Chair: Prof. Mohammad Adnan Al-Bakhit (Al al-Bayt University)
Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): "The Coming of the Ottomans".
Prof. Linda T. Darling (University of Arizona): "The Syrian provinces in Ottoman eyes".
Prof. Dr. Wolf Hütteroth (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): "Northeastern Syria and adjoining parts of Iraq and Turkey under early Ottoman rule (16th Century)".
Dr. Taisir El-Zawahreh (Mu'tah University, Jordan): "The Turks (al-Rum) in the works of Najm al-Din al-Ghazzi".
Chair: Prof. Angelica Neuwirth (Orient-Institüt, Berlin)
Dr. Joseph Rahme (Michigan University): "Some socio-economic observations on late 16th century Ottoman Syria".
Dr. Issam Khalifeh (Université Libanaise): "Les pressoirs et les moulins au Mont-Liban, XVIme - XVIIme siècles". (En arabe avec une traduction française).
Dr. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut): "Al-Fatwa al-Khairiyya: Juridical literature as a source for the study of socio-economic and religious trends in 17th century Ottoman Palestine".
Dr. Boutros Labaki (Université Libanaise): "L’histoire économique de la principauté ma‘anaïte". (En arabe avec une traduction française).
Chair: Dr. Eugene Rogan (Oxford University)
Prof. Dr. Robert Mantran (Université de Provence): "Le pouvoir ottoman en Syrie au XVIe siècle: Kanunname et inscriptions monumentales".
Mr. Stefan Weber (German Institute-Damascus): "Imperial architecture and local design: decoration of the Damascene buildings in the early Ottoman period in Syria".
Dr. Robert Schick (Albright Institute): "The Archaeology of Palestine/Jordan in the early Ottoman period".
Dr. Mohammed Adnan al-Bakhit (Al al'Bayt University): "The Waqf of Tulkarm (Palestine) during the early Ottoman period".
Chair: Prof. Dr. Robert Mantran (Université de Provence)
Drs. Hind el’Soufi-Assaf (Université Libanaise): "Les vestiges ottomans de Tripoli, 16me-17me siècles".
Dr. Reuben Thorpe (German Institute-Beirut): "Ottoman archaeology in the Beirut Souks area".
Dr. Hasan Ramez Badawi (Lebanese University): "The Mosques of Sidon in the early Ottoman period (16th-17th centuries)". (In Arabic with an English translation).
Drs. Ruba Kana‘an (Oxford University): "The Travels of Evliya Çelebi: a re-interpretation of the urban history of 17th century Bilad al-Sham".
Chair: Prof. Valeria Piacentini (University of Milan)
Dr. Mounir Ismail (Université Libanaise): "La transformation du système des priviléges étrangers au système des fidèicommissaires durant le règne de Soleiman al-Qanouni". (In Arabic with a French translation).
Dr. Hasan Yahyia (Université Libanaise): "Les dévelopements du système governemental entre l'autorité ottomane et le pouvoir local dans Bilad al-Sham, 1520-1636". (In Arabic with a French translation).
Prof. Rifaat Ebied (University of Sydney): "An unknown poem on the siege of Aleppo and the violent events of A.H. 1065/A.D. 1655".
Dr. Otfried Weintritt (Albert-Ludwig University/Freiburg): "Biography as historiography in an early 17th century chronicle from Syria".
Chair: Dr. Boutros Labaki (Université Libanaise)
Rev. Dr. Samir Khalil (Université St. Joseph): "Les chrétiens et les prémices de la renaissance arabe aux 16e et 17e siècles".
Dr. Carsten-Michael Walbiner (German Institute-Beirut): "Some remarks on the hierarchy of the Greek-Orthodox Church in Bilad ash-Sham in the 16th- 17th centuries".
Drs. Souad Slim (Balamand University): "The situation of Waqf between ‘Timar’ system and ‘Iltizam’".