bull_board_angels_72-73_April 2011 Bulletin Board 3/2/11 12:23 PM Page 72 Upcoming Events, Announcements & Obituaries —Compiled by Andrew Stimson Upcoming Events: The Virginia Festival of Books will feature a panel on Voices From the Middle East, hosted by Just World Books, March 19 at 2 p.m., City Council Chambers, 605 E. Main St., Charlottesville, VA. Panelists will include Chas W. Freeman Jr., Laila ElHaddad and Joshua Foust. For more information visit . The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University will present a two-day symposium on A Sense of Place: Arab World Diasporas & Migrations, March 21 and 22, in the Lohrfink Auditorium, Rafik B. Hariri Building, on the Georgetown campus in Washington, DC. For more information and to RSVP, call (202) 687-6215 or e-mail . All Saints Church of Pasadena, CA will host Belief Beyond Religion: Giving Up Religion for Lent, featuring James Carroll and Reza Aslan, who will discuss religious beliefs from Islam and Christianity. The event will take place March 27 and 28 at 132 North Euclid Ave. in Pasadena. For more information call Norma Sigmund, (626) 583-2734 or e-mail . The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley will present Arab Presidents for Life and the Politics of Succession, featuring Harvard University history professor Roger Owen, April 7 at 5 p.m. in Stephens Hall. For information visit or call (510) 642-8208. The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) will host the ACCESS 40th Anniversary Dinner at which the Arab American of the Year Award will be presented to Emmy Award winner Tony Shalhoub and U.S. Army Gen. George Joulwan. The event will be held on Saturday, April 9 at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center with doors opening at 5 p.m. and the program beginning at 6. For more information call Rose Assi at (313) 842-4794, or visit . The Arab community of Montgomery County, MD will celebrate the 12th annual Arab American Heritage Festival, April 17 from 12-4 p.m. at the activity center in Gaithersburg’s Bohrer Park. The Michael Berger Gallery will present 72 the exhibit, Dis[Locating] Culture: Contemporary Islamic Art in America, exploring contemporary Islamic art, beginning with an artists’ reception April 15 from 5-7:30 p.m. and running through July 30. The exhibit is free and open to the public at the gallery located at 30 South Sixth Street, South Side, Pittsburgh, PA. For more information visit . Announcements: The American University in Cairo announced the launch of a new quarterly policy journal, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. A print edition will be distributed worldwide, and the journal also will be available online at . Deadline for the Jack G. Shaheen 2011 Mass Communications Scholarships is April 1. The scholarships honor ArabAmerican junior and senior college students, as well as graduate students, enrolled for the 2011-2012 academic year, who excel in media studies. For more information visit . The deadline for student applications to the The Islamic Scholarship Fund is April 11. The fund was founded to address the problem of underrepresentation of Muslim Americans in the fields of humanities, social sciences and liberal arts and by providing scholarships for higher education. For eligibility criteria and application forms, visit . Deadline for the United Palestinian Appeal Scholarship for the 2011/12 academic year is April 30. The scholarship is offered to Palestinian students currently enrolled in a Palestinian university in the West Bank or Gaza Strip and pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, medical, or law degree. For more information visit . Obituaries: Saadalla Mohamed Aly, 79, the perpetually tuxedoed butler on the set of the NBC news program “Meet the Press,” died in December after contracting pneumonia while on a trip to his native Egypt. Beloved by the show’s staff as well as the politicians, panelists, and personalities featured each Sunday, Mr. Aly served drinks and food THE WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS BulletinBoard with elegance and charm. Born in Aswan, Egypt, in 1931, he was orphaned at a young age and moved to Cairo when he was 16. There he found employment with the wealthy Sabet family, and followed them to the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, where he served at restaurants in the evenings. When his boss returned to Egypt, Aly asked to stay behind, and in 1963 found a job in the World Bank’s printing department, where he remained until he retired in 1997. After marrying in 1970 and the birth of his daughter, Mr. Aly began waiting tables to earn extra cash. In the mid-1970s, news anchor David Brinkley hired Aly as a waiter, and his career with “Meet the Press” began in 1976. According to The Washington Post, “the show’s extended clan of politicians, pontificators, analysts and newsmakers are taking Aly’s loss hard.” He is survived by his daughter, Dalia Aly. Abdallah El Maaroufi, 66, World Bank economist and former Moroccan ambassador, died of a neurological disorder Jan. 8 at his home in Chevy Chase, MD. His long career at the World Bank lasted from 1969 until his retirement in 1998, and included assignments with the organization’s offices in Burkina Faso, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, as well as heading the bank’s European office. King Hassan II of Morocco appointed him CEO of the Groupe Banques Populaires, and in 2000, King Mohamed VI named him Morocco’s ambassador to Washington. Born in Casablanca, El Maaroufi was among the first foreign students to attend the private St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H. According to a 1958 Time magazine article, he said that his dream was to become an ambassador because he was “weak in mathematics.” He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University in 1967 and a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University in 1969. El Maaroufi served on the boards of Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco and the American School of Tangier. Since 2003 he had been an independent consultant on African and Middle Eastern economic development. He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Kathleen McKim El Maaroufi of Chevy Chase, and two sons, Karim El Maaroufi of Washington and Omar El Maaroufi of Lugano, Switzerland. Sultan Amir Tarar, the retired Pakistani spy known as Colonel Imam, “the godfather of the Taliban” died Jan. 23 in captivity in Pakistan’s Waziristan Province, where he had been kidnapped 10 months earlier. He reportedly was killed because his kidnapAPRIL 2011