Civilization Sequence Program

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RESEARCH PROJECTS
 

Living on the edge: Sabah al-Kharrat Zwayn's poetic writings

A new sensibility shapes the contemporary Lebanese novel. Putting in question tradition, family, and self, it creates a new writing/écriture as Roland Barthes calls it distinguishing between style, language, and écriture. The essay illustrates this Barthian triad and underlines the sharp edge which defines Zwayn's posture in this last decade of the century. Research completed, forthcoming in Journal of Arabic Literature, Leiden: E.J. Brill, No. 2, XXX, July 1999. M.T. Amyuni.
 
 

The Arab artist's role in society: 3 case studies, Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Elias Khoury

In an increasingly repressive Arab World the artist's role has acquired an urgency that is well illustrated by three leading novelists in their respective countries. Mahfouz has vehemently protested, throughout his long career, against corruption and coercion of all sorts. Salih, in his turn, broke all romantic illusions about the North/South encounters, and went beyond in a plea for more balanced relationships. Elias Khoury, as well, has used irony, satire, and parody to shake up his reader. The artist is, indeed, "the antenna of the race" as Ezra Pound once put it. Research completed, forthcoming in Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures, Oxford, England, July 1999. M.T. Amyuni.
 
 

A tribute to the poet and playwright Georges Schehadé

First behind the roses there are no monkeys/There is a child with tormented eyes.

Schehadé's was a new voice in Lebanese letters and remains ever new, ever astonishing and refreshing. His poetry and very rich poetic theater partake of the surrealist vein which invaded the Parisian literary scene as Schehadé’s poetry was published in France and his plays performed in the Parisian theatres and in the world at large. An absurdist world vision, as well, runs through his fabulous world alleviated by tenderness, humour, and a sense of community encompassing a universal brotherhood of man, animal and plant. Passers by, homeless people, guests at incredible places, modern Bedouins rooted nowhere, people Schehadé's world. Inns, shops, taverns, boats, roads and squares reflect indefinite places in his theatre. They function as metaphors for a vision of the transience of life and the futility of all endeavors. Research completed forthcoming in Comparative and General Literature "Arabic-Western Literary Relations". The University of Indiana, Summer 1999. M.T. Amyuni.
 
 

A panorama of Lebanese women's writings: 1975-1995

Fiction and poetry written by women flourished in war-torn Beirut and was written in Arabic, French, and English, the three languages often used by the intelligentsia of Lebanon. The study proceeds from Jean Makdisi's Beirut Fragments; A War Memoir, to the short stories of Daisy al-Amir and Emily Nasrallah, to Nazik Yared and Thérèse Aouad Basbous's novels, and ends with an analysis of the poetry of Hoda al-Naamani, Nadia Tueni, Claire Gebeyli, and Samira Aghacy. Research completed forthcoming in Women and War: Lebanon, a Case Study, ed. Lamia Rustum Shehadeh. Florida: University Press of Florida, November 1999. M.T. Amyuni.
 
 

Between myth and reality: Elias Khoury's Wounded Beirut

Reality for Khoury is a figment of one's imagination, which turns into alluring myths with the passage of time. The author is at the vanguard of the "new novel" in "Wounded Beirut." His fiction embodies ruptures, fragmentations, a rhetorical piling up of incomplete sentences, syncopated questions, unfinished statements, hallucinatory and oneiric images, in short, ambiguities of all sorts that baffle the reader. In form and content, Khoury's fiction reflects the major conflicts of war-torn Lebanon. Such conflicts, however, function as the springboard which allows him to broaden the scene and to suffuse it with fable and myth. Research completed forthcoming in Embald, Gunther, Jarrar, Neuwrith, eds., Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in Arabic Literature: Towards a New Hermeneutic Approach,"Beiruter Texte Und Studien, band 64". Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. (Forthcoming, 1999). M.T. Amyuni.
 
