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Symposium: History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East

Gutenberg-Museum, 9 - 12 September 2002 (Provisional Program)


Monday, 9 September
2:00pm-2:30pm Welcoming Addresses: Dr Eva Hanebutt-Benz (Gutenberg-Museum); Symposium Conveners
2:30pm-3:00pm Schaefer, Karl: The van Meeuwen Block Print
3:00pm-3:30pm Milstein, Rachel: Thirteenth-Century Stamped Documents from Damaskus
4:00pm-4:30pm Ben-Zaken, Avner: From Print to Scribe: Print Culture in the Early Modern Islamic World
4:30pm-5:00pm Ihsanoglu, Ekmeleddin & Aynur, Hatice: The First Book Printed at Bulaq Printing House and the Format of the Turkish Book
5:00pm-5:30pm Hsu, Cheng-Hsiang: A Survey of Arabic Character - Publications Printed in Egypt during the Period 1237-1267 (1822-1851)

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Tuesday, 10 September
9:00am-9:30am Shcheglova, Olympiada P. (presented by Sergei Tourkine): The Repertoire of Books in Persian Published in Turkestan during 1883-1917
9:30am-10:00am de Jong, Frederick: Lithographed Plates from 19th- and Early 20th-Century Kazan: A Form of Islamic Art in the Middle Volga Region
10:00am-10:30am Marzolph, Ulrich: Tullip: A Projected Thesaurus universalis libri lithographici illustrate persorum
11:00am-11:30am Kuran-Burcoglu, Nedret: Osman Bey: The First Ottoman Scribe to Get a Legal Permission to Print the Holy Book of the Islam
11:30am-12:00nn Czygan, Christiane: From London Back to Istanbul: The Channel of Communication of the Young Ottoman Journal Hürriyet (1868-70)
12:00nn-12:30pm Neumann, Christoph K.: After the Revolution: Publishing and Discussing the Arabic Script in Turkey since 1928
2:00pm-2:30pm Ayalon, Ami: Beginnings of a Publishing Industry in Pre-1948 Palestine
2:30pm-3:00pm Wildangel, René: Ascent in Difficult Years: Arab Palestinian Media in British Mandate Palestine, 1929-1945
3:00pm-3:30pm Bashkin, Orit: Why did Baghdad Jews Stop Writing to their Brethren in Berlin? Some Comments about the Jewish Iraqi Print Culture (1860-1936)
4:00pm-4:30pm al-Bagdadi, Nadia: Early Printing in Aleppo and Beirut - An Investigation into the Reasons for an Uneven Development
4:30pm-5:00pm Winkler, Stefan: Elements of Public Sphere in an Ottoman Provincial Capital (Aleppo, 1860-1900)

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Wednesday, 11 September
9:00am-9:30am Roper, Geoffrey: Arabic Books Printed in Malta, 1826-42
9:30am-10:00am Sharkey, Heather (presented by Knut Vikør): Christian Missinaries, Colloquial Arabic Printing, and the Education of the Barely Literate
10:00am-10:30am Zachs, Fruma: The Use of Text and Images to Distribute Ideas of Identity: The Case of Al-Jinan
11:00am-11:30am Hill, Brad Sabin: Hebrew `Fore-Titles' of Latin Books
11:30am-12:00nn Coakley, J. F.: The Syriac Types of the Roman Marconite College
12:00nn-12:30pm Walbiner, Carsten: Die Haltung der orientalischen Kirchen zum frühen Buchdruck (16. - 18. Jahrhundert)
2:00pm-2:30pm Pehlivanian, Meliné: La naissance de l'imprimerie Armenienne - une histoire entre Occident et Orient
2:30pm-3:00pm Ter-Oganov, Nugzar: Tbilisi as One of the Printing and Publishing Centres of Persian Language Literature in the Russian Empire
3:00pm-3:30pm Hassanpour, Amir: Printing in Kurdistan: A Critique of the Histography of Print Culture
4:00pm-4:30pm Razouk, Mohamed: L'Impression Arabe au Maroc durant le XIXe Siècle
4:30pm-5:00pm El-Moumni, Nadir: Imprimerie moderne et sphere publique: Cas du Maroc

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Thursday, 12 September
9:00am-9:30am Sadgrove, Philip: The Press, Engine of a Mini-Renaissance, Zansibar (1860-1920)
9:30am-10:00am Shechter, Relli: Press and Advertising in Egypt: Business Realities and Local Meaning, 1890-1939
10:00am-10:30am Temimi, Sonia: Une deroute salvatrice ou le "Gagne-Pain" de la presse: Rûz al-Yûsuf, 1925-1926
11:00am-11:30am Smitshuijzen AbiFares, Huda: Arabic Typography: Call for a Cultural Rebirth
11:30am-12:00nn Bezer, Ian: History of Arabic Typesetting on Monotype Equipment
12:00nn-12:30pm Mansour, Kamal: The Challenge of Arabic Type
12:30pm-1:00pm Gabeyan, Hrant: Creation, Development and Implementation of the Arabic Filmsetting Software
2:00pm-2:30pm Atanasiu, Vlad: Type with Style!
2:30pm-3:00pm Milo, Thomas: How a Chance Discovery Inspired the Development of Arabic Technology
3:00pm-3:30pm Gouverneur, Faarid & Hörl, Hermann: Arabic Typography at an Entirely New Level
4:00pm-4:30pm Closing Session
7:30pm   Informal Symposium Dinner
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