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JOINT DEGREEPROGRAM IN PUBLICAFFAIRS AND MIDDLEEASTERN STUDIES

The LBJ School of PublicAffairs and the Center now of­fer a program wherein a gradu­ate student can work toward thesimultaneous award of the Mas­ter of Public Affairs and theMaster ofArts in Middle EasternStudies. The joint program isdesigned to provide studentswith the skills and perspectivenecessary to work effectively inthe complex public-sector pol­icy and problem areas arising inthe contemporary Middle East.

The program is structuredfor three academic years, al­though some students may findit necessary to enroll for an addi­tional semester. In addition tothe course work in the PublicAffairs and Middle EasternStudies areas, students in thejoint program will be expectedto show proficiency in a MiddleEastern language (Arabic, Heb­rew, Persian or Turkish). Dur­ing the third year of the pro­gram, students write aprofessional report. An intern­ship (ideally in the appropriateMiddle Eastern country) willnormally be taken during thesecond summer of the program.

Students must meet the sep­arate admission criteria of boththe School of Public Affairs andthe Center for Middle EasternStudies in order to be con­sidered for admission to the

The University ofTexas at Austin

joint degrees program. Only alimited number of highly qual­ified students will be acceptedfor the joint degrees program.

CONFERENCE ONIRANIANNATIONALISM

As part of its 25th Anniver­sary celebration, the Center heldin September an internationalconference entitled "IranianNationalism and the Interna­tional Oil Crisis, 1951-1954."The conference brought to­gether scholars, government of­ficials, close observers, and ac­tual participants in the politicalevents in Iran that precipitatedthe international oil crisis of theearly 1950's. Key governmentofficials such as George McGhee,

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Assistant Secretary of S~ate inthe Truman Administration,and Sir Denis Wright, formerBritish Ambassador to Iran,joined other scholars in an as­sessment of the significance ofthe political and economic devel­opments of the period.

Cosponsors of the confer­ence were the Departments ofHistory and Government, theCollege of Liberal Arts, and theSchool of Graduate Studies.Conference faculty organizerswere Roger Louis, History pro­fessor and holder of the KerrCentennial Professorship inEnglish History and Culture;and James Bill, Governmentprofessor and Middle East spe­cialist.

Other participants wereRichard W. Cottam (Universityof Pittsburgh), Ervand Abra­hamian (Baruch College, City

Proressors Louis. Bill, and Hourani

University of New York), F.Azimi (Oxford University), Mar­vin Zonis (University ofChicago), Shahrough Akhavi(University of South Carolina),William R. Royce (Voice ofAmerica), R. M. Burrell (Uni­versity of London), R. K.Ramazani (University of Vir­ginia), Homa Katouzian (Uni­versity of Kent), Habib Lad­jevardi (Harvard University), R.W. Ferrier (British Petroleum),Albert T. Ferguson (UT Aus­tin), Irvine H. Anderson (Uni­versity of Cincinnati), Michael B.Stoff (UT Austin), FarhangRajaee (University of Virginia),Jonathan C. Brown (Universityof Texas), Peter R. Chase (MobilOil Corporation), Hafez Far­mayan (University of Texas),Gene R. Garthwaite (DartmouthCollege), Rose Greaves (Univer­sity of Kansas), Jerrold Green(U niversity of Arizona), LewisHoffacker (Shell Oil Company),J. C. Hurewitz (Columbia Uni­versity), Mehdi Noorbakhsh (In­stitute of Research in IslamicStudies), Gregory F. Rose (Uni­versity of Texas), RobertStookey (University of Texas),John H. Waller (Washington,D.C.), and Donald N. Wilber(Princeton, New Jersey).

Albert Hourani (OxfordUniversity) delivered the con­cluding comments: "IranianNationalism and the Interna­tional Oil Crisis in HistoricalPerspective."

PROMOTIONS AMONGMIDDLE EASTERNFACULTY

Michael Hillmann was pro­moted to full professor; FedwaMalti-Douglas became a tenuredprofessor; and Elizabeth Ferneaachieved the rank of Senior Lec­turer in The University ofTexasSystem. These changes becomeeffective September of 1986.

