ARAM Periodical & Conferences Back issues are still available. The issues available are the published in volumes:

Volume 1, 1989
Volume 2, 1990 (Proceedings of the First International Conference of ARAM: The Nabataeans - Oxford University), under the patronage of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hassan bin Talal:
Volume 3, 1991 (Proceedings of the Second International Conference of ARAM: The Syriac-Arabic Cultural Interchange during the Abbasid Era - Oxford University):
Volume 4, 1992, (Proceedings of the Second International of ARAM:The Decapolis - Oxford University):
Volume 5, 1993, (A Festschrift for Dr Sebastian P. Brock):
Volume 6, 1994: (Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference: The Arab-Byzantine-Syriac Culture Interchange during the Umayyad Era in Syria (Bilad al-Sham) - Oxford University):
Volume 7 (No. 1), 1995 (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of ARAM: Palmyra - Oxford University), under the patronage of Her Excellency Dr. Najah al-Attar, the Syrian Minister of Culture:
Volume 7 (No. 2) (Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of ARAM: Who were or are the Aramaeans? - Harvard University)
Volume 8 (No. 1), 1996 (Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of ARAM: Trade Routes in the Near East: Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times - Oxford University):
Volume 8 (No. 2), 1997 (Proceedings of ARAM Ninth International Conference: Cultural Interchange in the Arabian Peninsula - Oxford University)
Volume 9, 1997 (Proceedings of ARAM Eighth International Conference: The Mamluks in Bilad al-Sham: History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut/ Under the Patronage of H.E. Mr. Rafiq Al-Hariri, the President of the Lebanese Council of Ministers)
Volume 10 (Nos. 1 & 2), 1998 (Proceedings of ARAM Tenth International Conference: The Early Ottoman in Bilad al-Sham (16th & 17th centuries): History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut)):
Volume 11 (Nos. 1 & 2), 1999 (Proceedings of ARAM Eleventh International Conference: Cultural Interchange in the East of the Arabian Peninsula - Oxford University):
Volume 11 (No. 2), 1999 (Proceedings of ARAM Fourteenth International Conference: Antioch and Edessa - Oxford University):
Volume 12, 2000 (Proceedings of ARAM Thirteenth International Conference, The Mandaeans - Harvard University):
Volume 13, 2001 (Proceedings of ARAM Twelfth International Conference: Beirut, History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut):

Contents of Volume 1, 1989:

Prof. Nicholas Postgate (University of Cambridge): Ancient Assyria - A Multi-Racial State.
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): Three Thousand Years of Aramaic Literature.
Mr. Alan Millard (University of Liverpool): Mesopotamia and the Bible.
Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester): Ancient Aramaic Culture and the Bible.
Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester): Were the Nabataeans Arabs?
Dr. Michael Dols (University of California): Syriac into Arabic: the Transmission of Greek Medicine.
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): The Dispute between Soul and Body: an Example of a Long-Lived Mesopotamian Literary Genre.
Dr. Hashim Behbehani (University of Kuwait): Arab-Chinese Military Encounters: Two Case Studies 715-751 AD.
Mr. Moussa Domit (New York Arts Gallery): The Art of Saliha Douaihy.
Prof. Paul Dion (University of Toronto): Medical Personnel in the Ancient Near East. Asû and ashipu in Aramaic Garb.
Dr. Shafiq Abouzayd (University of Oxford): The Acts of Thomas and the Unity of the Dualistic World in the Syrian Orient.
Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University): Yasileh.
Dr. Hugh Kennedy (St Andrew's University): Change and Continuity in Syria and Palestine at the Time of the Moslem Conquest.
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): Syriac Culture in the Seventh Century.
Mr. Nicholas Campion (Bristol): The Concept of Destiny in Islamic Astrology and its Impact on Mediaeval European Thought.
Prof. Michael Hollerich (Santa Clara University): Arthur Vööbus Remembered.
Dr. Sebasatian Brock (University of Oxford): Arthur Vööbus' Contribution to Syriac Studies.
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Contents of Volume 2, 1990 (Proceedings of the First International Conference of ARAM: The Nabataeans - Oxford University), under the patronage of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hassan bin Talal:

Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen & Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): A la Mémoire de Père Jean Starcky.
Mr. Peter Parr (University of London): Sixty Years of Excavation in Petra: A Critical Assessment.
Prof. John Bartlett (University of Dublin): From Edomites to Nabataeans: the Problem of Continuity.
Dr. Piotr Bienkowski (Museum of Liverpool): The Chronology of Tawilan and the "Dark Age" of Edom.
Prof. David Graf (University of Miami): The Origin of the Nabataeans.
Dr. Manfred Lindner (Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nurnberg): A Unique Lithic Early Bronze Edomite-Nabataean Site in Southern Jordan: both Past and Present.
Dr. John Healey (University of Manchester): The Nabataean Contribution to the Development of the Arabic Script.
Prof. William Jobling (University of Sydney): Some New Nabataean and North Arabian Inscriptions of the Hisma in Southern Jordan.
Dr. Youssif Qozi (University of Baghdad): Remarques sur une Inscription Nabatéene de Mada`in Salih/Al-Higr.
Mr. Karl Schmidt-Korte (Frankfurt): An Early Christian Record of the Nabataeans: the Maslam Inscription (ca. 350 AD).
Dr. Robert Wenning (University of Münster): Two Forgotten Nabataean Inscriptions.
Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Department of Antiquities, Jordan): The Pantheon of the Nabataean Inscriptions in Egypt and the Sinai.
Dr. Ernst Axel Knauf (University of Heidelberg): Dushara and Shai al-Qaum.
Dr. Joseph Patrich (University of Haifa): Prohibition of a Graven Image among the Nabataeans: the Evidence and its Significance.
Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): Baalshamin dans le Monde Nabatéen: à propos de Découvertes Récentes
Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University): Maîtrise de l'Eau et Agriculture en Nabatène: l'Exemple de Petra.
Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London): Early Nabataean Coinage.
Mrs. Jaqueline Dentzer-Feydy (Universsity of Paris 1 -Sorbonne): Khirbet Edh-Dharih: Architectural Decoration of the Temple.
Dr. David Johnson (Brigham Young University): Nabataean Piriform Unguentaria.
Mrs. Marie Killick (Oxford): Les Nabatéen a Udhruh.
Mrs. Diana Kirkbride (Copenhagen): The Nabataeans, Trajan and the Periplus.
Dr. Margaret Lyttleton & Dr. Thomas Blagg (London): Sculpture from the Tenemos of Qasr el-Bint at Petra.
Mr. James Mason & Dr. Khairieh `Amr (Department of Antiquities, Amman): A Study of Nabataean Pottery Manufacturing Techniques. An Experiment for Reconstructing the Production of Fine Bowls.
Dr. Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College): Settlement on Jordan's Kerak Plateau from Iron Age IIC through the Early Roman Period.
Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Mampsis - the End of a Nabataean Town.
Dr. François Villeneuve (Ecole Normale Superieure): The Pottery from the Oil Factory at Khirbet EDh-Dharih (2nd Century AD).
Dr. John Zeitler (Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nurnberg): A Private Building from the First Century BC in Petra.
Dr. Mohammad Abdul-Latif Abdul Karim (University of Baghdad): The Nabataeans in the Arab Tradition.
Dr. Salih Harmarneh (University of Jordan): The Nabataeans after the Decline of the Political Power: from the Arabic Islamic Sources.
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Contents of Volume 3, 1991 (Proceedings of the Second International Conference of ARAM: The Syriac-Arabic Cultural Interchange during the Abbasid Era - Oxford University):

Dr. Carmela Baffioni (University of Naples): Probable Syriac Influences in the Ikhwan al-Safa''s logical Epistles?
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): `Come, Compassionate Mother..., come Holy Spirit': a Forgotten Aspect of Early Eastern Christian Imagery.
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): Some New Syriac Documents From the Third Century AD.
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): The Syrian Background to Hunayn's Translation Techniques.
Dr. Hans Daiber (Vreije Universiteit, Amsterdam): Nestorians of 9th Century Iraq as a Source of Greek, Syriac and Arabic. A Survey of Some Unexploited Sources.
Dr. Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford): The Gilgamesh Epic and Manichaean Themes.
Prof. Sidney H. Griffith (Catholic University of America): The Apologetic Treatise of Nonnus of Nisibis.
Dr. Johannes den Heijer (University of Leiden): Syriacisms in the Arabic Version of Aristotle's Historia Animalium.
Dr. Bo Holmberg (University of Lund): The Trinitarian Terminology of Israel of Kashkar (d. 872).
Mr. Robert Hoyland (University of Oxford): Arabic, Syriac and Greek Historiography in the First Abbasid Century: An Inquiry into Inter-Cultural Traffic.
Dr. Shamil Kubba (Jordan): Origins of the Islamic City.
Prof. Wilferd Madelung (University of Oxford): Al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim and Christian Theology.
Prof. Michael Morony (University od California.L.A.): The Aramaean Population in the Economic Life of Early Islamic Iraq.
Dr. Henri Hugonnard-Roche (C.N.R.S. Paris): Contributions Syriaques aux Etudes Arabes de Logique à l'Epoque Abbasside.
Dr. Samir Khalil Samir (Université St Joseph-Beyrouth): Un Traité Perdu de Hunayn ibn Ishaq Retrouvé dans la "Somme" d'Ibn al-`Assal.
Prof. Irfan Shahid (Georgetown University): In Memoriam: Metropolitan Gregorius Bulus Behnam, 1916-1969.
Dr. Gotthard Strohmaier (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, Berlin): Hunain ibn Ishaq - an Arab Scholar Translating into Syriac.
Dr. Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Impact of Syriac Tradition on Early Judaeo-Arabic Bible Exegesis.
Dr. Mauro Zonta (University of Pavia): Ibn al-Tayyib, Zoologist and Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Revision of Aristotle's De Animalibus - New Evidence from the Hebrew Tradition.

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Contents of Volume 4, 1992, (Proceedings of the Second International of ARAM: The Decapolis - Oxford University):

