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thematic conversations

Questions about the program should be directed to Mark Lowder at mlowder@u.arizona.edu or 520-626-6290. Please note that times are subject to change.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 
8:30AM-10:30AM

SPECIAL SESSION
(S002) Surveying Middle East Studies: Towards a Global Perspective

Chair: Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council

Anne H. Betteridge, University of Arizona
Juan Cole, University of Michigan
Toru Miura, Ochanomizu University
Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence (France)
Kamen Velichkov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Svetlana Kirillina, Moscow University

(NP02) Nationalism in the Middle East

Chair: F. Robert Hunter, Indiana State University

Spencer Segalla, SUNY at Stony Brook
French Colonial Pedagogy and Moroccan Nationalism
John Calvert, Creighton University
The Dinshaway Incident: Event and Historical Memory
Kevin W. Martin, Georgetown University
"The Policeman is the Friend of the Kids": The Journal of the General Security Police and the Marketing of Security in Post-WWII Syria
Zeynep Turkyilmaz, UCLA
Disciplining Dersim: A Reevaluation of 1937-38

(NP07) Palestinian Nationalism

Chair: Russell E. Lucas, University of Oklahoma, Norman

Taysir Nashif, United Nations
Palestinian National Consciousness in Israel Existed Prior to the 1967 War
R. Michael Bracy, University of Arkansas
The Woes of Brothers: Pan-Islamism, Nationalism, and Political Critique in 'Filastin'
Nida Alahmad, The New School University
Popular Discourses and Collective Identities
Nasser Abu-Farha, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dying to Exist: Palestinian Missions of Self-Sacrifice
Michael Vicente Perez, Michigan State University
Citizens and Palestine: National Narratives of the Self
Jeni Allenby, Palestine Costume Archive
Palestinian Cultural Heritage in Western Museums: Questioning Modern Boundaries and Ancient Divisions

(NP10) Islam and Politics in Turkey

Chair: John VanderLippe, SUNY-New Paltz

Ersin Kalaycioglu, Sabanci University
Culture and Politics: The "Turban Issue" in Turkey
Gamze Cavdar Yasar, University of Utah
A Pro-Islamist Government in Turkey: Blast and Counter-Blast
Scott Morrison, Fulbright Scholar, Bilkent University
The Writings of Ismet Özel: The Politics of Culture and Muslim Dissent in Contemporary Turkey
Mehmet Sinan Birdal, University of Southern California
The Legitimation of Islamic Identity in the International System: The Foreign Policy Making of Islamic Political Parties in Turkey

Chair: Judith E. Tucker, Georgetown University

Larysa Mykyta, North Carolina State University
Sea, Sand, and Skateboards: Exilic Self-Fashioning in Mokeddem's "Of Dreams and Assassins"
Tracy L. Smith, University of California, Davis
The Body and the Virtual Nation: The Creation of a Cyber-Diaspora
Richard Serrano, Rutgers University
The Confessions of Saint Jules Roy
Christoph Schumann, Harvard University
Political Communication in the Diaspora: Arab American Press in the United States and Turkish Press in Germany
Hisae Nakanishi, GSID, Nagoya University, Japan
The Literacy Promotion Movement for Afghan Refugees in Iran and the Prospect for Empowerment and Capacity Building in Afghanistan

(P004) The Arctic & Middle East: Comparison & Contrasts

Chair: Steven C. Dinero, Philadelphia University
Discussant: Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford

Daniela Tommasini, University of Trento
Representing the Frontier: Arctic & Desert Places in the Imagination of European Tourists
Gerald Berman, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Traditional & Modern Mental Health Interventions Among Indigenous Peoples: Alaska Natives and Negev Bedouins
Sharon K. Araji, University of Alaska Anchorage
Colonialism & Global Stratification: Parallels and Ties that Bind Alaska and the Middle East
Gideon Kressel, Ben Gurion University
The Bedouin and the Saami: Nomadic Pastoralism in Contrasting Ecological Niches

