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Faculty News: Spring 2009
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Fida Adely published an article in the February 2009 issue of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) titled “Educating Women for Development: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and the Problem with Women’s Choices.” She also presented the paper, “Teacher, Text, and Television: Making Proper Faith in a Girls’ School” at the Gender and Power in the Muslim World conference at Sarah Lawrence College, March 6 and 7.
John Duke Anthony undertook a number of speaking engagements during the past several months. In November, he addressed a delegation of American leaders with the Center for the National Interest en route to Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Syria; spoke on “Possible American Policies Towards the Arab World Under the Administration of President-Elect Barack Obama” at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi; chaired and made introductory remarks for a lecture by HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal on “Saudi Arabia and Regional Crises” to students at Georgetown University enrolled in the course, “Politics of the Arabian Peninsula”; addressed the Washington, D.C. film premiere of HOME—The Aramco Brats Story; lectured on “American Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East” to 35 students in the Washington Semester Program of the American University; briefed armed forces officers in the Middle East Directorate in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon; delivered a briefing on “The United Arab Emirates” for congressional staff of U.S. Senator Max Baucus (Democrat-Montana) en route to the UAE; addressed the topic of “The UAE: A Pioneer in Political Engineering” at the 40th anniversary celebration of the UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs’ Center for Documentation and Research, which was aired live by several UAE television stations; and briefed the chairman and senior staff of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. In December, Dr. Anthony chaired and delivered introductory remarks at the “Conversation with HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal” at the Ronald Reagan Building; delivered a briefing on “Challenges for U.S.-Arab Relations in a Barack Obama Administration” to the Center for Naval Analyses; lectured to 20 defense attaches, security assistance officers, and representatives of the U.S. Central Command at the Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management at Wright-Patterson Air Base in Ohio; served on the board of examiners for a graduating student in CCAS’s Master of Arts in Arab Studies program; chaired and delivered introductory remarks at the “Conversation with the Ambassador of Iraq to the United States” at the Ronald Reagan Building, which was broadcast live by C-SPAN; and served as one of two American observers at the annual ministerial and heads of state summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Muscat. In January, he briefed the public affairs outreach director of the “Arabesque” festival at the Kennedy Center. In February, he again lectured to two dozen defense attaches, security assistance officers, and representatives of the U.S. Central Command at the Defense Institute for Security Assistance Management at Wright-Patterson Air Base in Ohio; chaired and delivered introductory remarks at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations’ (hereafter National Council) event, “Islamic Finance and the Global Economic Crisis.” Dr. Anthony also served as the advisor and examiner from September 2008 through February 2009 for a Georgetown University graduate student writing his thesis on “The Transformation of Corporate Culture in the United Arab Emirates.” In March, he delivered the keynote address, “Changes in American Interests in the Middle East: Implications for U.S. Policies,” and the presentation, “U.S.-Iran Relations and the Implications for the Gulf Cooperation Council,” at the conference on “New Avenues for U.S.-Middle East Policy” at the University of Montana at Missoula. In that month, he also delivered a lecture on “Oman: Past and Present” to the pre-departure orientation program for officers selected by General David Petraeus to participate in the National Council’s annual Oman Cultural Immersion Program.
Manal Jamal presented a paper titled “Globalization, Migration and Tiered-Citizenship in the UAE” at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference in November 2008. She also participated in a thematic conversation, “Conducting Research in the Gulf: Assessment, Challenges and Future Directions.” Dr. Jamal gave two media interviews recently, one with Al Jazeera English in January on humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip, and one with UPI in early February about Israel’s policies undermining Palestinian academic institutions.
Sylvia Önder served on a roundtable at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference in November 2008 titled “New Demands, New Approaches: Changing Dynamics in the Middle Eastern Language Classroom.” Joining her in the roundtable were Georgetown colleagues Dr. Hana Zabarah and Dr. Hanaa Kilany (Arabic), Dr. Yoel Wachtel (Hebrew), and Ms. Farima Mostowfi (Persian). Dr. Önder also presented a number of papers this spring semester, including “Metaphorical and Literal Gestures in Turkish Music Videos” at the University of Texas at Austin on January 29 and “American Influences on the Turkish Black Sea Coast: From Corn and Beans through Cold War and Peace Corps,” at the Istanbul Bilgi University conference in honor of Faruk Tabak entitled “History from a Global Perspective.” She also participated in the Nevruz K-12 Workshop on March 28 and the Title VI workshop (with the Georgetown University Program for Jewish Civilization) on Sephardic culture in Ottoman cities on April 2. She gave a brown bag presentation in the Arabic and Islamic Studies department on March 30 entitled “Global Campaigns, Local Culture: Medical Anthropology in a Time of War.” On May 22, Dr. Önder will participate in a workshop for Turkish language teachers in Seattle, Washington.
Greg Orfalea gave a presentation at the Arab American Women conference at Kansas State University March 12-15 on “Rose and the Four Sisters of Fate,” about the four childless aunts on his father’s side. Mr. Orfalea’s book, Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics was published in February 2009 by the University of Arizona Press and was showcased by the Press at the Associated Writing Programs convention in Chicago on February 14. Mr. Orfalea has book signings this spring at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. and at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California. He was invited to speak at a conference at the Sorbonne in Paris in March, but was unable to attend. He was also on a panel at Yvonne Haddad’s Faculty Workshop on Arab Literature March 23, and spoke on “The Arab American Novel Post 9/11.” Mr. Orfalea’s collection of short stories, The Man Who Guarded the Bomb, will now appear in 2010 from Syracuse University Press.
Jean-François Seznec was a discussant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace regarding David Ottaway’s book, The King's Messenger: Prince Bandar bin Sultan and America's Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia, on November 12, 2008. In late January of this year, he spoke about “How the Persian Gulf States Will Survive the Economic Crisis” to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and he addressed industrialization in the Gulf at the U.S. Naval Academy. In February, he lectured on oil investments in the Gulf at Chatham House in London, and he gave a presentation on what to expect from the Obama administration to the Global Strategy Group Middle East in Kuwait. Dr. Seznec helped the Georgetown Business School organize its Dubai Global Residency class, which sent 100 MBA and IEMBA students to Dubai and Abu Dhabi in February and March. He has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the Stimson Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C., and he has also given numerous interviews to such news outfits as Bloomberg, Reuters, the Associated Press, TéléArgent in Canada, Radio Canada, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Seznec was taped for a new documentary on Saudi Arabia for the A&E cable channel as well.
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