 

What has happened to the Arab psyche since the 60's? A study in a few literary masks

The essay starts with Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1966) which broke new grounds thematically and aesthetically on the Arab Scene. Salih's narrator bears no name in this novel and stands for the newly independent Arab intellectual who does not yet know who he is and what is his function in his own country. The study then explores the intellectual's stance in some of the novels of Naguib Mahfouz, and goes to Emile Habibi's Sa'eed, the "pessoptimist". It concludes with the Lebanese intellectual during the war period. Research completed forthcoming in a Festschrift for Issa Boullata eds. Wael B. Hallaq and Kamal Abdel Malek, Leiden: Brill, spring 2000. M.T. Amyuni
 
 

Contemporary Francophone literature by Lebanese women

A work in progress to be presented at the MESA annual meeting in Washington D.C., November 1999. The paper will analyze some of the poetry and prose of Etel Adnan, Andrée Chédid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, and Dominique Eddé. The four authors record the memory of a world that has passed away in Lebanon and the Arab nation in the long poem by Adnan L’Apocalypse Arabe, of tolerance gone by in Chédid's L'Enfant Multiple, of a dense short-circuit of history in Eddé's Lettre Posthume, while a burlesque satire La Femme du Notable by Khoury-Ghata parodies life in divided Beirut. M.T. Amyuni.
 
 

The literature of wounded Beirut

A book in progress in which I shall analyze the "War novels" of Beirut in the last quarter of the century. It will comprise a general introduction about the Beiruti cultural scene before the war (1975-1990), followed by chapters on Elias Khoury, Rashid al-Daif, Hoda Barakat, Abdo Wazen, Sabah Zwayn, and Rabih Jaber. A conclusion, a bibliography, and an index will end the volume. My analysis will attempt to show how the "new novel" in Beirut, in the wake of the "nouveau roman" in Paris, ushers in a new sensibility and new writing techniques. M.T. Amyuni.
 
 

Tayeb Salih, symbol of a culture

A book in progress with the following outline: (i) Dedication; (ii) Table of Contents; I. Preface; "A Voice from the West": C.E. Berkley; II. Introduction: Issa Boullata; III. Biographical Sketch on the Sudan in Africa: C.E. Berkley. IV. Interviews; V. Press articles: VI. The Short Stories: VII. The Novels: VIII. IX. Conclusion: "A Voice from the East": M.T. Amyuni: X. Bibliography. M.T. Amyuni and C.E. Berkley.*
 
 

Speaker intention and speech act intentionality—toward a critique of deconstructive reasoning

The work is a critique of Derridian Deconstruction, and is also a contribution to a general criticism of the most basic axioms taken for granted in so-called post-modernistic thinking. It returns to more rational-pragmatic positions in an American academic environment that (in especially language and literature departments) for some twenty-thirty years has been dominated by post-modern criticism of such positions. (Manuscript is completed, publication is pending [approximately 350 pages]). Supported by A.U.B. Mellon Research Grant for summer 1996 and URB summer 1998. P. Bornedal.
 
 

The mechanics of theory—philosophical essays

This project attempts to materialize interests from the previous 6-8 years. It consists of five philosophical essays. Present titles: 1) The Uses and Abuses of Pleasure—The Many Voices of John Stuart Mill. 2) The Paradoxes of the ‘Now’—The Theory of the Constitution of Time-consciousness in Brentano and Husserl. 3) The Will to Ontological Foundations—A Critical Reading of Heidegger’s Reading of Nietzsche. 4) How to Detect Intentions in Speech—The Failure of Grice and Schiffer’s Intentionalist Program. 5) Interpretation as Rigorous Science—A Juxtaposition of Gadamer and Popper. P. Bornedal.
 