Professor Hillmann teachescourses in the Persian language,Persian literature, and contem­porary Iranian culture. He is theauthor of numerous articles andseveral books, including PersianCarpets (1984), the first scholarlyintroduction in any language tocontemporary Persian carpetdesigns. Hillmann is also theeditor of the comparative litera­ture journal Literature East andWest, which will publish two spe­cial issues in 1986: False Dawn:Persian Poems by Nader Naderpourand Nationalism and Asian Litera­tures. Professor Hillmann serves

as an associate editor ofthejour­nal Iranian Studies. He has twobooks scheduled for publicationin 1986: A Lonely Woman: ForughFarrokhzad (1935-1967) and HerPoetry and hanian Culture: APersianist View.

Professor Fedwa Malti­Douglas is a native of Lebanonand received her higher educa­tion in the U.S. She earned anA.B. in Semitics from CornellUniversity and an M.A. andPh.D. in Near Eastern Lan­guages from UCLA. ProfessorMalti-Douglas also studied at theEcole Pratique des HautesEtudes in Paris. A former Cher­cheur Associe at the Centre Na­tional de la Recherche Scientifi­que in Paris, Malti-Douglas isnow a member of the Equipe deRecherche 060302, Documents,Histoire, et Pensee en IslamMedieval of the Centre Nationalde la Recherche Scientifique andthe University of Paris­Sorbonne. Professor Malti­Douglas has also served on thefaculty of the Salzburg Seminarin Salzburg as well as on manyeditorial boards and nationalgrant boards. She has traveledextensively in the Middle Eastand has published numerousstudies in Arabic, French, andEnglish. She taught at San DiegoState University and the Univer­sity of Virginia before coming tothe University.

Elizabeth Fernea is a writerand filmmaker, specializing inMiddle Eastern women and thefamily. She teaches in MiddleEastern Studies, Women's Stud­ies, and English. Her films in­clude Some Women of Marrakech(Granada Television, Londonand PBS Odyssey Series) and AVeiled Revolution and Women

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Under Siege (finalists in theAmerican Film Festival). Booksinclude Women and the Family inthe Middle East: New Voices ofChange; The Arab World: PersonalEncounters (with Robert Fernea);A Street in Marrakech; Guests oftheSheik; Middle Eastern MuslimWomen Speak (with Basima Bezir­gan); and Texas Women in Politics(with Marilyn Duncan). She is afrequent lecturer to universities,women's groups, and policygroups on Middle Eastern wom­en, the family, Third World de­velopment, roles for women,and family planning.

FACULTY AND STAFFNEWS

Peter Abboud (Arabic)spent two weeks during Decem­ber in the Middle East visitingEgypt, Jordan, and Syria on be­half of Middlebury College inVermont in order to recruit fac­ulty and acquire video materialsfor teaching purposes. In Egypt,he met with the Minister of Cul­ture and the Director of theRadio and TV Union. In Damas­cus, he met with the Ministers ofCulture and Education and theDirector General of SyrianRadio and TV. Of special inter­est to Professor Abboud was ob­taining video programs usingmodern standard Arabic.

Aman Attieh (Arabic) wasinvited to present a paper en­titled "Human Rights and Edu­cation in Saudi Arabia" at a Con­ference on Human Rights andEducation held at CaliforniaState University in Long Beachon November 7-9. Dr. Attiehhas coauthored a chapter on"Education Free from Discrimi­nation: The Cases of India andSaudi Arabia" in a forthcoming

hook entitled Education and Hu­man Rights to be published byPergamon Press Limited.

James A. Bill (Govern­ment) visited the Middle East ona I5-day research trip to Jordan,Jerusalem, and the PalestinianWest Bank in December. In thefall, he lectured at the Universityof Michigan, the University ofChicago, the U.S. MilitaryAcademy, Villanova University,and the Foreign Service Insti­tute in Washington, D.C. In Jan­uary, he lectured at the Univer­sity of North Carolina at Char­lotte and at Davidson College. InFebruary, Professor Bill deliv­ered a keynote lecture in theSidore Distinguished LectureSeries at the University of NewHampshire. The title of his pre­sentation was "Liberation The­ology and Populist Islam: Catho­lics and Shi'ites in the ThirdWorld."

Paul English (Geography)won the Presidential AssociatesTeaching Excellence Award inOctober of 1985. The cashaward, given for excellence inundergraduate teaching, is pro­vided for eight faculty memberseach year through giftsfrom the President's Associates,a grou p of donors whomoney to the University Presi­dent to be used at his discretion.

Elizabeth Fernea (GYlES)has been appointed to the Advi­sory Council of GeorgetownUniversity's Center for Contem­porary Arab Studies. She is alsocotranslator, with Trevor Ie Gas­sick of the University of Michi­gan, of the novel Wild Thorns bySahar Khalifeh. The story of lifeon the West Bank has just beenpublished in London by Al-SaqiBooks.

