Friday, March 28 Vanderbilt University, Wilson Hall 103

7:30-8:30 "U.S. Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East" William Quandt

8:30 Reception hosted by Vanderbilt University

Saturday, March 29 Middle Tennessee, Business & Aerospace Bldg--State Farm Room

9:00-10:00 "Eyewitness Account of the Military Occupation of Nablus in the Palestinian Territories" Samantha Messier (University of Colorado)

10:15-11:15 "Syrian Novelist Haydar Haydar’s A Banquet for Seaweed: The Controversy and an English Translation" Alan Hibbard (Middle Tennessee)

11:25-12:15 "The Kurds’ Future in Post-Saddam Iraq" Michael Gunter (Tennessee Tech)

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:00 Business Meeting

2:10-3:00 "The Egyptian Village in the 20th Century" Amy Johnson (Berry College)

3:10-4:00 "Faith in the Family: Dialogue on a Work in Progress" Gray Henry (Fons Vitae)

4:00-4:30 Raks Orientale, Dianne Chidester (Jefferson Community College)

6:00-7:15 Dinner at Foundation House

7:30 Films, John Parcels (Georgia Southern)

Sunday, March 30

9:10-10:00 "Self-Sacrifice in Zionist Ideology," Moshe Amon (UNC Wilmington)

10:15-12:00 Current Events Discussion led by Jim Miller (Clemson)