 

Y?nis
 
 

Y?nis, al-Am?r Abu’l-Fath N?sir al-Juy?sh Sayf al-Isl?m Sharaf al-Isl?m, Y?nis al-R?m? al-Arman? al-H?fiz? (d. 16 Dhu’l-Hijja 526/1132), was the fourth of six Muslim Armenian F?timid viziers (1074-1163). A former maml?k of al-Afdal, in 516/1122-1123, Y?nis was appointed head of treasury by al-?mir‘s vizier Ma’m?n al-Bat?’ih?. The political career of Y?nis developed through his involvement in the events following the assassination of al-?mir. As a reward for his role in reinstating the Ism?‘?l? state, Y?nis was proclaimed vizier. A tough disciplinarian and man of hayba, Y?nis took reformistic measures and promoted a private regiment of military slaves known as the Y?nisiyya. Fearful of the growing power of the vizier during the nine months in office, al-H?fiz arranged his murder. Y?nis built two mosques: Masjid al-Fath and Masjid Y?nis completed posthumously by his two sons. In press in Encyclopedia of Islam —Second Ed., Leiden: E. J. Brill. S.B. Dadoyan.
 
 

The Armenian brotherhoods and Futuwwa and Akh organizations in the medieval Islamic world. The Armenization of Abbasid caliph al-Nasir’s Futuwwa reform project and literature

The paper presupposes the thesis that the histories of medieval Armenian and Islamic youth brotherhoods constitute a single theme in Near Eastern urbanism, because as primarily urban organizations, their career and culture were extra-religious, extra-establishment and extra-national. Similar to their Muslim counterparts, the Armenian brotherhoods were active elements in the development of Near Eastern cities and as such they interacted with and reflected changes in the region as whole. An immediate example to this effect was the application of the futuwwa reform program and literature of Abbasid caliph al-Nasir (575-622/1180-1225) in the principality of Erzinja½n in 1280. Establishing the link between this constitution (by Hovhannes Yerzenkatsi, d.1293) and Nasiri futuwwa texts is one of the major objectives of the study. From the fourteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, al-N?sir’s project was applied and experimented with in the Crimean, West Ukrainian, Polish and Rumanian centers of the Armenian Diaspora. In Proceedings of the Royal Institute Conference on Muslim Arab Civilization: The Non-Muslim Dimensions, Amman, Jordan, 1997. S.B. Dadoyan.
 
 

Islam and the Armenian universe: historicity and historic models

The paper is the abstract of very extensive research in Islamic-Armenian interactive history the geographical context, of which includes Upper Mesopotamia, the medieval Bilad al-Sham and Egypt. The period under consideration extends from the early years of the eighth century to the end of the fourteenth. The initial phases of this history originated in Arab rule over Armenia and similar to all the peoples of the region, Armenians were exposed to and interacted with both orthodox and dissident trends of Islam within and without the context of their establishment in a variety of manners. The research enlarges the area of study to bring out the historic models and through their analysis and classification to reconstruct a more complete image. More importantly, viewing the whole as a system, the paper seeks to derive the criteria for a systemic study of the historicity of Islamic-Armenian interactions. In Proceedings of the 19th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants—Transition and Change, Halle, Germany, 1998. S.B. Dadoyan.
 
 

The Armenian intermezzo in Bilad al-Sham: 10th to 12th centuries

What the paper calls the Armenian “Intermezzo” is the interval of a century and a half between the fall of the Bagratunis in Ani around 1046, and the establishment of the fourth dynasty in Cilicia in 1198, west and south of Armenia. For the first time in medieval Near Eastern history, this period is enframed as a singularity and studied as part of the history of Armenians in the Islamic world. Byzantine forced deportations and the eventual occupation of Armenia spread the nation throughout the Upper Mesopotamia and al-Sham. By the arrival of the Seljuks then the Franks, as clans, factions and territorial princes, Armenians were major elements in the local political-social landscape and acted as the third major power alongside the Turks and the Franks. Through the careers of these Armenians, both Christian and Muslim, a variety of patterns of interaction were generated which in turn require new perspectives. In Medieval Encounters, by E.J. Brill, 1999. As Proceedings of the Third Woodwork-Mindanao Symposium, Birmingham, UK. S.B. Dadoyan.
 
