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19 scholars discuss questions cf Coptic - Protestant and Catholic, and Muslim- Christian bearing and significance, for instance, but professional, governmental and business men might well find thoriselves turning to the School for an intel-lectual stimulus and cross-fertilization of ideas not now available in Egypt. The M A degree is already offered by the School of Oriental Studies. If this phase of the program were enriched as indicated, more academic work on this level might be anticipated, as well as participation in the Ph.D program of interested l ,merican universities. Eventually, this research phase othe School of Oriental Studies mgpataEEovide for the Middle East what x institute for Advanced Studies ht,s1ecome for the world at large - an encouragement to productive scholar-ship on the highest level. b) The School needs to plan a =reunified insight into the Arab world the YY~rrri-ssYe+o.-.rArr► .~.~.~. _. ra~+a..r.rr.r+w-~..~.y .~w.r ...r-~ woad a-. Lro r< a beim; cast on is °Ile ortwo ear basist It would be designed especially for t;4ose persons from the West who are to spend five or ten years or more in the Middle East. In addition to Arabic language study in its spoken form, this program should deal with the major. historical and contemporary concerns of the region; it should embrace archaeology, econorri.cs, politics, religions and philo-sophies, and so on in such a manner (possibly in the form of general education or '~coreu studies). as to provide.•the student a rather thorough grounding. The studies should be such as to lead the student into the research phase of the total program, if his time permits and later interest dictates. Not all the courses mentioned above will. need to be new off ering s . in the School of Oriental Studies. Many of them are . already in (or will shortly be . put in) the University curriculum in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Social Research Center, or the other units. It is a matter of scheduling to make them available to the School of Oriental Studies. It should be said in this same connection that, of necessity, there will be a large area of common research interest between the School of Oriental Studies and the Social Research Center. . By recognition and. planning each program can complement the other; theré need be hó cömpetition or duplication of effort. c) The third - hase of the .pro ram in this School can be a short-term three or six months orientation fi~ropram, clesi,~ned fora quick introduction of Western personnel to the life of the Middle Ea,t. This program will differ from the fore-going chiefly at the point of quantity, not quality. It can, obviously, provide but the barest necessities in language and in the various cultural and social understandings. Nonetheless, for the persons who will be but two or three years in the area (and there are many such in Point Four, in the Enb ssies, etc.) this kind of a program would be very helpful. This is the kind of program, furthermore, that could be a part of the American exchange :.student s9 Middle East studies, offered in the second semester of each years No clear line can be drawn between the three major phases, because each penetrates the other. However, the three centers of the program are identifiable even if the edges are :vague„ The research phase of the program described above will need continued subsidy, while phases two and three could be ej,pected to pay their own way, with help from business and governmental interests being served directly by them. Middle East scholars would find it . difficult to participate in the research program without scholarship aid. $14000.00 per year per person would seem to be required. Te