Arab American History Conference

The University of Maryland
College Park., MD

December 7 to 9

For registration, contact:
Conference committee
Arab American Historical Foundation
P. O. Box 291159
Los Angeles, CA 90029
323.466-9800 818.507.0333
e-mail: newscircle@sbcglobal.net
www.arabamericanhistory.org
www.arab-american-affairs.net

Conference Speakers:
Dr. Anan Ameri
Director of the Arab American National Museum

Sami Asmar
Physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Miles L. Bradbury
Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland

Suheil B. Bushrui
Director of the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace Project at the Center for Heritage Resource Studies, University of Maryland

Dr. Sawsan El Hady
Egyptian scholar; former Professor of Arabic, University of Beijing and the University of New Zealand

Dr. Edmund Ghareeb
First Mustafa Barzani Scholar of Global Kurdish Studies at American University’s Center for Global Peace and Adjunct Professor of Middle East History and Politics in the School of International Service

Hon. Nick J. Rahall
Congressman, Fourth District, West Virginia

Prof. Paul Shackel
Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies, University of Maryland

Richard Shadyac, Esq.
Attorney and former executive director of ALSAC/St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital

Dr. Irfan Shahid
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Literature, Georgetown University

Michael Suleiman
Professor, University of Kansas

Henri Zoghaib
Director, The Center for Lebanese Heritage, Lebanese American University, Beirut