OCCIDENT & ORIENT: Newsletter of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Volume 8, No. 1, March 2003)

The Institute 2002/2003: Some remarks on the current situation in the Middle East. Assyria under Threat. By: Arnulf Hausleiter, CNI Copenhagen University (Denmark) The Polis of Kanatha: Hellenisation and Romanization in Late First Century BC. By: Klaus Stefan Freyberger, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Rome (Italy) The Archaeology of North-Western Arabia: Recent Perspectives. By: Jean-Francois Salles, CNRS (Director of Research), IFPO (Institut Français du Proche-Orient), Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Amman Branch (Jordan) Tall Hujayrat al-Ghuzlan 2002. By: Klaus Schmidt, Ricardo Eichmann, Bernd Müller-Neuhof (German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Berlin (Germany) and Lutfi Khalil, Jordan University, Amman, Jordan Survival at Present-day Sabra. By: Manfred Lindner, Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg (Germany) The Region of Gadara/Umm Qeis Project: The 2002 season: A test trench on Tell Zera’a. By: Karel Vriezen, Theological Faculty, University of Utrecht (Netherlands) The Abandonment of the Decapolis and the Question of Environmental Change – an Interdisciplinary Research Project. By: Bernhard Lucke, University of Cottbus (Germany) The Significance of Ba’ja for the Early Near Eastern Neolithic Research. By: Hans Georg K. Gebel, Free University of Berlin (Germany) Excavation and Survey at Qal’at ‘Unaiza, Jordan, May-June 2002. By: Andrew Petersen, Cardiff University/Center for British Research in the Levant, Amman (Jordan) Ras Hamra: a Nabataean Sanctuary south of Petra. By: Ulrich Hübner, Institute of Biblical Archaeology, University of Kiel (Germany) Working as a DAAD Lecturer at the Univeristy of Jordan in Amman. By: Martin Harfmann, University of Jordan, Amman (Jordan) A New Palace in Qatna (Mishrifeh, Central Syria). By: Marta Luciani, Italian Archaeological Mission at Tell Mishrifeh/Qatna. University of Udine (Italy