Fall 2003 Vol. 29 No. 1 STRATEGIES FOR FINDING PEACE IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT To Be the Subject of an Evening Presentation on October 23

FINDING COMMON GROUND

The Missing Pieces of Middle East Peace

Thursday, October 23 Kane Hall, Rm. 130 7:30 p.m. University of Washington

Free and open to the public.

Ami Ayalon HE Seattle community will East. Nusseibeh is an outspoken initiated the “People’s Peace T have a rare opportunity to advocate of the new peace Campaign,” which aims to get one attend a panel discussion with two initiatives between the million signatures in support of activists who are deeply involved in their plan. pursuing strategies for peace The event will be moderated by between and Palestine: Ami “The average Israelis are Mara Rudman, former Deputy Ayalon and Sari Nusseibeh. just the same as the average Assistant to the President for Ayalon is former commander of Palestinians … and just as National Security Affairs and the and the former human.” Chief of Staff for the National director of Israeli Internal Security Security Council (1997-2001). SARI NUSSEIBEH (). Sari Nusseibeh is a The evening presentation is prominent Palestinian intellectual, sponsored by a coalition of local president of Al Quds University in and Israelis and an impassioned organizations including: Finding Jerusalem, and former Minister of advocate for peaceful resolution of Common Ground, University Jerusalem Affairs for the the conflict in Israel and the Temple United Methodist Palestinian Authority. Occupied Territories. In 2002 Church, Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Ayalon advocates a new Ayalon and Nusseibeh worked out Beyond Borders, and Jerusalem approach to Israeli security and a draft peace plan based on the Arc.I ways to end violence in the Middle 1967 borders, and the two have

Documentary Film Workshop for Educators, November 8, 2003, details inside.

MIDDLE EAST CENTER 1 ARABIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE SUMMER CAMP A Joint Effort between the Local Community, Public Schools, and the Middle East Center

HROUGH the efforts of local T private and public organizations, school children in the Seattle area, grades K-4, have a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in Arabic language and culture during the summer. A two- week camp is sponsored by the University of Washington’s Middle East Center, the Arab Center of Washington, Powerful Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Students in the Arabic Summer Camp host parents and teachers at their open This year the Arabic language house tea party in traditional Middle Eastern style. summer camp was held at John Muir Elementary School from June stories which they then acted out requires prospective teachers to take 30 to July 11, 2003. An instruction with puppets and other props. The a methods class. The University of team of native Arabic speakers was lessons culminated in an Arabic Washington methods class plus the led by veteran Arabic language camp Open House to which parents and clock hours afforded by the camp coordinator Adila Abdusamed who friends were invited. The program practicum meet state requirements guided participating teachers Huda featured puppet shows and for conditional certification, a step Giddens, Zakiah Aydi, and Rehab demonstrations of new knowledge which allows a person to teach Mustafa. by the young scholars. Afterwards, without full certification or while For the second year in a row, all older children and volunteers served working towards full certification. youngsters who wanted to attend their elders with delectable pastries Programs such as Arabic Arabic language camp were able to and Libyan style mint tea. For the language camp are a vital step in do so on scholarship. This was due tea party, the young campers creating a K-12 language learning to the overwhelming support and dressed in Arabic clothing provided continuum. The Seattle School donations of the community at a by the community for this special District is moving towards fund raising dinner. Volunteers also occasion. demonstration of proficiency rather donated time to help teachers and Parents and families in than seat time for students to gain provided in-kind support of attendance marveled at how much graduation credit. By 2008, all materials and other items needed by Arabic the children learned in such students in the Seattle School the teaching staff. a short period of time. One of the District will be required to Their classrooms and adjacent high school aides marveled, “I demonstrate proficiency in a world hallway displayed the wide diversity didn’t know they were going to language (other than English) in within Arabic cultures around the learn so much and have so much order to graduate from high school. world. Each child wore a nametag fun; next year I have to tell my Arabic language camp is just the with his or her Arabic name on it. parents to enroll my little sister." start of helping students meet that Many of the youngsters were An experience such as Arabic proficiency. returning campers from the previous language camp is a model of year; therefore after a brief review of language teaching that is fun and —–Betty Lau, Coordinator, Bilingual greetings, farewells, numbers, and enjoyable for children. To teach a Teacher Training World Summer other lessons, the children learned world language, Washington state Camp, Seattle Public Schools