Robert Fernea (Anthropol­ogy) went to Egypt as Presidentof the American Research Cen­ter of Egypt during January inorder to perform various ac­tivities on behalf of that organi­zation. He also visited NewNubia near Komombo in orderto gather information for a pa­per on the subject of Nubianresettlement.

M. A. Jazayery (Persian andCMES) met with a delegation ofscholars from the Institute ofContemporary InternationalRelations of the People's Re­public of China on December10,1985. The group was visitingthe U.S. as a part of an exchangeprogram. Professor Jazayeryspoke to the group about theCenter's programs. His presen­tation was followed by a dialogueabout the current conditions inthe Middle East.

Guliz Kuruoglu (Turkish)has been elected to the Board ofDirectors of the newly estab­lished Association of Teachersof Turkish, which was foundedat the 1985 MESA meeting. Thegoals of the Association are tostandardize Turkish texts and tofacilitate communication amongteachers of Turkish.

Fedwa Malti.Douglas(Arabic) had an article, "Ma­qamat and Adab: al-Maqama al­Madiriyya of al-Hamadhani,"appear in the]oumal ofthe Ameri­can Oriental 105 (1985).Professor Malti-Douglas has justcompleted, jointly with Dr. A.Douglas, a book on the compara­tive politics of French and Egyp­tian comics, to be published bythe Centre d'Etudes et de Docu­mentation Economiques Juridi­ques et Sociales in Cairo.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat(Art History) has received a re­search grant from the DeutscherAkademischer Austauschdienst(German Academic ExchangeService). She plans to conductresearch on archaeological to­kens from ancient Mesopotamiaand Syria in West Berlin duringthe summer 1986. She has re­cently published the articles,"Tonmarken und Bil­derschrift," in Das Alte1·tum, Vol.31, No.2, 1985; and "Avant laNaissance des Chiffres" in Inter­nationale de l'hnaginai1'e, Vol 2,1985.

Eisig Silberschlag (Re­search Associate, CMES) at­tended the International Con­gress of PEN in New York theweek of January 12-18. Thetheme was "The Writer's Imagi­nation and the Imagination ofthe State." He participated in thediscussions and met with someof the 600 writers present frommany countries, including AmosOz (a recent lecturer for theCenter).

Caroline Williams (Ar­chitecture) has had her revisionof Richard B. Parker's IslamicMonuments in Cairo: A PracticalGuide come out recently. Thebook was published by Ameri­can University in Cairo Pressand is being distributed in thiscountry by Columbia UniversityPress. She also will be giving apaper, "Women and the Arts:An Historical Review," at the11 th Symposium at GeorgetownUniversity in April. The Sym­posium is dedicated to "Womenand Arab Society."

LECTURESThe Center sponsors in

cooperation with other centers

and departments a number ofguest lectu reI's.

David Francis of the UTDepartment of Classics pre­sented a program in Septemberentitled "Image, Word andCeremony." He discussed withthe aid of slides the influence ofPersian art on preliterateGreece.

In October Moshe Lissak, amember of the Sociology De­partment of The Hebrew Uni­versity of Jerusalem, spoke on"Israeli Society and its DefenseEstablishment: the Social andPolitical Impact of a ProtractedViolent Conflict." The lecturewas cosponsored with the De­partments of Government andSociology and the UniversityPublic Lectures Committee.

Bahnam N. Abulsoof cameto the University in November tospeak on "Recent Excavationsand Surveys in Iraq." Dr. Abul­soof is General Director of Ar­cheology in the Northern Sectorof the Republic of Iraq. His lec­ture was cosponsored with theDepartment of Anthropology.

Also in November, the Uni­versity was visited by MiladHanna, Chairman of the Hous­ing Committee in the People'sAssembly, the lower house ofEgypt's Parliament. Dr. Hanna,who is also an author, lectured

on "Problems of Sectarian Rela­tions in Egypt." His speech wascosponsored with the Depart­ment of Oriental and AfricanLanguages and Literatures. Dr.Hanna was visiting the U.S.under the auspices of the U.S.Information Agency.

The Departments of Linguis­tics and Oriental and AfricanLanguages and Literaturessponsored Abdelkader FassiFehri, from Mohamed V Uni­versity in Rabat, Morocco, to lec­ture at the University. He spokein December on "Some Signifi­cant Questions in Arabic ClauseStructure."

