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PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Day One (Thursday 2 December, 1999)

Session One

Hanna Nasir, Words of Welcome by the University President

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod: Overview of the Problematic

Fouad Moughrabi: Ibn Khaldun: Transitions or Eternal Recurrence?

Philippe Schmitter: The Prospects of Transition to Democracy in the Middle East from the Perspective of "Transitology" and "Consolidology"

Mudar Qassis: Respondent

Session Two:

Khalil Athamina: The Early Muslim Caliphate: Innovative System of Rule or Continuation of the Tribal Sayyid Institution?

Jamal Joudeh: Civil War as a Tool for Political Transitions in the Islamic Period

Muhsin Yusuf: Transitions Under the Ayyubids

Henry Laurens: The Eastern Crisis of 1877, the Arab Mashreq and Transition towards the Hamidian System

Session Three:

Ronald Suny: Authoritarian Democracies: Making States After the Soviet Collapse.

Guido Moltedo: Italy in the Nineties: The Never-Ending Transition.

Ali Jarbawi: Are There Ever Transitions in the Arab World?

Day Two ( Friday, December 3, 1999)

Session Four:

Kenneth Brown: 'Transition' in Morocco: The King is Dead, Long Live the King!

Alain Gresh: Will Saudi Arabia Survive Its Transition? From the Generation of the Children of Ibn Saud to that of His Grandchildren.

Abdelaziz Ayyad: Algeria: Crisis and Transition

Kamal Al-Astal: Egypt Under Nasser: What Role If Any Did the Arab Socialist Union Play?

Session Five

Patrick Seale: The Painful Transition: Syria From War to Peace, From Asad to His Successors

Volker Perthes: Syria: Domestic Change in an Environment of Transformations

Nadine Picaudou: From Co-existence to Democracy: Lebanon's Impossible Transition

Graham Usher: Lebanon after Ta'if: From War to Co-Existence?

Session Six

Helga Baumgarten: The Problem of Transitions in Neo-Patrimonial Systems

George Giacaman: Palestine: From "Revolution" to "State": Difficulties of Transition and Future Prospects

Mo'tazz Qfaisheh: Palestinian Citizenship During the Transitional Phase

Saleh Abdeljawad: After Arafat, What?