Friday, March 26 Dobo Hall, Room 134

7:30-8:30 "Back from Iraq" Chris Toensing, editor of Middle East Report (MERIP)

8:30 Reception hosted by UNC-Wilmington

Saturday, March 27 Dobo Hall, Room 134

9:00-10:00 “‘Not Our God’: Responding to Critics of Islam” John Parcels (Georgia Southern)

10:00-10:50 "Hooks of the Trade: Socializing Trance in Egyptian Zar Ritual" Hager El Hadidi (UNC-Chapel Hill)

11:00-11:50 "’He Never Told Me of This!’: Reminiscences of Middle East 1952-1954” Herb & Taffy Bodman (UNC-Chapel Hill)

12:00-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:00 Business Meeting

2:10-3:00 "Hudayi: An Ottoman 16th-17th Century Sufi Master’s Charitable Foundation and its Role in the Society” Canguzel Zulfikar (UNC-Chapel Hill)

3:10-4:00 "’Ameen, Ameen’: Muslim Slaves in the Americas" Wesley Joyner (USC-Columbia)

6:00-7:15 Dinner at Wagner Hall, the Madeleine Suite

7:30 Films, Taffy Bodman (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Sunday, March 28 Dobo Hall, Room 134

9:10-10:00 "The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran: Looking Back after 25 Years” Charles Kurzman (UNC-Chapel Hill)

10:15-12:00 Current Events Discussion led by Ken Perkins (USC-Columbia)