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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
ANNUAL REPORT OF
THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ACADEMIC YEAR 2013-2014
Dr. Peter Dorman President American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon October 2014 Dear Mr. President, Please find enclosed the Annual Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2013-2014. This report was written by the chairpersons and/or directors of the academic units and of standing committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and edited in the Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office. Patrick McGreevy Dean of the Faculty
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I Summary Report of the Office of the Dean Dean Patrick McGreevy P. 1
Part II Reports of the Standing Committees
Advisory Committee………………………………………. Dean Patrick McGreevy P. 6
Curriculum Committee……………………………………. Dr. Syrine Hout P. 8
Graduate Committee……………………………………… Dr. Tamer Amin P. 12
Library Committee………………………………………… Dr. Alexis Wick P. 15
Research Committee………………………………………. Dr. Tarek Ghaddar P. 16
Student Academic Affairs Committee (Undergraduate)…… Dr. Malek Tabbal P. 21
Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee…………............... Dr. Hazar Abu Khuzam P. 27
Undergraduate Admissions Committee…………………… Dr. Digambara Patra P. 29
Part III Reports of the Academic Units
Anis Makdisi Program in Literature…………………..…..
Dr. Nader El-Bizri P. 39
Arabic and Near Eastern Languages Department………...
Dr. David Wilmsen P. 41
Biology Department……………………………………... Dr. Khouzama Knio P. 52
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies ……………..
Dr. Waleed Hazbun
P. 76
Center for American Studies and Research ……………… Center for Language Research and Teaching ...……..….…
Dr. Kassim Shaaban P. 109
Dr. Alexander Lubin
P. 86 P. 90
Chemistry Department …………………………………...
Dr. Najat A. Saliba P. 91
Computer Science Department….………………………..
Dr. Wassim El Hajj P. 111
Civilization Studies Program …………………………...
Dr. Maher Jarrar P. 126
Economics Department………………………………….. Dr. Nisreen Salti P. 143
Education Department…………………………………… English Department………………………………………
Dr. David Wrisley P. 200
Dr. Ghazi Ghaith P. 200
P. 156 P. 184
Fine Arts and Art History Department……………….…..
Dr. Thomas Kim
P. 185
Geology Department……………………………………..
Dr. A. Abdel Rahman P. 197
History and Archeology Department…………….……….
Dr. Nadia El Cheikh P. 206
Institute of Financial Economics…………………………
Dr. Simon Neaime P. 221
Mathematics Department………………………………...
Dr. Wissam Raji P. 234
Philosophy Department…………………………………..
Dr. Hans Muller P. 248
Physics Department………………………………………
Dr. Samih Isber P. 258
Political Studies and Public Administration……………...
Dr. Coralie Hindawi P. 271
Psychology Department……….………………………....
Dr. Charles Harb P. 290
Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies…….....…....
Dr. Sari Hanafi
P. 304
University Preparatory Program…………………………. Zaki Nassif Music Program………………………………
Dr. Samar Harkous-Rihan Dr. Nabil Nassif
P. 324 P. 331
PART I
SUMMARY OF THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN
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OFFICE OF THE DEAN FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
REPORT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES This report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences covers the period from September 4, 2013 to August 30, 2014. A. NEW STUDENT REGISTRATION During the first semester, the freshman class saw 304 new students registered, while the sophomore class saw 656 registered. This was a decrease in freshman admission and an increase in sophomore admission from the previous year. During the second semester, the freshman class saw 26 new students registered while the sophomore class saw 52 new students registered which was a decrease in admission to both freshman and sophomore classes from the previous year. The graduate program saw 113 (90 graduates, 11 prospective graduates and 12 special graduates) new students enrolled during the first semester. During the second semester, the graduate class saw 68 (54 graduates, 5 prospective graduates and 9 special graduates) new students registered. The UPP (University Preparatory Program) saw 10 new registered in September 2013 out of a total of 22 accepted regular UPP applicants. This represents a significant decrease in registration in this program in relation to the same period of 2012-13. One new UPP student registered in the second semester out of seven accepted applicants. During the first semester, the total enrollment at the undergraduate level was 2,735 including 56 in UPP, while at the graduate level it was 407 including 16 prospective graduates and 14 special graduates, in addition to 23 students at the PhD level. During the second semester, the total enrollment at the undergraduate level was 2,573 including 33 in UPP, while at the graduate level it was 412 including 10 prospective graduates and 13 special graduates, in addition to 21 students at the PhD level.
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B. STUDENT ADMISSIONS The University Unified Admissions Committee (UUAC), with representation from all faculties, met and acted on all applications. Early admission to the University by the UUAC has resulted this year in 305 applicants being admitted to the sophomore class and 116 to the freshman class in FAS. Furthermore, 724 applications for admission to the freshman class were received and 569 applicants were issued letters of acceptance to-date for the first semester of 2014-15, including early admissions. Additionally, 2,319 out of 3,286 applicants for admission to the sophomore class (including early admissions) were issued letters of admission. It is to be noted that many of these accepted applicants represent students applying to other faculties at AUB also. The faculty acted on 24 applications to the UPP (University Preparatory Program), and to date 22 have been accepted for the first semester. C. CURRENT FACULTY NUMBER AND COMPOSITION The teaching program involved the equivalent of 356 full-time faculty members, plus 175 graduate assistants for the first semester and 165 for the second. During the first semester, a total of 6,388 students were enrolled in 472 different courses (equivalent to 1,145 courses and sections). A total of 6,229 students were enrolled in 502 different courses (equivalent to 1,127 courses and sections) during the second semester. There were 306 budgeted full-time faculty lines in FAS for 2013-14, all of which were filled. Of these, 254 were used for full-time contracts with the balance used for part-time appointments. Fulltime appointments were distributed as follows: 190 in the professorial ranks (assistant, associate, and full professors), 64 in ranks of instructor and lecturer. This includes all faculty members on paid junior and research leaves. D. PROFESSORS ON LEAVE, 2013-14 Twenty-four professors were on paid research leaves during the academic year 2013-14. Thirteen were on Periodic Paid Research Leaves (three in the fall and seven in the spring, and three for both semesters). Another eleven were on Junior Paid Leaves (five in the fall and six in the spring). Five faculty members will be on
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leave without pay (one in the fall, two in the spring, and two for both semesters). In addition, two professors were seconded on REP assignments for the academic year 2013-14. E. PROFESSORS ON LEAVE, 2014-15 Nineteen professors will be on paid research leaves during the academic year 2014-15. Thirteen will be on Periodic Paid Research Leaves (four in the fall, six in the spring, and three for both semesters). Another six will be on Junior Paid Leaves (three in the fall and three in the spring). Three faculty members will be on leave without pay (one in the fall and two for both semesters). In addition, three faculty members will be seconded on REP assignments for the academic year 2014-15. F. FACULTY RECRUITMENT A total of 580 applications have been received for faculty positions due to start September 1, 2014 that were advertised by the faculty. After consultation with the departments and the FAS Advisory Committee, 31 offers have been accepted. These faculty members include: 9 Lebanese citizens, 10 US citizens, 2 Italian, 2 Lebanese/US citizens, 1 French, 1 Iranian, 1 Spanish, 1 US citizen/Iranian, 1 Lebanese/Canadian, 1 Jordanian/British, 1 Egyptian and 1 Australian/ British. The visiting chairs for the academic year 2014-2015 are Dr. Lisa Hajjar (Edward Said Chair of American Studies), Dr. Nazanin Shahrokni (Whittlesey Chair in the SOAM Department), and Dr. Tayib El-Hibri (Howell Chair in the History and Archaeology Department). G. APPLICATIONS FOR PROMOTION Seventeen applications for promotion were received by the deadline of August 31, 2013. Six applications were for the promotion to the rank of full professor and 11 for the rank of associate professor. Five out of the six applying to the rank of full professor was successful, and nine applying to the rank of associate professor were successful. H. GENERAL REMARKS
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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences moved ahead on a number of strategic initiatives in 2013-14. We also addressed persistent challenges and expanded education and research in selected areas. Although programs that normally attract many foreign students--such as CAMES, Arabic –as-a-foreign-language, and the freshmen program--saw reduced enrollments due to security concerns, this was more than made up for by strong growth in other programs such as Computer Science, Psychology, Media Studies, and Chemistry. The FAS Advising Unit, created in 2012-13 worked this year to institutionalize continuous improvement in undergraduate advising through regular workshops, monitoring, and seeking out best practices. FAS communications coordinator, Ms. Karma Arakji, has developed new brochures for all FAS undergraduate programs, and she continues to assist in coordinating communication strategies for the faculty. Despite challenges of several kinds, FAS has had a very successful recruiting year, attracting excellent new faculty in some fields where recruitment has been challenging in the past such as geology, public administration, and mathematics. Associate Dean Meloy continued to lead an effort to use space more efficiently by subdividing classrooms and offices. That we are reaching the saturation point is underlined by our need to remove a men’s bathroom in Fisk Hall to create more space where faculty members can meet with students and prepare their classes. Similar work continued in Nicely, Bliss, and Jesup Halls. In addition, a number of classrooms and labs were renovated in 2013-14, including Chemistry 101 (with a grant from the President’s Club and five classrooms in Nicely Hall. FAS welcomed the third group of 52 USAID-supported students in fall 2014-15. The University Preparatory Program is providing a foundation program for most of these students. Associate Sean Malek Tabbal is coordinating this effort. AUB welcomed graduate students in Islamic Studies and Clinical Psychology in fall 2014-15. A number of additional new programs are in various stages of the approval process now including under development including master’s degrees in Composition and Rhetoric, Contemporary Art History and Curatorial Studies, and Materials Science (in conjunction with the faculty of Engineering and Architecture), and a PhD in Chemistry. FAS is also playing a key role in a number of interfaculty
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programs such as Energy Studies, Environmental Studies, and Public Policy and International Affairs. FAS is completing periodic program reviews in Education and Computer Science, and two other programs, Biology and Fine Arts and Art History, are in the midst of the review process. AUB’s two art galleries had a complete slate of exhibitions. Dr. Rico Franses is the galleries director and Octavian Isanu is the curator. The AUB Arts and Humanities Initiative, supported by a three-year Mellon grant, enters its final year in 2014-15. In order to continue this important work, a new grant proposal to Mellon is being submitted soon. FAS continues to work with the Provost and Development on strategic planning and funding opportunities as we gear up for the public phase of the funding campaign. Like AUB, FAS will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2016. We are planning now for a series of events that will be carefully coordinated with the wider AUB events. One of the key goals for FAs is to establish increased research funding, especially for faculty and graduate students in the experimental sciences. This year we made a modest but significant first step with the establishment of the Kamal A. Shaar Central Research Science Laboratory Grant Program. Using funds provided by the naming of the CRSL, we opened a program of small grants directed at faculty members and their students who conduct research in the lab (and their collaborators from any faculty). Finally, FAS was once again the locus of a vibrant series of public lectures, performances, conferences and symposia that promoted high-level research and public debate on both scholarly and public issues. Patrick McGreevy Dean
PART II
REPORTS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE A. MEMBERSHIP Chairperson: Patrick McGreevy, Dean Members: Peter Bornedal, Professor, CVSP Arne Dietrich, Professor, Psychology (replaced spring semester by S. Khalaf, Professor, SOAM) Bashshar Haydar, Professor, Philosophy Rabih Sultan, Professor, Chemistry Murad Jurdak, Professor, Education Bassam Shayya, Professor, Mathematics B. COMMITTEE POLICIES The proposal, originating from the committee, and approved by the Senate and Board of Trustees changes the composition of the FAS Advisory Committee to include two members each from humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, and one member from Mathematics and Computer Science. The FAS committee elections conducted in September 2014 implement this new structure so the 2014-15 committee will have seven members.
C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS The committee advised the dean on matters related to faculty appointments, reappointments, promotion, research leaves, leaves without pay, and REP secondments. Below is an overview of the main actions taken by the committee.
1. The committee approved 19 paid research leaves for the academic year 2014-15. Thirteen will be on Periodic Paid Research Leaves (four in the fall, six in the spring, and three for both semesters). Another six will be on Junior Paid Leaves (three in the fall and three in the spring). Three faculty members will be on leave without pay (one in the fall and two for both semesters). In addition, three faculty members will be seconded on REP
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assignments for the academic year 2014-15. 2. The committee recommended 21 offers of employment which were
eventually accepted. 3. The committee considered 17 applications for promotion. Six
applications were for the promotion to the rank of full professor and 11 for the rank of associate professor. Five out of the six applying to the rank of full professor was successful, and nine applying to the rank of associate professor were successful.
4. The committee considered departmental recommendations for renewal or non-renewal of contract for all full-time faculty members whose contracts ended in either September 2013 or September 2014. The committee voted on appropriate action in all cases.
5. The committee also made recommendations on the appointment or reappointment of a large number of department chairs. Members of the committee, along with associate deans, accompanied the dean to consult with all available members of the departments in question.
Patrick McGreevy Dean
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CURRICULUM COMMITTEE A. MEMBERSHIP Chairperson: Syrine Hout, Professor, English (2013-14) Members: Paul du Quenoy, Associate Professor, History and Archaeology May Farah, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Faraj Hasanayn, Associate Professor, Chemistry Tamer Tlas, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Joanna Doummar, Assistant Professor, Geology Adam Waterman, Assistant Professor, English Rola Khishfe, Associate Professor, Education Wafic Sabra, Professor, Physics (member of the Senate Academic Development Committee) Registrar, non-voting B. COMMITTEE ACTIONS During academic year 2013-14, the Curriculum Committee held 9 meetings (on 9 Sep 2013, 9 Oct 2013, 6 Nov 2013, 11 Dec 2013, 20 Dec 2013, 7 Feb 2014, 17 March 2014, 9 April 2014, 5 May 2014) to discuss and act on various issues regarding: 1. proposals for new courses and modification (re-titling or renumbering) of current ones, 2. proposals for undergraduate curriculum changes in core requirements and major or minor changes in current programs and degree requirements, 3. proposal for a new minor, 4. student petitions on curricular matters based on departmental recommendations. The Curriculum Committee considered this year a total of 148 student petitions, 126 course equivalencies, and 86 study abroad applications. The Committee approved 129 and declined 19 student petitions, approved all but 1 course equivalency, approved all study abroad applications, and also approved 8 letters for course equivalence for students admitted as junior transfers. The petitions involved requests for changes in minor or major course requirements, continuing in courses after failing a pre-requisite, waiving a course because of a dual degree pursuit, following old or new major and general education course requirements, among others. At the beginning of the academic year, the Curriculum Committee members delegated to its Chair the authority to act on all student petitions which have clearly established precedents
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and are therefore clear-cut cases with documented advisor, departmental and/or other approvals as the case may be. All other petitions were discussed at the meetings or, on exceptional bases and for urgent cases, through circular votes. C. RECOMMENDATIONS New Programs or Modification of Existing Programs: The Curriculum Committee recommended the following: 1. Introducing a minor in Semitic Studies in the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages 2. Restructuring of the English Literature undergraduate curriculum including the number of core requirements (from 7 to 9) for the major and additional options in terms of category of courses for 3 credits of the 15-credit minor 3. Approval of course descriptions in the two-track Special Education Diploma Program (Learning Disabilities, and Gifted and Talented Education) 4. Approval of minor catalogue changes in SOAM and of SOAN 211 (Analysis of Social Data) as a GE Quantitative Thought List I for SOAM majors instead of CMPS 206 5. Approval of minor catalogue changes in PSPA 6. Approval of minor catalogue changes in MATH 7. Approval of minor catalogue changes in GEOL and of specified courses to be taken as Natural Science GE requirements from BIOL, CHEM, and PHYS 8. Approval of minor catalogue changes in CMPS 9. Approval of minor catalogue changes in FAAH for its major and minor 10. Approval of minor catalogue changes in BIOL 11. Approval of minor catalogue changes in ARAB 12. Approval of changes in PHIL minor 13. Approval of changes to BA in MCOM New Courses: The Curriculum Committee approved the introduction of the following new courses: ARAB 216 (Intermediate Syriac), ARAB 222 (Introduction to Semitic Studies), ARAB 223 (Arabic for the Media), CMPS 207 (Programming for Digital Art), FAAH 229D (Special Topics in Art History: Modern and Contemporary Art) to become FAAH 293 (Contemporary Art and Theory), FAAH 294a (Theories, Methods and Practices of Curating I), FAAH 294b (Theories, Methods and Practices of Curating II) (both constitute a 3-cr. course), GEOL 204 (Dinosaurs & Life History), MCOM 243 (Trauma Journalism), MCOM 244 (Data Journalism), HIST 263/AROL 263 (Islamic Cities, 600-1500), BIOL 251 (Bioinformatics),
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BIOL 253 (Phylogenetics), ENGL 101 (Introduction to Literature), ENGL 109 (Introduction to Creative Writing), ENGL 220 (Contemporary Anglophone Literature; former ENGL 220 on Travel Writing has been replaced by this one), ENGL 223 (Literature and Science; former ENGL 223 on Literary Aesthetics has been replaced by this one), ENGL 254 (Special Topics in Creative Writing), ENGL 241 (Transnational Literatures; former ENGL 241 has been replaced by this one), ENGL 242 (World Literature; former ENGL 242 on Modernism and Post-Modernism has been replaced by this one), ENGL 255 (Literatures in Translation), ENGL 256 (Digital Culture), ENGL 257 (Visual Culture), ENGL 258 (Gender and Sexuality), ENGL 259 (Topics in Rhetoric), ENGL 260 (Topics in Composition), ENGL 261 (Advanced Literary Theory), ENGL 262 (Advanced Topics in Translation) Modification of Existing Courses: The Curriculum Committee approved the following modifications to the following already offered courses: MCOM 262 (Media Depictions of Society), MCOM 263 (From Telegraph to Twitter), HIST 101/102 to split into HIST 101 (History of Early Modern Europe, 1492-1815) and HIST 102 (History of Europe, 1815-1945) Changes of Course Numbers: The Curriculum Committee approved the change of numbers for the following already offered courses: ARAB 217: Introduction to Syriac Literature (number changed from 216) ARAB 220/221: Introductory Persian (number changed from 217/218) ARAB 224: Arabic Stylistics and Metrics (number changed from 221) ENGL 209: Survey of American Literature (number changed from 201) ENGL 252: Creative Non-Fiction (number changed from 237) Other Recommendations: 1. The Curriculum Committee approved AGSC 219 (Apiculture) as a free elective for FAS students after ascertaining that it has been significantly restructured since its earlier version in the form of AGSC 288 (The Art of Honey Making) which previously had not been allowed to be taken as a free elective. 2. The Curriculum Committee also revisited the issue (discussed on 12 April 2013) concerning the transfer of the number of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits taken during exchange study abroad and confirmed that the Registrar should calculate the number of credit hours received separately from its calculation of fulfillment of overall course requirements, and that the total number of credits earned will be counted as 2 ECTS credits for 1 AUB credit. Furthermore, if a student has fulfilled the course requirements (for the major/minor or General
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Education) but has not earned the required number of credit hours for graduation, the remaining required credits should be transferred to AUB as “free elective” hours. The GE Committee should grant approval for course content/equivalence for GE course requirements. Departments can recommend (to the Curriculum Committee) approving a course taken abroad as equivalent to an elective in the major or minor. When students have a half- or a one-point credit hour remaining for graduation, steps will be taken on a case-by-case basis. Syrine Hout Chairperson
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GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE
A. MEMBERSHIP Chairperson: Tamer Amin, Associate Professor, Education Members: Abbas Al-Hakim, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (Spring, 2014) Martin Bright, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (Fall 2013) Mounib El-Eid, Professor, Physics (Board of Graduate Studies) Angela Harutyunyan, Assistant Professor, Fine Arts and Art History Dina Kiwan, Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Karim Makdisi, Associate Professor, Political Studies and Public Administration (Board of Graduate Studies) Digambara Patra, Associate Professor, Chemistry Amy Zenger, Associate Professor, English (Board of Graduate Studies) B. COMMITTEE POLICIES The committee acted on all matters related to graduate studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences according to the rules and regulations published in the 2013-2014 Catalogue and the scope of functions set forth in the Graduate Studies Committee by-laws. C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS
The committee met fourteen times over the course of the academic year. It addressed the following matters: reviewed recommendations of departments regarding graduate admissions to the faculty for the Spring 2013-14, Summer 2014 and Fall 2014-15; acted on student petitions, incomplete, change of grade requests, and leave of absence requests; change of status of prospective students and students on probation; proposals for new programs or the modification of existing ones; and other miscellaneous administrative matters related to graduate studies at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A summary of the main actions is presented below. Graduate admissions: With regard to applications for graduate studies in FAS for the academic year 2013-2014 there were 647 applications, 422 accepted, and with
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173 students registered (Note: students submit multiple applications and can be accepted to more than one program). Administrative decisions concerning graduate students: 382 decisions spanning petitions, approval of thesis/project proposals and committees, updating student status, change of grade and others. Modifications of existing programs: MA in Media Studies: Approved the creation of three new courses; slight restructuring to decrease number of thesis credits to 6 (from 9) and increase the course requirement. MA in Archeology: Approved minor restructuring embarked on by department in response to external review. PhD publication requirements: Approved recommended publication requirements for graduation with a PhD in each of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, History, and Physics. Minor modifications were approved to the admissions requirements (such as submission of GRE scores) for MA in Media Studies; MA in Sociology and MA in Anthropology; and MA in English. Proposals for new programs: Provided FAS feedback on a proposal for a new interdisciplinary MA in Environmental Studies. Approved proposal for a new interdisciplinary MS/ME in Materials Science (in collaboration with Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. Approved proposal for a new PhD in Chemistry D. RECOMMENDATIONS Based on the experience of the graduate committee’s work this year, I would like to raise two issues that require attention in the future. Both are beyond the scope of the FAS Graduate Studies Committee per se, and require coordination and discussion with other entities within the university. The first issue concerns the organizational structure of bodies responsible for graduate studies at the university. At present, we have faculty Graduate Studies
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Committees, a university-wide Board of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Council. The latter is, in fact, not a body of faculty members but consists of a Chair and administrative assistants. In addition, during the course of this academic year, the Chair of the Graduate Council assembled an informal Graduate Council Advisory Board consisting of the Chairs of faculty Graduate Studies Committees. It is my opinion that there are too many bodies charged with addressing graduate studies at AUB, with overlapping mandates and responsibilities. Due consideration needs to be given to simplifying the present structure. I would propose eliminating the Board of Graduate Studies and keeping the Graduate Studies Committees of each faculty and the Graduate Council, which could be made up of the Chairs of the faculty Graduate Studies Committees, with a Chair appointed to this Council who would function as a kind of Dean of Graduate Studies at AUB. This would simplify the structure reducing redundancy, and improve coordination among faculties with regard to matters concerning graduate studies. Second, communication between graduate students, on the one hand, and the various entities at the university implicated in matters related to graduate studies on the other - including Registrar, Office of Admissions, Graduate Council, Board of Graduate Studies, Graduate Studies Committees, Dean’s Office and Departments – needs to be reviewed and streamlined. At present, students are getting lost navigating a rather inefficient system with too many contact points between the student and the university administrative structures. I would suggest that students experience be studied so that we understand better what navigating the administrative matters involves for a graduate student. Once this is understood, I think every effort should be made to simplify what administrative entities students have to interact with. Me might find that it would make sense to emphasize much more the role of departments as the main (and preferably only) contact point between students and the university administrative structure. Cases of miscommunication and resulting graduate student frustration in relation to administrative procedures are too frequent and need to be addressed. Tamer Amin Chairperson
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LIBRARY COMMITTEE A. MEMBERSHIP Chairperson: Alexis Wick, Assistant Professor, History and Archaeology Members: Paul Atie, Associate Professor, CMPS Robert Gallagher, Assistant Professor, CVSP Pierre Karam, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Hiba Khodr, Assistant Professor, PSPA Lokman Meho, University Librarian B. COMMITTEE POLICIES Not Applicable. C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS The committee met once on April 14th, 2014, to discuss: 1. The question of the necessity of binding books; 2. The possibility of recruiting an area specialist library for Middle Eastern/Arab history, language and culture (to cater for the PhD programs in those fields); 3. The suggestion to systematically acquire books not acquired in past periods of difficulty in acquisition; 4. The issue of the accessibility of manuscripts from the special collections. D. RECOMMENDATIONS A motion was unanimously approved to recommend that the library bind a book only if it meets one of the following criteria: 1) hard to replace, 2) expensive, 3) popular, 4) long shelf life, 5) high circulation. The committee also unanimously recommended hiring a specialist in the area of Middle Eastern/Arab history, land and culture. The other items on the agenda were extensively discussed, but no particular motions passed. Alexis Wick Chairperson
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RESEARCH COMMITTEE A. MEMBERSHIP Chairperson: Tarek Ghaddar, Associate Professor, Chemistry Members: Nadiya Slobodenyuk, Assistant Professor, Psychology Hazar Abu Khuzam, Professor, Mathematics Hoda Baytiyeh, Assistant Professor, Education Paul du Quenoy, Assistant Professor, History and Archeology Joanna Doummar, Assistant Professor, Geology Mike Osta, Assistant Professor, Biology Arthur Michael Vermy, Assistant Professor, English URB Representatives: Ata Elias, Assistant Professor, Geology Helen Sader, Professor, History and Archeology (First Term) Nadia El-Cheikh, Professor, History and Archeology (Second Term) Research Committee Coordinator: Zeina Halabieh (Academic Officer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences) B. COMMITTEE POLICIES The Committee adopted a policy to authorize the Chair to sign off on proposals for external grants and to check whether the submitted proposals comply with AUB rules and regulations. All recommendations made by the FAS Research Committee (RC) were governed by the by-laws of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the various policies and guidelines established by the Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC). The RC collectively agreed to use the following modifications to the URB review policy: 1. The URB grant applications were distributed among the different members and each custodian suggested the names of at least two active professionals affiliated to academic or research institutions outside the region.
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2. The RC adopted a new review form, which is based on five evaluation criteria: Significance and Originality, Investigator’s Experience and Competence, Approach and Methodology, Feasibility and Budget, in addition to a qualitative assessment of the main strengths and weaknesses of the proposal. The following numerical rating was adopted: Score Descriptor Indicator Percentile 5 Excellent Top 5 percentile 4 Good Top 15 percentile 3 Satisfactory Top 30 percentile 2 Marginal - 1 Poor - 3. New proposals were sent to at least two reviewers (both of which were suggested by the RC custodian.) 4. In the case of discrepancies in the referees’ assessments, the proposal was sent to a third reviewer suggested by the RC custodian, and the final score was an average of the three scores given by the three reviewers. 5. In cases where one of the two reviewers recommended funding and the second recommended not funding, the RC sent these proposals to a third reviewer and the final score was an average of the scores given by the three reviewers. 6. In cases where the requested budget exceeded 10,000 USD, it was adjusted down by the RC to 10,000 USD. 7. Only justified budgets for items that fall under labor (maximum of 6000 USD/year), consumables and office supplies (maximum of 300 USD/year) were approved. 8. The final scores for Junior Faculty members (within their first 5 years) were adjusted by 5%. 9. Renewals were sent to a selected reviewer by the RC Chair from the reviewers of the original submission to assess the progress report. C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS
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The Committee met eight times during the course of the academic year (September 2013 to May 2014) to screen and evaluate the various grant proposals and to discuss the URB review process. The URB Grant Proposals The new URB grant applications (n=27) were submitted to the committee on January 30, 2014 and the renewal URB grant applications (n=13) were submitted to the committee on March 31, 2014. Reviewers were solicited and the RC recommendations were based on the policies set by the committee. The Committee recommended the funding of 26 new URB applications and 13 URB renewal applications, in addition to one extension. The total amount approved by the FAS RC for funding was 335,362 USD. The distribution of the 40 proposals over the various A&S departments is shown in Chart 1.
Chart 1 The RC Chair submitted all documentation, including the committee‘s recommendations and the proposals’ ranking scores based on the average scores obtained through the review process to the FAS Dean for comments and endorsement. The Dean sent his recommendation to the URB through the OGC. External Proposals The total number of applications to external agencies was 25, 10 of which were for the LNCSR. Other agencies include Qatar National Research Fund, National Priority Research Program, USAID, Association for International Cancer Research, Petroleum Research Fund American Chemical Society and University
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of Sydney, (Table 1). Total amount requested from the LNCSR was LBP 307,260,000. Table 1
Agency Department Grant
Association for International Cancer Research CHEM $217,000
Association for International Cancer Research BIOL £172,657
Association for International Cancer Research BIOL £108,169
IDRC SOAM $48,674
National Priority Research Program BIOL $314,964
PEER-AISF The National Academies CHEM $180,000
Petroleum Research Fund American Chemical Society CHEM $70,000
Qatar National Research Fund CHEM $288,000
Qatar National Research Fund HIAR $839,852
Qatar National Research Fund ECON $209,652
University of Sydney BIOL
USAID SOAM $47,854
USAID GEOL $172,477.6
Chart 2 displays the distribution of the external research funding applications over the various FAS departments. The total requested budget from these agencies was 2,863,070 USD.
Chart 2 Table 2 lists the external research funding agencies to which grants were submitted with co-investigators from FAS. The total requested budget from these agencies was 1,214,925 USD.
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Table 2
National Priority Research Program BIOL $314,976
Qatar National Research Fund BIOL $899,949
Other Actions The RC Chair redesigned the FAS RC website and updated the various links and forms. The online URB grant submission part is already working and we will be extending it to include the external grants and the whole review process. D. RECOMMENDATIONS The RC discussed and evaluated during its various meetings the review process of URB proposals for the year 2013-14. The committee recommends the following: 1. Referees selections: It is recommended that all referees should be selected from abroad, since Lebanon is a small country, with a restricted network of researchers, who invariably know each other. 2. Chance for rebuttal: Applicants should be given the opportunity to respond to referees once serious criticism is directed to their proposals. 3. Review Process: It is recommended that the RC gives substantial weight on the subjective recommendation given by the referees to ensure a critical assessment of the respective proposal. Tarek Ghaddar Chairperson
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STUDENT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE (UNDERGRADUATE)
A. MEMBERSHIP Chairman: Malek Tabbal, Associate Dean and Professor of Physics. Members: Antoine Ghauch, Associate Professor, Chemistry (2014) Ali Haidar, Assistant Professor, Geology (2015) Paul Newson, Assistant Professor, History and Archaeology (2014) Bilal Orfali, Assistant Professor, Arabic (2015) Nadiya Slobodenyuk, Assistant Professor, Psychology (2015) Danyel Reiche, Assistant Professor, Political Studies and Public Administration (2014) Arianne Shahvisi, Assistant Professor, Philosophy (2014) in replacement of B. Orfali during the Spring 2013-14 semester Tamer Tlas, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (2015) Hala Abu Arraj, Registrar, Ex-Officio. Leila Knio, Student Services Officer. Jean Azar, Student Record Officer. Zein Reda, Student representative (2014).
B. COMMITTEE POLICIES & PROCEDURES
The Committee has the power to make exceptions to academic rules and regulations in special cases, by ruling on requests and petitions from FAS undergraduate students pertaining to their academic status and records. The Committee uses the Online Petitions and Forms System (OPFS), a web application that automated the process of submitting petitions and forms in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). In line with a policy that was approved by the FAS in 2009, the Committee continued allowing students to repeat courses more than three times. The Committee authorized the Chairperson to act on “routine” requests such as correction of registration records, requests for make-up of incomplete course work and changes of grade.
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C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS (Appendix 1)
The Committee held 27 meetings throughout the academic year 2013-2014 to deal with the academic problems brought before it by undergraduate students.
1. Fourty-four students should have been dismissed from the Faculty by the end of the 2012-13 academic year, but were allowed to register, under strict probation status, for the Fall 2013-14 semester. From those, 13 were dismissed from the Faculty effective end of Fall 2013-14 because of poor academic standing. The remaining 31 were given an additional semester, still under strict probation status (17 were sent warning emails while 14 were sent letters).
2. Fifty-one students should have been dropped for poor performance at the
end of Fall 2013-14, but were given an extension of their probation status to the end of the Spring semester 2013-14. Out of these 51 students, 10 removed their probation and are currently students in good standing while 11 others graduated.
3. The Committee reviewed the academic records of students on strict probation who had received letters stating that they would be considered for dismissal from the Faculty if they did not remove their academic probation at the end of the Spring semester 2013-14. A total of forty-seven students were dropped from the Faculty because of poor academic standing (31 effective end of Spring 2013-14, 16 effective end of Summer 2014), twenty-one students were allowed to extend their strict probation status for Fall 2014-15. Emails specifying the probation status of these students were sent in June to them (Appendix 2).
4. The Committee received readmission requests from students who were
dropped from AUB after having spent one year at a recognized institution of higher learning. Three students have been readmitted on strict probation in Summer 2013, one student has been readmitted on strict probation in Fall 2013, two students have been readmitted on strict probation in Spring 2014.
5. This clause was added to the rules and regulations sent to FAS Faculty: “If Form 1 is not submitted in due time (two weeks after the scheduled date of final exam) or if the request is turned down by the SAAC or GSC, the “I” on the reported course grade will be dropped. The available numerical grade becomes the final grade in the course.”
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Irregular Loads Permission to take less than 12 credits was granted by the Committee to graduating students, new students in their first semester at AUB, students with health or family problems, students working for a second degree and, in few instances, students with work employment outside AUB. Graduating students who were not on probation were permitted to take more than 17 credits in their last semester. A special electronic petition form was developed in order to make this procedure easier and faster for graduating students (Overload/Underload for Senior students in their last semester). The Committee continued to allow graduating students whose cumulative average is 80 or above to take up to 21 credits either in their last semester or in the one that precedes it provided they secure their adviser’s approval (Appendix 1). Incomplete Grades, Grade Changes, Correction of Record
Requests for make-up of incomplete work were approved for students with health and/or family problems. Requests for change of grade were considered only for errors done by course instructors in calculating or reporting final grades. The Committee honoured all correction-of-record requests from students, which were due to advising and/or registration issues (Appendix 1). Requests for repeating a final exam were approved under very exceptional conditions such as a student suffering from a health problem while taking the exam.
D. RECOMMENDATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS The Committee’s recommendations are:
The FAS Dean’s Office should keep upgrading and improving the Online Petitions and Forms System. In particular, forms related to reporting incomplete grades and changes of grades should be made on-line.
The FAS and the Office of the Provost should coordinate more on all issues related to students with special needs.
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The Office of the Provost should consider making new agreement with local universities regarding dismissed students following the cancellation of the AUB-LAU agreement.
The University should revise its policy regarding its minimum load of 12 credits for students.
Malek Tabbal Chairperson
Appendix 1 Major Actions Taken by the FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee (AY 13-14)
Fall 13 SPRING 14 Subject P1 A2 D3 Total P1 A2 D3 Total Correction of record/change in course schedule
0 160 30 190 0 168 40 208
Withdraw Late from a Course 0 163 71 234 0 120 62 182 Dropping students from a course for excessive absences
0 8 14 22 0 5 8 13
Extra Load for students in good standing TOTAL
18 crs 0 75 24 99 0 53 19 73 19 crs 0 16 7 23 1 14 12 27 20 crs 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 21 crs 0 2 8 10 0 2 4 6 24 crs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Extra Load for students on probation TOTAL
0 3 9 12 0 6 6 12
Readmission of dropped students after 1 yr at another Univ.4
0 1 2 3 0 2 5 7
Reconsideration of 'drop from faculty' decision
0 17 11 28 0 2 4 6
Extension of Strict Probation 0 3 1 4 0 2 2 4 Repeating a course for the 4th time or more
0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3
Underload for students in good standing 0 26 8 34 0 22 9 31
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Underload for students on probation 0 6 0 6 0 10 1 11 Retake Final 0 0 7 7 0 1 3 4 Audit a Course 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 Reinstate in a Course 0 0 1 1 0 13 0 13 Extension of Incomplete 0 3 1 4 0 12 2 14 Incomplete Course Work 'Form 1' 0 106 2 108 2 128 11 141 Change of Grade 'Form 3' 0 91 0 91 0 150 1 151
SUMMER 13 Subject P1 A2 D3 Total Correction of record/change in course schedule 0 34 14 48
Withdraw Late from a Course 0 35 6 41 Extra Load for students in good standing TOTAL
10 crs 0 0 0 0 11 crs 0 0 0 0 12 crs 0 0 0 0 Extra Load for students on probation TOTAL 0 1 2 3
Readmission of dropped students after 1 yr at another Univ.4 0 3 1 4
Reconsideration of 'drop from faculty' decision 0 0 0 0
Repeating a course for the 4th time or more 0 1 1 2
Extension of Incomplete 0 1 0 1 Incomplete Course Work 'Form 1' 1 22 0 23 Change of Grade 'Form 3' 0 13 0 13 1Pending; 2Approved; 3Declined; 4Students in this category are readmitted on strict probation
Appendix 2 Major Actions Taken by the FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee (AY 13-14) (Students on Strict Probation) End of Fall 2013-14
Total*
I. Drop From Faculty 25
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II. Extend Drop till Spring 2013 13 III. Drop Automatically end of Spring 2013 52
End of Spring 2013-14 Total* I. A) Drop From Faculty 31 II. Extend Drop till Fall 2014 23 III. Extend Drop till Spring 2015 0
End of Summer 2013-14 Total* I. A)Drop From Faculty 16 *Final decisions after reconsideration
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STUDENT DISCIPLINARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE A. MEMBERSHIP Chairperson: Hazar Abu-Khuzam, Professor, Department of Mathematics (Fall semester: Sirene Harb, Associate Professor, English Department) Members: Hazar Abu-Khuzam, Professor, Department of Mathematics Leila Dagher, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Ata Elias, Assistant Professor, Geology Department Thomas Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts and Art History Sara Michli, Student Representative Colin Smith, Associate Professor, Biology Department Charbel Tarraf, Associate Dean of Student Affairs B. COMMITTEE POLICIES The main function of the committee is to consider and recommend action to the Dean on all disciplinary matters involving students in FAS in order to maintain the academic integrity of the institution. The committee was looking into cases of academic misconduct and was recommending disciplinary actions depending on the severity of the violation. There is no change in policies compared with the previous year. In cases of cheating or plagiarism, a guilty student was usually given a dean’s warning along with a zero on the graded assignment. However, if there was not enough evidence against the student, then the charges were dropped. Students were given a chance to appear in front of the committee and give their sides of the story. In some cases, the instructor was invited to attend a part of the meeting to give more information on the case considered. C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS
During the fall semester of the academic year 2013-2014 (starting October 21, 2013), the SDA Committee has taken action in 11 cases of claimed academic misconduct discussed in 5 meetings. Of the 11 cases, 2 involved cheating, 6 involved plagiarism, and 3 involved disruptive behavior. Of the 11 cases of
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claimed misconduct, the SDA Committee found students culpable in 10 of the 11 cases. During the spring semester of the academic year 2013-2014 (starting January 30, 2014), the SDA Committee has taken action in 22 cases of claimed academic misconduct discussed in 8 meetings. Of the 22 cases, 5 involved cheating, 16 involved plagiarism, and 1 involved a misunderstanding behavior. Of the 22 cases of claimed misconduct, the SDA Committee found students culpable in 16 of the 22 cases. D. RECOMMENDATIONS The FAS should re-visit the functions of the committee. It is not clear whether the committee could make changes in the policies stated in the student code of conduct, since some faculty members are taking disciplinary measures that differ from the ones stated in the student code of conduct. Students should be informed about their misconduct by their professors. It is also recommended that professors be informed that cases submitted to the committee should be well presented and accusations should not be based on suspicions only. Hazar Abu-Khuzam Chairperson
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UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE A. MEMBERSHIP Chairman: Digambara Patra, Associate Professor, Chemistry (2014) Members: Heinrich B. Zu Dohna-Schlobi, Assistant Professor, Biology (2015) Sabine El Khoury, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (2015) Antoine Ghauch, Associate Professor, Chemistry (2016), Member of the University Admissions Committee Mike Osta, Assistant Professor, Biology (2015) Danyel Tobias Reiche, Assistant Professor, Political Studies & Public Administration Rim Saab, Assistant Professor, Psychology (2015) Arthur Michael Vermy, Assistant Professor, English (2015) Salim Kanaan, Director of Admissions, Admission’s Office Leila Knio, Student Services Officer, FAS Dean’s Office Dima Obeid, Student Representative B. COMMITTEE POLICIES The University Admissions Committee (UAC), with representatives from all Faculties, carried on regularly with the applicants for early and regular admission for the academic years of 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, and 2012-2013. Like previous year, the UAC was divided into two committees; one for freshman and the other for sophomore admissions. Dr. Alexander Lubin, Dr. Adam Waterman, and Dr. Bilal Kaafarani were the FAS representatives to the freshman committee whereas Dr. Theodore Christidis and Dr. Hoda Baytiyeh were the FAS representatives to the sophomore committee. Ms. Leila Knio represented FAS in both committees.
C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS The committee held three regular meetings and carried one circular vote during the 2013-2014 academic year. The actions taken by the committee are summarized below.
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Undergraduate Enrolment Caps In coordination with the chairpersons of various Departments in FAS and working with the Dean of FAS and chairperson of enrollment management unit of AUB, the committee approved the enrolment cap for various Departments in FAS for the Fall 2014-2015. New policy for interdepartmental transfer with in FAS In coordination with the Department of Geology the committee approved the following policy, which shall be reflected in the updated undergraduate catalog as a requirements for interdepartmental transfer to Geology and Petroleum Studies within FAS. “Geology: a minimum grade of 70 in GEOL 201 and GEOL 203. A minimum cumulative average of 70. Students joining or transferring to GEOL should complete the FR-requirements (or their equivalents) for this major. Petroleum Studies: a minimum grade of 70 in GEOL 201 and GEOL 203. A minimum cumulative average of 70. Students joining or transferring to PTST should complete the FR-requirements (or their equivalents) for this major.” Non Degree Students applying for admission to FAS as regular students Like in previous year, the committee adopted the following rules governing the process of Non Degree Students (NDS) applying for admission to FAS as regular students:
Applicants must submit transfer applications through the admissions office.
If the NDS applying for admission to FAS as a regular student is transferring from another college or university, they must have completed the equivalent of the sophomore class (30 credits or equivalent). The committee notes its standing precedent of handling NDS transfer applicants in the same manner as transfers from other universities. Any explicit exceptions to that general profile should be handled on a case-by-case basis keeping in mind that we do not want NDS status to be allowed to function as de facto “back door” for undergraduate admission.
Grade requirements are similar to transfer applications across faculties/schools. All final admissions decisions depend on availability of spaces in the major to which the NDS is applying.
Courses successfully completed at AUB by a NDS are transferable (required courses with a minimum grade of 60 and elective courses with a minimum grade of 70).
Courses successfully completed at AUB by a NDS will be considered for the purposes of admission.
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Policies for second degrees and double majors
For second degree, the committee implemented that students seeking a second undergraduate degree can do so if one of the degrees is a BA and the other is a BS. Student with a BA may also pursue a second degree that is also a BA and a student with a BS may pursue a second degree that is also a BS.
The committee also adopted that up to six credits from another institution can be transferred by students seeking a second undergraduate degree, so that student spends at least one academic year with a regular load of a minimum of 12 credits per term. In addition, all the Departmental requirements on minimum grades, etc. will be applied to those courses to determine if there are eligible to be transferred.
For double majors, the committee adopted that students may pursue undergraduate majors simultaneously as was the case in the previous year.
Undergraduate Admission: Mid-year admission (Spring 2013-2014): Out of 125 applicants to the freshman class, the UAC accepted 74, and out of 238 applicants to the sophomore class, the Committee accepted 149 students (with 153 FAS majors). The distribution of accepted sophomore applicants is shown in Table I. First Semester Admission (Fall 2014-2015): The UAC, in January 2014, accepted 421 applicants (305 sophomore and 116 freshman) who qualified for early admission (EA) to undergraduate study for the academic year 2014-2015, as stated in the AUB Undergraduate catalogue 2013-2014, p.40. The distribution of accepted applicants is shown in Table II. The UAC has reviewed and acted upon applicants to the undergraduate admissions. Counts which were done in June 2014 showed that: out of 724 freshman applicants, the Committee accepted 569 including Children of Alumni, Faculty and Staff, who have been admitted to the freshman class on the basis of Special University criteria. In total the Committee accepted 2319 out of 3286 applicants to the sophomore class. Children of Alumni, Faculty and Staff have been admitted to the Sophomore Class on the basis of Special University criteria. The UAC continued for the eighth year to implement the FAS norm and offer unspecified choice of major admission to sophomore applicants who did not satisfy all the requirements for the indicated choices while their SAT and CMS scores are equivalent to or above the cut off score. A comprehensive distribution enlisting early and regular accepted applicants is shown in Table III. University Preparatory Program:
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The University Preparatory Program (UPP) continued to prepare applicants to take SAT (both parts, verbal and mathematical reasoning). After completion of this program applicants will join the freshman class or request to be considered by the UAC for regular sophomore admission. As previously agreed, consideration of UPP applicants has been dependent on the high scores (AV 800) calculated similar to regular applicants (see Table IV). Junior Transfers from Other Universities: As per previous Annual Reports, the Committee continued to admit students at the Junior level if they have completed the equivalent of 60 credits including freshman. The Committee has also agreed to admit transfer applicants to FAS majors at the sophomore level provided they attained a GPA of 3.0/4.0 (80%) and above in at least 24 credits of coursework, depending on seat availability. A total of 120 credits (including freshman) are needed for graduation. All transfer students are required to satisfy departmental, faculty and general university course requirements (at least 45 credits at AUB out of which a minimum of 21 credits should be in their major department). Exemption from any required course (including Arabic) will be determined on a course-by-course basis by the various departments after registration. As per previous years, at the Committee’s request, the Admissions’ Office notified transfer students, that they should submit the syllabi of the courses for early consideration by the Faculty along with their application. Upon confirmation of admission, accepted transfer applicants were instructed to contact the FAS Dean’s Office-Student section to finalize their potential sophomore transferrable credits. The Committee then communicates to the Offices of Registrar with copies to the Office of Admissions, Academic adviser and the concerned student(s), the exact number of transferable credits prior to advising and registration (see Table IV). Transfers within Arts and Sciences: The Committee continued its periodic review and updating of requirements for transfer within the Faculty (interdepartmental and transfer of freshman to majors) (see Table IV). D. RECOMMENDATIONS 1. The committee’s recommendation for redistributing the composition of its members was approved and as of this year, the following distribution has been implemented: two from basic and natural sciences, one from quantitative thought, one from the humanities, and two from the social sciences, with no more than one member from the same department. 2. The Committee urges the Office of Admission to scrutinize all transfer applications before transmitting them to the FAS Undergraduate Admissions
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Committee; complete applications should include an updated transcript as well as course syllabi for all courses taken including those that are in progress. Such applicants must send their university catalogue as well. 3. The Committee, as in previous years, requires that filling “Form 3” in the application folder be mandatory for all applicants. The information to be given on this form includes the average of the class, the average of the applicant, the applicant’s rank in class and the number of students in that class. School records submitted in any other form must not be accepted. 4. The Committee realizes that few applicants will still be at a disadvantage and their school records are standardized against the general averages and standard deviations, hence, recommended to the UAC that these cases should be looked at individually as it was the norm in the FAS. 5. The Committee insists that the UAC continues the FAS trend for offering unspecified choice of major admission to applicants who do not satisfy all the requirements for the indicated choices while their SAT and CMS scores are equivalent to or above the cut off score. 6. The Committee urged the UAC to reinstate the FAS trend allowing sophomore applicants to have their admission major changed to another choice of major indicated in their applications if their SAT and CMS scores satisfy the requirements of the requested major. The committee also suggested that the UAC to look for ways to get more input from applicants about which non-first-choice majors they might be interested in pursuing. This could be done by altering the emphasis in the wording on the application and/or asking admissions staff to make it clear to students that are permitted to list three potential majors in three different faculties (for a possible total of nine). 7. To continue admitting students coming from the different tracks of the Lebanese Baccalaureate to any major in FAS and to ask admitted students to take certain supplementary courses for no credit, if they choose a field of study different from their Baccalaureate track. For example, students coming from the literary track may go into a science major if they complete the Freshman Science requirements for their chosen major. 8. The Committee approved the granting of credits, based upon the grades and topics covered, for AP, GCE-AL in addition to IB holders who opt to apply to the freshman class. 9. The Committee reaffirmed its previous recommendation stating that the English Language Proficiency Requirement (ELPR) will only be required from those coming from institutions of higher learning where the language of instruction is not English. 10. The Committee agreed that the UAC may consider applicants for “Special not Working for a Degree”. However, these applicants must satisfy University admissions requirements, should have spent some time at institutions of higher learning (after completion of high school), and should present good academic record. Moreover, the UAC may consider “Special not Working for a Degree” applications from AUB graduates who wish to raise their overall averages in
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order to be eligible for admission for FAS graduate programs. The Committee asserts that such students may take undergraduate courses only. Undergraduate applicants for “Special not Working for a Degree” requesting to take graduate courses will be considered by the UAC while graduate applicants will be considered by the FAS Graduate Committee. However, undergraduate applicants must secure, at a later stage, the approval of the Graduate Committee for the particular graduate course they intend to take. 11. The Committee agreed that FAS students wishing to transfer to a different major or join a major (FR) must fill the proper forms and have them endorsed by their adviser and/or chairman. 12. The Committee insisted on having the on-line transfer application forms tailored to meet faculty requirements since interfaculty forms do not fully correspond with FAS requirements. 13. The Committee discussed the possibility of being lenient with transfer deadlines and to possibly make decisions on a rolling basis.
Digambara Patra Chairperson
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Table I
Distribution of Accepted Undergraduate Applicants Spring 2013-2014
MAJOR ACCEPTED
Art History 1
Applied Mathematics 2
Arabic Language & Literature -
Archaeology -
Biology 30
Chemistry 23
Computer Science 22
Economics 15
Education/Elementary 2
English Literature -
English Language 1
Geology 1
Mathematics Arts -
Mathematics Science 12
Media & Communications 1
Philosophy -
Physics 11
Political Studies 2
Psychology 14
Petroleum Studies 5
Public Administration 7
Studio Art 4
Sociology & Anthropology -
Statistics -
Total _Accepted Sophomore 149*
Total _Accepted Freshman 74
Grand Total 223
* Actual number = 153 FAS majors; a student may be accepted to more than one major and this is what makes the count by major different from that of applicants.
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Table II
Distribution of Early Accepted Undergraduate Applicants Fall 2014-2015
MAJOR ACCEPTED
Art History 1
Applied Mathematics 9
Arabic Language & Literature -
Archaeology 1
Biology 141
Chemistry 20
Computer Science 22
Economics 41
Education/Elementary -
English Literature 3
English Language -
Geology -
History 1
Mathematics Arts 3
Mathematics Science 13
Media & Communications 7
Philosophy 1
Physics 21
Political Studies 3
Psychology 11
Petroleum Studies 3
Public Administration 1
Studio Art 3
Sociology & Anthropology 1
Statistics -
Total _Accepted Sophomore 305*
Total _Accepted Freshman 116
Grand Total 421
* Actual number = 306 FAS majors; a student may be accepted to more than one major and this is what makes the count by major different from that of applicants.
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Table III
FAS Admissions Figures for Fall 2014- 15
MAJOR
2014 - 15 201510
CMS* AP AC C E
Expected Yield 14-15
AHST
500
26 3 - 1 0.33
APPM 120 52 10 11 0.21
ARLL 8 1 - 2 2.00
AROL 14 2 1 - -
BIOL 610 1215 545 143 153 0.28
CHEM 510 711 298 97 78 0.26
CMPS 500 615 267 87 85 0.32
ECON 530 802 343 69 103 0.30
ELEM
500
107 13 6 8 0.62
ELIT 45 17 7 12 0.71
ELNG 25 1 - 4 4.00
GEOL 525 21 2 - 2 1.00
HIST
500
25 7 2 - -
MATA 59 14 2 3 0.21
MATS 338 134 35 44 0.33
MCOM 297 102 31 6 0.06
PHIL 32 6 - 1 0.17
PHYS 583 230 67 51 0.22
POLS 319 91 22 19 0.21
PSYC 416 141 27 40 0.28
PTST 525 485 90 18 25 0.28
PUBA
500
250 57 10 6 0.11
SART 170 34 4 11 0.32
SOAN 81 11 2 6 0.55
STAT 64 10 2 1 0.10
Total (UG)** 3286 2319 642 672 0.29
MJRL (FR) 471 724 569 328 305 0.54
Codes: AP: Applied AC: Accepted C: Confirmed E: Previous years’ data of Enrolled
Expected Yield = previous years’ data of Enrolled / Accepted
CMS: ( { [(School Av1-Mean1)/(SD1)] * 100 + 500 } + { [School Av2-Mean2)/(SD2)] * 100 + 500 } )/2 SD: Standard Deviation * Not an absolute cut off
**Doesn’t represent counts per head
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Table IV
Distribution of Second Degree, Transfers, Special Not Working for a Degree and Old Returning for AY 2013-14
TERM S’12-13
App. A D E
Readmission of Old Returning Students 2 2 - 2
TERM F’13
App. A D E
I. Transfers Within FAS 205 205 - 167
A)FR Transfers 115 115 - 81
B)Inter-Departmental Transfers 90 90 - 86
i) SO 22 22 - 20
ii) JR 42 42 - 40
iii) SR 26 26 - 26
II. Interfaculty Transfers 68 54 14 32
II. Transfers From other Universities 47 26 21 4
IV. Second Degree 15 11 4 8
i) AUB 11 10 1 8
ii) Non-AUB 4 1 3 -
V. Readmission of Old Returning Students 8 8 - 6
VI. University Preparatory Program 24 22 2 10
TERM SP’14
App. A D E
I. Transfers Within FAS 80 80 - 75
A)FR Transfers 29 29 - 26
B)Inter-Departmental Transfers 51 51 - 49
i) SO 6 6 - 5
ii) JR 29 29 - 29
iii) SR 16 16 - 15
II. Interfaculty Transfers 47 34 13 24
III. Transfers From other Universities 27 10 17 3
IV. Second Degree 10 5 5 4
i) AUB 10 5 5 4
ii) Non-AUB - - - -
V. Readmission of Old Returning Students 8 8 - 5
VI. University Preparatory Program 9 7 2 2
Codes: App.: Total Applicants; A: Accepted; D: Declined; E: Enrolled
PART III
REPORTS OF THE ACADEMIC UNITS
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THE ANIS MAKDISI PROGRAM IN LITERATURE A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL) was inaugurated at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut in October 2002. The aim of the program is to promote and support an interdisciplinary dialogue, develop literary and humanistic studies at AUB and to encourage openness to different cultural forms and traditions in literature, in keeping with the approaches elaborated in the work of Anis K. Makdisi. The Program fosters intellectual dialogue and scholarly exchange among members of different departments, their students, and visiting scholars. The Program's activities include seminars, lecture series, workshops and conferences on various topics in cultural and literary studies, in order to provide a forum for scholarly dialogue among the various academic communities in Lebanon. In addition, two student scholarships are awarded annually a graduate fellowship to support graduate studies in literature at AUB, and an undergraduate scholarship for undergraduate studies. The centerpiece of the program is the Anis K. Makdisi Memorial Lecture, held annually at AUB and given by a leading scholar or author. The Program has continued its varied activities (15 events as noted below) in the academic year 2013-2014, working closely together with different programs and departments at AUB as well as with educational, academic and cultural institutions and intellectuals from Lebanon and abroad. Many of the events have been covered by media, press, along with online forums. B. PERSONNEL
1. Honorary Members Dorman, Peter President
Dallal, Ahmad Provost
McGreevy, Patrick FAS Dean
2. Director
El-Bizri, Nader
3. Advisory Committee
Dallal, Ahmad Harb, Sirene
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Jarrar, Maher Khairallah, Assaad Makdisi, Saree (UCLA)
C. EVENTS The legacy of Edward Said: panel 10 October 2013 World religions in a secular age: seminar 5 November 2013 Farabi’s art of lawgiving: lecture, Charles Butterworth, 6 November 2013 Practicing philosophy in Lebanon: Conference 20-21 November 2013 Muslims in Australia: lecture, Waleed Aly, 25 November 2013 Autocracy and the common good: lecture, Stefan Leder, 9 December 2013 Rituals of signs & transformations: play, Babel Theater, December 2013 After 100 springs: performance Al-Madina Theatre, 10-11 February 2014 Subversives and saints: lecture, Emily O'dell, 27 February 2014 Early history of the municipality of Beirut: lecture, Malek Sharif, 13 March 2014 The legacy of Chinua Achebe (with Wole Soyinka): event NDU, 21 March 2014 Où ibn ‘arabî et dante convergent: lecture, Abdelwahab Meddeb, 2 April 2014 Transmission of knowledge: Memorial lecture, Charles Burnett, 16 April 2014 Remembering Nizar Mroue: ceremony, 5 May 2014 Reading Milton through Islam: symposium 12 May 2014 D. PROJECTS Edited volume of studies in Arabic on the legacy of Asad Rustum. Pamphlet in Arabic on the legacy of Nizar Mroue. Restoring a 19th century Arabic manuscript from Iraq. Nader El-Bizri Director
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DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC AND NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES
A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages has witnessed several advances this year: Our recruitment efforts appear finally to have borne fruit, with one of two vacancies—in Quranic studies—likely to be filled (the other in Modern Arabic Literature remaining unfilled for now). The department invited two candidates for the position in Quranic studies for campus visits, both were eager to come to AUB and we ended by recommending that one of them be offered a regular 4-year contract. Considering that we have been attempting to fill both positions for several years, this represents quite an accomplishment. The net gain will be zero, however, as we are losing a professor to an endowed chair at Ohio State University. After years of no growth, our numbers of undergraduate students are increasing. We apparently now have seven majors, although we only have a record of four. What that probably means is that some students have decided to major in Arabic without having yet declared formally. The graduate program has experienced a steady stream of applicants, mostly at the master‘s level, and we have offered places to several of them, granting provisional admission to several others, pending their successful completion of remedial classes. In that regard, we have implemented a procedure for guaranteeing places to provisional students and majors, whereby when setting the schedule, we cap required classes at 20 students, effectively reserving five places in each class for majors or others who are obliged to enroll in the classes. At the end of drop/add, we will offer any remaining places to other students. The summer term is the first in which the practice will be attempted. We have implemented a new minor in Semitic studies, returning the department to its roots with one of its first professors Anis Frayha, who was appointed by president Dodge as a professor of Arabic and Semitic studies. With the minor, we have added some new classes to the schedule, including a second term of Syriac and an introductory class in Semitic studies, with syllabi for several other classes ready to submit to the curriculum committee if the minor becomes popular. We also have Hebrew on the schedule for the first time in many years.
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The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic (Prof. R. Baalbaki) continued sponsoring its ―Distinguished Lecturer Series.‖ B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members
Agha, Saleh Said Professor Ph.D.
Baalbaki, Ramzi Professor, Jewett Chair
Ph.D.
Jarrar, Maher Professor* Ph.D.
Khairallah, Assaad Professor Ph.D.
Naimy, Nadeem Professor* Ph.D.
Tuqan, Fawwaz Professor Ph.D.
Wilmsen, David Associate Professor, Chair Ph.D.
Orfali, Bilal Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Al Zein, Abdel Fattah Kattoura, Georges Kozah, Mario Rachid El Daif
Senior Lecturer*
Senior Lecturer*
Lecturer * Lecturer *
3éme cycle Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D.
Jiha, George Lecturer Ph.D.
Hajjar, Olga Instructor* M.A.
Nahas El Zein, Raghda Instructor M.A.
2. Research Assistants Fall Semester
Al-Khalidy, Sarah
Ouail, Chafika El Ali, Mariam
Spring Semester
Al-Khalidy, Sarah
Ouail, Chafika El Ali, Mariam
3. Jewett Chair Editorial/Administrative Coordinator
Kaedbey, Rana
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4. Graduate Assistants Fall Semester
Horr, Nermine Elkhoury, Alfred
Rizk, Ali Rida
Spring Semester
Rizk, Ali Rida Elkhoury, Alfred
Horr, Nermine Yakubu, Kamaldeen
5. Non Academic Staff
Fall Semester Abi Ghannam, Nadine Spring Semester
Secretary
Abbass, Aida Secretary
C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BA Oct. 2013 0
Feb. 2014 0
Jun. 2014 1
MA Oct. 2013 0
Feb. 2014 0
Jun. 2014 1
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 4
Seniors 2
Juniors 1
Sophomores 12
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 16 7 13 211-299 9 268 246 523
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200-210 137 386 426 949 100-199 0 39 29 68 Total 146 709 708 1563
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 21 9 30 211-299 3 36 36 75 200-210 15 51 51 117 100-199 0 6 6 12 Total 18 114 102 234
D. RESEARCH Saleh Said Agha I. Submitted (to EI3; by invitation): 1. ―Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī.‖ 2. ―Ghassān b. Abān/Ghassāniyya.‖ II. Short Term Yields Expected:
(Priorities and defaults carried forward, and slightly modified, from the Report of 2013):
3. ―ʿAyniyyat al- Ḥādira – a critical analysis of a pre-Islamic archetypal poem (final write up. Better be submitted before end August, 2014).
4. ―The ʿAbbāsid odyssey in Samāwah – an endeavor less high-minded than has been portrayed‖. Two months or so had elapsed since the takeover of Kūfah, in 132 H. /750A.D, by the revolutionary forces allegedly working for
the ʿAbbāsids, before Abūal-ʿ Abbās al Saffāḥ was proclaimed as the first
ʿAbbāsid caliph. During this interregnum, the entire ʿAbbāsid clan went missing. Where they disappeared and why is still a mystery. Neither the primary sources, nor modern scholarship have provided a convincing answer; the majority didn‘t even realize the anomaly. This article investigates the matter from a histo-geographical perspective, utilizing material from poetry, historical accounts, and the accounts of modern western explorers cum scholars who explored Arabia Deserta. (Earmarked for a contribution to the festschrift in honor of a worthy colleague).
III. Mature Projects—pending ―structural‖ decisions, and calendar appointments:
5. ―On the poetic power of al lafZa al-mufrada‖-Part I: Parameters of the Issue,-Part II: The Cosmology of al-lafza. (or theoretically huge issue; an applicably sensitive issue.) Further Projects, substantially researched:
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6. A monograph on the subtle pulse of the Umayyad era as expressed by marginal poetry and minor poets. A specific poet is chosen to partially mirror
a socio-poetic profile of the time. Saʿd b. Nāshib is the minor poet of choice.
The extensive study of Saʿd‘s biography and poetry is ready. The monograph will further survey the relevant aspects of the historical era (from early Islam to the end of the Umayyad era). This aspect of the issue is still being researched.
7. “Munṣifāt al- ʿArab thalāth‟ – an introduction to and an annotated translation of three specimens of an under-rated genre of Arabic poetry – a pilot article (in progress).
8. Inṣāf (equity) in Pre-and-Early-Islamic Poetry: An Anthology and a Study. This project envisages three products: (a) a pilot article in English, heralding: (b)a
book – a comprehensive annotated anthology of Inṣāf with an analytical study; and (c), a translation thereof. (Further research is required).
9. “Hijra and taʿarrub: a seminal concept efficacious in the formation, construction, and maintenance of the Islamic Arab establishment until the end of Umayyad times – Hadīth as a tool of articulating, perpetuating, and investing in the concept, and of modifying it to suit the objectives of the establishment at different junctures.‖ This is a tentative, and explanatory extended title of a project in its exploratory stage.
Ramzi Baalbaki 1. ―A Precursor to the rhyme system in Arabic lexicography: Ibn al-Sikkīt‘s (d.
244/858) chapter on faʿl and faʿal in Iṣlāḥ al-Manṭiq.” In press (al-Abḥāth). 2. ―One word, two functions: The concept of functional replacement in
traditional syntactic analysis.‖ In press (Festschrift for Pierre Larcher). 3. ―The notion of ġarīb in Arabic lexica.‖ In press (Festschrift for Aziz al-
Azmeh).
4. Makārim al-aḫlāq wa-maḥāsin al-Ādāb wa-badāʾiʿ al-awṣāf wa-l-tašbīhāt. Book being edited in collaboration with B. Orfali.
Assaad Khairallah 1. Co-authoring and co-editing a four-volume work, Literature: A World History, a project of the Stockholm Collegium of World Literary History, writing the part on Arabic literature, as well as coordinating the macro-region West and Central Asia. The work will be published by Wiley-Blackwell. 2. Editing al-Abhath, Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (AUB), volumes 60-61 (2012-2013), and due to appear in autumn 2014. 3. Modern Arabic Poetry: Prophecy, Metapoetry, Snapshots: A monograph under contract with the Curzon/Routledge Press, London. In progress.
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Bilal Orfali On research leave spring 2014 Fawwaz Tuqan On research leave fall 2013 David Wilmsen 1. Submitted: ‗Polar interrogative –š in Maltese: Developments and antecedents‘
to appear in a volume of papers on Maltese linguistics to be published by De Gruyter
2. Completing: ‗Perfect Modality: Auxiliary verbs and finite subordinates in Levantine (and other) Arabics‘
3. Researching differential object marking in Levantine Arabic and Maltese, to be presented at Arabic in Contact Conference, University of Naples
4. Researching verbal negation with the particle miš in Levantine Arabic, North African Arabic, and Maltese, to be presented at the 5th International conference on Maltese Linguistics of the International Association of Maltese Linguistics, University of Torino
5. Researching the interrogative ēš and the interrogative phrase ayyu šay‟inn in Hadith and Belles Artes literature to be presented at Horizons of Islamic Theology Conference at the Zentrum für Islamische Studien (Center for Islamic Studies) at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Ramzi Baalbaki 1. Editor of the occasional papers Series for the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett
Chair of Arabic. Published a paper by Prof. A. Mseddi (Tunis University), entitled: ―Arabic and the struggle for survival‖.
2. Served as Chair of the Academic Board of the Arabic Doha Historical Dictionary, sponsored by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar.
3. Served on the following Editorial Boards: a. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill, Leiden. b. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Oslo. c. Journal of Arabic Linguistic Tradition, Washington D.C. d. Majallat al-Mu„jamiyya al-„Arabiyya, Tunisia. e. Langues et Littératures du Monde Arabe, Paris. f. The Arabic Historical Dictionary. The Arabic Language Academy, Cairo.
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g. al-Abhath. h. Romano-Arabica, Bucharest; and i. Regular referee in several Arab and international journals. 4. Evaluation of the PhD program proposal, Ghaza University. 5. Chaired a panel on Arabic oral and written traditions in the conference on
Oral History, sponsored by the Arab Center for Research, Beirut, and Feb. 22, 2014.
6. Attended the Workshop on Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized, University of Erlangen, 2014. Title of paper delivered is: ―The notion of ġarīb in Arabic lexica‖.
