Graduate studies committee
التشكيل التكراري في شعر الصنوبري
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- قراءة لسانية أرﮐﻴوﻟوﺠية :(الأصمعية الخامسة والخمسون نموذجاً
- PUBLICATIONS Saleh Agha
- Fawwaz Tuqan “Fuḥūlah of Poets: a term of medieval Arab criticism but without criteria,” al-Mashriq 89:1, (2015): 182-213. David Wilmsen
- David Wilmsen Chairperson DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS
- PERSONNEL Faculty Members
- Research Assistants
- Graduate Assistants
- PhD Graduate Research Assistantships
التشكيل التكراري في شعر الصنوبري الأَغراضُ الشّعريّةُ في كُتُب التّراجم في العَصْرِ المَمْلوكيِّ الأوَّل كبش الفداء في الشعر الجاهلي: قراءة لسانية أرﮐﻴوﻟوﺠية :(الأصمعية الخامسة والخمسون نموذجاً) On behest of the Provost and Dean of FAS, worked on preparing an AUB team for BAU (Beirut Arab University) “public speech” lucrative competition. Trained forty-five students, mostly from the media studies program, joined the team for three weeks. Revising the reading material for new texts that are more relevant to the syllabus of ARAB 201B, readings for the background of modern Arabic literature. Public lecture on the history, architecture and religious importance of The Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem (invited by: Palestinian Cultural Club, The Southern Cultural Club and The Red Oak Club). Spring 2015, Bathish Auditorium. Acting chair spring term 2014/15. Wilmsen, David Supervision: Completed supervision of English master’s thesis, Pragmaticalization of discourse markers in Lebanese Conversational Arabic by Maha Ayash; defended 28 April 2016. Supervision: Two ongoing PhD students: Ana Iriarte Díez: The cognate object in Lebanese Arabic; Rima Sultan Qanawati: Hertiage language learners of Arabic: Theory and practice Keynote speech (in Arabic): Arabic for Non-native Speakers Center at Qatar University, first annual Conference on teaching Arabic as a foreign language 1 May 2016: Arabic as a foreign language in study abroad; Arabic as a heritage language in study at home. Conference presentation: “Verbal negation with reflexes of mhuš in Maltese and Mediterranean dialects of Arabic” 5th International conference on Maltese Linguistics of the International Association of Maltese Linguistics, June 2015. Presented research with Amany Al-Sayyed of the AUB English department. Conference presentation: “Verbal negation with reflexes of muš/miš in Mediterranean dialects of Arabic: Croft’s negative existential cycle in a single language system.” Presented at the 11th biennial conference of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA). May 2015. Review of manuscript: “Corpus-based teaching in the Arabic classroom: Theoretical and practical perspectives” for International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Review of manuscript: Arabic-English Translation Manual Georgetown University Press (now published). Review: On the Syntax and Semantics of Arabic Null and Optional ‘an for Abhath. Review of manuscript: Arabic in the Humanities: Theories, Teaching Methods, Themes, Texts. Routledge. Member: AUB Solid Waste Management Steering Committee, Summer 2015 to present.
Saleh Agha “Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī,” The Encyclopedia of Islam 3rd, ed. Kate Fleef et.alia, Brill,Leiden. Boston, 2015, 9-17. Ramzi Baalbaki The Arabic Lexicographical Tradition from the 2nd/8th to the 12th/18th Century. Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2014, 490 pp. Assaad Khairallah “Peter Heath 1949–2014.” Review of Middle East Studies, 49, 2015, pp 116-118 doi:10.1017/rms.2015.39. “Farīsa muqaddasa wa-mir’āt mumīta,” in Samir Khalaf, Al-Jins fī l-‘ālam al-‘arabī, Dar as-Sāqī (2015). Translated from the original English version of the book. “Unsī al-Hājj: ash-shā‘ir al-fard,” read at the Commemorative Celebration honoring the poet, at St. Joseph University Beirut, 20 February 2015. Bilal Orfali The Anthologist’s Art: Abū Mansur al-Tha’ālibī and His Yātimat al-dahr. Leiden: Brill, 2016. American University of Beirut: a Century and a Half. Edited by Nadia El Cheikh, Lina Choueiri, and Bilal Orfali. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2016. The Book of Noble Character: Critical Edition of Makārim al-akhlāq wa-mahāsin al-ādāb wa-badā’i’ al-awṣāf wa-gharā’ib al-tashbīhāt Attributed to Abū Mansur al-Tha’ālibī. Bilal Orfali and Ramzi Baalbaki. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Al-Ru’yā wa-l-‘ibāra: dirāsāt fī l-adab wa-l-fikr wa-l-tārīkh li Wadad al-Qadi. Edited by Bilal Orfali. Beirut: Dār al-Machreq, 2015. “Assembling an Author: On the Making of al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāmāt,” in Concepts of Authorship in Pre-modern Arabic Texts. Edited by Lale Behzadi and Jaako Hämeen-Anttila. University of Bamberg Press, 2016, 107-127. [with Maurice Pomerantz]. “Three Maqāmāt Attributed to Badī’ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī (d. 398/1008),” Journal of Abbasid Studies 2 (2015), 38-60. [with Maurice Pomerantz] “al-shi’r wa-ta’addud al-qirā’āt fī l-samā’ al-Sūfī,” al-Mashriq al-Raqmiyya 6 (2015). “Maqāmāt Badī’ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī: al-Nass wa-l-Makhtūtāt wa-l-Tārīkh,” Usūr 1 (2015), 28-55. [with Maurice Pomerantz]. “In Defense of the Use of Qur’ān in Adab: Ibn Abī l-Lutf’s Raf’ al-iltibās ‘an munkir al-iqtibās,” The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi. Edited by Maurice Pomerantz and Aram Shahin. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 498-527. al-Dīnawarī, Abū Sa’d Nasr b. Ya’qūb, EI3
