans in an open forum attended by faculty member, President Dorman, Provost Dallal, Chair of the Board of Trustees Philip Khoury and several other board members.

FAS has had a stellar recruiting year. We are welcoming seventeen regular new faculty members and eleven visiting professors for 2012-13. They come from some very prestigious programs such as Johns Hopkins, Oxford, Yale, Duke, Columbia and UCLA. We are embarking on another recruiting year that looks to be about as large. We will need to think very creatively to accommodate these people a year from now. This will require both a short- and a long-term plan.

In order to cope with this year’s arrivals and to create space for other FAS needs, Associate Dean John Meloy spearheaded an effort to use space more efficiently. We subdivided many classroom and offices. Our goal is to provide a private space in which to concentrate for each professorial faculty member who is expected to do research. We are still short of this goal. There were twenty-two projects carried out in seven building affecting fourteen departments and programs. Five departments or centers have moved or partially moved within the last year. We created eleven new offices, five new classrooms, and one new lab.

FAS space needs were ameliorated by two developments. First, the Fine Arts and Art History Department was allowed to use a large room in the basement of the Mayfair Dormitory for student studio art needs. Second, the former FAS Dean’s

Residence in Building 37 was opened for academic use. It now houses the new Arts and Humanities Initiative and the Center for American Studies and Research.

Enrollment of new students in fall 2012-13 has reached a record level, and new students take almost all of their courses in FAS. We have been able to cope with this influx through some careful planning—all students have been able to register for the courses they need, although we were forced to create classes larger than we would like in some areas such as mathematics and physics.

Two large grants—one from USAID, and the other from a Canadian foundation— have enabled about 65 students to attend AUB this year on full scholarships. These are financially needy students selected for academic potential. They will add to the socio-economic diversity of AUB. Our University Preparatory Program is providing a foundation program for many of them. UPP has never had to deal with so many since its founding, but it is also coping well. Associate Dean Tabbal has taken a leading role in coordinating these important efforts.

FAS initiated AUB’s new periodic program review process. We recently completed reviews of four departments: Physics, Chemistry, Philosophy and PSPA. The process involved benchmarking with the best programs internationally and calibrating our strategies carefully based on our own potential here. Two more departments are in the midst of the process: Mathematics and History and Archaeology. Two additional departments will start the process in 2012-13: Education and Computer Science.

FAS has increased its external research funding, particularly in the sciences, education, and interdisciplinary areas. Moreover, this year AUB has committed $1.6 million toward upgrading crucial research equipment in the Central Research Science Laboratory.

The Department of Biology completed some significant improvements in its labs, its processes and its safety procedures. We are still working on a plan to deal with significant safety concerns in the Chemistry Building, including the presence of asbestos.

The New York State Department of Education has given final approval to new Master’s programs in Media Studies and Clinical Psychology. The Media Studies program begins in the fall of 2012-13 and the Clinical Psychology program will start in fall 2013-14. A new MA in Transnational American Studies has been approved by the Board of Trustees and is awaiting final approval from the New York State Board of Education. A number of additional new programs are expected to begin the approval process in 2012-13.

AUB’s new Saleeby Gallery opened in June 2012. A curator/director, housed in the FAAH Department joins us in 2012-13. Work continues on a second exhibition space in Ada Dodge Hall that will host temporary exhibitions.

AUB received a large grant from the Mellon Foundation to start an Arts and Humanities Initiative. This program commences in the fall of 2012-13 with the arrival of our first two external fellows. It also supports releases from teaching for a number of FAS humanities professors each semester for the three years of its duration.

Patrick McGreevy Dean

PART II

REPORTS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Patrick McGreevy, Dean

Members: Farouk Abi Khuzam, Professor, Mathematics Assaad Khairallah, Professor, Arabic and NEL Samih Isber, Professor, Physics Sari Hanafi, Professor, SOAM Shahe Kazarian, Professor, Psychology Helene Sader, Professor, History and Archaeology

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The committee considered new procedures and policies, particularly with regard to promotions, but no major changes were made.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The committee advised the dean on matters related to faculty appointments, reappointments, promotion, research leaves, leaves without pay, and REP secondments. Below is an overview of the main actions taken by the committee.

1. The committee considered applications for leaves without pay and research leaves with pay. Eighteen professors were approved for paid research leaves during the academic year 2012-13. Eleven will be on Periodic Paid Research Leaves (seven in the fall, three in the spring, and one for both semesters). Another seven will be on Junior Paid Leaves (three in the fall and four in the spring). One faculty member will be on leave without pay during the fall semester. In addition, two faculty members will be seconded on REP assignments for the academic year 2012-13.

2. The committee considered many faculty appointments. The committee voted to recommend offers and the process resulted in hiring twenty-seven new professors in various ranks including twelve visiting professors. Of these, four will begin in January 2013. 7

3. Nine applications for promotion were considered. Four applications were for promotion to the rank of full professor and five for the rank of associate professor. The promotion cycle resulted in one faculty member being promoted to full professor and four to associate professor.

4. The committee considered departmental recommendations for renewal or non-renewal of contract for all full-time faculty members whose contracts ended in either September 2012 or September 2013. The committee voted on appropriate action in all cases.

5. The committee also made recommendations on the appointment or reappointment of a large number of department chairs. Members of the committee, along with associate deans, accompanied the dean to consult with all available members of the departments in question.

Patrick McGreevy Dean

CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Acting Chairperson: Lara Halaoui, Professor (Fall 2011-12), Chemistry Tarek Ghaddar, Associate Professor (Spring 2011-2012), Chemistry

Members: Hala Abu Araj (representing the Registrar's Office) Anies Al Hroub, Assistant Professor, Education in replacement of Jad Melki for the first semester 2011-12 Lisa Rebekah Arnold (2013), Assistant Professor, English Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (2012), Assistant Professor, Civilization Sequence Program Kamal Bouhadir (2012), Associate Professor, Chemistry Sabine El Khoury (2012), Assistant Professor, Mathematics Nivine Jalfi (student representative) Jad Melki (2012), Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies (representing the Senate Academic Development Committee) Wafic Ali Sabra (2014), Professor, CAMS (representing the Senate Academic Development Committee) Livia Celine Wick (2013), Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences Madeleine Yehia, (student representative)

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The Committee adopted a policy to authorize the Acting Chair to rule on the equivalence of courses taken at AUB and other institutions. The Acting Chair would discuss with the committee courses that he considers problematic and that are not listed in the database developed by Ms. Zeina Halabieh, the Academic Officer in the Dean’s office. The Committee also adopted a policy to authorize the Acting Chair to rule on recurring petitions and on pre-approval of transfer equivalences.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

1. The Committee met eleven times during the course of the academic year (July

2011 to June 2012). Some issues were discussed by e-mail, but circular e-mail votes were limited to a strict minimum.

2. The Committee approved 168 petitions (declined 15 petitions), 216 course equivalences and waivers (declined 4 cases), 54 study abroad applications (no declined cases), and 7 letters for course equivalence for students admitted as junior transfers.

3. The committee approved the introduction of two new courses, MCOM 280/380 and MCOM 281/381, in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department.

4. The committee approved the introduction of the Introductory Physics Lab, PHYS 103L, to be taken with or after PHYS 103.

5. The committee approved the introduction of FAAH 263/263A/263B/264A/264B Arabic Music Ensemble.

6. The committee approved the introduction of a zero credit course BIOL 296 (Exit Survey), to be taken by all graduating biology students.

7. The committee approved a proposal by the Psychology undergraduate program to adopt a new numbering system and to eliminate the course PSYC 231 (Psychological Measurement and Scaling).

8. The committee approved a proposal by the Computer Science Department: a) to change the requirements from three math courses and one free elective for majors to four required math courses (MATH 201, MATH 211, either MATH 218 or 219, and either STAT 230 or 233). b) to add CMPS 256 to list of courses for minor with a prerequisite CMPS 211, making the minor 18 credit hours. c) to eliminate all mention of EECE 230/330 courses as prerequisites for CMPS courses and to handle cross-disciplinary equivalency requests on a case-by-case basis. d) to add or delete some prerequisites to other courses as follows: CMPS 211 was added as a prerequisite for CMPS 255; CMPS 211 or 212 was added as a prerequisite for CMPS 256; CMPS 277 was removed as a prerequisite for CMPS 278; CMPS 253, 272, and 277 were added as prerequisites for CMPS 299.

9. The committee approved the introduction of MCOM 204 (Public Speaking and Media Interviews), MCOM 242 (Digital and Multimedia News) and MCOM 252 (Digital Activism for Social Change) to the MCOM diploma program.

10. The committee approved the introduction a non-thesis option for the MA in Media Studies.

11. The committee approved a proposal by the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department. The proposal consists of the following items: a) Modifying the course description of SOAN 203 b) Renumbering SOAN 214 to SOAN 237 c) Introducing SOAN 216 as an alternative requirement, equivalent to SOAN 210 d) Modifying the title and course description of SOAN 212 (History and Theory in Anthropology e) Modifying the course description of SOAN 221 f) Introducing a new course SOAN 218 entitled Anthropology of Medicine and Science

12. The committee approved reinstating PHYS 216 (Mathematical Methods for Physics) as a required course in the Physics department instead of Math 212.

13. The committee approved a proposal by the Chemistry Department. The proposal consists of the following items: a) Introduction of CHEM 201L (Introduction to Chemical Analysis Laboratory) as a 1 cr. required laboratory course staring Fall 2012-13 (applicable only to students with ID’s starting with 2012) b) Introduction of CHEM 234 (Instrumental Analytical Chemistry) as a 3 cr. elective course c) The change in course content and reduction of credits for CHEM 225 from 4 to 3 cr. (applicable only to students with ID’s starting with 2012)

14. The committee approved slight changes in the catalogue description of the following courses: MCOM 203, MCOM 240, STAT 230, STAT 234, STAT 238, PHYS 103L, PHYS 204L, PHYS 205L, PHYS 210L, PHYS 211L, BIOL 200, BIOL 209, BIOL 210, BIOL 291/292 and BIOL 293/294.

15. The committee approved changes in the pre-requisites for the following courses: FAAH 207, EDUC 213, EDUC 224, EDUC 280 and MCOM 241.

16. The committee approved changes in the minor requirements in the Media Studies Program and in the Political Sciences and Public Administration department.

17. The committee approved and finalized in collaboration with the Registrar’s Office the restriction of all FAS student from registering the following

courses: AGSC 288 “The Art of Honey Making”, AVSC 279 “Companion Pet Birds and Animals”, AVSC 280 “Aquarium, Marine and Farming Fish”, and NSFC 220 “Food Nutrition and Awareness”.

18. The committee prepared with the help of the FAS Dean’s office staff and approved a new form for course equivalence and transfer of credits that will be adopted by the Registrar’s office during the 2012-13 academic year.

19. The committee, with the help of the FAS Dean’s office staff, approved a procedure regarding the transfer of credits for a course taken outside AUB (such as in the case of study abroad program), where the respective AUB department would evaluate the course contents and suggest the number of credits to be transferred for such a course.

20. The committee implemented a new procedure for approving the transfer of credits for courses that satisfy the General Education requirements with the help of Prof. Ali Elhajj (Chairperson of the General Education Committee).

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

1. The FAS departments should review some of their courses’ pre-requisites, as well as some of their graduation and minor requirements. This would help in reducing the number of petitions submitted to the Committee.

2. The details and the procedure regarding the adoption of the proposed form for course equivalence and transfer of credits should be finalized and implemented.

3. The details and the procedure regarding the transfer of credits for courses taken outside AUB, including the ones that satisfy the General Education requirements, should be further studied, since such requests are expected to increase in the future years. Moreover, the Registrar’s office should maintain an updated list of such courses on the AUB website as a reference, and these courses should be re-evaluated every 2 to 3 years.

Tarek Ghaddar Acting Chairperson

GRADUATE COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Sawsan Kreydiyyeh, Professor, Biology

Members: Hazar Abu-Khuzam, Professor, Mathematics Nabil Dajani, Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences (member, Board of graduate studies) Mounib El Eid, Professor, Physics Vivian Khamis, Associate Professor, Education John Meloy, Professor, History and Archeology Hala Mohtasib, Professor, Biology (member, Board of graduate studies) Samir Seikaly, Professor, History and Archeology (member, Board of graduate studies)

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

This year the Graduate Committee ruled on all matters related to graduate work according to the new unified rules and regulations appearing in the University catalogue of 2011- 2012. In addition the below policies governed committee decisions: 1. Students applying to interfaculty programs are evaluated on their cumulative average. 2. Students applying to a field, in which they completed a minor, may be accepted as regular graduates only if their cumulative average in the courses taken for the minor is 80 or above. 3. Lecturers can serve on Master thesis committees only if 3 other members of professorial rank including the advisor are already present. 4. A first failure in the comprehensive exam course is reported as PR (in progress). A second failure is reported as F. When the comprehensive exam is not taken by the end of the semester in which the course was registered , an I is reported, and the student is required to complete the missing work at the latest , if granted a permission, one month after the beginning of the next semester. Failure to complete the work on time will be considered as a failure and a PR or F is reported depending on whether it is the first or second failure. 14

5. As the possibility of having a co-advisor in addition to an advisor on Master thesis committees does not appear anywhere in the catalogue, and since the definition and role of the co-advisor were never clear to the committee, departments were asked to change co advisors, when present, into committee members

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The graduate committee held during the academic year 2011-2012, thirteen meetings to discuss and act on various issues relating to: 1) Masters graduate admission, 2) PhD graduate admission, 3) petitions from graduate students, 4) assessment at the end of every semester of the academic performance of graduate students 5) status of prospective students after completion of undergraduate requirements, 6) thesis and project committees and proposals. The Committee approved 1. A non-thesis Master program in mass communication 2. A change in the description of the graduate course Biology 322 (Advanced Biochemistry) 3. A new program in American studies. 4. A new biology PhD course in cell and molecular biology (Biol 494). 5. The introduction of new anthropology courses namely SOAN 316 (The Ethnographer’s Craft), SOAN 317 (Culture and Mental Health) and SOAN 318 (Arts, Aesthetics and Social Change). 6. Changes in the description of courses MCOM 380 and MCOM 381

The committee approved in addition, 132 thesis / project proposals and acted on 227 petitions pertaining to extension of residency, transfer of credits, and change in the composition of thesis committee, change in thesis advisor, file reactivation, course equivalence, and extension of deadlines for submission of thesis proposal or thesis defense.

The Committee started considering administrative issues and acted on 91 petitions (55 change of records).

The Committee assessed the academic performance of graduate students at the end of the Fall semester. Twenty two graduate students were placed on academic probation and 6 others were dropped from the faculty as a result of failing a course or not attaining an average of at least 80%. Eight students were able to remove their academic probation. At the time this report was compiled the data on

15 assessing academic performance of graduate students for Spring semester was not yet complete

By June 2012, the new online petition system became available.

The Committee made recommendations regarding graduate admission for the Spring of 2012, and Fall 2012-2013.

For fall 2011-2012, two hundred and four (204) Master applicants out of 431 were admitted, and only 88 of those joined AUB. Thus the percentage of students accepted was 47.3%, the percentage of admitted students who registered was 43.1%, and the percentage of applicants who did enroll in the Master programs was 20.4% (Table 1). A total of 23 students applied to the different PhD programs in FAS. Only 3 were accepted, and two of those only registered and joined the Biology department (Table 2).

Table 1. Master applicants for Table 2. PhD applicants for

Fall 2011-2012 Fall 2011-2012

Fall 2011-2012 PhD Fall 2011- Major Applied Accepted Registered 2012 ANTH 6 4 1 ARLL 8 1 1 Major Applied Accepted Registered AROL 4 2 0 BIOL 24 9 5 CHEM 16 14 7 AMEH 7 1 0 CMPS 22 7 3 CMTS 7 2 1 ARLL 3 0 0 ECON 19 8 2 EDUC 32 18 9 CMBL 11 2 2 ELIT 11 7 6 TPHY 2 0 0 ELNG 8 5 2 ENVP 6 4 1 FINE 36 14 7 TOTAL 23 3 2 GEOL 6 2 1 HIST 12 2 1 MATA 1 1 0 MATS 13 9 6 MEST 73 31 12 PHIL 6 2 1 PHYS 13 8 2 POLS 50 26 11 PSYC 28 16 7 PUBA 19 10 0 SOAN 1 0 0 16 SOGY 8 2 2 STAT 2 0 0 TOTAL 431 204 88

The committee discussed 171 Master applications for spring 2011-2012 and recommended the admission of 97 students; however only 48 applicants of those accepted joined graduate work at AUB. Thus 56.7% of the applicants were accepted and only 49.56% of those, registered. Consequently 28.5% of the applicants did enroll in the different Master programs (Table 3).The committee studied only three PhD applications to Arabic language and literature for Spring 2012, and recommended the admission of only one candidate who did join the program (Table 4).

Table 3. Master applicants for Table 4. PhD applicants for Spring Spring 2011-2012 2011-2012 Spring 2011-2012

Major Applied Accepted Registered PhD Spring 2011- 2012 ANTH 5 2 0 ARLL 4 1 1 AROL 2 2 1 Major Applied Accepted Registered BIOL 12 6 5 CHEM 5 5 3 ARLL 3 1 1 CMPS 8 6 5 TOTAL 3 1 1 CMTS 3 1 1

ECON 12 6 1 EDUC 15 12 6 ELIT 3 2 2 ELNG 2 1 0 ENVP 2 2 1 FINE 20 11 3 HIST 1 0 0 MATS 4 3 1 MEST 25 10 4 PHIL 2 2 2 PHYS 7 6 3 POLS 15 7 3 PSYC 6 4 3 PUBA 13 3 2 SOGY 5 5 1 TOTAL 171 97 48

For Fall 2012-2013, the committee discussed 357 applications to the different Master

17 programs at AUB and recommended the admission of 29 on probation, 48 as prospective and 153 as regular graduate students. Thus the total number of students admitted under the different categories constitutes 64% of the applicants (Table 5). Only 7 of the 24 PhD applicants were accepted with an admission rate of 29% only (Table 6).

Table 5. Master applicants for Fall 2012-2013

Fall 2012-2013 Major Probation Prospective Regular Reject Total ANTH 1 3 1 5 ARLL 2 1 9 12 AROL 2 2 BIOL 1 5 5 11 CHEM 2 1 3 1 7 CMPS 1 1 8 3 13 CMTS 2 4 6 ECON 3 9 10 5 27 EDUC 5 4 13 14 36 ELIT 1 3 4 ELNG 3 2 1 6 ENVP 1 1 3 5 FINE 5 11 10 7 33 GEOL 1 1 HIST 5 3 2 10 MATA 1 1 2 MATS 1 1 3 1 6 MCOM 2 2 1 5 MEST 29 25 54 NWAS 16 1 17 PHIL 4 1 5 PHYS 1 7 3 11 POLS 2 9 22 33 PSYC 2 1 11 11 25 PUBA 2 3 4 7 16 SOGY 2 3 5 Total 29 48 153 127 357

Table 6. PhD applicants for Fall 2012-2013

PhD Fall 2012-2013

Major Applied Accepted Rejected AMEH 13 5 8

ARLL 1 0 1 CMBL 8 1 7 TPHY 2 1 1 TOTAL 24 7 17

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

The committee was still dissatisfied with the process of having two deadlines for applying to graduate work. This has caused a considerable delay in decision making by the departments who preferred to group all applicants in one pool and chose the best from it. This is why the committee recommends having only one deadline for submission of application and the respect of this deadline.

The committee would like to recommend 1. A faster processing of the applications by the admissions office to allow for earlier decision making and earlier information of applicants about their admission statues. 2. A better cooperation from the registrar’s office in providing data needed for the evaluation of the academic status of students.

The committee looks forward to having the online application system next year.

Sawsan Kreydiyyeh Chairperson

THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Sirène Harb, Associate Professor, English

Members (Fall)

Abbas Al Hakim, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (12) Sari Hanafi, Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (12) Samir Seikaly, Professor, History and Archeology (12) University Librarian, Dr. Lokman Meho and Members of the University Library Committee: Sirène Harb, Associate Professor, English (12) Tamer Tlas, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (13)

Members (Spring) Noel Ghanem, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology (13) Michel Kazan, Assistant Professor, Physics (in replacement of Tamer Tlas for Spring 2011-2012)

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

Not Applicable

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The committee met once in the Fall and once in the Spring semester to discuss the following issues:

1. New library policies and their implementation 2. The effects of program/curriculum changes on library acquisition 3. Budget allocation for the department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (SOAM) and the department of Psychology, formerly under one department, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS).

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

A recommendation was made to encourage communication between faculty members and library staff in order to discuss research and course-related needs.

Sirène Harb Acting Chairperson

RESEARCH COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Acting Chairperson: Rabih Sultan, Professor, Chemistry

Members: Lina Choueiri, Associate Professor, English Leila Dagher, Assistant Professor, Economics Rabih El-Mouhayyar, Assistant Professor, Education (1st semester) Houssam El-Rassy, Associate Professor, Chemistry May Farhat, Assistant Professor, Fine Arts and Arts History Ghazi Ghaith, Professor, Education (2nd semester) Mike Osta, Assistant Professor, Biology Haidar Safa, Assistant Professor, Computer Science (2nd semester)

URB Representatives: Ata Elias, Assistant Professor, Geology Helen Sader, Professor, History and Archeology

Research Committee Coordinator: Zeina Halabieh (Academic Officer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences)

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The Research Committee (RC) delegated to the Acting Chair the authority to sign off on proposals for external grants. The Acting Chair should check that the submitted proposals comply with AUB rules and regulations.

The RC reviewed the guidelines and policies of the University Research Board (URB), as well as the policies of the Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC), and adopted minor alterations at an early stage to set the rules that will govern the review procedure.

For URB proposals, the RC invited applicants to suggest names of reviewers: two internal (from AUB) and two external (scholars from the academic community in Lebanon or international scholars).

The RC did not adopt the policy requirement that that the reviewer of a proposal should not be a URB applicant, or that referees should necessarily be external to AUB.

Based on the received suggestions (from the candidates), the RC contacted three reviewers for each application, at least one from outside the candidate's list. Some proposals had three reviews (12 in all), and some only two (17).

In situations where the RC received only one report, it solicited reviews anew. Under no circumstance, did the Committee base its evaluation and ranking on one, single review report.

In its new evaluation form, the RC addressed its inquiries to the reviewer with notable briefness, avoiding redundant questions. The RC members agreed to include a maximum of five general evaluation categories in the review form.

The five included evaluation criteria gauge: 1. Significance and Originality; 2. Investigator's Experience and Competence; 3. Approach and Methodology; 4. Feasibility; and 5. Budget.

The RC made sure not to call upon reviewers that are research collaborators with the PI, checked the CVs of potential reviewers when needed, and verified that the selected reviewers are active professionals, affiliated to academic or research institutions.

The committee went over the URB proposals one by one. Each case was presented by a member of the committee and discussed thoroughly. Votes for (i) recommending fund as is, (ii) recommending fund after alteration, or (iii) rejecting fund were taken.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The front page of the URB proposal (Proposal Transmittal and Approval Form) was revised. An extra blank line for the title of the proposal was inserted, to accommodate long proposal titles. It is available at the link: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/fasrc/Documents/URB_application_form_05.pdf

The RC carried out a thorough revision, study, and redesign of the Review Form to be sent to the reviewers. The RC decided to adopt the evaluation criteria and scoring scheme of the National Institute of Health (NIH; with permission), after

23 adapting it to the AUB/URB requirements and settings. The NIH score scheme is based on a nine points scale (1-9) for each rubric. Each rubric score should be justified by a short explanatory paragraph. The completed review form is accessible at: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/fasrc/Documents/Review%20Form-2012.doc

Each evaluation question (five overall) is graded according to the described 1-9 points scale. A formula was worked out to convert the average score into an overall percentile mark. A score of 1 should yield 100%, whereas a 9-score should give 0. The formula is given by:

% grade 100 [(x 1)12.5] where x is the average score out of 9.

The review form for renewals was kept as it is (same as last year). It was provided to the reviewers as a separate file.

New URB proposals

The deadline for the submission of new URB proposals was January 23, 2012; it was extended to January 31, 2012. 29 new proposals were submitted for URB funding. The total requested budget amounted to $270,570. The RC suggested budget cuts in some proposals (items not allowed by URB, items or amounts not well justified, or over-estimated). After the latter cuts, the recommended budget dropped to $256,794 . The distribution of the 29 proposals over the various A&S departments is shown in Chart 1.

9 8

7 6 5 4 3

2 No. of proposals of No. 1 0

Chart 1: New URB proposals for 2012-2013.

The proposals were ranked based on the average scores obtained through the review process. Minutes of the deliberations on each proposal were recorded in detail, and submitted along with the FAS-RC report to the URB, on May 10, 2012.

URB proposals renewals

11 URB proposals were considered for renewal, 8 in their second and final year, one in its third and final year, and two in their second (out of three years) year. The total requested budget was $107,173. After well justified cuts, the Committee recommended $103,142 for the URB renewals. The distribution of the renewed proposals over the A&S departments is depicted in Chart 2.

7 6 5 4 3 2 No. ofrenewals No. 1 0 BIOL CHEM PSPA

Chart 2: URB Renewal Applications for 2012-2013.

The deadline for the submission of requests for URB renewals was March 31, 2012; it was extended to April 2, 2012. The meeting on renewals was held on May 3, 2012, and the account on the renewals was included in the main report submitted on May 10, 2012.

External Proposals

24 research proposals were submitted to national (LNCSR) and external funding agencies, distributed as follows:

National Science Foundation 1 Lebanese Council of Scientific Research 4 (LNCSR) The Arab Funds for Arts and Culture 1 Partnerships for enhanced Engagement in 2 Research (PEER) The National Academics -USAID 4 (PEER/NSF Program) Qatar National Research Fund 4 The Leverhulme Trust 1

The Herb Society of America 1 Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies 1 ltd (FURS) European Commission 2 International Foundation For Science (IFS) 1 Feminist Review Trust 1 Spencer Foundation 1

The total sum of requested funds amounts to $ 4,028,426 + € 1,142,390 + LL 80,000,000. 21 of these 24 proposals have already been approved. The distribution of the external research funding applications over the various FAS departments is displayed in Chart 3.

7 6 5 4 3

2 No. of proposals of No. 1 0

BIOL HIST CVSP ECON EDUC FAAH PHYS CHEM CMPS SOAM

Chart 3: Number of applications for external grants distributed over the FAS departments.

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

The web site of the Research Committee needs a complete redesign and rehabilitation. The RC should launch this project, as soon as possible.

An online submission process should be developed, with a deadline cutoff.

The review process should be turned into an online operation. The newly adopted review form should be automated, and the scoring and comments entered online.

The call for proposals should be sent by OGC to the various faculties at an earlier date. The period between the announcement call and the deadline for submission should better be wider. The backward push of the call date from December 15 (2010) to November 21 (2011) was an encouraging move.

It is important to define what we mean by “external” referee (external to AUB or external to Lebanon). The Committee did specify the nuance between “internal” and “external” before it proceeded with the review, and considered external as external to AUB. But this needs standardization across the various successive committees, and preferably by the URB.

Some committee members expressed their wish to see the review process follow a more comprehensive and accurate evaluation methodology, whereby the referee would be asked to submit a detailed written review like in the journals' peer review and the promotion review.

Other views suggested that applicants should not be asked to suggest referees, and that the name of the applicant should not be made known to the referee.

Such various suggestions and recommendations should be considered by next year's committee.

Rabih Sultan Acting Chairperson

UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairman: Malek Tabbal, Professor, Physics (2012)

Members: Monique Azar, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (2013) Alexander Hartwiger, Assistant Professor, English (2013) Diana Jaalouk, Assistant Professor, Biology (2013) Khouzama Knio, Professor, Biology (2012) Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Assistant Professor, Civilization Sequence Program (2012) Nidal Najjar, Assistant Professor, Psychology (2013) Nadia Slobodenyuk, Assistant Professor, Psychology (2012) Hala Abu Arraj, Registrar, Ex-Officio Leila Knio, Student Services Officer, attends all meetings of the Committee, records minutes. Noor El Bukhari, Student representative as of Spring 2011-12 (2012)

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The Committee has the power to make exceptions to academic regulations in individual special cases, by ruling on requests and petitions from undergraduate students pertaining to their academic status and records. During the Fall 2011-12 semester, the committee dealt with graduate students petitions. However, due to changes in its bylaws as of the Spring 2012 semester, all petitions from graduate students are considered by the Graduate Studies Committee. The new bylaws also stipulate that a non-voting student representative is elected to serve on the committee. In line with a policy that was approved by the FAS in 2009, the Committee allows students to repeat courses more than three times.

The Committee unanimously 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 35 meetings throughout the academic year 2011-2012.

1. After review of their academic records, the Committee extended the strict probation status for 45 students who were previously sent notifications that they would be dismissed from the Faculty if they did not remove their academic probation by the end of the Fall semester 2011-12. A total of 26 students were dropped from the Faculty effective end of Fall 2011-12 because of poor academic standing.

2. Fifty-four students should have been dropped end of Fall 2011-12. However, the Committee sent them letters informing them that they would be automatically dropped from the faculty at the end of the Spring semester 2011-12 since they were reinstated and given an extension of their probation status. Out of these 54 students, 36 removed their probation and were allowed to continue and five students graduated.

3. The Committee reviewed the academic records of students on strict probation who had received letters stating that they would dismissed from the Faculty if they did not remove their academic probation at the end of the Spring semester 2011-12. A total of forty students were dropped from the Faculty because of poor academic standing (34 effective end of Spring 2011-12, 6 effective end of Summer 2012), thirty-five students were reinstated and were allowed to register for Fall 2012-13, after providing the Committee with convincing reasons for their reinstatement. Letters specifying the probation status of these students were sent in July (See Appendix 2).

4. The Committee received readmission requests from students who were dropped from AUB after having spent one year at a recognized institution of higher learning. 4 students have been readmitted on strict probation in Summer 2011, 18 students have been readmitted on strict probation in Fall 2011, 5 students have been readmitted on strict probation in Spring 2012.

Irregular Loads

Permission to take less than 12 credits was granted by the Committee to graduating students, new students in their first semester at AUB, students with health or family problems and students working for a second degree and holding jobs.

Graduating students who were not on probation were also permitted to take more than 17 credits in their last semester. The special form that was developed in order to make the procedure easier and faster for graduating students (Overload/Underload for Senior students in their last semester) has proved to be very practical. 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 adviser’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 done by Faculty members in calculating or reporting final grades. The Committee honoured all correction-of-record requests from students, which were due to advising and/or registration mistakes (See Appendix 1).

D. RECOMMENDATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

 The FAS Dean’s Office has completed with the support of the Office of Information Technology the development of an electronic system for submission of students’ petitions. The electronic petition system has been introduced in the Summer 2011-12. Assessment of this new electronic system will be done throughout the 2012-13 academic year.

 The FAS and the Office of the Provost should step up their efforts to address the issue of students with special needs. Preliminary discussions to form an ad-hoc committee are currently under way.

 The Office of the Provost should consider making new agreement with local universities regarding dismissed students following the cancellation of the AUB-LAU agreement. The policy regarding the dismissal of students from FAS should also be reviewed.

 The Committee should discuss with the Curriculum Committee the issue of equivalence of courses taken at other local universities, especially the newly established ones.

 The University should address the issue of advising as many of the problems that students face could be reduced through implementation more dependable advising procedures.

Malek Tabbal Chairperson

Appendix 1

Major Actions Taken by the FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee (AY 11-12)

Fall 11 SPRING 12 Subject P1 A2 D3 Total P1 A2 D3 Total Correction of record/change in course 1 210 20 231 2 224 42 268 schedule Dropping students from a course for 0 15 37 52 7 14 40 61 excessive absences Extra Load for students in good standing 0 28 25 53 0 16 18 34 TOTAL 18 crs 0 22 22 44 0 11 11 22 19 crs 0 3 1 4 0 2 0 2 20 crs 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 1

21 crs 0 3 0 3 0 3 6 9 24 crs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Extra Load for students on probation 1 4 7 12 2 6 7 15 TOTAL Readmission of dropped students after 1 yr 0 21 2 23 0 5 2 7 at another Univ.4 Reconsideration of 'drop from faculty' 3 15 3 21 2 18 9 29 decision Repeating a course for the 4th time or 0 12 0 12 0 18 0 18 more Underload for students in good standing 6 61 20 87 3 74 27 104 Underload for students on probation 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 Incomplete Course Work 'Form 1' 6 157 1 164 5 61 5 71 Change of Grade 'Form 3' 2 69 0 71 0 87 2 89

SUMMER 11 Subject P1 A2 D3 Total Correction of record/change in course schedule 2 52 7 61 Extra Load for students in good standing

TOTAL 0 3 0 3 10 crs 0 1 0 1 11 crs 0 0 0 0 12 crs 0 2 0 2 Extra Load for students on probation

TOTAL 1 0 2 3 Readmission of dropped students after 1 yr at another Univ.4 0 3 2 5 Reconsideration of 'drop from faculty' decision 0 8 4 12 Repeating a course for the 4th time or more 1 14 0 15 Incomplete Course Work 'Form 1' 0 18 1 19 Change of Grade 'Form 3' 0 3 0 3

1Pending 2Approved 3Declined 4Students in this category are readmitted on strict probation

Appendix 2 Major Actions Taken by the FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee (AY 11-12) (Students on Strict Probation)

End of Fall 2011-12 Total I. Drop From Faculty 26 II. Extend Drop till Spring 2011 45 III. Drop Automatically end of Spring 2011 53

End of Spring 2011-12 Total I. A) Drop From Faculty 34 II. Extend Drop till Fall 2012 34 III. Extend Drop till Spring 2013 1

End of Summer 2011-12 Total I. A)Drop From Faculty 6

STUDENT DISCIPLINARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairperson: Joshua Andresen, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Members: Michel Bariche, Associate Professor, Department of Biology Bana Bashour, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Leila Dagher, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Abbas Matar, Student Representative Talal Nezameddin, Dean of Student Affairs Wissam Raji, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics Bassam Shayya, Professor, Department of Mathematics Charbel Tarraf, Associate Dean of Student Affairs

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The central policies of the SDAC are to uphold the norms of academic integrity at AUB by enforcing the rules concerning academic misconduct. Our aim was to enforce both the spirit and letter of those rules and norms. In each case of misconduct, the accused student was invited to come before the committee to explain his or her situation. In several significant cases, the student was able to provide evidence that either exonerated him or her or substantially altered an initial impression of guilt in the eyes of the committee. In the remaining cases, once culpability was established, the committee made sure that the student understood why the action(s) they had committed were serious offences to the integrity of AUB. It is our hope that in the vast majority of the cases we reviewed, the student left the meeting with a firm and clear grasp of his or her wrongdoing and the resolve never to repeat such action again.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

At the time of this writing (June 15, 2012), the SDAC has taken action in 52 cases of academic misconduct that it has heard thus far during the academic year of 2011-2012. Of the 52 cases, 11 involved cheating, 30 involved plagiarism, 1 involved in-class disruption, and 10 involved dishonesty. Of the 11 cheating cases,

35 the SDAC found students culpable in 10 of the 11 cases. Of the 30 cases involving plagiarism, the SDAC found students culpable in 29 of the 30 cases. In the one case of in-class disruption and the 10 cases of dishonesty, the SDAC found the students culpable in each case.

The SDAC has recommended disciplinary action ranging from an official Warning to two Dean’s Warnings, with secondary disciplinary actions including failure in the course in which the misconduct took place. The severity of the recommended disciplinary action in each case was made in relation to the severity and number of the infractions a student had committed. In each case the SDAC considered the need to maintain consistency across our decisions and the need to offer adequate material justification on their behalf.

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

Academic misconduct and lack of academic integrity is sadly rampant at AUB. The 30 cases of plagiarism we have reviewed thus far are believed to be the proverbial tip of the iceberg. These cases have ranged from freshman assignments to final Master’s projects. They have ranged in form from improper citation, to cut and pasted information from the internet, to papers wholly bought from professional paper writers. Quite simply, AUB is losing the fight for academic integrity. As I see it, the reasons for that loss are straightforward, but the cost of remedying the situation substantial. The main reasons for a lack of academic integrity at AUB include: 1) students do not understand why plagiarism and cheating are wrong and 2) students resort to various forms of plagiarism because they lack adequate training in writing English prose.

The remedy for the first is not terribly difficult. Forums on academic integrity, the point and benefits of doing one’s own work, and the deceit involved in presenting another’s work as one’s own should be held at the beginning of each semester and they should be mandatory for incoming students (the plagiarism test is sadly and pathetically inadequate). The one idea that many students have, that “plagiarism is stealing,” is terribly abstract, theoretically and practically questionable, and, most importantly, woefully inadequate for getting to the heart of the real problems with plagiarism: if you don’t do your own work, you can’t learn; and when you present someone else’s work as your own, you’re lying.

The remedy for the lack of English writing ability at AUB will, of course, require a more substantial commitment on the part of the university. AUB seemed to be moving in the right direction several years ago with talk of “writing-intensive”

36 courses. Sadly, it seems that such courses have largely fizzled rather than being made a cornerstone of the curriculum. It seems fair to think that only when we give students the proper tools to do the work, can we actually expect them to do so with integrity. In philosophy, we say “ought implies can,” which, in turn, implies that if one cannot, then the burden of ought is illegitimate. AUB presently stands at a crossroads: it either chooses an excellent education for its students with academic integrity, or it chooses neither.

Joshua Andresen Chairperson

UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE

A. MEMBERSHIP

Chairman: Hans D. Muller, Associate Professor, Philosophy (2012)

Members: Abbas Al Hakim, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (in replacement of Dr. T. Tlas, 2013) Michel Bariche, Associate Professor, Biology (2013) Karma El-Hassan, Associate Professor, Education (in replacement of Dr. C. Hindawi, 2013) Houssam El-Rassy, Assistant Professor, Chemistry (2012) Joshua Gonsalves, Assistant Professor, English (2012) Ali Haidar, Assistant Professor, Geology (2013), Member of the University Admissions Committee Ramzi Mabsout, Assistant Professor, Economics (2013) John Pedro Schwartz, Assistant Professor, English (in replacement of Dr. J. Gonsalves, 2013) Tamer Tlas, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (2012) Livia Wick, Assistant Professor, SOAM (in replacement of Dr. C. Hindawi, Fall 2011) Salim Kanaan, Director of Admissions, Admission’s Office Leila Knio, Student Services Officer, FAS Dean’s Office

B. COMMITTEE POLICIES

The University Unified Admissions Committee (UUAC), with representatives from all Faculties, carried on regularly with the applicants for early and regular admission for the academic years 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13.

Dr. H. Muller (Fall), Dr. A. Elias, Abbas Al Hakim (Spring) and Ms. Leila Knio were the FAS representatives to the UUAC during the academic year 2011-2012.

C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS

The Committee held 6 regular meetings and acted on 4 circular votes during the academic year 2011-2012.

Undergraduate Admission: Mid-year admission (Spring 2011-2012): Out of 201 applicants to the Freshman class, the UUAC accepted 99, and out of 266 applicants to the sophomore class, the Committee accepted 135students (with 218 FAS majors). The distribution of accepted sophomore applicants is shown in Table I.

First Semester Admission (Fall 2012-2013): The UUAC, in January 2012, accepted 330 applicants (249 Sophomore and 81 Freshman) who qualified for early admission (EA) to undergraduate study for the academic year 2012-13, as stated in the AUB Undergraduate catalogue 2011-2012, p.37. The distribution of accepted applicants is shown in Table II.

The UUAC has reviewed and acted upon applicants to the undergraduate admissions. Counts which were done early July 2012 showed that: out of 1020 Freshman applicants, the Committee accepted 661 including Children of Alumni, Faculty and Staff, who have been admitted to the Freshman class on the basis of Special University criteria. Out of 2238 applicants to the Sophomore class, the Committee accepted 1676. Children of Alumni, Faculty and Staff have been admitted to the Sophomore Class on the basis of Special University criteria. The UUAC continued for the sixth year to implement the FAS norm and offer unspecified choice of major admission to applicants who did not satisfy all the requirements for the indicated choices while their SAT and CMS scores are equivalent to or above the cut off score. A comprehensive distribution enlisting early and regular accepted applicants is shown in Table III.

Junior Transfers from Other Universities: As per previous Annual Reports, the Committee continued to admit students at the Junior level if they have completed the equivalent of 60 credits including Freshman. The Committee has also agreed to admit transfer applicants to FAS majors at the sophomore level provided they attained a GPA of 3.0/4.0 (80%) and above in at least 24 credits of coursework, depending on seat availability. A total of 120 credits (including Freshman) are needed 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 major department). Exemption from any required course (including Arabic) will be determined on a course-by-course basis by the various departments after

39 registration. As per previous years, at the Committee’s request, the Admissions’ Office notified transfer students, that they should submit the syllabi of the courses for early consideration by the Faculty along with their application. Upon confirmation of admission, accepted transfer applicants were instructed to contact the FAS

Dean’s Office-Student section to finalize their potential sophomore transferrable credits. The Committee then communicates to the Offices of Registrar with copies to the Office of Admissions, Academic adviser and the concerned student(s), the exact number of transferable credits prior to advising and registration (see Table IV).

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

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

1. The committee’s recommendation for redistributing the composition of its members was approved and as of this year, the following distribution has been implemented: two from basic and natural sciences, one from quantitative thought, one from the humanities, and two from the social sciences, with no more than one member from the same department.

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 that are in progress. Such applicants must send their university catalogue as well.

3. The Committee, as in previous years, 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 realizes that few applicants will still be at a disadvantage and their school records are standardized against the general averages and standard deviations, hence, recommended to the UUAC that these cases

should be looked at individually as it was the norm in the FAS.

5. The Committee insists that the UUAC continues the FAS trend for offering unspecified choice of major admission to applicants who do not satisfy all the requirements for the indicated choices while their SAT and CMS scores are equivalent to or above the cut off score. 6. The Committee urged the UUAC to reinstate the FAS trend allowing sophomore applicants to have their admission major changed to another choice of major indicated in their applications if their SAT and CMS scores satisfy the requirements of the requested major. The committee also suggested that the UUAC to look for ways to get more input from applicants about which non-first-choice majors they might be interested in pursuing. This could be done by altering the emphasis in the wording on the application and/or asking admissions staff to make it clear to students that are permitted to list three potential majors in three different faculties (for a possible total of nine).

7. To continue admitting students coming from the different tracks of the Lebanese Baccalaureate to any major in FAS and to ask 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.

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

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

10. The Committee agreed that the UUAC may consider applicants for “Special not Working for a Degree”. However, these applicants must satisfy University admissions requirements, should have spent some time at institutions of higher learning (after completion of high school), and should present good academic record. Moreover, the UUAC may consider “Special not Working for a Degree” applications from AUB graduates who wish to raise their overall averages in order to be eligible for admission for FAS graduate programs. The Committee asserts that such students may

take undergraduate courses only. Undergraduate applicants for “Special not Working for a Degree” requesting to take graduate courses will be considered by the UUAC while graduate applicants will be considered by the FAS Graduate Committee. However, undergraduate applicants must secure, at a later stage, the approval of the Graduate Committee for the particular graduate course they intend to take.

11. The Committee agreed that FAS students wishing to transfer to a different major or join a major (FR) must fill the proper forms and have them endorsed by their adviser and/or chairman.

12. The Committee insisted on having the on-line transfer application forms tailored to meet faculty requirements since interfaculty forms do not fully correspond with FAS requirements.

13. The Committee discussed the possibility of being lenient with transfer deadlines and to possibly make decisions on a rolling basis.

Hans D. Muller Chairperson

Table I

Distribution of Accepted Undergraduate Applicants Spring 2011-2012

MAJOR ACCEPTED Applied Mathematics 4 Arabic Language & Literature 1 Biology 38 Chemistry 36 Computer Science 41 Economics 36 Education/Elementary 1 English Literature 2 Mathematics Arts 2 Mathematics Science 11 Philosophy 1 Physics 24 Political Studies 2 Psychology 8

Petroleum Studies 5 Public Administration 2 Studio Art 1 Sociology & Anthropology 1 Statistics 2 Total _Accepted Sophomore 135* Total _Accepted Freshman 99 Grand Total 234 * 218 FAS majors

Table II

Distribution of Early Accepted Undergraduate Applicants Fall 2012-2013

MAJOR ACCEPTED Art History 3 Applied Mathematics 5 Archaeology 2 Biology 117 Chemistry 9 Computer Science 12 Economics 39 Education/Elementary 0 English Literature 2 English Language 0 Geology 1 Mathematics Arts 1 Mathematics Science 13 Philosophy 0 Physics 20 Political Studies 7 Psychology 7 Petroleum Studies 4 Public Administration 1 Studio Art 5 Sociology & Anthropology 1 Statistics 0 Total _Accepted Sophomore 249 Total _Accepted Freshman 81 Grand Total 330

Table III

FAS Admissions Figures for Fall 2012- 13

2012- 13 201310 MAJOR Expected Yield CMS* AP AC C E 12-13 AHST 26 5 1 0 - APPM 87 32 10 4 0.13 510 ARLL 15 3 0 0 - AROL 31 7 1 0 - BIOL 610 949 475 158 99 0.21 CHEM 565 601 242 71 45 0.19 CMPS 520 470 214 75 48 0.22 ECON 535 742 365 90 52 0.14 ELEM 71 19 5 2 0.11 ELIT 66 22 8 2 0.09 ELNG 31 6 1 1 0.17 GEOL 36 5 0 0 - HIST 32 4 0 0 - MATA 87 16 8 2 0.13 MATS 366 149 52 46 0.31 PHIL 31 3 0 0 - 510 PHYS 534 217 87 72 0.33 POLS 296 74 25 16 0.22 PSYC 357 123 38 20 0.16 PTST 231 73 20 6 0.08 PUBA 245 44 12 7 0.16 SART 147 44 5 4 0.09 SOAN 86 11 7 2 0.18 STAT 64 14 4 1 0.07 Total (UG)** 5601 2167 678 429 0.2 MJRL (FR) 510 1101 742 439 347 0.47

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 IV

Distribution of Second Degree, Transfers, Special Not Working for a Degree and Old Returning for AY 2011-12

TERM S'10-11 App. A D E Readmission of Old Returning Students 14 14 - 10

TERM F'11 App. A D E I. Transfers Within FAS 205 200 5 174 A)FR Transfers 108 108 - 89 B)Inter-Departmental Transfers 97 92 5 85 i) SO 13 12 1 10 ii) JR 60 59 1 56 iii) SR 24 21 3 19 II. Interfaculty Transfers 67 33 34 24 II. Transfers From other Universities 53 32 21 11 IV. Second Degree 9 8 1 1 V. Readmission of Old Returning Students 48 41 7 34

TERM SP'12 App. A D E I. Transfers Within FAS 117 116 1 108 A)FR Transfers 31 30 1 26 B)Inter-Departmental Transfers 86 86 - 82 i) SO 11 11 - 9 ii) JR 40 40 - 38 iii) SR 35 35 - 35 II. Interfaculty Transfers 68 45 23 25 III. Transfers From other Universities 42 21 21 8 IV. Second Degree 7 7 - 3 V. Readmission of Old Returning Students 31 27 4 24

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

PART III

REPORTS OF ACADEMIC UNITS

ANIS MAKDISI PROGRAM IN LITERATURE

A. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members: Maher Jarrar Director

2. Advisory Committee: Ahmad Dallal (Provost) Sirene Harb Assaad Khairallah Saree Makdisi (UCLA)

3. Graduate Assistants: Hana Dakwar, MA (English department) Ziad Dallal, MA (English department)

4. Affiliate for the second year: Zaki Amer Haidar, Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

B. ACTIVITIES

Memorial Lecture, 2012:

Professor Dr. Reinhard Kratz (Professor Ordinarius for Old Testament at theological faculty of the University of Göttingen and director of the Department for Qumran Studies): ―The Aramaic Version of the Achiqar-Novella from Elephantine (Syene) in its historical setting.‖ Friday May 21, 2012‏ at 6:30 pm, AUB Museum.

Lectures:

Munir Abou-Debs, ―Hour of the Wolf,‖ West Hall, November 27-28.

Robert Hümmer (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany), ―Popular Guides to Rhetoric: Manipulation for the Masses?‖ Thursday May 17, at 6: 30 pm, Nicely 409. In collaboration with the Philosophy Department.

الدكتور نادر سراج: "لغة أُّم أو لغة عصر؟ حول كتابه اجلديد الشباب ولغة العصر - دراسة لسانية اجتماعية." وست هول، األثنني، 5 آذار.

Performance:

in Arabic), written originally by the)الدكتاتور The 8:30 Theatrical Group. Al-Diktātūr late renowned Issam Mahfouz. Masrah al-Madina, directed by Lina Abyad. February 9.

Workshops:

1. The Image (in preparation for a forthcoming conference): Coordinator, Walid Sadek (participants: Joshua Andreson, Rohit Goel, Angela Harutunyan, Sonia Mechjer-Atassi, Kirsten Scheid, NaylaTamraz).

»حكاية الربيع العريب« December 16, 2011: Weaving the Arab Spring .2 In memoriam Mohammed Bou Azizi; organized by Ziad Dallal, Hana Dakwar, and Nermin al-Horr.

الجلسة األولى، حكايات ربيعية بإدارة: زياد دالل ياسر جرادي، فنان تونسي زاهي ساحلي، طالب يف اجلامعة اللبنانية األمريكية حممد الشناوي، مصر، حمرر اجمللة املصورة ”طق طق“ ماجد املذحجي، روائي ميين

الجلسة الثانية، لبنان: براعم ثورة بإدارة: نرمني احلـّر سارة أبو غزال، حمررة ”صوت النسوة“ حممد حديب، ”الولد“، مؤد إبراهيم شرارة، حمرر ”شباب السفري“ فرح قبيسي، ناشطة ومدونة

طاولة مستديرة باالشرتاك مع برنامج زكي ناصيف للموسيقى مبناسبة مئوية شفيق جحا حول مؤلفه "التدوين املوسيقي املعّرب". 5105 55 مسرح بطحيش، االربعاء نيسان ، الساعة السادسة مساء )املشاركون نداء ابو مراد، القس حبيب بدر، األب بديع

احلاج، نظّم احللقة وأدارها األستاذ أكرم الريّس( - بالتعاون مع مجعية السبيل.

C. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

We moved forward this year with the new set of goals that were instigated in 2010, by continuing to fund opportunities that foster cross-campus cooperation and by contributing financially to performative arts projects as well as opening more space for student activities. We have also maintained the very fruitful partnership with the Zaki Nassif Music Program at AUB.

For the second year AMPL is coordinating with Walid Sadek, Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Design, on a project initiated by Professor Sadek that aims at addressing how to avoid the pitfalls of the difficult task of thinking about images within a relational matrix of affect, reception and cultural specificities while maintaining an attentive eye on aesthetics that marks some theories which try to place the object within the structure of a culturally specific encounter. The fundamental question that emerged from the group‘s discussions around the general literary category of ekphrasis and that the AMPL initiative on The Image is embarking upon is the following: what makes an image visible or rather ‗visualizable‘, and moreover, how can one defend the possible appearances of images by postponing that very appearance?

Furthermore, it has also been a great opportunity this academic year to have worked together with Professor Nader El-Bizri. Professor El-Bizri joined AUB in spring semester 2012 as associate professor in the Civilization Sequence Program. Nader has earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research, New York in spring 1999). He has an MA in Philosophy from the New School, New York (1997). He graduated from the Special Graduate Studies in Philosophy Program at Harvard University, and has earned a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (1994).

Maher Jarrar Director

DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC AND NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages had a fruitful year accompanied by several changes.

Academically all of the Arabic undergraduate courses had been listed under the communication skills, allowing all students to choose their electives from a variety of courses. Moreover, the department is continuing its efforts to list all of the UG courses under the Humanities as well.

The department has been doing an effort to work in line with CLO programs. Some steps have been taken in the right direction. An ad hoc committee, chaired by Dr. Fawwaz Tuqan has been following up on the development in this matter and coordinating the work of the department.

The undergraduate program is under review, especially in the areas of multi- sectional courses offered as GE requirement to AUB students at large. These are: Arabic 201A, a language course, offered to those who are too weak to follow Arabic 201B (Readings in Arabic Literature); it could be taken only after a placement test. Ms. Raghda Nahhas is working with two research assistants to redesign the test in order to make it more efficient.

As for Arabic 201B, an ad hoc committee chaired by Dr. Fawwaz Tuqan, including Drs. Bilal Orfali, Siham Abu-Jawdeh, George Jiha, and Mrs. Raghda Nahhas, is working on revising its material in order to modernize it and make it more relevant to today‘s concerns.

On the graduate level, the Department attempts to expand its MA and Ph.D. programs in its three areas of strength: Language, pre-modern, and modern Arabic literatures. The Graduate students have increased from 7 to 9. For next fall, three new graduates have been accepted, some as prospective.

The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic (Prof. R. Baalbaki) continued sponsoring its ―Distinguished Lecturer Series‖: On May 14, 2012, Professor Georges Bohas, of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, gave a lecture entitled

―Analyzing the word and organizing the lexicon in Arabic,‖ which will soon be published in the Chair‘s Occasional Papers. Of these papers, Professor Beatrice Gruendler‘s lecture, entitled ―Book Culture before Print: The Early History of Arabic Media‖, appeared in print. Regarding the department‘s activities, the students were exposed to several academic and cultural occasions and competitions. The department collaborated with the Anis Makdisi Program in literature in the following two events: a full-day event: ―Weaving the Arab Spring,‖ with speakers and artists from four Arab countries; ―The Hour of the Wolf,‖ a play by the founder of Lebanese Modern Theater, Mounir Abou Debs. It also invited to a graduate seminar the leading emigrant poet, Wadih Saadeh.

The department trained two students to represent AUB in the Beirut Arab University literary contest, ―The Arabian Spring between Dream and Reality,‖ in which Zalfa Hoballah won the first prize. Likewise, our graduate student, Esraa Al-Shammari won the Abdul Hadi Debs Award for Academic Excellence.

A. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Saleh Said Agha Professor Ph.D. Ramzi Baalbaki Professor, Ph.D. Jewett Chair Maher Jarrar Professor* Ph.D. Assaad Khairallah Professor, Ph.D. Chairperson Sami Makarem Professor* Ph.D. Nadeem Naimy Professor* Ph.D. Fawwaz Tuqan Professor Ph.D. David Wilmsen Associate Professor1 Ph.D. Bilal Orfali Assistant Professor2 Ph.D. Siham Abu-Jawdeh Lecturer Ph.D. George Jiha Lecturer Ph.D. George Kattoura Senior Lecturer* Ph.D. Mario Kozah Lecturer* Ph.D. Abdel Fattah Al Zein Senior Lecturer* 3éme

cycle Olga Hajjar Instructor* M.A. Raghda Nahas El Zein Instructor M.A.

*Part-time 1Paid Research Leave for the first semester 2 Paid Research Leave for the year 2011-12

1. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Sarah al-Khalidy Chafika Ouail

Spring Semester Sarah al-Khalidy Chafika Ouail Mariam El Ali

2. Jewett Chair Research Assistant

Rana Kaidbey Hamadeh

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Esraa Al Shammari Nermine Horr Ali Rida Rizk

Spring Semester Nermine Horr Ali Rida Rizk

4. Non Academic Staff

Fall Semester Sahar Al Khalidy Secretary

Spring Semester Nadine Abi Ghannam Secretary

B. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2011 0 Feb. 2012 0 Jun. 2012 0

MA Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 0 Jun. 2012 1

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 9 Seniors 0 Juniors 0 Sophomores 0

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 10 16 26 211-299 25 226 304 555 200-210 75 393 429 897 100-199 0 51 56 107 Total 100 680 805 1585

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 21 21 42 211-299 3 33 36 72 200-210 9 71 74 154 100-199 0 6 9 15 Total 12 131 140 283

C. RESEARCH

Saleh Said Agha

1. ―On the poetic power of al-lafẓa al-mufrada‖ (Final write-up). 2. ―The ‗Abbāsid odyssey in Samāwah — an endeavor less high-minded than it has been portrayed‖. Two months or so had elapsed since the takeover of Kūfah, in 132 H./750A.D., by the revolutionary forces allegedly working for the ‗Abbāsids, before Abū al-‗Abbās al-Saffāḥ was proclaimed as the first ‗Abbāsid caliph. During this interregnum, the entire ‗Abbāsid clan went missing. Where they disappeared and why is still a mystry. Neither the primary sources, nor modern scholarship have provided a convincing answer. This article investigates the matter from a geographical perspective, utilizing material from poetry, historical accounts, and the accounts of modern western scholars who explored Arabia Deserta (Near completion). 3. ―ʿAyniyyat al-Ḥādira — a critical analysis of a pre-Islamic archetypal poem (in progress). 4. ―Sa‗d ibn Nāshib — a minor Umayyad poet: his episode and his poetry‖. This is a tentative title that keeps expanding; it is being transformed into a monograph on the social and poetic phenomenon which Sa‗d represents. (Further research is required). 5. ―Munṣifāt al-‗Arab thalāth‖ — an introduction to and an annotated translation of three specimen of an under-rated genre of Arabic poetry — a pilot article (in progress). 6. ―Inṣāf (equity) in Pre-and-Early-Islamic Poetry: An Anthology and a Study.‖ This project envisages three products: (a) a pilot article in English, heralding: (b) a book — a comprehensive annotated anthology of inṣaf with an analytical study; and (c), a translation thereof. (Further research is required). 7. ―Hijra and ta„arrub: a seminal concept efficacious in the formation, construction, and maintenance of the Islamic Arab establishment until the end of Umayyad times — Hadīth as a tool of articulating, perpetuating, and investing in the concept, and of modifying it to suit the objectives of the establishment at different junctures.‖ This is a tentative, and explanatory extended title of a project in its exploratory stage.

Ramzi Baalbaki

1. The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition from the Second/Eighth to the Twelfth/Eighteenth Century. To be published by Brill, Leiden. In progress 2. ―al-Mawrid al-Akbar: Khasa‘isuhu wa-manhajuhu fi l-tawlid al-mu‗jami,‖ Revue de la lexicologie. In press. 3. ―Grammarians on af„al al-muqaraba: Steps in the sources towards a subdivision of operants,‖ Festschrift for Wadad Kadi. In press. ―Mufradat al-‗Arabiyya al-qadima fi l-Mu‗jam al-Tarikhi li-l-Luga al- ‗Arabiyya.‖ Submitted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on ―Vocabulaire arabe entre lexique et dictionnaire‖, Tunis, 2010. 3. ―Ibn Durayd.‖ Entry to be published in the I.B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization. 4. al-Mawrid: English-Arabic Dictionary for Idiomatic Expressions. In progress. 5. ―Arabic grammatical tradition: nahw and sarf.‖ Chapter to be published in The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. In progress. 6. ―One word, two functions: The concept of functional replacement in Arabic grammar‖. In press.. 7. ―Huwiyyat al-Fusha: Bahth fi l-tasnif wa-l-khasaʾis‖. Accepted for publication in Tabayyun.

Assaad Khairallah

1. Co-author and co-editor of a four-volume work, Literature: A World History, a project of the Stockholm Collegium of World Literary History. I am the author of the part on Arabic literature, as well as coordinator of the macro-region West and Central Asia. The work will be published by Wiley-Blackwell; due date of completion: 31 December 2013. 2. A chapter on West and Central Asia literatures (mainly Arabic, Persian and Turkish), for the 2nd volume of Literature: A World History. I coordinated and edited ca. 85 pages, and authored the Arabic part of circa 20 pages (August 2011). 3. ―Hawi batalan: Self-image as Messenger and Hero.‖ In press. 4. ―Desire, Taboo, and Transgression: Qasim Haddad‘s Akhbar Majnun Layla,‖ will soon be published with the acts of the Rome conference on ―Desire, Pleasure, and the Taboo: New Voices and Freedom of Expression in contemporary Arabic Literature.‖ 5. ―Does God Play Games: Necessity and Chance in Ma‗arri‘s Luzumiyyat,‖ accepted by The Journal of Arabic Literature (Leiden: Brill), last stages of revision. 6. Modern Arabic Poetry: Prophecy, Metapoetry, Snapshots: A monograph under contract with the Curzon/Routelage Press, London. In progress.

7. ―Globalization and Arabic Diaspora Literature,‖ will appear with the acts of the conference on ―Visions and Representations of Homeland in Modern Arabic Poetry and Prose Literature,‖ held in Gottingen in July 2011. Bilal Orfali

1. ―Fann al-ikhtiyār fī l-adab al-ʿarabī al-klāsīkī,‖ al-Machreq (forthcoming, 2012). 2. ―A Lost Maqāma of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (?),‖ Arabica (forthcoming, 2012). 3. ―The Sources of al-Thaʿālibī in Yatīmat al-Dahr and Tatimmat al-Yatīma,‖ Middle Eastern Literatures (forthcoming, 2012). 4. The Comfort of the Mystics: A Manual and Anthology of Sufism. Gerhard Bowering and Bilal Orfali. Leiden, Brill (in print, expected Nov 2012). 5. A Disputation over a Fragment of the True Cross: A Medieval Arabic Text from the History of Christian-Jewish-Muslim Relations in Egypt. [Critical edition with introduction, study, translation, and notes]. Stephen J. Davis, Bilal Orfali, and Samuel Noble. Beirut: Dar al-Machreq, Recherches (in print, expected 2012) 6. ―None but Satan Made me Forget‖: On Forgetting and Losing Knowledge in Classical Arabic Anthologies (article in progress, special volume of Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies). 7. The Quotable Mutanabbī (book in progress together with Beatrice Gruendler) 8. Early Arabic Sufi Poetry (book in progress) 9. An Anthologist‘s Pearl: Al-Thaʿālibī‘s Yatīmat al-dahr and the Art of Anthology in Classical Arabic Literature (book in progress) 10. A Critical Edition of the Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (in progress, with Maurice Pomerantz) 11. Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī: Authorship, Text, and History (book in progress, with Maurice Pomerantz) 12. ―Prestige‖ in Classical Arabic anthologies (article in progress). 13. Between Prose and Poetry: al-Thaʿālibī‘s Sajʿ al-manthūr 14. Quoting the Qurʾān in Classical Arabic Literature (article in progress, with Maurice Pomerantz). 15. Samāʿ (beatific audition) and Authorial Voices in Early Sufi Anthologies

Fawwaz Tuqan

1. ―Al-shu‘ara‘ al-‗abbasiyyun yamdahun shi‘r anfusihim‖ [Abbasid poets praise their poetry and poetic prowess]. In progress 2. ―Minṭaqat al-Jawzā‘ fi l-falak al-‗Arabī al-Islāmī wa-l-akhillā‘ al-thalātha fī qaṣidāt ….‖ [The Belt of Orion in Islamic Astronomy and the Three Friends in Ibn al- Rumi's Poem Entitled ramy al-bunduq / Lead-Bullets‘ Slinging]. In progress. 3. ―Ibn Hazm on Christianity: The Historical Record,‖ revision of and additions to an unpublished paper presented at the International Symposium on: “Christian perceptions of Islam; Muslim perceptions of Christianity: The Historical record,” The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman, Jordan. In progress. 4. Qalā‟id al-„Iqyān, a unique 18th century manuscript with introduction, annotation and authentication of the Prophet‘s hadīths quoted in the manuscript and identification of their narrators. In progress

Raghda Nahhas El Zein

Sheikh Ahmad Arif El-Zein (1884-1960), a Pioneer Reformist, a book based on my M.A. thesis. In progress.

David Wilmsen fīš wa biddīš: A study in grammaticalization of indefinite pronouns, interrogatives, and negative polarity in western Arabic dialects (working title of book)

D. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Ramzi Baalbaki

1. Editor of the Occasional papers Series for the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic. Published a paper by Prof. B. Gruendler (Yale University): ―Book Culture before Print: The Early History of Arabic Media‖. 2. Served on the following Editorial Boards: a. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill, Leiden. b. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Oslo. c. Journal of Arabic Linguistic Tradition, Washington D.C. d. Majallat al-Mu„jamiyya al-„Arabiyya, Tunisia. e. Langues et Littératures du Monde Arabe, Paris. f. The Arabic Historical Dictionary. The Arabic Language Academy, Cairo. g. Romano-Arabica, Bucharest; and h. regular referee in several Arab and international journals.

3. Headed the Organizing Committee for the Conference on Language and Identity, Doha-Qatar. 4. Served on the Selection Committee of the Arab Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, Arab Center for Research and Policy. 5. Presented the Keynote Speech in the Conference on Language and Identity, Doha-Qatar, March 2012. 6. Attended the Colloquium on the Advancement of Arabic Language, Doha-Qatar, May 2012.

George Jeha

1. Taught Arabic courses: (including Summer) 201b , 200 , 101 , 102 and 237. 2. Delivered a lecture within the Arabic 201b lectures for all sections. 3. Acted as coordinator for Arabic 201 b 13 sections. 4. Member of a subcommittee of the AUB Zaki Nassif Program. 5. Carried out and corrected Arabic Placement Tests. 6. Working on a book with the following title and subtitle ―The Tammuzi Trend : One of Different Aspects of Attempted National Revival as Manifested in Poetry, Novels , Literary articles, some Social Practices, and Urban Projects.‖ 7. Preparing for a book on modern cultural terms in Lebanese novels and short stories. 8. The Anis Makdisi program at A.U.B celebrated my collection of poems ―Variation on the Song of the Owl'‖ in West Hall. Dr Maher Jarrar spoke and presented Dr. Nadim Naimy who presented a paper on the book.

Assaad Khairallah

1. 1. Chairperson, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages 2. Member of the Advisory Committee. 3. Member of the Administrative Committee. 4. Member of the Executive Board of the Stockholm Collegium of World Literary History. 5. Member of the Advisory Committee of the Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature. Acting Director (Fall 2011-2012). 6. Editor, Al-Abhath: Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (AUB). 7. Invited member of the University Publication Committee. 8. Member of the Advisory Board of: a- Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (American University of Cairo) b- Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies (Binghamton University, N.Y.)

c- Kitābāt Mu„āsira (Beirut) 9. Peer Reviewer for The Qatar National Research Fund, since Oct. 2009. 10. Founding Member EURAMAL (European Association for Modern Arabic Literature), and member of its Research Program Committee. 11. Delivered a lecture entitled ―Writing a World History of Literature: A Case Study,‖ at the conference on World History of Literature, (Brussels: Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences, September 2011). 12. Member of the Promotion Committee of Associate Professor Christopher Nassar, English Department. 13. Supervision of two M.A. theses: Esraa Al-Shammari, ―Strange(r)ness in Modern Arabic Poetry‖ and Tynan Kelly, ―Polyphony and the Mask in Modern Arabic Poetry.‖ Both defended in June 2012. 14. Member of the M.A. thesis committee of Mariam El Ali, ―Narrative Morphology of the Solomon Story in the Qur‘an and the Tradition.‖ (October 2011) 15. PhD Tutorial in preparation for the Thesis Proposal: Chafika Aouil, ―Studies in the Qur‘anic Journey and its Presence in Later Literature.‖ 16. Organized the commemoration of the beginning of the Arab Spring, ―Weaving the Arab Spring,‖ with participants from Tunis, Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon, West Hall, AUB (December 2011). 17. Attended two full-day workshops on Learning Outcomes. 18. Organized the production of a play, ―The Hour of the Wolf‖ by the founder of the Modern Lebanese Theatre, M. Abou Debs, Bathish, AUB (Nov. 2011). 19. Organized and moderated a seminar meeting with the leading emigrant poet Wadih Saadeh (May 2012). 20. Two interviews: BBC International Radio about Gibran (March 2012) and LBC International TV (Lebanon) on Amin Maalouf (June 2012). 21. Intervened in celebrating Amin Maalouf‘s entrance to the Académie Française at Dar an-Nadwa, Beirut (June 2012). 22. Trained two students to represent AUB in the Beirut Arab University contest on ―Arabian Spring Between dream and Reality‖, in which Ms. Zalfa Hoballah won the first prize. 23. Trained our new secretary, Ms. Nadine Abi Ghannam.

Bilal Orfali

1. Regular referee and a member of the board of Al-Machriq: Revue Catholique Orientale. Sciences, Lettres, Arts. 2. Referee for an article for the Journal of Arabic Literature. 3. Referee for an article in Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

4. Editor of Texts and Studies on the Qur'an (Brill series), reviewed 5 books and 6 proposals 5. Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (2011-2012). 6. Director of the CAMES Arabic Summer program. 7. Member of the Steering Committee for Islamic Studies. 8. Member of the Executive Committee for CAMES. 9. Member of the Steering committee for the Center of Arts and Humanities. 10. Presented a paper at the annual meeting of American Oriental Society, Boston 2012. 11. Represented AUB and CAMES at the MESA Conference, Washington DC, 2011. 12. Presented a Paper in Abu Dhabi in a conference on Courts and Performance 13. Chaired a Panel in Abu Dhabi in a conference on Courts and Performance 14. Presented a Paper in a conference on Qur'an and Adab, IIS, London 15. Chaired a Panel and gave the conference final remarks in a conference on Qur'an and Adab, IIS, London 16. Delivered a lecture on Sufi poetry at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 17. Delivered a Lecture on Maqamat at Yale University 18. Delivered a Lecture at the CAMES summer program on Arabic literature and world literature 19. Committee member for an MA thesis. in CAMES (Martin Stuart, defended spring 2012) 20. Member of the committee for two ongoing MA Students in CAMES and one PhD student in History 21. Member of the committee for an MA student in comparative literature at LAU (defended spring 2012) 22. Web contributor and web content approver for the Department of Arabic and Languages. 23. Library Liaison for the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages. 24. Organized a workshop on the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language (CAMES, summer 2011)

Fawwaz Tuqan

1. Attended the ―Preparation of Professors Portfolio Workshop.‖ 2. Represented the department in Program Learning Outcomes and Program Goals Assessment projects. 3. In charge of Course Equivalence and Credit Transfer.

4. Advisor to undergraduate students. 5. Advisor to PhD and MA applicants. 6. Advisor to the Saudi Cultural Club.

Raghda Nahhas El Zein

1. ―The Development of Novel Writing in Egypt and the Rise of Egyptian Nationalism (1938-1970)‖, a common lecture delivered twice a year to Arabic 201B students. 2. Coordinator of Arabic 201A, Basic Arabic Grammar and Syntax.

David Wilmsen

On leave from June 2011-Feb 2012

E. PUBLICATIONS

Ramzi Baalbaki

R. Baalbaki and B. Orfali, Tha‗alibi‘s Zad Safar al-Muluk. Bibliotheca Islamica 52, Beirut, 2011.

Assaad Khairallah

Khairallah, As‗ad E., ―Writing a World History of Literature: A Case Study,‖ in World History of Literature, Theo D‘haen, ed. (Brussels: The Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Belgium 2011), 47-54.