7. Summary of Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic (Prof. R. Baalbaki) continued sponsoring its ―Distinguished Lecturer Series‖. This year‘s distinguished lecturer was Prof. Jan Geert van Gelder, of Oxford University. The title of his paper was ―The Doubts of Ibn al-Shibl al-Baghdādī (d. 474/1081-2), Poet, Philosopher, and Physician‖. There was also another occasional lecture given by Prof. Raymond Farrin, of the American University
of Kuwait, by the title ―Concentric Symmetry in the Qurʾān: Sūras al-Fātiḥa, al-
Raḥmān, and al-Nās”. Both papers will be published as usual. Assaad Khairallah 1. Member of the Executive Board of the Stockholm Collegium of World Literary History. 2. Member of the Advisory Committee of the Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature. 3. Editor, Al-Abhath: Journal of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences (AUB). 4. Invited member of the University Publication Committee. 5. Member of the Advisory Board of: Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (American University of Cairo) 6. Peer Reviewer for The Qatar National Research Fund, since Oct. 2009. 7. Member of a workshop for founding a department of Comparative and
World 8. Literature at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. 9. Member of the Max Weber Foundation‘s Commission to evaluate the
Orient-Institut, Beirut (Near Eastern Branch of the German Oriental Society)
10. Founding Member EURAMAL (European Association for Modern Arabic Literature), and member of its Research Program Committee.
11. Chair of the Search Committee for Modern Arabic Literature. 12. Chair of the Promotion Committee of Associate Prof. David Wilmsen
(Arabic)
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13. Participated in the Meeting of the Executive Board of the Stockholm Collegium for World Literature and reported on the progress in the West and Central Asian region. Rome (November 10-13)
Bilal Orfali 1. Member in the General Education Committee 2. Member in the Student Academic Affairs Committee 3. Regular referee and a member of the board of Al-Machriq: Revue Catholique Orientale. Sciences, Lettres, Arts. (reviews 4 articles) 4. Referee for an article for the Journal of Arabic Literature 5. Referee for an article in Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 6. Referee for an article in Journal of the American Oriental Society 7. Referee for an article in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 8. Referee for an article in Abhath 9. Referee for two books for Brill Publishers 10. Editor of Texts and Studies on the Qur'an (Brill series) 11. Director of the CAMES Arabic Summer program. 12. Member of the Steering Committee for CAMES. 13. Member of Editorial Board of Abhath (book review editor) 14. Co-editor, E.J. Brill's Encyclopedia of Islamic Mysticism 15. Member of Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (term 2013-2016)
16. Member of Arabische Philologien im Blickwechsel- نحو دراسات عربية برؤى
(2017-2013) متعددة17. Presented a Paper in a conference on Qur'an and Adab, IIS, London 18. Chaired a Panel and gave the conference final remarks in a conference on Qur'an and Adab, IIS, London 19. Delivered a talk in Berlin in Arabische Philologien im Blickwechsel 20. Delivered a lecture at a conference on Tales That Travel at NYU Abu Dhabi 21. Delivered a lecture at the American University of Kuwait (AUK) 22. Delivered a lecture at Leiden University 23. Delivered a lecture at University of Michigan Ann Arbor 24. Delivered a lecture at the Orient Institut-Istanbul 25. Delivered a Lecture at the CAMES summer program on Arabic literature and world literature 26. Committee member for an M.A thesis. in the Dept of Arabic (Ali Rida Rizk) 27. Member of the committee for two ongoing one PhD student in History and another in Arabic 28. Web contributor and web content approver for the Department of Arabic & NEL. 29. Library Liaison for the Department of Arabic. 30. Organized a workshop on the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language (CAMES, summer 2013)
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31. Attended the meeting of the Arab German Young Academy in Qatar 32. Attended the MESA conference 33. Member of Editorial Board of Tabuk University Press 34. Member of Arab Database for Academic Journals (ADAJ)-Kuwait University (attended 3 meetings) 35. Wrote an Expert Witness letter for Bombay High Court in India regarding the Tayyibi Daudi Bohra community's split following the passing of the 52nd Imam 36. contributed a review of the Library of Arabic Literature for Alhayat newspaper 37. Member of Advisory Board for Literaturen im Kontext. Arabisch – Persisch – Türkisch David Wilmsen 1. Completed supervision of CAMES master‘s thesis, ―Negation in the
Lebanese Dialect of Zeitoun, Keserwan: An examination of claims, concepts, and usage,‖ by Natalie Khairallah; defended 25 April 2014.
2. Invited lecture: The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Arizona, October 2013: Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, and Negators: A linguistic history of western dialects.
3. Invited lecture: Departments of English and Arabic, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat. Oman, April 2014: The importance of the Omani Semitic Languages to the History of Arabic.
4. Conference presentations: a. Negation with post-positive –š in Arabic dialects: An original feature not the end of a cycle. Paper presented at the 10th biennial conference of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe. Qatar University, Doha. 10—13 November 2013.
b. Interrogative –š in Maltese: Antecedents and Developments. Paper presented to the 4th International conference on Maltese Linguistics of the International Association of Maltese Linguistics (Għaqda Internazzjonali tal-Lingwistika Maltija), Lyon, France 17—19 June 2013.
5. External referee: Carnegie Mellon promotion case, June – August 2013 6. External reviewer: Non-Native Speakers Program at Qatar University,
February 2014 7. Peer reviews: Publications:
a. August – Sept 2013: Referee: Al-ʿArabiyya Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic: ―Villains, Victims, labels and Euphemisms: An Analysis of Al- Jazeera Terror Terminology Variation by Event and Audience.‖
b. October 2013: Referee: Al-ʿArabiyya Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic: ―Prenominal and Postnominal Adjectives in Arabic: A Proposed Analysis‖
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c. October—November 2013: Review for Abḥāt: Organization and consequences of the ―Theory of Matrices and Etymons (TMPF)‖
d. April 2014 Review for Folia Orientalia: ―Collective Nouns in Journalistic Modern Standard Arabic‖
e. April 2014 Review for Journal of American Oriental Society: ―Towards an Understanding of the Status of the Dual in Pre-Islamic Arabic‖
F. PUBLICATIONS Ramzi Baalbaki 1. The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century.
Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2014, 490 pp.
2. ―Arabic linguistic tradition I: Naḥw and ṣarf,‖ The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, ed. Jonathan Owens. Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2013), pp. 92-114.
3. ―The influence of poetry on the rhyme system in lexicography: Evidence from
Bandanīǧī‘s (d. 284/897) Kitāb al-Taqfiya.‖ Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition, vol. 10 (2012; appeared November 2013), pp. 20-30.
4. Review of A. E. Marogy‘s The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics: Sībawayhi and Early Arabic Grammatical Theory, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 103 (2013), pp. 447-450.
Assaad Khairallah
―Desire, Taboo, and Transgression: Qāsim Ḥaddād‘s Akhbār Majnūn Laylā,” in Desire, Pleasure and the Taboo: New Voices and Freedom of Expression in Contemporary Arabic Literature, eds. Sobhi Boustani et al, Rassegna di Studi Orientali (Supplemento 2013) (Roma, Serra Editore, 2014), 141-150. Bilal Orfali 1. Books:
a. Seeking Solitude, A short Sufi Guidebook: Khalwat al-ʿākifīn (Selections from Salwat
al-ʿārifīn). Bilal Orfali and Gerhard Bowering. Beirut: Dar al-Machreq, 2013. 2. Articles
a. ―Qurʾānic Firebrands: Quoting the Qurʾān in Theory and Practice in Pre-Modern Arabic Literature,‖ İlim Dünyası 5 (2013), 33-42.
b. ―The Sources of al-Thaʿālibī in Yatīmat al-Dahr and Tatimmat al-Yatīma,‖ Middle Eastern Literatures (2013), 1-47.
c. ―A Lost Maqāma of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (?),‖Arabica 59 (2013). [with Maurice Pomerantz]
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David Wilmsen 1. ―The interrogative origin of the Arabic negator –š: Evidence from copular
interrogation in Andalusi Arabic, Maltese, and modern spoken Moroccan and Egyptian Arabic,‖ Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 2013: 58, 5-31.
2. ―More on iyyā-: Implications for the origin of the Semitic nota accusativi,‖ Folia Orientalia 2013: 50, 65-80.
3. ―The Demonstrative iyyā-: A little-considered aspect of Arabic deixis,‖ Arabica, 2013: 60/3-4, 332-358.
4. ―Grammaticalization of the Arabic demonstrative iyyā- as a pronominal object marker in ditransitive verbs: An answer to Bravmann,‖ Journal of Semitic Studies, 2013: 58/1, 149-167.
5. Review of Sahlawayhi a series of readers in Arabic. Al-ʿArabiyya 46 2013, 123—125.
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT We have been attracting undergraduate majors and we have a growing master‘s degree program, accepting eight students into the program, four of them as prospective graduate students. We have developed a minor in Semitic studies, revitalizing an old tradition in the department and at AUB. We are considering a number of new classes, including a professional writing class and a number of new classes for the Semitics minor. Apostille: PLO We have done nothing respecting program learning outcomes. We have very few majors and they usually graduate one at a time. That means that we know our undergraduate majors well, and we are all well aware of their success in following our curriculum. It also means that we do not have the numbers to open a capstone seminar. David Wilmsen Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS One hundred thirty-eight students are expected to have graduated with a BS in Biology between October 2013 and June 2014. Four hundred seventy-five students were enrolled in the program. Six students are expected to have graduated with an MS in Biology between October 2013 and June 2014. Six students joined the program in Fall 2013-2014 and five in Spring 2013-2014. The total number of MS graduates enrolled in our program this year (2013-14) was 30. Three students graduated from the PhD program. Three new students joined the PhD program in Cell and Molecular Biology in Fall 2013-2014. The total number of PhD students enrolled in our program this year was 8. One new Faculty member joined the department as Visiting Assistant Professor: Dr. Rakan Zahawi (University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD, 2003). The department hosted a seminar series in which the presenters were PhD students and MS students enrolled in BIOL 393 and 493, and ten guest speakers, including Dr. Carole Saade of the Florida State University, Dr. Mirna Chahine of the Medical Research Institutes (F-MRI) - Lebanon, Dr. Lina Tawk of Pasteur Institute Paris, France, Dr. Barend Vlaardingerbroek, of the SMEC and Department of Education, AUB, Dr. Raymond Najjar of the Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Sarah Riman of the Florida State University, Dr. Maroun Beyrouthy of the Florida State University, and Dr. Atia-tul-Wahab of the University of Karachi. Dana Bazzoun, Farah Nassar and Layla Kamareddine were the recipients of the CNRS-L award to support their Doctoral studies at AUB. They were amongst 8 recipients being recognized in the second year of the award‟s inception. The department held 16 meetings during the 2013-2014 academic year. A special meeting was held for the „Periodic Program Review in Biology‟ on Tuesday October 22nd in the Biology conference room (113). Provost Dallal, Dean McGreevy and Dr. Ali El Hajj who coordinates AUB‟s program review efforts attended this meeting. Dr. Sawsan Kreydiyyeh is chairing a committee to review the Biology program and to evaluate the undergraduate and graduate program.
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The Biology faculty continues to work towards improving and updating its programs. One change was introduced that includes removing BIOL 220 as a prerequisite for BIOL 260 in order to allow junior students to register in this course A microscopy room has been established on the third floor. It contains a new dissecting fluorescence microscope. Renovation of the PhD graduate offices room started in May 2014 and is expected to end in mid June 2014. Laboratory safety training was given to the instructors of BIOL 201 and 202 lab courses as to better educate their students during the lab sessions. A new teaching laboratory, Neurobiology Laboratory, was given in Spring 2014. It was equipped with all the necessary supplies. A new deep freezer has been received in November 2013. It helped back up the department needs for extra freezer space especially that one of the deep freezers is still under maintenance. A large flammable cabinet has been placed in the common lab of the second floor as recommended by the safety department. Flammable chemicals will be arranged and organized in this cabinet to allow extra safety measures. Dr. Riyad Sadek installed a live weather monitoring screen in the corridor of the first floor which broadcasts the weather in Beirut as sensed by the weather antenna located on the department‟s roof. With respect to the Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs), the department has been evaluating all of the eight Biology PLOs in all courses offered every regular semester. The evaluations fell into two categories: indirect and direct assessments. The indirect assessments were based on Moodle-surveys in which Biology majors report whether the Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) were met in offered courses (options were weak, poor, good, excellent, and NA). All of the CLOs were linked to PLOs as all Faculty members previously matched their CLOs with the approved PLOs. On the other hand, the direct assessments involved administering an exit exam to graduating seniors and testing their general knowledge in the different fields of Biology, in addition to evaluating their English writing skills. The data was collected at the end of every semester, shared with concerned faculty members, and analyzed for all Biology courses: required, semi-required and electives. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members Baydoun, Elias Professor Ph.D.
Gali-Muhtasib, Hala Professor Ph.D.
Knio, Khouzama Professor & Chairperson
Ph.D.
Kreydiyyeh, Sawsan Professor Ph.D.
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Talhouk, Rabih Professor Ph.D.
Bariche, Michel*2 Associate Professor Ph.D.
Saoud, Imad1 Associate Professor Ph.D.
Smith, Colin Associate Professor Ph.D.
Ghanem, Noel Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Jaalouk, Diana Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Kambris, Zakaria2 Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Osta, Mike Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Sadek, Riyad Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Zu Dohna-Schlobi, Heinrich
Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Zahawi, Rakan** Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D.
Rizkallah, Hind Lecturer Ph.D.
Sinno Saoud, Lecturer Ph.D.
Hajjar, Layane Instructor M.S.
Abi-Said, Mounir** Part-time Lecturer Ph.D.
El-Hajj, Hiba** Part-time Lecturer Ph.D.
Saade, Carol** Part-time Lecturer Ph.D.
Abdallah, Emane Part-time Instructor B.S.
Abed Ali, Farah Part-time Instructor B.S.
Abou-Matar, Tamara Part-time Instructor B.S.
Al-Lafi, Sawsan Part-time Instructor M.S.
Alwan, Nisreen Part-time Instructor Ph.D.
Al-Zein, Mohammad Part-time Instructor M.S.
Diab El Harakeh, Dima** Part-time Instructor B.S.
El Houjeiri, Leeanna Part-time Instructor B.S.
El Moussawi, Layla Part-time Instructor B.S.
Hamze, Rabiah Part-time Instructor M.S.
Hariri, Hadla* Part-time Instructor B.S.
Hmadi, Raed Part-time Instructor M.S.
Jaber, Hweida Part-time Instructor M.S.
Naser, Rayan Part-time Instructor M.S.
Nasr, Bilal* Part-time Instructor M.S.
Nasser, Nivin Part-time Instructor M.S.
Rizk, Zeinab Part-time Instructor M.S.
Zahr, Hind Part-time Instructor M.S.
____________________________________________ 1 First Semester, on paid research leave 2 Second Semester, on paid research leave *2 Second Semester, on unpaid leave
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* First Semester Only ** Second Semester Only
2. Research Assistants Fall Semester
Abed Ali, Farah Moghabghab, Elsa
Al-Lafi, Sawsan Naser, Rayan
Farran, Dina Torres, Martha
Fatfat, Maamoun Zahr, Hind
Spring Semester
Abed Ali, Farah Fatfat, Maamoun
Al-Halabi, Racha Moghabghab, Elsa
Al-Lafi, Sawsan Naser, Rayan
Farran, Dina Zahr, Hind
3. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester
Al Alam, Nadine Karam, Martin
Assaf, Nisreen Kesserwan, Fatimah
Assi, Sara Mardirossian, Narine
Babikian, Jessica Omais, Saad
Diab El Harakeh, Dima Samaha, Carol
Hankash, Carla Soubra, Noura
Hayek, Dayana Younes, Ingrid
Jammal, Ahmad
Spring Semester
Al Alam, Nadine Hassan, Aybak
Assi, Sara Karam, Martin
Aouad, Patrick Kesserwan, Fatimah
El Hajj, Jeanette Omais, Saad
Hankash, Carla Soubra, Noura
4. PhD Graduate Research Assistantships
Fall Semester
Bazzoun, Dana Kamar, Amina
El-Zein, Ola Kamareddine, Layla
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Ghazal, Nasab Nakhleh, Johnny
Fakhoury, Isabelle Nassar, Farah
Fostok, Sabreen
Spring Semester
Bazzoun, Dana Kamar, Amina
Ghazal, Nasab Kamareddine, Layla
Fakhoury, Isabelle Nakhleh, Johnny
Fostok, Sabreen Nassar, Farah
5. Non-Academic Staff
Assaad, Najeh Assistant Technician
El Osta, Rania Laboratory Manager
Hannoun, Victor Senior Technician
Itani, Ghida Administrative Assistant
Kaissi, Maha Administrative Assistant
Masri, Imad Technician
C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BS Oct. 2013 8
Feb. 2014 9
Jun. 2014 121
MS Oct. 2013 1
Feb. 2014 0
Jun. 2014 5
PhD Oct. 2013 2
Feb. 2014 1
Jun. 2014 0
2. Number of Majors
PhD 8
Graduates 30
Seniors 141
Juniors 161
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Sophomores 173
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 73 56 129 211-299 87 559 773 1419 200-210 129 612 621 1362 100-199 7 73 89 169 Total 223 1317 1539 3079
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 95 48 143 211-299 21 80 107 208 200-210 21 29 34 84 100-199 3 6 6 15 Total 45 210 195 450
D. RESEARCH Michel Bariche 1. CREAM project: Coordinating research in support to application of EAF
(Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries) and management advice in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Supported by the European Commission FP7 Programme. Total amount: 1,100,370 €.
2. A DNA barcode reference library for exotic marine species in the Mediterranean Sea. Supported by URB.
3. The marine and freshwater ichthyofauna of Lebanon: history, checklist, and exotics.
Elias Baydoun 1. Microbial transformation of nandrolone nandrolone with Cunninghamella echinulata and Cunninghamella blakesleeana and evaluation of leishmaniacidal activity of transformed products. 2. The proto-oncoprotein c-Cbl protects cells against oxidative stress by down-regulating apoptosis and is highly expressed in several cancers. Journal of Cancer Science and Therapy.
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3. Effects of the antioxidant Ascorbic Acid on Tax, Nuclear Factor Kappa B and Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 in Human T-cell Lymphtrophic Virus 1 positive malignant T-Lymphocytes. 4. Allozyme variation among populations of Phoenico lacerta lizards in Lebanon 5. The abundance of pectin methyl esterase transcript throughout the cell cycle of synchronized Arabidopsis thaliana suspension cultures 6. Synthesis of libraries of anti-cancer agents by biotransformation- a novel approach towards anti-cancer agents. Supported by CNRS. 7. Synthesis of novel anti-inflammatory agents by biotransformation. Supported by URB. 8. Synthesis of new anabolic compounds through biotransformation with safe and non-toxic properties. Submitted to CRSL-Shair for funding 9. Search for new entomopathogenic fungi of Lebanon and biotechnological improvement of the fungus Beauveria bassiana. Supoported by CEDRE 10. Antimicrobial Activity of modified synthetic compounds and their potential synergistic effect against Multi-drug resistant (MDR) Staphyloccus aureus”. Submitted to CNRS for funding 11. Investigating the role of NFATcl and HAND2 and their interaction in heart morphogenesis using Drosophila melanogaster as a model. Hala Gali-Muhtasib 1. Gallotannin is a DNA damaging compound that induces senescence independently of p53 and p21 in human colon cancer cells. Molecular Carcinogenesis 2. Thymoquinone Combination with Conventional and Targeted Drugs: A Therapeutic Approach against Adult T-Cell Leukemia. Funded by University Research Board of AUB, 2013-2014. 3. Formulation, in vitro and in vivo uptake and anticancer activity of thymoquinone nanoparticles. Funded by Swedish Research Council, 2013-2016. 4. Targeted therapy of breast cancer stem cells and metastasis by the hypoxia-activated quinoxaline 1,4-dioxide DCQ. Funded by Farouk Jabr Awards for outstanding scientific research proposals, 2013. 5. Zinc dependent regulation of the cell cycle regulator Cdc25 as a potential anti-cancer target. Funded by Qatar National Research Foundation, 2011-2014. Noël Ghanem 1. Rb controls neurogenesis in the adult subventricular zone and olfactory bulb. 2. Rb is required for normal development and morphogenesis of the olfactory system. 3. Control of nerve regeneration and plasticity in the adult brain by the Retinoblastoma protein, pRb. Funded by the URB-AUB and the LNCSR -two years.
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4. Control of long term survival and function of adult-born GABAergic neurons in the brain by pRB. Funded by the URB-AUB and the LNCSR -two years. 5. Role of Rb in the development of olfactory system. 6. Investigating the influence of neuro-developmental stage on brain tumorigenesis upon in-vivo disruption of the tumor suppressors RB and p53 in neural precursor cells. Funded by the Farouk-Jaber Grant –AUB -one year. Diana Jaalouk 1. Lamin A/C-Deficient Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Exhibit Spontaneous Pre-adipogenic Conversion. 2. Sub-lethal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Exposure Results in Altered Mechanosensitive Gene Expression and Cytotoxic Response to Anti-neoplastic Agents in Breast Cancer Cells. 3. Alterations of Mechanotransduction Signaling and Cellular Function in Breast Cancer from High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Exposure. Funding: the project has been funded by a grant from the Dar Al-Handassah (Shair & Partners) Endowment Fund in Engineering for a 2-year period (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2012) 4. Proteomic Profiling of Nuclei Isolated from LaminA/C-Deficient Mouse Embryo Fibroblasts by Performing a Differential Phage Display Screen. Funding: the project has been co-funded by a 1-year URB grant (Oct. 1, 2010 – Sept. 30, 2011) 5. Deregulated Caveolin-1 Expression in Muscular Laminopathies. Funding: the project has been funded by a 1-year URB grant (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013) 6. Cardiomyopathies at AUB-MC: Behind the Genetics, Clinical and Bio-translational Perspectives. Funding: the project has been funded by a 3-year grant from the Faculty of Medicine Program Projects Grants in Biomedical Research (2013 – 2016) Zakaria Kambris 1. A comparative study of phenoloxidase activity in 3 different mosquitoes genera. 2. Investigating the role of a novel NF-kB transcription factor in Drosophila melanogaster‟s immunity. 3. wolbachia-induced gene upregulation in the testis of Culex mosquitoes. 4. “Analysis of Drosophila innate immune responses using genetic RNA interference“ (July 2013-june 2014) 5. “Search for new entomopathogenic fungi of Lebanon and biotechnological improvement of the fungus Beauveria bassiana (January 2014- December 2016)
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6. “Analysis of the Lebanese Aedes albopictus mosquito‟s immune responses to the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana” (pending funds from CRSL – K.A. Shair) Khouzama Knio 1. Evidence for host race formation in Terellia serratulae (Diptera: Tephritidae): genetic and morphometric variation. Bulletin of Entomological Research. Paper in preparation. Funded by URB grant. 2. Biology and Ecology of Tephritomyia lauta (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Lebanon. Funded by URB. Sawsan Kreydiyyeh 1. Involvement of nitric oxide in the inhibitory effect of PGE2 on the Na+/K+ ATPase in Caco-2 cells. Supported by URB 2. A study of the signaling pathway mediating the effect of S1P on the Na+/K+ ATPase in HepG2 cells. Supported by URB 3. Effect of epinephrine on the Na+/K+ pump in Caco-2 cells. 4. Leptin inhibits the Na+/K+ATPase in Caco-2 cells via PKC and p38MAPK 5. The Monoterpene Linalool Inhibits Alanine Ttransport my Modulating Na+/K+ ATPase activity 6. Ceramide and its metabolites modulate time-dependently the activity of the Na+/K+ ATPase in HepG2 cells. International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Mike Osta 1. Regulation of mosquito complement by the serine protease homolog CLIPA2. (Funded by URB) 2. Investigating the mechanism of action of the CTL4/CTLMA2 lectin complex in immune responses of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae to Plasmodium parasites 3. A comparative analysis of the contribution of the melanization response to anti-fungal defense in three different mosquito species 4. Immune responses of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae against natural infections with the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (pending funds from CNRS-L) 5. Gut bacteria in vector mosquitoes: transmission, host dependency and effects on the immune system (pending funds from Sweden Research Links Program). 6. Aedes albopictus gut flora and its effects on systemic immunity (pending funds from the EU Innovative Training Networks). 7. A serine protease homolog negatively regulates TEP1 consumption in systemic infections of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. J Innate Immunity
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Riyad Sadek 1. The taxonomic status, geographic distribution and ecological requirements of the toad species, Bufo cf bufo. (URB-funded) 2. Further geographic, ecological and behavioral studies of the Lebanon mountain viper Montevipera bornmuelleri including extraction, purification and pharmacological and toxicological characterization of bioactive molecules of its venom. (Funding: Lebanese CNRS and my advising grant) Imad Saoud 1. Effects of Acute and Chronic Nitrite Exposure on Rabbitfish Siganus rivulatus Growth, Hematological Parameters and Gill Histology. Aquaculture International. 2. Effect of Dietary Protein Level on Growth Performance and Blood Parameters of Marbled Spinefoot Siganus rivulatus. Journal of Applied Aquaculture. 3. Effects of Water Temperature and Body Weight on Anaesthetic Efficiency in the Marbled Rabbitfish (Siganus rivulatus). Aquaculture Research. Colin Smith 1. Microbial transformation of nandrolone with Cunninghamella echinulata and Cunninghamella blakesleeana and evaluation of leishmaniacidal activity of transformed products. Steroids. 2. Strong protective effect led by c-Cbl against oxidative stress: studies of mouse prostatic and embryonic cells, and human cancer cells. Journal of Cancer Science & Therapy. 3. Evidence for host race formation in Terellia serratulae (Diptera: Tephritidae): genetic and morphometric variation. 4. Synthesis of libraries of anti-cancer agents by biotransformation- a novel approach towards anti-cancer agents. Supported by CNRS. 5. Synthesis of novel anti-inflammatory agents by biotransformation. Supported by URB. 6. Synthesis of new anabolic compounds through biotransformation with safe and non-toxic properties. Submitted to CRSL-Shair for funding Rabih Talhouk 1. Deciphering the effect of Cx43 loss and miRNAs, identified in biopsies from Lebanese breast cancer patients, in mediating breast tumor initiation (pending funds from LNCSR)
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2. The Tumor Initiation Role of Differentially Expressed microRNA in Lebanese Breast Cancer Patients (pending funds from Kamal A. Shair - CRSL) 3. Collaborative Project under the work program KBBE-2009-3-2-01: Novel marine bioactive compounds for European Industries (2010 – 2014) Exploring Marine Resources for Bioactive Compound: From Discovery to Sustainable Production and Industrial Applications (MAREX) (IBSAR / U. HELSINKI PARTNERSHIP) 4. Effect of Connexin 43 Loss on Polarity and Initiation of Tumorigenesis in the Normal Mammary Epithelium (Funded by URB) 5. The Role of Epigenetics in Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer Risk. In: "Mammary Glands: Anatomy, Development and Diseases". 6. Anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activities of a parthenolide-like sesquiterpene lactone from Cota Palestina Subsp Syriaca. 7. miRNA and Breast Cancer: An Epigenetic Overview 8. Opportunities and limitations in medicinal plants‟ markets and research in developing countries: Lebanon as a case study. In: Therapeutic Medicinal Plants: From lab to the market 9. A multi-authored perspective-manuscript on breast cancer Prevention that is in preparation by the International Breast Cancer and Nutrition (IBCN) project team 10. Beyond the channel: Role of connexins in regulating normal and cancerous processes in the mammary gland 11. "miRNA as Potential Biomarkers of Breast Cancer in the Lebanese Population and in Young Women: a Pilot Study". 12. Beyond the channel: Role of connexins in regulating normal and cancerous processes in the mammary gland Heinrich Zu Dohna-Schlobi 1. Traits of Red Sea bony fish associated with invasion of the Mediterranean Sea. 2. Codon usage bias among influenza virus A. 3. Joint evolution of codon usage bias and tRNA copy number in bacterial genomes. E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
Michel Bariche 1. Course 1: Ecosystem approach to fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Scientific basis. Varna (Bulgaria), 3-7 February 2014. 2. Course 2: Ecosystem approach to fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Management and decision making. Zaragoza (Spain), 10-14 March 2014.
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3. Third coordination meeting for CREAM project: General Assembly and WP4 Final Meeting. Spain, 8 April 2014. 4. Committees: FAS Undergraduate Admissions Committee (2011-2013); FAS Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee (2011-2013); Natural History Museum Committee (2003-2013). 5. Awards and Honors: TWAS Young Affiliates (2009-2014) for young scientists. 6. Reviewed various manuscripts for international journals. Elias Baydoun 1. Organized and chaired an international Conference on “Water-Energy Nexus and Waste Management for a Sustainable Arab World. Beirut, Lebanon, 6-7 December, 2013 2. Advisor of one Biology PhD student 3. Advisor of two MS Biology Students 4. Member of the Thesis Committees of two MS Biology students at AUB 5. Member of the Thesis Committee of an MS Biology Student at the University of Balamand 6. Supervised undergraduate and graduate tutorial students 7. Participated in the “14th Asian Symposium on Medicinal Plants, Spices and Other Natural Products” and presented a poster on “New anticancer metabolites by biocatalysis of existing pharmacophores”, Karachi, Pakistan (9-12 December, 2013) 8. Author of a presentation entitled “Antibacterial activity of pectin against Staphyloccocus aureus and Escherichia coli clinical isolates” presented at the 13th International Cell Wall Meeting, Nantes, France (7-12 July, 2013) 9. Author of a presentation entitled “The Drosophila melanogaster ortholog of Human NFAT transcription factors is required for the Toll pathway activation during the immune response” presented at the ESF-EMBO Symposium - Integrated Insect Immunology: From Basic Biology To Environmental Applications, Polonia Castle, Pultusk, Poland (23-28 September 2013) 10. Member of the University Senate 11. Member of the Board of Trustees of The Future University, Khartoum, Sudan and attended its meeting on February 24, 2014 12. Participated in the following workshops at The Future University, Khartoum Sudan (24-25 February 2014): a. Sustainable Use and Rational Management of Natural Resources. b. Regional and Urban Planning and Development 13. Served as a panelist in the workshop on “Higher Education, Research and Development: Towards a New Strategy” and gave a presentation on “R&D in the Arab World”, Khartoum, Sudan 25 February 2014 14. Was invited to attend the TWAS 14th General Conference & TWAS 24th General Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1-4 October 2013)
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15. Was invited to attend the International Conference on “Entrepreneurship for Young Women and Using of New Technologies Issues and Challenges” and to present a paper on “The Gender Gap in Science, Engineering and Technology” , Islamabad, Pakistan (26 – 27 November 2013) 16. Was invited to attend the TWAS-ARO 9th Annual Meeting on “Science and Technology Education for Sustainable Development and Social Justice in the Arab Region”, Alexandria, Egypt (29-30 December 2013) 17. Was invited to attend the AEMASE (African-European-Mediterranean Academies for Science Education) Conference and to chair a session on National Projects, Rome (19-20 May 2014) 18. Arranged the invitation of Dr Iqbal Choudhary and Dr Atia-tul-Wahab from the International Center of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Karachi (3-7 May 2014) to give lectures, examine an MS student and plan future collaboration, and sponsored it from my research funds. 19. Visited the International Center for Biological and Chemical Sciences, Karachi (26-29 September 2013) to discuss results of joint research collaboration 20. Member of the Steering Committee for the project on “Science and Technology Indicators in the Arab States.” The project is sponsored by UNESCO, ALECSO and the Arab Academy of Sciences 21. Member of the “Regional Advisory Committee of Ethics”; a committee founded at the Egyptian Academy for Scientific Research and Technology in collaboration with UNESCO 22. Member of the Middle East Science Fund Regional Executive Committee 23. Member of the Arab Health Water Association (Affiliate-member of HWA) 24. Interim Coordinator of the Lebanese TWAS Chapter 25. Secretary General for the “Arab Forum for Sustainable Science” 26. Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) 27. Founding Fellow and Secretary General of the Arab Academy of Sciences 28. Founding Member of the Lebanese-Jordanian Friendship Association Hala Gali-Muhtasib 1. Chair of the Enrollment Management Unit at AUB 2. Acting Director, Office of International Programs 3. Chair of the Advising Steering Committee 4. Chair of the Committee to improve Career Services at AUB 5. Chair of the Sophomore Admissions and Freshman Admissions Committees 6. Co-Chair of the Students with Special Needs Committee 7. Member of the Search Committee for appointing a Director of International Programs 8. Member of the IT Academic Review Committee 9. Member of the Committee to Review the Leadership of the Hariri School of Nursing
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10. Member of the Committee to Launch MS Program in Integrative Health 11. Member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee 12. Member of the Medical Admissions Committee 13. Member of the Basic Biomedical Research Day Committee 14. Revised the Student Satisfaction Survey with the help of OIRA 15. Developed and launched an Adviser Evaluation Survey 16. Prepared a report on uniformity of course scheduling to highlight irregularities in time and space allocation which was discussed and approved by the BOD 17. Selected by the University of McGill to act as an outside reviewer on the thesis of a PhD student 18. Presented several abstracts in international and local conferences Supervisor of three PhD students in the CMB program at AUB, one defended in Sep. 2013 19. Co-supervisor of a PhD student at the Lebanese University Supervised the research tutorial projects of undergraduate and graduate students 20. Reviewed manuscripts for several international refereed journals 21. Reviewed proposals submitted to Faculty of Medicine MPP funds 22. Reviewed several proposals submitted to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for compliance to animal research regulations. 23. Supervised and coordinated poster presentations by Biosphere (Biol 250) students in the IBDAA annual event Noël Ghanem 1. October 2013-present: Member of USFC, FAS, AUB 2. October 2011-present: Advisor to the Biology Student Society (BSS) 3. 2011-present: member of the safety committee, biology departmentOne space Diana Jaalouk 1. International Conferences: Jaalouk DE*, Ho C-Y, Loffredo FS, Isermann P, and Lammerding J. Lamin A/C-Deficient Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Exhibit Spontaneous Pre-adipogenic Conversion. American Heart Assocaition (AHA) Scientific Sessions Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, USA, Nov. 18, 2013. 2. National Conferences: Zahr H*, and Jaalouk DE. Proteomic Profiling of Nuclei Isolated from LaminA/C-Deficient Mouse Embryo Fibroblasts by Performing a Differential Phage Display Screen. Fourth Annual AUB Basic Biomedical Research Day, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon, Feb. 15, 2014. 3. National Conferences: Zahr H*, and Jaalouk DE. Proteomic Profiling of Nuclei Isolated from LaminA/C-Deficient Mouse Embryo Fibroblasts by Performing a Differential Phage Display Screen. 20th LAAS International
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Science Conference, Lebanese University, Rafic Hariri Compus Hadath, Lebanon, Mar. 27, 2014. 4. Research Leave as a short-term visiting scholar at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (April 1 – July 31, 2013). 5. Thesis Supervision: Supervised two M.Sc. graduate students in the Department of Biology namely Ms. Ingrid Younes, and Ms. Dima Diab El Harakeh. 6. Thesis Committee Membership for three M.Sc. Candidates 7. Thesis Committee Membership for three Ph.D. Candidates 8. Safety Committee, Member, Department of Biology, FAS, AUB. 9. University Senate; Fall 2013-2014, Spring 2013-2014. 10. FAS member on the Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs (SCFA); served as the committee secretary; Fall 2013-2014, Spring 2013-2014. 11. Reviewer of research proposals received by the Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, AUB; Fall 2013-2014, Spring 2013-2014. 12. Selection Committee of the Nemer/SCORE Fellowship Award, Spring 2013-2014. Zakaria Kambris 1. Supervising 3 Master students 2. Member of the Thesis Committees of 3 Biology Masters Students at AUB (defended) 3. Supervised 4 undergraduate tutorial students 4. Undergraduate student advising: Academic advisor for approximately 100 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors). 5. Conference: ESF-EMBO Symposium - Integrated Insect Immunology: From Basic Biology To Environmental Applications. 23-28 September 2013, Polonia Castle, Pultusk, Poland 6. Conference: European Drosophila Research Conference. (Barcelona- Spain, 13-16 October 2013). Khouzama Knio 1. Member of the Natural History Museum Committee. 2. Main museum activities: insect identification for the general public (including AUBH); preparation of insect displays. 3. Member in Administrative Committee, FAS: October 2012 – present 4. Member of the CRSL Steering Committee Jan 2013-present 5. Serving as Chair for the Biology Department: October 2012 - present 6. Serving as advisor for the MS thesis of Farah Abed Ali. 7. Serving as co-advisor for the PhD thesis of Mohammad Al-Zein (Old Dominion University, VA)
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8. Advisor of the Syrian Cultural Club: 2013-present. 9. Advisor of the Youth Club: 2012-present 10. Served as external reviewer for the promotion of a professor in Sheikh Zayed University, UAE. 11. Reviewed 5 articles for national and international journals. 12. Supervised undergraduate tutorials for: 3 in Fall 2013-14; 9 in Spring 2013-14. 13. Served as the advisor of 27 students (mainly graduates). Sawsan Kreydiyyeh 1. Served as freshman advisor. 2. Thesis advisor for a PhD student who graduated in fall 2013-14 3. Thesis advisor for two Biology Master students 4. Member of the thesis committee of 4 MS Biology students and one Biology PhD student 5. Chair of the Biology Department Program Review Committee 6. External Member of the Geology Department Faculty Recruitment Committee (2013-14) 7. Member of both the "Promotion Committee", and the "Expanded Promotion Departmental Committee", of the Geology Department (2013-14). 8. Member of the PLO committee 9. Acting chair of the Biology department Mike Osta 1. Graduated one PhD student in summer 2013 2. Graduated one MS student in May 2014 3. Supervising currently two PhD students 4. Member, several MSc thesis committees at AUB 5. Member, Biology Department Program Review Committee (Fall 2013-present) 6. Member , Central Research Science Laboratory Committee (Summer 2009-present) 7. Library Liaison for the Biology Department (Fall 2009-present) 8. Member, FAS Research Committee (Fall 2011-present) 9. Member, FAS Undergraduate Admissions Committee (Fall 2013- present) 10. Member, Freshman File Reading (Fall 2013 - present) 11. Advisor of several undergraduate students 12. FAS representative, Organizing Committee of the AUB Graduate Day (Fall 2012- present) 13. Speaker at the AUB Graduate Day. Graduate studies in the Sciences. February 21, 2013
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14. Participated in the 19th LAAS International Science Conference. Serine protease homologs are central regulators of complement activation in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. LAU, Lebanon: April 5-6, 2013 15. Reporter, PhD committee of Stephanie Ghosn, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7) and Université Libanaise joint PhD program (Report due date May 20). 16. Referee manuscripts submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals 17. Speaker at the EMBO Conference on Molecular and Population Biology of Mosquitoes and Other Disease Vectors: From Basic Vector Biology Research to Disease Control. Negative regulation of mosquito complement by a clip domain serine protease homolog. Crete, Greece: July 15-19, 2013 18. Speaker at the European Science Foundation-EMBO Conference on Integrated Insect Immunology, September 2013, Pultusk, Polland. Riyad Sadek 1. Took part in the environmental impact assessment of the three projected dams in Lebanon: Janne‟ Dam in Nahr Ibrahim, Damour River Dam, and Bisri Dam on the Awali river. 2. Participated in 20th LAAS International Science Conference 2014 with the following papers: - Exploration Des Propriétés Biologiques Et Analyse Protéomique Du Venin Du Serpent Montivipera Bornmuelleri à La Recherche Des Biomolécules D'intérêts. - Identification and Partial Characterization of L-Amino Acid Oxidase (Mb-LAAO) From the Venom of Montivipera Bornmuelleri, a Viper From Lebanon. 3. Chairman (Director) of Natural History Museum Committee. 4. Academic advising for about 100 biology students. 5. Chairman of the West Asia Amphibian Specialist Group in the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Since 2008. 6. Organized and guided hikes in protected areas for AUB faculty as part of AUB Faculty Activities. Imad Saoud 1. International Meetings & Conferences: I. P. Saoud. Developing aquaculture protocols for a new fish species. 4th Conferencia Latinoamericana sobre Cultivo de Peces Nativos. Villavicencio, Colombia, October 2013. 2. International Meetings & Conferences: I.P. Saoud, N. Farajalla and M. Haidar. Using Aquaculture/Agriculture systems to increase water productivity. Regional Conference on Integrated Agriculture for Food Security and Adaptation to Climate Change (IAFSACC-2013). Ambo University, Ethiopia, June 2013.
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3. I.P. Saoud. Skype Lecture to the environmental science class at the American University of Nigeria on Water Use Efficiency. 21 / November / 2013. 4. I.P. Saoud. Workshop on managing water chemistry in ponds. “Primer Foro de Tilapia en Puebla”. October 5, 2013. Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. 5. I.P. Saoud. Gave a two day workshop on aquaculture in arid lands in Coahuila, Mexico. The title of the workshop was: Curso”Acuacultura en Tierras Aridas” 1-2 Octubre, 2013. Topics presented were: Introduction to arid lands and arid land agriculture - Saltwater aquaculture: The case of the rabbit fish. Integrating Aquaculture with Agriculture. Using Inland Low Salinity Well Waters. Aquaponics: If, When, Why and How. 6. I.P. Saoud. Mineral content of water improves shrimp survival and growth. Forum Inovasi Teknologi Akuakultur. Lombok, Indonesia, June 11 – 13, 2013. 7. I.P. Saoud and D.A. Davis. Truths, lies and myths: Are shrimp nurseries necessary? Forum Inovasi Teknologi Akuakultur. Lombok, Indonesia, June 11 – 13, 2013. 8. I. P. Saoud. Using Inland Saline Water for Aquaculture. WAS-Asia Pacific Chapter conference on Aquaculture in Arid Lands. Al-Ain, UAE, April 2013. 9. I. P. Saoud M. Haidar and N. Farajalla. Aquaculture/Agriculture systems to increase water productivity. WAS-Asia Pacific Chapter conference on Aquaculture in Arid Lands. Al-Ain, UAE, April 2013. Nada Sinno-Saoud 1. Preparing instructors manual for the 9th, 10th. & 11th. grade high school teachers on the use of lab equipment as part of the DIRSASATI project. 2. Training more than 400 public school teachers on use of lab equipments. 3. Visited the William and Lynda Steere herbarium at The New York Botanical Gardens from Dec 26- Dec. 30, 2013 and learned about their digitization program and their policies concerning the conservation and handling of old herbarium specimens. Colin Smith 1. Reader, Writing Center 2013-2014, American University of Beirut 2. Attendee, “The Fourth International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,” 7-8 February 2014, American University of Beirut. 3. Attendee, “Water-Energy Nexus and Waste Treatment for a Sustainable Arab World,” 6-7 December, 2013, Beirut. 4. Facilitator, Faculty Learning Community on Higher-Order Thinking, 2013-2014, American University of Beirut. Rabih Talhouk
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1. International Meetings & Consultancies: Talhouk, R.S. (2014). Beyond the channel: Role of connexins in regulating normal mammary gland development and in breast cancer. Feb 5, 2014 – Seminar Series - Center of Science and Engineering - NYU-Abu-Dhabi. 2. International Meetings & Consultancies: Bazzoun, D. (2013). Context dependent reversion of tumor phenotype by connexin-43 over expression in breast cancer cell lines: A role for ß-catenin/connexin43 association. Gordon Research Conference on “Directed Cell Migration” January 19-20, 2013; Galveston TX United States. (PhD Candidate, Dana Bazzoun Presented our lab‟s research at the meeting) 3. International Meetings & Consultancies: Status of Breast Cancer in Lebanon & Directions of Research – 2013 Update. International Breast cancer and Nutrition (IBCN). 4th Annual Meeting. Expanded Think Tank Oct 9-13, 2013 Saumur, France 4. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Sara Al-Ghadban, Mike Kareh, Rana Nahas, Lamis Al-Araj, Najat Saliba, Rabih Talhouk, and Marwan El-Sabban (2014). Sea Cucumber (Holothuria Polii) Extracts Enhance Cell-Cell Communication and Decrease Cell Proliferation of Human Breast Cancer Cells in vitro. Fourth Annual Biomedical Day, AUB January 2014 5. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Kareh Mike, Nahas Rana, Al-Ghadban Sarah, Al-Araj Lamis, Saliba Najat, El-Sabban Marwan, Talhouk Rabih (2014). Anti-inflammatory and Anti-cancer Effects of the Ethanol and Purified Fraction of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria Polii. Fourth Annual Biomedical Day, AUB January 2014 6. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Farah J. Nassar, Maya El Sabban, Nathalie K. Zgheib, Arafat Tfayli, Fouad Boulos, Mark Jabbour, Nagi S. El Saghir, Rabih Talhouk, Ali Bazarbachi, George Calin, Rihab Nasr (2014). miRNA as Potential Biomarkers of Breast Cancer in the Lebanese Population and in Young Women: a Pilot Study. Fourth Annual Biomedical Day, AUB January 2014 7. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Bazzoun, D.B., Adissu, H.A. , Lelièvre, S.A. and Talhouk, R.S. (2014). Effect of Connexin 43 Loss on Polarity and Initiation of Tumorigenic Pathways in the Phenotypically Normal Breast Epithelium. LAAS, Lebanese University – Hadath. March 2014. 8. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Farah J. Nassar, Maya El Sabban, Nathalie K. Zgheib, Arafat Tfayli, Fouad Boulos, Mark Jabbour, Nagi S. El Saghir, Rabih Talhouk, Ali Bazarbachi, George Calin, Rihab Nasr (2014). miRNA as Potential Biomarkers of Breast Cancer in the Lebanese Population and in Young Women: a Pilot Study. LAAS, Lebanese University – Hadath. March 2014. 9. Presentations at Local Scientific Meetings: Kareh Mike, Nahas Rana, Al-Ghadban Sarah, Al-Araj Lamis, Saliba Najat, El-Sabban Marwan, Talhouk Rabih (2014). Anti-inflammatory and Anti-cancer Effects of the Ethanol and Purified
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Fraction of the Sea Cucumber Holothuria Polii. LAAS, Lebanese University – Hadath. March 2014. 10. Chairperson, Organizing Committee for the International Breast Cancer and Prevention Symposium (2012-2013). 11. Chairperson, Graduate Council (2011-present) 12. Thesis Committee Advisor for three M.Sc. Candidates 13. Thesis Committee Advisor for three PhD Candidates Heinrich Zu Dohna-Schlobi 1. Supervised one undergraduate and two graduate tutorial students. 2. Supervised a master thesis. 3. Developed new courses in Bioinformatics and Population genetics. F. PUBLICATIONS Michel Bariche 1. Geiger M.F., Herder F., Monaghan M.T., Almada V., Barbieri R., Bariche M., Berrebi P., Bohlen J., Casal-Lopez M., Delmastro G.B., Denys G.P.J., Dettai A., Doadrio I., Kalogianni E., Karst H., Kottelat M., Kovacic M., Laporte M., Lorenzoni M., Marci Z., Ozulug M., Perdices A., Perea S., Persat H., Porcelotti S., Puzzi C., Robalo J., Sanda R., Schneider M., Slechtov V., Stoumboudi M., Walter S., Freyhof J., 2014. Spatial heterogeneity in the Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot affects barcoding accuracy of its freshwater fishes. Molecular Ecology Resources. Doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12257. 2. Bariche M., Kazanjian G., Azzurro E., 2013. A lag of 25 years: evidence from an old capture of Fistularia commersonii Rüppell, 1838 from Lebanon (Mediterranean Sea). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 1-2. Doi: 10.1111/jai.12394. 3. Azzurro E., Broglio E., Maynou F., Bariche M., 2013. Citizen science detects the undetected: the case of Abudefduf saxatilis from the Mediterranean Sea. Management of Biological Invasions 4(2): 167-170. 4. Azzurro E., Peña-Rivas L., Lloris D., Bariche M., 2013. First documented occurrence of Kyphosus incisor in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biodiversity Records 6: e98. 5. Bariche M., Torres M., Azzurro E., 2013. The presence of the invasive Lionfish Pterois miles in the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Marine Science 14(2): 292-294. 6. Neubert E., Bariche M., 2013. On the Monacha species of Lebanon (Gastropoda, Hygromiidae). Zookeys 311: 1-18. Elias Baydoun
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1. Baydoun E, Bano S, Wahab A, Jabeen A, Yousuf S, Mesaik A, Smith C, Choudhary I, 2014. Fungal transformation and T-cell proliferation inhibitory activity of melengestrol acetate and its metabolites. Steroids. DOI:10.1016/j.steroids.2014.04.012 2. El-Khatib S, Daoud Z, Baydoun E, Abdel-Massih R, 2013. Antibacterial activity of pectin against Staphyloccocus aureus and Escherichia coli clinical isolates. Proceedings of the 13th International Cell Wall Meeting, Nantes, France. 3. Baydoun E, Choudhary I, Wahab A, 2013. New anticancer metabolites by biocatalysis of existing pharmacophores. Proceedings of the 14th Asian Symposium on Medicinal Plants, Spices and Other Natural Products, 119 Hala Gali-Muhtasib 1. Ghattass K, El-Sitt S, Zibara K, Rayes S, Haddadin MJ, El-Sabban M, Gali-Muhtasib H. The quinoxaline di-N-oxide DCQ blocks breast cancer metastasis in vitro and in vivo by targeting the hypoxia inducible factor-1 pathway. Molecular Cancer, 2014, 13:12. 2. *Schneider-Stock R, Fakhoury I, Zaki A, El-Baba C, Gali-Muhtasib H. Thymoquinone: Fifty years of success in the battle against cancer. Drug Discovery Today, 2013 Aug 31. doi:pii: S1359-6446(13)00288-2. 10.1016/j.drudis.2013.08.021. [Epub ahead of print]. 3. Tohme R, Al Aaraj L, Ghaddar T, Gali-Muhtasib H, Saliba N, Darwiche N. Differential growth inhibitory effects of highly oxygenated Guaianolides isolated from the Middle Eastern indigenous plant Achillea falcata in HCT-116 colorectal cancer cells. Molecules, 2013 Jul 15;18(7):8275-88. 4. Saab AM, Gali-Muhtasib H, *Maietti S, *Grandini A, *Rossi D, *Lampronti I, *Gallerani E, *Fabbri E, *Gambari R. Comparative antiproliferative activities of wood and seeds essential oils of Juniperus oxycedrus L. against K562 human chronic myelogenous leukemia cells. Journal of Essential Oil Research, 2013, DOI:10.1080/10412905.2013.829006. 5. Ghattass K, Al-Assah R, El-Sabban M, Gali-Muhtasib H. Targeting hypoxia: sensitizing tumors to radio- and chemo-therapy. Current Cancer Drug Targets, 2013 Jul;13(6):670-85. 6. *Lupidi G, *Avenali L, *Bramucci M, *Quassinti L, *Pettinari R, Khalife HK, Gali-Muhtasib H, *Marchetti F, *Pettinari C. Synthesis, properties, and antitumor effects of a new mixed phosphine gold(I) compound in human colon cancer cells. J Inorg Biochem. 2013 Jul;124:78-87. Epub 2013 Mar 29. Diana Jaalouk 1. Ho CY, Jaalouk DE, and Lammerding J*. Novel insights into the disease etiology of laminopathies. Rare Diseases. 1, e27002; 2013.
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Zakaria Kambris 1. Transcriptional regulation of Culex pipiens mosquitoes by Wolbachia influences cytoplasmic incompatibility. PLoS Pathogen Oct; 9 (2013)(10). doi: 10.1371. Pinto SB, Stainton K, Harris S, Kambris Z, Sutton ER, Bonsall MB, Parkhill J, Sinkins SP. Sawsan Kreydiyyeh 1. El-Zein O, Kreydiyyeh SI. Leptin inhibits glucose intestinal absorption via PKC, p38MAPK, PI3K and MEK/ERK. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 10;8(12):e83360. 2. El Moussawi L and Kreydiyyeh S. The effect of epinephrine on the Na+/K+ ATPase and water movement in Caco-2 cells. Presented at the 20th LAAS International Science Conference, Advanced Research for Better Tomorrow, March 2014. Mike Osta 1. Povelones M1, Bhagavatula L1, Yassine H1, Tan LA, Upton LM, Osta MA, Christophides GK*. The CLIP-domain serine protease homolog SPCLIP1 regulates complement recruitment to microbial surfaces in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. PLoS Pathog. 9(9): e1003623 (2013) (1contributed equally to the work). Riyad Sadek 1. Nassar*, F., Challita*, M., Sadek, R. and Hraoui-Bloquet*, S. – 2013 - Sexual dimorphism and female reproductive cycle in the scincid lizard Trachylepis vittata (Olivier, 1804) in Lebanon (Reptilia: Scincidae). Zoology in the Middle East. 59(4):297-301. Imad Saoud 1. Nabila E. Abdelmeguid, Rana S.Roumieh, Abir A. Barakat and I.P.Saoud (2013). Impact of Elevated Aqueous Ammonia on Liver of Rabbitfish, Siganus rivulatus. Histopathological and Ultrastructure Studies. IOSR Journal of Environmental Science, Toxicology and Food Technology 6 (1): 19-31. 2. I.P.Saoud, J. Ghanawi, K.R. Thompson and C.D. Webster (2013). A Review of the Culture and Diseases of Redclaw Crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens 1868). Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 44(1): 1-29. 3. Rana Roumieh, Abir Barakat, Nabila E. Abdelmeguid, Joly Ghanawi, I.P. Saoud (2013). Acute and Chronic Effects of Aqueous Ammonia on Marbled
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Spinefoot Siganus rivulatus (Forsskal 1775). Aquaculture research 44: 1777-1790. 4. Daniel L. Merrifield, Benjamin J. Shaw, Glenn M. Harper, I.P. Saoud, Simon J. Davies, Richard D. Handy, Theodore B. Henry (2013). Ingestion of food containing metal nanoparticles disrupts endogenous microbiota in fish with potential implications on organism health. Environmental pollution 174: 157-163. 5. Joly Ghanawi, Samer Monzer, I.P. Saoud (2013). Anaesthetic Efficacy of Clove Oil, Benzocaine, 2-Phenoxyethanol, and Tricaine Methanesulfonate in Juvenile Marbled Spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus). Aquaculture Research 44: 359-366.
6. D.A. Davis and I.P. Saoud (2013). Trại ương tôm giống trong nhà giảm tỷ lệ
mắc bệnh và cải thiện tỉ lệ sống. The Practical Asian Aquaculture (Vietnam Issue 1 (1)):2-3 7. I.P. Saoud and Nivin Nasser (2013). Are your fish healthy? Give them a blood test. The Practical: Asian Aquaculture 4(13): 4-8. 8. I.P. Saoud (2013). The Key to Successful Fish Farm Management: Planning and Record Keeping. The Practical: Asian Aquaculture 4(12): 18-19 Colin Smith 1. Baydoun E, Bano S, Wahab A, Jabeen A, Yousuf S, Mesaik A, Smith C, Choudhary I. 2014. Fungal transformation and T-cell proliferation inhibitory activity of melengestrol acetate and its metabolites. Steroids. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.steroids.2014.04.012 Rabih Talhouk 1. Talhouk, R.S., Fares, B.M., Rahme, G, Hariri, H, Rayess, T., Dbouk, H., Bazzoun, D., El-Labban, D., and El-Sabban, M.E. (2013). Context dependent reversion of tumor phenotype by connexin-43 over expression in MDA-MB231 cells and MCF-7 cells: A role for β-catenin/connexin43 association. Experimental Cell Research 319:3065-80. Heinrich zu Dohna-Schlobi 1. Dürr*, S., Fasel-Clemenz*, C., Thür*, C., Schwermer*, H.-P., Doherr*, M., zu Dohna, H. Carpenter*,T.E., Perler*, L., Hadorn*, D. C. 2013. Evaluation of the benefit of emergency vaccination in a foot-and-mouth disease free country with low livestock density. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 113:34-46 2. zu Dohna, H., Peck*, D.E., Johnson*, B. K., Reeves*, A. and B. A. Schumaker* 2014. Wildlife–livestock interactions in a western rangeland setting: Quantifying disease-relevant contacts. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 113:447-456
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G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The Department will be working on reviewing and modifying the present PhD program in order to strengthen the present track in Cell and Molecular Biology and to include new tracks such as Ecology and Evolution. The Department will continue to work on optimizing the use of existing space, with the continued hope of renovating our main classroom, improving the graduate rooms, partitioning big rooms where possible, and perhaps adding a fourth floor to the building. The Department has been collecting data on the PLOs and CLOs for all Biology courses. In the future, the final analysis will be shared with all Faculty members and discussed in departmental meetings. Faculty members will review the current practice and criteria for selecting new MS and PhD students, particularly those applying from other universities, and will work on developing new criteria. Many factors need to be revisited such as considering GRE scores, converting the grades for MS and PhD students vs. just for MS students…The Department will be looking into ways to advertize the graduate programs to students coming from universities other than AUB and from the region. This year, the Department hosted a large number of guest speakers in the seminar series from Lebanon and abroad, and will work on getting funds for inviting more speakers representing different fields of Biology from foreign universities in the future. Khouzama Knio Chairperson
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CENTER FOR ARAB AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS CAMES remained in a period of transition as it sought to revise and focus its MA program in Middle East Studies and recruit a new full time faculty member in modern Middle East studies while developing a complementary program in Islamic Studies. Meanwhile, the Center had to deal with the decline of full-time and visiting international students. With the completion of our recruitment effort, however, we feel the center is ready to complete the revision of the Middle East Studies curriculum and begin a program of publicity and recruitment to build the program back up again. The main accomplishment of the Center this year was the completion of its search for a full time non-visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies with a focus on the contemporary Arab world. The interdisciplinary and open-field nature of the search for a scholar tasked with serving the MA program led to considerable problems and tensions working with departments and amongst both the search committee and the CAMES Steering Committee. The search included two-day interviews with five finalists who each gave a public lecture and a graduate seminar. In the end, we feel extremely satisfied with the results and expect the new hire to play a central role in the restructuring of the curriculum of the MA program in Middle Eastern Studies in 2014-15. We are also excited about having the resources and expertise to provide our students supervision for theses and to develop a broad range of programming and events to serve the MEST students and the AUB community. The Islamic Studies Program under its coordinator Nader El-Bizri, who also served as Acting Director of CAMES in Fall 2013, had its MA program officially approved and began accepting applications. The program will begin in the Fall of 2014 with a small class. Dr. Bizri worked to expand CAMES programming to serve the Islamic Studies Program, including co-sponsoring a conference on the Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Culture and several lectures. CAMES‟ visiting assistant professor, Dr. Tariq Tell, completed his second year of appointment at CAMES developing several new classes and advising theses. Along with Dr. Tell and long standing part-time instructors, CAMES offered (several cross-listed) graduate courses and the full range of over/under Arabic as a Foreign Language courses. CAMES classes, especially its courses in Arabic as a Foreign Language, suffered lower enrollments due largely to the decline in visiting international students.
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Fourteen new students enrolled in the CAMES MA program during 2013-2014, bringing the total number of registered students to 40. Of the newly enrolled students, three were old CAMES students returning to complete their degree after a long absence. Ten students defended their thesis or project and graduated, one of whom was an old returning CAMES student. The Center was able to offer three students Hani Salaam Travel and Research Grants to support their thesis research. The CAMES MA program received a total of 33 applications for the Fall 2014-2015 semester. 18 students were accepted, one of whom was an old returning CAMES student. The Islamic Studies program received 4 applicants, three of whom were accepted. The CAMES summer Arabic Program in 2013 had 63 students attending out of 75 applicants. The program received 95 applications for the Summer Arabic Program 2014, and expected attendance will be about 65 students. The Summer Arabic Program 2014 will be offering eight levels of Modern Standard Arabic: Introductory, High Introductory, Low Intermediate, Intermediate, High Intermediate, Advanced, Superior and High Superior. The program will also offer an intensive Colloquial Lebanese Arabic program which will run parallel to the MSA offerings at the Intermediate level only. Five students will attend the Colloquial Lebanese Arabic program in the summer of 2014. Office space for faculty remains severely limited requiring our full-time instructors and part-time professors to use the offices of our full-time professors and office staff. The Director drafted a CAMES Director‟s Manual to outline existing policies, operating and budgeting procedures, and governance guidelines. CAMES maintained a busy schedule of events including about 20 public lectures, five of these as part of our job search. We also began supporting alternative activities including a series of graduate seminars offered the job candidates, a co-sponsored film showing/discussion as well as a book panel on Urban Studies Professor Mona Harb‟s recently co-authored book Leisurely Islam. The Center continues to foster ties with other Middle East studies centers in Beirut and other AUB programs, departments, and faculty through an extensive commitment of its budget resources towards co-sponsoring events related to Middle East Studies. CAMES organized and took part in the following activities: Conferences: “The Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Culture” [in collaboration with the Orient-Institut Beirut]
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“Whither the Nation? National identities in the modern Middle East and South Asia” [in collaboration with the Orient-Institut Beirut] City Debates 2014: Of Property and Planning [in collaboration with the Department of Architecture and Design] Panel discussion: Book panel on Lara Deeb & Mona Harb's Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut (Princeton, 2013) with Mona Harb (Urban Studies-AUB), Laleh Khalili (Politics-SOAS), Jean-Baptiste Pesquet (IFPO-Beirut), and Rasha Al Atrash (Al Modon). Film screening, discussion & workshop: “Political participation and citizenship in cultural practices: A conversation between Akram Zaatari and Charif Kiwan on ABOUNADDARA” [In collaboration with University of Kent, UK; Global Uncertainties and Economic & Social Research Council, UK; Arts and Humanities Initiative, AUB] Lectures: “American Foreign Policy from the Middle East to Asia” Ömer Taspınar, Professor of National Security Strategy at the U.S. National War College [in collaboration with the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration and the Institute for Palestine Studies] “Turkish Foreign Policy in a Changing Arab World: A 'New Turkey' for a 'New Middle East'?” Bilgin Ayata, lecturer at the Center for Transnational Studies, Foreign and Security Policy (ATASP), Freie University Berlin [In collaboration with Department of Political Studies & Public Administration] “What's left of the Egyptian Revolution? Revolt & Reaction three years after the Republic of Tahrir” Thanassis Cambanis, Boston Globe/The Century Foundation “The Failures of American Humanitarian Exceptionalism: Stanley Kerr, Near East Relief and the Battle of Marash (1920-1922)” Keith David Watenpaugh, Associate Professor and Director of the UC Davis Human Rights Initiative
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“Chronicles of a Death Foretold: Public Affect in Turkey after the Assassination of an Armenian Journalist” Yael Navaro-Yashin, Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge “Education and Community in Mandate Lebanon” Nadya Sbaiti, Assistant Professor, Middle East History, Smith College “Ghurba’s Assassins: Shanfara, Kafka, and Hoda Barakat” Tarek El-Ariss, Associate Professor, Arabic and Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin “Edge of Empire: the Social Origins of Mandatory rule in Trans-Jordan 1921-1946” Tariq Tell, Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB “Manufacturing Tastes in Late Ottoman Beirut” Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, Postdoctoral Fellow, Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo “„Old People are not Revolutionaries!‟ Labour Struggles and the Politics of
ʾIstiqrār („Stability‟) in Egypt” Dina Makram-Ebeid, Post-doctoral research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology “Bkhsūs el-karāmeh: Understanding Dignity in Political Struggle in Lebanon and Beyond” Sami Hermez, Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University “Jurji Zaydan and the Televised Abbasids” Michael Cooperson, Professor, Department Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA [in collaboration with Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic] “The Empirical Strikes Back: Zuhd and Mujun Revisited” Michael Cooperson, Professor, Department Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA [in collaboration with Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic] “Why Libya, Tunisia and Egypt Face Different Obstacles to Democratization: Parties, Polarization and Political Transition” Ellen Lust, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale
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University [in collaboration with Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs; Department of Political Studies and Public Administration; Yale Arab Alumni Association] “Junk as Archive: Vernacular photography, writing practices and middle-class youth culture in mid-20th Century Egypt” Lucie Ryzova, Faculty of History, University of Oxford [in collaboration with the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature] “Born in the Global 19th Century: The Emergence of Sectarianism as a Problem in the Modern Middle East” Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History, Rice University [co-sponsored by FAS; Office of the Provost; SOAN & AMPL] “The Sectarian Scramble for the Post-Ottoman Middle East” Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History, Rice University [co-sponsored by FAS; Office of the Provost; SOAN & AMPL] “Muslims in Australia: The community's history, successes, challenges and opportunities” Waleed Aly [in collaboration with the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature and The Australian Embassy in Lebanon] “Concentric Symmetry in the Qur‟an: Suras al-Fatiha, al-Rahman, and al-Nas” Raymond Farrin, Associate Professor of Arabic, American University of Kuwait [in collaboration with The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic] “Civil Society after Saddam: Oil Unions and Democracy in Iraq” Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin University, Australia B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members
Hazbun, Waleed Associate Professor, Director Ph.D.
Khalidi, Tarif Saidi, Aliya Tell, Tariq Kozah, Mario Kanawati, Rima Labaki, Marie-Therese Sayigh, Rosemary
Shaykh Zayid Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies Assistant Director Visiting Assistant Professor Lecturer Instructor Instructor Lecturer (part-time)
Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. M.A. M.A. Ph.D.
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Traboulsi, Fawwaz Lecturer (part-time) Ph.D.
2. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester
Schmicking, Brett
Spring Semester
Gardiner, Maxwell Heckel, Genevieve
Ghazal, Elias LeVay, Richard
3. Non-Academic Staff
Sibai, Barea Administrative Assistant
C. TEACHING
1. Number of Graduating Majors
MA Oct. 2013
Feb. 2014 3
Jun. 2014 7
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 39
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall 14 Spring 14 Total 300 and above 63 54 60 242 200-210 22 9 31 Total 63 76 69 208
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘12 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 81 54 63 198 211-299 0 12 9 21 Total 81 66 72 219
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D. RESEARCH Hazbun, Waleed Please refer to the Department of PSPA. Khalidi, Tarif 1. An English anthology of Arabic literature, classical and modern, was
submitted to Edinburgh University Press in May, 2014. 2. A volume to honor the late Professor Kamal Salibi will appear in
2014, from AUB Press. I contributed an article to this volume entitled "Near Eastern Banditry: A Study in History and Folklore" (with Maysun Succarieh).
Tell, Tariq 1. Continued work on a Historical Dictionary of Jordan, to be published with
Scarecrow Press, Boston (expected completion of the final draft by October 2017).
2. Began a new research project with Yasar Qatarneh and Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center on the “Politics of the Military Veterans in Jordan under King Abdullah II;” the findings will be published as one two Carnegie Papers in 2015-2016.
3. Reworking article “Tribesmen in Uniform: Politics and the Military in Jordan 1921-1963,” into two pieces on: “Glubb‟s Legion” and “Politics and the Military in Jordan 1946-1963” after obtaining important new information on the topic and in particular an unpublished manuscript by Suleiman Musa on the politics of the “Free Officers” in Jordan during the 1950s.