 

The Nasiri Futuwwa literature and the Brotherhood poetry of Hovhannes and Kostantin of Yerzenka: texts and contexts

In the light of the Amenization of the Nasiri futuwwa reform program in Erzinjan in 1280 and commonalities traced (in a previous paper) between the histories of Islamic and Armenian youth brotherhoods, the paper is a critical reading of the brotherhood poetry of Hovhannrs (d.1293) and Costantin (d. 1334) of Erzinjan (with some reference to the former’s Constitution for the Brotherhood of Erzinj?n) in the context of the general phenomenon of Islamic futuwwas and Anatolian akh?s. Of the Nasiri literature for the futuwwa which became available in Rum Seljuk, the following are directly referred to: al-N?sir’s official Decree for the futuwwa of Baghdad, Tuhfat al-Wasaya by al-Khartabirti, Kitab al-Futuwwa by Ibn al-Mi‘mar, an epistle on the futuwwa by Ibn al-Tusi (to the sama‘ of the brothers in Erzinjan), and selected verses from the Aya Sofia compendium of futuwwa texts. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Redefining Christian Identity—Christian Cultural Identities since the Rise of Islam—Groningen, The Netherlands, April, 1999. S.B. Dadoyan.
 
 

Islam and the Armenian universe historicity and historic models

The book is a first study of the historicity of Islamic-Armenian cultural political interactions through historic models. Socio-religious dissidence as embodied in the medieval Armenia. Sects marked the earliest model of synthesis as of the 8^th century. On the regional level, "twin-born" or the Digenes models were generated between the Christian West and the Muslim East. The political careers of the Muslim Armenians in al-Sham, Upper Mesopotamia and Egypt constituted an "intermezzo" between the fall of the third Armenian dynasty in 1046 and the rise of the fourth in Cilicia in 1198. The historic models in this context were: the Danishminds, the Nawikiyya, the Banu Boghousags, Philaretus and the Fatimid Armenians. During the 13^th and 14^th centuries, mutual images found expressions in Armenian philosophical and theological literature, suggesting further models of interaction. S. Dadoyan.
 
 

Islam and Armenian polemical strategies at the end of an era: Matteos Jughayetsi and Grigor Tatevatsi

Islam is rarely commented on in medieval Armenian literature. Within the last decade of the fourteenth century however, two authors devoted the subject special interest and wrote polemical and apologetic treatises. The first is Matteos Jughayetsi and the second his teacher Grigor Tatevatsi. To the latter’s text a previous paper is devoted by me, but the discovery of two other texts by Matteos, still unpublished, throws new light on the matter and enables us to draw broader generalizations. The paper concerns itself with tracing the knowledge these authors have of Islam and the image they draw of it, the circumstances and the motives of their polemical strategies at the end of an era, which was marked by sectarian troften linked with Islam and Islamic sects. Paper for The VIIIth General Conference of the Association Internationale des Etudes Armeniennes - Vienna, Sep. 1999. S.B. Dadoyan.
 
 

The philosophical legacy of Armenian sectarianism—4th to 14th centuries

The paper is a critical evaluation of medieval Armenian sectarianism as a cultural and social tradition and a first attempt to derive its intellectual dimensions and philosophical legacy. The sources are from historical, philosophical, apologetic and polemical fields and the method followed combines thematic and chronological approaches for greater contextuality. Furthermore, the nature of Armenian sectarianism, as conceived in this paper, expands the definition of philosophy and the data under study. Thus religious, moral, social and generally cultural concepts are traced to substantiate what can be identified as a sectarian worldview, parallel to and/or opposed to the outlook of “orthodox” institutions. Playing out existing dichotomies of heresy and orthodoxy but seeking a more comprehensive image, the paper brings out the various levels of Armenian thought and at the same time questions the assumption that grants the existence of a concept of a national cultural philosophy. Paper to be given at the Conference on Armenia—2000—Martin Luther University, Wittenberg, Germany, September 2000. S.B. Dadoyan.
 
