Below is the provisional programme of the
forthcoming Symposium on the History of Printing & Publishing in the
Languages & Countries of the Middle East, held as part of the First
World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Mainz, September
2002.

        All interested persons are very welcome to attend, provided they are
registered with WOCMES. Registration may be done online at
http://www.wocmes.de

        The associated Exhibition "Middle Eastern Languages and the
Print Revolution: a Cross-Cultural Encounter" will open in the Gutenberg
Museum on 31 August 2002 and will close on 2 November 2002.

HISTORY OF PRINTING AND PUBLISHING IN THE LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES OF THE
MIDDLE EAST

SYMPOSIUM: 9-12 September 2002

GUTENBERG-MUSEUM, MAINZ, Germany

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Monday  9 September

[1000-1230  WOCMES Opening Session, University of Mainz]

1400-1430  Welcoming addresses:  Dr Eva Hanebutt-Benz
                (Gutenberg-Museum); Symposium conveners
1430-1500  Schaefer, Karl:  THE VAN MEEUWEN BLOCK PRINT
1500-1530  Milstein, Rachel: THIRTEENTH-CENTURY STAMPED DOCUMENTS
                FROM DAMASCUS

1600-1630  Ben-Zaken, Avner: FROM PRINT TO SCRIBE: PRINT CULTURE IN THE
                EARLY MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD
1630-1700  Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin & Aynur, Hatice: THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED
                AT BULAQ PRINTING HOUSE AND THE FORMAT OF THE TURKISH BOOK
1700-1730  Hsu, Cheng-Hsiang: A SURVEY OF ARABIC-CHARACTER PUBLICATIONS
                PRINTED IN EGYPT DURING THE PERIOD 1237-1267 (1822-1951)

Tuesday  10 September

0900-0930  Shcheglova, Olympiada P. (presented by Sergei Tourkine): THE
                REPERTOIRE OF BOOKS IN PERSIAN PUBLISHED
                LITHOGRAPHICALLY IN TURKESTAN DURING 1883-1917
0930-1000  de Jong, Frederick: LITHOGRAPHED PLATES FROM 19TH- AND EARLY
                20TH-CENTURY KAZAN: A FORM OF ISLAMIC ART IN
                THE MIDDLE VOLGA REGION
1000-1030  Marzolph, Ulrich:  TULLIP: A PROJECTED THESAURUS UNIVERSALIS
                LIBRI LITHOGRAPHICI ILLUSTRATI PERSORUM

1100-1130  Cavdar, Tuba:  MANUSCRIPT TRADITION REFLECTED IN OTTOMAN
                INCUNABLES
1130-1200  Kuran-Burcoglu, Nedret: OSMAN BEY: THE FIRST OTTOMAN SCRIBE
                TO GET LEGAL PERMISSION TO PRINT THE HOLY BOOK OF ISLAM
1200-1230  Neumann, Christoph K.: AFTER THE REVOLUTION: PUBLISHING AND
                DISCUSSING THE ARABIC SCRIPT IN TURKEY SINCE  1928

1330-1400  Ayalon, Ami: BEGINNINGS OF A PUBLISHING INDUSTRY IN PRE-1948
                PALESTINE
1400-1430  Wildangel, René:  ASCENT IN DIFFICULT YEARS : ARAB PALESTINIAN
                MEDIA IN BRITISH MANDATE PALESTINE, 1929-1945
1430-1500  Bashkin, Orit: WHY DID BAGHDAD JEWS STOP WRITING TO THEIR
                BRETHREN IN BERLIN? SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE JEWISH
                IRAQI PRINT CULTURE (1860-1936)

1530-1600  Zachs, Fruma: THE USE OF TEXT AND IMAGES TO DISTRIBUTE IDEAS
                OF IDENTITY: THE CASE OF AL-JINAN
1600-1630  Bagdadi, Nadia al-: EARLY PRINTING IN ALEPPO AND BEIRUT - AN
                INVESTIGATION INTO THE REASONS FOR AN UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT
1630-1700  Winkler, Stefan: ELEMENTS OF PUBLIC SPHERE IN AN OTTOMAN
                PROVINCIAL CAPITAL (ALEPPO, 1860-1900)