Marta Simidchieva, York University, Toronto
The Mountain and the Prophet: Muslim Voices in the Bulgarian Poetry of the 80s-90s
Amila Buturovic, York University, Toronto
All You Need Is Sevdalinka: Love, Pain, and Gain in Bosnian "Women's Songs"
Selma Zecevic, Columbia University
Did Shaykh al-Islam Know His Fiqh: Bosnian Legal Hermeneutics Reconsidered
Silvo Devetak, University of Maribor, Slovenia
The Position of Islamic Communities in New Balkan Democracies
Christian B. Hummel, University of Chicago
Islam in the Context of Kosovar and Macedonian Political Parties

(P029) In Lieu of a "Millet System": Crossing Communal Boundaries in the 17th Century Ottoman Empire

Sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association

Chair: Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University
Discussant: Najwa Al-Qattan, Loyola Marymount University

Marc David Baer, Tulane University
Murder and Inter-Religious Relations in 17th-Century Istanbul
Tom Papademetriou, The Richard Stockton College
Who's Patriarch Now?: Examining Patriarchal Succession in the 17th Century
Cengiz Sisman, Harvard University
The Sabbatian Movement (1665-66) and the Fate of Ottoman Jewry
Karen Alexandra Leal, Harvard University
Church Repairs in Late Seventeenth Century Istanbul: An Exercise in Ottoman Sovereignty Over the Greek Orthodox Community

Chair: Devin A. DeWeese, Indiana University

Jamal J. Elias, Amherst College
The Legitimation of Authority and the Perception of Spiritual Influence among Early Kubrawis
Devin A. DeWeese, Indiana University
The Legitimation of Baha' ad-Din Naqshband
Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College
The Human Body in Processes of Religious and Social Legitimation in the Fifteenth Century
Ethel Sara Wolper, University of New Hampshire
Painting and the Biographical Process: Images of Sufi Leaders in 16th Century Manuscripts
Farooq Hamid, Whittier College
The Fine Art of Shaving One's Head: Defending Antinomian Sufi Practices in the Late Safavid Period

Chair: Jonathan Friedlander, UCLA
Discussant: Sondra Hale, UCLA

Reeva S. Simon, Columbia University
The Middle East in American Popular Fiction: Thrillers and Spy Novels
Sherifa Zuhur, Cleveland State University/UC Berkeley
Tribal Princesses: Americans, the "Oriental" Dance Industry, and the Imagined Middle East
Hamid Naficy, Rice University
American Popular Culture's Representation of Iran
Larry Michalak, University of California, Berkeley
Recent Changes in the Stereotype of Arabs in Cinema

(P038) Rethinking the State, Law and Gender

Deina Ali Abdelkader, Cairo University
Public Welfare and Modernity
Barbara Stowasser, Georgetown University
Tahlil Marriage: A Textual and Temporal Comparison of Legal Paradigms
Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman College
Policing the Early Modern State: Prostitutes and the People in Ottoman Aleppo
Zeinab A. Abul-Magd, Georgetown University
The Arab Family between Shari'a Law and Modern Legal Codes
Amira el-Azhary Sonbol, Georgetown University
Egypt's Nineteenth Century Reform of Law, A Rereading

(RT004) Afghanistan After September 11, 2001

Chair: Jennifer L. Nichols, Ohio State University

Alam M. Payind, Ohio State University
Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University
Senzil Nawid, Ohio State University
Stephen F. Dale, Ohio State University

(TC003) Teaching Arabic Literature in English Translation: Gendered Narratives

Session Leader: Therese Saliba, Evergreen State College

Maggie Nassif, University of Pennsylvania
Amira El-Zein, Tufts University
Najat Rahman, James Madison University
Hala Kh. Nassar, Yale University

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
11:00AM-1:00PM

SPECIAL SESSION
(S005) MESA's Mission Revisited: The Role of a Learned Society in Today's Academic World

Participants TBA; member participation encouraged!

