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Model Arab League this year’s Model Arab League (MAL) conference was an exciting one for Berkeley students, who represented the states of Qatar and egypt, and walked away with several awards, including Best delegation for representing Qatar. Nine students participated in the simulation which was held at Mills College in Oakland, CA and where they competed with a number of schools from the West Coast . It was an eventful semester preparing for the simulation while closely following the changes taking place in the Middle East . The MAl class was led by graduate student Salma Mousallem . The class grappled with questions such as “Who really is in power in Egypt, and who do we represent?” The class was able to meet these challenges and did a formidable job negotiating with students in all five councils . During the conference, students took the lead in drafting resolutions and lobbying for their approval UC Berkeley MAl alumni Howaida Kamel and christian dolores held the positions of Chair for the Environmental Affairs Council and Joint Defense Council respectively . The class was also fortunate to have Mr . Ahmed Al-rumaihi, Charge D’Affaires of Qatar Embassy in Washington D .C as a class speaker for one session . This was a great opportunity for the students to personally interact with Mr . Al-rumaihi as well as learn from his valuable experience . The question and answer period was particularly dynamic as Mr . rumaihi relayed various anecdotes and stories about Qatar’s history, economic goals, and culture . The conference opened with a keynote speech by Hoda rashad, author of Rising from Tahrir, an Amazon Bestseller . outreach CMES works to share university expertise on the Middle East with pre-collegiate and community college educators through an outreach program coordinated with other International and Area Studies (IAS) National resource Centers through the Office of resources for International and Area Studies (OrIAS) . Funding is provided by Title VI grants from the United States Department of Education . On July 23-25, 2012 CMES celebrated its sixteenth year of participation in the joint Title VI summer teachers’ institute on campus . A collaboration of eight National resource Centers 4 center for middle eastern studies mal students with mr. al- rumaihi, charge d’affaires of Qatar embassy in Washington d.c Article contributed by salma mousallem in area studies, the popular institute features a program of scholarly lectures, classroom resource and curriculum review, and wide-ranging discussion about fundamental forces driving World History . Past summer topics have included such themes as Food, Imperialism, Cities, Absent Voices, Art, and Disease . This year’s institute focused on Technology and Human History, looking at contexts and processes of innovation over time and place . Case studies from the Middle East bookended the program, beginning with a presentation by Prof . John Hayes, Dept . of Near Eastern Studies at UC
cMeS Welcomes postdoctoral fellow dr. Heba Mostafa Dr . Heba Mostafa is our Sultan post doctoral teaching fellow/ Visiting Assistant professor in the areas of History of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Urbanism for the academic year 2012–13 . She comes to us from the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge where she finished her Ph .D . and taught courses on Islamic art and architecture . She previously held positions at the American University in Cairo and the Arab Academy for Science and Technology . While at Berkeley, Dr . Mostafa is being hosted by the Department of the History of Art . This fall she will be teaching Art History 121: Introduction to Islamic Art and Architecture which will be cross listed with Architecture 179P: Special Topics in the History of Architecture and Near Eastern Studies C121A: Topics in Islamic Art . The course will treat, in depth, topics in Islamic architecture and topics in Islamic art . Subjects addressed may include painting, calligraphy, and book production . She is currently working on turning her dissertation into a book with the working title “religio-political Authority and the Formation of Islamic Architecture .” Berkeley Welcomes professor Asad Ahmed Professor Asad Q. Ahmed joins the department of near eastern Studies at Berkeley this fall . He specializes in early Islamic social and religious history and post-classical Muslim intellectual history . In the former field, he focuses on the sociopolitical networks of the elite of the Hijaz during the first two centuries of the hijra . By using prosopographical and social network analysis methods on genealogies, biographical dictionaries, and transmission chains, he investigates the significance of formal and informal groups for the development of early Muslim politics, society, and dogma . These same methods have also allowed him to speculate on the metahistorical thrust of his sources and on the nature of kinship ties in early Islam . Some of the conclusions of his work in this field are presented in The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz (P&G, University of Oxford, 2011) . In the field of intellectual history, Prof . Asad’s long term goal is to write a responsible history of the rationalist sciences (ma’qulat) after the so-called Golden Age of Islam . Since such work first and foremost requires detailed and piecemeal studies of texts in logic, theology, philosophy, jurisprudence, etc ., much of his output in this area focuses either on case studies of salient technical issues or on the rationalist tradition in pre-modern and early modern Muslim India . In this area of scholarly interest, Prof . Asad has published Avicenna’s Deliverance: Logic (Oxford University Press, 2011), in addition to a number of articles . His more general training includes classical Arabic poetry and poetics, Graeco-Arabica, and Qur’anic and Hadith studies . Berkeley, on the invention of writing and record keeping in the ancient world, and ending with a panel on uses of new media to record the 2011 Egyptian revolution . Experiences with new media during the Tahrir Square uprising was presented by author Hoda rashad and filmmaker Khaled Sayed . rashad, a blogger during the square’s occupation, is the author of rising From Tahrir . Sayed is currently producing his film Stories from Tahrir, to follow up his already award winning documentary film The Story Behind the revolution . Their panel presentations illustrated ways in which new technologies activate, record, and disseminate voices of political change in a global context . Over forty-five teachers from private and public districts across the region registered for the institute and participated in discussions with area experts and colleagues over three days . For an archive of talk summaries and resources from this and previous summer institutes as well as updates on fall programs, visit the OrIAS website at http://orias .berkeley .edu . Article contributed by michele Delattre, oRiAs center for middle eastern studies 5
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