4. Completed revisions of paper on “Social Origins of the Trans-Jordan Mandate” for publication as a chapter in a forthcoming book edited by Cyrus Schayegh (Princeton University) and Andrew Arsan (Cambridge University) on the Middle East in the Age of Late Imperialism.
5. Completed revisions of article “Aghrab and A‘rab: The Retreat of Settlement in South-east Syria (Trans-Jordan) 1600-1830,” for a special issue of the Journal of Social and Economic History of the Orient, (expected publication last quarter of 2014).
Kozah, Mario The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the Seventh century, Year 3, Qatar National Research Fund.
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E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Hazbun, Waleed Please refer to the Department of PSPA. Khalidi, Tarif
1. Accepted a Visiting Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin,
February to April, 2014. 2. Helped to organize an international conference on "The Occult Sciences in
Islam" which was held jointly by CAMES and the German Orient Institute, Beirut, in December 2013.
3. Contributed a paper to the conference "The Occult Sciences in Islam" entitled "Is Firasa a science? Reflections on the Firasa of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi"(with M.A. Khalidi). Publication expected in late 2014.
Tell, Tariq 1. Speaker at Geneva Centre for Security Policy Seminar: “The Middle East
and North Africa: Change and Upheaval 2014,” spoke on “Jordan and the Realignment of the Arab East,” Gstaad, June 20th -23rd, 2014.
2. Speaker at National University of Singapore, Middle East Institute Closed Session: “Intervention in the Middle East: Lessons from the Past and the Case of Syria Today.” Spoke on “Jordan and the Syrian Imbroglio,” April 15th 2014.
3. Speaker at National University of Singapore, Middle East Institute Public Seminar: “Crises in the Middle East: Views from Lebanon.” April 14th 2014.
4. American University of Beirut: CAMES Public Lecture on the “Sources of Social Power in Mandatory Trans-Jordan,” March 2014.
5. Contributor to Carnegie Middle East Center Workshop: “Re-negotiating Arab Civil Military Relations – Political and Economic Governance in Transition, Beirut February 6-7, 2014.
6. Ph.D. Examiner, School of Geography, University of Ghent: thesis by Pascal DeBruyne on „Spatial re-articulations of statehood: Jordan‟s geographies of power under globalization,‟ Ghent, Belgium, December 12-14th 2013
7. Discussant, Issam Fares Institute/Institute of Palestine Studies Workshop: on „Palestinian Representation Twenty Years after the Oslo Agreement, Larnaca, Cyprus, November 22nd – 24th 2013.
8. Consultant on Jordan for „Varieties of Democracy Project‟ (VDEM): Gothernburg University, Sweden, October 1st to November 4th 2013.
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9. Speaker at a Conference in Princeton University: The Middle East in the Age of Late Imperialism, presented a paper on “Social Control in the Trans-Jordan Mandate,” September 2013.
Kozah, Mario Coordinator of AFL classes at CAMES 2013/14. Conducted placement interviews and reviewed placement tests.
F. PUBLICATIONS Hazbun, Waleed
Please refer to the Department of PSPA.
Khalidi, Tarif
1. “Islam and Literature” in Frank Burch Brown ed. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
2. “Reflections of a Qur‟an Translator”, International Qur‟anic Studies Association, April 9, 2013 (http://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/publications/papers)
Tell, Tariq 1. Joint article with El-Zein, A.; Jabbour, S.; Nuwayhid, I.; Zurayk, H.;
Khawaja, M.; Tekce, B.; Hogan, D.; DeJong, J. “The Arab World No More: Health and the Prospects of Sustainability and Survival,” Lancet, volume 383 February 1st 2014.
2. Essay on “State Formation and Underdevelopment in the Arab World,” Lancet, volume 383 February 1st 2014.
3. Entries on T.E. Lawrence; King Hussein ibn Ali; King Feisal ibn al-Hussein; and the Hussein MacMahon Correspondence, 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of World War I, (Freie Universtitat Berlin, Frederick-Meinicke Institut, Center for Digital Systems).
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT In 2014-15, the Center will welcome a new Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies who will help revise the MEST curriculum, teach MEST seminars, advise students in the program, and help develop programming
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and events to serve the MEST students and the AUB community. We hope to revive CAMES practices, such as informal brown bag lectures and film series, and develop new ones, such as workshops by visiting scholars and journalists as well as other events by and geared for MA students. Another task for 2014-15 will be to build the MA program in Islamic Studies by recruiting more students, offering Islamic Studies courses required for the curriculum, and promote more Islamic Studies-related events. The Director‟s future priorities will likely include increased publicity for the Center‟s MA program (new flyers, event/reception at Middle East Studies meetings), cultivating a community of faculty dedicated to serving the Middle East Studies and Islamic Studies programs, and seeking funding for incoming graduate students (since FAS does not support GAships in CAMES) to allow the center to attract and more quickly graduate highly qualified candidates. Future plans might include the hiring of an Arabic program director who might help revise the Middle East Studies MA program Arabic language policy, direct the summer program, and design and implement a diploma certificate in Arabic Language.
Waleed Hazbun
Director
Aliya Saidi
Assistant Director
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PRINCE ALWALEED BIN TALAL BIN ABDULAZIZ ALSAUD CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AND
RESEARCH (CASAR) A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) offers a minor program and a new MA in Transnational American Studies. The goals of these programs are to improve understanding of the United States with the Arab World, as well as to increase awareness of the interdependent history of the U.S./Middle East relationship. CASAR hosted an international conference in January 2014 focused on the theme, “Transnational American Studies.” The conference brought approximately 80 speakers from across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Of special importance at the conference was the marking of CASAR’s 10-year anniversary. CASAR hosted a year-long lecture series focused on U.S. military, economy, and culture power. The series featured presentations by AUB faculty as well as several visiting lecturers. CASAR launched its new MA program in Transnational American Studies in Fall 2013, with two new MA students. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members Lubin, Alexander Professor Ph.D.
Prashad, Vijay Professor Ph.D.
Armstrong, Lisa Assistant Professor Ph.D.
2. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester
Hamade, Yahia
Zuckerman, Helen
Spring Semester
Hamade, Yahia
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Zuckerman, Helen
3. Non-Academic Staff
Batakji, Nancy Assistant to director
C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
MA Oct. 2010 0
Feb. 2011 0
Jun. 2011 0
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 2
Seniors 0
Juniors 0
Sophomores 0
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 11 19 30 211-299 21 59 87 167 200-210 100-199 Total 21 70 106
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 9 6 15 211-299 3 9 15 27 200-210 100-199 Total
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Elizabeth Armstrong 1. “The Global Asian Women’s Movement from Egypt to China on the cusp of post-colonialism” Alexander Lubin 1. “Malcom X in Beirut” research in Malcolm X’s two 1964 visits to Lebanon and the AUB Vijay Prashad 1. A book of essays on writers from the Global South. One of whom is from Lebanon- Mahdi Amel E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Elizabeth Armstrong 1. Conferences in London, New Delhi, Madison, Wisconsin; delivered papers on the Indian Women’s movement F. PUBLICATIONS Elizabeth Armstrong 1. Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women’s Association and Globalization Politics, Routledge, 2014 Alexander Lubin 1. “The Israel-Palestine Field School: Decoloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge,” Social Text. 117, November 2013, co-authored with Les Field, Melanie Yazzie, Jacob Schiller 2. (reprise) “’Fear of an Arab Planet’: The Sounds and Rhythms of Afro-Arab Internationalism,” Journal of Transnational American Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1., Summer 2013. 3. “Protecting the Homeland,” in the forum, “How America Goes to War.” Jadaliyya, September 14, 2013. Vijay Prashad
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1. The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2013) G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT Beginning Fall 2014 CASAR will host a new permanent faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor and will also have a new director. CASAR will need to continue to recruit for its new MA program in order to create a sense of community among graduate students. As CASAR is now “on the map” within the international discipline of American Studies it may need to focus less on hosting visiting scholars and more on creating knowledge about the U.S. within Lebanon. CASAR can achieve this through exchange programs as well as by hosting events that include faculty across Lebanon. Alexander Lubin Chairperson
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CENTER FOR LANGUAGE RESEARCH AND TEACHING
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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS Undergraduate BS in Chemistry Graduate MS in Chemistry with emphasis on one of the four following disciplines: i. Analytical ii. Inorganic
iii. Organic iv. Physical B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members Al-Ghoul, Mazen Professor Ph.D.
Haddadin, Makhluf Professor Ph.D.
Halaoui, Lara Professor Ph.D.
Saliba, A. Najat Professor (Chairperson) Ph.D.
Sultan, Rabih Professor Ph.D.
Bouhadir, Kamal Associate Professor Ph.D.
El Rassy, Hussam Associate Professor Ph.D.
Ghaddar, Tarek Associate Professor Ph.D.
Ghauch, Antoine Associate Professor Ph.D.
Hasanayn, Faraj Associate Professor Ph.D.
Kaafarani, Bilal Associate Professor Ph.D.
Patra, Digambara Associate Professor Ph.D.
Hmadeh, Mohamad Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Karam, Pierre Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Abi Rafi-Jaber, Randa Instructor M.A.
Deeb, Hana Instructor M.A.
Sadek-Hajj, Samar Instructor M.A.
2. Research Assistants
Fall Semester
Ammar, Manal Shawraba, Sara
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Baalbaki, Rima Sleem, Fatima
El Araj, Lamis Shokr, Tharallah
Spring Semester
Ammar, Manal Shokr, Tharallah
Baalbaki, Rima Shawraba, Sara
El Araj, Lamis
3. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester
Al Ayass, Mahmoud Haydous, Fatima
Al Mouthana, Tuqan Jaafar, Malek
Ayyoub, Ghada Jalkh, Christina
Chebl, Mazhar Jonderian, Antranik
Dayeh, Malak Mousalmani, Mai
El Assaad, Tarek Moussa, Zeinab
El Khoury, Elsy Naim, Sahar
El-Harakeh, Mira Nassar, Julie
Fayyad, Remi Saad, Naim
Ghinwa, Darwish Sakr, Mohammad
Harb, Hassan Saliba, Daniel
Spring Semester
Al Ayass, Mahmoud Haydous, Fatima
Al Mouthana, Tuqan Jaafar, Malek
Ayyoub, Ghada Jalkh, Christina
Chebl, Mazhar Jonderian, Antranik
Dayeh, Malak Mousalmani, Mai
El Assaad, Tarek Moussa, Zeinab
El Khoury, Elsy Naim, Sahar
El-Harakeh, Mira Nassar, Julie
Fayyad, Remi Saad, Naim
Ghinwa, Darwish Sakr, Mohammad
Harb, Hassan Saliba, Daniel
4. Non-Academic Staff
Abramian, Lara Lab Manager
Ala'eddine, Hassan Technician, Grade 07
Ghandour, Butros Senior Technician, Grade 09
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Kanbar, Hani Technician, Grade 07
Ruzz, Adnan Senior Technician, Grade 10
Shebbani, Lama Clerk Typist, Grade 06
Sleiman-Azar, Issam Administrative Assistant, Grade 11
C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BS Oct. 2013 0
Feb. 2014 1
Jun. 2014 16
MS Oct. 2013 0
Feb. 2014 0
Jun. 2014 6
2. Number of Majors
Fall Spring
Graduates 11 18
Seniors 37 26
Juniors 31 40
Sophomores 76 55
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 1 10 13 23 211-299 91 388 569 1048 200-210 512 1096 1311 2919 100-199 57 343 153 553 Total 661 1837 2046 4543
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above -- 6 9 15 211-299 9 25 33 67 200-210 28 24 24 76 100-199 4 4 8 16 Total 41 59 74 174
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D. RESEARCH Mazen Al-Ghoul 1. From Fundamental Understanding to Prospective Nanomaterials, Qatar
National Research Fund (QNRF), Dec. 2010-Dec. 2014 (in progress). 2. Wave Propagation of Cadmium Sulfide Quantum Dots and Other
Nanoscopic Precipitate Systems in Gel Media: Experimental and Theoretical Study, Lebanese Council of Scientific Research (LNCSR), Lebanon, Dec. 2011 – Dec. 2013 (in progress).
3. Theoretical and Experimental Scaling Laws For Hyperbolic RDEs for Initially Separated Reactants, University Research Board (URB), AUB, Oct 2010 – June 2012 (in progress).
Kamal Bouhadir 1. Syntheses of 4-nucleobase-1,2-dimethylenecyclopentane adducts as novel
precursors to functionalized fullerenes. Funded by the University Research Board at the American University of Beirut.
2. Preparation of potentially active Hydrazono-Carbanucleosides for diabetic nephropathy. Funded by the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research.
3. Synthesis and biological study of novel carbocyclic nucleoside analogs. Funded by the Farouk Jabre Biomedical Research Grant.
Houssam El-Rassy
1. “Porous silica materials as immobilization media for transition-metal
substituted polyoxometalates: Application in oxidation catalysis”. Research in progress (with C. Jalkh and U. Kortz). Supported by URB grant.
2. “Synthesis and photoluminescence properties of curcumin-metal oxide aerogels”. Research in progress (with W. Hamd and D. Patra).
3. “Synthesis of PVA-silica hybrid films for packaging applications”. Research in progress (with M. Abiad, N. Najjarine, and M. Hosni).
4. “Use of coffee oil oxidation products as asphalt rejuvenating agents”. Research in progress (with R. Jalkh, G. Chehab, and M. Abiad).
5. “Silica, titania, and silica-titania aerogels as potential adsorbents for organic pollutants and toxic metals”. Research being completed and paper under preparation (with N. Saad, E. Moubarak, M. Al-Mawla, and M. Al-Ghoul).
6. “Adsorption of Congo Red dye on lanthanum hydroxide nanospheres”. Research being completed and paper under preparation (with M. Al-Ghoul and G. Al-Akhrass).
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7. “Synthesis of monolithic molecularly-imprinted silica aerogels for selective solid-phase extraction of key-drugs”. Research being completed and paper under preparation (with N. Saad and D. Patra).
8. “Effect of solvent polarity on the synthesis of cyclodexrin-based MOFs”. Research being completed and paper under preparation (with M. Abiad, R. Auras, and O. Dib).
Tarek Ghaddar 1. “Cyclometalated Ruthenium Complexes for Efficient and Stable Dye
Sensitized Solar Cells”. Supported by the University Research Board (URB). Research is in progress.
2. “Stable and Efficient Ruthenium Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”. Supported by the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research, Lebanon (LCNRS). Research is in progress.
Antoine Ghauch
1. “Chemical Oxidation of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Water by ZVI-
activated Sodium Persulfate”. Renewed, 3rd year, Supported by OGC/URB (2011-204).
2. “PEER (USAID-NSF): Investigation into Persulfate/Peroxymonosulfate Oxidation of Micro-contaminants toward Water Sustainability: Mechanism, Kinetics and Implementation (2012-2015).
3. “Persulfate activation using iron-based natural minerals and industrial wastes for water treatment: application to emergent contaminants”, Submitted to LNCSR Requested fund 40,000,000 LBP over two years (2014-2016).
Makhlouf Haddadin
1. Intermediates to the synthesis of 2-aminoquinoxalines and other cascade
reactions. The project is has progressed well. Undergraduate Miss Maya Damien is establishing the isolation of these intermediates to synthesize a library of 2-aminoquinoxalines.(Beirut Reaction Royalties)
2. Synthesis of 2,3-diaminoindoles by a novel method. Miss Sandra Chad, a student of the University, Calude Bernard , Lyon 2, has started this project. The project is at its initial stages.(Beirut Reaction Royalties).
3. The Davis-Beirut Reaction. Collaboration with Distinguished Professor Mark J. Kurth of the University of California at Davis, CA, USA. Three papers will to be submitted shortly. (Professor Patra and Professor Kurth research funds)
4. Indolo[3,2-c]quinolinones, a new approach to their synthesis. Project is at its initial stages, M.J.Haddadin (Beirut Reaction Royalties).
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Lara Halaoui
1. Inverse Opals and Nanorods Coupled with Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Oxygen Evolution Catalysts for Solar Water Splitting. Project funded by the University Research Board, AUB.
2. Amplification of Solar Energy Conversion and Desulfurization of Fuel at Hematite and Titania Photonic Crystals and Photonic Glass by Trapping Light. Project funded by the Masri Institute for Energy and Natural Resources.
Faraj Hasanayn
1. Mechanistic Studies and Development of Catalysts for Dehydrogenation and
Metathesis of Alkanes. Supported by The Qatar Foundation - National Priorities Program, in collaboration with Profs Ashfaq Bengali at TAMU-Qatar and Alan Goldman at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
2. Theoretical Investigations of Direct Metathesis Paths in the Hydrogenation of Carbonic and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives by Octahedral trans-[Ru(H)2(PNN)(CO)] Catalysts. Extension of studies previously supported by the Lebanese Council for Scientific Research
Bilal Kaafarani 1. T. H. Al-Assaad and B. R. Kaafarani, “Preparation and Exploitation of
Novel Fluorescent Anion Sensors”. Research in progress. Supported by CNRS.
2. T. H. Al-Assaad and B. R. Kaafarani, “Synthesis of Novel Pyrene Discotic Liquid Crystals for Organic Photovoltaics Applications”. Research in progress. Supported by URB.
Pierre Karam
1. “Towards a Highly Photostable Lipid Membrane Sensor” . Supported by the
University Research Board (URB). Research is in progress. 2. “Towards Highly Photostable Conjugated Polymers”. Supported by TWAS.
Research is in progress. 3. “Plugging Electrogenic Bacteria and Building a Solar-Driven Microbial
Photoelectrochemical Cell”. Supported by the Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources. Research is in progress.
4. “The Identification of the “Compensatory Septal Proteome” (CSP) and Tll1 Substrates Involved in Cardiac Septation: Potential for Cardiac Defect Biomarkers”. Supported by the Farouk Jabr biomedical Research Award. Research is in progress.
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Digambara Patra
1. Principal Investigator: Synthesis of nanoparticle assembled novel
microcapsule and its nanotechnological application as sensor for industrial effluents, Lebanese Council of Scientific Research (LNCSR), Lebanon, July 2012 – Dec 2013 (under progress)
2. Principal Investigator: Synthesis of nanoparticle-assembled microcapsule for potential drug delivery system, University Research Borad (URB), AUB, July 2012 – June 2014 (under progress)
3. Co-investigator: Investigate the effect of curcumin encapsulated in liposomes and incorporated in packaging material on the inhibition of Salmonella Spp, Ecoli, Listeria monocytogenes an Staphylococcus aureus, Zeina Kassaify, CO-Investigators: Mohamad Abiad, Digambara Patra, University Research Board (URB), AUB, July 2013 – June 2014 (under progress)
Najat Saliba The AUB Nature Conservation Center (AUB-NCC) projects 1. “Development of novel synthetic and nanoparticle derivatives of the anti-
cancer drug Salograviollide A”. Extraction, isolation, structure identification, synthesis and formulation of biological activity studies is a work in progress. Project supported by AUB-NCC and HIKMA Pharmaceuticals. Lamis Al-Aaaraj is the research assistant who is coordinating the chemistry part of the project.
2. “Extracting and finger printing of sesquiterpene lactones of Cota palestina”. Lamis Al-Aaaraj is the research assistant who is coordinating the chemistry part of the project.
3. “Extraction and identification of bioactive fatty amides from Sidra tree”. Nour Naffaa; an undergraduate student under the supervision of Lamis Al-Aaaraj; a research assistant are coordinating the chemistry part of the project.
Atmospheric and Analytical Chemistry Projects 1. “PM10 and PM2.5 levels at different sites in the Greater Beirut area.
Analysis of their chemical content and assessing their sources based on their chemical composition”. Research project in progress and in collaboration with the Universite Saint Joseph (USJ) and Notre Dame University (NDU). Project supported by the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS). Rima Baalbaki is the research assistant responsible for the project. This research project started the second phase (its fourth year) in January 2013.
2. “PM10 and PM2.5 levels at the AUB site for the pre-, during and post- desert storms episodes. Analysis of their ionic content and establishing the effect of the desert storms on the levels of inorganic and organic ions in the gas and particulate phases”. Research project in progress. Project supported
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by The American University Research Board (URB). Lubna Dada is the graduate student responsible for the project. A publication is under preparation.
3. “Assessing nanoparticle toxicity in Beirut during desert storms”. Project in collaboration with Dr. Alan Shihadeh (AUB) and Dr. Walid Saad (AUB). Malek Jaafar; a graduate student and Johnny Nicolas; an undergraduate student are responsible for the project. A publication is under preparation.
4. “Measurement of polyaromatic hydrocarbons and dioxins in heavily populated areas in Beirut”. Julie Nassar is the graduate student who is responsible for this project.
5. “Assessing the amount of nicotine and other toxins in e-cigarette” Project in collaboration with Dr. Alan Shihadeh (AUB). Ahmad Hellany; a postdoctoral visiotr and Rachel Hajj; a research assistant are the two scientists responsible for this project.
6. “Assessing the amount of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in real time water pipe smoke” Project in collaboration with Dr. Alan Shihadeh (AUB). Joanne Kalaany a research assistant is responsible for this project.
Rabih Sultan
1. Routes to Fractality and Entropy in Liesegang Systems, CHAOS: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, in press (with Leen Kalash). Funded by URB.
2. Fractal Metal Deposits in Electroless Redox Systems. (with Amal Zein Eddin, Hiba Farah and Jad Husami). Funded by URB.
3. In-Situ Liesegang Banding in Limestone and Portlandite Rock Minerals. (with Abbas Safieddine). Funded by URB.
4. Theoretical Modeling and Simulation of Banding and Characterization of Fractal Contour Structure in Acidization-Precipitation Geochemical Systems (with M. Al-Ghoul).
5. Chaotic Oscillations in a Diffusion-Precipitation-Redissolution Co(OH)2 Liesegang System (with Hiba Farah and Abbas Safieddine).
6. Chaotic Patterns in 2D Periodic Precipitation Systems in a Constantly Fed Unstirred Reactor (CFUR) (with Leen Kalash).
7. Effect of Gel Texture and Hardening on the Morphology of Liesegang Bands (with Abbas Safieddine).
E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Mazen Al-Ghoul 1. Chair, Departmental of Chemistry 2. Director, Graduate Program in Computational Science
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3. Member, Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences Steering Committee 4. Member, Masri Institute for Energy Studies Steering Committee
Kamal Bouhadir 1. Member, Organization Committee for the Basic Biomedical Research Day 2. Member, University Institutional Biosafety Committee 3. Member, Admission Committee of the Faculty of Medicine 4. Member, Initiative for Biodiversity Studies in Arid Regions (IBSAR) 5. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Organic Chemistry Research 6. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of International Journal of Materials
Science and Applications 7. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Open Journal of Organic Chemistry 8. Member, American Chemical Society (ACS) 9. Member, Phi Lambda Upsilon (Honorary Chemical Society) 10. External Reviewer of the thesis of Mrs. Mai Mouslmani, Chemistry
Department, AUB 11. Member, Chemistry PhD Committee 12. Chair, Chemistry Safety Committee 13. Member, Chemistry Equipment Committee Houssam El-Rassy 1. Academic advisor, Chemistry undergraduate students. 2. Member, Interfaculty financial aid committee 3. Chairperson, Chemistry equipment committee. 4. Member, Chemistry PhD committee. 5. Member, Chemistry graduate committee. 6. MS thesis advisor of Mr. Naim Saad. 7. MS thesis advisor of Ms. Christina Jalkh. 8. Member-Evaluator of the PhD dissertations of:
i. Ms. Saly Yaacoub (Université Montpellier 2/Lebanese University) ii. Ms. Zahra Laila (Université Montpellier 2/Lebanese University)
iii. Mr. Toufic Tayeh ((Université Bordeaux 1/Lebanese University). 9. Member of the MS thesis committees of:
i. Mr. Omar Dib (Nutrition and Food Technology) ii. Mr. Mahmoud Al-Ayass (Chemistry)
iii. Ms. Nadine Najjarine (Nutrition and Food Technology) iv. Mr. Naim Saad (Chemistry)
10. Reviewer for Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (2 manuscripts). 11. Reviewer for Journal of Hazardous Materials (1 manuscript). 12. Reviewer for Silicon (1 manuscript). 13. Reviewer for research proposals submitted to LNCSR (1 proposal).
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14. Participation in the First AUB Symposium on Materials Science and Energy on April 22, 2014.
15. Research work presented in the International Conference Win4Life, September 19-21, 2013, Tinos Island, Greece.
Tarek Ghaddar
1. Bookstore representative. 2. Chair, FAS Research Committee. 3. Member, CRSL Research Committee. 4. Member, Pro-Green Tempus team (FEA). 5. Chair, Chemistry PhD committee. 6. Member, Chemistry Graduate Committee. 7. Member of the thesis committee of Mr. Mohammad Sakr (Chemistry). 8. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Remi Fayyad (Chemistry). 9. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Fatima Hydous (Chemistry). 10. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Ghinwa Darwish (Chemistry). Antoine Ghauch 1. Consultancy: D-RASATI project through REP. Talk 2. Ghauch, A., Ayoub, G. “Investigation into bimetallic and trimetallic iron-
based systems for the activation of sodium persulfate toward water treatment and sustainability: Application to sulfamethoxazole antibiotic” PAPER ID: 17075. 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition - April 7-11, 2013, New Orleans, LA.
Posters in International conferences 3. Baydoun, H. Dermesropian, P. Ghauch. A. “Degradation of
sulfamethoxazole in sonicated and silent Fe0/H2O2 systems: Micrometric vs. nanometric Fe0 activator” PAPER ID: 11912. 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition - April 7-11, 2013, New Orleans, LA.
4. Naim, S. Ghauch, A (2013) Evaluation of dissolved ions on the degradation of ranitidine in Fe0/PS systems, to be submitted to Micropol and Ecohazard 2013, the 8th IWA Specialist Conference on Assessment and Control of Micropollutants/Hazardous Substances in Water, Switzerland 16-20 June, 2013.
Makhlouf Haddadin
1. Member of the board of trustees of Balamand University, chair of its
academic committee, member of its executive committee. 2. Coordinator of the departmental seminars.
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3. Spent May and August of 2013 , by invitation of distinguished professor Mark j. Kurth , doing research at UC Davis.
4. Visited, by invitation of professor Nivene Kashab, King Abdullah of science and technology, thol, saudi arabia, march 2014.
Lara Halaoui
1. Associate Dean, FAS 2. Chair of the K. Shair CRSL Research Fund grants review panel 3. Chair of the materials science initiative committee 4. Member of the Farouk Jabre research grants review panel 5. Member of the K. Shair central research science laboratory (CRSL) steering
committee 6. Member, Internal Review Committee of Biology 7. Member, Internal Review Committee of Landscape Design 8. Organized (materials science initiative committee) the first AUB symposium
on materials science and energy funded by the Masri Institute for Energy and Natural Resources.
9. Supervised the research of MS students Remi Fayyad and Fatima Haydous, and of undergraduate student Hiba Ghandour.
10. S. Bayram, M. El Harakeh, F. Haydous, and L. Halaoui. Amplification of Solar Energy Conversion in Quantum-Confined CdS and CdSe Sensitized TiO2 Photonic Crystals by Trapping Light. Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference, Clusters, Nanocrystals and Nanostructures, Mount Holyoke College, August 4-9 2013.
Faraj Hasanayn
1. Member, Faculty Curriculum Committee 2. Member, Department Curriculum Committee 3. Member, Department Graduate Admissions Committee Bilal Kaafarani 1. Freshman/Senior Chemistry Advisor, AUB, 2013-2014. 2. Freshman Admissions Committee, AUB, 2013-2014. 3. Center of Teaching and Learning, AUB, Board member, 2013-2014. 4. University Student Faculty Committee (USFC), 2013-2014. 5. Arkivoc Editorial Board of Referees, May 2009-date. 6. Member, American Chemical Society. 7. Member, Royal Society of Chemistry. 8. Session Chair, “Material, Devices, and Switches”, 246th American Chemical
Society Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, United States, Sep 8, 2013.
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9. Grant Reviewer: Latvian Council of Science, Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research, K. Shair Central Research Science Laboratory (CRSL) of AUB, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) of AUB.
10. Manuscript reviewer: Analytical Chemistry; Chemistry of Materials; Dalton Transactions; Journal of The American Chemical Society; Macromolecules; Organic Letters; RSC Advances; Tetrahedron Letters, and Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
11. Organized the 2014 Organic Chemistry Competition: www.aub.edu.lb/oc Pierre Karam 1. Member, Curriculum committee. 2. Member, FAS Library Committee. 3. Member, Chemistry PhD committee. 4. Member, Material science initiative graduate program. 5. Organizer, First AUB symposium on Materials Science and Energy 6. Organizer, Materials Science Initiative seminar series 7. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Mai Mouslmani (Chemistry). 8. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Fatima Hydous (Chemistry). 9. Member of the thesis committee of Miss Ghinwa Darwish (Chemistry) 10. Member of the thesis committee of Mr. Malek Jaafar (Chemistry) Digambara Patra 1. Member, Departmental Equipment Committee 2. Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee 3. Member, Departmental Graduate Committee 4. Chairperson, Undergraduate Admission Committee, FAS 5. Member, Graduate Studies Committee, FAS 6. Member, in the University Library Committee 7. Editorial Board, Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment 8. Visited Abo Academi University, Turku, Finland on Long-term Faculty
Development Grant during July-August 2013 9. Attended Trombay Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry (TSRP-
2014) Mumbai, Jan 6-9, 2014 10. Attended International Conference on Water-Energy Nexus and Waste
Treatment for a Sustainable Arab World, Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 6-7, 2013 Najat Saliba
Conferences 1. “Dust Episodes and their Effects on the Chemical and Biological
Transformations of Coarse and Fine Particles in Beirut, Lebanon”, 7th International Workshop on Sand/Duststorms and Associated Dustfall, European Space Agency-ESRIN-Frascati Italy, (December, 2013)
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2. “Dust Episodes and their Effects on the Chemical and Biological Transformations of Coarse and Fine Particles in Beirut, Lebanon” LIFE PM3, Cyprus (November, 2013)
Poster Forum 1. “International Biodiversity Day at AUB (IBDAA)”, Member of the
organizing committee. This is a poster forum where students from different faculties celebrate in their own way the International Biodiversity Day on April 25th, American University of Beirut, (April, 2014). This year my class of Chem 219 presented 14 posters
2. “Oxidative potential of airborne nanoparticles of mineral oxides” J. Nicolas, M. Jaafar, W. Saad, E. Sepetdjian and N.A. Saliba, Lebanese Medical Students' International Committee (LeMSIC) Day, April 2014.
Committees and Memberships 1. Director of the AUB Nature Conservation Center; AUB NCC 2. Chairperson; Chemistry Department 3. Member of the Student with Special Needs Committee at AUB 4. Member of the Eye on Environmental Education, Abu Dhabi 5. Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
(SETAC) 6. Member of the IBDAA (International Biodiversity Day at AUB) poster
forum committee 7. Member, American Chemical Society (ACS) 8. Chair of the thesis committee of Malek Jaafar, MS-Chemistry, AUB 9. Chair of the thesis committee of Lubna Dada, MS-Chemistry, AUB 10. Co-Chair of the thesis committee of Raya Mrad, PhD-Chemistry, AUB-
ULCO (Universite Littoral Cote D’Opale) 11. Member of the thesis committee of Nathalie Nachef, MS Nutrition 12. Member of the thesis committee of Mike Kareh, MS Biology 13. Member of the thesis committee of Mireille Borgie, co-tutelle between the
Lebanese University and Universite Littoral Cote D’Opale
Community involvement and services 1. Director of the AUB Nature Conservation Center; AUB-NCC 2. Initiator of the Samir & Claude Abillama Eco-Entrepreneurship Award. 3. Member and founder of the exhibition to celebrate the International
Biodiversity Day at AUB (IBDAA)
Rabih Sultan 1. Member, FAS Advisory Committee 2. Chair, Chemistry Graduate Committee (CGC) 3. Graduate Advisor
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4. Delivered a departmental seminar entitled: Spacing Laws, Fractal Structure and Entropy in Rhythmic Precipitation Systems, December 4, 2014.
5. Assembled, administered and coordinated the correction of the MS Comprehensive Exam
6. Department web page coordinator 7. Organized seminar presentations by the faculty members for the new
Chemistry graduate students 8. Organized the Chem. 361 seminar presentations 9. Member of the thesis committees of Mahmoud Al-Ayass and Malak Dayeh 10. Refereed articles for Crystal Engineering Communications, Chemical Physics,
European Journal of Physics, Langmuir and Angewandte Chemie F. PUBLICATIONS Mazen Al-Ghoul 1. Janane Rahbani and Mazen Al-Ghoul, “Fluorescence Study of Ionic
Intercalation/De- Intercalation in the Reaction-Di§usion Mediated Polymorphic Transition of a Class of Nanolayered Material”, Defect and Di§usion Forum, 334-335, 235 (2013).
2. Janane Rahbani, Ali R. Behzad, Niveen M. Khashab and Mazen Al-Ghoul, “Characterization of internal structure of hydrated agar and gelatin matrices by cryo-SEM”, Electrophoresis, 34, 405 (2013).
3. Janane Rahbani, Manal Ammar and Mazen Al-Ghoul, “Reaction-Diffusion Framework: The Mechanism of the Polymorphic Transition of α− to β−Cobalt Hydroxide”, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 117 (8), 1685 (2013).
4. Ghida Al-Akhras, Houssam El Rassy and Mazen Al-Ghoul, “Reaction-
Diffusion Framework: Self-Assembled Lanthanum Hydroxide Particles with Application to the Adsorption of an Organic Dye”, Frontiers of Chemical Sciences V: Research and Education in the Middle East, Malta, Nov. 10-15, 2013.
5. Mazen Al-Ghoul, “Synthesis, Characterization, and Control of Self Assembled Lanthanum Hydroxide Particles in a Reaction-Diffusion System”, XVII International Sol-Gel Conference August 25-30, 2013 Madrid, Spain.
6. Mazen Al-Ghoul, “Self-organized Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Cadmium Sulfide Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Transition from Bands to 2D Squares/Hexagons and 3D Turing Patterns”, Solvay International Workshop on patterns and hydrodynamic instabilities in reactive systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 15-17, 2013.
7. Mahmoud Ayass and Mazen Al-Ghoul, “Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of the
Reaction- Diffusion System of Mercuric Iodide in Gel Media: Polymorphic
Transition and Formation of Spiral/Target Patterns”, Solvay International
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Workshop on pat- terns and hydrodynamic instabilities in reactive systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 15-17, 2013.
Houssam El-Rassy 1. A. Damaj, G.M. Ayoub, M. Al-Hindi, H. El Rassy. Activated carbon
prepared from crushed pine needles used for the removal of Ni and Cd. Desalination and Water Treatment, accepted, in press.
2. Tony Karam, Houssam El-Rassy, Victor Nasreddine, Farah Zaknoun, Samia El-Joubeily, Amal Zein Eddin, Hiba Farah, Jad Husami, Samih Isber and Rabih Sultan. Pattern Formation Dynamics in Diverse Physico-Chemical Systems. Chaotic Modeling and Simulation, 2013, 3, 451-461.
Tarek Ghaddar 1. Shoker, T. and Ghaddar, T., “Novel Poly-Pyridyl Ruthenium Complexes
With Bis- and Tris-Tetrazolate Mono-Dentate Ligands for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”, RSC Advances, 4, 18336-18340 (2014).
2. Tohme, R.; Al Aaraj, L.; Ghaddar, T.; Gali-Muhtasib, H.; Saliba, N.A.; Darwiche, N. Differential Growth Inhibitory Effects of Highly Oxygenated Guaianolides Isolated from the Middle Eastern Indigenous Plant Achillea falcata in HCT-116 Colorectal Cancer Cells. Molecules, 18, 8275-8288, (2013)
3. Ghaddar, T. and Shoker, T. “Photosensitizers, Method of Making Them and Their Use in Photoelectric Conversion Devices” 2013, U.S. Provisional Patent Appl. 14141057, December 26, 2013.
Antoine Ghauch
1. Ghauch, A., Ayoub, G., Naim, S. (2013) Degradation of sulfamethoxazole by
persulfate assisted micrometric Fe0 in aqueous solution, Chem. Eng. J. 228, 1168-1181.
2. Caré, S. Crane, R., Calabro, P.S. Ghauch, A., Temgoua, E., Noubactep, C. (2013) Modeling the permeability loss of metallic iron water filtration systems, Clean-Soil, Air, Water 41, 275-282.
3. Iron-based Metallic Systems: An Excellent Choice for Sustainable Water Treatment. University of Grenoble 1-Habilitation Thesis. December 2013.
Makhlouf Haddadin
1. The Quinoxaline di-n-Oxide dcq blocks breast cancer metastasis in vivo by
targeting the hypoxia inducible factor- pathway, Khaled Ghattass1, Sally El-Sitt, Kazem Zibara, Saide Rayes, Makhluf J Haddadin, Marwan El-Sabban, and Hala Gali-Muhtasib, Molecular cancer, 2014, 13:12
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Abstract:
1. Synthesis and bioactivity of thiazolo-, thiazino- and thiazepino-2h-indazoles synthesized via the Davis-Beirut reaction, b Gottlieb, Lelli m.; Haddadin, Makhluf J.; Kurth, Mark J. , 44th western regional meeting of the American Chemical Society, Santa Clara, CA, United States, October 3-6 (2013), wrm-65.
Lara Halaoui
1. Sarah Jaber, Pamela Nasr, Yan Xin, Fatima Sleem and Lara I. Halaoui
Assemblies of polyvinylpyrrolidone-capped tetrahedral and spherical Pt nanoparticles in polyelectrolytes: hydrogen underpotential deposition and electrochemical characterization. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 15223-15233.
2. Serene Bayram and Lara Halaoui. Amplification of Solar Energy Conversion in Quantum-Confined CdSe-Sensitized TiO2 Photonic Crystals by Trapping Light. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, Particle and Part. System. Charact. 2013, 30, 706-714.
Faraj Hasanayn
1. Faraj Hasanayn , Abdulkader Baroudi, Ashfaq Bengali and Alan Goldman
Hydrogenation of Dimethyl Carbonate to Methanol by trans-[Ru(H)2(PNN)(CO)] Catalysts: DFT Evidence for Ion-Pair Mediated Metathesis Paths for C-O Bond Cleavage Organometallics (2013), 32, 6969.
Bilal Kaafarani 1. F. M. Jradi, A. O. El-Ballouli, M. H. Al-Sayah,; B. R. Kaafarani, “Synthesis
and Binding Investigations of Novel Crown-Ether Derivatives of Phenanthro[4,5-abc]phenazine and Quinoxalino[2',3':9,10]phenanthro[4,5-abc]phenazine”, Supramolecular Chemistry 2014, 26, 15-24.
2. A. O. El-Ballouli, R. S. Khnayzer, J. C. Khalife, A. Fonari, K. H. Hallal, T. V. Timofeeva, D. Patra, F. N. Castellano, B. Wex, B. R. Kaafarani, “2,7-Diaryl-4,5,9,10-tetrahydropyrenes vs 2,7-Diarylpyrenes: Photophysical properties and Crystal Structures”, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology A. 2013, 272, 49-57.
3. S. Chen, F. S. Raad, M. Ahmida, B. R. Kaafarani, H. S. Eichhorn, “Columnar mesomorphism of fluorescent board-shaped quinoxalinophenanthrophenazine derivatives with donor-acceptor structure”, Organic Letters 2013, 15, 558.
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4. B. R. Kaafarani, A. O. El-Ballouli, R. Trattnig, A. Fonari, S. Sax, B. Wex, C. Risko, R. S. Khnayzer, S. Barlow, D. Patra, T. V. Timofeeva, E. J. W. List, J.-L. Brédas, S. R. Marder, “Bis(Carbazolyl) Derivatives of Pyrene and Tetrahydropyrene: Synthesis, Structures, Optical Properties, Electrochemistry, and Electroluminescence”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2013, 1, 1638.
5. T. H. El-Assaad, K. H. Hallal, B. Wex, D. Patra, R. O. Al-Kaysi, B. R. Kaafarani, “Tetraryl Substituted Pyrenes: Optoelectronic Properties and Nanorods”, 246th American Chemical Society Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, Sep 8–12, 2013.
6. B. R. Kaafarani, “Carbazole-Based Materials for Optoelectronic Devices”, 6th International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 8–11, 2013.
Pierre Karam 1. Karam P.; Powdrill M.; Liu H.; Vasquez C.; Mah W.; Bernatchez J.; Götte
M. and Cosa G. “Dynamics of HCV RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase NS5B in Complex with RNA” The Journal of Biological Chemistry (in Press)
2. Kobeissy FH, Gulbakan B, Alawieh A, Karam P, Zhang Z, Guingab-Cagmat JD, Mondello S, Tan W, Anagli J, Wang K. “Post-genomics nanotechnology is gaining momentum: nanoproteomics and applications in life sciences” OMICS 2014, (2), 111-31
Digambara Patra 1. Mai Mouslmani, Digambara Patra*, Revoking excited state intra-molecular
hydrogen transfer by size dependent tailored made hierarchically ordered nanocapsules, RSC Advances, 4, 8316 – 8320 (2014)
2. Digambara Patra*, Fatima Sleem, Acridine orange and silica nanoparticles facilitated novel robust fluorescent hollow microcapsules towards DNA bio-sensor, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Engg. Aspects, 443, 320 – 325 (2014)
3. Digambara Patra*, Fatima Sleem, A new method for pH triggered curcumin release by applying poly (L-lysine) mediated nanoparticle-congregation, Analytica Chimica Acta, 795, 60 - 68 (2013)
4. Elsy El Khoury, Digambara Patra*, Ionic liquid expedites partition of curcumin into solid gel but discourages into liquid crystalline phases of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine liposome, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 117, 9699 - 9708 (2013)
5. Ala’a O. El-Ballouli, Rony S. Khnayzer, Jihane C, Khalife, Alexandr Fonari, Kassem M. Hallal, Tatiana V. Timofeeva, Digambara Patra, Felix N. Castellano, Brigitte Wex*, Bilal R. Kaafarani*, Diarylpyrene vs.
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diaryltetrahydropyrenes: crystal structures, fluorescence, and upconversion photochemistry, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A, 272, 49-57 (2013)
6. Digambara Patra*, Diana Ahmadieh, Riwa Aridi, Study on interaction of bile salts with curcumin and curcumin embedded in dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine liposome, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 110, 296 - 304 (2013)
7. Bilal R. Kaafarani*, Ala’a O. El-Ballouli, Raman Trattnig, Alexandr Fonari, Stefan Sax, Brigitte Wex, Chad Risko, Rony S. Khnayzer, Stephen Barlow, Digambara Patra, Tatiana V. Timofeeva, Emil J. W. List, Jean-Luc Brédas, Seth R. Marder, Bis (carbazolyl) derivatives of pyrene and tetrahydropyrene: synthesis, structure, optical properties, electrochemistry, and electroluminescence, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1, 1638 - 1650 (2013)
8. Digambara Patra*, Riwa Aridi, Kamal Bouhadir, Fluorometric sensing of DNA using curcumin encapsulated nanoparticles assembled microcapsules from poly(diallylammonium chloride-co-sulfur dioxide), Microchimica Acta, 180, 59 – 64 (2013)
Najat Saliba
1. N. Daher, N.A. Saliba, A.L.. Shihadeh, M. Jaafar, R. Baalbaki, M.M. Shafer, J.J. Schauer, C. Sioutas “Oxidative potential and chemical speciation of size-resolved particulate matter (PM) at near-freeway and urban background sites in the greater Beirut area”, Science of the Total Environment 2014 470-471, 417-426.
2. L. Dada, R. Mrad, S. Siffert and N.A. Saliba, “Atmospheric markers of African and Arabian dust in an urban eastern Mediterranean environment, Beirut, Lebanon”, Journal of Aerosol Science, 2013 66, 187-192.
3. N. Daher, R. Baalbaki, M. Jaafar, N.A. Saliba, A.L.. Shihadeh, and C. Sioutas “Chemical Composition of Size-Resolved Particulate Matter at Near-freeway and Urban Background Sites in the Greater Beirut Area” Atmospheric Environment, 2013, 80, 96-106.
4. N. Badaro-Saliba, A.J. Adjizian-Gerard, R. Zaarour, M. Abboud, W. Farah, N.A. Saliba, and A. Shihadeh, A geostatistical approach for assessing population exposure to NO2 in a complex urban area (Beirut, Lebanon), Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessments, 2013 28, 467-474
5. R. Tohme, L. Al Aaaraj, T. Ghaddar, H. Gali-Muhtasib N.A. Saliba, and N. Darwiche, , “Differential Growth Inhibitory Effects of Highly Oxygenated Guaianolides Isolated from the Middle Eastern Indigenous Plant Achillea falcata in HCT-116 Colorectal Cancer Cells”, Molecules, 2013 18(7), 8275-8288.
Rabih Sultan
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1. Leen Kalash, Hiba Farah, Amal Zein Eddin and Rabih Sultan, "Dynamical Profiles of the Reactive Components in Direct and Revert Liesegang Patterns", Chem. Phys. Lett. 2013, 590, 69-73.
2. Tony Karam, Houssam El-Rassy, Victor Nasreddine, Farah Zaknoun, Samia El-Joubeily, Amal Zein Eddin, Hiba Farah, Jad Husami, Samih Isber and Rabih Sultan, "Pattern Formation Dynamics in Diverse Physico-Chemical Systems", Chaotic Modeling and Simulation (CMSIM) 2013, 3, 451-461.
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The standing committees at the Chemistry Department were engaged in several activities and future planning as per below. Please note that some of these proposals were discussed in faculty meetings and approved and some others are still work in progress. Changing the requirements for a Minor in Chemistry: The Chemistry Curriculum Committee proposed to change the requirements to minor in Chemistry to the following (15-17 Cr). This proposal has been discussed and approved by the faculty of the Chemistry Department.
A. CHEM 201 (3 Cr) B. A Lab course CHEM 201L (1 Cr) or CHEM 203 (2 Cr) or CHEM 210 (2
Cr). C. A minimum of 12 credits from at least three of the following four
disciplines: 1. Analytical: CHEM 215 (3 Cr), CHEM 219 (3 Cr) or CHEM 234 (3
Cr). 2. Inorganic: CHEM 228 (3 Cr), CHEM 229 (3 Cr), CHEM 232 (3 Cr). 3. Organic: either CHEM 211 (3 Cr), -CHEM 212 (3 Cr), or CHEM 207
(4 Cr). 4. Physical: CHEM 217 (3 Cr) or CHEM 2014, CHEM 218 (3 Cr).
Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Minor in Computational Chemistry: The Chemistry Curriculum Committee recommends the following requirements for a new Interdisciplinary Minor in Computational Chemistry (18 Cr):
A. CHEM 201 (3 Cr) B. CHEM 306 (3 Cr): Applied Quantum Chemistry (new graduate course
that will be opened to seniors). C. CHEM 217 (3 Cr), CHEM 218 (3 Cr). D. CMPS 200 (3 Cr). E. CMPS 251 or Math 251 (3 Cr).
Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Minor in Applied Chemistry:
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The Chemistry Curriculum Committee recommends the following requirements for a new Interdisciplinary Minor in Computational Chemistry (18 Cr):
CHEM 201 (3 Cr) CHEM 201L (1 Cr) or CHEM 210 (2 Cr). CHEM 215 (3 Cr) and CHEM 216 (2 Cr) or CHEM 206 (4 Cr), CHEM 234 (3 Cr). CHEM 211 (3 Cr), CHEM 212 (3 Cr). Three courses from: MECH 340, CHEN 200, CHEN 490, CHEN 672 (3 Cr). CHEN 311, CHEN 312 (CHEN 311 and CHEN 312 have prerequisite MECH 310; thermodynamics); CHEN 618 (prerequisite CHEN 314; kinetics).
The Chemistry Curriculum Committee recommends the following requirements for a new Interdisciplinary Minor in Computational Chemistry (18 Cr): Review number of lab hours: Faculty members will review the number of lab hours in accordance with the number of credits hours associated to each lab course. This recommendation has been approved by faculty members and the work is in progress. Attracting Graduate Students: The Graduate Committee recommends to take on several steps that would help in attracting more students to the Chemistry Graduate Program. Develop TA and RA manual: The Safety Committee at the Chemistry Department will work on developing a TA and RA manual to include a code of conduct and define duties and responsibilities. Najat A. Saliba Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The department of Computer Science offers undergraduate and graduate and programs leading to BS and MS degrees in Computer Science. The MS degree may be either a research-oriented, thesis-based degree, or a coursework-oriented, project-based degree. The department also offers a number of service courses to suit non-majors from a variety of disciplines. The BS and MS graduates of the department continue to obtain key positions in leading national and regional software and information technology firms. The year 2013-14 was the year when the department conducted its first self-study procedure. Professors Mike Atallah from Purdue University and Azer Bestavros from Boston University, led the external review. Faculty members consolidated a reply to the reviewers’ report which will form the basis of a long term plan to be undertaken starting the year 2014-15. Beginning of Fall 2013-14, the department submitted a report summarizing the Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) assessment activities during the past three years. Important recommendations emerged from this exercise including: Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) should be mapped directly to PLOs, more courses should be assessed annually, and most importantly a formal method should be implemented to communicate the assessment findings with the faculty members and to follow up on addressing the findings in order to close the loop. An assessment committee composed of four faculty members was created for that purpose. This year and in an attempt to start addressing the recommendations, almost all courses were assessed, electives and core. The assessment committee will check the portfolio of every assessed course to make sure that the course learning outcomes relate directly to the program learning outcomes. The committee will also follow-up on the course update to make sure that its recommendations and constructive student feedback are addressed. This year the department continues to offer the senior year Graduation Project course. This required capstone course gives students an opportunity to get involved in a significant, semester-long, team-based, software development activity from its conceptual design stage to its final implementation. Each year the projects span a wide range of applications, and in this year, two of the projects were proposed in collaboration with the I.T. department at AUB. The leading project for this year, an E-voting project, will be made available to AUB voters next year.
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Student-teams from the department continued to participate in a number of local and international competitions. The Computer Science team consisting of Faisal Zaghloul, Hadil Charafeddine, and Kinan Dak Al Bab won the third place in the ACM Lebanese Collegiate Programming Contest, which was held on October 25-26, 2013. The contest was hosted by the Computer Science department and gathered 20 teams from universities across Lebanon. Graduate student John Abu Jaoudeh and undergraduate student Faisal Zaghloul participated in the New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi Hackathon, February 2014. This year the department hosted numerous seminars and workshops given by international visitors. The department acknowledges the financial support of CAMS and its help in logistical assistance for arranging the visits. In November 2013, the department hosted a “Week on Cloud Scalability”, delivered by Mr. Moustafa Noureddine, Senior Lead Program Manager in Skype division at Microsoft Corporation, and Rabih Bashroush, Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of East London. In January 2014 the department hosted a major mobile application development workshop spanning three full weeks. During the workshop the department hosted the following speakers: Yves-Alexander de Montjoye from the Human Dynamics group at MIT, Thanh-Hung Nguyen, co-founder of BH Inc. and Lecturer/Researcher at the school of Information and Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Marwan Majzoub, co-founder of Agila Technologies and wEdge., and Rami Farran, Director of Solution Development at AUB. More than 150 students registered for the workshop; the department was able to accommodate 50 students per week. In addition to those two major workshops, the Computer Science department hosted the Microsoft Tech Day on November 29th, 2013. The department also held 2-hour sessions each day during the week of December 9, 2013 to help students who opted to take any of the “An Hour of Code” tutorials planned for the CSEdWeek. On March 20th and 21st, the department conducted a two-day tutorial on Linked Data, presented by Gerard de Melo, an Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, China, Katja Hose, an assistant professor at the department of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Laura Dietz, a post-doctoral researcher working at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts, USA. The department also conducted about 12 visits to local high schools raising awareness about computer science amongst potential student applicants. The department is thankful to obtain direct support from local industry. Murex, a global leader in the development of financial software, supported the department with a monetary prize of $3,000 to be awarded to the best graduating senior and best graduating MS student. Also CCT International, a leading provider of 3D Construction Management and Control solutions,
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supported the department with a monetary prize of $3,000 to be awarded to the best undergraduate project and to the Computer Science student of the year, a student that is academically bright and is active in the department and the Computer Science society activities. The undergraduate computing facilities in Bliss were upgraded and now consist of a mix of Windows, Mac, and Linux computer--all accessing a central Storage Area Network--to serve the needs of undergraduate and graduate students. The department labs continue to be used heavily to host on-line exams for various departments from FAS and OSB and to conduct students’ online course registrations. The department continues to logistically assist in and host the annual reunion in coordination with the CMPS Alumni chapter. The event is regularly attended by graduating students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the department. Each year the reunion aims to honor a distinguished alumnus and a number of achieving graduating students. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members Nasri, Ahmad Professor Ph.D. Turkiyyah, George Professor Ph.D. Abu Salem, Fatima Associate Professor Ph.D. Attie, Paul Associate Professor Ph.D. Karam, Marcel Associate Professor Ph.D. Safa, Haidar Associate Professor Ph.D. Elbassuoni, Shady Assistant Professor Ph.D. El Hajj, Wassim Assistant Professor Ph.D. Jaber, Mohamad Assistant Professor Ph.D. Jureidini, Wadi Senior Lecturer Ph.D. Sidani Bohsali, Hayat Instructor M.S. Adhami, Louai Lecturer (part time) Ph.D.
Sakr, George Lecturer (part time) Ph.D. Sharafeddin, Mageda Lecturer (part time) Ph.D. Aoude, Loa Instructor (part time) M.S. Bdeir, Mahmoud Instructor (part time) M.S. Tamim, Lama Instructor (part time) M.S. Hamam, Mike Instructor (part time) M.S. Ladan, Mohamad Instructor (part time) M.S. Moubarak, Mohammad Instructor (part time) M.S.
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2. Research Assistants Fall Semester
Abu Jaoudeh, John Kahil, Rani
Fawzi, Zahra Sakr, Mohammad
Harake, Khalil
Spring Semester
Abu Jaoudeh, John Sakr, Mohammad
Deeb, Nisrine
3. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester
Abou Ismail, Rabeeh Omran, Omar
Charafeddine, Hadil Sahyoun, Anthony
El Hokayem, Antoine Tawbeh, Ali
El-Ballouli, Reem Zaatari, Ayman
Makki, Fatima
Spring Semester
Abou Ismail, Rabeeh Makki, Fatima
Arnaout, Hiba Sahyoun, Anthony
Charafeddine, Hadil Tawbeh, Ali
El Hokayem, Antoine Yoghordjal, Hrag
4. Non-Academic Staff
Hamam, Mike System Administrator
Maalouf, Rima Administrative Assistant
C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BA Oct. 2013 1
Feb. 2014 12
May 2014 23
MA Oct. 2013 1
Feb. 2014 3
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May 2014 1
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 18
Seniors 42
Juniors 67
Sophomores 108
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 6 32 37 75 211-299 61 475 469 1005 200-210 54 673 438 1165 100-199 0 13 7 20 Total 121 1193 951 2265
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 15 15 30 211-299 6 56 60 119 200-210 6 36 30 68 100-199 0 3 3 6 Total 12 110 108 223
D. RESEARCH Fatima Abu Salem 1. Currently under review: Hensel lifting arithmetic for sparse polynomial
factorisation using the priority 2. Currently under review: Work, space and I/O efficient sparse polynomial
factoring using the Funnel heap 3. Currently under review: Morton hybrid layout for recursive TU
decomposition of singular matrices 4. Ongoing Project: Cache-oblivious multi-threaded Hensel lifting with low
depth. Funding URB and LNCSR. Paul Attie
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1. An abstract framework for deadlock prevention in BIP. Conference publications in FORTE 2013. In collaboration with Prof. Joseph Sifakis, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne.
2. Dynamic I/O automata. Submitted for publication and available as an MIT technical report at http://projects.csail.mit.edu/iandc/. In collaboration with Prof. Nancy Lynch, MIT.
3. Specification construction. This project has resulting in a working tool, available at http://webfea.fea.aub.edu.lb/fadi/dkwk/doku.php?id=speccheck. In collaboration with Prof. Fadi Zaraket of FEA ECE.
4. Model repair. A tool that implements the method is being developed by my M.Sc. student Mohamad Sakr, who is also making theoretical contributions, which improve the efficiency of the method.
5. Pair-wise expressiveness. Submitted for publication. Shady Elbassuoni 1. Robust Question Answering over the Web of Linked Data (in collaboration
with Max-Planck Institute for Informatics). 2. Mining the Discussion of Arabic Themes in Wikipedia (in collaboration with
Professor David Wrisley from the English department at AUB). 3. Arabic Opinions Mining (in collaboration with Professor Wassim El-Hajj
from the Computer Science department at AUB). Wassim El Hajj 1. Building a new framework for Information Privacy where users own their
data and control who can access it. 2. Opinion Mining for Arabic with Models of Semantics and Credibility. 3. Emotion mining from text for the aim of creating a tool that takes text as
input and classifies the emotion within the text into one of the 6 Ekman’s emotions.
4. Activity recognition using smart devices for the aim of enabling the phone to know the activity of its owner. This framework will be used in recommender systems and opinion mining.
Mohamad Jaber 1. Runtime enforcement for component-based systems (URB submitted). 2. Architecture Internalisation in BIP (in collaboration with EPFL-RiSD and
VERIMAG). 3. High-level modeling language for the android platform (URB). 4. Reduction and Abstraction techniques for component-based systems (in
collaboration with EPFL-RiSD).
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5. From high-level modeling towards efficient and trustworthy circuits (in collaboration with Dr. Fadi Zaraket).
6. A General Framework for Architecture Composability. With P. Attie, E. Baranov, S. Bliudze, M. Jaber and J. Sifakis. RiSD Technical Report, 2014(http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/196997).
7. Architecture Internalisation in BIP. With S. Bliudze, M. Bozga, M. Jaber and J. Sifakis. RiSD Technical Report, 2014 http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/196536)
Marcel Karam 1. Programming actions for effective feedback to both Students and Teachers” 2. Improving the test suites and fault localization in Rich Internet Applications. 3. State knowledge in Rich Internet Applications: implications on crawling,
state equivalence and testing 4. The use of Physiques of notations in the design and evaluation of Visual
Languages and iconic-touch-based HCI. Ahmad Nasri 1. Periodic T-spline surface skinning, co-investigators: Yusha Lia, Wenyu
Chenb, Jianmin Zhenga, and Yiyu Caid (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore).
2. A Sketch-Based Interface for Building Graphical Subdivision Models, Project Funded by LNCSR.
3. Sketched-Based Object Retrieval, joint Ph.D. supervision with Anne Verroust, INRIA, France.
4. Sketch-Based Subdivision Modeling with Feature Control with Faramarz Samavati (University of Calgary).
Haidar Safa 1. Location Tracking and Sensor-to-Sink Binding in Wireless Sensor Networks. 2. Measures against malicious attacks in cloud computing systems. 3. A Framework of Mobile Cloudlet Centers based on the Use of Mobile
Devices as Cloudlets. 4. Efficient resource allocation in cloud computing. 5. New anti-collision solution for dense RFID environments. 6. A QoS-aware resource allocation paradigm for LTE Uplink scheduling. 7. Tracking area configuration and design in LTE networks. 8. Secure routing in P2P networks. 9. Efficient flooding in MANETs using Mobile Agents. 10. Heterogeneous routing in MANETs.
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11. Towards a Collaborative Testing of Workflows in WMVC-Based Web Applications.
12. Anomaly-based intrusion detection systems for VoIP. George Turkiyyah 1. Development of a Next-Generation Robotic-Assisted Surgery Simulator.
Funded by QNRF. 2. Workforce Scheduling at Marine Container Terminals. Funded by BCTC
(Beirut Container Terminal Corporation). 3. Immersive Virtual Reality for Sustainable Tourism. Funded by ENPI-
CBCMED (European Union program for cross-border cooperation in the Mediterranean).
4. Data-Parallel Hyperbolic PDE Solvers. Funded by URB. 5. Fast Solvers in numerical optimization. E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Fatima Abu Salem 1. Secretary for the SIAM/Supercomputing Special Activity Group, January
2012 -- December 2013 2. Associate Editor for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier,
starting June 2012-present. 3. Organizing Committee member for the workshop on ``Arab women in
Computing'', NYU Abu Dhabi, May 2013. 4. Organizer for the mini symposium on ``High Performance Symbolic
Computing'', The twelfth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, February 2014.
5. Invited Speaker ``Space, Time, and I/O Efficient Polynomial Factorisation Via the Funnel Heap'', SIAM's Parallel Processing Conference 2014 (PP14)
6. Organizing Committee member for the workshop on Scientific Software Carpentry, AUB, March 2013.
7. Organizing Committee member for the workshop on mobile application development workshop, Computer Science Department, AUB (Fall 2013)
8. Member of public relations committee for the computer science department. 9. Member of the University Committee on High Performance Computing. Paul Attie 1. Currently supervising two M.Sc. students: Rabeeh Abou Ismail and
Mohamad Sakr 2. Co-authored the department self-study report
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3. Travelled in June 2013 to attend the FORTE 2013 conference and to present the paper “An Abstract Framework for Deadlock Prevention in BIP"
Shady Elbassuoni 1. A co-organizer of a workshop on Mobile-Applications Development that
took place at AUB and was co-hosted by the Computer Science department and the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences.
2. A co-organizer of a tutorial on Linked Data that took place at AUB that took place at AUB and was co-hosted by the Computer Science department and the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences.
3. A co-organizer of a workshop on Data Mining for Digital humanities that took place at AUB and was co-hosted by the Computer Science department and the English department.
4. A guest lecturer at the Cognitive Science course PYSCH 288 at AUB. 5. A panelist at the conference on Big Data, Big Computing and the Oil
Industry: Opportunities for Lebanon and the Arab World that took place at AUB.
6. A member of the Association for the Study of Mind (ASOM) at AUB. 7. A member of the Sawt wa Samt (Sound and Silence) research group at the
Neighborhood Initiative of AUB. 8. A reviewer for the Journal of Web Semantics. 9. A reviewer for Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World
Wide Web. 10. An awardee of a University Research Board (URB) Grant at AUB for a
research project about Effective Searching of RDF Knowledge bases. 11. A member of three Master theses committees at AUB. Wassim El Hajj 1. Chairman of the Computer Science department. 2. Main organizer for multiple events that include:
a Week on Cloud and Scalability (http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cs/Documents/Cloud%20and%20Scalability.pdf)
the 5th Lebanese Collegiate Programming contest (http://www.cs.aub.edu.lb/lcpc/),
a three-week workshop on mobile app development in January (http://cs.aub.edu.lb/mobile/)
a one week long event, 2 hours a day, to introduce students to computer science and teach them how to program in one hour - http://csedweek.org/
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Microsoft Tech Day (http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cs/Documents/Techdays_and_DevCamp.jpg)
A workshop on Data Mining for Digital humanities attended by Computer Science and English students and faculty members from AUB
3. Freshman Advisor 4. Supervising the theses of three graduate students 5. Member of the thesis examination committees of several graduate students. 6. Participated and presented in IWCMC 2013. Mohamad Jaber
1. Served on committee of several MS students. 2. Reviewer for the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications
of Formal Methods, Verification. 3. Supervising students: Kinan Dak-El-Bab (Research Assistant), Hadil
Charafeddine and Khalil El Harake (Graduation Project), Wajeb Saab and Mohamad Nourreddine (internship at EPFL), Lea Boutros (M.Sc. Thesis).
4. Invited Research visitor: EPFL (summer 2013), Grenoble University (January 2014)
5. Member of the Public Relation Committee at CMPS department. Marcel Karam 1. Journal of Universal Computer Science. Paper title: Unsupervised Structured
Data Extraction from Template generated Web Pages. 2. Qatar National Research Fund. Proposal title: Analytics-based Interface
Transformation for Web Databases. 3. Drafted a handbook for the capstone course. 4. Co-drafted a workshop proposal entitled “The First International Workshop
on Dynamic Social Networks (DSoNets)”, to be held in conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2014).
Ahmad Nasri 1. Acting President, Fahad Bin Sultan University, secondment leave. 2. Recipient of the 2013 CNRS Research Excellence Award, Feb. 2014 3. PC members of the following: Computer Graphics International 2014; Shape
Modeling International 2014, UK; CAD & Graphics 2014. 4. Reviewer to the following: Qatar Foundation (two NPRP proposals); Kuwait
Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, ComVisual Computer Journal.
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5. Member of the editorial boards of the following: The Visual Computer Journal; Shape Modeling Journal; The International Journal of CAD/CAM; The Lebanese Scientific Journal; the International journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 2014.
6. Member of the board of directors of the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research 2014
7. Visiting Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Calgary University, Canada. (Host: Faramarz Samavati), Summer 2103.
8. Invited Speaker Advanced technologies in product design, engineering and manufacturing, International Summer School, University of the Aegean, Dept. of Product and Systems Design Engineering Syros, Greece, 1/7/2013 - 11/7/2013.
Haidar Safa 1. Primary Academic Advisor of more than 100 undergraduate students and
Secondary advisor for all CMPS students 2. Supervising the theses of two graduate students 3. Member of the thesis examination committees of several graduate students. 4. Participated in IEEE AINA 2014 and the Horizon 2020 ICT Awareness
and Training 5. Program Committee Member of: IEEE MELECON2014, IEEE
MoWNet'2014, IEEE/IFIP NTMS'2014; IEEE ISNCC 2014 (organizing committee); IEEE MoWNet 2013, IEEE ICCIT2013 (organizing committee), ANT 2013.
6. Organizing and co-chairing of the First IEEE WiMob 2014 Workshop on Dynamic Social Networks (DSoNets 2014), Larnaca, Cyprus.
7. Editorial board of Elsvier Ad Hoc Networks journal 8. Reviewer: ACM\IEEE Transactions on networking, IEEE transactions on
vehicular technology, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, the computer journal, IEEE communication letters, Computer Communications, IEEE Transactions on mobile computing.
George Turkiyyah 1. On leave in 2013-2014 F. PUBLICATIONS
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1. Paul C Attie, Saddek Bensalem, Marius Bozga, Mohamad Jaber, Joseph Sifakis, and Fadi A Zaraket, “An Abstract Framework for Deadlock Prevention in BIP”, IFIP Joint International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems (33rd FORTE / 15th FMOODS), June 2013, Florence, Italy. http://forte13.sosy-lab.org/
Shady Elbassuoni 1. Robust Question Answering over the Web of Linked Data, Mohamed
Yahya, Klaus Berberich, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weikum, Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013).
Wassim El-Hajj 1. Safa, H., El-Hajj, W., and Moutaweh, M. “Trust Aware System for P2P Routing
Protocols”, in proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2014), Victoria, Canada, May 12-16, 2014.
2. Safa, H., El-Hajj, W., and Zoubian, H. “A Robust Topology Control Solution for the Sink Placement Problem in WSNs Journal of Network and Computer Applications”, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 39, pp. 70-82, March 2014.