Prof. David Graf (University of Miami): Hellenisation and the Decapolis.
Dr. Martin Goodman (University of Oxford): Jews in the Decapolis.
Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA): Abila: a Thriving Greco-Roman city of the Decapolis.
Dr. Robert Wenning (University of Münster): Nabataeans in the Decapolis/ Coele Syria.
Dr. Ali Zeyadeh (Birzeit University): Urban Transformation in the Decapolis cities of Jordan.
Dr. Gideon Foerster & Prof. Yoram Tsafrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Nysa- Scythopolis in the Roman period: `a Greek city of Coele Syria` - Evidence from the excavations at Bet-Shean.
Dr. Maurice Sartre (François Rabelais University): Les cités de Décapole septentrionale: Canatha, Raphana, Dion et Ahadra.
Dr. Michael Fuller & Mrs Neathery Fuller (St Louis Community College-USA): Regional Survey and ethnoarcharological investigations at Abila.
Dr. Pau Figuras (Ben-Gurion University): The Roman worship of Athena-Allat in the Decapolis and the Negev.
Mr. Jacques Seigne (IFAPO-Amman): A l'ombre de Zeus et d'Artemis, Gerasa de la écapole.
Dr. Robert H. Smith (College of Wooster-USA): Some pre-Chritian religions at Pella of he Decapolis.
Dr. Robert W. Smith (Miami University): Secondary use of the necropoleis of the Decapolis.
Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): La nécropole de Yasileh et les tombeaux du nord de la Jordanie.
Dr. Zeidoun al-Muheisen (Yarmouk University): Le site de Yasileh et la Décapole.
Dr. Margaret O'Hea (University of Adelaide): The glass industry of the Decapolis.
Mr. Julian Bowsher (Museum of London): Civic organisation within the Decapolis.
Dr. Yizhar Hirschfeld & Dr. Erez Cohen (Israel Antiquities Authority): The reconstruction of the Roman baths at Hammath Gader.
Dr. Leah di Segni (Hebrew University): Greek inscriptions of the bath-house in Hammath Gader.
Dr. John D. Wineland (Miami University): Archaeological and numismatic evidence for the Political structure and Greco-Roman religions of the Decapolis, with particular emphasis on Gerasa & Abila.
Prof. Alan Walmsley (University of Sidney): Vestiges of the Decapolis in orth Jordan during the Late Antique and Early Islamic periods.
Dr. Willard W. Winter (Cincinati Bible College and Seminary): A Byzantine basilica at Abila.
Dr. Karel J. Vriezen (University of Utrecht): The centralised church in Umm Qais (andcient Gadara).
Mr. Robert Guinée & Miss. Nicole Mulder (University of Utrecht): Survey of the Terrace and western theatre area in Umm Qais.
Miss. Susanne Kerner (German Protetant Institute of Archaeology): Umm Qais-Gadara: recent excavations.
Dr. Esti Dvorjetzki (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Medicinal hot springs in Eretz-Israel and the Decapolis during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.
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Contents of Volume 5, 1993, (A Festschrift for Dr Sebastian P. Brock):

Prof. Luise Abramowski (University of Tübingen): Die Reste der syrischen Übersetzung von Theodor von Mopsuestia, De Incarnatione, in add 14669.
Dr. Micheline Albert (Université de Sorbonne): Lettre de Grégoire de Nysse à son frère Pierre d'Annési-Sébaste.
Dr. David Bundy (Christian Theological Seminary-USA): Revising the Diatessaron against the Manichaeans: Ephrem of Syria on John 1:4.
Dr. James T. Clemons (Wesley Theological Seminary-USA): Syriac Studies in the United States: 1783-1900.
Dr. J F Coakley (Harvard University): Yaroo M Neesan, `a missionary to his own people'.
Dr. Johann Cook (University of Stellenbosch): Syriac studies in South Africa.
Dr. Peter S. Cowe (Columbia University): Philoxenus of Mabbug and the Synod of Manazkert.
Prof. Han J. W. Drijvers (Groningen University): New Syriac inscriptions.
Dr. Michel van Esbroeck (University of Munich): Les versions syriaques du Panegirique de Grégoire le Thaumaturge.
Dr. Jean-Maurice Fiey (Université St Joseph-Beyrout): L'imprimerie des Dominicains de Mossoul 1860-1914.
Dr. François Graffin (Paris): Adresses d'un supérieur de monastère à ses frères.
Prof. Sidney H Griffith (Catholic University of Beirut): Henri Hyvernat (1858-1941) and the beginning of of Syriac Studies at the Catholic University of America.
Prof. André de Halleux (Université de Louvain): L'annonciation à Marie dans le commentaire syriaque du Diatessaron.
Prof. Susan Harvey (Brown University): The memory and meaning of a saint: two homilies on Simeon Stylites.
Dr. Bo Holmberg (Lund University): Syriac studies in Sweden.
Dr. Erica Hunter (Cambridge University): A scroll amulet from Kurdistan.
Mr. Konrad Jenner (Rijks University-Leiden): A review of the methods by which Syriac biblical and related manuscripts have been described and analysed.
Dr. Hubert Kaufhold (University of Munich): Über Datum und Schreiber der Handschrift Vaticanus Syriacus 51.
Dr. David J. Lane (College of the Resurrection-England): Admonition and analogy: 13 chapters from Shubhalmaran.
Prof. Michael Lattke (University of Queensland-Australia): Die griechischen Wörter im syrischen Text der Oden Salomos.
Dr. Kathleen McVey (Princeton University): The sogitha on the Church of Edessa in the context of other early Greek and Syriac Hymns for the consecration of Church buildings.
Dr. Dana Miller (Harvard University): George, bishop of the Arab tribes, on true philosophy.
Dr. Robert Murray (London University): It was springtime': the source of Jerome's rendering of a phrase in Genesis 35:16 and 48:7.
Dr. Andrew Palmer (University of London): `A lyre without a voice': the poetics and the politics of Ephrem the Syrian.
Dr. Martin G. F. Parmentier Hilversum-Holland): Pseudo-Gregory of Nyssa's homily on poverty.
Prof. Paul-Hubert Poirier (Université Laval-Québec): Note sur un mot des Actes de Thomas.
Dr. Gerrit D. Reinink (Rijks University-Leiden): Pseudo-Ephraems `Rede über das Ende' und die Syrische eschatologische Literatur des siebenten Jahrhunderts.
Dr. Frédéric Rilliet (Université de Génève): Une victime du tournant des études syriaques à la fin du XIXe siècle. Rétrospective sur Jaques de Saroug dans la science occidentale.
Prof. Lucas van Rompay (Rijks University-Leiden): Memories of paradise. The Greek `Life of Adam and Eve' and early Syriac tradition.
Dr. Alison Salvesen (Oxford University): Spirits in Jacob's revision of Samuel.
Prof. Irfan Shahîd (Georgetown University): The restoration of the Ghassanid Dynasty, AD 587: Dionysius of Tellmahre.
Dr. Robert Taft (Oriental Institute-Rome): Some structural problems in the Syriac Anaphora of the Twelve Apostles I.
Dr. Martin Tamcke (Phillips University-Germany): Die Konfessionsfrage bei den lutherischen Nestorianen.
Dr. Jacob Vellian (St Ephrem Institute-India): The early Syriac manuscripts of the Qurbana of Malabar (a historical survey concerning their impact on Malabar liturgy).
Dr. John Watt (University of Wales): The Syriac reception of Platonic and Aristotelian rhetoric.
Prof. Gabriele Winkler (University of Tübingen): Neue Überlegungen zur Entstehung des Epiphaniefests.
Dr. Witold Witakowsi (University of Uppsala): The division of the Earth between the descendants of Noah in Syriac tradition.
Dr. Ugo Zanetti (Université de Louvain): Projet d'une Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca.
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Volume 6, 1994: (Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference: The Arab-Byzantine-Syriac Culture Interchange during the Umayyad Era in Syria (Bilad al-Sham) - Oxford University):

