| Date | Monday and Tuesday, November 26 and 27, 2007 |
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| Venue | Crowne Plaza Beirut, Hamra Street, Beirut (Ile de France Room, 1st Floor) |
| Monday, November 26 | |
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| 16:00-16:05 | Welcome address by Hidemitsu Kuroki (JaCMES) |
| 16:05-16:50 | Aiko Nishikida (Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Palestinians in Diaspora: Their Identity and Nationalism in Jordan” |
| 17:50-17:35 | Akiko Sugase (Research Fellow, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) “The Third Face of Janus: Narratives and Images on the Rev. George Hakim among the Arabs in Galilee” |
| 17:35-17:50 | Coffee Break |
| 17:50-18:35 | Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Translating Theatre: Rabih Mroué in Tokyo” |
| 18:35-19:20 | Kenichiro Takao (Ph.D. Candidate, Doshisha University) “Ahmad Kuftaru, A Great ‘Ulama’ in Modern Syria: About Its Construction of Intellectual Authority” |
| Tuesday, November 27 | |
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| 10:30-11:15 | Akiko Yoshioka (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) “Iraq and the Neighboring Arab Countries after the War” |
| 11:15-12:00 | Yoko Uno (Research Associate, Tsudajuku University) “Parliamentary Opposition and Diplomacy on the Eve of Republic of Turkey: The Second Group’s Attitude to the Lausanne Treaty (1923)” |
| 12:00-12:15 | Coffee Break |
| 12:15-13:00 | Yoko Sekiguchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “A Case Study on the Introduction and Attempt of ‘Sosyal Demokrasi’ in Turkey: Republican People’s Party (RPP), 1965-1972″ |
| 13:00-13:05 | Closing Remarks by Hidemitsu Kuroki |
- Commentators :
- Pierre Abi-Saab (al-Akhbar)
- Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
- Timur Göksel (American University of Beirut)
- Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
- Toufic Houri (Imam Ouzai College of Islamic Studies)
- Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
- Observers :
- Akimitsu Ikeda (Lebanese University)
- Sylvain Perdigon (Institut Français du Proch-Orient)
- Mitsuko Sano (University of Saint Joseph)
- Mahmoud Soueid (Institute for Palestine Studies)
- Seiko Sugita (American University of Beirut)