3. Syed Zahidi, Fadi Aloul, Assim Sagahyroon, and Wassim El-Hajj, “Optimizing Complex Cluster Formation in MANETs using SAT/ILP Techniques,” IEEE Sensors Journal, 13(6), 2400-2412, June 2013.
4. Mustafa Al-Tamimi, Wassim El-Hajj, and Fadi Aloul, “Framework for Creating Realistic Port Scanning Benchmarks,” IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2013), Cagliari-Sardinia, Italy, July 1-5, 2013.
5. Gilbert Badaro, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, and Lama Nachman, “A Hybrid Approach with Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems,” IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2013), Cagliari-Sardinia, Italy, July 1-5, 2013.
Mohamad Jaber 1. Architecture Internalisation in BIP. S. Bliudze, M. Bozga, M. Jaber and J.
Sifakis. In ACM – CBSE 2014 - International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering.
Marcel Karam
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1. E. A. Zanaty, Aljahdali Sultan, and Sultan Karam Marcel.” Improving Fuzzy C-Means for MRIs Segmentation”. CAINE 2013
2. Marcel Karam, Haidar Safa. “Towards a Collaborative Testing of Workflows in WMVC-Based Web Applications”. IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, 2013.
3. Haidar Safa, Marcel Karam, and Bassam Moussa. “A Novel Power Aware Heterogeneous Routing Protocol for MANETs”. AINA-2013
Ahmad Nasri 1. de Groot, E., Wyvill, B., Barthe, L., Nasri, A., and Lalonde, P. Implicit
Decals: Interactive Editing of Repetitive Patterns on Surfaces, Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Published on-line Dec. 2013, doi: 10.1111/cgf.12260
Haidar Safa 1. Safa, H., Moussa, M., Artail, H. “An Energy Efficient Genetic Algorithm
based Approach for Sensor-to-Sink Binding in Multi-Sink Wireless Sensor Networks”, Springer/ACM Journal of Wireless Networks, vol. 20, Issue 2, pp 177-196, February 2014.
2. Safa, H., El-Hajj, W., and Zoubian, H. “A Robust Topology Control Solution for the Sink Placement Problem in WSNs Journal of Network and Computer Applications”, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 39, pp. 70-82, March 2014.
3. Elfaki, M., Ibrahim, H., Mamat, A., Othman, M., and Safa, H. “Collaborative Caching Priority for Processing Requests in MANETs” Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 40, pp. 85-96, April 2014.
4. Fawaz, K., Artail, A., Al-Khansa, R., Artail, H., and Safa H. “REDCIM: Replication Enabled Distributed Cache Management System for Wireless Mobile Networks” Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal, (Article first published online: 19 DEC 2013, DOI: 10.1002/wcm.2455).
5. Safa, H., El-Hajj, W., and Moutaweh, M. “Trust Aware System for P2P Routing Protocols”, in proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2014), Victoria, Canada, May 12-16, 2014.
6. Rawadi, J. M., Artail, H., and Safa, H., “Providing Local Cloud Services to Mobile Devices with Inter-cloudlet Communication” Accepted in the proceedings of the 2014 17th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON 2014), Beirut, Lebanon, 16-18 April 2014
7. Dassouki, K., Safa, H., Hijazi, A., “End to End mechanism to protect SIP from signaling attacks” Accepted in the proceedings of the Sixth IEEE/IFIP
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International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, Dubai, UAE, March 30, April 2nd , 2014
8. Dassouki, K., Debar, H., Safa, H., Hijazi, A., "A TCP delay-based mechanism for detecting congestion in the Internet," in proceedings of the IEEE third International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2013 , vol., no., pp.141,145, 19-21 June 2013.
George Turkiyyah
1. The Effect of Correlated Observations on the Performance of Distributed Estimation. M. Ahmed, T. Al-Naffouri, M. Alouini, G. Turkiyyah. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 61(24), pp 6264-6275, 2013.
2. Efficient Suturing of Deformable Models. Georges Younes, Julien Abi-Nahed, George Turkiyyah. Computational Biomechanics for Medicine, Springer, 2013, pp 75-84.
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The department has set the following action plan to be undertaken in the near future to address the Changing Role and Mission of Computer Science in AUB. To sustain a healthy pipeline of undergraduates in CS at AUB, the department conducted and will continue to conduct school visits with the aim of attracting good students to major in computer science. This should help raise the student quality and reduce the disparity between top and bottom students. The department will be considering the idea of having an honors “subsection” within a section. Such a group will meet once a week and cover additional material. To assure that computer science courses continue to serve their objectives, the assessment committee will check the portfolio of every assessed course to make sure that the course learning outcomes relate directly to the program learning outcomes. The committee will also follow-up on the course update to make sure that its recommendations and constructive student feedback are addressed. Moreover, several undergraduate courses will be supported by appropriate MOOCs to complement the course and to give students a new experience. The department intends to conduct at least one workshop per semester addressing emerging research in computer science. Speakers will be local and international. Attendees will be any interested AUB faculty member and student. On the graduate program and its curriculum, the department is discussing the idea of offering a non-thesis (courses only) Master’s program. During Fall 2014-15, the department will discuss setting a deadline for submitting and approving
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the students’ MS thesis proposal. The department also aims to revive a series of seminars at the beginning of every Fall semester where every faculty member will talk 10 minutes about their ongoing research projects. All graduate students will have to attend. This should hopefully motivate students to select a thesis topic and start the thesis work early. To diversify the courses offering, the department will discuss using MOOCs at the graduate level. On the curriculum update efforts, the department will consider creating courses tailored for Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Fine Arts and/or English, with the hope of offering them starting Fall 2015-16. The department will also study the feasibility of offering joint degrees with other departments in Humanities and Sciences. The department will also prepare a draft proposal of the BS/MS program by mid Fall 2014-15 to be submitted for departmental approval. On the outreach efforts, the department will create a LinkedIn page to identify and invite its alumni. The department will also strengthen the Computer Science Alumni page on Facebook and make it more visible and active. The department will approach companies for the purpose of starting a corporate partners program where for a modest gift to the department a company can gain access to events at the department where they can interact with students and faculty members. Wassim El Hajj Chairperson
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CIVILIZATION STUDIES PROGRAM A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS In 2013-2014 Peter Shebay‟a continued serving as Assistant director. Two new Visiting Assistant Professors for the period of two years joined CVSP: Emily J. O‟Dell (PhD in Egyptology and Western Asian Studies, Brown University, 2008) and Hussein Abdulsater (Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Theology and Ethics, Yale University, 2013). Professor Courtney Fugate was on leave for a one year fellowship at Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. Mahmoud Youness (MSc in Neural and Behavioral Sciences, University of Tübingen, The Max Plank Research School of Neural and Behavioral Sciences) joined CVSP as part-time instructor. Two new faculty members will be teaching with us starting next Fall as part-time Lecturers: Dr. Nadia Bou Ali (Ph.D. Modern Arab Thought and Nationalism, Oxford), and Dr. Eric Goodfield (Ph.D. Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research, New York); as well as three new part-time Instructors: Pamela Chrabieh (Ph.D. Theology/ Sciences of Religions, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Tony Nasrallah (Ph.D. in History, SOAS) and Omar Talhouk (Philosophy department, AUB). Two new courses were added to our offerings this year under special topics (295): 1. Emily O‟Dell : Ancient Egypt & Nubia; with field-trips to the following places
for on-site learning experiences: Byblos, Baalbek, the National Museum, Nahr al-Kalb, Sudan House, and the AUB Museum.
2. Hussein Abdulsater: Moral Discourses in Classical and Monotheistic Traditions. Blended teaching (Hani Hassan) This year, and building upon his experience of last year, Hani Hassan once again offered one section of CVSP 202 in blended format in the Spring semester, 2013 - 2014 semester. He made some adjustments to the design of the course in light of student input of last year, though the overall format remained more or less the same. Briefly, the course was divided roughly between 70% handled in the normal face-to-face (F2F) discussion sessions, and 30% moved onto the online environment. The online portion of the course consisted of various forms of student-centered learning activities, including online assignments, forums, glossary, and group wiki entries. These learning activities are designed in a way that they are both rooted in the F2F sessions, and flow back into them; and in the online context the role of the teacher becomes more of a moderator and facilitator, and the learning itself is shifted onto the student engagement in the activities.
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PLO‟s and Student Surveys (William Merrifield): After much work and discussion in 2012-2013, in the Spring of 2013 we initiated the first phase of our PLO assessment plan by assessing of PLO II and PLO III in CVSP 201 and 202 using both indirect and direct methodology. This Fall we continued our assessment of PLO II and PLO III in the remaining two core courses, CVSP 203 and CVSP 204, using the same methodology. Our intention was to compare the results across our four core courses in order to get a sense of whether or not there is a progression of skills from 201 through 204 or if students score similarly across the four courses in regards to these particular outcomes. The indirect method involved an in-class course survey administered to the students with two embedded questions about PLO II and PLO III. The direct method involved faculty embedding questions into the semester final through which each faulty member could directly assess PLO II and PLO III using rubrics developed by the CVSP assessment committee. Each faculty member was then requested to supply a copy of the question used for the assessment. As the types of questions that are assessed in a CVSP course may be viewed as subjective, it was requested that each faculty provide two samples of student work. Unlike the Spring of 2013, it was decided to not include the quality control step of cross-grading by other faculty to see if there is any indication of a significant discrepancy between faculty assessments. This decision was taken because of a negative response by faculty to this step. Our intention, as stated in the last report, was also to begin the program review process during this calendar year based upon the assessment committee‟s four-phase plan which was proposed to the core committee the previous year. In the Fall, the director of CVSP made the decision to postpone the program review process believing that there was/is not a suitable atmosphere among the faculty that would lead to this being a productive exercise. As such, no work was done towards a program review this year. After an unsuccessful Fall assessment process, it was decided it would not be productive to attempt to assess PLO IV and PLO V in the Spring. This decision was taken because PLO IV and PLO V require more active faculty participation in terms of potentially changing the way faculty write certain final questions. It was determined that it would be better to discuss PLO IV and PLO V with the faculty during the Spring retreat so that they would have the summer to think through how to incorporate questions by which we can assess these two PLOs. Instead of doing a Spring assessment it was decided to ask faculty to develop a pre/post course test for each of the four core courses. The purpose of the test is
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to assess what simple conceptual knowledge our students have of the authors/texts discussed in each course both before entering the course and upon completion of the course. This will allow us to assess PLO I which involves the acquisition of knowledge. Each course coordinator was asked to work with his/her course committee to prepare a test of two questions per author/text presented in the course to be presented at the Spring retreat to the faculty for approval. The goal is to administer these tests at the beginning and end of each course in the Fall and Spring semesters and then assess the results. These tests were submitted to the PLO assessment committee and discussed at the Spring retreat. The results of the assessment process were also discussed in the Spring retreat. Assessment Plan for academic year 2014-2015 Assess PLO I: Acquire knowledge of human thought and culture in different historical epochs, in 201-204 through the use of pre/post tests. Assess PLO IV: Evaluate various genres critically, in 201-204 through direct and indirect assessment (requires the development of rubrics). Assess PLO V: Formulate and synthesize creative and informed arguments in line with the standards of intellectual integrity in 201-204 through direct and indirect assessment (requires the development of rubrics). Chinese language (Yafeng Kuang) It is a pleasure to highlight the successes of AUB students and their excellent performance in HSK (also named Chinese TOFEL, it is a worldwide exam for testing non-Chinese speakers‟ proficiency in Chinese language). For the third year, Mr. Yafeng Kuang students are scoring excellently in this exam. To give only one example, in 2013 all students studying Chinese passed the exam successfully. Two in Chinese 201: they scored 157, 177 and 152 in HSK level 1 respectively. Both the passing scores of HSK Level 1 and Level 2 are 120 out of 200 (60%). Other two students did excellent jobs as well: The first, after having completed last summer CHIN 201, he scored 143 out of 200 in Level 2. He therefore becomes the first student who successfully passed the HSK Level 2 after only completing 40 contact hours (equivalent to 1 semester/or 50 class hours), and creates a record in HSK history with the highest grade worldwide within the 50 class hours (usually the HSK Level 2 is for the candidate who completes 50 contact class hours at least). The second scored 278 out of 300 (99 out of 100 in listening comprehension, 80 out of 100 in reading comprehension, and 99 out of 100 in the writing part.) accordingly, he is the first student who passed the HSK Level 3 after less than 80 contact hours in the HSK history and his score is highest one worldwide within 150 class hours (usually the HSK Level 3 is for the candidate who completes 150 contact class hours at least). CVSP Forum
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Coordinators: Nader El-Bizri and Peter Bornedal. The CVSP Forum was associated with a conference held on November 20-21, 2013, at AUB under the sponsorship of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AUB) in association with Centre d’Études Michel Henry (USJ) and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (NDU). The title of the conference was: “Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon: Authors, Texts, Trends, Traditions,” and it corresponded with the UNESCO World Philosophy Day international events. Twenty three papers were delivered in Arabic, English, and French by academics in the diverse fields of philosophical research from across various universities and institutions in Lebanon. CVSP Brown Bag Coordinator: Robert Gallagher Abdulsater, Hussein: “History and the Straitjacket of Theology,” March 19, 2014. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members
Bornedal, Peter Professor Ph.D. Jarrar, Maher Professor Ph.D. Saumarez Smith, Richard Professor Ph.D. Harb, Sirene* Professor Ph.D. Hout, Syrine* Professor Ph.D. El-Bizri, Nader Associate Professor Ph.D. Mejcher-Atassi, Sonja Associate Professor Ph.D. Nassar, C. Suhail* Associate Professor Ph.D. Wrisley, David* Associate Professor Ph.D. Fugate, Courtney1 Assistant Professor Ph.D. Gallagher, Robert Assistant Professor Ph.D. Newson, Paul* Assistant Professor Ph.D. Abdulsater, Hussein Visiting Assistant Ph.D. Professor O‟Dell, Emily Visiting Assistant Ph.D. Professor Amyuni, Mona* Senior Lecturer Ph.D. Shebay„a, Peter Senior Lecturer M.A. Bualuan, Hayat* Lecturer Ph.D.
* Part-time. 1 On paid research leave.
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Maktabi, Hadi* Lecturer Ph.D. Sharif, Malek* Lecturer Ph.D. Abou Zaki, Said* Instructor M.A. Arasoghli, Aida* Instructor M.A. Dibo, Amal* Instructor M.A. Hassan, Hani* Instructor M.A. Khoury, Samira* Instructor M.A. Kuang, Yafeng Visiting Instructor M.A. Merrifield, Bill Instructor M.A. Tomeh, Edmond* Instructor M.A.
Youness, Mahmoud* Instructor M.A.
2. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester Sonia-Lynn Gabriel
Spring Semester
Sonia-Lynn Gabriel
3. Non Academic Staff
Khairallah, Randa
Secretary
C. TEACHING 1. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Fall 2013 Spring 2013-14 Total
Sequence I
201,202,205 589 478 1067
207a, 207l, 36 25 61
Sequence II
203,204 232 303 535
208F, 212, 250, 251 95 68 163
295Q, R, S 21 59 80
CHIN 201-202 31 39 70
FREN 201-202 27 22 49
110-112 45 60 105
Total 1076 1054 2130
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D. RESEARCH Hussein Abdulsater 1. Articles in press a. “Early Tafsīr, Late Resurgence and Spurious Ascription: The Curious Case of Risālat al-Muhkam wa-l-Mutashābih,” al-Abhāth, 60 (2014). b. “To Rehabilitate a Theological Treatise: Inqādh al-Bashar min al-Jabr wa-l-Qadar,” Etudes Asiatiques, (2014). c. “Reason, Grace and the Freedom of Conscience: The Period of Speculation in Classical Islamic Theology,” Studia Islamica, (2015). 2. Work in progress a. The Climax of Rationalist Theology in Buyid Shī‘ism (Book manuscript). b. “History in the Straitjacket of Theology.” 3. Lectures and Conference papers a. “History in the Straitjacket of Theology,” guest speaker, CVSP Brownbag, March 19, 2014. b. “The Road to Certainty and Rational Salvation,” Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon: Authors, Texts, Trends, Traditions, UNESCO World Philosophy Day, Beirut, November 2013. Peter Bornedal 1. Articles in press a. Est. publication, 2014/15. Article. “Ethical or Unethical Discourse: On Derrida‟s Difficulties with Speech-Acts.” Proceedings from seminar, Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon. AUB, Beirut [ed. Prof. N. Bizri, et al]. 2. Work in progress Submitted a. Article. “A Human, All Too Human God: Hume and Nietzsche‟s Criticisms of Design Arguments and Anthropocentric Principles.” b. Article. “The Paralogism of Writing: A Critique of Deconstructive Reasoning.” c. Article. “On Derrida‟s Difficulties with Speech-Acts: A Critical Reevaluation of the Searle-Derrida Debate.” d. Article. “The Subtle Art of Seduction: Contrasting Views on Women and Seduction in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.” e. Book Manuscript: Nietzsche, Our Contemporary: Naturalist, Pragmatist, Psychologist. f. Book Manuscript: Reading Derrida Reading: A Critical Examination of the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida. 3. Lectures and Conference papers a. Keynote/Invited Speaker, Russia: Nietzsche’s Theories of Truth and Knowledge. Center for Advanced Studies – Higher School for Economics,
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National Research University, Moscow. (Organizer, Prof. and Director Martin Gilman). March, 2014. b. Invited Organizer of Seminar, Russia: The End of Deconstruction? Center for Advanced Studies – Higher School for Economics, National Research University, Moscow. (Organizer, Prof. and Director Martin Gilman). March, 2014. c. Speaker at Local Conference. Lebanon: “Ethical and Unethical Discourse.” Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon; American University of Beirut, Beirut, November, 2013. (Organizer Prof. N. el Bizri) d. Speaker at International Conference, France: “Blinded by Agenda: Indifference to Atrocity in Conrad‟s „Heart of Darkness‟.” (International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Sorbonne, Paris; July 2013. Nader El Bizri 1. Articles in press a. “Ibn al-Haytham,” in the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press). b. “Brethren of Purity,” in the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Political Thought in Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press). c. “Seeing Reality in Perspective: The „Art of Optics‟ and the „Science of Painting‟,” in the Art of Science: From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness, eds. Rossella Lupacchini and Annarita Angelini (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer). d. “Le renouvellement de la falsafa,” Les Cahiers de l’Islam (Paris, Sorbonne), Vol. I.1. 2. Work in progress Books a. Occult Sciences in Pre-Modern Islamic Cultures, co-edited volume of studies with Eva Orthmann. b. Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Arabic Edition and English Translation of Epistles 6-8 (Oxford University Press). Articles a. “Architectural Phenomenology and Heidegger‟s Account of Dwelling.” b. “The Conception of Place in the Physics Division of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity.” 3. Lectures and Conference papers Presented over 18 conference papers, invited public lectures, and keynotes in the past year in Lebanon, Greece, France and Britain. Robert Gallagher 1. Articles in press a. “The role of grace in Aristotle‟s theory of exchange,” Methexis, forthcoming, 2014.
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b. “Antiphasis as homonym in Aristotle,” History & Philosophy of Logic, forthcoming 2014. c. “An Aristotelian solution to a problem in political economy,” To appear in Ancient Ideas in the Contemporary World, edited by Francisco L. Lisi. d. “On Change and Contradiction in Aristotle,” to appear in Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon, 2014-2015. 2. Work in progress Books a. An Introduction to Aristotelian Political Economy. b. On Contradiction in Aristotle. Article a. Privation as cause (under revision). Hani Hassan Work in progress Working on Ph.D. thesis in Islamic philosophy (Lebanese University): “In Search of Arab-Islamic Philosophy: the concept, its study, and its ‘authenticity’.” Lectures and Conference papers a. Prepared and presented “Seminar on Interactive Lecturing in Large Classes,” organized by the CTL, Nov. 7, 2013. b. Presented and moderated a session on “Self and Event Assessment,” Club Orientation Day, organized by the AUB Office of Student Affairs, Oct. 5, 2013. c. Guest Speaker/Presenter at the Spring semester 2012-2013 ACPS Blended Workshop, Feb. 12, 2013. Maher Jarrar 1. Articles in press a. “The Qur‟ān and the Biography: Exegesis and the Sīra,” Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies, eds. Muhammad Abdel Haleem and Mustafa Shah. b. Three articles: “Sīra,” “Maghāzī,” and “Heaven” for the Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God. Ed. Fitzpatrick, C. and Walker Adam. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2014. c. “Medieval Spanish Literature,” Literature and Literary History in Global Contexts ―A Comparative Project. Blackwell, 2014. d. “Ghulām Khalīl,” Encyclopaedia of Islam 3rd. ed. e. “Al-Diyārbakrī,” Encyclopaedia of Islam 3rd ed. f. “Al-Qādī „Abdaljabbār Über Magie,” Magie im Islam: Zwischen Glaube und Wissenschaft, ed. Ingrid Hehmeyer. 2. Work in progress a. “Home/land in Arabic Literature: a mapping,” An introductory essay to a volume entitled, Visions and Representations of Homeland in Modern Arabic Poetry and
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Prose Literature, eds. Sebastian Günther and Stephan Milich. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. b. Co-editor: “Narrative Matters: Doctors‟ Personal stories with patients,” eds. Thalia Arawi and Maher Jarrar. The Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program, American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center. 3. Lectures and Conference papers a. Lecture at “Liberal Arts Education,” a seminar organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning (AUB), October 24, 2013. b. “Ra‟īf Khūrī wa-l-„Thaqāfa‟,” Mi’awiyyat al-Adīb wa-l-Mufakkir Ra’īf Khūrī, conference organized by al-Majlis al-Thaqāfī li-Lubnān al-Janūbī & al-Haraka al-Thaqāfiyya fī Antelias. Beirut, November 2, 2013. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi 1. Articles in press a. Entries on Arab artists “Jabra Ibrahim Jabra,” “Shakir Hassan Al Said,” and “Yusuf Abdelke” for the Encyclopedia of Arab Modernism, ed. Nada Shabout, London: Routledge. b. Entries on Arab artists “Shakir Hassan Al Said,” “Issam El-Said” for Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. 2. Work in progress Book a. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra: A Life in Literature and Art, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, book proposal accepted. Articles b. “Representations of Baghdad in Ali Bader‟s novel The Tobacco Keeper (Hāris al-tabgh, 2008),” conference paper under revision to be submitted to refereed journal. c. Co-authored with Friederike Pannewick: “Cracks in the Wall: Syrian Literature and Art in Light of Radical Political Change,” conference paper under revision to be submitted to refereed journal. Emily O’Dell 1. Articles in press a. “The History of Ancient Egyptian Friendship,” Journal of Egyptian History (2014). b. “Subversives and Saints: Sufism and the State in Central Asia,” has been submitted for publication in the upcoming book Islam, Society and Politics in Central Asia. c. “The Politics of Peace in Sudan: The First Treaty in History Between Muslims and Christians,” in the upcoming book Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in War and Peace (Routledge, 2014). 2. Work in progress
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Books a. The Contendings of Horus and Seth: Translation, Literary Analysis, & Commentary, Brill 2014. b. Excavating Emotion in Ancient Egypt, Gorgias Press. Articles a. The Religious Politics of Malcolm X & his Sudanese Sheikh. 3. Lectures and Conference papers a. “Mleeta: An Archaeology of Terror or War?," The 19th Annual European Association of Archaeologists; Pilsen (Plzeň) Czech Republic, Fall 2013-2014 b. “Transsexuals, Clones & Gametes: Adjudicating Bodily Difference in Iranian Islamic Jurisprudence,” AUB Conference: Sexual Sovereignty: Citizenship, Governmentality, Territory Conference. c. “Memories of the Mongols at Merv: Surveying Archaeological & Textual Accounts,” The Sixth Worldwide Conference of The Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. d. Lecture at the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature & the Arts and Humanities Initiative: “Subversives and Saints: Sufism and the State in Central Asia,” Thursday 27 February 2014. Richard Saumarez Smith Work in progress a. Socio-economic survey of a town in mid-nineteenth century Punjab. Malek Sharif 1. Articles in press a. “Fleeing Lebanon and Breaking the Law, Emigration and Criminality in late Ottoman Beirut,” in A Lord of many mansions, Denkschrift for Kamal S. Salibi, edited by Abdul Rahim Abu Husayn, Tarif Khalidi and Sulaiman Murad, AUB press, envisaged date of publication: late 2014. b. “Istanbul Sweet and Bitter: Memoirs of an Arab Teenager between 1916 and 1918,” in Istanbul, Kushta, Constantinople: Diversity of Identities and Personal Narratives in the Ottoman Capital (1830-1900), edited by Christoph Herzog and Richard Wittmann, Surrey: Ashgate, envisaged date of publication: late 2014. 2. Work in progress Books a. A social history of medicine and the medical profession in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman empire from the late 18th until the early 20th Century. b. Currently translating and critically editing a memoir of an Arab officer in the Ottoman army during WWI. (Expected date of publication January 2015, negotiations with a publisher are complete) Articles
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a. “East and West Beirut in the late Ottoman period.” (Date of delivery September 2014, in the 3rd meeting of the Tokyo-Beirut Urban Studies Project Human Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Cities. b. “WWI in the memoirs of Arab and Turkish Women.”(Date of delivery November 2014). c. “Reception and local interpretation of municipal laws in 19th century Syria.” (Date of delivery November 2014). d. “Local, Imperial and Global Intersections in the Contemporary Historiography of the Late Ottoman Period,” in The Local Histories of Lebanon Revisited, edited by Mohamed Rihan and Malek Sharif, envisaged date of publication: 2015. 3. Lectures and Conference papers a. “The Ottoman empire and its humanitarian endeavours in the 19th century,” Leibnitz Institute for European History, Mainz, September 30, 2013. b. “The State and the City: Uncovering the early history of the Municipality of Beirut,” The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature, AUB, March 13, 2014. E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Hussein Abdulsater 1. CVSP common lectures CVSP 202: Introduction to Classical Islamic Thought (Fall and Spring) 2. Service a. Reader, M.A. thesis, title: “The Legitimacy of Government Work in Early Shī„ism,” Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. Peter Bornedal Service a. Member, FAS Advisory Committee, 2013-2014. b. Coorganizer CVSP Forum, Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon, American University of Beirut, Beirut (with Prof. N. El Bizri). Nader El Bizri Service a. CVSP Faculty Promotion Committee b. CVSP Core Committee c. Coordinator, CVSP 202 d. Co-organizer CVSP Forum, Practicing Philosophy in Lebanon, American University of Beirut, Beirut (with Prof. Peter Bornedal) e. Coordinator, MA in Islamic Studies
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d. CAMES Steering Committee (acting director, Fall 2013-2014) f. Committee member, Arts & Humanities Initiative g. Director, Anis Makdisi Program in Literature h. Member of the Qur‟anic Studies Search Committee at the Arabic Department j. Jabre Khwarizmi Chair and Directorship Search Committee (chair). k. Taught at CAMES and supervised as well as reader of MA theses in Philosophy and Middle Eastern Studies and Urban Design. Robert Gallagher Service a. Coordinator, CVSP Brown Bag b. Member, University Senate Board of General Education c. Member, University Senate Library Committee d. Member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Library Committee e. Supervisor, Ph.D.: Rafael Pero, University of Navarra, Spain; approved Testina Topic: “On the representability of Aristotle‟s concept of reciprocity” Hani Hassan 1. CVSP Common lectures a. The Enlightenment, CVSP 203 2. Service a. Coordinator, CVSP 203 core committee b. Offered a section of CVSP 202 in “blended course” format (Spring 2012-13) c. Secretary, CVSP general meetings and retreats d. Director of the AUB MEPI – Tomorrow‟s Leaders Program (as of Feb. 2014) e. Faculty advisor, FAS SRC f. Faculty advisor, AUB Communication Club g. Faculty advisor, AUB Human Rights and Peace Club h. Faculty advisor, AUB Latino Dance Club i. Faculty advisor, AUB Museum of Censorship Club j. Host and MC of the WAAAUB Quiz Nights Maher Jarrar Service a. Director, Civilization Sequence Program b. Chair, Arts and Humanities Initiative – Mellon Grant c. Associate editor, Al-Abhath. d. Member, Academic Committee, Zaki Nassif Music Program e. Ph.D. supervisor, Department of Arabic f. Member, Promotion Committee, Department of Arabic g. Advisor, MA Thesis, Department of Arabic
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h. Advisor, MA Thesis, Department of Arabic i. Reader, MA thesis, English Department Sonja Mejcher-Atassi 1. CVSP common lectures CVSP 203: Mary Shelley‟s Frankenstein 2. Service a. Coordinator, CVSP 204 b. Advisor, FAS Freshman and majorless students c. Member, General Education Board d. Advisor/Member of Committee of MA theses: Laura Metzler, “The Trajectory of Lives: DNA and Genetics in the Work of Saloua Raouda Choucair,” CAMES, AUB (Member of Committee), defended 05/05/2014 e. “Political participation and citizenship in cultural practices: A Conversation between Akram Zaatari and Charif Kiwan on ABOUNADDARA (film screening, discussion, workshop),” AUB workshop organized in cooperation with the Arts and Humanities Initiative and the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB, and the School of English, Kent University, 11-12.04.2014 (research, concept, organization) http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/research/commonground/index.html f. Advisor/Member of Committee of PhD theses Felix Lang, “A twofold „imperative to remember‟ – The Lebanese post-war novel,” CNMS, Phillips University Marburg, Germany (member of committee; advisor: Friederike Pannewick), defended 07/03/2014 g. Member, thesis committee : Mathilde Chèvre, Renaissance enfantine : La création arabe en littérature pour la jeunesse depuis 1967, reflet et projet des sociétés (Egypte, Liban, Syrie), Université d‟Aix-Marseille, France (member of committee; advisor: Richard Jacquemond), defended 06/12/2013 h. Reader/Referee for Journal of Arabic Literature, Vienna University, German Research Foundation (DFG) William Merrifield Service a. Coordinator for the PLO‟s CVSP committee. b. Coordinator, taskforce to rethink CVSP structure. c. Designed and conducted CVSP 202 course and lecture surveys. Emily O’Dell a. In the summer of 2013, I did archaeological field-work in Merv, Turkmenistan. I excavated a medieval Islamic bazaar using British archaeological field techniques, and helped to preserve medieval Sufi shrines. I
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also acted as a translator and educator for the Turkmen archaeologists with whom I collaborated. b. In December 2013, I excavated an ancient Nubian temple in Sudan. I also conducted an anthropological project on the Sufi Sudanese workmen on our site, which will be published this summer. I am now trying to organize a field-research project for AUB students in Sudan for next year. Richard Saumarez Smith Service a. Advisor, FAS Majorless students b. Special Student Advisor. c. Chairperson and member, FAS promotion committees. Malek Sharif 1. Common Lecture a. John Locke and his concept of property in its historical context, CVSP 203. 2. Service a. Associate researcher of the Tokyo-Beirut Urban Studies Project “Human Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Cities”, initiated by Prof. Hidemitsu Kuroki, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. b. Affiliated researcher in the project “Europe from the Outside” of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn. Peter Shebay’a Service. a. Assistant director b. Coordinator, CVSP 201 and 205 F. PUBLICATIONS Peter Bornedal a. Winter 2014. Article. “Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization.” In Chiasmatic Encounters; Lexington, New York; p. 169-
184. ISBN 9780739141786. [Eds: Prof. Hugh Silverman & Prof. Kuisma Korhonen, et al]. b. Winter 2014. Article. “On the Institution of the Moral Subject: On the Commander and the Commanded in Nietzsche‟s Discussion of Law.”
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Kriterion vol. 54: Nietzsche and the Kantian Tradition. p. 439-457. ISSN: 0100512x. Brazil, Belo Horisonte [ed. Prof. R. Lopes]. Nader El-Bizri 1. Books Editor of the „Islam Division,‟ Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, eds. Anne Runehov, Lluis Oviedo et al. (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer, 2013), 4 Volumes. Co-editor with A. Bratram and D. Gittens of Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2014). 2. Articles
“Philosophising at the Margins of „Shi‛i Studies‟: Reflections on IbnSi na ,” in The Study of Shi‛i Islam, eds. Farhad Daftary and Gurdofarid Miskinzoda (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014), 585-597.“Foreword,” in Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: On Natural Sciences. Arabic Edition and Annotated English Translation of Epistles 15-21, ed. and trans. Carmela Baffioni (Oxford: Oxford University Press), xvii-xxv.“Variations ontologiques autour du concept d‟angoisse chez Kierkegaard,” in Kierkegaard, notre contemporain, ed. Nicole Hatem (Beyrouth-Copenhagen: Presses universitaires de l‟USJ – Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, 2013), 83-95.“Optics,” in Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer, 2013), 1571-1576. “Islamic Philosophy,” in Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (Dordrecht-Berlin: Springer, 2013), p1657-1666.
“Ta‟ammula t falsafiyya fi al-t abī„a al-insa niyya h awl tada khul al-a khar fi al-dha t,”
al- Mah ajja, Vol. 27 (2013), 85-100.Theodosius‟ Sphaerica: Arabic and Latin translations” (Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Boethius, 62). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010; review in Speculum Vol. 88, issue 4 (2013), 1178-1179. Robert Gallager 1. Articles a. “In defense of moral economy: Marx‟s criticisms of Aristotle‟s theory of value,” Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, 100:1 (2014), 112-129. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi 2. Articles a. “Art and Political Dissent in Post-War Lebanon: Walid Sadek‟s fi annani akbar min picasso [bigger than picasso],” IJMES, 45.3 (2013): 535–60. b. “Dafatir al-fannanīn al-„iraqiyyīn: al-„unf wal-damar fī al-shakl wal- madmūn” (Book art by Iraqi artists: violence and destruction in form and content), in Bidayat, 7 (2014): 73-88. c. “Hans Belting „an Ibn al-Haitham: fann al-nahda wal-„ulum al-„arabiyya,” book review of Hans Belting‟s Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab
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Science, trans. Deborah Lucas Schneider (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011), in Bidayat, 5 (2013): 122–26. Emily O’Dell 1. Books a. The Contendings of Horus and Seth: Translation, Literary Analysis, & Commentary. Leiden: Brill, 2014. b. “Iranian-Russian Cinematic Encounters,” in Empires and Revolution: Iranian-Russian Encounters Since 1800. London: Routledge, 2013. 2. Articles a. “Waging War on the Dead: Necropolitics and Sufi Shrine Destruction in Mali,” in Archaeologies. Richard Saumarez Smith 1. Books a. 2013 (with Martha Mundy), Mülk Siyaseti: Osmanlı Suriyesi’nde hukuk yönetim ve üretim (Turkish translation with revisions of Governing property, making the modern state: Law, administration and production in Ottoman Syria, 2007, Technical editor Yavuz Aykan, translator Süleyman Kızıltoprak), Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 400 pp. 2. Articles a. 2013, “Notes toward a comparison of land registration systems in the
Ottoman and British empires,” in Mehmet Yıldırır and Songül Kadıoǧlu (eds.), International Congress of “The Ottoman geopolitics management of cultural archive heritage and role of land registry archives”, 3 vols., Ankara: Tapu ve
Kadastro Genel Müdürlüǧü, vol 1, 107-114. Malek Sharif Monograph a. Imperial Norms and Local Realities: Ottoman Municipal Laws and the Municipality of Beirut, 1860-1908, Beiruter Texte und Studien, vol. 105. Würzburg: Ergon, 2014. Refereed Encyclopedia Entrees a. An Article on Isamil Hakki Bey in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War (2014). b. An article on Omar al-Daouk in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War (2014). G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
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For some time now CVSP faculty have been proposing a change in the name of the Program: Civilization Studies would replace the current nomenclature. The reason for this is that internationally this would help describe the actual academic situation for our professors. As it stands at present, no one seems to use the term Civilization Sequence in any other university we are familiar with. Moreover, the sequence aspect of our Program has been eroded in FAS with the reduction to only two required courses. In other faculties this has been reduced to zero in some cases. In a previous study by Peter Shebay‟a on the history of the Program, he found that the first recorded name that we have was Department of General Education (known as „GE‟ for many years). It then became Cultural Sequence Program for one academic year, but then by 1966 it had become Cultural Studies Program (known beyond that as „CS‟). The last change came in 1978 when it had adopted the name of Civilization Sequence Program. The new name will be Civilization Studies Program. Instead of organizing the anticipated forum on the topic of humanities education and curricula, some CVSP faculty members participated in two separate activities on the meaning and objectives of liberal education at AUB: 1) A two day seminar organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning; 2) A workshop organized by the Arts and Humanities Initiative “Towards Critical Pedagogy in Liberal Education,” which proposed to reframe the debate on the meaning of liberal education at AUB and its structural conditions through the terms of critical pedagogy and interdisciplinary knowledge production.
In 2014-2015 CVSP will be hosting two experimental courses that were developed by faculty members from AUB and AUC. The teaching partnership between both Universities was instigated by Provost Dallal. Logistics were discussed with Dean Patrick McGreevy of AUB and Dean Nathaniel Bowditch from AUC during the latter‟s visit to AUB in February 2014. The Arts and Humanities Initiative-Mellon Grant has been facilitating the process and coordinating the project. The courses will be cross-listed with other departments on campus and will be taught simultaneously in both Universities. Skype-lectures as well as other methods of co-teaching with technology will be considered; faculty from both Universities will be teaching for three weeks in the other institute. We hope that this will prove to be an impressive experiment which will invigorate the collaboration between our institutes and provide a unique opportunity to embark on new interdisciplinary courses.
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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The department of economics graduated slightly fewer students this year than it did in the past year because of a smaller cohort of entrants to the department three years ago. The number of new economics majors this year however is significantly higher than last year‟s, as is the number of juniors. The enrollment figures show a reversal of the trend of the previous 3 years of decreasing enrollment in the undergraduate program. Enrollment in the graduate program continued to decline this year. The department has also seen an increase in the number of transfer applicants and applicants seeking dual degrees or a double major in Economics in their junior and senior years. The number of students going on semester and year long exchanges abroad continued to increase, as did the number of students taking exchange courses in the summer. The department‟s research output ranged from articles in academic peer-reviewed journals, to chapters in edited volumes. The department‟s recent recruits continue to contribute to the department‟s research output. The department‟s participation in the International Economic Association conference in June of 2014 was one such opportunity for some of the work by junior faculty to be presented at a large international conference. This year also saw the first presentation in the seminar series of collaborative work between a faculty member and a graduate student of the department. The department managed to place some of its students in excellent graduate programs in the UK, France and the US. One of the faculty graduation awards, the Lebanese Renaissance Award, was won by a graduating student in Economics. The department successfully nominated of three of its graduate students to attend a workshop of Nobel Laureates in Economics in Landau, Germany in the summer of 2014 and was able to secure funding for these students to attend. The department was also involved in organizing four events centered around conversations between policy makers, experts and students, including one with the World Bank office in Lebanon, one with the World Bank executive board in Washington DC, one with the International Monetary Fund mission to Lebanon and one with a local economic research association as part of their Know, React and Engage campaign.
The Economics Student Society organized two events aimed at career development: a speed networking in collaboration with the Alumni Association, and a workshop on resume and cover letter writing. The department was also
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involved in another networking event organized by Spain‟s leading business school, Institute Empresa.
Public Lectures, Workshops and Departmental Seminars Series
The department continued its seminar series. This year, the events sponsored and co-sponsored by the department of economics were:
1. “Economic reforms in Palestine: any lessons for Arab spring countries?” Dr. Oussama Kanaan, IMF senior resident representative for Egypt, October 3 2014, 3:30pm. 2. “The power of international reserves: the impossible trinity becomes possible,” Layal Mansour, PhD candidate, University of Lyon 2, October 21 2014, 4:15pm. 3. The Economics Department hosted the launch of the second issue of the Lebanese Economic Monitor by the World Bank, “The Brunt of the Syrian Conflict,” October 31 2013, 2:00pm.
4. “Lebanon and Spain: two economies, one vision,” an event co-sponsored by the alumni association of the Instituto Empresa, the Embassy of Spain and the Department of Economics, December 9 2013, 6:00pm.
5. "EL Inference For Some Classes of Poverty Measures: Constrained Estimation,” Dr. Rami Tabri, Assistant Professor at the University of Sydney, December 18 2014, 12:00pm.
6. “Economic rights in Lebanon: education, employment and cost of living,” a collaboration event with the Lebanese Economic Association as part of the Know, React and Engage campaign, February 26 2014, at 12:00pm. 7. “Is there an optimal size of government for the US states,” Dr. Hossein Radmard, Assistant Professor at AUB, and Seth Caldwell (MA candidate), March 17 2014, 5:00pm.
8. Career speed networking event for Economists, a joint event of the World Alumni Association of AUB, the Economics Students Society and the Department of Economics, March 27 2014, 6:00pm.
9. “Moral economics: reconciling naturalist economics with contemporary ethical theory,” Dr. Ramzi Mabsout, Assistant Professor at AUB, jointly with Bana Bashour, Assistant Professor at AUB, March 31 2014, 5:00pm.
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10. “Loan maturity structure and the actualization of production,” Jamil Shaya, PhD candidate at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, April 14, 2014, 4:30pm.
11. Question and answer session with the IMF mission team to Lebanon, led by Dr. Annalisa Fedelino (IMF Mission Chief) Tuesday April 29, 2014 at 5:00 pm in West Hall's Auditorium B.
12. “Sexual harassment in Lebanese law,” Dr. Ghassan Moukheiber, Dr. Brigitte Khoury, judge Bilal Badr, co-sponsored with Media Studies and Psychology, Monday May 5 2014, 2:00pm.
B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members Neaime, Simon Professor Ph.D. Family name, First name Professor Ph.D.
Michelis, Leonidas Isabella Ruble Nisreen Salti
Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D.
Family name, First name Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Dagher, Leila Assistant Professor Ph.D. Family name, First name Instructor M.A.
Martin, Darius Mabsout, Ramzi
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Ph.D.
Montero Kuscevic, Casto Martin Ramadan, Usamah
Assistant Professor Lecturer
Ph.D. Ph.D.
Makdisi, Samir Professor Emeritus (P.T.) Ph.D.
Sirhan, Ghazi Senior Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D.
Sadaka, Richard Assistant Professor (P.T.) Ph.D.
El-Khalil, Youssef Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D.
Nasser, Yassar Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D.
Bou Nassar, Makram Lecturer (P.T.) Ph.D.
Nahas, Charbel Mora, Nada Abboud, Montaha
Lecturer (P.T.) Lecturer (P.T.) Instructor (P.T.)
Ph.D. Ph.D. M.A.
Alam, Jean-Federic Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Boghossian, Myrna Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
El-Khalil, Iyad Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
El Baba, Nora Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Ghabboura, Yehya Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Jibai, Rania Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
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Kanaan, Maya Rbeiz, Sylvia Kanaan, Niveen
Instructor (P.T.) Instructor (P.T.) Instructor (P.T.)
M.A. M.A. M.A.
Khoury, Nicole Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Makki, Malak Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Majdalani, Joelle Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Mecherkany, Rami Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Nader, Pamela Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Srage, Souraya Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Tabsh, Hala Instructor (P.T.) M.A.
Wehbe, Layal Instructor (P.T.)
M.A.
2. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester Al Dirani, Sara Halawi, Balsam AbdelFattah, Nadine Jaafar, Samar
Caldwell, Seth Karam, Ramzi El Sheikh Taha, Reem Mourad, Jana Gabriel, SoniaLynn Makridis, Christy Hanbali, Marwa Nizam, Nour ElHoda Hassanie, Randa Ohannessian, Shogher Haddad, Joanne Stepan, Ghadi Hammoud, Diala Samia, Elsa
Spring Semester
Al Dirani, Sara Abdelfattah, Nadine Caldwell, Seth El Sheikh Taha, Reem Al Hage, Farah Gabriel, Sonia-Lynn Hanbali, Marwa Hassanie, Randa Haddad, Joanne Hammoud, Dalia
Halawi, Balsam Hatoum Najat Jaafar, Samar Mourad, Jana Makridis, Christy Nizam, Nour ElHoda Nasser, Tarek Ohannessian, Shogher Stepan, Ghadi Samia, Elsa
3. Non-Academic Staff Abou Shakra, Mona Attieh, Silvie
Administrative Assistant Secretary
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C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BA Oct. 2013 10
Feb. 2014 10
Jun. 2014 57
MA Oct. 2013 7
Feb. 2014 4
Jun. 2014 8
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 37
Seniors 74
Juniors 87
Sophomores 122
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 15 109 86 210 211-299 173 1478 1385 3036 200-210 0 51 63 114 100-199 25 109 59 193 Total 213 1747 1593 3553
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 6 24 18 48 211-299 24 180 183 387 200-210 0 6 6 12 100-199 3 15 9 27 Total 33 225 216 474
D. RESEARCH
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1. “A Primer on Estimating Short and Long-Run Elasticities: Energy Sector Applications,” accepted. Co-authored with Dr. John Cuddington. 2. “An investigation of green power elasticities in the USA,” work in progress. Co-authored with Lori Bird and Jenny Heeter (National Renewable Energy Lab). 3. “Willingness-to-pay for green power in Lebanon,” work in progress. Co-authored with Dr. Hassan Harajli (UNDP). 4. “Estimating local Natural Gas demand for Lebanon,” work in progress. Funded by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. Ramzi Mabsout 1. Capability and subjective well-being functioning in Ethiopian households (with Dr. Charlotte Karam) 2. Moral Economics: Reconciling naturalist economics with contemporary ethical theory (with Dr. Bana Bashour) 3. Qualitative methods in economics 4. Capability and mindfulness 5. The non-logical logic of discovery 6. Metaphorical solutions in game theory CastoMartin Montero Kuscevic 1. Inflation volatility and GDP in Bolivia. 2. Ideology, natural resources and growth: The case for Bolivia. Darius Martin 1. “Fluctuations in Relative Ability and the College Premium,” with Yongli Zhang, under review. 2. “A Signaling Model of Conversion Price Reset Policy of Convertible Debt,” with Yongli Zhang, Revision requested from the Pacific Basin Journal of Finance. 3. “Medium-Term Fluctuations in Employment, Schooling, and Output”, with Marek Kapicka, in progress. 4. “General Equilibrium and Welfare Effects of the Minimum Wage,” with Yongli Zhang and Ali Termos, in progress, accepted for oral presentation at the Athenian Policy Forum in Toronto, June, 2014. 5. “Determinants of Securitization: A Bank-Level Analysis,” with Ali Termos and Doug Pearce, in progress. 6. “Rising Inequality and Housing Affordability: International Evidence,” with Ali Termos, accepted for oral presentation at the Multinational Finance Conference in Prague, July 2014.
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7. “Regional Energy Supply in Electricity and Transport,” with Isabella Ruble, funded by the Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources Research Grant. Simon Neaime 1. Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab World: Syria Case Study, Institute of Financial Economics/IDRC Research Project. (With R. Safadi). 2. Sustainability of Budget Deficits and Public Debts in the European Union: A Time Series Analysis, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project, (with L. Michelis). 3. Health Economic Research on the Pharmaceutical Sector in Emerging Markets, 2013-2014. 4. Twin Deficits and the Sustainability of Public Debts and Exchange Rates in Lebanon, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project. Hossein Radmard 1. Religion and Entrepreneurship: A County level Analysis 2. Is There an Optimal Size of Government for US States? 3. Comparative Study of Religion in Constitution: Iran, Turkey and Egypt Isabella Ruble 1. Ongoing on energy pricing. Nisreen Salti 1. Income inequality and the composition of public debt --under review at the Journal of Economic Studies. 2. Food insufficiency and food insecurity as risk factors for disability among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (with Hala Ghattas) --in progress. 3. Beyond the gradient: relative deprivation and self rated health among Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon (with Sawsan Abdulrahim) --in progress. 4. Perceptions of public welfare and political mobilization in the Middle East: preliminary evidence from Egypt and Tunisia (with Melani Cammett) --in progress. 5. Decomposing inequality in the self-rated health of Palestinian women refugees in Lebanon (with Sawsan Abdulrahim) --in progress. 6. On the progressivity of taxes tobacco: an extended cost effectiveness analysis for Lebanon --in progress. E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
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Leila Dagher 1. Invited lecture: “Recent Developments in Lebanon‟s Hydrocarbon Sector”, East Mediterranean Oil and Gas Conference, September 10-11, 2013, Paphos, Cyprus. 2. Invited lecture: “Energy for Sustainable Development: Gender and Energy Issues,” Arab Forum for the Environment and Development Annual Conference, October 28-29, 2013, Sharjah, UAE. 3. Invited lecture: “The Role of Educational Institutions in the Oil and Gas Job Market,” Lebanon International Oil and Gas Summit, December 4-5, 2013, Beirut, Lebanon. 4. Conference presentation: 32nd International Association for Energy Economics conference, Anchorage, AK, July 28-31, 2013. 5. Economics department, seminar coordinator and ECON211 coordinator. 6. Member, Faculty Advisory Committee for the Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World program at the Issam Fares Institute. 7. Member, Senate Student Affairs Committee (spring 2014) 8. Member of the Board and Treasurer, Arab Energy Club. 9. MA thesis adviser for three students. 10. Academic adviser, around 70 undergraduate and graduate students. 11. Referee: International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Energy, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, the Energy Journal, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and AUB IFI. 12. Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory‟s Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, Washington DC (summer 2013). Ramzi Mabsout 1. Freshman adviser 2. Acting chair 3. Coordinator of Econ 211. 4. Chair of the committee to revise Econ 211 and Econ 212. 5. Member of the committee of the Master in Public Policy and International Affairs. Casto Martin Montero Kuscevic 1. Program Learning Outcome (chair) 2. Acting chair of the Econ department. 3. Co-coordinator for Econ 212. 4. Committee member for two theses. Simon Neaime
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1. Invited by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to participate as Panelist in an Expert Meeting on the Impact and Implications of the Global Financial and Economic Crises on Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland 3-6 February 2014. 2. Presented the Syria Case study (with R. Safadi) in an International Conference on Deconstructing Arab Transitions: Regional Overview and Case Studies, Institute of Financial Economics, AUB, November 8-9, 2013. 3. Invited by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly as Key Note Speaker to give a talk on the Fiscal Crisis of the State in the MENA Region, in a Seminar on the Political and Security Changes in North Africa: Implications for Peace and Cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean and Transatlantic Regions, Marrakesh, Morocco, April 3-5, 2013. 4. Invited by the Economic Research Forum to participate in its 17th Annual Conference, March 3-5, 2013 Kuwait City, Kuwait. Chaired a session on Macroeconomic Developments in the MENA Region and attended the Economic Research Forum Advisory Committee Meeting, March 2, 2013. 5. Invited by the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, US, to present two papers on the Economies of the Middle East, February 4-7, 2013. 6. External Reviewer for the promotion of Assistant Professor Lester Henri who was considered for promotion to the rank of Associate Professor at the University of the West Indies‟ Economics Department in 2013. 7. External Reviewer for the Hashemite University of Jordan for the promotion of Professor Arqam El-Ribbaie to the rank of Associate Professor in 2013. 8. External Reviewer for the University of Jordan for the promotion of Professor Mohammad A. Alawin to the rank of Full Professor in 2014. 9. Anonymous Refereeing: I reviewed eight manuscripts on behalf of eight international journals in Economics and Financial Economics and submitted my referee reports to the editors of the journals. 10. Participated in the department hiring committee for the appointment of a Full-Professor in the Finance track at the Olayan School of Business, 2014. 11. Participated in the Management Track of the Olayan School of Business for a promotion case to the rank of Full-Professor in 2014. 12. Participated in the Finance Track of the Olayan School of Business for a promotion case to the rank of Associate Professor in 2014. 13. Director, Institute of Financial Economics, 2013-2014. 14. Member of the Economics Department Graduate Committee, 2013-2014. 15. Acting Chair, Economics Department Curriculum Committee, 2013-2014. 16. Graduate Comprehensive Exams: Macroeconomics, 2013 2014. 17. Sustainability of Budget Deficits and Public Debts in the European Union: A Time Series Analysis, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project. Paper to be presented at the The 12th Biennial Athenian Policy Forum Conference on: “Economic and Financial Asymmetries, National Debts and Government Policies.” Ryerson, University, Toronto Canada, June 12-15, 2014.
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18. Theses and Projects Supervision as Main Advisor:
Bachir El Khoury (2013), The Economic Dimension of the Arab Uprisings. Nour Kanso (2013), The Impact of the Greek Crisis on the Euro, the Euro Zone, and the Global Markets. Myra Bizri (2013), Euro Zone: A Successful Monetary Union Needs to be Part of a Fiscal and Political Union Lana El Tabch (2013) Twenty Years of Monetary Policy in Lebanon (1993-2012): Impact of the Exchange Rate Based Stabilization on Economic Performance. Ghania Ezzedine (2013), The European Debt crisis and its Implications: Case of Italy and Spain. Sanaa Lahoud (2013), The Inflation Risk in the Insurance Industry. Mohammad El-Dirani (2013), Corporate Governance: An Empirical Approach. Roland Desmesropian (2013), The Economic Determinants of the Price of Gold. Cyril Finan (2013), The Crowding out of the Greek Banking Sector by Sovereign Rakel Kendirjian, (2013) Greek Debt Crisis: Causes, Implication and Course of Action for Eurozone‟s Biggest Economic Challenge Abeer Taher (2013), The Debt Crisis in the UAE: Explaining the Causes Dana El Katerji, (2013), Big Banks: To Bail or to Fail? Mohammad Chami, (2013), BRICS – The Rising Power Michel Jaklis (2013), The Emerging Markets Before and After the Financial Crisis. Gisele Nacouzi (2014) Managing Liquidity Trap: Policy interactions and perspectives from the US and Japan. Abdel Rahim Ayoubi (2014) Facebook's IPO Fiasco. Khaled Maher (2014), Lebanon and the Arab Spring. Najat Hatoum (2014), Growth and unemployment in the MENA Region: A Missing Link Nadine Yamout (2014), The Interaction Between Remittances, Real Exchange Rates, And Financial Sector Development: The Case of Labor Exporting MENA Countries. Nadine Abdel Fattah (2014), The Spillover Effects of the Syrian Crisis on Lebanon‟s Economy: A Cross Border Analysis between Jordan and Turkey. Sarah Al-Dirani (2014), How Did Policy Response and Resilience Aid the Emerging Economies in the MENA Region to Cope with the Global Crisis. Hossein Radmard 1. Thesis committee member for student Joanne Haddad 2. Member of departmental PLO committee Isabella Ruble 1. Creation of the Lebanese Affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics, President.
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Nisreen Salti 1. Conference presentation: “Perceptions of public welfare and political mobilization in the Middle East: preliminary evidence from Egypt and Tunisia,” with Melani Cammett, presentation on the workshop on “The Pulse of the Arab Street,” Economic Research Forum, Harvard University, April 3-4, 2014. 2. Conference presentation: “On the progressivity of increasing taxes on tobacco: an extended cost effectiveness analysis for Lebanon,” Aix-Marseille School of Economics, AMSE-SESSTIM 2nd annual symposium, on health economics, Marseille, France, April 3, 2014. 3. Conference presentation: “Beyond the gradient: relative deprivation and self-rated health,” with Sawsan Abdulrahim, 5th Annual Lancet Palestinian Health Alliance Conference, Amman, Jordan, March 17-18, 2014. 4. Workshop trainer: “The Political Economy of Development,” a workshop of the American Political Science Association-MENA, June 3-9, 2014, Tunis, Tunisia. 5. Workshop trainer: “Linking public health and sustainable development: success stories in non-communicable disease,” Workshop of the Emerging Leaders Conference, World Youth Alliance and the Outreach and Practice Unit of Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, December 7, 2013. 6. First reader on two thesis committees and one project committee. 7. Member of the faculty taskforce on salary and compensation adjustment. F. PUBLICATIONS Leila Dagher 1. Dagher, L., El Hariri, S., 2013. The impact of global oil price shocks on the Lebanese stock market. Energy 63, 366-374. Ramzi Mabsout 1. Review of Social Economy. 2014. Bringing ethics back to welfare economics. Casto Martin Montero Kuscevic 1. “Financial De-dolarization in Bolivia” (In Spanish), with Marco del Río, forthcoming, Estudios Económicos. (2014) vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 3-25. 2. “Convergence in Bolivia: A spatial dynamic panel approach” (In Spanish), with Marco del Río, Revista de Economía del Rosario. (2013) vol. 16, No.2, pp.67-89.
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Simon Neaime 1. Foreign Currency Borrowing in Emerging Markets: When Commercial Banks Intermediate Dollars, Journal of Banking and Finance, Elsevier, Vol. 37(3), pp. 1093-1107, 2013, (With N. Mora, and S. Aintablian). 2. Foreign Shocks and International Cost of Equity Destabilization: Evidence from the MENA region, Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, Vol. 18, pp. 101–122, 2014, (With T. Lagoarde, and A. Guyot). 3. An Analysis of the Mobile Telephone Sector in MENA: Potential for Deregulation and Privatization, Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, Vol. 32, pp. 1-14, 2014, Elsevier. (with S. Hakim). Isabella Ruble 1. Khodr, H. and Ruble, I., „Energy Policies and Domestic Politics in the MENA Region in the Aftermath of the Arab Upheavals: The cases of Lebanon, Libya and KSA‟, Politics & Policy, (2013), Vol. 41, Issue 5, pp. 656-689. Nisreen Salti 1. “The economics of tobacco in Lebanon: an estimation of the social costs of tobacco consumption,” with Jad Chaaban and Nadia Naamani, Substance Use and Misuse, 1-8, 2014. 2. “Disability and food insufficiency in the Palestinian refugee population in Lebanon: a household survey,” with Nuha Nuwayri-Salti and Hala Ghattas, (abstract) The Lancet online, Volume 382, Page S31, December 2013. 3. “The effect of taxation on tobacco consumption and government revenue in Lebanon,” with Jad Chaaban, Rima Nakkash and Hala Alaouie, Tobacco Control, online first, June 20, 2013, doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2012-050703. G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The department of economics will continue its internal evaluation process of its large introductory classes (Economics 211 and 212) and has started instituting changes in various aspects of the courses, ranging from classroom technology, to updating test banks, and a more suitable scheduling process for midterm and final exams. Other curricular developments include the continued offering of special topics seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels which tap into a rich pool of specialized economists and professionals in the country who can bring their expertise and experience in a specialized field to the classroom.
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One of the department‟s faculty members has also been asked to author a chapter in the upcoming Arab Human Development Report, which is a seminal publication in the world of development and public policy in the region and internationally. By initiating contact and collaboration with the World Wide AUB Alumni Association, the department has started a series of events centered on bringing department alumni back in touch with the department‟s faculty and current students. This initiative will likely lead to more career and professional events for students in the future involving alums in mid-career. The department is also working with the consulate of Ecuador on organizing an event around the development accomplishments of Ecuador next year. The department has been more proactive in encouraging and facilitating the participation of students in regional and international workshops and conferences, and it will continue to do so. It has also started to integrate the seminar series more closely with its graduate program by involving graduate assistants, in a first instance, to attend and participate more actively in the lectures and seminars organized by the department. Nisreen Salti Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The number of majors averaged across the fall and spring semesters were as follows: BA (41), Teaching Diploma (17+), Prospective Graduates (4), and Graduates (56). Enrollment in education courses for fall and spring semesters was 1024 for undergraduate courses, 99 for graduate courses, and 80 for the summer 2013 term. In addition, 46 students were registered for theses and projects during fall and spring, Total enrollment in graduate and undergraduate courses was 1249. The program learning outcomes are: 1. Compose texts competently in a variety of genres valued in the field of
education. 2. Engage in reading a variety of different kinds of texts used in the field of
education. 3. Discuss critically different kinds of texts used in the field of education. 4. Articulate the historical, social and philosophical foundations of the field of
Education as a process and as an institution. 5. analyze models and processes of policy formation and dissemination 6. Demonstrate a commitment to educational reform and improvement. 7. From the perspective of development from childhood through adolescence,
students should relate psychological concepts and principles to teaching and learning processes.
8. Apply psychological concepts and principles to in a learning environment. 9. Demonstrate knowledge of the content in their field of specialization. 10. Demonstrate pedagogical-content knowledge in their field of specialization. 11. Demonstrate knowledge of various tools and methods of inquiry in their
area of specialization. 12. analyze key issues and current frameworks for curriculum design in general
and in the field of specialization 13. demonstrate competence in designing and carrying out classroom instruction 14. Critically reflect on their own practice and the practice of others on an
ongoing basis. 15. Use their reflections to improve their future practice. 16. Demonstrate awareness to educational issues in the community. 17. Demonstrate commitment to community service. 18. Students will commit to professional development and lifelong learning
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19. Students will demonstrate openness to multiple perspectives on educational issues
20. Students will conduct themselves according to the values and ethics of the profession at all times
21. Students will identify and connect to the larger community of professional educators
22. Students will develop an appropriate level of commitment and a professional attitude toward teaching
B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members
Full time Faculty Al-Hroub, Anies Amin, Tamer
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Ph.D. Ph.D.
Bashshur, Munir Professor Ph.D. Baytiyeh, Hoda Assistant Professor Ph.D. BouJaoude, Saouma Professor Ed.D. BouZeineddine, Amal Lecturer Ed.D. El-Hassan, Karma Associate Professor Ph.D. El-Mouhayar, Rabih Assistant Professor Ph.D. Ghaith, Ghazi Professor Ph.D. Jurdak, Murad Professor Ph.D. Karami Akkari, Rima Assistant Professor Ed.D. Khamis, Vivian Associate Professor Ph.D. Khishfe, Rola Associate Professor Ph.D. Vlaardingerbroek, Barend Associate Professor Ph.D. Part-Time Faculty Abou Moussa, Richard Awada, Ghada
Lecturer Lecturer
Ph.D. Ph.D.
Al-Amin, Adnan Lecturer Ph.D. Baasiri, Lutfieh Instructor B.A. Bachour, Najla Bendak Baltaji, Lama
Lecturer Instructor
Ph.D. M.A.
Deeb, Reem Hout, Hanin Ghussayni, Raouf
Lecturer Lecturer Lecturer
Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D.
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Ibrahim, Lina Najm, Carla Osman, Enja
Instructor Instructor Instructor
(Coordinator of Practice Teaching)
M.A. B.A. M.A.
Ramadan Jreidini, Najwa
Lecturer Ph.D.
2. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester Al Sayegh, Hanin Jammoul, Abeer Jumah, Manal Shehab, Noha
Ghazal, Ihsan Dbaibo, Hadeel Attar, Wassim Moukarzel, Christine
Spring Semester Al-Sayegh, Hanin Jammoul, Abeer Jumah, Manal Shehab, Noha Shaheen, Noura El-Helou, Maria Badreddine, Diala
Dbaibo, Hadeel Attar, Wassim Moukarzel, Christine Iskandar Baba, Aline Shehab, Sara Yamout, Nisreen Baassiri, Mariam
3. Non-Academic Staff Kashou‘ Kabalan, Leila Administrative Assistant To‘meh, Munir Department Messenger
SMEC El-Oud, Nahed SMEC Secretary Hilu, Hanna SMEC Assistant Technician
C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BA Oct. 2012 1 Feb. 2014 5 June 2014 11 TD Oct. 2013 3
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Feb. 2014 8 June 2014 19 MA Oct. 2013 - Feb. 2014 3 June 2014 6
2. Number of Majors Summer
2013 Fall 2013-2014
Spring 2013-2014
Graduates - 54 59 Prospective Graduates
- 4 4
Teaching Diploma 1 21 13 Seniors 1 16 16 Juniors 8 13 11 Sophomores 5 16 10
* Many students are presently completing the Teaching Diploma along with the Bachelors degree. During the academic year 2013-2014, many students completing Bachelor‘s degrees were enrolled in the science, English, and math methods and practicum courses, courses that are required for completing a Teaching Diploma.
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Summer 2013
1st Sem.
2nd Sem.
Total
Courses numbered 300 and above
- 47 52 99
Courses numbered 211 through 299
80 482 542 1104
Thesis and projects
1 25 20 46
Total 81 554 614 1249
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4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Summer 2012
1st Sem.
2nd Sem.
Total
Courses numbered 300 and above
3 24 21 48
Courses numbered 211 through 299
21 99 111 474
Thesis and projects
- 150 60 210
Total 24 273 192 489
D. RESEARCH Anies Al-Hroub I am currently working on two research projects: 1. ―Metacognition and Problem Solving Strategies among Mathematically
Gifted Students in the UK‖ [funded by the British Academy, UK, 2010-2014, amount: 6,150GBP], and
2. ―Quality of Education for Palestinians in Lebanon‖, [recently funded by the Welfare Association 2014, amount: $19,400].
Huda Baytiyeh 1. Assessment of students‘ knowledge, awareness and preparedness to
earthquake disasters 2. The integration of critical thinking in education to reduce extremism and
man-made disasters 3. Assessment of teachers‘ use of technology in the Lebanese public high
schools Saouma BouJaoude 1. Saouma BouJaoude, Murad Jurdak and Dr. Rima Karami. From research
to practice: making a difference in the classroom: $1,000,000, 4-Year research grant from the Arab Thought Foundation (2010-2014)
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2. Ghazi Ghaith and Saouma BouJaoude. Capacity Development of Faculties of Education in International approaches to teacher education: 85,366.54 Euros Tempus grant on (2012-2015).
Tamer Amin 1. Currently co-editing a special issue of the International Journal of Science
Education entitled, ―Conceptual metaphor and embodied cognition in science learning.‖
2. Completed a historical review of the last four decades of research on conceptual change in collaboration with Carol Smith, University of Massachusetts, Boston and Marianne Wiser, Clark University.
Karma El-Hassan 1. Worked on a proposal to investigate impact of college on university
students. Will be taking USAID students as an initial sample to investigate added value and impact of university education on their cognitive, personal, and interpersonal development. Research will start in 2014.
Rabih El-Mouhayar Papers/Ongoing Research: 1. El-Mouhayar, R., and Jurdak, M. (Under revision. The manuscript was
submitted to International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education). Strategy use, approach and development in pattern generalization tasks across grade level.
2. El Mouhayar, R. Teachers‘ justifications of student responses in pattern generalization tasks
3. El Mouhayar, R. Impact of teacher intervention on student generalization in pattern generalization. This study is funded by a grant from the University Research Board at the American University of Beirut for two years: 2012-2013 and 2013-2014.
Ghazi Ghaith 1. My current research focuses on the effects of using technological tools on
the acquisition of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) skills and on decreasing language apprehension and school alienation.
Murad Jurdak 1. Teachers‘ knowledge of students‘ thinking in pattern generalization (with
Rabih El- Mouhayar).
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2. Development of student reasoning in pattern generalization across grade levels (with Rabih El- Mouhayar).
Rima Karami Akkary Boujaoude, S., Jurdak, M., and Karami-Akkary, R. (2010-2014). From research to practice: making a difference in the classroom (Part II), a four year ($1,000,000.00) research grant in Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. Vivian Khamis 1. Khamis, V. (2013).The Mediating Effects of Child Strengths and Hopes on
Academic Achievement for Palestinian Children Exposed to Armed Conflict. International Journal of School and Educational Psychology. 1, 112–121. DOI:10.1080/21683603.2013.801005 804468).