Dr. Michael Bates (The American Numismatic Society): Byzantine coinage and its imitations, Byzantine coinage and its imitations: Arab-Byzantine coinage.
Dr. Monica Blanchard (Catholic University of America): The Georgian version of the martyrdom of St Michael, monk of Mar Sabas monastery.
Dr. Lawrence Conrad (Wellcome Institute): Did Walid I found the first Muslim hospital?
Prof. Han Drijvers (University of Groningen): The Testament of our Lord. Jacob of Edessa's response to Islam.
Dr. Pau Figueras (Ben-Gurion University): The impact of the Islamic conquest on the Christian communities of the Third Palestine.
Dr. Michael Fuller (St Louis Community College-USA): Continuity and cultural interchange at Tell Tuneinir, Syria.
Prof. Sidney Griffith (Catholic University of America): Michael, the Martyr and monk of Mar Sabas monastery, at the court of Caliph 'Abd al-Malik: Christian apologetics.
Dr. Claus-Peter Haase (Kiel University): Is madinat al-Far - in the Balikh region of northern Syria - an Umayyad foundation?
Mr. Robert Hoyland (Oxford University): The correspondence between Leo III (717-741) and 'Umar II (717-720).
Dr. Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge University): The pre-Islamic backgroundof Muslim legal formularies.
Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary-USA): The Christian church of Abila of the Decapolis and the Yarmouk Valley System in the Umayyad period.
Mr. W. Andrew Oddy (British Museum): The earliest Umayyad coinage of Gerasa and Scythopolis.
Dr. Andrew Palmer (London University): Two Jacobite bishops, Theodotus (d. 698) and Simeon (d. 734), and their relations with the Umayyad authorities.
Dr. Steven A Rosen (Ben-Gurion University): Israel The nomadic periphery: archaeology of pastoralists in the south central Negev during Late Antiquity.
Prof. Daniel Sahas (University of Waterloo): Cultural interaction during the umayyad period: the `circle' of John of Damascus.
Dr. Elizabeth Savage (London): Iraqi christian links with an early Islamic sect.
Prof. Irfan Shahîd (Georgetown University): The Umayyad ajnad: Byzance après Byzance.
Prof. Ahmad Shboul (University of Sydney): Umayyad Damascus: notes on its population and culture based on Ibn `Asakir's History.
Mr. Claude Vibert-Guigue (IFAPO-Amman): Le projet franco-jordanien de relevé des peintures de Quseir `Amra.
Dr. Pamela Watson (British Institute of Archaology-Amman): Pictorial painting on pottery and its demise in the mid-7th century AD: the case of the Jerash bowls.
Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago): Were there amsar in Syria? Miscellaneous:
Dr. Sebastian P. Brock (Oxford University): André de Halleux's contributions to Syriac studies.
Prof. Abraham Negev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Khaznet fira'un at Petra - iconoclasm Nabataean. style.
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Contents of Volume 7 (No.1), 1995 (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of ARAM: Palmyra - Oxford University), under the patronage of Her Excellency Dr. Najah al-Attar, the Syrian Minister of Culture:

Dr. Najah Al-Attar (The Syrian Minister of Culture): Address.
Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw): News from Palmyra: Current Work in a Perspective.
Dr. Khaled Asaad (Director of Palmyra Museum): Restoration work at Palmyra.
Dr. Saito Kiyohide (The Archaeological Institute of Kashihara - Japan): Excavation at Southeast Necropolis in Palmyra from 1990 to 1995.
Dr Ernest Will (Institut de France-Paris): Architecture locale et architecture impériale à Palmyre.
Dr Marek Barañski (University of Warsaw): The great colonade of Palmyra reconsidered.
Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Colinet (University of Bern): The Textiles from Palmyra.
Dr. Andreas Schmidt-Colinet (University of Bern): The Quarries from Palmyra.
Prof. Klaus Parlasca (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): Probleme der Palmyrischen Kunst.
Prof. Delbert Hillers (John Hopkins University): Notes on Palmyrene Aramaic texts.
Dr. Mohammad Maraqten (University of Marburg/Lahn): The Arabic words in Palmyrene inscriptions.
Prof. Han J.W. Drijvers (University of Groningen): Inscriptions from Allat's Sanctuary.
Dr. Jürgen Tubach (Martin-Luther-Universität): Das Akitu-Fest in Plamyra.
Dr. Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford): Bel at Palmyra and elsewhwere in the Parthina period.
Dr. Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Collège de France - Paris): Un cratère palmyrénien inscrit: nouveau document sur la vie religieuse des palmyréniens.
Dr. Dominique Tarrier (Yarmouk University): Banquets rituels en palmyrène et en Nabatène.
Dr. Valentino Columbo (University of Milano): Nabataeans and Palmyreans: an analysis of the Tell el-Shuqafiyye inscriptions.
Dr. W. Harold Mare (Covenant Theological Seminary): Abila and Palmyra: Ancient trade and trade routes from Southern Syria into Mesopotamia.
Dr Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College): The Palmyrene luxury trade and Revelation 18: 12-13: a neglected analogue.
Dr. Eleonora Cussini (University of Bologna): Transfer of Property at Palmyra.
Dr. Palmira Piersimoni (Italy): Compiling a Palmyrene prosography: Methodological Problems.
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Volume 7, (No.2): (Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of ARAM: Who were or are the Aramaeans? - Harvard University)

Prof. John Huehnergard (Harvard University): What is Aramaic?
Prof. P. Octor Skjaervo (Harvard University): Aramaic in Iran.
Dr. Erica C. D. Hunter (Cambridge University): Aramaic-speaking communities of Sasanid Mesopotamia.
Dr. Steven Grosby (Villanova University): 'RM KLH: A nation of ARAM?
Dr. Jorunn J. Buckley (USA): Mandaeans in the USA today: the tenacity of traditions.
Miscellaneous: Dr. Shimon Dar & Dr. Rivka Gersht (Bar-Ilan University): A Roman cuirassed basalt torso from Khirbet-Beida.
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Contents of Volume 8 (No.1), 1996 (Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of ARAM: Trade Routes in the Near East: Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Times - Oxford University):

Dr. Hamad M. Bin Seray (United Arab Emirates University): Spasinu Charax and its commercial Relations with the East through the Arabian Gulf.
Prof. John Carswell (Islamic Department-London): All at Sea: Recent Research in the Indian Ocean.
Drs. Lucida Dirven (University of Leiden): A possible trade connection between Dura- Europos and Palmyra.
Dr. J. M. Frayn (University of London): Aspects of Trade on the Judaean Coast in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Dr. John F. Healey (University of Manchester): Palmyra and the Arabian Gulf trade.
Prof. Michael Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw): The Euphrates Route between Syria and Mesopotamia.
Dr. Amos Kloner (Israel Antiquities Authority): Stepped Roads in Roman Palestine.
Dr. Marlia Mundell Mango (University of Oxford): Byzantine Trade with the East.
Dr. Mohammed Maraqten (Marburg/Lahn University- Germany): Dangerous Trade Routes: On the Plundering of Caravans in the Ancient Near East.
Dr. Gerald Mattingly (Johnson Bible College-USA): The King's Highway, the Desert Highway, and Central Jordan's Kerak.
Dr. Leo Mildenberg (University of Zurich): Petra on the Frankincense Road? - Again.
Prof. Avraham Negev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Oboda - A Major Nabataean Caravan Halt.
Dr. Sarit H. Oked (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Patterns of the Transport Amphora at Ostrakine during the 6th and 7th Century.
Dr. Andrew Palmer (University of London): The Routes of Pilgrims to Jerusalem.
Dr. Mohammad A. R. Al-Thenayian (King Saud University-Riyadh): The Yemeni Highland Pilgrim Route between San'a and Mecca.
Dr. Aloïs van Tongerloo (University of Leuven): The Three Magi wandering Eastward.
Dr. Donald Whitcomb (Chicago University): The Darb Zubayda: An Abbasid trade route and its settlements across Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Fawzi Zeyadine (Department of Antiquities-Amman): The Spices and Silk Routes in Transjordan in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Prof. Nicola A. Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): External Trade of Bilad al-Sham under the Early Abbasids.
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Contents of Volume 8 (No.2), 1996 (Proceedings of ARAM Ninth International Conference: Cultural Interchange in the Arabian Peninsula - Oxford University)

