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Al Akhawayn University Programs have been accredited by:

SHSS School Research on-line

1. Dr. Michael Peyron
2. Dr. Tomaz Carlos Flores Jacques
3. Dr. Eric Ross
4. Dr. Jack Kalpakian
5. Dr. John Shoup
6. Dr. Brahim Boussouab
7. Dr. M. Bouzidi
8. Dr. Said Ennahid
9. Dr. James Sater
10. Dr. Connell Monette

Dr. M. Bouzidi
Recent Completed Research:

1. " The Integration of Population and Reproductive Health in the African Union's Development programs".  Research commissioned by the African Union and presented to the Conference of the Ministers of Health of the African Union (Botswana: AU  September 2005)
2. " Donor Trends in International Health."  Annual Conference of the American Health Association. (Washington D.C.: APHA. November 2004).
3. “On the Eve of Cairo + 10: Achievements and Challenges.”  Conference on International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development. Berlin: Scherring, 2004
4. “Towards Cairo + 10: Achievements, unfinished business and new challenges.”  The 5th Asian and Pacific Population Conference.” (co-author: S. Sinding ).  Bangkok: UN/ESCAP, 2004
5. "The International Conference on Population and Development's Program of Action: Unfinished Business and Future Challenges."  Conference of the United Nations Commission for Asia and the Pacific. (Bangkok: UN. 2003)
6. “Management Terms: A pocket Glossary in Arabic, English and French.” (co-authors: J. Miller and J. Bahaman), Boston: Management Sciences for Health, 1998. 

Research in Progress (working titles):

1. "Foreign Development Assistance and the Millennium Development Goals, with Specific Emphasis on Morocc "
2. "Towards a Management Information System for Social Development Programs"

Dr. Michael Peyron
Book Projects        

1. The Amazigh Studies Reader, (2006), AUI Press Publication
2. zzi tazizawt ar tawada tzizawt ('From Tazizaout battle to Green March'), the third volume in a trilogy on Middle-Atlas Amazigh poetry.
3. Hills of Defiance, a history of the Moroccan Atlas Berbers from the earliest times to the present day (in the press).
4. Proceedings of 2005 and 2006 Amazigh Day conferences (in the press).
5. English translation (chartered by AUI) of Les Chants de la Tassaout (already finished but still looking for a publisher).

 Field-Work

1. Collecting oral material on 1932-1933 memorial sites (Tazizaout, Baddou, Kousser, etc.) in the Atlas Mountains
2. Monitoring various on-going aspects of Moroccan mountain tourism (cf. Michael Peyron's working papers (in English and French) at: http://www.aui.ma/VPAA/shss/mpeyron.htm

Dr. Tomaz Carlos Flores Jacques
Research in Progress (working title):
Dialogues with African Philosophy
Abstract:                    
The purpose of the proposed research is to critically evaluate African Philosophy and its broader implications for Philosophy.  Two questions will structure the research.  First, what is the nature of the knowledge that African philosophers have defended as specific to Africa? And secondly, how is this African knowledge itself known by the contemporary African philosopher?  The answers to these questions will offer a basis for both understanding and engaging critically with African philosophy and also provide the foundation for a postcolonial critique of Modern European and Eurocentric philosophy. 

Dr. Eric Ross
Research in Progress (working titles):

1. On-going independent research on Muslim towns in Senegal.
2. Short encyclopedia entries on a number of Senegalese and Moroccan cities for The City and Urban Life, a three-volume history of cities of the world. Edited by Jan Rogozinski (M. E. Sharpe, publisher).
3. Short encyclopedia entries on a variety of historiographic topics and cities for The New Encyclopedia of Africa, Second Edition. Edited by Ken Wachsberger (Charles Scribner’s Sons, publishers).
4. Writing of a general readership book on Senegal (Culture and Customs of Senegal, Greenwood/Heineman, publisher).
5. Participation in an edited volume on the trans-Saharan trade book trade. Edited by Graziano Krätli (Yale) and Ghislaine Lydon (UCLA) (Brill, publisher).
6. Continuing invited participation in Judaic Threads in the African Tapestry and African Crossroads, research on art, design and craftsmanship being conducted by Labelle Prussin, professor emeritus.

For more info. see: http://www.aui.ma/~E.Ross/  (website soon to be updated)

Dr. Jack Kalpakian
Recent Completed Research:

1. Research into the SPLA for the SAIIA completed, paper submitted to SAIIA.
2. Research into Ibn Khaldun and International Relations completed, paper submitted to AIMS.
3. Research on the Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission completed, article planned within a year.
4. Research and book chapter on the relationship between the US and the Arab League completed and submitted to the editor, Thomas Lansford.
5. Research into the role of Islam in the Moroccan state: submitted to the Journl of Church and State.