Wednesday  11 September

0930-1000  Roper, Geoffrey: ARABIC BOOKS PRINTED IN MALTA, 1826-42
1000-1030  Sharkey, Heather: CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES, COLLOQUIAL ARABIC
                PRINTING, AND THE EDUCATION OF THE BARELY LITERATE

1100-1130  Hill, Brad Sabin:  HEBREW `FORE-TITLES' OF LATIN BOOKS
1130-1200  Coakley, J.F.:  THE SYRIAC TYPES OF THE ROMAN MARONITE COLLEGE
1200-1230  Walbiner, Carsten: DIE HALTUNG DER ORIENTALISCHEN KIRCHEN ZUM
                FRÜHEN BUCHDRUCK (16.-18 . JAHRHUNDERT)

1330-1400  Pehlivanian, Meline: LA NAISSANCE DE L'IMPRIMERIE ARMENIENNE
                -- UNE HISTOIRE ENTRE OCCIDENT ET ORIENT
1400-1430  Ter-Oganov, Nugzar: TBILISI AS ONE OF THE PRINTING AND
                PUBLISHING CENTRES OF PERSIAN LANGUAGE LITERATURE
                IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
1430-1500  Hassanpour, Amir: PRINTING IN KURDISTAN: A CRITIQUE OF THE
                HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PRINT CULTURE

1530-1600  Razouk, Mohamed: L'IMPRESSION ARABE AU MAROC DURANT LE XIXe
                SIECLE
1600-1630  El-Moumni, Nadir: IMPRIMERIE MODERNE ET SPHERE PUBLIQUE: CAS
                DU MAROC

Thursday  12 September

0900-0930  Sadgrove, Philip: THE PRESS, ENGINE OF A MINI-RENAISSANCE,
                ZANZIBAR (1860-1920)
0930-1000  Czygan, Christiane:  FROM LONDON BACK TO ISTANBUL: THE CHANNEL
                OF COMMUNICATION OF THE YOUNG OTTOMAN
                JOURNAL HÜRRIYET (1868-70)
1000-1030  Cox, Debbie: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LOCATION IN THE EARLY
                DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMIGRE ARABIC PRESS IN LONDON, PARIS,
                AND NEW YORK

1100-1130  Shechter, Relli: PRESS ADVERTISING IN EGYPT: BUSINESS
                REALITIES AND LOCAL MEANING, 1890-1939
1130-1200  Temimi, Sonia: RÛZ AL-YÛSUF, 1925-1935: NAISSANCE D'UNE REVUE
1200-1230  AbiFares, Huda Smitshuijzen: ARABIC TYPOGRAPHY: CALL FOR A
                CULTURAL REBIRTH

1330-1400  Bezer,  Ian: HISTORY OF ARABIC TYPESETTING ON MONOTYPE
                EQUIPMENT
1400-1430  Mansour, Kamal: THE CHALLENGE OF ARABIC TYPE
1430-1500  Gabeyan, Hrant: CREATION, DEVELOPMENT  AND IMPLEMENTATION OF
                THE ARABIC FILMSETTING SOFTWARE

1530-1600  Atanasiu, Vlad: TYPE WITH STYLE!
1600-1630  Milo, Thomas:  HOW A CHANCE DISCOVERY INSPIRED THE
                DEVELOPMENT OF ARABIC TECHNOLOGY
1630-1700  Gouverneur, Faarid & Hörl, Hermann: ARABIC TYPOGRAPHY AT AN
                ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL
1700-1730   Closing session

                                                Geoffrey Roper

                                                Islamic Bibliography Unit
                                                Cambridge University Library

                                                (Symposium Convener)