 

Islamic esotericism: an “orthodox” metamorphosis in medieval Armenian philosophy

The paper reconstructs the status and the contribution of Hovhannes Yerzenkatsi (d.1293) a native of Erzinj?n, as the first medieval Armenian “Islamicist,” whose work played a key role in the development of the Armenian Renaissance and its humanism. He is the author of the concise summary of the 10th century encyclopedic compendium of sciences of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity (Ras?’il Ikhw?n al-Safa), his extensive cosmological treatise inspired from the latter and Sh?’? scholar al-T?s?’s works in these sciences, and his direct Armenization of the N?sir? futuwwa literature are presented and critically analyzed to substantiate the basic proposition of the paper. A first translation of the Views from the writings of Islamic philosophers is added as an Appendix, in addition to key excerpts from other philosophical treatises of Hovhann?s. Paper to be presented at the 20th Congress of the Union Eurepeenne des Arabisants et Armenisants—Arabists and Islamicists: Retrospects and Prospects, Leeds, UK, September 2001. S.B. Dadoyan.
 
 

Jamâ liyyâ t al-makâ n wa-tiqniyyâ t al-sard fì namâ dhij min ’l-riwâ ya al-c arabiyya al-mucâs ira

The presentation of space in literature, the verbal space, has been the subject of a number of modern critical inquiries. Space, not only implies the place in which a certain narrative occurs, but is rather an effective component in the formation of that narrative. Space in narrative is portrayed in a very complex way and cannot be reduced to mere description. It can be a space of action, a center of social values; or is at times registered by the senses; it can reflect moods and attitudes; as well as relations of power. Hence, we are dealing with “cultural space” or “anthropological space”. This study deals with the representation of space and narrative techniques in three modern Arabic Novels that deal with the theme of war, displacement, and changes in urban space. They can be read as representative samples for a new poetic style, a ‘nouveau roman’ in modern Arabic literature. The project was granted the Mellon Award for Summer 1998. M. Jarrar.
 
 
 

Critical edition of Baladhuri’s Ansab al-Ashraf, volume 1

The three manuscripts have been compared. The critical edition is in its final stage. (Supported by German Orient Institute, Beirut). M. Jarrar.
 
 

The Hanbali credo up to the end of the 3^rd/9^th century: kitab sharh al-sunna of Ghulam Khalil (d. 275/888)

A study of the development of the Ahl al-Sunna wa ’l-Jama‘a and the formulation of the Hanbali credo during the 3^rd/9^th century, based on a unique manuscript in the Zhahiriyya library. It includes a critical edition compared with the available sources, both printed and in manuscript form; and an English translation of the text. The critical edition has been prepared, the translation is in its final form and the study in an advanced stage. M. Jarrar and S. Günther*.
 
 

Women in the discourse of sheik Hussein Fadlallah

The aim of this paper is to examine and develop the theoretical bases and philosophy of modern Islamic fundamentalist discourses as they relate to women's rights and duties and their role in society in general. Many questions have been dealt with, such as those pertaining to the origin(s) of women's rights, the dialectical and religious justifications for such practices as well as the framework within which they would fit in the fundamentalist overview of society. L.R. Shehadeh.
 
 

Women in the discourse of Abu al-’A‘la al-Maududi

The aim of this paper is the same as the preceding one. Research completed. L.R. Shehadeh.
 
 

Women in the discourse of Sayyid Qutb

The aim of this paper is identical with the first two. Research is completed. L.R. Shehadeh.
 
 

Coverture in Lebanon

The aim of this paper is the study of the legal status of married women in the personal status codes of the Christian sects in Lebanon and how women, after marriage, are portrayed as chattels by the different sects. Research completed. L.R. Shehadeh.
 