(NP14) Gender, State and Social Change in the Middle East

Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State University

Jane Bristol-Rhys, Zyed University
New Boundaries and New Definitions: Emiratizaton and the Social Role of Women in the UAE
Angel Foster, IBS Reproductive Health and Harvard Medical School
Women's Status in Tunisian Society: Do Abortion Rights Matter?
Kathryn Libal, University of Kansas
Pronatalism, Motherhood, and the State in Early Republican Turkey
Eden Naby, Harvard University
Whispered Shame: The Abduction of Women in 19th and 20th Century Assyrian Communities in Iran
Hibba Abugideiri, George Washington University
Midwives, Housewives and Colonial Medicine: The 'Scientization of Culture' in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt

Chair: Nargis Virani, Washington University in St. Louis

Mary Ann Walter, MIT
The Meaning of Names in Hadramaut
Ghada Osman, San Diego State University
Foreign Loanwords in Oral Seventh Century Arabic: A Lens into a Multicultural World
Clarissa C. Burt, American University in Cairo
al-Shammakh's Happiness Lost: Between al-Nabighah and Ka'b bn Zuhayr
Adel S. Gamal, Zayed University
Classical Arabic Proverbs and the Formulating of Grammar Rules
James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley
Ibn Quzman's 'Zajal 118': An Andalusi 'Ode to the Onion'

Chair: Rolin G. Mainuddin, North Carolina Central University

Mehran Kamrava, California State University, Northridge
Shi'a Scholarship in Contemporary Iran
Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston University
The Myth of Moses and Pharaoh in the Iranian Revolution
Peter Chelkowski, New York University
Nakhlgardani: An Important Muharram Ritual in Central Iran

(NP30) New Media

Chair: Elizabeth W. Fernea, University of Texas at Austin

Albrecht Hofheinz, Center for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin
Fragmented Publics: Arab Internet Discussion Forums in Historical Perspective
Fayaz S. Alibhai, Institute of Ismaili Studies
Ismailis on the Internet: A Study of Organization, Community and Identity on a Listserv
Yara Youssef, University of Arkansas
Satellite TV Stations in Lebanon: Agents of Status Quo or Change?

(P013) The Politics of Oil: The Middle East and North America

Chair: Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford
Discussant: Steven C. Dinero, Philadelphia University

Patricia Feeney, Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House
The Relevance of International Human Standards and Other Norms to Middle Eastern and North American Oil Production
Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford
Globalization and the Politics of Oil: The Mobile Pastoralists of Oman
Salah Al-Mazrui, Oxford University
Creating a Dialogue between the Multinational Gas Company and Local Community: OMAN
Lee Nehring, Shell, Canada
Aboriginal Communities and Oil Sand Development in Canada: Lessons Learned

(P015) Tracing Global Circuits of Representation and Practice

Chair: Fatma Muge Gocek, University of Michigan

Asli Gur, University of Michigan
Educating 'the Orient': Transculturation of New England Colleges in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century
Asli Z. Igsiz, University of Michigan
Bringing Back the Memory of Other Times: Greek-Turkish Population Exchange in Contemporary Documentaries
Deniz Erkmen, University of Michigan
Observations on Globalization and Political Culture
Cihan Tugal, University of Michigan
Discontinuities in Islamism: From the "Milli Outlook" to "Conservative Democracy"
Mucahit Bilici, University of Michigan
"American Jihad": Representations of Islam in America after 9/11

Chair: Jaleh Pirnazar, University of California, Berkeley

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Washington
Literary Texts and the Language-Learning Process: The Case of Modern Persian
Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona
Literary Discourse and Learning Language: Using Literature in Persian Language Classes
Mehdi Khorrami, New York University
Teaching Persian Language through Literature: A Multi-media Presentation
M.R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
Iranian Movies as Cultural Texts for Language Instruction

(P024) The Mediterranean City in the Shadow of High Modernity

Chair: Keith Watenpaugh, Le Moyne College
Discussant: Michelle Campos, Cornell University

Michelle Campos, Cornell University
JERUSALEM–Revolution and Public Space in Late Ottoman Palestine
Vangelis Kechriotis, Leiden University
IZMIR–Greek-Orthodox Deputies from Izmir in the Ottoman Parliament (1908-1912): Local Networks, Political Culture and Community Representation
Keith Watenpaugh, Le Moyne College
ALEPPO–The Mutual Aid Society, Emulation and Middle-class Stability in an Era of Revolution
Seda Altug, Utrecht University
ANTIOCH–Between Colonial and National Dominations: The Sanjak of Alexandretta under the French Mandate (1920-1939)

Chair/Discussant: Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence (France)

