April/May 1994, Page 113

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Pax World Services will hold its International Diplomacy Awards Dinner May 5 at the Capitol Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. The International Diplomacy

Award will be bestowed posthumously on the late Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst; recipients of the "Peacemakers of the Year" award are the Palestinian and Israeli peoples. For complete information contact Pax World Service, 1111 16th St. NW, Suite 120, Washington, DC 20036, phone (202) 293-7290, fax (202) 293-7023.

"Forces of Change: Women Artists of the Arab World," featuring the work of 70 contemporary artists from 15 countries, will remain on view through May 20 at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 783-5000.

"A Stitch Through Time: The Journey of an Islamic Embroidery Stitch to Europe and the New World," an exhibition of 38 textiles using the double-running stitch developed in Maniluk Egypt, will be on view May 27Oct. 16 at the Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW, Washington, DC 20008, (202) 667-0441.

Bir Zeit University will offer a six-week International Summer program comprising intensive Arabic and social sciences courses July 10-Aug. 2 1. Class fees total $750; university arranged housing is $250. For complete information contact International Programs, Bir Zeit University, P.O. Box 14, Bir Zeit, West Bank via Israel, fax 0 11-972-2-957656, phone 01 1-972-2-957650/l/2 ext. 257. Application deadline is May 1.

Awards

The General Secretariat of the King Faisal International Prize has announced the recipients of the 1994 Prizes: for Science (mathematics), Professor Dennis Parnell Sullivan, Albert Einstein professor of mathematics at the City University of New York and professor at the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France; for Medicine (medical applications of genetic engineering), Professor William French Anderson, professor of biochemistry and of pediatrics at the University of Southern California, and Professor Robert Williamson, chairman of the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics at St. Mary's School of Medicine in London; for Arabic Literature (studies dealing with ancient Arabic prose), Professor Aisha Abdul Rahman (Bint Al-Shati) of Egypt, professor of higher studies at AlQaraween University in Morocco, and Professor Wadad Afif Al-Kadi, a Lebanese-American professor of Arabic literature and chair of the department of Near Eastern linguistics and civilization at the University of Chicago; Islamic Studies (Islamic law) to Sheikh EI-Said Sabiq Mohammed Et-Tihami of Egypt, author and professor at Uni UI-Qura University in Mecca, and Professor Sheikh Yusuf Abdullah AlQaradhawi, dean of the faculty of Shari'a and Islamic studies at Qatar University; and, for service to Islam, His Eminence Sheikh Mohammed bin Saleh AlUthaimin, professor at Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh and member of the High Committee of the Ulama'a.

Deaths

Maj. Gen. Walter Morland Hutton, who served as chief of staff of Jordan's Arab Legion under Gen. Sir John Glubb, died March 12 at the age of 81 in London. After being dismissed by Jordan's King Hussein in 1956 amid great anti-British feeling in the country, he was based in Aden from 1957-59 as deputy commander of British forces on the Arabian Peninsula.

Field Marshal Abdullah A]-Salal, the first president of former North Yemen, died March 5, at the age of 74, of a heart attack in San'a. He led a 1962 rebellion which resulted in the establishment of North Yemen, and was credited with modernizing the country and its infrastructure. He remained in power with the backing of Egyptian troops until 1967, when he was ousted in a bloodless coup while on a visit to Iraq. He lived in exile in Egypt until the early 1980s, when he was invited to return home by President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Most recently he attempted to mediate the dispute between Saleh and Vice President Ali Salim Al-Beidh.

Fouad Efrain Boustani, a founder in 1953 and first president of the Lebanese University, died Feb.1 in Beirut of a heart attack at the age of 89. A Maronite Christian, he was an authority on Lebanese history, pre-Islamic Arab history and Arab poetry, and won awards for his work in education from his own government, the Vatican, France, Morocco, Tunisia and Iran.