Bilal Orfali

Books: Sufism: Black and White, A Critical Edition of Kitāb al-Bayāḍ wa-l-Sawād by Abū l- Ḥasan al-Sīrjānī (d. ca.470/1077). Bilal Orfali and Nada Saab. Leiden, Brill, 2012. In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture. Studies presented to Ramzi Baalbaki on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. Ed. Bilal Orfali. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Articles: ―A Sketch Map of Arabic Poetry Anthologies,‖ Journal of Arabic Literature 43 (2012), 29-59.

―Ghazal and Grammar: al-Bāʿūnī‘s Taḍmīn Alfiyyat Ibn Mālik fī l-Ghazal,‖ in In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture. Ed. Bilal Orfali. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 445-494.

Fawwaz Tuqan

Sūrat al-falak wa-l-tanjīm fī l-shi„r al-„Abbāsī [Poetic Imagery of Astronomy and Astrology as Depicted in Abbasid Poetry], 2 vols., Beirut, Dar AlFarabi, 2012.

Wilmsen, David

Recent submissions: On Jespersen‘s cycle in Arabic: Interrogative iš and negative polarity in Andalusi texts. Submitted June 2012 to Transactions of the Philological Society.

Forthcoming: The interrogative origin of the Arabic negator –š: Evidence from copular interrogation in Andalusi Arabic, Maltese, and modern spoken Moroccan and Egyptian Arabic. Forthcoming Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik

Grammaticalization of the Arabic demonstrative iyyā- as a pronominal object marker in ditransitive verbs: An answer to Bravmann. Forthcoming Journal of Semitic Studies. (Submitted Ap 2011; accepted Jul 2011; to appear Spring 2013

The Demonstrative iyyā-: A little-considered aspect of Arabic deixis. Forthcoming Arabica. (Submitted Feb 2011; accepted Sep 2011; to appear in October 2012)

The Ditransitive Dative Divide in Arabic: Grammaticality assessments and actuality, in Reem Bassiouney and Graham Katz (eds.), Arabic Language and Arabic Linguistics. Washington: Georgetown University Press. 2012: 365-399.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Lack of tenure, narrow working space, heavy teaching load, and low salaries have made it difficult for our department to recruit high-level faculty, especially nowadays, when Arabic is very much in demand, both in the West and in the Arab world. Add to that our department‘s tradition in seeking candidates deeply steeped in Arabic literary culture, while being widely exposed to modern Western theories and methodologies. This leaves us with a very narrow margin for attracting promising young scholars.

This year the Department recommended the appointment of an Assistant Professor of Qur‘anic studies. Unfortunately, the candidate preferred to accept a much more lucrative job in Saudi Arabia. Still, the prospects for the near future do not seem bad as far as Modern Arabic Literature is concerned.

As for the students, we were able to increase the number of our graduate students. However, our major problem is with having no undergraduates. AUB‘s high fees make it hard for us to compete with such universities as USJ or the Lebanese University. Our only hope would be to provide top students with scholarships, without which it may remain an impossible task to buttress our graduate program.

Assaad Khairallah Chairperson

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

One hundred fifty-two students are expected to have graduated with a BS in biology between October 2011 and June 2012. Four hundred fifty-one students were enrolled in the program.

Ten students are expected to have graduated with an MS in biology between October 2011 and June 2012. Five students joined the program in fall 2011-2012 and another five in spring 2011-2012. The total number of MS graduates enrolled in our program this year was 24.

One student graduated from the PhD program. Two new students joined the PhD program in cell and molecular biology in fall 2011-2012. The total number of PhD students enrolled in our program this year was 7.

The department hosted a seminar series in which the presenters were PhD students and MS students enrolled in BIOL 393 and 493, two faculty candidates, Dr. Heinrich zu Dohna of University of California Davis and Dr. Issmat Kassem of The Ohio State University, and seven guest speakers, including Dr. Elisar Barbar of Oregon State University, Dr. Nadine Kabbani of George Mason University, Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary of University of Karachi, Dr. Andre Megarbane of Université Saint Joseph, Dr. Muhammad Hajj of Virginia Tech, Dr. Martha Torres, and Mr. Khalid Al Hajery of the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu.

The department held 19 meetings during the 2011-2012 academic year, one of which consisted of 5 separate sessions.

The biology faculty continues to work towards improving and updating its programs. Several changes were introduced that include changing the course description of BIOL 322 and changing the requirements for interdepartmental transfer and for transfer from the freshman program. Two newly required courses were approved, BIOL 493 CMBL Seminar and BIOL 494 CMBL Laboratory Rotation, to meet required presentations and laboratory rotations for PhD students described in the catalogue. Recitations were removed from all biology courses, except BIOL 223 Genetics, in which recitations and lectures are given by the same professors. To assist program monitoring and assessment, BIOL 296 Exit Survey

has been approved and will appear in next year‘s catalogue, meaning that students entering the BS biology program next year will have to sit for the survey three years from this spring. To assist program monitoring and assessment and with the support of OIRA, biology courses will use the ICE form and data collection to assess student perception of course learning outcome achievement. To simplify the catalogue and reduce confusion, courses with different numbers in fall and spring semesters, BIOL 291/2 (undergraduate tutorial), BIOL 293/4 (undergraduate seminar), BIOL 391/2 (graduate tutorial) and BIOL 393/4 (graduate seminar) were reduced to one number: BIOL 291, BIOL 293, BIOL 391 and BIOL 393. To avoid the need to hire part-time instructors and to comply with stated program descriptions, it was decided that PhD students should teach 3 credits a semester in regular semesters in compensation for university funded stipends.

Ms. Anne Jurayj has donated $50,000 for Biology Department. The money is tentatively allocated to an endowment to support biology research.

BIOL 295: Summer Undergraduate Research Course was offered to biology students (incipient seniors) for the first time last summer and two students were registered in the course. The department held a graduate recruitment evening in which faculty presented research projects in order to recruit students from other universities and students from our BS program via BIOL 295.

Mrs. Rania El Osta was appointed as the new biology laboratory manager effective October 2011.

The biology department, in coordination with the biology laboratory manager and AUB safety officers, formulated and communicated clear policies on safety and made great progress on enforcement. Mandatory training sessions were provided, safety training was integrated into BIOL 315, laboratories were routinely inspected, safety information is now posted, protective equipment has been provided, training and certification on individual safety issues is being conducted by the department, phones have been placed in floor lobbies, and Biological Safety Level 2 training has been incorporated into BIOL 260 Cell Biology. Importantly, the department is fully compliant with biological waste disposal regulations.

Reservation of common laboratory equipment is now online. Long-term complaints about air quality during general biology laboratory activities have been successfully addressed by installing exhaust fans in general biology teaching rooms. Action was taken to prevent flooding of the basement upon heavy rain (drain

opened and a barrier built on the courtyard door). Renovation of room 020 (conversion into a lab) is now in process.

With the help of the FPDU and Physical Plant personnel, the department completed renovation projects: cold rooms 212, 214, and 16, ecology teaching laboratory rooms 110 and 110A, and basement rooms 016 and 018. The department also coordinated with the physical plant to perform multiple renovation tasks such as renovation of the cell culture room 218A, roofing the west courtyard, painting walls and doors, changing light fixtures and making the necessary changes in some laboratories as recommended by the safety department.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Baydoun, Elias Professor Ph.D. Gali-Muhtasib, Hala Professor Ph.D. Knio, Khuzama Professor Ph.D. Kreydiyyeh, Sawsan Professor Ph.D. Talhouk, Rabih Professor Ph.D. Bariche, Michel Associate Ph.D. Professor Saoud, Imad Associate Ph.D. Professor Smith, Colin Associate Ph.D. Professor & Chairperson Ghanem, Noel Assistant Ph.D. Professor Jaalouk, Diana Assistant Ph.D. Professor Kambris, Zakaria Assistant Ph.D. Professor Osta, Mike Assistant Ph.D. Professor Sadek, Riyad Assistant Ph.D. Professor Rizkallah, Hind Lecturer Ph.D. Sinno Saoud, Nada Lecturer Ph.D. Tarraf, Charbel Lecturer Ph.D.

Hajjar, Layane Instructor M.S. Al Labban, Dania** Part-time M.S. Instructor Al-Lafi, Sawsan Part-time M.S. Instructor Alwan, Nisreen Part-time Ph.D. Instructor Bou-Chedid, Mirella Part-time M.S. Instructor El-Zein, Mohammad Part-time M.S. Instructor Fostok, Sabreen Part-time M.S. Instructor Ghannawi, Joly Part-time M.S. Instructor Haykal, Joelle Part-time M.S. Instructor Nasr, Bilal** Part-time B.S. Instructor Rechdane, Elsy** Part-time B.S. Instructor Rizk, Zeinab* Part-time M.S. Instructor Torres, Martha** Part-time Ph.D. Instructor Zahr, Hind Part-time M.S. Instructor ______* First Semester Only ** Second Semester Only

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Al-Halabi, Racha Kazanjian, Garabed Al-Lafi, Sawsan Mismar, Rasha El-Sitt, Sally Rechdane, Elsy El-Zein, Mohammad Rizk, Zeinab Farran, Dina Zahr, Hind Fatfat, Maamoun Zournajian, Houry

Spring Semester Al-Lafi, Sawsan Farran, Dina Basha, Bassel Fatfat, Maamoun Berri, Nasma Mismar, Rasha El-Sitt, Sally Torres, Martha El-Zein, Mohammad Zahr, Hind Ezzeddine, Wihane Zournajian, Houry

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Abdallah, Emane Itani, Ghida Abed Ali, Farah Kamand, Lara Abou Matar, Tamara Kareh, Mike Abou Shakra, Nagham Khalil, Bariaa Al Labban, Dania Malkhassian, Lori Al Zaiem, Maha Monzer, Samer Bou Sleiman, Maroun Naser, Rayan Dergarabetian, Eileen Nasr, Bilal El Habre, Elia Nasser, Nivin Habib, Bettina Rechdane, Elsy Hamze, Rabiah Tawk, Caroline Hmadi, Raed Tohme, Rita Ibrahim, Wael

Spring Semester Abdallah, Emane Itani, Ghida Abed Ali, Farah Jaafar, Carine Abou Matar, Tamara Kamand, Lara Bou Sleiman, Maroun Kareh, Mike El Habre, Elia Malkhassian, Lori El Moussawi, Layla Monzer, Samer Farran, Dina Naser, Rayan Habib, Bettina Nasr, Bilal Hamze, Rabiah Nasser, Nivin Hariri, Hadla Rechdane, Elsy

Hmadi, Raed Tohme, Rita Ibrahim, Wael Zaki, Angela

5. PhD Graduate Research Assistantships

Fall Semester Bazzoun, Dana Ghattas, Khaled El-Zein, Ola Kamareddine, Layla Fakhoury, Isabelle Nassar, Farah Ghantous, Akram Yassine, Hassan

Spring Semester Bazzoun, Dana Ghattas, Khaled El-Zein, Ola Nassar, Farah Fakhoury, Isabelle Yassine, Hassan Kamareddine, Layla

6. Non-Academic Staff

Assad, Najeh Assistant Technician El Osta, Rania Laboratory Manager Hannoun, Victor Senior Technician Kaissi, Maha Secretary Makkouk, Salwa Administrative Assistant Masri, Imad Technician

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

B.S. Oct. 2011 6 Feb. 2012 9 June 2012 137

M.S. Oct. 2011 2 Feb. 2012 5 June 2012 3

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 24 Seniors 159 Juniors 147 Sophomores 145

1. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer Fall Spring Total 2011 Semester Semester Courses numbered 300 and 0 43 58 101 above Courses numbered 211 44 653 872 1569 through 299 Courses numbered 200 170 547 483 1200 through 210 Courses numbered 100 14 98 83 195 through 199 Total 228 1341 1496 3065

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer Fall Spring Total 2011 Semester Semester Courses numbered 300 and 0 33 31 64 above Courses numbered 211 21 73 101 195 through 299

Courses numbered 200 24 26 21 71 through 210

Courses numbered 100 3 10 6 19 through 199

Total 48 142 159 349

D. RESEARCH

Michel Bariche

1. CREAM project: Coordinating research in support to application of EAF (Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries) and management advice in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Supported by the European Commission FP7 Programme. 2. Reproductive biology of Lagocephalus sceleratus (Teleostei, Tetraodontidae), a new toxic fish in the Mediterranean Sea‖. Supported by URB. 3. The marine and freshwater ichthyofauna of Lebanon: history, checklist, and exotics. 4. Field identification guide to the living marine resources of the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. Supported by FAO. 5. The ongoing shift of Mediterranean coastal fish assemblages and the spread of non-indigenous species. Book chapter in: Marine Management and Ecology (ISBN 979-953-307-949-2). 6. Reproduction of the invasive bluespotted cornetfish Fistularia commersonii (Teleostei, Fistulariidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biology Research. Supported by URB. 7. The reproduction of Fistularia commersonii in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: a close examination on patterns of ovarian development and fecundity. Supported by URB. 8. Population structure and reproduction of Pachygrapsus marmoratus and P. transversus from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Supported by URB.

Elias Baydoun

1. Phytochemistry and Pharmacological Studies of Solanum torvum Swartz. 2. Strong protective effect led by c-Cbl against oxidative stress: studies of mouse prostatic and embryonic cells, and human cancer cells. 3. The effect of a specific nutrient synergy on the NF-κB pathway in HTLV-1- positive cells. 4. Allozyme variation among populations of Phoenico lacerta lizards in Lebanon. 5. Compositional quality and antioxidant properties of oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus) mushrooms. 6. Survey of medicinal plants used by herbalists in Lebanon. 7. The abundance of pectin methyl esterase transcript throughout the cell cycle of synchronized Arabidopsis thaliana suspension cultures. 8. "New aspects of the proto-oncoprotein c-Cbl in cancer: molecular analysis of c-

Cbl in contributing to the generation of reactive oxygen species and protecting malignant cells. Supported by URB and CEDRE. 9. The effect of Ruscus aculeatus and Pleurotus ostreatus extracts on proliferation .apoptosis in human cancer cell lines. Supported by CNRS ِand 10. Microbial biodiversity of Lebanese mineralized aquatic habitats. Supported by CNRS. 11. Investigating the role of NFATcl and HAND2 and their interaction in heart morphogenesis using Drosophila melanogaster as a model. Supported by URB. 12. Host-microbe interactions: Effect of Wolbachia endosymbionts on their insect hosts. Supported by CNRS. 13. Assessment of the effects medicinal plant extracts on the lifespan and innate immune response of Drosophila melanogaster. Submitted to URB for funding. 14. Synthesis of libraries of anti-cancer agents by biotransformation- a novel approach towards anti-cancer agents. Submitted to CNRS for funding.

Hala Gali-Muhtasib

1. Targeting Hypoxia: Sensitizing Tumors to Radio- and Chemo-therapy. 2. Synergistic anticancer activities of the plant-derived sesquiterpene lactones salograviolide A and iso-seco-tanapartholide. 3. Inhibition of Tumor Promotion by Parthenolide: Epigenetic Modulation of p21. 4. DAPK plays an important role in panobinostat-induced autophagy and commits cells to apoptosis under autophagy deficient conditions. 5. Comparative antiproliferative activities of the essential oils of wood and seeds of Juniperus oxycedrus L. against K562 human chronic myelogenous leukemia cells. 6. The ethanol fraction from the stem of Berberis libanotica inhibits the viability of adult T cell leukemia. 7. Zinc dependent regulation of the cell cycle regulator Cdc25 as a potential anti- cancer target. Project funded by Qatar National Research Fund. 8. Targeted therapy of breast cancer stem cells and metastasis by the hypoxia- activated quinoxaline 1,4-dioxide DCQ. Project funded by Farouk Jabr. 9. The clinical potential of thymoquinone in cancer: molecular target identification and efficacy in combination therapy. Project funded by the German National Research Foundation-DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 10. Association of H. pylori with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome among Lebanese adults. Helicobacter. 11. Thymoquinone induces apoptosis in malignant T-cells via generation of ROS. Frontiers in Bioscience.

Noël Ghanem

1. The Rb/E2F pathway modulates neurogenesis through direct regulation of the Dlx1/Dlx2 bigene cluster. Supported by a long term faculty development grant to N. Ghanem (period of 2 months in summer of 2010), a URB grant and a grant from LNCSR. 2. Control of Progenitor Cell Proliferation and Generation of Adult-born GABAergic neurons by the pRb during Olfactory Bulb Neurogenesis. 3. The Retinoblastoma protein, pRb, is required for olfactory bulb morphogenesis and normal development. 4. The role of the Retinoblastoma protein in the maturation and regeneration of inhibitory neurons in the young and adult brain. Funded by the URB-AUB and the LNCSR -two years. 5. Identification of repressed genes involved in heterochromatin foci in Cyclin D1- driven senescence. Funded by the Farouk-Jaber Grant –AUB -one year.

Diana Jaalouk

1. Mechanics of the cell nucleus as a function of lamin expression in granulocyte differentiation. 2. Lamin Mutations Associated with Striated Muscle Diseases Have Altered Nuclear Structure and Mechanics. 3. Impaired MRTF-A Signaling in Lamin A/C Deficient and Lmna N195K Mutant Cells. 4. Impaired multipotency of Lamin A/C - Deficient and Lmna N195K Mutant mesenchymal stem cells. 5. Principles and Applications of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 6. Alterations of mechanotransduction signaling and cellular function in breast cancer from High Intensity Focused Ultrasound exposure. Funded by Dar Al- Handassah (Shair & Partners) Endowment Fund in Engineering. 7. Identification of novel nuclear envelope proteins implicated in laminopathies by differential phage display. The project is co-funded by a 1-year URB grant and a 2-year LNCSR grant. 8. Deregulated caveolin-1 and Hic-5 expression in muscular laminopathies.

Zakaria Kambris

1. Transcription levels of a putative meiotic regulator influence the course of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Culex. 2. Wolbachia-induced gene upregulation in the testis of Culex mosquitoes. 3. Effects of Wolbachia endosymbionts on their Drosophila host immunity.‖ Accepted for URB for funding.

4. ―Host-microbe interactions: Effect of Wolbachia endosymbionts on their insect hosts.‖ Accepted for LNCSR funding. 5. ―The Nephrin Gene: A Renal Gene Implicated in Cardiovascular Diseases‖. Winner of the Farouk Jabr award. 6. ―Investigating the role of NFATc1 and HAND2 and their interaction in heart morphogenesis using Drosophila melanogaster as a model.‖ Accepted for URB for funding.

Khuzama Knio

1. Insecticide resistance to organophosphates in Culex pipiens complex from Lebanon (Funded by URB grant). 2. Evidence for host race formation in Terellia serratulae (Diptera: Tephritidae): genetic and morphometric variation. (Funded by URB grant). 3. Ecological specialization in Lebanese tephritid flies (Funded by LNCSR grant).

Sawsan Kreydiyyeh

1. Effect of leptin on glucose uptake by Caco-2 cells (supported by URB). 2. Effect and mechanism of action of leptin on Na+/K+ ATPase in Caco-2 cells (supported by LNCSR). 3. Ceramide one phosphate up-regulates the Na+/K+ ATPase in HepG2 cells.

Mike Osta

1. Role of Anopheles gambiae melanization response in defense against natural fungal infections (Funded by URB). 2. Role of Anopheles gambiae serine protease homologs CLIPA2 and CLIPA5 in mosquito immunity (Pending funding by URB). 3. Testing the efficiency of mutant strains of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana as bio-pesticides for mosquito vector control (pending funding by CNRS). 4. Insecticide resistance to organophosphates in Culex pipiens complex from Lebanon (Funded by CNRS).

Riyad Sadek

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. (Lebanese CNRS-funded). 3. Allozyme variation among populations of Phoenicolacerta lizards in Lebanon.

Imad Saoud

1. Evaluation of efficacy of various anesthetics on fish and their interaction with size, temperature and body lipids. 2. Production of biogas as a way to decrease water consumption and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. 3. Immune response of rabbitfish challenged with various pathogenic marine bacteria. 4. Acute and Chronic Effects of Aqueous Ammonia on Marbled Spinefoot Siganus rivulatus. Aquaculture research. 5. Ingestion of food containing metal nanoparticles disrupts endogenous microbiota in fish with potential implications on organism health. Toxicology Letters. 6. The effect of linseed oil and kelp meal in diets on fatty acid profile of rabbitfish Siganus rivulatus.

Colin Smith

1. HIV-1 Rev is Highly Mutable and Glycine Substitition of R35 Allows Mutation of N40 (supported by URB). 2. . HK022 Nun Structure, Function, and Evolution Relationships (supported by URB). 3. Mutagenic Potential of HIV RRE (supported by URB). 4. New aspects of the proto-oncoprotein c-Cbl in cancer: molecular analysis of c- Cbl in contributing to the generation of reactive oxygen species and protecting malignant cells (supported by URB and CEDRE). 5. The effect of Ruscus aculeatus and Pleurotus ostreatus extracts on proliferation and‏ apoptosis in human cancer cell lines (supported by LNCSR). 6. Microbial biodiversity of Lebanese mineralized aquatic habitats (supported by LNCSR). 7. Evidence for host race formation in Terellia serratulae (Diptera: Tephritidae): genetic and morphometric variation (supported by URB). 8. Ecological specialization in Lebanese tephritid flies (supported by LNCSR). 9. The taxonomic status, geographic distribution and ecological requirements of the toad species, Bufo cf bufo. (supported by URB).

Rabih Talhouk

1. Deciphering the mechanism of Cx-mediated reversion of tumor phenotype in breast epithelial cells. (URB - Pending renewal). 2. Exploring Marine Resources for Bioactive Compound: From Discovery to Sustainable Production and Industrial Applications (MAREX) (IBSAR / U. HELSINKI PARTNERSHIP). Collaborative Project under the work program KBBE-2009-3-2-01: Novel marine bioactive compounds for European Industries. 3. Deciphering the mechanism of Cx43- and K100-mediated reversion of tumor phenotype in breast epithelial cells(LNCSR). 4. Prenylated flavanons from Morus alba L. affects circuitries regulating progression of the cell cycle in human cancer cell lines. 5. Cell-cell junctional protein complexes as signaling hubs and regulators of tissue polarity: Implications for breast cancer. 6. shRNA-Connexin 43 Induces a Tumor-Like Phenotype in Mammary Epithelial cells: A Potential Role for β-catenin Signaling. 7. Identification of an in vitro Interleukin-6 suppressing bioactivity in the Popularly Used Folk Medicinal Plant Chamomile. 8. Context dependent reversion of tumor phenotype by connexin-43 over expression in MDA-MB231 cells and MCF-7 cells: A role for β- catenin/connexin43 association. 9. Inflammatory diseases: Mechanisms and natural remedies. Book chapter, In; Medicinal plants: Diversity and Drugs, Eds Rai et al. 10. Pathophysiology of Gap Junctions in the Brain. In Gap Junctions in the Brain. Ed. Ekrem Dere.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Michel Bariche

1. Development of graduate course: Environmental Degradation in Marine Ecosystems (Biol 390S); Research Methods in Biology (Biol 215, 2 sections). 2. Coordination meetings for CREAM project: Varna, Bulgaria, 18-19 April 2012 and Rome, 30-31 May 2012. 3. Press conference: Marine Reserve Network for the Lebanese Waters. (Commodore Hotel, Beirut, 7 June 2012). 4. Thesis defense: Juvenile pelagic fish assemblages in the coastal waters of Lebanon: diversity, biological characteristics, and landings (Kazanjian G., AUB, 4 June 2012). 5. Awards and Honors: TWAS Young Affiliates (2009-2014) for young scientists (www.bibalex.org/twasaro).

6. Proceedings: What is the impact of Lessepsian species on Eastern Mediterranean Fisheries? In: Özhan, E. (ed.) (2011) Proc. of the 10th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, MEDCOAST 11, Rhodes, Greece, October 25-29, pp 453-460. 7. Committees: FAS Undergraduate Admissions Committee (2011-2013); FAS Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee (2011-2013); Natural History Museum Committee (2003-ongoing). 8. Services: Reviewed various manuscripts for international journals. 9. Interviews (The Daily Star; Beyond Magazine; thebimproject.com).

Elias Baydoun

1. Advisor of three MS Biology Students, Elsy Rechdane and Dina Farran, Hadla Hariri. 2. Member of the MS Thesis Committees of three students. 3. Supervised undergraduate and graduate tutorial students. 4. Organized and chaired an international Conference on ―Water and Energy in Sustainable Food Security‖ Beirut, Lebanon, December 2-3, 2011. 5. Currently is engaged in the preparation of an international Conference on ―Renewable Energy and Human development‖ to be held in December 2012. 6. Member of the promotion committee of a biology Faculty member. 7. Served as a full voting member of the Faculty of Medicine Expanded Advisory Committee. 8. Author of a presentation entitled ―Hypoglycemic properties of banana pseudo- stems‖ at the 59th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research, Antalya, turkey (September 4-9, 2011). 9. Author of a presentation entitled ―Overview of the Roles of Energy and Water in addressing Global Food Security‖ at the International Conference on ―Water and Energy in Sustainable Food Security‖, Beirut, Lebanon (December 2-3, 2011). 10. Author of a presentation entitled ―Antibacterial activity of selected Lebanese plants against spectrum beta-lactamases producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumonia‖ at the TWAS 22nd General Meeting, Trieste, Italy (November 21-23, 2011). 11. Attended the TWAS 22nd General Meeting, Trieste, Italy (November 21-23, 2011). 12. Attended the 7th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World - Arab Regional Office (TWAS-ARO) at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt (December 29, 2011).

13. Served as a member of the selection committee of the TWAS-ARO Young Arab Scientists (YAS) 2011 Prize on ―Chemistry for Sustainable Development in the Arab World‖, and attended the selection meeting in Alexandria, Egypt on December 27, 2011. 14. Served as a member of the selection committee of the ALECSO Technological, Innovation and Creativity Prize for Young Researchers in the Arab States and attended the selection meeting in Tunisia, Tunis 20 & 21 November, 2011. 15. Participated in the international conference on ―Water, Nuclear and Renewable Energy: Challenges versus Opportunities‖ and chaired two sessions on ―Agricultural Water Management‖ and ―Environment Education on Water Issues‖, Alexandria, Egypt (December 28-29, 2011). 16. Served as a reviewer for the BA/CSSP Research Grants 2011 Program of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. 17. Attended the lecture on ―Feeding the Future: Food and Responsibility‖ presented by Dr Frederike Praasterink and organized by ‗The Lebanese Dutch Business Association‖ Beirut, Lebanon (July 7, 2011). 18. Translated some entries for the Arabic version of Encyclopedia of Life (AEOL). 19. Attended the ―ICSU-UNESCO Rio+20 Regional Science and Technology Workshop for the Arab States‖ and served as a member of the session on ―Priority Issues and Emerging Challenges‖. Cairo, Egypt (October 12-14, 2011). 20. Attended the CNRS Golden Jubilee Meeting, Beirut, Lebanon (June 6, 2012). 21. Arranged the invitation of Dr Iqbal Choudhary and Dr Atia-tul-Wahab from the International Center of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Karachi, to give lectures and to start collaboration. 22. Member of the Board of Trustees of Future University in Khartoum, Sudan and attended its meeting on May 19, 2012. 23. Was invited to attend the World Science Forum (WSF) and give a lecture in the Parliamentary session on the challenging role of Parliaments in terms of combining the national, regional and global dimensions of science in the legislation process, Budapest, Hungary (November 17-19, 2011). 24. Member of the Steering Committee for the project on ―Science and Technology Indicators in the Arab States‖. The project is sponsored by UNESCO, ALECSO and the Arab Academy of Sciences. 25. Member of the ―Regional Advisory Committee of Ethics‖; a committee founded at the Egyptian Academy for Scientific Research and Technology in collaboration with UNESCO. 26. Member of the Arab Health Water Association (Affiliate-member of AHWA). 27. Member of the Middle East Science Fund Regional Executive Committee. 28. Interim Coordinator of the Lebanese TWAS Chapter. 29. Secretary General for the ―Arab Forum for Sustainable Science‖.

30. Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. 31. Founding Fellow and Secretary General of the Arab Academy of Sciences. 32. Founding Member of the Lebanese-Jordanian Friendship Association.

Hala Gali-Muhtasib

1. Supervisor of two PhD students in the CMB program at AUB. 2. Thesis advisor of one MSc Biology Student. 3. Co-supervisor of a PhD student at the Lebanese University. 4. Advisor for more than 30 majorless undergraduate AUB students. 5. Supervised the research tutorial projects of undergraduate and graduate students. 6. Reviewed manuscripts for several international refereed journals. 7. Member of the Editorial Board of the Clinical Cancer Investigation Journal. 8. Member of the Basic Biomedical Research Day Committee 9. Awarded a grant from Farouk Jabr. 10. Reviewed proposals submitted to FAFS URB funds. 11. Reviewed several proposals submitted to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) for compliance to animal research regulations. 12. Presented several abstracts in international and local conferences. 13. Prepared and presented a proposal to the Senate for a new freshman admissions process. 14. Chair of the Grading Committee: prepared a proposal to revise grading policy at AUB. 15. Chair of the Unified Admissions Committee. 16. Chair of the Enrollment Management Task Force: prepared a proposal for revising requirements for transfer of undergraduate students from other universities to AUB. 17. Member of the Search Committee for the four Chairs of the Basic Medical Sciences Departments. 18. Member of the Board of Graduate Studies. 19. Member of the FAS Graduate Committee. 20. Member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). 21. Member of the Medical Admissions Committee. 22. Member of the Strategic Planning Academic Review Team. 23. Chair of the IBSAR Research Committee. 24. Objective analyst for strategic goals of the institution related to enrollment

Noël Ghanem

1. March 2012-present: Member of Library Committee, FAS, AUB.

2. October 2011-present: Advisor to the Biology Student Society (BSS). 3. 2011-present: member of the safety committee, biology department. 4. 2011-present: member of the MENA-IBRO (International Brain Research Organization) chapter that was officially established in February of 2012 for the middle-east and North Africa. One of the chapter‘s goals is to organize a regional neuroscience conference and a neuroscience school at AUB in 2015. 5. 2010-present: Chair of the summer undergraduate research committee, Biology dept. The role of the committee was to develop a summer research course for senior students. The course is officially approved as BIOL295. The committee is also in charge of graduate students‘ recruitment and MSc applicants‘ interviews. 6. 2010-2011: Member of self-assessment committee, Biology Dept. The role of the committee is to review and assess undergraduate and graduate teaching programs/curriculums in the department, and, recommend changes/suggestions to improve and update these programs. 7. Attended a conference: August 2011: ISN-ESN (International society for Neurochemistry) 23rd biennial meeting, Athens Greece The Rb/E2F pathway modulates neurogenesis through direct regulation of the Dlx2 transcription factor.

Diana Jaalouk

1. Lamin Mutations that Cause Muscle Defects Disturb Nuclear Mechanics and Nucleo-cytoskeletal Coupling: abstract submitted & accepted to the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) meeting that is scheduled in Oct. 2012. 2. Best poster presentation award: Investigating the Effects of Residual HIFU Exposure on Cellular Viability and Mechanosensitive Gene Expression in MCF- 10A and MDA-MB-231 Human Mammary Epithelial Cells. The Third Kamal A. Shair (KAS) Central Research Science Laboratory (CRSL) Research Conference, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. June 4, 2012. 3. Occasional attendance (based on topic) of the Biology Department Seminars (BIOL 393/394), AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. February 2010 – present time. 4. Occasional attendance (based on topic) of the Basic Medical Science Departments and Biology Department Research Seminar and Journal Club Series, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. February 2010 – present time. 5. Occasional attendance (based on topic) of the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. February 2010 – present time. 6. Occasional attendance (based on topic) of IBSAR (Initiative for Biodiversity Studies in Arid Regions) events, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. February 2010 – present time.

7. Co-initiated and moderated the weekly Biology Journal Club sessions, Department of Biology, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. July 20, 2011 – September 21, 2011. 8. Participation in the Vascular Medicine Program (VMP) Retreat, AUB, Feb 2012. 9. Attendance of the 45th Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA) conference, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon. May, 2012. 10. Attendance of the Third Kamal A. Shair (KAS) Central Research Science Laboratory (CRSL) Research Conference, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. June 4, 2012. 11. Supervisor for two MS candidate students in the Department of Biology. 12. Member of the MS Thesis Committees of six students in the Department of Biology. 13. PhD Program Departmental Committee, Member, Department of Biology, FAS, AUB (Fall 2010 – 2011, Spring 2010 – 2011, Fall 2011-2012, Spring 2011- 2012). 14. Safety Committee, Member, Department of Biology, FAS, AUB (Fall 2010 – 2011, Spring 2010 – 2011, Fall 2011-2012). 15. Member of the faculty committee that conducted the applicant interviews for the Biology Laboratory Manager position, Aug 1-3 2011. 16. Natural Sciences member on the FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee, Fall 2011-2012, Spring 2011-2012). 17. Advisor for the Campus Yearbook Committee for 2011-2012. 18. Reviewer of research proposals received by the Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, AUB. Spring 2009 – 2010, Fall 2011-2012. 19. Selection Committee of the Nemer/SCORE Fellowship Award, Spring 2011- 2012.

Zakaria Kambris

1. Member of the Thesis Committees of two Biology Master‘s Students at AUB. 2. Supervised 5 undergraduates and 1 graduate tutorial student. 3. Undergraduate student advising: Academic advisor for approximately 70 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors). 4. Course development: BIOL284: Developmental Biology -4 credits- (1cr. lab). Together with Dr. Ghanem from the biology department, we re-introduced the developmental biology course. This course was no longer offered in the department for many years. The laboratory now includes several hands-on actitivies, unlike previous editions. 5. Attended the international conference on ―Alternative and Renewable Sources of Energy‖ Beirut, Lebanon, December 2011.

Khuzama Knio

1. Member of the Natural History Museum Committee. 2. Main museum activities: identification for a PhD graduate (over 250 specimens); and for the general public (including AUBH). 3. Member in Student Academic Affairs Committee (until Sept 2012). 4. Served in the Promotion Committee of Dr. I. Saoud. 5. Serving as advisor for the MS thesis of Farah Abed Ali. 6. Serving as co-advisor for the PhD thesis of Mohammad Al-Zein (Old Dominion University, VA) 7. Served in MS thesis committee of in the MS thesis committee of Garabed Kazanjian. 8. Reviewed the following articles: ―Le comportement biophysiologique du criquet migrateur Locusta migratoria (Linné, 1758) après les traitements du henné, du Triflumuron et de Metarhizium anisopliae var acridum. Jan 2, 2012. CNRS Journal‖ and "Earthworms: Some Medicinal Applications, Nutrition and CAM Implications, by Edwin L. Cooper, Clara R. Tsao, Mila Tommaseo-Ponzetta and Maurizio G. Paoletti. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 18 Jan. 2012‖. 9. Supervised undergraduate tutorials for: 4 in Fall 2011-12 and 6 in the Spring 2011-12; and 1 graduate tutorial in Fall 2011-12. 10. Presented a seminar at Balamand University. Jan 17, 2012. Host race formation in flower head infesting tephritids. Faculty of Sciences. 11. Presented a talk at International College, March 22, 2012: The fauna and flora of Japan.

Sawsan Kreydiyyeh

1. Served as freshman advisor. 2. Awarded a URB grant. 3. Awarded a research grant from LNCSR for two years. 4. Thesis advisor for the PhD student Ola El-Zein. 5. Member of the thesis committee of one biology student and 3 students in the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics (faculty of medicine). 6. Reviewed grant proposals for faculty of agriculture and food sciences. 7. Participated in September 2011 in the 59th international congress and annual meeting of the society for medicinal plant and natural product research held in Antalya, Turkey. 8. Served as Acting Chair of the FAS graduate committee. 9. Chaired the promotion committee of Dr. Imad Saoud. 10. Served as member of the expanded FHS advisory committee for promotion.

Mike Osta

1. Supervising one Master student and two PhD students. 2. Serves on the thesis committee of MSc and PhD students. 3. Member of the Central Research Science Laboratory (CRSL) Committee since Summer 2009. 4. Serves as the Library Liaison for the Biology Department since Fall 2009. 5. Member of FAS Research Committee since Fall 2011. 6. Member of the Biology Department self assessment committee which aim at reviewing all academic issues and suggest changes if needed. 7. Chair of the Biology Department Cell and Molecular Biology Program Committee whose aim is to provide suggestions to improve and support the CMB PhD Program. A first report has been drafted after a series of meetings and submitted to the Chairperson of the Department. 8. Invited to give a seminar at the Faculty of Medicine-AUB on March 2012. 9. Participated in the Third KAS CRSL Research Conference as member of the judging committee for best talks and posters. Two of my PhD students gave a talk in this conference and one (Miss Layla Kamareddine won the best talk award). 10. Editorial board member of the following peer-reviewed scientific journals: IRSN Molecular Biology; Developmental Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Riyad Sadek

1. Member of the AUB Cats Committee, headed by VP Radulski. 2. Chairman of Natural History Museum Committee. 3. Member of M.S. thesis committee: Desiree Bou Aoun, Effets et caractérisation du venin de Montevipera bornmuelleri sur un modèle murin. Université Saint- Esprit de Kaslik, Faculté des Sciences. 22/12/2011. 4. Member of M.S. thesis committee: Jeannette El Khoury. Lebanese University (Fanar), Status and distrubtion of Persian squirrel sciurus anomalus syriacus in horj ehden nature reserve. 5. Consultation: (MOE) (Principal Investigator: Monir Abi Said) - Preliminary Ecological Assessment of three dam and reservoir sites, one each in Nahr Awali, Nahr Damour and Nahr Ibrahim. - Full ecological Assessment of one of the same three dam and reservoir sites, this one site to be selected on completion of the preliminary Assessment Imad Saoud

1. Attended two international conferences and several local.

2. Moderated workshop by the ministry of agriculture and the LNCSR on marine aquaculture.

Nada Sinno-Saoud

1. Consultant in the project ―Developing Rehabilitation Assistance to Schools and Teacher Improvement‖ D. RASATI which is funded by the UN. 2. Consultant by the Ministry of Education to evaluate laboratory equipment that were sent as a donation from the Armenian Government.

Colin Smith

1. Chairperson of Biology. 2. Coordinator of Biology Assessment of Program Learning Outcomes. 3. Biology Safety Committee, chair. 4. Graduated MS students Caroline Tawk and Maroun Bou Sleiman. 5. Member of MS committees of graduate Elsy Rechdane and Nagham Abou Shakra. 6. Member of PhD committees of Hassan Yassine and Ola El-Zein. 7. An advisor of undergraduate biology majors as of 1 April 2011. 8. Attendee and panelist: conference on ―Water and Energy in Sustainable Food Security‖ 2-3 December 2011, Beirut, Lebanon. 9. Teaching BIOL 322 Advanced Biochemistry in spring 2011-2012 for the first time. 10. Introduced a complementation laboratory activity in BIOL 223 Genetics, spring 2011-2012. 11. Presenter, ―Learning Outcomes at FAS and FAFS Process and Success Stories‖ Center for Teaching and Learning, 8 March 2012, American University of Beirut. 12. Attendee and presenter: ―The Arginine-Rich Domain of Phage HK022 Nun Has Unexpected Requirements for BoxB RNA Binding‖ Talk at LAAS 18th International Science Meeting, 22 March 2012, Notre Dame University, Lebanon. 13. Judge, Eighteenth Annual Science, Math and Technology Fair, 28 April 2012, American University of Beirut. 14. Attendee and presenter: ―The Arginine-Rich Domain of Phage HK022 Nun Has Unexpected Requirements for BoxB RNA Binding‖ Talk at the 2nd International Conference on Molecular Recognition, 5-10 June 2012, Rhodes, Greece.

Rabih Talhouk

1. Presentation: An Anti-Inflammatory Component in a Lebanese Endemic Plant, Cota palestina, Exhibits Parthenolide Analogous Predicted Binding & Anti- Proliferative Activities. 40th Conference on Drug Synthesis and Analysis. Sept 12-14, 2011 Brno, Czech Republic. 2. Presentation: Status of Breast Cancer in Lebanon & Directions of Research. International Breast cancer and Nutrition (IBCN). 2nd Annual Meeting. Oct 9- 11, 2011 Rennes, France. 3. Presentation: Connexin-43 Expression Reduces the Tumor Phenotype of Breast Adenocarcinoma Cell Lines in a Pathway Dependent on β-Catenin Signalling. Invited talk to Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST). October, 2011. 4. BLOSSOMS MIT Interactive Video: Tissue Specific Gene Expression. An interactive Video session designed to explain in an interactive manner the concept of tissue specific gene expression for high school students. 5. Organizing Committee for the 4th International Breast Cancer and Nutrition (IBCN) Annual Meeting. Oct 2013 hosted by AUB - Beirut, Lebanon 6. Co-Chaired Session on ―Tools for Epigenomics/Epigenetics‖, International Breast Cancer and Nutrition (IBCN)2nd Annual Meeting. Oct 9-11, 2011 Rennes, France. 7. Member; Think-tank Strategy Day - IBCN Saint-Malo - Oct 12, 2011 Rennes, France. 8. Program Reviewer (R. Talhouk and K. Burtis of UC Davis): Reviewer for the BSc Biology Program at the Lebanese American University (LAU). October 24- 28, 2011. 9. Site Visit to Jordan University for Science and Technology (JUST). Member of SASTA Board of Directors visit to JUST. Oct 2011. 10. World Economic Forum (WEF) (2011). Participant; member SASTA an NGO at WEF aiming to bridge business and science in the region. Dead Sea, Jordan , Oct 21, 2011. 11. Poster: Potential Role for β-catenin Signaling. Lebanese Association for Advancement of Science (LAAS) Meeting. NDU, March 22 – 24, 2012. 12. Poster: Comparative Effects of a Sesquiterpene Lactone derived from a Chamomile-Related Plant versus Parthenolide on tumor Phenotype of MDA- MB-231 Breast Cancer Cells. Lebanese Association for Advancement of Science (LAAS) Meeting. NDU, March 22 – 24, 2012. 13. Poster: Exploring Marine resources in the Mediterranean Coast for bioactive Compounds Lebanese Association for Advancement of Science (LAAS) Meeting. NDU, March 22 – 24, 2012. 14. Presentation: "Herbal Supplements and therapies: Prevention or a cure? An IBSAR popular science talk, West Hall Dec 19, 2011.

15. Presentation: Developing a teaching Portfolio. A CTL (Center for teaching and Learning) Workshop. College Hall, AUB Feb23, 2012. 16. Chairperson, Graduate Council (2011 – present). 17. Member, Teaching Excellence Selection Committee (2012-2013). 18. Member, Grading Assessment Ad-hoc Committee (2012) 19. Member, Campus Wide Strategic Planning review Team (2011 – present). 20. Vice Chair, Academic Support Units Strategic Planning Committee (2011 – present). 21. Member, FAS Strategic Planning Committee (2011 – present) 22. Member, Task Team for Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs at AUB (Dec 2010 – June 2011). 23. Member, FAS Promotion Committee, Chem Dept (2010-2011) 24. IBSAR Research Committee, Founding Member (2007 – present). 25. Supervising four Master students and one PhD student.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Michel Bariche 1. Bariche M., Kajajian A., 2012. Population structure of the bluespotted cornetfish Fistularia commersonii (Osteichthyes: Fistulariidae) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Biological Research 17: 74-80. 2. Bariche M., Heemstra P.*, 2012. First record of the blacktip grouper Epinephelus fasciatus (Teleostei: Serranidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biodiversity Records 5: e1. 3. Bariche M., 2012. Recent evidence on the presence of Heniochus intermedius (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) and Platycephalus indicus (Teleostei: Platycephalidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. BioInvasions Records 1: 53-57. 4. Bariche M., 2011. First record of the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus (Ostraciidae) and additional records of Champsodon vorax (Champsodontidae) from the Mediterranean. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 17: 181- 184.

Elias Baydoun

1. Baydoun E, Mansour O, Rizk S, Brett CT, 2011. Identification of EDTA- soluble polysaccharides from pea epicotyl cell walls and their interaction with xyloglucan. American Journal of Plant Sciences 2: 148-155. 2. Shinwari S, Qureshi R, Baydoun E, (2011) Ethnobotanical Study of Kohat Pass (Pakistan). Pakistan Journal of Botany 43: 127-131. 3. Bassil N, Abdel-Massih R, El-Chami N, Smith C, Baydoun E, 2012. Pleurotus ostreatus and Ruscus aculeatus extracts cause non-apoptotic Jurkat cell death.

Journal of Plant Studies 1: 14-24. 4. Hillman JR, Baydoun E, 2012. Overview of the roles of energy and water in addressing global food security. International Journal of Thermal and Environmental Engineering 4: 149-156. 5. Hillman JR, Baydoun E, 2011. Overview of the Roles of Energy and Water in addressing Global Food Security. Proceedings of International Conference on ―Water and Energy in Sustainable Food Security‖, Beirut, Lebanon, 14. 6. Kreydiyyeh S, Jaber H, Baydoun E, 2011. Hypoglycemic properties of banana pseudo-stems. Planta Medica 77: 1408. 7. Abdel-Massih R, Abdou E, Baydoun E, Daoud Z, 2011. Antibacterial activity of selected Lebanese plants against spectrum beta-lactamases producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumonia. Proceedings of the TWAS 22nd General Meeting, Trieste, Italy.

Hala Gali-Muhtasib

1. Fakhoury I, Gali-Muhtasib H. 2011. Salograviolide A: a plant-derived sesquiterpene lactone with promising anti-inflammatory and anticancer effects. In: Advances in Cancer Therapy, H. Gali-Muhtasib (ed). In tech Publishers. ISBN 978-953-307-703-1. 2. Tohme R, Darwiche N, Gali-Muhtasib H. 2011. A journey under the sea: the quest for marine anti-cancer alkaloids. Molecules 16: 9665-9696. 3. *Lupidi G, *Bramucci M, *Quassinti L, *Fornari E, *Avenali L, *Khalife KH, and Gali- Muhtasib H. 2011. Antioxidant and antineoplastic activities of Artemisia herba-alba ethanolic extract in human colon cancer cell line (HCT116). Alternative Medicine Studies 1 (1):55-59. 4. Advances in Cancer Therapy. Edited by: Hala Gali-Muhtasib. Publisher: InTech, November 2011. ISBN 978-953-307-703-1.

Diana Jaalouk

1. Lombardi ML, Jaalouk DE, Shanahan CM, Burke B, Roux KJ, Lammerding J*. The interaction between nesprins and sun proteins at the nuclear envelope is critical for force transmission between the nucleus and cytoskeleton. J Biol Chem. 2011 Jul 29; 286 (30):26743-53. Sawsan Kreydiyyeh

1. Serhan MF, Kreydiyyeh SI. Insulin targets the Na(+)/K(+) ATPase in enterocytes via PI3K, PKC, and MAPKS.J Recept Signal Transduct Res. 2011 Aug;31(4):299-306.

2. Dakroub Z, Kreydiyyeh SI.Sphingosine-1-phosphate is a mediator of TNF-α action on the Na+/K+ ATPase in HepG2 cells. J Cell Biochem. 2012 Jun;113(6):2077-85. 3. N Mourad, S Kreydiyyeh, J Ghanawi, IP Saoud (2012). Aquaculture of marine fish in inland low salinity well water: Potassium is not the only limiting element. Fisheries and Aquaculture Journal 2012 (42): 1-12. 4. Kreydiyyeh SI, Jaber HM, Baydoun EA. Hypoglycemic properties of banana pseudo-stems. Planta Medica, 77: 1408 (2011).

Riyad Sadek

1. Makhzoumi, J., Talhouk S., Zurayk, R. and Sadek, R. (2012). Landscape Approach to Bio-Cultural Diversity Conservation in Rural Lebanon, Perspectives on Nature Conservation - Patterns, Pressures and Prospects, Prof. John Tiefenbacher (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0033-1, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/perspectives-on-nature-conservation- patterns-pressures-and-prospects/landscape-approach-to-bio-cultural-diversity- conservation-in-rural-lebanon. 2. Hraoui-Bloquet, S.*, Sadek, R., Accary, C.*, Hleihel, W.* and Fajloun, Z.* 2012 - An ecological study of the Lebanon Mountain Viper Montivipera bornmuelleri (Werner, 1898) with a preliminary biochemical Characterization of its venom. Lebanese Science Journal 13(1):89-101.

Imad Saoud

1. Nancy Mourad, Sawsan Kreydiyyeh, Joly Ghanawi and I.P. Saoud (2012). Aquaculture of marine fish in inland low salinity well water: Potassium is not the only limiting element. Fisheries and Aquaculture Journal 2012 (42): 1-12. 2. Antonio Garza de Yta, D. Allen Davis, David B. Rouse, Joly Ghanawi, I. P. Saoud (2012). Evaluation of Practical Diets Containing Various Terrestrial Protein Sources on Survival and Growth Parameters of Redclaw Crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus. Aquaculture Research 43(1): 84-90. 3. Sana Ghaddar and I.P. Saoud (2012). Seasonal Changes in Phosphorus content of Fish Tissue as They Relate to Diets of Renal Patients: Implications to Renal Professionals and Patients. Journal of Renal Nutrition 22(1): 67-71. 4. Joly Ghanawi, Samer Monzer, I. P. Saoud (2011). Anaesthetic Efficacy of Clove Oil, Benzocaine, 2-Phenoxyethanol, and Tricaine Methanesulfonate in Juvenile Marbled Spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus). Aquaculture Research 42: 1-8. 5. Glenn M. Harper, Matthias Monfort, I. P. Saoud, Matthew Emery, Sanaa Mustafa, Mark Rawling, Ben Eynon, Simon J. Davies and Daniel L. Merrifield. (2011). An ex vivo approach to studying the interactions of probiotic

Pediococcus acidilactici and Vibrio (Listonella) anguillarum in the anterior intestine of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. Aquaculture Research and Development, 1: 1-6. 6. Antonio Garza de Yta, Lidia G. Fournue Guerrero, Joly Ghanawi, I. Patrick Saoud and David B. Rouse. (2012) Evaluation of Various Hatchery-Nursery Procedures to Maximize Survival and Growth of Juvenile Australian Redclaw Crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus). World Aquaculture Magazine 43(1): 57-62. 7. I.P. Saoud (2011). Realistic Sustainability as Opposed to Growth Limiting Sustainability. The Practical: Asian Aquaculture 2(8): 14-15. 8. I.P. Saoud (2011). The Best Treatment for a Fish Disease is Precaution. The Practical: Asian Aquaculture 2(7): 10-11. 9. Yasmin Abou Daoud, Joly Ghanawi and I.P. Saoud. Dietary Protein Requirement of Siganus rivulatus: Effects on growth and hematological parameters. Aquaculture America, Las Vegas, Feb. 2012. 10. Saoud I. Patrick, Mohammad Abiad, Ali Chalak, Nadim Farajalla and Zeina Kassaify. Integrating aquaculture with dairy farm waste and irrigation to reduce consumptive freshwater use, alleviate rural poverty and improve food security. Water and Energy in Sustainable Food Security, Lebanon. December 2 – 3, 2011. 11. I. Patrick Saoud, Rana Roumieh and Joly Ghanawi. Acute and chronic effects of aqueous and ammonia on Marbled Spinefoot Siganus rivulatus. World Aquaculture 2011, Natal, Brazil. 12. I.P. Saoud. Aquaculture protocols and health indicators for Marbled Spinefoot Rabbitfish Siganus rivulatus. World Aquaculture 2011, Natal, Brazil.

Smith, Colin

1. Bassil N.M., Abdel-Massih R., El Chami N., Smith C.A. & Baydoun E. Pleurotus ostreatus and Ruscus aculeatus Extracts Cause Non-Apoptotic Jurkat Cell Death. Journal of Plant Studies 1, 14-24 (2012).

Rabih Talhouk

1. Talhouk, R.S., Tarraf, C.G., A. Shaito, L. Kobrossy, S. Bazzi, El-Sabban, M. (2012). Modulation of Cx43 and gap junctional intercellular communication by androstenedione in rat polycystic ovary and granulosa cells in vitro. Journal of Reproduction and Infertility. 11:21-32. 2. Talhouk, R.S., Khalil, A., Bajjani, R., El-Rayes, T., and El-Sabban, M.E. (2011). Gap junctions mediate STAT-5 independent β-casein expression in CID-9 mammary epithelial cells. Cell Communication and Adhesion 18:104-116. 3. Talhouk, R. (2012). Commentary. Cell-Matrix Interactions in Mammary Gland

Development and Breast Cancer (by J Muschler and CH Streuli). In. Perspectives on Mammary Gland Biology. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. Editors: Mina J. Bissell, Kornelia Polyak, and Jeffrey Rosen. 4. Al-Saghir J, El-Habre, E, El-Sabban ME, Talhouk R.S. (2011) Connexins: A Junctional Crossroad to Breast Cancer. Mammary Gland in Development and Cancer. Int J Dev Biol. 55:773-80.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The department must convince the university administration to provide the department resources proportional to the demands placed upon it. The biology building needs improvement, the Natural History Museum needs relocating to permanent space, and the administrative burden placed upon the department by inadequate performance of other university units must be reduced. The department needs university support for improving its teaching and meeting the accreditation demand for writing intensive courses and to increase its use of authentic assessment methods, especially experimental and practical activities, data collection, documentation, report writing, hypothesis testing, use of unknowns, data analysis, and independent projects. It must continue to seek reasonable access to data held by admissions, the registrar, and the alumni office required for effective program monitoring and enrollment management. Departmental standing committees must continue their efforts and create sustainable processes to achieve their mandates.

While recognizing progress, the department should increase its efforts to recruit the best graduate students. It should eliminate remaining vague aspects of its teaching load policy.

The department should recruit at least 3 new assistant professors in order to fill remaining faculty lines. The department should demand that the requested new laboratory technician position be approved.

The department should continue to request an increased budget. It should attempt to convince the university administration that basal support for experimentalists in FAS should be a priority, and that an endowment to support FAS research is idea worthy of strong and sustained support. The recent donation should stimulate faculty to toward approving and increasing an endowment by all available means.

Colin Smith Chairperson

CENTER FOR ARAB AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Following the resignation of John Meloy the center gained a new director, Waleed Hazbun, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration (PSPA). In anticipation of the new governance structure and MA program in Islamic Studies, the director held meetings with the center‘s faculty and other CAMES-related faculty and began developing more systematic policy guidelines for the center‘s academic programs and the allocation of its budget. The Director has since developed written guidelines for applications for admission to the MA program and for Affiliate status.

After receiving the draft proposal for an MA program in Islamic Studies, in consultation with relevant faculty and administrators, the Director began considering the administrative challenges, budget needs, and academic requirements of developing the degree program and expanding the center‘s commitment to Islamic Studies.

After consulting the Provost and the CAMES Director, the FAS Dean appointed a steering committee consisting of seven CAMES-affiliated AUB professors and the CAMES director. Dr. Aliya Saidi, the CAMES Assistant Director, serves as non- voting secretary. The role of the Steering committee is to help manage the MA program in Middle East Studies (admissions, curriculum, advising), develop stronger ties with departments, consider expanding its capacity for instruction in Arabic as a foreign language, oversee staff and faculty hiring, and help plan the center‘s development of a new degree program in Islamic Studies.

Following Mayssun Succarie‘s decision not to remain for an additional year as Visiting Assistant Professor at CAMES, the director initiated a job search for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies for a two-year period. The selected applicant is expected to join AUB in September 2012. The director formed a search committee along with two other members of the steering committee to assess the applications. A total of 53 applications were received and reviewed. A shortlist was drawn up and shortlisted applicants were interviewed, either in person or via Skype. The committee submitted to the Steering Committee its recommendations for hiring that were unanimously approved and forwarded to the Dean.

In late May, the CAMES Steering Committee met to discuss the revised proposal for the MA in Islamic Studies (in addition to other matters) and voted unanimously to endorse the proposal with a few suggested amendments.

Thirteen new students enrolled in the CAMES MA program during 2011-12, bringing the total number of registered students to 49. Twenty-two students defended their thesis or project and graduated. Meanwhile, a group of continuing students started a blog and twitter feed. The CAMES MA program received a total of 54 applications for the fall 2012-2013 semester. The Director asked members of the steering committee to help with the assessment of the first batch of 37 applications to be received, from which 21 students were accepted. From the second batch of applicants, 17 in total, 9 students were accepted, bringing the total number of students accepted to 30. Expected enrollment will probably be half of that number.

The CAMES summer Arabic Program in 2011 had 70 students attending out of 140 applicants. The program received 170 applications for the Summer Arabic Program 2012, and expected attendance will be about 90 students. The Summer Arabic Program 2012 will be offering eight levels: Introductory, High Introductory, Low Intermediate, Intermediate, High Intermediate, Advanced, Superior and High Superior.

Recent events in neighboring Arab countries seem have directed students to Lebanon and AUB as a safer option for Arabic study. CAMES had hoped to launch an intensive colloquial Lebanese Arabic program alongside the MSA offerings, but since this program did not receive enough applications, the three applicants were integrated into the MSA program instead. The summer program has received approval from the FAS Dean to add one extra level of MSA, the High Superior level, for the substantial number of applicants whose Arabic abilities are very advanced.

CAMES courses continue to be heavily subscribed by visiting and special students as well as graduate students in other MA programs. CAMES-affiliated faculty members are developing proposals for undergraduate courses and a possible additional core seminar in Islamic Studies.

With regard to instruction in Arabic as a foreign language, the Center began offering courses in Modern Standard Arabic that provide levels of instruction to bridge the CAMES courses in Arabic as a foreign language and the courses (for native speakers) offered by the Department of Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages.

The renovation of the CAMES space in Ada Dodge Hall is complete, although the computers, equipment and furniture for the new language lab and smart classroom have not yet been received. Office space for faculty remains severely limited.

The Center continues to foster ties with other departments and faculty through an extensive commitment of its budget resources towards co-sponsoring AUB events related to Middle East Studies. Since February 2012, the Center has sponsored fourteen lectures (of which six were co-sponsored by other programs), as well as co-sponsoring five conferences/events and five films were shown by the CAMES film society.

Cames organized and took part in the following activities:

Lectures:

Francis Ghilès, a senior research fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), and long-time correspondent for The Financial Times, gave a talk entitled ―A Conversation on the ‗Arab Spring‘ in North Africa‖

Paul Keleman, Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, gave a lecture entitled ―Exploring the root of western support for Zionism: the case of the British Labour Party‖

Anthony Shadid, foreign correspondent for The New York Times, gave a lecture entitled ―Imagining Otherwise: Covering the Arab Revolts from Tunisia to Bahrain‖

Jane Harrigan, Professor of Economics at SOAS, gave a lecture entitled ―The Political Economy of Aid Flows to the Arab World‖

Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, gave a lecture entitled ―Arab and Arab American Feminisms‖

Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis gave a lecture entitled ―Family and State in the Arab World: Re-Framing Inquiries‖

Ahmed Kanna, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & International Studies at the University of the Pacific, gave a lecture entitled ―A Politics of Non-Recognition?

Arab Gulf Worker Protests in a Year of Uprisings‖ [co-sponsored by Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs and Department of Architecture and Design]

James Jasper, Professor at the City University of New York, gave a lecture entitled ―Thinking-Feeling in Protest Movements: Lessons from the Arab Spring‖ [co- sponsored by Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs ]

James Larocco, Director of National Defense University Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, gave a lecture entitled ―The Arab Spring: US Responses and Strategic Interests‖ [Co-sponsored by Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs]

Reinoud Leenders, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, gave a lecture entitled ―Collective Action and Popular Mobilization in Dar‘a: An Anatomy of the Onset of Syria‘s Popular Uprising‖ [co-sponsored by the Netherlands Institute in Beirut (NI-Beirut)]

Tariq Tell gave a lecture entitled ―‗Kings Don‘t Fold?‘ Towards an International and Historical Political Economy of Monarchy in the Arab World,‖ Wednesday April 18, [co-sponsored by the Department of Political Studies & Public Administration]

Mohammad Nuruzzaman, Associate Professor for International Relations, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait, gave a lecture entitled ―Post-2003 Geopolitical Rivalries, Conflicts and Prospects of Cooperation between Iran and the Gulf Arab States,‖ [co-sponsored by the Department of Political Studies & Public Administration]

Katherine E. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, gave a lecture entitled ―Revolution‘s Refugees: Transnational Amazigh (Berber) Networks and Tunisian Responses to Displaced Libyans‖

Siba Grovogui, Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University, gave a lecture entitled ―The Responsibility to Protect: An Unconventional History of Postwar Interventions‖ [Co-sponsored by Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs]

Sheikh Zayid Distinguished Visiting Scholar

Mahmood Mamdani, Professor at Makarere University, Uganda and at Columbia University, USA, came to CAMES as the Sheikh Zayid Distinguished Visiting Scholar during the period May 13-19, 2012. During this time he delivered two lectures:

―Israel is not Quite Apartheid South Africa: An African Perspective on the Palestine Question.‖

―Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Reflections on Nuremberg and Convention for a Democratic South Africa.‖

Photo Exhibit:

Carlos Latuff, Photo exhibit for Israeli Apartheid Week 12-16 March 2012 and lecture ―Art and Resistance‖ [Co-sponsored with Palestinian Cultural Club and others]

Conferences:

―Writing in a Time of Revolutions,‖ Literary readings and panel discussion with Ahdaf Soueif (Egypt), Kamel Riahi (Tunis), Khaled Khalife (Syria), Nadia al- Kokabany (Yemen), Ali al-Jallawi (Bahrain), Elias Khoury (Lebanon). [Co- sponsored with Office of the Provost, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean‘s Office]

―Lord of Many Mansions: Celebrating the Life and Work of Kamal Salibi‖ [Co- sponsored with Department of History and Office of the Provost]

―City Debates 2012, Re-Conceptualizing Boundaries: Urban Design in the Arab World‖ [Department of Architecture and Design; co-sponsored with CASAR, British Council, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, IFPO, GIZ]

―Intellectual History of the Arab Left.‖ [Co-organized with the University of Copenhagen]

CAMES was one of the co-sponsors of ―Israeli Apartheid Week‖, held at AUB.

The CAMES Film Society screenings:

[Co-sponsored with the Palestinian Cultural Club]

―Tin Roof Ghetto in Tripoli, Lebanon‖ directed by Sharif Abdunnur. The film was followed by a discussion with the director.

―Route 181‖ (Parts I, II & III) directed by Michel Khleife and Eyal Sivan

―Karama has no Walls‖ followed by a discussion with Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi

―Last Shepherds of the Valley‖ & ―Free Running Gaza,‖ two films directed by Mariam Shahin and George Azar. The films were followed by a discussion with the directors.

Other Activities

CAMES Represented AUB at the 2011 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, December 1-3, 2011 in Washington D.C.

B. PERSONNEL

5. Faculty Members

Waleed Hazbun Associate Professor, Ph.D. Director Tarif Khalidi Shaykh Zayid Ph.D. Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies Aliya Saidi Assistant Director Ph.D. Mayssun Succarie Visiting Assistant Ph.D. Professor Mario Kozah Lecturer Ph.D. Rima Kanawati Instructor M.A. Marie-Therese Labaki Instructor Rosemary Sayigh Lecturer (part-time) Ph.D. Fawwaz Traboulsi Lecturer (part-time) Ph.D.

6. Research Assistants

Fall Semester

Rima Sadek

Spring Semester Rima Sadek

7. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Tynan Kelly Stuart Martin Edward Addison

Spring Semester Hazem Jamjoum Kelyne Rhodehamel Andrew McRae Elizabeth Woller Gianni Izzo Edward Atkinson-Clark Jessica Nelson

8. Non-Academic Staff

Barea Sibai Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

MA Oct. 2011 5 Feb. 2012 7 Jun. 2012 10

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 49

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 70 95 60 225 211-299 0 33 23 56 Total 70 128 83 281

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 9 45 48 102 211-299 0 9 9 18 Total 9 54 57 120

D.RESEARCH

Waleed Hazbun

Please refer to the Department of PSPA.

Tarif Khalidi

Completed an article on ―Arabic Historiography‖ for the Blackwell Companion to Global Historical Thought. Publication expected in 2013.

Completed an article entitled ―On Progress and Decline in Ibn Khaldun‖ to be published in the proceedings of the conference called Inhitat-Decline by the German Orient Institute-Beirut. Publication expected in 2013.

Working (June 2012) on an English anthology of Arabic literature, classical and modern, which I will ask my literary agent to show to potential publishers. I expect to finish the anthology in about two years.

Mario Kozah

Initiator, developer of and Co-PI in a 3 year project (approved in June 2011) funded by the Qatar National Research Fund. Project title: ―The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the 7th century‖. Fund amount: $850 000. This project will involve an international conference and produce two books which I am currently contributing to and editing: ―The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the 7th century CE‖ and ―The Syriac Writers of Qatar - An Anthology‖.

I was invited to contribute to a volume of academic articles and studies about AUB to commemorate its 150th anniversary in 2016. The title of the volume: The American University of Beirut: A Century and a Half. My abstract on the life and works

of the late Professor Anis Freiha, professor of Semitics at the AUB (1902-1992): a bio-bibliography, was accepted by the Committee and I have been invited to participate in a conference in April 18-19, 2013 on AUB campus, in preparation for the volume itself, at which I will present my paper.

I am working on a critical edition, introduction and translation of a 10th century geographical work in Arabic: al-A‟laq al-Nafisa by Ibn Rusta.

Mayssun Succarie ―Ford Funding and Arab Youth in the Past Decade‖ (in preparation)

―Good Girls Bad Girls: On Women‘s Empowerment and the War on Terror‖ (Submitted to Current Anthropology)

A. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Waleed Hazbun

Please refer to the Department of PSPA.

Tarif Khalidi

Invited, and accepted to join, the Advisory Board of The Oxford History of Historical Writing. (Vol. 1 appeared in 2011).

Invited, and accepted to join, the editorial board of Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations

Delivered a lecture on ―Salvation History‖ at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin, October 2011.

Mario Kozah

Organized and coordinated an international workshop at the Arab Thought Forum in Amman, Jordan, in September 2011 under the auspices of HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal entitled: ―Arab Thought at the Crossroads of World Civilization‖. The workshop was funded by the Majlis El Hassan, Jordanian Royal Court; the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty; the Embassy of France; the Institut Francais and the French Cultural Cooperation Service.

Presented a paper at the workshop ―Arab Thought at the Crossroads of World Civilization‖ entitled ―From Cross-fertilization to Co-ownership: Euro-Med Intercultural Trends.‖

Presented a paper entitled ―The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the 7th Century C.E. : an Overview of the Current State of Studies‖ in the International Syriac Studies Symposium of Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey (―Syriac in its Multi-Cultural Context‖), 20-22 April 2012, Mardin, Turkey.

Presented a paper entitled: ―The Fourth Part of Isaac of Nineveh‘s Ascetical Homilies in Garshuni‖ in the International Conference in honor of the late Professor Kamal Salibi, AUB, May 2012.

Mayssun Succarie

Served on the Editorial Board of Bidayat, Issue One (appeared) and Two (forthcoming)

Invited to Goldsmiths, University of London to deliver a lecture entitled ―Engaging with Questions of Development and Justice: Personal Reflections from the Arab World‖, April 2012.

B. PUBLICATIONS

Waleed Hazbun

Please refer to the Department of PSPA.

Tarif Khalidi

Translated (with Introduction) Abu Hatim al-Razi, The Proofs of Prophecy (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2011)

Mario Kozah

―The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the 7th Century C.E.: an Overview of the Current State of Studies.‖ Forthcoming in the proceedings of the first International Syriac Studies Symposium of Mardin Artuklu University.

―The Fourth Part of Isaac of Nineveh‘s Ascetical Homilies in Garshuni‖. Forthcoming in the Festschrift in honor of Professor Kamal Salibi.

Mayssun Sukarieh

―On the problem of over-researched communities: The case of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.‖ Forthcoming, Sociology Journal.

―From Terrorists to Revolutionaries: Discourses of Arab youth from 9/11 to the Arab Spring.‖ Forthcoming, Interface Journal.

―The Hope Crusades, Harmony, Ideology and Reform in the Arab World.‖ Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) Spring 2012

―Discourses of youth in the Arab World: From the War on Terror to the Arab Spring.‖ Bidayat: 1(1) (in Arabic)

―Transnational Arab Elites: Globalization and American Hegemony the Young Arab Leaders as a case Study‖. Historical Materialism. Winter 2011.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Under the director of Steering Committee members Bilal Orfali and Nader El- Bizri, CAMES plans to gain approval of its MA program in Islamic Studies. Even before final approval, the Center plans to offer more Islamic Studies-related courses at the MA and BA levels.

With the assistance of the new CAMES Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies and the Steering Committee, the Director also plans to revise the core seminar and curriculum of the MA in Middle East Studies. At the same time, we plan to revise and expand the CAMES student manual.

CAMES plans to sponsor a booth for AUB at the 2012 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) meeting in November to promote its MA and Arabic language programs and more broadly publicize AUB as a location for Study Abroad and the research accomplishments of AUB faculty.

In collaboration with CASAR and IFI, CAMES plans to hire an event organizer to assist with the planning and holding of talks, conferences, and other events. The organizers, based in IFI, will also help limit planning conflicts and coordinate event

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publicity. Working with the organizer, the CAMES Director plans to revamp and expand the CAMES mailing list while creating additional lists to improve communication with students, CAMES-associated faculty, research affiliates. We also hope to develop more student-oriented events, such discussion groups with local scholars and journalists, and assist the CAMES students to develop their own activities such as a thesis writing group, book readings sessions, alumni organization, and more active social media.

The Director plans to reorganize the Centers Affiliates program to increase the visibility of these visiting scholars and allow the Center and its students to mutually gain from greater interaction.

Working with the Office of International Programs, the Center will consider initiating a summer program, in parallel with the language program, that offers courses in contemporary Arab politics and history for a small number of visiting students.

In the final year of the term appointment of the CAMES Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies, the Center will consider recommending the hiring of an Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies with a regular contract in conjunction with another department (such as PSPA or History).

Waleed Hazbun Director

Aliya Saidi Assistant Director

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

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) offers a Minor in American Studies. CASAR‘s mission is to increase knowledge of the United States in the Middle East. CASAR pursues this goal through interdisciplinary teaching and research in American Studies – focusing on a broad range of issues including historical, cultural, and political issues – and through outreach efforts such as conferences and public lectures.