Prof. Vitaly Naumkin & Prof. Victor Porkhomovsky (Moscow University): Scotran oral tradition and cross-cultural contacts.
Dr. Mohammad Maraqten (Philipps-Universität - Marburg/Lahn): Mari and Arabia: Some Aspects of Tribal Organisation and Social Institutions.
Dr. Ahmad Shboul (Sydney University): Aspects of Socio-cultural change and continuity in the Hijaz and its contacts with Syria in the early Islamic period.
Dr. Amin T. Tibi (Oxford): Relations between Arabia and East Africa - as depicted in three documents.
Dr. William D. Glanzman (University of British Columbia): South Arabia's International Commerce (3rd century BC - 3rd century AD)": A Re-assesment of the Evidence.
Dr. Beatrice Nicolini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan): The Source of Spice: Europe, Oman and Zanzibar during the XIX Century.
Dr. Christian Robin (Maison de la Méditerranée, Dr. Joëlle Beaucamp (Université de Provence), Dr. Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Collège de France): La persécution des Chrétiens de Najraµn et la chronologie himyarite.
Dr. Hamad M. Bin Seray (United Arab Emirates University): Christianity in East Arabia.
Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University): Isaac the Syrian and other ascetics from Qatar.
Dr. Andrey Korotayev (Moscow University): 'Aramaeans' in a late Sabaic inscription.
Dr. Serguei A. Frantsouzoff (St. Petersburg University): A gezeµrah-decree from ancient South Arabia (new approach to the interpretation of MAFRAY-H|as\iµ 1)
Dr. Marek Baranski (Warsaw University): The adoption of the Arch structure in the Architecture of the Arabian Peninsula.
Mr. Uzi Avner (Israel Antiquities Authority): The Nabataeans standing stones and their interpretations.
Dr. Robert Wenning (Münster): Petra and Hegra: What makes the difference?
Mr. Laurent Tholbecq (IFAPO): Le temple nabatéen du Wadi Ramm et son environnemnt culturel: à propos de recherches récentes.
Dr. Fawzi Zayadine (Jordanian Department of Antiquities) & Mrs. Saba Fares (IFAPO): The Arabian tribes of Wadi Iram (Jordan).
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Contents of Volume 9, 1997 (Proceedings of ARAM Ninth International Conference: The Mamluks in Bilad al-Sham: History and Archaeology - American University of Beirut/ Under the Patronage of H.E. Mr. Rafiq Al-Hariri, the President of the Lebanese Council of Ministers)

Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): The Mamluks in the Balance.
Prof. Ahmad Hoteit (Université Libanaise): Les expéditions Mameloukes du centre du Mont-Liban: Répercussions sur la répartition des habitants.
Prof. Elias Kattar (Université Libanaise): La géographie de la population et relations entre les groupes au Liban à l'époque des Mamelouks Circassiens.
Dr. Erica Cruikshank Dodd (Canada): Christian Arab Painters under the Mamluks.
Dr. Lucy-Anne Hunt (University of Birmingham): The production of illustrated manuscripts by Chrisitans 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.
Prof. Dr. Heinz Grotzfeld (Münster Universität): Contes populaires de l'époque des Mameloukes dans les Mille et Une Nuits.
Mr. Sabri Jarrar (Oxford University): Suq al-Ma'rifa (market of knowledge), a Hanbalite shrine in al-Haram al-Sharif.
Mr. Sami al-Masri (American University of Beirut): Medieval pottery from Beirut's Downtown excavations: the first results.
Dr. Eveline J. van der Steen (University of Leiden): What happened to Arabic Geometric in Beirut?
Mr. Albrecht Fuess (University of Cologne): Beirut during the Mamluk Era.
Prof. Omar Tadmury (Université Libanaise): The Mamluk Architecture of Tripoli al-Sham.
Mr. Marcus Milwright (Oxford University): The cup of the saµqiµ: origins of an emblem of the Khaµssakiyya.
Dr. Lutz Wiederhold (University of Halle): Legal-Religious elite and temporal authority in Mamluk society: a "Zahiri revolt" in Damscus in 1386.
Prof. Suad al-Hakim (Université Libanaise): Le soufism et son message culturel durant la période des Mameloukes.
Dr. Alan Walmsley (University of Sydney): Village Life in Mamluk Jordan: Views of the Jordan Valley from Fahl (Pella).
Dr. 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, Ms. Chantell Hope (BIAAH- Amman): Archaeology from Khirbet Faris (Jordan): The Mamluk evidence.
Dr. Margreet Steiner (University of Leiden): The Excavations at Tell Abu Sarbut - a Mamluk village in the Jordan Valley.
Dr. Sarab al-Atassi (Institut Français d'Études Arabes): Damas, une cité mamelukienne.
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.
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Contents of Volume 10 (Nos. 1 & 2), 1998 (Proceedings of ARAM Tenth International Conference: The Early Ottoman in Bilad al-Sham (16th and 17th centuries): History and Archaeology - American University of Beirut)

Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): Ottomans occupation of Bilad Bilad al- Sham and its immediate results (introductory remarks).
Prof. Linda T. Darling (University of Arizona): The Syrian provinces in Ottoman eyes: three historians’ representations of Bilad al-Sham.
Prof. Dr. Wolf Hütteroth (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): Northeastern Syria and Adjoining Parts of Iraq and Turkey under Early Ottoman Rule (16th Century)
Prof. Rifaat Ebied (University of Sydney): An unknown poem on the siege of Aleppo and the violent events of A.H. 1065-66/ A.D. 1654-55.
Dr. Otfried Weintritt (Albert-Ludwig University/Freiburg): Tarikh Abd al-Qadir: biography as historiography in an early 17th century chronicle from Syria.
Dr. Hasan R. Badawi (Lebanese University): The Mosques of Sidon in the early ottoman period (16th-17th centuries).
Dr. Boutros Labaki (Université Libanaise): L’histoire économique de la principauté ma‘anaïte.
Dr. Issam Khalifeh (Université Libanaise): Les les moulins, les pressoirs d’huile et de raisin et les roues à soie dans les nawahi du nord du Liban au XVIme siècle.
Dr. Joseph Rahme (Michigan University): Some socio-economic observations on relationship between the Mountain and the Coast in early 17th century Ottoman Syria.
Mr. Stefan Weber (German Institute-Damascus): The creation of Ottoman Damascus: architecture and urban development of Damascus in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Dr. Omar A. Tadmori (Lebanese University): The plans of Tripoli al-Sham and its Mamluk architecture.
Drs. Hind el’Soufi-Assaf (Université Libanaise): Des vestiges paléo-ottomans de Tripoli, la Tekiyah al-Mawlawiyyah.
Dr. Robert Schick (Albright Institute): The Archaeology of Palestine/Jordan in the early Ottoman period.
Dr. Carsten-Michael Walbiner (German Institute-Beirut): Bishops and Metropolitans of the Antiochian Patriarchate in the 17th century. Their relations to the Muslim authorities, their activities and their ethnic background.
Drs. Souad Slim (Balamand University): The situation of Waqf between ‘Timar’ system and ‘Iltizam’.
Miscellaneous:
Dr. Stefan Heidemann (Friedrich-Schiller Universität/Germany): A new ruler of the Marwanid emirate in 401/1010, and further considerations of the legitimizing power of regicide.
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Contents of Volume 11 (No. 1), 1999 (Proceedings of ARAM Eleventh International Conference: Cultural Interchange in the East of the Arabian Peninsula - Oxford University)

