Biography

Sherifa Zuhur

zuhur@earthlink.net
samrah_eg@yahoo.com


Mailing address:
Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of Religious Studies
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Ave. Cleveland Ohio


I. CURRENT AFFILIATION AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Cleveland State University; and Beatrice M. Bain Scholar, B. Bain Center, University of California Berkeley

II. EDUCATION:

Ph.D. History, UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) 1990
Dissertation: "Self Image of Egyptian Women in Islamic Opposition"

M.A. Islamic Studies, 12/86, UCLA

M.A. Political Science program, 80/81 AUC (The American University in Cairo.)
Thesis: The Impact of the Iranian Revolution on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East

B.A. Arabic and Arabic Literature and
BA. Political Science 6/80, UCLA


III. PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH

Books

  • Colors of Enchantment: Theatre, Music, Dance and Visual Arts of the Middle East. Contributing editor, Sherifa Zuhur. Cairo: AUC Press, 2001. .
  • Asmahan's Secrets: Woman, War and Song . (biography) Austin, Texas: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UT/University of Texas Press, 2000; and London: Al-Saqi Publications, 2001.
  • Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East. Contributing editor, Sherifa Zuhur. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1998.
  • Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt. Albany, New York: State
    University of New York Press, 1992.

Book in Process

  • Neonationalism In The Modern Middle East
    Full manuscript, 505 pp.. Under review
  • Women and Gender of the Middle East
    New Research for a New Age. Contributing editor, Sherifa Zuhur. In process.

Book Chapters

  • "Building a Man On-stage: Masculinity and Romance according to Farid al-Atrash," Islamic Masculinities edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane Sage Press, forthcoming.
  • "The Biqa Valley and Its Women" Chapter submitted to Nancy Gallagher and Ken Cuno, eds., Volume in honor of Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, submitted to Ithaca Press, in preparation.
  • "Musical Stardom and Male Romance: Farid al-Atrash." in Colors of Enchantment, edited by S. Zuhur, Cairo: AUC Press, 2001.
  • "Visualizing Identity: Gender and Nation in Egyptian Cartoons" with Tonia Rifaey ." in Colors of Enchantment, edited by S. Zuhur, Cairo: AUC Press, 2001.
  • "Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero" in World Literature and Its Times: Africa. Moss Publishing Group, 2000.
  • "An Arab Diva in Gendered Discourse." In Iran and Beyond. Edited by Beth Baron and Rudi Matthee. Costa Mesa: Mazda Press, 2000.
  • "Asmahan: Arab Musical Performance and Musicianship under the Myth." in Images of Enchantment, edited by S. Zuhur, Cairo: AUC Press, 1998.
  • "Victims or Actors: Centering Women in Egyptian Commercial Film." in Images of Enchantment, edited by S. Zuhur, Cairo: AUC Press, 1998.
  • "Beyond the Performance" An Interview of Simon Shaheen in Images of Enchantment, edited by S. Zuhur, Cairo: AUC Press, 1998.
  • "Women Can Embrace Islam," in Islam, Edited by Paul Winters, Opposing Viewpoints Series,San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1995.
  • "The 'Woman Question' Revised in Egypt" in Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, edited by Mona Abul Fadl. Herdon: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 1993.


Articles

  • "Women and Empowerment in the Arab World." Article in process for the Arab Studies Quarterly.
    Special issue, edited by Alean al-Krenawi and A. Graham.
  • "The Mixed Impact of Feminism in Egypt of the 1990s" Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Vol. 5, No. 1. March 2001.
  • "The Mixed Impact of Feminism in Egypt of the 1990s" Reprinted in the Mocakauk Newsletter (Dutch/English), the Netherlands Spring 2001.
  • "The Insider-Outsider/Emic-Etic Discourse" in al-Raida Vol. XVIIII 89, Winter 2001.
  • "Building a Man On-stage: Masculinity and Romance according to Farid al-Atrash," Men and
    Masculinities    . Special Issue edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane Vol. 3, No. 3f orthcoming Winter 2001..
  • "Gender, Art and Cultural Disputations," al-Raida Vol. XVIII, 87, Spring 2000.
  • "Freeing Egyptian Wives " WIN Magazine. No. 30, March 2000.
  • "Asmahan's Meteoric Rise to Stardom: Memory and Melody." al-Jadid, Vol. 5, Spring 1999.
  • "Elucidation not Sensationalism: Teaching about Violence and the Veil" The Review Vol XII, No. 1, 1998.
  • "Readings of the Woman Question in Egypt" (in Arabic) Qira'at Siyasiyah Vol. 3, No. 3 Spring 1993.
  • "Of Milk Mothers and Sacred Bonds: Islam and New Reproductive Technologies." Creighton Law
    Review     Vol. 25, No. 5, December 1992
  • "Engendering Political Islam." Contention 2:2 Winter 1992.
  • "Flexibility not Evolution: Islamists Construct Gender in Egypt." Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (JUSUR) Vol. 7, Fall 1991.

