Beirut Seminars
2022
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Spearkers・Title:
- Masato Tanaka (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Economic reform movements in Mount Lebanon from the late Ottoman period to the early French Mandate”
- Yuko Ido (Researcher, The Japan Institute of International Affairs) “Depending on imported grains in an era of insecurity: A comparative reflection on Middle East and North Africa and East Asian cases”
- Yuki Sawaguchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Who are “good quality soldiers”? The intersectional approach of gender and ethnicity in Israeli militarism”
- Malek Sharif (Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, The University of Münster)
- Nadine Yamout (Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Doğu Durgun (Assistant Professor, Kadir Has University, Istanbul)
- Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
- Pierre Azar (Saint-Joseph University)
2019
Date: Friday, November 29, 2019Place: Crowne Plaza Beirut, Hamra Main Street, Beirut, Lebanon
Spearkers・Title:
- Yuko Tanaka (Ph.D. Candidate, SOAS, University of London) “Role of zandaqah/ zindīq in early Islamic theological writings”
- Yoshiaki Tokunaga (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo/ University of Tehran) “Relations between the American Financial Mission and the parliament in the Reza Khan administration: The General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25”
- Hideaki Hayakawa (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Mahdī ‘Āmil and the leftists’ debates on the Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement”
- Amane Kobayashi (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) “Incentives for stalemate: Challenges of political stabilization in post-civil war Libya”
- Maher Jarrar (Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Christoph U. Werner (Professor, University of Bamberg)
- Nadia Bou Ali (Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Youness Abuyoub (Chief, Governance and State-Building, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, UN)
- Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
- Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie Middle East Center)
- Emi Suzuki (Embassy of Japan in Syria)
- Yuki Okabe (Kyoto University)
- Maram Daher (Saradar Bank)
- Momona Horikoshi (American University of Beirut)
- Kai Ishigami (American University of Beirut)
2018
Date: Friday, November 30 - Saturday, December 1, 2018Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Spearkers・Title:
- Manami Goto (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Exeter) “Changing attitude towards face masking: the case of Larak Island in the Persian Gulf”
- Yusuke Motani (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Financial Administration in Syria under the Rule of Muhammad Ali”
- Hisashi Obuchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Logic and the Conventionalist Ethics of Zayn al-Dīn al-Kaššī, the Disciple of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī”
- Saki Yamamoto (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) “Impact of Women-Owned Small Business on Familial Relations in Contemporary Algeria”
- Manami Ueno (Research Fellow of the Urban-Culture Research Center at Osaka City University) “Reintroduction of Religious Education to Turkish Public Schools in the 1940s”
- Shinwoo Kim (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) “The Social and Economic History of Regional Disparities in Tunisia”
- Prof. Livia Celine Wick (American University of Beirut)
- Prof. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut)
- Prof. Paul Ballanfat (Galatasaray University)
- Prof. Yusuf Sidani (American University of Beirut)
- Dr. Umut Azak (Istanbul Okan University)
- Dr. Seiko Sugita (UNESCO)
- Pierre Azar (Saint Joseph University)
- Maram Daher (Lebanese University)
- Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
- Hideaki Hayakawa (Lebanese University)
- Ai Odoriba (Embassy of Japan)
- Mitsuhiro Wada (Embassy of Japan)
2017
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Spearkers・Title:
- Ryo Mizukami (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Shi‘i Ulama's Writing Strategy on Imams' Faḍā'il in 12-14th Century Iraq”
- Madoka Morita (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Whose Peace and Security? Neighborhood and the Politics of Collective Testimony in Istanbul (1730-54)”
- Woohyang Sim (Ph.D. Candidate, Waseda University, Tokyo) “What is Higher Education for? : Women and Educational Attainment in the GCC”
- Ayaka Kuroda (Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto) “Religious Tradition and Modernity in the Forefront of Political Theory: The Case of Islamist Intellectuals in Contemporary Egypt”
- Maher Jarrar (American University of Beirut, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages)
- Astrid Meier (Orient Institute-Beirut)
