| Date | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
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| Venue | Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2nd Floor, A2-1, Azariyeh Bldg, Beirut Central District (Downtown Beirut) |
| 12:00-12:05 | Welcome Address by Hidemitsu Kuroki (Director, JaCMES / Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) |
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| 12:05-12:50 | Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University) “Female Teacher as Pseudo-mother: The Role of Female Teacher in the Current Egyptian Educational Market” |
| 12:50-13:35 | Koji Horinuki (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University) “Controversies over labour force naturalisation: 30 years of Emiratisation in the UAE” |
| 13:35-15:30 | Lunch Break |
| 15:30-16:15 | Sayaka Nakano (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “The role of panegyrist-poets and praise poetry in the early Abbasid society” |
| 16:15-17:00 | Asuka Tsuji (Research Associate, Institute of Oriental Culture, The University of Tokyo) “The mass conversion of 1354 reconsidered: The Copts in Mamluk Egypt as depicted in the Life and Miracles of Anba Ruways” |
| 17:00-17:15 | Break |
| 17:15-18:00 | Hiroko Miyokawa (Post Doctoral Researcher, Sophia University) “Nationalisms and national integration of Christians in Egypt and Syria” |
| 18:00-18:45 | Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Against fatality: Kateb Yacine and Farjallah Haik” |
- Commentators :
- Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (Professor, United Arab Emirates University)
- Dr. Massoud Daher (Professor, Lebanese University)
- Dr. Iman Farag (Researcher, Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales, Cairo)
- Dr. Katia Haddad (Professor, Saint Joseph University)
- Dr. Stefan Leder (Director, Orient-Institut Beirut)
- Dr. John Meloy (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
- Observers :
- Dr. Sonia Daher (Professor, Lebanese University)
- Ms. Manami Hato (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo)
- Mr. Daisuke Okabayashi (Embassy of Japan)
- Ms. Megumi Okamoto (Ph.D. Candidate, Kobe University)
- Ms. Mitsuko Sano (Lecturer, Japan Academic Center, Saint Joseph University)
- Dr. Ryoko Watabe (Research Associate, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
- Dr. Takayuki Yoshimura (Research Associate, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