Prof. John Healey (Manchester University) & Dr. Hamad Bin Seray (U.A.E. University): Aramaic in the Gulf: towards a corpus.
Dr. Christian Robin (Maison de la Méditerranée), Dr. Joëlle Beaucamp (Université de Provence), Dr. Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet (Collège de France): La persécution des Chrétiens de Najran et la chronologie himyarite.
Dr. Sebastian Brock (Oxford University): From Qatar to Tokyo, by way of Mar Saba: the translations of Isaac of Niniveh’s writings.
Mr. Uzi Avner (Israel Antiquities Authority): Nabataean standing stones and their interpretation.
Dr. Marek Baranski (Warsaw University): The adoption of the arch structure in the architecture of the Arabian peninsula.
Prof. Paolo M. Costa (University of Bologna): The ancient Jewish community of Sohar (Oman).
Prof. Valeria Piacentini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart-Milan): Merchant families in the Gulf. A mercantile and cosmopolitan dimension: the written evidence (11-13 centuries AD).
Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): Trade and travel in the Arabian Gulf in the Middle Ages.
Dr. Beatrice Nicolini (Catholic Universiyt of the Sacred Heart-Milan): Sa‘id bin Sultan of the Al Bu Sa‘idi of Oman (1806-1856) and his relationship with Europe.
Dr. Bruce Ingham (University of London): The bedouins of Qatar in the light of cultural interaction.
Dr. Salma Samar Damluji (United Arab Emirates University ): Vernacular architecture in the cities of Oman and the United Arab Emirates.
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Contents of Volume 11 (No. 2), 1999 (Proceedings of ARAM Fourteenth International Conference: Antioch and Edessa - Oxford University)

Dr. Daphna V. Arbel (University of British Columbia): Junction of tradition in Edessa: possible interaction between Mesopotamian mythological and Jewish mystical traditions in the first centuries CE
Mr. Alain Desreumaux (Paris): Nouvelles inscriptions araméennes édesséniennes en Osrhoène.
Prof. Catherine Saliou (Paris): Mythes et récits de fondation d’Antioche.
Dr. Grégoire Poccardi & Mr. Jacques Leblanc (Université de Nanterre): Nouvelles recherches sur la ville d’Antioche et ses faubourgs: le stade olympique de Daphné.
Dr. Serguei A. Frantsouzoff (University of Petersburg): Antioch in South Arabian tradition and in Medieval Ethiopian literature.
Dr. Hans Erbes (University of Uppsala): The Syro-Hexapla readings in relation to the Peshitta variants and related versional readings in Joshua 1-5.
Dr. Witold Witakowski (University of Upsala): The Antiochene continuation of Eusebius’ chronicle in Syriac.
Dr. Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford): The Impact of Hellenism on Syriac: Greek loanwords in the writings of two authors of Edessa, Ephrem & Narsai.
Dr. Erica C.D. Hunter (Cambridge University): The transmission of Greek scientific knowledge: Cambridge ms. Mm. 6.29.
Dr. Shafiq AbouZayd (University of Oxford): The untamed violence of Syrian ascetics: a study of the problem of violence and killing in the Liber Graduum.
Prof. Michel van Esbroeck (University of Munich): Peter the Fuller and Cyrus of Edessa.
Mr. Frédéric Alpi (France): Antioche selon les ‘Homélies Cathédrales’ de Sévère (512- 518): pastorale et société.
Prof. Nicola Ziadeh (American University of Beirut): Dawood al-Antaki (David of Antioch) in Arab history.
Dr. Carsten-Michael Walbiner (Orient-Institut, Beirut): The city of Antioch in the writings of Macatius ibn Azza‘im (17th century).
Dr. Nikolaj Serikoff (Wellcome Institute): Patriarch Gregory al-Haddad and his gift to Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia. (Concerning the Christian Arabic MSS preserved in the St-Petersburg Institute of the Oriental Studies).
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Contents of Volume 12, 2000 (Proceedings of ARAM Thirteenth International Conference: The Mandaeans - Harvard University)