2. Khamis, V. (2013). Gender Responses to Psychological Distress among Palestinians: Risk and Protective Factors. British Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12036.
3. Khamis, V. (2013). Stressors, Family Environment and Coping Styles as Predictors of Educational and Psychosocial Adjustment in Children. Educational Studies,39, 371–384, DOI:10.1080/03055698.2013.767185.
4. Khamis, V. (2013). Psychosocial adjustment in siblings of Palestinian children with war-related injuries. International Journal of Special Education, 28, 69-78.
Papers under Review: 1. Khamis, V. The mediating role of coping with war trauma on psychological
distress in children from Gaza Strip 2. Khamis, V. Bullying among school age children in Lebanon: Risk and
Protective Factors. 3. Does a parent‘s psychological distress mediate the relationship between war
trauma and psychosocial adjustment in Palestinian children? 4. Khamis, V. (In progress). War, religiosity, ideology and PTSD in the middle
east. In V R Preedy (Ed.), The Comprehensive Guide to Post-traumatic Stress Disorders. Springer.
Grants received: 1. Consultant for Gaza Community Mental Health Programme to conduct
research on ―Long-Term Psychological Effects of the last Israeli Offensive on Gaza on Palestinian Children and Parents‖. (Amount USD 21,000)
Review of articles: 1. Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF); 5 proposals in 2012 and 2013 2. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (1)
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3. Transcultural Psychiatry (1) 4. Social Science & Medicine (2) 5. Child Development (1) 6. International Journal of School and Educational Psychology(4) 7. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, Sultan Qaboos University
(6) 8. Quality of Life Research(1) 9. Journal of Peace Research(1) 10. Child and Adolescent Mental Health (1)
Rola Khishfe 1. Nature of Science and Argumentation in the Context of Socioscientific
Issues: Designing a Teacher Professional Development Model. Funding: Excellence Center for Science and Mathematics Education, King Saud University.
Barend Vlaardingerbroek 1. Australian university students‘ knowledge and understanding of microscopy.
E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
Anies Al-Hroub In 2013-14, I was involved in a number of major tasks at the Department, Faculty and University levels. At the Department level, I was appointed as: 1. Chair of the Education Program Review Committee, and 2. Chair Curriculum and Examination Committee (CEC). 3. Both committees are responsible of providing recommendations to the
Department with regards to the development of the undergraduate, diploma and graduate programs. Here please find a summary of my service accomplishments:
4. The Department of Education Program Review: I have drafted the Program Review Report that was endorsed by the Department in December 2013.
5. Drafting a proposal to restructure the special education diploma program. The proposal was discussed by the CEC and approved by the Department of Education and the FAS Curriculum Committee. In this proposal, we have extended the program to include a track on ―the education of the gifted and talented children‖. The program was introduced in the fall of 2013-2014.
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6. I served as a member of the promotion committee of Dr. Hoda Baytiyeh. 7. At the university level, I served as a member in a number of important
committees/boards, such as: 8. Member, the SBS-IRB, 9. Member, Advisory Committee of the MasterCard Foundation Scholars
Program Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), 10. Member, Advisory Committee of the IFI Policy and Governance in
Palestinian Refugee Camps, and 11. Senator, the University Senate, Spring 2013-14. 12. In addition, I presented a paper in the World Conference for Gifted and
Talented Children in Louisville-Kentucky, Aug 2013. The paper focused on the Cognitive Characteristics of Mathematically Gifted with learning Disabilities.
I continue to serve as editorial board member to the Gifted Child Quarterly, and a consulting editor to the Journal of International Association of Special Education, and a reviewer to a number of international journals (e.g. International Journal of Educational Development, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, International Review of Education, Educational Research and Review, the Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies). I am a member of national and international professional bodies and associations in the field of special educational needs, gifted education and cognitive development, and a member of the advisors committee for the UNRWA Scholarships. Tamer Amin Organized symposium entitled ―Conceptual metaphor and embodied cognition in science learning‖ at the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Cyprus, September 2-7, 2013. Prepared proposal for teaching diploma in secondary and middle school science teaching for Princess Nora University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Participated in design and preparation of training materials for the training or trainers in the teaching of secondary chemistry integrating ICT as part of D-Rasati II (project for educational reform in Lebanon‘s official schools. In collaboration with the Education Students Society, organized the 20th Annual Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair for students K-12. Chaired the 16th Annual Science and Mathematics Educators Conference. Served on a number of departmental, faculty and university committees including chairing the FAS Graduate Studies Committee.
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1. Launching the Earthquake Preparedness Initiative (EPI) under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2. Constructing the Website for the EPI http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/epi/Pages/index.aspx
Saouma BouJaoude Presentations: 1. Saouma BouJaoude, Rola Khishfe & Sahar Alameh (2014). Changes in teachers’
classroom practices and students’ perceptions of science resulting from participating in continuous professional development program. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 30 – April 2.
2. Sahar Alameh & Saouma BouJaoude (2014). The impact of using computers as cognitive tools on grade 10 lebanese students’ attitudes and conceptual understanding in physics. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 30 – April 2.
3. Enja Osman & Saouma BouJaoude (2014). Using learning progressions to enhance Lebanese students’ understanding of complex genetic concepts. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 30 – April 2.
4. Sara Salloum & Saouma BouJaoude (2014). The use of triadic dialogue in the science classroom: bilingual science teaching and learning in test-driven
environments. Paper presented in a symposium on Science Teaching— Middle and High School (Grades 5-12): Characteristics and Strategies held at the annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 30 – April 2.
5. Role Khishfe, Saouma, BouJaoude & Sahar Alameh (2013). Examining relationships among Lebanese students‘ conceptions of and attitudes toward science, career choices, religious affiliations and gender. Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Nicosia, Cyprus, Sept. 2-7, 2013.
6. Nada Radwan, & Saouma BouJaoude (2013). Reading to learn from science textbooks: Problems faced by students studying science in a foreign language. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Nicosia, Cyprus, Sept. 2-7, 2013
7. Saouma BouJaoude, Rola Khishfe & Sahar Alameh (2013). Effect of a PD program on teachers‘ classroom practices and students‘ perceptions. Paper
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presented at the Biennial Conference of the European Science Education Research Association, Nicosia, Cyprus, Sept. 2-7, 2013.
8. Saouma BouJaoude & Amal BouZeineddine (2013). Faculty Members’ and Department Chairs’ Perceptions about the Program Learning Assessment Process: The Case of the American University of Beirut. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, Ohio, November 21-24, 2013.
9. Saouma BouJaoude (2013). Christian and Muslim Teachers and Students' Views of the Theory of Evolution: Implications for Science and Higher Education. Keynote address presented at the 33rd Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching. Oxford, Ohio, November 21-24, 2013.
10. Saouma BouJaoude (2013). Science Education in the Arab Countries at the pre-college level: Current Status and future prospects. Paper presented at the 9th annual conference of TWAS ARO on Science & Technology for Sustainable Development in the Arab Region. Alexandria, Egypt, December 29-30, 2013.
11. Saouma BouJaoude (2014). Promoting and sharing research: Challenges for Middle East researchers and educators. Keynote presented at the conference on Building Academic Research Capacity organized by the Institute of International Education. Erbil, Iraq, February 3-5, 2014.
12. Saouma BouJaoude (2014). Relationship between religious affiliation and acceptance of biological evolution in Lebanon and Egypt. Lecture presented at a forum organized by the Association for the Study of Mind (ASOM) and the Education Forum at AUB. Beirut, February 10, 2014.
13. Saouma BouJaoude (2014) Promoting and supporting high quality teaching and learning at AUB. Presentation at the lecture series of the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies. Beirut, March 7, 2014.
14. Reine Khoury, Saouma BouJaoude, Daniel Favre & Fadi El Hage (2014). Étude de la relation entre les conceptions des enseignants universitaires de sciences concernant la science, leurs pratiques pédagogiques en classe et les conceptions de leurs
étudiants concernant la science: Une approche méthodologique mixte. Paper presented
at the 20th International Science Conference of the Lebanese Association for
the Advancement of Science. Beirut, March 27-29, 2014.
Service to the Department: 1. Member of the Departmental Review Committee 2. Member of the Practice Teaching Committee Service to the University: 1. Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning 2. Institutional Assessment Committee 3. AUB Teaching Excellence Award Committee (Co-Chair)
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4. Coordinator of the D-RASATI Project 5. Consultant on REP projetcs Service to the Profession: 1. Member of the International Committee of the National Association for
Research in Science Teaching, USA 2. Member of the International Advisory Committee for the implementation of
Saudi Arabia K-12 Education Reform Strategy, KSA 3. Member of the Executive Board of the Eurasian Society of Educational
Research 4. Member of the Executive Committee of the Supreme Education Council,
State of Qatar. 5. Member of the Joint Advisory Board of the National Center for Educator
Development, Qatar University, Qatar 6. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the McGill Journal of
Education (MJE) 7. Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Educational and
Psychological Studies, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University. 8. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Biology
Education (IJOBED). 9. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Excellence
in Education. 10. Member of the editorial board of the Journal on Excellence on College
Teaching, Miami University, Ohio, USA 11. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Science and
Math Education 12. Member of the editorial board of the Eurasia Journal of Physics and
Chemistry Education. 13. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of
Environmental and Science Education (IJESE). 14. Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Science Teacher
Education. 15. Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of
Excellence in Education. 16. Member of the editorial board of the Eurasia Journal of Math,
Science, and Technology Education. 17. Consulting editor for the International Review of Education, Edited by the
UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany 18. Reviewer for Journal of Science Teacher Education, Journal of
Research in Science Teaching, School Science and Mathematics Journal, Science Education, Electronic Journal of Science Education, Electronic
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Journal of Literacy Through Science, Acta Chimica Slovenica, and Science books and films.
19. Member in the following associations in the USA: National Association for Research in Science Teaching, National Science Teachers Associations, School Science and Mathematics Association, Association for Science Teacher Education, and American Educational Research Association.
20. Member of the European Science Education Research Association. 21. Member of the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, Lebanon
Service the Community: 1. Member of the Board of Trustees of Al Ahliah School, Beirut, Lebanon 2. Member of the Board of Governors, Brummana High School, Brummana, Lebanon.
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1. April 2014, presented in OECD Conference on Quality Teaching on ‗Strategies to Measure Teaching Effectiveness‘. Paris, France.
2. April 2014, Facilitated a seminar session in AUB‘s Faculty Seminar on ‗Assessment‘.
3. March 2014, participated in EU Seminar on Quality Assurance in Higher Education at request of MOHE. Brussels.
4. March 2014, Presented in World Bank Workshop on Governance in Higher education on ‗Benchmarking University Governance: Lebanon Results‘.
5. February 2014, participated in MENA AIR Annual Meeting in Al Ain UAE and chaired panel on rankings and developing a data sharing system for Arab Region.
6. December 2013, presented in Hariri Foundation Conference on Innovative Practices in Education on ‗Modern Educational Assessment Practices‘.
7. Commissioned by Education Development Project, MOEHE Lebanon, to review, validate and develop a framework for the Criteria of Effective Schools document, November 2013,
8. As a member of the National Task Force for Governance in Higher Education, engaged in several activities. In this capacity facilitated and presented in workshops on 'Lessons Learned from Benchmarking University Governance in Lebanon, November 2013' , ‗Lebanon Report, March 2014‘ and ‗AUB Action Plan, May 2014‖ sponsored by MOEHE and World Bank.
9. As UNESCO Consultant 10. As part of SABER project, commissioned to write assessment report on
Libya, July 2013.
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11. Consultant for Lebanon on Global Monitoring Report Evaluation Study, February 2014. Conducted a study evaluating the GMR.
12. Invited by UNDP to discuss and review the 2013 Arab Knowledge Report, November 2013.
13. Worked on several REP projects: 14. Academic Coordinator of the Princess Noura University (PNU) Project,
Riyadh, February 2013- Present. 15. PNU Faculty of Education Coordinator in charge of evaluating/revising
teacher training programs, February 2013-Present. 16. In 2013-14, reviewed the following manuscripts 17. Several manuscripts to Association of Institutional Research (AIR) Annual
Meetings. 18. One manuscript to Qatar Foundation (QNRF). 19. Supervised four MA theses at AUB, still working on one PhD thesis at
Lebanese University and one at St. Joseph University. 20. Served on several departmental, faculty and university committees. Rabih El-Mouhayar Research Activities:
1. Reviewed a manuscript entitled ―Investigating the primary teachers‘
knowledge for teaching geometry‖ استقصاء المعرفة الرياضية الالزمة لتدريس"
." العلوم التربوية " for the journal الهندسة لدى معلمي المرحلة االبتدائية"2. Reviewed a manuscript entitled ―"Examining Technology Adoption by
Mathematics Professors," for Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME).
3. Reviewed 2 research proposals for the conference on ―Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education‖ at the American University of Beirut and organized by CTL.
Conferences: 1. El Mouhayar, R., & Jurdak, M. (2013). Development of student level of
reasoning associated with strategy use in pattern generalization. Short Oral Communication presented at the 37th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Kiel, Germany
Workshops and Materials Development: 1. El Mouhayar, R., & Osta, I. (Academic year 2013-2014). Developing training materials and ICT curriculum - mathematics (trainer and participant manuals) for D-RASATI II: ICT Curriculum and Material Development 2. El Mouhayar, R. (Fall 2013). Conducted TLCs (Teacher Learning Circles)
observation field visits. Scope of Work: (1) Conducted observation visits to
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selected schools for follow-up on TLCs field implementation; (2) Submitted one report per visit; (3) Attend preparation meetings.
3. El Mouhayar, R. (Fall 2013). Conducted a 3-day workshop (Teacher Learning Circles: TLC-Math) with the D-RASATI Project to train the secondary and intermediate grade level trainers and members of the Guidance and Counseling Department of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The scope of work included: Preparing and conducting a three day workshop
4. Murad Jurdak, Ghazi Ghaith, Tamer Amin and Rabih El Mouhayar (Fall 2013). Prepared a preliminary draft of a working document on the implementation of the Teaching Diploma program at Princess Noora Bint Abdelrahman University in Saudi Arabia. The scope of work included introducing a comprehensive work plan for the Teaching Diplomas.
5. Murad Jurdak and Rabih El Mouhayar (Academic year 2013-2014). Finalize a proposal for a Teaching Diploma in Math Education for Princess Noora Bint Abdelrahman University in Saudi Arabia.
6. Rabih El Mouhayar and Jamilah Mugharbil (Spring 2013-2014). Conducted a two-hour development workshop titled ―Using Patterns to Promote Students‘ Algebraic Reasoning‖ at the American University of Beirut‘s 16th Annual Science and Math Educators Conference (SMEC 16) with research assistant Jamilah Mugharbil. In-service and pre-service math teachers from grades 4-12 attended the workshop.
7. Rabih El Mouhayar (Spring 2013-2014). Conducted a two-hour development workshop at the Armenian schools as part of a Professional development day. The purpose of the workshop was to explore how pattern generalization can promote students' problem-solving skills and algebraic thinking.
8. Rabih El Mouhayar and Jamilah Mugharbil (Spring 2013-2014). Conducted four professional development workshops of approximately two hours each at the American University of Beirut with research assistant Jamilah Mugharbil. These workshops aimed at equipping math teachers with the knowledge and skills to integrate pattern generalization in their algebra curricula. Scope of the professional development: Session 1) introducing the importance of pattern generalization in enhancing algebraic reasoning and solving numeric and figural pattern tasks; Session 2) exploring different student strategies and approaches of pattern tasks by analyzing samples of student work; Session 3) discussing pedagogical aspects of patterns by
analyzing a video transcription of a real-life classroom discussion of a pattern task in grade 7; and Session 4) designing a lesson plan which incorporates patterns in an already existing algebra lesson.
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Committees and other activities 1. Member of the General Education Board. Evaluated several GE courses in
FAS for recertification as GE courses 2. Evaluated several GE courses in FAS for recertification as GE courses 3. Advisor of the Education Student Society 4. Liaison between the Department of Education and the Library 5. Member of Curriculum and Examination committee in the Department of
Education 6. Member of Practice Teaching Committee in the Department of Education 7. Advisor for TD elementary education Math/Science 8. Co-Advisor of Master‘s thesis proposals of one student in math education 9. Member of several thesis proposals committees
Ghazi Ghaith 1. Developed proposals, training materials, and instructional materials at the
request of the Office of Regional and External Programs, REP. 2. Acted as Principal Coordinator of the Tempus Grant Capacity
Development of Faculties of Education in International Approached to Teacher Education (CDFE).
3. Chaired the Department of Education Murad Jurdak 1. Student advisor, Teaching Diploma in Mathematics Education 2. Student advisor, MA in mathematics education 3. Member of the Department of Education Practice Teaching Committee 4. Member of FAS Advisory Committee 5. Member of executive committee and secretary of the BOT of Marj‘ayoun
National College 6. Consultant to Mabarrat Philanthropic Organization on the design and
implementation of a self-study for their schools 7. Advisor for one MA thesis completed in 2013. 8. Served as committee member on two MA theses 9. Advisor for three PhD Lebanese University students 10. Acted as a reviewer for Qatar Foundation research proposals. 11. A co-principal investigator in TAMAM 12. Served as TAMAM research director 13. Presented (with El Mouhayar Rabih) a paper entitled ―Developmental trend
of student level of reasoning associated with strategy use in pattern generalization at the 37th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Kiel, Germany, 2013
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14. Signed a contract with Springer to publish a book entitled ― Teaching solving real-world problems in school mathematics- toward a theory of instruction‖
Rima Karami Service/Consultancies: 1. 2013-Present Consultant, D-RASATI project, REP, American
University of Beirut. 2. Assessment Component: Develop Effective School Profile (ESP) for the
MEHE. Provide consultancy services to develop a set of standards for the MEHE to determine what constitutes an effective school in the areas of extra-curricular activities, leadership development, school improvement programs and parents and community involvement.
3. 2012- Present Consultant, D-RASATI project, REP, American University of Beirut.
4. School Improvement Component: design and training for the self-study and implementation and evaluation of school improvement plan sub-components. Included:
5. Designing -in collaboration with the project coordinator- the project SIP component and the scope and sequence of the component activities
6. Preparing 4 manuals for training school councils and for training their trainers on conducting a self-study and on planning and implementing a school improvement plan.
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks Refereed Presentations 1. Amin, T., Choueiri, L., Karami-Akkary, R., Makhoul, J, Zenger,A.
(February, 2014).Graduate students as readers: Learning from students and faculty members (FLC)
2. Conference On Effective Teaching And Learning In Higher Education Program, February 7-8, 2014, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
3. Al-Kassar, S., Shaer, S., & Karami-Akkary, R. (November, 2013). Understanding the Graduate Student Journey: The Case of Lebanese University. Presentation at the LAES and Shamaa Regional Conference entitled MA and PhD Programs in Education-Quality and Added Value
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Invited Presentations and Keynotes: 1. Karami-Akkary, R. (December, 2013). Moderator of Working Session III:
Conclusions and Lesson Learned. Rafik Hariri Foundation Educational
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Conference: Educational Innovation and Teacher Training, December 5, 2013, Beirut, Lebanon.
2. Karami-Akkary, R. (June, 2013). Coordinator of Working Groups Session on the Importance of School Climate. The Education of Future Citizens: Key Challenges facing Arab Countries: A Conference Sponsored by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, June 12, 2013, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
3. Karami-Akkary, R. (May, 2013). Promoting Professional Learning In Our Schools: Why and How? Key note Address at the First Professional Day of the Professional Development Day for the Schools of the Armenian Prelacy. Yeghishe Manoukian College, Beirut, Lebanon. 4. Karami-Akkary, R. Katerji, R., Elhage, R., Sarrieddine, D. (March, 2013). Building Leadership Capacity for School-Based Reform: The TAMAM Project Journey. Presentation for the Education Forum Organized by the Department of Education, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Vivian Khamis Editorial Board Member: 1. Editorial Board Member for International Journal of School and
Educational Psychology Sept 2012 till now. 2. International Advisory Board Member for Journal of Educational and
Psychological Studies 3. (JEPS), Sultan Qaboos University 2010 till now. 4. I served as a committee member on the FAS graduate committee, Program
Learning Outcomes Committee, and the Practice Teaching Committee (PTC) at the department level.
Thesis Advisor: Nada Kriedieh Teachers‘ perceptions of test anxiety: Identification and
prevention in Lebanese schools (Completed Spring 2014)
Ghinwa Masri Perceived Teacher Talk, Student Self-Talk and gender as predictors
of self-esteem among Lebanese adolescents (Completed Spring 2014)
Noha Chaar Exploring the Difference between Novice and Experienced Teachers‘ Concerns to Curriculum Change in Lebanese Private Schools (Completed 2013) Mirna Hamza The Role of School Counselors in Inclusive Classrooms: Perceptions and Expectations
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(Completed 2013) Rayan Itani Motivational Profiles and their Relation to Academic Achievement for Grade 4, 5 and 6 Elementary School Students( Completed 2013) Thesis committee membership that was completed in 2013 Rola Birjawi Exploring the Quality and Nature of Distributed
Leadership In Relation to Teacher Commitment in Large Private Schools in Lebanon.2013
Razan Diab An investigation of pre-service teacher‘s knowledge –base skills for teaching in the National University . 2013
Nada Tabsh The effect of training grades 5 and 6 elementary school students in skillstreaming program on classroom survival skills. 2013
Monica Bazi A study of the Principal Preparation Program at the American University of Beirut. 2013
Manal Yassin Role related stress and job satisfaction among school counselors in Lebanon. 2013
Thesis committee membership Nadine Ghalayini The impact of dysfunctional career thinking, parental
attachment bonds and career exploration on grade eleven students‘ career decision making self-efficacy.2012 till now
Sona Joulahjian
Nancy Avedikian
Maha E. Najjar
Maya Dayya
Zeinab Safieddine
What matters to teachers? Motivators and demotivators of the highly and the low committed teachers.2012 till now. The effect of formative assessment on English reading comprehension achievement on grade four learners who take English as a first foreign language. 2013 till now The Effect of Modeling and Argumentative Writing in Science on Conceptual Understanding, Understanding of NOS, and Self Efficacy, 2012 till now. Perceptions of Elementary School Counselors, Teachers and Principals of the Necessity of Teaching Experience for School Counselors. 2014-till now. Role of English as a Foreign Language Contextual Variables in the Use of Written Corrective Feedback. 2014-till now
Supervision of students at other institutions (including PhD students)
Adline Al-Efi The Impact of Professional Development Training on
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Teachers‘ Effectiveness in UAE Secondary Schools. Lebanese University,2010
till now Lina Qutob Job satisfaction of school teachers in Lebanon
Université St-Joseph, 2012 till now.
Reviewed articles submitted to 1. Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)) (5 proposals) 2. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (1) 3. Transcultural Psychiatry (1) 4. Social Science & Medicine (2) 5. Child Development (1) 6. International Journal of School and Educational Psychology(3) 7. Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies, Sultan Qaboos
University (6) 8. Quality of Life Research(1) 9. Journal of Peace Research(1) 10. Child and Adolescent Mental Health (1) 11. I also served as committee member of the comprehensive exam of 3
students. 12. Judge of school students projects in the Science, Math and Technology
Fair organized by the Department of Education at AUB. 13. Participated in students election. Development of new courses I developed the new course on Learning Disabilities (EDUC 281) Graduate student advising Academic Advisor of the MA Program in Educational Psychology (EPSG), Department of Education, American University of Beirut Department Committees 1. Member of the Practice Teaching Committee (PTC) Committee,
Department of Education, American University of Beirut. 2. Member of the Program Learning Outcomes Committee, Department of
Education, American University of Beirut. AUB Committees
Member of the Senate Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut.
Conference Presentations Religiosity and Ideology as mediators of psychosocial adjustment for children exposed to war atrocities. Paper presented at the2014 Asian Congress of Applied Psychology which was held in Singapore from May 7 through May 8, 2014. Risk and Protective Factors Contributing
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to Learning among Palestinian Refugee Students. Paper presented at the National Institution of Social Care and Vocational Training BeitAtfalAssumoud Seventh Annual Conference ―Educational Challenges in Refugee Population‖ Beirut, Lebanon.
Rola Khishfe Conference Presentations 1. Khishfe, R., BouJaoude, S., & Alameh, S. (2013, September). Examining
relationships among Lebanese students‘ conceptions of and attitudes toward science, career choices, religious affiliations and gender. Paper presented at the biannual conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Nicosia, Cyprus.
2. BouJaoude, S., Khishfe, R., & Alameh, S. (2013, September). Effect of a PD program on teachers‘ classroom practices and students‘ perceptions. Paper presented at the biannual conference of ESERA, Nicosia, Cyprus.
3. Khishfe, R., BouJaoude, S., & Alameh, S. (2013, April). Examining relationships among Lebanese students' conceptions of and attitudes toward science, career choices, religious affiliations and gender. Paper presented at the annual meeting of NARST, Puerto Rico.
4. Salloum, S., Dani, D., BouJaoude, S., Khishfe, R., Wahbeh, N., Mansour, N., Dillon, J., & Alshamrani, S. (2013, April). Teachers‘ views of 21st century content themes, skills, and contexts: An international perspective. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of NARST, Puerto Rico.
5. BouJaoude, S. & Khishfe, R. (2013, February). Science Education for Diversity (SED) Project: Preliminary results. Paper presented at a meeting of the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies (LAES), Beirut, Lebanon.
AUB Committees 1. Chair, Practice Teaching Committee
2. Program Committee Member, SMEC 3. Organizing Committee Member, SMEC 4. Member, Academic Development Committee 5. Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 6. Member, General Education Board 7. Member, JRST Award Selection Committee, National Association for
Research in Science Teaching 8. Member, Equity and Ethics Committee, National Association for
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9. Khishfe, R. (2013, March). Application of Bloom‘s taxonomy. Workshop given to inservice teachers. Saint Joseph School, Qornet Chahwan, Lebanon.
Barend Vlaardingerbroek Edited volume on science teacher quality in preparation (Palgrave
Macmillan). F. PUBLICATIONS: Anies Al-Hroub Refereed Journal Articles 1. Al-Hroub, A. (2014). Identification of dual-exceptional learners.
Procedia-Social and Behavioral Science Journal, 116, 63-73. 2. Al-Hroub, A. (2013). Perspectives of school dropouts‘ dilemma in
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: An ethnographic study. International Journal of Educational Development 35, 53-66.
3. Al-Hroub, A. (2013). Multidimensional model for the identification of gifted children with learning disabilities. Gifted and Talented International, 28,
4. Tannir, A., & Al-Hroub, A. (2013). Effects of character education on the self-Esteem of intellectually able and less able elementary students in Kuwait. International Journal of Special Education, 28, 47-59.
5. Al-Hroub, A. (2013). Causes of the school dropout phenomenon in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and ways to overcome them: A qualitative study. Journal of Arab Children, 57, [in Arabic].
Book Chapters 1. Al-Hroub, A. (2014). Quality issues in education programs in the Arab
universities: A Synthesis study. في الجامعات العربيةقضايا النوعية في برامج التربية In Adnan Amine, Quality Issues in Higher Education in the Arab Countries [pp. 55-76]. Beirut: the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies. [In Arabic and English].
Research Reports 1. Al-Hroub, A., BouJaoude, S., Karami, R. (2013). The Department of
Education Program Review: A Self-Study Report 2013-2014. Beirut: American University of Beirut, the Department of Education. [206 single-spaced pages].
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1. Jeppsson, F., Haglund, J. Amin, T. G., & Strömdahl, H. (2013). Exploring the use of conceptual metaphor in solving problems on entropy. Journal of the Learning Sciences.22(1), 70-120.
2. Amin, T. G. Smith, C., & Wiser, M. (2014). Student conceptions and conceptual change: Three overlapping phases of research. In N. Lederman and S. Abell (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Science Education, Vol
II. UK: Taylor and Francis.
Hoda Baytiyeh
1. Baytiyeh, H. (2013). Users‘ acceptance and use of Moodle: The community influence. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 9(4), 40-57.
2. Baytiyeh, H. and Naja, M. (2013). Promoting earthquake disaster mitigation in Lebanon through civic engagement. Disaster Prevention and management, 22(4), 340-350.
3. Naja, M. K., & Baytiyeh, H. (2014). Towards safer public school buildings in Lebanon: An advocacy for seismic retrofitting initiative. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 8, 158-165.
Saouma BouJaoude Published Articles and Chapters 1. Saouma BouJaoude & Ghada Gholam (2013). Gender and science in the
Arab states: current status and future prospects. In, N. Mansour & R. Wegerif (Eds.), Science Education and Diversity (pp. 339-358). New York, NY: Springer.
2. Taner Edis & Saouma BouJaoude. (2014). Rejecting materialism: Muslim responses to modern science In M. Matthews (Ed.). The international handbook of research in history, philosophy and science teaching (pp. 1663-1691). New York, NY: Springer.
3. Saouma BouJaoude & Ghada Gholam (2014). The Middle East: Egypt, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. In B. Vlaardingerbroek and N. Taylor (Eds.). Issues in upper secondary science education (pp.243-260). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
4. Diana Sarieddine & Saouma BouJaoude (2014). Influence of Teachers‘ Conceptions of the Nature of Science on Classroom Practice. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 10(2), 135-151
Articles or Chapters in Press 1. Saouma BouJaoude & Abir Jammoul (In Press). In-service education in
Lebanon: Current status, challenges, and future prospects in K. Karras &
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C.C. Wolhuter (Eds), Education, In-Service Education and Training of Teachers in the World. Athens, Greece: G.& K. Dardanos-Gutenberg Editions.(in Greek).
2. Saouma BouJaoude & Rola Khishfe (In Press). History of evolutionary science and its education in the Arab world in A. Asghar (Ed.), Evolution education in Muslim societies: historical and contemporary perspectives. New York, NY: Springer.
3. Zoubeida Dagher & Saouma BouJaoude. (In Press). NOS cultural perspectives. In R. Gunstone (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Science Education Springer Reference (Available at http://www.springerreference.com/docs/documentupload/chapterdbid/303122.html )
Karma El-Hassan 1. El Hassan, K. (2013). Quality of student life. In: Michalos AC (Ed.).
Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp i-6407-6411.
2. El Hassan, K. (2013). Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Arab Region. Higher Education and Management Policy, 24(2).
3. El Hassan, K. (2013). The construct validity of a measure of the benchmarks of effective educational practices. Quality Assurance in Education 21(4), 372 - 386.
4. El Hassan, K., Mougnieh, Z. (2013). Implementation of the Social Decision-making Skills Curriculum on primary students (Grades 1-3) in
Lebanon. School Psychology International Journal, 0143034312469758, first published in January 3, 2013.
Rabih El-Mouhayar 1. El Mouhayar, R. (2014). ―Teachers‘ ability to explain student reasoning in pattern generalization tasks‖ (In press). Proceedings of the 38th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Vancouver, Canada: PME
2. El Mouhayar, R., & Jurdak, M. (2013). Developmental trend of student level of reasoning associated with strategy use in pattern generalization. In Lindmeier, A. M. & Heinze, A. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 37th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 5, p. 53). Kiel, Germany: PME
3. El Mouhayar, R., & Jurdak, M. (2013). Developmental profile of student strategy use in pattern generalization across grade Level. In Fisher, D., Koul, R., & Al-Shuaili, A. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 7th International
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Conference on Science, Mathematics and Technology Education (pp. 225-231). Muscat, Oman: Sultan Qaboos University.
Ghazi Ghaith 1. Ghaith. G. (2014). Teacher Preparation at Institutions of Higher Learning in Light of the Development of the General Education Curricula in Lebanon: Content, Teaching Methods, and System of Assessment and Evaluation. Center of Educational Research and Development, Beirut, Lebanon.
Murad Jurdak 1. Jurdak, Murad. (2014). Socio-economic and cultural mediators of mathematics achievement and between-school equity in mathematics education at the global
Rima Karami 1. Karami-Akkary, R. Facing the Challenges of Educational Reform: Lessons
from the Arab World. (2014). Journal of Educational Change [JEDU] . Vol 15 (2) 179-202
2. Karami-Akkary, R. & Rizkallah, D. S. ( 2014). Improving school performance evaluation: a participative approach to build standards and procedures for self-study grounded in the local context. IDAFAT. Issue 25, Winter 2014, 158-181. [Principal Author]
رة في واقع السياق المحلّي لبناء [ .3 تطوير تقييم األداء التربوي للمدرسة اللبنانيَّة: مقاربة مجذَّ
] معايير التقييم الذاتي وإجراءاته4. Karami-Akkary, R. (2013). The Role and Role Context of the Lebanese
School Principal: Toward a Culturally Grounded Understanding of the Principalship Educational Management Administration & Leadership 1741143213510503, first published on December 10, 2013 as doi:10.1177/1741143213510503
5. Karami-Akkary, R., El Saheli Elhage, R., Sarrieddine, D. & Katerji, R. (2013). Developing the TAMAM's Monitoring Model: An Experience of Evolving Design Planning. (Technical Report 5) Beirut, Lebanon: TAMAM Project. http://www.tamamproject.org/documentation/publications
6. Al Mabarrat Association self-evaluation committee, Jurdak, M. & Karami-Akkary, R, (Eds.) (2013). Self-Evaluation study for the impact of the
organizational development program: The study resource book. [ دراسة التقويمبرنامج التطوير اإلداري الذاتي ألثر : نتائج الدراسةكتاب ]
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Rola Khishfe 1. Khishfe, R. (2014). Explicit nature of science and argumentation instruction in the context of socioscientific issues: An effect on student learning and transfer. International Journal of Science Education. International Journal of Science Education, 36(5-6), 974-1016.
Barend Vlaardingerbroek 1. Vlaardingerbroek, B. & Taylor, N. (Eds.) (2014) Issues in upper secondary science education – Comparative perspectives, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
During 2013-2014, the Department of Education conducted a program review which entailed a comprehensive self-study along with an external program evaluation. This has led to a number of recommendations that are currently under consideration for implementation. These recommendations have some basic and fundamental implications for a new strategic direction within the Department. Specifically, future developments could involve a program restructuring/consolidation initiative to enhance existing programs as well introducing new in-service programs at the graduate level: a professional master‘s degree and a doctoral program in education.
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SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION CENTER
A. PERSONNEL
Academic members: Tamer Amin, Associate Professor, Science Education (Director) Saouma BouJaoude, Professor, Science Education Rabih El-Mouhayar, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Education Murad Jurdak, Professor, Mathematics Education Rola Khishfe, Associate Professor, Science Education Barend Vlaardingerbroek, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction/Science Education
Non-academic members:
Nahed El-Oud Haidar, Secretary
Hanna El-Hilu, Assistant Technician
B. CENTER ACTIVITIES Faculty members in the Science and Mathematics Education Center (SMEC) are actively involved in a variety of research projects and outreach initiatives related to science and mathematics education at the K-12 and college levels. The description of activities provided in this section of the annual report dedicated to SMEC will focus on activities conducted by the Center as a whole not by individual faculty members. For listing of research publications, individually conducted consultancies and outreach workshops, please see individual faculty sections of the Department of Education‘s entry in this annual report. The main activities of the Center this year were its long-running annual events the Science and Mathematics Educators‘ Conference for teachers, school administrators and researchers, and the Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair for K-12 students. In addition, a SMEC Seminar series was launched. I describe each of these in turn. The Sixteenth Annual Science and Mathematics Educators‘ Conference (SMEC14) was organized by the Center on the campus of AUB on April 5th, 2014. The
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Conference program included two plenary sessions and one mini-plenary session, and more than 40 presentations that included research reports, developmental workshops, and innovative idea sessions, in addition to an exhibit of textbooks and other educational materials in which six publishers and distributors participated. The conference proceedings is currently being prepared. In collaboration with the Education Students Society (ESS), the Center, organized the 20th Annual Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair on the weekend of March 22nd and 23rd, 2014. The fair provided K-12 students from 27 schools throughout Lebanon the opportunity to share scientific, mathematical and technological projects with their peers from other schools. The Fair involved over 500 students. SMEC faculty, as well as professors and advanced students from many science, technology and math oriented departments at AUB, participated as judges. The Center launched the SMEC Seminar series which aims to encourage SMEC faculty to become more familiar with each others‘ research, to expose graduate students in science and mathematics education to a broad range of research initiatives in their fields of interest and to expose the AUB community, more broadly, to recent developments in research in science and mathematics education. It is hoped that this seminar series will encourage collaboration among faculty and encourage more students to consider science and mathematics education as potential fields of study. C. FACILITIES
The SMEC library continues to serve as a valuable resource and study center for both pre-service and in-service teachers and for BA and Teaching Diploma students in the department of education. The library is open daily M-F from 8 am to 5 pm and is attended by the SMEC secretary. Several publishers have donated new collections of math and science textbooks to the library this year. We embarked this year on an initiative to catalogue the library holdings electronically and begin an electronically tracked circulation system. Extensive support has been provided by the cataloguing department of the University Libraries who have helped with the selection of cataloguing software and the data entry process.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS AND ART HISTORY A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS Professor Paolo Orlandi joined the department as Mary Whittlesey Visiting Assistant Professor in music for a one year term. Based on the recommendation of the department, he was given an additional one year term for 2014-2015 as Visiting Assistant Professor. Professor Sahar Assaf joined the department as Lecturer in Theater for a one year term. This has been extended to a second one year term for 2014-2015. Dr. Thomas Kim was on a Junior Faculty Research Leave during the fall semester. Dr. Riikka Pietilainen-Caffrey was hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the fall semester to over his teaching. Professor Cornelia Krafft was on a Junior Faculty Research Leave during the spring semester. A search was held for a position in Islamic Art History. Dr. Hala Auji will join the department as assistant professor in the fall of 2014. A search was held for a position in Studio Art. Professor Walid Sadek will join the department as an associate professor in the fall of 2014. Cornelia Krafft supervised a student group exhibition “Swat wa Samt: an immersion into noise and silence” in November 2013. This project was in collaboration with the AUB Noise and Silence Research Group. Sahar Assaf presented the world premier of the English translation of Saadallah Wannous’ Rituals of Signs and Transformations which was translated by the English department’s Robert Myers in December 2013. Riikka Pietilain-Caffrey conducted the AUB Choir and Choral Society in a public performance titled “Snow Had Fallen, Snow on Snow” in December 2013. The performance featured Daniel Pinkam’s Christmas Cantata as well as works by Rutter, Menotti, Grieg, Elgar and Sibelius. Paolo Orlandi organized a series of five concert-lectures entitled “Jazz Talks” during the Spring 2014.
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Cornelia Krafft was the choreographer and the designer for a public performance titled “After 100 Springs” at the Al Madina Theater, Hamra, in February 2014. Angela Harutyunyan and Octavian Esanu organized an international conference in March 2013 titled “Critical Machines” which focused on the role of art publications on the creative process. Thomas Kim conducted the AUB Choir and Choral Society in a public performance that featured Johannes Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder and Vytautas Miskinis’ Light Mass in April 2014. Sahar Assaf produced and directed “Watch Your Step,” a theater piece set in the Khandaq al-Ghamiq neighborhood of Beirut, in May 2014. The department, under the leadership of Angela Harutyunyan, has submitted a proposal for a MA program in Art History and Curatorial Studies. The AUB Art Galleries put on two exhibitions: Art in Office: Artworks from around AUB Campus, and Lebanese Painterly Humanism: Georges D. Corm (1896-1971). The 2014 program learning outcomes evaluation by Kasper Kovitz points out the following:
Students mainly agree that they can formulate a themes or position within the art historical context, to visualize it and develop a strategy towards a finished object.
Students overwhelmingly believe that their manual skills and understanding of materials have improved.
They largely agree that they can handle hazardous tools.
They largely agree that they can manage their time and production budget realistically.
Only half of the respondents agree that they can properly document their work.
The overwhelming majority agrees that they have learned to incorporate their other studies into art making practice.
Students somewhat agree that they have learned about teamwork in creative endeavors.
Students are increasingly dissatisfied with their own body of work, and this may indicate that they have developed critical skills and skepticism in relation to their production.
More students are comfortable with expressing themselves on art matters verbally. This shows that courses that incorporate artist statement writing
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and class critiques have made an impact, though the challenges of verbal expression remains clear to the students.
The number of students who believe that they are capable of critical thinking has drastically increased. There is also a slight increase in the number of students who believe they can now confidently analyze, compare and evaluate artworks.
The level of skepticism towards one’s own art making has increased.
Students' confidence in defining their own approach to art making has increased.
Students' belief that their studies in art have given them focus for future practice and study in art has significantly decreased. This may indicate that students have developed a more realistic appraisal of the challenges of producing high quality art works.
Less than half of the students believe that they have a sufficient grasp of art history and have learned solid research techniques for further study.
More than half of the students are confident that they can orient themselves in the art world.
The majority of the students think they can evaluate, criticize, contextualize and comment on works of art.
A very large number of students belief that they have learned to research past art works to help them with their own art works.
The number of students feeling that going through the program was a positive experience for them has significantly declined, and so did the recommendation to other students to take up the program.
Students' feeling, that the program informed them about continuing art education and/or practice opportunities both in this region and globally, has also declined substantially.
Students' feeling, that there were enough contacts with outside artists, exhibits, critiques given the time and place limitations has also declined.
A substantial increase is noted in students' satisfaction that their own ideas were heard and considered by the teachers.
A significant majority believes that their studies in art have provided them with a creative edge in problem solving that goes beyond the making of art and applies to other fields
More than half of the students believe that the structure of the courses offered by the department was clear and was oriented towards progressive skill levels and specialization
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* Doctor of Music ** Diploma in Acting, Bristol Old Vic Theater School (MFA equivalent) ***Diploma in Oriental Music, Lebanese Nat. Conserv. (MFA equivalent) † Diploma in Piano, Lebanese Nat. Conserv. (MVA equifalent) 2. Research Assistants Fall Semester
El Basha, Michel Maalouf, Maya
Spring Semester
El Basha, Michel Sabbah, Yasmina
Franses, Rico Associate Professor Ph.D.
Assad-Salha, Neville Assistant Professor MFA
Du Quenoy, Paul Assistant Professor (pt)
Ph.D.
Esanu, Octavian Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Farhat, May Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Harutyunyan, Angela Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Kim, Thomas Assistant Professor D.Mus.*
Kovitz, Kasper Assistant Professor MFA
Krafft, Cornelia Assistant Professor MFA
Orlandi, Paolo Pietilainen-Caffrey, Riikka Kurani, David
Visiting Assist. Prof. Visiting Assist. Prof. Senior Lecturer
MA D.Mus.* Dipl.**
Shebaya, Peter Senior Lecturer (pt) MA+Dipl.**
Assaf, Sahar Visiting Lecturer MA
Deeb, Reem Lecturer (pt) D.Mus.*
Zurayk, Afaf Lecturer (pt) MA
Aivazian, Haig Instructor (pt) MFA
Badran, Rayya Instructor (pt) MFA
Ghazal, Wajd Instructor (pt) MA
Jamal, Ghada Instructor (pt) MA
Khcheich, Rima Instructor (pt) Dipl.***
Khoury, Joelle Instructor (pt) MA+Dipl.†
Meskaoui, Zeina Instructor (pt) MA
Saadawi, Ghalya Instructor (pt) MA
Youssef, Shawki Instructor (pt) MA
Mahmoud, Samir Post Doc. Fellow (pt) Ph.D.
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3. Graduate Assistants
None
4. Non-Academic Staff
Jebara Kidess, Adiba Administrative Assistant
C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BA Oct. 2013 3
Jan. 2014 1
May. 2014 10
MA Oct. 2013 0
Jan. 2014 0
May. 2014 0
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 0
Seniors 13
Juniors 10
Sophomores 17
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 0 0 0 211-299 68 420 432 920 200-210 8 114 86 208 100-199 0 58 42 100 Total 76 592 560 1228
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 0 0 0 211-299 15 73 78 166
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200-210 3 30 24 57 100-199 0 9 6 15 Total 18 112 108 238
D. RESEARCH Neville Assad-Salha 1. Study trip to Florence and Rome, Italy. Octavian Esanu 1. Co-editing the art journal ARTMargins. 2. Work on “Moscow Conceptualism,” in the expanded 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics edited by Michael Kelly (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 3. Continued work on several books. Rico Francis 1. Continued work on Contact: Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art. (Currently making changes as suggested by reviewers at Cambridge University Press). Angela Harutyunyan 1. Co-editing the art journal ARTMargins 2. Continued work on On the Ruins of a Utopia: The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde. (Manchester University Press, 300 pages). Thomas Kim 1. Researched and prepared Hindemith When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Mozart Mass in c minor, Miskinis Light Mass, Brahms Neue Liebeslieder for future performances. 2. Researched the Estonian National Song Festival for an article to be published at the end of 2014 by American Choral Journal. David Kurani 1. Ongoing painting in preparation for coming show with experimentation in mixed media. 2. Playwriting; video assembly from old 16mm footage, and songwriting for multimedia stage production.
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E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Neville Assad-Salha 1. Advisor to Studio Arts majors. 2. Assisted in the development and assessment of studio arts PLOs. 3. Adjudicator for Studio Arts Final Year Projects. Sahar Assaf 1. Panelist at CUNY Martin Segal Theatre Center in NYC on "Syrian Drama: The Plays of Saadallah Wannous" on March 3rd, 2014. 2. Panelist at Silk Road Rising on “Dramatizing Resistance: Saadallah Wannous and the State of Contemporary Arab Theatre” on March 10th, 2014. 3. Organized a lecture with Robert Myers by Marvin Carlson on “Streets, Squares, And Strollers: The Performative City” on Feb 18, 2014. 4. Faculty Advisor, AUB Drama Club. Octavian Esanu 1. Curator, AUB Art Galleries. 2. Member of the Art Steering Committee May Farhat 1. Advisor to art history majors. 2. Advisor to studio arts majors. 3. Organized a field trip to Istanbul for Art History students. July 2013. Rico Franses 1. Associate Chair, FAAH. 2. Director, AUB Art Galleries and Collections. 3. Chair of the committee to hire an Islamic Art Historian. 4. Chair of the FAAH Self Study Committee. Angela Harutyunyan 1. Associate Editor for Art Margins, MIT Press. 2. Contributing Editor to Ibraaz: Contemporary Visual Culture in the Middle East & North Africa 3. Director of Theory Lab, Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerevan
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4. “New World Systems? Reassessing the Transnational Traffic in Art”, panel co-chair with Anthony Gardner, Art Historians’ Association 40th Anniversary Conference, London 5. “Critical Pedagogies: Liberal Education at AUB”, co-chair and co-moderation with Nadia Bou Ali, Arts and Humanities Initiative, AUB 6. “Critical Machines”, symposium with fifteen international and regional art publishers (October, e-flux, Bidoun, Ibraaz, Caminet, ARTMArgins, etc.), co-organizer with Octavian Esanu, AUB Art Galleries 7. “Towards a Theory of Form as Event”, paper presentation, Literature, Art and the Contemporary World: Narratives, History and Memory, USJ Colloquium, Graduate Program in Art Criticism and Curatorial Studies 8. “Form and Event: Beyond a Critique of Representation”, invited lecture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 9. Art Speak, Panel Discussion, 98weeks, Beirut 10. Member of the FAAH Self Study Committee 11. Member of the FAS Graduate Studies Committee 12. Member of the Art Steering Committee 13. Arts and Humanities Initiative Fellow 14. Leader. Faculty and Graduate student reading group, “Discussing the Event,” Arts and Humanities Initiative, AUB. Conceptualized and developed with Nadia Bou Ali 15. Developed a new masters program in Art History and Curatorial Studies. Thomas Kim 1. Department chair, FAAH. 2. Zaki Nassif Music Committee member. 3. Member of the Student Disciplinary Committee. 4. Member of the FAAH Self Study Committee. 5. Advisor to Studio Arts Majors. 6. Advisor to Art History Majors. 7. Developed a new course in Vocal Performance for the Fall 2014. Kasper Kovitz 1. PLO coordinator. 2. Logistics consultant, AUB galleries. 3. Lead writer of the FAAH Self Study report. 4. Chair of the committee to hire a Studio Artist. 5. Acting Chair of FAAH, Fall 2013. 6. Advisor to Studio Arts majors. 7. Coordinated the Senior Studio Arts major’s final year project evaluations and exhibition.
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Cornelia Krafft 1. Member of the Presidents Club 2. Member of the FAS Student Disciplinary Committee 3. Advisor to studio arts majors. 4. Invited and hosted Matthias Fluegge, November 2013. 5. Participant, DRAMATURGY WORKSHOP, by AFPA - AGONISTIK Beirut. January 2014. 6. Participant, AUB-2nd Regional Symposium:Modern Cultural Heritage in the Middle East North Africa. November 2013. 7. Participant, MISHKAL/ Youth Festival of the Arts, Al Madina Theater, Beirut. September 2013. 8. Participant, TANZ IM AUGUST/ / International dance festival, Berlin, Germany. August 2013. 9. Participant, IMPULSTANZ / International dance festival, Vienna, Austria. July 2013. David Kurani 1. Advisor to studio arts majors. 2. Zaki Nassif Music Committee member. 3. Acting Chair, June – July 2013. 4. Theater Program coordinator. 5. PLO coordinator. Paolo Orlandi 1. Creator and artistic director of the jazz festival “Jazz Talks”, at the American University of Beirut, a series of five interactive jazz evenings spanning from February to May 2014. 2. Faculty Advisor to the AUB Music Club. F. PUBLICATIONS Neville Assad-Salha 1. Exhibition, MACAM Gallery, Lebanon. 2. JamFactory South Australia, "Mentor" Exhibition. 3. Solo Exhibition at Glenelg Gallery, South Australia "Between Two Spaces". Sahar Assaf
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1. Directed the world premiere of the English-language version of Rituals of Signs and Transformations, written by Saadallah Wannous and translated by Robert Myers and Nada Saab. December 6th, 7th and 8th 2013. 2. Directed a staged reading of Rituals at Silk Road Rising Theatre Company in Chicago. March 8th and 9th 2014. 3. Directed Watch Your Step, a site-specific promenade performance on our memory of the Lebanese Civil War with text by Robert Myers. May 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 2014. Octavian Esanu 1. “A Lebanese Rappel a l’ordre: Georges D. Corm 1896-1971” in Lebanese Painterly Humanism: Georges D. Corm 1876-1971 (AUB Art Galleries, 2013) 2. “Stenogram of the General Meeting of the Artists of the Union of Soviet Artists of Moldavia (15 May, 1951)” in ARTmargins Winter 2013, Vol. 3, No. 1 3. “Eta” in Umelec International Art Magazine, 2013/1 4. Transition in post-Soviet Art: The “Collective Actions” Group Before and After 1989, Authored monograph with foreword by Boris Groys (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2013). 5. Art in Office: Artworks from around AUB Campus exhibition at AUB Art Gallery, Spring 2014 6. Surgeons and Magicians: International Modernism and the Lebanese Art Historical Context (Presentation within the 2013-14 Homeworks program at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut) 7. Lebanese Painterly Humanism: Georges D. Corm (1896-1971) exhibition at AUB Art Gallery, 2013 Rico Francis 1. “Byzantine Anti-Humanism.” Byzantine Studies Conference, Yale University, November 2013. 2. “Face; Visual Arts.” Entry in The De Gruyter Encylopaedia of the Bible and its Reception. 2013. 3. “Byzantine Anti-Humanism.” Byzantine Studies Conference, Yale University, November 2013. Angela Harutyunyan 1. “ACT”, Document. Translation and Introduction. ArtMargins, vol. 2, issue 1, 2013. 2. “Before and After the Event There Was the Artwork”. In M. Jankowicz, ed. 2014. PhotoCairo5: more out of curiosity than conviction. Cairo: Contemporary Image Collective, pp. 17-35.
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3. Malevich: Korats Tun? (Malevich, A Lost Home?). http://arteria.am/hy/1386730504 4. Arvestayin Zbosankner: Sharjayi 11-rd Biennalen (Art Trips: The 11th Sharjah Art Biennial), review, http://arteria.am/hy/1364198005 5. Translator. “National Modernism” by Vardan Azatyan, Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde, eds. George Schollhammer and Ruben Arevshatyan, Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York 2014 6. Translator. “The Armenian book”, by Vardan Azatyan in When the Book finds the Artist Ed. by Vartan Karapetian. Voskan Yerevanci Publishing Thomas Kim 1. Joint Concert 10th Annual Oratorio Choir Academy. Conducted movements of Cecelia McDowall’s Magnificat and Haydn’s Teresienmesse. Pomaz and Budapest, Hungary. July 19 and 20, 2013. 2. Love Songs and All That Jazz. Concert by the American University of Beirut Choir and Choral Society. Performance of Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder and Miskinis’ Light Mass. April 28, 2014. Kasper Kovitz 1. Group show Traces of Disappearance, with Anne and Patrick Poirier, Goang-Ming Yuan and Naoya Hatekeyamas curated by Eva-Christina Kraus and Murielle Hladik, Espace LV, Tokyo, Japan. January 2014. Cornelia Krafft 1. “Sawt wa Samt“, conceptualization of interactive exhibition AUB. November 2013. 2. “After 100 Springs”, choreographer/ designer, Al Madina Theater Beirut. February 2014. 3. Installation in process at the 7th Spring Cultural Salons for Modern Art, Pomorie , Bulgaria. April 2014. 4. “Handwritten Magazines” Exhibition design for President´s Club, AUB. May 2014. Paolo Orlandi 1. Tour with the Alessio Menconi Trio in Guatemala to participate to the International Guatemala Jazz Festival. Played in Guatemala City, Antigua, Quetzaltenango. 2. Collaborations and concerts with the AUB Choir. 3. Performances at Galerie Mario Mazzoli and Jazz Im Kiez series in Berlin, with saxophonist Ben Kraef.
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4. Performances at AUB Outdoor Festival, Metro Madina in Beirut, with the Raed El-Khazen Trio. Riikka Pietllainen-Caffrey 1. Snow Had Fallen, Snow on Snow. Concert by the American University of Beirut Choir and Choral Society. Performance featured Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata. December 6, 2013. G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT Next year, we anticipate on holding a job search for a new full-time position in Theater. The department is in the process of developing a new masters program in Art History and Curatorial Studies. We hope to have this program approved next year with the program launching in the 2015-2016 academic year. Two members of the department have been granted junior faculty research leaves. Angela Harutyunyan and Kasper Kovitz will be taking these in the fall semester. The department will continue with its efforts to bring the best of contemporary arts to students and the AUB public at large. Thomas Kim Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS This academic year 2013-14 has witnessed a number of curricular and admission developments. For the first time in the history of this department, our enrollment at the sophomore level has significantly and un-expectedly highly increased from 6 to 8 students around 10 years ago, to about 14 to 18 students four years ago, and this year the number has jumped to 35 students enrolled at the sophomore level. This has prompted the department to request an admission’s cap of about 20 students in addition to 5 more students expected to join as transfer students. We believe that the market would not be able to absorb the very large number we have been receiving recently. Service courses offered are continued to attract a large number of students from other majors in FAS, and from other faculties. These include Geomorphology (Geol-210) offered for FAFS, the four geology freshman courses, and the GE natural science courses (Geol-201 and Geol-205). Due to the continued increase in the number of students registered in our GE-courses and the demand to increase capacity, we have introduced another new GE natural science course (Geol-204) entitled “Dinosaurs & Life History” which was recently approved by the GE-Committee to be offered starting this up-coming fall 2014-15. In fact, during phase one of registration for the up-coming fall semester, the two sections of this new course have already reached capacity (25 students for each sections have already registered), and the demand is still growing so that we expect to raise capacity in the sections to around 30 students each. Our graduating students continue to manage very well in competing with graduates of European and North American Universities both for obtaining scholarships to pursue their graduate studies abroad, and for obtaining jobs with some major international Oil Companies. In terms of student activities, nearly all of our students have joined the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). This year, our students have also registered to attend the AAPG conference on Oil & Gas in the Levant, to be held late May 2014 in Beirut. Moreover, two of our top students participated in the SPE AdPIAC Education Week and IPTC-Conference held in January 2014 in Doha, Qatar, and were sponsored by major oil companies along with the SPE, while two other top students participated in the Young Professionals & Students Activities Program (YPSS) in conjunction with 2014 GEO Conference, held in Bahrain in March 2014; their participation was fully funded by the organizing bodies.
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B. PERSONNEL
Faculty Members
Abdel-Rahman, Abdel-Fattah
Professor (Chairman) Ph.D.
Doummar, Joanna Assistant Professor Ph.D. Elias, Ata Assistant Professor Ph.D. Haidar, Ali Assistant Professor Ph.D. Bteich Kallas, Lara Instructor (PT) M.S. Khadra, Wisam Instructor M.S. Oueida, Raghida Instructor M.S.
1. Research Assistants Fall Semester
None
Spring Semester
None
2. Graduate Assistants
First Semester
Elias-Bahnan, Alexy
Hamdan, Ahmad Second Semester
Elias-Bahnan, Alexy Hamdan, Ahmad
3. Non Academic Staff
Ijreiss, Maroun Senior Technician Lababidi, Nisrine Administrative Assistant
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C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
B.S. Oct. 2013 0 Feb. 2014 2 June 2014 10 M.S. Oct. 2013 0 Feb. 2014 0 June 2014 1
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 5 Seniors 14 Juniors 17 Sophomores 36 Total 72
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Summer 2012
Fall Sem.
Spring Sem.
Total
Courses numbered 300 and above
0
6
8
14
Courses numbered 211 through 299
10 51 77 138
Courses numbered 200 through 210
59 269 248 576
Courses numbered 100 through 199
20 132 111 263
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D. RESEARCH Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Rahman 1. Abdel-Rahman A.M.: Continued to study the Mount Mons-Claudianus composite batholith occurring in the northern part of the Nubian Shield. The role of this and similar large batholiths in uniting plates of Gondwana is being investigated. Work on this project is in progress, and is being funded by URB. One abstract has been accepted, and a manuscript is in advance stage of preparation. 2. Abdel-Rahman A.M.: Work on A-type granitic complexes of the Arabian-Nubian shield exposed in northeastern Egypt is in progress. The study will shed light on the geodynamic framework during the Late Proterozoic and the initiation of extensional tectonics in the region. 3. Abdel-Rahman A.M.: Research work on the age and petrogenetic evolution of the Mount Umm El-Rus Gabbroic complex of eastern Egypt is continuing. Petrogenetic modeling will help in determining the nature of the protolith (mantle source rocks) and the degree of partial melting that led to the formation of its magma. Joanna Doummar 1. Doummar, Joanna: Continuing a research related to the assessment of isotopic signatures (Oxygen and Deuterium) and hydrochemistry of about 40 selected springs in Lebanon from various hydrostratigraphic units. In collaboration with Georg August University in Goettingen-Germany. 2. Doummar, Joanna: Working on a research project in collaboration with the the Department of Civil Engineering (FEA). Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) as an integrated water resource management approach for preventing sea water intrusion.
Courses numbered 300 and above
0 6 3 9
Courses numbered 211 through 299
6 12 15 33
Courses numbered 200 through 210
6 25 22 53
Courses numbered 100 through 199
6 18 18 42
Total 18 61 58 137
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Research on the feasibility of groundwater artificial recharge and groundwater flow in the investigation area. Client: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Ata Elias 1. Elias, A.: Analysis of the recent temporal and geographical distribution of seismicity in Lebanon: Monitoring and assessing the recent seismic activity of the Lebanese region in particular and the Eastern Mediterranean in general, as recorded by the local and regional networks. 2. Elias, A. and many others: The EMME project (Earthquake Model of the Middle East region: Hazard, Risk assessment, Economics and Mitigation): This is a joint collaboration between many scientists from different countries of the Middle East region, working on establishing an earthquake model for the area. Funds from the Swiss Seismological Service. 3. Elias, A.: Paleoseismic and tectonic studies along the Lebanese coast using Vermetid reefs. Funded by a URB grant. 4. Elias, A.: Geology of the Mzra554 Archeological Site – Forn Ech Chebbak. 5. Elias, A.: The geomorphology of Enfeh archeological site – North Lebanon. A study conducted in collaboration with the archeological survey of Enfeh conducted by Prof N. Panayot Haroun from UOB. 6. Elias, A.: Structural Evolution and Active Tectonics of the Damour – Beit Ed Dine Fault Zone and the Southern Central Mt-Lebanon. 7. Elias, A.: Seismotectonics and structural analysis of the Qartaba backthrust. The study aims to characterize the tectonics of the Qartaba backtrust and associated structures in Northern Central Mt-Lebanon. 8. Elias, A.: Gas Reserves: What is the Size of the East Mediterranean Hydrocarbon Basin? Study conducted in association with the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. Ali Haidar 1. Haidar, A.T., Ali, H. M., Said, M., El Azhary, T., and Villa, G. Work is continuing on Geochemical Characterization of the Paleocene-Eocene Section of the Chekka Marls (N. Lebanon) and its Hydrocarbon Potential. Analysis of inorganic and organic sediment help assessing the hypothesis of an increased paleo-productivity, as well as monitoring climate change during the Early–Late Paleocene Biotic Event (ELPE) and the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). 2. On the long run, I am in the process of writing a book on theoretical stratigraphy and paleoecology. This book is not going to be a simple review of the available literature, but rather trying to build completely new views of geologic time
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and species diversity, bridging the gap between Mathematics and Geology. The need of a new concept of geologic time arises from the huge discrepancy existing between how theoretical physics looks at and understands time, and how geology does. This is because the main model for the passing of time in Geology is still Newtonian (linear.) E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Rahman 1. Member of the Steering Committee, Masri Institute of Energy & Natural
Resources. 2. Member of the Steering Committee of the Central Science Research Laboratory. 3. Member of Kamal A. Shair CRSL Research Fund Review Panel. 4. Member of the Petroleum Engineering Committee 5. Chairperson of the Department of Geology. 6. External member of the Biology Department Faculty Recruitment Committee. 7. Member of the FAS Administrative Committee. 8. Member of Program Learning Outcome’s Assessment ad-hoc Committee. 9. Majorless academic advisor. 10. Academic advisor; Geology and Petroleum Studies majors 11. Mentoring of the new Geology faculty member 12. Book Coordinator of the Department of Geology. 13. Adviser of the Geology Student Society (GSS). 14. Adviser of the American Association for Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Middle East AUB Student Chapter. 15. Member of M.S. Thesis committee of Geology graduate students. 16. Supervised and helped during the FAS-SRC student elections. 17. Reviewed publications for International Journals. 18. Provided many museum tours to hundreds of school students and am doing
volunteer curating work for the Geology Museum. Joanna Doummar 1. Academic Advisor for some Geology undergraduate students. 2. Academic Advisor for 26 freshman students. 3. MSc. thesis co-advisor of Karlo Pechazis Georg-August University-Germany 4. Member of the MS. thesis committee of Rena Karanouh (Geology) 5. Member of the PhD thesis committee of two graduate students; Christiane Zoghbi, and Amir Safi, AUB, Civil Engineering Department.
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6. Marshal in the Graduation ceremonies (June 2013) 8. Ballot supervisor and vote counting at the FAS-SRC elections. 9. Library Liaison for the Geology Department at the Jafet Library 10. Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee; (since Oct- 2013) 11. Member of the Research Committee (since Oct- 2013) 12. Deputy Safety Warden for Post Hall (Responsible for Safety issues and Laboratory activities in the Geology Department) 13. Received a donation from BGR (German Federal Institute for Geosciences) worth 60,000 USD worth of hydrogeology equipment and tracer substances to be used for research purposes in hydrogeology at the Department of Geology. Ata Elias 1. Academic Advisor for Geology students. 2. Coordinator of the Freshmen Reading Committee and member of the FAC. 3. Member of the URB and FRC-FAS Committees. 4. Member of FAS Student Disciplinary Committee. 5. MS thesis supervisor of two geology graduate students. 7. Member of the EPI committee. 8. Member of the American Geophysical Union. Ali Haidar 1. Member of FAS Undergraduate Student Academic Affairs Committee
(USAAC). 2. Advisor of sophomore geology students. 3. Served several times as acting chair of the Geology Department. 4. MS thesis supervisor of one geology graduate students. 5. Member of M.S. Thesis committee of Geology graduate students 6. Supervisor at the FAS SRC Student Elections. 7. Expert appointed by the Lebanese Court in Geology. F. PUBLICATIONS Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Rahman 1. Abdel-Rahman, A. M. & Kallas, L. M. (2013): Insights from the basalts of SE
Lebanon into the nature of the Middle East Cenozoic volcanic province. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abh. 270, 209-232.
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Ata Elias 1. Elias, A. (2013), Apercu Géologique du Potentiel Pétrolier Libanais, in La
délimitation maritime et l’exploitation des fonds marins; Beyrouth – CEDROMA, Université Saint Josef (USJ), pp. 201-211.
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT In terms of Faculty recruitment in the area of Geophysics, our efforts have been successful at last, as we were able this year to attract a competent Seismologist who is expected to join Geology (at the Associate Professor level) at the start of this upcoming 2014-15 fall semester. However, we have not been able to recruit a Carbonate Sedimentologist yet, and we requested to re-advertise for this vital faculty position yet again. The fact that this position is still vacant (which has been a major draw-back) leaves our Department understaffed, especially at a time of both a growing demand in this sedimentology domain, and the unusual increase of student’s intake. The re-distribution of teaching loads of some faculty members and the hiring of some strategic part-time faculty members have enabled us to keep functioning very well so far. Our plan to introduce a new junior-senior-level GE natural science course on planetary science will await the arrival of the newly recruited Geophysicist. Due to a renewed interest to re-vitalize the project of initiating a degree-program (B. Eng.) in Petroleum Engineering and in collaboration with the Department of Geology, we have been involved in the draft proposal of this new degree program; a number of geology courses (to be taught at our department) will be among the requirements. The future Petroleum Engineering degree program will be administratively within the Department of Chemical Engineering, and will be housed at FEA. Due to the Geology expected contribution to this future degree program, along with the current activities and significance of hydrocarbon exploration in the eastern Mediterranean basin off-shore Lebanon, there is a need to further strengthen and develop the area of petroleum geology, and to plan to recruit two additional geology faculty members in the petroleum geology domain. Furthermore, a major fund-raising campaign (through the AUB Development Office) need to be initiated to approach some oil companies to help to provide funding for some scientific instruments needed to build a petroleum geology laboratory. No doubt that the early recruitment of a carbonate sedimentologist first, will help to consolidate our efforts for building a strong petroleum geology unit within our department. Once this becomes possible, it would allow for more interaction with the industry, as a number of petroleum companies will be starting their off-shore exploration programs, hopefully in the not-too-distant future.