- Pierre Mouganie (American University of Beirut, Department of Economics)
- Ahmad Moussalli (American University of Beirut, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration)
2015
Date: Friday, November 27, 2015Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Spearkers・Title:
- Shoko Watanabe (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization) “State Formation, Religious Education, and Social Aspirations: The Expansion of the Tunisian al-Zaytuna after the Second World War”
- Woohyang Sim (Waseda University) “The Educational Aspiration of Saudi Arabian Young Generation: Implication for Creating New Framework to Explain GCC Society”
- Madoka Morita (The University of Tokyo) “Between Hostility and Hospitality: Neighborhoods and Dynamics of Urban Migration in Istanbul (1730-54)”
- Kie Inoue (The University of Tokyo) “Rūzbihān Baqlī Shīrāzī’s Conception of Prophets and Saints”
- Martha Mundy (London School of Economics)
- Yasuhisa Yamamoto (UN-ESCWA)
- Malek Sharif (ILCAA / Orient Institute-Istanbul)
- Paul Ballanfat (Galatasaray University)
2014
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2014.Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
- Erina Ota-Tsukada (Keio University, Tokyo) ““Perfect Qualities and Perfection in Each Quality”: The Career and Image of Influential Bureaucrat Zayn al-Dīn ibn Muzhir in the Late Mamlūk Period”
- Madoka Morita (The University of Tokyo) ““Community’s Peace” and Public Order: Neighborhoods and Urban Administration in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul”
- Hiroki Okazaki (University of Paris III) “The Criticism of Despotism through the Fiction in the Arab World: An Outlook of Jurji Zaydān’s Elitist Approach and ‘Abdullāh Nadīm’s Defense of Peasants”
- Yoshihide Takeda (Chiba University) “Haifa as the Heart of British Policy towards Palestine: Considering from the Discussions of British Oil Policy during the First World War”
- John Meloy (American University of Beirut)
- Astrid Meier (Orient Institut-Beirut)
- Malek Sharif (ILCAA Joint Researcher)
- Carla Eddé (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Saint Joseph University)
2013
Date: Saturday, November 23, 2013.Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
- Namie Tsujigami (Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo) “Saudi Women’s Negotiation of Power and Space through Driving Campaign”
- Takuya Murakami (Ph.D. Candidate, J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo) “What Kind of Role Does GCC Play for Regional Security?: The Significance of the Peninsula Shield Force Deployment to Bahrain and the Possibility of Cooperative Security”
- Yusuke Kawamura (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University/ Durham University) “Structural Adjustment and Social Protection in the MENA Region: Food Subsidies in Jordan”
- Yushi Chiba (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/ The University of Tokyo) “Jordanian Broadcasting Strategy in the Changing Regional Media Landscape”
- Hassan Hammoud (Lebanese American University)
- Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
- Ramzi Mabsout (American University of Beirut)
- Maria Bou Zeid Farah (Notre Dame University)
2012
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2012.Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
- Mari Nukii (Research Associate, Waseda University, Tokyo) “The history of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services: Living as ‘Arab Americans’ in America before and after 9/11”
- Nozomi Shiratani (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) “Reexamining the Islamists’ triumph in Morocco after the Arab Spring: A study of the 2011 parliamentary elections”
- Takumi Sato (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
- Shin Yasuda (Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto) “From ethic to Sharia-compliance: The development of Islamic tourism in the MENA region”
- Yuri Ishida (JSPS Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto) “The Muslim intellectual network in the eighteenth century: Focusing on academic genealogies in Shāh Walī Allāh's autobiography”
- Ichiro Ozawa (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo) “Production and employment of artillery in Iran and British influences, 1810–1848”
- Guita Hourani (Notre Dame University)
- François Burgat (Institut Français de Proche-Orient)
- Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
- Rola Khatib (Lebanese University)
- Wajih Kanso (Lebanese University)
- Mansur Sefatgol (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
2011
Date: Friday, November 25, 2011.Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
- Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) “Workings of power to the eyes of Cairene woman in her twenties in the eve of revolution”
- Masaki Mizobuchi (Joint Researcher, Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University, Tokyo) “Arab Spring and the United States: Twilight of the Pax-Americana?”