 

Land, society and state in Qada `Ajlun (north Jordan), 1870-1940

A major long-term project with my wife, Martha Mundy, launched prior to joining AUB in 1993, analyzing all local documentation of four Jordanian villages (Ottoman and Mandate land registers, census records, court records) for the period 1870-1940, combined with interviews with older village members. Martha Mundy further researched the legal transformation during the late Ottoman period and official correspondence between the central government and local administration of the area. She has published four articles on this material and another two have recently been sent for publication. In summer 1999, we plan to devote two months to analyzing material from one particular village, partly in preparation for a major conference on the history of the family in the Middle East in Berkley, California in April 2000, and partly in the expectation that Martha will have a sabbatical leave for 2000-2001. We hope now to find time to write up the rich material we have researched. This has been impossible in the past few years due to our teaching loads at AUB and LSE, respectively. R.S. Smith.
 
 

Land tenure in Irsal

Part of a larger project, "Sustainable improvement of marginal lands in Lebanon: Irsal, a case study," organized by Dr. Shadi Hamadeh, Department of Animal Science, AUB. I examined the 1946-50 land registration records, mapping the village's property ownership pattern. My final report completing the first phase of research in December 1998 was analysis of an incomplete set of 1:5000 cadastral maps from the Zahlé Land Registry office. A second phase is under negotiation. I propose to consider the land registers alongside the maps. Irsal land tenure is of interest theoretically because of its huge areas, dry mountainous terrain and recent transition from agro-pastoralism. Research will also explore the little-known French cadaster in Lebanon and Syria, its continuities with the Ottoman system and comparisons with British systems in Trans-Jordan, Palestine and India. Interviews with older village members will complement map and register analysis to put flesh on dry bones of official discourse. R.S. Smith.
 
 

Historiography of Indian society

I was commissioned by Oxford University Press (Delhi) to write a 10,000 word article for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Indian historiography is a very lively field in which much work has appeared over the last six years, with which I had to come up to date— not easy from Lebanon where even basic journals are not available. The article was sent to the publishers in March 1999. The encyclopaedia will be published later in 1999. R.S. Smith.
 
 

Technoof imperial rule

During the last three years, I have been extending my doctoral research on land systems in British India by looking more generally at the development of pivotal techniques of European imperial rule (cartography, land registration and the census) during the first half of the nineteenth century, posing questions for comparison with Ottoman rule during the same period, and relating it to ways of imagining society and to the rise of sociology. The three papers I delivered to seminars or conferences in 1996-97 were all concerned with this theme (see the accompanying c.v.) One of these has recently been sent to the editor of a forthcoming publication, Huricihan Islamoglu-Inan (ed.), Constituting Property. A second is due to appear in a special number of Contributions to Indian Sociology and has to be submitted to the editor by July 1999. R.S. Smith.
 
 
 
 

ARTICLES, BOOKS AND REPORTS

 

Amyuni, M.T, La Paola Scala de Georges Shehadé. In La Francophonie au Liban, ed. Arbid, W., Dreyfus, S., Jouve, E., 289-306. Paris: Mondes Francophones, 1997.

———, Feminine writing in Lebanon today. In La Conjura del Olvido; Escritura y Feminismo, ed. Nieves Ibeas, Y. and MaAngeles, M., 165-182, trans. into Spanish. Barcelona: Icaria, Antrazyt, 1997.

———, 7 entries on Tawfiq Y. Awwad, (p.115), Beirut, (p.148) Rashid al-Daif, (p.180), Elias Khoury, (p.447), Tayeb Salih, (p.680-681), Khalil Takieddine (p.758), Said Takieddine (p. 759). In Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, ed. Meisami, J.S. and Starkey, P. (2 vols). London: Routledge, 1998.

———, Libanaise, Arabe, Méditerranéenne: qui suis-je? In La Méditerranée des femmes, ed. el-Haggar, N. avec la collaboration de Zouari, F., 117-129. "Les Rendez-vous d'Archimède". Paris: L'Harmattan, , 1998

———, La Ville source d'inspiration; le Caire, Khartoum, Beyrouth. Paola Scala, chez quelques ecrivains Arabes contemporains. Beiruter Texte Und Studien, band 63. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998.