James McDougall, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
Exile and Deliverance: The Algerian Zaytunis (1930s-1940s)
Fanny Colonna, LAMES/Maison Mediterranneen (CNRS)
Unlikely Meetings on Less Traveled Roads: The Miller, the Missionary and the Bandit (A Colonial Moment in the Algerian Aures, 1910-1920)
Geoff D. Porter, Trinity College
Cutting Class: Moroccan Action and Agency and the Qarawiyin Student Boycott of 1936
Driss Maghraoui, Al Akhawayn University
Censorship and Cinematic Propaganda in Colonial North Africa 1939-1960

Chair/Discussant: Shafeeq N. Ghabra, American University of Kuwait Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant College

Michael Herb, Georgia State University
The Parliaments of the Gulf Monarchies in Comparative Perspective
Mary Ann Tétreault, Trinity University
How Domestic are National Elections?: The Kuwaiti Parliament in a Globalizing World
Gianluca Paolo Parolin, University of Turin, Italy
The Role of the National Assembly in Bahrain's Constitutional Experiments
Jean-Francois Seznec, Columbia University
Democratization in the GCC: Parliaments and Proto-Parliaments

(P035II) American Orientalism: Middle Eastern Representations in Popular Culture: Part II, The Built Environment and Material Culture

Chair: Larry Michalak, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Hamid Naficy, Rice University

Mohamed El Amrousi, UCLA
Orientalism and Islamophobia: Islamic Architecture in Southern California
Carel Bertram, San Francisco State University
"The Alhambra Phenomenon": From A Moorish Palace to a Theater Near You
Jonathan Friedlander, UCLA
Marketing Culture: The Middle East and Cigarette Iconography in American Popular Culture
Anne K. Rasmussen, College of William and Mary
The Middle East Imagined: A Comparative Perspective on the Production of Musical Orientalism

Chair: Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Tech University

Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
Michael B. Bishku, Augusta State University
M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
Charles G. MacDonald, Florida International University

SPECIAL SESSION
(S006) Reflecting on Ralph Bunche's Palestine/Israel Legacy: A Roundtable Discussion

Chair: Benjamin Rivlin, Director-Emeritus, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY Graduate Center

Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown University
Joel Beinin, Stanford University
Naseer Aruri, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Chair: Kate Lang, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Elizabeth Alexandrin, McGill University
Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's "Mir 'at al-zaman" and the Basasiri Debacle
Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Catholic University of America
Tamim al-Dari and Prophecies of the Apocalypse in 16th c. Morisco Writings
Martha E. Morgan, University of Arizona
The Cultural Context of Coins: Early Islamic Maghrebi Numismatics
Aviva Klein-Franke, University of Cologne, Germany
The Policies of the Imam Yahya Hamid a-Din Towards the Jews as Archived by Rabbi Sa'id al-Gamal

(NP13A) Body, Sexuality and Gender Issues in Arabic Language and Literature, Part I

Chair: Barbara L. Ibrahim, Population Council

Samira Aghacy, Lebanese American University
Sexual Boundaries in Contemporary Syria and Lebanese Fiction
Khaled Al Masri, University of Michigan
Deadly Pleasures: Violence, Gender and Sexuality in Najwa Barakat's "Ya Salam"
Fares Alsuwaidi, Harvard University
Fuel for Desire: Body, Sexuality, and Language in Thani Alsuwaidi's "Al-Diesel"
Taroob R. Boulos, University of Michigan
The Manifestations of Violence in Arabic Prison Narrative Written by Women

Chair: Jere L. Bacharach, University of Washington

Jamal Ali, UCLA
Insights into Shi'i Heresiography via Razi's "Kitab al-Zina"
Gabriel Said Reynolds, Yale University
Jesus, the Qur'an, and the Day of Resurrection
Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago
Qur'anic Furqan

(NP20) Education, Politics, and the Economy

Chair: Elise Salem, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Amy J. Johnson, Berry College
Encouraging Education, Increasing Income: The al-Manayil Village School as a Model for Rural Education in Egypt
Betty S. Anderson, Boston University
Education, Politics, and the American University of Beirut (AUB)
Ri'ad Nasser, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Exclusion and Nationalism in Jordanian and Israeli School Textbooks
Christa Bruhn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Extending the University: Supporting Grassroots Initiatives in Palestine
Christine Dykgraaf, University of Arizona
Middle East Collections at US Universities in Light of the USA PATRIOT ACT and Other Post-September 11 Legislation: Entering the Second Year