B. PERSONNEL

9. Faculty Members

Lubin, Alexander Associate Professor Ph.D. Kraidy, Marwan Visiting Professor Ph.D. Haselby, Sam Visiting Assistant Ph.D. Professor

10. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Coskun, Tugce

Spring Semester Coskun, Tugce

11. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Bossone, Andrew Abi Zeid, Marc

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Spring Semester Bossone, Andrew Abi Zeid, Marc

12. Non-Academic Staff

Batakji Sanyoura, Nancy Assistant to the Director

C. TEACHING

6. Number of Graduating Majors

Not applicable.

2. Number of Majors

Not applicable.

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above NA NA NA NA 211-299 NA 66 138 204 200-210 NA NA NA 100-199 NA NA NA Total

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above NA NA NA NA 211-299 NA 15 24 39 200-210 NA NA 100-199 NA NA Total

D. RESEARCH

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1. The impact of the Opium Trade and China Missions on Anglo-American Protestantism. The new research project examines how the nineteenth-century China trade, especially in opium, financed and influenced the cultural and political activities of Anglo-American Reform Protestants.

Kraidy, Marwan 1. ―Communication and Power in the Global Era: Orders and Borders,‖ [editor]. London & New York: Routledge, paper ISBN 978-0-415-62735-1, cloth ISBN 978- 0-415-62734-4, (2012). 2. ―Global Media Studies‖ with Toby Miller, Polity, Cambridge, UK, under contract, (2012). 3. ―Music Videos & Arab Public Life: New Media and the Age of Visibility,‖ (2012).

Lubin, Alex 1. "The Geography of Liberation: Afro-Arab Encounters during the Long Twentieth Century," monograph in process with University of North Carolina Press. 2. ―Fear of an Arab Planet‘: Afro-Arab Cultural Politics,‖ article forthcoming from German Journal of American Studies. 3. ―Shifting Borders: Conference Proceedings of the Fourth International CASAR Conference‖, (ed.), (In process).

Lubin, Alex and Kraidy, Marwan

1. ―Shifting Borders: American Studies after the American Century‖, (eds), (edited volume in process).

Lubin, Alex, Les Field, Melanie Yazzie, and Jakob Schiller

1. "Decolonizing the Study of Palestine,‖ journal article under review with Journal of Palestine Studies.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Haselby, Sam

1. March 6, 2012. Invited lecture at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, ―The China Trade Puzzle.‖

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Kraidy, Marwan

1. May 26, 2012. Invited lecture at Jordan Media Institute, Amman, Jordan, ―Mass Media After the Revolution: The Policy, creative and Editorial Environment.‖ 2. May 10-11, 2012. Invited lecture at Izmir University of Business and Economics, Izmir, Turkey, ―Turkey‘s Foreign Policy and Popular Culture in Arab Public Discourse. 3. March 21-22, 2012. Invited lecture at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, ―Plato‘s Digital Cave: the Hypemediation of the Arab Uprisings,‖ Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Symposium, ―The People want the Fall of the Regime.‖ 4. January 24, 2012. Invited lecture at Georgetown University Qatar, Doha, Qatar, ―Plato‘s Digital Cave: The Arab Uprisings as Battles of Representation.‖ 5. November 2011. Invited lecture at the Danish –Egyptian Dialogue Institute (DEDI), Cairo, Egypt, ―Al-Waleed Bin Talal: Media Moguls and Media Capital,‖ Arab Media Moguls Symposium. 6. October 2011. Invited lecture at Izmir University of Business and Economics, Izmir, Turkey, ―Plato‘s Digital Cave: The Arab Uprisings and the Politics of Media Research.‖ 7. October 2011. Invited lecture at Izmir University of Business and Economics, Izmir, Turkey, ―Art, Politics and Commerce: Reflections on Arab Music Videos.‖ 8. October 2011. Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal, ―Remixing Global Culture: Arab Music Video and Creative Syncretism,‖ Keynote address, the Culture of Remix Conference. 9. August 2011. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), Beirut, ―The Role of Media in the Arab Spring: A Preliminary Assessment.‖

Lubin, Alex

1. November 2011. Participant on the panel, ―The Palestine Question in American Studies,‖ American Studies Association national meeting, Balitmore, MD. 2. February 2012. Participant on the panel, ―Between Islam and the West,‖ Harvard University, Alwaleed Center for Islamic Studies. 3. February 2012, invited lecture, ―Transnational American Studies,‖ University of Notre-Dame, American Studies Program. 4. February 2012, invited lecture, ―Locating Palestine in American Studies,‖ Purdue University, Students for Justice in Palestine.

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F. PUBLICATIONS

Haselby, Sam

1. ―American Sectarian: How Capitalism and Nationalism Transformed Mormonism,‖ Al Jazeera, 18 May 2012. 2. ―Sovereignty and Salvation on the Frontier of the Early American Republic,‖ Past and Present, May 2012.

Kraidy, Marwan

1. ―Contention and Circulation in the Digital Public Sphere: Music Video as Catalyst, Television and New Media,‖ [forthcoming, 2012]. 2. ―Les Médias en Arabie Séoudite: Lutte Politique et Controverse Sociale de Star Academy aux Soulèvements Arabes,‖ (Media in Saudi Arabia: Political Struggle and Social Controversy from Star Academy to Arab Uprisings), Anthropologie et Société, 36, 1-2 [in press, 2012]. 3. ―The Revolutionary Body Politic: Preliminary Thoughts on a Neglected Medium In the Arab Uprisings,‖ Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 5(1) pp. 68- 76, 2012.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The proposal for a MA in Transnational American Studies (the first of its kind in the Middle East) is now being approved by the Senate. It is expected to begin in Fall 2013-14.

CASAR moved to its new offices which provide better space for formal and informal interaction on campus. Also, CASAR is planning to create a state-of-the- art videoconferencing room that will be open for FAS as well.

CASAR has begun working on the publication of the proceedings of its fourth international conference ―Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/ North Africa‖ that was held from 11-14 January 2012. The proceedings will be externally reviewed and published by AUB Press in 2013.

CASAR director, Alex Lubin, and the Said Chair 2012-13, Marwan Kraidy, are also working on publishing a special volume ―Shifting Borders: American Studies after the American Century,‖ to emphasize the importance of the last conference theme.

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CASAR will develop into a Center for Advanced Research by hiring new post- doctoral fellows.

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CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Consistent with our diminished budget, we have had no choice but to sustain our downsized two activities: pre-doctoral fellows and the bi-weekly ―Brown Bag‖ sessions. Both activities, however, witnessed a recognized upsurge. The number of visiting fellows increased by two-fold to eight. The ―Brown Bag‖ sessions, thanks to the co-ordinating efforts of Youssef el-Khoury, were also better attended. In some sessions the diminutive seminar room could not accommodate the audience.

Courtesy of the Dar-Al-Handassa Grant, the CBR enjoyed the appointment of Youssef el-Khoury as a full-time research assistant. In addition to co-ordinating the Brown Bags, he assisted in editing my manuscript – Ungodly Puritans – to be published by Routledge in 2012.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Khalaf, Samir Director Professor

2. Non Academic Staff

Jbara, Leila Secretary

C. VISITING FELLOWS

Arsan, Andrew (Princeton University) ―A World of Ideas: Middle Eastern Political Thought in the First Age of Globalization 1880-1940.‖

Carpi, Estella (University of Sydney) ―Ethnography of Everyday Life in the War-stricken Areas of Beirut.‖

Halkort, Monika (Queens University) ―Taming the Insurgent City.‖

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Landry, Jean Michel (Berkeley) ―Which Islam is taught to the Young Children between 8 & 12.‖

McCormick, Jared (Harvard University) ―Tourism & Migration of Men to/through Beirut in Relation to Masculinity & Sexuality.‖

Proudfoot, Philip James (LSE) ―Ethnography of Constructing Luxury Apartments in Hamra.‖

Rahaim, Matthew (University of Minnesota) ―Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music.‖

Robinson, Caitlin (SOAS) ―To See and Be Seen: Creating Ideal Feminine Beauties through Body Modification in Beirut.‖

D. ACTIVITIES

Brown Bag Bi-weekly Sessions

1. Pagani, Linda (Université de Monréal) “From Poverty to High School Dropouts.” November 2, 2011.

2. Wallis, Jillian (University of Melbourne) “Landscape Architecture and the Design of the Civic.” November 15, 2011.

3. Arsan, Andrew (Princeton University) “A Global Age of Reform.” November 29, 2011.

4. McCormick, Jared (Harvard University) “The Mobility of Desire: Men, Movement & Sexuality in Beirut.” February 22, 2012.

5. Carpi, Estella (University of Sydney) “Ethnography of Everyday Life in the Southern Suburbs of Beirut.” March 6, 2012.

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6. Fathallah, Zeina (AUB) “Moral Work & Network Building on Abortion in Lebanon” April 3, 2012.

7. Walzer, Belinda (University of North Carolina) “Narrative Possibilities” April 24, 2012.

8. Khayyat, Munira (AUB) “A Landscape of War: On the Nature of Conflict in South Lebanon.” May 8, 2012.

9. Tarabey, Lubna (AUB/LU) “Moral Work & Network Building on Abortion in Lebanon” May 22, 2012.

Conferences and Workshops

1. ―Citizenship and the Arab Spring‖ The Citizenship Initiative Workshop. St. Petersburg, Florida (February 2-4, 2012).

2. ―On Lebanon Adrift‖ Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Canadian Chapter West Hall, AUB, May 30, 2012

3. ―Prospects for Public Sphere and Civil Society.‖ In Culture, Identity and Change in the Middle East. Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School, June 7-8, 2012.

E. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND NEED

As noted in last year‘s Annual Report, the virtual monopoly CBR once enjoyed, by virtue of the generous Andrew Mellon Foundation grant, our activities are now organized by CAMES, CASAR, Issam Fares and the Anis Makdisi program. In no way can we legitimate the Center‘s presence if we simply duplicate what is already an over-charged set of redundant activities, often sparsely attended.

As a last hurrah, as it were, I have been considering to launch a special campaign to seek funding to renew our summer research grants (about 3 per year). In monetary terms this would amount to about $ 25,000 per grant. The grants are allocated on a peer-reviewed competitive basis. As in the past, these will allow the faculty the

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much needed release from summer teaching. Another promising activity deserves also support. All the international conferences we hosted resulted in published volumes – e.g: Sexuality in the Arab world (2006); Arab Culture and Society (2009); Arab Youth in Times of Risk (2012).

At about $ 50,000 per year we can sustain such output. Altogether, the anticipated budget will be $ 125,000; not an immodest sum. In consultation with the Dean‘s Office, I intend early in the fall to establish an Ad Hoc advisory committee to consider the future of CBR.

Samir Khalaf Director

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CENTER FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE RESEARCH AND TEACHING

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Center for English Language Research and Teaching (CELRT) supervises the BA and MA degree programs in English Language. Furthermore, in cooperation with the Education Department, it supervises the Teaching Diploma (TD) and the MA program in efforts of its faculty members.

 The developmental activities of CELRT during the academic year 2011-2012 were put on hold due to the decision to work on a proposal for the restructuring of the Center to make it more inclusive and more relevant to the changing and evolving needs of the University, the country, and the region. CELRT faculty members developed a proposal that was submitted to the Dean for approval.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty members

Kassim Shaaban Professor Ph.D. Ghazi Ghaith Professor Ph.D. Lina Choueiri Associate Professor Ph.D. Amy Zenger Associate Professor Ph.D. Lisa Arnold Assistant Professor Ph.D.

2. Graduate Assistants

Fall and Spring Semesters

Darim Khoja Assistant to Director BA Fatima Osseily CELRT Librarian BA

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 Refer to the annual reports of the Department of English and the Department of Education.

D. RESEARCH

 Refer to the annual reports of the Department of English and the Department of Education.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

 Refer to the annual reports of the Department of English and the Department of Education.

F. PUBLICATIONS

 Refer to the annual reports of the Department of English and the Department of Education.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The proposed new structure of the Center will entail a different kind of agenda with varied activities in various areas. The first step after approval would be to form a CELRT Steering Committee and a CELRT Advisory Board. New directions need to be set and new activities need to be engaged in. Fortunately, with the new structure, there is no need for additional lines as CELRT would be drawing on new resources at the University.

During the coming academic year, CELRT hopes to get actively involved in research programs, consultation work, professional seminars, and development of related academic programs.

Kassim Shaaban Director

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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

This year the Department of Chemistry underwent a complete self-evaluation of its graduate and undergraduate academic programs, research and infrastructure. The self-study report put forward by the Department was also assessed by two external reviewers (Profs. Mary Nakhle and Norbert Pienta) who later on visited the Department and submitted their own report.

In 2010-11, there were sixteen graduate students in the Department and four of them graduated with an M.Sc. degree. Ms. Rana El-Jarrah received the Makhlouf Haddadin Award for the Outstanding Chemistry UG Student and Mr. Janane Rahbani received Makhlouf Haddadin Award for the Outstanding Chemistry GR Student. Mr. Elias Nakouzi received the Abdul Hadi Debs award. One of our senior students graduated with high distinction and many graduated with distinction. As part of the celebration of the International Year of Chemistry, the Second Organic Competition took place on February 7 and was a tightly contested race among 62 teams from 11 universities from Lebanon and the MENA region.

Prof. Najat Saliba was promoted to Full Professor and Prof. Antoine Ghauch to Associate Professor. Prof. Hasanayn received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Arab Fund Fellowship Program and is spending a one year Sabbatical leave in the Lab. of Prof. Robert Morris at the University of Toronto. Prof. Makhluf Haddadin spent the fall semester in the Lab. of Prof. Mark Kurth at the University of California Davis. Prof. Halaoui spent the spring semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Lab of Prof. Daniel Nocera.

Dr. Pierre Karam will join the Department next fall as a new assistant professor of analytical chemistry.

Most of the faculty members presented research proposals to various external funding agencies in addition to the University Research Board (URB). Seven URB proposals and six LNCSR were funded. Prof. Ghauch received the PEER Grant for his proposal titled ―Investigation into persulfate/peroxymonosulfate oxidation of micro-contaminants toward water sustainability: mechanism, kinetics, and implementation" for an amount of 167,000 USD over 3 years. This proposal was

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one of only 42 selected from among the 488 applications submitted. This will be in collaboration of the Sedlak group at UC Berkley. Prof. Ghaddar received the Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources Grant (USD 15,000) for his proposal titled ―Novel Cyclometalated Ruthenium Complexes and Electrolyte Systems for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.‖ Prof. Bouhadir received in collaboration with Prof. Youssef Abou Jawdeh and Dr. Youssef Mouneimneh a grant (USD 309,298 over 3 years) from the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) Cross-Border Cooperation within the Mediterranean (CBCMED) to study biodiesel production from algae.

The proposal to reinstate the PhD program in the Department of Chemistry is in its final stage of preparation and will be submitted to the Dean at the beginning of the next fall semester.

Two new undergraduate courses are now introduced to the chemistry curriculum and will strengthen our program: The newly introduced CHEM 201L (1cr) entitled ―Introduction to Chemical Analysis Laboratory‖ is now required to all new chemistry students in their sophomore year. Consequently, CHEM 225 will be reduced from 4 to 3 credits. CHEM 201L is a prerequisite for all chemistry Lab courses. The other new course is CHEM 234 entitled ―Instrumental Analytical Chemistry‖ will be offered as a new chemistry elective. A new special topics graduate course titled ―Introduction to Nanoscience‖ was offered for the first time in the spring semester.

This year the Department welcomed two distinguished speakers Prof. Mustafa As- Sayyid (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and Prof. Samir Zard (Ecole Polytechnique, France.)

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Makhluf Haddadin Professor Ph.D. Rabih Sultan Professor Ph.D. Mazen Al-Ghoul Professor(Chairman) Ph.D. Lara Halaoui Professor Ph.D. Kamal Bouhadir Associate Professor Ph.D. Najat Saliba Associate Professor Ph.D. Hussam El Rassy Associate Professor Ph.D.

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Tarek Ghaddar Associate Professor Ph.D. Antoine Ghauch Assistant Professor Ph.D. Faraj Hasanayn Associate Professor Ph.D. Bilal Kaafarani Associate Professor Ph.D. Digambara Patra Assistant Professor Ph.D. Hala* Moudalla Lecturer Ph.D. Saada* Dakdouki Lecturer Ph.D. Randa Abi Rafi-Jaber Instructor M.Sc. Hana Deeb Instructor M.Sc. Samar Sadek-Hajj Instructor M.Sc.

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Rima Baalbaki Rawad Massoud Lamis El Araj Tharallah Shokr Nada Ghanem Mazen El Mawla Manal Ammar Elizabeth Septedjian Fatima Sleem Sara Shawraba Riwa Aridi

Spring Semester Rima Baalbaki Rawad Massoud Lamis El Araj Tharallah Shokr Nada Ghanem Mazen El Mawla Manal Ammar Elizabeth Septedjian Fatima Sleem Sara Shawraba Riwa Aridi

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester

Boushra Ajeeb Malak Dayeh Dalal Noureddine Mohammad Sakr Malek Jaafar Ghada Ayyoub Malek El Assaad Sahar Naim

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Fatima Haydous Hussein Sleiman Elsy El Khoury Alaa Ezzeddine

Spring Semester

Boushra Ajeeb Malak Dayeh Dalal Noureddine Mohammad Sakr Malek Jaafar Ghada Ayyoub Malek El Assaad Sahar Naim Fatima Haydous Alaa Ezzeddine Elsy El Khoury

Lara Abramian Lab Manager Hassan Ala'eddine Technician, Grade 07 Butros Ghandour Senior Technician, Grade 09 Joyce Haddad Clerk Typist, Grade 06 Hani Kanbar Technician, Grade 07 Adnan Ruzz Senior Technician, Grade 10 Issam Sleiman-Azar Administrative Assistant, Grade 11

4. Non-Academic Staff

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

B.S. Oct. 2009 0 Feb. 2010 0 Jun. 2010 42

M.S. Oct. 2009 0 Feb. 2010 0 Jun. 2010 4

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2. Number of Majors Fall Spring Semester Semester Courses Summer Fall Spring Total 2008 Semester Semester Courses numbered 300 and above -- 15 15 30 Courses numbered 211 through 299 102 363 574 1039 Courses numbered 200 through 210 345 965 863 2173 Courses numbered 100 through 199 18 195 135 314 Total 465 1538 1587 3556

Graduates 15 15 Seniors 45 45 Juniors 39 38 Sophomores 72 54

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer Fall Spring Total 2008 Semester Semester Courses numbered 300 and above -- 6 9 15 Courses numbered 211 through 299 9 25 33 67 Courses numbered 200 through 210 28 22 22 72 Courses numbered 100 through 199 4 4 8 16 Total 41 57 72 170

D. RESEARCH

Mazen Al-Ghoul

1. From Fundamental Understanding to Prospective Nanomaterials, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Dec. 2010-Dec. 2014 (in progress). 2. Wave Propagation of Cadmium Sulfide Quantum Dots and Other Nanoscopic

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Precipitate Systems in Gel Media: Experimental and Theoretical Study, Lebanese Council of Scientific Research (LNCSR), Lebanon, Dec. 2011 – Dec. 2013 (in progress). 3. Theoretical and Experimental Scaling Laws For Hyperbolic RDEs for Initially Separated Reactants, University Research Board (URB), AUB, Oct 2010 – June 2012 (in progress).

Kamal Bouhadir

1. ―Surface-Initiated cyclopolymerization of 1-(2-diallylaminoethyl)cytosine. The goal of this project is to attach a radical initiator onto iron oxide nanoparticles to induce the surface-initiated polymerization of diallylaminoethyl-functionalized nucleic bases. Research in progress (with A. Ezzeddine). Supported by URB. 2. ―Potentiometric studies, synthesis and characterization of some metal complexes of 9N-hydroxyethyladeine (9-HOEtAde). Crystal structures of Co(acac)2(9- HOEtAde-N7)2.2H2O and Zn(9-HOEtAde-N7)2Cl2, Research completed and paper being written (with H. Hammud*, A.M. Ghannoum* and M.S. Masoud*). Supported by an LNCSR grant.

Houssam El-Rassy

1. ―Synthesis of monolithic molecularly-imprinted silica aerogels for selective solid-phase extraction of key-drugs‖. Research in progress (with A. Ghanem and N. Saad). Supported by URB grant. 2. ―Adsorption of antibiotics from water: Comparison of natural adsorbents and activated carbon‖. Research in progress (with A. Ghanem). Supported by LNCSR grant. 3. ―Silica, titania, and silica-titania aerogels as potential adsorbents for organic pollutants and toxic metals‖. Research in progress (with N. Saad and M. Al- Mawla). Supported by LNCSR grant. 4. ―Characterization and testing heavy metal removal using pine-needle activated carbon‖. Research in progress (with G. Ayoub and A. Damaj).

Tarek Ghaddar

1. ―Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Incorporating Cyclometalated Ruthenium Complexes‖. Supported by the University Research Board (URB). Research is in progress.

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2. ―Cyclometalated Ruthenium Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells‖. Supported by the National Council for Scientific Research, Lebanon (CNRS). Research is in progress. 3. ―Novel Cyclometalated Ruthenium Complexes and Electrolyte Systems for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells‖. Supported by the Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources. Research is in progress.

Antoine Ghauch

1. ―Treatment of Organic Contaminants in Water by Thermally Activated Persulfate at Circumneutral pH‖. 2nd year, Supported by LNCSR (2 papers published, one submitted). 2. ―Chemical Oxidation of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Water by ZVI- activated Sodium Persulfate‖. Submitted for renewal, 2nd year, Supported by OGC/URB. (Paper in preparation). 3. ―PEER (USAID-NSF): Investigation into Persulfate/Peroxymonosulfate Oxidation of Micro-contaminants toward Water Sustainability: Mechanism, Kinetics and Implementation (work in progress June 1st).

Makhlouf Haddadin

1. The chemistry of 2H-Indazoles and Indazolones (The Davis-Beirut Reaction). 2. Reactions of 1,2,4,5-Tetrazines. Projects 1and 2 are in collaboration with Professor Mark J. Kurth, University of California, Davis, CA. Beirut Reaction Royalties and other US grants. One review, by invitation to MJH, is in Press, and one paper submitted. 3. Reactions of some electron-deficient heterocycles. One paper submitted.

Bilal Kaafarani

1. K. M. Hallal, R. N. Moussawi, K. A. Ruzz and B. R. Kaafarani, ―Design and Investigation of Novel Pyrene Materials for OLED Applications.‖ Research in progress. Supported by PRF. 2. K. M. Hallal, A. Hilmi and B. R. Kaafarani, ―Synthesis of Novel Pyrene Discotic Liquid Crystals for Organic Photovoltaics Applications‖. Research in progress. Supported by URB.

Digambara Patra

1. Synthesis of nanoparticle assembled novel microcapsule and its nanotechnological application as sensor for industrial effluents, Lebanese

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Council of Scientific Research (LNCSR), Lebanon, Oct 2011 – Sept 2013 (under progress) 2. Interaction of Curcumin with phospholipids and albumins, University Research Board (URB), AUB, Oct 2010 – June 2012

Najat Saliba

The Initiative for Biodiversity Studies in Arid Regions (IBSAR) projects: 1. ―Assessing the amount of isosecoparthenolide isomers isolated from wild and cultivated Achillea falcata; endemic Lebanese specie‖. Extraction, isolation and structure identification coupled with biological activity studies is a work in progress. Project supported by IBSAR. Rita Tohme is the graduate student who is working on this project. 2. ―Extracting and analyzing biologically active molecules in Cota palestina‖. Lamis Al Araj; a research assistant and Bouchra Ajeeb a graduate student are working on this project. Atmospheric and Analytical Chemistry Projects: 1. ―PM10 and PM2.5 levels at different sites in the Greater Beirut area. Analysis of their chemical content and assessing their sources based on their chemical composition‖. Research project in progress and in collaboration with USJ. Project supported by the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS). Rawad Massoud was the research assistant responsible for the project. This research project ended its third phase in May 2012. 2. ―PM10 and PM2.5 levels at the AUB site for the pre-, during and post- desert storms episodes. Analysis of their ionic content and establishing the effect of the desert storms on the levels of chlorides, nitrates and sulfates in the gas and particulate phases‖. Research project in progress. Project supported by The American University Research Board (URB). Ghinwa El-Tayyar is the research assistant responsible for the project. 3. ―Assessing traffic emission and traffic induced pollution by conducting on-road count measurements of the 31 different sizes of particulate matters‖. Project supported by RYMCO-AUDI-SARADAR-NISSAN. Rima Baalbaki replacing Qassem Al-Assaad is the research assistant responsible for the project. 4. ―Measurement of mainstream and sidestream polyaromatic hydrocarbons in real and herbal samples‖. Elizabeth Septedjian is the research assistant responsible for completing this work. Project supported by the National Institute of

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Health (NIH); United States. 5. ―Measurement of gas and particle phenols emitted from controlled-lab narghile samples‖. Elizabeth Sepetdjian; a research assistant working on the project. Project supported by the National Institute of Health (NIH); United States.

Rabih Sultan

1. ―Effect of an AC Electric Field on Periodic Precipitation‖, will be submitted soon (with Tony Karam). 2. ―Kinetics of the Mn2+-Catalyzed Bromate-Sulfite-Perchloric Acid Reaction‖, will be submitted soon (with F. Zaknoun and Rana El-Jarrah). 3. ―pH Oscillations in the Bromate-Sulfite-Perchloric Acid Reaction‖, CMSIM Journal (Chaotic Modeling and Simulation), in press (with F. Zaknoun and M. Al-Ghoul). 4. ―On Dynamic Self-Organization: Examples from Magmatic and Other Geochemical Systems‖, Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures (LAJSS), in press (with A. Abdel-Rahman). 5. Concentration Profiles of Co-precipitates and Intermediates in Direct and Revert Spacing Liesegang Systems, initial exploratory stage (with Shaza Darwish). 6. Entropy and Fractal Dimension in Periodic Precipitation, in progress. 7. Effect of Magnetic Field on Fractal Metal Electrodeposits, initial exploratory stage. 8. Fractal Structure in electroless redox metal deposition. The metal deposits are grown in the absence of electrolysis, via a mere redox reaction system, in suitably designed geometry (with Elias Nakouzi, Jean-Michel Azzo and Samih Zakharia).

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Mazen Al-Ghoul

1. Chair, Departmental of Chemistry 2. Director, Graduate Program in Computational Science 3. Member, Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences Sterring Committee 4. Member, Masri Institute for Enegy Studies Sterring Committee

1. Kamal Bouhadir

1. Member, FAS Curriculum Committee.

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2. Member, Initiative for Biodiversity Studies in Arid Regions (IBSAR). 3. Member, Organization Committee for the Basic Biomedical Research Day. 4. Chair, Chemistry Safety Committee. 5. Member, Chemistry Graduate Committee 6. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry Research 7. Member, American Chemical Society (ACS). 8. Member, Phi Lambda Upsilon (Honorary Chemical Society). 9. Chair of the thesis committee of Mr. Alaa Ezzeddine, Chemistry graduate student. 10. Member of the thesis committee of Miss. Rabab El Natour, Chemistry graduate student, Beirut Arab University. 11. External Reviewer of the thesis of Mrs. Rola Nour Eddine El-Tabesh, Chemistry graduate student, Beirut Arab University.

Houssam El-Rassy

1. Academic advisor, Chemistry undergraduate students. 2. Member, Interfaculty financial aid committee. 3. Member, FAS research committee. 4. Member, FAS undergraduate admissions committee. 5. Member, Central Research Science Laboratory committee. 6. Chairperson, Chemistry curriculum committee. 7. Chairperson, Chemistry equipment committee. 8. Member, Chemistry graduate committee. 9. Member, promotion committee of Dr. Antoine Ghauch. 10. MS thesis advisor of Mr. Naim Saad. 11. Member of the MS thesis committee of Ms. Abeer Hamzeh, Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student. 12. Member of the MS thesis committee of Mr. Tony Karam, Chemistry graduate student. 13. Reviewer for Chemical Engineering Research and Design (1 manuscript). 14. Reviewer for Chemical Engineering Journal (1 manuscript). 15. Reviewer for Applied Surface Science (1 manuscript). 16. Reviewer for Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (1 manuscript). 17. Reviewer for Journal of Alloys and Compounds (1 manuscript). 18. Reviewer for Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (1 manuscript). 19. Reviewer for research proposals submitted to URB, Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources, and LNCSR. 20. Participation in the 16th International Sol-Gel Conference Sol-Gel 2011, August 28th – September 2nd 2011, Hangzhou, China. 1 oral communication and 1 poster were presented.

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21. Participation in the Frontiers of Chemical Sciences V: Research and Education in the Middle East, December 4th – 9th 2011, Paris, France. 1 oral communication was presented.

Tarek Ghaddar

1. Bookstore representative. 3. Member, American Chemical Society (ACS). 4. Member of the thesis committee of Mr. Alaa Ezzeddine (Chemistry). 5. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Dalal Noureddine (Chemistry). 6. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Boushra Ajeeb (Chemistry).

2. Antoine Ghauch

1. Consultancy: D-RASATI project through REP. 2. Poster presented at the 3rd KAS CRSL Research Conference: Al Muthanna Tuqan, Nadine Kibbi, Antoine Ghauch (2012) Thermally activated persulfate for the removal of pharmaceuticals in water, Third KAS CRSL Research Conference, AUB, June 04, 2012. 3. Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference 24-29 June 2012, Holderness School, New Hampshire, USA. Al Muthanna Tuqan, Nadine Kibbi, Antoine Ghauch (2012) Thermally activated persulfate for the removal of pharmaceuticals from water. 4. Abstracts presented at the 3rd KAS CRSL Research Conference: Nadine Kibbi, Al Muthanna Tuqan, Sally Geryes, Antoine Ghauch (2012) Discoloration of Methylene Blue by Thermally Activated Persulfate, Third KAS CRSL Research Conference, AUB, June 04, 2012. Ghada Ayoub, Sahar Naim, Antoine Ghauch (2012) Investigation into sulfamethoxazole degradation by persulfate assisted micrometric Fe0 in aqueous solution, Third KAS CRSL Research Conference, AUB, June 04, 2012. Al Muthanna Tuqan, Nadine Kibbi, Antoine Ghauch (2012), Development of a kinetics model for the degradation of Ibuprofen in heated persulfate systems, Third KAS CRSL Research Conference, AUB, June 04, 2012.

Makhlouf Haddadin

1. By invitation, presented a research seminar entitled:‖ The DAVIS- Beirut Reaction: An easy entry into the synthesis of 2-Indazoles and Indazolones‖. MAY, 12,2012 at the Chemistry Department , King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.

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2. Visiting Scholar, Paid Research Leave (Oct.2011-Jan.2012). July-Oct. 2012, my own expense, UCDavis , CA, USA, 3. Member: BOT, University of Balamand . 4. Member of Advisory Board, and reviewer: Archives of Organic Chemistry.

Bilal Kaafarani

1. Medical Admissions Committee, AUB, 2011-2012. 2. Freshman/Junior/Senior Chemistry Advisor, AUB, 2011-2012. 3. Course Learning Outcomes Task Force Committee, AUB, 2008-present. 4. Arkivoc Editorial Board of Referees, May 2009-date. 5. Member, American Chemical Society. 6. Member, Royal Society of Chemistry. 7. Member, Optical Society of Science Engineering.

Digambara Patra

1. Member, Departmental Equipment Committee 2. Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee 3. Member, Periodic Review Committee 4. Member, Editorial Board, Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment 5. Member, Editorial Board, ISRN Analytical Chemistry 6. Attended International Conference on Membrane: Environmental and Biological Applications, Kottayam, Kerala, India, Sept 16-19, 2011.

Najat Saliba

Conferences 1. ―The Highway is our Airway‖, American University of Beirut, Beirut, (May, 2012) 2. ―PM Levels in Beirut, Exposure and Health Effects‖, University Saint Joseph, Beirut, (April, 2012) 3. ―When Urban Dust mixes with Natural Dust: Chemistry and Size Distribution‖, University of California, Irvine, (August, 2011) Poster Forum 1. ―Internationl Biodiversity Day at AUB (IBDAA)‖, Member of the organizing committee. This is a poster forum where students from different faculties celebrate in their own way the International Biodiversity Day on May 18th, American University of Beirut, (May, 2012). Committees and Memberships

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1. Director of the Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures; Ibsar 2. ASHA coordinator; Chemistry Department 3. Member, American Chemical Society (ACS) 4. Member, American Geological Union (AGU) 5. Chair of the thesis committee of Bouchra Ajeeb, MS-Chemistry, AUB 6. Member of the thesis committee of Rita Tohme, MS Molecular Biology 7. Member of the thesis committee of Bilal Nasr, MS Molecular Biology 8. Member of the thesis committee of Akram Ghantous, Ph-D Molecular and Cell Biology, AUB Community involvement and services 1. Director of the Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures; Ibsar 2. Chair of the ―Ayyam All Ouloum‖ committee representing IBSAR in the Days of Science exhibition presented at the Hippodrome de Beirut in October. 3. Raise awareness on air pollution via press releases, radio and television interviews

Rabih Sultan

1. Graduate Advisor 2. Chair, Chemistry Graduate Committee 3. Chair, Promotion Committee of Dr. Najat Saliba 4. Member, MS thesis Committees of Ashkan Gharib and Elsy El-Khoury 5. Chair, Program Review Committee (Review of the Chemistry Curriculum) 6. Directed the thesis work of Tony Karam and Elias Nakouzi, graduate students. 7. Carried out the General Education (GE) Assessment for the Chemistry 201 course. 8. Attended the 11th Conference on Dynamic Systems Theory and Applications (DSTA), Łódź, Poland; December 5-8, 2011. Presented a seminar talk: Routes to Pattern Formation in Geochemical Systems (with A. Abdel-Rahman). 9. Attended the International Workshop on Complex Systems in Chemistry, Physics and Biology, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, November 2-3, 2011. Presented a seminar talk Fractal Structures in Two-Metal Electrodeposition Systems (with E. Nakouzi). 10. Member, National Commission for the International Year of Chemistry, Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (LNCSR) 11. Member, Recruitment Committee, Department of Geology, AUB 12. A/Chair, Research Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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13. REP visit to Fahd bin Sultan University (FBSU), Tabouk, KSA. Assessed the Chemistry courses and the feasibility of opening a Chemistry program, June 18- 21, 2011. 14. Refereed articles for the Journal of Materials Chemistry, Philosophical Transactions and Chemical Physics Letters. 15. Refereed proposals for the LNCSR, and articles for the Lebanese Science Journal (LJS).

F. PUBLICATIONS

Mazen Al-Ghoul

1. Janane Rahbani, Niveen Khashab, Dighambara Patra and Mazen Al-Ghoul, Kinetics and mechanism of ionic intercalation/de-intercalation during the formation of a-cobalt hydroxide and its polymorphic transition to ß-cobalt hydroxide: reaction-diffusion framework, J. Mater. Chem., 22 (32), 16361 – 16369 (2012). 2. R.F. Hamade, A. Tarhinia, S. Salhab and Mazen Al-Ghoul, Modeling Cathodic Weakening of Rubber/Steel Adhesive Bonds as Liquid–Solid Reactions, Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology 26, 745–765 (2012). 3. Manal Ammar, Rabih Al-Kaissi and Mazen Al-Ghoul, Scaling Laws, Phase Transition and Band Propagation in a Precipitate System I: Experimental Study, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116 (18), pp 4427–4437 (2012). 4. Farah Zaknoun, Mazen Al-Ghoul and Rabih Sultan, pH Oscillations in the Bromate-Sulfite-Perchloric Acid Reaction, Proceedings of the Chaos 2011 Conference, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, May 31-June 3, pp.649-656 (2011). 5. Andrew Abi Mansour and Mazen Al-Ghoul, Scaling and Crossover Dynamics in the Hyperbolic Reaction-Diffusion Equations of Initially Separated Components, Physical Review 84, 026107 (2011). 6. Mazen Al-Ghoul and Manal Ammar, Polymorphic Transformation and the Transition from a Propagating Band to Static Bands in the Nickel Hydroxide/Ammonia Liesegang System, Journal Defects and Diffusion Forum 312, 800-805 (2011). Kamal Bouhadir

1. Bouhadir, K. H.; Abou Aleiwe, B.; Faraes, F. A. * Facile preparation of the tosylhydrazone derivatives of a series of racemic trans-3,4-substituted cyclopentanones. Molecules 2012, 17, 1-14.

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2. L. Cao*, K.H. Bouhadir and D.J. Mooney* ―Materials presenting Notch signaling molecules to control cell behavior. PCT International Patent # US2011/59710, November 8, 2011.

Houssam El-Rassy

1. Rami Al-Oweini, Shant Aghyarian, Houssam El-Rassy. Immobilization of polyoxometalates on mesoporous organically-modified silica aerogels for selective oxidation catalysis of anthracene. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 2012, 61, 541-550. 2. Tony Karam, Houssam El-Rassy, Farah Zaknoun, Zeinab Moussa, Rabih Sultan. Liesegang banding and multiple precipitate formation in cobalt phosphate systems. Chemical Physics Letters, 2012, 525-526, 54-59. 3. Michel Nakhl, Mirvat Zakhour, Charbel Amine, Houssam El-Rassy, Samir F. Matar. Effect of the ball milling conditions, under air, on the preliminary hydriding properties of the mixtures Mg-x wt% Graphite. Role of solvent. Advanced Materials Research, 2011, 324, 119-124.

Tarek Ghaddar

1. O'Regan B., Xiaoe L., Ghaddar T. ―Dye Adsorption, Desorption and

Distribution in Mesoporous TiO2 Films, and Its Effects on Recombination Losses in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells‖ Energy and Environmental Sciences, 5, 7203- 7215, (2012). 2. Noureldine D., Shoker T., Musameh M., Ghaddar T. ―Investigation of Carbon Nanotube Webs as Counter Electrodes in a New Organic Electrolyte Based Dye Sensitized Solar Cell‖, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22, 862-869, (2012). 3. Kisserwan H., Ghaddar T., ―Enhancement of Photocurrent In Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Incorporating a Cyclometalated Ruthenium Complex With Cuprous Iodide as an Electrolyte Additive‖, Dalton Transactions, 40 (15), 3877-3884, (2011).

Antoine Ghauch

1. Ghauch, A., Tuqan, A., Kibbi, N., (2012) Ibuprofen removal by heated persulfate in aqueous solution: a kinetics study, Chem. Eng. J. 197, 483-492. 2. Ghauch, A., Tuqan, A., (2012) Oxidation of bisoprolol in heated

persulfate/H2O systems: Kinetics and products Chem. Eng. J. 183, 162-171.

Makhlouf Haddadin

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1. By invitation to MJH, M. J. Haddadin, Mirna El Khatib,― 3,6-diphenyl-1,2,4,5- tetrazine‖,E-eros, Encyclopedia for organic synthesis,2011, DOI:10.1002/047084289X.rd443.pub.2 2. Makhluf J. Haddadin, Mirna El Khatib, Tharallah A. Shoker, Christine M. Beavers, Marilyn M. Olmstead, James C. Fettinger, and Mark J. Kurth, J.Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 8421-8427. 3. 3-Digambara Patra, Nagham N. Malaeb , Makhluf J. Haddadin, Mark J. Kurth, J. Fluoresence, 2012, 22, 707-717.

Bilal Kaafarani

1. A. O. El-Ballouli, Y. Zhang, S. Barlow, S. R. Marder, M. H. Al-Sayah,* B. R. Kaafarani,* ―Fluorescent Detection of Anions by Dibenzophenazine-Based Sensors‖, Tetrahedron Letters, 2012, 53 (6), 661. 2. S. H. Eichhorn,* S. Chen, M. Ahmida, A. Demenev, H. Kayal, F. S. Raad, B. R. Kaafarani, S. Patwardhan, F. C. Grozema, L. D. A. Siebbeles, T. Taerum, D. F. Perepichka, R. Klenkler, ―A combined study of mesomorphism, optical, and electronic properties of donor-acceptor columnar liquid crystals‖, Proceedings SPIE, 2011, 8114, 811402. 3. B. R. Kaafarani,* ―Novel pyrene and Quinoxalinophenanthrophenazine (TQPP)-Based Materials for Organic Electronic Applications‖, 242nd American Chemical Society Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, Aug 28–Sept 1, 2011. 4. B. Wex,* A. O. El-Ballouli, J. C. Khalife, R. S. Khnayzer, A. Fonari, T. V. Timofeeva, D. Patra, B. R. Kaafarani,* ―Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of 2,7-disubstitued pyrene and tetrahydropyrene derivatives‖, 242nd American Chemical Society Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, Aug 28–Sept 1, 2011.

Digambara Patra

1. Digambara Patra*, Christelle Barakat, Rana M. Tafech, Study on effect of lipophilic curcumin on sub-domain IIA site of human serum albumin during unfolded and refolded states: A synchronous fluorescence spectroscopic study, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 94, 354 – 361 (2012) 2. Digambara Patra*, Christelle Barakat, Time-resolved fluorescence study during denaturation and renaturation of curcumin-myoglobin complex, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 50, 885 - 890 (2012) 3. Christelle Barakat, Digambara Patra*, Combining time-resolved fluorescence technique with synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy to study bovine serum

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albumin-curcumin complex during unfolding and refolding processes, Luminescence, accepted (2012) 4. Digambara Patra*, Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Journal of Nanophotonics,6, 060301: 1-4 (2012) (invited Commentary) 5. Digambara Patra*, Elsy El Khoury, Diana Ahmadieh, Shaza Darwish, Rana M. Tafech, Effect of Curcumin on Liposome: Curcumin as a Molecular Probe for Monitoring Interaction of Ionic Liquids with 1,2-Dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3- phosphocholine Liposome, Photochemistry and Photobiology, 88, 317 - 327 (2012) 6. Arlin Jose Amali, Nandini Rangaraj, Digambara Patra, Rohit Kumar Rana*, Pyranine-3 in Poly(L-Lysine)-Mediated Nanoparticle–Assembled Microcapsules: Its pH Sensitive Release While Acting as a Ratiometric Optical pH Sensor, Chemical Communications (ChemComm), 48, 856 – 858 (2012) 7. Digambara Patra*, Nagham N. Malaeb, Makhluf J. Haddadin, Mark J. Kurth, Influence of Substituent and Solvent on the Radiative Process of Singlet Excited States of Novel Cyclic Azacyanine Derivatives, Journal of Fluorescence, 22, 707-717 (2012) 8. Digambara Patra*, Nagham N. Malaeb, Fluorescence Modulation of 1,7-bis(4- hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,6-heptadiene-3,5-dione by Ag Nanoparticles and its Possible Analytical Application, Luminescence, 27, 11 – 15 (2012) 9. Arlin Jose Amali, Nour H. Awwad, Rohit Kumar Rana*, Digambara Patra*, Nanoparticle Assembled Microcapsules for Application as pH and Ammonia Sensor, Analytica Chimica Acta, 708, 75 - 83 (2011) 10. Digambara Patra*, Christelle Barakat, Unique role of ionic liquid [bmin][BF4] during curcumin–surfactant association and micellization of cationic, anionic and non-ionic surfactant solutionsSynchronous fluorescence spectroscopic study of solvatochromic curcumin dye, Spectrochimica Acta A, 79, 1823 – 1828 (2011) 11. Digambara Patra*, Christelle Barakat, Synchronous fluorescence spectroscopic study of solvatochromic curcumin dye, Spectrochimica Acta A, 79, 1034 – 1041 (2011)

Najat Saliba

1. A.L. Shihadeh, R. Salman, E. Jaroudi, E. Sepetdjian, M.D. Blank, C.O. Cobb, T. Einsenberg, Does switching to a tobacco-free waterpipe product reduce toxicant intake? A crossover study comparing CO, NO, PAH, volatile aldehydes, " tar" and nicotine yields, Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2012 50, 1494- 1498. 2. N.A. Saliba, A. Chamseddine, ―Uptake of acid pollutants by mineral dust and their effect on aerosol solubility‖, Atmospheric Environment, 2012 46, 256-263.

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Rabih Sultan

1. E. Nakouzi and R. Sultan, ―Fractal Structures in Two-Metal Electrodeposition Systems II: Cu and Zn‖, Chaos 2012, 22, 023122. 2. T. Karam, H. El-Rassy, F. Zaknoun, Z. Moussa and R. Sultan, ―Liesegang Banding and Multiple Precipitate Formation in Cobalt Phosphate Systems‖, Chem. Phys. Lett. 2012, 525–526, 54-59. 3. E. Nakouzi and R. Sultan, ―Fractal Structures in Two-Metal Electrodeposition Systems I: Pb and Zn‖, Chaos 2011, 21, 043133.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

On the academic side, re-launching the Ph.D. program is the primary task that the Department is currently undertaking. The proposal to re-instate the PhD program will hopefully be presented to the upper administration at the end of the Fall of 2012-13.

The issue of asbestos in the Department is major and very serious. Its removal, which should be effected as soon as possible, is definitely very costly. However, we are not aware of any plan of action from the part of the University to contain this predicament.

Management of research and teaching labs in the Department is required. The increasing number of students every year at AUB is also putting much of a strain on our ability to accommodate a larger number of students in our teaching labs. The project to renovate the cabinets in the organic chemistry laboratories in order to accommodate 5 days sessions per week is now completed. This capital project is going to increase our capacity to accommodate students noticeably. The replacement of the bench tops in the organic labs has been initiated. Additional budget is requested to replace all the remaining bench tops in the Department and this will require many years to be accomplished. Additional major renovations for the organic labs are planned for the future: the Bunsen burners need to be replaced by heating mantles that necessitate a complete upgrade of the electricity lines.

The rehabilitation of the auditorium (room 001) that was initiated three years ago still needs a considerable budget to be completed. Room 101 also needs renovation. There are efforts in the University to initiate a renovation of the rooms next year. The work to transform Room 316 into a multimedia-ready classroom will be completed this summer. The room will be used as a new classroom for small- size classes.

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Safety issues continue to be scrutinized. Safety training sessions, lectures and orientation meetings were organized in conjunction with the Safety Center for the guidance of students, instructors and teaching assistants.

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CIVILIZATION SEQUENCE PROGRAM

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

A new departmental director was appointed, Maher Jarrar who had served from 2004 to 2007, taking over from Richard Smith (2007 to 2011). Peter Shebay‗a, who had served previously as director from 1997 to 2004, was appointed for an interim period (Fall semester), while M. Jarrar was on a leave teaching at Harvard.

The Program takes great pride in having won over Nader El-Bizri to its ranks. Professor El-Bizri has been teaching at the University of Lincoln: Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, the University of Cambridge: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Moreover, Nadia Bou Ali, working on modern Arab thought and nationalism, joined us as instructor from Oxford University where she will sit for her Viva Voce in summer 2012. Furthermore, Hani Hassan has successfully defended his PhD thesis proposal in Islamic philosophy at the Lebanese University.

Two new 295 course proposals were approved: Peter Bornedal‘s ―Science and Knowledge in Modern and Contemporary Thinking: Philosophy, Knowledge, Cosmology, Evolution Biology, and Cognitive Theory,‖ and Nader El Bizri‘s ―Optics and Perspective: Theories of Vision and Light from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century.‖ In the spring semester CVSP launched a revision of its offerings. The core courses were revised and CVSP agreed on changing the titles and readings of courses numbered 205 & 206. Three of the four core courses, CVSP 202, 203, and 204 underwent significant revisions.

CVSP 202: Coordinators, William Merrifield, Nader El Bizri, and Hani Hassan. The committee invited the participation of six student volunteers who had previously taken CVSP 202. These students represented a range of class scores from 70-95 as well as a range of majors including Business, Engineering, Biology, and Psychology.

The general approach taken by the committee was to revisit the course in light of the proposed CVSP program learning outcomes; and then to develop a structure that will enable us to effectively meet these program learning outcomes among the majority of students over a two-course sequence. As such the first three of our department‘s five PLOs were emphasized. This targeted approach seeks to lay a foundation that can be built upon in such a way that the remaining PLOs can be addressed more adequately in sequence two courses. The proposed course structure

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gives space and pacing necessary to use primary texts as a vehicle for developing the critical skills outlined in the first three PLOs; which are acquiring knowledge, identifying main themes and concepts, and interpreting texts within their context. This proposal will allow a greater opportunity to incorporate a discussion-based format based on these primary texts.

The committee has sought to provide a new structure to the proposed course while maintaining the core aspects that give CVSP a unique place within the university. Since the study of primary texts is a central component of the CVSP Mission Statement, it was agreed upon that by decreasing the number of authors and readings as well as by having more targeted reading selections , we can work more effectively to encourage reading within our sections.

There was a general consensus among both faculty and students that common lectures need to be revised. They can at times become redundant and that many students do not see their value. It was agreed that we want to maintain the uniqueness of the common lecture approach among our multi-sectional course, but that we can effectively give students the benefits of common lectures through a smaller number of lectures. As such, the number of lectures has been reduced from 12 to 5. New possible formats for the common lectures will be introduced in coordination with the Department of Information Technology. By giving faculty more time with each text as well as a shorter selection of readings we hope to encourage more reading among our student population as well as creative approaches to promoting reading and discussion.

As part of this pilot proposal, the committee proposed the introduction of blended teaching in a small sampling of sections. This endeavor has been coordinated with Rana A Haddad & Rayan Fayed from the Department of Information Technology and with Dr. Saouma Boujaoude, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. Two faculty members will be trained over the summer in how to effectively create a blended teaching course, and then will offer both one section with blended teaching and one section without blended teaching, so that the usefulness of this methodology can be evaluated within the CVSP program.

CVSP 203: Coordinators, Courtney Fugate and Sonja Mejcher-Atassi The Title of the course will be changed to: ―The Making of the Modern World.‖ The course will be divided into blocks: 1. Science, 2. Law and Morality, 3. Enlightenment I, 4. Enlightenment II, 5. Counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism, 6. Political Economy. Readings within each block will be divided into ―Main Readings‖ and ―Content Readings,‖ the latter of which should be short, self- explanatory primary texts or other visual materials aimed at providing a context or

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a supplement to the main readings. These readings are optional. The long-term goal is to have content readings for each block. Readings from Shakespeare and Bentham were dropped and Adam Smith was reduced to a content reading in block six. New readings from al-Afghani (main) and al-Tahtawi (content) were added as below. The two additional weeks freed up by these changes are to be filled by adding one week to the Science block, in particular to Descartes, and by adding either a free week at the end of the course, or after the Law and Morality block, depending on the semester schedule. A new lecture at the beginning of the semester will help to introduce 203.

CVSP 204: Coordinator, Peter Bornedal Two major changes were implemented: a free week was assigned at the end of the semester schedule which teachers used to either extend their discussion on one of the assigned texts, or introduced a new text to their students (one which is not on the list of assigned readings). In addition, a pool of new texts was developed aiming at introducing more variations and diversity in reading selections. CVSP 204 will be moving ahead in two directions: one is to introduce new alternative readings, and the other to introduce more rotation. The approach is to have more new lectures and lecturers; in other words, to have 204 teachers more engaged in preparing and giving lectures on material covered, this being seen as part of their intellectual career as CVSP faculty.

As part of a University wide initiative that began around four years ago, work began within the context of the CVSP to revisit and clarify course learning outcomes, to bring to the fore the question of assessing stated course learning outcomes, and to connect them to the larger framework of Program Learning Outcomes (PLO‘s). To that purpose, a committee was formed Fall 2011-2012 to study the CVSP PLO‘s in light of the CVSP mission statement, and recommend possible reformulations of the Program Learning Outcomes for CVSP.

Finally, this year all sections of CVSP 201 & 202 took part in the GE-assessment exercise that was undertaken in the various humanities departments. Hani Hassan was coordinating with AUB GE Program Assessment Plan, heading the Learning Outcomes Committee, and successfully training the CVSP faculty. The following Humanities Learning Outcomes were evaluated:

G1. Demonstrate critical thinking abilities by making informed and logical arguments. H1. Analyze primary works of philosophy, literature, religion, history, art, music, or film, using methodologies that are grounded in the humanities.

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H2. Examine diverse intellectual, literary, or artistic traditions and their impact on the formation of human goals and values. H3. Analyze past or present trend and events in the development of world cultures. As for the structure of the Program, the status of all instructors and lecturers will be changed to part-time as of October 2013 at the latest. Moreover, the position of lecturers and instructors is a temporary one that should be limited with a certain cap of years. The Program will be advertising for two visiting positions in the rank of assistant professor for the period of 2 years starting September 2013 (depending on teaching excellence and research output some appointments may be considered for a third year). Applicants with interdisciplinary background will be encouraged.

CVSP has undertaken keen efforts this year to coordinate with the various humanities departments at AUB in order to maintain a closer coordination with them and to gain their support in providing more faculty from humanities teaching CVSP courses. This very much needed collaboration would help CVSP remain a lively interdisciplinary forum that cultivates the culture of debate, which is at the core of AUB‘s liberal education.

CVSP Brown Bag

Coordinated by R. Gallagher

This academic year, CVSP Brown Bag has hosted three off-campus speakers, including Robert Audi of Notre Dame, Indiana. Tentative speakers for next year include Courtney Fugate and Nader El Bizri.

1. October 12, 2011: R Gallagher, "In defense of moral economy: Marx's criticisms of Aristotle's theory of value." 2. November 10, 2011: Charbel El Amm (Philosophy, USJ), "Nothingness attracting God: John of the Cross and Meister Eckhart." 3. December 6, 2011: Robert Audi (Philosophy, Notre Dame), "The New Intuitionism." 4. March 1, 2012: Hanibal Srouji (LAU, Art & Architecture), "Memory and Exile: Artistic representations.‖ 5. May 2, 2012: R. Gallagher, "Aristotle's phenomenological treatment of communal social interaction."

B. PERSONNEL 1. FacultyMembers

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Peter Bornedal Professor Ph.D. Maher Jarrar1 Professor Ph.D. Ahmad Moussalli* Professor Ph.D. Richard Saumarez Smith2 Professor Ph.D. Nader El-Bizri3 Associate Professor Ph.D. Hermann Genz* Associate Professor Ph.D. Sirene Harb * Associate Professor Ph.D. Syrine Hout* Associate Professor Ph.D. C. Suhail Nassar* Associate Professor Ph.D. David Wrisley Associate Professor Ph.D. Paul Du Quenoy* Assistant Professor Ph.D. Courtney Fugate Assistant Professor Ph.D. Robert Gallagher Assistant Professor Ph.D. Joshua Gonsalves* Assistant Professor Ph.D. Alexander Hartwiger* Assistant Professor Ph.D. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi Assistant Professor Ph.D. Paul Newson* Assistant Professor Ph.D. Alexis Wick* Assistant Professor Ph.D. Mona Amyuni* Senior Lecturer Ph.D. Peter Shebay‗a Senior Lecturer M.A. Hayat Bualuan Lecturer Ph.D. Hadi Maktabi* Lecturer Ph.D. Mohamad Rihan* Lecturer Ph.D. George Sabra* Lecturer Ph.D. Malek Sharif* Lecturer Ph.D. Nadia Bou Ali Instructor PhD Candidate Hani Hassan Instructor PhD Candidate Said Abou Zaki* Instructor M.A. Aida Arasoghli Instructor M.A. Amal Dibo* Instructor M.A. Samira Khoury Instructor M.A. Yafeng Kuang Visiting Instructor M.A. Bill Merrifield* Instructor M.A. Raid Samaha Instructor M.A. Edmond Tomeh* Instructor M.A.

2. Graduate Assistants

1 Visiting Professor at Harvard during fall semester. 2 On leave during spring semester. 3 Joined AUB in spring semester.

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Fall semester Spring semester

Harig Laurel

3. Non Academic Staff Randa Khairallah Secretary Jad Daniel Technical Service Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer ’11 Fall ’11-12 Spring ’11-12 Total Sequence I 201, 202, 205, 295L 311 724 705 1740 207C, H, I, 44 37 81

Sequence II 203, 204, 206 129 418 368 915 208C, D, F, G, J, K 20 65 171 256 216, 250, 251 62 43 105 CHIN 201-202-203 9 40 46 95 FREN 201-202 46 30 28 104 110-111-112 96 81 177 Total 515 1479 1479 3473

2. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer ’11 Fall ’11-12 Spring ’11-12 Total Sequence I 201, 202, 205, 295L 6 30 87 123 207A, C, H 9 6 6 21

Sequence II 203, 204 6 57 48 111 208C, D, F, G, J 15 6 24 45 216, 250, 251 9 9 6 24

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CHIN 201-203 3 9 15 27 FREN 201-202 6 6 6 18 110-112 15 12 27 Total 54 138 204 396

D. RESEARCH

Peter Bornedal

1. Articles in press. Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen Habermas. To appear in Chiasmatic Encounters (Continuum, New York), p. 169-184. [Editor Prof. Kuisma Korhonen; Series editor: Prof. Hugh Silverman].

2. Work in progress. a. In Preparation: The Eye and the World: Continental Philosophers of Sensations, Experience and World (working title). b. Book Manuscript: Reading Derrida Reading: A Critical Examination of the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida. (Manuscript completed; approx. 380 pages).

Hayat Bualuan

1. Articles in press. a. Autobiography in 18th Century Bilād al-Shām: Mudakirat ‗Abdallāh Qarā ‗Alī,‖ in Production Litteraire arabe des Maronites du VXI au XVIII siecles, Cedrac Publications, 2012. b. ―Christian Historiography in 18th Century Bilād al-Shām‖ an introduction to Mikhail Breik, Tārīkh al-Shām, ed by Naila Kaid Bey. Beirut: Dar al-Nahar, 2012. c. ―Moslems and Christians under Ottoman Rule in the writings of Constantin – Francois Chasseboeuf (Volney), and Mikhail Breik,‖ in ―Cohabitation and Conflict in Bilad al-Sham in the Ottoman Period: Moslems and Christians as depicted by Chroniclers and Travellers.‖ Beirut: Orient Institute, 2012.

2. Work in progress. a. Working on a book on Arabic Historical Writing in Bilād al-Shām in the Eighteenth Century. b. Working on an article ―A Historian and his Vision: Hanania al-Munayyir in al Durr al-Marsūf fī Hawādith al-Shūf.‖ c. Preparing a new edition for my book Tabaqāt al Uman, with indices and a new introduction on historiography in al Andalus in the 11th century.

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3. Conferences and lectures. Chaired a panel at 1860: History and Memory of a Conflict, a conference held at St Joseph University, Beirut, October 5-7, 2011.

Nader El-Bizri

1. Articles in press. a. Roshdi Rashed. Ibn al-Haytham and Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, Volume 2, Translated by Roger Wareham, and Revised by Nader El-Bizri (London: Routledge, 2012/2013), about 450 pages b. ―La phénoménologie et l‘optique géométrique,‖ in Actes du congrès de la Société Internationale d‘Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Islamiques, eds. André Allard and Pierre Pietquin (Namur: Cahiers de la Faculté des Etudes Classiques). c. ―La ‗nature‘ dans la pensée arabe,‖ in La nature, collection les mots du monde, sous la direction de N. Tazi (Paris: Editions la Découverte). d. ―Galen.‖ Encyclopaedia entry in Dānishnāmeh Zabān wa Adab Fārisī (Tehran). e. ―Selected Metaphysical Epistles (from the Collected Works of the Philosopher Mirzā Abū al-Ḥasan Jilwā)— Annotated English Translation‖, in An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. V, eds. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Mehdi Aminrazavi (London: I. B. Tauris). f. ―Philosophical Discourses in the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity‖, in The Shi‘i Tradition: Essence and Expressions, ed. Arzina Lalani (London: I. B. Tauris). g. ―L‘Ottica di Alhazen e la tradizione della Perspectiva rinascimentale‖, in La realtà e il suo doppio: Simmetrie prospettiche e numeri complessi tra Rinascimento e fisica quantistica, eds. Rossella Lupacchini and Annarita Angelini (Bologna: Accademia di Belle Arti). h. ―La démonstration en optique: le raisonnement hypothético-déductif et l‘expérimentation suivant la tradition d‘Ibn al-Haytham‖, in La démonstration, de l'antiquité à l'âge classique, eds. Pierre Pellegrin, Ahmad Hasnaoui, et al. (Paris: Blanchard). i. ―Philosophy and Science in Classical Shi‘i Intercultural Contexts‖, in A Companion to Shi‘i Studies, eds. Teresa Bernheimer and Gurdofarid Miskinzoda (London: I. B. Tauris). j. ―Place and Space in Ibn al-Haytham‘s Studies in Optics and Geometry‖, in A Global History of Mathematics, eds. Liu Dun and Ioannis Vandoulakis (Tokyo: Tokyo University Press). k. ―Ibn al-Haytham‖, in the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

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l. ―Brethren of Purity‖, in the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Political Thought in Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press). m. ―Optics‖, in Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer). n. ―Islamic Philosophy‖, in Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (Dordrecht- Berlin: Springer). o. Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer), editor of the Islam Division (over 35 articles).

2. Work in progress. a. Epistles of the Brethren of Purity, On Arithmetic and Geometry. Arabic critical editions and annotated English translations of Epistles 1-2 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). b. Recto-Verso: Redefining of the Sketchbook and its Future, edited volume of studies in collaboration with Doug Gittens (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013/2014). c. Philosophy and Science in Classical Islamic Civilisation, edited volume of studies in collaboration with Ahmad Hasnaoui (Leuven: Peeters, 2014).

3. Conferences and lectures. ―Uneasy Approaches to Islamic Thought within Contemporary Philosophy‖: A paper read in absentia at the American Philosophical Association international conference as part of the Pacific Division meeting, Seattle, 4th April 2012

Courtney Fugate

1. Articles in press The Destiny of Mankind: Philosophy and Teleology before Kant‘s Critical Turn. This will be a revised version of the appendix to my dissertation, covering the role of teleology in the young Kant and his predecessors.

2. Work in progress. a. ―On the Teleological Reading of the Hypothesis of the Forms in the Phaedo.‖ b. ―The Guardian, No. 126 – WEDNESDAY, August 5, 1713.‖ c. ―Kant‘s French Disconnection.‖ d. ―From Kant‘s Precritical Teleology to the Derivation of the Categorical Imperative in the Critique of Practical Reason.‖ e. ―The Primacy of the Practical in the Philosophy of Christian Thomasius.‖ f. ―Kant‘s Unlimited God: Precritical Sources of the Synthetic a prior.i‖ g. ―Freedom and Physical Influx in Kant‘s New Elucidation.‖ h. ―The Moral and Teleological Foundations of Kant‘s Theory of Lebenskraft.‖

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3. Conferences and lectures. a. ―AA 6:226-7: Kant‘s Final Solution to the Reinhold/Sidgwick Problem?,‖ UK Kant Society Annual Conference, Reading Kant, The University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, September 2011. b. ―Kant on Nature and Second Nature,‖ Man and Nature, Bagazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2011.

Robert Gallagher

1. Work in progress. a. ―In defense of moral economy: Marx‘s criticism of Aristotle‘s theory of value.‖ b. ―Incommensurability and incomparability in Aristotle‘s Physics. vii.4.‖ c. ―The Role Of Subjective Doctrines Of Rights and Mediaeval Theories of Natural Slavery In Justifying Enslavement In America.‖

2. Conferences and lectures. ――Aristotle‘s Two Realities: A Phenomenological Interpretation.‖ 7th Central and Eastern European Conference on Phenomenology: Phenomenology & Aristotle, June 2-3, 2012, St. Petersburg.

Hani Hassan

Currently enrolled as a PhD student in Islamic Philosophy at the Lebanese University (expected completion June 2014)

Maher Jarrar

1. Work in progress. a. ―The Qur‘ān and the Biography: Exegesis and the Sīra,‖ Oxford Handbook of Qur‘anic Studies, eds. Muhammad Abdel Haleem and Mustafa Shah. b. Articles: ―Sīra‖, ―Maghāzī‖, and ―Heaven‖ for Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God. Ed. Fitzpatrick, C. and Walker Adam, ABC-CLIO. c. ―Al-Qāḍī ‗Abdaljabbār Über Magie.‖ Study and translation for Magie im Islam: Zwischen Glaube und Wissenschaft. Workshop, 12 -13 Juli 2012. Lichtenberg-Kolleg, dem Wissenschaftskolleg der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

2. Conferences and lectures.

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a. Chaired a panel and member of the Advisory Board of the International Conference, ―Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Impact.‖ Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen, October 1-5, 2011. b. ―The Harbor of Narrative: Beirut, the postwar novel, and memory,‖ Harvard University: Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Sever Hall. November 29, 2011. c. ―Min al-Jārūdiyya al-mubkira ilā al-ḥaraka al-Ḥūthiyya fī al-Yaman al-Mu‗āṣir‖ (From Early Jārūdiyya to the Ḥūthī Movement in Contemporary Yemen), lecture at The Sapiential Knowledge Institute for Religious & Philosophical Studies (Beirut), February 10, 2012.

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

1. Books and articles in press. a. Editor together with J. Pedro Schwartz, Museums, Archives and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (Fernham: Ashgate, 2012), book will be out in July. b. ―Introduction‖ (co-authored with John Pedro Schwartz), in: Sonja Mejcher- Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz (eds.), Museums, Archives and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (Fernham: Ashgate, 2012), research-based introduction of c. 16.500 words which like all other contributions in the book went through blind peer review. c. ―Contemporary Book Art in the Middle East: The Book as Document in Iraq,‖ in: Art History 35/5 (2012), c. 12.000 words (accepted for publication 16.11.2010).

2. Work in progress. a. Reading across Modern Arabic Literature and Art. Three Case Studies: ‗Abd al- Rahman Munif, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Etel Adnan (Wiesbaden: Reichert, Literaturen im Kontext 34, 2012), forthcoming. b. ―Word and Image, Art and Political Dissent in Post-War Lebanon. Walid Sadek‘s Fi annani akbar min picasso [bigger than picasso] (Beirut 1999),‖ submitted to IJMES (International Journal of Middle East Studies) 11.04.2012, c. 9000 words, under review. c. ―In Search of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. Re-collecting a ‗Lost Generation‘,‖ abstract sent to JAL (Journal of Arabic Literature) and approved for an article submission (due 1 Nov. 2012) to be included in a special issue on ―Arabic Literature of the 1960s and the Sixties Generation,‖ 18.04.2012.

3. Conferences and lectures.

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a. EURAMEL (European Association for Modern Arabic Literature), INALCO (Institut National des Langue et Civilizations Orientales), Paris, 09–12.05.2012, on ―Literature and the Arab Spring: analyses and perspectives.‖ Paper: ―Mutib al-Hadhal and the Arab Uprisings. Depictions of the Desert in ‗Abd al-Rahman Munif‘s novels and their Political Resonances.‖ b. BRISMES annual conference, London School of Economics, 26.–28.03.2012, on ―Revolution and Revolt. Understanding the Forms and Causes of Change‖ Paper: ―On word and image, publication and political dissent in artistic practices. Walid Sadek‘s Fi annani akbar min Picasso [bigger than picasso] (Beirut 1999).‖ c. ―al-Kitaba fi al-thaurat / Writing in a Time of Revolutions‖ literary readings and panel discussion, AUB, 12.03.2012 (research, concept and organization – in cooperation with David Wrisley). d. Participation in a roundtable ―What do the arts and humanities have to say about nature conservation and sustainable futures?‖ organized by IBSAR (Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures), 17.10.2011. e. Guest seminar on contemporary art in the Arab world in MEST 301 ―Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies‖ taught by Prof. Tarif Khalidi.

Richard Saumarez Smith

1. Work in progress. Writing a socio-economic account of the town of Ludhiana (in the Panjāb, India) in 1853 at the time of the first revenue settlement of the district. The research considers the status of one or two Saiyid and Sufi families of Ludhiana that had been endowed with land in villages near the town as well as in estates of the town itself, land the revenue liability of which was ‗excused‘ (mu`āf) by the British authority. I want to explore the relation between the grant of revenue-free assignments by the British and the creation of auqāf under Islamic law in this locality.

Malek Sharif

1. Accepted for publication. "Istanbul Sweet and Bitter: Memoirs of an Arab Teenager between 1916 and 1918" it will be published in the forthcoming proceedings of the conference "Istanbul, Kushta, Constantinople: Diversity of Identities and Personal Narratives in the Ottoman Capital (1830-1900)."

2. Work in progress.

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Preparing a critical edition of an unpublished memoir of an Ottoman officer during WWI.

3. Conferences and lectures. a. Chaired a session in "Performing Religion: Actors, Contexts and Texts," November 17, 2011, Orient-Institut Beirut. b. "Elements of tolerance in the works of Kamal Salibi, personal testimonies," The Historian Kamal Salibi and openness, Panel on December 13, 201, Beirut Arab Book Fair.

David Wrisley

1. Articles in press. ―Jean Germain‘s Debat du Crestien et du Sarrasin (Paris, BnF fr. 948): Illumination between Multi-Confessional Debate and Anti-Conciliarism,‖ in The Social Life of Illumination, Eds. Kathryn Smith, Joyce Coleman and Markus Cruse (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), forthcoming.

2. Work in progress. a. ―Narrating the Cypriot Raid on Alexandria‖ (article). b. ―After the Fall (of Acre): Francophone Historiography in and about the Mediterranean‖ (article).

3. Conference papers. ―Rabih Jaber and Kafka: Two Amerikas‖ Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East, the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Center for American Studies and Research (Beirut: AUB, 2011).

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Aida Arasoghli

1. Service. Member of the Program Learning Outcome Committee.

Peter Bornedal

1. Service. Coordinator for CVSP 204.

Hayat Bualuan

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1. Service. a. Coordinated CVSP 201 in fall 2011. b. Member of the Program Learning Outcomes Committee. c. Member of the Zaki Nassif Music Program.

Amal Dibo

1. Service. Coordinator of French courses. Gave a newly reworked CVSP 203 General Lecture on Simone de Beauvoir.

Nader El-Bizri

1. Service. Andrew Mellon Humanities and Arts Initiative Steering Committee Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies Steering Committee (CAMES) CVSP 201 Committee CVSP 202 Committee CVSP 202 Pilot-Project Sub-Committee

Fugate, Courtney

1. Service. Coordinator for CVSP 203.

Robert Gallagher

1. Service. a. Coordinator of book orders. b. Coordinator of CVSP Brown Bag. c. Gave the CVSP 203 General Lecture on The Communist Manifesto.

Hani Hassan

1. Service. a. Secretary of CVSP general meetings. b. Chair of the CVSP committee for the assessment of Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) and Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs). In this capacity he coordinated the work within CVSP aimed at assessing these Outcomes; assisted the Director in executing the assessment plan for the PLOs and preparing the end of year report (end of Spring 2010-2011); also preparing a workshop for CVSP faculty (based on the CTL workshop of August 2011) aimed towards clarifying and assessing SLOs within CVSP.

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c. Advisor to the AUB Communication Club, Drama Club, Human Rights and Peace Club, Fashion Club, and Press Club. d. Member, CVSP 202 Committee. e. Gave the CVSP 202 general lectures on Ibn Tufayl. f. Faculty advisor to the - AUB Communication Club. - AUB Human Rights and Peace Club. - AUB Press Club.