The Department of Orien­tal and African Languages andLiteratures brought BaruchLink in February to speak on"Thematic and Poetic Aspects ofthe Modern Hebrew Novel." Dr.Link is a Visiting Scholar at Har­vard University and a VisitingAssistant Professor at HebrewCollege in Boston.

Etel Adnan, Lebanesenovelist, poet, and short storywriter, spoke on "Literature andthe Lebanese Civil War" in Feb­ruary. Her lecture was cospon­sored with the Department ofOriental and African Languagesand Literatures and the Wom­en's Studies Program.

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OUTREACH PROGRAM

The Resource Center andOutreach Office had a very ac­tive fall semester and have plansfor a busy spring and summer.During the fall the ResourceCenter put on a photographic

exhibit of Turkish families inTexas for the annual meeting ofthe Texas Association of MiddleEast Scholars. The ResourceCenter also hosted a group oftwenty student leaders fromArabic-speaking countries to alunch of tamales and tacos. Thelunch gave these students, whowere here on a month-long visitarranged by the U.S. Informa­tion Agency, an opportunity tosocialize with students and fac­ulty.

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In November the Outreachstaff attended the Middle EastStudies Association meeting inNew Orleans. There they dis­played a set of seven slide pro­grams developed by the Centerat the special workshop held forarea teachers by the Middle EastOutreach Council.

The Outreach staff beganthe spring semester by participa­ting in a workshop in Houstonon "Internationalizing theHumanities Curriculum." Thisworkshop for junior and com­munity college language, litera­ture, art, and music teachers wasorganized by the Consortium ofGulf Coast Teachers.

For the summer, two teach­er workshops are planned. Thefirst, organized in conjunctionwith Austin Independent SchoolDistrict, is a week-long work­shop for sixth-grade teachers onthe history, geography, society,religions, and arts of the MiddleEast. It will be held June 9-13.Another one- or two-day work­shop on "Current Issues in theMiddle East" will be held duringthe week of August 5. Thisworkshop is being sponsored byRegion 13 of the Texas Educa­tion Agency. For information,please contact Angela Thomp­son at the Center.

SUMMER PROGRAMOF WESTERNCONSORTIUM

The Western Consortiumof University Centers of MiddleEast Studies will present an in­tensive summer program at theUniversity of Utah in Salt LakeCity. The summer program al­lows students to complete oneyear of language study in first-

and second-year Arabic or Heb­rew, or first year in Persian orTurkish. In addition, areastudies courses will be offered ingeography, history, religion, lit­erature, political science, andsociology.

The Western Consortiumcom':ts of a group of Centersfrom the University of Arizona;University of California, Ber­keley; University of California,Los Angeles; Portland StateUniversity; University of Texas,Austin; University of Utah; andUniversity of Washington. Eachsummer one institution hosts asummer program to enable stu­dents to have a period of inten­sive study before going back totheir own institutions. Informa­tion is available at the Center onthis summer's program. En­quiries and requests for furtherinformation should be ad­dressed to Middle East Center,Building 413, University ofUtah, Salt Lake City, Utah84112.

NEW MIDDLEEASTERN COURSE INBUSINESS SCHOOL

A new graduate course hasbeen offered to MBA and Mid­dle East Studies students thisspring. Professor Kate Gillespieteaches "International Market­ing and Middle East Markets,"listed as MES 381 and IB 395.Besides learning the basics ofinternational marketing, stu­dents research the potential ofexporting or manufacturing acertain product in a target Mid­dle East market. Although moststudents are U.S. citizens, a largeFrench component is also pre­sent in the class this semester.

STUDENT NEWS

The Center would like towelcome a number of new stu­dents in Middle Eastern Studies.Working on Turkish Studies arenew students Pinar and JohnVanderlippe. Pinar is a graduatestudent in Sociology and John, agraduate student in History.Working on a Masters in MiddleEastern Studies is Keith Nichols.Keith comes here from Yemen,where he was with the U.S. Of­fice of Military Cooperation. Heis obtaining his degree under theForeign Area Officer Programof the Army. A second-semesterPh.D. student in Government isHamid Reza Razavi. Hamid isfrom Iran. And Patricia Pevotois working on an M.A. in Heb­rew studies.

New undergraduate stu­dents seeking interdisciplinarydegrees in Middle EasternStudies are Alexander Ross andAsma Hatem Abughazaleh.Mohammad Arami is pursuing aB.A. in Persian Studies.