(NP25) The City and Identity: Claiming Urban Space

Chair: Chad F. Emmett, Brigham Young University

Bonnie Kaplan, University of Bath
Which Yet Survive Stamped on These Lifeless Things: A Modern Approach to Reviving the Fez Madrassas
Emre Gönlügür, University of Toronto
The New Urban Segregation: The Rise of Gated Enclaves in Istanbul
David Simonowitz, UCLA
On the Cutting Edges of Dhu'l-Fiqar: Authority and the Discourse of Architecture in the Musta'li-Tayyibi and Nizari Communities
Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego
Jerusalem/Al Quds Sacred and Profane
Alison B. Snyder, University of Oregon
Altered Lives and Spaces: How Globalization is Impacting the Architecture of the Anatolian Village

Chair: Metin Heper, Bilkent University
Discussant: Sabri Sayari, Institute of Turkish Studies

Metin Heper, Bilkent University
The Justice and Development Party: Politics and Political Islam
Umit Cizre, Bilkent University
The JDP and the Secular Establishment
Marcie J. Patton, Fairfield University
The Economic Policies of the JDP Government: Rabbits from a Hat?
Gunes Marat Tezcur, University of Michigan
The Justice & Development Party: From Hostility to Accommodation

(P017) When Do Actors Cooperate Across Ideological Divides?

Chair/Discussant: Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond

Pete W. Moore, University of Miami
The Truth of Commerce: Organizing for Politics
Agnieszka Paczynska, George Mason University
Student Protesters and Labor Activists: A New Alliance?
Jillian Schwedler, University of Maryland
The Strange Bedfellows of Political Protest
Bassel Salloukh, American University of Sharjah
Alliances within Political Parties and Professional Associations

(P031I) International Justice, Local Injustices, Part I

Chair: Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Chris Toensing, Middle East Research & Information Project

Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara
The "Spector" of the International criminal Court and Israeli-Palestine
Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch
Paths to Justice in Iraq
Laurie King Irani, University of Victoria
Constructing Political Will from the Ground Up: International Justice in National Courts
Richard Falk, Princeton University (Emeritus)
Prospects for Universal Jurisdiction and Criminal Accountability in the Middle East

Chair: Philip D. Schuyler, University of Washington

Anne Elise Thomas, Brown University
Music, Elites, and Nationalism in the Middle East
Ken Habib, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Cohabitation of Cosmopolitanism and Provincialism in the Music Culture of the Lebanese Superstar, Fairouz
Wendy DeBano, University of California, Santa Barbara
Performing Across Boundaries: Musical Expression of Gender and Identity in Contemporary Iran
Nancy Elizabeth Currey, University of California, Santa Barbara
Far Beyond the Notes: Lessons in Making Music

(TC001) Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa

Session Leader: Angel M. Foster, IBIS Reproductive Health

Lisa Wynn, Princeton University

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies

Chair: Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis

Miriam Cooke, Duke University
Mary N. Layoun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
11:00AM-1:00PM

Chair: Geremy Forman, University of Haifa
Discussant: Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego

Yuksel Sezgin, University of Washington
Israeli "Millet" System Through the Lenses of "New Institutionalism"
Nina Berman, Ohio State University
German Zionism Revisted
Yeliz Baloglu, Brandeis University
Zionism in the Turkish-Jewish Historiography
Russell E. Lucas, University of Oklahoma, Norman
The Naming of Israeli Palestinians and Discourses of Citizenship

(NP08) Divination, Mysticism, and Magic

Chair: Adel S. Gamal, Zayed University

Mohammed Sharafuddin, George Washington University
Mystical Interpretation of the Koran: Fareedudin Attar's "Conference of the Birds"
Marya T. Green, University of Chicago
Moriscas Hechiceras: Sorcery and Magic in the Crypto-Muslim Community of Sixteenth-Century Spain
Sara Scalenghe, Georgetown University
Dreams of Sex and Money: Hierarchies of Power in Early Modern Syrian Dream Manuals
Edgar W. Francis, IV, UCLA
Mapping the Boundaries between Magic and Mysticism: The Names of God in the Writings of Ahmad ibn Ali al-Buni
David Larsen, University of California, Berkeley
Signs, Wonders, and Semiological Regimes in Early Islamic Texts

