Opening Ceremony:
Rev. Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (Chairman of ARAM Society): Address
H.E. Mr. Rafiq Al-Hariri (The President of the Lebanese Council of Ministers):
Address.
Inaugural talk: Prof Nicola Ziadeh (Emeritus Professor): "The Mamluks in the balance".
Chair: Prof. Angelica Neuwirth (Director of the German Institute for Oriental
Studies-Beirut)
Prof. Ahmad Hoteit (Lebanese University): "Les expéditions mameloukes du centre
du Mont-Liban: Répercussions sur la répartition des habitants".
Prof. Elias Kattar (Lebanese University): "La géographie de la population et
relations entre les groupes au Liban à l'époque des
mameloukes Circassiens".
Dr. Erica Cruikshank Dodd (University of Victoria): "Christian Arab
painters under the Mamluks".
Dr. Lucy-Anne Hunt (University of Birmingham): "The production of illustrated
manuscripts by Christians in 13th-14th century Syria and Mesopotamia".
Prof. Rifaat Ebied: (University of Sydney): "Inter-religious attitudes:
al-Dimashqi's (d. 727/1327) letter to the people of
Cyprus".
Chair: Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney)
Prof. Dr. Heinz Grotzfeld (University of Munster): "Contes populaires de
l'époque des Mameloukes dans les Mille et Une Nuits".
Drs. Sabri Jarrar (Oxford University): "Suq al-Ma'rifa (Market of Knowledge), a Hanbalite Shrine in al-Haram al-Sharif".
Chair: Mr. Camille Asmar (Director General of the Lebanese Department of
Antiquities & Museums):
Drs. Sami el-Masri (Free University of Berlin): "Medieval pottery from Beirut's
Downtown excavations: the first results".
Dr. Eveline J. van der Steen (University of Leiden): "What happened to
Arabic-Geometric pottery in Beirut?"
Mr. Abrecht Fuess (University of Cologne): "Beirut during the Mamluk Era".
Prof. Omar Tadmury (Lebanese University): "The Mamluk architecture of Tripoli
al-Sham".
Chair: Dr. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut)
Drs. Marcus Milwright (Oxford University), "The cup of the Saqi: Origins of an
emblem of the Khassakiyya".
Dr. Lutz Wiederhold (University of Halle): "Legal-religious elite and
temporal authority in Mamluk society: a "Zahiri Revolt" in
Damascus in 1386".
Prof. Suad al-Hakim (Lebanese University): "Le soufism et son message culturel durant la période des Mameloukes".
Chair: Dr. Helga Seeden (American University of Beirut)
Dr. Alan Walmsley (University of Sydney): "Village life in Mamluk Jordan: Views
of the Jordan Valley from Fahl (Pella)"
Drs. Laurent Tholbecq (IFAPO-Amman): "Une installation d'époque islamique dans
le sanctuaire de Zeus de Jérash: la céramique, chronologie et technologie".
Ms. Alison McQuitty, Ms. Mads Sarley, Ms. Mona Khoury and Ms. Chantell Hoppe:
(BIAAH-Amman): "Archaeology from Khirbet Faris (Jordan): the Mamluk evidence".
Dr. Margreet Steiner (University of Leiden): "The excavation at Tell Abu Sarbut
- a Mamluk village in the Jordan Valley".
Chair: Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (Emeritus Professor)
Dr. Sarab Atassi (IFEAD, Damascus): "Damas au temps des Mameloukes, la
poursuite d'un développement urbain soutenu".
Dr. Howyda Al-Harithy (American University of Beirut): "Mamluk architecture in
Damascus".
Dr. Nasser Rabbat (MIT-Boston): "The Mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus: A classical Syrian medium requires a Mamluk signature".