Encyclopedia Articles/Entries

  • "Dress," Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • "Women's Social Movements," Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic-World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • "Sexuality," Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • "Surrogacy," Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS


Conference papers: 1. On anthropological methods and the study of village cultures in the Biqa 2) "Empowering Women or Dislodging Sectarianism? On the issues complicating the defeated proposal for civil marriage in Lebanon 3) "Voices and Silences" An overview of current research on women and Islamist movements

Article on Nidaa' Abou Mraad and the iconolastic revival of Arabic music.


TRANSLATIONS:

  • "Image and Experience: Why Cinema?" by Farida Ben Lyazid (fr. the French) in Images of Enchantment, 1998.
  • "Middle East Peace through Music: A Diwan in Weimar" by Selim Sednaoui (from French) in Colors of Enchantment, 2001.
  • Khatirat, Khalil Maleki, (from Farsi).
  • Harakat Siyasiyah, Tariq al-Bishri (from Arabic)


Personal Interviews with:

Ihsan abd al-Qaddus (1981) Umar al-Tilmisani (1981) Ali Reda (1986), Melda Reda (1988), Esam al-Eryan (1988), Magdi Ahmad Hussein (1988) Ni'mat Fouad (1988), Zaynab al-Ghazai (1988), Fayda Kamel (1988), Jeanette Saad Kamel (1988), Olfat Kamel (1988), Safinaz Qassim (1988), Ingie Roushdie (1988), Djenane Sirry (1988) Hana A. Sahwqi (1988); 75 anonymous Cairene women (1988); 60 anonymous T. Haute, Indiana residents (1992) Abdullah ibn Abd al-Ghaffar al-Atrash (1993); Munir ibn Fahd al-Atrash (1993) Mimi al-Atrash (1993) Assad al-Atrash (1993) Fahed Ballan (1993), Isma'il al-Atrash (1993), Mansur ibn Sultan al-Atrash (1993) Fu'ad al-Atrash (1993) Princess Lima Fawzi (1993), Adil Sabit (1993), Attiya Sharara (1993), Samim al-Sharif (1993), Simon Shaheen (1997), Anna Boghiguian (1999) Jamil Taqsh (2000), Naifa Amhaz (2000), Zaynab Amhaz (2000) Laila as-Sahili (2000), 3 respondents who wish anonymity (2000) members of the 'Aarsal cooperative (2000), Nidaa Abou Mraad (2000)


