American University of Beirut: A Guide to the Archaeological Collections in the University Museum. By Dorothy Mackay. Pp. 105, 16 pll. Beirut: 1951. P.L. 250.

1953 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 187-188
Author(s):  
J. H. Iliffe
Keyword(s):  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Notes on Contributors

Philosophy ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-490
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Doctoral Candidate ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The University

John R. SearleJohn R. Searle is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is author of many distinguished works on the philosophy of language and mind.Luke PurshouseTemporary Lecturer in Philosophy at St John's College Cambridge who has researched interests in accounts of emotions and their rational appraisal and has recently completed a doctoral dissertation on the subject.Christopher CordnerLecturer in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His book Ethical Encounter will soon be published by Palgrave.Thom BrooksRecently received his MA from University College Dublin. He is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Sheffield. His dissertation is on Hegel's political philosophy.Roberto CasatiA researcher at the Nicod Institut of CNRS, Paris. His most recent works are The Discovery of the Shadow (Little Brown/Knopf) and Parts and Places (MIT Press, with Achille C. Varzi).Achille C. VarziAssociate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His most recent works are An Essay in Universal Semantics (Kluwer) and Parts and Places (MIT Press, with Roberto Casati). Jeremy Randel KoonsAssistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut. His primary research interests are in ethical theory and epistemology. His article ‘Do Normative Facts Need to Explain?’ recently appeared in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.Hilary W. PutnamCogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. His books include Reason, Truth and History, Realism with a Human Face, Words and Life, Pragmatism and The Threefold Cord: Body and World.Graham OppyAssociate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. His research interests lie in philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is the author of Ontological Arguments and Belief in God (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

scholarly journals Farhat J. Ziadeh 1917–2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-239
Author(s):  
Nicholas Heer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
American University ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Distinguished Scholar ◽  
The University

Farhat Jacob Ziadeh, founder and first chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington, and a distinguished scholar in the field of Islamic law, writer, teacher, and administrator, died on 8 June 2016 at the age of ninety-nine. Ziadeh was born on 8 April 1917 in Ramallah, Palestine where he received his early education. After graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1937, he studied law at the University of London, receiving an LL.B. degree in 1940. For the next eight years he worked as a lawyer and Arabic instructor in the United States, England, and Palestine. In 1948, he joined the Princeton University faculty as a lecturer in Arabic. The following year he married Suad Salem, who, like himself, was also from Ramallah. They raised five daughters: Shireen, Susan, Rhonda, Deena, and Reema. In 1950, Ziadeh began working with the Voice of America in New York as the editor of the Arabic desk. Since this was a full-time job, he could continue as a lecturer at Princeton only on a part-time basis. In 1954, however, Princeton offered him an assistant professorship, which he accepted. At Princeton, Ziadeh collaborated with the late R. Bayly Winder to write An Introduction to Modern Arabic (1957). It was during this period also that Ziadeh began to work on his translation of Ṣubḥī Maḥmaṣānī’s Falsafat al-Tashrīʿ fī al-Islām under the title, Mahmassani's Philosophy of Jurisprudence in Islam (1961).

Chinese Figurines in Mesoamerica

1955 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan F. de Borhegyi
Keyword(s):  
Recent Article ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
The Other ◽  
Guatemala City ◽  
Catalog Number ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Objects

In a recent article J. Alden Mason (1951) called attention to 2 small Chinese figurines found in local archaeological collections in Mesoamerica. One was from Azqueltan, Jalisco, Mexico and is now in the University Museum, Philadelphia (catalog number NA- 11808), and the other was in the Vitalino Robles collection of Quezaltenango, Guatemala. Both are of a soft stone and were described as “crawling infants.” While browsing through a collection of archaeological objects in an antique shop in Guatemala City I came across another small Chinese figurine similar in most respects to the ones described by Mason. The shop owner, unaware of the Oriental origin of this specimen, was sure that it must have come in with the other artifacts from Kaminaljuyu, a large archaeological site on the outskirts of the city. The figurine has been presented to the University Museum (catalog number 54-4-1).Like the Quezaltenango specimen (Mason 1951 Fig. 1, a), the stone figurine from Guatemala City is an opaque yellowish-amber color with reddish veins and has a very soft, soapy texture (Mohr scale 2.8).

scholarly journals Arda Arsenian Ekmekji: An Armenian-Lebanese Academician Recounts

1970 ◽  
pp. 71-73
Author(s):  
Myriam Sfeir
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
American University ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
University Of Paris ◽  
The University

Arda Ekmekji is an Armenian Lebanese scholar living in Beirut. Born in Jerusalem, Ekmekji lived in Jordan until 1968 after which she came to Lebanon to enroll in the American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a BA in Ancient History and an MA in Archaeology from the AUB. She also has a Ph.D. in Archeology from the University of Paris I (Sorbonne). Ekmekji served as a faculty member at AUB for around two decades teaching Cultural Studies, Ancient Religions and Civilizations as well as Archaeology. She then moved to Haigazian University in 1997. She began as Director of the Faculty of Humanities and since 1998 has served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Haigazian University.

scholarly journals Haig KHATCHADOURIAN

wisdom ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-138
Author(s):  
Hasmik HOVHANNISYAN
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
American University ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
The University

In 2016, the world of Philosophy lost a tremendous and tireless scholar with the passing of Professor Haig Khatchadourian. Haig Khatchadourian, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from the late 1960’s until 1994, was educated at the American University of Beirut (B.A. and M.A.) and at Duke University (Ph.D.). He also taught at the American University of Beirut (1948-49, 1956-68), Melkonian Educational Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus (1950-1951), Haigazian College, Beirut (1951-52), the University of Southern California (1968-69), and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa (1976-77) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque (1978-79). His areas of specialization included: Aesthetics and Philosophy of the Arts, Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Political Philosophy, and Social Philosophy, among others. He was a member of learned societies and presented papers at international conferences from 1958 to 2007. He participated in the Harvard International Seminar (summer, 1962) and was a Liberal Arts Fellow in Philosophy and Law at Harvard Law School (1982-3). He received numerous honors and awards, including Outstanding Educators of America Award, 2,000 Intellectuals of the 20th Century and 2,000 Outstanding Academics of the 21st Century. He published 19 books and at least 94 articles. His most recent book is How to Do Things with Silence.

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