———, Literature and war, Beirut 1993-1995. World Literature Today, 73 (1) 37-42, Winter 1999.

Bornedal, P. The Interpretations of Art. Lanham/New York: University Press of America, 1996.

———,Speech and System. Copenhagen: The University of Copenhagen Press, “Museum Tusculanum,” 1997.

———, The law of the name—the imaginary recipient in Corneille’s Le Cid. In Orbis Litterarum—International Review of Literary Studies, (51). Copenhagen: Munksgaards International Publishers, 1996.

Dadoyan, S. B., The Fatimid Armenians— Cultural and Political Interaction in the Near East. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

Jarrar, M., 1. al-Wâ fì bi ’l-Wafayâ t, vol. 29 (Yú suf b. Yac qú b - Yú nus b. Yú nus ), by Khalì l b. Aybak al-Ù afadì (d. 764/1363). Beirut: German Oriental Institute, 1997.

———, Anta ’l-Gharì bu fì Mac nâ k. In Ih sâ n ‘Abbâ s. Nâ qidan, muh aqqiqan, mu’arrikhan, ed. Ghassâ n, I., 21-26. ‘Abd Al-Khâ liq, Amman: Mu’assasat Shú mâ n, 1998.

———, al-Qass wa ’l-mawt wa ’l-dhâ kira, Ilyâ s Khú rì ’s ‘Bâ b al-Shams’ malh amat al-wa‘ì y wa ’l-adab al-muqâ wim. Al-Tariq (Beirut), 2 (58), 120-25, March/April 1999.

Kurani, D., Published illustrations in Oukoud al Kalaam, by Kamal Chartouny, Elias Haddad and Henri Zghaib. Beirut: Dar al Mashrak, 1999.

———, Watercolor landscapes used as illustrations in Arabic Readers series; grades 6,7,8 by Kamal Chartouny and Elias Haddad. Beirut: Dar al Mashrek, 1997-1999.

Shehadeh, L.R., The legal status of married women in Lebanon, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 30, 501-519, 1998.

______, Women in Islamic fundamentalism: the discourses of H. Turabi and R. Ghannoushi. Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 22 (2), 61-79, 1999.
 
 
 
 

_____, Rabih Jaber's fictional modes. New Developments in the Lebanese Novel at the end of the Century, Lebanese American University, May 1999.
 
 
 
 

———, Art Exhibit—one man show—November 1997 Aintoura College, Aintoura.

———, Art Exhibit—group show—A.U.B. Alumni Art Show; December 1997, Emma Goss Gallery, Hal-ed-Dib.

———, Art Exhibit—2 group shows: Salon d'Automne 1997 and 1998, Sursock Museum, Achrafieh, Beirut.

———, Commissioned Artwork Three commissioned works of art for hanging in an institution (Lebanese American University).

———, Large-scale, watercolor of Sage Hall: President Riad Nassar's Office. December 1998.

———, Portrait in oils of former President W. Stolzfus, Presidential Suite Lobby, April 1999.

———, Portrait in oils of former President S. Nassar: Presidential Suite Lobby, June 1999.

———, Play Poster, A Flea in Her Ear. Achrafiyeh: Raidy Press, April, 1999.

———, Produced and designed major play production of Wild Honey by Chekhov and Frayn. West Hall Stage, AUB, June 1998.

———, Produced and designed Major Theater Production of A Flea in Her Ear by G. Feydeau. West Hall Stage, AUB, May 1999.

———, Presentational arrangement of College Hall Reopening Ceremony. AUB, 22 June 1999.

———,Musical settings and four-part vocal arrangements of songs for a chorus of 40 singers and musicians. Antelias, released spring 1998.

———, Conducting choir and small music group for Tele-Lumiere TV Station, July 1998 and March 1999.

———, Composition of new musical setting for the words of the AUB Alma Mater with 4-part vocal arrangement. College Hall reopening Ceremony, AUB, 22 June, 1999.