This essay is Part Two in a series commemorating the 25th anniversary of CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Read Part One: Explaining Countries’ Differential Success in Combating HIV/AIDS, by Rachel Sullivan Robinson Read Part Three: Incense Production in Ancient Southern Arabia, by Joy McCorriston Read Part Four: Fighting Malaria in the Mediterranean, by Marcus Hall Read Part Five: Colonial Political Economy of Trans-Frontier Trade through Peshawar, by Shah M

CAORC, and many of the ORCs, will again be attending the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference this November 21-24 in Denver, Colorado. Below is a list of panels associated with ORCs: The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is sponsoring, or has participants on, seven panels: - "Tunisia’s Progress Since the Revolution" (P4066) Saturday, 11/21, 5:30pm - "A Century of Women’s Rights in the MENA: Where Have the Men Gone?" (P4061) Sunday, 11/22, 11am