Maher Jarrar

1. Service. a. Director, Civilization Sequence Program as of spring 2012. b. Chair, Arts & Humanities Initiative. c. Director, Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature. d. Associate editor to Al-Abhath (Journal of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at AUB). e. Member, Advisory Academic Committee, Zaki Nassif Music Program. f. Member, Mellon award Humanities and Art committee. g. Member, Promotion Committee. h. Second reader of MA thesis (Arabic department); member of MA Committee (PSPA).

Yafeng Kuang

1. Service. Academic advisor to the Chinese Cultural Club.

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

1. Service. a. Member of Curriculum Committee, FAS. b. Member of Student Academic Affairs Committee, FAS. c. Chair of CVSP 203 committee in cooperation with Courtney Fugate. d. Advisor of 28 majorless and special students (Spring 2011/2012). e. Member of Committee, MA thesis by Sara Ajiljakin, ―Deconstructing Damascus: Mapping the political economy of urban reconstruction and authenticity,‖ SOAN. f. Advisor, MA thesis by Tyler Hufman, ―After the Spring: The sociopolitical role of literature and film in Syria from 2000-2010,‖ CAMES.

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William Merrifield

1. Service. Co-coordinator, CVSP 202 Committee

Richard Saumarez Smith

1. Service. a. University senate, 2011. b. Secretary of the senate, January-September, continuing from January 2007. c. Member of a promotion committee (PSPA).

Peter Shebay‘a

1. Service. a. Director, CVSP in fall semester 2011. b. Associate director as of spring 2012. c. Acting Director for Summer (July) d. Member of 202, 203, 204 major revision committees e. Developed all his common lectures /powerpoints

David Wrisley

1. Service. a. University Senate, member. b. Chairperson, English Department. c. Member, FAS Strategic Planning Committee. d. Member, Ad Hoc committee on English Language, Provost‘s Office. e. Reviewer for Strategic Planning Analysis, FAS. f. Gave a new CVSP 202 General Lecture on Dante.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Hayat Bualuan

1. Articles. ―The Christians under Ottoman Rule in the Writings of Late 18th and Early 19th Century Historians of Bilad al-Sham.‖ In Discrimination and Tolerance in the Middle East. Beirut: German Orient Institute , 2012, 29-38.

Nader El-Bizri

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1. Articles. a. Roshdi Rashed. Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, Volume 1, edited by Nader El- Bizri, translated by Roger Wareham, with Chris Allen and Michael Barany (London: Routledge, 2012), xxiv + 808 pages b. ―The Conceptual Bearings of the Intercultural Roles of Architecture‖, in The Cultural Role of Architecture, eds. Paul Emmons, John Hendrix, and Jane Lomholt (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 199-207. c. ―Foreword‖, in The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn. Trans. Lenn E. Goodman and Richard McGregor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012); pp. xi-xvi

Courtney Fugate

1. Articles. a. A Critical Translation of Alexander Baumgarten‘s ―Metaphysics,‖ with Kant‘s Marginalia, Selected Notes and Related Materials. Translated with an introduction and notes by Courtney D. Fugate and John Hymers, Continuum, forthcoming 2012. Proposal and sample translation available at www.academia.edu/CourtneyFugate. b. ―On a Supposed Solution to the Reinhold/Sidgwick Problem in Kant‘s Metaphysics of Morals,‖ European Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming 2012. c. ―Did Plato Nearly Discover Synthetic Judgments a priori?,‖ Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research, forthcoming 2012.

2. Book Reviews. a. Review of Andrews Reath and Jens Timmerman (eds.), Kant‘s ―Critique of Practical Reason‖: A Critical Guide in Philosophy in Review, forthcoming 2012. b. Review of John McDowell, The Engaged Intellect in Philosophy in Review, forthcoming April 2012.

Robert Gallagher

1. Articles. a. ―Aristotle on eidei diapherontoi,‖ British Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (3), 2011: 363-384 (translated title: ―Aristotle on why people differ in kind‖).

Maher Jarrar

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1. Articles. a. ―Al-Manṣūr bi-llāh‘s Controversy with Twelver Šī‘ites Concerning the Occultation of the Imām in his Kitāb al-‗iqd al-ṯamīn,‖ Arabica, 59: 3-4 (2012), 319-331. b. ―Lebanon as a Borderland: Prolegomena to a Study of Liminality as Experience and Metaphor in the Post-Civil War Novel,‖ Borders and Beyond . . . in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. Kerstin Eksell and Stephan Guth. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2011, 1-21. c. ―Ibn Abī Yahyā: A Controversial Medinan Akhbārī of the 2nd/8th Century,‖ The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki, eds. Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort, Kees Versteegh and Joas Wagemakers. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011, 197-227.

2. Book Reviews. a. Tarif Khalidi. Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam Across the Centuries (New York and London: Doubleday, 2009), Al-Abhāth, 58 (2010), 199-206. b. Todd Lawson. The Crucifixion and the Qur'an: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought (Oxford: Oneworld, 2009), Al-Abhāth, 58 (2010), 199-206. c. Andrew J. Lane. A Traditional Mu'tazilite Qur‘ān Commentary: The Kashshāf of Jār Allāh al-Zamakhsharī, d. 538/114) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006), Al- Abhāth, 58 (2010), 199-206. d. Ideas, Images, and Methods of Portrayal: Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam, ed. Sebastian Günther (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005), Al- Abhāth, 58 (2010), 199-206. e. Manfred Fleischhammar. Die Quellen des Kitāb al-aġānī (Wiesbaden: Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Otto Harrassowitz, 2004), Al- Abhāth, 58 (2010), 199-206.

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

1. Books. Helmut Mejcher, Zeithorizonte im Nahen Osten. Studien und Miszellen zur Geschichte im 20. Jahrhunder, edited by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and Marianne Schmidt-Dumont (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012).

2. Articles. ―On the Necessity of Writing the Present. Elias Khoury and ‗the Birth of the Novel‘ in Lebanon,‖ in: Twentieth Century Literary Criticism vol. 262 (Gale/Cengage Learning, 2012), p. 164–69, reprinted from: Arabic Literature.

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Postmodern Perspectives eds. Angelika Neuwirth, Andreas Pflitsch and Barbara Winckler (London: Saqi, 2010), p. 87–96.

Wrisley, David

1. Articles. "Historical Narration and Digression in al-Nuwairī al-Iskandarānī's Kitāb al- Ilmām," Philippe de Mézières and His Age: Piety and Politics in the Fourteenth Century, The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures 91 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 451-74.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

CVSP is undergoing a revision process and we hope in the coming years to gain to our ranks a number of talented fresh scholars. At the same time the CVSP-Form will be invigorated as a venue for scholarly discussions; Peter Bornedal and Nader El Bizri will be calling for an international conference to be held in spring 2013. The restructuring process would be implemented through a series of open forums and workshops that would include all humanities departments and the Dean‘s Office. Following through with the CVSP-Forum 2010, similar Programs in the region will be invited to participate in redefining the prospects and urgency of liberal education for our future; keeping in mind that AUB has always been in the vanguard as a model emulated by others.

Maher Jarrar Director (Spring)

Peter Shebay’a Director (Fall)

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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The department of Computer Science offers undergraduate and graduate and programs leading to BS and MS degrees in Computer Science. The MS degree may be either a research-oriented, thesis-based degree, or a coursework oriented degree. The department also offers a number of service courses to suit non-majors from a variety of disciplines. The BS and MS graduates of the department continue to obtain key positions in leading national and regional software and information technology firms.

The department‘s faculty search was successful this year in recruiting two outstanding candidates at the Assistant Professor level. One of them will join us in Sept 2012, and the second in January 2013.

In 2011-2012 the department introduced a new senior year Graduation Project course. This required capstone course is intended to allow students to get involved in a significant, semester-long, team-based, software development activity from its conceptual design stage to its final implementation. Our first year of this offering was very successful with students showcasing outstanding projects in gaming, gesture-based interaction, and web-based services in their final presentations.

For the second year in a row, a student-team from the department participated in, and won, the national Microsoft-organized Imagine Cup technology competition. The team went on to participate in the worldwide version the competition in Sydney, Australia.

In its seminar series, the department hosted a number of faculty candidates and guest speakers. Presenters included Dr. Aron Ahmadia (KAUST), Prof. Mohamed Abouelhoda (Nile University), Dr. William Kanaan (Google), Dr Mohamad Jaber (Grenoble University), Mr Jacques Ekmeji (SeeCOSM, Inc.), Dr. Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Plank Institute), and Prof Assaf Kfoury (Boston University).

A number of faculty won national and international awards and recognition. Prof Abu Salem was elected Secretary of the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing. One of Prof. Safa‘s students won the second best paper award for her paper in the 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems. Prof El Hajj won a Google award to host a workshop for introducing computer science to high school teachers. Prof Turkiyyah was awarded a major research grant of $1M

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over three years from QNRF to develop next generation robotic surgery simulation technologies.

The department hosted a number of special workshops. In October 2011, Dr Aron Ahmadia from KAUST visited AUB and presented a 3-day hands-on workshop on ―Software Tools for High performance Computing‖. The workshop was attended by faculty and by graduate students from Computer Science and Computational Science. In November 2011, a team from the Microsoft Corporation presented a day-long workshop introducing their latest software technologies, particularly those oriented to cloud applications. In March 2012, a team from Google also presented in a day-long workshop their newest software APIs targeting developers. Both the Microsoft and Google events were extremely well attended by students as well as by professionals from the local, fast-growing, software development industry in Beirut.

The department is thankful to obtain direct support from local industry. The Murex company, a global leader in the development of financial software, supported the department with two $1,500 awards for best graduating senior, and best graduating MS student, and with tablets for the members of the best senior Graduation project team. The CCT company, focusing on the development of software for the construction industry and the local office of the Microsoft Corporation also supported the department with tablets and smartphones for additional awards for achieving graduating seniors.

In collaboration with the Mathematics department, we continue to staff the Computational Science graduate program including offering required and elective courses and advising the theses of graduate students in the program.

The Computing facilities in Bliss were upgraded and now consist of a mix of Windows, Mac, and Linux computer--all accessing a central Storage Area Network- -to serve the need of undergraduate and graduate courses and graduate research. The department labs continue to be used heavily to host on-line exams for various departments from FAS and OSB and are maintained with the latest software upgrades.

The department hosted its annual reunion in coordination with the CMPS Alumni chapter in June. This was attended by graduating students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the department. The reunion honored two alumni and a number of achieving graduates.

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B. PERSONNEL

13. Faculty Members

Ahmad Nasri Professor Ph.D. George Turkiyyah Professor Ph.D. Fatima Abu Salem Associate Professor Ph.D. Paul Attie Associate Professor Ph.D. Marcel Karam Associate Professor Ph.D. Haidar Safa Associate Professor Ph.D. Walid Keirouz Assistant Professor Ph.D. Maha El Choubassi Assistant Professor Ph.D. Wassim El Hajj Assistant Professor Ph.D. Wadi Jureidini Senior Lecturer Ph.D. Wassim Mukaddam Instructor M.S. Hayat Sidani Bohsali Instructor M.S. F. Jordan Sour Visiting Asst. Prof. Ph.D. George Sakr Lecturer (part time) Ph.D. Ali Thabet Lecturer (part time) Ph.D. Mahmoud Bdeir Instructor (part time) M.S.

14. Research and Teaching Assistants

Fall Semester Dana Wehbe Georges Younes Khaled Dassouki Bassam Moussa Hrag Gorune Ohanessian Mike Hamam

Spring Semester Hrag Gorune Ohanessian Mike Hamam

15. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Lama Affara Marwa Moutaweh Ralph Adaimi Elias Gemayel Rami Al Outa Rany Kahil Mustafa Al Tamimi Lea Boutros

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Cynthia El Hayek Huda Nassar John Abou Jaoudeh Shadi Shaheen

Spring Semester Ralph Adaimi Elias Gemayel Rami Al Outa Rany Kahil Mustafa Al Tamimi Lea Boutros Cynthia El Hayek Huda Nassar Shadi Shaheen Nadine Ahmad Georges Hatem Rida Mahmoud Assaf

16. Non Academic Staff

Mike Hamam System Administrator Rima Maalouf Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

a. Number of Graduating Majors

BS Oct. 2011 6 Feb. 2012 14 Jun. 2012 32

MS Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 2 Jun. 2012 1

b. Number of Majors Class Fall Spring GR 20 23 SR 67 52 JR 36 33 SO 68 69 PG 2 0 Total 193 177

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3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer Fall Spring Total 300 and above 9 48 59 116 210-299 62 348 367 777 200-209 19 580 368 967 100-199 0 18 8 26 Total 90 994 802 1886

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer 11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 9 9 18 210-299 12 45 48 105 200-209 6 33 55 94 100-199 0 3 3 6 Total 18 90 115 223

D. RESEARCH

Fatima Abu Salem

1. Parallel Communication Balancing in the Parallel Gottfert Algorithm. Status: Accepted Paper to appear in Parallel Processing Letters. 2. A Cache-Oblivious Engineering of the G2V Algorithm for Computing Groebner Bases. Status: Extended abstract to appear in the ACM communications in Computer Algebra.

Paul Attie

1. Initiated a project for the development of effective methods for writing formal specifications. Collaborator: Fadi Zaraket. Draft paper in progress. 2. Continuing a project on the constructions and analysis of concurrent and distributed programs. Collaborators: Rasha Abdallah and Emile Shartouny. Draft paper on this work is in preparation.

Maha El Choubassi

1. Filed two US patents: Augmenting Image data Based on Related 3D Point Cloud data; and Networked capture and 3D display of localized, segmented images.

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2. Developed an algorithm for Image Foreground/Background Separation. Paper submitted and accepted in the 2012 IEEE Ambient Intelligence Multimedia Environments. 3. Developed a prototype ―AUB Image-Based Guide‖ system. Fully functioning prototype was demonstrated by Hani Masri in his MS project work. 4. Started a project on Image Matching Enhancement using Large Data Sets. Callaborating student: Lama Affara. Work in progress. 5. Continuing work on Optical Flow Algorithm for Camera Pose Estimation, Translation and/or Rotation with Collaborators from Intel.

Wassim El-Hajj

1. Investigating Telecommunication Networks: Designing energy efficient network planning protocols for different kinds of networks, such as Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), WiMax, and LTE. 2. Investigating Network security: Conducting and suggesting efficient countermeasures to attacks performed on different layers of the network stack. My current focus is on Port Scanning, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and Covert Channels. 3. Investigating Data Mining: Development of Machine Learning and Data Mining algorithms for security, opinion mining, sentiment extraction, and text categorization.

Marcel Karam

1. Marcel Karam, Mario Awad, and Angela Carbone. ―Programming actions for effective feedback‖ Journal of Education and Information Technologies. Springer. Submitted. 2. Marcel R. Karam and Hala Oleic. ―Visual Learning of XQuery‖. Journal of Visual Languages. Elsevier. Submitted. 3. Marcel R. Karam and Ayman Abi Abdallah. ―Interactive Fault Localization in Eclipse‖. In progress. 4. A Fault Localizing Methodology for Visual Programs. In progress. . 5. Improving the test suites and fault localization in MVC-based web applications. In progress. 6. Marcel R. Karam and Hanan Mneimneh ―A Visual Testing methodology for MVCbased Web Applications. In progress. 7. Marcel R. Karam and Hala Oleic ―A Visual Environment for the development, execution, and evaluation of XQuery‖. In progress.

Ahmad Nasri

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1. Attribute Based Modeling, as co-investigator, with Alyn Rockwood, Center of Modeling & Scientic Visualization, KAUST. Ongoing. 2. Interactive Modeling of Muqarnas, as co-investigator, with Faramarz Samavati & Nader Hamekasi, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary. Ongoing. 3. The conifer forests mappings of the West Coast of Beirut Watershed using Airborne Hyperspectral Spectrometry, CEDRE Project, Co-investigators, K. Cheahdi, M. Awad. Ongoing. 4. Interactive Virtual Exposition of Francophone clothing heritage, A project funded by the agency Francophone des Inforoutes, with MIRALAB form the University of Geneva and Al-Mehdia Museum of Tunisia. PI Prof. Nadia Thalmann from the University of Geneva – MiraLab. Ongoing. 5. Sketch-based Subdivision Models. Financially supported by the Lebanese National Council for Scientic Research, Ongoing.

Haidar Safa

1. Secure Routing in peer-to-peer networks. Student collaborator: Marwa Moutaweh. In progress. 2. Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs) Planning, Localization and Tracking. Developing localization algorithms for large scale networks to minimize both localization error and power consumption. In progress. 3. Quality of Service in WiMax Networks. Developing distributed scheduling algorithm that provides more chances to delay sensitive traffic to be serviced while still maintaining fairness for various traffic types. In progress. 4. Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Developing a power aware routing protocol for a MANET formed of nodes equipped with heterogeneous communication interfaces. In progress.

George Turkiyyah

1. CUDACLAW: An Interactive Data-Parallel Hyperbolic PDE Solver. Collaborators: Gorune Ohanessian and David Ketchenson. In Progress. 2. Suture Simulation in Dynamic Environments. Collaborators: George Younes and Julien Abi Nahed. In Progress. 3. Optimization Formulations of Workforce Scheduling at Marine Container Terminals. Collaborators: Omar Rifai and Jordan Srour. In Progress. 4. Integer Linear Programming in Wireless Networks: A Review. Collaborators: Zaher Dawy and Erhan Kutanoglu. In Progress.

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E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Fatima Abu Salem

1. Reviewer for Journal of Symbolic Computation. 2. Associate Editor for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 3. Secretary for SIAM Activity Group on SuperComputing. 4. Recipient of a fellowship awarded under the Middle East Women Engaged in Mathematics and Science (MEWEMS) LinkSCEEM-2 program. 5. FAS faculty representative on the committee for New Students Orientation. 6. FAS Computational Science Committee member.

Paul Attie

1. Reviewer for Information and Computation, Journal of the ACM, Formal Methods in System Design, and Fundamenta Informaticae. 2. Supervisor for the MS thesis (in progress) of Rami El Outa, An Agent-based Model for Maritime Cargo Processing. 3. External reviewer for a Ph.D. thesis (Peter Drabik) at the University of Pisa, Italy.

Maha El Choubassi

1. Delivered a talk on ―Mobile Augmented Reality and Security of Watermarking Schemes‖ at the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences at AUB, October 2011. 2. Presented my work on 3D Mobile Augmented Reality in Urban Scenes at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) in Barcelona, Spain, July 2011. 3. Participated in the 2011 International Hackathon at New York University of Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and developed a mobule image recognition prototype with collaborators Karl Gemayel and Shawn Van Every. 4. Delivered a talk about my work on mobile augmented reality (MAR) touristic guide based on query images at the 2011 International Hackathon at NYU Abu Dhabi, Nov 2011. 5. Reviewed one paper on data hiding for IEEE transactions on information forensics and security and two papers for IEEE international conference for image processing (ICIP). 6. Supervised the MS project work of Hani Masri (Jan 12).

Wassim El-Hajj

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1. Presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC 12) in Ottwa June 2012. 2. Attended the 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011), July 4 - 8, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey. 3. Attended the International Conference on Energy Aware Computing (ICEAC 2011), Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey 4. Reviewer for Lebanese National Council of Scientific Research (LNCSR), Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Information Sciences (Elsevier), IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference. 5. Supervising 3 MS graduate students: Ralph Adaimi, Mostafa Tamimi, and Maha Akkari 6. Obtained an AndroidEDU grant from Google for 8 latest generation Samsung Galaxy S Plus phones from Google to be used for research and development. 7. Received a Google grant to host a Computer Science workshop for high school teachers (CS4HS). 8. Initiated programming training sessions for two Computer Science student- teams participating in the local and regional ACM Programming contests 9. Book adoption departmental coordinator

Marcel Karam

1. On leave during the academic year 2011-2012 at Taif University in KAS. Served as Associate Dean for Accreditation and Academic development in the College of Computers and Information Technology. 2. Principal Investigator on a Taif University Research grant: Testing and Fault Localization Techniques for Model View Workflow-based Applications.

Ahmad Nasri

1. Delivered talk entitled Sketch-Based Subdivision Models for Computer Graphics, Department of Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 2011 2. Ph.D. student supervision: Mrs. Z. Yasseen. Model Retrieval from Sketches, Telecom Paris Tech, Co-supervisor Anne Verroust-Blondet, I.N.R.I.A. Paris Rocquencourt. 3. Attended Workshop on Geometric Computing and Applications, Institute for Media Innovation, Nanyang Technological University, 2011.

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4. Attended the Joint International Symposia on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging, Non Photo Realistic Rendering and Animation, and Sketch-Based Interfaces Modeling, 5-7 August 2011, Vancouver, Canada co-organized by ACM Siggraph and Eurographics. 5. Served as referee for: the Visual Computer Journal, ACM SIGGRAPH, the Computer Graphics International Conference, the Geometric Modeling and Processing Conference, the ACM Solid Modeling and Applications conference, and the Shape Modeling International conference. 6. Member of the Board of Directors of the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research. 7. Information Technology Consultant to LNCSR. 8. Member the editorial board of the Visual Computer Journal, as of 2011. 9. A/President, Fahad Bin Sultan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2010- present

Haidar Safa

1. Received a LNCSR research grant. 2. Presented a paper at the 11th International Conference on Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITST-2011) in St. Petersburg, Russia; August 23-25, 2011 3. Reviewed manuscripts for the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology & Applications (ISWTA2011), the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology & Applications (ISWTA2011), Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, IEEE communication letters, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Springer Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE). 4. Supervised two graduate students: Christine Meguerditchian ( Oct 2011) and Kamal Tohme (Dec 2011). 5. Co –supervised a Ph.D. candidate, Khaled Dassouki, along with Dr. Hervé Debar (Télécom SudParis) through a joined program between the Lebanese University and some universities in France. 6. Attended two Join-MED Networking Events: Cairo, June 2011, and Tunis, December 2011.

George Turkiyyah

1. Received a major research grant from QNRF to develop a High-fidelity Robotic-Assisted Cutting and Suturing Simulator.

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2. Received a research grant from the Beirut Container Terminal Consortium to develop a software system for dynamic scheduling of human resources. 3. Participated in a ―Mathematics for Industry Study Group‖ organized by Oxford University at KAUST, January 2012. 4. Presented a talk at the workshop Hierarchical Algorithms for Extreme Computing, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, April 2012. 5. Presented a talk at the workshop Modeling and Simulation of Wave Propagation and Application, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, May 2012. 6. MS thesis advisor of Gorune Ohenassian (June 2012) and Elias Gemayel (June 2012). 7. Published an on-line video lesson entitled ―Who do you know? The theory behind social networking‖ as part of the MIT Blossoms initiative (blossoms.mit.edu). 8. Reviewed papers/proposals for Computer Aided Design, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, SIAM/ACM Symposium on Geometric and Physical Modeling, Advances in Computational Mathematics, and LCNRS 9. Member of Computational Science program 10. Department Chair

F. PUBLICATIONS

Fatima Abu Salem

1. Parallel and Cache-efficient Hensel Lifting. Extended Abstract. ACM Communications in Computer Algebra,45 (2), Issue 176, pp. 107-108, 2011.

Paul Attie

1. P.C. Attie, On the refinement of liveness properties of distributed systems, Formal Methods in System Design, 39(1):1-46, August 2011. 2. P.C. Attie, R. Guerraoui, P. Kouznetsov, N.A. Lynch, and S. Rajsbaum, The Impossibility of Boosting Distributed Service Resilience, Information and Computation, 209(6):927-950, June 2011.

Maha El Choubassi

1. G. Takacs, M. El Choubassi, Y. Wu, and I. Kozintsev, 3D mobile augmented reality in urban scenes, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.

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2. Y. Wu, M. El Choubassi, I. Kozintsev, Augmenting 3D urban environment using mobile devices, in IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Basel, Switzerland, October 2011.

Wassim El-Hajj

1. Wassim El-Hajj, Haidar Safa, and Mohsen Guizani, Survey of Security Issues in Cognitive Radio Networks, Journal of Internet Technology, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp.181-198. 2. Wassim El-Hajj, The Most Recent SSL Security Attacks: Origins, Implementation, Evaluation, and Suggested Countermeasures, Security and Communication Networks Journal Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 113-124, January 2012. 3. Mehiar Dabbagh, Hazem Hajj, and Wassim El Hajj, An Approach to Measuring Kernel Energy in Software Applications, International Conference on Energy Aware Computing (ICEAC), 2011. 4. Mehiar Dabbagh, Ali Ghandour, Kassem Fawaz, Wassim El Hajj, and Hazem Hajj, Slow Port Scanning Detection, International Conference on Information Assurance and Security 2011 (IAS), 2011. 5. Roula Hobeica, Hazem Hajj, and Wassim El-Hajj, Machine Reading for Notion- Based Sentiment Mining, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2011. 6. Christine Meguerditchian, Haidar Safa, and Wassim El-Hajj, ―New Reader Anti-collision Algorithm for Dense RFID Environments, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 2011. (2nd best paper award) 7. N. Abbani, M. Jomaa, T. Tarhini, H. Artail, and Wassim El-Hajj, ―Managing Social Networks in Vehicular Networks Using Trust Rule, 2011 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology & Applications (ISWTA) 2011.

Marcel Karam

1. Hamid Mcheick, Marcel Karam, Yan Qi, ―Publish-Subscribe Connector Design in Message-Based MVC Distributed Systems‖. Int. J. Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), 2012. 2. Marcel Karam, Rana Awada. ―Handling Sharable Queries in both Streaming and Stored XML Documents‖. Int. J. Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2012 (29 pages). 3. Marcel Karam, Sultan Aljahdali, Hamid Mcheick, Rasha Abdallah, Hala Ollaic. Improving Design Pattern Recognition Using weighted Graph Transformation Rules and Fuzzy Logic. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2012.

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4. Hamid Mcheick, Marcel Karam, Service oriented specification and study of quality performance attribute. IEEE International Conference on Communications and Information Technology, 2012.

Ahmad Nasri

1. Local T-spline surface skinning Ahmad Nasri, Khaled Sinno, Jianmin Zheng. The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics, Volume 28 (6-8), June 2012, p 787-797. 2. Okaniwa, S.; Rachi, T.; Nasri, A.; Lin, H.; Abbas, A.; Maekawa, T., Uniform B- spline Curve Interpolation with Prescribed Tangent and Curvature Vectors, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18 (9), 2012, p 1474-1487. 3. Hamekasi, N., Faramarz, S.; Nasri, A., Interactive Modeling of Muqarnas, Proceedings of the Joint International Symposia on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging, Sketch-Based Interfaces & Modeling, and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, Vancouver, 2011.

Haidar Safa

1. Safa, H., Abu Shahla, F., A Policy-Based Trust-Aware Adaptive monitoring Scheme to enhance WiMax QoS, Computer Networks, Vol. 55, Issue 10, July 2011, pp. 2465-2480 2. Meguerditchian, C., Safa, H., and El-Hajj, W., New Reader Anti-Collision Algorithm for Dense RFID Environments, in proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2011) December 11-14 2011, Beirut, Lebanon (second best paper award). 3. Safa, H. and Khayat, S. A Distributed Scheduling Algorithm for Mobile WiMAX Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking, (ICOST‘2011), October 2011 Shanghai, China . 4. Safa, H., Deriane, F., and Artail, H. A Replication Based Caching Strategy for MANETs, in proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking, (ICOST‘2011), October 2011 Shanghai, China. 5. Safa, H., Moussa, M., Artail, H., and Abbani, N. A Heuristic Based Approach for Sensor-to-Sink Binding in WSNs, in proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology & Applications (ISWTA2011), September 2011 Langkawi Island, Malaysia. 6. Mershad, K., Artail, H., Safa, H., Routing Packets to Distant Locations in VANETs, in proceedings of the IEEE 11th International Conference on

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Telecommunications for Intelligent Transport Systems, August 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia.

George Turkiyyah

1. Mesh Cutting During Real-time Physical Simulation.Turkiyyah, G., Bou Karam, W., Ajami, Z., Nasri A. Computer-Aided Design, 2011. Vol 43, No 7, pp 809- 819, 2011. 2. A Mathematical Optimization Approach for Cellular Radio Network Planning with Co-Siting, L. Al-Kanj, Z. Dawy, G. Turkiyyah. Wireless Networks, 18(5), p 507-521, 2012.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The department is planning a number of initiatives for the upcoming 2012-2013 academic year.

A high-end workstation machine with a visualization wall is being planned for installation this year. The visualization wall will allow large data sets to be displayed, and results of large scale simulations to be viewed interactively. The machine will support the research of a number of faculty members and graduate students involved in the development of large scale algorithms and simulations. It will also serve as a resource for other departments on campus that have related high- performance computing and visualization activities.

As computer tablets and smartphones become widespread, and as new input devices (cameras for gesture recognition, 3D inertial sensors) become increasingly available and affordable, the department will seek the resources to make samples of these devices available for student use in their development and research projects.

Space remains an important challenge for us. The facilities in Bliss are becoming inadequate to support the growing needs of the department. Our part-time instructors and our graduate students do not have permanent cubicle space to work or hold office hours in. We will work with the Dean‘s office and FPDU to formulate a strategy to remodel portions of Bliss Hall and move some activities around the building in order to gain some badly-needed, usable, space. This will likely involve a reconfiguration of the heavily-used computer labs of Bliss Hall.

A strategic plan for the department will be developed and shared with the dean. The plan involves a number of activities to increase the visibility and reach of the department both inside and outside campus. Among the activities planned are

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presentations reaching out to high-schools and other universities that serve as the feeders to our undergraduate and graduate programs, and structured interactions with local industry.

We will make a special effort to visit the three main branches of the Lebanese university to present the graduate program and encourage top students to apply to it. We have learned that many students from the Lebanese University are not aware of the opportunities available for graduate studies at AUB and assume that AUB is not accessible to them. In coordination with the Board of graduate studies, we will also visit other local universities and develop brochures and on-line material describing the program and the opportunities it provides.

The department will continue to host, as opportunities arise, intensive week-long short courses taught by visiting faculty and staff from renowned research institutions. Such short courses will complement the regular advanced undergraduate and graduate offerings and will fill-in gaps in our offerings due to limited personnel. They will also create opportunities for direct person-to-person interactions, and potential collaborations between our students and faculty and the visitors from international institutions.

George Turkiyyah Chairperson

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A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Undergraduate enrollment experienced decreases in numbers during the 2011-2012 academic year, as did the number of students in the two MA‘s offered by the department (MA in Economics and MA in Financial Economics). Last year the Department had about 330 Economics students, while this year the number is at 287. The number of graduate students increased from 57 to 60 students.

For the year 2011/2012 (2010/2011), the number of students enrolled in economics courses totaled 3575 (3830) and students majoring in Economics totaled 287 (330). Credit hours offered were 459 (462). The number of graduating majors stood at 15 (22) in the first semester and 74 (82) in the second semester. The two Masters in Economics (Master in Economics, MAE, and Masters in Financial Economics, MAFE) had a total enrollment of 60 students. The pipeline remained fairly strong: of the 60 graduate applications received as of May 2012 for the Fall 2012-2013 enrollment, the Department made positive recommendations to the Graduate Committee for 22 applicants to both MAs as Regular Graduates, another 8 as Prospective Graduates, and 7 Graduates on Probation.

The department managed to recruit two new Faculty members at the Assistant Professor level, Dr. Ramzi Mabsout and Dr. Martin Monterro. They both joined the department in October of 2011.

With the help of the Department, some undergraduate and graduate students were successful in securing employment in prestigious local and international organizations stationed in Beirut and abroad.

Public Lectures, Workshops and Departmental Seminars Series

The Department launched this year its internal seminar series organized jointly with the Institute of Financial Economics. Those seminars were intended to raise the research profile of the department and mentor junior faculty regarding their research activities. Judging from the number of seminars presented the seminar series was a huge success. However, it was partially attended by some junior faculty members. We hope this situation to improve as we continue the seminar series in the coming years.

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Presenters included some departmental faculty members as well as international, regional and local academics as follows.

1. Leo Michelis, AUB: ―The Greek Debt Crisis: Suggested Solutions and Reforms‖ November 23, 2011

2. Martin Montero, AUB. ―The Role of National Changes and Spatial Spillovers in State-Level Okun‘s Law‖ November 30, 2011 3. Sandra El-Saghir Sinno, AUB: "Poverty Assessment and Prospects of Development in Lebanon: The Estimation of a Living Condition Indicator as a Substitute to Revenue" December 7, 2011

4. Linda Khalaf, Carlton University, Canada: ―Factor-IV with Identification- Robust Inference‖ December 21, 2011

5. Christos Agiakoglou, University of Piraeus, Greece: ―Spurious correlations and nonlinear spurious behaviours‖, January, 11, 2012

6. Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph, Canada, ―Threshold Regression with Endogenous Thresholds‖ February, 15, 2012

7. Simon Neaime, AUB, ― The European Debt Crisis‖, March 7, 2012

8. Darius Martin, AUB, ―SBTC and the Minimum Wage: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Inequality‖, March 14, 2012 9. Ali Termos, AUB, Olayan School of Business, ―"Drivers of securitization: A Bank Level Examination,‖ March 21, 2012

10. Jamal Ibrahim Haidar, Paris School of Economics, University of Paris, ―Product Diversification and Exporter Sales: Evidence from Jordan", March 28, 2012

11. Eduardo Haddad, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil, ―Regional Aspects of Competition in Lebanon: An Interregional CGE Approach,‖ March 30, 2012

12. Ramzi Mabsout, AUB, Economics, "Metaethical perspectives in welfare economics," April 18, 2012

13. Dylan Evans, AUB, Psychology, "Risk Intelligence: How expert gamblers can teach us all to make better decisions", April 25, 2012

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14. Steve McNamara, AUB, Olayan School of Business, "Financial Markets Uncertainty and the Argument for Central Counterparty Clearing of Over- the-Counter Derivatives," May 9, 2012

B. PERSONNEL One space 1. Faculty Members One space Neaime, Simon Professor and Chair Ph.D. Family name, First name Professor Ph.D. Michelis, Leonidas Professor Ph.D. Family name, First name Assistant Professor Ph.D. Casto Martin Montero Assistant Professor Ph.D. Dagher, Leila Assistant Professor Ph.D. Family name, First name Instructor M.A. Martin, Darius Assistant Professor Ph.D. Mabsout, Ramzi Assistant Professor Ph.D. Ruble, Isabella Assistant Professor Ph.D. Salti, Nisreen Assistant Professor Ph.D. Ramadan, Usamah Lecturer Ph.D. Makdisi, Samir Professor Emeritus (P.T.) Ph.D. Sirhan, Ghazi Senior Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Sadaka, Richard Assistant Professor (P.T.) Ph.D. El-Khalil, Youssef Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. El-Saghir, Sandra Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Makram Bou Nassar Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Nasser, Yasar Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D. Abboud, Montaha Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Boghossian, Myrna Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Bou Diab, Sara Instructor (P.T.) M.A. El-Khalil, Iyad Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Jibai, Rania Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Kanaan, Maya Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Kanaan, Niveen Instructor (P.T.) Khoury, Nicole Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Majdalani, Joelle Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Mecherkany, Rami Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Nader, Pamela Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Tabsh, Ghina Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Tabsh, Hala Instructor (P.T.) M.A. Wehbe, Layal Instructor (P.T.) M.A.

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Makki, Malak Instructor (P.T.) M.A.

2. Graduate Assistants One space Fall Semester Boujikian, Michele Nassar, Rita-Lynn El Hariri, Sadika Noueihed, Tala Ghandour, Ziad Saliba, Edwin Hamade, Basel Sakr, Vanessa Hourany, Sarah Toufeili, Ali Hodroj, Zeina Zalghout, Abdullah Koujou, Yasmine

One space Spring Semester Badra, Naser Noueihed, Tala El Hariri, Sadika Nicolas, Christina Ghandour, Ziad Sabra, Raja Hodroj, Zeina Sakr, Vanessa Hamade, Basel Tfaily, Ali Karam, Ramzi Zalghout, Abdullah Koujou, Yasmine Nassar, Ritta-Lynn One space 3. Non-Academic Staff One space Abou Shakra, Mona Administrative Assistant Position Attieh, Silvie Secretary Two spaces

C. TEACHING One space 1. Number of Graduating Majors One space BA Oct. 2011 15 Feb. 2012 36 Jun. 2012 74 One space MA Oct. 2011 3

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Feb. 2012 3 Jun. 2012 21 One space 2. Number of Majors One space Graduates 60 Seniors 88 Juniors 69 Sophomores 64 One space 3. Student Enrollment in Courses One space Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 42 127 107 276 211-299 193 1500 1340 3033 200-210 0 31 36 67 100-199 20 109 70 199 Total 225 1767 1553 One space 4. Number of Credit Hours Offered One space Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 6 18 18 42 211-299 21 183 171 375 200-210 0 3 3 6 100-199 3 18 15 36 Total 30 222 207

D. RESEARCH One space Leila Dagher

1. Dagher, L. (2011). ― Natural Gas Demand at the Utility Level: An Application of Dynamic Elasticities,‖ Energy Economics, doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2011.05.010. In press. 2. A Primer on Estimating Short and Long-Run Elasticities: Energy Sector Applications. Co-authored with Dr. John Cuddington. 3. Simulating Dynamic Demand (or Supply) Elasticities and Associated Standard Errors. Co-authored with Dr. John Cuddington.

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4. The causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Lebanon. Co-authored with Talar Yacoubian. Funded by the URB. 5. An Investigation of the Energy Consumption-Growth Nexus in the Arab Countries. Funded by the URB.

Darius Martin

2. ―SBTC and the Minimum Wage: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Inequality.‖ (with Yongli Zhang, China Economics and Management Academy, Beijing.) 3. ―Medium Term Fluctuations in Employment, Schooling, and Output.‖ (with Marek Kapicka, University of California at Santa Barbara. 4. ―A Simulation Model to Predict the Fiscal and Public Health Impact of a Change in Cigarette Excise Taxes.‖ (with Corné van Walbeek, University of Cape Town)

Ramzi Mabsout

1. State only the project title or, at most, a one-sentence description and the source of funding, if any. All other explanation will be deleted. 2. Non-computational methods in economics 3. Creativity in economics 4. Mabsout, R. (forthcoming) ―The capability approach‖. In The Encyclopedia for Life Support Systems, Valdislav Kotchekov (ed.). UNESCO. 5. Mabsout, R. (forthcoming) ―Health and capability in Ethiopia‖ in The Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research, Alex Michalos (ed.). Springer.

Leonidas Michelis

1. The Greek Debt Crisis: Suggested Solutions and Reforms. 2. Twin Deficits and the Debt Crisis in the Eurozone, with S. Neaime, AUB. 3. The Welfare Costs of Inflation in a Growing Economy with Habits, with A. Mansoorian, York University. 4. The Canadian Stock Market and the Canadian economy, with A. Bond, Ryerson University. 5. Structural Breaks and Interest Rate Convergence between the New EU Countries and the EMU, with M. Koukouritakis, University of Crete. 6. The Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Interest Rates in the European Union, with M. Koukouritakis, University of Crete. 7. The Greek Debt Crisis: Suggested Solutions and Reforms, paper presented at Economics/IFE Seminar Series, AUB, November 23, 2011.

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8. The Greek Debt Crisis: Suggested Solutions and Reforms, paper presented at an international conference in Toronto, Canada, October 20, 2011. 9. Canadian Econometric Study Group meetings, October 20-23, 2011, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, Coorganizer.

Martin Montero Kuscevic Casto

1. The Role of National Changes and Spatial Spillovers in State-Level Okun‘s Law (with Arabinda Basistha) 2. Okun‘s Law and Urban Spillovers in U.S. Unemployment 3. Forecasting U.S. State Unemployment: Role of Spatial Spillovers 4. Financial de-dolarization in Bolivia (in Spanish with Marco Antonio del Rio)

Isabella Ruble

1. Energy taxes and subsidies in Lebanon and the MENA. 2. The Euro-Mashreq energy market integration: potential challenges to electricity pricing in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. 3. Patrick Kattan and Isabella Ruble, ‗An economic assessment of four different boilers for residential heating in Lebanon‘, Energy and Buildings, (2012) Vol. 50, July.

Nisreen Salti

1. International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Non-Communicable Disease Prevention (NCDP), travel grant to attend the World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) in Singapore, March 2012. 2. American University of Beirut/United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees grant ―Assessment of living conditions of Iraqi refugees in Lebanon,‖ co-principal investigator (PI: Jad Chaaban), October 2011. 3. American University of Beirut Research Board grant ―Income inequality and the composition of public debt,‖ July 2011. 4. International Development and Research Center (IDRC) grant ―Generating evidence to support policies for raising taxes on tobacco products in Lebanon,‖ co- principal investigator (PI: Rima Nakkash), July 2011. 5. ―The political economy of attracting public funds: the case of Lebanon,‖ with Jad Chaaban, International Journal of Development and Conflict, forthcoming.

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1. ―The Global financial Crisis and the Euro Mediterranean Partnership,‖ in Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euro-Mediterranean Process. London School of Economics and Routledge Press (Taylor and Francis) United Kingdom, forthcoming in 2012. 2. ―The Global Financial Crisis, Financial Linkages and Correlations in Returns and Volatilities in Emerging MENA Stock Markets,‖ Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier Science Press. Article in press and forthcoming in 2012. 3. ―Finance with a Focus on Dollar Debt: Evidence from a Survey of Lebanese Firms,‖ Journal of Banking and Finance, Elsevier Science Press, article forthcoming in 2012. (With N. Mora, and S. Aitablian) 4. ―An Analysis of the Mobile Telephone Sector in MENA: Potential for Deregulation and Privatization,‖ The Economic Research Forum, Cairo-Egypt, July 2011. 5. ―Financial Integration, Shock Vulnerability and Dominant Foreign Investors, Implications for the Cost of Capital in Emerging Markets.‖ Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institute of the European Community, June 2011. 6. ―Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab World,‖ Institute of Financial Economics/IDRC Research Project, 2011. 7. ―Twin Deficits and the Debt Crisis in the Eurozone,‖ Institute of Financial Economics research project, (with L. Michelis), October 2011.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES One space Leila Dagher

1. Member of the Disciplinary Affairs Committee 2. Member of the Research Committee 3. Academic advising of graduate students. 4. Supervising 1 MA thesis and 4 MA projects. 5. Member of the thesis/project committee of 5 students. 6. Awarded a long-term faculty development to spend the summer as a visiting researcher at the Department of Energy‘s National Renewable Energy Lab. 7. Reviewed three manuscripts for Energy, an Elsevier peer-reviewed international journal. 8. Participated in the climate change negotiations (COP17) in Durban, South Africa as a Lebanese delegate. 9. Participated in the Symposium on Energy Poverty held on November 15-16, 2011 in Vienna by invitation from OFID and IEF. 10. Served as a panelist on the Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries event organized by the World Bank in Durban, December 3, 2011.

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5. I was awarded paid Periodic Research Leave in the Fall Semester 2011-2012. I spent my leave developing my project on tobacco control in developing countries as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. 6. I co-hosted the new AUB Economics Department seminar series with my colleague Dr. Leo Michelis. I recruited three of the speakers: Dylan Evans, Ali Termos, Stephen McNamara, and presented a seminar on the topic of skill-biased technological change and the minimum wage. 7. I will present a seminar on Medium Term Fluctuations in Employment and GDP at the Economics Department Seminar Series at the University of California, Santa Barbara in June, 2012. 8. I taught a week-long course on Economic Integration in the Arab Region at the University of Marburg, in Germany, as part of a special MA program funded by the German government.

Ramzi Mabsout

1. Economics department website update 2. Undergraduate admission committee

Leonidas Michelis

1. Acting Graduate Director, AUB, Economics. I handled the graduate applications process. 2. Acting Chair, Promotion, Hiring, Appointments and Performance Review Committee, AUB, Economics. I evaluated one contract renewal case and wrote the summary report on behalf of the contract renewal committee. 3. Acting Chair, Department of Economics, AUB, several times during 2011-2012. 4. Economics/IFE Seminar Series: Coordinator 5. Extended FAS Advisory Committee member: I evaluated four promotion files to the rank of Associate Professor, and one contract renewal case. 6. Thesis Supervisor: I supervised three graduate theses, one as a first reader and two as a second reader. 7. Comprehensive Exams: I contributed questions for the Econometrics comprehensive exams in the Fall and Spring terms, graded them and submitted Pass/Fail grades. 8. Anonymous Referee: I reviewed three manuscripts on behalf of three international journals in Economics and submitted my referee reports to the editors of the journals.

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Martin Montero Kuscevic Casto

1. Co-coordinator: Seminar Series during Fall 2011-2012 2. Chair: Program learning Outcome Fall/Spring 2011/2012

Isabella Ruble

1. Energy Steering Committee 2. Advising of undergraduate students 3. Thesis and Project supervision for graduate students 4. Refereeing (Energy Policy, International Journal for Energy Sector Management, CEDRE) 5. Workshops

Nisreen Salti

1. Academic Talk: ―One pack for one dollar: using taxes the curb the smoking epidemic in Lebanon,‖ joint seminar of the Center for Research on Population and Health and the Department of Economics, AUB, May 17, 2012. 2. Public Policy Talk: ―Generating evidence for raising taxes on tobacco,‖ a lecture delivered at the Grand Serail with Jad Chaaban and Rima Nakkash, AUB Tobacco Control Research Group, April 4, 2012. 3. Conference presentation: ―One pack for one dollar: raising tobacco taxes in Lebanon,‖ with Jad Chaaban and Rima Nakkash, World Conference on Tobacco or Health, March 2012, Singapore.

Simon Neaime

1. Invited to present a paper titled: ―Financial Integration, Shock Vulnerability and Dominant Foreign Investors: Implications for the Cost of Capital in Emerging Markets,‖ at the Euro Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institutes, FEMISE Annual Conference, in Marseilles, France, December 14-15, 2011, 2. Participated in a workshop on ―Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab World, and presented a paper on Syria as Case Study (With R. Safadi), Institute of Financial Economics IDRC Research Project, December 2-3, 2011, College B1, AUB. 3. Presented a paper titled The Global Financial Crisis, Financial Linkages and Correlations in Returns and Volatilities in Emerging MENA Stock Markets, at an International conference on ―Institutional, Corporate, and Individual Behaviors in Emerging and Subsistence Marketplaces‖ Aix-en-Provence, France, 1-2 September, 2011.

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4. Invited by the Carnegie Middle East Center as a speaker at a conference on ―Inclusive Growth: The IMF‘s Economic Outlook for the MENA region‖, Wednesday 4th of May, 2011. 5. Invited to participate in a conference and present a paper titled: Assessment of Trade Policy Trends and Respective Impact on Economic Performance in Arab Countries in the Seventh Arab Conference of the World Trade Organization, Challenges and Opportunities of Arab Member Countries, April 26-28, 2011, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Beirut, Lebanon. 6. Invited to participate in a Workshop on Poverty, Growth and Inequality in the MENA Region. This workshop was organized by the Economic Research Forum (ERF), Antalya Turkey, March 19, 2011. Also invited to attend the ERF‘s Advisory Committee meeting on March 18, 2011. 7. Participated, organized and presented two papers in a conference on (1) the Recent Economic Trends in the ESCWA Region and Post Financial Crisis Situation; and (2) Arab Economic Integration and Macroeconomic Exit Strategies, 24-25 February 2011, UN-ESCWA, Beirut, Lebanon.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Leila Dagher

1. Dagher, L., & Ruble I. (2011). Modeling Lebanon‘s electricity sector: Alternative scenarios and their implications. Energy, 36, 4315-4326.

Isabella Ruble

1. Leila Dagher and Isabella Ruble, ‗Modeling Lebanon‘s Electricity Sector: Alternative Scenarios and their Implications‘, Energy (2011), Volume 36, Issue 7, July. 2. Isabella Ruble and Pamela Nader, ‗Transforming shortcomings into opportunities: Can market incentives solve Lebanon‘s energy sector crises‘, Energy Policy (2011), Vol.39, Issue 5, May.

Nisreen Salti

1. ―Natural-Resource Wealth: Elbow Grease or Fuel for Poverty,‖ Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 167(3), 536—556, 2011. 2. ―Income inequality and the composition of public debt,‖ ERF Working Paper AC-032, 2011.

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3. ―Socio-economic survey of Palestine refugees in Lebanon‖ available at http://www.unrwa.org/userfiles/2011012074253.pdf

Simon Neaime

1.S. Neaime, Inflation Targeting in 6 MENA Countries, in Inflation Targeting in MENA Countries, an Unfinished Journey. Palgrave and Macmillan, London, United Kingdom, pp. 100-132, August 2011. 2.S. Neaime, Testing the Expectations Hypothesis in the Emerging Markets of the Middle East: An Application to the Egyptian and Lebanese Treasury Securities, in the Financial Econometrics Handbook, Palgrave and Macmillan, London, United Kingdom Press, pp.186-200, January 2011 (with S. Hakim). 3. S. Neaime, Sustainability of MENA Public Debt and the Macroeconomic Implications of the US Financial Crisis. Middle East Development Journal, World Scientific, Singapore, Vol. 2, pp. 177-201, December 2010.

F. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The Department of Economics needs to focus on the following developments in the near future:

1. Continue promoting research and mentoring junior faculty by continuing and intensifying the seminar series.

2. Hiring additional faculty in the fields of Microeconomics, Public Finance, Industrial Organization, Applied Micro-Econometrics, International Trade, and Economic Development so as to deliver more effectively the existing curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels and lay the foundations for introducing a Ph. D. Program in Economics in the near future.

3. Work on the requirements and curriculum of a Ph. D. Program. Such Program is expected to enhance research in Economics and help faculty member in improving their research and publication output.

4. A curriculum review in order to streamline course outline content and better match existing faculty expertise with corresponding courses in the existing curricula in the undergraduate and graduate programs.

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5. Reduce significantly the reliance on part-timers who currently teach key theory and elective courses both at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Simon Neaime Chairperson

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The number of majors averaged across the fall and spring semesters were as follows: BA (42), Teaching Diploma (24+), Prospective Graduates (4), and Graduates (54). Enrollment in education courses for fall and spring semesters was 1090 for undergraduate courses, 117 for graduate courses, and 79 for the summer 2011 term. In addition, 52 students were registered for theses and projects during fall and spring, Total enrollment in graduate and undergraduate courses was 1338. The Department conducted 16 in-service workshops during Oct. 14-Oct. 29, 2011. A total of 285 teachers participated in the workshops.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Full-time Faculty Members

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

Part-Time Faculty Members

Abou Moussa, Richard Lecturer PhD Al-Amin, Adnan Lecturer PhD Baasiri, Lutfieh Instructor BA Baassiri El-Hariri, Maha Instructor MA Bachour, Najla Lecturer PhD

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Deeb, Reem Lecturer PhD El Haj, Tala Instructor MA Ghussayni, Raouf Lecturer Ph.D Henningsen, Marj Lecturer PhD Osman, Enja Instructor MA (Coordinator of practice teaching) Ramadan Jreidini, Najwa Lecturer PhD Shaaban, Therese Instructor MA Shihab, Mahmud Lecturer PhD Shukri Balaa, Rola Instructor MA Yacouniban, Hagop Instructor MA Zayyat Saadeh, Miryam Instructor MA

2. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Salem, Hala Kreidieh, Nada Radwan, Nada El-Khoury, Sarah Ibrahim, Hanin Terro, Vera Ghalayini, Nadine Diab, Razan Hamdan, Hiba Ghazal, Ihsan Bou Khaled, Layla

Spring Semester Salem, Hala Kreidieh, Nada Jammoul, Abeer El-Khoury, Sarah Ibrahim, Hanin Terro, Vera Ghalayini, Nadine Diab, Razan Hamdan, Hiba Ghazal, Ihsan Bou Khaled, Layla

3. Non-Academic Staff

Kashou‘ Kabalan, Leila Administrative Assistant Kurfali, Youssef Department Technician To‘meh, Munir Department Messenger

SMEC Al-Jundi Basha, Dima SMEC Secretary Hilu, Hanna SMEC Assistant Technician

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C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 2 June 2012 11 TD Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 3 June 2012 12 MA Oct. 2011 - Feb. 2012 5 June 2012 4

2. Number of Majors

Summer Fall 2011-2012 Spring 2011- 2011 2012 Graduates 5 55 53 Prospective Graduates - 3 4 Teaching Diploma - 22 26 Seniors 3 16 17 Juniors 7 8 17 Sophomores 3 15 11 IE *Many students are presently completing the Teaching Diploma along with the Bachelor‘s degree. During the academic year 2011-2012, 17 students completing Bachelor‘s degrees were 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 1st Sem. 2nd Sem. Total 2011 Courses numbered - 52 65 117 300 and above

Courses numbered 81 591 512 1103

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211 through 299

Thesis and projects - 24 21 45 Total 81 667 598 1265

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Summer 1st Sem. 2nd Sem. Total 2011 Courses numbered - 33 24 57 300 and above

Courses numbered 21 108 120 228 211 through 299

Thesis and projects - 72 63 135 Total 21 213 207 420

D. RESEARCH

Anies Al-Hroub

Articles or Chapters in Press Theoretical issues surrounding the concept of gifted with learning difficulties. International Journal for Research in Education. In press. Identification of dual-exceptional learners. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Science Journal. In press.

Projects Title of project: D-RASATI Summer Camp Program Evaluation: A Nationwide Study 2011. PI: Anies Al-Hroub. Sponsor: Developing Rehabilitation Assistance to Schools and Teachers Improvement (D-RASATI), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In this project, I led a team of 30 researchers (18 monitors, 5 coders and scores, 7 data analysts [quantitative & qualitative]), to evaluate the program. The final report was submitted to the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in December 2011 [51,192 words, 149 single-spaced pages]. The program was implemented in 20 schools distributed across Lebanon‘s six regions. My plan is to convert this report to a research book.

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The proposed title of the book is ―Evaluation and Monitoring Summer Camp Programs in Lebanon: A Nationwide Study‖. Title of Project: Metacognition and Problem Solving among Mathematically Gifted Achiever in the UK. PI: Anies Al-Hroub. Sponsor: The British Academy Visiting Scholar, Grant amount: £6,150

Huda Baytiyeh

The usability of the course management system, Moodle, at AUB. The importance of soft skills for engineering graduates. Attitudes of pre-service teachers toward the use of technology in teaching.

Saouma BouJaoude

Articles or Chapters in Press BouJaoude, S., & Gholam, G. (In press). Gender and science in the Arab states: current status and future prospects. In, N. Mansour & R. Wegerif (Eds.), Science Education and Diversity. New York, NY: Springer. BouJaoude, S. & Kamel, R. (In Press). Egyptian and Lebanese secondary school students‘ conceptions‘ of biological evolution and their relationships to religious beliefs. Proceedings of the symposium on Islam and Evolution sponsored, McGill University, Canada, March 30 and 31, 2009. Halwany, S., Jaber, L., Rizk, N., & BouJaoude, S. (In Press). Epistemological beliefs in science: an exploratory study of Lebanese university students‘ epistemologies. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. DOI: 10.1007/s10763-011-9289-9. BouJaoude, S. (In Press). Modern developments in science education. In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Paris: UNESCO. Dani, D., Salloum, S., Khishfe, R., & BouJaoude, S. (In press). A tool for analyzing science standards and curricula for 21st century science education. In M.S.Khine & I. M. Saleh. (Eds.). Approaches and Strategies in Next Generation Science Learning. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global. Science Education for 108,000 Euros, 3-year research grant Diversity: from European Commissions (2009- 2012) From research to practice: $1,000,000, 4-Year research grant from Making a difference in the the Arab Thought Foundation (2010- classroom 2014)

Amal BouZeineddine

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BouJaoude, S. & BouZeineddine, A. (2012). Improving teacher education in Arab countries: What can we learn from international experiences? Research paper prepared for the Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (ALECSO). The report was presented at the 8th meeting of the Ministers of Education of Arab States (in Arabic).

Karma El-Hassan

Research during past year focused on three areas: 1) Institutional effectiveness and its predictors; 2) Quality of college life; 3) Quality assurance in higher education. With respect to the first focus, using data from College Outcomes Survey annually administered at AUB, have attempted at identifying conditions for student success at AUB, their relationship to valued student outcomes, and to various student background characteristics. The findings were presented in CTL December 2011 Conference and were reported in a paper currently being reviewed. Another paper on construct validity of the measurement tool used is in progress. With respect to quality of student life, a chapter was written for 'Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research' to be published in fall 2012 by Sage. It will be first published on-line then through an e-book and a hard copy. In addition, a proposal was submitted to IRB for a research grant to investigate subjective well-being of Arab youth, as part of IFI Arab Uprisings project. As to the third focus of quality assurance in higher education, have contributed a chapter titled 'Middle East & North Africa Association for Institutional Research (MENA-AIR) and Higher Education Achievements and Challenges in the MENA Region' to the Handbook of Institutional Research published spring 2012 by Jossey Bass and Association for Institutional Research. Also, presented in SUNY/OECD Conference in April 2012 on ‗Quality Functions at American University of Beirut (AUB): Embedding Multi- players to Foster Improvement‘, and presented a paper titled ‗Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Arab Region‘ to the OECD/IMHE General Conference on Attaining and Sustaining Mass Higher Education, Paris, 17-19 September 2012.

Rabih El-Mouhayar

Articles or Chapters in Press El-Mouhayar, R., & BouJaoude, S. (In press). Structural and conceptual foundations of teacher education programs in selected universities in Lebanon. Jurdak, M., & El Mouhayar, R. (In press). Secondary in-service teachers‘ knowledge of students‘ thinking in pattern generalization. Accepted as Short Oral Communication. Proceedings of the 36th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Taiwan, Taipei.

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Title of the project Source of funding Development of students‘ Junior Research Leave (Spring 2012) reasoning in immediate, near and far pattern generalization tasks across grade level. Teachers‘ ability to identify Supported by a grant from the and explain students‘ actions University Research Board (URB) in near and far figural pattern at AUB (Feb 2010- Sep 2011) generalization tasks. Comparing the Relative Applied to a grant from the University Impact of Contextualized and Research Board URB for two years De-Contextualized (Sep 2012-Sep 2014) Approaches to Teaching Pattern Generalization on Students‘ Nature and Level of Abductive- inductive Reasoning

Ghazi Ghaith

Teacher Induction Programs and Practices: A Comparative Investigation

Murad Jurdak

1. Teachers‘ knowledge of students‘ thinking in pattern generalization (with Rabih El- Mouhayar). 2. Development of student reasoning in pattern generalization across grade levels (with Rabih El- Mouhayar). 3. A manuscript for an edited book by me is under preparation based on narratives by TAMAM participants about their experiences in TAMAM.

Rima Karami Akkary

University Based Principal Preparation Programs in Lebanon: Design and challenges. The study explores the university based programs in the field of Educational leadership and administration by collecting data on their goals, philosophy, degrees, instructional methodology, and course offerings. It also examines the challenges faced by those programs. Building Capacity for School-based Improvement in the Arab World: Challenges Faced and Lessons Learned. A technical report presenting the process of designing and implementing the TAMAM project professional development activities.

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The professional Development Journey in the TAMAM project: A resourcebook. A training manual outlining the building capacity activities in the TAMAM project.

Vivian Khamis

Khamis, V. (2012). Impact of war, religiosity and ideology on PTSD and psychiatric disorders in adolescents from Gaza Strip and South Lebanon, Social Science & Medicine,74,2005-2011. Khamis, V. (2012). Posttraumatic stress and worry as mediators and moderators between political stressors and emotional and behavioral disorders in Palestinian children, International Journal of Psychology, 47 (2), 133–141. Khamis, V. (2011). Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity among school-age children in the United Arab Emirates. International Journal of Special Education,26 (3), 28-35. Khamis, V. (2011, August). Impact of War Trauma, Stressors, and Family Environment on Psychological Distress and Academic Achievement of Children Living in War Zone Areas. In: Proceedings of the American Psychological Association 119th Convention, 2011 Washington DC. Papers under review Khamis, V. Gender Responses to Psychological Distress among Palestinians: Risk and Protective Factors Khamis, V. Stressors, Family Environment and Coping Styles as Predictors of Educational and Psychosocial Adjustment in Children. Khamis, V. Psychosocial adjustment in siblings of Palestinian children with war- related injuries. Khamis, V. The Impact of Political Stressors, Child Strengths, and Hopes on Academic Achievement among Palestinian Children.

Rola Khishfe

Principal Investigator: Environmental Science Literacy: A Look into the Understandings of American High School Students (Summer 2012). Funding Agency: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR), Grant. $4000 Junior Paid Research Leave. American University of Beirut. Awarded Fall 2011- 2012.

Barend Vlaardingerbroek

Articles in press

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Vlaardingerbroek, B., Bayoud, J.M. & Alameh, S.K.(In press). Vocationalism and the relevance dimension: Mathematics and science components of Lebanese Baccalauréat Technique programmes. European Journal of Education. Abiogenesis in upper secondary and undergraduate biology and geology programmes. Vlaardingerbroek, B. (In press). The sorites paradox, ‗life‘ and abiogenesis. Evolution: Education and Outreach.(ditto, also available on-line with paper version pending). Vlaardingerbroek, B. & Shehab, S.S. (in press). Educational assessment in Lebanon. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice. Vlaardingerbroek, B. (In press). Flogging a dead horse: Pseudoscience and school science education. Teaching Science, 57, 21-25.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Anies Al-Hroub

Editorial Advisor of the SAGE‘s Handbook of Special Education, by Lani Florian, 2012 Conference Presentations Al-Hroub, A. (Feb, 2012). Identification of dual-exceptional learners. The 4th World Conference on Educational Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 1-5, 2012. Al-Hroub, A. (July, 2011). The impact of metacognitive strategies on the attitudes towards mathematics among intellectually able achievers in the UK. The World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, Prague, Czech, July 2011. Workshops and Seminars Al-Hroub, A. (March, 2012). Measuring Techniques Effectiveness and the Authentic Summative Assessment. Azm School, Tripli, Lebanon. Al-Hroub, A. (Oct, 2011). Teaching mathematics to able and gifted students in general education classroom. Department of Education, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Al-Hroub, A. (Oct, 2011). Mathematical activities for preschoolers, Department of Education, Room 102, American University of Beirut.

Department and Faculty Service Member of the SBS IRB. Member of the FAS Curriculum Committee, Fall 2011/12. Member of the Department of Education Curriculum and Examination Committee, 2011/12. Co-coordinator of the Ad Hoc Committee for Graduate Conference, 2011/12.

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AUB service Member of Advisory Committee of the IFI Policy and Governance in Palestinian Refugee Camps, 2011/12. Advisor of ―These Abilities‖ Club. This club was newly established by a group of AUB students to help physically disabled individuals to get their rights in Lebanon. Other service A member of the UNRWA Advisory Scholarship Selection Committee. Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Association of Special Education. Member of the Editorial Board of the Gifted Child Quarterly. Lebanese Association for Educational Studies (LAES) The International Association of Special Education (IASE) Consultancy Position: Inclusive Education Consultant Title of Project: Inclusive Vocation Education in Lebanon Sponsor: Ministry of Education and Higher Education (2012-2017) Position: Senior Education Specialist Title of Project: D-RASATI - Summer Camp Program Evaluation: A Nationwide Study 2011. Sponsor: USAID, July-Sep 2011.

Completed MA theses under my supervision Tannir, Abir (Feb, 2012). Effect of character education on the self-esteem of lower elementary students in a bilingual school in Kuwait. MA thesis. Self-development Activities Participation in hands on training session on using AUB‘s Web Content Management System (AUBwcms), June 19, 2012.

Hoda Baytiyeh

Department website maintenance

Saouma BouJaoude

Presentations BouJaoude, S. & BouZeineddine, A. (2012). Assessing program learning outcomes. Paper presented at the conference on University learning outcomes in Lebanon organized by the Islamic Center for Guidance and Higher Education, Beirut, Lebanon, May 31, 2012.

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BouJaoude, S. (2012). Competencies, skills, and ability: Reflections on trends in science and mathematics education. Lecture presented at the College of Natural and Applied Science, Notre Dame University, Lebanon, May 30, 2012. BouJaoude, S. (2012). Student centered teaching at the university level. Workshop presented at Dar Al Hekma College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 15 and 16, 2012. BouJaoude, S. (2012). Methods of science teaching. Workshop presented at the. Spring Educators Conference of the Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools (NESA), March 31-April 3, 2012. Islam and Evolutionary Science: Secondary Students' Conceptions of Evolution from Five Countries. Anila Asghar, McGill University, Saouma B. BouJaoude, American University of Beirut, Joshua Rosenau, McGill University, Jason R. Wiles, Syracuse University, Minoo Derayeh, York University, Quinn O., McGill University, and Brian Alters, Chapman University. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, March 24-28, 2012. Science Education for Diversity: An International Perspective. Saouma BouJaoude, American University of Beirut, Lebanon (Organizer), Rola Khishfe, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Sahar Alameh, American University of Beirut, Sugra Chunawala, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, India, NG Swee Chin, Tunku Abdul Rahman College, Malaysia, Ralf van Griethuijsen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, Perry den Brok, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, Ayse Savran Gencer, Pamukkale University, Huseyin Bag, Pamukkale University, Alun Morgan, Exeter University, UK, and Nasser Mansour, Exeter University, UK. Symposium presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, March 24-28, 2012. Dialogic Research in a Diverse Globalizing World. Michiel van Eijck , Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands,, Ralf van Griethuijsen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, Ng Swee Chin, Rahman College, Malaysia, Choy Siew Chee, Rahman College, Malaysia, Tunku AbdulRahman College, Malaysia, Saouma B. BouJaoude, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Sugra Chunawala, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, Chitra Natarajan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, Huseyin Bag, Pamukkale University, Turkey, Ayse Savran Gencer, Pamukkale University, Turkey, Helen Haste, University of Bath, UK, Alun Morgan, University of Exeter, UK, and Keith Postlethwaite, University of Exeter, UK. Symposium presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, March 24-28, 2012. BouJaoude S. (2011). Presented a keynote on writing and publishing educational research at the College of Education, King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, February 5, 2012.

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BouJaoude, S. (2012). Student centered teaching at the school level. A keynote presented at the Kuwait International Educators‘ Conference. Kuwait City, Kuwait, BouJaoude, S. (January 2012). Learning before teaching. A keynote presented at the conference on Outstanding Practices in Education organized by the Education Institute of the Qatar Supreme Education Council, Doha, Qatar. BouJaoude, S., Alameh, Sahar, & Radwan, N. (2011). Uncovering the relationships between diversity indicators and views about science: results from the Science Education for Diversity Project. Paper presented at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. BouJaoude, S., & Ayoubi, Z. (2011). Research in science education in Lebanon: Current status and future prospects. Paper presented at the conference organized by the Ecole Doctoral des Lettres and Des Sciences Humaines et Sociales entitled ―Recherche scientifiques et tendances contemporaines en sciences humaines et sociales. Beirut, Lebanon, November 30 – December 2, 2011. BouJaoude, S. (2011). Chaired a session on Education in Qatar at the 2011 Building Future Education Conference held in Abu Dhabi on October 25, 2011. BouJaoude, S. Secondary Education in Lebanon: Status and Challenges. Paper presented at the roundtable on Secondary Education Development in Saudi Arabia organized by the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Public Education Development Project (Tatweer). Riyadh, October 17 and 18, 2011 BouJaoude, S., Wiles, J., Asghar, A., & Alters, B. (2011). Relationships between students‘ religious beliefs and conceptions of evolution in two Arab countries. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the European Science Education Research Association, September 5-9, Lyon. France. El Hage, F., BouJaoude, S., & Favre, D. (2011). The fragmentation of knowledge in Physiology. Paper presented at the Biennial meeting of the European Science Education Research Association, September 5-9, Lyon. France. BouJaoude, S. (2011). Participated as group facilitator in the Regional Conference on Teacher Policies in the MENA Region organized by Queen Rania Teacher Academy. Amman, Jordan, July 6 and 7, 2011. Active Grants BouJaoude, S. (2011). Received a grant of $4500.00 to support the second International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning. Service to the Department Director of the science and Math Education Center Member of the Practice Teaching Committee Service to the University

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Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Institutional Assessment Committee Goal 1 strategic planning committee Coordinator of the BLOSSOMS (Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies) Project; a project led by MIT and in which five teams from AUB are involved. AUB Teaching Excellence Award Committee (Co-Chair) Coordinator of the D-RASATI Project Service to the Profession Reviewer for the following Journals and Conferences Journal of Research in Science Teaching Journal of Science Teacher Education Science Education International Journal of Science and Math Education International Review of Education European Science Education research Association Biennial conference Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Biology Education (IJOBED). Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Excellence in Education. Executive Committee Member of the Supreme Education Council, State of Qatar. Member of the Joint Advisory Board of the National Center for Educator Development, Qatar University, Qatar Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Science and Math Education Member of the Editorial Board of the Eurasia Journal of Physics and Chemistry Education. Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Environmental and Science Education (IJESE). Member of the Editorial Board of Educational Studies: Theory and Practice. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Science Teacher Education. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Excellence in Education. Member of the editorial board of the Eurasia Journal of Math, Science, and Technology Education. Consulting Editor for International Review of Education, Edited by the UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany Contributing International Editor, Science Education, USA.