- Masako Shimizu (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) “The Participation of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority: The processes, impacts and implications”
- Yoko Fujii (Lecturer, Nihon University, Tokyo) “Lebanon's image in narratives of pilgrimage in the 17th century”
- Takayoshi Kuromiya (Ph.D. Candidate, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo) “Economic growth of resource-exporting countries: Taking Egypt and Saudi Arabia as examples”
- Shigeto Kondo (Ph.D. Candidate, Keio University, Tokyo) “‘Small states’ diplomacy’ during the First Oil Crisis: The cases of Kuwait, 1970-1973”
- Sari Hanafi (Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Hilal Khashan (Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Karim Makdisi (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Ray Mouawad (Assistant Professor, Lebanese American University)
- Jean-Francois Verne (Associate Professor, Kaslik Holy Spirit University)
- Habib Malik (Associate Professor, Lebanese American University)
2010
Date: Friday, November 19, 2010.Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
- Sayaka Nakano (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “A Study of the Abbasid Court Musicians Recorded in al-Aghani”
- Keiko Ota (Research Fellow, Ochanomizu University) “The Meccan Sharifate and the Red Sea Trade: The Rise of Jidda as an Entrepot Port and the Policy of the Mamluk Dynasty toward Hijaz”
- Naofumi Abe (Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo) “Mother, Wife, and Daughter in Law of Fath ‘Ali Khan Donboli: A Study in Probate Inventories of a Local Notable in Nineteenth-Century Iran”
- Hirotake Ishiguro (Ph. D. Candidate, Kobe University) “Inter-Party Competition and Quasi-Institutionalized Party System in the Middle Eastern Monarchies: The Case of Kuwait”
- Akihito Kudo (Research Fellow, Osaka University) “French Orientalism and Legal Pluralism: Classification of Landed Property in Nineteenth-Century Algeria”
- Satoshi Udo (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) “Reception of Modern Arab Literature in Japan: From Third-Worldism to Multiculturalism”
- Stefan Leder (Director, Orient Institut Beirut)
- Stefan Knost (Senior Research Fellow, Orient Institut Beirut)
- Oussama Arabi (Lecturer, Lebanese American University)
- Katia Haddad (Professor, Saint Joseph University)
- Hilal Khashan (Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn (Professor, American University of Beirut)
2009
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009.Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies(JaCMES),2nd floor,Azariyeh Building A2-1, Beirut Central District (Downtown Beirut)
Speakers・Title:
- Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University) “Female Teacher as Pseudo-mother: The Role of Female Teacher in the Current Egyptian Educational Market”
- Koji Horinuki (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University) “Controversies over labour force naturalisation: 30 years of Emiratisation in the UAE”
- Sayaka Nakano (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “The role of panegyrist-poets and praise poetry in the early Abbasid society”
- Asuka Tsuji (Research Associate, Institute of Oriental Culture, The University of Tokyo) “The mass conversion of 1354 reconsidered: The Copts in Mamluk Egypt as depicted in the Life and Miracles of Anba Ruways”
- Hiroko Miyokawa (Post Doctoral Researcher, Sophia University) “Nationalisms and national integration of Christians in Egypt and Syria”
- Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Against fatality: Kateb Yacine and Farjallah Haik”
- Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (Professor, United Arab Emirates University)
- Dr. Massoud Daher (Professor, Lebanese University)
- Dr. Iman Farag (Researcher, Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales, Cairo)
- Dr. Katia Haddad (Professor, Saint Joseph University)
- Dr. Stefan Leder (Director, Orient-Institut Beirut)
- Dr. John Meloy (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
2008
Date: Monday, November 24, 2008.Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies(JaCMES),2nd floor, Azariyeh Building A2-1, Beirut Central District (Downtown Beirut)