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The process of improving the laboratory teaching materials is continuing, as we manage to improve and enlarge the microscopy laboratory needs (in terms of materials and student microscopes), and also minor equipment and materials needed for the thin-section preparation laboratory that serves both teaching and research needs. We also continue to improve our needs for audiovisual tools, and for the field–related courses and the tools related to student’s field work. The refurbishing of the optical mineralogy/petrology laboratory with special set-up and work-stations that allow the use of the microscopes and the stereoscopes more comfortably is becoming a priority at this point, especially due to the sharp increase in our student intake. It should be noted that several pieces of hydrogeology scientific instruments and chemicals, worth of over $60,000 USD, were donated by the German Federal Institute of Geosciences & Natural Resources to the AUB Department of Geology, essentially for use by our Hydrogeologist, Dr. Joanna Doummar and her students. As educators at various levels of pre-university schooling are paying more attention to earth Sciences which resulted in having a geological science component being added to the school curricula, we continue to receive a large number of school students visiting the AUB Geology Museum. There is a need to purchase some museum-quality mineral specimens to enrich the mineralogy collection at the Museum. A fund-raising effort via the AUB Development Office could help in obtaining a fiber-glass replica of a full-size Dinosaur skeleton, and this would play a significant role in igniting the sense of scientific enquiry in the young minds of visitors of the Geology Museum.
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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The Department of History and Archaeology offered a wide range of courses during the academic year 2013-14. Professor Samir Seikaly was on leave for the whole year while Professors Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn and Helen Sader were on leave in the Spring semester. At the graduate level, our program accepted one PhD student and three M.A. students in History. One new student was accepted as a prospective graduate in the Archaeology graduate program. Dr. Lyall Armstrong joined the Department as Assistant Professor in early Islamic History while Professor Tayeb El-Hibri was appointed to the Alfred Howell Endowed Chair for History and Archaeology for the academic year 2013-4. The Department offered in the summer of 2013 two archaeology fieldwork courses to introduce Archaeology students to scientific methods of excavation and survey. It also offered History 102, History 258AD, History 258AP and History 278A. The Department embarked on its program review in accordance with the Final Report of Professors Timothy Harrison and Zachary Lockman. Earlier in the year ad hoc committees were established to review the History and Archaeology Programs. The ad hoc committee on Archaeology submitted a proposal to restructure the MA program in Archaeology proposing changes that included the introduction of two new core courses in fieldwork and theory as well as a new series of graduate seminars. The proposal received the approval of the graduate committee in April 2014. Two new graduate courses were approved: History 332: Special Topics in History; and Archaeology 327: Special Topics in Archaeology.A new undergraduate course in History/Archaeology (Hist/Arol 263: Islamic Cities, 600-1500) was introduced by Prof. John Meloy in order to improve co-existence/interaction between our two programs. The Department re-examined its Freshman history offerings and updated their catalogue descriptions. The Department submitted a proposal to create an archaeological laboratory facility as recommended by the program reviewers.
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Concerning Program Learning Outcomes, evaluation for the program in History and Archaeology is running apace smoothly, despite the recurrent issue of the low enrollment in both majors. The department‟s PLO committee is composed of the chairperson along with a representative responsible for the Archaeology track, and one for History. Evaluations are conducted now on the basis of both direct and indirect methods of assessment: for the former, it mainly consists of data analysis in targeted courses (questions embedded in exams, content evaluation of written work, etc), as for the latter, we have set up an anonymous exit survey for graduating students, which was put into effect in May 2013 and will be repeated annually, or when the need arises. The Department appointed Prof. Alexis Wick as coordinator for graduate studies. The Department‟s website has been updated, and includes a prize-winning short video by our graduate students Tamara Maatouk and Koh Choon Hwee about the Department. The Department hosted a lecture by Ussama Makdisi on “Born in the Global 19th Century: The Emergence of Sectarianism as a Problem in the Modern Middle East”, which was given on November 27th, 2013. The Department in cooperation with the society of the Friends of the AUB Museum hosted a lecture by Michel al- Makdisi on “New Light on the Religious Architecture of Northern Phoenicia: The Jable Plain”, which was given on September 18th, 2013. In May, 2014, our Ph. D. student Aaron Tylor Brand successfully defended his Ph. D. Dissertation entitled “Lives Darkened by Calamity: Enduring the Famine of World War I in Lebanon and Western Syria.” He is our first PhD graduate since the re-opening of the program. As in previous years, the Department has welcomed as visiting affiliates a number of researchers. B. PERSONNEL 1. Faculty Members
Abu-Husayn, Abdulrahim Professor Ph.D.
Armstrong, Lyall Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Du Quenoy, Paul Associate Professor Ph.D.
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El-Cheikh, Nadia Professor Ph.D.
El-Hibri, Tayeb Visiting Professor (Howell chair)
Ph.D.
Genz, Hermann Associate Professor Ph.D.
Kaidbey, Naila Part-time Lecturer Ph.D.
Meloy, John Professor Ph.D.
Newson, Paul Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Nurpetlian, Jack Part-time Lecturer Ph.D.
Sader, Helen Professor Ph.D.
Seeden, Helga Professor Ph.D.
Seikaly, Samir Professor Ph.D.
Sharif, Malek Lecturer Ph.D.
Wick, Alexis Assistant Professor Ph.D.
2. Research Assistants
None.
3. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester Brand, Aaron Hwee Koh, Choon Abu Hassan, Raja Kalla, Alia Alameh, Jana Kestanian, Hratch Batruni, Catherine Elhajj, Hassan
Maatouk, Tamara Raad, Nasime
Spring Semester Brand, Aaron Hwee Koh, Choon Abu Hassan, Raja Kalla, Alia Alameh, Jana Kestanian, Hratch Batruni, Catherine Elhajj, Hassan
Maatouk, Tamara Raad, Nasime
4. Non-Academic Staff Osailly, Nabeeha Secretary C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BA Oct. 2013 1
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Feb. 2014 1
Jun. 2014 3
MA Oct. 2013 0
Feb. 2014 0
Jun. 2014 2
Ph.D. Jun. 2014 1
2. Number of Majors
History Archaeology Total
Ph.D. 4 0 4
Graduates 7 3 10
Seniors 3 1 4
Juniors 1 3 4
Sophomores 0 1 1
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 2 16 17 35 211-299 23 111 115 249 200-210 - 24 28 52 100-199 9 325 288 622 Total 34 476 448 958
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘11 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 3 15 15 33 211-299 9 27 27 63 200-210 - 3 3 6 100-199 3 54 39 96 Total 15 99 84 198
D. RESEARCH Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn 1. Entry of Bashir Shihab II for the Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition (Accepted).
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2. Coeditor, The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the Seventh Century , Gorgias Press, USA. 3. Coeditor, al-Matali’ al-Badriyya fi al-manazil al-Rumiyya, forthcoming publication of the Istanbul chamber of Commerce, Istanbul. (in Arabic). Armstrong, Lyall 1. Revising Dissertation entitled The Qussas of Early Islam for review for publication. Paul du Quenoy
1. Imperial Russia and the Middle East (book project). 2. Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern (book project).
Nadia El-Cheikh
1. Book project: Prospective book to be published by Harvard University Press, tentatively entitled Uses of Women in Abbasid Discourse.
2. Articles in press: “The Institutionalization of Abbasid Ceremonial,” Diverging Paths? The Shapes of Power and Institutions in Medieval Christendom and Islam, ed. John Hudson and Ana Rodriguez (Madrid).
3. Articles in press: “Conversation as Performance: Adab al-Muhadatha at Court,” Courts and Performance, ed. Maurice Pomerantz (New York: New York University Press). Hermann Genz 1. The Tell Fadous-Kfarabida Archaeological Project (2004-2011) Project leaders: Hermann Genz (2004-ongoing). Funding Agency: Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany). Preparation of the first volume of the final publication (Genz, H. (ed.), Tell Fadous-Kfarabida I: the Site and its Environment). 2. Publication of the excavations at Tell Hizzin, Lebanon, undertaken by M. Chéhab between 1949 and 1950 (2007-ongoing).
Project leaders: Hermann Genz, Helen Sader. 3. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Lebanon from Prehistory to Hellenistic Times (2006-ongoing).
Project leaders: Helen Sader, Hermann Genz. 4. Baalbek in the Bronze Ages: A Sounding in the Courtyard of the Jupiter Temple (2012-ongoing). Project leaders: Margarete van Ess (German Archaeological Institute), Hermann Genz. Funding Agency: AUB-F.A.S (URB), German Archaeological Institute (Germany).
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Work in the summer of 2013 was suspended due to the security situation. 5. “Glyptic and Art”, in: P. de Miroschedji (ed.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: Southern Levant (Turnhout) (article in press).
6. “Metal”, in: P. de Miroschedji (ed.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: Southern Levant (Turnhout) (article in press). 7. “Khirbet ez-Zeraqun”, in: P. de Miroschedji (ed.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: Southern Levant (Turnhout) (article in press). 8. “Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (NL013)”, in: Mazzoni, S. and Thalmann, J.-P. (eds.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: the Central and Northern Levant (Turnhout) (article in press). 9. “Tell Hizzin (NL032)”, in: Mazzoni, S. and Thalmann, J.-P. (eds.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: the Central and Northern Levant (Turnhout) (article in press). 10. “Rafid (NL 029)”, in: Mazzoni, S. and Thalmann, J.-P. (eds.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: the Central and Northern Levant (Turnhout) (article in press). 11. “Biqa Surveys”, in: Mazzoni, S. and Thalmann, J.-P. (eds.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: the Central and Northern Levant (Turnhout) (article in press). 12. “Hittite Gods Abroad: Evidence for Hittite Diplomatic Activities?” Festschrift Marie-Henriette Gates (article in press).
John Meloy 1. “Intermittent Empire: Dominance and Hegemony in Mamluk Peripheries.” Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, October 2013. 2. “Al-Fasi.” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition. Leiden: Brill (submitted). 3. “The Pilgrimage to Mecca in the Later Middle Ages.”al Qantara, Institut du monde arabe, Paris (submitted). 4. “Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at AUB: Local Concerns and Global Pressures” (submitted). Paul Newson 1. “Central Bekaa Archaeological Project, Lebanon” (URB Grant funded). As Principal Investigator the first season of fieldwork has been completed though the present security situation has entailed a change in scope at present (project). 2. “The Land of Carchemish, Landscape Archaeological Project, Syria”.
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Contributor as a Classical and Landscape archaeological consultant and leading writer on a multi-disciplinary archaeological project run by the Universities of Durham and Edinburgh, UK. This project has been placed on hold due to the current problems in Syria. 3. “Settlement and Landscape in the Basalt Region of Homs, Syria”. In the role of a principal Investigator engaged in final stage writing up stage for the multi-authored monograph is now currently on-going. Helen Sader 1. The Tell el Burak Archaeological Project (2001-ongoing). Name of project leaders: Helen Sader: AUB *Jens Kamlah: University of Tübingen, Germany *Margarete van Ess: German Archaeological Institute, Berlin Name of funding Agencies: URB- FAS, German Archaeological Institute, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Thyssen Foundation,University of Tübingen. This project aims at studying the formation process of ancient settlements on the Lebanese coast and at giving AUB archaeology students an opportunity to be trained in fieldwork with competent specialists. 2. The Tell el-Qubbah Archaeological Project (2014- ) Name of project leaders: Helen Sader: AUB Graham Phillip, University of Durham Kamal Badreshany, University of Durham The project aims at conducting a pedestrian survey and surface collection of artefactual material on Tell el-Qubbah in Selaata-North Lebanon, for the purpose of mapping, photographing, and delimiting the site‟s boundaries, providing information useful for its protection. The project will also document and preserve the sections exposed during the construction of a railway line in the 1940s in order to establish the occupation history of the site 3. Sader, H. and Genz, H. An Introduction to the Archaeology of the Lebanon from Early Villages to the Coming of Alexander the Great (Book project). 4. Kamlah, J., and Sader, H. Final Report on the Excavations of Tell Burak-Lebanon: Area I. (Book project). 5. Finkbeiner, U. and Sader, H. Final Report on the Excavations of Beirut, Site BEY 020. (Book project). 6. “Inscriptions phéniciennes inédites du Liban”, to appear in the Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Tunis: Institut National du Patrimoine. First proofs corrected. (Articles in press)(First proofs corrected). 7. “Intertwined History: Lebanon‟s role in the Transmission of Egyptian Culture to Inland Syria in the Middle Bronze Age”, to appear in Qatna Studies vol. 8. (First proofs corrected). 8. "The Formation and Decline of the Aramaean States of First Millennium BC Syria", to appear in the Proceedings of the international conference held in
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Marburg in 2010 on State Formation and State Decline in the Near and Middle East Past and Present which will be published by Harrassowitz.(Article submitted). 9. “Funerary Practices in Iron Age Lebanon”, to appear in a special volume of Archaeology and History in Lebanon.(Article in press). 10. co-author J. Nurpetlian. “An Eclectic Collection of Bronze Coins from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon”, to appear in a forthcoming special volume of Transeuphratène in honor of Josette Elayi, edited by A. Lemaire and J.-M. Durand. (Expected 2014). (Article in press). 11. Eleven entries (Beirut, Orthosia, Khalde, Qana, Tell el-Burak, Ras el-Abiad, Tamburit, Yanuh, Dakerman, Adlun, and Lebanon) to appear in the Dizionario Enciclopedico della Civiltà Fenicia (An Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Phoenician Civilization) published by the Istituto delle Studi sulla Civiltà Italiche e del Mediterraneo Antico of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Some entries already published on line.(Article in press). 12. “The Stelae”; to appear in BAAL hors série vol. VIII, 2012, pp. 373-380. (Expected 2014). (Article in press). 13. “Prophecy in Syria: Zakkur of Hamath and Lu„ash”; invited contribution to appear in Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context, Edited by Christopher A. Rollston, Publisher Eisenbrauns. (Expected 2014). (Article in press). 14. “Trois poids phéniciens inédits de la Collection de la Direction Générale des Antiquités du Liban”, to appear in Bible et Orient Mélanges André Lemaire, forthcoming special volume of Transeuphratène in honor of André Lemaire, edited by J. Elayi and J.-M. Durand. (Expected 2014). (Article in press). 15. “Phönizische Städte”. To appear in Frühgeschichte der Mittelmeerkulturen. Historisch-Archäologisches Handbuch (Der Neue Pauly Supplemente 10). (Expected 2014). (Article in press). 17. “Archaeology at AUB: Past, Present and Future. To appear in the 150th Anniversary Volume.” AUB. (Article in press). 18. “Phoenician Architecture and Town Planning”, to appear in Blackwell’s Companion to Ancient Phoenicia. (Article in preparation). Helga Seeden 1. Collaborative Member with Prof. Winfried Held and Dr Hans Curvers of the research project: Berytus – Archäologie einer antiken Handelsmetropole in der Levante: Das westliche Stadtviertel in Hellenismus und römischer Kaiserzeit. Team director: Prof. Dr. Winfried Held. Direktor des Archäologischen Seminars, Philipps-Universität Marburg FB 06 Geschichte und Kulturwissenschaften. Funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2012-2015).
2. Post-Excavation Analyses of the AUB ACRE Souks Excavations (1994-1996).
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“Ancient Ceramics and Socioeconomic Change” (continued). Project Directors: H S, Tim Williams and Dominic Perring. Main Investigator: Dr. Paul Reynolds (University of Barcelona. Co-investigators: Reuben Thorpe (UCL Institute of Archaeology, London); Dr. Kevin Butcher (University of Warwick, UK); James Rackham (Palaeoenvironment and archaeozoology). Research Objective: Settlement formation processes; construction of complete ceramic type-series in Lebanon; investigation of environmental information. Electronic data recording (involving CAD & GIS applications). Combined data from site Stratigraphy , artifacts (ceramics, glass, coins, metal), and the environment provide a comprehensive understanding of the development of Beirut from pre-Hellenistic, Roman-Byzantine and early Islamic to Ottoman and Mandate period times. Research results: The project has so far resulted in 6
AUB MA theses, one of them interdisciplinary (Archaeology/ Chemistry. Thesis title: Organic Residue
Analysis of Ceramics. PhD research ongoing at Oxford). 3. “The Missing Women‟s Story.” For the AUB 150 Years‟ Celebration volume 2016 (Conference 2013). Alexis Wick 1. “The Humanities Go Native: Knowledge and Power in the Ottoman World” (ongoing research project). 2. “Hegel and Colonialism ” (ongoing research project). 3. “Brown Gold: Coffee in History” (ongoing research project). 4. History at Sea: Navigating the Age of Empires – finalized book manuscript submitted to publisher.
5. “Sailing the Modern Episteme: al-Ṭahṭāwī on the Mediterranean,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 34/2 (forthcoming, Summer 2014). E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
1. Co organized in February 2014 an international conference under the title “The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the seventh CE, as part of my QNRF grant. The conference was held in Qatar University on February 26-27. The proceedings are currently being edited for publication by Georgias Press, USA. 2. Conference: Orient Institute, Istanbul, The Tarih Vakfi (Istanbul) and Bilgi University (Istanbul) on "Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914-18” and served on the advisory board of the conference.
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3. Conference: Third Annual Conference of the Humanities and the social Sciences, Organized by the Doha Arab Center for Policy Studies and Research of, Tunis, March 20-22, 2014. 4. Continue to serve as editor for the online Encyclopedia of WWI. 5. Supervised the Ph.D. dissertation of Aaron Tylor Brand which was successfully defended on May 8, 2014. Paul du Quenoy 1. Served on the FAS Curriculum Committee, Spring and Fall 2013. 2. Served on the FAS Research Committee, Fall 2013. 3. Served on Hiring Committee for Modern Middle East Position, Spring 2013. 4. Organizing Committee, Russian New Years Ball, Washington, DC. 5. Appointed Chairman, Russian New Years Ball, Washington, DC. 6. Free-lance music criticism. 7. Teaching in the Fine Arts and Art History Department (Spring and Fall 2013). Nadia El-Cheikh 1. Lectures: “Guarding the Harem, Protecting the State: The Roles of Eunuchs in a Fourth/Tenth Century Abbasid Court,” University of Zurich, August 2013. 2. Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Abbasid Studies (JAS), 2013. 3. Member of the Advisory Board of Estudios Arabes e Islamicos. Monografias. 4. Member of the editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and of the journal al-Qantara. 5. Member of the International Advisory Board of the Library of Arabic Literature (NYU Press and NYU Abu Dhabi). 6. Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies. Hermann Genz 1. BANEA, Reading 2014, Presentation: “Cylinder Seals as Prestige Items in the Early Bronze Age Levant” (Conference Presentation). 2. Tenth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar: The Early/Middle Bronze Age Transition in the Ancient Near East: Chronology, C14 and Climate Change, Chicago 2014, Presentation: “The Transition from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age on the Lebanese Coast: Continuity or Break?” (Conference Presentation).
3. Public lecture at the University of Durham (13.01.2014), Title: “Between the Mountains and the Sea: Recent Excavations at the Early and Middle Bronze Age Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon)”.
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4. Public lecture at the University of Edinburgh (16.01.2014), Title: “Between the Mountains and the Sea: Recent Excavations at the Early and Middle Bronze Age Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon)”. 5. Thesis defence (25 September 2013): Metoda Peršin, Architecture, Stratigraphy and Functional Analysis of Building 2 in Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (BA-Thesis, University of Ljubljana: member of the committee) (Thesis supervision, External). 6. Advising of undergraduate archaeology majors (Service for the University). 7. Member of the Departmental committee for Program Learning Outcomes (Service for the University). 8. Editorial board, Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant (Vienna)(2011-present),( Service for the profession). 9. Editorial board, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Pennsylvania State University) (2012-present), (Service for the profession). 10. Peer reviews of submissions to the journals “Antiquity” and “Levant” (Service for the profession). John Meloy 1. Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 2. Associate Editor, Al-Abhath. 3. Academic advisor, History undergraduates. 4. FAS Representative, Writing Center Advisory Committee. 5. Steering Committee, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. 6. Various Promotion and Search Committees: FAAH, CASAR, CAMES, PSPA. 7. Reviewed grant proposal, book proposals (Anthem ME Studies and Edinburgh University Press), and manuscript (Brill). 8. Co-discussant, “Mamluks and Rasulids: Why They Both Should Matter to Historians.” Panel presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans. Paul Newson 1. Conference: Roman pottery in the Near East: Second Round Table Workshop. Amman, Jordan. February 18-20, 2014. 2. Member of the FAS Student Academic Affairs Committee. 3. General Education Board Committee Member. 4. Associate Editor to Berytus. 5. Associate Editor, of journal Levant. 6. Reviewed book proposals for Routledge and Ashgate Publishing. 7. Peer reviews journal Palestine Exploration Quarterly. Helen Sader
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Participation in International Conferences: 1. VIII Congresso Internazionale di Studi Fenici e Punici, October 21-26, 2013. Invited particpation. Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Congress. (2013). 2. 11th Mainz International Colloquium On Ancient Hebrew, November 1st-3rd, 2013, University of Mainz. Invited participation. Lecture title: “Published and unpublished epigraphic discoveries in Lebanon in the last 20 years”. (2013). Helga Seeden 1. Editing the AUB archaeology journal Berytus double volume 55-56 (peer reviews completed); 56 (2015) contributions now being received. 2. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of two recent Archaeology journals: Public Archaeology and Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeology Congress (WAC). Consulting editor since 2000 (first volume) of Public Archaeology. First published by James & James (Science Publishers, London), now by Maney Publishing. www.maney.co.uk/journal-of-the-month/pua Maney Publishing: web-journals. Consulting editor since 2005 (first volume) of Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeology Congress. (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology series). Blackwell Publishing Ltd, England, USA, Australia; presently published by Springer and available online (www.springerlink.com). 3. 2012 (November): participated in the Conference in honour of Sarah Jennings “Recent Research and New Discoveries in Glass and Ceramics” at the Wallace Collection, London; publication in preparation. 4. Edited Berytus 53-54 (appeared in 2013). Alexis Wick 1. Conference: “The Arab Edward Said,” Panel convener, “Transnational American Studies” conference, American University of Beirut, January 2014. 2. Conference: Arab Critiques of Orientalism before Orientalism,” Paper presented at the panel “The Arab Edward Said” of the “Transnational American Studies” conference, American University of Beirut, January 2014. 3. Conference: “Ranke of the Arabs: Asad Rustum and the Making of Post-Ottoman History,” Paper presented at the conference “Birzeit University‟s Digital Archive in an International Perspective – Toward a Chaotic Order,” Birzeit University, March 24th-25th, 2014. 4. Conference: “Of Other Geographies: Visions of the Sea before European Hegemony,” Paper presented at the “Indian Ocean before Western Colonization Research Network” of the Ifriqiyya initiative, Columbia University, New York, May 4th-5th, 2014. 5. Member of departmental committee for Program Learning Outcomes.
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6. Member of FAS Publications Committee 7. Member of CAMES Steering Committee. 8. Chair of the FAS Library Committee 9. Teaching in the Civilization Sequence Program.
10. Supervising MA theses in History (Cyma Farah, Alia Kalla, Hratch Kestenian) 11. Coordinator for Graduate Studies in History F. PUBLICATIONS
Paul du Quenoy 1. “Arabs under Tsarist Rule: The Russian Occupation of Beirut, 1773-1774,” accepted for publication in Russian History/Histoire Russe. Nadia El-Cheikh 1. Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Hugh Kennedy and Letizia Osti, Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court. Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-932). Leiden: Brill, 2013 (Co-authored book). 2. “An Abbasid Caliphal Family,” Approaches to the Byzantine Family, ed. Leslie Brubaker and Shaun Tougher (Surrey: Ashgate, 2013), 327-344. (Article). 3. My book Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs translated into Greek by Nikos Kelermenos (Athens: Enallaktikes Ekdoseis, 2013), (Translation). Hermann Genz 1. Genz, H., “The introduction of the light, horse-drawn chariot and the role of archery in the Near East at the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Ages: is there a connection?” In: Veldmeijer, A. J. and Ikram, S. (eds.), Chasing Chariots: Proceedings of the First International Chariot Conference, Cairo 2012 (Leiden 2013), 95-105.
2. Genz, H., “The Northern Levant (Lebanon) during the Early Bronze Age” In: Steiner, M. L. and Killebrew, A. E. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (ca. 8000 – 332 BCE). (Oxford 2014), 292-306.
3. Höflmayer, F., Dee, M., Genz, H. and Riehl, S., “Radiocarbon evidence for the late Early Bronze Age: the site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon)”. Radiocarbon 56/2 (2014).
4. Genz, H., “Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon”. Berytus 53-54 (2010-2011): 115-132 [appeared 2013].
5. Genz, H. and Sader, H., “Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Tell Hizzin, Lebanon”. Berytus 53-54 (2010-2011): 133-146 [appeared 2013].
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John Meloy Review of Trading Conflicts: Venetian Merchants and Mamluk Officials in Late
Medieval Alexandria, by Georg Christ. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 56 (2013), pp. 537-539. Paul Newson 1. Newson, P. and Young, R. 2014. “Archaeological assessment of the site at Hosn Niha: preliminary report 2011-2012”. BAAL: Bulletin d’Archéologie et d’Architecture Libanaises 15: 21-46. 2. Philip, G. and Newson, P. 2014. “ Settlement in the Upper Orontes Valley. A Preliminary Statement”, in K. Bartl and M. al-Maqdissi (eds), New Prospecting in the Orontes Region. First Results of Archaeological Fieldwork. Orient-Archäologie Bd. 30. Rahden, DAI, Orient-Abteilung, 33-39. 3. Newson, P. 2014. “Pottery of the „Land of Carchemish‟ Project and the Northern Euphrates.” In B. Fischer-Genz, Y. Gerber and H. Hamel (eds) Roman Pottery in the Levant: Local Production and Regional Trade. Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean Pottery 3. Oxford: Archaeopress, 3-19. 4. Samad, A., Zahir, M., Newson, P., Hamilton, D., Ali, I., Shah, I., and Young, R. 2014. “Archaeology in Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Placing New Results in Context”. Pakistan Heritage 4: 33-76. Helen Sader 1. “Archaeology in Lebanon Today: Its Politics and Its Problems”, The Ancient Near East Today, July 2013, No 4. (2013). 2. “Two Iron Age Stamp Seals from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon”, in O. Loretz, S. Ribichini, W. Watson, and J.A. Zamora eds., Ritual, Religion and Reason. Studies in the Ancient World in honour of Paolo Xella, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 404, Münster: Ugarit Verlag. 321-326. (2013). 3. Çakırlar C., V. Amer, J. Kamlah, and H. Sader. Persian Period Dog Burials in the Levant: New Evidence from Tell el-Burak (Lebanon) and a Reconsideration of the Phenomenon. Submitted to: V. Linselee, B. De Cupere, S. Hamilton-Dyer (Eds.). Archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas (ASWA) IX. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series. Peeters Press. (2013). 4. Hermann Genz and Hélène Sader “Middle Bronze Age pottery from Tell Hizzin, Lebanon”, Berytus Archaeological Studies 53-54 (2010-2011), 133-146. (2013). 5. Sader, H., “The Iron Age I in Syria and Lebanon.” in M. L. Steiner and A. E. Killebrew The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant (ca. 8000 – 332 BCE).(2014).
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6. “Aramaean History”, in H. Niehr ed. The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria, Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. 106, Leiden: Brill. (2014). Helga Seeden 1. “Sarah Came for the Glass of Beirut.” In Recent Research and New Discoveries in Glass and Ceramics. A Publication in Honour of Sarah Jennings. London, Wallace Collection. 2. “Metal Sculpture of the Second Millennium BC”. In Archéologie et Histoire de la Syrie,volume I: La Syrie de l’époque néolithique à l’âge du fer (edited by Winfried Orthmann, Michel al-Maqdisi and Paolo Matthiae). Series: „Schriften zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie‟ No 1. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag)( 395-410) (2013). Alexis Wick 1. “Modern Historiography – Arab World,” in A Companion to Global Historical Thought, ed. by Prasenjit Duara, Viren Murthy, and Andrew Sartori (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014): 308-320. G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The Department will continue its review of the graduate program in History. The Department still needs a working area for archaeologists and graduate archaeology students to process excavated material for publication. This was also recommended by the external reviewers. A temporary space is currently available on the ground floor of Fisk Hall which has been re-habilitated. Finally, the department is still facing difficulties recruiting high quality students for its Ph.D. program and should advertise it more aggressively and efficiently. Nadia El-Cheikh Chairperson
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INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS Successor to the Institute of Money and Banking (IMB), the Institute of Financial Economics (IFE) was established effective October 2001 as an independent research institute within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to be engaged in research work, conferences, seminars and workshops with a focus on financial, monetary and international economics as well as broad developmental issues of the Middle East region1. Fellows of the Institute include not only members of the Economics Department but also visiting scholars who spend time during the course of the year conducting research. As the report indicates, the Institute and Institute Fellows have been actively engaged in various academic and research activities. A major research project initiated in September 2006 with the support of a substantial International Development Research Center (IDRC) research grant and housed at the IFE was completed in 2010. A new research project, also supported by IDRC was initiated in September 2010 (see section D1 below). Other ongoing research projects undertaken by fellows of the Institute (some with its direct financial support) span the financial, monetary, exchange rate, trade, development and political economy fields, while several of their publications during this academic year appeared in top ranking internationally refereed journals or edited (refereed) books (see section F below). A. RESEARCH PROGRAM A major objective of the Institute is to promote research and other academic activities in the above fields. Gaining increasing recognition (the Institute is a founding member of the Forum for Euro-Med. Economic Institutes-FEMISE headquartered in Marseilles, France), it aims to become a major research center in particular as concerns Arab and other developing economies. Emphasis is placed on policy-oriented empirical work that could be beneficial to governments and organizations concerned with the design of economic financial and developmental policies. Towards this objective it also holds seminars, workshops and lectures that,
1In 1983 an important academic initiative by Prof. Samir Makdisi came to fruition when, with the support five major
Lebanese banks the IMB was established as an independent academic entity within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. One of its main objectives was to enhance the level of banking and financial knowledge and expertise in Lebanon and the region via graduate teaching, research work and the hosting of seminars, conferences, public lectures by experts from outside the university. With the 2001 re-structuring of the IMB, its research focus was extended beyond its primary areas of interest to include trade, development and institutions with special emphasis on the Middle East.
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among other things, bring together academicians and experts, and policy makers to analyze issues of relevance at the policy level. The Institute encourages collaborative work with appropriate national and international organizations and research centers. It also accommodates visiting scholars and experts for various intervals of time to conduct research at the institute. In 2003, the Institute initiated a guest lecture and working paper series2. The lectures are by invited scholars and experts and except for minor editorial changes, are circulated as presented. The working papers incorporate preliminary findings of ongoing research work being undertaken at the Institute and elsewhere (see below section E). B. PERSONNEL
1. Director Neaime, Simon Professor Ph.D.
2. Faculty Fellows
Makdisi, Samir Prof. Emeritus/
Senior Fellow Ph.D.
Leonidas Michelis Neaime, Simon
Professor/Fellow Professor/Fellow
Ph.D. Ph.D.
3. Research Assistants
Fall Semester Abdel Fattah, Nadine Nizam, Nour el Hoda Spring Semester Abdel Fattah, Nadine
2 The Institute Working Paper Series website is linked to the website of the Global Development Network, the
umbrella organization for major research communities in various regions of the world
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Badra, Nasser Nassar, Rawan Nizam, Nour el Hoda Wehbe, Layal
4. Non Academic Staff
Shaar, Rima Secretary
5. Advisory Committee
Makdisi, Samir Prof. Emeritus
Michelis, Leonidas Neaime, Simon
Professor Professor
6. International Advisory Committee
Elbadawi, Ibrahim, A., Director, Dubai Economic Council. Esfahani, Hadi, S., Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Makdisi, Samir, A., Senior Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics. Neaime, Simon, E., Director and Research Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics. Safadi, Raed, Deputy Director, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Paris.
C. CONDITIONS GOVERNING APPOINTMENT OF FELLOWS, SENIOR FELLOWS AND ASSOCIATES AT THE INSTITUTE3 Normally, the research interest of candidates for appointment of Fellows, Senior Fellows and Associates should pertain to the primary areas of concern to the Institute financial, international and monetary economics as well as broad developmental issues of the Middle East. They should demonstrate evidence of active research e.g. internationally refereed publications and ongoing research projects and they are expected to be actively involved in and contribute to Institute
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activities: among others, research, workshops seminars, lectures and the Institute’s working paper series. Recommendation for appointment of Senior Fellows is made on the basis of their recognized and long established research record. Period of association: three years for AUB Economics faculty, renewable. Fellows or Associates from outside AUB who wish to spend some time at the Institute will be asked to acknowledge their hosting by the Institute in their published research and/or asked to contribute to its working paper series or other outlets of publication and/or give one or more seminars/lectures during their stay. Their involvement in Institute activities will depend in part, on the length of their stay which can vary from one week to a whole academic year. Fellows and Associates will benefit from office space (if available), computer and internet facilities, secretarial assistance, and graduate research assistants, in addition to the Institute’s contacts with outside research organizations. On the recommendation of the Director and the approval of the Dean and the extend financial resources are available, Economics faculty fellows may also benefit from limited research grants, based on a research proposal during the summer period (July and August) on condition they spend at least one month on campus. Other Economics faculty may also benefit from financial support to the extent resources are available. The conditions for support will be set on a case by case basis. It is expected that financial support by the Institute will be duly acknowledged in publications and presentations that receive this support. Appointments are made by the Dean on the recommendation of the Director of the Institute. D. RESEARCH 1. Institute Sponsored Research Major Research Project on “Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab World” (S. Makdisi and I. Elbadawi Co-managers) This new research project, again being supported by a large IDRC grant was launched in September 2010 as a sequel to a completed project on the underlying factors persistence of Arab democracy deficit and which was published by Routledge in 2011 under the title: Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit, and edited by I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi. The current project builds on a two-tier approach: on the one hand a cross to county paper based on an empirical model of democratic transition which identifies major factors pushing for this transition, and on the other, country case studies that
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focus on the specific factors that have already pushed for democratic transformation (Egypt and Tunisia) or are likely to push in this direction in the foreseeable future. The case studies will also discuss the nature of the new democratic societies that is expected to emerge. They include: Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia and Sudan. A total of 14 researchers from AUB and other academic or professional institutions in the region and abroad are involved in this new project. 2. Fellows’ On-Going Research/Forthcoming Publications Samir Makdisi 1. Managing major research project on “Transition from Autocracy to Democracy
in the Arab World”, in progress (with I. Elbadawi) described under Institute sponsored research.
2. “Arab Development in Global Context”, the major objective of this research is to identify the new developmental paradigm of the Arab countries where the process of democratic transformation has been taking place.
3. “The Unraveling of Arab Autocracy: Socio Economic Factors in Context”, Research paper under preparation for the Middle East Institute, the National University of Singapore.
Leonidas Michelis 1. The Greek Debt Crisis: Suggested Solutions and Reforms 2. Sustainability of Budget Deficits and Public Debts in Selected European Union
Countries, Institute of Financial Economics, (with S. Neaime) 3. The Welfare Costs of Inflation in a Growing Economy with Habits, (with A.
Mansoorian), York University 4. The Canadian Stock Market and the Canadian Economy, (with A. Bond),
Reyerson University 5. Structural Breaks and Interest Rate Convergence between the New EU
Countries and the EMU, (with M. Koukouritakis), University of Crete Simon Neaime 1. Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab World: Syria Case Study,
Institute of Financial Economics/IDRC Research Project, (with R.Safadi) 2. Twin Deficits and the Sustainability of Public Debts and Exchange Rates in
Lebanon, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project
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3. Health Economic Research on the Pharmaceutical Sector in Emerging Markets, 2013-2014.
4. Sustainability of Budget Deficits and Public Debts in Selected European Union Countries, Institute of Financial Economics Research Project, (with L. Michelis).
E. OTHER ACTIVITIES 1. Staff Activities Samir Makdisi 1. Invited to give a paper on "After the Arab Spring: Development Challenges and
Solutions" at the 2014 Annual conference of the Middle East Institute, Singapore, May 29-30, 2014.
2. Invited to participate in the Economic Research Forum’s 20th Annual Conference on: “Social Justice and Economic Development”, Cairo, March 22-24, 2014; presented with an award for outstanding contributions to the development of the ERF.
3. Organized under the auspices of the Institute of Financial Economics a major International Conference on “Deconstructing Arab Transitions: Regional Overview and Case Studies”, Beirut, November 8-9, 2013.
4. Invited to give a presentation at conference on “Rethinking the Arab Transition: Opportunities and Threats to Democratization in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings”, organized by the University of Westminster, London, October 4, 2013.
5. Directed a major International project on: “Transition from Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab World” housed at the Institute of Financial Economics. Several scholars from the Arab World and abroad are participating in this project.
6. Gave a graduate economics course at AUB, Spring 2014. 7. Invited to give a short term graduate seminar at the St. Joseph University, Beirut,
Spring, 2014. 8. Participated in several of the activities organized by the Issam Fares Institute for
Public policy and International Affairs; co-directing a research project on Social Justice and Development sponsored by the IFI.
9. Member of Committees of two MA Economics theses. Leonidas Michelis
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1. Acting Chair of the Department of Economics and Acting Director of IFE; Jan.
16-23 and March 24-28, 2012. 2. Member of the Dean’s extended advisory committee for 3 promotion files, and
for contract renewal file. 3. Chair for two CPC committees for two promotion files at the Economics
Department. 4. Co-organizer: Economics IFE Seminar Series 5. Graduate Applications Evaluator 6. Job Recruitment Contributor 7. Member of the Departmental Curriculum Committee 8. Comprehensive Exams: Econometrics 9. Theses/Project Supervisor: I contributed to the supervision of 12 graduate
theses/projects, two of which as a first reader 10. Anonymous referee to 3 academic journals: Review of Economics and Statistics,
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 11. Co-editor: Journal of Economic Asymmetries 12. Athenian Policy Forum: Secretary and Executive Director 13. External Examiner for a tenure file, University of Piraeus, Greece Simon Neaime 1. Invited by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD) to participate as Panelist in an Expert Meeting on the Impact and Implications of the Global Financial and Economic Crises on Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland 3-6 February 2014.
2. Presented the Syria Case Study (with R. Safadi) in an International Conference on “Deconstructing Arab Transitions: Regional Overview and Case Studies”, Institute of Financial Economics, AUB, November 8-9, 2013.
3. External Reviewer for the University of Jordan for the promotion of Professor Mohammad A. Alawin to the rank of Full Professor in 2014.
4. Anonymous Refereeing: I reviewed eight manuscripts on behalf of eight international journals in Economics and Financial Economics and submitted my referee reports to the editors of the journals.
5. Participated in the Department hiring committee for the appointment of a Full Professor in the Finance track at the Olayan School of Business, 2014.
6. Participated in the Management Track of the Olayan School of Business for a promotion case to the rank of Full Professor in 2014.
7. Participated in the Finance Track of the Olayan School of Business for a promotion case to the rank of Associate Professor in 2014.
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8. Director, Institute of Financial Economics, 2013-2014 9. Member of the Economics Department Graduate Committee, 2013-2014 10. Acting Chair, Economics Department Curriculum Committee, 2013-2014 11. Graduate Comprehensive Exams: Macroeconomics, 2013-2014 12. Sustainability of Budget Deficits and Public Debts in European Union: A time
series analysis, Institute of Financial Economics research project. Paper to be presented at the 12th Biennial Athenian Policy Forum Conference on: “Economic and Financial Asymmetries, National Debts and Government Policies”. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, June 12-15, 2014.
13. Theses and Project Supervision as Main Advisor: 1. Bachir El Khoury, (2013), The Economic Dimension of the Arab Uprising. 2. Nour Kanso (2013), The Impact of the Greek Crisis on the Euro, the Euro Zone, and the Global Markets. 3. Myra Bizri (2013), Euro Zone: A Successful Monetary Union Needs to be
Part of a Fiscal and Political Union 4. Lana El Tabch (2013) Twenty Years of Monetary Policy in Lebanon (1993-2012): Impact of the Exchange Rate Based Stabilization on Economic Performance.
5. Ghania Ezzedine (2013), The European Debt crisis and its Implications: Case of Italy and Spain.
6. Sanaa Lahoud (2013), The Inflation Risk in the Insurance Industry 7. Mohammad El-Dirani (2013), Corporate Governance: An Empirical
Approach. 8.Roland Desmesropian (2013), The Economic Determinants of the Price of
Gold . 9.Cyril Finan (2013), The Crowding out of the Greek Banking Sector by
Sovereign. 10.Rakel Kendrijina (2013), Greek Debt Crisis: Causes, Implication and Course
of Action for Eurozone's Biggest Economic Challenge. 11.Abeer Taher (2013), The Debt Crisis in the UAE: Explaining the Causes. 12.Dana El Katarji, (2013), Big Banks: To Bail or to Fail? 13. Mohammad Chami, (2013), BRICS – The Rising Power. 14. Michel Jaklis (2013), The Emerging Markets Before and After the Financial
Crisis. 15.Gisele Nacouzi (2014) Managing Liquidity Trap: Policy interactions and
perspectives from the US and Japan. 16.Abdel Rahim Ayoubi (2014) Facebook's IPO Fiasco. 17.Khaled Maher (2014), Lebanon and the Arab Spring. 18.Najat Hatoum (2014), Growth and unemployment in the MENA Region: A
Missing Link.
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19.Nadine Yamout (2014), The Interaction Between Remittances, Real Exchange Rates, and Financial Sector Development: The Case of Labor Exporting MENA Countries. 20.Nadine Abdel Fattah (2014), The Spillover Effects of the Syrian Crisis on Lebanon’s Economy: A Cross Border Analysis between Jordan and Turkey. 21.Sarah Al-Dirani (2014), How Did Policy Response and Resilience Aid the Emerging Economies in the Mena Region to Cope with the Global Crisis.
2. Institute Activities
1. Public Lectures and Workshops: The Institute organized (in cooperation with other Departments) the following public lectures/workshops: The Institute organized with the Center for the Study of Democracy at Westminster University in London workshop on: “Rethinking the Arab Transition: Opportunities and Threats to Democratization in the Aftermath to the Arab Uprisings”; Participants included academicians and researcher from AUB, Westminster University, Oxford University, Cairo University and Al Manar University (Tunis), October 4, 2013, Westminster University, London. The Institute of Financial Economics organized an International Conference on “Deconstructing Arab Transitions: Regional Overview and Case Studies”. Participants included IFE Fellows (Prof. Samir Makdisi and Prof. Simon Neaime) and speakers from Doha Institute, Qatar (Dr. Ali Abdelgadir Ali), Bank of Lebanon (Prof. Youssef El Khalil), University of La Manouba, Tunisia (Dr. Saoussen Ben Romdhane), El Manar University, Tunisia (Dr. Mongi Boughzala), Westminster University, London (Dr. Abdelwahab El Affendi), the School of Oriental And African Studies, London (Sarah El Ashmawy), Center for Global Development, Washington DC (Dr. Ibrahim Elbadawi), University of Khartoum, Sudan (Dr. Atta El Battahani), Ford Foundation, Cairo (Dr. Noha El Mikawy), McMaster University, Canada (Dr. Atif Kubursi), Menoufia University, Egypt (Dr. Mohamed Mohieddin), and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, (Dr. Raed Safadi), November 8-9, 2013, College Hall, Auditorium B1.
2. Other: A number of outside experts were invited to give talks to graduate students in financial economics on various topics of relevance to their studies. Furthermore, “in house” discussion meetings on topics pertaining to ongoing research were held.
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As part of its role in making available ongoing research, within and outside the University related to economic issues of special concern to developing countries, the Institute has initiated in 2003 a series of guest lecture and working papers made available in print as well on its website (linked in Spring 2007 to the GDN website). The series has been steadily gaining recognition abroad. Except for minor editorial changes, the lectures are circulated as presented at public lectures organized by the Institute while the working papers reflect ongoing research intended to be polished and developed and eventually published. The series’ advisory committee includes: I. Elbadawi, (The World Bank), H. Esfahani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), S. Makdisi, Chair (AUB) and S. Neaime (AUB). As of end of June, 2007 the series’ papers included (in reverse chronological order):
1. Ibrahim Elbadawi (Center for Global Development, Washington DC), and Atif
Kubrusi (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario), Kuwaiti Democracy: Illusive or Resilient? (2014, No. 1)
2. Samir Makdisi (AUB), and Youssef El Khalil (Bank of Beirut and AUB), Will Lebanon transit to a fully-fledged Democracy? Economic and Political Perspectives, (2013, No. 1)
3. Summaries of presentations made at a workshop organized jointly at AUB by the Institute of Financial Economics and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, The Arab Uprisings-What Happened, What’s Next? (2012, No. 1)
4. Samir Makdisi (AUB), Remarks on Autocracies, Democratization, and Development in the Arab Region, (2011, No. 1)
5. Samir Makdisi (AUB), Development without Democracy in the Arab World, (2009, No.2) 6. Jean Philippe Platteau (University of Namur, Belgium) ,The Causes of Institutional
Inefficiency: A Development Perspective, (2009, No. 1 ) 7. Marcus Marktanner and Nagham Sayour (AUB), Initial Inequality and Protectionism:
A Political-Economy Approach, (2008, No. 3 ) 8. Simon Neaime (AUB), Twin Deficits in Lebanon: A Time Series Analysis, (2008, No.
2) 9. Samir Makdisi and Marcus Marktanner (AUB), Trapped by Consociationalism: The
Case of Lebanon (2008, No. 1 ) 10. Salwa Hammami and Simon Neaime (AUB), Measurement of Financial Integration in
the GCC Equity Markets: A Novel Perspective, ( 2007, No. 4) 11. Samir Makdisi (AUB) , Rebuilding without Resolution: The Lebanese Economy and State
in Post-Civil War Period, (2007, No. 3) 12. Salwa Hammami (AUB) , Horse Race of Utility-Based Asset Pricing Models: Ranking
through Specification Errors, (2007, No. 2)
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13.Henrik Huitfeldt (European Training Foundation and Nader Kabbani (AUB) , Returns to Education and the Transition from School to Work in Syria, (2007, No. 1)
14.Marcus Marktanner and Joanna Nasr (AUB), From Rentier State and Resource Curse to Even Worse? (2006, No. 3)
15.Pierre-Guillaume Meon (University of Brussles)and Khaled Sekkat (University of Brussles) , Institutional Quality and Trade: Which Institutions? Which Trade? (2006, No. 2)
16.Mario Rui Pascoa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Abdelkrim Seghir (AUB) , Harsh Default Penalties Lead to Ponzi Schemes ,( 2006, No.1)
17.Ibrahim Elbadawi (The World Bank) and Samir Makdisi (AUB), Democracy and Development in the Arab World, (2005, No.2)
18.Nada Mora (AUB), Sovereign Credit Rating: Guilty Beyond Reasonable Doubt? (2005, No.1)
19.Simon Neaime (AUB), Portfolio Diversification and Financial Integration of MENA Stock Markets, (2004, No.3)
20.Ibrahim Elbadawi (The World Bank), The Politics of Sustaining Growth in the Arab World: Getting Democracy Right, (2004, No.2)
21.Mustapha Nabli, Jennifer Keller and Marie-Ange Veganzones, (The World Bank),Exchange Rate Management within the Middle East and North Africa: The Cost to Manufacturing Competitiveness, (2004, No. 1)
22.Samir Makdisi and Richard Sadaka (AUB) ,The Lebanese Civil War 1975-1990,(2003, No. 3)
23.Richard N. Cooper (Harvard University), Prospects for the World Economy, (2003, No. 2)
24. Hadi Salehi Esfahani (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), A Re- examination of the Political Economy of Growth in the MENA Countries, (2003, No. 1) Several papers, from outside and within the university, are currently under consideration for inclusion in the series. F. PUBLICATIONS Samir Makdisi 1. “Understanding Democratic Transitions in the Arab World” (with I. Elbadawi),
Economic Research Forum Working Paper No. 765, September, 2013. 2. Development Without Democracy in the Arab World”, in Eclairages Sur Des
Enveux Arabs Et Internationaux Contemporains, Institut Des Sciences Politique, St. Joseph University, V. 1., 2013-2014.
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Leonidas Michelis No publications Simon Neaime 1. “An Analysis of the Mobile Telephone Sector in MENA: Potential for
Deregulation and Privatization”, Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, Vol. 32, pp. 1-14, 2014, (with S. Hakim).
2. “Foreign Shocks and International Cost of Equity Destabilization: Evidence from the MENA region”, Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, Vol. 18, pp. 101–122, 2014, (With T. Lagoarde, and A. Guyot).
3. “Foreign Currency Borrowing in Emerging Markets: When Commercial Banks Intermediate Dollars”, Journal of Banking and Finance, Elsevier, Vol. 37(3), pp. 1093-1107, 2013, (With N. Mora, and S. Aintablian).
G. FUTURE PLANS 1. Apart from its own resources, the Institute will continue to seek additional
research funds from outside sources that will help it launch new research projects some of which will be carried out in collaboration with outside research centers and experts. For the coming year a few projects have already been planned. As mentioned under Institute sponsored research, the IFE is currently hosting a new 30-month major research project, supported by IDRC, on “Transition from autocracy to democracy in the Arab World”. It will involve IFE fellows and a good number of researchers from other academic or professional institutions abroad.
2. Seminars/ workshops and public lectures will continue to be organized periodically dealing with major economic/financial issues facing Lebanon, the Arab World and developing countries more generally.
3. The Institute will host visiting scholars as research associates in the coming academic year. In addition to their own research activities, they will give talks on selected economic and financial topics.
The IFE has been making substantial progress towards fulfilling its objectives: its research and office infra-structure has been continuously upgraded, particularly during the current academic year, while its specialized library now includes many titles and reference sources. The Institute’s seminary/Library room serves as the
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hub of graduate courses in financial economics/economics as well as for lectures and seminars by economics faculty members and invited outside speakers. Not only has the Institute’s research activity expanded substantially, but increasingly it is becoming a recognized university center for research in economics and development with emphasis on the Middle East region. In the process it has established important contacts with academic institutions and research institutes abroad. This constitutes solid grounds upon which to continue to build for future expansion in its research and scholarly activities.
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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The department has been actively working on the recommendations of the external reviewers. Two committees were formed to follow up on some of the recommendations; a recruitment committee and a curriculum committee. The curriculum committee reviewed the service courses and submitted several recommendations after intensive discussions with the concerned departments. Three new faculty members will be joining the department this year in an effort to cope with the increasing number of students. Moreover, more students are joining the applied Math program. A Teaching evaluation committee evaluated the performance of all non-professorial rank instructors/lecturers. The results revealed the high quality of teaching in the department. The department in coordination with CAMS organized a conference in Algebra where several international and local speakers presented their latest research results. Moreover, other local and international speakers presented their research results in the departmental seminar series. The department of Mathematics will be following on the implementation of the learning outcomes and will possibly design a capstone course as a first step in this direction. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members Abi-Khuzam, Faruk Ph.D Professor Abu-Khuzam, Hazar Ph.D Professor Lyzzaik, Abdallah Ph.D Professor Nahlus, Nazih Ph.D Professor Nassif, Nabil Ph.D Professor Khuri-Makdisi, Kamal Ph.D Professor Shayya, Bassam Ph.D Professor
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Alhakim, Abbas Ph.D Assistant Professor Azar, Monique Ph.D Assistant Professor Bright, Martin Ph.D Assistant Professor El Khoury, Sabine Ph.D Assistant Professor Egeileh, Michel Ph.D Assistant Professor Raji, Wissam Ph.D Associate Professor
(Chairperson) Tlas, Tamer Ph.D Assistant Professor Kobeissi, Mohammad Ph.D Lecturer (part-time) Yamani, Hussam Ph.D Lecturer Fayyad, Dolly Ph.D Lecturer (part-time) Makhoul, Ola Ph.D Lecturer (part-time) Achkar, Alice M.S. Instructor (part-time) Al Hakim, Roy M.S. Instructor (part-time) Birjawi, Razan M.S. Instructor (part-time) Bou Eid, Michella M.S Instructor (part-time) Fuleihan, Najwa M.S. Instructor Itani Hatab, Maha M.S. Instructor Khachadourian, Zadour M.S. Instructor Mroue, Fatima M.S. Instructor (part-time) Nahle, Zeina M.S. Instructor (part-time) Nashef, Fida M.S. Instructor (part-time) Nassif, Rana M.S. Instructor (part-time) Rahhal, Lina M.S. Instructor (part-time) Sleiman, Sama M.S. Instructor (part-time) Tannous, Joumana M.S. Instructor (part-time) 2. Research Assistants None 3. Graduate Assistants Fall Semester Jradi, Sleiman Karakazian, Hagop Khatib, Ola Mantash, Batoul Maziad, Fatima Mrad, Preskella Sabrawi, Sally
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Samman, Tala Sharanek, Dima Spring Semester Al Ahmadieh, Abeer Al Shami, Omar
Jradi, Slaiman Karakazian, Hagop Mantash, Batoul Maziad, Fatima Mrad, Preskella Sabrawi, Sally Samman, Tala 4. Non-Academic Akl Abou Zaki, Lina Administrative Assistant C. TEACHING
1. Number of Graduating Majors
BA or BS Oct. 2013 1
Feb. 2014 2
Jun. 2014 9
MA or MS Oct. 2013 1 Feb. 2014 2 Jun. 2014 5
2. Number of Majors Graduates 19
Seniors 30
Juniors 54
Sophomores 160
3. Student Enrollment in Mathematics Courses
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Course Summer 13 Fall 14 Spring 14 Sub-Total Courses numbered 300 & above 16 24 40 Courses numbered 211 through 299
175 770 759 1704
Courses numbered 200 through 210
292 1482 1293 3067
Courses numbered 100 through 199
66 271 209 546
Total 533 2539 2285 5357 5357 4. Student Enrollment in Statistics Courses
Courses Summer 13 Fall 14 Spring 14 Sub-Total Courses numbered 300 and above Courses numbered 211 through 299
250 230 185 665
Courses numbered 200 through 210
37 238 171 446
Courses numbered 100 through 199
Total 287 468 356 1111 1111
5. Number of Credit hours Offered in Mathematics Courses
Courses Summer
13 Fall 14
Spring 14 Sub-Total
Courses numbered 300 & above 0 12 9 21 Courses numbered 211 through 299
24 80 83 187
Courses numbered 200 through 210
45 100 92 237
Courses numbered 100 through 199
12 25 20 57
Total 81 217 204 502 502 6. Number of Credit Hours Offered in Statistics Courses
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Courses Summer 13
Fall 14
Spring 14 Sub-Total
Courses numbered 300 & above Courses numbered 211 through 299 24 27 21 72 Courses numbered 200 through 210 9 17 15 41 Courses numbered 100 through 199 Total 33 44 36 113 113 D. RESEARCH
Faruk Abi-Khuzam
1. Geometry of the weighted Fermat-Torricelli problem. 2. WAT conjecture 3. Fixed points of the Berezin transform on the Bergmann space of the annulus
Hazar Abu-Khuzam 1. H. Abu-Khuzam and A. Yaqub, “Rings Where as Semigroups Certain Subsets are Multiplicatively Generated by Idempotents.” (In Progress.) Abdallah Lyzzaik 1. Abdallah Lyzzaik; On the Modulus of the Teichmuller domain of univalent harmonic mappings of an annulus. This is a fundamental problem in the theory of univalent harmonic mappings and minimal surfaces over Teichmuller domains; it arises naturally after the recent solution of the problem of J. C. C. Nitsche regarding univalent harmonic mappings between annuli. Nazih Nahlus 1. Nazih Nahlus, F-Noetherian Rings and Quantum Groups. 2. Nazih Nahlus, Commutators in semisimple Lie algebras. 3. Nazih Nahlus, Commutators in compact and F-compact real semisimple Lie algebras. 4. Nazih Nahlus, Homomorphisms of infinite products of simple Lie algebras over p-adic numbers. Nabil Nassif
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1. Parallel Algorithms for Time-Dependent Initial Value Problems. CEDRE project co-funded by the Lebanese Ministry of Higher Education and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Project completed in December 2013) 2. Book on “Matrix Computations and Applications” (with Bernard Philippe and Jocelyne Erhel). Under Completion (Accepted for publication) 3. Master’s thesis supervision in Computational Science: Samah Karim. (Completed in May 2014) 4. Master’s thesis supervision in Computational Science: Sariah Batakji. (Under completion) 5. “Parallel Algorithms for the Satellite problem”. Paper under preparation Kamal Khuri-Makdisi Articles submitted: 1. On Jacobian group arithmetic for typical divisors on curves, preprint, available from http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6324 2. Periods of modular forms and identities between Eisenstein series, joint with W. Raji, preprint, available from http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1854 Work in progress: 3. Hilbert modular forms and equations for Hilbert Abelian surfaces, preliminary stage of investigation. Bassam Shayya 1. ``Variants of the Mattila integral, measures with nonnegative Fourier transforms, and the distance set problem’’, accepted for publication by the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Abbas Alhakim 1. Novel methods for efficiently generating de Bruijn sequences, Funded by CNRS (L.L. 7,500,000, February 1, 2013 – January 31, 2014, funding renewal approved as of May 2nd 2014.) 2. Limits Theorems for maxima of discrete random variables with various tail decay properties, using Poissonization and de-Poissonization techniques. 3. Decomposition of Pearson’s statistic and higher order chi-square tests. Monique Azar 1. Enumerative and tropical geometry.
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Sabine El khoury Sabine El Khoury, Andrew Kustin 1. “Artinian Gorenstein Algebras with linear resolutions”; arxiv: 1305.2523. Jayanthan A.V, Sabine El Khoury, Hema Srinivasan 2. “On the number of generators of ideals defining Gorenstien Artin Algebras with Hilbert Function (1, n+1, …n+1, 1)”; arxiv: 1304.0305 Sabine El Khoury, Andrew Kustin 3. “The explicit minimal resolution construceted from the Macaaulay inverse system”; Preprint Wissam Raji 1. Wissam Raji, Periods of Modular Forms and Identities between Eisenstein Series. (Joint Work with Kamal Khuri Makdisi) 2. Wissam Raji, Construction of Vector-Valued Modular Integrals and Vector-Valued Mock Modular Forms. Submitted. (Joint Work with Jose Gimenez and Tobias Muhlenbruch). Tamer Tlas I am currently continuing the project I have been working on for the last few years. I’ve submitted 3 papers, listed below. Michel Egeileh 1. Infinite-dimensional supermanifolds 2. Geometry of supergravity theories 3. Supersymmetric field equations Martin Bright 1. Rational points in families of rational surfaces (with T. Browning & D. Loughran, University of Bristol) 2. Transcendental Brauer groups of diagonal quartic surfaces (with A. Skorobogatov, Imperial College) 3. Book on “Geometry and Arithmetic of Surfaces” for Cambridge University Press (with D. Testa (Warwick) and R. van Luijk (Leiden)) 4. Bad reduction of the Brauer–Manin obstruction
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E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Faruk Abi-Khuzam 1. Directed One Master’s Thesis titled, “On the fixed points of the Berezin transform” by student Fatima Maziad Hazar Abu Khuzam
1. Chairman, Department of Mathematics, AUB ( 2004-Aug. 2013) 2. Assessment of Programs’ Learning Outcomes (2013) 3. Academic Adviser for Freshman, Major-less, and Mathematics Students 4. Self-Study Program Review report (2012-13)
Conferences/Talks 1. Gave a talk entitled “Generalized Boolean and Boolean-like rings” in Blast 2013
conference, August 5-9, Orange, California 2. Attended the joint meeting of the American Math Society & MAA, January 2013, San
Diego, California Faculty/University Committees
1. Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee (Chair) 2. FAS Promotion Committee (Chair) 3. Member, FAS Research Committee 4. Member, Steering committee, Center of Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS),
AUB, 2011-present) Departmental Committees
5. Departmental PhD Program Committee 2011-2013 (Chair) 6. Departmental Strategic Planning Committee 2011-2013 (Chair) 7. Departmental Hiring Committee (member 2013-14)
Masters’ Theses 8. Thesis Advisor for Rima Gebai (Graduated-2013) 9. Thesis Advisor for Tala Samman (2013-14) 10. Member of several other Master’s Theses Committees
Abdallah Lyzzaik Have been on secondment at Fahad Bin Sultan University for four consecutive years Nazih Nahlus
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1. I was in charge of organizing the AUB conference on Algebra, Lie Groups and related topics on April, 23-25, 2014. 2. I gave a conference talk at the AUB Algebra Conference on April 24. The title of the conference talk is “F-Noetherian Rings and Qunatum Groups” 3. I gave a seminar at CAMS on Oct. 30, 2013. The title of the seminar is “Linear Algebra over Arbitrary Commutative Rings” 4. I served as a member on the promotion committee for Dr. Martin Bright to associate professorship. 5. I served as the Colloquium Coordinater in the Math department. 6. I served as a mentor for Dr. Kamal Azizheris. 7. I participated in the 2nd FAS Advising Workshop on Dec. 11, 2013. 8. I helped with AUB SRC elections (for 2 hours). 9. I gave an introductory lecture to Math undergraduates in preparation for the AUB Algebra conference. 10. I advised about 7 senior-level students in Math. 11. I was nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award. 12. I am Marshall at the AUB Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony 2014.
Nabil Nassif 1. Member of FAS Computational Science Committee 2. Advisor for Sophomore students in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 3. Chairperson, Zaki Nassif Program for Music Kamal Khuri-Makdisi 1. Hiring committee chair, AUB mathematics department, fall 2013 and early 2014. The department made several offers that were accepted. 2. Periodic paid research leave, spring 2014. Visiting scholar at Harvard University. 3. Seminar and conference talks at number theory or algebraic geometry seminars in various math departments: six during spring 2014. * On Eisenstein series of weight 1: Harvard University (February 2014), Brown University (March 2014), Princeton University (March 2014), Boston College (April 2014). * Periods of modular forms and identities between Eisenstein series: MIT (February 2014), Boston University (March 2014). 4. Conferences attended: * Current Developments in Mathematics 2013, Harvard University and MIT, November 2013.
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* GP/PARI workshop, Laboratoire de Mathematiques de Besancon, January 2014; combined with a weeklong visit to the department. * AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, January 2014. 5. Refereed an article for Journal of Number Theory. Bassam Shayya 1. Member of the FAS Advisory Committee. 2. Member of the Board of General Education. Abbas Alhakim 1. Used long term grant to travel and collaborate with colleagues at UNC Charlotte, August 10-30, 2013. 2. Is a Fellow of CAMS (fellowship Renewed for September 2013-August 2014). 3. Special Session organizer, AMS annual meeting 2014, Baltimore, USA. Session title: “de Bruijn Sequences and Their generalizations”. 4. Speaker at the AMS annual meeting 2014, Baltimore. Title of Talk: “Generating and Compressing De Bruijn Sequences Using Preference Diagrams”. 5. Invited speaker at the NDU Mathematics Department seminar, May 7, 2014. Title of Talk: “Decomposition of Pearson’s chi-square statistic in the non-equiprobable case”. 6. Member of the organizing committee for the fifth annual meeting of the Lebanese Society for Mathematical Sciences (to be held in June 2014) 7. Committee member for a PhD dissertation, candidate: Ms. Rana Fakhreddine, Universite Saint Joseph and Universite de Grenoble. Defense date: Sept. 26, 2013. 8. Committee member, Master’s thesis in Computational Mathematics, for Ms. Amani Srour, Fall 2013. 9. Committee member, Master’s thesis in Mathematics, for Ms. Sally Sabrawi, May 9, 2014. 10. Refereed for the Journal of Integers and the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (JSCS). 11. Member of the Math department Curriculum committee (Fall 2013) 12. Interim chair of the department curriculum committee (Spring 2014) 13. Member of the FAS graduate committee (Spring 2014, elected) 14. Continuing Vice President, Lebanese Society for Mathematical Sciences (LSMS) 15. Member of the American Mathematical Society. Monique Azar 1. Member of the Departmental curriculum committee
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2. Math Department Book Adoption Coordinator 3. Academic Advisor for Undergraduate Math Students 4. M.S. Thesis Advisor for Batoul Mantash, Sally Sabrawi and Dima Sharanek. Sabine El Khoury 1. Freshman advisor: Fall 2013-2014-Spring 2014. 3. Undergraduate Admission Committee: Fall 2013-2014- Spring 2014.
Michel Egeileh 1. Invited to Bochum University to spend my periodic paid research leave (September 2, 2013 – January 17, 2014). 2. Invited to Paris Diderot University to pursue collaboration on Project 3 above (September 16 – September 23, 2013). 3. Invited to a workshop of the transregional collaborative research center SFB TR12 in Langeoog (November 3 – November 7, 2013). 4. Talk given in the SFB Seminar on Symmetries, at the Mathematics Institute of the Ruhr-Universität of Bochum: “Smoothness of maps and of spaces in infinite dimensions” (January 10, 2014). 5. Member in the curriculum committee of the Mathematics Department. 6. Academic advising. 7. Member in the Master’s Thesis committee of the following graduate student: Sleiman Jradi. 8. Invited to Bochum University to pursue collaboration on Project 1 above (May 19 – May 30, 2013). Wissam Raji 1. Member of Organizing Committee of the Conference on Algebra, Lie Groups and Related Topics, April 23-25, 2014. 2. Chair of the Teaching Evaluation committee for non-professorial rank instructors, department of Mathematics, November 2013. 3. Refereed articles for Canadian Math bulletin and Archiv der Mathematik.
Tamer Tlas I have continued to serve on the Undergraduate Curriculum, Student Affairs and the Library committees. At the departmental level I’ve been a member of the recruitment committee this year. Additionally, I have developed an undergraduate
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course in differential geometry currently studied by the departmental curriculum committee. Finally, in addition to teaching my regular courses I have been supervising Sleiman Jradi’s MS thesis. Martin Bright 1. FAS Graduate Committee 2. Chair of Department Curriculum Committee 3. Several articles refereed for international journals F. PUBLICATIONS
Hazar Abu Khuzam 1. H. Abu-Khuzam and A. Yaqub, “Generalized Boolean and Boolean-Like Rings”, International Journal of Algebra, Vol 7, 2013, 429-438. Abdallah Lyzzaik
1. Daoud Bshouty, Abdallah Lyzzaik; A survey of recent boundary behavior results of univalent harmonic mappings. Current Topics in Pure and Computational Complex Analysis, Springer Verlag, (2014) 22 pages. Nabil Nassif 1. N. Nassif, N. Makhoul Karam, J. Erhel, Adaptive Parallel Time Integration” accepted for publication in the LNCSE books collection (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Accepted for publication in Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 2. N. Nassif, D. Fayyad, Introduction to Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. Published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2013 Kamal Khuri-Makdisi Two preprints submitted for publication; see section D above.
Abbas AlHakim 1. De Bruijn Sequences with Varying Combs”, with Ron Graham and Steven Butler. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Integers.