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Chair or Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee of The Science and Math Teachers‘ Conference organized by the Science and Math Education Center, American University of Beirut. Reviewer for Journal of Science Teacher Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, School Science and Mathematics Journal, Science Education, Electronic Journal of Science Education, Electronic Journal of Literacy Through Science, Acta Chimica Slovenica, and Science books and films. Member in the following associations in the USA: National Association for Research in Science Teaching, National Science Teachers Associations, School Science and Mathematics Association, Association for Science Teacher Education, and American Educational Research Association. Member of the European Science Education Research Association. Member of the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, Lebanon Service to the Community Member of the Board of Trustees of Al Ahlia School, Beirut, Lebanon Member of the Education Advisory Board of the Archdiocese of Antelias

Amal BouZeineddine

Associate Director of Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) performing all the responsibilities of the Center Chairperson Practice Teaching Committee Chairperson Comprehensive Exams Committee/Elementary Education Consultant for the Minister of Education and Higher Education – Lebanon Elementary Education Matters Delivered and organized Learning Outcomes Seminars and Workshops for Center for Teaching and Learning at AUB, Lebanon and the region Reviewed Program Learning Outcomes assessment reports for Departments in FAS and FAFS Co organizer of the Conference International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education II CTL Representative Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Conference EACEA Tempus Project 158914 University of Roehampton- London US AID D-RASATI PROJECT Ministry of Education–Lebanon /REP Developed a manual for System for Training of Trainers Standards and presented workshops on Teacher Evaluation-Progress Scale Arab Thought Foundation Arabi 21 Developed a System for Children‘s Literature Award Served on Departmental committees

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Coordinated the Education Pledge Ceremony, Reading Day, and activities award for Excellence in Practice Teaching Academic Advisor Elementary Education /BA-TD- MA Programs, Language Arts

Karma El-Hassan

Steering Committee member on Carnegie Foundations Project‘ Education for Citizenship: Challenge for Education Reform in Arab Region‘. In this respect, submitted a concept paper on ‗The Crucial Challenge for Education Reform in Arab Countries: Education for Citizenship‘ Attended and presented in Association of Institutional Research for MENA region Annual Meeting, Cairo, October 2011. Presentation titled ―Role of Institutional Research in Integration Quality Functions.‖ Chaired, facilitated, and presented in a UNESCO sub-regional 3-day workshop on assessment at secondary level in Bahrain November 22-23, 2011. Presented on latest trends in assessment at secondary level. Presented in CTL Annual Conference on 'Identifying Conditions of Student Success at AUB', December 2011. Since December, serving as a Senior Consultant on quality assurance to REP project on establishing an American University in Abu Dhabi. Spring 2012, facilitated a session in faculty seminar on classroom assessment. Presented in OECD/SUNY Conference in April on ‗Quality Functions at American University of Beirut (AUB): Embedding Multi- players to Foster Improvement‘. Participated in AERA/NCME Annual meetings in Vancouver, April 2012. Reviewed proposals for QNRF, one for undergraduate student research (UREP) and two research proposals (NPRP). Reviewed a book for Arab Bureau for Education in Gulf States, May 2012. Supervised five theses as advisor and served on committee of one. Served on the following committees: Curriculum & Examination Committee, Education department Admission Committee, FAS General Education Committee, FAS social science representative. Institutional Assessment Committee, AUB University Admission Committee; Grading Committee; University Committee on English Language; General Education Committee; IFI Youth Study Steering Committee; American University of Abu Dhabi Steering Committee

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Academic Support Units Strategic Planning Committee. 13.Serving in following professional association Association of Institutional Research Association of Institutional Research for MENA region American Educational Research Association, Division D and International Studies SIG Member. National Council on Measurement & Evaluation, Classroom Assessment SIG Member. International Test Commission Lebanese Association for Educational Sciences

Rabih El-Mouhayyar

Reviewed Master‘s thesis proposals for math education students at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia Served as a member of several Thesis Committees in the Department of Education at AUB Reviewed a manuscript for the Journal of Interactive Media in Education Conferences Presented Short Oral Communication entitled ―Teacher Practices During Correction Phases in Algebra Classes‖ at the 35th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Turkey-Ankara. Workshops and consultations Conducted two workshops with the D-RASATI Project (7-days workshop and 1- day workshop) Conducted one workshop in the workshop series organized by the Department of Education. Department services Acting Director of Science and Math Education Center (Summer 2011) Member of Science and Math Education Center Member of Curriculum and Examination Committee Member of Practice Teaching Committee Advisor of the Education Student Society Participated in organizing three events held at AUB (14th Annual Science & Math Teachers‘ Conference; 18th Annual Science, Math, and Technology Fair; Reading Day) Faculty services Member of the Research Committee Member of Student Academic Committee (Summer 2011)

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Ghazi Ghaith

Chairperson of the Department of Education Member of the FAS Research Committee (Spring, 2012) Gave the following refereed presentations: Ghaith G. M. (2012). Report on ESD-Teacher Education in Lebanon. York University, Toronto, Canada. Ghaith, G. M. (2012). Measuring the Impact of Teacher Induction Programs. 7th. Annual INTC (2011). Induction and Mentoring Conference, Springfield, Illinois, USA. Ghaith, G. M. (2011). Dimensions of Critical Thinking. Middle East Network for Innovation in Teaching (MENIT) Amman, Jordan. Ghaith, G. M. and Diab, B. H. (2011). Twenty-First Century Skills in Higher Education: A Framework for Curriculum and Instruction. IJAS, Las Vegas, USA. Coordinated 16 workshops organized by the Education Department Implemented 5 workshops on teaching English Supervised 5 MA theses in Education and English Reviewed manuscript for the Tesl-Ej journal.

Murad Jurdak

1. Coordinator, Educational Forum, Department of Educational Forum 2. Advisor for two MA theses completed in 2011. 3. Served as committee member on three MA theses 4. Advisor for two PhD Lebanese University students 5. A proposal for oral presentation at the annual conference of the International Group of Mathematics Education, July, 2012, Taipei. China. 6. Acted as a reviewer for Qatar Foundation three education research proposals. 7. Acted as reviewer for two journals: Journal of Research in Mathematics Education and School science and Mathematics. 8. Acted as an external examiner of a PhD student at Curtin University, Australia. 9. Acted as an external referee for a case of promotion for full professor at Al- Aein university, UAE.

Rima Karami

Conducted the following workshops: TAMAM Project Workshops Title Date Place Leading school January 14-16, 2011 AUB/ TAMAM improvement private schools

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Evaluation of February 26- 27, 2011 AUB/ TAMAM Implementation and public schools Impact of Plans for Action Introducing April 15-16, 2011 AUB/ Egypt and TAMAM to new Oman teams countries Reflective practice May 31, 2011 AUB/DAS Reporting action research October 21, 2011 AUB/ TAMAM public schools Introducing TAMAM to December 2-3, 2011 Oman/ Oman Oman ministry of ministry of education, education and schools Sultan Qaboos university professors, and school teams Leading change in January 20-22, 2012 AUB/ TAMAM schools: challenges faced private schools and lessons learned Introducing TAMAM to February 8, 2012 MEHE/ TAMAM the ministry of education public schools and and Higher education in ministry Lebanon representatives Toward Leading School June 21-22 Teams from TAMAM Improvement: From Phase 2 new countries. Research to Action Sultan Qabous University, Oman, Muscat Education Department Workshops The Teacher as Leader. Workshop presented at St Joseph School, September, 2011 The transition into the principalship; initiating new principals for effective school leadership. External service. Education Department Fall Workshops, Oct 15, 2011 Evaluation as a tool for reflection and generative learning towards sustainable school improvement. Education Department Fall Workshops, Oct 22, 2011 Developmental Approach to Instructional Supervision: Understanding teachers‘ needs to build their capacity for improving student learning. Education Department Fall Workshops, Oct 29, 2011 Workshops at Other Educational Institutions: Lebanese Educational Research Association, general meetings, Fall, 2012

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Workshop on Writing to Engage Student Learning, Center for teaching and learning, AUB. Leading Change for Sustainable Organizational Development: A new conception of Leadership. Workshop for school principals at Al-Mabarrat Philanthropic Association, April 2012 Leading Change for Sustainable Organizational Development: Planning for leading the Implementation Process. Workshop for school principals at Al-Mabarrat Philanthropic Association, May 2012 Leading Change for Sustainable Organizational Development: Building Capacity and dealing with resistance. Workshop for school principals at Al-Mabarrat Philanthropic Association, June 2012 Service for a professional association The Lebanese Association for Educational Sciences, Executive committee member, January 2010- January 2011 The Lebanese Association for Educational Sciences, Conference on Teaching History in Lebanon, organizing committee member, March 2010- June 2012 Shamaa. Executive board member, October 2011-present Consulting Al-Mabarrat Philantropic Association: Al Mabarrat Association Self –Study: evaluating the impact of the administrative training program, 2008-present

Vivian Khamis

I served as a committee member on the FAS graduate committee, Program Learning Outcomes Committee, and the Practice Teaching Committee (PTC) at the department level. Thesis Advisor Noha Chaar: Exploring the Difference between Novice and Experienced Teachers‘ Concerns to Curriculum Change in Lebanese Private Schools Mirna Hamza: The Role of School Counselors in Inclusive Classrooms: Perceptions and Expectations Rayan Itani: Motivational Profiles and their Relation to Academic Achievement for Grade 4, 5 and 6 Elementary School Students Thesis committee membership Rola Birjawi: Exploring the Quality and Nature of Distributed Leadership In Relation to Teacher Commitment in Large Private Schools in Lebanon. Razan Diab: An investigation of pre-service teacher‘s knowledge –base skills for teaching in the National University Nada Tabsh: The effect of training grades 5 and 6 elementary school students in skillstreaming program on classroom survival skills.

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Mônica Bazi : An Analytic study of the content and practices of the Principal Preparation Program at the American University of Beirut Manal Yassin: Role related stress and job satisfaction among school counselors in Lebanon. Thesis Advisor of Ph.D students Adline Al-Efi: Variation in teachers‘ professional development based on gender, job satisfaction, age and years of teaching experience. University of Lebanon. Samia Khalil: Integrating the physically disabled. University of Lebanon I submitted two research proposals for funding to the National Council for Scientific Research (CNSR) and the University Research Board (URB) at AUB. I reviewed articles submitted to International Journal of Educational Research ( 1 paper) , Journal of Social Science and Medicine(3 papers), Child and Adolescent Mental Health( 1 paper), Quality of Life Research( 1 paper), and Journal of Sultan Qaboos University (4 papers). Evaluated one research proposal for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP), Qatar Foundation (2 research proposals), and submitted to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Grants program. Evaluated two research proposals for Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Qatar Foundation, NPRP (1 research proposals), and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Grants program (1 research proposals). I also served as committee member of the comprehensive exam of 7 students. Judge of school students projects in the Science, Math and Technology Fair organized by the Department of Education at AUB. Participated in student elections. Conference Presentations Impact of War Trauma, Stressors, and Family Environment on Psychological Distress and Academic Achievement of Children Living in War Zone Areas. Poster session presented at the American Psychological Association 119th Convention, 2011 Washington DC.

Rola Khishfe

Presentations at international conferences Khishfe, R. (2011, September). The transfer of nature of science understandings. Paper presented at the biannual conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Lyon, France. Khishfe, R. (2011, April). Come and experience the inquiry-based science classroom! Paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual Science and Math Teachers Conference (SMEC 13), American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Khishfe, R. & Estaiteyeh, M. (2011, April). The application of nature of science understandings into unfamiliar contexts: Is it possible? Paper presented at the

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annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Orlando, FL. For service to the department of education, I have been an active member of the practice teaching committee, the curriculum committee, and comprehensive examination committee. Service as Program Chair for the Annual Science and Math Educators Conference (SMEC) Thesis Committee Membership for 5 MA students Review of manuscripts in different journals (Science & Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching) and conference proposals (NARST & SMEC) as well as Book Chapter. As for external service, I have been a member of the Equity and Ethics NARST Committee. With regards to community service, I have served as a judge for the Science Fair at AUB and for the Science Mobarat at the Lebanese University and at the Unesco Palace.

Barend Vlaardingerbroek

Signed a contract with Palgrave McMillan for an edited volume on upper secondary science. This involved establishing contact with potential chapter authors in a dozen countries and preparing a 100-page proposal.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Anies Al-Hroub

Al-Hroub, A. (November, 2011). School Dropouts in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon. Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) & United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Available online: http://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/public_policy/pal_camps/Pages/Camps_Research.asp x Al-Hroub, A. (July, 2011). Gifted pupils with learning difficulties. A critical review of the literature. The 2nd International Conference of Excellence in Education for Development and Creativity, Ulm-Germany.

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Hoda Baytiyeh

Baytiyeh, H. and Naja M.K. (2012). Identifying the challenging factors in the transition from colleges of engineering to employment. European Journal of Engineering Education, 37(1), 3-14. Baytiyeh, H. and Naja, M.K. (2011, October 12-15). Practitioner Engineers: Perceptions for a Successful Early Employment Career. Proceedings of the 41th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, U.S., S1C1-5. Baytiyeh, H. and Naja, M.K. (2011, October 12-15). Factors Influencing the Decision to Enroll in an Engineering PhD Program. Proceedings of the 41th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, U.S., T4F1-5. Baytiyeh, H. (2011, October 12-15). Open Source Usability Evaluation: The Case of Moodle. Proceedings of the 41th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, U.S., F4E1-2.

Saouma BouJaoude

BouJaoude, S., Wiles, J. Asghar, A., & Alters, B. (2011). Muslim Egyptian and Lebanese students' conceptions of biological evolution. Science and Education, 20, 895-915. Saad, R. & BouJaoude, S. (2012). The Relationship between teachers‘ knowledge and beliefs about science and inquiry and their classroom practices. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 8(2), 73-88. BouJaoude, S., & Santourian, G. (2012). The Status of the Nature of Science in Science Education in Lebanon. In M. S. Khine, Advances in the nature of science research: Concepts and methodologies (107-122) New York: Springer Publishing Company. Erdoǧan, M., Özel, M., BouJaoude, S., Lamanauskas, V., Uşak, M., Prokop, P. (2012). Assessment of preservice teachers' knowledge and attitudes regarding biotechnology: A cross-cultural comparison. Journal of Baltic Science Education, 11, 78-93 Jaber, L., & BouJaoude, S. (2012). A macro-micro-symbolic teaching to promote relational understanding of chemical reactions. International Journal of Science Education. 34 (7), 973-998. Jurdak, M. & BouJaoude, S. (2011). Impact of collaborative action research on inquiry skills, habits of mind, and orientations toward action research and collaboration: The case of a school-based project in an Arab context. Technical Report 1; TAMAM Project (http://www.tamamproject.org/documentation/publications/TAMAM_technical_ report_1.pdf).

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Karma El-Hassan

El Hassan, K. (May 2012). Middle East & North Africa Association for Institutional Research (MENA-AIR) and higher education achievements and challenges in the MENA region. In, Handbook of institutional research. Jossey Bass & Association of Institutional Research. El Hassan, K. (2012). Investigating conditions for student success at an American university in the Middle East. Manuscript submitted for publication. El Hassan, K. (2011). Quality of College Life (QCL): Validation of a measure of student well-being in the Middle East. International Journal of Educational and Psychological Measurement, 8(1), 12-22.

Rabih El-Mouhayar

1. El Mouhayar, R. (2011). Teacher Practices during Correction Phases in Algebra Classes. A Short Oral Communication. In Proceedings of the 35th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol 1, p. 290). Turkey-Ankara.

Ghazi Ghaith

Ghaith, G. M. (2011). A Concept Note on Enhancing Teacher Training and Cooperation among Faculties and Departments of Education in Public and Private Universities in Lebanon. Ghaith, G. M. and Diab. H. (2011). Leveraging Market Competiveness and Higher Education Challenges through Cooperative Learning. US-China Education Review. 1(6). 819-824.

Murad Jurdak

Jurdak, M. (2011). Searching for praxis and emancipation in an old culture. In R.G. Sultana (ed.), Educators of the Mediterranean: Up Close and Personal, pp. 19–29. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam Jurdak, M. & BouJaoude, S. (2011). The impact of collaborative action research on habits of minds, inquiry skills, and collaboration in school teams: The case of a school-based project in the Arab countries. http:www.tamamproject.org/documentation/publications/TAMAM_technical_rep ort_1.pdf. TAMAM Project.

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Rima Karami

Ghussayni, R., Karami-Akkary, R., & Akkar, B. (Eds.). Learning and Teaching History: Lessons from and for Lebanon. Proceedings of the fourth conference on Education, Lebanese Association for Educational Studies March 25-26 2011. Beirut: LAES Pemberton, C., with chapters co-authored by: Karami-Akkary, R., Beegle, D., Casey White, E., Gatimu, W., & Musser, M., (Publication date: TBA). Getting There—Life is not a straight line, it weaves back and forth, back and forth: Women‘s Journeys to and through Educational Attainment. (working title). Publication status: Publication acceptance and contract as of December 1, 2011 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. Karami-Akkary, R. & Rizk, N. (2011). A Profile of School Reform in the Arab World: Characteristics & Challenges.(Technical Report 2). Beirut, Lebanon: TAMAM Project. Retrieved from http://www.tamamproject.org/documentation/publications Karami-Akkary, R. & Rizk, N. (2011). TAMAM: An Innovative Alternative Model for Educational Reform in the Arab World (Technical Report 3). Beirut, Lebanon: TAMAM Project. Retrieved from http://www.tamamproject.org/documentation/publications

Rola Khishfe

Khishfe, R. (2012). Transfer of nature of science understandings into similar contexts: Promises and possibilities of an explicit reflective approach. International Journal of Science Education. doi:10.1080/09500693.2012.672774 Khishfe, R. (2012). Relationship between nature of science understandings and argumentation skills: A role for counterargument and contextual factors. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 49(4), 489-514. Khishfe, R. (2012). Nature of science and decision making. International Journal of Science Education, 34(1), 67-100.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The Department plans to review and restructure its current program offerings in light of emerging educational laws and competition from existing programs at other institutions of higher learning within Lebanon. Of particular importance for the Department is the introduction of new degree programs to address the needs of Lebanon and the Middle East for educational specialists in the various content-

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areas of school curricula; Guidance, Counseling, and School Psychology services; and Educational Administration both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Chairperson Ghazi Ghaith

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SCIENCE AND MATH EDUCATION CENTER

SMEC ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012

A. SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES

The following activities took place in SMEC between July 1, 2011 and May 30, 2012:

SMEC Faculty Teaching and Service Activities: Please refer to the annual reports of the faculty members presented to the Department of Education.

SMEC Faculty Research: Please refer to the annual reports of SMEC faculty members presented to the Department of Education.

Workshops: Please refer to the annual reports of the SMEC faculty members presented to the Department of Education.

14th Annual SMEC Conference (SMEC 14): The Fourteenth Annual Science and Math Educators‘ Conference (SMEC14) was organized by the Science and Math Education Center (SMEC on the campus of AUB on March 31, 2012. The Conference program (Appendix) included two plenary sessions and one mini-plenary session, and more than 40 presentations that included research reports, developmental workshops, and innovative ideas in addition to a textbook exhibit in which six publishers or distributors participated. All proposals were reviewed by at least two reviewers, who provided constructive feedback in an attempt to assist the presenters to focus their sessions on the needs

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of workshop participants. It is to note that approximately 50% of the research proposals and 75% of the workshop proposals were accepted for presentation at the Conference. Finally, all sessions were evaluated by participants and the results of the evaluations were shared with presenters.

The themes of the Conference this year were ―Preparing the ‗Next Generation‘ Science Students: Implications of Authentic Scientific Practices for Precollege Science Teaching and Learning‖, ―Competencies in math, and math teachers' Competencies" and ―Inquiry-Stance Toward One's Own Practice as an Essential Element of Good Teaching‖. The first keynote address was delivered by Dr. Fouad Abd El-Khalick, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The second keynote address was delivered by Dr. Mogens Allan Niss, Professor of Math and Math Education, Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark. The third session was a mini-plenary session presented by Dr. Marjorie Henningsen, Head of School in Wellspring Learning Community. Approximately 500 university faculty members, teachers, and university students participated in the Conference, out of whom around 60 presented papers and conducted workshops. The Conference proceedings are planned to be published by the end of summer 2012.

The income from SMEC14 was $4090.00 and 10,667,000LL. Please note that lunch of participants totaled 4,750,000 LL and was paid in cash to the AUB cafeteria.

18th Annual Science, Math, and Technology Fair: The Science and Math Education Center, in collaboration with the Education Students Society (ESS), organized the 18th Annual Science, Math and Technology Fair on the weekend of April 28th and 29th, 2012. The fair provided K-12 students from 31 schools throughout Lebanon with the opportunity to share scientific, mathematical and technological projects with their peers from other schools. The Fair involved over 540 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 contributing projects. Science and Math education students, SMEC faculty as well as professors from many science, technology and math oriented departments at AUB participated as judges.

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. Several publishers donated math and science textbooks to the library this year. Moreover, a variety of activity and resource were ordered to update the library collection.

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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.

B. PERSONNEL ACADEMIC BouJaoude, Saouma Professor Science Education El-Mouhayar, Rabih Assistant Professor Math Education Jurdak, Murad Professor Math Education Khishfe, Rola Assistant Professor Science Education Vlaardingerbroek, Barend Associate Professor Curriculum and Instruction/Science Education NON-ACADEMIC Basha, Dima SMEC Secretary Hilu, Hanna SMEC Assistant Technician Yara Al-Akoum SMEC Student Assistant (Work study scholarship) Ihab Hassanieh SMEC Student Assistant (Work study scholarship) Maria El-Helou SMEC Student Assistant

Saouma BouJaoude SMEC Director

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department of English continues to offer B.A. degree programs in Language and Literature, and minors in three areas: Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. In cooperation with the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, it also offers a minor in Translation. At the graduate level, the department offers MA degrees in Language and in Literature. The English department presents a wide variety of courses in literature, language, creative writing, and communication skills. The high enrollment in all categories continues to illustrate a high demand for English courses, both for majors and for the university community as a whole.

This year, the department welcomed three new Assistant Professors in Literature, Language and Rhetoric and Composition. In addition we had two Departmental Associates, Christiane Schlote from the University of Zurich and Kamran Rastegar from Tufts University.

The minor in Creative Writing continues to attract new students. The literary magazine has changed its name to Rusted Radishes and will continue to appear on a yearly basis. The monthly Beirut-type Writer reading series continued to be well attended at Café Younes. Instructors Crystal Hoffman and Rima Rantisi received a stipend from the Mellon Grant to fund the magazine.

The department instituted three internal committees: Assessment, Curriculum and Communication Skills. The first began work on the assessment of the two BA degrees. The second looked mainly at the literature program offerings and considered a recommended sequence of courses for majors. The third was created to act in advisory capacity to the coordinator of Communication Skills.

The Communication Skills Program, under the coordination of Rula Baalbaki, offered a full complement of six courses in English language, composition, technical writing, and business writing. The program also offers “English 300: Writing in the Disciplines,” a composition course designed specifically for graduate students. (See Appendix A)

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Lisa Arnold Assistant Professor Ph.D.

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Lina Choueiri Associate Professor Ph.D. Michael Dennison Assistant Professor Ph.D. Joshua David Gonsalves Assistant Professor Ph.D. Sirène Harb Associate Professor Ph.D. Alexander Hartwiger Assistant Professor Ph.D. Syrine Hout Associate Professor Ph.D. Najla Jarkas Lecturer Ph.D. Roseanne Khalaf Assistant Professor Ph.D. Tariq Mehmood Ali Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D. Robert Myers Professor Ph.D. Christopher- Associate Professor Ph.D. Suheil Nassar Ulrike Polzl Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D. Omar Sabbagh Visiting Assistant Professor Ph.D. John Pedro Schwartz Assistant Professor Ph.D. Kassim Shaaban(Director-CELRT) Professor Ph.D. Adam Waterman Assistant Professor Ph.D. David Joseph Wrisley(Chair) Associate Professor Ph.D. Amy Alice Zenger(Director- Assistant Professor Ph.D. Writing Center)

Amany Al Sayyed Instructor M.A. Doyle Avant Instructor M.A. Rula Baalbaki(Coordinator-Comm Instructor M.A. Skills) Christopher Bauer Instructor M.A. Sarwat Dabaja(part-time, Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Rima Deeb Instructor M.A. Najwa Mukaddem El-Den Instructor M.A. Juheina Fakhreddine(part-time, Instructor M.A. Fall, Spring) Jacqueline Farah(part-time, Fall, Instructor M.A. Spring) Dorota Fleszar Instructor M.A. Nathaniel George Instructor M.A. Rana Haidar Instructor M.A. Rima Hanna Instructor M.A. Layla Harmoush(part-time, Fall, Instructor M.A. Spring) Crystal Hoffman Instructor M.A. Rima Iskandarani Instructor M.A. Nagham Jaber(part-time, Fall, Instructor M.A. Spring)

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Rima Jamous Instructor M.A. Lina Bioghlu Karkanawi Instructor M.A. Malakeh Khoury(English 204 Instructor M.A. Coordinator) M.A. Nina Khoury-Shalhoub(English Instructor M.A. 208 Coordinator) Rabab Kodeih(English 100 Instructor M.A. Coordinator) Kathryn Lincoln Instructor M.A. Sawsan Maktabi Instructor M.A. Marwa Mehio(part-time, Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. May Mikati Instructor M.A. Mia Mounzer(part-time, Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Jasmina Najjar(English 206 Instructor M.A. Coordinator) Rima Rantisi(English 203 Coordinator) Instructor M.A. Souha Riman(English 102 Coordinator) Instructor M.A. Reem Rashash Shaaban Instructor M.A. Rima Shadid Instructor M.A. Maha Shalak(part-time, Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A. Haifa Shmaysani Shayto Instructor M.A. Pamela Shbat Instructor M.A. Shadi Shedrawi(part-time, Fall, Instructor M.A. Spring) Zinnia Shweiry(part-time, Fall, Instructor M.A. Spring) Zane Sinno Instructor Ph.D. Missan Laycy Stouhi(part-time, Instructor M.A. Fall, Spring) Zeina Tarraf(part-time, Fall, Spring) Instructor M.A.

2. Research Assistants

None

3. Graduate Assistants Fall Semester Mazen Abdallah Amina Jaafar Harb Nabila Ataya Darim Khouja Nadia Bhulyan Fatima Osseily

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Jessy Bissal George Qamar

Ziad Dallal Luna Rishmani Hana Dakwar Paul Saghbini Sara El Cheikh Ali Ghiwa Sayegh Maha El Mashtoub Arcella Reyes Mariebelle Harb

Spring Semester Mazen Abdallah Mariebelle Harb Amany Abou Harb Amina Jaafar Harb Nabila Ataya Darim Khouja Nadia Bhulyan Fatima Osseily Jessy Bissal George Qamar Ziad Dallal Luna Rishmani Hana Dakwar Paul Saghbini Sara El Cheikh Ali Ghiwa Sayegh Maha El Mashtoub Arcella Reyes Ureña

4. Non Academic Staff

Yolla Haidar-Israoui Secretary Celina Rizk-El Khoury Administrative Assistant Joseph Tomeh IT Technician

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

B.A. Literature Majors Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 4 Jun. 2012 7 B.A. Language Majors Oct. 2011 0 Feb. 2012 0 Jun. 2012 2

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M.A. Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 4 Jun. 2012 2

2. Number of Majors (Language)

Graduates 22 Seniors 6 Juniors 8 Sophomores 3

3. Number of Majors (Literature)

Graduates 52 Seniors 23 Juniors 22 Sophomores 12

4. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 84 69 153 211 through 299 126 510 546 1182 200 through 210 271 1855 1570 3696 below 200 12 446 160 618 Total 409 2895 2345 5649

5. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 27 24 51 211 through 299 27 99 102 228 200 through 210 57 231 219 507 below 200 3 85 31 119 Total 87 442 376 905

D. RESEARCH

Amany Al Sayyed

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1. Al-Sayyed, Amany. “Gordon Kirkland.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Canadian Literary Humorists 362. (2011) 142-145

Lisa Arnold

1. “Beirut-Dearborn Writing and Learning Community”: ongoing teaching research at AUB (with Malakeh Khoury, Zane Siraj Sinno, Rima Iskandarani). 2. “Exploring Writers‟ Perceptions and Practices”: ongoing qualitative research at AUB (with Amy Zenger). 3. “Immappancy in Rhetoric and Composition”: conference presentation; article in preparation for submission to Pedagogy. 4. “Internationalizing Composition History”: conference presentation; ongoing archival research at AUB. 5. “The Rhetoric of Historiography and the „Work‟ of Rhetoric and Composition”: article in preparation for submission to Rhetoric Review. 6. “„Stern Taskmaster[s],‟ „Hells of Overwork,‟ and „Objects of Inconsequentiality‟: Composition Historiography and Current-Traditional Rhetoric and Pedagogy”: article in preparation for submission to JAC.

Lina Choueiri

1. Choueiri, Lina. „Indefiniteness spread in construct state nominals and the case of the missing determiner.” In Current Issues in Mediterranean Linguistics. Forthcoming with Brill. 2. Choueiri, Lina, and Jamal Ouhalla*. Possessives, Existentials, and Locatives in Various Arabic Dialects. Book length project. Four chapters have been completed. Manuscript to be submitted for review in September 2011. 3. Choueiri, Lina, and Elabbas Benmamoun*. „The Syntax of Arabic‟. This is a chapter being written for the Oxford Handbook guide on Arabic Linguistics (OUP). The research for this chapter has been completed and the manuscript will be submitted to the editor on July 1, 2011. 4. Choueiri, Lina. Resumption. Article length project. Initial exploratory stage. 5. Choueiri, Lina, and Sarah Ouwayda*. Keen. A syntactic and semantic approach to the verb „be‟ in Arabic. Project in initial exploratory stage.

Michael Dennison

1. Individual Poems: Seventy new poems, semi-formalist, free verse or one-time forms, composed over the period July, 2010 – June, 2011, in initial or second draft, not to be

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included in below mentioned manuscripts, to be revised over the summer for submission for journal publication in September 2011. 2. Book Length Manuscripts (55 – 99 pages): 1. Fifty Millimeter / Black & White. Original poems, now undergoing re- collation and some revision for submission, probably with new title, to be published in October 2011 with illustrations by graphic novelist/artist Fouad Mezher. 2. Damned Geographer. Original poetry. Final revision stages. Completion by 31 August 2011 for submission for publication. 3. Ring of Keys. Original poetry. Poems complete (except for sestina epilogue) but wanting final revisions and collation. Anticipated completion for submission to publishers by 31 September 2011. 4. London After Dark. Original poetry. Twenty three poems, in early revision and compilation stage. 3. Academic Prose: a. “Ghost of the Author.” In early drafting stages. Challenges Roland Barthes‟s famous 1968 essay announcing “the death of the author,” by redefining the characteristics of authorship as a haunting of language, focusing on Arthur Rimbaud and his Illuminations. As I write, I continue to research and evolve ideas that are evolving into a Post-Postmodern “Age of Terror” theoretical approach. I anticipate that this essay on the poet as voyant will be the first chapter of a larger project, a book-length critical exploration of the ghost as trope in literature, music, painting, photography, theatre, science, etc., in early stages of research and tentatively titled Boogie-Time On the Ghost Railway.

Najwa El Den

1. Article in Preparation: Managing Knowledge in a Multi-Section English Language Classroom (Status: Joint work-in-progress with Dr. J. El-Den, Senior Research Fellow, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Charles Darwin University, Australia. The abstract has been accepted at the International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (ICICKM) that will be held this year, on 27-28 October, in Bangkok, Thailand). This paper highlights the importance of capturing the knowledge articulated/released in a multi-section English classroom as a means to enhance communication between instructors and students, as well as instructors and other instructors. Moreover, it demonstrates that this articulation, if captured, nurtured, and retained shall form the basis for better and more effective delivery of material in such classrooms.

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Joshua Gonsalves

1. Long Term Projects: a. Book-length Project I: Keats, Close Reading and the Geopolitics of Cultural Production b. Book-length Project II: Screening War: The Construction of “Geopolitics” in Pre- Cinematic Mass Culture: 1789-1914. (groundwork research performed on a sabbatical visit to Robarts Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (February-April 2012), under the auspices of an AUB Long-term faculty development grant. a. Book-length Project III: Post-Racial Cinematics: Hitchcock, Lynch, Tarantino and White Panic in “America” b. “Understanding Anglophilia: Austen, Byron, and the Future of Studies in Romanticism” (article in progress for Studies in Romanticism). 2. Articles Submitted to Peer-Review Journals: a. “Typological Revisions of The Sack of Rome in Byron‟s The Deformed Transformed” (submitted to Romanticism on the Net: An International Refereed Electronic Journal devoted to Romantic Studies, September 2011). b. “Swinburne Reads Keats: The Decadence of Aesthetic Critique” (submitted to Nineteenth-century Contexts, November 2011). c. “Reading Race, „Rita,‟ and the Diva: Decrypting the Mogul, the Auteur and the Star in The Lady from Shanghai” (submitted to PostScript, December 2011). (submitted to PostScript, December 2011). 3. Conference and other Research-related Experience: a. “The Byronic Refusal of Latin War Culture in The Deformed Transformed” 37th Annual International Byron Conference („Byron and Latin Culture‟), Faculty of English, University of Valladolid, Spain (27 June -01 July 2011). 4. Presentations Oriented to the General AUB Community: a. “Dogs, Nature and the Divine in Tarkovsky‟s Stalker” Presentation at IBSAR Ta3a Ne7ke Series #1 Roundtable Discussion: What do arts and humanities have to say about nature conversation and sustainable futures? (Fall Semester, 2011) 5. Upcoming Conferences Applied to and Prepared for in 2011: a. “The Encrypted Prospect: „To Autumn‟” NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2012, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (August 15-19, 2012). b. “Genres of Warfare: Byron Besieges Siege Mentalities” 38th International Byron Society Conference, Beirut, Lebanon (July 1-6, 2012).

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6. Upcoming Roundtable at 38th International Byron Society Conference, Beirut, Lebanon (July 1-6, 2012): Byron, Polidori and the Vampire Genre: Endings and Beginnings. (including my encouragement of the participation of two AUB Graduate Students in English: George Qamar and Paul Saghbini) 7. Review of articles a. Permanent Member of Editorial Board for The Explicator (responsible for reviewing articles for publication, especially on eighteenth and nineteenth century topics): 10 articles reviewed b. Consulting Reader for: Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 2010-. 2 articles reviewed. c. Comparative Literature, 2010-. 1 article reviewed.

Sirene Harb

1. The Trope of Travel and the Politics of Relation in Arab-American Women‟s Writing, funded by a CASAR summer research stipend grant 2. Naming Oppressions, Representing Empowerment: June Jordan‟s and Suheir Hammad‟s Poetic Projects 3. Arab American Feminism and the Politics of Representation

Alexander Hartwiger

1. “Cosmopolitan Pedagogy: Rethinking Human Rights Literature,” Teaching Literature and Human Rights. Eds. Alexandra Schultheis and Elizabeth Goldberg (under review for the Modern Language Association‟s Options for Teaching Series). 2. “Unhomed in the World: Chris Abani‟s GraceLand and the Unhomely Cosmopolitan.” (under revision for submission to Postcolonial Text). “Strangers in/to the World: American Literature as World Literature.” Received a CASAR Summer Research Travel Grant to work on this project. Expected date of complete Sept. 2011. 3. Monograph in progress: My book project provides a different organizing principle for world literature, one that centers on the unhomely. I trace this theoretical concept from Freud‟s “The Uncanny” to Bhabha‟s articulation of the unhomely, locating these moments in contemporary literature. I ask readers to revise standard disciplinary boundaries to consider works previously housed in American literature, postcolonial literature, and human rights literature as world literature through a universal condition of otherness. 4. Conference Project: Human Rights in the Humanities. Source of funds [pending]: Andrew Mellon Grant. The conference project, provisionally entitled: Human Rights in the Humanities,

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aims to convene both international human rights experts and undergraduate/graduate students at the American University of Beirut to present, discuss and evaluate the most recent research and information concerning emerging issues related to human rights in the humanities. Original in its aim and scope, the conference project concentrates on the question of what the humanities can offer human rights discourse and the readiness of the international academic community to respond to the theoretical and practical challenges posed. This conference considers questions of humanitarian consumption, the politics of representation, and the co-opting of human rights for imperialistic purposes. The conference project will undoubtedly facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration by scholars from all corners of the humanities and help foster and initiate new multidisciplinary research approaches to advance a better and more ethical understanding of human rights in the humanities. 5. Partnerships and Seminars: a. Selected as an international partner at the Center for Online International Learning (COIL) at the State University of New York (SUNY). I will receive training for online pedagogy and will teach a collaborative course with Dr. Alexandra Schultheis of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in spring 2012. b. Selected as one of 50 global educators to participate in Seeds of Peace‟s two week summer seminar “Narratives; Moral Imagination; Educational Action.”

Syrine Hout

1. Completed writing my book Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora (CASAR Summer 2011 Research Stipend Grant) 2. Preliminary Research of article titled “Sex Matters in Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction”

Roseanne Khalaf

1. Edited Book: Arab Youth: Social Mobilization in Times of Risk, co-edited with Samir Khalaf. 2011. London: Saqi. 2. Introduction to Edited Book: “The Marginalization and Mobilization of Arab Youth.” In Arab Youth: Social Mobilization in Times of Risk. Khalaf, Samir and Roseanne Khalaf, eds. 2011 London: Saqi. 3. Book Chapter:

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“Idealistic and Indignant Young Lebanese.” In Arab Youth: Social Mobilization in Times of Risk. Khalaf, Samir and Roseanne Khalaf, eds. 2011. London: Saqi. 4. Article: “Landscape of Conflict: Lebanese Youth Narratives” Compare Routledge: Forthcoming 5. Research Grant: I am the recipient of a grant from the Issam Fares Institute to conduct a study on the views of Arab youth in Lebanon, Jordan and Qatar. From 8-12 May 2011, I worked with students at the University of Qatar. My Graduate Assistant, Hiba Krisht, accompanied me to Doha. In October I am offering workshop sessions at the University of Jordan.

Tariq Mehmood Ali

1. Study of the Lotus Journal. funding: Long Term Faculty Development Grant 2. Festival of Stories. funding: Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Robert Myers

1. “The Art of Losing: Revolutions in the Theatre of Usigli, Kushner and Companhia do Latão.” Paper to be presented at the International American Studies Association conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 2011. 2. Photographs, letters, diaries, official documents and books by and about Gertrude Bell for an exhibition I will be curating at the Whitney Humanities Center while I am the Franke Visiting Fellow at Yale in September 2011. 3. Revisions of Mesopotamia, a stage play I wrote, for presentation at Yale in October 2011. Co-produced by the Council for Middle East Studies and the World Performance Project with a Title VI grant. A stage play about John Maynard Keynes.

Christopher Nassar

1. The Resurrection of Dorian Gray: A Novel. This is a sequel to Wilde‟s famous novel. Complete. 2. "Happiness in Herodotus and Sophocles's Oedipus the King." Argues that Sophocles's attitude to happiness is a response to that of Solon in Herodotus's Histories. Under consideration. 3. "The Jekyll-Hyde Split in Oscar Wilde's Works." Approaching completion. 4. "Understanding Apollo's Prophecy in Sophocles's Oedipus the King." Uses Herodotus to shed light on Apollo's prophecy and to show its complexity. Under consideration.

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John Pedro Schwartz

1. I AM Project. EU-funded project to create augmented-reality programs for cultural sites in Lebanon. Collaboration with AUB colleagues Daniel Asmar, George Turkiyyah, Imad Elhajj. 2. “Croce, Bergson, Hulme and the Origins of Modernist Perceptualism.” 1912- 2012: A Time to Reason and Compare -- An International Conference on Modernism. Porto, Portugal. March 2012.

Kassim Shaaban

1. Challenges for Intensive English Programs. Data analysis stage. 2. Is Arabic under Threat from English? Writing stage. 3. New approaches to Professional development for English language teachers. Data collection stage.

Zane Sinno

1. Conducted research and wrote paper on Digital VS Print Reading: A Case Study of Reading Practices of AUB Students currently being prepared for publication (Beirut-Dearborn Learning and Writing Communities)

Adam Waterman

1. Essays a. Journal article, under review with Nineteenth-Century Studies: “Print, Paint, and the Mediation of Value: Visual Economies of Race and the Representation of the 1832 Black Hawk War” b. Book chapter, for inclusion in Shifting Borders: New Perspectives on US- Middle Eastern Studies, Lubin and Kraidy, eds., “Diabolical Enterprises and Abominable Superstitions: Islam and the Conceptualization of Finance in Early American Literature” c. Book chapter, for inclusion in forthcoming Palgrave MacMillan anthology on the plays of Naomi Wallace, “Unbearable Intimacies: The Erotics of Occupation in Naomi Wallace‟s The Fever Chart” d. Book chapter, forthcoming in Archipelagoes of Sound: Women in Caribbean Music, “I and Ireland: Reggae and Rastafari in the Music of Sinead O‟Connor”

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e. Journal article, under review for inclusion in CASAR conference proceedings journal, “The United States of Al-Andalus: Washington Irving‟s Granada and the Disestablishment of Zion” f. Journal article, “John F. Kennedy is Still Dead: Boomer Melancholia and Late Style in Stephen King‟s 11/22/63”

2. Presentations a. “The United States of Al-Andalus: Washington Irving‟s Granada and the Disestablishment of Zion,” CASAR Conference, AUB, January 2012 b. “What can the Humanities say about Nature Conservation and Sustainability?” IBSAR Panel Discussion, American University of Beirut, October 2011 c. “Follow Your Leader: „Benito Cereno‟ as a Parable of National Character and Imperial Hubris,” Melville in Rome: Conference of the International Herman Melville Society, Department of Anglo-American Language and Literature, University of Rome, Sapienza; June 2011

3. Manuscript a. The Corpse in the Kitchen: Literature, Settler Colonialism, and the Affect of Occupation, in process

Amy Alice Zenger

1. “Internationalizing Composition History: Searching the Archives at the American University of Beirut.” Gateways, Thresholds, and Portals: Dialogues about International Higher Education Writing Research. Full day, preconference Workshop. Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, 2012. 2. “Exploring Writers‟ Perceptions and Practices: A Pilot Study for an Ethnographic Longitudinal Study at AUB.” A research project studying faculty and students at AUB.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Amany Al Sayyed

1. Member of AUB‟s Civic Engagement team which is part of the EU funded Tawasol Project which aims to establish civic engagement centres in three universities in Jordan and two universities in Lebanon, focusing on health,

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education, technology and the environment. Attended via invitation the following conferences: a. Galway, June 2010 b. Beirut, January 2011 c. London, September 2011 d. Lebanon, November 2011

Rula Baalbaki

1. Acting Coordinator for Communication Skills, Department of English 2. Member Communication Skills Ad Hoc Committee 3. Member UCEL 4. Taught English 233 and English 204 5. Organized discussion session on portfolios in Communication Skills classes (fall 2012) 6. Organized poster presentation for translation classes (fall 2012) 7. Organized one-day workshop session on sharing assignments across Communication Skills courses(spring 2012) 8. Initiated discussion session on understanding IRB procedures(spring 2012) 9. Initiated one-day celebration of student writing for Communication Skills classes (spring 2012) 10. Co-initiated departmental committee to work on the 203 new reader (spring 2012) 11. Implemented community-based procedures in narrative writing in 204 (spring 2012) 12. Translated 5 poems for the AUB conference entitled “Writing in a Time of Revolution” (spring 2012) 13. Read translated poems in above conference 14. Presented paper on literary translation at a Dar Nelson; organized conference on literary translation (spring 2012)

Lina Choueiri

1. Keynote speaker at the Afroasiatic Grammar conference held in Paris, November 25-27, 2010. 2. Article reviewer for Bilingualism and for Brill‟s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 3. Member of the editorial board of Brill‟s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 4. Research Associate, IBSAR

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Rima Deeb

1. Corrected placement tests. 2. Served on English 100 Project Committee. 3. Attended Seminar on Writing to Increase Student Engagement (AUB). 4. Attended 2nd Annual Haas Mroue Creative Writing Workshop (LAU).

Michael Dennison

1. English M.A. Graduate Program Service: a. Thesis: i. Advised/directed graduate theses to successful defense by M.A. candidate, February 2010. ii. Committee reader for two successfully completed and defended M.A. theses, 2010 - 2011. b. Exams: i. Reviewed and authored area questions for the M.A. Comprehensive Examination, December, 2010, and May, 2011. ii. Served as proctor to examinations, December, 2010, and May, 2011.

2. Departmental Administrative Faculty Service: a. English Department: i. Reviewed applications and interviewed several candidates for three open professorial positions in department, by telephone and in person, October – March, 2010 - 2011, and participated in following selection process. ii. Academic advisor to as many as 21 Graduate and Undergraduate English literature major students, 2010 – 2011.

b. AUB Community Service: BTWOP (Beirut-type Writers Open Performance): i. Open mike poetry readings scheduled the first Wednesday of every month (since August 2008) and continuing even through summer months. ii. Judge of quarterly poetry competitions at BTWOP leading to publication of poems by AUB students in the Café‟s newsletter. The Playwrights Cooperative: Assisted in coordinating production of three student plays (from ENGL 251 course, May 2011).

Najwa El Den

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1. Attended a library seminar on Information Literacy, facilitated by D. Flescar and M. Tabet, AUB, Fall 2009-10. 2. Participated in a two-day workshop entitled, Reading, Response, Reflection: Approaches for Connecting Reading and Writing, facilitated by Dr. B. Williams, University of Louisville, USA, March 26, 2010. 3. Participated in a two-day workshop entitled, Portfolios and Contract Grading, facilitated by Dr. V. Russel, Duke University, USA, May 4, 2010. 4. Participated in a workshop entitled, Invention and the Teaching of Writing, facilitated by B. DeGenaro, Department of English, AUB, April 5, 2011. 5. Attended E-Portfolio launch, by the Academic Computing Center, AUB, April 14, 2011. 6. Participated in a workshop entitled, Alternative Visions of Writing Programs, facilitated by faculty members of the English Department, AUB, May 18, 2011. 7. Attended a two-day discussion entitled, Rethinking Plagiarism, facilitated by Carol Haviland, May 31 and June 2, 2011.

Joshua Gonsalves

1. Undergraduate student advising for Literature majors 2. Member of Departmental Recruitment Committee for 4 positions/2 positions in the English Department (2010-11/2011-12) 3. Telephone Interview Committee Member (American Studies Position, January 2011) 4. Member of special ad hoc English Department Search Committee for Early Modern Studies (2011-12) 5. FAS Undergraduate Admissions Committee (Fall 2011-present) 6. Assessment Representative for English Department, AUB Program Assessment Plan. 7. Member of Organizing Committee, 38th Annual International Byron Conference: to be held in Beirut, Summer 2012 (July 1-6).

Rima Hanna

1. Currently revising 3rd edition of English 203 book, Shades of Gray. 2. Second revision of the university‟s Plagiarism Test. 3. Attended lecture on Teaching Human Rights in the Composition Classroom: The Response-Ability of Rights by Belinda Walzer; February 24, 2012 4. Attended seminar on Community-Based Learning in Higher Education by Dr. Mounir Mabsout and Mr. Rabih Shibli (CTL – AUB); December 20, 2011

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5. Attended workshop on Engaging Communities of Learners: Exploring Some Brain and Cognitive-Based Approaches to Understand and Enhance Learning by Dr. Milton Cox (CTL - AUB); December 7, 2011 6. Attended workshop on Building and Facilitating Faculty Learning Communities: Ensuring Effective Communities of Practice in Higher Education by Dr. Milton Cox (CTL - AUB); December 5, 2011 7. Attended seminar on Teaching Groups Effectively – Cooperative Learning by Saoma BouJaoude and Amal BouZeineddine (CTL – AUB); November 17, 2001

Sirene Harb

1. “Between Languages and Selves: Fragmentation and Representation in Suheir Hammad‟s breaking poems”. Paper presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) 109th Annual Conference. Claremont, California. November 2011 (funded by CASAR) 2. “Contrapuntality and Reconfigured Spaces: Rewriting the Trauma of September 11.” Paper presented at Contemporary Research in Arab American Studies: New Trends & Critical Perspectives. Dearborn, Michigan. November 2011 (funded by CASAR) 3. Thesis advising for MA students 4. Reader on 2 MA Committees (CAMES and English) 5. Advisor, graduate and undergraduate students 6. Member, Advisory Committee of the Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature 7. Member, CASAR Executive Committee. 8. Member (in replacement of Ahmad Nasri), University Senate. 9. Member, University Library Committee. 10. FAS Library Committee (Representative of the University Library Committee) and Acting Chair of the FAS Library Committee 11. Member, Early Modern Literature Search Committee 12. Panel Chair, CASAR Fourth International Conference 13. Panel Chair, The International Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities 14. Advisory Board Member, Palimpsest: A Journal of Women, Gender and the Black International, published by SUNY Press 15. Article Reviewer for MELUS, published by The Society for the Study of the Multi- Ethnic Literature of the United States and the University of Connecticut 16. Coordinator of Dr. Lisa Suhair Majaj‟s visit to the English department and moderator of her creative writing talk and discussion with creative writing faculty and students. 17. Member, Departmental Assessment Committee.

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18. Participant, conference on AUC CASAR--AUB CASAR collaboration

Alexander Hartwiger

1. Invited Lecture: “Talking Internationally about International Human Rights.” Llyod International Honors College Speakers Series at UNCG. February 2011. 2. Conference Presentations: a. “„Otherwise than Modernity‟: The Emergence of the Unhomely Cosmopolitan.” European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Istanbul, Turkey, April 2011. (accepted but could not attend) b. “Cast Adrift: Looking for Home in Tahar Ben Jelloun‟s Leaving Tangier.” A Cosmopolitan World Literature?. American Comparative Literature Association. Vancouver, BC, March 2011. 3. Professional Service: a. Contributor for the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. Provide annotations and critical commentary on literary criticism, journal articles, monographs, and online resources within the field of postcolonial studies. b. Chaired meeting of graduate student application review c. Co-organizer of a graduate student discussion forum d. Liaison between Literature and Writing program at AUB e. Reader on two thesis projects. f. Developed the course, “What are Human Rights?” for CVSP. The course will be offered in spring 2012.

Syrine Hout

1. External member of Arabic Literature Search Committee (Jan. 2012) 2. Member of English Department‟s Curriculum Committee (Spring) 3. CVSP lecturer on Machiavelli (May 2012) 4. Guest Lecturer in MEST 301 (Dec. 2012) 5. Submission Referee for the journal MELUS (Jan. and April 2012) 6. Supervisor of 1 MA thesis (defended Jan. 2012) 7. Reader of 3 MA theses (defended July 2011, Dec. 2011, June 2012)

Rima Iskandarani

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a. “ Writing Assignments ”, presentations by Communication Skills Instructors, January, 2012 b. Seminar on Writing to Increase Student Engagement by Dr. Amy Zenger and Dr. Lisa Arnold, CTL c. Faculty Seminar on Learning and Teaching Excellence (March 15, 2012 until April 19, 2012, CTL. d. Blended Learning, English Department and ACPS Team

Fall 2011-12 a. “Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education”, December 9 & 10, 2011; organized by CTL and ACPS b. “Teaching Groups Effectively (Cooperative Learning)”, Thursday, November 17, 2011; CTL c. “Engaging Communities of Learners: Exploring Some Brain- and Cognitive- Based Approaches to Understand and Enhance Learning” given by Dr. Milton Cox , December 7, 2011; CTL d. “Community-Based Learning in Higher Education”,December 20, 2011, by Dr. Mounir Mabsout & Mr. Rabih Shibli; CTL e. “ Portfolios” the Portfolio Committee in the Communications Skills Program, September 2011 2. Research: a. The Beirut-Dearborn Writing and Learning Community 3. I am still serving as the New Faculty Facilitator.

Roseanne Khalaf

1. Conference Presentations: a. “Lebanese Youth Narratives: An innovative Path to Peace.” Paper presented at 11th UKFIET International Conference on Narrative for Post- Conflict Peace Building, Oxford University: September 13-15, 2011. b. Presented two lectures at the Fourth International Festival of Literature, “Arab Society and Culture: Changing Times” & “Arab Youth and Social Media.” Dubai: March 6-10, 2012. 2. Committees: a. Arts and Sciences Faculty Representative on the AUB Reunion Committee. Together with the Alumni Relations Office and Dean McGreevy, I am organizing a panel discussion with FAS Alumni Ashraf Ghani, Zubeida Baramania, Mohammad Manik and Fuad Siniora on June 30, 2012. b. Member of the Search Committee in Early Modern Literature and Culture, 2011-2012. 3. Creative Writing Workshop:

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Organized and co-conducted a Creative Writing Workshop with Christopher Merrill, Director of the International Writing Program (IWP) at Iowa University. The project was jointly supported by Solidere and the English Speaking Union (ESU), Lebanon branch. Sessions were held in the Beirut Souks. The city of Beirut was the theme of our workshop. July 18-22, 2011 4. Other Activities: a. Deputy Chairman of the English Speaking Union, Lebanon (ESU) b. Member of Issam Fares Institute Youth Advisory Board (AUB)

Rabab Kodeih

1. English 100 (Intensive English) Course Director( Fall & Spring 2011-2012) 2. Attended several seminars and workshops given by CTL and the English department

Malakeh Khoury 2. 1. Presented a research based paper at the Second International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AUB) entitled “The Effectiveness of Team Based Instruction in Teaching Writing from an Instructor's and Students' Points of View”. 2. Gave a lecture on “Technical Communication” to all first year engineering students in FEA, AUB as guest speaker for ASST 200 “Introduction to Engineering”. 3. Participated in the following CTL seminars: Spring 2012 a. Seminar on Peer Observation b. Seminar on Assessment of Program Learning Outcomes- Report Writing c. “Faculty Seminar on Learning and Teaching Excellence”, for the 5th spring. Previously participated 4 times in this seminar, each year being on different topics related to learning and teaching. d. “Seminar on Learning Outcomes at FAS and FAFS: Process and Success Stories” e. “Seminar on Writing to Increase Student Engagement”. f. “Seminar on Developing a Teaching Portfolio”. Fall 2011-12 a. “Seminar on Community-Based Learning in Higher Education”. b. “Workshop on Building and Facilitating Faculty Learning Communities: Ensuring Effective Communities of Practice in Higher Education”. c. “Workshop on Engaging Communities of Learners: Exploring Some Brain- and Cognitive-Based Approaches to Understand and Enhance Learning”.

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d. “Seminar on Teaching Groups Effectively (Cooperative Learning)”.

F. May Mikati

1. Innovation in Teaching: Taught English 227 (Introduction to Language) for the first time, in web-enhanced format 2. Conferences Attended – one at AUB and one in the UK: a. Cambridge International Conference on Distance, Open and e- Learning: Internationalisation and Social Justice: the role of Open, Distance and e- Learning , Sept. 25-28 b. AUB Center for Teaching and Learning Conference, Dec 9-10 c. Workshops Attended: Two CTL and three English Department Workshops at AUB d. Presentation Given: Gave a 20 minute presentation at an English Department workshop on innovative assignments.

Robert Myers

1. “The Art of Losing: Revolutions in the Theatre of Usigli, Kushner and Companhia do Latão.” Paper to be presented at the International American Studies Conference. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 2011. 2. “Stringed Vibrations.” Producer of concerts with noted American musician Michael Miles and local musicians, including banjo, guitar, pipa, oud, piano and vocals. At Wellspring Learning Community and AUB‟s Assembly Hall. With support from CASAR, CAMES, FAAH, Global Voices of Chicago and Wellspring Learning Community. May 2011. 3. Shakespeare‟s Imagined Orient conference at AUB. Panel chair. Beirut. May 2011. 4. Edward Field Workshop. Producer. Reading and poetry workshop by noted American poet Edward Field for AUB students of English, creative writing and others and AUB faculty members. April 2011. 5. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Centers Annual Conference. Participant and speaker. Edinburgh, Scotland. March 2010. 6. “An East/West Pas de Deux: The Ballets Russes and the Orient in the Modern Western Imagination.” Paper presented at 2010 American Studies Institute International Conference. Representing Islam, Terrorism and Violence: Changes in American Society and Culture and 9/11. Seoul, Korea. December 2010. 7. Graffiti Beirut. Producer of ten-minute documentary film about Beirut street art with Henry Chalfant. Directed by Carole Mansour. Supported by an AUB Mellon grant for the arts. December 2010.

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8. Kathleen Chalfant Theatre Workshop. Producer of a two-hour theatre workshop with over 75 AUB and LAU students and professors by noted American stage actor Kathleen Chalfant. Students viewed and participated in readings of scenes from Angels in America and Wit. Supported by CASAR, an AUB Mellon grant for the arts and LAU. 9. Director, Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR). Programmed series of American Studies lectures, readings, panels, films, readings and other events about politics, culture, religion and other subjects.

Jasmina Najjar

1. Presented paper on team-based learning‟s application to a technical writing course given in blended format- 2nd Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, AUB (9-10 Dec 2011) 2. 26 Sept – 2 Dec 2011: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Best Practices‟ course, University of Oregon, Linguistics Department, American English Institute (scholarship from the US Embassy, E-Teacher program) 3. Faculty advisor for AUB‟s Japanese Culture Club (starting Sept 2011) 4. Engl 206 Course Coordinator (starting Sept 2011) 5. Engl 203 Book Committee 6. I attended the following: a. 6 April 2011- Poetry Workshop with Edward Field b. 19 May 2011- Symposium on Alternative Visions for Writing Programs c. 31 May and 2 June 2011- “Rethinking Plagiarism”- Carol Haviland d. 19-23 September 2011- Social Media Week, Beirut e. 16 December 2011- Social Media Changing Lives by the Online Collaborative at the American University of Beirut 7. I attended the following webinars (online seminars): a. 11 May 2011- Social Media Marketing Campaign Management by Michael Leander (Markedu) b. 9 June 2011- Power Up Your Direct & Digital Marketing by Michael Leander (Markedu) c. 20 July 2011- Copywriting on Tight Deadlines: how ordinary marketers are achieving 200% gains with a step-by-step framework by MarketingExperiments d. 14 September 2011- Online Copywriters for Higher Conversions: using words to turn visitors into customers by Michael Lykke Aagaard (Markedu)

John Pedro Schwartz

1. FAS Undergraduate Admissions Committee member

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2. CASAR Executive Committee member

Kassim Shaaban

1. Director, CELRT 2. Associate Editor, Al-Abhath 3. Member, Editorial Board, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT) 4. Reviewer of articles for the journals Language, Culture and Curriculum; International Journal of Applied Linguistics; AJELT, Arab Journal of Humanities. 5. Presented two papers at International TESOL conferences in Philadelphia, PA. and Doha, 6. Qatar (See Abstracts above” 7. Chair, Search Committee for English language Position 8. Chair, English department Assessment Committee. 9. Member, Teaching Excellence Award Committee.

Reem Rashash-Shaaban

1. Attended the Faculty Seminar on Assessment of Program Learning Outcomes- Report Writing , AUB, May 10th, 2012. 2. Attended the Faculty Seminar on Learning and Teaching Excellence, AUB, from March 15th to April 19th, 2012. 3. Attended the Faculty Seminar on Writing to Increase Student Engagement, AUB, March 2nd, 2012. 4. Attended the Third International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education”, AUB, December 7th-8th, 2011. 5. Attended the Blended Learning Workshop, AUB. October 21st- December 23rd, 2011. 6. Attended the Second Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, AUB, December 9th-10th, 2011. 7. Attended the Workshop on Engaging Communities of Learners: Exploring some Brain- and Cognitive-Based Approaches to Understand and Enhance Learning by Milton, Cox, AUB, December 7th, 2011 8. Attended the TESOL Preconference Workshop: Teaching and Learning L2 Reading by William Grabe, Doha, Qatar, October 1st, 2011. 9. Attended the TESOL Conference on Putting Research into Practice, Doha, Qatar, October 1-3rd, 2011.

Rima Rantisi

1. Global Liberal Arts Alliance, teacher (Spring 2013) 2. Global Liberal Arts Alliance, Conference in Athens (June 2012)

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3. Coordinator, English 203 (Academic English) 4. Grant Awarded: Andrew Mellon Foundation for Rusted Radishes: The Beirut Literary and Arts Review 5. See “Publications”

Rima Shadid

1. Attended the Faculty Seminar on Learning and Teaching Excellence, CTL, AUB- March 1-31, 2011 2. Served on panel of judges (member of jury) for Makassed Association speaking competition for students- March 1-31, 2011 3. Attended workshop on Rethinking Plagiarism - Carol Haviland- May 31, June 2, 2011 4. Attended workshop on Invention and the Teaching of Writing - Bill De Genaro- April 2011 5. Attended symposium on Alternative Visions for Writing Programs - Lina Choueiri, Amy Zenger, Rula Baalbaki- May 18, 2011

Nina Shalhoub- Khoury

1. Attended the Second International Conference on "Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education" on December 9 and 10, 2011 at AUB. Key note speaker: Dr. Milton Cox. 2. Attended a workshop on "Building and Facilitating Faculty Learning Communities: Ensuring Effective Communities of Practice in Higher Education" on Monday, December 5, 2011 from 3:30-6:30 p.m. in College Hall B1 at AUB - Presenter: Dr. Milton Cox. 3. Participated in the General Education Program Learning Outcomes Project in my English 204 section during the Fall semester of 2011-2012. 4. Attended a seminar on "Writing to Increase Student Engagement" on Friday, March 2, from 3:30- 6:30 p.m. in West Hall Auditorium B. Facilitators: Professors Amy Zenger and Lisa Arnold. 5. Attended Blended Learning seminars on March 27 and 29, 2012 from 11 - 12 noon in College Hall Auditorium B1 at AUB. 6. Attended/participated in general Communications Skills meetings during the Fall/Spring semesters of 2011-2012. 7. Corrected AUB-EN essays (OIRA) during the Fall/Spring semesters of 2011- 2012. 8. Coordinated English 208 during the Fall/Spring semesters of 2011-2012. 9. 2011.

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Pamela Shbat

1. Attended all the workshops and meetings assigned by the department

Zane Sinno

1. Teaching: Fall 2011 - 2012 a. English 203 (two sections) b. English 208 Spring 2011 - 2012 c. English 203 (two sections) d. English 208 e. Writing Center: 7 hours/ week 2. Seminars and Workshops Presented: a. The Impact on Language Learning of Lebanese Students‟ Attitude towards English in the Context of Globalization and Anti- Americanism, lecture presented May 2012 b. Digital VS Print Reading: A Case Study of Reading Practices of AUB Students, Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, December 2011 c. Writing Resumes, Workshop for Engineering Student Society, October, 2011 d. Blended Learning Symposium: Fall 2011 3. Seminars and Workshops Attended: a. Second International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, December 2011 b. Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East / Norht Africa. CASAR Fourth International Conference. January 11 – 14, 2012 c. Digital & Media Literacy: New Directions AUSACE 2011 Conference. October 28 – 31 2011 d. Community Based Learning: Fall 2011 e. Faculty Learning Communities: Fall 2011 4. Other Departmental Activities: a. Beyond Words, third edition of the English 203 Reader, editor

Adam Waterman

1. Department of English Curriculum Committee, 2012 2. Department of English Rhetoric and Composition Search Committee, 2012 3. Member, CASAR Executive Board, 2011-2012

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4. Coordinator, MA Student Comprehensive Exams, 2011-2012 5. Coordinator, Graduate Admissions, Department of English, 2011-2012 6. Panel Moderator, CASAR Conference, January 2012 7. Recipient: Long-Term Faculty Development Grant, American University of Beirut, 2012 8. Recipient: Center for American Studies and Research Summer Research Grant, 2012 9. Awarded Academic Certificate in Critical Muslim Studies from Nura Intercultural, after participation in International Summer School in “Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation, and Islamic Revival,” held in Granada, Spain, June 2012

G. PUBLICATIONS

Michael Dennison

1. Individual Poems in Journals: “Black Sonnet #1”, “Black Sonnet #2”, and “Beirut, May 2007” in International Poetry Review, Fall, 2010. Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, 117 – 118. “Inquiry at the Border” and “The Caterpillar” in The Drunken Boat, Spring 2011. 2. Book: Hamra Noir. Original Poetry. Riad Press. Original frontispiece, photographic art, and cover design by Rabih Ibrahim. October 2010.

Joshua Gonsalves

1. Mediterraneanizing the Roman (English) Empire: Re-Situating Desire in Antony and Cleopatra,” in The Hungry Ocean: The Maritime Environment in English Literature, 1600–1950, Ed. Steven Mentz (Ashgate, in process) 2. “Byron‟s Masque of the French Revolution: Sovereignty, Terror and Republican Identity in Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari,” in Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror, Eds. Matthew Green and Piya Pal-Lapinski, Palgrave, 2011.

Sirene Harb

1. “Perspectives on Violence and Reconciliation in Arab-American Women‟s Writing About September 11”, forthcoming in Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism (Solicited Article)

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2. “Between Languages and Selves: Migratory Agency, Fragmentation and Representation in Suheir Hammad‟s breaking poems,” forthcoming in Contemporary Women‟s Writing 3. “Arab American Women‟s Writing and September 11: Contrapuntality and Associative Remembering”, forthcoming in MELUS 4. El-Hajj, Hind, and Sirène Harb. “Straddling the Personal and the Political: Gendered Memory in Diana Abu-Jaber‟s Arabian Jazz.” MELUS 36.3 (Fall 2011): 137-58. 5. Moghabghab, Emma, and Sirène Harb. “Lawrence Joseph‟s Into It: A Political Study of Power and Community.” Studies in the Humanities 37, 1&2 (December 2010): 3-21. (published in March 2012)

Alexander Hartwiger

1. “„Multiple Possibilities Multiple Lives‟: Mediating Transcultural Encounters through Cosmopolitanism.” Beyond „Other Cultures‟: Transcultural Perspectives on Teaching the New Literatures in English. Eds. Frank Schulze- Engler and Sabine Doff. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag: Trier, 2011.

Tariq Mehmood Ali

1. Marginalistaion, Resistance And The Road To Fictional Visibility, South Asian Cultural Studies, (Edge Hill University), UK 2. Mined Memories, Out Of Bounds, Anthology of Black and Asian Poetry, edited by Jackie Kay, James Proctor and Gemma Robinson. Published by Department of English and Literary and Linguistic Studies, New Castle University, BloodAxe Books, Uk 3. Resisting Technologies of Surveillance and Suspicion State of Race, co-written by Kalra, V. and Mehmood, T. (2013) Edited by N. Kapoor, V.Kalra and J. Rhodes, London: Palgrave, Macmillan, UK.

May Mikati

1. Mikati, May. May Mikati‟s AUB Blog http://eportfolio.aub.edu.lb/view/view.php?id=668

Robert Myers

1. Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East. (Editor). Proceedings of CASAR‟s Third International Conference, January 2010. Beirut: CASAR, 2011.

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2. “Introduction.” Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East. Proceedings of CASAR‟s Third International Conference, January 2010. Beirut: CASAR, 2011. 3. “Playing Arab.” Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East. Proceedings of CASAR‟s Third International Conference, January 2010. Beirut: CASAR, 2011. 4. Painting Persia. Reading of stage play at Segal Theatre, CUNY. Directed by Ian Morgan, Associate Artistic Director, the New Group. Sponsored by the Middle East and Middle East American Center (MEMEAC), CUNY. March 2011. 5. “An East/West Pas de Deux: The Ballets Russes and the Orient in the Modern Western Imagination.” 2010 American Studies Institute International Conference Proceedings. Representing Islam, Terrorism and Violence: Changes in American Society and Culture and 9/11. Seoul, Korea. December 2010. (Also forthcoming in more elaborate form in the American Studies Institute‟s Journal of American Studies).

Jasmina Najjar

1. “Being of the Cedars” by Jasmina Najjar: An exploration of Rashid al-Daif's work. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, April 20, 2011

Christopher Nassar

1. "The Tithonos Myth in Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid," in The Explicator, vol. 68, no. 3 (Summer 2010), 149-150. A brief essay that studies Virgil reworking of Homer's use of the story of Tithonos.

Rima Rantisi

1. After Words: A Reader for Academic Writing, editor. Forthcoming in September, 2012. 2. Rusted Radishes: The Beirut Literary and Arts Review, editor. Forthcoming in September, 2012.

John Pedro Schwartz

1. Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World. Collection of essays. Ed. with Sonja Mejcher-Atassi. Ashgate, August 2012. 2. “Introduction: Challenges and Directions in an Emerging Field of Research” (with Sonja Mejcher Atassi). In Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World, cited above, pp.1-33.

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3. Between the Muses and the Mausoleum: Museums, Modernism, and Modernity. Book-length MS. Submitted to Ohio State University Press.

Kassim Shaaban

1. Shaaban, K. (2012). Intensive English programs in the Arab world: Challenges and problems. The TESOL 2012 Annual Conference, March 28-31, 2012 held in Philadelphia, PA. 2. Shaaban, K. (2011). The Good Language Learner: What we have learned from research on attitude and motivation. TESOL‟s Research into Practice Conference, October 1-3, 2011 held in Doha, Qatar.

Adam Waterman

1. “The Anatomy of a Haunting: Black Hawk‟s Body and the Fabric of History,” Phantom Pasts, Indigenous Presence: Haunting in Native North America, Colleen Boyd and Coll Thrush, eds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011 2. “Sixty-two Hours in Cairo,” The Feminist Wire, 2011

Amy Zenger

1. New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture across Borders. Ed. Brownyn T. Williams and Amy A. Zenger. New York: Routledge, 2012. 2. “Constructing „local context‟ in Beirut: Students‟ literacy practices outside of class.” In New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture across Borders. Ed. B. T. Williams and A. A. Zenger. New York: Routledge, 2012. 3. Amy A. Zenger, Joan Mullin, and Carol Peterson Haviland. “Reconstructing Teacher Roles through a Transnational Lens: Learning with/in the American University of Beirut.” Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing in the Disciplines and Second Language Writing. Ed. Terry M. Zawacki and Michelle Cox. Forthcoming. 4. Haviland, C. P., J. Mullin, and A. A. Zenger. “Import/Export Work?: Using Cross-Cultural Theories to Rethink Englishes, Identities, and Genres in Writing Centers.” Working English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global-local Contexts, Commitments, Consequences. Ed. B. Horner and K. Koppelson. Accepted for publication.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

In keeping with the university-wide project to assess existing programs, in the coming year, the English will assess program learning outcomes in the

235 undergraduate degree programs in Language and Literature. Evidence provided by the assessment will support a review of the program requirements and structure. The department will maintain its three internal committees which proved successful for reviewing the department‟s offerings and facilitating dialogue among faculty as it prepares for program review. Recruitment next year will focus on professorial positions in Creative Writing (Fiction) and Rhetoric and Composition. The Coordinator of the Communication Skills program will be replaced next year by a Director. In the next two years, the Writing Center is poised to grow rapidly, as it guides the university in developing a new writing initiative, mandated in part by new General Education guidelines. The department will be looking for ways to share the responsibility with other faculties and departments for staffing the Writing Center. The department intends to enrich the already improved website with materials useful for departmental advising.

David Wrisley Chairperson

APPENDIX A: COMMUNICATION SKILLS

The report will be subdivided into 3 parts: Reports on Courses 100 through 208; Academic Activities and Workshops; and General Recommendations.

1. Summary of Coordinators‟ Reports: Course Coordinators: 100-Rabab Kodeih; 102-Souha Riman; 203-Rima Rantisi; 204-Malakeh Khoury; 206- Jazmina Najjar; 208-Nina Shalhoub.

English 100: Intensive coordination was needed to consolidate 100A and 100B students in the one existing section in spring. An extra five contact hours per week was provided for 100A students. Debates continue to be an integral component in the course, and mid-term and final exams are one tool of assessing students‟ performance. The proposal to restructure the course by addressing some administrative aspects might need to be addressed in view of the dwindling number of students.

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English 102: Instructors shared new assignments on Moodle, and one norming session was held. Teachers posted innovative 102 assignments on the course PR, and a sample assignment was presented during the departmental one-day workshop. The special project with the Writing Center, aiming to bridge the gap between 102 and 203 by providing students with extra writing activities, was reinforced by requiring students to visit the Writing Center. One section had to write a reflective composition on the outcomes of this collaborative activity. Some students took part in the celebration of student writing event that took place in spring.

