The following is a provisional list of papers to be given at the Symposium, as of 31 January 2008.
Underlined titles provide links to the respective abstracts.
A more detailed programme will appear in April 2008

• Building cultural bridges : Arabic typography's role in contemporary visual culture of the Middle East
  • Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès      The Khatt Foundation,  The Netherlands
    
  
  
  
• A champion of printing quality in the Ottoman Turkish press of the Second Constitutional era: the journal Şehbal
  • Bora Ataman      Kocaeli University,  Turkey
    
  • Cem Pekman      Marmara University,  Turkey
    
  
  
  
• Center and periphery in Middle Eastern Arab publishing, 1850-1914
  • Ami Ayalon      Tel-Aviv University,  Israel
    
  
  
  
• Different scripts, same language : the Ottoman Empire in print in the 19th century
  • Günil Ayaydın Cebe      Bilkent University,  Turkey
    
  
  
  
• Publications of the Bulaq Press : a perspective and analytical study
  • Khaled Mohamed Azab      Bibliotheca Alexandrina,  Egypt
    
  
  
  
• Armeno-Turkish printing as a social expression, 1727-1840
  • Aylin Beşiryan      Boğaziçi University,  Turkey
    
  
  
  
• The illustrations of Tabbāra and Manfalūtī's edition of Kalīla wa Dimna and of the Maktabat Subayh edition of Alf Layla wa Layla
  • Julia Bray      Université Paris VIII,  France
    
  
  
  
• Arabic and bilingual newspapers and magazines in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Philipp Bruckmayr      Universität Wien,  Austria
    
  
  
  
• The Ottoman provincial press in Baghdad and the Zewra newspaper (1830-1872)
  • Ebubekir Ceylan      Fatih University,  Turkey
    
  
  
  
• The intellectual landscape of the founder of the first Ottoman-Turkish press: Ibrahim Müteferrika (1670-1747)
  • Vefa Erginbaş      Ohio State University,  United States
    
  
  
  
• Printed books of the Volga Tatars
  • Nuria Garaeva      Kazan State University,  Russia
    
  
  
  
• Arabic educational publications of the Nahda: modernity through printing
  • Dagmar Glass      Universität Bonn,  Germany
    
  
  
  
• Provincial printing houses in the 19th and early 20th centuries: the Isparta provincial printing house as an example
  • Muammer Göçmen      Süleyman Demirel University,  Turkey
    
  • Filiz Duman      Süleyman Demirel University,  Turkey
    
  • Fatma Banu Meral      Süleyman Demirel University,  Turkey
    
  
  
  
• Sufis as publishers : the Tariqat sponsored serial publications in the late Ottoman Empire
  • Slobodan Ilic      Eastern Mediterranean University,  Cyprus
    
  
  
  
• A short history of Kurdish publishing and prospects for the future
  • Blair Kuntz      University of Toronto,  Canada
    
  
  
  
• Early oriental printing in Leipzig: 16th to 18th centuries
  • Boris Liebrenz      Orientalisches Institut, Universität Leipzig,  Germany
    
  
  
  
• The Beginnings of Printing in Afghanistan, a Brief History
  • Peter Magierski      New York University,  United States
    
  
  
  
• The Bulaq Press Museum at Bibliotheca Alexandrina
  • Ahmed Mansour      Bibliotheca Alexandrina,  Egypt
    
  
  
  
• The 1285/1868 Teheran edition of Damiri's "Hayat al-hayawan" and its position in Persian illustrated lithographed books
  • Ulrich Marzolph       Enzyklopädie des Märchens,  Germany
    
  
  
  
• Printing and the abuse of texts in al-Jabarti's History of Egypt
  • Sarah Mirza      University of Michigan,  United States
    
  
  
  
• Technical and managerial qualifications, target group and reader profile of the first Turkish nationalist journals published in Thessaloniki (1910-1912)
  • Arda Odabaşı      Marmara University,  Turkey
    
  
  
  
• Armenian types in European printing : 15th to 17th centuries
  • Meliné Pehlivanian      Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin,  Germany
    
  
  
  
• In Search of Lost Time in Waiting for Godot: How "Late" was the Introduction of Ottoman Printing?
  • Orlin Sabev      Institute of Balkan Studies,  Bulgaria
    
  
  
  
• A Historiographical Puzzle: Medieval Arabic Block Printing
  • Karl R. Schaefer      Drake University,  United States
    
  
  
  
• The Contribution of Hebrew Printing Houses in the Middle East to the Development of Vernacular Literature
  • Rachel Simon      Princeton University,  United States
    
  
  
  
• Die Gründung der Druckerei des alt-syrisch orthodoxen Patriarchats
  • Ahmet Taşğın      Dicle Universitesi,  Turkey
    
  • Robert Langer      Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg,  Germany
    
  
  
  
• Judeo-Arabic Printing in North Africa, 1850-1950.
  • Yosef Tobi      University of Haifa,  Israel
    
  
  
  
• La révolution typographique ottomane : l'imprimerie Ebüzziya (1881-1900)
  • Özgür Türesay      Université Galatasaray,  Turkey