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Show Prof Gain Posts 'Distinguished Professor'' Appointed ) ) ; f. ... , -v, t ... f j Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, professor of languages and history and retiring ?Sr of the University of Utah's Middle East Center, was7 appointed Distinguished Professor of History by the Board of Regents last Monday, Mon-day, July 10. The Regents also named Dr Khosrow Mostofi, associate professor profes-sor of political science, as the new director of the internationally known Center. Both appointments are effective immediately. Dr. Atiya is the third faculty member to be named a Distinguished Distin-guished Professor at the University of Utah. He joins Dr. Sterling M. McMurrin, E. E. Ericksen Distinguished Distin-guished Professor of Philosophy and Dr. Henry Eyring, Distinguished Distin-guished Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Atiya, known throughout the academic world as a historian, writer and teacher, has been instrumental instru-mental in building the Middle East Library to one of the five finest and most complete in the United States. For his successful efforts in this direction he has been honored by having that library named the Aziz S. Atiya Library for Middle Eastern Studies. He first came to the University as a Visiting Professor of History and Philosophy in 1958 and joined the faculty as Professor of Lan- 1. Dr. Aziz S. Atiya . . . ! Distinguished Professor Dr. Khosrow Mastobi . . . new director for establishment of the comprehensive compre-hensive Middle Eastern language curriculum at the U. of U. His successor in the administrative administra-tive post, Dr. Mostofi, is a native of Tehran, Iran, and joined the U. of U. faculty July 1, 1960, as an assistant professor of political science. sci-ence. He was made associate professor pro-fessor in 1963. He received his bachelors degri. . from the University of Tehran in 1944 and earned his graduate degrees de-grees from the University of Utah. Dr. Mostofi was an instructor at Shahpoor High School, Iran from 1942-49. He was a graduate assistant assist-ant at the U. of U. 1956-58, and was an assistant professor at Portland State College, Oregon, 1958-60. He has traveled widely in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Europe. guages in- 1960. He received his bachelors and masters degrees from the University Univer-sity of Liverpool in England, a Ph.D. from the University of London Lon-don in 1933 and a Litt.D. from the University of Liverpool in 1938. Born in a small Egyptian village, Dr. Atiya received his early education educa-tion in that country. He went to medical school in Cairo and led university students there in a struggle for independence. He is a former chairman of the History Department at the University Univer-sity of Alexandria and founder of the Institute of Coptic Studies in Cairo. He has held faculty and administrative ad-ministrative posts at 17 universities and colleges around the world. These include the University of Bonn, Egyptian University, Princeton Prince-ton University and Union Theological Theologi-cal Seminary. He led the Mount Sinai Expedition Expedi-tion for cataloguing and microfilming micro-filming the manuscripts of St. Catherine's Monaster. On that expedition, ex-pedition, he discovered an old Bible script written between the 4th and 9th centuries A.D. Dr. Atiya has published more than 40 books in three languages and many articles in leading periodicals. peri-odicals. He has been responsible |