Research in Progress (working titles):

1. The United States and Lebanon, Ashgate Publishers, Hampshire, United Kingdom, forthcoming.

           
Dr. John Shoup
Research in Progress (working titles):

1. The socio-economic conditions in the Tafilalt Oasis
2. Hassani Arab culture in Mauritania - Ma'alimin and Iggawin social classes
3. Short encyclopaedia entries on cities in Egypt, Morocco, and Mauritania for The City and Urban Life, a three volume history of cities. Edited by Jan Rogozinski (M.E. Sharpe, publisher)
4. Co-author and co-editor of Encyclopaedia of Life in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (Greenwood/Heineman, publisher)
5. A general readership book on Syria Culture and Customs of Syria (Greenwood/Heineman publisher)
6. Chapter on the material culture of the book among Hassani Arabs for a new volume on trans-Saharan trade. Edited by Graziano Krätli (Yale) and Ghislane Lydon (UCLA) (Brill publisher)
7. Assisting Dr. Labelle Prussin (professor emeritus) with her work on African Crossroads; research on designs, art, architecture in the Sahara

Dr. Brahim Boussouab
Recent Completed Research:
B. Boussouab, 2005 
Methods in Teaching Arabic to Speakers of other Languages: The case of France and the United States, AUI Publication.
B. Boussouab, 2005,
Islamic Methods in Teaching Arabic in Saudi Arabia
Research in Progress (working titles):
Developing an Illiteracy Education Program in Morocco (with Dr. Kevin Smith, AUI)
Publication of two books with DVD.
Developing new research in Arabic Applied Linguistics in Morocco; research
Arabic Language/Translation (English/French to Arabic): Course/Teaching Development

Dr. Said Ennahid
Recent Completed Research:
Publication
Journal Articles/Chapter in Edited Books/Encyclopedia Entries

1.  “The Cities of the Almohad Empire”, “Almohad Mechanical Innovations”, In World History Encyclopedia, A. J. Andrea, General Editor, ABC-CLIO, Inc. Publishers, California (Forthcoming)
2. Chemical Analyses of Pottery and Clays from the Islamic City of al-Basra and Its Hinterland in Northern Morocco (co-authors: Nancy L. BENCO, M. James BLACKMAN, Michael D. GLASCOCK, Hector NEFF and Robert J. SPEAKMAN).  In Proceedings of the VIII Congreso Internacional deCerámica Medieval en el Mediterráneo, Ciudad Real, Spain         (forthcoming)
3. Information and Communication Technologies for the Preservation and Valorization of Documentary Heritage in Morocco.  In The Trans-Saharan Book Trade, edited by Graziano Krätli, Brill , Leiden (forthcoming)
4. The Archaeology of Space in Moroccan Oral Tradition: The Case of Malhun Poetry.  In Quaderni di Studi Arabi (Forthcoming)
5. “Fez”, “Marrakech”, “Larache (Lixus)”, “Miknas”, “Moulay Idriss”, and “Volubilis” in The City and Urban Life, edited by Jan Rogozinski, M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Publisher, New York

Research in Progress (working titles):

1. Virtual Art Gallery for Moroccan Contemporary Art(Co-PIs: Abid Mohamed Reduan, School of Science and Engineering, Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane)
2. Information and Communication Technologies for the Study and Valorization of Documentary Heritage: A Program for the Digitization and Electronic Cataloguing of Selected Ancient Manuscripts in Morocco

See: www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/collaborations/al_musharaka/speakers_bureau__1/said_ennahid

Dr. James Sater
Recent Completed Research

1. 2007 Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco, London and New York: Routledge.
2. 2007 Changing Politics from Below? Women Parliamentarians in Morocco’ in Democratization (Vol. 14, No. 4, 723-742)
3. 2006 Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges, by Marvine Howe, Oxford, UK and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, in Middle East Journal, Vol 60, No. 2, Spring.
4. 2004, Human Rights in Moroccan Politics, Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, Vol 8, No 1, pp. 275-295.
5. Spring 2003, Morocco after the parliamentary elections 2002, Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 135-142
6. Autumn 2002, State and Civil Society in Morocco, Journal of North African Studies, Vol 7, No. 3, pp.
7. Autumn 2002, Civil Society, Political Change and the Private Sector in Morocco: The Case of the Employer's Federation CGEM, Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 13-29.101-118

Dr. Connell Monette

Recent Completed Research
1. The Medieval Hero: Christian and Muslim Traditions (Saarbrucken, VDM: 2008), forthcoming
2. ‘Folk Tradition in Morocco’ in Moroccan Arabic and Culture. Ed. Abdellah Chekayri (Georgetown: 2008), forthcoming.
3. ‘Hell and Heroes in Beowulf, the Shahnameh, and the Táin Bó Cúailnge’ in The Journal of Indo-European Studies36 (2008): 99-147.
4. ‘Indo-European Elements in Celtic and Indo-Iranian Epic Tradition: the Trial of Champions in the Táin Bó Cúailgne and the Shahnameh’, The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 32 (2004): 61-78.

Research in Progress (working titles):

1. The Hero in Medieval Islamic Tradition, in preparation for Summer 2009.
2. ‘Alexander: Examining a Popular Islamic Hero’ in preparation for Fall 2008.
3. ‘Moses as Hero in Islamic Tradition’ in preparation for Fall 2008.
4. On-going research in medieval European and Islamic literature; especially heroic tales.