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The Ilex Foundation wishes to announce the inauguration of its publications series, the Ilex Series. The purpose of the series is to promote research and scholarship in the humanistic traditions of the Mediterranean and Near East, and to share such research with a wide audience.

Ilex Foundation sponsors research and publications on general and comparative literary and social studies on the civilizations of the Mediterranean and the Near East. Please see the Ilex Mission for more information.

Select Articles by Ilex Foundation Trustees and Officers

Mohammad J. Mahallati and Olga M. Davidson published an artcile in the Wednesday, July 20, 2005 edition of The Daily Star entitled Against the thugs, Iranian self-criticism.

Olga Davidson and Mohammad Mahallati published an article for bitterlemons-international.org on March 04, 2004 entitled Iran, Egypt and the Ikhwan.

Olga Davidson and Mohammad Mahallati published an article for bitterlemons-international.org on August 28, 2003 entitled Social Islam versus individual Islam: impacts of imbalances.

Olga Davidson and Mohammad J. Mahallati published an article in the December 4, 2002 International Herald Tribune titled "Moderates everywhere have a duty." Read the article on the IHT web site. A PDF of this article in Arabic translation is available.

Olga Davidson and Mohammad Mahallati are quoted in an article on the importance of Iran "for a prosperous Afghanistan." The article was written by Khataya Chhor for Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty.

Olga Davidson and Mohammad Mahallati authored an article entitled "To Rebuild Afghanistan, Look Next Door." Originally published in The New York Times.

This article is available in Turkish translation on the web site for Turkey's Office of the Prime Minister, Directorate General of Press and Information.

Publications funded or supported by the Foundation

Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands. Edited by Louise Marlow. Forthcoming. Harvard University Press.

This is the first volume of the Ilex Series on Themes and Traditions. The series explores cross-cultural constructs without losing sight of the rich texture of local variations of traditions or beliefs.

Visit the Harvard University Press web site for more information.

* This publication has won the Heldt Translation Prize awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, a branch of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).

From Goethe's poetic interest in them in the eighteenth century, down to the work of scholars such as Milman Parry and Albert Lord in the twentieth, South Slavic traditional ballads have intrigued many by their beauty and eloquence. These songs are now made available to the English reader in this bilingual edition offering a selection of materials from Harvard University's Parry Collection.

Visit the Harvard University Press web site for ordering information.

Visit the Milman Parry Collection web site.

The Center for Hellenic Studies also provided support for this book.

Vafsi Folk Tales, by Dr. Donald L. Stilo. A new work on Iranian languages, linguistics, and folklore, entitled Vafsi Folk Tales, by Dr. Donald L. Stilo, presently at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, is forthcoming from Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden. The volume was edited and provided with additional annotations on the folklore by Professor Ulrich Marzolph of the Enzyklopädie des Märchens of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. With generous financial support from the ILEX Foundation, it is now possible to prepare a digitally remastered audio compact disc to accompany this collection of Vafsi tales. More on the Vafsi project.

Publication project of renowned film critic Godfrey Cheshire on Iranian cinema. Ongoining support.

The Singer of Tales, 2nd edition. Ongoing support.
By Albert Lord.

Singing the Past. Ongoing support.
Cornell University Press.

Understanding Near Eastern Literature. Ongoing support.
Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden.

Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and Khamsa of Nezami. September 2000.
Special facsimile edition, in association with the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia.

After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor. 2002.
By Margaret Alexiou. Cornell University Press.

Understanding Near Eastern Literatures / A Spectrum of Interdisciplinary Approaches
Eds. Beatrice Gruendler and Verena Klemm. Pilot volume in a new series to be published by Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden.

Middle East Report. Fall 1999.
Terry Walz, Executive Director. Bruce Dunne, Chair.
Middle East Reasearch and Information Project (MERIP)
Ilex Foundation provided support for a special issue on Iran of Middle East Report, published by MERIP.

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