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Sabine El Khoury Sabine El Khoury, Hema Srinivasan 1. “Gorenstein Hilbert Coefficient”; (dedicated to Jurgen Herzog on his 70th Birthday); To appear in J. Commut. Algebra, Volume 5, No 2, (2013), 179-207. Sabine El Khoury, Manoj Kummini Hema Srinivasan 2. “Bounds for the Multiplicity of Gorenstein Algebras”; arxiv:1211.1316, to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Wissam Raji 1. Wissam Raji, Eichler Integrals of Maass Cusp Forms of Real Weights, accepted in Illinois Journal of Mathematics. (Joint work with Tobias Muhlenbruch) 2. Wissam Raji, Unimodularity of Period Polynomials of Hecke Eigenforms. Accepted in Bulletin of London Math. Society. (Joint work with Ahmad el Guindy) 3. Wissam Raji, Period Functions of Half Integral Weight Modular Forms. Accepted in Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux. (Joint Work with Dohoom Choi and Subong Lim). 4. An Introductory Course in Elementary Number theory, Saylor Foundation. Washington DC. 2013. Tamer Tlas These are preprints. T. Tlas, `Big Free Groups are Almost Free', arXiv: 1312.4750. T. Tlas, `On the Ashtekar-Lewandowski Measure as a Restrition of the Product One', arXiv: 1312.3603. T. Tlas, `On the Holonomic Equivalence of Two Curves', arXiv: 1311.6611.
Martin Bright 1. Brauer groups of singular del Pezzo surfaces. Michigan Mathematical Journal, 2013, to appear.
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The department will continue to work on the quality of the undergraduate and the
graduate programs. Several new courses and new programs are currently in the
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pipeline and will be discussed shortly in the department. We will continue to recruit more faculty members to cope with the increasing number of students. Wissam Raji Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The total number of students enrolled was 1865 (compared with 1511 and 1606 for the two previous years). Out of the 312 credit hours offered, 111 were taught by full time professorial ranked faculty, 84 were taught by PhD holding lecturers, and 117 were taught by instructors whose highest degree is an MA. The number of undergraduate philosophy majors is down a little bit this year to nine from seventeen in 2012-2013 and fifteen in 2011-2012. This is a statistical anomaly due to a large number of graduating seniors last year, and it will be rectified as incoming students join the major and, in particular, more students take advantage of the university‟s increased flexibility with respect to double majors and dual degrees. The number of graduating undergraduate minors continues to hold steady in the mid-teens as it has for the past half decade. This means that, at any given time, we have between forty and fifty undergraduate minors. Our graduate student intake remained healthy with two new students starting the program in September and one entering in January. Two graduate students completed the program during the fall and spring semesters respectively and a third expects to do so in June. Depending on how many students accept pending offers of admission, we expect to have five to seven graduate students for 2014-2015. The department held a conference “Wittgenstein‟s Contemporary Relevance” in May 2014. This featured nine international speakers from AUB, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Oxford, and the University of London. In the course of the year, the department also hosted talks by Dr. Joseph Schear (Oxford) “Horizons of Intentionality”; Rohit Goel (Chicago) “Anxiety After the Arab Spring”; Dr. Saleh Agha (AUB) “Family Resemblance and Focal Meaning”; Rawad Skaff (Sorbonne) “Thought Experiments in the Philosophy of Science”; Dr. Joshua Gonsalves (AUB) “Derrida and Badiou on Plato on Art”; and Karim Barakat (Duquesne) “On Hume and Language in the Classical Episteme.” The department continues to collect data on our Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs). This year, each professor/lecturer/instructor who had philosophy majors in his or her class was given a questionnaire asking them to assess how well each of those majors was able to met each of the department‟s three PLOs in that class. The department acknowledges that this method of data collection somewhat elides the distinction
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between PLOs and CLOs and our PLO subcommittee will look into ways to address that issue.
B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members Muller, Hans D. Chairperson,
Associate Professor Ph.D.
Brassier, Raymond Associate Professor Ph.D.
Haydar, Bashshar Professor Ph.D.
Nasr, Waddah Associate Professor Ph.D.
Bashour, Bana Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Johns, Christopher Assistant Professor Ph.D
Lewtas, Patrick Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Shahvisi, Arianne Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Abou Zaki, Nadine Lecturer Ph.D.
Agha, Saleh Lecturer Ph.D.
Jraissati, Yasmina Lecturer Ph.D.
McWherter, Dustin Lecturer Ph.D.
Spohr, Paul Lecturer Ph.D.
Sadek, Karim Lecturer Ph.D.
Chalabi, Fares Instructor MA
Dib, Nelly Instructor MA
Hariri, Muhannad Instructor MA
Hassan, Hani Instructor MA
Wahab, Karam Instructor MA
2. Graduate Assistant
Fall Semester
Mr. Bazzy, Mohamed
Mr Kambris, Mahmoud
Mr. Talhouk, Omar
Spring Semester
Ms. Al Bizri, Rana
Mr.Bazzy, Mohamed
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Mr. Kambris, Mahmoud
Mr. Talhouk, Omar
3. Student Employment
Fall Semester
Mr. Halwaji, Karim
Ms. Sabra, Zainab
Spring Semester Mr. Halwaji, Karim
Ms. Sabra, Zainab
4. Non-Academic Staff
Rawas, Samar Secretary
B. TEACHING
1. Number of Graduating Majors
B.A. Oct. 2013 3
Feb. 2014 1
Jun. 2014 3
M.A. Oct. 2013 1
Feb. 2014 1
Jun. 2014 1
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 7
Seniors 5
Juniors 2
Sophomores 2
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4. Number of Credit Hours Offered Courses Sum2013 FallSem SpringSem Total Courses numbered 300 and above 0 9 9 18 Courses numbered 211 trough 299 0 39 36 75 Courses numbered 200 trough 210 33 75 81 189 Courses numbered below 200 3 15 12 30 Total 36 138 138 312 C. RESEARCH
Bana Bashour
Completed articles
1. “A View of Moral Responsibility”. Under Review 2. “Why We Have No Reason to Believe in the Principle of
Alternate Possibility”. Under Review. 3. “Moral Economics” co-authored with Ramzi Mabsout from Economics
department.
Articles in progress 1. „Evaluating Intentional States‟. Halfway written 2. “Having Reasons and Reason Responsiveness”. Early Stages 3. “Virtue Ethics and the Moral Problem”. Early Stages
Ray Brassier
1. Reasons, Patters, and Processes: Sellar’s Transcendental Naturalism. This is a book-length study of Wilfrid Sellars‟ work which will try to situate it in a broader historical context than existing monographs on Sellars (Seibt 1990; De Vries 2005; O‟Shea 2007; Coates 2007; Rosenberg 2008; Sachs forthcoming). The
Courses Sum2013 Fall Sem. Spring Sem. Total Courses numbered 300 and above 0 12 11 23 Courses numbered 211 trough 299 0 197 223 420 Courses numbered 200 trough 210 181 525 545 1251 Courses numbered below 200 20 71 80 171 Total 201 805 859 1865
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book will try to put Sellars‟ ambitious philosophical system in dialogue with those of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, as well as the work of contemporaries such as Robert Brandom, John McDowell, and Continental philosophers including Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze. The book will be organized thematically rather than chronologically. Chapter topics will include: The Sensible and the Intelligible; Appearance and Reality; Reasons and Patterns; Time, Events, and Processes. I hope to have a complete proposal ready by late July/early August.
Bashshar Haydar
1.“Tracking Cost and Moral Demands,” The paper explores the ways Our moral intuitions are guided by the likelihood and degree of Sacrifice these intuition are likely to impose on us. (The paper is in its Final stages and will be presented in an international conference in Tokyo in August 2014.) 2."Benefiting from Injustice: In Search of a Unifying Principle,” This paper argues for a unifying account of what determines the strength of the requirement to disgorge unjust benefits. (The paper is in its final stages.) 3."The Normative Implications of Benefiting from Injustice," accepted by the The Journal of Applied Philosophy (in press.) Chris Johns 1. “Leibniz and the Square: A Deontic Logic for the Vir Bonus,” Journal: History and Philosophy of Logic. This article is currently in the „proof‟ stage. Patrick Lewtas 1. “The Irrationality of Physicalism,” forthcoming in Axiomathes. 2. “When is a concrete property basic?” forthcoming in Inquiry. 3. “Descartes‟ Metaphysical Skepticism” (co-authored with Glenn Hartz), forthcoming in Revue roumaine de philosophie. 4. “What New Materialists Can‟t Say,” forthcoming in The Philosophical Forum. 5. “Physicalism and the intrinsic nature of consciousness,” forthcoming in Dialogue. 6. “An argument against inner sense theories” 7. “Building Minds: solving the combination problem”
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8. “Consciousness, Qualia and Cognition” 9. “How to make dualist interactionism work” 10. “Russellian Panpsychism: Too good to be True?” 11. “The Impossibility of Emergent Conscious Causal Powers” 12. “Descartes‟ Metaphysical Scepticism” (coauthored with Glenn Hartz) 13. “Panpsychism, Emergentism and Causation” 14. “Problems with Humean and Quasi-Humean Causation” 15. “The Nature of Powers” 16. “Heil's and Martin's Identity Theory: powers as qualities and qualities as powers” Hans Muller 1. “Phenomenal Properties: Deflationism or Realism?” 2. “Adam Smith vs. David Hume on the Nature of Sympathy” Arianne Shahvisi 1. “Particles do not conspire.” Research completed and paper being written. 2.“ Reproducing Norms: IVF and the State.” Research completed and paper being written. D. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
Bana Bashour
1. Advising Coordinator, FAS 2. Acting Chair, Philosophy Department, Summer 2013 3. Freshman Adviser 4. Member of the thesis committee Leila El Alti, Philosophy graduate students. 5. Committee Member and co-founder of Association for the Study of the
Mind in the Middle East and North Africa 6. Secondary co-organizer of the conference Wittgenstein’s Contemporary Relevance held at AUB on May 15 - 17 7. Member, American Philosophical Association 8. Member, AUB Choral Society Ray Brassier
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1. Invited Talk: Philosophy and Theory: Reason and Genealogy‟ to be presented at „Sophistry: The Powers of the False‟ conference, MaMa Institute, Zagreb, June 27-29 2014 2. Invited Talk: „Intuition, Picturing, Immanence‟, Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, 12 June 2014 3. Invited Talk: „Intuition, Picturing, Immanence‟ presented at the workshop „Function: Decomposition, Localisation, Abstraction‟, Centre for Transformative Media, New School for Social Research, 25 March 2014 4. Invited Talk: „Intuition, Picturing, Immanence‟, Philosophy Department, Duquesne University, 21 March 2014 5. Invited Talk: Graduate student seminar at the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 19 March 2014 6. Invited Talk: „Intuition, Picturing, Immanence‟, Comparative Cultures and Literature Forum, Cornell University, 12 March 2014 7. Invited Talk: „The Catastrophe of Time: on J.G. Ballard‟ lecture presented at Städelschule, Frankfurt, 17 December 2013 8. Invited Talk: „Wandering Abstraction: Acceleration, Communization, and Real Movement‟ presented at „Accelerationism‟ conference, Berlin 14 December 2013 9. Invited Talk: „The Catastrophe of Time: on J.G. Ballard‟ lecture presented at Dreammachines, Beirut Art Centre, 30 October 2013 10. Invited Talk: „Prometheanism and its Critics‟, lecture at Speculations (the future is...), MoMA PS1, New York, 19 July 2013 11. MA thesis supervisor for Omar Talhouk, „Transcendental Realism‟ 12. Co-Organizer of the Conference, „Wittgenstein‟s Contemporary Relevance,‟ May 15-17, AUB Bashshar Haydar 1."Benefiting from Injustice: In Search of a Unifying Principle," presented at a conference on benefiting from injustice at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York City, October 2013 2."The Normative Implications of Benefiting from Injustice," presented at the University of Melbourne, May 2013. Chris Johns 1. Department Major Advisor 2. Freshman Advisor 3. Member of the thesis committee of Leila Alti, Philosophy graduate student. 4. Member of the thesis committee of Omar Talhouk, Philosophy graduate
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5. Member of General Education Review Board. 6. Member of Program Learning Outcomes subcommittee. Patrick Lewtas 1. Member, FAS Student Disciplinary Affairs Committee 2. Member, MCAT Task Force 3. Coordinator, Sub-group 2 of MCAT Task Force 4. Philosophy Department secretary (minute taker) 5. Philosophy Department textbook coordinator 6. Conference Presentation, “Panpsychism, Emergentism and Causation,” at Cognitive Phenomenology, Pansychism and Emergrence Charles University, Prague; June 2014. Hans Muller 1. Chairman of the Philosophy Department 2. Co-organizer of the conference, “Wittgenstein‟s Contemporary Relevance,” AUB May 15-17, 2014. 3. Conference presentation, “Adam Smith vs. David Hume on the Nature of Sympathy,” 15th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Science and Theology in Assisi, Italy: April 30-May 4, 2014. I paid for this conference travel with research money from advising and evaluating freshman application files. 4. Student advisor, visiting foreign non-degree students. 5. Application evaluator, freshman application file reading program. 6. Member of the thesis committee of Omar Talhouk, Philosophy graduate student. 7. Member, American Philosophical Association. 8. Member, Association for the Study of Mind in the Middle East and North Africa. Arianne Shahvisi 1. Member of the FAS Undergraduate Student Academic Affairs Committee (one semester term: spring 2014) 2. Development of a “Writing in the Discipline” course for the philosophy department 3. Presentation of a paper at the annual conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science in the University of Cambridge 4. Presentation of a paper (is absentia) at the annual conference of the Center for Values in Science, Medicine and Technology at the University of Dallas
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5. Presentation of a paper at the conference on Evolution and Historical Explanation: Contingency, Convergence, and Teleology in Oxford E. PUBLICATIONS
Bana Bashour
1. (co-edited volume) Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications, with Hans Muller, (Routledge, 2013)
2. (book chapter)“Can I Be a Moral Animal? A Naturalized Virtue Ethics” in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implication, (Routledge, 2013)
3. (book chapter) “Exploring the Post-Darwinian Naturalist Landscape” with Hans Muller in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implication, (Routledge, 2013)
Ray Brassier 1. „Wandering Abstraction: Acceleration, Communization, and Real Movement‟ in Mute Magazine 13 February 2014 [http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/wandering-abstraction] 2. „That Which Is Not: Philosophy as Entwinement of Truth and Negativity‟ in Stasis, No.1, 2013, pp.174-186 Bashshar Haydar N/A Chris Johns 1. The Science of Right in Leibniz’s Moral and Political Philosophy. Bloomsbury Books, October 2013. Patrick Lewtas 1. “What is it lie to be a Quark?” (2013), Journal of Consciousness Studies, 20/9-10: 39-64. 2. “Emergence and Consciousness” (2013), Philosophy, 88/4: 527-553. Hans Muller 1. Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications, B. Bahsour and H.
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Muller (eds.), Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, (Routledge: New York, 2013). 2. “Naturalism and Intentionality,” in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications, B. Bashour and H. Muller (eds.), (Routledge: New York, 2013), pp. 155-181. 3. “Exploring the Post-Darwinian Naturalist Landscape,” (co-authored with Bana Bashour) in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications, B. Bashour and H. Muller (eds.), Routledge: New York, 2013), pp. 1-14. Arianne Shahvisi N/A F. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The department is still hoping to fill a position in Islamic Philosophy. We carried out a search for that position last year, but are still waiting to hear from the administration whether the selected candidate will be hired. Making such a hire would follow the recommendation made by the external examiners for our 2011 program review. Because of ever-increasing demand for our service courses in ethics (Phil 205, Medical Ethics; Phil 209, Environmental Ethics; and Phil 210, Ethics) the department needs to consider doing a search for a full time professorial rank position specializing in moral philosophy. The department taught twelve sections of 210 in the fall and thirteen in the spring of 2013-1014. Fifteen sections are scheduled for this upcoming fall and, as of the time of writing this report, they are all full. The department notes that the MCAT working committee recommended that all pre-med students take an ethics course, which will only increase demand. It is also noteworthy that FEA‟s attempt to meet their curricular requirement for an ethics course with an „in house‟ Engineering Ethics course has just run afoul of the General Education regime. Phil 205, Medical Ethics continues to be a required course for al Medical Laboratory students; while Phil 209, Environmental Ethics is required by FHS for their Environmental Health majors and by FAFS for their Agribusiness majors. In light of all this, the department will be preparing an argument for at least one additional line in ethics for a specialist who can be involved in teaching and overseeing the dozens of sections of service courses in ethics that we are required to offer each year. Hans Muller Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS Currently we have six students enrolled in the PhD program and one more is expected to join in the coming year; two of our PhD students are graduating this summer. The academic and research activities continue to expand through the involvement of the faculty members in interdisciplinary research activities. The Department continues to work on implementing changes pertaining to improving its performance on various academic tracks. At the graduate level, an ad-hoc committee is working on a proposal for expanding the physics PhD program to include research work in experimental physics. An outreach campaign was conducted to increase the number of applicants to the graduate programs; (this year we received a record of more than thirty applications to the MS program in physics and three applications to the PhD program). New courses have also been introduced in topics that reflect the research interest of the Faculty, such as HEP cosmology and Hydrodynamic physics. The physics graduate students are at the heart of the research activity of our Department. They are very often participating in local scientific conferences and workshops, while the publication of their work in internationally reputed journals is evidence of the high quality of their research. This summer two of our PhD students will attend international conferences abroad through FAS URB-grants. In collaboration with the FAS dean’s office the department renovated room # 308 and 302 which are used to house further experimental research laboratory and for teaching the senior laboratory course. The Physics Students Society was active and organized several social and academic activities; the society organized several talks offered by the AUB faculty members. The Department continues the assessment of its Program Learning Outcomes & Program Objectives during this academic year. There has been greater use of on-line teaching facilities such as “Moodle and Wileyplus” are being made in the teaching of courses and administering exams/homework. In other activities, Prof. Ali Chamseddine was the recipient of NSF grant, Profs G. Antar and M. Kazan received the Kamal Shair CRSL grants. Furthermore, members of the Department in collaboration with faculty members from FEA and Chemistry submitted a proposal for the establishment of a Material Science Program. The proposal received initial positive feedback and it is currently in process. Program Learning Outcomes The physics program leading to the BS degree has the following learning outcomes (PLO):
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a. Explain the fundamental concepts and principles governing the laws of physics.
b. Relate the physical principles to everyday life and to developments and discoveries in science and particularly in the field of physics.
c. Apply the essential mathematical methods to formulate physical principles. d. Use experimental techniques to demonstrate the validity of basic physics
principles. e. Design and set-up experiments through their knowledge of basic electronics
and instrumentation. f. Perform numerical simulations to tackle problems in Physics. The PLO assessment was based on evaluating the students’ performances in advanced courses including laboratory and computational physics courses and on surveying the students to measure the fulfillment of each of the program learning outcomes. To perform this assessment, we used embedded questions in four courses and analyzed the results. We have also organized three focus groups with graduating students in the past three years. During these focus groups, the students were asked to provide their feedback on what and how much they have achieved of each of the physics PLO. The instructors’ reports on specific CLOs’ and the students’ feedback were also collected and analyzed during the past three years. A scoring scheme from 1 to 4 was used to assess the level of fulfillment of each outcome with a score of 4 being perfect. The scores were averages scores for each of the physics PLO collected out of CLO mapping; more details can be found in the complete report sent to CTL. Results from this assessment show that most learning outcomes were satisfactorily met. Perhaps the weakest score point that was received is for PLO number 3, (i.e. Apply the essential mathematical methods to formulate physical principles). This score may improve along in the coming semesters as the department has recently introduced a new course “Phys 216, Mathematical Methods for physicists”. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members
Antar, Ghassan Associate Professor Ph.D. Bitar, Khalil Professor Ph.D. Chamseddine, Ali Professor Ph.D. Christidis, Theodore Associate Professor Ph.D. El-Eid, Mounib Professor Ph.D.
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Isber, Samih Professor (Chairman) Ph.D. Kazan, Michel1 Assistant Professor Ph.D. Klushin, Leonid Professor Ph.D. Sabra, Wafic2 Professor (Director CAMS) Ph.D. Tabbal, Malek Professor (Associate Dean, FAS) Ph.D. Touma, Jihad3 Professor Ph.D.
2. Lecturers & Instructors (Part-time) Summer 2013 Ammar, Ibrahim Ayache, Tamara Bodakian, Berjouhi Ghamlouche, Hassan Hammoud, Mostafa Hannoun, Elias Mehio, Kawthar Nahlawi, Adnan Roumieh, Mohammad Saad, Cynthia Said, Aurore Zorkot, Mira
Assistant Instructor Assistant Instructor Lecturer Lecturer Assistant Instructor Instructor Instructor Instructor Lecturer Assistant Instructor Lecturer Assistant Instructor
B.S. B.S. Ph.D. Ph.D. B.S. M.S. M.S. M.S. Ph.D. B.S. Ph.D. B.S.
Fall Semester Abou Khalil Alameh, Sahar
Instructor Instructor
M.S. M.S.
Bejjani, Alice Bodakian, Berjouhi
Lecturer Lecturer
Ph.D. Ph.D.
Ghamlouche, Hassan Lecturer Ph.D. Hamzeh, Hani Lecturer Ph.D. Harajli, Zainab Assistant Instructor B.S. Roumieh, Mohammad Lecturer Ph.D. Said, Aurore Lecturer
Ph.D.
Spring Semester Abou Khalil, Ali Instructor M.S. Bejjani, Alice Lecturer Ph.D. Bodakian, Berjouhi Lecturer Ph.D. Ghamloush, Hassan Lecturer Ph.D. ________________________ 1 Paid junior research leave Fall 2013-2014 2 Position shared between Physics and CAMS 3 Paid Research Leave, Spring semester (for one year) Hammoud, Mostafa Instructor B.S.
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Hamzeh, Hani Lecturer Ph.D.. Kawtharani, Fatima Assistant Instructor B.S. Mehio, Kawthar Instructor M.S. Roumieh, Mohammad Lecturer Ph.D. Said, Aurore Lecturer Ph.D. Tannouri, Lama Assistant Instructor B.S.
3. Research Assistants
Summer 2013 Zeineddine, Ali El-Hadi
Fall Semester
Mahayri, Roland Zalzali, Amani Nicolas, Rana
Spring Semester
Hammoud, Hassan Iskandar, Abdo
4. Graduate Assistants Fall Semester Abu Amer, Reham El-Helou, Youssef Abu-Diab, Sara (Ph.D.) Hosseiky-Malaeb, Ola (Ph.D.) Ayyache, Tamara Karimi, Hosein (Ph.D.) Bu Taam, Maryam Kawtharani, Fatima Hammoud, Hassan Khalife, Ali Rida Makki, Tahani (Ph.D.) Thebian, Dina Saad, Cynthia Zalzali, Amani Al-Sayegh, Amara (Ph.D.) Zeineddine, Ali al-Hadi
Spring Semester Abu Amer, Reham Khalifeh, Ali Rida Ayyache, Tamara Makki, tahani (Ph.D.) Bu Taam, Maryam Saad, Cynthia El-Helou, Youssef Safieddine, Fatima Hosseiky-Malaeb, Ola (Ph.D.) Al-Sayegh, Amara (Ph.D.) Hammoud, Hassan Thebian, Dina Harajli, Zainab Zeineddine, Ali al-Hadi Karimi, Hosein(Ph.D.)
5. Non-Academic Staff Abi Falah, Jumana Administrative Assistant
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Al-Ghawi, Simon Technician Issa, Wassim Chief Technician Majdalani, Elissar Lab Manager Melki, Elie Chief Technician Sawaya, Boutros Senior Glass Blower
C. TEACHING
1. Number of Graduating Majors
B.S. Oct. 2013 -
Feb. 2014 - June 2014 5
0 1 11
M.S. Oct. 2013 2 Feb. 2014 1 June 2014 4
3 0 1
2. Number of Majors
Summer ‘13 Fall Semester Spring Semester Graduates 5 21 22 Senior 3 14 17 Juniors 9 20 20 Sophomores 8 61 28
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 5 33 39 77 211 – 299 61 417 270 748 200 – 210 219 865 699 1783 100 – 199 39 26 274 339 Total 2947
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total
300 and above 5 14 18 37 211 – 299 14 49 36 99 200 – 210 30 74 60 164 100 – 199 9 6 18 33 Total 333
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D. RESEARCH Ghassan Antar 1. The Lebanese Linear Plasma Device: The construction of the LLPD is under
way. 2. Rotating liquid metals: Laser diagnostic technique has been applied with
success to measure the vorticity in shallow fluid flows. 3. Turbulence Simulation: The physics is being investigated using the
OpenFoan program which relies on finite volume differentiation scheme. 4. Understanding the plasma plume of the Pulsed Laser Deposition and its
formation and expansion is the subject of a final year project in collaboration with Prof. Darwish.
5. Understanding turbulence properties as additional ion cyclotron heating is applied is being performed on the Tore Supra tokamak in collaboration with the CEA-Cadarache (France) and the ASDEX-upgrade team (Germany).
6. Understanding the properties of turbulence using the so-called lower hybrid waves is under investigation.
Mounib El-Eid 1. Articles in Progress
a. G. Mahmoud Halabi, M.F. El Eid. “Exploring Masses and CNO Abundances of Red Giant Stars.” To be submitted.
b. G. Mahmoud Halabi, M.F. El Eid. “Effect of Convective Overshooting on the Blue Loop of Intermediate-mass Stars.” In preparation.
2. Project in Progress a. Collaboration A collaboration is going on with Dr Bradely Meyer, physics department at Clemson university, SC, USA ), which focuses on an improved treatment of mixing by convection, and the formation of nuclei by fusion reactions in stars. This collaboration is related to the ongoing PhD thesis project of Ms.Ghina Mahmmoud.
b. PhD Project 1 The PhD project of Ms. Ghina Mahmoud is the last phase. The main stream of the project concerns a systematic study of the evolution of stars in the important mass range 1 to 10 solar masses including a full account of the formation of element, especially during their advanced evolutionary phases on the red giant branch and beyond. This mass range is so important, because all white dwarf originate from this mass range, and if they are in binary systems they undergo dramatic supernova explosions.
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c. PhD Project 2 A PhD project is started for Mr. Mostafa Hammoud , which will deal
with applying the Magneto-hydrodynamic equations including rotational effect to the outer layers of the Sun in order to study the heating of the Sun’s corona from which the solar wind originates. This project is at its very beginning and represents an important application of plasma
physics to stars, the Sun in particular. d. MSc Project Starting an MSc project for Mrs. Cyntia Saad. This project will deal with
styling the effects of the magnetic field during the collapse of a proto stellar cloud leading to star formation. specially, the role of amp polar diffusion and ionization will be considered.
Samih Isber 1. Electric and magnetic characterization of NdBa2Cu3O7 High Temperature
Superconductors materials. In collaboration with R. Awad*. 2. De-Hass Van-Alphen (dHvA) effect in Cerium doped lead chalcogenides
PbM (M = Te, Se, S). This project is a continuation of last academic year . The aim of this project
is to image the fermi surface and to measure the carrier density for Pb1-
xCexM (M = Te, Se, S) Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor (DMS). The dHvA results will be correlated to other magnetic data such as EPR and Hall effects. In collaboration with X. Gratens*.
Michel Kazan 1. T. Maurer, R. Nicolas, G. Leveque, P. Subramanian, J. Proust, J. Beal, S.
Schuermans, J. –P. Vilcot, Z. Herro. M. Kazan, J. Plain, R. Boukherroub, A. Akjouj, B. Djafari-Rouhani, P. –M. Adam, and S. Szunerits. “Enhancing LSPR sensitivity of Au gratings through graphene coupling to Au film”, Plasmonics. Article in press.
2. Research Projects in Progress a. Experimental detection of coherent thermal emission due to plasmon
oscillations for plasmon-based infrared lasers operating in the mid- infrared spectral range.
b. Finding the minimum thermal conductivity that can be reached in nanostructured SiGe alloys.
c. Development of numerical codes for the simulation of the thermal properties in nanostructured materials.
Leonid Klushin 1. “Molecular sensors and switches based on polymer brushes”.
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Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant SCHM 985/13-1. 2. Collective behavior of swarms
Malek Tabbal 1. “Remote plasma oxidation of thin films”, on-going research. 2. “Applications of materials characterization techniques in archeology and
cultural heritage conservation” on-going research in collaboration with the Lebanese CNRS.
3. “Thermoelectric thin films and nanostructured materials” project funded by the LCNRS and Masri Institute in collaboration with Prof. M. Kazan, work in progress.
Jihad Touma 1. "Secular Dynamics of Stellar Black Hole Nuclei", Research Leave at the
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA), Supported by Arab Fund Fellowship.
2. "Dynamics and Architecture of Exo-Planetary System", Research Leave at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA), Supported by Arab Fund Fellowship.
3. “Self-Organization of Systems of Coupled Self-Propelled Particles". 4. Jihad Touma, and Scott Tremaine*. "The Statistical Mechanics of Self-
Gravitating Keplerian Disks". Submitted to Journal of Physics A (http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5534)
E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Ghassan Antar
1. Reviewer for the journals Plasma Physics, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Nuclear Fusion.
2. Invited for a three-week stay at the University of Sao Paolo (Brazil) to contribute to their experimental program on the TCABR tokamak. This collaboration is still active.
3. Two posters contribution at the European Physics Society meeting held in Stockholm (Sweden).
4. One poster contribution at the Turbulence Task Force meeting in Padova (Italy).
5. Invited to give a lecture at the Center of Energy Research in Milano University (Italy) on scrape-off layer turbulence in tokamaks.
6. Jury member on a PhD thesis by G. Hornung defended at the CEA-Cadarache (France).
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Mounib El-Eid 1. Adviser of sophomore and graduate students 2. Member of the task force for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the CNRSL
3. Participation on the “The 11th Russbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics”, Russbach, Austria, March 9-15, 2014, Invited speaker with a talk on “Signature of Heavy Elements in the Early Phase of the Galaxy”.
4. Members of the The International Scientific Committee of the: a. Carpathian Summer School, Sinaia Romania b. European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, Santa Tercla. Catania, Italy
5. Member of the graduate committee of FAS and the board of Graduate Study.
Samih Isber 1. Member, FAS, Kamal Shair CRSL Review Panel 2. Member, FAS-FEA for the establishment of Material Science program 3. Books adoption coordinator, Physics Department. 4. Poster presentation, “Investigation of Intergranular Critical Current Density in
GdBa2Cu3O7-δ Containing Nano-sized CoFe2O4” 4th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism (ICSM2014) April 27- May 2, Antalya, Turkey (2014).
5. Poster presentation, “Growth of Cobalt Manganese Aluminium thin films by Pulsed Laser Deposition)” Join European Magnetic Symposia JEMS 2013, Aug 25-30, “Rhodes, Greece” (2013).
6. Reviewer for Physical review B, Journal of Physics D and Physica Statu Solidi.
7. Consultation Team (D-Rasati project), Training of High School physics teachers, American University of Beirut and the Ministry of Education & Higher Education, Beirut, Lebanon.
Michel Kazan Invited professor at Ecole Centrale Paris (Paris, France) from October 8, 2013 until January 28, 2014.
Leonid Klushin International Symposium, "Molecular mobility and order in polymer systems", June 02-06, 2014, Russia, St.Petersburg. Presentation. Malek Tabbal
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1. Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 2. Chair of the FAS Students Academic Affairs Committee. 3. Director of the USAID University Scholarship Programs II, IV and V. 4. Chair of the UPP advisory committee. 5. Member of the AUB D-Rasati I and II Teams. 6. FAS representative on the AUB Academic IT Committee. 7. Coordinator of the FAS Assessment of Program Learning Outcomes
project. 8. Acting Director of the MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders program. 9. Member of the CEDRE II Committee. 10. Reviewer for several scientific journals such as Materials Science in Semiconductor
Processing and Thin Solid Films. 11. Member of the FAS-FEA Materials Science Initiative 12. Research Advisor of two Physics MS students:
a. Tamara Ayache b. Reham Abou Amer
13. Member of PhD thesis committees at BAU: a. Raafat Al Mawassi (Physics) b. Burham Al Shaafai (Physics)
14. Presentations at international research conferences : “Growth of Cobalt Manganese Aluminum thin films by Pulsed Laser Deposition”, poster presentation, Magnetism 2014, Manchester, UK, April 2013. Jihad Touma 1. Invited scholar (Oct-Nov, 2013), Trimester on the Gravitational N-Body
Problem, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris (Sept-Dec, 2013): a. Workshop on Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei: Lecture on Secular
Stellar Dynamics around Black Holes. b. Workshop on Kinetic Theory: Seminar on the Thermodynamics of Self-
Gravitating Disks. c. Workshop on Poisson-Vlasov: Seminar on the Collisionless Relaxation
of Instabilities.
F. PUBLICATIONS Ali Chamseddine 1. Ali H. Chamseddine & Viatcheslav Mukhanov*. “Mimetic Dark Matter”, JHEP
1311 (2013) 135, DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)135, e-Print: arXiv:1308.5410 [astro-ph.CO], pp. 5, Aug. 25, 2013.
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2. Ali H. Chamseddine & Viatcheslav Mukhanov*. “Who ordered the anti-de sitter tangent group?”, JHEP 1311 (2013) 095. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)095 e-Print: arXiv:1308.3199 [hep-th], pp. 6, Aug. 14, 2013.
3. Ali H. Chamseddine, Viatcheslav Mukhanov* & Alexander Vikman*. “Cosmology with mimetic matter”, e-Print: arXiv:1403.3961 [astro-ph.CO], pp. 19, Mar. 16, 2014.
Mounib El-Eid M.F. El Eid. “ Nucleosynthesis in asymptotic giant branch stars,” Aip Conference Proceeding 1595, 48 (2014). Online: http//dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.48755289. Samih Isber S. Isber, X. Gratens*, S. Charar*, and Z. Golacki*. “Magnetic properties of Ce3+ in PbCeA (A= Te, Se, S)”. Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, EPJ Web of Conferences 40, 03002 (2013). Michel Kazan 1. N. Rahbany, M. Kazan, M. Tabbal, R. Tauk*, J. Jabbour*, J. Brault*, B. Damilano*,
and J. Massies*. “Measurement of the effect of plasmon gas oscillation on the dielectric properties of p- and n-doped AlxGa1-xN films using infrared spectroscopy”, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol.114, p.053505 (2013).
2. A. Bachar*, G. Nassar*, C. Mercier*, F. Bouchart*, C. Follet*, R. Amrousse*, and M. Kazan. “High frequency ulrasound measurements on a translucent thin bioglass, based on Si, Ca, Na: Study of the distribution of elastic modulus”, Optical Materials, Vol.36, p.75 (2013).
3. R. Nicolas, T. Maurer*, G. Leveque*, P. Subramanian*, J. Proust*, J. Beal*, S. Schuermans*, J. P. Vilcot*, Z. Herro*, M. Kazan, J. Plain*, R. Boukherroub*, A. Akjouj*, B. Djafari-Rouhani*, P. M. Adam*, and S. Szunertits*. “Enhanced gold film-coupled graphene-based plasmonic nanosensor”, Plasmonics, Vol.8809, p.88090R (2013).
4. T. Maurer*, A. Sarrazin*, A. Plaud*, J. Beal*, R. Nicolas, S. S. Lamarre*, J. Proust*, K. Nomenyo*, Z. Herro*, M. Kazan, G. Lerondel*, J. Plain*, P. M. Adam*, and A. M. Ritcey*. “Strategies for self-organization of Au nanoparticles assisted by copolymer templates”, Plasmonics, Vol.8809, DOI:10. 1117/12.2025144 (2013).
5. M. Kazan and P. Masri*. “The contribution of surfaces and interfaces to the crystal thermal conductivity”, Surface Science Reports, Vol.69, p.1 (2014). Review paper.
6. M. Kazan and S. Volz*. “Calculation of the lattice thermal conductivity in granular crystals”, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol.115, p. 073509 (2014).
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1. Milchev A*, Mueller M*, Klushin L. “Arm Retraction Dynamics and
Bistability of a Three-Arm Star Polymer in a Nanopore”, Macromolecules, 47, 2156 (2014).
2. Skvortsov AM*, Klushin L, Polotsky AA*, Binder K*. “Can one detach a fully adsorbed flexible polymer chain by an ultra-small external force?”, EPL 104, 18003 (2013).
3. Klushin L, Milchev A*, Skvortsov A*. “Efficient Separation of Long Polymer Chains by Contour Length and Architecture”, ASC Macro Letters, 2, 879 (2013).
Malek Tabbal N. Rahbany, M. Kazan, M. Tabbal, R. Tauk*, J. Jabbour*, J. Brault*, B. Damilano*, and J. Massies*. “Measurement of the effect of plasmon gas oscillation on the dielectric properties of p- and n-doped AlxGa1-xN films using infrared spectroscopy”, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol.114, p.053505 (2013). Jihad Touma Stephane Colombi* and Jihad Touma. "Vlasov-Poisson in 1D: Waterbags", 2014, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, http://arxiv.org/abs/ 1404.5175 (2014).
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT At the undergraduate level, the Department will implement the outcome of the self-evaluation process to improve the program and achieves its objectives. The program assessment will be continued as previously envisaged to develop new strategies to improving the physics programs. The Department needs to enhance its offering of general education courses, and to proceed with the up- grade of its laboratories, in particular the “undergraduate laboratory”. At the graduate level, we expect an increased enrollment in our Theoretical Physics __________________ * Not Associated with A.U.B. PhD program and the introduction of new PhD level courses. As the Experimental Physics research program is attracting a large number of our MS students and with our Experimental facilities strengthened over the last few years, the Department will consider the inception of expanding the PhD program to include work in Experimental Physics. The Department will also
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step up its efforts in acquiring external funding and work on setting up out-reach programs in order increase our involvement with the local community.
Samih Isber Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL STUDIES AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The academic year 2013-14 proved challenging for the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration (department): We lost our long-term Public Administration (PA) colleague, Dr. Randa Antoun, who died of cancer on February 4, 2014, and we will be losing our Political Studies (PS) colleague, Dr. Alex Barder, who decided it was in his interest to accept a position in the United States. We were involved in a recruitment process for the PA program as well as an important review process for both our PA and PS programs. In addition, the department had to meet these challenges in spite of changes in the administrative team, with our department chair Dr. Thomas W. Haase being on junior academic leave in Spring and the long-term PA academic advisor, Dr. Randa Antoun‟s sudden death at the beginning of the semester. In spite of this challenging context, the department‟s activities throughout the year proved successful in many regards, and we are pleased with the progress our department has made since the completion of the Program Review Process. We have improved morale and can report that we have successfully recruited, or recommended for recruitment, qualified faculty. This is especially exciting for the public administration program, which has suffered recruitment problems over the years. Our faculty is also engaged in serious discussions about the future of our academic programs and whether to restructure our department administratively. There are other accomplishments outside of the program review process worth mentioning. For example, we have completed physical renovations, updated the technology in our conference room, taken steps to make our department less paper dependent, and worked to reinvigorate the PSPA Student Society. These accomplishments remain fragile, however, as progress will depend upon long-term continuity and leadership on the part of our faculty members, as well as the continued support of the upper administration. The following short paragraphs summarize some of the activities undertaken by our department during 2013-14, as well as some of the major challenges it faced. The department was deeply distressed by the loss of Dr. Randa Antoun, our friend and esteemed colleague, who passed away in Beirut on February 4, 2014, at the age of 54. Randa had earned her MA in Public Administration from the department in 1985 and returned to the department as an Assistant Professor in 1989, after completing her PhD in Public Administration and Management at the University of York, UK. Beyond teaching courses and advising MA theses, Randa was a member of numerous university committees and served as
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academic adviser for countless Freshman, majorless and PA students. Randa had been appointed by the Provost in June 2007 to be the Director of the MEPI Tomorrow‟s Leaders Program, a position she channeled in much of her energy, enthusiasm and altruism. Beyond AUB, Randa was also extremely active in the public sector, serving as a consultant for numerous international as well as national institutions, dealing in particular with issues of decentralization, anti-corruption and democracy promotion. Dr. Antoun continued to care for and serve the department and AUB up until the very end of her intense fight with lung cancer. Our department will miss her for many years to come. In order to honor her memory, a Dr. Randa Antoun Annual Award for Public Services and Civic Engagement was established under the leadership of several faculty members. This award will be granted each year to two excellent PA students, one undergraduate and one graduate who, among other criteria, will have authored a piece on some of the areas Dr. Antoun used to work on: civic engagement, governance, accountability, administrative development and reform etc. Dr. Antoun‟s family also decided to create a Randa Antoun scholarship for PA students. Within that context, the recruitment process that was originally aiming for the hiring of one new faculty member in PA actually led to the recommendation of two excellent candidates that, in the view of the department, would provide the PA program with a strong and diverse team of highly motivated faculty. Following last year‟s successful recruitment of a PA faculty member, Dr. Tania Haddad, we are looking forward to the arrival of our new colleagues. In PS, the department also recommended Dr. Tareq Tell for spousal hire. This additional recruitment will strengthen the PS team, fill existing teaching needs, and allow the department to further develop its curriculum. During the 2013-14 academic year, the department continued working on its academic programs, following up on the Program Review Process, which was conducted in 2011-2012. The PA team worked on the redefinition of the program, its program learning outcomes and the revision of the PA curriculum. Brainstorm sessions with relevant full-time and part-time faculty were held, data collection initiated, and a research proposal for collection of focus group data drafted and submitted to IRB. In PS, a similar process started. Series of faculty discussion sessions were held to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the curriculum, discuss our program learning outcomes, the introduction of new minors or areas of emphasis. A „state of the field‟ seminar sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Initiative was held. Student feedback was collected. By the end of the academic year, the faculty members identified several steps to be taken immediately or in the coming months, and created two committees: one to work on the teaching of writing skills, and another one to work on enhancing the visibility of the department. The department also worked on the update of its graduate and undergraduate course catalogues, revising them to eliminate
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procedural errors and inconsistencies and to expand the option for majors and minors. The department is planning to propose the introduction of a new minor in International Law and to be soon in a position to adopt thoroughly revised PLOs for both programs. In terms of the administrative structure of the department, the academic advising activities continue to be centralized around one academic adviser for each program. While the advising process is very demanding and time-consuming for the faculty members in charge, this reorganization has proved to be extremely beneficial for students and has improved dramatically the quality of advising within the department, as well as our relationship to students. This year‟s context has led to the appointment of new academic advisers for both programs, but the change seems to have been quite smooth and it is certainly an asset to have an increasing number of faculty members well equipped to advise students. Furthermore, two departmental committees were created in 2013-14 and started working with great efficiency: the social media and communications committee and the library and research committee. They have updated website, twitter accounts, and library activities. Beyond the department, many faculty members continued to provide administrative support for the interdisciplinary programs. This occurred through continuous affiliation of some faculty with the Issam Fares Institute, CAMES, Energy and Environmental Studies Programs, as well as membership in steering committees etc. Collaboration with the aforementioned programs as well as American Studies, Islamic Studies, and the Arts and Humanities Initiative took place in the form of cross-listing of courses, and the organization of joint events. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members
Khashan, Hilal Professor Ph.D.
Moussalli, Ahmad Professor Ph.D.
Hazbun, Waleed Makdisi, Karim Barder, Alex Frangie Samer Haase, Thomas (Chair) Haddad, Tania Khodr, Hiba Pison Hindawi, Coralie (A/Chair)
Associate Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D.
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2. Research Assistants
Fall Semester
Ajamian, Melissa
El-Badri, Nora
Spring Semester
Ajamian, Melissa
El-Badri, Nora
3. Graduate Assistants Fall Semester
Carter, Troy Mackreath, Helen
Economy, Eric Eddy, Timothy El-Badri, Nora Hudson, Emily Kline, Richard
Mansour, Hoda Saba, Habib Timothy, Eddy Wittkuhn, Robert
Spring Semester
Axelrod-Mcloud, Nicholas Del Sarto, Giulia
Kline, Richard Mackreath, Helen
Reiche, Danyel Antoun, Randa Geukjian, Ohannes Hanf, Theodor Goodfield, Eric El-Khazen, Farid Gebara, Khalil Krayem, Hassan Kreidie, Lina Masri, Shafic Nakib, Khalil Nasser, Khaled Saadeh, Bashir Abou Dayye, Marwa Bitar-Ghanem, George Geha, Carmen Haidar Mahmud Hankir, Samer Hanna, Elias Kheir, Wael Zaazaa, Nadim
Assistant Professor Lecturer (full-time) Lecturer (full-time) Visiting Professor Visiting A-Professor Professor (part-time) Lecturer (part-time) Lecturer (part-time) Lecturer (part-time) Lecturer (part-time) Lecturer (part-time) Lecturer (part-time) Lecturer (part-time) Instructor (part-time) Instructor (part-time) Instructor (part-time) Instructor (part-time) Instructor (part-time) Instructor (part-time) Instructor (part-time) Instructor (part-time)
Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A.
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Economy, Eric Eddy, Timothy El-Badri, Nora Hudson, Emily
Mansour, Huda Saba, Habib Simpson, Lacie Semler, Stephen
4. Student Assistants
Fall Semester Mohsen, Souad Lakkis, Ali
Spring Semester Nassan, Majd Mohsen, Souad
5. Non-Academic Staff
Hitti Bou Fadel, Milia Administrative Assistant
C. TEACHING 1. Number of Graduating Majors
BA Oct. 2013 05
Feb. 2014 19
Jun. 2014 45
MA Oct. 2013 05
Feb. 2014 04
Jun. 2014 05
2. Number of Majors
Graduates 069
Seniors 166
Juniors 136
Sophomores 122
3. Student Enrollment in Courses
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Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 11 82 65 158 211-299 59 511 544 1,114 200-210 50 311 251 612 100-199 00 63 54 117 Total 120 967 914 2001
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 5 55 58 118 211-299 21 96 102 219 200-210 09 33 27 69 100-199 00 09 06 15 Total 35 193 193 421
D. RESEARCH Hilal Khashan 1. The Making of Shiite Arab Political Activism: Issues of Faith and National Integration. The book uses Hizbullah as a case study. Manuscript will be submitted soon for publication. Ahmad Moussalli 1. The Aftermaths of Arab Spring, il Mulino of Bologna, Milano, Italy [2014]. 2. The Public Muslim Intellectual, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA [2014]. 3. Globalization and Islamism in Contemporary World, University of Florida Press, Florida, USA, 2014. Waleed Hazbun 1. “The End of the American Era in the Middle East” occasional paper in progress. 2. “The Geopolitics of Insecurity and the Long History of the Arab Uprisings,” essay in progress. 3. “Beware of Small States: Towards a „Beirut School‟ of Security Studies,” journal article in progress. 4. “Reimagining Autonomy: The Middle East in a Globalized World,” Research Collaboration between the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and
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International Affairs (IFI) & the Danish Institute For International Studies (DIIS). 5. “Jet Set: American Tourists, US global power, and the making of the International Tourism Economy,” Developing prospectus for University of Minnesota Press. Karim Makdisi 1. “UN in the Arab World” research project. Completing an edited volume entitled UN in the Arab World (2015), coedited with Vijay Prashad. 2. “Interventions in the context of the Arab regional order/dis-order” research project. Working on book project around the politics of UN intervention during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war. 3. “Reconsidering Environmentalism” research project. Alexander Barder 1. Second Book Project: Crisis Theory: A neo-Materialist Perspective. Samer Frangie
1. Marxism, Tradition, History: On the Poetics of Loss and the Politics of Remembering (Book Project). Thomas W. Haase 1. Ongoing project on civil society education in Lebanon. Draft manuscript completed and will soon be submitted for review. 2. Ongoing project on public administration education in Lebanon. Data collection has been completed. 3. Ongoing project on history of PSPA Department at AUB. We have finished a draft manuscript which will soon be submitted for review.
1. Initiated an edited book project on Civil Society and Public Policy in Lebanon. 2. Reviewed two manuscripts for the journal, Safety Science. Tania Haddad 1. Ongoing project on Governance in the Nonprofit sector in Lebanon. 2. Ongoing project on civil society education in Lebanon. Draft manuscript completed. 3. Ongoing project on Civil Society and Philanthropy in the Middle East. 4. Book proposal: Religion and Civil Society in the Arab World.
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Hiba Khodr 1. “The Dynamics of Policymaking in Lebanon: The case of the potential offshore oil and gas resources” - under review. 2. “The Implications of Arab Revolutions on US Foreign Policy Towards Islamic Organizations: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Post-Mubarak Egypt” - under review. 3. “Energy Market Integration in the Mashreq: Economic, Social and Political Dimensions & Electricity Sector Pricing Reform: Potential Welfare Implications for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan” - under review. 4. “Opportunity and Challenges for Enhancing the Sustainability of Primary Healthcare: The case of the state of Qatar” - under review. 5. “The Politicization of Healthcare in Lebanon: The case of Primary Health Centers” - writing in progress. 6. “Investigating the Terrain of Health Human Resources in Primary Health Care Centers in Lebanon & Qatar: A Mixed-Method Comparative Policy Study”- research in progress. 7. “The Search for New Theoretical Foundations in Non-Western Environments: Conceptualizations of Governance in Lebanon”- writing in progress. 8. Book Chapter on “Public Policy Making in Lebanon: Process and participants” - writing in progress. 9. “Evaluating the impact of Civil Society organizations in Lebanon on Public policy: A multiple case study” - research in progress. Coralie Pison Hindawi 1. “Iraq: Twenty Years in the Shadow of Chapter VII”. Book chapter in “The United Nations in the Arab Word”, K. Makdisi and V. Prashad (edit.). Piece to be submitted by May 31, 2014. 2. “Looking Below the Security Council. The case for a multilayered interpretation of the Responsibility to Protect.” Article. Research completed. Manuscript to be submitted for publication in July 2014. 3. “Knowledge Production and Doctrine Formation in the Security Sector: Deconstructing narratives in the case of Iraq.” Book + articles project. Funding from the URB and Gerda Henkel Foundation. Research recently started. 4. Reimagining Autonomy: The Middle East in a Globalized World,” Research Collaboration between the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) & the Danish Institute For International Studies (DIIS). Danyel Reiche
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1. Working on an article “Investing in sporting success as a domestic and foreign policy tool: the case of Qatar” (submitted to a journal in April 2014). 2. Working on a lecture “Soccer at the Olympics: Interests, Issues, and Significance” (presented at Hofstra University, New York, in April 2014). 3. Working on a book “Success and Failure of Nations at the Olympics”, contract offered by Routledge on September 21, 2013. Ohannes Geukjian 1. The limitation of consociational democracy in Lebanon: System change or new power sharing arrangements? Theodor Hanf 1. With Ghia Nodia, University of Tbilisi: Political Change in Georgia. 2. With Kirsten Schulze, London School of Economics: Tolerance on Trial. Ethno religious coexistence in Indonesia. E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Hilal Khashan 1. Assigned to coordinate the PSPA Department‟s program evaluation of its political studies component. Ahmad Moussalli 1. “The Arab Spring in Trouble,” Interdependence Day, Dublin, September 20-22, 2013. 2. “Political Activism and Religion,” Sunni and Shia Readings of a Religious Dichotomy, Cordoba, Case Arabe, Spain, October 22-23, 2013. 3. “Present State of the World: the Middle East,” Interaction Council, 31st Annual Plenary Meeting, Manama, Bahrain, 9-11 May 2013. 4. “Public Muslim Intellectual,” Public Intellectualism in Comparative Context, Notre Dame International Security Program, Notre Dame University, Indiana, May 20-21, 2013. 5. “Hamas and Non-state Actors in the Middle East,” Royal Danish Defense College, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 11, 2013. Waleed Hazbun 1. “Beware of Small States: Lebanon as a „Weak State‟ in the changing regional order,” and “Tourism and the transnational political economy of place-making
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in the Arab World,” papers presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Toronto, Canada, March 26-29, 2014. 2. Presented paper “Security from the outside (of the West): Towards a „Beirut School‟ of Security Studies,” and represented AUB/CAMES at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) meeting, New Orleans, LA, October 2013. Karim Makdisi 1. Director, Program in Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB. 2. Member, Steering Committee, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), AUB. 3. Faculty Research Director, “UN in the Arab World” research and policy program; and Senior Fellow in International Affairs, IFI, AUB. 4. Coordinator, Environmental Policy track within the Interfaculty Graduate Environmental Science Program (IGESP), FAS, AUB. 5. Member, Executive Committee, Division of University Interdisciplinary Programs (DUIP), AUB. 6. Member, Board of Graduate Studies and FAS Graduate Committee, AUB. 7. Member, PS faculty search and graduate application committees, PSPA Dept., AUB. 8. Chair, Promotion Committee for application of Dr. Danyel Reiche, FAS, AUB. 9. Faculty Advisor, International Affairs student club, AUB. Samer Frangie 1. EUME Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. Thomas Haase 1. Chair, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration. 2. Secondary Advisor to PSPA undergraduate and graduate students. 3. Thesis Advisor for eight (8) Public Administration graduate students. 4. Thesis Reader for nine (9) additional AUB graduate students. 5. Earthquake Preparedness Initiative at AUB – Founding Member. 6. IFI Steering Committee (Appointed by Provost). 7. AUB Academic Advising Committee – FAS Representative (Appointed by FAS Dean). 8. IFI Public Policy Program Committee – PSPA Representative (Appointed by Provost). 9. MEPI Tomorrow‟s Leaders Program – CAPSTONE Coordinator. 10. PSPA Department PA Faculty Search Committee – Chair. 11. PSPA Department PA Curriculum Review Committee – Chair.
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12. PSPA Department Program Learning Outcomes – Chair. 13. PSPA Department Graduate Admission Committee – PA Representative. 14. PSPA Department Fundraising Committee – Member. 15. Grant Proposal Reviewer, Center of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Grant Program. Tania Haddad 1. PSPA Department Academic Advisor PA undergraduate and graduate students for the Spring semester 2014. 2. PSPA Department PA Faculty Search Committee – Committee Member. 3. PSPA Department PA Curriculum Review Committee – Committee Member. 4. PSPA Department: Thesis Reader for 3 PSPA students. 5. ASFARI Institute for Civil Society- Member of the Steering Committee. 6. Neighborhood Initiative: Participated in the round table discussion “critical citizenship”. 7. Short-term Faculty Development Grant to attend and present a paper ARNOVA November 2013. 8. Short-term Faculty Development Grant to attend and present 2 papers ISTR annual conference July 2014. 9. University of Jordan, University of Southern Denmark : Invited to attend and present a paper at the conference: Bringing People Back In Politics: the Role of Civil Society, Organizations and Political Parties in a Post-„Arab Spring‟ Context". 10. IRNRD Conference: Invited to attend and present a paper December 2013. 11. Political Science Association (APSA) MENA: Invited to attend: Workshop series "Egypt and the Global Economy" - June 3-10, 2014; Tunis, Tunisia. 12. ARNOVA conference : Panel Moderator and Discussant: Community & Grassroots Organization Secular & Faith-based November 2013. 13. IRNRD conference: Panel Moderator and Discussant: Arab Civil Society December 2013. Hiba Khodr 1. Member of the Munib and Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources (2011-ongoing). 2. Member of the Library Committee/Library Liaison at AUB (2010-ongoing) 3. Advisor for the Insight Club at AUB (2010-ongoing). 4. Faculty Advisory Member of the board of the Research Advocacy and Public Policymaking Program (RAPP) at Issam fares Institute (IFI) for Public Policy and International Affairs (2009-ongoing).
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5. Member of the coordinating committee of the newly approved Energy Studies Program (ENSTP) to be established under the Division of Interdisciplinary Programs- DUIP (ongoing). 6. Appointed as a member of the AUB Institutional Review Board- IRB (ongoing). 7. Freshman Advisor. 8. Paper titled “Energy Policies and Domestic Politics in the MENA Region in the Aftermath of the Arab Upheavals: The Cases of Lebanon, Libya and KSA” presented in the panel on „States, Institutions: Governance, Change, and Reconstruction” at the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago (April 3-6, 2014). 9. Paper titled “Investigating The Implementation of New Public Management in Lebanon: Ideas and Realities” presented in the panel on „Meeting The Expectation Of Increased Responsiveness, Trust And Representativeness: Working Across Government Levels And Sectors In The Middle East‟ at the 75th annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) held in Washington, DC (March 14-18). 10. Panel discussant at the Association for Middle Eastern Public Policy and Administration (AMEPPA) second Global Conference on „‟Crisis management held in Ankara, Turkey (November 14-15, 2013). Also presenter of the paper titled, „The Dynamics of Energy Policy in Lebanon: when research, politics, and policy fail to intersect‟. 11. Invited to a two-day workshop Working Group hosted by the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (December 8th and 9th, 2013) focusing on “The State and Innovation in the Gulf”. The purpose was to identify some of the current gaps in the scholarship, to determine the original questions to address, and to define what the critical areas of focus for the final project (edited book or special journal issue) ought to be. 12. Presented a poster for a research project awarded funding by Munib and Angela Masri Institute on which I am a co-PI titled ”Energy Sector Integration and Pricing Reforms in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria” at the Fourth Annual International
WorkshopOn Energy And Natural Resources, AUB, Beirut, Lebanon (May 10,
2013). 13. Presented a paper titled “The Implications of Arab Revolutions on US Foreign Policy. 14. Towards Islamic Organizations: The Case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Post-Mubarak Egypt” at the MPSA annual conference in Chicago, Il (April 10-13, 2013). 15. Participated and presented in a two-day workshop organized by Westminster Organization in England and Dar Al Khibra Research Institute in Egypt titled “Parliamentarians and Decision Making” Held in the Lebanese Parliament, Beirut, Lebanon (March 12-13, 2013). 16. Attended first FAS Academic Advising Workshop. 17. Attended a workshop by CTL on Program Learning Outcomes.
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Coralie Pison Hindawi 1. Academic Advisor for Political Studies students, PSPA Department (Fall 2014). 2. Acting Chair, PSPA Department (Spring-Summer 2014). 3. Secondary Advisor to PSPA students (Spring-Summer 2014). 4. Member of the PS Graduate Admission Committee. 5. Thesis supervisor for MA student Helen Mackreath (PS) working on the role of host communities in refugee assistance and reader for six additional theses successfully defended during the academic year. 6. Took over the search for two new PA Faculty members (Spring-Summer 2014). 7. Active participant in the PS review process (Spring 2014). 8. Participated in the CASAR Brown Bag: “America Protects the World: the UN Doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Humanitarian Intervention” (September 27, 2013). 9. Invited to present my newly published book and gave a lecture entitled “Conseil de sécurité et recours à la force Leçons d‟Iraq et d‟ailleurs” moderated by Dr. Sari Hanafi at the Salon du Livre Francophone de Beyrouth (November 3, 2013). 10. Invited to participate in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Forum 2013, Amman, Jordan. Presented on “Iran: The Way Out of the Chapter VII Trap is Regional” (13-14 November 2013). 11. Secured a research scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation to work on a book project entitled “Knowledge Production and Doctrine Formation in the Security Sector: Deconstructing narratives in the case of Iraq”. (Amount: 26 460 Euros, Duration: Sept. 2014-August 2015). 12. Faculty Development Grant: Participated in the International Studies Association Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada. Presented on “The Iraqi Laboratory: Questioning conventional narratives‟ (March 26-29, 2014). 13. Participated in the Lebanese Army Fourth Regional Conference on “Anticipated Status Quo in the Middle East in Light of the Likely Changes and compromises: Legitimacy of the New Regimes and the Pillars of the New Regional Order” (April 9-12, 2014). Member of the Regional Order working group. 14. Co-organized a „state of the field‟ seminar for the Political Studies program with Dr. Hilal Khashan and Dr. Maher Jahar from the Arts and Humanities Initiative, April 16, 2014. 15. Co-organized a closed-door discussion with former Indian ambassador Fabian, PSPA Department/Issam Fares Institute, May 15, 2014. 16. Secured an URB grant for research assistantship: “Knowledge Production and Doctrine Formation in the Security Sector: Deconstructing narratives in the case of Iraq”. (Amount of the URB Award: 4 000 US$ - Duration: May-August 2014).
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Danyel Reiche 1. Preparing a class to be taught “Blended” in the fall term 2013/2014; teaching for the first time in the PSPA department a blended class (Introduction into Comparative Politics, PSPA 211) in spring 2013/2014. 2. Reviewing a manuscript for the journal “Cities”. 3. Assessing three proposals submitted to the Norwegian Research Council ( PETROSAM2 programme). 4. Talk on “Soccer at the Olympics: Interests, Issues, and Significance”, Conference Soccer as the beautiful game: Footballs artistry, identity and politics in New York, Hofstra University, 04/12/2014. 5. Talk on “Qatar‟s motives for hosting mega sport events and funding elite sports”, SPLISS Conference 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium, 11/15/ 2013. 6. Talk on “Drivers behind corporate social responsibility in the professional football sector: a case study of the German Bundesliga”, Conference of the European Association for Sport Management in Istanbul, Turkey, 06/27/ 2013. 7. Member of the Student Academic Affairs Committee (SAAC) in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 8. Member of the Undergraduate Admissions Committee in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 9. Organizer of the PSPA (Department of Political Studies and Public Administration) brown bag series. 10. Coordinator of the PSPA (Department of Political Studies and Public Administration) media and communication committee. 11. Conference travel grant, Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR), AUB. 12. Faculty development grant (short-term), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, AUB 13. Research Grant, Issam Fares Institute, AUB. 14. Media exposure: I spoke live on the hour long Al Mayadeen News TV program in March 2014; I was live on Austrian radio OE1 and was interviewed by the Italian newspaper La Gazetta dello Sport, both in September 2013. Ohannes Geukjian 1. Faculty adviser to the PSPA society. 2. Academic adviser to BA and MA political science students. 3. Live interview to RTTV (Russian TV) on the military situation in Kessab (Syria), 1 April 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=630ImTTVu_Y&feature=youtu.be 4. Interview to the Associated Press on the situation in Syria, 28 March 2014. 5. Workshop PS Program: Discussing Achievements, Challenges, Strategies, 16 April, 2014, AUB.
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6. Panelist: “Negotiation Deadlock and the Limits of Mediation in Resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict,” International Conference organized by the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia, New York, 24-26 April 2014. 7. Panelist: “An Ignored Relationship: The Role of the Lebanese Armenian Diaspora in Conflict Resolution (1975-1990),” International Conference organized by Armenian Diaspora Research Center, Haigazian University, Beirut, 15-16 May 2014. Eric Goodfield 1. Thesis Supervision: Mario Abou Zeid, Raghda Allouche. 2. Thesis Defended: Raghda Allouche. F. PUBLICATIONS Hilal Khashan 1. Hilal Khashan, “Gateways to Peace in Syria: Going Beyond Geneva II,” E-International Relations. Published on Feb. 18, 2014. Available at: http://www.eir.info/2014/02/18/gateways-to-peace-in-syria-going-beyond-geneva-ii/. 2. Hilal Khashan and Johan Garde, “Democratic Values in Lebanon‟s Segmented Politics,” The Arab World Geographer, vol. 16, no. 3, 2013 (it actually appeared in print in April 2014). 3. Hilal Khashan, “Bandar bin Sultan‟s Botched Syrian Policy,” Middle East Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014. Available at: http://www.meforum.org/3683/bandar-bin-sultan-syria. 4. Hilal Khashan,“The Syrian Uprising and the Scramble for Geneva II,” Berfrois (Oct. 4, 2013). Available at: http://www.berfrois.com/2013/10/hilal-khashan-the-syrian-uprising-and-the-scramble-for-geneva-ii/. 5. Hilal Khashan, “Bashar al-Assad‟s Unsalvageable Regime,” Berfrois (June 18, 2013). Available at: http://www.berfrois.com/2013/06/hilal-khashan-bashar-al-assads-unsalvageable-regime/. Ahmad Moussalli 1. Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: the Quest for Modernity, Legitimacy and the Islamic State (Gainesville: Florida University Press, 3rd edition, 2013). 2. “Founders or Trailblazers of Political Islam: Hassan Al-Banna,” The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics, John L. Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin, eds. (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2013), 129-143. 3. “Muhammad Mahdi Shamseddine,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
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(2013). 4. “Islamic Reform,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (2013). 5. “Lebanon,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (2013). 6. “Said, Hawwa,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (2013). Waleed Hazbun 1. Review of Noel Scott and Jafar Jafari, (eds.) Tourism in the Muslim World (Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2010) in Journal of Tourism History, 2014. 2. “The Uses of Modernization Theory: American Foreign Policy and Mythmaking in the Arab World,” in American Studies between the American Century and the Arab Spring, edited by Marwan Kraidy and Alex Lubin (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming). 3. “The folds of place: Re-visiting questions of travel in Israel/Palestine,” in The Politics and Power of Tourism in the „Holy Land,‟ edited by Rami K. Isaac, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, and C. Michael Hall, (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2016). Karim Makdisi 1. Makdisi, Karim. “Reconsidering the Struggle over UNIFIL in Southern Lebanon,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XLIII, No.2 (Winter 2014). Alexander Barder 1. Book under contract. Empire Within: International Hierarchy, Imperial Laboratories and Modern State Formation (Routledge, forthcoming). 2. “The Closing of the American Mind: „American School‟ IR and the State of Grand Theory” with Daniel Levine (Accepted for publication in European Journal of International Relations). 3. “A neo-Materialist Perspective on Crisis Theory” contribution to a forum to appear in the International Studies Review. 4. “Modern Crisis, Modern History: Nicholas Onuf‟s Conceptual History” to appear in a festschrift for Nicholas Onuf, 2013. Samer Frangie 1. „Historicism, Socialism and Liberalism after the Defeat: On the Political Thought of Yasin al-Hafiz,‟ Modern Intellectual History, forthcoming. Thomas Haase
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1. Haase, Thomas W. (2014) “Disaster Management and the Republic of Lebanon.” In Kapucu, N. and Liou, K. T. (editors). Disaster & development: Examining global issues and cases. New York, NY: Springer (in press). 2. Haase, Thomas W. and Randa Antoun (2014) “Decentralization in the Republic of Lebanon: Evaluating the Call for Reform.” In Dawoody, Alexander R. (editor). Public Administration and Policy in the Middle East. New York, NY: Springer (accepted for publication). Hiba Khodr 1. “A Preliminary Comparative Study of Policymaking in Two GCC Countries Qatar and Kuwait Process, Politics, and Participants” Politics and Policy, Volume 42, No. 2 (2014): 271-310. 2. “Investigating The Implementation of New Public Management in Lebanon: Ideas and Realities”, Journal of US-China Public Administration, December 2013, Vol. 10, No. 12: 1132-1144. 3. “Energy Policies and Domestic Politics in the MENA Region in the Aftermath of the Arab Upheavals: The Cases of Lebanon, Libya and KSA. Politics and Policy, 41 (5): 656-689. 4. The Dynamics of Energy Policy in Lebanon: when research, politics, and policy fail to intersect. Energy Policy, 60: 629-642. 5. “Training and Development Policies in Iraqi Kurdistan. International Journal of Training and Development. Coralie Pison Hindawi 1. Vingt ans dans l‟ombre du chapitre VII. Eclairage sur deux décennies de coercition à l‟encontre de l‟Iraq, Paris, L‟Harmattan, 2013, 467 pp. Danyel Reiche 1. Reiche, D. (2014): Drivers behind corporate social responsibility in the professional football sector: a case study of the German Bundesliga. Published in Soccer & Society, Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 472-502. 2. Reiche, D. (2013): Climate policies in the U.S. at the stakeholder level: a case study of the National Football League. Journal of Energy Policy (September 2013), pp 775-784. 3. Reiche, D. (2013): The prohibition of online sports betting: A comparative analysis of Germany and the United States. European Sport Management Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 293-314. 4. Reiche, D. (2014): Sport as a tool for deflecting from political problems: Bolivia‟s President Morales successful campaign against FIFA‟s ban on high altitude football (accepted for publication by Sport in Society on March 10, 2014).
