AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT, DECEMBER 10, 1970
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['rom left to right: Mrs. F. Sarruf, Dr. S. Kirkwood, Mrs. C. M.1Iek, Dr. J. Zaarour, Mr. S. Shammrls, Malek, Dr. N. Sadaka, Dr. G. H.tkim, Mrs. S. Kirkwood, and Dr. F. Sarruf.
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Syracuse University Press and the American University of Beirut have signed an agreement under which the press will act as distributor of AUB publications in North and South America. Syracuse University Press will advertise, publicize and sell the backlist as well as future publications of the University. During the past year, the Office of University Publications served individual orders for AUB books and professional publications directly from Beirut. A client in the U.S. had to wait between two and three months before he received his order. Following the new agreement it will take only one week to meet such orders. The first step Syracuse University Press will take to promote AUB publications is a publicity campaign covering book trade journals and centers of Middle Eastern studies.
Mailing Address The new winter mailing address of Daniel and Winifred R. Bliss is: Route 3, Box 438, Orlando, Florida 32811. Telephone (305) 299 - 4869. The summer address is: Georgetown, Maine 04548.
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Honor of Retiring Dr. Sarruf
Friends of Dr. Fuad Sarruf gave a dinner party in his honor at the Bristol Hotel on the occasion of his forma! retirement as VicePresident of the AUB. After Dr. George Hakim, vice president for public relations, had welcomed those present in the name of the committee organizing the party, Dr. Charles Malek reviewed activities in which he joined Dr. Sarruf since the time that the retiring vice president was working at the Muktataf magazine 111 Egypt while Dr. Malek was carrying scientific research there.
Syracuse-U Press To Distribute AUB Publications
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Dr. Najib Sadaka, secretary general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spoke about the important role being played by Dr. Sarruf with the UNESCO organization and the general appreciation of his work by Arab and foreign delegates. President Samuel Kirkwood followed and reviewed Dr. Sarruf's work for the university. Speaking for himself and his wife, Dr. Sarruf thanked the organizers of the party and all those who attended it.
Literary Meeting
University Commended for Scholarship. Dedication Over 150 delegates and specialists in the field of Anglo-Irish literature representing over twenty different countries were present at the first meeting of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish literature (IASAIl) which took place in Dublin, Ireland, during the last week of August, and which was attended by Dr. Suheil Badi Bushrui, Associate Professor of English at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Bushrui, who had served for two years on the Steering Committee entrusted with the task of calling the Association into being, was the only Anglo-Irish Scholar from the Near East, thus representing both the American University of Beirut and the Arab World at the Conference. Dr. Bushrui read two papers: "Translating Yeats into Arabic" and "Arab Historians and Ireland," and submitted a report on "Work done in the field of Anglo-Irish literature in the Arab World with specif ic reference to work done at the American University of Beirut." He also organized at the conference a display of the material included in Images and Memories: A Pictorial Record of the Life and Work of 'WB. Yeats (Catholic Press and U.P.c., 1970) a recent work designed by Zahi Khuri, Director of University Publications, and edited by Professors Suheil Bushrui and John Munro.
Dr. Sttheil Bushrui Complimentary copies of the book were presented to President Eamon De Valera, President of the Republic of Ireland, who received Dr. Bushrui at Government House and who expressed admiration for the work done at AUB. The meeting with the President was arranged by Sir Desmond Cochrane, Ireland's Representative in lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Professor Alexander Norman Jefferes, to whom the book was dedicated, remarked at the special presentation ceremony that the American University of Beirut was setting a high example of scholar-
ship and dedication and had become one of the most active centres of Anglo-Irish scholarship outside the 'Western hemisphere. Other meetings with the Under Secretary for the Ministry of External Affairs (Dublin) and the Chairman of Board Fail te (the Irish Tourist Board) were also arranged by Sir Desmond Cochrane. At these meetings, possibilities of cultural exchange and cooperation between Ireland and this part of the world were discussed. On the last day of the conference Dr. Bushrui was elected to serve on the International Executive Council (12 members) of the IASAIl and was also appointed by the Council as member of its International Committee for University Curricula and Research.
Bake Sole' to be Organized to Help Needy AUB Students I
The Community Welfare Committee will be holding a "Bake Sale" in aid of needy AUB students on Thursday and Friday, December 17 and 18, in West Hall. All contributions are welcome. Those interested will please contact Miss Hanan Musallam, Telephone 247112, or AUB Ext. 2565 and 2515.