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Books
for Dr. Safaa Al-Hamdani, JSU biology professor and founder of the project, said, "Our objective includes collecting recent editions of textbooks in math, science, medicine and technology to be sent to war ravished "Jeff Spurr from Harvard University and Dr. Anwar Diab of Anyone who would like to contribute books and other gifts should contact Dr. Al-Hamdani (256-782-5801; sah@jsu.edu). Cash contributions can be made to the JSU Foundation, Dr. Safaa Al-Hamdani and a small group of faculty volunteers established the Books for Volunteers filled a standard shipping container, which departed for |
| 04/25/03 |
THE
BAGHDAD MUSEUM PROJECT The Baghdad Museum, or the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad, has been looted, stripping it of a priceless collection of cultural artifacts dating back to the dawn of civilization. As you will see from the “museum walkthrough” (available from the website), these are major historical treasures not only for the Iraqi people but for all humanity as well. How can we respond to this cultural catastrophe? This is an opportunity to promote better dialogue among our cultures. The Baghdad Museum Project proposes a 4-part program to not only help save the museum but also to bring about improved relations in the international community. The goals are to: Establish a comprehensive online catalog of all cultural artifacts in the Baghdad Museum to help locate them, discourage illegal dealing in these antiquities, and encourage their safe return to the museum’s curators in Baghdad; create a virtual Baghdad Museum, a content-rich website–free to the general public–based on the Baghdad Museum collection, in order to stimulate cross-cultural appreciation and dialogue. We anticipate that this site would feature the best search and navigation tools, including interactive streaming video, GIS, 3D navigation, and online classrooms; build a 3D collaborative workspace within the virtual Baghdad Museum, to allow international teams to work together on renovation designs, exhibit layouts, and new building proposals for the museum in Baghdad, as well as fundraising programs for construction and events; and establish a resource center for community cultural development within the virtual Baghdad Museum, offering experiences, ideas and success stories that show how people can contribute creatively to their own culture, and thereby strengthen their historical memory. For information and or to participate, contact: John Simmons, Chairman, The Baghdad Museum Project (JohnSimmons@BaghdadMuseum.org; BaghdadMuseum.org). |
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ARABIC DISTANCE LEARNING NETWORK
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| 03/24/06 |
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) Scholars Database We are preparing an expert’s database based on the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) Scholars Database for publication as an online resource for free public access (funded by the International Development Research Center). The EWIC Scholars Database is a listing of over 3,000 scholars from all over the world and from all disciplines whose work focuses on a wide range of issues (economic, social, political, religious, artistic, etc.) relevant to women in Muslim majority societies and to Muslim women in Muslim minority societies. Scheduled to be up on the web by June 2006, the database will connect scholars, students, planners, and activists with each other and with NGO’s, governmental agencies, and potential employers. The online database will continue to be used for author solicitation for print and online volumes of EWIC. We encourage you to pass this information along to others, especially graduate students, who may wish to contribute to EWIC or to be included in the database. You are invited to join us in this important project. To participate, please complete our EWIC Scholars Template at http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/ewic/author/template.htm. Free public access beginning June, 2006.
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| 10/06/05 |
ROCKEFELLER
FOUNDATION
The
Residency Program: Practitioners,
Scholars, Scientists, Artists, and
Public Affairs Professionals –an
opportunity to pursue ideas and engage
others in your work. Residencies of two, three or four weeks allow the freedom of
uninterrupted time to think through a
major project or a stage of work. The
Foundation seeks applicants of
achievement and promise who are
addressing significant issues, tackling
substantial scholarly or social
problems, or attempting to move beyond
established artistic boundaries.
The
Conference and Team Program – an
opportunity to bring diverse
participants from around the world
together to share ideas, debate and
collaborate.
The Foundation seeks applicants who are
addressing significant issues and who
expect the conference/team to generate
innovative concrete outcomes as well as
meetings that create and strengthen
long-term networks concerned with
individuals and organizations capable of
producing knowledge and acting on it are
particularly encouraged to apply.
