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Muhammad Abbas, Ahmed Bin Yousef, and Ahmad AbulJobain, all from the United Association for Studies and Research (Washington, DC), presented "Muslim Social Scientists and Western Theory/ "The Islamic Revival and Western Denial," and "Media Agenda Strategy: Chasing a Fundamentalist Chimera," respectively.
M. Ali (University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC), "Islamist Movements in the Arab World: The Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor" by Greg Noakes (Advertising Director, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), "The Cultural and Political Divide between the United States and the Muslim ' World# by Ambassador Andrew Killgore (Publisher, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), and "Strategy for a Muslim Response to Their Coverage in American Media" by Robert Hurd (Information Services Department, AMIDEAST, Washington, DC).
Mumtaz Ahmad (Hampton University, Hampton, VA) discussed different strands of thinking in contemporary Islamic thought as classified by western scholarship-orthodoxy ( or traditionalism), modernism, and reform-ism (or fundamentalism)-and noted that "fundamentalism," when used with hostile political connotations, as has often happened since 1979, is strongly disliked by Muslims.
The seventh session consisted of "Acculturation of Muslims by the Western Media," chaired by Sulayman Nyang, "Issues and Models in IsJamie Economics," chaired by Mohieldin Attia (IIIT), and "Women in Islam: Past and Present," moderated by Afeefa Syeed (University of Maryland, College Parle, MD).
The "Women in Islam" panel featured Mary Ali (American Islamic College, Chicago, IL) and Sheema Khan (McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada), who spoke on Muslim women.
The Islamization panel featured Muhammad Akhtar (Slippery Rock State University, Slippery Rock, PA), who spoke on the two-way dynamic process involved in the Islamization of sciences.