BOOK REVIEWS

  • The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism. By Amira el-Azhary Sonbol. Syracuse University Press, 2000 Middle East Journal, June 2001.
  • Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism: The Quest for Legitimacy, and the Islamic State. By Ahmad Moussali. Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol. 9, July 2001.
  • Border Passages, Leila Ahmed and Nadia, Captive of Hope, Fay Kanafani, Review submitted to the Women's Review of_Books
  • Women, Islamisms and the State. Azza Karam. (Macmillan, 1998). The Middle East Women's Studies Review Vol. XIV, 1999.
  • The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century. Virginia Danelson (University of Chicago Press, and American University in Cairo, Press, 1997). al-Jadid, Spring 1998.
  • Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform? Edited by John Esposito (Lynne Rienner, 1997.
  • The Islamism Debate. Edited by Martin Kramer. (Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University, 1997)
  • Hizbollah: Born with a Vengeance. Halah Jaber. (Columbia University Press, 1997). Digest of Middle East Studies, Winter 1998.
  • Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. Rashid Khalidi. (Columbia UniversityPress, 1997). Periodica Islamica. Vol. 7, No. 3, 1997.
  • Doria Shafik: Egyptian Feminist, A Woman Apart, Cynthia Nelson. (AUC Press and University Press of Florida, 1996). in Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin Vol. 31, No. 2,
    December 1997.
  • Review Essay: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Fatima Mernissi, (Addison-Wesley, 1995) 'A Trade_Like Any Other:' Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt, Karin van Nieuwkerk, (University of Texas Press, 1995; Feminists, Islam and Nation, Margot Badran, Princeton, 1995) and Avenues of Participation, Diane Singerman (Princeton, 1995) in The Middle East Women's Studies Review Vol. XI, No. 1, March, 1996.
  • Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. Margot Badran. (Princeton University Press, 1995) Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 1996.
  • Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo. Diane Singerman. (Princeton University Press, 1995) The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 13: No. 1, Spring 1996.
  • Women and Words in Saudi Arabia Saddeka Arebi. (Columbia University Press, 1994). The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 1995.
  • Fundamentalisms Observed, Marty and Appleby, eds. (U of Chicago, 1991) and Islamic Fundamentalism and the Gulf Crisis (Amer. Council of Learned Societies, 1991) in Journal of Arab and Islamic Studies, Summer 1994.
  • Women's Orients Billie Melman (U of Michigan, 1991) Midde East Studies Association Bulletin, July 1993.
  • The Veil and the Male Elite. (L'harem politique in trans.) Fatima Mernissi (Addison-Wellsley, 1992) and
    Leila Ahmed, Women, Gender and Islam (Yale, 1991). Middle East Journal. Summer 1992.
  • Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance, Julie Peteet (Columbia U Press, 1991) in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Dec. 1992.
  • Women and Gender in Islam, Leila Ahmed (Yale, 1992) & Women in Middle Eastern History, Nikki Keddie and Beth Baron, eds. (Yale 1991) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History Winter 1992
  • Costumes of Morocco, Jean Besancenot. (Kegan Paul, 1990) in Council of Museum Anthropology Newsletter Fall 1992.
  • A Palestinian Uprising: A War by Other Means, F. Robert Hunter (UC Press, 1991) in Middle East Studies Bulletin, July 1992.
  • Islamic Reform, David Commins, (Oxford, 1991) in British Journal for Middle East Studies, June 1992.
  • Dance Occasions and Festive Dress in Yugoslavia, ElsieI. Dunin, Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1984 in Council of Museum Anthropology Newsletter, 1985.
  • Book and Exhibit Review contributor to Council of Museum Anthropology Newsletter
  • Manuscript Reviews for Westview Press, American University in Cairo Press, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Brill Publishers


IV EMPLOYMENT

  • Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Chaim Herzog Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Diplomacy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva, Israel 2001-2002
  • Series Editor, Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Brill Publications, Leiden, the Netherlands. Until March 2002.
  • President, Association for Middle East Women's Studies (An International Scholarly Association) 1999-2001.
  • 2/01 - 7/01 Analyst & Associate Specialist, A.C.C.E.S.S. Mathematics Partnership, and Bay Area Mathematics Project, Lawrence Hall of Sciences, University of California, Berkeley.
  • 9/00 - Present Visiting Research Scholar, University of California, Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies
  • 7/98 - 8/00 Associate Professor, Department of History, The American University in Cairo,
  • 7/96 - 7/98 Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Studies, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
  • 8/94 - 4/00 Associate Professor, California State University, Sacramento, Women's Studies Program with teaching in History & Humanities & Religious Studies
  • 2/94 - 6/94 Research Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  • 6/93 - 5/94 Senior Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Regional Research Program, Middle East, North Africa & South Asia: based in Damascus, Syria, Assad Library and Suwaida, Syria
  • 1/93 - 6/93 Visiting Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
  • 8/92 - 1/93 Assistant Professor of History, Department of History Indiana State University, Terre Haute
  • 7/90 - 6/93 Faculty Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
  • 7/90 - 7/92 Visiting Assistant Professor, History Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • 1/90-7/90 Lecturer, Women's Studies Program California State University, Long Beach
  • 8/85-6/90 Teaching Associate, History and Women's Studies. Post-Graduate Researcher, Political Science, History, & von Grunebaum Ctr. for Near Eastern Studies UCLA & International Studies and Overseas Programs, Africa Project, Bibliographer, Research assistant to Nikki Keddie, Leonard Binder, Sondra Hale
  • 10/88-7/89 Assistant to Outreach Coordinator, Gustave von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA
  • 8/85-6/88 Coordinator for Halqah Dirasat Dawaliyah, an Arabic lecture series on international relations under Leonard Binder
  • 9/80-6/81 Research assistant to Walid Kazziha, Dept. of Political Science, American University. in Cairo Media research on Islamism

V. COURSES OFFERED

Culture, Identity and Transitions in the Middle East
Modern Islamic Movements
The Islamic Awakening
Islam, the Middle East and the West
The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
War and Peace in the Modern Middle East
Nationalism, Imperialism and Revolution in the Middle East
Egypt and Iran in Comparative Perspective
History of the Middle East: 600 to the Present
Introduction to Islam
Islamic and Arabic Culture
Music of the Middle East
World Religions
Unveiling Eve: Women's History in the Middle East
Women's Movements in the World
Gender, Race, and Class
Feminism and the Spirit: Women and Religion
Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Women of Color
Mother, Woman, Person: The Institution of Motherhood Gender Relations and Mediterranean Film