Speakers・Title:
- Aiko Nishikida (Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Palestinians from the ‘Seven Villages’ : Their Legal Status and Social Condition”
- Kenichiro Takao (Th.D. Candidate, Doshisha University) “Implication of ‘Salafism’ in Today’s Sufism: The Case of Ahmad Kuftaru”
- Yasuhiro Fukushima (Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies, J.F. Oberlin University) “The Current Situation and Problems on the Advancement of Middle East-Based Islamic Financial Institutions into Malaysia”
- Hiroko Minesaki (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) “Gender and Authority in Islamic Discourses: In the Case of Female Preachers in Cairo and Environs Farm Village”
- Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University) “Negotiating Body and Negotiating Selves in Consumer Culture: Make-up Practices of Young Female School Teachers in Contemporary Cairo”
- Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Cosmology of French Writing in Arabic Countries: Algeria and Lebanon”
- Madawi Al-Rasheed (King's College, London)
- Salim Chahine (American University of Beirut)
- Katia Haddad (Saint Joseph University)
- Toufic Houri (Imam Ouzai College of Islamic Studies)
- Seiko Sugita (UNESCO)
- Jaber Suleiman (Independent Researcher)
2007
Date: Monday and Tuesday, November 26 and 27, 2007.Place: Crowne Plaza Beirut, Hamra Street, Beirut(Ile de France Room, 1st Floor)
Speakers・Title:
- Aiko Nishikida (Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Palestinians in Diaspora: Their Identity and Nationalism in Jordan”
- Akiko Sugase (Research Fellow, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) “The Third Face of Janus: Narratives and Images on the Rev. George Hakim among the Arabs in Galilee”
- Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Translating Theatre: Rabih Mroue in Tokyo”
- Kenichiro Takao (Ph.D. Candidate, Doshisha University) “Ahmad Kuftaru, A Great 'Ulama' in Modern Syria : About Its Construction of Intellectual Authority”
- Akiko Yoshioka (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) “Iraq and the Neighboring Arab Countries after the War"
- Yoko Uno (Research Associate, Tsudajuku University) “Parliamentary Opposition and Diplomacy on the Eve of Republic of Turkey: The Second Group's Attitude to the Lausanne Treaty (1923)”
- Yoko Sekiguchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “A Case Study on the Introduction and Attempt of 'Sosyal Demokrasi' in Turkey: Republican People's Party (RPP), 1965-1972”
- Pierre Abi-Saab (al-Akhbar)
- Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
- Timur Göksel (American University of Beirut)
- Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
- Toufic Houri (Imam Ouzai College of Islamic Studies)
- Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
2006
Date: Monday, November 27, 2006.Place: ：Cultural Center (Albert Long Hall), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Speakers・Title:
- Masako Matsui (Lecturer, Keio University, Tokyo) “Capitulations and Tariff Questions in the Early Nineteenth Century”
- Fumiko Sawae (Visiting Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology) “Islamist Women and Public Sphere in Turkey”
- Housam Darwisheh (Ph.D. Candidate, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “The Parliamentary Experience of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt”
- Taku Osoegawa (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Tokyo) “The Dynamics Between the Lebanese Government and Hizbullah During the Crisis in Lebanon and Their Theoretical Relevance”
- Takayuki Nakamura (Lecturer, Kanagawa Institute of Technology) “Essai sur la communication créole.” (English translation will be provided)
- Osamu Nishitani (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Deux notions occidentales de l’Humanité: Anthropos et Humanitas” (English translation will be provided)
- Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
- Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn (American University of Beirut)
- Metin Heper (Bilkent University)
- Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
- Jale Parla (Istanbul Bilgi University)
- Ayhan Kaya (Istanbul Bilgi University)
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