The Center would like alsoto congratulate students wholately have completed degreesconcentrating on the :MiddleEast. Elhami Afifi received hisPh.D. in Linguistics. His disser­tation was entitled "LinguisticPerspectives of InterlingualTranslation. Betsy Folkinswrote a Master's thesis entitled"Social Transformation of Pales­tinian Society." In the Geogra­phy Department, Barbara Par­menter received an M.A. uponcompletion of the thesis, "To­ward a Geography of Home:Palestinian Literature and theSense of Place." "Afterlife inWorld Religion: An Overview ofMajor Concepts and a Baha'i

Perspective" was the title of Far­naz Sheikhzadeh-Zavareh'sthesis. Gregg Ness wrote a thesisentitled "Corporate PoliticalRisk Assessment Before and Af­ter the Iranian Revolution," andMichael Nobel did a Master'sreport on "Impressions of Vio­lence: The Role of Terrorism inLibyan Foreign and DomesticPolicy."

EXCAVATION ATTEL YIN'AM

Tel Yin'am, in the easternlower Galilee of Israel, has anextremely long history of hu­man occupation. Its soils weretrod by Stone Age man, Canaan­ites, Israelites, Assyrians, Chris­tians, and Jews. The site was firstoccupied around 7000 B.C. andfinally abandoned around 500A.D.

Professor Harold Liebowitzhas directed excavations at TelYin'am from 1976 to the pre­sent, under the sponsorship ofthe Department of Oriental andAfrican Languages and Litera­tures and the Center. The pro­ject is designed as an advancedresearch project and as a fieldschool and laboratory for gradu­ate and undergraduate studentsinterested in Near Eastern ar­chaeology. Students havehelped uncover houses, pots,vessels, ovens, streets, andjewelry of the ancients who havelived at the site.

Because of the significanceof findsat Tel Yin'am, Encyclope­dia Britannica singled out TelYin'am for publication in its1986 Science Yearbook, and arti­cles have been requested by theIsrael Exploration Society for itsnew Encyclopedia of Excavations

and by Anchor Bible for its An­chor Bible Dictionary.

In the summer of 1986,Liebowitz and volunteer helpersplan to continue excavation ofTel Yin'am and to explore ini­tially two neighboring sites. TheUniversity is offering credit forcourses taught during the digand some scholarship funding isavailable. Those wishing to par­ticipate in the excavation, sched­uled for June 18 to July 29,1986, may contact ProfessorLiebowitz at the Department ofOriental and African Lan­guages, The University ofTexasat Austin, 2601 University Ave.,Austin, Texas 78712.

TURKISHASSOCIATIONFORMED

During the fall semester, agroup of students formed theTurkish-American UniversityStudents Association (TAUSA).The purpose of the organizationis to bring together the Turkishcommunity in Austin and tohelp recent arrivals adapt moreeasily to their new homes.TAUSA will provide informa­tion about Turkish culturethrough exhibitions, lectures,films, and other activities, some­times in conjunction with vari~

ous departments of the Univer­sity. At a recent slide showpresented by the group, 35 stu­dents, faculty, and interested in­dividuals attended.

Gonul Erhan is Presidentand Guliz Kuruoglu is FacultyAdvisor. Dr. Kuruoglu can bereached at the Department ofOriental and African Lan­guages.

FIFTH ANNUALMEETING OFTAMES

The Texas Association ofMiddle East Scholars held its 5thAnnual Meeting on the Univer­sity campus in October. Theopening speech was delivered byAlan Fisher of the Departmentof History at Michigan StateUniversity. Professor Fisherspoke on 'The Role of the Turksin Middle Eastern History."Four panels were conductedover the next two days, one eachon the Arab World, Iran, Israel,and Turkey.

Moderator for the panel onIsrael was Aaron Bar-Adon(Hebrew, UT Austin). Panelistswere Harold Liebowitz (Heb­rew, UT Austin), Virginia Tim­mons (Foreign Language Edu­cation, UT Austin), and Avra­ham Zilkha (Hebrew, UT Aus­tin).

Moderator for the panel onTurkey was Tom Thompson(Anthropology, Incarnate WordCollege). Panelists were DonaldQuataert (History, University ofHouston), jenny White (An­thropology, UT Austin), GulizKuruoglu (Turkish, UT Aus­tin), and Professor Fisher.