VI. INVITED GUEST LECTURES OR PRESENTATIONS (recent only)

  • "Reflections on Islamization on the Margins: Women and the Shi'i Community in Postwar Lebanon," and "A Presliminary Assessment of Middle Eastern Women and the Arts," Rockefeller Foundation Conference, Bellagio, Como, Italy, 8/30/01
  • "Asmahan: Legend and Song" on The Connection, National Public Radio, taping 8/2/01
  • "Cultural History and Cultural Studies" Chaim Herzog Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Diplomacy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. 3/18/01
  • "Historical Survey of Middle Eastern Theater and Theatrical Forms" for Golden Thread, Oakland, California 1/26/01.
  • "Islamic Radicalism in Lebanon: Hizbollah and The Biqa' Valley," Agnes Scott College, Decatur Georgia, 1/18/001
  • "The Past Decade in Egypt." Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 12/8/00.
  • "Peasant Blood or Cosmopolitan Hybridity" Thematic Conversation. The Insider/Outsider-Emic/Etic Debate in the Study of Middle Eastern Women and Gender. At the Middle East Studies Association, November 18, 2000
  • "East meets West: Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi in the United Statues" with Lynne Wilcox. (Wilcox will present the paper) Middle East Studies Association, Orlando, Florida, November 17, 2000.
  • "Islamization and Gender: Stagnation in the Periphery - Shi'a Women in Lebanon" Middle East Studies Association, Orlando, Florida, November 18, 2000.
  • "Peasant Blood or Cosmopolitan Hybridity: Rural Voice" in The Insider/Outsider-Emic/Etic Debate in the Study of Women and Gender An E-Conference. 10/7- 10/13/00.
  • "The He and She of Druze Entertainment" Institute for Druze Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 9/9/00
  • "Hafez al-Asaad's Legacy" Brenau University 6/21/00
  • "Subversions of Feminism in Fin de Siecle Egypt" National Women's Studies Assoc. Simmons College 6/17/00
  • "Creative Biography," American University of Beirut, 3/30/00
  • "Asmahan: Gender, Art and Cultural Disputations" American University of Beirut, 3/28/00
  • "The Construction of a Romantic Image: Farid al- Atrash, His Life and Work" Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Eva Loeb Music Library, Harvard University, 11/18/99.
  • "Situating Neonationalism in Contemporary Egypt" Panel: Colonialism and Nationalism. "The Middle East: Ancient to Modern Times." University of California, Santa Barbara, 3/27/99.
  • "Middle Eastern Entertainment, Gender and Honor" Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 3/25/99.
  • "The Occupation and Women in the Palestinian National Movement: An Historical Perspective" Colloquium: Palestinian Women: Life Textures & Transformations, University of California, Los Angeles, 3/11/99
  • "Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East." Arab Cultural Council of the Greater Bay Area, San Francisco 2/20/99


Other Invited Lectures:

Agnes Scott College, American University in Cairo, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Boston University, California State University, Sacramento; California State University, Northridge; Creighton University, Digital Corporation, Drew University, Harvard University, Indiana State University, Terre Haute; MIT, Murray University, National Public Radio, Philips Academy, Rollins College, Rutgers University, SAIS at Johns Hopkins University, Temple University, United States Congress (briefing) University of Akron, UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, University of the Pacific, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Wellesley College, Channels 3, 58, 68 (Boston)

