Beginning with the September 2010 application cycle for AUC internal faculty grants, we are posting the names of all faculty grant recipients here on the Faculty Bulletin (and, in the case of all grants other than Conference Grants, the topic of the project). There are two reasons for doing so:

1. To accelerate the notification process.  Please note that recipients still need to wait several days for the official letter from my Office to know the amount received. Acceptance does not entail that the full amount requested was in fact awarded. (For now, we have decided not to list the exact dollar amount of the grants in the Bulletin.)

2. To enhance mutual awareness of AUC faculty research. It is enjoyable to read through the list and learn about the many interesting research projects in which your colleagues are involved.

Some of the Conference Grants are pending a letter of acceptance for the presentations. For this reason, only the conference locations are listed so as not to “jump the gun” with conference titles before some of the presentations are officially accepted.

If you are not on the list below and think there is an error, you may contact the Associate Provost for Research Administration (gharman@aucegypt.edu) for an explanation.

Names of recipients are listed alphabetically by family name.

Please note: this is the last cycle of AUC faculty support grants to be awarded under the old system. Beginning with the November application cycle, new application forms are required and the new rules apply. Please see the following website for details:

http://www.aucegypt.edu/research/grants/Pages/Fac.aspx

(FOLLOW-UP: if your name is spelled incorrectly on this list, or if you see any other error in the information, please contact me immediately at gharman@aucegypt.edu; it is very easy to make changes on the Bulletin and you won't be troubling me at all. We want to get everything right.)

CONFERENCE GRANTS

BUS (School of Business)

*Nahed Amin Azab (Management). Orlando, Florida. March 2011.

*Hala El Ramly (Economics). Denver, Colorado. January 2011.

*Steven Formaneck (Management). Bahrain. January 2011.

*Dilip Ghosh (Management). New York. October 2010.

*Maha Mourad (Management). Beirut. December 2010.

*Maha Mourad (Management). Zürich. February 2011.

*Eskandar Tooma (Management). Cape Town. November 2010.

HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)

*Holger Albrecht (Political Science). Pisa, Italy. April 2011.

*Nadya Chishty-Mujahid (ECLT). Oxford, UK. January 2011.

*Lori Fredricks (ELI). Jaen, Spain. December 2010.

*Camilo Gomez-Rivas (ARIC). Boston. January 2011.

*Abeer Salah Heider (ALI). Seattle. March 2011.

*Hani Henry (SAPE). Charleston, SC. February 2011.

*Amy Holmes (SAPE). San Diego, CA. November 2011.

*Vassiliki Kotini (ECLT). New Brunswick, NJ. April 2011.

*Amy Motlagh (ECLT). Los Angeles. January 2011.

*Ann Shafer (PVA). Atlanta. November 2010.

*Nadine Sika (Political Science). Florence, Italy. April 2011.

*Mohammed Tabishat (SAPE). New Orleans. November 2010.

*Daniel Vilmure (RHET/COMP). Istanbul. November 2010.

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Mervat Abou Oaf (JRMC). Kuwait. October 2010.

*Hamid Ali (PPA). Berlin. January 2011.

*Alejandro Escorihuela (Law). Madrid. December 2010.

*Sherine Fahmy (JRMC). Kuwait. October 2010.

*Kim Fox (JRMC). Kuwait. October 2010.

*Outi Korhonen (Law). Madrid. December 2010.

*Tanya Monforte (Law). Madrid. December 2010.

LLT (School of Libraries and Learning Technologies)

*Amanda Click (Library). Dubai. October 2010.

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Maki Habib (MENG). Beppu, Oita, Japan. January 2011.

*Ali Hadi (MACT). Dhaka, Bangladesh. December 2010.

*Ahmed Moustafa (Biology). Hersonissios, Crete, Greece. November 2010.

*Khaled Nassar (CANG). Baltimore, MD. December 2010.

*Hanadi Salem (MENG). San Diego, CA. February-March, 2011.

*Alexander Schuster (MACT). Helsinki, Finland. October 2010.

RESEARCH GRANTS

BUS (School of Business)

*Mohamed Hegazy (Accounting). “Fraudulent Financial Reporting: Do Red Flags Really Help?” Cairo. July 2010-December 2010.

*Khaled Samaha (Accounting). “The Extent of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Information Disclosure and its Determinants by the Largest Companies Listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange (EXG).” Cairo. September 2010-September 2011.

*Ahmed Tolba (Management). “The Effect of Opinion Leadership on Innovation Diffusion and Use.” Cairo. October 2010-July 2011.

GAPP (School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)

*Hamid Ali (PPA). “Public Policy Debate: Inflationary and Reserve Requirement in Economy with Informal Sector.” Cairo. January 2011.

*AKM Ahsan Ullah (CMRS). “Tapping the Potential for Corporate Social Responsibilities (CRS) to Address the Needs of Refugees in Egypt.” Cairo. October 2010-April 2011.

*Justin Martin (JRMC). "Half the Tunisian Sky: Two-Part Journalism Project on Women's Rights in Tunisia." Tunis. November 2010.

HUSS (School of Humanities and Social Sciences)

*Salima Ikram (SAPE). “North Kharga Oasis Survey, Field Work.” Kharga Oasis, Egypt. December 2010-January 2011.

*Mate Tokić (History). “For the Homeland, Ready! Diaspora Politics and Transnational Political Violence During the Cold War.” Ottawa, ON, Canada. January 2011.