Chair: Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona

Albrecht Fuess, University of Erfurt
Legends against Injustice: Thoughts on the Relationship between the Mamluk Military Elite and Their Arab Subjects
Huseyin Yilmaz, Harvard University
The Ruler as Mystic: The Concept of Caliphate During the Reign of Suleiman II (1520-1566)
Himmet Taskomur, Harvard University
Reading of Classical Medieval Islamic Texts: Art of Commentary by the Sixteenth Century Ottoman Scholars
Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst University
Full Court Press: European Travelers and the Negotiation of Protocol in the Courts of 'Abbas I and Jahangir
Stuart J. Borsch, Assumption College
Grains, Gristle, and Gukh: Cash Crops and Staple Crops in Fifteenth Century Egypt

Chair: Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward

Valerie Anishchenkova, University of Michigan
Sexuality and the Construction of Bodily Identity in Muhammad Shukri's Authobiography "Al-Khubz Al-Hafi"
Kari Neely, University of Michigan
Resurrection/Reincarnation: The Bodily Marks of Departure upon Druze Characters in Rabi' Jabir's "Yusuf al-Inglizi"
Keith Walters, University of Texas at Austin
How Tunisian Language Ideologies Create and Perpetuate Gendered Difference

(NP18) Economics and Islam

Chair: Hayrettin Yucesoy, Saint Louis University

Sema Kalaycioglu, Yildiz Technical University
Global and Regional Economic Challenges of Turkey
Joy Farmer, UCLA
Middle Eastern Exceptionalism in Studies of Ethnic Political Economy: A Consequence of Definitional Choice?
Murat Birdal, University of Southern California
The Rise of Islamic Corporations in Turkey: Incorporation of Islamic Values into the Economic Sphere

(NP22) Cultural Critiques and Religious Encounters

Chair: Ernest Tucker, US Naval Academy

Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania
The Case of Kamil Mansur: Christian Missionaries and Muslim Conversion in Egypt
Sebastien Peyrouse, French Institute of Central Asian Studies
Christians and Moslems in Central Asia: A Reflection of the Boundaries of Islam
Akram Khater, North Carolina State University
Saint to Harlot: Gender, Politics and Christianity in 18th Century Lebanon
Mehmet Ali Dogan, University of Utah
Pioneers in the Ottoman Empire: The Beginning of the American Missionary Activities in Anatolia (1820-1850) and Its Impact on the Millet System
Cemil Aydin, Harvard University
Crescent versus the Cross?: Challenging the Exceptionality Paradigm in Explaining Muslim Critiques of the West

Chair: Said Amir Arjomand, SUNY-Stony Brook

Majid Mohammadi, SUNY - Stony Brook
Internet and Treasure House of Information
Alireza Haghighi
The Internet and Factional Politics in Iran
Reza Najafi, Fargan Sara-ye Andi Sheh
Iranian Weblogs: A New Tool for Democracy
Farshad Bayan, Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
Iranian New Websites

(P011) Crossing Boundaries: Gender, the Public, and the Private in Contemporary Muslim Societies

Chair: Diane Singerman, American University
Discussant: Masayuki Akahori, Sophia University, Japan

Kazuo Ohtsuka, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Shifting Boundaries of Gender and Space in Arab Societies
Keiko Takaki, Obirin University
Women's Income-Generating Work at Home and the New Media: A Tunisian Case
Tomoko Yamagishi, Meiji University
Incongruity between "Official" and "Public": Iranian Laborers in Japan
Jon W. Anderson, Catholic University of America
Muslim Networks, Muslim Selves in Cyberspace
Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College
Gender and Religion in the Public and Private Sphere

(P016) Insights on Turkish Foreign Policy: Domestic and Foreign Linkages

Chair: Howard A. Reed, University of Connecticut (Emeritus)
Discussant: Robert Olson, University of Kentucky