2 MIDDLE EAST CENTER New Videos Now Available in the JSIS 2003 Summer Seminar for Educators Center’s Resource Library Looks at International Resources may be borrowed free of charge for instructors and educators to Challenges & Conflicts use in their classrooms. Contact the Middle East by telephone (206)543- 4227 or by email to: . The Center also IFTY teachers from the publishes a video guide of its holdings, available free upon request, or view F Pacific Northwest our webpage at http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/mideast/vidlib. participated in the annual Jackson Iran. 50 min., 2003. Ian Wright ruler, Shah Abbas I (1588- School of International Studies’ leads a tour through 1629). Written by James Summer Seminar for Educators. Iran. The tour starts in Ackerman, Harvard. Over the course of the three-day Tehran, heads into the seminar, teachers explored mountains for skiing in Qubba for Al-Kashi. 16 min., potential tensions and challenges Dizin, travels on to Isfahan 1995. Al-Kashi (d. 1429) was around the world. Participants via the Caspian coast, and one of the greatest Islamic were introduced to issues of ends at Persepolis. Included scientists. This video identity in Chechnya, relations are visits to Khomeini's examines the five different between India and Pakistan, Iran shrine and the citadel at Bam. ways he developed to model and modernity, Canadian The festival of Ashura, architectural arches. Using multiculturalism, Kurdish traditional wrestling, and computer generated models, rivalries, challenges in Kosovo and sturgeon fishing are filmed. the video reconstructs Al- the Balkans, human rights in Kashi’s mausoleum and the Latin America, the Korean nuclear Isfahan of Shah Abbas. 30 min., great observatory at crisis and international debt 1995. Fogg Art Museum. Samarkand, which was impact in Russia. Included in the This video examines the daily destroyed in the 16th registration fee were daily ethnic life, art, and architecture of century. lunches, and professional clock the reign of the great Safavid hours.I New Telecourse Connects UW Students with the American University in Cairo EGINNING this fall term, exchange there opinions on Bthe Middle East Center is assigned readings. To enhance the partnering with the American interaction between students, a University in Cairo (AUC) to listserv will be set up in which all offer an annual telecourse, which students will participate through will allow students from both on-line discussion. Starting with institutions to discuss a common the Crusades, the class will study a topic and to gain insights and series of historical events that have perspectives from each other. characterized the pattern of the The course, this year titled: cultural encounters between the “Crossing Cultural Borders: Self- West and the East, and that have Perceptions and Representations emerged as a marker of their of Otherness in the US and the present relationship. Rita Zawaideh (r), founder of the Middle East,” will meet five hours The course will be taught by Salaam Cultural Museum brought a each week. One of the class hours Professor Alywn Rouyer, with collection of veils from the Middle East will be a live, interactive assistance from Professor to display and try on. Here a teleconference in which UW and Fakhereddine Berrada. participant is wearing a veil from AUC students will be able to Syria.

MIDDLE EAST CENTER 3 CALENDAR OF SELECTED UP-COMING EVENTS The Middle East

Center Newsletter October 16, 2003 The Promised Land: Israel. 7:30 p.m., Kane 220. Ian S. Lustick, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. EDITOR Part of “The Promised Land: Place and the Creation of Felicia J. Hecker Community in Religious Traditions” Series (see insert inside). ADDRESS October 23, 2003 Middle East Center Finding Common Ground: The Missing Pieces of Middle East Peace. Box 353650 7:30 p.m., Kane 130. Ami Ayalon and Sari Nusseibeh, with Mara University of Washington Rudman moderating (see front page). Seattle, WA 98195 USA

November 1, 2003 TELEPHONE Concert by Turkish percussionist Burhan Öçal, darbuka (finger 206-543-4227 drum) player, who incorporates Western and Ottoman instrumentation into his music. 8:00 p.m., Meany Theater. FAX Tickets: $28 (student/senior discounts 30 minutes before show). 206-685-0668 For tickets, call UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. E-MAIL [email protected] November 8, 2003 http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/ JSIS International Documentary Film Workshop. 8:30 a.m. –4:30 programs/mideast/index.htm p.m. (registration form inside).

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THE PROMISED LAND

place and the creation of community in religious traditions

Over the last two millennia, October 16, 2003, 7:30 p.m., Kane Hall 220 the concept of a Promised Land has been important as The Promised Land: Israel Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have defined IAN S. LUSTICK, Professor, Political Science themselves in relation to University of Pennsylvania each other. This public lecture series will explore how these religions address the physical spaces and 2004 LECTURES (details to come) history of Jerusalem as well as the ways in which the The Promised Land: Early and Medieval Jewish idea of a Promised Land as and Islamic Conceptions a site of freedom developed Reuven Firestone, Professor of Islamic Studies outside the Middle East. Hebrew Union College

The Promised Land: Islamic Conceptions Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History Harvard University

The Promised Land: The Mormon Tradition Funded in part by a grant from the Tillie Roger D. Launius, Chair, Division of Space History and Alfred Shemanski Foundation. National Air and Space Museum Sponsored by the Middle East Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University The Promised Land: The Black American Experience of Washington

The Middle East Center’s sponsorship of this event does not imply that the Center endorses the content of the event.

The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543- 6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or [email protected]. MIDDLE EAST CENTER 5 DOCUMENTARY FILM WORKSHOP Teaching Diversity and Cross-Cultural

Understanding through Film

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2003, 8:30 AM TO 4:30 pm 413 BALMER HALL, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

This one-day workshop will show educators how to use specific regions of the world including: the Southeast documentary film to teach students about cultural Asia, South Asia, former Soviet Union, and Canada. diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The morning All videos previewed at the workshop are available session will be conducted by Carol Hermer, President of for classroom use from the Jackson School outreach the Society for Visual Anthropology and film curator centers at no cost to educators. Video catalogues will Seattle Art Museum, who will provide techniques and be distributed and instructors receive eight clock hours strategies for making effective use of film in the at no additional charge. classroom. The afternoon will focus on film from Downloadable registration forms at: http://jsis.artsci.washington/edu/03filmworkshop.pdf Participants will receive Eight clock hours, continental breakfast, box lunch, video resource catalogues, and bibliographies

REGISTRATION FORM

To register, send a check for $40 payable to the “University of Washington” to: Canadian Studies Center, Box 353650, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195. Students enrolled in teacher training programs pay $20. For more information, telephone 206-543-6269, or email: [email protected].

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