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Sherif Abdel Azeem (EENG). Cairo. “On-line Handwritten Digits Recognition.” September 2010-August 2011.

*Mohab Anis (EENG). “Design for Yield of Sensitive Integrated Circuits in the Nanometer Regime.” Cairo and Waterloo, ON, Canada. January-March, 2011.

*Samer Ezeldin (CANG). “Automation of Project Controls, Procedures, and Protocols for ISO Certification- Phase 1.” Cairo and New Brunswick, NJ. Fall 2010-Fall-2011.  

*Hanadi Salem (MENG). “Fabrication of Ultrahigh Strength/Tough Monolithic and Composite Nanostructured Bulk Products Using Powder Metallurgy/Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS).” Cairo. January 2011-April 2012.

*Kathleen Sheppard (Core). “Margaret Murray and the Tomb of the Two Brothers.” London. January 2011.

*Maher Younan (MENG). “Shakedown Limit Load Determination of Defected Pressure Vessel, and Piping Components Using a Simplified Technique.” Cairo. November 2010-May 2011.

TEACHING ENHANCEMENT GRANT

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Mustafa Arafa (MENG). Cairo. “Development of Teaching Aids for Mechanical Vibration.” December 2010-December 2011.

CO-ORDINATION OF A CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP GRANT

SSE (School of Sciences and Engineering)

*Mohab Anis (EENG).  “International Conference on Microelectronics.” Sofitel el-Gezira, Cairo. December 19-22, 2010.

The 30th issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, housed in AUC's Department of English and Comparative Literature, is now available. A number of AUC faculty have articles in this issue:

*Mohammed Birairi (ARIC)

*Hussein Hamouda (CASA)

*Vassiliki Kotini (ECLT)

*Amy Motlagh (ECLT)

*Walid El Hamamsy (Alif and ECLT alumnus.)

*Arab Lotfi (PVA)

*Mark Westmoreland (SAPE)

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Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics published by the Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, The American University in Cairo has released its 30^th issue (2010) devoted to

Trauma and Memory

This issue of Alif focuses on trauma and loss and their presence in collective and individual memory. The question of traumatic events has been recognized in psychology, psychoanalysis, and literature, but scholarly studies have mostly concentrated on traumas enacted in the West—World Wars and the Holocaust. This issue attempts to extend the field of trauma and memory studies to include other parts of the world: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, India, Ireland, Lebanon, Palestine, Pakistan, multi-ethnic America, and ancient Greece. Whether the Lebanese civil war or the Peloponnesian war, the Nakba of 1948 or the Naksa of 1967, the articles and personal testimonies in this issue explore the impact of such tragic events on literary genre, films, fiction, folk culture, poetry, drama and visual arts.

Alif, a refereed multilingual journal appearing annually in the spring, presents articles in Arabic, English, and, occasionally, French. The different traditions and languages confront and complement each other in its pages. Each issue includes and welcomes original articles.

English Section

·      Anna Bernard: Forms of Memory: Partition as a Literary Paradigm

·      James McDougall: Social Memories ‘in the Flesh’: War and Exile in Algerian Self-Writing

·      Vincent Crapanzano: The Wound that Never Heals

·      Abdennebi Ben Beya: The Question of Reading Traumatic Testimony: Jones’s Corregidora and Morrison’s Beloved

·      Ibis Gómez-Vega: Extreme Realities: Naomi Shihab Nye’s Essays and Poems

·      Vassiliki Kotini: Aristophanes’s Response to the Peloponnesian War and the Defeat of the Comic Hero

·      Walid El Hamamsy: Epistolary Memory: Revisiting Traumas in Women’s Writing

·      Mark Westmoreland: Catastrophic Subjectivity: Representing Lebanon’s Undead

·      Magda Romanska: Trauma and Testimony: Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire

·      Amy Motlagh: Child of the Revolution: Sara Dolatabadi and the Esthetics of Memory (An Interview)

Arabic Section

·      Abdel Hamid Hawas: Hazina’s Agonies

·      Hussein Hamouda: Absence as Trauma and Familiarity: The Theme of Death in the Egyptian

 Novel

·      Hanadi Al-Samman: Anxiety of Erasure: Arab Women Writers between Shahrazad’s Memory

 and the Nightmare of Infanticide

·      Amr Elsherif: Death of the Self in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Poetry

·      Mohammed Birairi: Hearts Exhausted by Diaspora: A Reading of Kamal Ruhayyim’s Novels

·      Emad Abdel Latif: Nasser’s Resignation Speech and the Memory of Defeat: A Rhetorical

 Introduction to Political Discourse Analysis

·      Dalia Said Mostafa: Reflections on Trauma and Memory in Youssef Chahine’s Films

·      Arab Lotfi: A Wartime Cinematic Testimony

·      Lila Abu-Lughod: Return to Half-Ruins: Memory, Postmemory, and Living History in

 Palestine (translated by Hosam Nayil)

Subscription and correspondence: In Egypt: LE20; available at AUC Bookstores, Diwan Bookshop, Sindibad Bookshop, Layla Bookshop, Dar al-Mustaqbal Bookshop, Rose al-Youssef Bookshop, Mashrabiya Gallery, the Supreme Council of Culture Bookshop. Abroad: Individuals: $20; Institutions: $40.

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