Dr. Nathaniel Deutsch (Swarthmore College): The palm tree and the wellspring: Mandaeism and Jewish mysticism.
Dr. Roberto Sánchez Vanlencia (Univeristy of Iberoamericana, Mexico): An approach to the identity of ‘Adversarius legis et prophetarium’ by St. Augustine.
Dr. Fabrizio Pennacchietti (University of Torino): An Arabo-Islamic tale in agreement with the Mandaean belief that John the Baptist got married.
Mr. James Tabor (University of North Carolina): John as Saviour of the world: some pro-John the Baptist readings in medieval Shem-Tob’s Hebrew Mathew and their New Testament provenance.
Dr. Francesca Rochberg (University of California at Riverside): Babylonian celestial divination and astrology in the Mandaean Book of the Zodiac.
Dr. Erica Hunter (University of Cambridge): Mandaean bowls in the British Museum.
Dr. Mikhail Tarelko (Belarusian State University, Minsk): A magical scroll in the Drower collection.
Dr. Edwin M. Yamauchi (Miami University): Mandaic incantation texts: lead rolls and magic bowls.
Dr. Sinasi Gündüz (University of Ondokuz Mayis, Turkey): Problems on the Muslim understanding of the Mandaeans.
Dr. Jorunn J. Buckley (Bowdoin College): The use of colophons and scribal postscripts in envisioning Manadaean history.
Dr. Edmondo F. Lupieri, (University of Udine, Italy): On the history of early contacts between Mandaeans and Europeans.
Miss. Roberta Broghero (University of Torino): A 17th century glossary of Mandaic.
Mrs. Margaret Hackforth-Jones (England): The life of Lady E.S. Drower.
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Contents of Volume 13, 2001 (Proceedings of ARAM Twelfth International Conference: Beirut: History and Archaeology - American University of Beirut)

Dr. J.P. Thalmann (Université de Sorbonne): The Bronze Age on the Syro-Lebanese coast (Tell ‘Arqa and Beirut).
Dr. Leila Badre (American University of Beirut): The Bronze Age of Beirut: Major results.
Dr. Michel Al-Maqdissi (IFAPO-Damas): Les données récentes sur l’Âge du Bronze ancien dans la plaine de Jablé (côte syrienne).
Dr. Uwe Finkbeiner (University of Tübingen): The Iron Age fortification and city gate: new evidence.
Mrs. Françoise Chaput (University of Tübingen): Un cimetière de chiens de l’époque perse à Beyrouth
Dr. Hans Curvers (University of Amsterdam): The lower town of pre-classical Beirut.
Dr. Hussein Sayegh (Lebanese University): Persian period settlement: the architecture.
Dr. John W. Hayes (University of Oxford): Aspects of Hellenistic/Roman pottery (finds from site Bey 004 and their connections).
Ms. Catherine Aubert (IFAPO-Beirut): Architecture hellénistique et peinture murale à Beyrouth.
Ms. Barbara Stuart: Hellenistic cemeteries.
Mr. Tim Williams and Mr. Dominic Perring (University of York): Classical Beirut: themes of urban continuity and change: Hellenistic to Byzantine Beirut.
Dr. Linda Jones Hall (St Mary’s College of Maryland): Beirut through the Classical texts: From Colonia to Civitas.
Prof. Pascal Arnaud (Université de Nice- Sophia Antipolis): Beirut commerce and trade: late Hellenistic to Byzantine times.
Dr. Ulrike Outschar (Austrian Academy of Science): Amphorae Peacock Class 45 (micacous water jars) and their trade in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Dr. Henry I. MacAdam (Princeton University): The Roman Law School of Beirut.
Dr. Kevin Butcher (American University of Beirut): Coin circulation in Roman Beirut: the Assemblages from BEY 006 and 045.
Prof. Michael F. Davie (Université de Tours): Beirut’s water supply.
Mr. Reuben Thorpe (A.C.R.E.): The imperial thermae of BEY 045 and observations on the topography of Roman Beirut.
Ms. Sarah Jennings (English Heritage): From Roman to modern glass.
Drs. Noor Mulder-Hijmans (University of Maastricht): Egg shell oil lamps from the Roman souk of Bey 011.
Ms. Rima Mikati (American University of Beirut): The spatial, functional and chronological aspects of lamp studies; the Roman Bath Lamps, BEY 045
Drs. Lidewgde de Jong (University of Amsterdam): The Roman burial practices in Beirut.
Dr. Frederic Alpi (IFAPO): Beyrouth byzantine et proto-islamique: continuité et ruptures (Ve-VIIIe s.)
Dr. Paul Reynolds (American University of Beirut): Pottery in Beirut: Economic trends in the 6th-7th centuries A.D.
Dr. Muntaha Saghieh-Beydoun (Lebanese University): The stratigraphy and architecture of sector BEY 004.
Dr. John Meloy (American University of Beirut): Beirut’s political and economics status in the Islamic periods.
Dr. Margreet Steiner (University of Leiden): The results of the excavations at BEY 011: the Hellenistic and Byzantine souk.
Dr. Donald Whitcomb (University of Chicago): Islamic pottery production and trade.
Dr. Hussein Sayegh (Lebanese University): Medieval pottery production.
Mr. Stefan Weber (German Institute, Damascus): Similarities and differences between Beirut and Damascus: Ottoman architecture.
Ms. Eveline van der Steen (University of Leiden): Mamluk and Ottoman pottery.
Ms. Patricia Antaki (American University of Beirut): The Crusader castle of Beirut.
Mr. Ussamah Kabbani (Solidere-Beirut): Preservation and restoration of historical buildings (Solidere).
Dr. Helga Seeden (American University of Beirut): Dialoguing with the past: Will Beirut’s past still speak to the future?
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