JaCMES Lecture Series: The Middle East and Japan No.10

“Arab Uprisings Reconsidered from Lebanese and Japanese Points of View”

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Date / Time 19 March 2015 (Thu.) 18:00-20:00
Venue Liberty Room, Crowne Plaza, Beirut
Language Arabic and English (simultaneous interpretation available)
Organized by Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim World”
Admission:Free, No registration is required.
Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
“Arab Uprisings of 2011 vis-à-vis the History of Arab States”
Eiji Nagasawa (The University of Tokyo)
“Thawra and Nation State System in the Arab World”
Its Arabic text was published in Idafat 31-32, Summer-Autumn 2015.

Syria-Japan Expert Meeting for Safeguarding Syrian Cultural Heritag

ONE-DAY MEETING ON SAFEGUARDING OF THE SYRIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE CONCERNING SYRIA-JAPAN COOPERATION

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Date / Time 16 March 2015 (Mon.)  13:00-18:00
Venue Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2nd Floor, A2-1, Azariyeh Bldg,
Beirut Central District
Language English

This meeting is aimed to discuss about endangered Syrian cultural heritage and possibility of Japanese contribution for safeguarding it in the near future by Syrian and Japanese specialists together with the cooperation of the Lebanese specialists. The meeting is based on the conference held in Tokyo Japan on 21-22 February 2015 (“A crisis of Syrian cultural heritage and the effort to safeguard it).    

Participants
Syria
Prof. Maamoun Abdulkarim (Director-General, DGAM)
Dr. Ahmad Deeb (Director, Museum Affairs, DGAM)
Ms. Lina Kutiefan (Director, Site Management & Foreign Cooperation, DGAM)
Japan
Prof. Akira Tsuneki (University of Tsukuba)
Dr. Kiyohide Saito (Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture)
Prof. Hidemitsu Kuroki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Prof. Shin’ichi Nishiyama (Chubu University)
Lebanon
Dr. Sarkis El Khoury (Diector-General, DGA, Lebanon)
Invited Excavation Teams working in Syria
Prof. Jeanine Abdul Massih (Lebanese University)
Dr. Nadine Panayot Haroun (Balamand University)
Dr. Maya Haidar Boustany (Saint Joseph University)
Dr. Leila Badre (American University of Beirut)

This meeting is organized by University of Tsukuba and supported by the Agency for Cultural Affair, Government of Japan, and Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. The meeting is also under the patronage of the Directorate-General of Antiquities of Lebanon.

Program
13:00-13:10 Opening address
Prof. Hidemitsu Kuroki (TUFS, Director of JaCMES)
13:10-13:30 Welcoming address
Dr. Sarkis El Khoury (Director-General, DGA)
13:30-15:00 DGAM contribution for safeguarding Syrian cultural heritage
Prof. Maamoun Abdulkarim (Director-General, DGAM)
Dr. Ahmad Deeb (Director, Museum Affairs, DGAM)
Ms. Lina Kutiefan (Director, Site Management & Foreign Cooperation, DGAM)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00 Results of Tokyo symposium
Prof. Akira Tsuneki (University of Tsukuba)
Dr. Kiyohide Saito (Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture)
Prof. Shin’ichi Nishiyama (Chubu University)
17:00-18:00 Discussion and comments on the possibility of Japanese contribution
All participants

2014 Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Japan: The State of the Art (No.9)

