<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Tue 10 Oct 2006</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<A href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <A href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</A>]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</A> with first line reading:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:U Texas recruiting talented grad students</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 10 Oct 2006</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:"Mahmoud M Al-Batal" <<A href="mailto:albatal@austin.utexas.edu">albatal@austin.utexas.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:U Texas recruiting talented grad students</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Dear Colleagues,</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B><BR></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> The Department of Middle Eastern Studies (DMES) at the University of Texas at Austin is proactively recruiting talented graduate students this year for our programs in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian Studies. I would like to call on your goodwill to help spread the word to qualified applicants you might know.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Our degree programs lead to an MA or PhD in Arabic, Hebrew or Persian Studies, though we are able to accommodate students interested in Islamic or Jewish Studies under the aegis of the three degree plans.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> With the support the Dean of Liberal Arts and the UT Provosts' Office, we have been able in the past six years to add</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I> </I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">thirteen hires:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Mohammad Mohammad</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Arabic linguistics),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Samer Ali</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Arabic literature),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Karen Grumberg</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Jewish and Hebrew Studies),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Hina Azam</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Arabic and Islamic Studies),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Ami Pedahzur</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Middle Eastern Studies and Government),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Yoav Di-Capua</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Middle Eastern Studies and History),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Jason Brownlee</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Middle Eastern Studies and Government),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Fehintola Mosadomi</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Yoruba language and culture),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Sonia Seeman</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Middle Eastern Ethnomusicology) and</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> George Gavrilis</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Middle Eastern Studies and Government), as well as</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Nader Morkus</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Arabic language),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Kristen Brustad</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Arabic sociolinguistics) and</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Mahmoud Al-Batal</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> (Arabic pedagogy). </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> DMES has also received substantial financial support for graduate education from the College and the Office of Graduate Studies in the form of 11 TA positions for graduate students in Arabic, 3 in Hebrew, and 2 in Persian. Moreover, as a Title VI institution, we are able to offer FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) fellowships to support advanced study of Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. Beyond that, the Department is usually given two prestigious recruitment grants for the most qualified applicants. In total, while funding levels may change, we expect to able to admit and fund approximately twelve graduate students for Fall</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0008" face="Verdana"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">2007. We may admit a small number of additional students without funding.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Our deadline for admissions and funding applications is</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> Dec. 11, 2006.</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B><BR></B></FONT><A href="http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD"><B>http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/</B></FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> <</FONT><A href="http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> ></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> If you or your friends would like more information about UT, DMES or the City of Austin, please feel free to contact me off list. I will also attend the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Assn (MESA) in Boston MA, Nov 18-21.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><A href="http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> <</FONT><A href="http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA05/mesa05.htm</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> ></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> I would be happy to meet and discuss our programs. Dr. Raizen, DMES Chair, and Kamran Aghaie, DMES Associate Chair and Director of UT's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, will also be at MESA, and will be glad to meet with you as well.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Below, I have included a comprehensive list of active faculty who contribute to our graduate curriculum:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Peter F. Abboud</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Arabic Studies, Arabic syntax and phonology; Arabic dialectology; medieval Arabic grammar and grammarians; socio-linguistics; history of the Arabic language</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Kamran S. Aghaie</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies, History. Islamic studies, Shi'ism, modern Iranian history, and modern Middle Eastern history; secondary areas of interest include world history, historiography, religious studies, nationalism, gender studies and economic history</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Mahmoud Al-Batal</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professor, Arabic Studies and Linguistics. Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic as a second language.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Kamran Asdar Ali</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology. Gender, development, health, political economy, critique of development, post-colonialism, labor history, Middle East, Egypt, South Asia</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Samer Mahdy Ali</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, Arabic Studies, Comparative Literature and Islamic Studies. Islamic kingship, court literature and patronage, classical historiography, modern and medieval folklore and folklife, Arab women poets, oral performance of Homeric epic, literary criticism.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Hina Azam</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, Islamic, Arabic and Religious Studies. Islamic law and jurisprudence, women and Islam. Qur'an, Hadith, Sufism, theology, ethics.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Aaron Bar-Adon</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Sociolinguistics and language acquisition; Hebrew and Arabic language, literature, and linguistics</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Jason Brownlee</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and Government, Democracy and democratization in the Middle East.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Kristen Brustad</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Arabic Studies and Linguistics. Arabic dialects, sociolinguistics and Arabic language pedagogy.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Mounira Charrad</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and Sociology. Gender and women's rights; political sociology; development; and comparative historical methodology</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Diana K. Davis</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and Geography. Medical geography, ethnoveterinary medicine, political ecology, gender, environment, and development, pastoral societies, range ecology, gender, North Africa.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Yoav Di-Capua</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and History. Modern Arab Thought with an emphasis on Egypt.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>David J. Eaton</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and LBJ School of Public Affairs, Water; natural resources; agriculture; health; urban services; water management in the Jordan River Basin; public administration, management, and dispute resolution</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Yildiray Erdener</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Senior Lecturer, Turkish Studies. Turkish language; folklore and ethnomusicology of Turkey and the Turkic Republics. Turkish minstrel music, folklore and music of the Middle East and Central Asia</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>George Gavrilis,</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and Government. Politics of the Middle East.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Mohammad Ghanoonparvar</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Persian Studies and Comparative Literature, 20th century Persian literature; comparative literary history and criticism; methodology and practice of literary translation</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Kate Gillespie</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies and McComb School of Business. International marketing; macromarketing</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Karen Grumberg</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, Hebrew Studies. Contemporary Hebrew literature, American Jewish literature, Comparative Jewish literatures, Mizrahi writing, women's writing in Israel</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Barbara J. Harlow,</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Professor, Arabic Studies and English, Colonial and resistance literature of the Middle East and Africa</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Clement Moore Henry</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and LBJ School of Public Affairs. Comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa; financial systems and business elites; international business (oil and political risk analysis).