VII. Organizational Experience

  • Organizer (with AMEWS Secretary/Treasurer) of the annual AMEWS 2001 meetings and special lecture and reception honoring novelist Goli Taraghi, in San Francisco, California planned for 11/17/01
  • Organizer, Al-Falah Conference, Women in Islamic Societies: New Questions in an Era of Globalization funded by the Yusuf Abdeljawad Research Fund of the Al-Falah Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, Beatrice Bains Research Fund, Center for South Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, Department of Women's Studies UC Berkeley and the Association for Middle East Women's Studies, planned for 11/16/01
  • Organizer and Convenor, Bellagio Conference funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Women and Gender in the Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Assessment of Theory and Research. Bellagio, Italy 8/27/01-8/31/01
  • Thematic Conversation Organizer (roundtable) : Insider/Outsider Discourses in the Research on Women and Gender in the Middle East for the Middle East Studies Association annual international conference, 2001..
  • Conference Organizer and Moderator The Insider/Outsider-Emic/Etic Debate in the Study of Women and Gender , An E-Conference held from Sept. 23 - Oct. 25, 2000 with 65 participants.
  • Panel Organizer: "Women under Islamizations: Transgressions, Resistances, Manipulations." (and presenter) for Middle East Studies Association annual international conference, 2000.
  • Thematic Conversation Organizer (roundtable) : Insider/Outsider - Emic/Etic Debate in Research and Teaching of Women and Gender in the Middle East for Middle East Studies Association annual international conference, 2000.
  • Co-organizer with AMEWS Officers of annual AMEWS meeting, Washington D.C.
    November 1999.
  • Lecture Series Organizer (and presenter) Women's Studies Research and Teaching Women's Studies Program, California State University, Fall through Spring 1999.
  • Panel Organizer: "Visual and Musical Images of Culture and Representation" Middle East Studies Association annual international conference, Chicago, Illinois, December 1998.
  • Panel Organizer: "Islamist Movements and Islamization Revisited" A Special Session. Middle East Studies Association annual international conference, Washington DC, November 1995.
  • Panel Organizer "Gender, Music and Dance of the Middle East" and Discussant: Middle East Studies Association annual international conference, Research Triangle, North Carolina, 1993.
  • Co-organizer, Bustani Seminar Series, (with Dean Philip Khoury) a lecture series involving significant publicity, dinners for invitees, occasional coordination with the Institute of Strategic Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1990-92.
  • Founder and Series Organizer, Middle East Music Ensemble and Study Group of Boston, 1990-1992 with funding the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard, and the Massachussets Institute for Technology. (The group continued and now sponsors the annual Arabic Music Camp in Central Massachusetts.
  • Assistant to Coordinator of the von Grunebaum Near Eastern Center lecture series, production of newsletter, planning for summer outreach sessions, and other activities, 1989.
  • Coordinator for al-Halqah al-Duwaliyya a lecture series on international relations in Arabic, as a segment of a grant from the National Science Foundation to Professor Leonard Binder, Department of Political Science, UCLA, 1985-1988
  • Founder and President of Wordworks, a corporation, 12/84-9/89
  • Founder and Director, Amwaj II (1988-1989) and Amwaj (1983-84), large folkloric ensembles, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, California.
  • Founder, President, and Representative to the Board of Labor for MECDA, a labor union, 1977-1979 which converted to the Middle East Cultural Association in 1980.

VIII. FIELD RESEARCH AND TRAVEL

Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Kuwait, Libya. Lebanon, Israel, Croatia, Greece, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden


IX. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Middle East Studies Association, American Historical Association, Association for Middle Eastern Women's Studies (President), Women's Learning Partnership Organization, past member: Western Association of Women Historians, American Academy of Religion, American Research Center in Egypt, American Ethnological Society, American Anthropological Association, Syrian Studies Group

X. CONFERENCE /SYMPOSIUM ATTENDANCE (53)


XI. GRANTS , FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

  • Yusuf Abdeljawad Research Fund, Al-Falah Foundation Research conference Award, granted for 2001-2 to mount. A symposium at University of California, Berkeley.
  • RockefellerFoundation award. Conference grant and travel grants. Participants in the conference held at Bellagio, for August 2001. Women and Gender of the Middle East: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Theory and Research
  • Fulbright Regional Program for Near East and Southeast Asia, (Egypt and Syria) Senior Research Scholar 1993
  • Conference Grant, AUC, 1997, 1999; CSUS, 1995, 1998, ISU, 1992, MIT, 1990, 1991
  • Spring Mini-grant, AUC 2000
  • Summer Research Grant. AUC, 1997, Winter Mini-grant, AUC 1996
  • Professional Development Grant CSUS 1997; Summer Curricular Development Grant, Indiana State University 1992
  • Target Member: Beyond the Canon Program, Spring 1995.
  • Center for Middle Eastern Studies - Study group grants, Harvard University, 1991 and 1992
  • MIT, Council for the Arts, Visiting Artist in Residence series grants 1991 and 1992
  • I. Austin Kelly Fund, MIT 1990 and 1991 ($500) von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA Research and tuition assistance grants, 1987-1990
  • American Research Center in Egypt, 1989 (declined)
  • Title VI (U.S. Dept. of Education grant) Summer of 1986
  • International University grant, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia 1981 (declined)