Moderator for the panel onthe Arab World was Kate Gilles­pie (Marketing, UT Austin).Panelists were Robert Holz (Ge­ography, UT Austin), Hans Lof­gren (Economics, UT Austin),and Ali Al-Tai (The League ofArab States, Dallas).

Moderator for the panel onIran was Gregory Rose (Govern­ment, UT Austin). Panelistswere jane Hathaway (History,UT Austin), Poopak Taati(Sociology, UT Austin), K~.lrt

Mendenhall (Government, UTAustin), Paul Blank (Geogra­phy, Oklahoma State Univer­sity), and Professor Thompson.

President M. A. jazayery(Persian, UT Austin) presided atthe Luncheon and BusinessMeeting.

AWARD TO FERNEAS

The Arab World, Personal En­counters, by Elizabeth and RobertFernea, has won The Texas In­stitute of Letters Carr P. CollinsAward. The $5,000 cash awardis given each year for the bestbook of nonfiction written by aTexas author or by an outsideron the subject of Texas. judgesfor the nonfiction category thisyear were Nicholas Lemann,Contributing Editor of TexasMonthly; Professor james Earlyof the English Department atSouthern Methodist University;and novelist james Kunetka.

In their book, the Ferneaswrite about places and people asthey first knew them in the ArabMiddle East, and then take thereader back to the same loca­tions years later. The focusranges from literary circles inBeirut to mountain villages inYemen, a family dinner inMorocco, Bir Zeit University onthe West Bank of Israel, jor­dan's royal family, Iraqi exiles inCairo, Nomadic Bedouins, and aPalestinian refugee camp. Afterdescribing the differencescaused by changing conditionsover the past 25 years for thepeoples of these countries, theFerneas comment in each caseon possible causes for thechanges.

CONFERENCE ONMIDDLE EASTERNLITERATURE

The Middle Eastern Litera­tures Seminar, a scholarly groupfounded in 1985, will meet at theUniversity April 18-20. De­voted to the study ofliterature inArabic, Persian, Hebrew, andTurkic languages, the MiddleEastern Literatures Seminar(MLS) is associated with thescholarly journal Edebiyat. Thecurrent president and organizerof the conference is FedwaMalti-Douglas, associate profes­sor of Arabic at the University.

The sessions of the Aprilmeeting will take place in theDobie Room of the Peter T.Flawn Academic Center. Speak­ers and commentators will in­clude jerome Clinton (Prince­ton); Raymond Scheindlin(Jewish Theological Seminary);David jacobson (U niversity ofPennsylvania); William Hana­way (University of Pennsylva­nia); Sasson Somekh (Tel AvivUniversity and Princeton);Cemal Kafadar (Princeton); Wil­liam Hickman (University ofCalifornia, Berkeley); Muham­mad Siddiq (University of Wash­ington, Seattle); Roger Allen(University of Pennsylvania);Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (Uni­versity of Washington, Seattle);Sarah Moment Atis (Universityof Wisconsin, Madison); j. C.Burgel (Universitat Bern);Michael Beard (University ofNorth Dakota); Walter Andrews(University of Washington, Seat­tle); and Professor Malti­Douglas.

Editor: Annes McCann-Baker

Production, Design & Photog'raphs:Diane Watts

MIDDLE EASTCOLLECTION

Located on the eighth floorof the Main Building, the Mid­dle East Collection, headed byAbazar Sepehri, contains morethan 55,000 volumes of Arabic,Persian, and Turkish books andbound serials; and subscribes tosome 480 periodicals and news­papers in those languages. Itshares a beautiful reading room

The University of Texas at AustinCenter JOT Middle Eastern StudiesAustin, Texas 78712

with the Asian Collection, wherecurrent issues of periodicals andnewspapers are available forvisitors. The Reading Room alsohouses a selected number of re­ference materials in its threemain languages, as well as somein Western languages. The bulkof the Western-language mono­graphic and serial titles and theHebrew-language publicationsare located in the Perry­Castenada Library.

The Collection su pportsteaching and research activitiesin the area of Middle EasternStudies and is most used by fac­ulty and students affiliated withthe Center for Middle EasternStudies, the Department ofOriental and African Languagesand Literatures, and variousother departments offeringcourses related to the MiddleEast. It is open also to the entireUniversity community, as are allunits of the General Libraries.The Collection publishes anddistributes in April of each yeara selected, annotated list of itsnew acquisitions. This publica­tion, titled "the Z note," is avail­able upon request from both theCenter for Middle EasternStudies and the Middle East Col­lection.