Deadlines:
January 2, 2007
for February-May 2008 |
| 09/13/05 |
E-Library on Migration Resources in the
Middle East
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| 03/24/06 |
Looking for Anthropologists who work on Anthropology of Death and Dying in the Islamic World Death, the afterlife and the hereafter play a dominant role in Islamic imagery. The investigation of funerary evidence allows us to examine further the social dimension which, as has already been stated, is often much neglected within the anthropology of Islam. In the light of contemporary funerary anthropology, a more complex view of Islamic funerary needs to be taken, acknowledging the diversity which exists and utilizing it to the full for the purposes of interpretation. The rich texture of detailed ethnographic and anthropological evidence available to the anthropologists interested in Islam enables not only information on property, social statues and prestige to be obtained, but also information on possible non-orthodox ritual and beliefs, and perhaps even on the individual, the person who has been buried. Its interest can be divided into six parts which each comprise one main subfield of the anthropology of death: 1-Conceptualization of Death; 2- Death and Dying; 3- Uncommon Death; 4- Grief and Mourning; 5- Mortuary Rituals; and 6- Remembrance and Regeneration. My first aim is to have the list of Anthropologist, Ethnographers and researchers who work on the Anthropology of Death and Dying in Islamic countries and societies for more debate and collaborations. Contact Information: Pedram Khosronejad, Junior Research Fellow at The Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6JF UK (+ 44 (0) 07981690906; fax: + 44 (0)1865-278190; pedram.khosronejad@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
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Call for
Information Death, the afterlife and the hereafter play a dominant role in Islamic imagery. The investigation of funerary evidence allows us to examine further the social dimension which, as has already been stated, is often much neglected within the anthropology of Islam. In the light of contemporary funerary anthropology, a more complex view of Islamic funerary needs to be taken, acknowledging the diversity which exists and utilizing it to the full for the purposes of interpretation. The rich texture of detailed ethnographic and anthropological evidence available to the anthropologists interested in Islam enables not only information on property, social statues and prestige to be obtained, but also information on possible non-orthodox ritual and beliefs, and perhaps even on the individual, the person who has been buried. Its interest can be divided into six parts which each comprise one main subfield of the anthropology of death: 1-Conceptualization of Death; 2- Death and Dying; 3- Uncommon Death; 4- Grief and Mourning; 5- Mortuary Rituals; and 6- Remembrance and Regeneration. My first aim is to have the list of Anthropologist, Ethnographers and researchers who work on the Anthropology of Death and Dying in Islamic countries and societies for more debate and collaborations. Contact Information: Pedram KHOSRONEJAD, Junior Research Fellow at The Middle East Centre, St.Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Oxford OX2 6JF UK (+ 44 (0) 07981690906; fax: + 44 (0)1865-278190; pedram.khosronejad@orinst.ox.ac.uk).
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Call for Information I am preparing to write a biography about Paul N. Shulman, an American (1922-1994). He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 944, was commissioned an Ensign, then served two years active duty in the Pacific Ocean theater during World War II. In 1947, he resigned his commission to become involved in the effort to establish the state of Israel. He became one of about 1,500 American civilians, known as a “Machal”, Volunteers from Abroad. Through a family connection and a request by then Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, in 1948, he helped establish an academy in Haifa to train officers for Israel’s new navy. In his capacity as “Commander in Chief”, Shulman was involved in several naval commando operations. One was the sinking of an Egyptian navy cruise, the Emir Farouk, at Gaza, on October 22, 1948. Shulman’s role in this incident is given scant mention in the few published accounts of this naval action. Two people who knew Shulman have told me that, following the sinking of the Egyptian navy’s flagship, the Egyptian government (then nominally an ally of the US) lodged a protest with the US department of State. According to these informal sources, the Department of State was unable to get Shulman to surrender his US passport. He remained in Israel as a US citizen. I have search most of the usual information sources; The National Archives (and the records of the Department of State), Library of Congress, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Veterans of Israel and dozens of private sources, but have not been able to authenticate the story of the Egyptian protest and the US demand that Shulman forfeit his passport. My next step will be to try to research this alleged incident from the Egyptian point of view, via Egyptian sources of information. It would be most helpful if I could find published Egyptian accounts (in English) of the attack on the Emir Farouk and any political fallout that followed. I would be pleased with names of persons and organizations who I can contact in Egypt to see if they can shed light on this incident. Please contact: J. Wandres (732 566-7594; jperiod@optonline.net).
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