XI.I SERVICE and ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • 1999-2001 President, Association for Middle Eastern Women's Studies (AMEWS)
  • 2000-Present Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Women's International Network (WIN) Magazine.
  • 2000 -Present, Book Series Editor, Women and Gender of the Middle East, Brill Publications.
  • 2000-Present Member, International Council, Women's Learning Partnership Organization (Bethseda, MD, U.S. office)
  • 1996-Present Board Member, Middle East Women's Studies Review

    1999 - 2000 Member, Gender/Women's Studies School Committee, American University in Cairo
  • 1995-1996 Academic Senator, California State University
  • 1999 Reappointed to Academic Senate Special Assignment: Committee on Research and Development
  • 1998 - 1999 Member, International Studies Committee (Fellowships and Travel Awards for Study Abroad)
  • 1996 - 1997 Member, University Research Council, AUC and Member, Graduate Council, AUC
  • 1996-1998 Member, Graduate Committee, African Fellows Committee, Graduate Fellowship Committee, AU C
  • 1996 -1998 Member, Advisory Committee on Women's/Gender Studies, AUC
  • 1996 -1998 Provost's History Task Force, AUC
  • 1994 - 1996 Member, Women's Studies Advisory Council (CSUS)
  • 1994 Member, 'Beyond the Canon,' Curricular Reform Project
  • 1992 Founder and Member, Middle East Council (ISU)
  • 1990 - 1992 Member, Women's Studies Steering Committee (MIT)
  • 1990-1992 Member, Radcliffe Consortium for Women's Studies

XI. MUSICAL ACTIVITIES

  • Performer, Bella Musica (2000-2001)
  • Performer, Cairo Choral Society (1996-2000)
  • Performer, Maadi Community Chorus (1997-2000)
  • Faculty Advisor, Founder & Director, Music of the Middle East study group, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, & Massachusetts Inst. of Technology and Middle East Ensemble of Boston 12/90-6/92
  • Coordinator for Music of the Middle East, Visiting Artist series, MIT, 1990-91 &1991-92 and music workshops at CMES, Harvard
  • Performer, Near East Ensemble directed by 'Ali Jihad Racy, Los Angeles California (1979, 1984-1990)
  • Other musical and dance activities listed below
  • Performance Media: kamanjah (Arabic violin), voice, dance, darabukka (tabla), daff, nashat kar, and 'ud


Selected Performances:

  • Concert: Bella Musica, Music by Ravel, Bartok, Barber, Bulgarian folk, Haydn, Brahms, Morley
    Ellington 5/21 Anne Callaway premiere of "The Gardener" 5/28 & 29
  • Concert: Bella Musica Chorale and Orchestra. Messiah , Samuel Barber, Anne Callaway," Allelulia"
    Saloman Rossi, and others Dec. 2001
  • Concert: Cairo Choral Society, May 2000.
  • Concert: Faure Requiem and other pieces, Maadi
  • Community Chorus, Maadi, May 15/17, 2000
  • Concert: Music of Robert Washburn, Cairo Choral Society, Ewart Hall, May 3, 2000
  • Carol Services: British Embassy, Cairo and All Saints' Cathedral, Dec. 1999.
  • Concerts: Dec. 7 & 8 1999,"O Magnum Mysterium" Tomas Luis de Victoria, "Break Forth," Bach & assorted Maadi Community Chorus
  • Concert: Vaughan Williams, "Dona Nobis Pacem," Poulenc "Gloria" Ewart Memorial Hall & All Saints Cathedral, Dec. 1 & 2, 1999
  • Concert: Vivaldi, "'Gloria' Mass" Ravel, songs, and other compositions, May 4 and May 6, 1998 Maadi Community Church.
  • Concert: Mozart, "Solemn Vespers," and Mozart "Requiem Ewart Memorial Hall, Cairo, April 30 and May 1, 1998.
  • Concert: Bryan Kelley, "Crucifixion" Festival of Modern Music, Ewart Memorial Hall, Cairo March 4, 1998
  • Carol Service with Cairo Choral Society British Embassy, Cairo, Dec. 23, 1997
  • Carol Service with Cairo Choral Society All Saint's Cathedral, Cairo, Dec. 21, 1997
  • Concert; Mozart, "Coronation Mass," Shutz, "Quintet," Thompson, "Alleluia," & assorted Christmas chorales With Maadi Community Chorus, Maadi Community Church Dec. 15 and Dec. 17, 1997
  • Concerts: Handel, "The Messiah" with Cairo Choral Society and the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. Ewart Memorial Hall, Dec 3, 1997 All Saint's Cathedral, Cairo Dec. 4, 1997 With Ahmad El-Saedi conducting, at the Cairo Opera House and soloists from the Cairo Opera Company, on Dec. 13
  • Concert: Sound of Music and Ain't Misbehaving With Osiris Singers, Ewart Memorial, Cairo, Oct. 14, 1997
  • Concert: Schubert, "Mass in G", and Piano recital All Saint's Cathedral, June 10, 1997, Same mass in liturgical form, Nov. 1, 1997
  • Concert: Britten, "Hymn to St. Cecilia", Gounod, "Credo," and mixed choral program, Maadi Community Chorus, Maadi, May 14, 1997
  • Concert: Sound of Music and Ain't Misbehaving With Osiris Singers, Ewart Memorial, Cairo, May 21, 1997, and October 15, 1997
  • Carol Service: British Embassy, Cairo Choral Society Dec. 23 1996 and All Saints Cathedral Dec. 19, 1996.
  • Concerts: Britten, "A Ceremony of Carols," Saint Saens, "Christmas Oratorio" with Cairo Choral Society
    Ewart Hall, Cairo, Dec. 11, 1997 and All Saints Cathedral, Dec. 12 1996
  • Concert with Music of the Middle East Ensemble, Symposium on Islam, Wellesley College, Wellsley Mass., 6/4/1992
  • Benefit Concert with the Music of the Middle East Ensemble for the Middle East Peace Initiative, Amherst, Mass 4/25/1992
  • Directed and performed with the Music of the Middle East Ensemble, Mass. Instititute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma. 1/30/1992
  • Instrumentalist: with the UCLA Near Eastern Ensemble for the memorial for Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab sponsored by the Arab Press Guild, Dodd Hall, UCLA Los Angeles 6/20/1991
  • "Spring Concert of Middle Eastern Music" Director and performer Music of the Middle East Ensemble, 5/8/1991. Other performances on 4/13/1991
  • Lecture and selected pieces, Music of the Middle East study group, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma. 3/1991.
  • "Music of the Near East," Vioinist and vocals with UCLA Near East Ensemble, UCLA Ethnomusicology Spring Concert Series Gamelan Rm., Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles 5/24/90
  • Curated costume exhibition, and fashion show, and peformed with members of the UCLA Near East Ensemble in a Festival of Arab Arts, organized by the Arab Students Association, and Zaytuna Association approx. 5/18/89
  • "Egyptian Duets," Performer and choreographer for Amwaj II Performed with Carolyn Kluger, Los Angeles, 2/89.
  • "A Program of Muwwashshahat: Songs and Instrumental Pieces from the Arab-Andulusian Repertoire. Vocals and violinist with UCLA Near Eastern Ensemble, UCLA Ethnomusicology Spring Concert Series, Gamelan Rm. Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Los Angeles 5/13/89
  • A concert of Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Ottoman music with the Duo Mediterraneo, UCLA Near East Ensemble as violinist and featured dancer. Middle East Studies Association of North America annual meetings, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, Ca 11/3/88
  • "A Concert of Rahbani Music," UCLA Near East Ensemble with Asst. Dir. Nabil Azzam and UCLAtino, Ethnomusicology Spring Concerts, Schoenberg Hall, Los Angeles, Ca 5/28/87
  • Featured performer in wedding/concert with Nabil and William Shaheen and ensemble in Whittier Ca. 8/87
  • Featured dancer and also violinist with UCLA Near Eastern Ensemble, Aisha Ali Dance Co. and UCLatino Enemble, Midani residence Beverly Hills, Ca 6/6/1986