English 203: The highlight of the course was that a new 203 reader was planned, collated and written by a committee of instructors, and this reader is going to be published locally. 203 instructors submitted posted innovative assignments on the course PR, and one of those assignments was presented during the departmental one-day workshop in the fall semester. Students from several sections exhibited their writing projects at the celebration of student writing event that took place in spring. A conversation on revising the existing 203 syllabus and number and type of assignments was started, hopefully to continue in 2012-13. Two teachers participated in the AUB-University of Michigan at Dearborn partnership research project.

English 204: There was an atmosphere of experimentation with techniques and methodology of teaching. Two teachers participated in the AUB-University of Michigan at Dearborn partnership research project, and two teachers partnered to redesign their 204 syllabi into community-based-learning models. The writing and information literacy Gen Ed learning outcomes were assessed using the 204 term papers, and the oral communication Gen Ed learning outcome was assessed using students‟ oral presentations. A sample innovative assignment was presented during the departmental one-day workshop, and several sections took part in exhibiting their writing projects at the celebration of student writing event that took place in spring. Small-scale research projects as well as reflective action research projects were started.

English 206: A full Needs Analysis was conducted, involving gathering data from 206 students, FEA faculty and professionals in the field, the results of which analysis will impact the types and content of future assignments. Guest speakers in the field were invited to give students more exposure to the real world of writing in this discipline. Two instructors presented papers on team-based learning at the CTL-organized conference at AUB; some sections introduced components on community-based learning; a sample innovative assignment was presented at the one-day departmental workshop; and some 206 sections exhibited their writing

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English 208: While the final exam in 208 was “abolished”, it was believed that the mid-term should be kept for uniformity and “structure”. Some activities were relocated within the syllabus (the final letter). Instructors posted innovative assignments on the course PR, and one assignment was presented at the departmental one-day workshop in spring. The course witnessed a group of first- time 208 instructors this year.

2. Academic Activities: The Comm. Skills faculty engaged in departmental projects on voluntary basis, and attended several discussion forums, in-house mini workshops, and university-organized seminars.

a. Discussion forums: i. Forum on Blended Learning facilitated by ACSP (fall 2011) ii. Discussion on IRB procedures facilitated by Lina Choueiri (spring 2012) iii. Q and A session on general Comm. Skills issues facilitated by Rula Baalbaki and David Wrisley (spring 2012)

b. In-house workshops: i. Workshop/discussion on using portfolios in writing classes facilitated by Rima Rantisi, Zane Sinno, Najla Jarkas, Juheinna Fakhreddine, Dorota Fleszar and Shadi Shedrawi (fall 2011) ii. Workshop presentations on using successful/innovative assignments in all courses facilitated by Tharwat Dabaja, Rabab Kodeih, Nagham Jaber, Zane Sinno, Dorota Fleszar, May Mikati and Rima Shadid (spring 2012)

c. Events: One-day celebration of student writing projects facilitated by Lisa Arnold (spring 2012)

d. AUB seminars: Several Comm. Skills instructors attended seminars (CTL, ACSP and others) i. Presentations on Team-Based Learning by Malakeh Khoury and Jazmina Najjar ii. Presentations on “Englishes” by Zane Sinno and Najla Jarkas

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e. Departmental Committees: A new Comm. Skills Committee was formed by the chair (David Wrisley). Committee members: Lina Choueiri (Chair), Amany Al-Sayyed, Lisa Arnold, Rula Baalbaki, Alexander Hartwiger, and Amy Zenger.

3. Recommendations: For 2011-2012, the following recommendations are made: a. That the experimental restructuring of English 100 be implemented for administrative and academic reasons. b. That GA‟s continue to assume an active role in teaching segments of English 100 and assisting in discussion and research sessions in other courses. c. That discussion sessions related to sharing approaches to teaching, grading and commenting on papers continue to be held at each course level, especially 203 and 204, as well as program-wide, and that these discussions include the shared writing paradigms. d. That instructors continue to post their syllabus (and other activities) on Moodle in order to encourage diversity and creativity in teaching methods and activities, while adhering to the course objectives and learning outcomes. e. That pre-semester course meetings with each course coordinator be scheduled by the Department for the week before classes start. f. That more “bridging” activities and materials be worked out with the Writing Center for every course. g. That work commence on the proper revision and sequencing of learning outcomes. h. That more instructors be involved in the Writing Center to facilitate the “bridging” process, and vice versa. i. That instructors read and discuss professional literature in the field of composition. j. That more instructors partner with other instructors and experiment with new approaches or content.

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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS AND ART HISTORY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Prof. Angela Harutyunyan joined the department as full-time assistant professor in art history. Prof. Christoph Kasper Kovitz joined the department for a one year visiting assistant professor in studio arts.

With the gracious generosity of the History Department, CVSP, and the Dean, Paul Du Quenoy of the History and CVSP departments was allowed to replace his CVSP duties with service to FAAH. Dr. Du Quenoy taught courses in opera and plans to teach a course on Wagner in the fall.

The department held three international searches. One search was for a professor in 2-d studio arts. Christoph Kasper Kovitz will change rank to a full-time assistant professor in the fall.

A search was held for a professor in performance art/theater. Cornelia Krafft will change rank to a full-time assistant professor in the fall.

A search was held for a university curator. Octavian Esanu will join the department as a full-time assistant professor in the fall.

The department hosted a major international conference of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey.

The department was graciously allowed to use the basement of the Mayfair Women‟s Dormitory. This space was used for the Concept Art and Video Art classes as well as workspace for our senior final year projects. The space also was the venue for the exhibition of our graduating seniors. The show was curated by visiting assistant professor Cornelia Krafft, and the works were of a high standard.

After several years of negotiating, a major donation by Dr. Samir Saleeby was finalized. The donation included 65 paintings and features the works of Khalil Saleeby. The collection will be a featured part of a new art museum in Post Hall, which is due for completion in 2020. A temporary gallery was established on the ground floor of the Mayfair Women‟s Dormitory. A team that included the newly appointed university curator Octavian Esanu, Kasper Kovitz, Rico Francis and Angela Harutyunyan worked tirelessly to open the temporary gallery in June, and local and international experts and media favorably received the collection.

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Angela Harutyunyan organized a series of lectures, interviews and panel discussions for her FAAH 229D class. Many of these were open to the public and included notable artists, art historians and curators from around the region.

Music performances included the Winter and Spring Concerts by the AUB Choir and Choral Society. The AUB Choir and Choral Society continues to experience record membership levels and all of the concerts were very well attended. Of particular note was the spring performance of Mozart‟s Requiem.

The winner of the annual $1000 Rosemarie Salhaney Haggar Choral Award, was Youmna Jreissati.

David Kurani mounted a production of three short comic plays: Tardieu‟s They Alone Know, Beckett‟s Come and Go, and Ionesco‟s The Bald Soprano.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Pierre Azoury Professor (pt) Ph.D. Rico Franses Associate Professor Ph.D. (Chairperson fall) Neville Assad-Salha Assistant Professor MFA Paul Du Quenoy Assistant Professor Ph.D. (pt) May Farhat Assistant Professor Ph.D. Angela Harutyunyan Assistant Professor Ph.D. Thomas Kim Assistant Professor D.Mus.* Kasper Kovitz Assistant Professor MFA Cornelia Krafft Assistant Professor MFA David Kurani Senior Lecturer Dipl.** Peter Shebaya Senior Lecturer (pt) MA+Dipl.** Reem Deeb Lecturer (pt) D.Mus.* Afaf Zurayk Lecturer (pt) MA Mirene Arsanios Instructor (pt) MA Sahar Assaf Instructor (pt) MA Rabih Freiha Instructor (pt) MFA

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Wajd Ghazal Instructor (pt) MA Ghada Jamal Instructor (pt) MA Rima Khcheich Instructor (pt) Dipl.*** Zeina Meskaoui Instructor (pt) MA Roy Samaha Instructor (pt) MA

* Doctor of Music ** Diploma in Acting, Bristol Old Vic Theater School (MFA equivalent) *** Diploma in Oriental Music, Lebanese Nat. Conserv. (MFAequivalent)

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester None

Spring Semester Michel El Basha Maya Maalouf

3. Graduate Assistants

None

4. Non-Academic Staff

Adiba Jebara Kidess Secretary

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2011 0 Feb. 2012 1 Jun. 2012 10

MA Oct. 2011 0 Feb. 2012 0 Jun. 2012 0

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2. Number of Majors

Graduates 0 Seniors 17 Juniors 7 Sophomores 12

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 0 0 0 211-299 35 333 434 802 200-210 4 119 103 226 100-199 0 39 41 80 Total 39 491 578 1108

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 0 0 0 211-299 6 66 84 156 200-210 3 27 21 51 100-199 0 6 6 12 Total 9 99 111 219

D. RESEARCH

May Farhat

1. Preliminary research at the Ethnography Museum in Ankara for a paper on a 17th c. Ottoman manuscript. July, 2011.

Rico Francis

1. “Is the Cross an Icon?” Paper delivered at the 22nd International Conference of Byzantine Studies, Sophia Bulgaria. August, 2011 2. “Art, Animism, and the Estatics of Vision.” Paper presented at the Menil Museum, Houston, TX. October, 2011

Angela Harutyunyan

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1. Foundation for the Art Initiative, Independent Research Grant, 5000 USD Getty Travel Award to attend the 100th CAA conference 2. Coordinated a series of lectures, panel discussions and interviews on contemporary art of the Middle East, funded by FAS and the Provost‟s Office.t

Thomas Kim

1. “Mathematical Processes in Lutoslawski‟s Trois poeme d‟Henri Michaux.” Paper presented at the American Choral Director‟s Eastern Division Convention, Providence, RI: 2012. 2. Research on Bach‟s St. Matthew Passion in preparation to be a participating conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival in July. 5. Research on Bach‟s St. John Passion in preparation for a Mellon sponsored performance in 2013.

Cornelia Krafft

1. Research for a new production that will be sponsored by a Mellon grant in December 2012.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Neville Assad-Salha

1. Primary advisor to the Studio Arts majors. 2. Served on the 2-d artist search committee. 3. Served on the performance artist/theater search committee. 4. Served on the university curator search committee. 5. Assisted in the development and assessment of studio arts PLOs. 6. Adjudicator for Studio Arts Final Year Projects. 7. Served on committee to remodel studio spaces including the new space at Mayfair dormitory. 8. Helped to develop PLO assessment standards.

May Farhat 1. Primary advisor to the art history majors. 2. Advisor to studio arts majors. 3. Chair of the 2-d artist search committee. 4. Served on the performance artist/theater search committee.

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5. Served on the selection committee for Mellon Foundation grants for the promotion of arts and humanities. 6. Developed procedures for the assessment of art history PLOs

Rico Franses

1. Served as department chair until February 2011. 2. Served as associate chair since February 2011. 3. Chair of the university curator search committee. 4. Served on the performance artist/theater search committee. 5. Chair of the university museum committee. 6. Served on the Provost‟s committee to consider the establishment of a new Arts and Humanities Center. 7. Lead in the establishing of the new AUB Art Gallery featuring the paintings of Khalil Saleeby. 8. Represented the department at the Paris exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe where four paintings of Khalil Saleeby were shown.

Angela Harutyunyan

1. Developed two new courses for the department. 2. Served on the university curator search committee. 3. Served on the 2-d artists search committee. 4. Served on the Arts and Humanities Center committee. 5. Local research advisor for a PhD candidate, Tammer El Sheikh, McGill University, Canada.

Thomas Kim

1. Served as department chair since February 2011. 2. Chair of the performance artist/theater search committee. 3. Lead in implementing PLO evaluation for studio arts. 4. Chair of the committee to select the Rosemary Haggar Choral Award recipient. 5. Served on committee to remodel studio spaces including the new space at Mayfair dormitory. 6. Conductor, LeBAM International Summer Band Camp, Baskinta. July 2011. 7. Developed a new course that was approved by the curriculum committee: Arabic Music Ensemble. 8. Interviewed and hired two new part time instructors in music, Wajd Ghazzal and Rima Khcheich. 9. Coordinated the move of Prof. Paul du Quenoy from CVSP to FAAH.

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Kasper Kovitz

1. Served on committee to remodel studio spaces including the new space at Mayfair dormitory. 2. Adjudicator for Studio Arts Final Year Projects. 3. Helped to develop PLO assessment standards. 4. Lead in the logistical setup of the new AUB Art Gallery in Mayfair.

Cornelia Krafft

1. Served on committee to remodel studio spaces including the new space at Mayfair dormitory. 2. Lead coordinator for the Senior Studio Arts Major exhibition.

David Kurani

1. Secondary advisor to studio arts majors. 2. Zaki Nassif Music Committee member. 3. Arts Center committee member. 4. Interviewed a new adjunct in theater, Sahar Assaf.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Neville Assad-Salha

1. Opening Exhibition, SALA Week, South Australia. July, 2011

May Farhat

1. “A Mediterraneanist‟s Collection: Henri Pharson‟s „Treasure House of Arab Art,‟” Ars Orientalis (2013). 2. “Shi‟i Piety and Dynastic Legitimacy: Mashhad under the Early Safavid Shahs,” Journal of the Society of Iranian Studies (forthcoming).

Rico Francis

1. Contact! Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art. Manuscript finished, publisher forthcoming.

Angela Harutyunyan

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1. [editor] Intersections: Practices of Curating, Education and Theory. AICA-Armenia. December, 2011, Yerevan. 2. “Between Utopia and Nostalgia: two Strategies of Hope.” In Temporary Status: A Book on Political Imagination, Stefan Rusu, ed. Chisinau: September, 2011. 3. “Apart We Are Together: Live.” In What is To Be Done With Centric Art. Queeringyerevan, Tigran Mets, November, 2011. 4. “TimeLine of Socialist and Post-Socialist Body Art: Interstices of History.” In Perform, Repeat, Record: A Critical Anthology of Live Art in History, Amelia Jones and Adrian Heartfield, ed. Routledge: London, New York, December 2011. 5. “Event and Counter-Event: The Political Economy of the Istanbul Biennial and Its Excesses,” Aras Ozgun, Angela Harutyunyan, Eric Goodfield. In Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, vol. 22, no. 2. Routledge. 6. “The Epistemology of Photographic Evidence: A Response” in Cairo Papers in Social Science, volume 29, Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East. 7. “When Matter Becomes Cultural Politics: Traps of Liberalism in the 10th Sharjah Biennial” Red Thread Journal, issue 3. http://www.red- thread.org/en/article.asp?a=48 8. “The Armenian Pavilion in Venice and Cultural Politics ”, Epress, Armenian and English editions, http://www.epress.am/en/category/cultural-news 9. “Politics at the Pavilion in Venice”, Egypt Today, English Edition http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/468063 10. “Capitalizing on the revolution: Post-revolutionary knowledge economies,” Egypt Today, English Edition http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/336835 11. Art Margins, associate editor. MIT Press. First issue April 2012.

Thomas Kim

1. Conductor: Winter Concert. Ensemble Polyphonica, AUB Choir and Choral Society. Benjamin Britten‟s A Ceremony of Carols, Gustav Holst‟s Hymns from the „Rig Veda,‟ series one, Olatunji‟s Betelehemu, negro spirituals by William Dawson. December 12-13, 2011. 2. Conductor: Christmas Concert. Barock-Ensemble of Jounieh. December 21, 2011. 3. Conductor: Spring Concert. Ensemble Polyphonica, AUB Choir and Choral Society. Mozart‟s Ave verum corpus and Requiem, Senfl‟s Klein ist mein Trost, Festa‟s Quis dabit oculis, Rameau‟s Laboravi clamans. May 7, 2012. 4. Conductor: Barock-Ensemble of Jounieh and AUB Ensemble Polyphonica. Albinoni‟s Adagio, Telemann‟s Concerto in C for two flutes, and L‟estro armonico No. 3 in G, Arvo Pärt‟s Stabat Mater. May 17, 2012.

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Kasper Kovitz

1. Solo Exibition. Parime Galeria T20, Murcia, Spain. November, 2011 2. Group Exibition. The [Secret] Return of Noever, Ace Museum, Los Angeles. December, 2011 3. “Letter from Beirut,” in Artillery Art Magazine, January, 2012 4. “Speculative Structures,” M. Goldfarb, Laurence King Publishing, Spring 2012

Cornelia Krafft

1. Duo Exhibition. Scripted in water, Gallery Janine Rubeiz, Beirut. January 2012

David Kurani

1. Director, producer and designer: “What on Earth is Going On?” Three short plays: Tardieu‟s They Alone Know, Beckett‟s Come and Go, and Ionesco‟s The Bald Soprano. November-December, 2011.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Next year, we anticipate on holding a job search for the rotating Whittlesey Visiting Chair.

There will be continued planning for the permanent home of the Saleeby collection. In addition, the new Blom Art Gallery will open.

Thomas Kim and Cornelia Krafft both received grants from the Mellon Foundation. With these grants, Thomas Kim will present Bach‟s St. John Passion in the spring and Cornelia Krafft will present an original work in the fall. In addition, a third Mellon grant recipient will be documenting the early history of the department of FAAH prior to its dissolution during the civil war.

The department will continue with its efforts to bring the best of contemporary arts to students and the AUB public at large.

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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

This 2011-12 academic year has witnessed some additions in terms of course sections and faculty members. This was in part due to an increase in the number of students registering in our general education science courses given at the sophomore and higher levels. Despite the addition of a fourth section to Geol-205 (one of our courses fulfilling the natural sciences GE-requirements), extra demands for registration in this course allowed us to increase the capacity of the four section to about 33 students (that is way above the preferred capacity of 25 students per section). For this reason, we are introducing another section in the other GE- course (Geol-201) starting Fall-2012-13. This past fall semester, the Department of Geology hosted Dr. Alexandra Gourlan of Grenoble University – France, who kindly offered and indeed taught a graduate course (Geol-322) in advanced sedimentary geochemistry. Our effrots in terms of recruitment has been successful at last, as we managed to attract a competent Hydrogeologist who is expected to join our Department at the start of this upcoming fall semester. Our students are managing well in competing with graduates of European and North American Universities both for obtaining scholarships to pursue their graduate studies abroad, and for jobs with major international petroleum companies, and are thus becoming successful in being selected for such highly paid jobs. In fact, a number of our students have been successful this year in obtaining scholarships for graduate studies at the best schools in the UK and the U.S. We continued to improve teaching facilities including field and laboratory materials as well as audiovisual teaching minor equipment. One of the main projects that we aim to achieve in the near future concerns the refurbishing of the optical mineralogy and petrology laboratory/classroom with special set-up and work-stations that allow the use of the microscopes and the stereoscopes more comfortably. This is becoming a major priority at this point, especially due to the noted increase in the total number of students enrolled in the geology and petroleum studies majors, which continues to increase. Many of our students have joined the newly established American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Middle-East Chapter at the AUB Department of Geology.

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5. Faculty Members

Family Name, First Name Rank Degree Abdel-Rahman, Abdel- Professor (Chairman) Ph.D. Fattah Elias, Ata Assistant Professor Ph.D. Haidar, Ali Assistant Professor Ph.D. Bteich Kallas, Lara Instructor (PT) M.S. Khadra, Wisam Instructor M.S. Nassar, Philip Instructor (PT) M.S. Oueida, Raghida Instructor M.S.

6. Research Assistants

Fall Semester None

Spring Semester None

7. Graduate Assistants

First Semester El Asmer, Chloe

Second Semester El Asmer, Chloe Nicolas, Jessica

8. Non Academic Staff

Ijreiss, Maroun, Senior Technician Abdel Sater, Huda, Secretary Abdel Massih, Abdo, Assistant Instructor (PT)

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C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

B.S. Oct. 2010 2 Feb. 2011 4 June 2011 6

M.S. Oct. 2010 0 Feb. 2011 0 June 2011 0

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 5 Seniors 20 Juniors 8 Sophomores 12 Total 45

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3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Summer Fall Spring Total 2011 Sem. Sem.

Courses numbered 300 and above 0 8 5 13

Courses numbered 211 through 299 9 69 47 125

Courses numbered 200 through 210 56 180 190 426

Courses numbered 100 through 199 27 144 152 323

Total 92 401 394 887

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Summer Fall Spring Total 2011 Sem. Sem.

Courses numbered 300 and above 0 6 3 9

Courses numbered 211 through 299 6 15 12 33

Courses numbered 200 through 210 6 19 19 44

Courses numbered 100 through 199 6 21 18 45

Total 18 61 52 131

D. RESEARCH

Abdel-Rahman, Abdel-Fattah

1. Abdel-Rahman A.M. & Sultan R.: Completed a study on “Routes to pattern formation in Geochemical systems”. We investigate magmatic processes such as fractional crystallization, and the ranges of T and p that are compatible with

252 operating conditions for Liesegang banding. One manuscript has been published in Nonlinear Dynamics and Control. 2. Abdel-Rahman A.M., & Sultan R.: A research project on Dynamic self- organization, with examples from Magmatic and other geochemical systems is continuing. Some progress on this project has been achieved concerning possible Liesegang banding in magmatic systems. One manuscript has been submitted for publication. 3. Abdel-Rahman A.M.: Research work on mafic minerals (muscovite, garnet and biotite), as well as feldspars in peraluminous granites from the Moly May intrusion of NW British Columbia is still in progress. The petrographic and chemical characterization of garnet and other mineral phases as muscovite and aluminous biotite will shed light on mineral paragenesis. Work on this project is yet to be completed, and is being funded by URB. 4. Abdel-Rahman A.M.: Continued to study the Mount Mons-Claudianus composite batholith occurring in the northern part of the Nubian Shield. The possibility of its formation during a transitional phase from an oceanic-, to a mature continental arc is being investigated. Work on this project is in progress, and is being funded by URB. 5. Abdel-Rahman A.M.: Work on the research project on the age and petrogenetic evolution of the Mount Umm El-Rus Gabbroic complex of eastern Egypt is continuing. Petrogenetic modeling will help in determining the nature of the protolith (mantle source rocks) and the degree of partial melting that led to the formation of its magma. Work on this project is in progress, and is being funded by URB.

Elias, Ata

1. Elias, A.: Paleoseismological studies in Lebanon (part of the LIBRIS partnership). The aim of this project is to establish the last two millennia of seismic history of the Yammouneh Fault and Mt-Lebanon Thrust, by conducting paleoseismological studies along them. Funds to the French partners from INSU – France. 2. Elias, A.: Analysis of the recent temporal and geographical distribution of seismicity in Lebanon: Monitering and assessing the recent seismic activity of the Lebanese region in particular and the Eastern Mediterranean in general, as recorded by the local and regional networks. 3. Elias, A. and many others: The EMME project (Earthquake Model of the Middle East region: Hazard, Risk assessment, Economics and Mitigation): This is a joint collaboration between many scientists from different countries of the Middle East region, working on establishing an earthquake model for the area. Funds from the Swiss Seismological Service.

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4. Elias, A.: Hunting the tsunami deposits of the AD551 Beirut-Tripoli earthquake. This project aims to search for tsunami deposits along the coast of Lebanon. Funds to the external partner from EOSingapore + a URB grant to A. Elias. 5. Elias, A.: PALEOLIBAN project; Researching the paleoclimate of Lebanon and the region by studying sedimentary deposits (speleothems, moraines and tills) and landforms in Mt-Lebanon. Funds to the French partners from INSU - France.

Haidar, Ali

1. Haidar, A.T., Ali, H. M., Said, M., El Azhary, T., and Villa, G. Geochemical Characterization of the Paleocene-Eocene Section of the Chekka Marls (N. Lebanon) and its Hydrocarbon Potential. Analysis of inorganic and organic sediment help assessing the hypothesis of an increased paleo-productivity, as well as monitoring climate change during the Early–Late Paleocene Biotic Event (ELPE) and the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). 2. Haidar, A.T. “Phylogeny reconstruction of the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate fossils”. To reconstruct the evolutionary history of the Cretaceous toothed birds by dating the fossil bones with calcareous nannofossils. 3. Damik, A., Genz, H., Haidar, A.T., and Woodworth, M. XRD investigation of lithic archaeological materials from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon. Steatite beads are known from Oman, but Lebanese formations are not rich in this mineral. Preliminary results show that Lebanese beads are made of aragonite.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Abdel-Rahman, Abdel-Fattah

1. Chairperson of the Department of Geology. 2. Member of Senate. 3. President‟s Appointee of the Senate Steering Committee. 4. Substitute Secretary pro-tem of the Senate. 5. Member of the Steering Committee, Masri Institute of Energy & Natural Resources. 6. Member of the AUB Service Excellence Award Search Committee. 7. Member of the FAS Academic Committee. 8. Member of Program Learning Outcome‟s Assessment ad-hoc Committee. 9. Majorless academic advisor. 10. Academic advisor; Geology and Petroleum Studies majors 11. Book Coordinator of the Department of Geology. 12. Adviser of the Geology Student Society (GSS).

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13. Adviser of the American Association for Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Middle East Chapter at AUB. 14. M.S. Thesis Adviser of a Geology graduate student. 15. Member of M.S. Thesis committee of Geology graduate students. 16. Supervised and helped during the FAS-SRC student elections. 17. Reviewed publications for International and Regional Journals. 18. Volunteer curator of the Geology Museum and gave many tours to school students.

Elias, Ata

1. Academic Advisor for some Geology students. 2. Assessment of Program Learning Outcomes Dept.-representative. 3. Member of the URB and FRC-FAS Committees. 4. Member of the UAC Committee, and Chair of the Freshmen-File-Reading subcommittee. 5. MS thesis supervisor of Mr. A. Hajj-Chehadeh, Geology Department. 6. Member of the American Geophysical Union, and of the European Geosciences Union. 7. Solicited advisor to the Lebanese Parliamentary Committee of Public Works, Transport, Energy and Water as expert on the issue of earthquake hazard. 8. Solicited contributor at the meetings of the national governmental committee for drafting national and regional response plans for the different possible natural disasters in the country, directed by the UNDP Disaster Risk Reduction Unit at the Grand Serail, Beirut. 9. Invited speaker at the British Embassy and at the European Union Embassy on the topic of earthquake hazard in Lebanon. 10. Session chair at the third KAS-CRSL Conference on the 14th May 2012. 11. Supervisor at the FAS SRC elections. 12. Member of the steering committee for the SPE Applied Technology Workshop: The Challenges of Sub-Salt Exploration and Development in Deep Sea. Amman June 2012 (this event was originally planned to be held in Beirut, Gefinor Rotana and AUB, but due to the political and security situation it was moved to Ammam, and thus was not attended by A. Elias). 13. Gave a presentation entitled; Apercu Geologique du Potentiel Petrolier Libanais: Enjeux et Defis. In: La delimitation maritime et l‟exploitation des fonds marins, international colloquium – Universite Saint Joseph de Beyrouth (May 11, 2012). Beirut, Lebanon.

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1. Admission‟s Senate Committee starting spring semester 2011-12. 2. Advisor of sophomore geology students starting spring semester 2009-10. 3. Member in the CRSL equipment committee. 4. Supervisor at the FAS SRC Student Elections. 5. Served several times as acting chair of the Geology Department. 6. Expert appointed by the Lebanese Court in Geology.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Abdel-Rahman, Abdel-Fattah

1. Abdel-Rahman, A.M. & Lease, N.A. (2012): Petrogenesis of Cenozoic mafic- ultramafic alkaline lavas from the Tigris volcanic field, NE Syria. Geological magazine 149, 1-18. 2. Sultan, R. & Abdel-Rahman, A.M. (2011): Routes to Pattern Formation in Geochemical Systems", Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Dynamical Systems, Łódź, Poland; December 5-8, 2011, J. Awrejcewicz, M. Kaźmierczak, P. Olejnik, J. Mrozowski, Eds., Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, Vol. 2. 471-478. 3. Abdel-Rahman, A.M. (2011): Pan-African orogenic plutonism and crustal development in eastern Egypt: Insights from Mount Claudionis. Geosynthesis 11, 3-4. Union, 72, 27-29. 4. Abdel-Rahman, A.M. (2011): Within-plate magmatism in the Nubian Shield: Geochemical and isotopic evolution of Mount Hamr A-type complex, Egypt. Geosynthesis 11, 11-12.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Recent restructuring of the landscape design program at the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences has led to the introduction of a geomorphology course in their curricula. The Department of Geology was quick in their plans to accommodate landscape students (about 25 students per year) in offering this course. After a long wait, the successful recruitment of a competent Hydrogeologist that is expected to start September 15, 2012 is a very welcome development, and we look forward to having the Hydrogeologist soon joining the Department of Geology. This is particularly important, as, among other factors, the political environment in Lebanon during the past years has not been helping in attracting international researchers to join our Department as full-time faculty members, and we had been having recruitment problems for a long while. For example, since the departure of Dr. Maya El-Kibbi about five years ago (who resigned to join her husband in Canada), we were not able to fill this position since. Her resignation has left a big gap in the area of Geophysics, and will delay some of our plans to further

256 strengthen our course offerings and to add new frontiers in Geoscience research at the Department of Geology. The departure of Dr. Dank Taborosi last year (who left for a faculty position at the University of Guam) has also left a gap in the important area of sedimentology. We are planning to advertise for those two geology positions, hoping to be able to attract two suitable geology faculty members, and this will certainly help to solve some of our recruitment and retention problems that are facing our department, and in fact AUB as a whole. There is no doubt that the successful recruitment of two more highly qualified geology faculty members (in Sedimentology and in Geophysics) will certainly solidify and strengthen our course offerings in general, and will allow for conducting research and supervise graduate students in these vital areas of Geological sciences. Once this is achieved, and to further strengthen our course offerings and to add new frontiers in Geoscience research at the Department of Geology, we will go ahead with our plan to introduce new sophomore-junior-level GE natural science courses, the first of which will likely be on planetary sciences. Through contact with the Egyptian Office of British Petroleum, we obtained coverage for a second, more comprehensive three-days workshop, that was given by a team of five experts from British Petroleum. This comprehensive short-course / workshop was on “Shallow and Deep-water Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin“. It was also attended by twenty senior and graduate Geology students over a full three-days period (October 21, to 23, 2011) and was held at the Department of Geology. The regular cost of such a workshop is about $30,000 USD, but it was provided at no cost to AUB Geology Department. It was fully covered by British Petroleum. I have indicated to BP my wish for making it an annual event, but they indicated they will take it one year at a time, expressing their commitment for this up-coming October- 2012 as well. Furthermore, we managed to get "Spectrum" (a major International Petroleum Company in the UK) to provide summer internship training program to three of our graduate students who are currently being trained at their head office in London, covering their expenses fully (airline tickets, room and board in London, etc.).

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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 2011-2012 despite the absence of Professors Abdulrahim Abuhusayn, Hermann Genz and Paul Newson, who were on leave in the Fall and Professor Paul du Quenoy who was on leave during the Spring semester. At the graduate level, our program is still drawing a good number of M.A. students in History and Archaeology. The pool of applicants to the PhD program was large this year but the applications were generally very poor. No applicant was accepted as a regular PhD student.

The Department advertised three positions for the academic year 2012-2013: A regular position in Islamic History and two Visiting positions to occupy the A. Howell endowed Chair in History and Archaeology and the endowed Whitlessey Chair in Archaeology. The first position was not filled because both selected applicants declined the offer. The position will be re-advertised next year. The Department also received applications for the Alfred Howell Endowed Chair for History and Archaeology and selected Professor Selim Deringil, a senior scholar of international reputation for the academic year 2012-2013 for a second term. The Department also received applications for the Whitlessey Chair and selected Professor Emily O‟Dell, a specialist in Egyptian civilization for the academic year 2012-2013.

The Department offered in the summer of 2011 three fieldwork courses on the archaeological sites of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Tell el-Burak and Niha, to introduce Archaeology students to scientific methods of archaeological excavation and survey. Professor Genz is planning an excavation in Baalbek and Professor Newson a survey in Niha in Summer 2012. The Department added three new courses to its offerings: AROL 227 The Archaeology of Anatolia I: From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (10.000 – 1600 BC), AROL 228 The Archaeology of Anatolia II: The Hittites (1600-1200 BC), and AROL 232 Animals in Archaeology, all designed by Professor Hermann Genz and approved by the Curriculum Committee. They will be added to the Department‟s offerings in the 2012-2013 Catalogue.

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The Department hosted a number of lectures in the course of the academic year. It co-sponsored with the Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum a lecture by Philip C. Schmitz from Eastern Michigan University on Phoenician Beliefs from Texts and Tombs, on October 19, 2011.

The Department co-sponsored with the Department of Fine Arts and Art History a lecture by Tarek El-Ariss on Poetics of Aversion in Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq‟s Revealing the Hidden in European Arts (1863), on Thursday November 17, 2011.

The Department hosted a lecture by Professor Matthew Gordon on Singers and Soldiers: Slaves and Slave Households of the Medieval Islamic Near East on February 27, 2012.

The Department hosted a lecture by Selim Deringil, Visiting Howell Chair professor, on Turkey and the Arab Spring: „Neo Ottomanism‟ or Neo Liberalism? on Monday, March 12th, 2012.

The Department hosted a lecture by Evangelis Kechriotis, Assistant Professor at Bogazici, University, on The Perception of the „millet System‟ among the Greek- Orthodox in the Long 19th.

The Department hosted on 2-3 May, 2012, an international conference on Lord of Many Mansions: Celebrating the Life and Work of Kamal Salibi, to honor the memory of Kamal Salibi, Emeritus Professor of History, who died in September 2011.

The Department continues its contribution to teaching and publication in the FAS as a whole through its involvement in teaching in the C.S. Program, the CAMES Graduate Program, and the publication of the Faculty‟s two scholarly journals, Berytus and al-Abhath.

Professor Abdulrahim Abuhusayn was awarded a research grant of $ 850 000 by QNRF as the LP1 with one AUB and two Qatar University faculty members. The grant is for three years.

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1. Faculty Members

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn Professor Ph.D. Selim Deringil Visiting Professor Ph.D. Paul Du Quenoy Assistant Professor Ph.D. Nadia El-Cheikh Professor Ph.D. Hermann Genz Associate Professor Ph.D. Naila Kaidbey Part-time Lecturer Ph.D. John Meloy Professor Ph.D. Paul Newson Assistant Professor Ph.D. Jack Nurpetlian Part-time Instructor M.A. Helen Sader Professor Ph.D. Helga Seeden Professor Ph.D. Samir Seikaly Professor Ph.D. Malek Sharif Lecturer Ph.D. Alexis Wick Assistant Professor Ph.D.

2. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Jack Nurpetlian

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Emily Dawes Crystal Safadi Ceren Kenar Matthew Sharp Jeremy Randall

Spring Semester Jeremy Randall Matthew Sharp Crystal Safadi

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Nabeeha Osailly Secretary

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 1 Jun. 2012 2

MA Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 0 Jun. 2012 0

2. Number of Majors

History Archaeology Total Ph.D. 3 0 3 Graduates 9 3 12 Seniors 6 3 9 Juniors 3 3 6 Sophomores 3 1 4

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above - 18 16 34 211-299 56 283 254 593 200-210 - 51 25 76 100-199 - 196 189 385 Total 56 548 484 1088

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above - 12 15 27 211-299 15 48 42 105 200-210 - 6 3 9 100-199 - 24 24 48

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D. RESEARCH

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn

1. Non-Muslims in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire (in Arabic), forthcoming publication of the Royal Institute for Inter Faith Studies, Amman (Book in press). 2. With Tarek Abu Hussein, critical edition and introduction of the early 16th century travelogue by Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, Al-Matali‟ al-Badriyya fi al-Manazil al- Rumiyya, forthcoming publication of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, Istanbul. 3. “The Ottomans in Lebanon: Coercion vs. Accommodation”, in Z. Kursun (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on The Ottoman Empire from Sogut to Three Continents, Association of Researchers on the Middle East and Africa, Turkey (Article in press) 4. Two entries in a commemorative volume for the Ottoman traveler Evliya Chelebi.

Paul du Quenoy

1. Book project: Imperial Russia and the Middle East.

Nadia El-Cheikh

1. Book projects: Prospective book to be published by Harvard University Press, entitled Uses of Women in Abbasid Discourse. 2. Co-author of a collaborative volume submitted to Brill for evaluation: Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (2950320/908-932). 3. Articles in press: “The Abbasid and Byzantine Courts,” The Oxford History of Historical Writing, vol.2, 600-1400, eds. Chase Robinson and Sarah Foot. 4. “An Abbasid Caliphal Family,” Approaches to the Byzantine Family, eds. Leslie Brubaker and Shaun Tougher (Ashgate). 5. “Ibn Khaldun, a Late Historian of Byzantium,” Miscellanea Mediaevalia, vol. 36 (Berlin-New York).

Hermann Genz

1. The Tell Fadous-Kfarabida Archaeological Project (2004-ongoing) Project leaders: Hermann Genz (2004-ongoing), Helen Sader (2004-2008). Funding Agency: AUB-F.A.S (URB), Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany).

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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. Genz, H., „Iron Age Burial Customs in Central Anatolia‟. In: 3 ICAANE Proceedings, ed. J. Margueron, P. de Miroschedji and J. P. Thalman (In press). 5. Genz, H., “The Early Bronze Age in Lebanon”. In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (ca. 8000 – 332 BCE), ed. M. L. Steiner and A. E. Killebrew (Accepted). 6. Genz, H., „No land could stand before their arms, from Hatti …. on …? New Light on the End of the Hittite Empire and the Early Iron Age in Central Anatolia‟, in: A. Killebrew and G. Lehmann (eds.), The Philistines and other “Sea Peoples”. Proceedings of the International Round Table, May 2001 (in press). 7. Genz, H., Ahrens, A., Damick, A., Daniel, R., El-Zaatari, S. Höflmayer, F., Kutschera, W. and Wild, E. M. „Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida: Preliminary Report on the 2010 Season of Excavations‟. Bulletin d‟Archéologie et d‟Architecture Libanaises 14 (in press). 8. Genz, H., „Middle Bronze Age Tombs from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida‟. Archaeology and History in the Lebanon (submitted). 9. Genz, H., „Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon‟, Berytus (Submitted). 10. Genz, H. and Sader, H., „Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Tell Hizzin, Lebanon‟, Berytus (Submitted). 11. Genz, H., „Hittite Arrowheads in Tell Kazel? On the Use of Arrowheads as Ethno-cultural Markers in the Late Bronze Age Levant‟, in: Mélanges Leila Badre (Submitted). 12. Genz, H., „Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida 2004-2011: an Early and Middle Bronze Age Site on the Lebanese Coast‟. In: F. Höflmayer (ed.), Egypt and the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age: C14, Chronology, Connections. Orient- Archäologie (Submitted). 13. Genz, H., „Les céramiques des tombes de Tell Hizzin‟, in: Fascination du Liban. Exhibition Catalogue Geneva (Submitted). 14. Genz, H., Daniel, R., Pustovoytov, K. and Woodworth, M., „Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida: Preliminary Report on the 2011 Season of Excavations‟. Bulletin d‟Archéologie et d‟Architecture Libanaises 15 (Submitted). 15. Genz, H., „Recent Developments in Early Bronze Age Pottery Studies in Lebanon and the Question of Ceramic Exports to Old Kingdom Egypt‟, in: T. Rzeuska and A. Wodzińska, Old Kingdom Pottery Workshop 2 (Warsaw) (Submitted).

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16. Sader, H. and Genz, H., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Lebanon from Prehistory to Hellenistic Times (Work in progress). 17. Genz, H. and Sader, H. Tell Hizzin in the Beqaa: Results of the Excavations conducted by M. Chéhab in 1949 and 1950 (Work in Progress).

John Meloy

1. On-going research projects on the Mamluk Sultanate, the Hijaz, and late medieval monetary history.

Paul Newson

1. “Central Bekaa Archaeological Project, Lebanon” (URB Grant funded). As Principal Investigator the first season of fieldwork has been completed though the present security situation has entailed a change in scope at present (project). 2. “The Land of Carchemish, Landscape Archaeological Project, Syria”. Contributor as a Classical and Landscape archaeological consultant and leading writer on a multi-disciplinary archaeological project run by the Universities of Durham and Edinburgh, UK. This project has been placed on hold due to the current problems in Syria. 3. “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 now currently on-going. 4. Newson, P., in prep. Landscapes of power: the basalt landscape of Homs, Syria. Journal of Roman Archaeology (Publication in preparation). 5. Newson, P. and Mills, P. in prep. The Spatial Distribution of Pottery within an abandoned Syrian Village: a Geostatistical Analysis (Publication in preparation). 6. . Newson, P. “Pottery of the „Land of Carchemish‟ Project and the Northern Euphrates”. In B. Fischer-Genz and H. Hamel (eds) Roman Pottery in the Levant: Local Production and Regional Trade. BAR International Series. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Helen Sader

1. Published and Unpublished Phoenician Inscriptions in the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities Collection (1997-ongoing). Name of Project Leaders: Helen Sader, AUB *Paolo Xella, Istituto di studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico CNR, Rome. Funding Agency: Italian Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche).

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The project aims to collect, study, and publish all the Phoenician inscriptions in the collection of the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities. The first volume on the unpublished inscriptions is completed and is being edited for publication. 2. The Tell el Burak Archaeological Project (2001-ongoing). Name of project leaders: Helen Sader: AUB *Jens Kamlah: University of Tübingen, Germany *Margarete van Ess: German Archaeological Institute, Berlin Name of funding Agencies: URB- FAS, German Archaeological Institute, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Thyssen Foundation, University of Tübingen. This project aims to study the formation process of ancient settlements on the Lebanese coast and to give AUB archaeology students an opportunity to be trained in fieldwork with competent specialists. 3. Publication of the excavations at Tell Hizzin, Lebanon, undertaken by M. Chéhab between 1949 and 1950 (2007-ongoing). Project leaders: Hermann Genz, Helen Sader. 4. “The Iron Age I in Syria and Lebanon”. To appear in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (ca. 8000 – 332 BCE), ed. M. L. Steiner and A. E. Killebrew (Article in press). 5. “Aramaean History”. To appear in The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria edited by H. Niehr and published as a volume in the series Handbuch der Orientalistik (Article in press). 6. “Between Looters and Private Collectors: The Tragic Fate of Lebanese Antiquities”, to appear in S. Mejcher-Atassi and P. Schwartz eds., Collecting Practices in the Arab Middle East, Ashgate Publishers (Article in press). 7. “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 (Article in press). 8. “Intertwined History: Lebanon‟s role in the Transmission of Egyptian Culture to Inland Syria in the Middle Bronze Age”, to appear in Qatna Studies vol. 8 (Article in press). 9. "The Formation and Decline of the Aramaean States of First Millennium BC Syria", to appear in the Proceedings of the international conference held in Marburg in 2010 on State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East Past and Present which will be published by Harrassowitz (Article in press). 10. “Funerary Practices in Iron Age Lebanon”, to appear in a special volume of Archaeology and History in Lebanon (Article in press). 11. “Prophecy in Syria: Zakkur of Hamat”, to appear in Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context, C. Rollston ed., Eisenbrauns publishers (Article in press).

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12. co-author J. Nurpetlian. “An Eclectic Collection of Bronze Coins from Tell el- Burak, Lebanon”, to appear in a forthcoming special volume of Transeuphratène in honor of Josette Elayi, edited by A. Lemaire and J.-M. Durand (Article in press). 13. Two Iron Age Stamp Seals from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon, to appear in a forthcoming volume of the series Alter Orient und Altes Testament in honor of Paolo Xella, edited by O. Loretz, S. Ribichini, W. Watson, and J.A. Zamora (Article in press). 14. “Beirut”, “Orthosia”, “Khalde”, “Qana”, “Tell el-Burak”, “Ras el-Abiad”, “Tamburit”, “Yanuh”, “Dakerman”, “Adlun”, and “Lebanon”, entries to appear in the on-line Dizionario Enciclopedico della Civiltà Fenicia (An Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Phoenician Civilization) published by the Istituto delle Studi sulla Civiltà Italiche e del Mediterraneo Antico, Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Article in press). 15. The Stelae; to appear in BAAL hors série vol. VIII, 2012, pp. 373-380 (Article in press). 16. Genz, H. and Sader, H., „Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Tell Hizzin, Lebanon‟, Berytus (Submitted). 17. Book Project: Sader, H. and Genz, H. An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Lebanon from Early Villages to the Coming of Alexander the Great (Book in preparation). 18. Book Project: Finkbeiner, U., Kamlah, J., and Sader, H. Final Report on the Excavation of Tell Burak-Lebanon: Area I (Book in preparation). 19. Book Project: Finkbeiner, U. and Sader, H. Final Report on the Excavations of Beirut, Site BEY 020 (Book in preparation).

Helga Seeden

1. Collaborative Member with Prof. Winfried Held and Dr Hans Curvers of the research project: Berytos – Archäologie einer antiken Handelsmetropole in der Levante: Das westliche Stadtviertel in Hellenismus und römischer Kaiserzeit. Team director: Prof. Dr. Winfried Held. Direktor des Archäologischen Seminars, Philipps-Universität Marburg FB 06 Geschichte und Kulturwissenschaften. Funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2012-2015). 2. BEIRUT SOUKS Project continued with: Dr Dominic Perring*, Tim Williams* (UCL Institute of Archaeology, London); Dr Kevin Butcher* (University of Warwick, UK); Dr. Paul Reynolds*(University of Barcelona); Reuben Thorpe* (PhD candidate, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London); James Rackham* (palaeoenvironment). Main granting bodies (excavation and post-excavation work): The Leverhulme Trust, London, 1994-2002; AUB URB research grants, 2004-2008, The CBRL (Council for British Research in the Levant, The British Academy, London).

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3. “Figurines votives des temples de Byblos à l‟Âge du Bronze Moyen”. For the Catalogue of the exhibition“Fascination du Liban. Soixante siècles d‟histoire de religions, d‟art et d‟archéologie du 30 novembre 2012 au 31 mars 2013”, Exhibition to be held at the Museum Rath of Les Musées d‟Art et d‟Histoire of Geneva, Switzerland. 4. Peer review of “Lebanese Mountain Figures”-An Unresolved Problem in the Study of Levantine Anthropomorphic Metal Statuary. For the Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology.

Samir Seikaly

1. A study in preparation entitled “Looking for the Fallahin.” To be presented in the forthcoming 20th CIEPO Symposium organized by the department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete, Greece, on June-July 2012. 2. A deconstruction, and content analysis, of a 1919 New York published book, written in Arabic, entitled Filastine wa tajdid hayatuha (The Reconstruction of Palestine). 3. Recasting a series of already published studies on the pre-WWI Syrian press for the purpose of publication in book form.

Alexis Wick

1. “Archives and Melancolia: Modernity and the Past in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey” – this project explores the ways in which the acts of archiving were intertwined with political projects at a particular juncture that saw the apex of European hegemony in the region, the professionalization of the historical discipline and the formulation of nationalist ideologies (ongoing research project). 2. “The Space of Empire: Geography and Cartography in the Age of the World Picture” – this project aims at studying the politics of space as it relates to imperial formations (ongoing research project). 3. “Historicizing the Humanities at AUB” – this project aims at tracing the evolution of AUB‟s offerings in the liberal arts in general and history more particularly, from its foundation in 1866 to the present (ongoing research project). 4. History at Sea: Europe and its Others – finalized book manuscript submitted to publisher (Publication in preparation). 5. “A Portrait of the Ottoman Red Sea,” forthcoming in Journal of Ottoman Studies (Publication in preparation). 6. “Narcissus: Woman, Water and the West,” forthcoming in Feminist Review (Publication in preparation).

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7. “Modern Historiography – Arab World,” forthcoming in Blackwell Companion to Global Historical Thought, ed. by Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy, and Andrew Sartori (Publication in preparation). 8. Book reviews commissioned by Le Monde Diplomatique and Lusotopie (Publication in preparation).

E. OTHAR STAFF ACTIVITIES

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn

1. Presented a paper entitled “Kamal Salibi and the history of Lebanon: an Ongoing Legacy‟ in the international conference on Lord of Many Mansions: Celebrating the Life and Work of Kamal Salibi, AUB, Beirut, May 2012. 2. Presented a paper at the 12th international conference for the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, Retz, Austria, July 2011. 3. Organized an international commemorative conference for the late Professor Kamal Salibi, May 2-3.

Paul du Quenoy

1. Served on the FAS Disciplinary Committee (Spring 2011). 2. Organizing Committee, Russian New Years Ball, Washington, DC. 3. Free-lance music criticism.

Nadia El-Cheikh

1. Lectures: “Hind bint Utba in Other Times,” American Oriental Society, Boston, March, 2012. 2. “Conversation as Performance: Adab al-Muhadatha at Court”, NYU Abu Dhabi, February, 2012. 3. “The Institutionalization of Abbasid Ceremonial,” Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, July 2011. 4. Participant at workshop on Arab Thought at the Crossroads of World Civilization, Amman, September, 2011. 5. Academic Services: Member of the Advisory Board of Estudios Arabes e Islamicos. Monografias. 6. Member of the editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and of the journal al-Qantara. 7. Member of the International Advisory Board of the Library of Arabic Literature (NYU Press and NYU Abu Dhabi).

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8. Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies.

Hermann Genz

Papers delivered at international conferences: 1. Old Kingdom Pottery Workshop 2, Warsaw 2011, Presentation: „Recent Developments in Early Bronze Age Pottery Studies in Lebanon and the Question of Exports to Old Kingdom Egypt‟ (July 2011). 2. Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, San Francisco, Presentation: „Recent Excavations at the Early and Middle Bronze Age Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon)‟ (November 2011). 3. 8. International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Warsaw 2012, Organization of a workshop together with H. Sader („Continuation and Rupture in the Settlement History of Lebanon‟) and Presentation: „The Transition from the Third to the Second Millennium BC in the Coastal Plain of Lebanon: Continuity or Break?‟ (May 2012). 4. Other activities: Public lectures at the University of Tübingen (21.10.2011), German Archaeological Institute, Berlin (24.10.2011) and the Harvard Semitic Museum, Boston (22.11.2011): „Between the Mountains and the Sea: Subsistence Economy and Daily Life of an Early and Middle Bronze Age Site on the Lebanese Coast‟. 5. (Thesis supervision) Rafael Sequeira: the Architecture and Functional Purpose of an Early Bronze Age II Building in Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (MA-Thesis, in progress: supervisor)(Internal). Kamal Badreshany: The Social and Economic Impact of Urbanization in the Lebanon: Changes in Settlement Patterns and Craft Production from the Proto- Urban (Chalcolithic/EBI) period to the First Urban Period (EB II-III) (Ph.D.- Thesis University, of Chicago, in progress: member of the Committee) (External).

John Meloy

1. Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 2. Associate Editor, Al-Abhath. 3. Academic advisor, History undergraduates. 4. Chair, Search committee for the Edward Said Chair, Center for American Studies and Research. 5. Member, Promotion Committee, Department of History and Archaeology. 6. Member, Graduate Committee. 7. Member, FAS Strategic Planning Committee. 8. Member, Strategic Planning Committee for Centers, Institutes, and Museums.

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Paul Newson

1. Conference: 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Warsaw 2012. 2. Member of the FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee. 3. Teaching in the Civilization Sequence Programme. 4. Contributing Editor to Berytus. 5. Freshman advisor. 6. One semester research leave.

Helen Sader

Participation in International Conferences: (2012) 1. 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE 8), Warsaw April 30th-May 4th, Co-organizer of a workshop with H. Genz on „Continuation and Rupture in the Settlement History of Lebanon‟. Paper on “Continuity and Discontinuity of Settlement on the Lebanese Coast: The Case of Tell el-Burak”. 2. (2012) Committee member of the PhD thesis of Hanan Charaf-Mullins, defended on June 4th, 2012 at the Sorbonne. 3. (2009-) University Publications Committee, Chair. 4. (2009-) University Research Board, Member. 5. (2010-) Chairperson, Department of History and Archaeology. 6. (2010-) Advisory Committee, Member. 7. (2010-) Academic Committee, Member. 8. (2011) Search Committee for OSB Dean, Member.

Helga Seeden

1. Editing the AUB Archaeology Journal: BERYTUS volume 53 (under peer review). BERYTUS double volume 54-55 has been peer reviewed, ready to go to press. BERYTUS 56 contributions being received and edited. 2. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of two recent Archaeology journals: Consulting editor since 2000 (first volume) of Public Archaeology. First published by James & James (Science Publishers, London), now by Maney Publishing. 3. Consulting editor since 2005 (first volume) of Archaeologies, Journal of the World Archaeology Congress. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, England, USA, Australia; presently published by Springer (springer.com).

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4. Attended the First Workshop on Levantine Ceramic Production and Distribution in February 2012 at the Danish Institute of Archaeology, Athens, Greece organized by Boston University (Andrea Berlin), the National Museum of Denmark (John Lund), Leuven University (Jeroen Poblome), and ICREA, University of Barcelona (Paul Reynolds.)

Samir Seikaly

1. Presented a paper entitled the “Writing the Countryside: Representations in the Syrian Press “to the 12th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History, held in Retz, Austria in July 2011. 2. Elected Executive Committee member of the International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History. Currently a thesis advisor of a PhD candidate. 3. Served as thesis advisor to two MA students in History. Both are due to graduate in June 2012. 4. Served as a representative on the Senate‟s Board of Graduate Studies and as member of the FAS Graduate Committee. 5. Served as a member of and ad-hoc committee formed to discuss the contract renewal of a colleague in the professorial rank. 6. Served as a member of the FAS Library Committee.

Alexis Wick

1. Conference: “Is the Human in Human Rights the Human in Humanities?”, Paper presented at the conference The International Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities, American University of Beirut, May 9-11, 2012. 2. Member of departmental committee for Program Learning Outcomes. 3. Member of FAS Publications Committee. 4. Advised a successful MA thesis (Patrick Healy) and served as reader for another (Hazem Jamjoum), both in CAMES.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn

1. Kamal Salibi as a Historian (in Arabic) al-Arabi, issue 642, May 2012, 116-119. 2. “An Ottoman Against the Constitution: the Attitude of the Maronites of Mount Lebanon to representation in the Ottoman Parliament”, in Jorgen Nielson (ed.), Religion, Ethnicity and Contested Nationhood in the Former Ottoman Space, Brill, Leiden- Boston, 2012, 89-113.

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3. “One Ottoman Periphery Views Another: Depictions of the Balkans in the Beirut Press”, in E. Ozdalga, S. Ozervarli & F. Tansug (eds.), Istanbul As Seen From a Distance: Centre and Provinces in the Ottoman Empire Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, 2011, 155-170. 4. Stefan Winter, The Shiites of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788, in International Journal of Turkish Studies, 17 (2011), 205-207 (Book review.)

Paul du Quenoy

1. Wagner and the French Muse: Music, Society, and Nation in Modern France (Academica Press, 2011). 2. “„Honeymoon to Bayreuth:‟ French Appreciations of Richard Wagner in the Interwar Era,” Wagner Journal, 5: 1, March 2011. 46-64. 3. “Tidings From A Faraway East: The Russian Empire and Morocco,” International History Review, 33: 2, June 2011. 185-203. 4. Review of Lynn Sargeant, “Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life”, American Historical Review, 116: 4, December 2011.1599-1600.

Nadia El-Cheikh

1. Edited book: Co-editor of Byzantium in Early Islamic Syria (Beirut, 2011). 2. Articles: “To Be a Prince in the Fourth/Tenth Century Abbasid Court,” Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective, eds. Jeroen Duindam, Tulay Artan, and Metin Kunt (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 199-216. 3. “The Conversion of Constantine the Great: A Reading of Arabic-Muslim Sources,” Journal of Turkish Studies 36(2011), 69-83, In Memoria Angeliki Laiou, eds. Cemal Kafadar and Nevra Necipoglu. 4. “Court and Courtiers: A Preliminary Investigation of Abbasid Terminology,” Court Cultures in the Muslim World: Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries, eds. Albrecht Fuess and Jan-Peter Hartung (New York: Routledge, 2011), 80-90. 5. “The Tenth Century Byzantine Revival: The Muslim Literary Reaction,” Byzantium in Early Islamic Syria (Beirut, 2011), 147-160. 6. Book review: James Lindsay, Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 2005), Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 130.4. 7. Kecia Ali, Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), Journal of Middle Eastern Women‟s Studies (JMEWS), Volume 8 (2012), no.1.

Hermann Genz

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1. Genz, H., “Restoring the Balance: An Early Bronze Age Scale Beam from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon”, Antiquity 85/329, 839-850 (published 2011). 2. Genz, H., “Boğazköy: terk edilmeyen kent”, in: N. Karul (ed.), Anadolu‟nun Arkeoloji Atlası 2 (Istanbul), 84-89 (published 2012). 3. Genz, H., “Tell Fadous-Kfarabida entre mer et montagnes. Les Dossiers de l‟Archéologie 350: 22-25 (published 2012). 4. Gens, H., “Bronze Age Cities of the Northern Levant”, in: Potts, D. (ed.), A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Chichester), 607-628 (published 2012.)

John Meloy

1. Review of The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta, by David Waines. Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 87, no. 2 (2012): 108-110. 2. Review of Islamic History through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-Century Ikhshidid Coinage, by Jere Bacharach. Al-Masaq, vol. 23, no. 2 (2011): 149-151.

Paul Newson

1.Peltenburg, E., Wilkinson, T.J., Ricci, A., Lawrence, D., McCarthy, A., Wilkinson, E.B., Newson, P., and Perini, S. 2012. The Land of Carchemish (Syria) Project 2009: The Sajur Triangle, in R. Matthews and J. Curtis (eds) International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12 April – 16 April 2010, the British Museum and UCL, London, Volume 3, Fieldwork & Recent Research Posters. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 191-203.

Helen Sader

1. (2011) “Phoenicia and the Mediterranean: New Evidence from Recent excavations in Lebanon”. In H. Matthäus, N. Oettinger and S. Schröder eds., Der Orient und die Anfänge Europas. Kulturelle Beziehungen von der späten Bronzezeit bis zur frühen Eisenzeit, Philippika, Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen 42, Harrassowitz, 2011. 15-30. 2. (2011) Le Palais du Bronze Moyen de Tell el-Burak au Liban , L‟Archéo-Théma, vol. 15, 80-81.

Samir Seikaly

1. Review of Peter Sluglett and and Stephan Weber, eds. Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman Rule, International Journal of Turkish Studies 17/1&2(2011), 207-09.

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G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The Department is currently undertaking a review of its programs.

Additional space for faculty members was made available by the addition of Rooms 450 and 452. The department also requested the division of rooms 450 and 444 into two distinct offices in order to secure individual office space for all its faculty members.

The department still needs a working area for archaeologists and graduate archaeology students to process excavated material for publication. This space will be available in Fisk Hall hopefully in the next academic year.

Finally, the department is still facing difficulties recruiting qualified faculty members for its advertized positions and more efforts should be invested by faculty members and the university in attracting good scholars to the program.

Helen Sader Chairperson

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INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Successor to the Institute of Money and Banking (IMB), the Institute of Financial Economics (IFE) was established effective October 2001 as an independent research institute within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to be engaged in research work, conferences, seminars and workshops with a focus on financial, monetary and international economics as well as broad developmental issues of the Middle East region1. Fellows of the Institute include members of the Economics Department but also visiting scholars who spend time during the course of the year conducting research. As the reports indicate, the Institute and Institute Fellows have been actively engaged in various academic and research activities. A major research project initiated in September 2006 with the support of a substantial International Development Research Center (IDRC) research grant and housed at the IFE was completed in 2010. A new research project, also supported by IDRC was initiated in September 2010 (see section D1 below). Other ongoing research projects undertaken by fellows of the Institute (some with its direct financial support) span the financial, monetary, exchange rate, trade, development and political economy fields, while several of their publications during this academic year appeared in internationally refereed journals or edited (refereed) books (see section F below.)

A. RESEARCH PROGRAM

A major objective of the Institute is to promote research and other academic activities in the above 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 beneficial 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,

1In 1983 an important academic initiative by Prof. Samir Makdisi came to fruition when, with the support f five major Lebanese banks the IMB was established as an independent academic entity within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. One of its main objectives was to enhance the level of banking and financial knowledge and expertise in Lebanon and the region via graduate teaching, research work and the hosting of seminars, conferences, public lectures by experts from outside the university. With the 2001 re-structuring of the IMB, its research focus was extended beyond its primary areas of interest to include trade, development and institutions with special emphasis on the Middle East.

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The Institute encourages collaborative work with appropriate 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 2003, the Institute initiated a guest lecture and working paper series2. The lectures are by invited scholars and experts and except for minor editorial changes, are circulated as presented. The working papers incorporate preliminary findings of ongoing research work being undertaken at the Institute and elsewhere (see below section E.)

B. PERSONNEL

1. Director

Simon Neaime Professor PhD.

2. Faculty Fellows

Samir Makdisi Professor Emeritus/ PhD. Senior Fellow Simon Neaime Professor/Fellow PhD. Wassim Chahin Professor/Visiting PhD. Fellow Youssef El Khalil Professor/Visiting PhD. Fellow

3. Research Assistants

Fall Semester Rawan Nassar Mario Rached Layal Wehbe

2 The Institute Working Paper Series website is linked to the website of the Global Development Network, the umbrella organization for major research communities in various regions of the world

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Spring Semester Rawan Nassar Layal Wehbe

4. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Yasemine Koujou

Spring Semester Yasemine Koujou

5. Non Academic Staff

Rima Shaar Secretary

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 financial, international and monetary economics as well as broad developmental issues of the Middle East.

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: among others, research, workshops seminars, lectures and the Institute‟s working paper series. Recommendation for appointment of Senior Fellows is made on the basis of their recognized and long established research record.

Period of association: three years for AUB Economics faculty, renewable. Fellows or Associates from outside AUB who wish to spend some time at the Institute will be asked to acknowledge their hosting by the Institute in their published research and/or asked to contribute to its working paper series or other outlets of publication and/or give one or more seminars/lectures during their stay. Their involvement in Institute activities will depend in part, on the length of their stay which can vary from one week to a whole academic year.

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Fellows and Associates will benefit from office space (if available), computer and internet facilities, secretarial assistance, and graduate research assistants, in addition to the Institute‟s contacts with outside research organizations.

On the recommendation of the Director and the approval of the Dean and the extend financial resources are available, Economics faculty fellows may also benefit from limited research grants, based on a research proposal during the summer period (July and August) on condition they spend at least one month on campus. Other Economics faculty may also benefit from financial support to the extent resources are available. The conditions for support will be set on a case by case basis. It is expected that financial support by the Institute will be duly acknowledged in publications and presentations that receive this support.

Appointments are made by the Dean on the recommendation of the Director of the Institute.

D. RESEARCH

1. Institute Sponsored Research

New Major Research Project on “Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab World” (S. Makdisi and I. Elbadawi Co-managers) This 30 month new research project, supported by a large IDRC grant was launched in September 2010. As a sequel to completed project on the underlying factors for the persistence of the Arab democracy deficit and which was published by Routledge in 2011 under the title Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit and edited by I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi.

The current project builds on a two-tier approach: on the one hand a cross to country paper based on an empirical model of democratic transition which identifies major factors pushing for this transition, and on the other, country case studies that focus on the specific factors that have already pushed for democratic transformation (Egypt and Tunisia) or are likely to push in this direction in the foreseeable future. The case studies will also discuss the nature of the new democratic societies that is expected to emerge. They include: Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, and Sudan.

A total of 14 researchers from AUB and other academic on professional institutions in the region and abroad are involved in this project.

2. Fellows‟ Research

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Samir Makdisi

1. Managing new major research project on “Transition from autocracy to democracy in the Arab World”, (with Ibrahim Elbadawi ) - described under Institute sponsored research. 2. “Arab Development in Global Context”, major objective of this research is to identify the factors that have retarded the sustained development of the Arab region relative to other regions with a successful developmental experience specially East Asia. 3. Lebanon: Transcending Sectarian Consociationalism to fully Fledged Democracy- a forthcoming paper (with Y. El Khalil).

Simon Neaime

1. The Global Financial Crisis and the Euro Mediterranean Partnership,” in Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euro-Mediterranean Process. London School of Economics and Routledge Press (Taylor and Francis) United Kingdom, forthcoming. 2. The Global Financial Crisis, Financial Linkages and Correlations in Returns and Volatilities in Emerging Mena Stock markets,” Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier Science Press. Article in Press, forthcoming. 3. Finance with a Focus on Dollar Debt: Evidence from a Survey of Lebanese Firms, Journal of Banking and Finance, Elsevier Science Press, article under review (with N. Mora, and S. Aintablian). 4. An Analysis of the Mobile Telephone Sector in MENA: Potential for Deregulation and Privatization, The Economic Research Forum, Cairo-Egypt, July 2011. 5. Financial Integration, Shock Vulnerability and Dominant Foreign Investors, Implications for the Cost of Capital in Emerging Markets. Euro-Mediterranean Forum of Economic Institute of the European Community, June 2011. 6. Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab World, Institute of Financial Economics/IDRC Research Project, 2011. 7. Twin Deficits and the Debt Crisis in the Eurozone, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project, October 2011 (with L. Michelis).

E. INSTITUTE ACTIVITIES

1. Public Lectures: The Institute organized (in cooperation with other Departments) the following public lectures/workshops:

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Lecture by Professor Steven McNamara (AUB, Olayan School of Business), on “Financial Markets Uncertainty and the Argument for Central Counterparty Clearing of Over-the-Counter Derivaties”; May 16, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Dylan Evans (AUB, Department of Psychology), on “Risk Intelligence: How Expert Gamblers can Teach us all to make better Decisions”; April 25, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Ramzi Mabsout (AUB, Department of Economics), on “Metaethical Perspectives in Welfare Economics”; April 18, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Eduardo Haddad (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil, Department of Economics), on “Regional Aspects of Competition in Lebanon- An Interregional CGE Approach”; March 30, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Jamal Ibrahim Haidar (University of Paris, School of Economics), on “Doha Product Diversifiecation and Exporter Sales: Evidence from Jordan”; March 28, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Ali Termos (AUB, Olayan School of Business), on “Drivers of Securitization: A Bank Level Examination”; March 21, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Darius Martin (AUB, Department of Economics), on “SBTC and the Minimum Wage: A Macroeconomic Analysis of Inequality”; March 14, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Simon Neaime (AUB, Department of Economics), on “The European Dept Crisis”; March 7, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Thanasis Stengos (University of Guelph, Canada), on “Structural Threshold Regression”; February 15, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Grzegorz Kolodko (Director of the TIGER Research Institute, University of Warsaw), on “Globalization, Crisis – and What Next?”; February 6, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Christos Agiakloglou (University of Piraeus, Greece, Department of Economics), on “Spurious Correlations Behaviors”; January 11, 2012, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Lynda Khalaf (University of Carleton, Canada), on “Factor Based Identification-Robust Inference in IV Regressions”; December 21, 2011, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Dr. Sandra El-Saghir Sinno (AUB, Department of Economics), on “Poverty Assessment and Prospects of Development in Lebanon: The Estimation of a Living Condition Indicator as a Substitute to Revenue”; December 07, 2011, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316. Lecture by Professor Martin Montero (AUB, Department of Economics), on “The Role of National Changes and Spatial Spillovers in State-Level Okun‟s Law”; November 30, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316.

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Lecture by Professor Leo Michelis (AUB, Department of Economics), on “The Greek Debt Crisis: Suggested Solutions and Reforms”; November 23, IFE, Nicely Hall, 316.

2. International Workshop

The Institute organized with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Amman) an international workshop on “The Potential transition to democracy in the Arab Region: Underlying Factors & Prospects”. Three sessions were held respectively on: “The Emerging Picture, Lessons from the Popular Arab Uprisings and the Road Ahead”. Participants included IFE Fellows and speakers from institutions in Dubai, Canada, Lebanon, Jordan, and the US, May 04, 2012, West Hall, Auditorium A.

3. Other: A number of outside experts were invited to give talks to graduate students in financial economics on various topics of relevance to their studies. Furthermore, “in house” discussion meetings on topics pertaining to ongoing research were held.

4. 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 (linked in Spring 2007 to the GDN website). The series has been steadily gaining recognition abroad. Except for minor editorial changes, the lectures are circulated as presented at public lectures organized by the Institute while the working papers reflect ongoing research intended to be polished and developed and eventually published. The series‟ advisory committee includes: I. Elbadawi, (The World Bank), H. Esfahani (University of Illinois at Urbana- Chamgaign), S. Makdisi, Chair (AUB) and S. Neaime (AUB). As of end of June, 2007 the series‟ papers included (in reverse chronological order):

1. Summaries of presentations made at a workshop organized jointly at AUB by The Institute of Financial Economics and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftugn, The Arab Uprisisngs – What Happened, What‟s Next? (2012, No. 1) 2. Samir Makdisi (AUB), Remarks on Autocracies, Democratization, and Development in the Arab Region, (2011, No. 1) 3. Samir Makdisi (AUB), Development without Democracy in the Arab World, (2009, No.2)

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4. Jean Philippe Platteau (University of Namur, Belgium), The Causes of Institutional Inefficiency: A Development Perspective, (2009, No. 1) 5. Marcus Marktanner and Nagham Sayour (AUB), Initial Inequality and Protectionism: A Political-Economy Approach, (2008, No. 3) 6. Simon Neaime (AUB), Twin Deficits in Lebanon: A Time Series Analysis, (2008, No. 2) 7. Samir Makdisi and Marcus Marktanner (AUB), Trapped by Consociationalism: The Case of Lebanon (2008, No. 1) 8. Salwa Hammami and Simon Neaime (AUB), Measurement of Financial Integration in the GCC Equity Markets: A Novel Perspective, (2007, No. 4) 9. Samir Makdisi (AUB), Rebuilding without Resolution: The Lebanese Economy and State in Post-Civil War Period, (2007, No. 3) 10. Salwa Hammami (AUB), Horse Race of Utility-Based Asset Pricing Models: Ranking through Specification Errors, (2007, No. 2) 11. Henrik Huitfeldt (European Training Foundation and Nader Kabbani (AUB) , Returns to Education and the Transition from School to Work in Syria, (2007, No. 1) 12. Marcus Marktanner and Joanna Nasr (AUB), From Rentier State and Resource Curse to Even Worse? (2006, No. 3) 13. Pierre-Guillaume Meon (University of Brussels) and Khaled Sekkat (University of Brussels) , Institutional Quality and Trade: Which Institutions? Which Trade? (2006, No. 2) 14. Mario Rui Pascoa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Abdelkrim Seghir (AUB) , Harsh Default Penalties Lead to Ponzi Schemes ,( 2006, No.1) 15. Ibrahim Elbadawi (The World Bank) and Samir Makdisi (AUB), Democracy and Development in the Arab World, (2005, No.2) 16. Nada Mora (AUB), Sovereign Credit Rating: Guilty Beyond Reasonable Doubt? (2005, No.1) 17. Simon Neaime (AUB), Portfolio Diversification and Financial Integration of MENA Stock Markets, (2004, No.3) 18. Ibrahim Elbadawi (The World Bank), The Politics of Sustaining Growth in the Arab World: Getting Democracy Right, (2004, No.2) 19. 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) 20. Samir Makdisi and Richard Sadaka (AUB),The Lebanese Civil War 1975- 1990,(2003, No. 3) 21. Richard N. Cooper (Harvard University), Prospects for the World Economy, (2003, No. 2) 22. 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)

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Several papers, from outside and within the university, are currently under consideration for inclusion in the series.