“The Croft’s Cycle in Arabic: The negative existential cycle in a single language.” Linguistics. Accepted for publication. 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 an professional writing class and a number of new classes for the Semitics minor. Apostille: 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. Yasir Suleiman, of the University of Cambridge, U.K. The title of his paper was “Arabic in the Fray: Language Ideology, Language Anxiety and Language Policy”. The study will soon be published in paper form as well as on the Chair’s Website. Another lecture sponsored by the Chair was delivered by Professor Nader Srage, titled “Political slogans in civil society movements in Egypt and Lebanon: A sociolinguistic reading”. Program Learning Objectives: Although the numbers of our majors are increasing, they are all at different stages of their study, meaning that we do not have enough students to form a capstone class or any such senior year project. In any case, we know our undergraduate majors well, and we are all well aware of their successes in following our curriculum. That notwithstanding, we have two graduating seniors this year, with whom we have conducted exit interviews. Each expressed some misgivings about certain required classes in the curriculum. We shall take their reservations under advisement, pending further interviews with other department majors. David Wilmsen Chairperson DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
One hundred fifty-three students are expected to have graduated with a BS in Biology between October 2015 and June 2016. Four hundred fifteen students were enrolled in the program. Eight students are expected to have graduated with an MS in Biology between October 2015 and June 2016. Five students joined the program in Fall 2015-2016 and two in Spring 2015-2016. The total number of MS graduates enrolled in our program this year (2015-16) was 22. Two students graduated from the PhD program. Four new students joined the PhD program in Cell and Molecular Biology in Fall 2015-2016. The total number of PhD students enrolled in our program this year was 15. One new faculty member joined the department as assistant professors: Dr. Rakan Zahawi (University of 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 seven guest speakers, including Dr. Arij Daou of the University of Chicago, Mr. Maroun Bou-Sleiman of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Dr. Sama Sleiman of the Lebanese American University, Dr. Mounir Abou Haidar of the University of Toronto, Dr. Hashim M Al-Hashimi of the Duke University, Dr. Amal Rahmeh of the Harvard Medical School and June Nasrallah of the Cornell University. The department held 9 meetings during the 2015-2016 academic year. The Biology faculty continues to work towards improving and updating its programs. Several changes were introduced to the graduate and undergraduate programs: (1) to change the catalogue description of BIOL 370 (Bioinformatics) in order to reflect its content; (2) to change the catalogue descriptions of BIOL 251 (Bioinformatics), BIOL 253 (Phylogenetics), BIOL 258L (Aquaculture Laboratory) and BIOL 266L (Oceanography Lab) in order to reflect their contents; (3) to remove all the courses that have not been offered since years. Mr. Imad Masri, the Department Technician, has been promoted to the rank of Senior Technician. Renovation of common research lab room 218 started in January 2016 and ended in April 2016. Room 218 is now divided into two separate laboratories, one serving as a new common cell culture facility and the other as a common research laboratory. A new water distillation system was installed on the roof in April 2016. This system provides larger amounts of distilled water to all laboratories (teaching , common and private labs). Installation of this system was essential as the old distillation system was not functioning well. New research laboratory equipment have been received, such as, fume hood, individually ventilated cage system for mice, cytocentrifuge, explosion proof refrigerators, laminar flow hood, deep freezer and ELISA reader. Laboratory safety sessions were added to Neurobiology and Developmental Biology Lab courses for the first time.
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