  • Music and Dance of the Near East, Ethnomusicology Spring Concerts, honoring Egyptian performer Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab. Feature dancer with Carole Lee and Barbara Racy, choreography by Farida Fahmy, also performer with UCLA Near East Ensemble shared program with UCLAtino Ensemble.
  • "Music and Dance on the Grass," with UCLA Near East Ensemble Associates of Ethnic Arts at UCLA, UCLA Sunset Recreation Center Los Angeles 5/51985
  • Various bookings with Layalina Ensemble featuring dabka suites including Byblos, Westwood Ca. Spring/Summer 1985.
  • "The Egyptian Club Presents Egyptian Music" with Jihad Racy UCLA Sunset Recreation Center, Los Angeles, CA 2/22/1985
  • Concert with UCLA Near East Ensemble, St. Anne Scholarship Committee Banquet, Hyatt Regency, Los Angeles, CA 5/26/1984
  • Music and Dance on the Grass, performance with UCLA Near East Ensemble, presented by the Associates of Ethnic Arts at UCLA, UCLA Sunset Recreation Center, Los Angeles, CA 5/6/84
  • Performance with Lebanese singer, Tony Hanna, his ensemble and the UCLA Near East Ensemble, and Lebanese-American celebrity, Danny Thomas in honor of the Maronite Patriarch, Century City, Ca. 4/84
  • Regularly featured performer at Coco's International throughout 1983-4. Choreographed special performance of duets with Marie Silva, recreating ensemble pieces originally staged for Mahmoud Reda's ensemble, and dabke performances with Layalina Ensemble. Other regular appearances until 6/84 at Moun of Tunis
  • Music and Dance of the Near East, Ethnomusicology Spring Concerts with Near East Ensemble, featured dancer and regular violinist Schoenberg Hall, Los Angeles 5/12/83
  • Director, choreographer, performer, Amwaj Ensemble . Performances in San Francisco and Concord, Ca. 11/82-8/83.
  • Featured performer, Pasha, San Franciso Calif. 8/82 - 8/83 Aladdin, Houston, Texas, 3/82-7/82
  • Featured performer and singer, Beirut Rest., Sirocco, Faisal's, Haji Baba, and other nightclubs, New York City, 11/81-3/82
  • Spring Concert. Featured soloist with the American University of Cairo Folkloric Ensemble 3/1981
  • Mid-year Concert. Featured soloist with the American University of Cairo Folkloric Ensemble 12/80
  • Numerous performances with Samir Sabry and ensemble, Hilton, Sheraton, Meridian hotels and other locations in Cairo, Alexandria and Ismailiyya, Egypt 1/1981 - 6/1981
  • Arabic dance soloist in full review with vocalist Badr Awad Moun's, Las Vegas, Nevada, Summer, 1980.
  • Featured performer, Middle Eastern entertainment for Governor Jerry Brown, E. Brown residence, 7/1980
  • Music and Dance of the Near East, Ethnomusicology Spring Concerts as featured dancer and regular member of the UCLA Near East Ensemble 5/28/1980
  • Performed for the Lebanese Consul General with Jihad Racy and Druze performers from Seattle, Wa. Washington DC. 5/29/1980
  • Music and Dance of the Arab World, performed as featured dancer
    and vocals with Jihad Racy and Barbara Racy, dancer for the League of
    Arab States, National Press Club, Washington, D.C. (5/28, 1980)
  • Arab Music and Dance, Arab Students Organization, University of California at Riverside, CA 5/10/1980
  • Solo performer for election celebration for R. Dekmejian, Beverly Hills, Ca.
  • Tour of Canada (performances in Montreal, Toronto, Ottowa, Edmunton) with Bessarabian Folkloric Ensemble 1975.
  • Performances prior to 1980 were dance solo performances and nightclub appearances too numerous to list (including the old Fez, Seventh Veil, Greek Village, Athenian Gardens, Byblos, Apadana, Cabaret Teheran, Chez Michel, Cascades, Ali Baba's, Coco's International; Olympic Gardens, in Chicago, Greek Village in Denver; Casbah, Baghdad .San Francisco. Some performances and lecture-demonstrations with the late Ed Mock Dance Ensemble, Anne Swearingen, Shela Xoregos Dance Company including the performance memorial to the composer Duke Ellington with B. Briggs to "David Danced before the Lord."

Training:

  • Music (Piano/Voice/Theory/Violin/Kamanja/Kanun/Tabla:) S.F. Conservatory of Music, Interlochen Arts Academy, Gertrude Gruenberg, Renee (Raylene) Baron, Conservatory of Music, Cairo. Private instruction on the qanun, tabla, Western violin and with Munir Bisharat, Arabic violin.
  • Arabic and other Folkloric Dance: Farouk Mustafa, Mahmoud Reda, Farida Fahmy. Ibrahim Farrah, Jamila Salimpour, Yehia of Layalina, Bert Balladine, Mihai and Alexandru David, UCLA Dance Dept. and the Aman Ensemble
  • Modern and Jazz Dance: Margie Jenkins, Anne Swearingen, Ed Mock, Brown University Dance Department, Bella Lewitsky, Merce Cunningham School, Jaime Rogers, Alvin Ailey Dance School (NY), Shela Xoregos, Martha Graham Dance Institute (NY)
  • Ballet: Pacific Ballet (Russian curriculum), Stanley Holden (Royal Ballet school curriculum), Corelli, NYC, Bobby Blankshine (Carnegie Hall), Harlem Ballet (NYC)
  • Tango/Salsa: Nicola in Cairo, Ed Mock

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