F. PUBLICATIONS

Samir Makdisi

1. Samir Makdisi, “Autocracies, Democratization and Development in the Arab Region”, Politics and Economic Development, Selected Papers from the Economic Research Forum 17th Annual Conference, Antalya, Turkey, March 2011. 2. Samir Makdisi “Its Gaining Ground, but Arab Democracy is Very Precarious” Europe‟s World, no. 21, Summer 2012.

Simon Neaime

1. S. Neaime, “Inflation Targeting in 6 MENA Countries, in inflation Targeting in MENA Countries”. Palgrave and Macmillan, London, United Kingdom, pp. 100-132, August 2011.

G. FUTURE PLANS

1. 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 and funding support will be sought. As mentioned under Institute sponsored research, the IFE is hosting a new 30-month major research project, supported by IDRC, on “Transition from autocracy to democracy in the Arab World”. It will involve IFE fellows and a good number of researchers from other academic or professional institutions abroad. 2. Seminars/ workshops and public lectures will continue to be organized periodically dealing with major economic/financial issues facing Lebanon, the Arab World and developing countries more generally. 3. The Institute will host visiting scholars as research associates in the coming academic year. In addition to their own research activities, they will give talks on selected economic and financial topics.

The IFE has been making substantial progress towards fulfilling its objectives: its research and office infra-structure has been continuously upgraded while its specialized library now includes many titles and reference sources. The Institute‟s

283 seminary/Library room serves as the hub of graduate courses in financial economics/economics as well as for lectures and seminars by economics faculty members and invited outside speakers. Not only has the Institute‟s research activity expanded substantially, but increasingly it is becoming a recognized university center for research in economics and development with emphasis on the Middle East region. In the process it has established important contacts with academic institutions and research institutes abroad. This constitutes solid grounds upon which to continue to build for future expansion in its research and scholarly activities.

Simon Neaime Director

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department has started a self-study review of its programs this year. The study will be evaluated by an external committee in December 2012. More students have joined our new Applied Mathematics Program this year. The number of students enrolled in Mathematics and Statistics courses in 2010-2011 was near 6024. It was noticeable that more students are opting for a minor in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics which explains the rise in the enrollment in some advanced courses in addition to the increase in the number of sections in certain courses due to the administration of Mathematics and Statistics courses offered in FEA.

The Department of Mathematics continued successfully taking full responsibility in the administration of Mathematics and Statistics courses offered in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA). The Department has offered the necessary courses and sections in line with the agreement with FEA, and continued its regular meetings with members of the faculty of engineering. The Department did not succeed in recruiting new faculty members this year, however, we hope to succeed in filling the needed lines next year. In the meantime the department will continue to depend heavily on part-timers.

The “Colloquium lectures” series continued with several lectures given by AUB faculty members and visitors. Some of these visitors were from abroad and some lectures were arranged with the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences.

“Mathematics Clinics”, where Mathematics Graduate Assistants held regular office hours every day to help undergraduates taking mathematics courses, continued to be successful for the benefit of all students.

The Department continued to hold social gatherings in the department with all Mathematics Majors and Faculty members, where departmental issues including course offerings for the coming semesters and other issues were discussed.

The “Math circle”, which is the Mathematics Students‟ Club continued its activities with the help of the Math adviser and the support of the Department.

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B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Faruk Abi-Khuzam Ph.D Professor Hazar Abu-Khuzam Ph.D Professor (Chairman) Abdallah Lyzzaik Ph.D Professor Nazih Nahlus Ph.D Professor Nabil Nassif Ph.D Professor Kamal Khuri-Makdisi Ph.D Professor Bassam Shayya Ph.D Professor Friedmann Brock Ph.D Associate Professor Abbas Alhakim Ph.D Assistant Professor Monique Azar Ph.D Assistant Professor Martin Bright Ph.D Assistant Professor Sabine El Khoury Ph.D Assistant Professor Michel Egeileh Ph.D Assistant Professor Todd Kuffner Ph.D Assistant Professor Wissam Raji Ph.D Assistant Professor Tamer Tlas Ph.D Assistant Professor Mohammad Kobeissi Ph.D Lecturer (part-time) Hussam Yamani Ph.D Lecturer Dolly Fayyad Ph.D Lecturer (part-time) Noha Karam Ph.D Lecturer (part-time) Ola Makhoul Ph.D Lecturer (part-time) Sara Abu-Diab M.S. Instructor (part-time) Alice Achkar M.S. Instructor (part-time) Zeina Al Rawas M.S. Instructor (part-time) Razan Birjawi M.S. Instructor (part-time) Michella Bou Eid M.S Instructor (part-time) Najwa Fuleihan M.S. Instructor Maha Itani Hatab M.S. Instructor Zadour Khachadourian M.S. Instructor Iman Itani M.S. Instructor (part-time) Fatima Mroue M.S. Instructor (part-time) Zeinab Muzeihim M.S. Instructor (part-time) Fida Nashef M.S. Instructor (part-time) Rana Nassif M.S. Instructor (part-time) Lina Rahhal M.S. Instructor (part-time)

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Joumana Tannous M.S. Instructor (part-time)

2. Research Assistants

None

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester

Roy Al Hakeem Hussein Awala Loulwa El Maalouf Sara El Wali Rami Fakhry Manal Fares Rima Gebai Manar Riman Nour Riman Marie-Jose Saad Rania Sadek Razan Taha

Spring Semester

Roy Al Hakeem Hussein Awala Loulwa El Maalouf Sara El Wali Rami Fakhri Rima Gebai Manar Riman Nour Riman Marie-Jose Saad Rania Sadek Dima Sharanek Razan Taha

4. Non-Academic

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Lina Akl Abou Zaki Administrative Assistant

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA or BS Oct. 2011 2 Feb. 2012 2 Jun. 2012 7

MA or MS Oct. 2011 1 Feb. 2012 2 Jun. 2012 8

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 18 Seniors 14 Juniors 26 Sophomores 76

3. Student Enrollment in Mathematics Courses

Course Summer 11 Fall 12 Spring 12 Sub-Total Courses numbered 300 & above 39 37 76 Courses numbered 211 through 164 687 660 1511 299 Courses numbered 200 through 316 1331 1129 2776 210 Courses numbered 100 through 70 300 235 605 199 Total 550 2357 2061 4968 4968

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Courses Summer 11 Fall 12 Spring 12 SubTotal Courses numbered 300 and above Courses numbered 211 through 197 188 173 558 299 Courses numbered 200 through 37 278 183 498 210 Courses numbered 100 through 199 Total 234 466 356 1056 1056

5. Number of Credit hours Offered in Mathematics Courses

Courses Summer Fall 12 Spring 12 Sub-Total 11 Courses numbered 300 & above 0 15 12 27 Courses numbered 211 through 299 21 78 84 183 Courses numbered 200 through 210 48 165 144 357 Courses numbered 100 through 199 12 42 33 87 Total 81 300 273 654 654

6. Number of Credit Hours Offered in Statistics Courses

Courses Summer Fall 12 Spring 12 Sub-Total 11 Courses numbered 300 & above Courses numbered 211 through 299 21 18 18 57 Courses numbered 200 through 210 6 24 24 54 Courses numbered 100 through 199 Total 27 42 42 111 111

D. RESEARCH

Faruk Abi-Khuzam

1. F. Abi-Khuzam, “The Geometry of zero-free regions and growth of entire functions”

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2. F. Abi-Khuzam, “Vector functions of several complex variables and Valiron‟s Theorem” 3. F. Abi-Khuzam, “Asymptotic behavior of solutions of a system of coupled difference equations” 4. F. Abi-Khuzam, “On the WAT conjecture on the Torus” 5. F. Abi-Khuzam. “Interscribed polygons, Elliptic functions, and groups” 6. F. Abi-Khuzam, Functions with harmonic star function in space

Hazar Abu-Khuzam

1. H. Abu-Khuzam and A. Yaqub*, “Generalized Boolean and Boolean-Like Rings”, Submitted 2. H. Abu-Khuzam and A. Yaqub*, “Structure of certain rings which are Multiplicatively generated by certain subsets”. In Final stages.

Abdallah Lyzzaik

1. A. Lyzzaik, The Valency of Planar Harmonic Polynomials 2. A. Lyzzaik, Planar Harmonic Mappings between Doubly Connected Regions

Nazih Nahlus

1. Submitted Paper: With my co-author, George Bergman, we made some revisions of our joint paper entitled “Linear maps on k^I & homomorphic images of infinite direct product algebras”. The paper was informally accepted for publication (up to possible editing) in the Journal of Algebra Link/Reference: http://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/papers/prod_Lie2.pdf. 2.Paper in preparation: On L=[L, x]+ [L, y] and x=[a(x), b(x)] for semisimple Lie algebras: The problem is to investigate such decompositions L=[L, x]+ [L, y] and x=[a(x), b(x)] for semisimple Lie algebras over an arbitrary field of characteristic 0. 3.Paper in preparation: “Products of Free Modules”. Nabil Nassif

Manuscript on “Adaptive Time-step with Anisotropic Meshing for Incompressible Flows”, with Thierry Coupez, Ghina Janoun and Elie Hachem

Kamal Khuri-Makdisi

1. Moduli interpretation of Eisenstein series, submitted. Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1439

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2. Periods of modular forms and identities between Eisenstein series, joint with W. Raji (AUB). New results since last year have expanded the scope of the article; research nearly complete.

Bassam Shayya

When the cone in Bochner's theorem has an opening less than {pi}, accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society.

Brock Friedemann

1.Visiting professorship at University of Napoli (Italy), May 2012. „Weighted isoperimetric inequalities and applications to PDE‟. Funding by University of Napoli. 1 paper accepted (see F.no.2)), 2 others in preparation. 2. Workshop „Shape optimization‟ , Luminy (France), 28 May-2 June 2012. Talk: „Weighted isoperimetric inequalities in cones‟. 3. Seminar at BAU, December 2011, „Continuous rearrangement‟. 4. Invitation by London Mathematical Society to give lectures at King‟s College, Bath, and Bristol. June 2012.

Abbas Alhakim

1. Generalized De Bruijn Sequences and de Bruijn De Bruijn Combs, with Ron Graham and Steven Butler. Partially supported by CAMS. 2. The study of De Bruijn graph homomorphisms with large order difference, with an application to the design of a safe random number generator. 3. Generating Random de Bruijn Cycles using Glauber Dynamics on the Cross-Join Graph. 4. Generalization of the binary Prefer-Opposite Algorithm to non-binary Alphabets. 5. A spectral Look at the Overlapping Serial Test. Proposing a progressive method to test the uniformity that observes the order in which a sequence is formed.

Monique Azar

1. Using tropical mathematics to solve problems in enumerative geometry

Sabine El khoury

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1. Sabine El Khoury, Andrew Kustin,“Linearly presented grade three Gorenstein ideals in k[x,y,z]” 2. Sabine El Khoury, Manoj Kumini, Hema Srinivasan, “Strong bounds for the Hilbert Coefficients of Gorenstein Graded module.” 3. ,Jayanthan A.V, Sabine El Khoury, “On the number of generators of mysterious Gorenstein ideals.”

Wissam Raji

1. Eisenstein Series of Maass Forms; a potential research topic that is in progress where all the research visits are funded by Texas A&M, Qatar.

Tamer Tlas

1. T. Tlas “Nonstandard proofs of Herglotz, Bochner and Bochner-Minlos Theorems” 2. A. Jaffe, T. Tlas “Wightman Reconstruction for 1d SuSy QFT” 3. T. Tlas “Measures on Infinite Dimensional Spaces”

Michel Egeileh

1. Geometry of superspace supergravity 2. Supersymmetric sigma-models

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Faruk Abi-Khuzam

1. Member advisory Committee, 2. Gave a Colloquium talk in the department , “Interscribed polygons, elliptic functions, and groups” 3. Attended the joint Mathematics meetings in Boston USA January 2012 and presented a paper there, “On the WAT conjecture on the Torus” 4. Reviewed a paper for the European Journal of Mathematics.

Hazar Abu Khuzam

1. Chairperson of the Department of Mathematics. 2. Departmental PhD program committee 3 Departmental strategic planning committee

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4. Program self review committee (Chair) 5. Reviewer for “Mathematical Reviews” of the American Mathematical Society. 6. Freshman & Majorless Academic Advisor. 7. Academic Advisor (Mathematics majors: Graduates, Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores). 8. Member of the steering committee of the Center of Advanced Mathematical Studies. 9. Master‟s Thesis Adviser for Ryma Jebai and Member of several other Master‟s Theses Committees. 10. Member of the Math-Engineering Committee. 11. Assessment of Department‟s Learning Outcomes (program) 12. Member of the Faculty Graduate Committee 13. Attended the Joint meeting of the American Mathematical society and the Mathematical Association of America, Jan., 2012.

Abdallah Lyzzaik

Was on a secondment mission by AUB for the second year in a row working as the Vice President for Academic Affairs of Fahad Bin Sultan University, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

Nazih Nahlus

1. Master Thesis in progress: by Hussein Awala, to be defended in June 2012. Title: “Ultraproducts and quotients of infinite direct products of Lie algebras” 2. I was the Mathematics Department representative for Jafet Library. 3. I was the convener for proposing a PhD program in Algebra. 4. I was consulted by K. Nicholson about his textbook on Abstract Algebra. 5. I gave a seminar talk on “Applications of ultraproducts in Algebra” at AUB. 6. I gave a seminar talk on “Applications of ultraproducts in Algebra” at Beirut Arab University. Nabil Nassif

1. Conference paper Presented a paper in ENUMATH 2011, an international Conference on Numerical Mathematics in Leicester England. 2. PhD Thesis Co-Supervising: Ghina Janoun: “On Time-dependent anisotropic meshing”. Started July 2011 at Ecole des Mines, France. (Co-supervised with Thierry Coupez)

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3. Master‟s Thesis: Supervising Amani Srour‟s Master‟s thesis in Computational Science: On Ticks life-cycle models. To be completed in Summer 2012. 4. Conference Organization: Through the Lebanese Society for the Mathematical Sciences (LSMS) that I am presiding, a third annual meeting was organized, sponsored by AUB CAMS, Beirut Arab University and the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research, April 26-27-28 2012. 5. Development of an MIT Blossom‟s module: Completed one module on “Discovering the nature of rational and irrational numbers”. The filming of the presentation was made in October 2011 and it is currently being edited. 6. Member of the joint Committee: Mathematics Department - School of Engineering 7. Member of the University Senate Committee for Students Admissions & Member of the Arts and Sciences Committee on Students Admissions

Kamal Khuri-Makdisi

1. Seminar and conference talks: * On Eisenstein series of weight 1, International Workshop in Mathematics, German University of Technology, Oman, February 2012. * Using algebraic values of modular forms to obtain models of modular curves, Workshop on Explicit Methods in Number Theory, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, July 2011. * Using algebraic values of modular forms to obtain models of modular curves, part of workshop "Algorithms for Curves, Moduli, and Isogenies", Laboratoire LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, July 2011.

2. Scientific Committee, Third annual meeting of the Lebanese Society for Mathematical Sciences (LSMS), American University of Beirut, Lebanon, April 2012. Also a member of the LSMS administrative committee. 3. Co-organizer, Workshop on Modular forms and Related Topics, CAMS, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon, February 2012. 4. Other conferences attended: * School and Workshop on Computational Algebra and Number Theory, ICTP, Trieste (two weeks), June 2012. * L-functions and Modular Forms (LMFDB) workshop, Bristol, March 2012. 5. Advising of mathematics majors. Finished supervision of two M.S. students,

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who completed theses on (i) Reduction theory in the general linear group and in orthogonal groups, and (ii) Cartan, Iwasawa, and Bruhat decompositions in general linear groups and in orthogonal groups. Also served as an external reviewer for a Ph.D. thesis in Nancy and on an M.S. defense committee in the AUB Electrical and Computer Engineering department. 6. Refereed an article for Mathematics of Computation. 7. Consulting researcher, mathematics activities for middle and secondary school students, Lycee Franco-Libanais and other Lycee schools, Lebanon.

Shayya Bassam

1. Supervised the MS theses of three graduate students: Zeina Al Rawas, Fida Nashef, and Razane Berjaoui, who graduated in June 2011. 2. Supervised the MS thesis of Rami Fakhry, who is expected to graduate at the end of Fall 2012. 3. Served as an external member of the FEA Advisory Committee for the 2011 promotion cycle. 4. Served on the FAS Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee.

Friedemann Brock

1. Proposals made for new courses in PDE and ODE. Fall 2011. 2. Teaching . Fall 2011: Math 202, Math 201. Spring 2012: Math 223, Math 202.

Abbas Alhakim

1. Presented an invited lecture entitled: “Recursive Construction of Non-binary de Bruijn Sequences”, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department Seminar, September 2011. 2. Presented an invited lecture entitled: “Limit Theorems for First Return Times in Bessel Processes with Arbitrary Dimension d”, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department Seminar, September 2011. 3. Presented an invited lecture entitled: “Spans of Preference Functions for De Bruijn Sequences”, The Joint Meeting of The American Mathematical Society, January 2012. Special Session on Recent Trends in Graph Theory. 4. Presented a talk entitled: “Generation of De Bruijn Sequences”, Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences Seminar, March 23, 2012. 5. Presented an invited lecture entitled: “De Bruijn Sequences Can All Be Greedy”, April 10, 2012. Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Iowa State University. 6. Participated as Member of the Organizing Committee, Third Annual Meeting of the Lebanese Society of Mathematical Sciences, 2012.

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7. Elected as Member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 2011/2012. 8. Elected as Member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Library Committee, 2011/2012. 9. Appointed as Member of the Unified Admissions Committee, Spring 2012. 10. Appointed as fellow of the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS) as of February 2012.

Monique Azar

1. Member of the Student Academic Affairs Committee, Spring 2012 2. Member of the Comprehensive Exam Committee, Spring 2012 3. Member of the Strategic Planning Committee, 2009 – 2012 4. Math Department Book Adoption Coordinator, Spring 2012 5. Academic Advisor for Undergraduate Math Students, Spring 2012 6. M. S. Thesis Advisor for Loulwa El Maalouf and Manal Fares 7. Member of the M. S. Thesis Committee of Hussein Awala and Rania Sadek 8. Member of the Organizing Committee for the Lebanese Society for the Mathematical Sciences Third Annual Meeting, Spring 2012

Sabine El Khoury

1. Linear Algebra Coordinator: Fall 2011-2012-Spring 2012. 2. Freshman advisor: Fall 2011-2012-Spring 2012. 3. Curriculum Committee: Fall 2011-2012- Spring 2012. 4. Program Review Committee: Fall 2011-2012- Spring 2012. 5. Talk: Algebra Seminar University of Missouri February 2012.

Michel Egeileh

1. Participation to the conference “Géométrie sans frontières”, at the University Paris Diderot, March 12-16, 2012. 2. Participation to the conference "Journées de Géométrie", at the Lebanese University, Fanar, December 16-17, 2011. 3. Participation in a committee for studying the feasibility of a PhD program in the Mathematics Department. 4. Member in the Master‟s Thesis committee of the graduate students Zeina Nahlé and Malak Dbouk. 5. Secretary of the Lebanese Society for the Mathematical Sciences - LSMS. 6. Member in the scientific committee for the LSMS third Annual Meeting, held at AUB (CAMS), on April 27-28, 2012.

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Wissam Raji

1. Organizing committee for workshop on Modular Forms and Related Topics 2012. 2. Chair of the organizing committee for the Lebanese Society for Mathematical Sciences 2012. 3. Gave a talk at a symposium on mock modular forms in Cologne, Germany. 4. Received fellowship at CAMS, AUB for the academic year 2012.

Tamer Tlas

1. Teaching MATH 202, 210 2. Seminar Organizer 3. Several thesis defence committees

F. PUBLICATIONS

Hazar Abu Khuzam

1. H. Abu-Khuzam and A. Yaqub, “On Boolean-Like Rings and Related Rings”, International Journal of Algebra, Vol. 5, 2011, no. 6, 275 – 284.

Abdallah Lyzzaik

1. D. Bshouty, Abdallah Lyzzaik and Allen Weitsman, On the Boundary Behaviour of Univalent Harmonic Mappings, Annales Acad. Scientiiarum Fenn. Math., Vol. 37, 2012, pp. 135-147 3. D. Bshouty and A. Lyzzaik, On a Question of T. Sheil-Small Regarding Valency of Harmonic Mappings, Ann. Univ. Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, Sectio A, to appear

Nazih Nahlus 1. G. Bergman and N. Nahlus, “Homomorphisms on infinite direct product algebras, especially Lie algebras” Journal of Algebra, 333, May 2011, pp. 67-104.

Nabil Nassif

1. A globally adaptive explicit numerical method for exploding systems of ordinary differential equations. Submitted February 7, 2011. Accepted on 27 September 2011 in Journal of Applied Numerical Mathematics, Elsevier‟s. Co-authored with Jocelyn Erhel and Noha Makhoul.

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Bassam Shayya

1. The WAT conjecture on the torus, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 139 (2011), no. 10, 3633--3643.

2. Measures with Fourier transforms in L^2 of a half-space, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, 54 (2011), no. 1, 172--179.

Friedemann Brock

1. F. Brock, A. Mercaldo, M.R. Posteraro: „On isoperimetric inequalities with respect to infinite measures‟. To appear in: Revista Iberoamericana, (acceptance in December 2011). 2. F. Brock, M. Willem: 'A relative isoperimetric inequality'. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, June 2012 (in press). 3. F. Brock, F. Chiacchio, A. Mercaldo: „Weighted isoperimetric inequalities in cones and applications‟. To appear in: Nonlinear Analysis T.M.A. (acceptance in May 2012).

Abbas AlHakim

1. “Spans of Preference Functions for de Bruijn Sequences”, Discrete Applied Mathematics 160 (2012), Issues 7-8, 992-998. 2. “Limit Theorems for Bessel processes for General Dimension d”, with S. Molchanov. Accepted in Markov Processes and Related Fields.

Monique Azar

1. Some Lower Bounds in the B. and M. Shapiro Conjecture for Flag Varieties (with A. Gabrielov), Discrete and Computational Geometry, v.46, no.4, 2011, p.636-659.

El Khoury, Sabine

Sabine El Khoury, Hema Srinivasan “Gorenstein Hilbert Coefficients”. Under review. arXiv:1201.5575

Michel Egeileh

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1. Some remarks on eleven-dimensional superspace supergravity and Killing spinors, in collaboration with Fida El Chami (Lebanese University), published in Journal of Geometry and Physics, vol.62, issue 1 (2012) p.53-60.

Wissam Raji

1. Gimenez J. and Raji W. Expansions of Vector Valued Modular Forms of Negative Weights. Ramanujan Journal, Vol 27 No. 1 (2012), 1-13. 2. Kilford L. and Raji W. On generalized Modular Forms Supported on Cuspidal and Elliptic Points. Ramanujan Journal, Vol 27 No. 3 (2012) 285-295. 3. Raji W. Eichler Cohomology of Generalized Modular Forms of Real Weights, 12 pages. Accepted in Proceedings of AMS. 4. Muhlenbruch T and Raji W. Generalized Maass Waveforms. Accepted in Proceedings of AMS.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

The Department will continue with the self-study review of its programs and will use the evaluation of the external reviewers to refine its graduate and undergraduate programs. The Department will continue accepting new applications and transfers for its new Applied Mathematics program. The Department held a long meeting (retreat) and several other meeting to finalize the proposal for launching a PhD program in Mathematics. The proposal will be submitted soon. The teaching loads and duties of Faculty members in Mathematics continue to be very heavy. It is important to recruit more faculty members in several areas to fill the replacement lines and additional lines for teaching the Engineering Mathematics courses.

Hazar Abu-Khuzam Chairman

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A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The number of undergraduate majors continues to increase annually and reached 15 in 2011-12. Graduate recruitment remained steady with one new student joining in Spring 2012. The department underwent a self-assessment exercise in 2011-2012 which culminated in a 200 page report and a visit by two external examiners in December 2011. The examiners were Dr. Robert Audi of Notre Dame University and Dr. Peg Birmingham of De Paul University. The examiners wrote their own positive assessment of the department and recommended two new full-time hires with AOS in Philosophy of Science and Islamic Philosophy.

The Philosophy department hired a new full-time lecturer in September 2011, Dr. Paul Spohr, who obtained his PhD from Columbia in 2007. Dr. Spohr is a specialist in Hegel‟s practical philosophy. Dr. Yasmina Jraissati also joined the department as a new part-time lecturer. Dr. Daniel Smith was visiting professor in the Spring semester and taught an undergraduate course on aesthetics and a graduate course on Deleuze. From 26-30 June, the department co-hosted with CAMS the 3rd World Congress on the Square of Opposition. This international gathering featured speakers from Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Senegal, Tunisia, Turkey, UK and USA.

The department also hosted the following guest lectures: Dr. Hilan Bensusan (University of Brasilia) „Being Up For Grabs: On the Elusive Nature of Contingency‟; Dr. Robert Hümmer (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) „Popular Guides to Rhetoric: Manipulation for the Masses‟; Dr. Jean-Yves Beziau (University of Rio de Janeiro) „New Perspectives on the Square of Opposition‟; and Dr. Robert Grant (University of Glasgow) „The Aesthetics of Modernism: Some Illustrated Thoughts‟.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members Ray Brassier Chairperson, Ph.D. Associate Professor

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Bashshar Haydar Professor Ph.D.

Joshua Andresen Associate Professor Ph.D. Hans D. Muller Associate Professor Ph.D. Waddah Nasr Associate Professor Ph.D. Bana Bashour Assistant Professor Ph.D. Christopher Johns Assistant Professor Ph.D Patrick Lewtas Assistant Professor Ph.D. Daniel W. Smith Visiting Professor Ph.D. from Purdue University Spring semester 2012 Saleh Agha Lecturer Ph.D. Yasmina Jraissati Lecturer Ph.D.

Paul Spohr Lecturer Ph.D. Karim Barakat Instructor M.A. Nelly Dib Instructor M.A.

Hiba Krisht Instructor BA Vahik Soghom Instructor MA

2. Graduate Assistant

Fall Semester Ms. Deanna Khamis Ms. Hiba Krisht Mr. Karam Wahab

Spring Semester Ms. Deanna Khamis Ms. Hiba Krisht Ms. Shoghag Ohannessian

3. Student Employment

Fall Semester Mr. Varak Ketsamanian

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Spring Semester Mr. Varak Ketsamanian,

4. Non-Academic Staff

Samar Rawas Secretary

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

B.A. Oct. 2011 0 Feb. 2012 0 Jun. 2012 2

M.A. Oct. 2011 0 Feb. 2012 0 Jun. 2012 2

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 7 Seniors 6 Juniors 8 Sophomores 1

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Sum2011 Fall Sem. Spring Sem. Total Courses numbered 300 and above 0 9 11 20 Courses numbered 211 trough 299 0 166 185 351 Courses numbered 200 trough 210 184 382 377 943 Courses numbered below 200 0 93 49 142 Total 184 630 622 1456

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

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D. RESEARCH

Andresen, Joshua 2. “Deconstruction, Secularism, and Islam”. The article critically evaluates the claim that secularism is necessary for democracy and shows how alternative approaches to democracy and human rights are being pursued from Muslim perspectives. The article has been accepted for publication in Philosophy Today. Research for the publication has been supported by CASAR grants. 3. “Nietzsche contra Dennett”. The article critically evaluates the use of anthropomorphisms and teleological explanation in evolutionary theory and philosophy of biology. The article was presented at the North American Nietzsche Society Special Session, Central APA, Chicago, February 17, 2012. The article has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 4. “Difference Must Return? On Eternal Return, Agency, and Revaluation”. The essay looks closely at Deleuze‟s account eternal return, will to power, and culture in order to develop a Nietzschean account of“agency” adequate to his project of revaluation. The essay was presented at the Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China, May 19, 2012. It is presently under review for publication. 5. Nietzsche, Eternal Return, Agency. The book gives a thorough textual and scholarly analysis of eternal return with the aim of dislodging the three most prevalent readings of eternal return (the ethical-existential, Heideggerian, and Deleuzian) and defending, in their place, a reading of eternal return that shows its essential place in Nietzsche‟s project of revaluation, particularly in relation to the conception of agency that comes out of Nietzsche‟s work.

Bana Bashour

Completed articles 1. “Exceptionalism and Kant”. Presented as a talk at a conference entitled Ideals and the Ideal in Kant at Bogazici University in Istanbul (May 24-27, 2012). This paper is currently under review. 2. “A View of Moral Responsibility”. Under Review 3. “Why We Have No Reason to Believe in the Principle of Alternate Possibility”. Under Review.

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Works in progress 1. (edited volume) Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications. On 12 June 2012 my co-editor, Hans Muller, and I were formally offered a book contract by Routledge for this volume based, in part, on the conference we co-hosted here at AUB in May of 2011. We have accepted the book contract and expect the volume to be ready for publication by October of this year. 2. (book chapter)“Can I Be a Moral Animal? A Naturalized Virtue Ethics” will be written over the summer and will appear in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications. 3. “In Defense of McKenna: A Reply to Schnall and Widerker”. Early stages.

Ray Brassier

Works in progress 1. „That Which is Not: Plato, Kant, Sellars‟ 2. „Origins and Ends: Nature and Normativity Without Skyhooks‟ (in collaboration with Dr. Pete Wolfendale). Forthcoming in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and its Implications. Eds. B. Bashour and H. Muller, Routledge, 2013. 3. „Deleuze‟s Critique of Representation‟. Forthcoming in More Than a Lot: Displacements in Ontology. Eds. B. Besana and O. Pupovac, Re-Press, 2013

Bashshar Haydar

On leave during Second semester of the academic year 2011-2012

Christopher Johns

Book prospectus for, “The Science of Right: The Grounds of Leibniz‟ Moral and Political Philosophy.” Book prospectus. The book argues that the grounds of Leibniz‟s moral and political philosophy lie in the “moral qualities” of right and obligation, which are the moral qualities of rational substances. It provides a reinterpretation of the consequentialist grounds in Leibniz‟s system. The prospectus has been under review by several publishers. It is currently in contract with Continuum Books.

Patrick Lewtas

1. “Quirks of Physicalism”. Paper revised from previous version, submitted for publication and currently under review.

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2. “Emergence and Consciousness”. Paper revised from previous version, submitted for publication and very recently rejected. 3. “The Intrinsic Nature of Consciousness: A new metaphysical argument against physicalism”. Paper revised from previous version, submitted for publication and currently under review. 4. “Descartes' Metaphysical Skepticism”. Paper revised from previous version, submitted for publication and very recently rejected. Co-authored with Glenn A. Hartz of Ohio State University. 5. “What it is like to be a quark”. Paper drafted, submitted for publication and very recently rejected. 6. “How to make dualist interactionism work”. Paper drafted, submitted for publication and currently under review. 7. “Building minds: solving the combination problem”. Paper fully drafted but not yet submitted for publication. 8. “When is a concrete property basic?” Paper drafted, submitted for publication and recently rejected. 9. “Middle Views: neutral monism, protophenomenalism and their kin”. Paper partly drafted. 10. “New arguments against physicalism”. Paper partly drafted. 11. “Why Panpsychism?” Paper outlined. 12. “Atoms, gunk, or something in between?” Paper partly outlined.

Hans Muller

Completed articles 1. “Adam Smith vs. David Hume on the Nature of Sympathy.” I presented this paper in two forums: (a) It constituted the inaugural lecture of the speaker series of the Association for the Study of Mind in the MENA Region (May 4, 2012), and (b) as part of the UCSB Philosophy Colloquium Series (May 18, 2012). Research and travel supported by paid research leave but also subsidized by the stipend I receive as compensation for freshman advising.

2. “Phenomenal Properties: From Realism to Deflationism”. I presented this paper as part of the Philosophy Colloquium Series of the Humbolt Universität zu Berlin (May 8, 2012). Research and travel supported by paid research leave but also subsidized by the stipend I receive as compensation for freshman advising.

Works in progress 3. (edited volume) Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications.

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On 12 June 2012 my co-editor, Bana Bashour, and were formally offered a book contract for this volume based, in part, on the conference we co- hosted here at AUB in May of 2011. We have accepted the book contract and expect the volume to be ready for publication by October of this year.

4. (book chapter) “Intentionality Without Skyhooks” will be written over the summer and will appear in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications.

Waddah Nasr

“John Rawls on Toleration”. Even if we assume that Rawls‟ theory of justice as developed and defended in his book A Theory of Justice is normatively sound, there are serious problem with the theory‟s feasibility in practice. This lack of practical feasibility is particularly serious for Rawls since he intends his principles of justice to “define and regulate the basic structure of society”. Most of what Rawls published after the publication of A Theory of Justice focused on defending his theory in the face criticisms that focused on the stability and practical feasibility of his theory of justice. The paper I am working on (with the possibility of expanding it into a book) is an examination of Rawls‟ views on toleration at each of thevarious stages of the development of his moral and political philosophy, beginning with A Theory of Justice (1971), through Political Liberalism (1993), and ending with The Law of Peoples (1999). I will focus specifically on the relationships between Rawls‟ views on toleration and his overall project of resolving the problem of stability.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Joshua Andresen

1. Chair, Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee, FAS. 2. Member, CASAR Executive Committee. 3. Visiting International Student Advisor. 4. Majorless Student Advisor. 5. Philosophy Majors Advisor. 6. Guest Lecture, CVSP 205, October 31, 2011: Plato‟s Epistemology and Metaphysics.

Bana Bashour

1. Member, Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee, FAS 2. Member, Unified Student Faculty Committee (FAS Representative)

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3. Acting Chair, Philosophy Department, Summer 2012 4. Acting Chair, Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee, FAS, Summer 2012 5. Co-Chair, Philosophy Department Sub-Committee for Program Review 6. Freshman Advisor 7. Member of the thesis committees of Deanna Khamis, Hiba Krisht and Karam Wahab, Philosophy graduate students. 8. Presented paper at conference: “Kantian Exceptionalism", Conference on Ideals and the Ideal in Kant. Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-26, 2012. 9. Member, American Philosophical Association 10. Member, AUB Choral Society

Ray Brassier

1. „That Which is Not‟, public lecture at Hause Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, 4 May 2012 2. „Sellars on Representing and Picturing‟, research seminar at Freie Universität Berlin, 4 May 2012 3. „Chalmers‟ Dualism and the “Hard Problem”‟, research seminar at Jan van Eyck Institute, Maastricht, Netherlands, 9 February 2012 4. „How to Train an Animal to Make Inferences: Sellars on Rules and Regularities‟, presented at „The Human Animal in Politics, Science, and Psychoanalysis‟ conference, 16-17 December 2011, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 5. „The View from Nowhere‟, presented as part of lecture series on „What is Philosophy?‟, 6 October 2011, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 6. Co-organizer „3rd World Congress on the Square of Opposition‟, AUB, 26-30 June 2012 7. Chair, philosophy department, AUB 8. Chair of philosophy Program Review Committee, AUB 9. Program Learning Outcome committee, philosophy department, AUB 10. Library liaison officer, philosophy department, AUB 11. Philosophy department webmaster, AUB 12. MA thesis supervisor for Deanna Khamis „The Ungrounding of Negative Philosophy‟, AUB 13. MA thesis supervisor for Gabrielle Magro „Theorizing Materialism: A Necessary Preliminary to a Critique of Post-Colonial Middle East Studies‟, AUB

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14. External examiner for University of Melbourne MA thesis: Peter Eade „After Language: Badiou and the Linguistic Turn‟

Bashshar Haydar

On leave during Second semester of the academic year 2011-2012

Christopher Johns

1. Member of the thesis committee of Nisreen Sinjab, Philosophy graduate student. 2. Member of the thesis committee of Karam Wahab, Philosophy graduate student. 3. Philosophy major Advisor 4. Applied for Mellon Funds for Philosophy Conference. 5. Presented paper at conference: “Leibniz and the Square: A Deontic Logic for the Vir Bonus,” 3rd World-Congress on the Square of Opposition, American University of Beirut, June 26, 2012. 6. Presented paper at conference: “The Role of Striving and Discord in Kant‟s Ideal of Moral Perfection," Conference on Ideals and the Ideal in Kant. Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-26, 2012.

Patrick Lewtas

1. Member, University Disciplinary Committee 2. Philosophy department secretary 3. Philosophy department textbook coordinator 4. Member, Philosophy Program Review Committee 5. Coordinator, Psych 251 (Introduction to Cognitive Science) 7. Faculty advisor, Great Ideas Club

Hans Muller

1. Chair, FAS Undergraduate Admission Committee 2. Freshman advisor 3. Reader, Provost‟s pilot project for subjective assessment of freshman admissions applications 4. Member, Unified Admissions Committee (resigned in January 2012) 5. Member, Philosophy Department Sub-Committee for Project Learning Outcomes 6. Member, American Philosophical Association

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Waddah Nasr

At the University: 1. Member of the University Senate 2. Member of the University Institutional Research Board 3. Member of the Medical Center Ethics Committee 4. Member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Teaching and Learning 5. Acting Chair of the Student Affairs Disciplinary Committee of the FAS (including the period: July 1, 2011-September 30, 2011). 6. Delivered the „General lecture‟ on the Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes for the course CVSP 203, on 13 March, 2012.

At the National level: 7. Member of the Lebanese National Committee for UNESCO 8. Member of the Lebanese National Advisory Committee on Biomedical Ethics

F. PUBLICATIONS

Joshua Andresen

1.“Politics Beyond Brotherhood: Experiencing the Self as Other in Politics of Friendship,” in Expérience et réflexivité, eds. G. Bertram, R. Celikates, C. Laudou, and D. Lauer (Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 2011): 207-220.

Bana Bashour

1. “Immoral Beliefs.” Forthcoming, 2012 in Ratio.

Ray Brassier

1. „Lived Experience and the Myth of the Given‟ in Filozofski Vestnik, forthcoming 2012. 2. „The View from Nowhere‟ in Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender, and Culture, Vol. 8, No.2, 2011.

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Bashshar Haydar

On leave during Second semester of the academic year 2011-2012

Christopher Johns

None appeared in 2011-12

Patrick Lewtas

None appeared in 2011-12

Hans Muller

None appeared in 2011-12

Waddah Nasr

1. “On Freedom and Toleration” (in Arabic), published in the Proceedings of the Conference organized by The Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO on the occasion of the International Philosophy Day, 17 November, 2011. The „Theme‟ of the Conference: “On Freedom and its implementation”.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Following the recommendation by the external assessors for the department‟s self-assessment exercise in December 2011, the department has requested two new full-time lines: one with AOS open and the other with AOS in Islamic Philosophy. The department will also be seeking a replacement for Dr. Joshua Andresen who resigned in Spring 2012. Thus the department hopes to be able to carry out at least one full-time professorial search in Fall 2012. The department has hired a second full-time lecturer for 2012-2013, Dr. Dustin McWherter. Dr. McWherter is a specialist in Kant‟s theoretical philosophy and will be joining the department in September 2012 as a temporary replacement for Dr. Andresen. There are plans to hold another conference in May 2013 with the title „Modern Themes in Contemporary Philosophy‟. Dr. Chris Johns is the principal organizer for this conference.

Ray Brassier Chairperson

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A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

Currently we have three students enrolled in the PhD program and more are expected to join in the coming year, at least two of them are at an advanced stage of their candidacy for the degree. The academic and research activities continue to expand through the involvement of the faculty members in interdisciplinary research activities.

This year the Department went through its self-study and its programs review process; the external reviewers Profs. D. Heiman (Northeastern University) and R. Nemanich (Arizona State University) concluded the review process by an on-site visit to the department in January 2012. Several recommendations came out as a result of this process. The Department is currently working on implementing changes pertaining to improving its performance on various academic tracks. At the graduate level, an ad-hoc committee was formed to draft a proposal for expanding the physics PhD program to include research work in experimental physics. An outreach campaign was conducted to increase the number of applicants to the graduate programs; (fifteen applications to the MS program in physics and two applications to the PhD program were received this year). New courses have also been introduced in topics that reflect the research interest of the Faculty, such as HEP cosmology and Application to Quantum Mechanics.

The physics graduate students are at the heart of the research activity of our Department. They often participate in local scientific conferences and workshops, while the publication of their work in internationally reputed journals is evidence of the high quality of their research. This year two of our PhD students attended international conferences abroad supported by the FAS URB grants. The physics website is being updated and a new design was proposed by the web unit of the Office of Communications.

At the undergraduate level, the Physics Department re-instated its “mathematical methods for physics” course in the curriculum; in collaboration with the FAS dean‟s office a project for renovating room#102 to be used by the undergraduate physics students, (the room will also accommodate the Computational Sciences Program).

The Physics Students Society was active and organized several social and academic activities. Three of our undergraduate students graduated with distinction.

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The Department continues the assessment of its Program Learning Outcomes & Program Objectives during this academic year. There has been greater use of online teaching facilities such as “Moodle, Wileyplus and Mastering Physics” are being made in the teaching of courses and administering exams/homework.

In other activities, Prof. J. Touma organized in collaboration with the Mellon Foundations and the Zeki Nassif program a workshop on the “Physics of the Nay”. The Department has also received Prof. Seshadri Sridhar from the Raman Research Institute, Astronomy and Astrophysics Dept., Bangalore, India. Prof. Leonid Klushin spent his leave as visiting scholar at the University of Mainz, Germany.

The Physics Department also initiated some re-structuring and renovation of its space and offices. The Physics Department is renovating the ESR lab room 308 through the university capital budget. Furthermore, the Department has organized a year-long series of research talks culminating in a seminar of Prof. George Helou, NASA-USA (the seminar was organized in collaboration with CAMS and Diwan Ahl Al-Kalam), who gave a talk entitled “Infrared Astronomy: A Golden Age of Space Observatories”.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Ghassan Antar Associate Professor Ph.D. Khalil Bitar Professor Ph.D. Ali Chamseddine Professor Ph.D. Theodore Christidis Associate Professor Ph.D. Mounib El-Eid Professor Ph.D. Samih Isber Professor (Chairman) Ph.D. Michel Kazan Assistant Professor Ph.D. Leonid Klushin1 Professor Ph.D. Wafic Sabra2 Professor (Director, CAMS) Ph.D. Malek Tabbal Professor (Associate Dean, FAS) Ph.D. Jihad Touma Professor Ph.D.

2. Lecturers & Instructors (Part-time)

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Zainab Alameh Assistant Instructor B.S. Berjouhi Bodakian Lecturer Ph.D. Mona Bahja Assistant Instructor B.S. Hassan Ghamlouche Lecturer Ph.D. Mostafa Hammoud Assistant Instructor B.S. Wassim Kassem Assistant Instructor B.S. Malak Khouchen Assistant Instructor B.S. Adnan Nahlawi Assistant Instructor B.S. Nancy Rahbany Assistant Instructor B.S. Mohammad Roumieh Lecturer Ph.D. Josianne Salameh Assistant Instructor B.S. Mirvat Shamseddine Assistant Instructor B.S. ______1 Paid Leave, Spring semester 2 Position shared between Physics and CAMS Fall Semester Ibrahim Ammar Assistant Instructor B.S. Berjouhi Bodakian Lecturer Ph.D. Hassan Ghamlouche Lecturer Ph.D. Rana Nicolas Assistant Instructor Mohammad Roumieh Lecturer Ph.D. Aurore Said Lecturer Ph.D. Josianne Salameh Assistant Instructor

Spring Semester Ibrahim Ammar Assistant Instructor B.S. Berjouhi Bodakian Lecturer Ph.D. Elias Hannoun Instructor M.S. Hassan Ghamloush Lecturer Ph.D. Wassim Jalbout Lecturer M.D. Rana Nicolas Assistant Instructor B.S. Mohammad Roumieh Lecturer Ph.D. Aurore Said Lecturer Ph.D. Josianne Salameh Assistant Instructor B.S. Mirvat Shamseddine Instructor M.S.

3. Research Assistants

Summer 2011 Elsy Bacha

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Fall Semester Mirvat Shamseddine Rabih Tauk

Spring Semester Rabih Tauk

4. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Zainab Alameh Alaa El-Masri Mona Bahja Adnan Nahlawi Mostafa Hammoud Nancy Rahbani Ola Hosseiky-Malaeb (Ph.D. stdt.) Amara Al-Sayegh (Ph.D. stdt.) Malak Khouchen Amani Zalzali Ghina Mahmoud (Ph.D. stdt.)

Spring Semester Ali Abou Khalil Malak Khouchen Zainab Alameh Ghina Mahmoud (Ph.D. stdt.) Ali El Reza Asghar Adnan Nahlawi Mona Bahja Nancy Rahbani Mostafa Hammoud Amara Al-Sayegh (Ph.D. stdt.) Ola Hosseiky-Malaeb (Ph.D. stdt.)

5. Non-Academic Staff

Jumana Abi Falah Administrative Assistant Simon Al-Ghawi Technician Wassim Issa Chief Technician Elissar Majdalani Lab Manager Elie Melki Chief Technician Boutros Sawaya Senior Glass Blower

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

B.S. Oct. 2011 0 - Feb. 2012 1 - June 2012 8 5

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M.S. Oct. 2011 2 2 Feb. 2012 1 1 June 2012 3 4

2. Number of Majors

Summer „11 Fall Semester Spring Semester Graduates 4 15 15 Senior 1 6 8 Juniors 5 9 6 Sophomores 10 77 44

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 4 34 29 67 211 – 299 76 354 198 628 200 – 210 224 817 608 1649 100 – 199 41 32 411 484 Total 2828

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 4 21 21 46 211 – 299 8 44 33 85 200 – 210 32 70 62 164 100 – 199 7 6 40 53 Total 348

D. RESEARCH

Ghassan Antar

1. The Lebanese Linear Plasma Device: We are building the support structure of the vacuum chamber and also building the magnetic coils and their support. A grant to the Masri Foundation is pending. This project is in its initial construction phase. 2. Rotating liquid metals: Laser diagnostic technique is being developed with the student Amani Zalzali, to measure the vorticity in shallow fluid flows and thus

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to characterize the onset of turbulence. The project is funded by URB and is in its early phase. 3. A numerical simulation code of plasma turbulence in fusion devices is under construction with the student Mostafa Hammoud. The project is in its early phase. 4. Understanding the plasma plume of the Pulsed Laser Deposition and its formation and expansion is being simulated with the student Ali Khalife. The project is in its early phase. 5. Measuring the plasma density, temperature and space potential using electrical probe is an on-going project with the help of the students, Rahaf Rahal and Christopher Saliba. The project is in its early phase. 6. Understanding turbulence properties as additional ion cyclotron heating is applied is being performed on the Tore Supra tokamak in collaboration with the CEA-Cadarache (France). One paper was submitted and another in progress.

Mounib El-Eid

1. Articles in progress a. Mahmoud-Halabi, G., El Eid, M.F., Champagne, A.* “Effect of the 14N(p,)15O reaction on the blue loop in Intermediate Stars”, to be submitted to Astrophy J. b. Mahmoud, G., El Eid, M.F, Meyer, B.S.* “Consistent Treatment of Mixing Processes in AGB Stars,” (in preparation) 2. Projects in progress a. Collaboration in USA: Regarding the PhD thesis of Ms Ghina Mahmoud, collaboration with Drs. B. Meyer, of the physics department at Clemson University, SC, USA is continuing. This deals with a consistent treatment of nuclear reaction and mixing due to convection during the advanced active AGB phases of stars. Dr. B. Meyer will act as a member of the PhD thesis committee of Ms. Ghina Mahmoud-Halabi. b. PhD – project: The PhD project (see annual report of last year) in which Ms Ghina Mahmoud- Halabi is continuing and is already in advanced phase with two publications under way.

Samih Isber

1. “De-Hass Van-Alphen (dHvA) effect in Cerium doped lead chalcogenides PbM (M = Te, Se, S)”. The aim of this project is to image the fermi surface and to measure the carrier

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(DMS). The dHvA results will be correlated to other magnetic data such as EPR and Hall effects. In collaboration with X. Gratens*. 2. Thermal analysis and magnetism of dinuclear copper phenanthroline chloride

[Cu(Phen)Cl(N2)]. The advent of molecular-based magnets has strongly enriched the field of molecular magnetism. Multinuclear metal complexes using multi-bridging synthesis opened an attractive area in applied physical-chemistry. In this project, we aim to study the magnetic interaction between dinuclear copper ions in phenanthroline chloride compound. In collaboration with H. Hammoud*.

Michel Kazan

1. Articles in Preparation a. “Modeling the thermal conductivity of polycrystalline materials.” Persons involved: Zainab Alameh and Michel Kazan b. “The contribution of surfaces and interfaces to the crystal thermal conductivity.” A review paper to be published in Surface Science Reports. Persons involved: Michel Kazan 2. Research Projects in Process a. “Modeling the thermal conductivity of nano-objects: effects of size and shape.” Persons involved: Zainab Alameh and Michel Kazan. Project funded by the LCNRS. The project is in its final stage. b. “Development of an optical technique to deduce optical properties of nano-objects.” Persons involved: Nancy Rahbany and Michel Kazan. The project is in its final stage c. “Optimization of material systems for efficient thermoelectric conversion.” Persons involved: Hadi Salam (Department of Mechanical Engineering), Marwan Darwish (Department of Mechanical Engineering), and Michel Kazan. The project is in its initial exploratory stage d. “Development of a polarization resolved mid-IR near-field microscope.” Persons involved: Michel Kazan. The project is in an advanced stage

Leonid Klushin

1. Kinetics of DNA ejection from a capsid-like enclosure: Theory and MD simulations. Funding: DFG collaborative grant 2. Chromatography of statistical copolymers

Malek Tabbal

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1. “Pulsed laser deposition of oxide thin films.” Research on-going, paper in preparation. 2. “Remote plasma oxidation of tungsten thin films.” Paper in preparation. 3. “Optimization of thermoelectric thin films: physical properties and defects at the nano-scale.” LCNRS funded in collaboration with Prof. M. Kazan, work in progress.

Jihad Touma

1. “A theoretical study of the secular dynamics of multiplanet systems in binary stars,” in collaboration with Prof. S.Sridhar (Raman Research Institute, India); work in Progress. 2. “Statistical Mechanics of Self-Gravitatingi Disks Around Black Holes,” in collaboration with Prof. Scott Tremaine (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton); work in Progress. 3. “The Saturated Equilibria of Unstable Counter-Rotating Stellar Disks,” in collaboration with Mher Kazandjian (PhD Candidate, Leiden University); work completed, paper being Written.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Ghassan Antar

1. Reviewer for the journals Plasma Physics, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Nuclear Fusion 2. Attended the 3rd Lebanese Society for Mathematical Sciences, held at AUB conference.

Ali Chamseddine

1. Visited the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifique (IHES) Bures-Sur- Yvettes, France, 1 July 2011-30 September, 2011. 2. Organized a Le Studium Conference (Institute for Advanced Study, Loire Valley, France) on "Noncommutative Geometry, Strings and Gravity," May 25-27, 2011 held at University of Tours, France (Organized with Alain Connes and Michael Volkov). (Announcement available at the link: http://lestudium.cnrs-orleans.fr/anglais/rubriques/actu/conferences/ conf_chamseddine/affiche.pdf 3. Presentation: The Spectral Action. Conference on Quantum theory and gravitation, ETH Zurich, 14-24 June 2011.

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4. Presentation: Review of Noncommutative Geometry. Seminar at Ecole Normale Superieure, France, 28, June 2011. 5. Presentation: The Miraculous Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics. Colloquium at Institute for Advanced Study, Loire Valley, July 21, 2011. 6. Presentation: Noncommutative Geometry in Particle Physics. Desy theory workshop "Cosmology meets particle physics", September 27-30, 2011. 7. Presentation: Higher Order Corrections to the Spectral Action. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cardiff, Wales, April 16-20, 2012.

Mounib El-Eid

1. Adviser of graduate students in PhD program 2. Member of the task force for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the CNRSL 3. Participation on the “6th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics”, September 18-27, 2011m Santa Tecla Hotel, Sicily, Italy, (Invited lecturer). 1. Participation on the “Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2012”, June 24- July 7, 2012, Sinai, Romania, (invited lecture) 2. Outreach: Contribution to “Sceince Days”(Ayam-Alouloum), Oct 21-22, 2011, Beirut, Hippodrome. Subject: Are we alone in the Galaxy?

Samih Isber

1. Member, FAS, Advisory Committee. 2. Member, University Senate. 3. Member, Senate Steering Committee. 4. Advisor, Freshman Students. 5. Books adoption coordinator, Physics Department. 6. Oral presentation, “Magnetization Steps and Exchange Coupling in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.” Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism, MISM 2011, August 21-25, Moscow, Russia (2011). 7. Chair of the Program Review Committee, self-study and program review 8. Reviewer for Physical review B, Journal of Physics D and Physica Statu Solidi. 9. Consultation Team (REP), American University of Abu Dhabi (AUAD), UAE (2011-2012). 10. Member of the MS thesis defense committee of Mirvat Shamseddine (physics AUB), Elias Nakouzi (Chemistry, AUB), Baria Yamout (physics, BAU), Michael Ibrahim (PhD physics, Lebanese University) and S. Kamara (PhD physics, Montpellier II, France).

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Michel Kazan

Participation in EMRS-2012 Strasbourg-France from May 14 to May 18. Contribution with one oral presentation.

Malek Tabbal

1. Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 2. Chair of the URB Committee. 3. Chair of the FAS Students Academic Affairs Committee. 4. Director of the USAID University Scholarship Program. 5. Member of the Center of Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee. 6. Member of the University Senate. 7. Member of the Physics Self-Review Committee. 8. Member of the General Education Senate Committee. 9. Academic Advisor for new Physics students. 10. Coordinator of the FAS Assessment of Program Learning Outcomes project. 11. Reviewer of grants for the URB, ASTF and the LCNRS. 12. Member of the CEDRE II Committee. 13. Reviewer for several scientific journals such as Applied Surface Science, Diamond and Related Materials and Thin Solid Films. 14. Advisor of the two graduating MS students: a. Abeer Al Mohtar (Physics). b. Wassim Kassem (Physics). 15. Member of the MS thesis committee: a. Zainab Alameh (Physics). b. Dalal Nourelddine (Chemistry). c. Mirvat Shams Eddine (Physics). 16. Presentations at international research conferences (presenting author is underlined) a. “Remote plasma oxidation of tungsten thin films”, poster presentation, Plasma Physics Group Annual Conference, Oxford, UK, April 2012.

Jihad Touma

Workshop on the acoustics of musical instruments of the Near-Eastern Takht: Organized at AUB, with partial support from a Mellon Award, and featuring an in depth look at the acoustics of the Ney.

F. PUBLICATIONS

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Ali Chamseddine

1. Ali H. Chamseddine and Viatcheslav Mukhanov*. “Massive Gravity Simplified: A Quadratic Action.” JHEP 1108, 091 (2011). 2. Ali H. Chamseddine and Mikhael Volkov*. “The Rubakov-Callan Scattering on the Supergravity Monopole.” Phys. Lett. B704, 81 (2011). 3. Ali H. Chamseddine and Mikhael Volkov*. “Cosmological Solutions with Massive Gravitons.” Phys. Lett. B704, 652 (2011). 4. Ali Chamseddine and Alain Connes*. “Spectral action for Robertson-Walker metrics.” submitted to Commun. Math. Phys. arXiv: 1105.4637 (2011). 5. Ali H. Chamseddine and Viatcheslav Mukhanov*. “Massive Hermitian Gravity.” Submitted to JHEP, arXiv: 1205.5828 (2012). 6. Ali Chamseddine, Jurg Frohlich*, Daniel Wyler* and Baptiste Shubnel*. “Dimensional reduction without continuous dimensions.” Submitted to Ann. H. Poincare, arXiv: 1201.2661 (2012).

Mounib El-Eid

EL Eid, M.F. “Heavy Element Synthesis and Cosmology.” 6th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, Santa Tecla Hotel, Sicily, Italy, 18- 27 Sept. 2011, available under http://pos.sissa.it (SISSA International School for Advanced Studies.

Samih Isber

X. Gratens*, S. Isber, S. Charar* and Z. Golacki*. “2F5/2 Manifold Splitting of Ce3+in Lead Chalcogenides: A magnetic Susceptibility Study.” Solid State Phenomena, 190, pp. 545-549 (2012).

Michel Kazan

1. M. Kazan, M. Tabbal, P. Masri*. “Infrared analysis of the effect of Ge at the interface between 3C-SiC and Si.” Diamond & Related Materials 22, 23 (2012). 2. M. Shamseddine, M. Kazan, M. Tabbal. “Model for the unpolarized infrared reflectivity from uniaxial polar materials: Effects of anisotropy, free carriers, and defects.” Infrared Physics & Technology 55, 112 (2012). 3. M. Soueidan*, G. Ferro*, B. Nsouli*, M. Roumie*, N. Habka*, V. Souliere*, J. M. Bluet*, M. Kazan. “Elaboration and characterization of boron doping during SiC growth by VLS mechanism.” Journal of crystal growth, 327, 46 (2011). 4. L. Ottaviani*, S. Biondo*, M. Kazan, O. Palais*, J. Duchaine*, F. Mielesi*, R. Daineche*, B. Courtois*, F. Torregrosa*. “Implantation of Nitrogen Atoms in

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4H-SiC Epitaxial Layers: A Comparison between Standard and Plasma Immersion Processes.” Advanced Materials Research, 324, 265 (2011). 5. “Interpolation between the acoustic mismatch model and the diffuse mismatch model for the interface thermal conductance: Application to InN/GaN superlattice.” M. Kazan. J. Heat Trans. 133, 112401 (2011).

Leonid Klushin

1. A.M. Skvortsov*, L.I. Klushin, A.A. Polotsky*, K. Binder*. “Mechanical desorption of a single chain: Unusual aspects of phase coexistence at a first- order transition.” Phys. Rev. E 85, 031803 (2012). 2. L. I. Klushin, A. Skvortsov*. “Unconventional phase transitions in constrained single polymer chain (Topical Review).” J. Phys. A: Math. Theor, 44, 473001 (2011).

Malek Tabbal

1. M. Kazan, M. Tabbal, P. Masri*. “Infrared analysis of the effect of Ge at the interface between 3C-SiC and Si.” Diamond & Related Materials 22, p. 23, (2012). 2. M. Shamseddine*, M. Kazan, M. Tabbal. “Model for the unpolarized infrared reflectivity from uniaxial polar materials: Effects of anisotropy, free carriers, and defects.” Infrared Physics & Technology 55, p. 112, (2012).

Jihad Touma

Jihad R. Touma and S. Sridhar*. "Counter-rotating stellar discs around a massive black hole: self-consistent, time-dependent dynamics", MNRAS, 2012 (Published Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21000.x). ______* Not Associated with A.U.B.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

At the undergraduate level, the Department will implement the outcome of the self-evaluation process to improve the program and achieves its objectives. The program assessment will be continued as previously envisaged to develop new strategies to improving the physics programs. The Department needs to enhance its offering of general education courses, and to proceed with the up-grade of its laboratories, in particular the “advanced laboratory”.

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At the graduate level, we expect an increased enrollment in our Theoretical Physics PhD program and the introduction of new PhD level courses. As the Experimental Physics research program is attracting a large number of our MS students and with our Experimental facilities strengthened over the last few years, the Department will consider expanding the PhD program to include work in Experimental Physics. The Department is also planning to hire at least one new Faculty member in Theoretical Physics to fill the vacant position and to further enhance our offerings at the graduate and undergraduate programs in Physics. The Department will also step up its efforts in acquiring external funding and work on setting up out-reach programs in order increase our involvement with the local community.

Samih Isber Chairperson

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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL STUDIES AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department of Political Studies and Public Administration (department) undertook various steps to broaden and strengthen its activities during 2011-12. While many of these steps were planned during 2010-11, others were encouraged by the findings generated during our comprehensive Program Review Process. The following paragraphs summarize some of activities undertaken by our department during 2011-12.

1. Governance and Leadership

Our department continued to move away from the highly ad hoc and unstable methods and procedures that had previously been used to manage the department. With the selection of a recently recruited junior faculty member as chair (Thomas Haase) in the Fall 2011 for a full three-year appointment, our department has continued to run smoothly and promote collective deliberation as it developed procedures and functioning committees to manage the department and its functions.

2. Recruiting and Hiring

Our department acquired approval to conduct two faculty searches and announced positions in International Studies/Middle East (open rank) and Public Administration (assistant professor). After discussion, both PS and PA decided on relatively open areas of expertise and sought scholars whose research and career aspirations were well adapted to the context of AUB. The chair sought to expedite the approval of positions and their job descriptions so that announcements can be advertised sooner and the faculty and begin both informal and formal recruiting efforts. Although our department did not have a successful PA search, we did make a full recommendation for a PS appointment to the Office of the Dean. Our department also began to make full-time appointments at the lecturer level to increase the stability of course offerings and the quality of instruction. To this end, our department appointed Dr. Ohannes Guekjian in the spring of 2012.

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Following the option suggested by the FAS Dean‟s Office, our department centralized academic advising around a single adviser for each undergraduate program (Public Administration and Political Studies). The division of these tasks allowed the advisors to meet individually with each incoming student and explain recently and expected future changes in the MA program. In both cases, the dedicated advisor gives the student a first point of contact with department and a go-to person to address queries. While the new advisors, who had little experience with advising in the AUB system, suffered through the initial steep learning curve, the department has received positive feedback about the increased care and attention (as well as consistency) advisors were able to give.

4. Curriculum

Our department began to implement the curriculum changes that were approved the previous academic year. The PA and PS staffs have both mapped out their course offerings for the next few academic years. We also began to cross-list courses with the BA program in American Studies and the MA program in Middle East Studies. In the Fall 2011, the department offered its first writing intensive class, PSPA 258 Comparative Public Administration, which was taught by Dr. Thomas W. Haase. Dr. Waleed Hazbun is developing our department‟s second writing intensive course.

5. Admissions

Our department streamlined the MA application review process. A representative from both the PS and PA programs agreed to review the application files and present a list of strong candidates for admission to the faculty. The faculty would then review the list, limiting discussion to those files that needed further consideration. This modified admissions process decreased the amount of time that faculty members needed to spend on the files. Our department also decided that GPA should not be the only determinative factor for the admission of MA students into the program. Two additional factors that will be considered are the strength of the applicant‟s application essay and whether there is a match between the applicant‟s research interests and faculty members.

6. Brown Bag Sessions

Our department continued to hold brown bags lectures during the year. However, we have adopted a slightly different strategy. The topics presented at the brown bags session were much broader in focus. For example, we used the brown bags as a venue for Department‟s Research Associates, who were able to present their

325 research findings. We also reached out to secured local and international officials who could speak on policy issues relevant to the Middle East Region. We were honored to have both hosted His Excellency Prime Minister of the Republic of Lebanon Najib Mikati and United Kingdom Minister for Middle East Affairs Mr. Alistair Burt for discussions with PSPA students.

7. Fundraising Strategy

Our department began to explore whether it would be possible to undertake a fundraising campaign. Although this idea had been discussed in the past, no formal action was every taken to facilitate the initiation of such a campaign. This year, after a series of informational meetings with AUB‟s Office of Advancement, the department formed an ad hoc committee to draft a memorandum that outlined a general fundraising strategy.

8. Website

Our department continued to revise its website, using a more modern and streamlined template provided by the university. The website now includes updated information about the department and the research activities of our community of faculty members. The revised website will also help our department to convey information to the general public about our activities.

9. Record Keeping

Our department took steps to standardize record-keeping processes, to update current files, and to eliminate dated information. This year, attention was given to updating personal and student records, organizing the record-keeping process, and initiating processes of data collection related to hiring and student admissions. These steps should improve our department‟s ability to identify historical and contemporary trends in these areas.

10. Qualifications for Part-Time Faculty Members

Our department standardized the qualifications used to hire part-time faculty members. We voted to approve the following requirements for part-timers. Individuals seeking to teach within the department as part-timers must: 1) hold a Ph.D. in closely related field; 2) hold a M.A. degree with substantial and related professional experience (5+); or 3) be a Ph.D. candidate (completed successful defense of dissertation proposal).

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B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Khashan, Hilal Professor Ph.D. Moussalli, Ahmad Professor Ph.D. (joint appointment CVSP) Hazbun, Waleed Associate Professor Ph.D. Makdisi, Karim Associate Professor Ph.D. Frangie, Samer (spring) Assistant Professor Ph.D. Haase, Thomas Assistant Professor Ph.D. Hindawi, Coralie (spring) Assistant Professor Ph.D. Khodr, Hiba Assistant Professor Ph.D. Reiche, Danyel Assistant Professor Ph.D. Hanf, Theodore (fall) Visiting Professor Ph.D. Antoun, Randa Lecturer Ph.D. Guekjian, Ohannes (spring) Lecturer Ph.D.

2. Faculty Members (Part-time)

El-Khazen, Farid Professor Ph.D. Gebara, Khalil Lecturer Ph.D. Jurdi, Nidal Lecturer Ph.D. Krayem, Hassan Lecturer Ph.D. Kreidie, Lina Lecturer Ph.D. Masri, Shafic Lecturer Ph.D. Nakib, Khalil Lecturer Ph.D. Nasser, Khaled Lecturer Ph.D. Nizameddine, Talal Lecturer Ph.D. Saadeh, Bashir Lecturer Ph.D. Bitar, George Instructor M.A. Geha, Carmen Instructor M.A. Goksel, Timur Instructor M.A. Haddad, Tania Instructor Ph.D. Hankir, Samer Instructor M.A. Hanna, Elias Instructor M.A. Hatjian, Berj Instructor M.A. Kheir, Wael Instructor M.A. Traboulsi, Fawwaz Instructor M.A. Zaazaa, Nadim Instructor M.A.

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3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Spring Semester Abou Zeid, Mario Abou Zeid, Mario Abul Taif, Eduardo Abul Taif, Eduardo Abou Harb, Amani Arbid, Jeremy Arbid, Jeremy Ajamian, Melissa Ajamian, Melissa Brake, Farah Flahive, Robert Carter, Troy Hussein, Ayman Di Govanni, Anna Lena Khadra, Hamed Flahive, Robert Koteiche, Rayan Hussein, Ayman Nersyants, Anna Khadra, Hamed Tohme, Hicham Koteiche, Rayan Nersyants, Anna Wittkhun, Robert Tohme, Hisham

4. Undergraduate Assistants

Fall Semester Spring Semester Alameh, Mohamad Mansour, Mohamad Faour, Jude Sleem, Tamara Sleem, Tamara

5. Non-Academic Staff

Hitti, Bou Fadel, Milia Secretary

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

BA Oct. 2011 2 Feb. 2012 14 Jun. 2012 50

MA Oct. 2010 6

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Feb. 2011 3 Jun. 2011 4

2. Number of Majors

Graduates 60 Prospective Graduates 5 Seniors 103 Juniors 113 Sophomores 59

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 03 114 125 242 211-299 52 536 569 1157 200-210 55 253 269 577 100-199 00 58 58 116 Total 110 961 1021 2092

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 12 51 60 123 211-299 18 87 78 183 200-210 09 12 12 33 100-199 00 03 03 06 Total 39 153 153 345

D. RESEARCH

Randa Antoun

1. Antoun, Randa and Thomas Haase (2012): Decentralization in Lebanon, evaluating the call for reform. Manuscript being prepared to submit as book chapter in Middle East Public Policy and Administration, edited by Alexander Dawoody. 2. Citizen Participation in Public Administration: Views from Lebanon with Tina Nabatchi and Khaldoun Abou Assi (under review)

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Samer Frangie

1. Frangie, S. (2012): „Theorizing From the Periphery: The Intellectual Project of Mahd Amil', International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vo. 44, pp. 465-482. 2. 'Historicism, Socialism and Liberalism After the Defeat: On the Political Thought of Yasin al-Hafiz', Modern Intellectual History 3. In preparation: The Arab Reception of Michel Foucault

Ohannes Geukjian

1. The link Between Ethnicity, National Identity, Territory and Violence: Understanding the Ethno-Territorial Conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh. “paper being submitted to Nationalism and Ethnic Politics,” under review. 2. The Objective and Purpose of Armenian Terrorism, 1975-1986, “research completed and paper being written.” 3. Second book project, Limitations of International Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Post-Soviet Nagorno-Karabakh. “research completed and book being written.

Thomas Haase

1. Social Capital and Disaster Management: Promoting Civic Engagement as a Catalyst for Community Based Problem Solving. Preparing manuscript for submission. 2. Haase, Thomas W. (201X) Disaster Management and the Republic of Lebanon. Preparing manuscript for submission as book chapter, fall 2012. 3. Haase, Thomas W. (201X) The Lebanese Public Policy Process. Preparing manuscript for submission as book chapter, fall 2012. 4. Antoun, Randa and Thomas W. Haase (201X) Decentralization in the Republic of Lebanon: Evaluating the Call for Reform. Initially drafted as article, reworking manuscript to submit as a book chapter, fall 2012.

Waleed Hazbun

1. “The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Challenge of Postcolonial Agency: International Relations, US Policy and the Arab World,” in The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies, edited by Graham Huggan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013). 2. “The Disappearing Frontier of Modernization in the Arab World,” contribution to volume edited by Marwan Kraidy and Alex Lubin to be submitted to Duke University Press (Fall 2012).

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3. “The folds of place: Re-visiting questions of travel in Israel/Palestine,” chapter for edited collection (Peter Seeberg ed.) under review at Berghahn Books. 4. “Beware of Small States: Lebanon and the Geopolitics of the Middle East,” Review essay for Middle East Report (in preparation). 5. Geopolitics of Insecurity: US policy and the International Relations of the Middle East, Manuscript in progress to be submitted to University of Minnesota Press

Coralie Hindawi

1. The Two Dimensions of the Responsibility to Protect. Well-advanced, ongoing research, Paper being written. 2. The Legal Regulation of the Use of Force Ten Years after the Invasion of Iraq. Ongoing research. 3. Arms Transfers and Control Policies Towards Iraq. Ongoing research project, started during my research leave, early stage.

