July 1989, Page 50

TIE Exchange: Training, Information, & Education Exchange

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The National Council on US-Arab Relations moved to 1735 Eye St 515, Washington, D.C. 20006 on May 1.

Richard W. Murphy, former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, is now a senior fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations. Murphy, a career diplomat, joined the Foreign Service in 1955 and has been ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia.

Egypt has been readmitted to membership in the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries after a 10-year hiatus.

The Jewish Committee on the Middle East is sponsoring two trips to the occupied territories: June 29-July 10 and Aug. 10-21. Towns and camps throughout the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem will be visited. For information, contact Eileen Newmark, 42 Crescent St., Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 876-1824.

The Arab Cultural Association is sponsoring a four-week Petra Summer Program in Jordan beginning June 27. The program includes Arabic language study and tours to a number of historical sites. It is primarily designed for students interested in learning basic Arabic and becoming acquainted with Arab culture and Jordanian traditions. For information call the Washington Jordan Bureau at (202) 265-1606.

Sherif Samy, an Egyptian citizen, was one of five foreign nationals graduating from the US Naval Academy in the class of '89.

PUBLICATIONS

Middle East Patterns., Places, Peoples and Politics, by Colbert C. Held. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1989.

Garden of the Brave in War. Recollections: of Iran, by Terence O'Donnell. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

The Peacekeepers. An Assessment of Peacekeeping Operations at the Arab-Israel Interface, by John Mackinlay, King's College, London. Unwin Hyman, Winchester, MA, 1989.

Fragmentation in the Middle East The Last 30 Years, by Gorges Corm, Lebanese University, Beirut. Unwin Hyman, Winchester, MA 1988.

Arab Banking & Financial Handbook, 1988-89, Falcon Publishing, P.O. Box 5028, Manama, Bahrain, 1988. A comprehensive guide to Arab financial institutions

Iraq: Paramount Power of the Gulf?: Implications for Oil Consumers and Producers, Companies, Banks, and Governments, by Melvin A. Conant and John F. Devlin. Conant Associates Ltd., Washington, DC, 1988.

ADOPT A POT

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has launched an unusual fundraising program to help preserve one of the most important collections of Nile Valley ceramics anywhere in the world. For a donation of $50, one can "adopt a pot." Those interested in adopting a pot should write to: Friends of Egyptian Art, Adopt-a-Pot Program, c/o The Egyptian Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 02115.

EMPLOYMENT

The National Information Center of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior seeks the follow computer specialists: senior system programmer and data base administrator. Applicants for programmer must have at least five years experience in system programming in a computer environment that consists of CSTS Operating System Release 11, 1180 UNIVAC Hosts, NCR COMTEN C-2 0 and 3690 Communications Controllers, INFONET Communication System and Software and IMP as a TP monitor. The administrator will be responsible for a very large data base with multimillion records in an environment that consists of MANAGE as the DBMS, CSTS Operating System Release 11 on 1180 UNIVAC Hosts, DMLC as the data manipulation language and R2 and ALADIN as the data base query and reporting languages. Resumes should be sent to the Washington Post, Box M-8036, DC, 20071.

OBITUARIES

Ben Hill Brown, 75, a former ambassador to Liberia and former deputy assistant secretary of state, died May 25 at Georgetown University Hospital. Mr. Brown's assignments included serving as director of the ICA mission in Iraq, 1956-58; ICA mission director to Libya, 1959-60; and consul general in Istanbul, 1960-64.

ARCHAEOLOGY

Drawing on a government budget of $120 million and using carefully chosen matching stone, experts are setting out to restore Iraq's ancient religious and trading city of Hatra to its position as the loveliest monument of the Mesopotamian era. What makes 1,800-year-old Hatra different from such famed brick built sites as Babylon and Nineveh is its construction in honey-colored stone. Located 210 miles north of Baghdad, Hatra was the site of worship of numerous gods and idols in nine major temples and 13 smaller ones. The sanctuary area includes a Hellenistic temple, the best preserved structure of its kind in the Middle East, and statues dedicated to gods of every provenance and people Hatran, Mesopotamian, Roman, Greek, Persian and Arab.

CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND EXHIBITIONS

APS Conferences will hold their third annual conference, "Middle East Strategy to the Year 2002," at the Hilton Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus, Oct 3-5. This conference will focus on the energy, water and human resources of the Middle East, with emphasis on the implications of the environment, technology, global economics, finance, politics and defense. For information, contact: APS Conferences, APS House, P.O. Box 3896, Nicosia, Cyprus, Telex 3712 APS CY.

The National Foreign Trade Council, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Coalition for Employment Through Exports will sponsor a conference entitled "The Crisis in Trade Finance," June 20 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Washington, DC. The serious problems of the loss of US capital equipment exports because of a lack of competitive financing, reductions in Eximbank resources which are crippling official export credit programs, and the loss of US exports to foreign tied-aid credits will be addressed. For information, contact Barbara Summins, NFTC, (212) 867-5630.

The University of Maryland Office of Summer Programs, in cooperation with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, is sponsoring a free three-day "Cultures of Peace" distinguished speaker series in June and July. Program III, " Poetry and Images of Peace, " will be held July 9 at the Tawes Theater. Speakers will b ' e Dr. Kathleen Raine, poet and editor, and Dr. Francis Warner, poet and playwright. For information, contact the Office of Summer Programs, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

MEI GARDEN SERIES

The Middle East Institute's second annual Garden Series is underway in the MEI courtyard, which now features the 18th-century "Fountain of the Four Lions," which James Moose, a former US ambassador to Syria, brought to the US in the 1950s. Four July events, all at 6 pm, include: ". . . Of Damascus" July 5 (backgammon and Syrian coffee); "Seas" July 12 (Zoroastrian traditions); "Showers" July 19 (Hebrew ballads). For information, contact Mary Sebold, series chairperson, (202) 785-0196.

Material submitted by Exchange readers will be considered for publication as space and circumstance allow. "Facts & Figures" items from "old Middle East hands" are especially welcome. Editor: John T. Haldane. Write to TIE Exchange, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, P.O. Box 5 3 0 6 2, Washington, DC 20009, or call 202-939-6050 or, 1-800-368-5788.