NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS PH. D.'S RECEIVED Columbia University ALEXANDER BLIGH - Succession to the Throne in Saudi Arabia: Court Politics in the Twentieth Century. MARK BRANDRISS - Domestic Constraints on Foreign Policy in Israel 1967- 1973: Negotiations for an Arab-Israeli Peace Settlement. JOSEPH COLLINS - The Use of Force in Afghanistan: Soviet Case Study. ABRAHAM MARCUS - Aleppo in the 18th Century. HAROLD RHODE - The Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safad in the Mid-Sixteenth Century. MARGARET VENTZKE - The Sixteenth Century Ottoman Sancak of Aleppo: A Study in Provincial Taxation. SUSAN LEE YAEGER - The Ottoman Empire on Exhibition: The Ottomans at International Exhibition 1851-1867, and the Sergi-i umumi osmani, 1863. Harvard University SELMA BOTMAN - Oppositional Politics in Egypt: The Communist Movement, 1936-1954. LUBOMYR HADJA - Two Ottoman Gazanames Concerning the Chyhryn Cam­ paign of 1678. PERWEEN HASAN - Sultanate Mosque Types in Bangladesh: Origins and De­ velopment. SANA HASAN - Bureaucracy and Political Participation in "Modern" Egypt. GARY SAMORE - Royal Family Politics in Saudi Arabia (1953-1982). State University of New York, Binghamton AHMED K. EL-DAHRY - Public Policy in the Egyptian Budgetary Process. RESAT KASABA - Peripheralization of the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, 1840-1918. MUNEERA MURDOCK - Sedentarization of Nomads in the Sudan. MUHAMMAD AL-MUSFIR - The United Arab Emirates: An Assessment of Fed­ eralism in a Developing Polity. Tufts University GuiVE MlRFENDERESKl - Legal Status of the Islands of Tunbs and Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf Prior to 1971. University of Birmingham HUGH PHILIP GODDARD - Christianity as Portrayed by Egyptian Muslim Au­ thors since 1950: An Examination in the Light of Earlier Muslim Views. The University of Chicago PAUL HANSON - Sovereignty and Service Relations in the Timurid Corporate Dynasty under the Babur: The Continuing Legacy of the Chingis Khanid Political System. University of Michigan BlROL ALI YESHILADA - Breakdown of Democracy in Turkey. 147 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.40, on 29 Sep 2021 at 00:58:14, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400015418 148 NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS Yale University ELISE W. CROSBY - Translation from the Arabic and Annotation of 'Abld b. Sharya aLJurhuml's The History, Poetry, and Genealogy of the Yemen. PH. D.'S IN PROGRESS Columbia University WADI' KANBAR - Spatial Continuity in Islamic City Design. ASEF KHOLDANI - The Image of Iran in Medieval Arabic and Persian Historical Texts. MARGARET LARKIN - The Intellectual Underpinnings of 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jur- jani's Theory of Stylistics. JEAN-MARC OPPENHEIM - The Alexandria Sporting Club: A History of Society in Egypt, 1900-1952. HOWARD ROSENBLUM - The New Zionist Organization: 1935 1940. ULI SHAMILOGLU - The History of the Nogay Horde. AHMAD EL-SHANBARY - Early Islamic History of Merv, Capital of Khurasan. DENISE SPELLBERG - The Historical Development of the Image of A'isha. Indiana University DOUGLAS HOWARD - Patterns of Change of Land Tenure in Ottoman Anatolia, 1566-1622. Princeton University MIRIAM LOWI - The Political Economy of Water under Conditions of Scarcity and Conflict. LOUISE MARLOW - Nasir al-Din Tusi: His Political Basis. AMY SINGER - The Peasantry of the 16th Century Arab Provinces. State University of New York, Binghamton MUHAMMAD ABD AL-GHAFFAR ABDULLAH The Historical Roots of Islamic Fundamentalism. IFTIKHAR AHMAD - State Formation in the Periphery: Afghanistan and Pak­ istan, 1875-1945. AMER ARA'IM - The Role of Multinational Economic Organizations in the Middle East. RAGAA EL-DAHRY - Labor Policy in Egypt. HALE DECDELI - Turkish Workers at Home and Abroad. SALIM FAHMAWY - Patterns of Colonial Settlement in Israel, South Africa, and Brazil. JOSEPH GUWEILY - The New International Economic Order. EDWARD HUNLEY - Evaluation of an Agricultural Development Project in the Sudan. LOIS KECK - Recent Egyptian Migrants to the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Area—Muslims, Copts, and Protestants. MARJORIE KELLY - The Changing Status of Professional Women in Jordan. ROBERT LATOWSKY - Regional Implications of the Factory System in Southern Egypt. SYLVIA MOLYNEAUX - Arab/Islamic Financial Development Institutions: Their Role in Middle East Regional Development. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.40, on 29 Sep 2021 at 00:58:14, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400015418 NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS 149 EYUP OZVEREN - World Depression and the Middle East during the Inter-War Period. RlMA SALAH - The Changing Status of Women in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan. FAROUK TABAK - World Economic Integration and Changing Patterns of Agrar­ ian Structure in the Middle East. MOHAMMED TAMGIDI - The Revolutionary Crisis in Iran. RICHARD TUTWILER - Development Anthropology in Rural Yemen. SAUD ZEDAN - Methods of Evaluating United Nations Projects in the Middle East. Tufts University AHMED M. JEHANI - Law and Change: The Institutional Evolution, Applicable Law and Their Relationship to the National Control over the Oil Industry within the Context of the Libyan Development Experience. ETHAN KAPSTEIN - Economic Security and Alliance Relations: The Case of Petroleum International Law. MEHRDAD KHONSARI - Regional Sources of Interstate Conflict in the Persian Gulf: A Study of Local Security in a Regional Subsystem. MAUREEN LEBLANC - Institution Building and the Transfer of Technology—a Case Study of the Institut national d'electricite et d'electronique (INELEC) in Ageria. JOHN MROZ - The Impact of Third Parties upon Options to Meet Arab and Israeli Security Requirements. ABDULLA AL-MULLA - Saudi Arabian Industrial Development: A Study of Hydrocarbon Based Industry. THOMAS NEU - Employment, Labor Migration, and Economic Development in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1978. AHMED S. OSMAN - Arab Development Funds and Banks with Special Emphasis on Islamic Development Bank. JAMES PHILLIPS - U.S. Energy Security and Persian Gulf Oil: A Comparative Analysis of Four Petrocoercive Offensives. Zvi SHTAUBER - The Evolution of Soviet Policy towards the Question of a Political Settlement in the Middle East (1974-1977). The University of Chicago WlNSLOW CLIFFORD - The Northern Salient: Mamluk Anatolian Frontier Pol­ icy, 1260-1441. DANIEL GOFFMAN - The Jews of Izmir and the Ottoman Empire in the 17th Century. DOUGLAS GOLDHAMER - Abu'l Barakat's Idea of God. ANTONY GREENWOOD - The Provisioning of Istanbul in the 17th and 18th Centuries. KATHLEEN-HATCH - The First Wahhabi Movement, 1745-1811: An Investi­ gation into the Geo-Political Factors Contributing to Its Growth. RUSSELL KEMPINERS - The Struggle for Khurasan: Aspects of Mongol and Iranian Interaction in the Early 8th/14th Century. THOMAS S. KUTTNER - British Consular Courts in the Ottoman Empire: From the Tanzimat to the Treaty of Lausanne. RUTH MANDEL - Outsiders Inside: Interfaces and Interstices of Identity, Eth­ nicity and Migration among Turkish Guest Workers. MARCIE PATTON - Organizational Aspects of Industrialization in Turkey. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.40, on 29 Sep 2021 at 00:58:14, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400015418 150 NEWS OF FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS JUDITH MENDELSON ROOD - The Social and Economic Foundations of Power in Jerusalem: 1839-1922. ROBERT SCHICK - Christianity in Jordan and Palestine, 600-750 A.D. VIRGINIA TAYLOR-SAgLiOGLU - The Contribution of Orhan Veli Kanik to the Development of Modern Turkish Poetry. The University of Utah HUSSEIN M. EL-KHAFAIFI - The Role of the Arabic Language Academies in the Development of Modern Arabic Scientific Terminology. ABBAS HAMZA BAFAKIH - The Influence of Taha Husayn on the Development of Modern Arabic Literature. JUDITH LOUISE JARROW - The Literature of Feminism in Tunisia. MOHAMED MOHAMED BEN-GHALY - The Concept of Plagiarism in Medieval Arabic Literary Theory. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS J. A. ALLAN - Reader in Geography, SOAS. PETER AWN - Associate Professor of Religion, Columbia University. MICHAEL BAKER - Program coordinator, CCAS, Georgetown University. MAHMOUD AL-BATAL- Executive Director of CASA in Cairo. JONATHAN M. BLOOM, SHEILA BLOOM - visiting summmer semester, Centre d'etude du Proche-Orient ancien, University of Geneva. GERHARD BOWERING - Professor of Islamics, Yale University. JAMIE BRODERICK - Lecturer in Arabic, University of Chicago. M. A. COOK - Reader in the History of the Near and Middle East, SOAS. CARLETON S. COON, JR. - Director of Publications and Studies, Islamic In­ stitute, American University. N. J. COULSON - Dean of the Faculty of Laws, SOAS. MICHAEL DOLS - Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi C, Cambridge. MARK A. EPSTEIN - Executive Director, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Washington DC. LEILA FAWAZ - Associate Professor of Diplomacy, Tufts University. ROBERT A. FRADKIN - Assist. Prof, of Judaic Studies, Brown University. LOIS GlFFEN - Associate Professor of Arabic, University of Utah. HUGH P. GODDARD - Lecturer in Islamic Theology, U. of Nottingham (U.K.). ELLIS GOLDBERG - Assistant Professor of Political Science, U. of Washington. MARY JO DELVECCHIO GOOD - Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University. RALPH HATTOX - Assistant Professor, Emory University.