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MEAS News!

Spring and summer courses 2005: Register for Courses in the Spring and Summer semester 2005. Click here for available courses.

 

Swahili 111/112 now offered. For Pdf printable version of Swahili flyer click here (requires Acrobat Reader Download here)

Report on Children and War Conference held at the University of Alberta April 2004

Undergraduate Research on Children and War:
Saarah Shivji
Anna Lund

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Congratulations to Award Winning  MEAS members. . .

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New** MEAS Courses for 2005-2006

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MEAS joins the new Office of Interdisciplinary Studies
in the Faculty of Arts
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MEAS Members Speak Out!

Articles By and About MEAS Members and MEAS invited guests...

Master of Islamic vocal arts to perform on campus   

Article on the visit by Shaykh Mohamed el-Helbawy 
- Scott Lingley Express News, March 16th 2005

Researcher Links AIDS to 'transactional sex'   

Article on a talk by Dr. Richard Lee, distinguished speaker  during the Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture series.
-Meghan Potkins; Gateway newspaper, March 11th 2005

The Taliban have fallen but trouble remains in Afghanistan   

By Dr. Saleem Qureshi
-Express News, Oct. 30th 2005

Ignorance at the Heart of "Clash of civilizations"   

By Saarah Shivji, MEAS Specialization
-Express News, Oct. 20th 2004.

"The Struggle for Social Justice in Zimbabwe"   

By Dr. Guy Thompson and Dr. Malinda Smith
-Express News, Oct. 8th 2004.

"Headscarf dilemma is still tangled in Politics"   

By Dr. Saleem Qureshi
-Express News, June 4th 2004.

"Is the boy with the belt the first of many to come?"

By Dr.. Saleem Qureshi
-Express News, April 2nd  2004.

"What Bush should know about Islam"

By Dr. Ann McDougall
-Expressnews April 4th 2003.

"A brief history of the Taliban"

By Dr.. Saleem Qureshi
-Express News
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"The View from the Middle East"

By Dr. Amal Ghazal
-September 28th 2001..

"Panel to tackle U.S. hatred in the Middle East"

By Dr.. Saleem Qureshi
-Express News, September 19th  2004.

"From Child Sacrifice to Christian Kitsch"

By Richard Cairney (Featuring  Dr. Ehud Ben Zvi).
-May 11th  2001.

 

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