Graduate students in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization; the Middle East Studies Program, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; and the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies will present their research in this year-end conference. Presenters are: MICHAEL DEGERALD Shifting Connotations of Turath in Ba’thist Iraq 1968-91 SAM GORDON Blossoming of Relations? Israel, Africa and Asia SEAN NAMEI “Ideology & Interpretation: On the Definition of ‘H. Q. Q.’ in ‘Ali Sharī’atī’s Exegesis of Sūrah Ar-Rūm” NICK POLIZZI Changing Rules, Growing Casualties: Mitigating the Effects of Reduced Oversight in U.S. and Coalition Strikes in Iraq and Syria |