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1. Ohannes Geukjian, Negotiating Armenian-Azerbaijani Peace: Obstacles, Opportunities, Prospects (Ashgate: London, 2014), in print. 2. “An Ignored Relationship: The Role of the Lebanese Armenian Diaspora in Conflict Resolution (1975-1990).” Middle Eastern Studies (MES), 17 April 2014, online. 3. “Between Instability and Collapse: Internal and External Dynamics after the Syrian Withdrawal from Lebanon.” Accepted for publication by Middle East Journal (MEJ). 4. Book review: Tracy German, Regional Cooperation in the South Caucasus: Good Neighbours or distant Relatives (Ashgate: London, 2012), accepted for publication by Europe-Asia Studies. Theodor Hanf 1. Hanf, T., and Mufti, K. E. (2013). Policies and Politics of Teaching Religion. Book published in 2013. Eric Goodfield 1. “States of Nature: Counter-Confucianism and the Daoist Encounter with Liberal Thought” in The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives, Russell Fox, Jon Carlson, eds. [Lexington Books, 2013]. 2. “Negating Negation: A Century of Revision in the Reception of Hegel‟s Political Philosophy” (Accepted: Hegel Bulletin (Journal of the Hegel Society of Great Britain). 3. “The One and the Many,” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael Gibbons (Published). 4. Completion of book: Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory, in press, release June 2014, Routledge. G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT Thanks to this year‟s successful recruitment process, the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration will be able to continue the hard work started several years ago with the Program Review Process. This includes rethinking our programs strategically, adjusting our educational missions, providing students with more opportunities, and adopting revised program learning outcomes that reflect both the skills we are effectively providing our students with, as well as the skills and competencies that we believe we should equip our students with, to allow them to reach their goals after graduation. Moreover, while this year‟s review processes have focused on our undergraduate programs, the examination
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of our graduate programs will have to be considered, notably the project to include a non-thesis track. Beyond those important tasks, the department will seek to recruit another PS faculty member to replace Dr. Alex Barder. A successful replacement of Dr. Barder would allow us to maintain a strong team in the International Politics sector, a field not only crucial to our department‟s curriculum and research focus, but also instrumental in the ability of our department to contribute in numerous ways to the expanding interdisciplinary programs. While this year‟s impressive activities in terms of program review and recruitment demonstrate our department‟s ability and eagerness to move forward together, leadership is key for the initiation and completion of such processes. It is to be kept in mind that recent achievements and the overall good spirit that reign in the department are precarious and heavily dependent upon the commitment and dedication of some colleagues. Against that background, faculty retention may be an issue to take seriously into consideration, especially for junior faculty who have placed their promotion at risk due to their administrative burdens and responsibilities. Coralie Pison Hindawi Acting Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS Student Population: The Department of Psychology‟s student body continued to grow (195 majors in 2012-2013, 218 majors in 2013-2014), and remains one of the largest and fastest growing departments in FAS. New faculty: Dr. Alaa Hijazi joined the department as an assistant professor of psychology in the spring of 2013-2014, and brought to the department added expertise in the field of clinical psychology. Experimental Psychology Lab: The new Experimental Psychology Lab is equipped with an Electroencephalography (EEG), a Tobii Eye-tracker, and an interactional space for children with Autism. The laboratory is used by faculty members and graduate students in the department. Research: the department remains active in several research areas spanning the disciplines in psychology. Faculty research areas included: fMRI neuroimaging of creativity, intercommunity relations between Syrian refugees and Lebanese host communities, dual pathways of collective action, inter-sectarian relations in Beirut, post-traumatic growth, positive psychology, and sense of agency in gaze controlled applications. MA Clinical Psychology Program: the MA in Clinical Psychology started receiving its first student cohort this year, and is already running at full capacity. The department also initiated a new “Clinical Psychology” Faculty line, a first of its kind in FAS. The Clinical line enabled the department to offer a position tasked with the overview of the graduate clinical program and the supervision of students‟ clinical training. Psychology Colloquia: The Department of Psychology hosted two colloquium presentations: “Thinking through metaphor in science” by Dr. Tamer Amin, and “The early assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders and the availability of assessment tools in Lebanon” by Dr. Leyla Dirani.
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Psychology Website: The Department of Psychology‟s website at http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/psychology was slightly restructured, and was continuously updated throughout the year. Civic Engagement and service: The Department of Psychology continued to engage the wider community. The Department participated in the worldwide campaign for Autism Awareness (“Light it up Blue for Autism” – April 2014), and in an interdepartmental workshop on “sexual harassment in Lebanese law”. Furthermore, the faculty remained engaged in the community through a variety of individual actions aimed at vulnerable and disadvantaged groups (see individual faculty reports). For example, Dr. Hijazi provided a seminar to AUBMC students on burnout, and Dr. Saab and Dr. Harb conducted a study on the relations between Syrian refugees and Lebanese host communities that was presented to key stakeholders in the government of Lebanon and INGOs. Psychology Student Society: The Psychology Student Society (PSS) organized a series of events during the academic year, and included the following: A General Annual Gathering, a series of presentations (Invited speakers on Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Alzheimer in Lebanon, etc.). The PSS participated in the Autism Awareness Day and the Mental Health Awareness Week. The PSS also organized a series of psychology orientation talks. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members
Awaida, May Lecturer Ph.D. Dietrich, Arne Kazarian, Shahe Harb, Charles Chairperson
Professor Professor Associate Professor
Ph.D. Ph. D
Ph.D. El Jamil, Tima Hijazi, Alaa
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Ph.D.
Najjar, Nidal Saab, Rim Slobodenyuk, Nadiya
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D.
Boyadjian, Maral Lecturer Ph.D. El Yashruti, Reigna Instructor M.A. Fayad, Yasmine Ghorayeb, Jihane
Instructor Instructor
M.A. M.A.
Najjar, Laian Instructor M.A.
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Nakhle, Pascale Instructor M.A. Nasr, Nour Instructor M.A. Younes, Dania Instructor M.A.
2. Graduate Assistants
Fall Semester
Abi Ghanem, Carol
Itani, Marwa
Ayoub, Mona
Michli, Sara
Eid, Shereen
Moughalian, Catherine
Ghanem, Ghina
Sahakian, Tina
Harb, Camelia Salem, Aya
Hassan, Fahed
Wannissian, Kevork
Hmeidan, Reem
Spring Semester
Abi Ghanem, Carol Hmeidan, Reem
Ayoub, Mona Itani, Marwa
Eid, Shereen Michli, Sara
Ghanem, Ghina Sahakian, Tina
Harb, Camelia Wannissian, Kevork
Hassan, Fahed
3. Non-Academic Staff
Baramakian, Maria Administrative Assistant
C. TEACHING
1. Number of Graduating Majors:
Psychology
B.A. Oct. 2012 4
Feb. 2013 8 Jun. 2013 39
M.A Oct. 2012 0 Feb. 2013 0
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2. Number of Majors:
Psychology
Graduates 25 Seniors 49 Juniors 68
Sophomores 76 Total Enrollment 218 3. Student Enrollment in Courses
sesrCoC Summer 2012
Fall 2012
Spring 2013
Total
Courses numbered 300 and above 0 45 35 80 Courses numbered 211 through 299 28 351 357 736 Courses numbered 200 through 210 71 401 359 831 Courses numbered 100 through 199 0 73 35 108
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4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
sesrCoC Summer 2012
Fall 2012
Spring 2013
Total
Courses numbered 300 and above 0 12 12 24
Courses numbered 211 through 299 3 36 39 78
Courses numbered 200 through 210 9 42 45 96
Courses numbered 100 through 199 0 9 6 15
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D. RESEARCH Fatima Al-Jamil 1. El-Jamil, F. & Ahmad, S. (in progress). Psychotherapy Models. In Amer, M.
(Ed.) Handbook of Arab American Psychology. Routledge.
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2. El-Jamil, F. & Abi-Hashem. N. (in progress). Family maltreatment and domestic violence among Arab Middle Easterners: A psychosocial, cultural, religious, and legal examination. In R. A. Javier and W. G. Herron (Eds.), Assessment and treatment of domestic violence in a multicultural context [tentative title]. Lanham, MD: Jason Aranson of Rowman & Littlefield.
Arne Dietrich 1. EEG neuroimaging projects 2. Theoretical work on creative thinking (a book and two papers) 3. FMRI neuroimaging projects on creativity (collaboration Chongqing, China) 4. Exercise and cognitive function (collaboration, Nice, France)
Charles Harb 1. Syrian Refugee crisis – youth perception survey
Conducted a full research project and report assessing Lebanese-Syrian perceptions and relations in Lebanon, using both focus groups (17 FGD) and a representative sampling of Syrian refugees (600) and Lebanese nationals (600) in Akkar and the Bekaa Valley. Co-investigator, Dr. Saab. Published 2014.
2. Youth well-being in the Horsh Beirut Area. A field study assessing youth related problems in four neighborhoods around the horsh area in Beirut. Co pi with faculty members from across campus in a FHS-IFI coordinated committee.
Alaa Hijazi 1. Hijazi, A.M., Keith, J.A., & O'Brien,C. (under review). Predictors of Posttraumatic Growth in a Multi-War Sample of US Combat Veterans. 2. Ferguson, C.J., Ferraro, R.F., Hall, H., Hijazi, A.M., Hovee, M., & Wilcox, S. Co-chair of American Psychological Association Peace Psychology Division Taskforce on Drone Warfare. Co-writing with above authors a review on the psychology of drone warfare. 3. Wilcox, S., Hijazi, A., & Fields, R. Co-writing introductory sections for a revision of the American Psychological Association's Guidelines for Practice with Women and Girls. Sections include female Veterans and women and war.
Shahe Kazarian
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1. Kazarian, S. & Michli, S. (in press). The world book of hope. In Leo Bormans (Ed.).
Rim Saab 1. Saab, R., Tausch, N., Spears, R., Cheung, W. (under review). Acting in solidarity: Testing an extended dual-pathway model of collective action by bystander group members. 2. Zaal, M.P., Saab, R., O‟Brien, K., Jeffries, C., Barreto, M., & van Laar, C. (under review). You're either with us or against us!: Moral conviction determines how the politicized distinguish friend from foe. 3. International support for the Arab Uprisings: Understanding sympathy protests using theories of Social Identity and Social Dominance. Primary investigator: Andrew Stewart. Collaborator: Rim Saab. Under review. 4. Consulted “Save the Children International” with Dr. Charles Harb on a project aimed at improving relations between Syrian refugees and Lebanese citizens in Bekaa and Akkar and published the following report: Harb, C., & Saab, R. (May 2014). Social Cohesion and Intergroup Relations: Syrian Refugees and Lebanese Nationals in the Bekaa and Akkar. Save the Children report. Nadiya Slobodenyuk 1. Research on sense of agency in gaze-controlled applications. 2. Theoretical work on the role of embodied cognition research in improvement of gaze-controlled interface design. 3. Research on cross-modal mapping between color and haptics. E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
Tima Al-Jamil Courses Taught
Fall semester - Clinical Psychology (PSYC 230) - Advanced Psychopathology (PSYC 350) Spring semester
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- Child Abnormal Psychology (PSYC 215) - Clinical Interventions I (PSYC 356) - Special Topics Seminar on Trauma (PSYC 240)
Other Services
1. Part time clinical practice: Assessment and treatment of psychological disorders 9 hrs/week
2. Part time clinical supervisor: Clinical supervision for psychology graduates-in-training, 3 hrs/week
Other Staff (Departmental) Activities
Master Thesis as Advisor: 1. Hala Naffah – Predictors of burden of care with caregivers of cancer
patients – Thesis defence passed on May 8, 2014. 2. Mia Atoui – Insight and empathy as predictors of outcome in first episode
and chronic schizophrenia – Thesis proposal passed on April 2, 2014 3. Joumana Ammar – Predictors of quality of sibling relationships within
divorced families – Expected thesis defence on June 3, 2014. 4. Zeina Philipps – The relationship between assertiveness, self-esteem and
cultural identity. Expected thesis defence in June, 2014. 5. Sara Michly – Working on proposal 6. Minerva Fadel- Working on proposal
Masters Thesis as Committee Member:
1. Sinine Nakhle, Alia Olivia, Layal Hmaidi, Rami Awwad (Engineering Dept.).
1. Psychology Graduate Program Coordinator 2. Clinical Program Coordinator 3. Graduate and Undergraduate Academic Advisor 4. PSS Faculty Advisor
Arne Dietrich Courses Taught: Fall semester:
- History and Systems (Psyc 280) - Behavioral Neuroscience (Psyc 222) - Psychopharmacology (Psyc 360)
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Spring semester: Paid research leave Master’s Thesis: Areej Yehia, thesis supervisor: completed Zeina Yaghi, thesis supervisor: research completed Aya Salem: thesis supervisor: in progress, early stages Tobias Vogt: PhD committee member, University of Cologne: completed Academic Services:
Acting Chairperson, Department of Psychology, fall 2013.
Chairperson, Task Force for MCAT Premedical Curriculum Revisions, 2012-present.
Member, Dean‟s Advisory Committee, 2012-present.
Member, President-appointed Task Force for Reinstating Tenure, 2011-present.
Member, University Senate, 2012-present.
Member and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Representative, Senate Steering Committee, 2012-present.
Member, Periodic Review Committee, 2014.
Member, Editorial Board: Journal of the American Board of Sport Psychologists.
Invited Member: Advisory Council, International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance (since 2011.)
Charles Harb
Chairperson Department of Psychology 2012- Present
AUB- Nature Conservation Centre Executive Committee member 2010-Present
IFI Steering Committee Committee Member 2013-Present
AUB Faculty United Executive Committee Member 2013-Present
Steering Committee FHS – IFI Committee Member 2011-Present
IBDAA Jury Member – IBSAR 2012-2013
Non- american University of Beirut service
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Nasma Resource Center Beirut, Lebanon Founding and Executive board member 2003- Present
Journal of Social and Political Psychology-Editorial Board Member 2012- Present
International Journal of Psychology-Editorial Board Member 2013- present
Courses Taught: Fall semester:
- Social Psychology (PSYC 212)
Spring semester: - Statistical Analysis in Psychology (PSYC 302)
Master’s Thesis supervisor:
- Lama Ghanem: completed - Nick Thomas: completed - Aline Hachem: completed - Camelia Harb: in progress
Alaa Hijazi 1. Member of master‟s Thesis committee (as a Reader) for following students: (a) Layal Hmaidi (proposed thesis in spring 2014), (b) Mia Atoui (proposed thesis in spring 2014), (c) Alia Olivia Saleh (proposed thesis in spring 2014), (d) Tina Shahakian (proposed thesis in spring 2014). 2. Services to the Department/University: Provided a seminar on burnout and self care for medical students at the AUB Medical School. 3. On the editorial team for the American Psychological Association Trauma Division Newsletter. 4. Consulted with World Vision. Conducted focus groups with Syrian refugees in the Bekaa valley as part of World Vision's program evaluation. Co-wrote a report about the findings with Mr. Johnny Seikaly of Key Development Services (February 2014). Shahe Kazarian Supervision of MA Theses: Clara Mchantaf
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Tina Sahakian Alia Saleh Reader, MA Thesis: Lama Ghanem Teaching:
- Adult Abnormal psychology (PSYC 214) - Personality Psychology (PSYC 216) - Positive Psychology (PSYC 234)
Administrative: Acting Chair Academic Advisor (undergraduate and graduate students) Rim Saab 1. Supervised the following graduate students: Mona Ayoub (defended proposal in
spring 2014) and Catherine Moughalian (not defended yet) 2. Member of master‟s Thesis committee (as a Reader) for following students:(a)
Aline Hachem (defended thesis in spring 2014), (b) Lama Ghanem (defended thesis in spring 2014), (c) Nick Thomas (defended thesis in spring 2014), (d) Zeina Yaghi (defended proposal in fall 2013), (e) Camelia Harb (defended proposal in spring 2014)
3. Advised around 50 undergraduate and graduate students 4. Services to the Department/University: Organizer of the AUB Psychology Department colloquium Undergraduate Admissions Committee member Graduate Open House Organizing Committee member Advisor for a graduate student and university led initiative for improving graduate life for Arts and Humanities students 5. Reviewed articles for British Journal of Social Psychology, Social Psychology,
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Social Issues. 6. Presentation: “Support for secularism in Lebanon: Data from public opinion
polls” in a panel on “Perspectives on Sectarianism” organized by the Psychology Student Society and Outlook Newspaper in Baathish auditorium, AUB, April 30th, 2014.
Nadiya Slobodenyuk Teaching:
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Fall semester 2013-2014
- Cognitive Psychology (PSYC 226) - Sensation and Perception (PSYC 224)
Spring semester 2013-2014
- Cognitive Psychology (PSYC 226) - Sensation and Perception (PSYC 224)
Advising: Fall 2013-2014: adviser to 65 students Spring 2013-2014: adviser to 58 students MA thesis: Supervisor to 4 students Committee member to 9 students Service: 1. Member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB); 2. Member of the Student Academic Affairs Committee of the FAS; 3. Member of the Research Committee of the FAS; 4. Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Psychology; 5. Director of the Psychology Lab; 6. Library liaison for Psychology Department; 7. Member of the University Neighborhood Initiative; 8. Technical program committee member for the 17th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON2014); 9. Reviewer of the developmental psychology textbooks for the Psychology Press. F. PUBLICATIONS Arne Dietrich Articles: 1. Dietrich, A. (2014). The mythconception of the mad genius. Frontiers In
Psychology: Psychopathology, 34, 36-41. Conference Presentations: 1. Dietrich, A. (2013). Flow explained. Invited talk. IMS 5: International Mountain
Summit. Brixen, Italy.
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2. Dietrich, A. (2014). Creativity Theories. Invited talk. School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
3. Dietrich, A. (2014). Brain mechanisms of the flow experience. Keynote Address. SFPS‟s 5th International Congress of Sports Psychology, Nice, France.
Charles Harb Academic Peer Reviewed Publications 1. Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., et al. (2014). Cultural bases for self-
evaluation: Seeing oneself positively in different cultural contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Prepublished online Feb 12, DOI: 10.1177/0146167214522836
2. Harb, C, & Fischer, R., (2013). Terrorism and Jihad in Indonesia: Questions and possible ways forward. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 16, 117-122.DOI: 10.1111/ajsp.12020
Selected conference presentations 1. Harb, C., & Saab, R. (July, 2014). Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Social cohesion
and inter-community relations in times of crisis. Paper presented at the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) Congress, Reims, France.
2. Tavitian, L., Bender, M., van de Vijver, F., Chasiotis, A., & Harb, C. (2014). Affirming identity through autobiographical memories under threat conditions. Paper presented at the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) Congress, Reims, France.
3. Hachem, A., & Harb, C. (February, 2014). Content and sources of sectarian stereotypes among an undergraduate student sample at the American university of Beirut. Society for personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference, Austin Texas.
4. Abou Abdallah, M., Kashima, Y., & Harb, C. (July, 2013). Parochial Altruism: the effect of kinship, culture of honour, and threat on its endorsement during intergroup conflict. Paper presented at the regional conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Los Angeles, CA.
5. Moukarzel, R. & Harb, C (June, 2013). Interpersonal conflict at work and related outcomes: The moderating effect of vertical and horizontal Individualism–Collectivism. Paper presented at the regional conference of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Los Angeles, CA
Key - Non Academic Forum Presentations:
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1. Harb, C., Ayanian, A., Ghanem, L., Harb, C., Itani, M. (2014). Nature
Conversation (حديث الطبيعة). Paper presented at the Ministry of Education to over 250 public school officials to present the research on the Nature Conversation ToolKit developed for AUB‟s NCC. January 16th, 2014.
2. Harb. C. (2013). Lebanese Palestinian Perceptions: a representative sampling survey of Youth in North Lebanon. Paper presented at the Lebanese Government‟s Grand Serail – PM advisors and Lebanese Palestinian Dialog Committee (LPDC) – February 3rd, 2013.
Alaa Hijazi 1. Hijazi, A., Lumley, M., Ziadni, M., Haddad, L., Rapport, L., & Arnetz, B. (in press). Brief Narrative Exposure Therapy for posttraumatic stress in Iraqi refugees. Journal of Traumatic Stress. Shahe Kazarian Book Chapters Kazarian, .S. (2013). Humor and happiness. In Leo Borman (Ed.), The world book of love. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo Publsihers. (Dutch, English, French, German), Peer reviewed articles Kazarian, S.S. (2013). Unveiling the humor mind of the „starving Armenian.‟ HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 26 (2), 371-384. Kazarian, S.S. & Ammar, J. (2013). School bullying in the Arab world: A review. Arab Journal of Psychiatry, 24 (1), 37-45. Rim Saab 1. Sweetman, J., Leach, C.W., Spears, R., Pratto, F., & Saab, R. (2013). “I have a dream”: A typology of social change goals. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 1 (1). doi:10.5964/jspp.v1i1.85 Nadiya Slobodenyuk Academic Peer reviewed Publications: 1. Slobodenyuk, N., Ghanem, L., Awed, J., & Elhajj, I. H. (2014). Sense of Agency from Force Feedback in Haptic Displays. In D. Chhabra (Ed.), Proceedings of 3rd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology (pp. 92-96). doi: 10.5176/2251-1865_CBP14.42
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2. Slobodenyuk, N. (2013). The Agency Approach to Phenomenal Experiences: The Case of the Creator-Witness Phenomenon in Musical Improvisation. American International Journal of Contemporary Research, 3(10), 161-168. Conference presentations: 1. Slobodenyuk, N., Jraissati, Y., Kanso, A., Ghanem, L., El Hajj, I (July, 2014). Cross-modal associations between color and haptics. 24th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) 2. Jraissati, Y., Slobodenyuk, N., Kanso, A., Ghanem, L., El Hajj, I (April, 2014). Haptic and tactile adjectives are consistently represented in color space. The International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS) 3. Jraissati, Y., Slobodenyuk, N., Ghanem, L. (April, 2014). Speaking Arabic, but reading in English: A description of first and second language use by AUB students. Multilingualism Across Disciplinary Borders -An International Conference (MAD 2014) 4. Slobodenyuk, N., Ghanem, L., Awed, J., & Elhajj, I. H. (February, 2014). Sense of Agency from Force Feedback in Haptic Displays. 3rd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology (CBP 2014) G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS The department of psychology needs to continue its efforts to recruit more faculty to accommodate its ever-increasing student body, and the anticipated surge following the major changes to the MCAT examination. The department is advertising a cognitive neuroscience faculty position, and seeks to advertise for more faculty lines in the coming year. Charles Harb Chairperson
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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND MEDIA STUDIES
A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS The Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (SOAM) was established by a vote of the Faculty‟s general assembly and the University Senate as a consequence to the major structural changes that split the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences into two major programs. The new Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies offers an undergraduate degree in Sociology-Anthropology, another BA degree in Media Studies and a diploma program in Media Communication. It also offers three MA degrees: in Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies. SOAM continues to offer three minor programs in Anthropology, Communication, and Sociology. At the graduate level, it offers MA degrees in Anthropology, Media Studies and Sociology. The following represents some of this year‟s developments in the department: The Fawzi Azar Award: we nominated Amrane Mafoud Medjani. He is a visiting undergraduate student in the Arts who wrote an outstanding paper for SOAN 240 on the Algerian regime and its use of human rights discourses. The Amal Saidi Memorial Prize: we nominated May Tamim for her hard and insightful work. She writes well too. She is motivated to continue work in sociology and anthropology. She has a number of exceptional grades between 90 and 95 in SOAM and also in literature. Workshop: SOAM co-organized a conference “Sociology in Iraq: The centennial celebration of Ali Al-Wardi”, 25th and 26th of February, 2014. Media Studies: and workshops and organized this year the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut, which will launch in August 2013. Workshops organized this year for the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut, which will be launched in August 2013. Lecture Series: This year the department continued its lecture series, a forum in which several faculty and graduate students and visiting professors presented their current projects. Media Studies: the program has organized several public talks and brownbag sessions.
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Sociology Café: Many sessions were held. This initiative, “aimed to create a pot of informal discussion between students and scholars from different universities on critical issues of life in Lebanon,” continued this year with several prominent presenters. It is open to the general public and meets in a café in Hamra. B. PERSONNEL
1. Faculty Members
Al-Hardan, Anaheed Dajani, Nabil
Assistant Professor Professor
Ph.D. Ph.D.
Khalaf, Samir Professor Ph.D. Hanafi, Sari, Chairperson Smith, Richard
Professor Professor
Ph.D. Ph.D.
Kiwan, Dina Scheid, Kirsten
Associate Professor Associate Professor
Ph. D. Ph. D.
Farah, May Melki, Jad Perdigon, Sylvain Wick, Livia Fathallah, Zeina Nasser, Khaled Tarabay, Lubna Agha, Dina Barakat, Rabie Bibi, Karma Boustany, Nora Daou, Marc Khouri, Rami Osman, Zeina Oyry, Toni Yeghiayan, Heghnar
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Lecturer (Part-time) Lecturer (Part-time) Lecturer (Part-time) Instructor (Part-time) Instructor (Part-time) Instructor (Part-time) Instructor (Part-time) Instructor (Part-time) Instructor (Part-time Instructor (Part-time) Instructor Instructor (Part-time)
Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. Ph.D. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A. M.A.
2. Research Assistants
Mallat, Sarah Maaliki, Lubna Annan, Rawan El Shammaa, Alaa Kassar, Oubada Ghanem, Hiba Bachir, Ralph Chehab, Karim
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Tkacik, Christina
3. Graduate Assistants Fall Semester
Al Mousawi, Ranine Aridi, Hadi Attieh, Romy Lynn Daley, Julia El Mabsout, Nayla Habib, May Jaber, Heather Khayri, Haneen Kojayan, Araz Sahuri, Ramz
Saleh, Alia Olivia Tkacik, Christina Ziadee, Micheline
Spring Semester
Al Mousawi, Ranine
Aridi, Hadi Attieh, Romy Lynn Daley, Julia Eshak, Agnes El Mabsout, Nayla Habib, May Jaber, Heather Khayri, Haneen Kojayan, Araz Kowatly, Riham Sahuri, Ramz Saleh, Alia Olivia Tkacik, Christina Ziadee, Micheline
4. Non-Academic Staff Kobrosly, Maysaa Secretary
C. TEACHING
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1. Number of Graduating Majors SOAN Media Diploma in Media Communication BA Oct. 2013 1 0 7
Feb. 2014 5 0 9
Jun. 2014 12 3 19
MA Oct. 2013 1 1
Feb. 2014 1 1
Jun. 2014 2 2
2. Number of Majors Summer „13‟ Fall Spring
Graduates 7 37 33
Seniors 4 19 22
Juniors 17 19 28
Sophomores 7 28 19
Special 1 3 3 3. Student Enrollment in Courses
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 22 59 29 110 211-299 37 225 296 558 200-210 67 380 355 802 100-199 0 91 67 158 Total 126 755 747 1628
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Courses Summer ‘13 Fall Spring Total 300 and above 0 21 24 45 211-299 3 33 51 87 200-210 15 42 48 105 100-199 0 36 27 63 Total 18 132 150 300
D. RESEARCH May Farah
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Throughout the year, I worked closely with Drs. Melki and Dajani revising syllabi, course offerings, prerequisite requirements, and overall program objectives to ensure that our new BA attracts quality students from across AUB and beyond. Just before the year ended, Dr. Melki asked me to work with him on a project funded by a German Institute concerned with media use among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey. This project, which is ongoing, is the first to examine media use among displaced populations. I worked with Dr. Melki on a research project that was launched at the end of last year and is concerned with uncovering media use among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. This study is the first of its kind in the Middle East (and beyond) in exploring media habits – for both news and entertainment/distraction among displaced populations. Sari Hanafi I worked extensively on my book co-authored with Rigas Arvanitis, Arab research and knowledge society: An impossible promise. In addition, we received a grant from IDRC on “Research Granting Councils and Funds in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Scoping Study and Consultation Workshop.” This research is based on intense previous empirical work in the region. It is supported by a strong network of experts. This network will help obtain useful contacts in agencies and institutions as well as discuss the main aspects of research funding in the region. Dina Kiwan During the Spring Semester January – June 2013, I was awarded a Mellon-funded Faculty Fellowship at AUB, in the Arts and Humanities (AHI). My project was entitled American Liberal education and the „Arab Spring‟: an exploration of contested conceptions of citizenship and learning in arts and humanities curricula and initiatives at AUB. This entailed research as well as innovations in curriculum development - including a proposal for a course as well as a proposal for a Masters in Citizenship Studies. Sylvain Perdigon I started at AUB on January 15, 2013. During this first year on campus, I chose to devote the best of my time and efforts to my new teaching duties, and to activities aimed at quickly laying grounds for integration and partnership with my departmental and university colleagues. Kirsten Scheid
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My scholarship in visual and material culture continues to focus on two broad thematic areas: 1) art and aesthetics and 2) embodiment and social networks. In both areas I am further interested in questions of modernity and civilizing discourses, citizenship and conceptions of civic values. Recently my work has engaged theories of non-human affect, subjectivity, and sovereignty to explore further, both historically and ethnographically, the role of art in ethics and politics today, post-1989. Livia Wick 1. I have put together a book proposal about Sumud based on oral histories I
collected for my dissertation as well as additional material collected during subsequent visits in 2008 and 2009.
2. I have designed, taught and entered in the catalogue a new course SOAN 218 The Anthropology of Science and Medicine which was a successful exercise attracting students from our own major as well as from the sciences and engineering.
3. I have been coordinating the anthropology section of the department, attending to duties such as putting together course offerings and suggesting changes to the curriculum.
4. I am in the initial phases of a research project about the Arabic language and pedagogy.
E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES Nabil Dajani MA Thesis Committees: Principal Advisor to the following students Rasha Hamad (MCOM) completed Maysa Shawwa (SOAN) completed Edward Atkinson-Clark (CAMES) completed Member of thesis committees: Sally Ballout (SOAN) Samar Ghanem (SOAM) Genevieve Heckel (English) Mariam Itani (CAMES) Rania Jammal (PSPA) completed Dana Khraiche (CAMES) Michael Oghia (SOAM) completed Elizabeth Woller (CAMES)
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Present Service to the University and community: President, World Alumni Association of AUB. Member, University Senate Member of the Board of TAKREEM, an Arab association to honor Arab achievers. Community service: Member, AUB Board of Trustees Alumni Affairs Committee. President, Worldwide Alumni Association of AUB, (WAAAUB). Member of team of Reviewers, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Review Editor, Telematics and Informatics Journal. Member Editorial Review Board of Journal of Mass Communication, Delinquency and Criminology. First Chairman of the Board and Founding Member, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ). Member of Selection Committee, The TAKREEM Arab Achievement Awards. Chaired a team of media scholars appointed by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education to evaluate the four academic programs of the College of Communication at the University of Sharjah. Selected by UNESCO's Media Development Communication and Information Sector as a member of its team of senior level consultants on “Media Development Indicator Assessments in the Arab Region.” As a member of a team of Reviewers, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP). Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF),evaluated four media research grants submitted to QNRF. Served as an external referee to at least a dozen promotion files at Arab universities. At present I am evaluating a promotion file for a professor at The American University of Kuwait (AUK), Department of Communication and Media.
May Farah Conference and other research-related participation: International Communication Association Annual Meeting, London, June 2013 Supervision of graduate students: Marc Abi Aad (Defended) Rawan Annan (Accepted proposal) Thesis committee membership at AUB and other institutions: Rasha Hamad
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Self-development activities: Helped organize, attended and participated in the launching Media Lab for Digital Literacy at AUB during August 2013. Department Committees: Served on two search committees, one for a new media studies professor, and one for the visiting Whittlesey Chair. Also participated in the search for a new Sociology professor.. FAS Committees: Served on the Undergraduate curriculum committee AUB Committees: Served on a committee organized by the Provost: the Interim Steering Committee for the new Asfari Institute For Civil Society and Citizenship Consulting: Reviewed and rewrote submissions on Arab Media for World Scholar, part of the Gale/Cengage Learning group based in the U.S. Other Scholarly Activities: Organized a campus talk and discussion by an expert on Arab/Palestinian media who is currently associate professor of media studies at New York University. Also participated for the first time in the Salzburg Global Academy, where AUB has the largest student participation. I supervised and assisted undergraduate and graduate students with daily work and larger projects. Sari Hanafi Conference and other research-related participation: Dec. 3, 2013: “Où sont les universitaires arabes dans la vie publique libanaise ? Une absence analysée à partir des éditoriaux de la presse”. Lecture at Institut français du Proche-Orient. Supervision of graduate students: 1. 2013: Nada AlMaghlouth: “Knowledge Production and the Arab
Revolutions: An Exploratory Study”. MA in Sociology. 2. 2013: Jean Marie D‟Agostino: “Opening a Dialogue: Victims‟ Voices in an
Elite-Dominated Context”. MA in Arabic and Middle East Studies. 3. 2013: Christina Guirguis: “#MubarakTrial: Societal Perceptions of Justice
Served” MA Political Studies. 4. 2013: Nick Grinstead: “Humanitarian interventions in Libya and Syria”. MA.
Political Studies.
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5. 2013: Karen Chahine: “Memory of Lebanese Civil War: State Censorship and Cultural Production”. MA. Political Studies.
Students with accepted proposal: 1. 2013- Sarah El Jamal: “An Epistemology of Poverty Studies of the Arab
World.” MA, Middle East Studies. 2. 2013- Mariam Itani: “Religious discourse and social sciences.” MA, Middle
East Studies. Co-supervision of students at other institutions: 2013: Mervat Shahin, Ph. D. “The Diaspora entrepreneurship- driving force in the knowledge economy, focusing on Palestinian diaspora entrepreneurship”. University of Kuala Lumpur. (Rapporteur) Thesis committee membership at AUB and other institutions: 1. 2013: Maysa Mustafa Shawwa: “Understanding the „Queen Queer‟
Phenomenon of Women Working at Male-dominated Jobs in Lebanon: Defying the „3aib‟ Mystique via Redoing Gender?”. MA in Sociology.
2. 2013: Hala abdel Ghafour, “Cultural Conceptualizations and Cultural Models of an English Reading Textbook Taught at some Lebanese Islamic Private Schools: a Case of Linguistic Imperialism?”. MA in English literature.
3. 2013: Eduardo Aboul Taif: “Druze Politics in Israel”. MA in Political Science.
4. 2013: Jessica Nelson: “After Saturday, Sunday: Evaluating the Maronite-Israeli Relationship (1920-1982)”. MA in CAMES.
Undergraduate student advising: Advisor of 16 students Department Committees: Chair of the department of SOAM FAS Committees: Member of the FAS advisory committee Member of the promotion committee of Lina Choueiri AUB Committees: Steering Committee (Member) of Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship Steering committee (Member) Camp program of IFI External service: 2013- (Board Member) Arab Council for the Social Sciences. Samir Khalaf
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Honors and Awards: Honored by five programs at Princeton University, hosted by the Department of Sociology, Center for the Study of Religion, the Near Easter Studies Department, and the Woodrow Wilson School (April, 2014). Dina Kiwan Lectures/Presentations: 1. 24-25/04/14: Kiwan, D. (2014). „Syrian and Syrian Palestinian women in
Lebanon: “acts of citizenship”?‟, Women and Human Rights Program, The James Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Texas,
2. 09/09/13: Keynote „ Global Citizenship Education for the Arab States‟, UNESCO Global Citizenship Education, High-level consultation of 28 experts from around the word, Seoul, South Korea.
Other conference presentations: 1. 6-7/04/14: Kiwan, D. (2014). „Contesting citizenship in the Arab
revolutions: women, youth and refugees, University of Southern Denmark and University of Jordan, „Bringing People Back into Politics: the role of civil society organizations and political parties in a post- „Arab Spring‟ Context, Amman, Jordan.
2. 24-25/03/14: Kiwan, D. (2014). „Constructions of “refugees” through cultural expression: Syrian refugees in Lebanon‟, Refugee Voices, RSC Annual Conference, University of Oxford.
3. 2-3/12/13: First MENA Social Policy Founding Members Network Meeting and Conference on Social Policy in the MENA Region, University of Bath.
4. 21-25th /10/13: Research methodology Meeting, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Varieties of Democracy Project. (V-Dem)
Research Consultancies: 1. Research consultancy for Adyan Foundation on a needs assessment study for
teaching training for religious diversity in Lebanese schools – April – November 2013.
Thesis committee membership at AUB: Chloe Benoiste - AUB Nada Maglouth – AUB Jad Melki Conferences Papers, Invited Lectures and Workshops: 1. December 8, 2013. Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).
Panel on developing investigative journalism education in Arab universities.
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2. October 2013. The Future of Graduate Journalism Education. Columbia University.
MA Thesis Advisor: Maya Al Majzoub, advising since Fall 2014. Ruwaida Abu Eid, advising since Fall 2014. Karen Abi Saab, advising since Fall 2011; defended Fall, 2013. Undergraduate Advising: Fall 2013-2014: 62 students. Spring 2014: 50 students. Other Teaching: Summer 2013: Took 25 students to the Salzburg Academy (see preceding). Summer 2013: Launched the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut (Aug 11-28) Grants and Scholarships: $120,000 Open Society Foundations, commitment towards MDLAB 2014) $15,000 DAAD (Germany) commitment towards MDLAB 2014 $6,000 JMI (Jordan) commitment towards MDLAB 2014 $6,000 CIVAD (Lebanon) commitment towards MDLAB 2014 $105,000 MICT grant, surveying Syrian refugees to study media habits during war (2013) $15,000 Salzburg Global Seminar (Student grants for the Salzburg Academy, 2013). $6,230 Richard Threlkeld Memorial Fund (for the 2013 Salzburg Academy). $6,450 Al-Ekbal Printing & Packaging‟s CSR fund (for the 2013 Salzburg Academy). $147,000 Open Society Foundations (For establishing the MDLAB summer academy 2013) SOAM Department: Director, Media Studies Program (Spring 2013-present) Acting Chair, SOAM Department (Fall 2012) University Committees: E-learning committee (appointed by Provost to develop e-learning at AUB) Comics Studies Center committee (appointed by Provost to fund raise and develop a comics center at AUB). Mentoring Faculty and Serving on Search Committees:
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1. Trained, mentored, and followed up on part-time Media Studies instructors, including May Farah, Toni Oyry, Sarah Mallat, Nora Boustany, Mark Daou, Khaled Nasser, Dima Saber and Maha Azar (2009-2013).
2. Chaired search committee for the Digital Media Instructor position (2012-2013)
3. Chaired search committee for the Media Studies Assistant Professor position (2013-2014)
4. Served on search committee for the Director of the Office of International Programs position (2013)
Curricular Development: Developed and defended the BA in Media and Communication (2013). Developed the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut (launched summer 2013). Toni Oyry Teaching Related: 1. Digital Lab Instructor/Internships & Workshops Coordinator American University of Beirut MCOM 241 Broadcast Media MCOM 295 Media Labs - A, B, C (Developed the Curriculums) MCOM 296 Internship Media Production (TV + Online): 1. Director – Red Bull Media House Austria (3-6minute action sports videos
and LIVE TV and Online event coverage) www.finnishguy.com Awaken The Grotto – Wakeboarding in Jeita Grotto Red Bull SoundClash – Mashroua Leila vs. Who Killed Bruce Lee (3,000 people concert) BCONE – Breakdancing - Middle East and Africa Final – Amman Jordan Red Bull Car Park Drift - Lebanon Final Red Bull King of the Rock - Lebanon Final
2. Director – Producer - Docu-series Arab Extremists – First docu-series on extreme sports in the Middle East.
3. Director – Producer - Adverts and all other multimedia content Foo Solutions.
New Media Campaign Management and Design Product Branding, full Communications planning, Online Advertising and Audience Engagement campaign design and management FOO Solutions. Sylvain Perdigon
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Teaching: I developed and taught a set of new courses, consisting in my own original versions of courses already on the book (SOAN103, SOAN226, and one half of SOAN300), and one new advanced graduate seminar speaking to the two areas of scholarship (religion and law) foregrounded at the time of my recruitment (SOAN323: “The lives of law in Islam. Anthropological perspectives”). This latter course was taught under the “special topics” rubric but I specifically developed it with the aim that it could be offered as part of both the CAMES and Islamic Studies programs in the future, and I was in contact with Dr. al-Bizri to explore this possibility. I started to act as adviser for a number of graduate students. On-campus interventions and collaborations: In order to foster collaboration with my new AUB colleagues, I accepted invitations or in one case volunteered to participate in a number of academic events and research activities at AUB. 1) I wrote and delivered original papers for two major conferences organized on campus (CASAR “Sexual Sovereignty” conference in March, and City Debates “Rethinking informality on multiple scales” conference in April). 2) I wrote and delivered two long lectures for the CASAR graduate seminar (MEST301) in December. 3) I took responsibilities in two research projects on Syrian refugees in Lebanon: one for IFI, which I co-direct with Nasser Yassin (FHS), on Palestinian refugees from Syria, and one based outside AUB at the Center for Lebanese Studies with Sari Hanafi (SOAM) and Fouad Fouad (FHS). Both projects will reach completion in the first half of 2014. In addition to regular departmental duties (including search committees), I have been responsible for an overhaul of the SOAM website (excluding the MCOM section). This is an ongoing work that started in September 2013 and for which I learnt to use the website-management software in usage at AUB. The pace of my personal research suffered in this transitional year and as a result of the priorities I put on teaching and integration into the AUB community. I was one of 20 international scholars invited to participate in closed, 5-day symposium organized by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in Pordenone, Italy, on the topic of “Politics of the urban poor” (September). The paper I wrote for this symposium is to be submitted for publication in a major disciplinary journal in early 2013. 2014 is the year for me to refocus on my personal research and to bring to fruition the writing I did in 2013 in relation to the various events and projects previously mentioned, and to my longer-term research projects, in the form of publications. Conference and other research-related participation and/or travel: “On Making Poverty Sensible: Three Sketches from the Palestinian Refugees Camps of Lebanon.” Wenner-Gren Foundations‟s international symposium on
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“Politics of the Urban Poor,” Villa Luppis, Pordenone, Italy, September 2013 (invited). Supervision of graduate students: 1. Primary adviser for Olivia Louise Kaye, “The everyday state: how do
residents of Chiyah perceive and interact with the state on a daily basis?” CAMES, defended December 12, 2013.
2. Primary adviser for Rose Khouri, “A new tradition: religious revival in a globalized Lebanon,” CAMES, proposal defended on November 18, 2013.
3. Primary adviser for Marwa AbdelFattah, “The modern school in the garbage settlement,” American University in Cairo, thesis defended in September 2013.
4. Thesis committee member for Nada AlMaghlouth, “Knowledge production and the Arab revolutions: an exploratory study.”
Other research-related activities: Co-director (with Nasser Yassin, FHS) of a research project based at IFI, “Assessing the policy implications of the formal and informal mechanisms that are responding to the crisis of Palestinian Refugees from Syria in Lebanon” (July 2013-present). Work on this project in 2013: development of the research design and fieldwork methodologies, recruitment of research assistants, supervision of the IRB application. Project scheduled to be completed by mid-2014. Undergraduate student advising: Academic advisor for 5 under students (F. Al Asmar, S. Baaklini, R. Dahdah, N. El Tannir, J. Fox) Department Committees: Member of the Whittlesey Chair search committee (December). Kirsten Scheid Grants and Fellowships: 1. AUB Faculty Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities (Spring 2014) 2. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Guest researcher (April 2013) Advising of Doctoral Theses (outside AUB): 1. 2013: Nadia Radwan, “Artists and Cultural Actors of Modern Egypt (1892-1946): the Visual Construct of a Nation.” Group: Globalization, Urban Planning, and Governance. Université de Genève. External Examiner 2. 2013: Kiven Strohm, “Impossible Identification: Contemporary Art, Politics, and the Palestinians in Israel.” Département d‟anthropologie. Université de Montreal. External Examiner
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Advising of Master‟s Theses (at AUB): In progress Jennifer Le Varge, “Children in Preschool: Embodiment, Agency and Disciplined Childhood.” Conferences and Presentations: Panels, Roundtables Organized or Co-Organized 1. 2013 Organizer and Chair: “Sincerely Whose: Cynicism, Expertise, and Politics of the Precarious in the Middle East” panel. Invited session for the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association meetings. Chicago, Nov. 20-24. 2. 2013 Co-Organizer with Anneka Lenssen: “A Relocated Politics: Making Art Elsewhere than the Nation” panel. Invited session for the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World, Turkey, and Iran, at the Middle East Studies Association. New Orleans, Oct. 10-13. Invited Lectures and Presentations: 1. 2013 “Fine Art, Nature, and the Sense of a Civic Sphere in „Lebanese‟ Landscapes,” paper for “Cultural Production: Self and Community” panel, “The Mashriq in the Age of Late Imperialism: The Mandates in Global Perspective,” Princeton University, Sept. 20-22. 2. 2013 “Between Promise and Fragility: Aesthetic Belonging in Palestinian Art,” brown bag at Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies, American University of Beirut. Beirut, April 4. Invited Presentations in Non-Academic Venues: 2013 “Migrating Modernisms,” Frieze Talks, London, October 20, 2013. Archived online at http://friezefoundation.org/talks/detail/migrating-modernisms/. Invited Discussant: 2013 “Writing the History of Art outside Art History” session of “On Likeness and Difference: Modern Art of the Middle East and the Confines of Modernism” conference, Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Turkey, and Iran. Kevorkian Center, New York University, New York. Oct. 18-19. General Conference Participation: 1. 2013 “Sincerely Cynical: Post-Authentic Palestinian Art, Post-Oslo,” for “Sincerely Whose: Cynicism, Expertise, and Politics of the Precarious in the Middle East” panel. Invited session for the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association meetings. Chicago, Nov. 20-24. 2. 2013 “When Is It Western and When Isn't It? – The Role of Lebanese Art In (Western) Art History,” for “State of the Discipline: The Position of Non-
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Western Art in Art History,” panel at the College Art Association. New York, Feb. 13-16. Service: To the Professional Community 1. Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association – board
member (2012-present) 2. Middle East Section, Program Committee – chair (2013) To the University Community: 1. University Student Affairs Committee – member (2013) 2. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Student Disciplinary Action Committee –
member (2013) 3. Mary Fox Whittlesey Visiting Professorship Search Committee – chair (2013) 4. Fine Arts and Art History, Levantine Theorist Search Committee – member
(2013) 5. Center for Arab and Middle East Studies Search Committee – member
(2013) 6. University Art Gallery Steering Committee – member (2012 – present) 7. Center for Arab and Middle East Studies Steering Committee – member
(2012 – present) To the Art Community: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Primary Documents series: Arab Art in the Twentieth Century. International Publication series. Consultant (2013 to present). Livia Wick Conference and other research-related participation: Presented on “Teaching the Arabic Language and the Concept of Crisis” at the History and Anthropology of Science, Technology and Society Conference in Cambridge, MA in November 2013. Supervision of graduate students: Carmen Feliz-Taveras, MA in Middle East Studies Fall 2013-2014. Samar Ghanem , MA in (ANTH) Spring 2014. Annabel Turner, MA in (ANTH) Thesis committee membership at AUB and other institutions: Katharina Hansler (CAMES defended thesis 2013) Mayssa Shawwa (SOC defended thesis in 2013) Jennifer Laverge, (ANTH AUB defended thesis in 2014) Rose Khoury (CAMES defended proposal)
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Claudia Lewis, (PSPA defended proposal) Undergraduate student advising: I have been advising 19 SOAN majors mainly sophomores and juniors. Department Committees: Coordinator of the Anthropology Program in SOAM. FAS Committees: Curriculum committee member until the Spring of 2012-2013 MCAT committee, member AUB Committees: Arts and Humanities Initiative Committee Member. Service for a professional association: Board Member of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. External reviewer for Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Asian Journal of Science and Technology Studies. F. PUBLICATIONS Anaheed Al-Hardan Journal Articles “Al-Nakba in Arabic Thought, 1948-1967: The Transformation of a Concept,” (provisionally accepted by Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East). Nabil Dajani “Ethics and the Media: The Lebanese Experience,” Arab Media and Society, Spring Edition, 2013. “Pedagogic Challenges FacingMedia Studies in Arab Universities,” Asian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol.1, No. 1 (2013). May Farah “Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: worthy lives in unworthy conditions,” in Gorman, Anthony and Sossie Kasbarian (eds.), Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualising Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. “Mediating Palestine,” in Shumow, Moses (ed.) Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Belonging in the Digital Age. New York: Peter Lang.
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Sari Hanafi Published books‟ chapters: 1. S. Hanafi, Rigas Arvanitis, Justine Baer. “Internationalization of Science in
Lebanon – The American University of Beirut – A Case Study”. Michael Kuhn and Kazumi Okamoto (eds.). Spatial Social Thought: Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters. IBIDEM, Stuttgart.
2. “The Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return: Reflection on Extraterritorial Nation-states in the Framework of the Arab Spring”. Center for Forced Migration of Birzeit University (Ed.) The Palestinians between Camps and State. pp. 159-169. (Arabic)
Published journal papers: 1. A. Knudsen and S. Hanafi “Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL): Impartial or
Imposed International Justice?” Nordic Journal of Human Rights. (31:2) pp. 176-200.
2. “Knowledge and Power: the visible and invisible knowledge.” Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology. Double issue: 20-21, pp. 3-24. (Arabic)
3. “Writing sociology in the Arab world: knowledge production through Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology”. Contemporary Arab Affairs. V 6:2. Pp. 23-43.
4. In Arabic: Idafat, The Arab Journal of Sociology. issue: 19. (2012) 5. “Explaining spacio-cide in the Palestinian territory: Colonization, separation,
and state of exception,” Current Sociology. 61(2) 190–205. Published newspapers: “Loving Palestine and Hating the Palestinians” Al-Moden. 19/10/2013. (in Arabic) Published conference papers (non-refereed): S. Hanafi and R. Arvanitis “The broken cycle between research, university and society in the Arab World: Proposals for change”. Report presented to ESCWA and the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (LCNRS). January. Dina Kiwan Edited volume: Naturalisation Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multi-nation Societies in International Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Chapters in books: Introduction to D. Kiwan (ed), Naturalisation Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multi-nation Societies in International Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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“Learning to be „British‟? education and naturalisation in the UK,” in D. Kiwan (ed), Naturalisation Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multi-nation Societies in International Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Conclusion‟ in D. Kiwan (ed). Naturalisation Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multi-nation Societies in International Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Jad Melki Melki, Jad. “Sowing the seeds of digital and media literacy in Lebanon and the Arab World: The importance of a locally grown and sustainable curriculum.” In Belinha De Abreu and Paul Mihailidis (Eds.), The Development of Media Literacy Education in the 21st Century. Routledge. Melki, Jad, and Deeb, Amal. (2013). Framing of War: Arab, US, and Israel TV
news coverage of the 2006 war (Arabic: تأطير الحرب: تغطيت اإلعالم المرئي العربي
2006واالميركي واإلسرائيلي لحرب العام ). Al-Mustaqbal Al-Arabi (المستقبل العربي). Melki, Jad, and Mallat, Sarah. (2013). The Status of Women in Lebanese Journalism Institutions. In Carolyn M. Byerly (Ed.), The Palgrave International Handbook on Women and Journalism. Palgrave Macmillan. Melki, Jad. (2013). “Freedom on the Net: Lebanon.” Freedom House. Melki, Jad. Fromm, Megan, Mihailidis, Paul. (2013). Trauma Journalism Education. Media Education. Kirsten Scheid Invited Articles in Other Publications 2013: “Distinctions That Could Be Drawn: Choucair‟s Paris and Beirut,” in Saloua Raouda Choucair in Retrospective. Exhibition catalogue. Ed. Jessica Morgan. Pp. 41-55. London: The Tate Modern. Art-Writing in Popular Cultural Venues 2013: “Everywhere in Here,” in Peeping Tom‟s Digest (3): 46-50. Livia Wick
الصحت غير المسيست و البحىث العلميت" في الصحت في الىطه العربي تحرير سامر جبىر، ريتا " .1
2013ان، إيمان وىيهض، مروان خىاجت و رهام يمىث. مركز دراساث الىحدة العربيت. جقم
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT Our department has increased the number of the enrolled students, not only in the newly established BA in media studies but also in Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN).
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The Media Studies Program launched last year the BA in Media and Communication, exceeding its original enrollment goals (25) by more than double. This year the MA in Media Studies (which was launched last year) will graduate its first four students, and the BA program will graduate its first three students. In addition, over 50 students will receive this year their Diplomas in Media Communication. Overall enrollment in the three MCOM programs (MA, BA and Diploma) has exceeded 250 students. The program has also hired its fourth full-time (professorial rank) faculty in media studies, and this year is recruiting its fifth professorial rank faculty member for 2015-2016. Last summer, the Media Studies Program successfully launched its inaugural Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut (MDLAB), which will run for the second year in August 2014. The Media Studies Program has also restructured and renovated the Nicely 207 lab to convert it into multipurpose room (media lab + seminar room) and has upgraded its facilities and to it capacity. Media Studies has also equipped a new media lab in the IFI building and signed an MOU to receive priority use for that space. Moreover, Media Studies successfully launched last year its weekly “Media Brown Bag”, which attracted many speakers and attendants. Also, the Media Studies Program will continue to participate in the Salzburg Academy for its eighth year, and is working on developing a similar global media literacy academy in Cape Town for January 2016, as well as several exchange and double/dual degree programs with the Danish School of Media and Journalism, Emerson College, Bournemouth University, and others. As a new department SOAM needs to undergo continuous assessment and review of its programs. A retreat is envisaged in September for this purpose.
Sari Hanafi Chairperson
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UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY PROGRAM
A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS During 2013-2014, the University Preparatory Program (UPP) implemented its regular English, Humanities, science, Information Technology and mathematics course offerings designed to prepare college-bound high school graduates to join AUB or other English-medium universities. UPP also introduced a new intensive SAT Program, offered to high school students, coming from UNRWA Schools. In addition, UPP offered a summer intensive English course for graduate students admitted to AUB but needed to improve their English proficiency. The total number of students enrolled in UPP courses during 2013-2014 was 244 during the fall, 147 during spring, and 10 during summer Program Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate appropriately in a variety of academic and social settings. 2. Discuss various topics of interest. 3. Deliver research-based presentations using relevant technology. 4. Apply writing skills based on a comprehensive view of the writing
process. 5. Compose unified and well-developed essays of various rhetorical modes
(narration, description, comparison/contrast, cause/effect, opinion, argumentation).
6. Write in clear, correct, Standard English. 7. Use different reading strategies to aid comprehension. 8. Comprehend various written texts at the literal and higher-order levels, 9. Acquire generic and discipline specific vocabulary, idioms and
expressions. 10. Apply listening skills to various types of spoken discourse (e.g. lecture,
news broadcast, reports, conversation, etc.). 11. Appreciate cultural differences. 12. Respond to texts from different contexts: history, philosophy, literature,
and the arts. 13. Apply the required mathematical knowledge and skills for college study:
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, data analysis and probability. 14. Use various computer programs (MS-Office text editing programs: Word,
Excel, PowerPoint) and Internet search engines in academic projects and presentations.
15. Transfer the analytical skills acquired across subjects. 16. Increase students’ scientific literacy by providing them with learning
opportunities where they tackle issues from different angles.
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17. Engage students in interdisciplinary learning that requires a “synthesizing mind” where they purposefully and reflectively integrate and synthesize multiple perspectives from different disciplines (biology, chemistry and physics) in order to solve real-world problems.
18. Raise students’ standard of English which allows for proper understanding, effective communication and accurate writing of scientific vocabulary used in an English context.
B. PERSONNEL 1. Faculty Members
Academic Full Time Faculty
Harkous-Rihan, Samar Director Ph.D. (USP Associate Director) El-Harake, Rima Instructor MA. Associate Director
Ghaith, Nadine Instructor MA. Kharoub, Hisham Instructor MA.
Part Time Faculty
Abiad, May Instructor (Fall 2014) MA. Armouni, Leila Instructor (Fall 2014) MA.
Ashkar, Nicolas Instructor MA. Awwad, Moh’d Instructor MA. Awada, Ghada Instructor MA.
Bakhti, Naji Instructor MA. Caponis Philipe Instructor (Spring 2014) MA. Hassan, Hany Instructor MA. Hallak, Sandy Instructor MA. Ramadan, Mahassen Instructor (Fall 2014) MA. Osman, Enjya Instructor (Spring 2014) MA. Saghbini, Paul Instructor MA. Samar Hamieh Instructor MA. Zreik, Hasan Instructor (Spring 2014) MA. Ward, Abir Instructor
2. Non-Academic Staff
Ayyash, Samar Program Secretary
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C. TEACHING
1. Student Enrollment in Courses
Fall Spring Summer Total UPEN 002 30 04 34 UPEN 003 26 27 53 UPSC001 24 -- 24 UPSC002 26 27 53 UPMA001 30 04 34 UPMA002 26 27 53 UPHU01 26 27 53 UPIT001 30 04 34 UPIT002 26 27 53 UPGR 001 --- --- 10 10_
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Samar Harkous –Rihan 1. The Role of individual and contextual factors in the language acquisition of
university-bound EFL learners. E. OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
Rima Harake 1. Teaching duties (Intermediate Reading, Upper Intermediate Reading, Upper
Intermediate Writing (Blended) 2. Designed and implemented two Moodle courses. 3. Redesigned the Upper Intermediate Writing syllabus for the summer
graduate intensive English course in accordance with blended format 4. Assisted UPP Director in organizing and redesigning syllabi for all UPP
levels and skills 5. Assisted UPP Director in coordinating between full-time and part-time
faculty 6. Assisted UPP Director in finalizing class schedules 7. Assisted UPP Director in setting up meetings with instructors 8. Organized Midterm and Final examinations and instructor proctoring
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9. Followed up on student-related issues: academic and personal 10. Followed up on instructor issues 11. Coordinated the Listening/Speaking skills 12. Followed up with Reading and Writing coordinators and instructors 13. Updated information on the UPP website 14. Worked on the UPP Final Report 15. Assisted UPP Director in working on the UPP Annual Report Nadine Ghaith 1. Taught various skills within the UPP/USP program 2. Organized end of year project themes whereby students were asked to
interview their communities and present on local topics 3. Compiled the fall 2013 newsletter 4. Organized teaching material and taught vocabulary and reading skills to
UNRWA students under the AUB SAT program 5. Continuous follow-up on students regarding the sign up to and completion
of required USAID volunteering activities 6. Attended and supervised student educational fieldtrips, trainings and
volunteering activities 7. Designed, circulated and followed up on reflection and activity templates
with students 8. Reported to USAID on the community service component of the program 9. Edited various USAID reports 10. Coordinated with Mercy Corps to secure meaningful trainings and activities
for USP students
Hisham Kharoub 1. Instructed in various skills at UPP and programs hosted by UPP, and
provided additional support to students to perform to the best of their abilities
2. Participated in drafting the proposal for the UNRWA students SAT Preparation Program hosted by UPP
3. Assisted in designing and delivering the material of the SAT program 4. Appointed Assistant Director of the SAT Preparation Program 5. Appointed coordinator of the Writing/Structure skills in the SAT
Preparation Program 6. Appointed coordinator of the Writing skill for all levels at UPP 7. Revised the syllabi of the writing skill and worked closely with the writing
instructors and the Associate Director to achieve the proposed CLOs 8. Attended various workshops on Program Learning Outcomes hosted by
CTL and the Department of Education at AUB 9. Assisted in revising the Program Learning Outcomes of UPP
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10. Completed a five week blended learning workshop at AUB 11. Translated the content of UPP brochures from English to Arabic 12. Kept record of the minutes of all faculty meetings in Fall 2013 Samar Harkous-Rihan
1. Prepared and implemented a special orientation session for new UPP students and their parents.
2. Prepared and implemented a special orientation session for new UPP/USP students, their parents and USAID members.
3. Prepared and carried out in-house placement test for UPP students in order to place them in classes appropriate to their level.
4. Taught Advanced Critical Reading course in a blended format 5. Assigned coordinators for the different English Language courses to ensure
that instructors are on the right track and to offer assistance as may be appropriate regarding instructional techniques, organization of practices, etc. for the purpose of providing guidance and mentoring.
6. Served as Associate Director and Academic Monitor for the USAID University Scholarship Program (USP II and IV). This program gives the opportunity to 50 financially needy Lebanese public school students (males and females) to complete their undergraduate studies at AUB.
7. Followed up regularly on the 102 USP students’ academic progress. 8. Followed up on 102 USP students’ civic engagement activities, leadership
training. 9. Assisted in creating civic engagement activities and finding internships for
USP students. A major required component in the USAID scholarship Award.
10. Prepared regular reports to USAID on the different aspects of USP II and IV project.
11. Followed up closely on the USP V selection committee which is coordination with the AUB Admissions office
12. Served as a member for the USP V selection committee which is responsible for:
a. Reviewing all the students’ data and ranking the applicants using composite scores (made of academic standing, financial need and leadership qualities)
b. Short listing 260 students from among the 1002 applications received
13. Participated in preparing and implementing two orientation days for the shortlisted students during which:
a. Students sit for the English Entrance Exam (EEE) b. Students are interviewed to assess their leadership skills and verify
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c. Students attend an orientation session where they meet with different faculty representatives to help them finalize their selection of their fields of study.
14. Participated in writing the USAID/USP VI proposal 15. Designed and implemented an Intensive SAT training program for 150,
eleven grade students coming from UNRWA schools. The best of these students are expected to join AUB if they get accepted.
16. Designed, supervised and taught in the Summer Intensive English program for Graduate Students.
17. Wrote the target and Action Plan for UPP that is integrated in AUB Strategic Plan Goal 2.
18. Participated in a Local fair, AUB graduate Fair, and two foreign university fairs, in Jordan and Dubai in order to promote the program.
19. Developed training materials for language teachers at the request of REP. F. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The UPP website and brochure have been and will constantly be updated, making it easier and more accessible for future scholars to contact the Program. This leads to additional coordination and cooperation between UPP the admissions office, and the graduate admission council, making the process easier and faster for the students. In addition, UPP plans to offer and implement a new, 10-week SAT intensive course that it introduced this Spring to needy local students who want to attend AUB in the future, with the assistance of scholarships and financial support. The SAT course will also be offered during the summer semester. The purpose of this course is to aid students from local high schools to take the SAT in the future and then apply to AUB as regular students. This will lead to an increase in the diversity of the students’ population at AUB. The University Preparatory Program will be offering Intensive SAT preparation for high-school students coming from various Lebanese high-schools in Summer 2015. The University Preparatory Program will also keep offering a Summer Intensive English course for newly admitted graduate students coming from outside AUB in the Summer semester in order to enable them to function effectively in all-English curricula.
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Additionally, the program will work on designing a mechanism for following up and coordinating with all faculties to ensure proper English placement and registration for the Summer Graduate Intensive English Program.
Samar Harkous-Rihan Director
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ZAKI NASSIF MUSIC PROGRAM A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAM Since its founding in December 2004, the Zaki Nassif Program for Music has acted to preserve his musical heritage and simultaneously, organize competitions, concerts, conferences, and seminars. On several occasions, the Program has also proposed strategic lines that may contribute in strengthening music education and programs at AUB. Since October 2007, more than 1,000 Zaki Nassif’s scores were donated to AUB with his heirs granting the University legal title and intellectual property rights of the composer’s music. What is now identified as “Zaki Nassif Archives”, are safeguarded within AUB’s Jafet Library special collection and made available for music researchers and students who are interested in Lebanon’s musical heritage. The collection is also catalogued in the AUB Library system. Also, every year, the legal advisor of the Program acts on tens of requests from artists (in Lebanon and abroad) seeking licenses for commercial use of Zaki Nassif’s scores and lyrics. On the other hand, the late composer archives are still incomplete. So far, we have currently at hand 250 recordings out of the total 1100 indexed in his Jafet’s repertoire. This leaves a major effort to be undertaken to address Radios, TV’s, private and public institutions in view of increasing the number of available recordings. Otherwise, the major accomplishments for this past academic year 2013-2014 are as follows.
1. The manuscript on "Zaki Nassif papers (Min Awrak Zaki Nassif)" is currently in print and should be released by AUB Press in the beginning of next summer.
2. A call for proposals to allocate an annual research grant on “The History and Anthropology of Music in the Levant” will be launched during the month of June 2014.
3. In coordination with the Office of Communications, the 1st yearly AUB Zaki Nassif Program festival was launched this academic year 2013-2014, featuring at least one event each month.
Committees Academic Committee of the Program
Wadi’ Jureidini, Maher Jarrar, Thomas Kim, David Kurani, Nabil Nassif (Chairperson) and Ramzi Sabra. Fund-raising Committee of the Program Nada Abou-Shakra, Leila Bissat, Sawsan Maktabi, Dalal Nassif, Nabil Nassif, Nahia
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Nassif, Akram Rayess, Salma Oueida (Director of Development). Research Assistants Gisele Hebbou (Part-Time) BA (“Maitrise” Musicology from USEK) Roula Hassoun (Part-Time) Software Engineer from CNAM B. ACTIVITIES (within the 1st Zaki Nassif Music Festival) I. Concerts in Assembly Hall
Sunday September 2013, Rima Kcheich in concert Friday October 18, 2013, “Patience Prescribed” with Charbel Rouhana Wednesday November 27, 2013, “Messages” with Oumeima AL Khalil Sunday December 15, 2013, Conservatory Big Band Wednesday January 29, 2014, “Starry Night” by Quatuor del Tempo del Selectum of Arts Saturday February 22, 2014, “Unfolding a new generation”, a concert by the 2009-2013 winners of Zaki Nassif Competition "A choir from every school" Wednesday March 19, 2014, “Special Tribute to Zaki Nassif” by LEBAM and Fayha’a Choir Thursday April 17, 2014, “Remembering Zaki Nassif and Road Friends” by Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Music Sunday May 4, 2014, “Music from Lebanon and the World” by Gargatch Children and Juvenile Choir Thursday June 12, 2014, “Al Farah Choir chants peace” by Al Farah Choir, Damascus
II. Seminars and Competitions
Wednesday April 9, 2014, Seminar on “Zaki Nassif Legacy” May 19: Sixth annual competition “A choir from every school” with the participation of 7 schools.
Nabil Nassif Chairperson