Friday, October 12

6:30 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Reception & Executive Board Meeting

Saturday, October 13

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-10:00 "Islamic Science and the Environmental Crisis" Waleed El-Ansary (University of South Carolina, Columbia)

10:00-10:50 "Hezbollah of Lebanon: When Terrorist Groups Become Political Parties" Krista Wiegand (Georgia Southern)

11:00-11:50 "The Establishment of the Syrian University" Abdul-Karim Rafeq (William & Mary)

12:00 p.m. Lunch & Autumn in the Mountains

2:30-3:00 Business meeting

3:00-3:50 "Using the Roof-Wheel of the Yurt to Understand Central Asia's Geopolitics" Don Zeigler (Old Dominion)

4:00-4:50 "North Africa: The View from Tunis" Jim Miller (Clemson)

6:00 p.m. Dinner

7:30 p.m. Films with Vernon Egger (Georgia Southern)

Sunday, October 14

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

9:10-10:00 "Rabi`a al-`Adawiyya: The Asceticism of an Early Female Sufi" Rkia Cornell (Emory)

10:10-11:45 Current Events Discussion led by Curt Ryan (Appalachian State)

12:00 p.m. Lunch and Departure