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Faculty: Anderson, Davis, Tabak, Wahba, Yousef
Published in 2006
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Jon W. Anderson delivered a paper on "Reorienting Islam" at a conference on New Media and the War on Terror at Briston University in July. A book he edited with Jodi Dean and Geert Lovink, Reformatting Politics: Networked Communications and Global Civil Society, was published by Routledge in August 2006.
Rochelle Davis spent much of the summer working on her book manuscript on Palestinian village memorial books about the villages destroyed in 1948. This fall semester she is teaching two courses: Contemporary Arab Society and Palestinian Culture and Society. She will also be working on a conference paper to be delivered at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting with Georgetown University colleague Gwen Mikell on the US State Department's policy of "Transformational Diplomacy" which Condaleeza Rice announced in January 2006 during a lecture at Georgetown University. Dr. Davis will be exploring "transformational diplomacy" in the context of US policies toward the Palestinian elections and their aftermath. She is also part of the Task Force for Middle East Anthropology which is working on a handbook on protecting academic freedom to be out in Fall 2006, and a media training workshop for Middle East academics.
Faruk Tabak wrote a chapter on the Middle East for a two-volume study of the third world. His contribution, titled “The Middle East in the Long Twentieth Century,” was published in The Great Divergence: Hegemony, Uneven Development, and Global Inequality, pp. 137-69. The book was edited by Jomo Kwane Sundaram and published by Oxford University Press in 2006.
Kassem Wahba organized a one-day seminar on "Towards Excellence in Arabic Language Programs: Arabic Language in K-12 and Post-Secondary Education Critical Issues and Future Directions.” The seminar dealt with issues of Arabic language K-12 education in the US, the kind of Arabic to teach (ESA, MSA, etc) language program design, as well as teacher education and training.
Tarik Yousef spent the summer at the Dubai school of Government where he has assumed research and development responsibilities including recruitment of researchers, organizing research projects and the planning of several conferences. During this period, he published several papers including “Labor Market Reforms, Growth and Unemployment in Labor-Exporting MENA Countries,” in the Journal of Policy Modeling and “Gulf Economic Security in the Age of Globalization,” in Gulf Oil and Gas: Ensuring Economic Security (London: British Academic Press, 2006). He is working on a number of research projects on the Gulf including the planned monetary union in the Gulf Cooperation Council, efforts to nationalize the labor force and the management of oil and gas revenues. He has spoken at several conferences including the European Training Foundation Advisory Meeting in Milan on June 7 and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany on September 24 and has given lectures at the IMF Summer Institute on August 30 and Sep 1. Most recently, he has been appointed as a Senior Fellow in the Wolfensohn Center at the Brookings Institution.
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