PROGRAM FOR SERMEISS SPRING MEETING
MARCH 22-24, 1996
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Friday, March 22

7:00-9:00 Reception, South Caroliniana Library

8:00-10:00 Board Meeting

Saturday, March 23

9:00-10:45 "Middle East Foreign Policy in the Post-War Era: Central Asia & Turkish Foreign Policy," Michael Bishku (University of North Florida); "Israel & the Arab Gulf States," Jacob Abadi (Air Force Academy); "Kurdish Groups in Iraq," Michael Gunter (Tennessee Tech)

11:00-12:00 "How Arabic Science Passed to the Latins" Michael McVaugh (UNC)

12:00-1:15 Lunch

1:15-1:45 Business Meeting

1:45-2:30 "Rape in Medieval Maliki Law" Hina Azam (Duke)

2:30-3:15 "Islam & Nationalisms in Iran" Ali Al-Taie (Shaw)

3:30-4:15 "'And They Were Naked and Were Not Ashamed': Sex, Seduction, & Political Subversion in Some Algerian Manuscripts" John Long (Western Kentucky)

4:15-5:00 "Art and Persian Gardens" Lealan Swanson (Jackson State)

6:00 Dinner, Faculty House (paid reservation required)

8:00 Films with Taffy Bodman (UNC)

Sunday, March 24

9:00-10:15 Seminar: "Can an Islamic State be a Democratic State?" Vernon Egger (Georgia Southern). Reading: "Islam's Democratic Essence" by John Voll and John Esposito. Middle East Quarterly, September 1994.

10:30-12:00 Current Events Discussion led by Syed Rashid Naim (Georgia State)