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Date Saturday, November 29, 2014
Venue Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2nd Floor, A2-1, Azariyeh Bldg,
Beirut Central District
Phone +961-(0)1-975851
Program of the meeting
10:00-10:10 Welcome Address by Hidemitsu Kuroki (JaCMES, ILCAA)
Chair : Taku Osoegawa (ILCAA)
10:10-10:55 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
10:55-11:40 Madoka Morita (The University of Tokyo)
“Community’s Peace” and Public Order: Neighborhoods and Urban Administration in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
11:40-11:50 Break
Chair : Aiko Nishikida (ILCAA)
11:50-12:35 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
12:35-13:20 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
Commentators :
John Meloy (American University of Beirut)
Astrid Meier (Orient Institut-Beirut)
Malek Sharif (Joint Researcher of ILCAA)
Carla Eddé (Université Saint Joseph, Joint Researcher of ILCAA)
Observers :
Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
Pierre Azar (Université Saint Joseph)
Eric Gautier (Institut français du Proche-Orient)
Keisuke Yamanaka (Embassy of Japan)
Masami Ishii (Embassy of Japan)
ILCAA staffs :
Hidemitsu Kuroki
Aiko Nishikida
Taku Osoegawa

Japan-Lebanon Round Table for Middle Eastern Studies (No.1)

“The Middle East in the Midst of Political Cataclysm”

A century after the outbreak of World War I, we are observing the melt-down of borders established in the Sykes–Picot Agreement. Multiple players in the Syrian Civil War are compelling international powers to intervene at various levels, resulting in serious sectarian resonance in Iraq. Undoubtedly, in retrospect, the Iraq War of 2003 directly created this devastating result and the emergence of the “Islamic State” in the two countries, which had a global impact on many countries, from the US to Australia (and Japan). However, the glimpses of ancient social grievances in the two countries as well as in neighboring nations lead us to reconsider the current situation over longer timespans and wider ranges. The issues in and around the Middle East are all interwoven one another. The exchange of ideas among leading researchers from Japan and Lebanon will elucidate this issue from diverse viewpoints, which may help to gain a better perspective on the future of the Middle East.

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Date / Time Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Venue Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES),
2nd Floor, A2-1, Azariyeh Bldg.,Beirut Central District
Phone 01-975851
Program
14:00-14:10 Welcome Remarks by Hidemitsu Kuroki (JaCMES)
14:10-14:30 Presentation 1 by Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
14:30-14:50 Presentation 2 by Keiko Sakai (Chiba University)
14:50-15:10 Presentation 3 by Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck (Carnegie Middle East Center)
15:10-15:30 Q & A
15:30-15:50 Break
15:50-16:10 Presentation 4 by Akira Usuki (Japan Women’s University)
16:10-16:30 Presentation 5 by Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
16:30-16:50 Presentation 6 by Yasuyuki Matsunaga (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
16:50-17:10 Q & A
17:10-17:30 Break
17:30-18:30 Discussion
Chair : Hidemitsu Kuroki

Panelists

Massoud Daher is a professor at Lebanese University. He specializes in Modern History of the Middle East and Japan. His publication includes Modern History of Japan, 1853-1945: The Challenge and Resonance (in Arabic), Abu Dhabi, 2009.

Keiko Sakai is a professor at Faculty of Law, Politics and Economics, Chiba University. She specializes in the international politics of the Middle East and the modern history of Iraq. Her publication includes Middle East Politics (in Japanese), Tokyo, 2012

Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck is a research analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Center. She specializes in political violence and Islamism, with a focus on Algeria. Her publication includes “The Decline of Islamist Parties in Algeria” (Sada). http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/index.cfm?fa=show&article=54510&solr_hilite=Algeria

Akira Usuki is a professor at Faculty of Humanities, Japan Women’s University. He specializes in the modern history of Palestine/Israel and of Islam in Japan. His publication includes Palestine Question in the World History (in Japanese), Tokyo, 2013.

Hilal Khashan is a professor at the American University of Beirut. He specializes in the Comparative Politics of the Middle East. His publications include five books and more than 85 articles in internationally refereed journals.

Yasuyuki Matsunaga is a professor of political science at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He specializes in politics and religion in postrevolutionary Iran. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled Reforming Islamist Iran: Religion, Intellectuals, and Politics during the Rafsanjani-Khatami Years.

Hidemitsu Kuroki is a professor at Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and Head of JaCMES. He specializes in the history of Ottoman Syria. His publication includes The Influence of Human Mobility in Muslim Societies, London, Kegan Paul, 2003.

Sponsored by Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

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