Hilal Khashan

1. “The Arab Uprisings and the Illusion of Political Change.” This paper argues that there is a gap between ousting political dictators and installing democratic orders (in the pipeline). 2. “Political Jurisprudence in Islam.” This paper deals with the question of the absence of a system of governance in Islam

Hiba Khodr

1. “The Specialized Cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council: A case study of a distinct type of policy innovation and diffusion”- expected to be published in Digest of Middle East Studies, #21, 2012 2. “A Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Public Policymaking in two of the GCC Countries: Kuwait and Qatar” to be published as a Brookings Paper in May 2012 3. “The Politicization of Healthcare in Lebanon: The case of Primary Health Centers” writing in progress 4. “Investigating the Terrain of Health Human Resources in Primary Health Care Centers in Lebanon & Qatar: A Mixed-Method Comparative Policy Study”- Research in Progress. 5. “The Dynamics of Energy Policy in Lebanon: when research, politics, and policy fail to intersect”- Research in progress

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6. “The Implications of Arab Revolutions on US Foreign Policy Towards Islamic Organizations: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Post-Mubarak Egypt”- Research in progress 7. “Dynamics of the Relationship between Domestic Politics and Energy Policies in the MENA Region: the case of Libya, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia”- Research in progress

Karim Makdisi

1. Exploring the United Nations role in Lebanon and the Arab region as a site of Contestation 2. Re-conceptualizing Environmentalism 3. Arab Uprisings: Creation of a new order?

Ahmad Moussalli

1. “Islamic Thought and Politics in the Age of Globalization.” A full-length manuscript on most theoretical and practical developments of Islamic thought and politics in light of Global multi-layered structure. 2. “Founders or Trailblazers of Political Islam: Hassan Al-Banna,” The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics, John L. Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin, eds. (Oxford University Press: Oxford [2012])

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Randa Antoun

1. MEPI Tomorrows Leaders Program Coordinator, AUB Office of the Provost 2. Advisor Public Administration Students 3. Vice President Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections 4. Member of the PSPA Fundraising Committee 5. Advisory Board Member: al Sadissa Journal: A Journal of Public Good and State Building, published by The Lebanese Institute of Finance, Ministry of Finance. 6. Member of the Network of Innovators in Governance in the Mediterranean Region, United Nations, Division of Public Administration and Development Management

Ohannes Guekjian

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1. Guest speaker, “The Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process,” Haigazian University March 3, 2012. 2. Moderator of a panel on “Turkey‟s Policy in the Arab World,” that was held at Habtour Hotel, March 20, 2012. 3. I joined the Fahamu Networks for Social Justice, a human rights organization based in Oxford, the UK and given the status of Country of Origin Information (COI) expert to provide advisory opinion to Armenian and Azerbaijani refugees. 4. Radio Interview. On the Ambiguity and Limitation of International Law in Relation to Reparation, Voice of Van, February 25, 2012. 5. TV Interview. On International Law and Reparation. Interviewed by Orange Television (OTV), February 25, 2012. 6. “Properties belonging to the Holy See of Cilicia,” The Armenian Genocide: From Recognition to Reparation, International Conference organized by the Armenian Catholicossate of Cilicia, Beirut, Lebanon, February 23-25, 2012. 7. “The Link Between Ethnicity, National Identity, Territory and Violence: Understanding the Ethno-territorial Conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh,” International conference organized by the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia, New York, April 19-21, 2012. 8. Chair of the panel on “Identity Versus Borders in the Balkans: Ethno-Political Reshuffling and its Controversies,” at the ASN conference, Columbia, New York, April 21, 2012. 9. “97 Years of Denial: Genocide Recognition within Turkey: The government, the scholars and the public,” Debate at Charles Hostler, Auditorium B, April 25, 2012. 10. Consultancy to the Office of the Vice President for Regional External Programs (REP) at AUB, Leadership for Democracy Fellowship Program, May 18-22, 2012. 11. Reviewed the following title for ASHGATE: “Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict: Karabakh, South Ossetia and Abkhazia Wars Reconsidered.” April 2012

Thomas Haase

1. Chair, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration. 2. Program Review Committee and co-Author of Self-Study Report, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration (PSPA). 3. Association of Middle Eastern Public Policy and Administration, Member Conference Education Committee (2012) and Member Provisional Executive Committee (2011-2012).

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4. International Training Program on Disaster Risk Reduction, sponsored by Japan International Cooperation Agency and Kobe University. Presented Sessions on: Emergency Management in the United States; the Foundations of Resilience; the Indonesian Response to the Tsunami, and the RIMSIM simulation. Kobe, Japan, July 19 and 20, 2011. 5. American Society of Public Administration, 2012 Annual Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. March 2 – 6. Panel 02EC0: Sustainability. Paper Title: Social Capital and Disaster Management: Promoting Civic Engagement as a Catalyst for Community Based Problem Solving 6. New Faculty Orientation. Presentation on Teaching, Research, Service and Community Activities at American University of Beirut, at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, September 20, 2011 7. Workshop on Course Learning Outcomes. Workshops Sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, August 8 – 17, 2011 8. 2011 Association for Asian Studies, AAS Annual Meeting 2011. Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31 – April 3. Session 478: Disasters in Asia: Societal and Governmental Responses and Responsibilities. Paper Title: Evolution in Administrative Systems: Exploring Indonesia‟s Response to the Great Sumatran Earthquake and Tsunami. 9. Leadership in Action, by Dr. Rid Elhaj. American University of Beirut. Sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut. Beirut, Lebanon. April 14. 10. A National Conference: The Path from Local Development to National Policy. Sponsored by Beyond Reform and Development. Holiday Inn Hotel, Dunes Center, Verdun, Beirut, June 16. 11. Public Policy and Research in the Arab World: Pre and Post Uprising. Sponsored by the Issam Fares Institute, Research Advocacy and Public Policymaking Group, Consortium of Arab Policy Research Institutes (CAPRI) Project. College Hall, American University of Beirut, May 7-8. 12. Introduction to Political Science and Public Administration. Brummana High School Career Fair. At the invitation of Ms. Ghada Yared, Head of Secondary Education, Brummana High School, Brummana, Lebanon, November 17.

Waleed Hazbun

1. “The challenge of postcolonial agency in the Middle East,” paper presented at Out Of The Ivory Tower: Weaving the Theories and Practice of International Relations, Millennium Conference 2011, London School of Economics, London, UK, October 22-23, 2011.

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2. “The US and the Arab Uprisings: Will the US be identified with the emerging future rather than the decaying past?” invited lecture to Liberal Arts Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar. November 23, 2011. 3. “Be identified with the emerging future rather than the decaying past: The US and ME in the wake of the Arab Uprisings 2010-11”, paper presented at Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa conference sponsored by the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, January 11-14, 2012. 4. “Between „the emerging future‟ and „the decaying past‟: American efforts to navigate the changing the regional order in the Middle East,” presentation at the Netherlands Institute in Beirut, March 28, 2012. 5. Panelist, "Regional Shifts and International Institutions" at AUB Arab Uprisings Symposium: Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players. 6. Sponsored by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon. May 31-June 1, 2012. 7. Director, Center for Arab and Middle East Studies (CAMES). 8. Chair, Program Review Committee and Author, Self-Study Report, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration (PSPA). 9. Academic Advisor, Political Studies BA Majors and MA graduate students 10. Executive Committee, Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR). 11. Faculty Advisory Committee, United Nations in the Arab World Program, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI). 12. Editorial committee, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 13. Advisory Committee for documentary film project by Alicia Dwyer & Tom Xia, “Xmas Without China,” Dwyers & Xia Productions.

Hilal Khashan

1. I successfully supervised three Master‟s theses for Nidal Mawas, Mathew Plain, and Jessica Nelson.

Ahmad Moussalli

1. "Virtual Realities: Jihadi Universalism versus Neo-Imperialist Globalism." CTITF Working Group on Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes Riyadh Conference on “Use of the Internet to Counter the Appeal of Extremist Violence” 24-26 January, 2011. 2. “Iranian Constitution: Between Modernity and Authenticity,” Regional Conference on Islamic Revolution of Iran, Beirut, February 1.

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3. “Politics and the Science of Climate Change,” Interdependence Day Celebration and Forum, Berlin, Germany, 8-12 September, 2011. 4. “Takfiri Islamists”, “Takfīr: A Diachronic Perspective International Conference,” European Research Council Projects Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam Madrid 2-7 October, 2011. 5. "Religion and Conflict," Royal College of Defence Studies, London, December 2, 2011. 6. “The Role of Islamic Movements in Arab Protest Movements,” Lebanese Association of Psychology, Beirut 21, October 2011. 7. “The Conspiracy: The Assassination of Hariri,” Arab Book Exhibition, Beirut, 14 December 2011. 8. “The Objective of Islamic Law and the Rise of New Islamic Consciousness,” Arab Book Exhibition, Beirut, 24 December 2011. 9. “The Influence of Islamic Movement: Is it Political Dialectics,” National Action Forum, Beirut, January 30, 2012.

Danyel Reiche

1. Panel discussion with Dr. Michael Paul, member of the German Bundestag, about the German nuclear phase out, Konrad Adenauer; Berlin, 06/08/2011 2. Lecture on “Masdar City: A critical assessment” Friedrich-Ebert Foundation – Amman, Jordan on 02/04/2012 3. Lecture entitled “The Prohibition of Online Sports Betting: A comparative analysis of Germany and the United States” at the Annual Conference of International Association for the Study of German Politics, London, UK on 22/05/2012

F. PUBLICATIONS

Randa Antoun

1. Inclusive and Participative Political Institutions in Select Arab States: Mission Report Lebanon, UNDP, BCPR, May 2012

Ohannes Geukjian

1. Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh and the Legacy of Soviet Nationalities Policy (London: Ashgate, 2012).

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1. Haase, Thomas W. (201X) Adapting to Uncertainty: Indonesia‟s Administrative Response to the Great Sumatran Earthquake and Tsunami. Manuscript submitted to Journal of Social Science History, currently under review. 2. Comfort, Louise K., Namkyung Oh, Gunes Ertan and Thomas W. Haase (201X) Reframing Intergovernmental Collaboration in Disaster Management: Conflict and Consensus over Policy, Practice, and Capacity. Manuscript submitted to Journal of Public Administration and Management, submitted, currently under revision.

Waleed Hazbun

1. “The Middle East through the lens of Critical Geopolitics: Globalization, Terrorism, and the Iraq War,” in Is There a Middle East? edited by Michael E. Bonine, Michael Gasper, and Abbas Amanat (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. 207-230. 2. “Why I majored in Politics," in Major Choices (3rd Edition), Edited by Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Princeton University, 2011. http://www.princeton.edu/pub/mc/perspectives/hazbun/ 3. “Itineraries of Peace through Tourism: Excavating Territorial Attachments across the Arab/Israeli Frontier,” Peace & Change Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2012): 3-36.

Coralie Hindawi

1. “The Controversial Impact of WMD Coercive Arms Control on International Peace and Security : Lessons from the Iraqi and Iranian Cases”, Journal for Conflict and Security Law (2011), vol. 16/3, pp. 417-442, Oxford University Press. 2. Vingt ans dans l‟ombre du Chapitre VII. Eclairage sur deux décennies de coercition à l‟encontre de l‟Iraq, Paris, L‟Harmattan, forthcoming.

Hilal Khashan

1. “The View from Syria and Lebanon: Democracy Seems Unlikely to Make Headway in Damascus and Beirut,” Middle East Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, 2011, pp. 25-30. 2. “The Pragmatics of Lebanon‟s Politics: The Lebanese handle Deep-Rooted Sectarian and Religious Divide,” Middle East Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 1, 2012, pp. 61-68. 3. “The Eclipse of Bashar al-Assad,” Berfrois (Jan. 27, 2012). Available at: http:www.berfrois.com/2012/01/hilal-khashan-on-syria/

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4. “The Eclipse of Arab Authoritarianism and the Challenge of Popular Sovereignty,” Third World Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 5, 2012, pp. 919-930. 5. “The Maronite-Shiite Alliance,” Middle East Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, 2012, pp. 62-69.

Hiba Khodr

1. “The Dynamics of International Education in Qatar: Exploring the Drivers behind the Development of Education City”. Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies, 2 (6): 474. 2. “Drivers, Policies, and Practices surrounding Mega-Events in Qatar: A Case Study of the 15th Asian Games” International Journal of Events and Festival Management, 3(1), 2012

Karim Makdisi

1. “The Rise and Fall of Environmentalism in Lebanon,” in Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Alan Mikhail. New York & London: Oxford University Press, 2012 (forthcoming)

Ahamad Moussalli

1. “Sayyid Qutb: Founder of Radical Islamic Political Ideology,” The Routledge Handbook of Political Islam, Shahram Akhbarzadeh, ed., (Routledge University Press: Oxford (2011) 2. “Radical Islamism and Globalization: Competing Paradigms,” Beacham‟s Encyclopedia of Terrorism (Washington, DC, 2011) 3. “Ideological Sources, Religious Discourses and Political Implications of Takfir Jihadism,” Beacham‟s Encyclopedia of Terrorism (Washington, DC, (2011) 3. “Two Discourses on Modern Islamic Political Thought,” Conflict Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World: Challenges for U.S. Engagement (United States Institute of Peace: Washington, DC, 2010)

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Our department plans to undertake a number of additional steps to improve its undergraduate and graduate programs in the future.

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Our department plans to continue to develop its undergraduate curriculum. Its central goals are to improve the quality of instruction at the introductory level (201, 202, 210, 211, 212, and/or 213) and to have these courses provide a foundation for offering more sophisticated approaches and materials at the advanced level.

Our department wishes to make its introductory courses (210, 211, 212, 213) prerequisites for upper level courses in those fields. This requirement will be for PSPA majors only. We are considering how best to implement this policy.

With the expectation that the size of our department‟s full-time faculty will increase in future years, we are committed to the goal of eventually having core introductory courses (210, 211, 212, 213) only or mostly taught by full-time faculty. In this case, full-time faculty will likely include full-time lecturers. This should reduce our dependence on part-time faculty, and should also increase the quality of the instruction in our department.

2. Graduate Programs

Our department agreed to increase the standards for admission and give preference to students with research interests that fit with the focus of the research in our department. This would likely imply accepting a smaller number of students each year. We will submit a proposal to the Graduate Studies Committee that outlines the changes that we would like to include in our application requirements. We will formally ask the applicants to specify a research focus and give preference to applicants with research interests that fit well with the expertise and research interests of the full time faculty of professorial rank. We will also require all applicants to submit a writing sample of about 15-20 pages.

Our department will consider making the thesis 9 credits, like other departments in FAS. There was only mixed support for introducing a 3-credit „project‟ option (like CAMES) or the development of a non-thesis track. In seeking to develop a more research-oriented program, we are interested moving to a system that only admits students who have clearly demonstrated the capability of writing an MA thesis. At this time, students who are not prepared to write a quality MA thesis place significant burdens on faculty members.

Our department strongly feels that highly qualified part-time faculty should be given the authority to serve on thesis committees. Efforts to propose three member committees that include one highly qualified part-time faculty have been rejected by the Graduate Studies Committee. We feel that having four committee

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3. Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

The following items relate to both the undergraduate and graduate programs within the PSPA department. To give an accurate impression of our program, we will revise our catalogue to list as “occasionally” all the courses that have not been really taught over the last 3 years. The chair will oversee an effort to plan what we expect to teach for at least the next two semesters. Such planning will allow us to anticipate future needs and more effectively recruit part-time, full-time, and visiting faculty members.

Due to limited faculty resources, the PA program plans to maintain its BA concentration and minor in Public Policy, but will eliminate its goal of developing a MA focus in Public Policy with the expectation that PSPA will work with IFI to develop MA programs in Pubic Political and International Affairs. This strategy would enable the PA program to make better use of its current resources, and focus on the development and expansion of the PA program. While the addition of a new faculty member next year will help, the long-term success of the program will depend on Our department‟s ability to secure additional faculty lines for PA.

4. Articulate a Vision for Our department

Our department feels that the PSPA‟s overall strategic goal should become a research oriented program and a center for the production of knowledge. We will seek to better focus, and increase the quality and specialization of, the training in our MA programs. PSPA will seek to define its overall identity as program that develops and teaches situated knowledge. We see this as the basis for our identity, as well as our comparative advantage as a research oriented program. We will encourage faculty to develop research programs that reflect our location in Lebanon/Middle East/Global South. This identity can be pursued in a range of ways and facility members are not expected to develop the same logic for their research program (for example some could study politics/processes in the region while others could develop knowledge that might be needed or useful for the region). Our department has a goal of organizing a yearly or biannual PSPA- sponsored conference, possibly co-sponsored with CAMES or IFI.

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We aim to reduce our reliance on part-timers. Part-timers currently teach more than half of all PSPA course hours. We seek to switch this ratio by increasing the number of full-time faculty of professorial rank, and by hiring more full-time lecturers (and make one or more current part-time members full time).

The chair is currently developing a method for formalizing the hiring and selection process of part-time faculty members. We will also have a need for part-time faculty, but we wish to focus our need and ensure high quality instruction across all classes. At the same time, we would like to plan both social events and academic talks to help increase intellectual and social interaction between full time and part time faculty.

Our department would also like to formalize the visiting professor position with an annual or biannual search (rather than be subject to ad hoc hires that are suggested by the Dean or dependent on the selection of the Fulbright commissions). We feel we could attract more highly respected visiting professors, who could then contribute to our course offerings, and introduce the faculty to new trends and areas of knowledge while increasing the profile of Our department and possibly act as mentors for junior faculty. We has discussed with the AUB development office the possibility of raising external funds to support a visiting position along the lines of CASAR‟s Edward Said Chair.

6. Expanding the Faculty of Professorial Rank

Our department would like to decrease the ratio of part-time to full-time faculty. In recent years, the share of enrollment taught by part-time faculty has come to exceed that of full-time faculty. Course demand indicates the need for our department to return to its previous size of at least 12 full-time faculty members. In the late 1990s, when our department had 12 full-time members, our department offered about one third less course hours, employing about half the number of part-timers as it does now. Developing a research-oriented department should mean less reliance on part-timers, lecturers, and visitors and an increased focus on the development of full-time faculty of professorial rank who are responsible for research. We will always need part-timers, lecturers, and visitors, but we want to become less dependent on them.

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DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

In its meeting of June 24, 2011, the AUB Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve the creation of a new Department of Psychology for implementation before the start of Fall 2011-12. The newly formed Department of Psychology offers BA and MA degrees in psychology and constitutes the fifth largest concentration in the faculty of Arts and Sciences. The mission of the new department of psychology embodies the main elements of the mission of the university: to foster freedom of thought, respect for diversity, critical thinking, personal integrity and civic engagement. The academic and research interests of the six full-time faculty members (including the Chair) are focused on higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex, especially creativity, altered states of consciousness, and the psychological effects of exercise; identities and group dynamics with a special focus on the Arab world; behavioral interventions in autism spectrum disorders; sensory integration, sense of agency, and generation of novel motor sequences; the psychology of shame; and psychological, social, cultural and spiritual correlates of psychological and physical well-being. In addition to providing a nurturing academic environment for its constituents, the Department of Psychology strives for excellence in teaching. In Fall 2011-12, for example, psychology faculty obtained higher ICE evaluation scores than FAS or AUB scores on every ICE dimension.

The following represents major activities and new developments in the department of psychology:

Human Resources. Professor Nigel Marsh joined the department at the rank of professor in the Fall of 2011-12 and resigned his position at the conclusion of the semester (the reason for his resignation was extra-departmental rather than intradepartmental). Dr. Dylan Evans from University College Cork also joined the department as a Visiting Professor for the Spring 2011-12 term to teach two sections of a special topics course, evolutionary psychology. Finally, the department welcomed Maria Baramakian as the first secretary of the newly established Department of Psychology.

MA Clinical Psychology Program. The MA Clinical Psychology Program was approved by the Technical Committee of the Ministry of Higher Education of Lebanon and the New York State Education Department. The Department plans to implement the new Clinical Psychology Program in Fall 2013-14.

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Interdisciplinary Partnerships. In an effort to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration and practicum training of psychology graduate students, meetings took place with the leadership of the AUBMC Department of Psychiatry and the University Counseling Centre with a view to memorandums of understanding concerning practicum training of graduate-level clinical psychology students.

Undergraduate and Graduate Program Reviews. The department aimed at extensive reviews of its undergraduate and graduate programs. While the review of the graduate program was suspended temporarily because of the unexpected resignation in the department, the undergraduate program was refined in terms of catalogue descriptions and numbering. The revised undergraduate program was approved by the Curriculum Committee.

Psychology Web Site. A new Department of Psychology Website was created to become operational on November 18, 2011. The website‟s public URL is http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/psychology/.

Psychology Colloquium. The Department of Psychology and the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business co-hosted the talk of Professor Dylan Evans about Risk Intelligence. Four additional colloquium presentations were organized: When Employees Use Feedback as a Political Strategy, Rana Moukarzel presenter; Aloof and Confident: Power Affects the Deployment of Attention and Reactivity to Feedback, Riam Konso presenter; What Goes Wrong in PTSD and How it is Restored after EMDR, Myriam Khoury presenter; and Prevalence and Predictors of Negative eating Attitudes and Behaviors High School Students, Lucy Tavitian presenter.

Civic Engagement. The Department of Psychology and the Psychology Student Society in collaboration with the Lebanese Autism Society participated in the worldwide campaign for Light It Up Blue for Autism, an Autism Awareness event that took place on the front yard of College Hall.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Arne Dietrich Professor Ph.D. Shahe Kazarian, Chairperson Professor Ph.D. Charles Harb Associate Professor Ph.D.

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Tima El Jamil Assistant Professor Ph.D. Nidal Najjar Assistant Professor Ph.D. Nadiya Slobodenyuk Assistant Professor Ph.D. May Awaida Lecturer Ph.D. Arin Ayanian Instructor M.A. Margaret Bassil Instructor M.A. Suha Bawab Instructor M.A. Maral Boyadjian Instructor M.A. Karen Estefane Instructor M.A. Hana Ghannoum Instructor M.A. Rana Merii Instructor M.A. Joanne Rechdan Instructor M.A.

2. Graduate Assistants Fall Semester Badaan Vivienne Maalouf Ritta Barada Bassem Najm Carla Fares Sonia Nakhle Pascal Kobiessi Bilal Obeid Rita

Spring Semester

Ammar Joumana Maalouf Ritta Ayoub Mona Moughalian Catherine Badaan Vivienne Nakhle Pascale Bakir Dana Obeid Rita Ghanem Lama Nakhle Sinine Kobiessi Bilal Yehia Arij

3. Non-Academic Staff Baramakian, Maria Secretary

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors:

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Psychology

B.A. Oct. 2011 Feb. 2012 8 Jun. 2012 31

M.A Oct. 2011 0 Feb. 2012 1 Jun. 2012 4

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Psychology

Graduates 28 Prospective 0 Graduates Seniors 54 Juniors 54 Sophomores 39 Freshman 0 Total Enrollment 175

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer Fall Spring Total 2011 2011 2012 Courses numbered 300 and above 0 31 31 62 Courses numbered 211 through 299 67 309 452 828 Courses numbered 200 through 210 20 335 358 713 Courses numbered 100 through 199 13 84 34 131 Total 100 759 875 1734

4. Number of Credit Hours Offered

Courses Summer Fall Spring Total 2010 2011 2011 Courses numbered 300 and above 0 12 9 21 Courses numbered 211 through 299 9 39 54 102 Courses numbered 200 through 210 3 36 39 78

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Courses numbered 100 through 199 3 9 6 18 Total 15 96 108 219

D. RESEARCH

Fatima Al-Jamil

1. Co-author on book chapter entitled, “Working with Arab and Muslim Patients” for textbook Counseling Across Cultures (7th Ed.) Due for submission September 2012.

Arne Dietrich

1. EEG neuroimaging projects 2. Theoretical work on creative thinking

Charles Harb

1. Conceptions of Happiness Across Cultures: Primary Investigator: Mohsen Joshanloo. Collaborator: Charles Harb. Status: data collection 2. IBSAR‟s Nature Conversation: social integration project for Lebanon‟s youth using nature as the venue. Primary Investigator: Charles Harb. Collaborator: Arin Ayanian, Ibsar team. Status: data analyses. 3. Social behaviour and interpersonal relations. Primary Investigator: Maria Abou Abdallah. Collaborator: Charles Harb. Status: study 1 complete, study 2 in preparation. 4. Parental styles sense of community and their relationship to well-being among Lebanese youth. Principal Investigator: Amina Abu Bakr. Collaborator: Charles Harb. Status: data analysis.

Shahe Kazarian

1. Kazarian, S.S. (in press). Unveiling the humor mind of the „starving Armenian.‟ HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research. 2. Kazarian, S.S. (in press). Love, Humoring and Happiness. The World Book of Love. Belgium: Lannoo Publishers. 3. Kazarian, S.S. & Taher, D. Adult attachment styles in a Lebanese community sample: A brief Arabic Experiences in Close Relationships Scale. 4. Kazarian, S.S. & Ayanian, A.H. Contingencies of self-worth in ethnic Armenian adolescents in Lebanon

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Nidal Daou

1. Using Applied-Behavior-Analytic Procedures to Promote Independence among Lebanese Children Attending Non-Behavioral Autism Intervention Programs. Status: Experimental sessions concluded on June 13, 2012 for this URB-funded project, and the research report will be written and submitted for publication. Primary investigator: Nidal Daou. 2. Conducting Psychological Research in the Greater Beirut Area: Community Participation and the Role of Gatekeepers. Status: Manuscript in preparation. Primary investigator: Nidal Daou; collaborators: Sonia Fares, Jihane Ghorayeb, Pascale Nakhle, and Rita Obeid. 3. Effects of Thin-Ideal Internalization, Media Exposure of Thinness, and Self- Esteem on Body Dissatisfaction in a Sample of Young Women in Lebanon. Status: Thesis defended successfully on June 7, 2012, and the research report will be edited and submitted for publication. Primary investigator: Pascale Nakhle; collaborator and thesis supervisor: Nidal Daou. 4. The Effects of Coping Style, Social Support, and Child‟s Behavioral Problems on the Well-Being of Mothers of Children with Autism in Lebanon. Status: Thesis defended successfully on June 5, 2012, and the research report will be edited and submitted for publication. Primary investigator: Rita Obeid; collaborator and thesis supervisor: Nidal Daou.

Nadiya Slobodenyuk

1. Sense of agency in musical improvisation. 2. Sense of agency in haptic virtual environments.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Tima Al-Jamil

1. Courses Taught: Fall semester Child Abnormal Psychology (PSYC 215) Clinical Psychology (PSYC 239) Clinical Interventions II (PSYC 303) Spring semester Child Abnormal Psychology (PSYC 215) Clinical Psychology (PSYC 239) Advanced psychopathology (PSYC 313) 2. Master‟ Thesis as Advisor:

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Hala Naffah: Predictors of burden of care with caregivers of cancer patients Jumana Ammar: Predictors of quality of sibling relationship with divorced parents 3. Master‟s Thesis as Committee Member: Rita Obead, Pascale Nakhle, Sonia Fares, Carla Najem, Vivienne Baaden 4. Psychology Graduate Program Coordinator: preparing for the launching of the masters program in clinical psychology. Received approval from the Ministry of Education in Lebanon and the NYSED, and currently developing a clinical training site at the University Counseling Center in collaboration with the Dean of Student Affairs and the Director of the Counseling Center. 5. Graduate and Undergraduate Academic Advisor Other Services 1. Part time clinical practice: Assessment and treatment of psychological disorders in the community 2. Part time clinical supervisor: Providing clinical supervision for psychology graduates in training 3. Lebanese Psychological Association: Currently working towards establishing

Arne Dietrich

1. Courses Taught: Fall: Psych 237, Biol 243, Psych 227, Psych 314 Spring: Psyc 237, Biol 243, Psyc 227, Psyc 325D 2. Master‟s Thesis: Areej Yeghia, thesis supervisor. In progress 3. Academic Services: Member, Editorial Board: Journal of the American Board of Sport Psychologists. Invited Member: Advisory Council, International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance (since 2011). External reviewer 6 times for peer-reviewed journals AUB Service: University-wide Due Process Monitor (DPM) for the 2011-2012 promotion cycle. Member: President-appointed Task Force for Reinstating Tenure.

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Undertook a comprehensive review of the psychology undergraduate program Program Learning Outcome (PLO) officer for psychology

Charles Harb

1. taught courses: 1) Psyc 211 : Introduction to Social Psychology 2) Psyc 305 : Advanced Social Psychology 3) Psyc 243: Applied Psychology Research Project 4) Psyc 247: Culture and Psychology 5) Psyc 302 : Graduate Seminar in Research Methods and Statistical Analyses II Courses include the use of Moodle, PowerPoint lectures, extended essays, empirical research projects, critical reviews, oral presentations, SPSS statistics, SPSS lab, library Databases and learning resources, field projects, community work, etc.

2. Masters theses in Progress: 1. Bilal Kobeissi: electoral law effects on sectarianism – stage: IRB review 2. Vivienne Badaan: predictors of prejudice towards Palestinian refugees. Stage: Data collection 3. Carla Najem: black sheep effect. Stage: data analysis 4. Aline Hachem: stereotype content. Stage: proposal write up 5. Lama Ghanem: family dynamics and relatedness. Stage: proposal write up 6. Nicholas Thomas: Nakba and negative attitudes towards Israel among Palestinian refugees. Stage: proposal write up.

Academic Services 2011-2012 URB Research Reviewer FHS & FAS  Reviewed research proposal submitted for a URB grant at both FHS and FAS faculties

2011-2012 IBDAA Jury Member – IBSAR  Jury member of the annual IBDAA competition conducted by IBSAR 2011-2012 Psychology 202 Program Coordinator IRB PPC  Coordinate the 14+ sections of psychology 202 courses every term (update to moodle etc.)

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 Research pool coordinator – IRB. Coordinated and planned the access to 1000+ hours of research credit for the Psyc 202 research participation pool. 2011-2012 Steering Committee on Arab Uprisings: Committee Member  University wide committee headed by the provost on the Arab uprisings 2011-2012 Steering Committee FHS-IFI, Committee Member  Member of the steering committee on Youth and Health research set up by the Issam Fares Institute and the Faculty of Health Sciences 2011-2012 Media Studies Selection Committee  External member of the media studies selection committee 2011-2012 Psychology Student Society: Faculty Advisor  Society‟s academic and activities advisor 2010-2012 AUB-IBSAR Executive Committee member  An interfaculty initiative dedicated to nature conservation and its sustainable use, through interdisciplinary research, development and knowledge dissemination.  2011- 2011 Psychology Colloquium Coordinator  Organised invited talks by visiting scholars – Fall of 2011 Other Services (2011-2012) 2011-2012 IACCP, Scientific Committee South Africa Member of the International Scientific Committee of the IACCP 2012 conference NASMA project- Founder, board member. Founding and committee member of the NASMA “educational resources centre”. The centre is a non-profit NGO project to provide public school students access to resources (library, computers, audiovisual material) and various educational training programs (2003-present).

Shahe Kazarian

International Conference Presentations Shahe S. Kazarian, Willibald Ruch and Rene Proyer (2011). Psychometric validation of an Arabic Translation of the GELOPH<15> Scale in Lebanon.Paper Presented at the 23th International ISHS Humor Conference, Boston, MA, USA, July 6-11, 2011.

Rod Martin, D.J.A. Dazois, B. Faulkner, S. S. Kazarian, & L. Moghnie (2011). The

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MA Thesis Supervision Pauline El Kallasi. March, 2012. Thesis Title: Waterpipe Use and Dependence in Relation to Parenting Styles and Cultural Values in a Lebanese Adult Community Sample. Raffi Elmadjian. May 2012. Thesis Title: Geletophobia and its Predictors in a Sample of Armenians in Lebanon. Lucy Tavitian. May 2012. Thesis Title: eating attitudes in Relaltion to Parental Bonding, Trauma, Self-esteem and Body Image among Armenian Lebanese High School Students.

Administrative and Academic Services Department of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology AUB Community Member, Advisory Committee, FAS Member, Advisory Group, Arab Regional Centre for Research and Training on Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Member, Promotion Committee, School of Public Health, AUB International Community: Invited Article Reviews HUMOUR: International Journal of Humor Research, Reviewer BMC Medical Research

Civic Engagement Academy, The Universities News Magazine, Honorary Board Member Workshop presentation on Bullying in Schools. Participants about 85 Teachers of M. & H. Arslanian Djemaran, March 22, 2012. The Department of Psychology : A New Concentration in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at AUB. Academy, Spring 2012, p. 44.

Nidal Daou

1. Completed thesis supervision for (a) Sonia Fares, (b) Pascale Nakhle, and (c) Rita Obeid. All three students defended in June 2012. 2. Supervising thesis for (a) Rima Hadi, and (b) Noura Khaled. 3. Served as thesis reader for (a) Vivienne Badaan, (b) Haneen Deeb, (c) Raffi Elmadjian, (d) Bilal Kobeissi, and (e) Lucy Tavitian.

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4. Serving as a member on the FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee since October 2009. 5. Served as a member on the Social-Behavioral Institutional Review Board (January 2010-December 2011). 6. Offered workshops on Applied Behavior Analysis in Autism Intervention to teachers and special educators at the Lebanese Autism Society and Al-Hadi Institute (September-December 2011). 7. Offered behavioral consultancy for the Lebanese Autism Society‟s English Classes for Children with Autism at Adduha School (October 2011 and March 2012). 8. Planning a behaviorally based after-school program for children with autism in collaboration with the Lebanese Autism Society. The project is scheduled to begin in September 2012 as part of my part-time external consultancy.

Nadiya Slobodenyuk

Fall semester: PSYC-219 – 29 students PSYC-233 – 30 students PSYC-229 – 25 students Spring semester: PSYC-233 – 28 students PSYC-235C – 21 students PSYC-251 (co-teaching) – 20 students MA thesis MA thesis: supervision - 1 MA thesis: on reading committees: 6 Grants URB grant for academic year 2011-2012 FAS Committees Academic Affairs Committee

F. PUBLICATIONS

Arne Dietrich Articles: 1. Dietrich, A., & Audiffren, M. (2011). The reticular-activating hypofrontality (RAH) model of acute exercise. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 1305-1325. 2. Dietrich, A. (2011). Neuroimage this! The Creativity Post. Retrieved December18, 2011 from

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http://www.creativitypost.com 3. Dietrich, A. (2012). You‟re gonna need a bigger boat. TEXT: Special Issue: Creativity: Cognitive Social and Cultural Perspectives, 16, 1-21. 4. Dietrich, A. (2012). The mechanics of creativity. In M. Audiffren (Ed.), MSHS, (pp. 16-29). University Press Rennes. Invited. Conference Presentations: 1. Dietrich, A. (2011). Brain on exercise: The RAH model. Keynote Address. 20th Sportwissenschaftlicher Hochschultag, Halle, Germany. 2. Dietrich, A. (2011). Tales from the hallucination zone. Invited talk. TEDxBeirut, Beirut, Lebanon. 3. Dietrich, A. (2011). Creativity in the brain. Invited talk. Parcours des Sciences, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France 4. Dietrich, A. (2011). Flow, Mountains and Spirituality. Invited Discussant. IMS: International Mountain Summit. Brixen, Italy 5. Dietrich, A. (2011). Neural mechanisms for minds in motion: Basics of the RAH model. Invited talk. Department of Sport Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. 6. Dietrich, A. (2012). The RAH model. Invited talk. Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria

Charles Harb Published Peer reviewed articles: 1. Owe, E. Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., et al. (2102). Contextualism as an important factor of individualism- collectivism: personhood beliefs across 37 national groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/0022022111430255 2. Becker, M., Owe, E., Vignoles, V. L., Brown, R., Smith P. B., et al. (2011).Culture and the distinctiveness motive: Constructing identity in individualist and collectivist contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/a0026853 3. Fischer, R., Ferreira, C., et al. (2011). Are Perceptions of Organizational Justice Universal? An Exploration of Measurement Invariance Across Thirteen Cultures. Social Justice Research, 24(4), 297-313, DOI: 10.1007/s11211-011-0142-7 4. Smith, P. B., Peterson, M. F., Thomason, S. J., et al. (2011). National culture as a moderator of the relationship between managers‟ use of guidance sources and how well work events are handled. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42: 1101. DOI: 10.1177/0022022110381427

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5. Smith, P. B., Torres, C., Hecker, J. et al. (2011). Individualism- collectivism and business context as predictors of behavior in cross- national work settings: incidence and outcomes. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.001 6. Smith, P. B., Huang, H. J., Harb, C., Torres, C. (2011). How distinctive are indigenous ways of achieving influence? A comparative study of guanxi, wasta, jeitinho and “pulling strings”. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/0022022110381430 Conference papers (2011-2012): 1. Harb*, C (July, 2011). Psychological perspectives on social change in the Arab world: Values, identities and gender norms. Paper presented at the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) Congress in Istambul, Turkey. 2. Harb*, C (July, 2011). The Winter of Arab Discontent: Causes, Meanings, and Consequences. Roundtable presentation at the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) conference in Istambul, Turkey. 3. Ayanian, A., & Harb*, C. (2011). Assessment of Prejudice in a Community Sample of Armenian Lebanese. Paper presented at the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) conference in Istambul, Turkey. 4. Harb*, C. (March, 2011). Lebanese-Palestinian Perceptions: A representative sampling survey of youth in North Lebanon. United Nations Development Program presentation, Beirut, Lebanon.

Shahe Kazarian Book Roberts, J., Boyington, Prowse, C. & Kazarian, S.S. (2011). Diversity and First Nations Issues in Canada. 2nd edition. Toronto, Canada: Emond and Montgomery Publishing. Book Chapter Kazarian, S.S. (2011). Assessment and treatment of children and adults. In: D.R. Evans (Ed.), Law, Standards, and Ethics in the Practice of Psychology (pp. 317-354). 3rd edition. Carswell: Toronto. Peer Reviewed Articles 1. Kazarian, S.S. (2011). Humor in the Collectivist Arab Middle East: The case of Lebanon. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 24, 329- 348. 2. Moughnie, L. & Kazarian, S.S. (2011). Subjective happiness of Lebanese college youth in Lebanon: Factorial structure and invariance of the Arabic Subjective Happiness Scale. Social Indicators Research, DOI 10.1007/s11205-011-9895-5.

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Nidal Daou

1. Analysis of Three Components of Affective Behavior in Children with Autism. Status: Addressing changes requested by journal editor and reviewers. Primary investigator: Nidal Daou; collaborators: Claire L. Poulson and Susan M. Vener.

Nadiya Slobodenyuk

“The Creator-Witness Phenomenon from the Standpoint of Agency" (submitted to “Music Perception” journal)

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

The Department of Psychology hopes to recruit additional clinical faculty to better meet departmental and regional manpower needs for professional and academic psychologists. The Department of Psychology also aims to reinitiate its review of the graduate psychology program and prepare for the implementation of the Clinical Psychology Program and to consider creative approaches to meet the challenge of office space and lab space for its faculty and graduate students. Finally, the Department of Psychology plans to explore possibilities for external research and educational funds, and the establishment of prizes and awards to reward academic excellence in psychology.

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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND MEDIA STUDIES

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (SOAM) was established by a vote of the Faculty‟s general assembly and the University Senate as a consequence to the major structural changes that split the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences into two major programs. The new Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies offers an undergraduate degree in sociology-anthropology and a diploma program in media communication. It also offers three MA degrees: in sociology, anthropology and media studies. SOAM continues to offer three minor programs in Anthropology, Communication, and Sociology. At the graduate level, it offers MA degrees in Anthropology, Media Studies and Sociology.

The following represents some of this year‟s developments in the department:

Nadine and Bashar Khayat Memorial Laboratory. The lab continues to be fully utilized for psychology and communication courses and experiments. It is now completely equipped.

Sheikh Fawzi Azar Award. The Azar Award for this year went to Ms Sara Aridi for her term paper in the sociological theory course. The paper was deemed by the Azar committee as being the best nominated paper this year.

Amal Saidi Prize. The Amal Saidi Prize this year was given to Ms Yasmine Saab for attaining the highest average in the department.

Sociology Café. This initiative, “aimed to create a pot of informal discussion between students and scholars from different universities on critical issues of life in Lebanon”, continued this year with several prominent presenters. It is open to the general public and meets in a café in Hamra.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

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Dajani, Nabil, Chairperson Professor Ph.D. Khalaf, Samir Professor Ph.D. Hanafi, Sari Professor Ph.D. Smith, Richard Professor Ph.D. Melki, Jad Assistant Professor Ph.D. Scheid, Kirsten Assistant Professor Ph.D. Wick, Livia Assistant Professor Ph.D. Nasser, Khaled Lecturer Ph.D. Saber, Dima Lecturer Ph.D. Farah, May Lecturer Ph.D. Tarabay, Lubna Lecturer Ph.D. Fathallah, Zeina Lecturer Ph.D. Bibi, Karma Instructor M.A. Agha, Dina Instructor M.A. Kazan, Nadine Instructor M.A. Osman, Zeina Instructor M.A. Yeghiayan, Heghnar Instructor M.A. Daou, Mark Instructor M.A. Khayyat, Munira Instructor M.A. Khoury, Rami Instructor M.A. Mallat, Sarah Instructor M.A. Boustany, Nora Instructor M.A.

2. Research Assistants

None

3. Graduate Assistants

Fall Semester Al Hajj, Anastasia Turner, Annabel Jurdi, Ghenwa Al Maghlouth, Nada Skeleton, James Itani, Bayan Ballout, Sali

Spring Semester Skeleton, James Al Maghlouth, Nada Turner, Annabel Guirguis, Christina Ghanem, Samar Itani, Bayan Annan, Rawan Jurdi, Ghenwa

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4. Non-Academic Staff

Kobrosly, Maysaa Secretary

C. TEACHING

1. Number of Graduating Majors

Soc-Anth Diploma in Media Communication BA Oct. 2010 4 12 Feb. 2011 6 9 Jun. 2011 0 3

MA Oct. 2010 4 Feb. 2011 2 Jun. 2011 0

2. Number of Majors

Soc-Anth Diploma in Media Communication Graduates 34 4 Seniors 32 0 Juniors 22 0 Sophomores 17 0 Prospective Graduates 3 0 Freshman 0 0

3. Student Enrollment in Courses

Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 28 40 68 211-299 21 221 259 501 200-210 71 311 284 666 100-199 0 67 106 173 Total 92 627 689 1408

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Courses Summer „11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 24 33 57 211-299 3 39 54 96 200-210 9 39 39 87 100-199 0 9 15 24 Total 12 111 141 264

D. RESEARCH

Nabil Dajani

1. The Media in Lebanon: Fragmentation and Conflict in the Middle East, under contract by I.B.Tauris. 2. “Young Generation, interaction media and Society” (Arabic) (submitted & under review.)

Sari Hanafi Knowledge Production in the Arab World

Samir Khalaf

The sustained interlude of uninterrupted research and writing, often carried out arduously, has materialized in four published volumes. One, the book on the missionaries has been long in the making. I am relieved to see it published by Routledge. 1. Arab Youth in Times of Risk, co-edited with Roseanne Khalaf (London: Saqi Books, 2012) pp: 415. 2. Lebanon Adrift: From Battleground to Playground (London: Saqi Books, 2012) pp: 296. 3. Protestant Missionaries in the Levant: Ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860 (London, N.Y.: Routledge) pp: 281. 4. From Time to Time: Discursive Essays of a Lebanese Sociologist (Under consideration) pp: 211.

Jad Melki

In Press 1. Melki, Jad. (2013). Digital Media Literacy Education Tackling Visual Propaganda. In Carol Winkler (ed.), Visual Propaganda. Strategic Studies Institute. (Forthcoming January 2013)

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2. Melki, Jad, and Mallat, Sarah. (2013). The Status of Women in Lebanese Journalism Institutions. In Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.), The Palgrave International Handbook on Women and Journalism. Palgrave Macmillan. (Forthcoming March 2013) 3. Melki, Jad. (2013). Media Literacy Education in Lebanon. In Belinha De Abreu and Paul Mihailidis (eds.), The Development of Media Literacy Education in the 21st Century. Routledge. (Forthcoming May 2013) 4. Melki, Jad, and Mallat, Sarah. (2012). Digital Activism: Efficacies and burdens of digital and social media for civic activism. New Media & Society. 5. Melki, Jad. (2012). New Media, Old Habits: Pre-uprisings social media habits of youth in Jordan, Lebanon, and The UAE. Information Communication & Society. 6. Melki, Jad, Hitti, Eveline, Oghia, Michael, and Mufarrij, Afif. (2012). Media Habits and Anabolic Steroid Use Among Lebanese Gym Goers. A survey of gym goes in the greater Beirut area. Journal of Health Communication. In Progress 1. Melki, Jad, and Dajani, Nabil. (2013). Media Education in the Arab World. A Q methodology study of Arab media studies faculty & their various approaches & curricula. Journalism Studies. 2. Melki, Jad, and Awad, Mariette. Arab Social Media Index. Analyzing and making sense of the Arab social-media sphere in light of the Arab spring uprisings. 3. Melki, Jad. Media as a Weapon of Guerilla Warfare: Hezbollah's use of media in the Lebanon-Israel war of summer 2006. A study analyzing Hezbollah's media strategies during its war with Israel in summer 2006. 4. Melki, Jad. Global Media Coverage of the Hezbollah-Israel War of Summer 2006. A three-year project that content analyzed newspapers, TV newscasts and Blogs from around the world. 5. Melki, Jad. Blogging the 2006 Israel war on Lebanon. 6. Melki, Jad. International news coverage of the Olympics. 7. Melki, Jad, and Mallat, Sarah, Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Against Female Journalists in Lebanon. 8. Melki, Jad and Hanafi, Sari, Knowledge Production Among Arab Media Educators.

Kirsten Scheid

1. From Picasso of Palestine to “Picasso in Palestine”: Aesthetic Belongings in Fine Art – Grant from the Palestinian American Research Center, US Fellowship 2. “Ethics, Aesthetics, and Performances of Islam in Lebanese Landscape- Painting,” under review at Representations

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3. “Between Fragility and the Promise of Life,” in The Khaled Shoman Collection: Darat al-Funun. Exhibition catalogue. Amman: The Khaled Shoman Foundation, Scheduled for May 2013. 4. “The Study of Islamic Art at a Crossroad, and Humanity as a Whole,” in Islamic Art and the Museum: Discussions on scientific and museological approaches to art and archaeology of the Muslim world. Eds. Benoit Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber. London: Saqi Books. Scheduled for fall 2012.

Livia Wick

1. Treating War: An ethnographic exploration of psycho-social interventions in the age of “Psychiatric Humanitarianism”: I conducted research in the Beirut area about the uses of psychology in understanding living with violence. This project was funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. 2. The Near-Miss Study: “Near-miss” is a medical term to designate the women who have major complications at childbirth and almost die. This is a four country regional study (Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon). My colleague Dr. Jocelyn DeJong and I are conducting research at Hariri Governmental Hospital in Beirut. This project is funded by the WHO EMRO. 3. Deprivation and Sense of Injustice in Ras Beirut (collaborator in a research project directed by Afamia Kaddour, ABD, Harvard University and Dr. Cynthia Myntti, AUB). This project aims to identify and explore understandings of deprivation and a sense of injustice among residents from different socio-economic backgrounds in Ras Beirut. It is part of the AUB Neighborhood Initiative.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Nabil Dajani

Conferences and Workshops: 1. Participated in an FAO Expert Consultation on “Communication for Development: Meeting Today‟s Agriculture and Rural Development Challenges.” Rome, September 2011. An FAO document was produced by the participants. 2. Participated in organizing the AUSACE (Arab US Association Communication Educators) Conference on “Digital & Media Literacy: New Directions”, AUB, October 2011. 3. Was a keynote speaker at the seminar on “interactive communication, youth and change”, Riyadh, February 2012 in the 27th national festival for cultuire and heritage (Janaderieh)

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4. Participated in “The first annual Government Communication Forum” on professional practices of government communication, Sharjah, UAE, February 26-27, 2012.

MA Thesis Committees Principal Advisor 1. Rasha Hamad 2. Bayan Itani 3.Edward Atkinson-Clark Member of thesis committees 1. Samar Ghanem 2. Michael Oghia 3. Mariam Itani 4. Elizabeth Woller Academic advisor to all graduate students in sociology & media studies and to most SOAM undergraduates

Service to the University 1. Chair, Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies Dept. 2. Member of FAS Graduate Committee 3. Member, Senate Graduate Board 4. Member, University Senate 9. President, Worldwide Alumni Association of AUB.

Samir Khalaf

Conferences and Workshops: 1. Citizenship and the Arab Spring” The Citizenship Initiative Workshop. (St. Petersburg, Florida February 2-4, 2012) 2. “On Lebanon Adrift” Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Canadian Chapter. (West Hall, AUB, May 30, 2012) 3. “Prospects for Public Sphere and Civil Society.” In Culture, Identity and Change in the Middle East. Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School, June 7-8, 2012. Other Activities: I continue to serve as a trustee on three Boards: AMIDEAST, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Chiha Foundation. Recently, I have been invited to be a Board member of International Relief (IR). Advising Graduate Students:

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Three graduate students, under my supervision, have just succeeded in defending their MA dissertations: Nisrine El-Makouk Minou Hexpoor Youssef El-Khoury

Jad Melki

SBS Committees Coordinator, Media Studies Program Coordinator, SOAM Web site Course Learning Outcomes committee Program Learning Outcomes committee FAS Senate representative Strategic Planning committee Curriculum committee University AUB Youth Research Working Group Steering Committee (Spring 2012). Strategic Planning IT Review Team (Fall 2011). Chair, Media Studies Advisory Committee (Spring 2011). Journalism Training Program Steering Committee, REP (Spring 2009). Social Sciences representative on the General Education evaluation project (Spring 2011-). Academic Development Committee (Spring 2011).

Conferences and Presentations: 1. March 29, 2012. Arab Media Audiences and its Influence on Media Entrepreneurship, ArabNet Forum, Beirut. 2. March 14-17, 2012. Visual Propaganda, Atlanta, GA. 3. Feb 2-3, 2012. Regional Media Seminar, International Committee of the Red Cross. 4. Dec 16-20, 2011. Democracy in Post-revolution States, Salzburg Global Seminar. 5. Oct 28-31, 2011. Arab Youth Media Habits, AUSACE 2011 conference, AUB. 6. Sep 20-22, 2011. Lebanese Media, Brussels Conference on Media Concentration, Open Society Foundations, Brussels. 7. Sept 16-17, 2011. Digital News and the Arab Uprisings. Internews MENA Regional Conference.

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8. Aug 26, 2011. Social Media Habits and Arab Uprisings, ESCWA Conference, Beirut. 9. July 26 – August 14, 2011. Salzburg Academy for Media and Global Change, Summer Academy. 10. July 22, 2011. Connecting Cultures Through Global Media Literacy, P. Mihailidis, M. Shumow, and J. Melki. National Association for Media Literacy Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA. 11. June 7, 2011. Leaders for Democracy Fellows Program, Regional External Programs, AUB. 12. June 1-2, 2011. Social Media Habits and Branding, MindShare Jordan Conference. 13. June 2011-preent. Alt-City board of Advisors. 14. May 5-7, 2011. Social Media and Arab Revolts, Danish School of Journalism and Media, Denmark. 15. May 3, 2011. Social and Digital Media: Changing Politics, Revolutionizing Media Education, AUB Alumni Association, AUB.

Grants and Scholarships: Received $15,000 Salzburg Global Seminar (Student grants for the Salzburg Academy, 2012). $30,000 Al-Arabia TV (Social Media Index, 2011-2012). $25,000 Open Society Foundation (Operational Funding for AUSACE 2011 Conference). $18,500 Open Society Foundations (Sponsoring 10 guests to the AUSACE 2011). $5,000 The Development Research Center (Sponsor Workshop for NGOs, AUSACE 2011). $3,000 Georgia State University (Sponsored Workshop, AUSACE 2011). $12,000 Better Hong Kong Foundation (Sponsoring 4 guests to the AUSACE 2011). $9,000 URB Research Grant, AUB, (Media Education in the Arab World, 2011-2012). $12,000 Open Society Foundations (Mapping Digital Media, 2011-2012). $12,000 Micro Grants (Digital Activism study, 2010-2011). Applied $250,000 Open Society Foundation, Media Literacy Summer Academy (2012, pending) $275,000 European Commission, Transnationalism, new media, and ongoing Arab revolts (2012, pending) $200,000 Scholl Foundation (2012, pending with IBSAR)

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$120,000 Open Society Foundation, Digital Media Network (2011, pending) $25,000 Open Society Foundation, Translating Media Studies Literature (2011, pending) $15,000 Micro Grants, Social Media Index (2010, declined) $100,000 CEDRE (2011, declined)

Curricular Development and Advising: 1. Developed proposal for a BA in Media Communication. 2. Developed the Salzburg Academy Exchange Program into an AUB study abroad program (2011). 3. Developed curriculum of the non-thesis option for the MA in Media Studies (2011-2012). 4. Revised the curriculum for diploma in Media Communication (2011-2012). 5. Developed and followed up on the implementation of the MA in Media Studies curriculum (2010-2012). 6. Developed proposals for restructuring SOAN program (2011). 7. Developed proposals for creating MCOM program for Media Studies (2011). 8. Developed the Denmark School of Journalism Exchange Program (2010). Thesis Advising 1. Michael Oghia 2. Elizabeth Woller 3. Aysel Sekmec 4. Valerie Rowles 5. Dana Kraiche 6. Karen Abi Saab 7. Mariam Itani 8. Karah Byrns

Other: 1. Chaired and organized the 16th Annual Conference of the Arab-US Association of Communication Educators that attracted 250 participants from around the world, including top media educators, activists, and professionals (2010-2011). 2. Organized or sponsored several events related to the Media Studies program, including brown bags discussions, guest speakers, workshops, and others. 3. Updated the department website following the restructuring of the department (2011-2012). 4. IYC‟s judge panel, Chemistry Department 2012.

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5. Trained, mentored, and followed up on part-time Media Studies instructors, including Sarah Mallat, Nora Boustany, Mark Daou, Khaled Nasser, Dima Saber and Maha Azar. 6. Served on search committee for the Anthropology faculty position (2011- 2012) 7. Served on search committee for the Media Studies faculty position (2011- 2012) 8. Served on search committee for SOAM Department‟s secretary position (2011-2012).

Kirsten Scheid

1. Barakat Trust Award (subvention for book illustrations) 2. Board Member, Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association 3. International Academy for Art, Palestine (Ramallah), one curriculum module, “Art Theory and Contemporary Lebanese Practice” for the BA in Fine Arts (16 hours, taught in Arabic) 4. Invited lecture -- “Pious Secularity and the Modern Lebanese Citizen: a study of social debates in the form of paintings,” at New York University. New York, February 28. 5. “The Mysterious Sculpture and Its Missing Fixity,” art installation as part of the “Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center: Due to unforeseen events…” exhibition, the New Museum. New York, Dec. 14, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012. 6. “When Icons Become Obstacles: Contemporary Palestinian Art and the Conceit of 'criticality',” for “What is Left Behind: Subjectivity in the Shadow of Remnants” panel, American Anthropological Association meetings. Montreal, Nov. 16-20. 7. MA Thesis advising Sarah Sabban Jennifer Le Varge

8. University Art Gallery – Steering Committee Member 9. Center for Middle East and Arab Studies – Steering Committee Member 10. Anthropology, Fine Arts & Art History, and CAMES – search committee member

Livia Wick

1. Anthropology Program Development: In an effort to ameliorate the anthropology component of the SOAN BA and the Anthropology MA, my colleagues and I made significant changes to the presentation and content of

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4. MA thesis advising: Samar Ghanem Laurel Harig Haider Sahib Annabel Turner 4.MA thesis committee member Minou Hexpoor Zeina Hindi Jennifer Moghannam Mac Skelton Jennifer Levarge

F. PUBLICATIONS

Nabil Dajani Books 2011 Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries, with Kh. Rinnawi, N. Mellor and M. Ayish, Polity Press. Journal articles 2012 “Technology Cannot a Revolution Make: Nas-book not Facebook” Arab Media ans Society, Issue 15, Spring. 2010 “Arab Media and the building of Public Opinion: The Missing Role,” (Arabic) in The Media and the Reform March in the Arab World, The Arab Anti-corruption Organization, Center for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut,

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Sari Hanafi Books 2012 S. Hanafi, Adi Ophir and Michal Giovanni (Ed.) The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies. 630 p. (Arabic translation of the book of 2009). Articles in Refereed Journals 2012 “The Arab revolutions; the emergence of a new political subjectivity, Contemporary Arab Affairs, 5:2, 198-213. 2012 Sari Hanafi, Jad Chaaban, Karin Seyfert “Social exclusion of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Reflections on the mechanisms that cement their persistent poverty.” Refugee Survey Quarterly. (2012) 31(1): 34-53.

2011 “Flexible Citizenship and the Inflexible Nation-State: New Framework for Appraising the Palestinian Refugees' Movements”. Journal of International Migration and Integration. (2 August 2011), pp. 1-18. Springer. 2011 “University Systems in the Arab East: Publish Globally and Perish Locally Vs. Publish Locally and Perish Globally”. Current Sociology. Vol 59, no 3, pp. 291-309.

Jad Melki

1.Melki, Jad, Dabous, Yasmine, Nasser, Khaled, and Mallat, Sarah. (2012). Mapping Digital Media: Journalism, Democracy and Values (Lebanon). The Media Program, Open Society Foundations, May 2012. 2.Melki, Jad. (2012). Incorporating In-Depth Research Methodologies and Digital Competencies with Media Literacy Pedagogies. In Paul Mihailidis (Ed.), News Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and the Classroom (pp. 139-160). Mass Communication and Journalism series, Peter Lang. 3.Coombe, William, and Melki, Jad. (2011). Branding Dubai. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 8(1), 58-71. 4.Melki, Jad. (2011). The Plight of Media Education and Research in Arab Higher Education. In Chi-Kim Cheung (Ed.), Research in Media Education (pp. 83-108). New York: Nova Science. 5.Melki, Jad. (2011). Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media (Lebanon). International Women‟s Media Foundation.

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1. “Etude stéréoscopique : le marché des copies orientalistes au Liban,” in Après l‟orientalisme : l‟Orient créé par l‟Orient. Eds. François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin. Paris: Publication Karthala. Scheduled for the end of 2011.

Livia Wick

1. “The Ras Beirut Well-Being Study” Afamia Kaddour, Cynthia Mynnti, Sawsan Abdel-Rahim, Nisreen Salti and Livia Wick has been accepted for publication by the AUB Press. Forthcoming November 2012. 2. “Reflections on the De-politicization of Health and Scholarship,” In Public Health in the Arab World. Edited by Samer Jabbour, Rita Giacaman, Iman Nuwayhid and Marwan Khawaja. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 3. “The Practice of Humanitarianism: a village birthing clinic in Palestine,” Global Public Health. Vol.6. No. 5, July 2011, pp. 534-546. 4. “The Practice of Waiting Under Closure in Palestine,” City and Society. Volume 23. Issue Supplement s1, pages 24-44, September 2011.

G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

As a new department SOAM needs to undergo continuous assessment and review of its programs. The first outcome of the establishment of the new department was the addition of two faculty lines to its academic staff, one in anthropology and the other in media studies. Both lines were filled and two new faculty members are expected to join the department in the academic year 2012-13. The media studies program is also undergoing review of its offerings. A proposal to introduce a bachelor‟s degree in media studies is now before the department for consideration.

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UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY PROGRAM

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS

During 2011-2012 the University Preparatory Program (UPP) implemented its regular English, science, and mathematics course offerings designed to prepare college-bound high school graduates to join and other English-medium universities. In addition, UPP offered a summer course for graduate students admitted to AUB but needed to improve their English proficiency. The total number of students enrolled in UPP courses during 2011-2012 was 99, 49 during the fall, 41 during spring, and 9 during summer.

B. PERSONNEL

1. Faculty Members

Full Time,

Samar Harkous-Rihan Director PhD (USP Academic Monitor) Rima Harake Instructor MA Assistant director Rola Mekkawi Instructor MA (USP Coordinator) Reem Shaaban Instructor (Fall 2011-12) MA

Part Time,

Houssam Kasti Instructor MA Toufic Batato Instructor (Fall 2011-12) MA Mira Alameddine Instructor (Spring-2011) MA

2. Non-Academic Staff

Samar Ayyash Program Secretary

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C. TEACHING

1. Student Enrollment in Courses

Fall Spring Summer Total UPEN 002 10 03 13 UPEN 003 04 06 10 UPEN 004 07 06 13 UPSC001 10 03 13 UPSC002 04 06 10 UPMA001 08 04 12 UPMA002 06 05 11 UPHU001 08 08 UPGR 001 ______09 09_ 49 41 09 99

D. RESEARCH

Samar Harkous –Rihan 1. The role of individual and contextual factors in the language acquisition of university-bound EFL learners.

E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES

Rima Harake 1. Named Assistant Director and Acting Director during Director‟s leave of absence. a. Dealt with students‟ issues b. Dealt with UPP faculty c. Handled day-to-day running of the program 2. Attended a hands-on training session offered by the IT Department on using AUB Sharepoint CMS to edit and update websites. 3. Named Program Coordinator of the USAID/USPII project in October 2011. a. Worked with other members of the USPII committee. b. Arranged meetings with members of the USPII committee. c. Prepared a Work Plan to keep track of all activities achieved and to be achieved in the future. d. Prepared a PMP (Program Measurement Plan) to identify targets that have been reached and will be reached in the future, as well as baseline activities that must be accomplished.

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e. Prepared the first Quarterly Narrative Report, stating all activities designed and undertaken by all members of the USPII committee. 4. Designed outreach and dissemination material for the program with the help of other USPII members. a. Designed the USPII application b. Designed the USPII Arabic & English brochures c. Designed and created the USPII website with the help of the IT Department. 5. Worked closely with the IT Department to migrate and update the UPP website. 6. Worked on updating the UPP brochure. 7. Designed a writing syllabus for the UPGR (Graduate) writing course. 8. Taught a graduate Writing class during Summer 2010-2011 & regular UPP courses throughout Fall and Spring 2011-2012. 9. Attended a 1-day workshop entitled “Alternative Visions of Writing Programs” offered by CTL.

Samar Harkous-Rihan 1. Prepared and implemented a special orientation session for new UPP students and their parents. 2. Prepared and carried out in-house placement test for UPP students in order to place them in classes appropriate to their level. 3. Introduced a new “Introduction to Humanities” course to the UPP curriculum 4. Taught the Advanced Critical Reading Course for UPP students 5. Attended a 1-day workshop entitled “Alternative Visions of Writing Programs” offered by CTL 6. Served as Academic Monitor for the USAID University Scholarship Program (USP II). This program gives the opportunity to 50 financially needy Lebanese public school students (males and females) graduating in June 2012 to complete their undergraduate studies at AUB. 7. Served as of the USP Committee that was established on October 13th, 2011. This involved the following: a. Worked with members from Mercy Corps on the recruitment and selection process for USP. b. Helped in the development of promotional and outreach material to advertise the program. c. Participated in developing English and Arabic program brochures that include general information about the USP program as well as the eligibility criteria. d. Participated in creating an application form specific to the USP II program including both academic and financial information

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e. Participated in designing the USP II website which includes all the information applicants need to know about the program, what the program offers, the eligibility requirements and documents they need to submit with their application to the program, in addition to the names and emails of the AUB contact persons. An EEE link was also added since students will have to take the EEE to assess their language level. f. Answered student‟s enquiries about the program through email. 8. Served as a member of the USP II selection committee which is responsible for: a. Reviewing all the students‟ data and ranking the applicants using composite scores (made of academic standing, financial need and leadership qualities) b. Shortlisting 150 students from among the 860 applications received 9. Participated in preparing and implementing two orientation days for the shortlisted students during which: a. Students sat for the English Entrance Exam (EEE) b. Students were interviewed to assess their leadership skills and verify their financial need information c. Students attend an orientation session where they meet with different faculty representatives to help them finalize their selection of their fields of study. 10. Served as member of the University Committee of English Language (UCEL) Committee 11. Provided consultation for the Regional External Programs Office (REP) on designing the Curriculum for the foundation program of Abu Dhabi University. 12. Designed a proposal to implement a Pre-admission Summer Camp for Jordanian students. This Camp focuses on SAT instruction and enrichment activities. 13. Designed, supervised and taught in the Summer Intensive English program for Graduate Students. 14. Wrote the target and Action Plan for UPP that is integrated in AUB Strategic Plan Goal 2.

F. PUBLICATIONS

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The issue of low foreign students‟ enrollment is the greatest challenge that UPP is currently facing. The program is planning to work hand in hand with the Admissions Office in order to promote and advertise its course offerings to potential students. This will be achieved by constantly updating the UPP website and distributing its brochure at various fairs within Lebanon and the region. Furthermore, cultural attachés of the Arab embassies will be contacted to strengthen ties and encourage exchange of students with the UPP and AUB, more generally.

In addition, the UPP intends to strengthen its collaboration with the AUB Office of Grants and Contracts by applying for external grants aiming at providing scholarships and financial support to needy local and international students. This will lead to an increase in the diversity of the students‟ population at AUB.

The University Preparatory Program will offer a Summer Intensive English course for newly admitted graduate students coming from outside AUB in the Summer and Fall semesters in order to enable them to function effectively in all-English Curricula.

The program will work on designing a mechanism for following up and coordinating with all faculties to ensure proper English placement and registration for the Summer Graduate Intensive English Program.

The UPP is planning to promote the Pre-admission Summer Camp for Lebanese and foreign students who wish to improve their SAT level and experience the Lebanese as well as AUB culture.

Samar Harkous-Rihan Director

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ZAKI NASSIF MUSIC PROGRAM

A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAM

The Zaki Nassif Music Program (ZNMP) was inaugurated in December 2004 with the following primary objectives: (i) Preserve the musical heritage of Zaki Nassif in a model way that would serve to preserve also other Lebanese and oriental composers. (ii) Actively participate in the music activities in Lebanon and the region by: organizing competitions, concerts, conferences, and seminars. (iii) Contribute in strengthening music education and programs at AUB. Significant progress has been made in preserving the musical heritage of Zaki Nassif after the donation in October 2007 by his heirs of his treasured collection of personal papers, lyrics and music scores of more than 1,000 compositions, granting simultaneously AUB the legal title and intellectual property rights of the composer‟s music. This generous gift is now safeguarded within AUB‟s Jafet Library special collection that is available for future music researchers and students who are interested in Lebanon‟s musical heritage. After the phase of digitization that ended in December 2011, the collection is currently being catalogued according to international library standards as practiced in the AUB Library system.

A new goal in preserving the heritage of Zaki Nassif has started in 2012. It consists in the following steps: 1. Completing Zaki Nassif‟s archives, through collecting all available recordings of his collection, given at this point, that only about 70 (out 1000) of his compositions can be bought in music stores. After a thorough survey, it was found that copies of the missing recordings are to be found in well-identified sources, most important ones being: 1. Personal archives of people: composers, art critics or music lovers. 2. Radio Liban's archives. 3. Télé Liban's archives. 4. BBC archives. 5. Other radio stations: Voice of Lebanon, Voice of the People, Voice of the Mountain. 6. Other TV stations: LBC, Future, MTV, NTV, etc. 7. Studio Baalbek archives (Studio Baalbek is the first recording institution in Lebanon. It was partially destroyed during the civil war). 8. Archives of the Association of Composers. 9. Archives of newspapers, particularly Al Anwar. Thus, through people‟s archives, we have been able to increase to 150, the number

375 of available recordings in Zaki Nassif‟s archives. A major effort awaits completion: that of collecting, through legal procedures, copies of Zaki Nassif music records from Radios, TV‟s and other private and public institutions listed above. 2. Cataloguing. With Jafet's Library staff, we are currently working on indexing all of ZN's archives in view of making it available on the web and accessible through technical keywords. 3. Producing. Given the limited number of Zaki's compositions currently found in media stores, we intend through appropriate commercial partnerships, compiling records we already have, in view of making these available on CD's that could be put in the market in order to generate funds for the Program. 4. Publishing. After more than 3 years of work, a manuscript on "Zaki Nassif papers (Min Awrak Zaki Nassif)" has been submitted to AUB Publications. A more interesting one on lyrics and notes of "Zaki's best" is currently being prepared.

Committees and Staff

Academic Committee of the Program: Wadi‟ Jureidini, Thomas Kim, David Kurani, Nabil Nassif (Chairperson), and Ramzi Sabra. Note that a “Fund-raising Committee,” which looks for donors, and organizes concerts and competitions, assists the Academic Committee.

Fund-raising Committee members (Includes in addition to Academic Committee members) Nada Abou-Shakra, Leila Bissat, Mona Hraoui (Honorary President), Sawsan Maktabi, Dalal Nassif, Nabil Nassif, Nahia Nassif, Akram Rayess, Salma Oueida (Director of Development).

Research Assistants: Gisele Hebbou (Full-Time) BA (“Maitrise” Musicology from USEK) Roula Hassoun (Part-Time) Software Engineer from CNAM

Technical Assistant: Michel Moufawad (Student employment)

B. ACTIVITIES

1. Concerts October 21 2011: Fund-raising Concert with Samar Kammouj and her music band.

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November 3 2011: Tribute to Dr. Walid Gholmieh (1937-2011), National composer and orchestra conductor in a concert by Lebanese Oriental Music Orchestra, performed in Assembly Hall and conducted by Antoine Farah. April 19 2012: Tribute to Lebanon‟s band of five (Zaki Nassif, Assi and Mansour Rahbani, Philemon Wehbeh, Toufic El Bacha and Abdel-Ghani Shaaban) in a concert performed in Unesco Palace by Lebanese Oriental Music Orchestra, directed by Andre Hajj. April 26, 2012: Panel to honor Chafik Jeha's (1912-2012) 100th birthday. Organized jointly with AUB Anis Makdisi Program for literature. Panel participants: Drs. Nidaa Abou-Mrad (Antonine University), Badih El-Hajj (Kaslik University), Habib Badr (Near Eastern Center for theology). May 19, 2012: Concert celebrating the winners of 2012 Schools Choir Competition with awards remittance ceremony. Ney Festival: May 24, 2012: Ney making workshop with Muslim Rahhal (Damascus Music Conservatoire), Dr. Badih El- Hajj (University of Kaslik) and Dr. Ghanem Oueiss (AUB-FEA). May 28, 2012: Ney Concert with Muslim Rahhal and his band, in Bathish Hall

2. Competitions The Program organized for the 4th consecutive year the competition “A choir from every school” with the participation of 15 schools. The competition has been scheduled over 2 rounds. The 1st round qualified 6 choirs and the 2nd round ended with 4 schools being classified in the top first three ranks.

C. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The Program is looking forward towards establishing an increased cooperation with the FAAH department in view of establishing an “Arabic Music Ensemble” during the academic year 2012-2013.

Nabil Nassif Chairperson

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