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Israel
David Dobkin, Professor, Princeton University, N.J.
Research: Computer Science, Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics and Visualization
January 2000-July 2000

Melvin Ely, professor, College of William and Mary
Lecturing: American History, History of African Americans, the South and Race in American Life
September 1998-August 1999

Howard E. Gendelman, Professor and Dean, Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Nebraska-Medical Center, Omaha, NE
Research: Nervous System Repair
Host: Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot June 2000-February 2001

Charles Salmon, Associate Dean and Professor, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
Lecturing/Research: Using Mass Communication to Promote Public Health; Assessing Health-Information Needs of Israeli and Palestinian Citizens
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
September 2001 - January 2002

Kate Seelye, reporter, National Public Radio, Washington, DC
Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia Regional Research Program: America's Mission to the Middle East: 200 of Years American-Arab Relations
Host: American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
January-August 2004

Jordan
Eileen Lundy, professor, University of Texas--San Antonio, Texas
Discipline: Education
Lecturing: Teaching Language Arts
Host: University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
September 2003 – July 2004

Edward Lundy, retired, Austin Community College, Austin, TX
Discipline: American Studies
Lecturing: American Studies
Host: University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
September 2003 – July 2004

Shirley Hoeman, associate professor, Fairfield University
Lecturing and Research: Medical Sciences, Community-Based Rehabilitation Nursing in Jordan: Education, Practice Integration February 1999-April 1999

Morocco
Susan Slyomovics, Professor, Anthropology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Research: Educating Moroccan Women During the French Protectorate
Host: University of Hassan II, Casablanca September 1999-June 2000

Oman
Valerie Hoffman, Associate Professor, Program for the Study of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research: Islamic Leadership and Lineage in the Indian Ocean Region: The Scholars and Saints of Oman and the Hadramawt
Host: Yemeni Center for Research and Studies, Sanaa, Yemen; and Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat
September 2000-June 2001
(Middle East, North Africa, South Asia Regional Research Program)

Syria
Hind Rassam Culhane, Associate Professor, Division of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Lecturing and Research: Cultural Identity: Worldviews of Adolescents in Syria
Host: Damascus University, Damascus, Syria
January 2001-June 2001

Qatar
Alice Wakefield, Associate Professor, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Lecturing: Elementary Education
Host: Ministry of Education, Doha
September 2002-July 2003

Thomas Weeks, Consultant, Ohio
Lecturing and Research: Chemistry, Risk Management of Hazardous Chemicals
Host:
Qatar University, Chemistry Department, Qatar
October 1999-July 2000

West Bank
Susan Akram, Associate Clinical Professor, Boston University School of Law, Mass.
Lecturing and Research: Law, Recommendations for Durable Solutions for Palestinian Refugees
September 1999-June 2000

Jeanmarie Condon, Senior producer, ABC News/Peter Jennings Reporting, N.Y.
Lecturing and Research: Communications and Journalism, The Electronic Witness: Making Television News and Documentaries; "A Year in the West Bank-Documenting Peace"
August 1999-May 2000

Egypt
Reda Bedeir, Al-Azhar University, Daqahliya
Lecturing/Research: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Arab-American Cultural Dialogue
Host: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
January-May 2004

Ikram Ahmed Ibrahim Elsherif, lecturer, South Valley University, Sohag, Egypt
Discipline: American literature
Research: Cultural Resistance and Accommodation and the Native American Literary (Fictional) Representation of the "Double" Identity of Native Americans
Host: Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
October 2004 – April 2005

Dalal El Gemei, Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Research: Corpus-Based Study of Collocation in American English
Host: University of California-Los Angeles
October 1998-January 1999

Dalia El-Shayal
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Research: The Search for Form: The Dramatic Function of Music in African American Theater
Host: Harvard University, W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research, Department of Afro-American Studies, Cambridge, MA
c/o Dr. Henry Louis Gates
October 2000-April 2001

Hamdy F.M. Mohamed
Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, El-Minia University,
El-Minia
Research: "Investigation of nano-structure substances using nuclear techniques"
Host: Wayne State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Detroit, Michigan
February 2002 - July 2002

Israel
Joseph Ginat, professor, Departmentof Land of Israel Studies
Research: Anthropology and Archaeology, Methods and Suggested Model of Conflict Resolution Between Israel and the Arab Countries
August 1998-August 1999

Ofra Tirosh-Becker, Researcher, Department of Hebrew Language, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research: Medieval Karaite Judeo-Arabic Translations of Rabbinic Citations
Host: Harvard University, The Center for Jewish Studies, Cambridge, MA
c/o Dr. James Kugel
c/o Dr. Bernard Septimus
September 1999-September 2000

Yosef Tobi, Chair, Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Haifa
Lecturing: Judaic Studies
Host: Virginia Wesleyan College, Center for the Study of Religious Freedom, Norfolk, VA
c/o Dr. Catharine Cookson
January 2000-May 2000
(Scholar-in-Residence Program)

Jordan
Rami Daher, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid
Lecturing: Heritage Conservation and Islam: A Socio-Critical Approach; The Case of Bilad al Sham Throughout Ottoman and Contemporary Periods
Host: University of California-Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Berkeley, CA
January 2001-July 2001

Jamal Qasem, Professor, Department of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Amman
Research: Control of Broomrape (Orobanche ramose L.) in Tomato
Host: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Blacksburg, VA
c/o Dr. Chester L. Foy
September 1999-May 2000

Kuwait
Lafi Alharbi
Home Institution: Kuwait University
Host Institution: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Project Title: Generic Structure and Cross-Cultural Variation in Research Article Abstract: Genre Analyses of Humanities and Administrative Sciences in Arabic and English
September 2004-September 2005

Morocco
Khalid Bekkaoui
, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Faculty of Letters-Dhar Al Mahraz, Fez
Research: Moroccan-American Encounters: An Anthology
Host: State University of New York-Binghamton, NY
d/o Dr. R. Kevin Lacey
August 1999-November 1999

Bahija Chaarani, Professor, Department of Animal Production, National School of Agriculture, Meknes
Research: Reproduction Activity and Performances of Goats in Morocco
Host: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Department of Animal Science, Minneapolis, MN
c/o Dr. Jonathan E. Wheaton
July 2000-September 2000

Ahmed Chehbouni, professor, University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakesh
Discipline: environmental sciences
Host: Oklahoma State University-Stillwater, Oklahoma
Research: Combining Soil Leaching, Ion Exchange and Adsorption to Restore Salt Contaminated Soil and Water Quality for Improved Agriculture
June - September 2005

Oman
Samira Moosa, Director, Educational Research Center, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat
Research: Dimensions of Child-Rearing Practices, Educational Belief and Parent Involvement in the Schools: Comparing the First and Second Generation Arab Mothers Living in the United States
Host: Eastern Michigan University, Department of Psychology, Ypsilanti, MI
August 2000-July 2001

Saudi Arabia
Khaled Al-Layl, Chair, Department of Biology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah
Research: The Effect of Biotoxins from Red Tide
Host: Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
October 2000-June 2001

United Arab Emirates
Fatma Al-Sayegh, Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University
Discipline: History (non-U.S.)
Research: Political Changes in the Oil Monarchies: The Case of the United Arab Emirates, 1971-2001
Host: Georgetown University, Washington, DC
February – August 2003

Yemen
Mohammed Sharafuddin, Associate Professor, University of Sana'a, Yemen
Discipline: American Literature
Research: Oriental Mysticism in 19th-Century American Literature
Host: George Washington University, Washington, DC
September 2001 – June 2002

 

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