CCAS News (May 2005)

  East-West Relations

Includes report, "Mapping Academic Shifts and Intersections: CCAS 30th Symposium Undertakes Critical Review of Field of Arab Studies", "Teachers Consider US policy in the Middle East", report on "Lebanon Event Series","US-Libya Relations: Beyond Silence", and news about new faculty appointments and alumni, students, and faculty.

Published 05/05/2005

CCAS News (February 2005)

  Women and Gender

Includes: Memoriam to Hisham Sharabi, "Gendering the Law: Enduring Themes" by Judith Tucker, reports on workshops: "Law and Politics in Islam" and "Interactions of Muslim Civilization in Renaissance Europe", report on Sudan conference and Juan Cole's ADL lecture. Also includes alumni and faculty news as well as an article on the pioneering performance of an Arabic play, "Suq al-Hamir."

Published 02/18/2005

CCAS News (October 2004)

  Political Reform

Includes article "Can Middle East Political Reform Survive teh American Embrace?", reports on the "Sixth Annual Summer Workshop", a centerfold pull-out poster with list of fall events, articles on new faculty,welcoming incoming class of 2006, as well as report on early 1980s MAAS renunion.

Published 11/10/2004

CCAS News (July 2004)

  Arab Human Development

Includes Letter from the Director, article on spring symposium, "Visions for Development in the Arab World", reports on "Workshop on Islamic Spain", "A Medieval Banquet at the Embassy of Egypt", "Ralph Bunche & Arab-Israeli Diplomacy", "Music in the Arab World" and more...

Published 07/28/2004

CCAS News (April 2004)

Headline article, "Leaping into the Past" reports on one-day conference on US Diplomacy toward Arab-Israeli Conflict with a focus on Ralphe Bunche and his contributions. Workshops reported on include "Teaching about Islam", "Christianity in the Middle East", "and Lessons about Long Ago and Far Away." Other articles include "Qatari Laboratory for Democracy" and a list of NRC sponsored workshops.

Published 04/15/2004

CCAS News (October 2003)

  Iraq and the United States

Filming Baghdad on the Ground, CCAS Mourns Deaths of Professor Edward Said and MAAS ALUM Rick Hooper, Teaching about Middle East: New Approaches.

Published 10/30/2003

CCAS News (May 2003)

Includes reports and articles on the 2003 CCAS annual symposium on US policy on the Middle East, Women Issues in the Middle East, and of retrospective of the Arab world (1993 - 2003) by Barbara Strowasser, former CCAS Director.

Published 05/31/2003

CCAS News (October 2002)

  Iraq and the United States

Articles on Palestine, Bush and Iraq, Teacher trip to Syria and Turkey.

Published 10/31/2002

CCAS News (October 2001)

CCAS condemns Sept. 11 Attacks. CCAS open Forum on the War on Terror.

Published 10/31/2001

CCAS News (May 2001)

Highliths the CCAS Symposium on Arab Legal Systems. It includes also an Article by Zeina A. Seikaly titled: "Teaching about the Arab World and Islam".

Published 05/31/2001