</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Michael Craig Hillmann</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Persian Studies. Persian language and literature; Iranian art and culture; literary biography</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Harold A. Liebowitz</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Archaeology and art history of the land of Israel in the Biblical and Greco-Roman periods; art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East with particular emphasis on the Late Bronze to Mamluk Periods in Israel, Jordan, and Syria; daily life in Ancient Israel; material culture and literature of the period of the Mishnah and Talmud; medieval Jewish illuminated manuscripts from Spain, and Old Testament narrative painting from the Byzantine period until the Renaissance</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>William Roger Louis</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies, History, British Studies. British Empire in the Middle East, especially in the post-1945 period; the contemporary Middle East</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Ian Manners</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and Geography. Resource management with particular reference to ecological and socioeconomic processes influencing decision-making; ecologically sustainable development; environmental impact assessment and mitigation</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Abraham Marcus</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies, History and Arabic Studies. Arab and Ottoman history; Islamic history; social history of the Middle East; music cultures of the Middle East</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Mohammad A. Mohammad</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Arabic Studies. Linguistics and the Arabic language</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Nader Morkus</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Lecturer, Arabic Studies. Discourse analysis, intercultural communication between Arabs and Americans, the use of technology to enhance intercultural communication. Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Fehintola Mosadomi</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, Yoruba language and culture, Yoruba women.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Adam Zachary Newton</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies, English, Jewish Studies. Comparative Jewish literatures; modern Jewish thought; 19th-century British, 20th century-American literature</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Ami Pedahzur</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies and Government. Political extremism in Israel, political violence and political parties.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Esther L. Raizen</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Modern and classical Hebrew language, linguistics and literature; courses taught: Hebrew as a foreign language; Jewish history and culture; Computer-assisted instruction and computational linguistics; Academic advising and student development</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Sonia Seeman</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Ethnomusicology, "gypsy" music of Turkey.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Yaron Shemer</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies and School of Communication (Radio Television Film). Israeli film; Hebrew language and cultures</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Faegheh S. Shirazi</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Textiles, dress, and material culture in the Middle East; the meanings of veiling</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Denise A. Spellberg</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, History. Middle East history and religion; medieval Islamic history; women's studies</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Helene Tissieres</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Assistant Professor, French and Italian, Middle Eastern Studies, Francophone African Literatures.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Karin S. Wilkins</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Middle Eastern Studies and School of Communication (Radio Television Film). Development communication as it relates to international health, population and environmental issues, media studies</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Monica Yaniv</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Lecturer, Hebrew Studies. Hebrew language and pedagogy.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B>Abraham Zilkha</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, Associate Professors, Hebrew, Arabic and Jewish Studies. Hebrew language and linguistics; modern Israel</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> This is a skeleton of UT's human resources related to the Middle East. Please feel free to peruse the websites of other depts for faculty in Government, Communication (Radio Television Film), Linguistics, School of Education (Foreign Language Education), Spanish and Portuguese, French and Italian, Architecture, Art and Art History, Information Science (Library School), Law, LBJ School of Public Affairs, etc. MES grad students are encouraged to take classes outside MES if they complement</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0008" face="Verdana"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">their program of work.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> One facet that is perhaps unique to UT is our offering of</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><B> five</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> registers of Arabic: modern standard, classical, Qur'anic, as well as Levantine and Egyptian colloquial.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Moreover, the Dept of Middle Eastern Studies stresses the interconnections between the Persian, Hebrew and Arabic traditions as well as Islamic and Jewish Studies. For example, in the next five years, Prof. Grumberg and I plan to develop a course that particularly focuses on the intersections of Hebrew and Arabic cultures in medieval Spain, and of course in modern times, stressing the writings of Mizrahi authors and Palestinian writers who write in Hebrew (such as Anton Shammas). A similar course is planned for Hebrew and Arabic grammar.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> There is ample info about UT's libraries</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0008" face="Verdana"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">at</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/help/librarylist.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> ></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> As well as the Middle Eastern Collection</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/melp/index.html</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> ></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> which includes holdings in English, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Tajiki and Kurdish housed mostly at the Perry-Castańeda (Main) Library (PCL),</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> ></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Rare books and manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><A href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> <</FONT><A href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> ></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Please feel free to ask me questions.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> I wish you all the best,</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Samer Ali</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> --</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Samer M. Ali, Ph.D.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Assistant Professor</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Arabic Studies</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Comparative Literature</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Graduate Advisor,</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Dept of Middle Eastern Studies</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> \\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Dept of Middle Eastern Studies</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> University of Texas at Austin</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> One University Station, F9400</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Austin, TX 78712</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> 512-471-3881</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> 512-471-7834 (fax)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Fall Office Hours: W 2-5pm, WMB 6.112</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Learn more about Arabic Studies at UT?</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><A href="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Know the US Public Dept?</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><A href="http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> <</FONT><A href="http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> --</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Samer M. Ali, Ph.D.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Assistant Professor</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Arabic Studies</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Comparative Literature</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Graduate Advisor,</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Dept of Middle Eastern Studies</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> \\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\//\\</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Dept of Middle Eastern Studies</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> University of Texas at Austin</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> One University Station, F9400</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Austin, TX 78712</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> 512-471-3881</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> 512-471-7834 (fax)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Fall Office Hours: W 2-5pm, WMB 6.112</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> Learn more about Arabic Studies at UT?</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT><A href="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FD">http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/arabic/</FONT></FONT></A><BR><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 10 Oct 2006</DIV></BODY></HTML>