Gul Barkay, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
War within a War: The Turkish Chrome Issue During WWII
Suhnaz Yilmaz, Koç University
Copenhagen and Beyond: An Assessment of Recent Developments in Turkey's European Odyssey
Suha Bolukbasi, Middle East Technical University
Turkey, Cyprus and the EU: Changing Perceptions
Houman A. Sadri, University of Central Florida
Turkish and Iranian Foreign Policies in the Caspian Region: Conflict or Cooperation

Discussant: Andras J. Riedlmayer, Harvard University

Sonja Brentjes
On the Multilinguilism of Early Modern Ottoman and Western European Maps
Miri Shefer, Tel Aviv University
Ibn Sallum: A 17th Century Physician Bridging over Arab, Ottoman and European Medicines
Yakup Bektas
John Lawrence Smith, American Geologist and Mineralogist in the Service of the Sultan, 1845-1850
Peter Mentzel, Utah State University
Railroads and the Problem of Technology Transfer in the Ottoman Empire

Chair: Barbara C. Aswad, Wayne State University

Sawsan Abdulrahim, University of Michigan
September 11 and Racialized Ethnic Identity among Arab Immigrants in Metro Detroit
Evelyn Alsultany, Stanford University
The Primetime Plight of the Arab-Muslim American Post-9/11: Configurations of Race, Gender, and Religion in TV Dramas
Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
"We Are Not Accomplices to Orientalism!": Diasporic Arab Feminisms Post 9-11
Amaney Jamal, Princeton University
Navigating Arab American Identity after 9/11
Louise Cainkar, University of Illinois-Chicago
Hey Arab Man: This Notice Is For You!

(P031II) International Justice, Local Injustices, Part II

Organized by the Middle East Research and Information Project

Chair: Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Chris Toensing, Middle East Research & Information Project

Hilal Elver, University of California, Santa Barbara
Violence Against Political Prisoners in Turkey
Hossam Bahgat, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
When Shaming Isn't Enough: Work Against Torture in Egypt
Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University
Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Justice: Trials of the Algerian FLN

Chair/Discussant: Nezar AlSayyad, CMES, UC Berkeley

A. Ipek Tureli, University of California, Berkeley
Sedad Eldem and National Architecture in Turkey: Myth and Reality in a Cinematic Representation
Hesham K. Abdelfattah, University of Cairo
Hassan Fathy in Egypt: Necessity or Fashion?
Adi Shamir, California College of Art and Crafts
Hebrew Labor: Tel Aviv, The Modern City in British Mandate Palestine
Mina Marefat, Library of Congress
The Architecture of Reza Shah's Iran

(RT003) Entering Middle East Studies in a Time of Crisis: Graduate Student Perspectives

Victoria Mason, Curtin University of Technology
Magid Shihade, University of Washington
Karam Dana, University of Washington
Charlie Brown, University of Utah

11:00am-1:00pm
ACLS History E-Book Project

We invite MESA attendees to join project directors, Ronald G. Musto and Eileen Gardiner, as they offer an on-line presentation and discuss recent developments in electronic publishing in history and the opportunities for MESA members to present their research in electronic form. MESA is a founding partner in the ACLS History E-Book Project. The E-Book project has made available in electronic format on its website more than 500 titles in historical studies. Some additional 275 titles will be added this year, with 250 to be added annually for the next several years. The project will also include 85 completely new electronic titles.

Attendees are invited to stop by the History E-Book Project’s booth in the MESA book exhibit.

Organized by ArchNet and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)

Michael Toler, Binghamton University
Yasmeen Siddiqui, ArchNet

Chair: Ali Bakr Hassan, University of California, Berkeley

Mark Sedgwick, American University in Cairo
Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Is There a Church in Islam?
Erik S. Ohlander, University of Michigan
Gnosis Disciplined and Institutionalized: The Sufi Cloister in Medieval Baghdad
Juliane Hammer, Elon University
Globalizing Sufism in a Virtual World: Sufi Orders on the Internet
Sri Mulyati, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah
Islamic Mysticism in the West: The "Naqshbandiyya" Sufi Order in Montreal

Chair: Aiman Mackie, The Ford Foundation

Michael J. Willis, Al Akhawayn University
The Military in Maghrebi Politics
Ranjit Singh, University of Virginia
Opposition and Political Reform in the Arab World
William A. Mitchell, Baylor University
The People Have Spoken: Turkey Faces a Changing Paradigm for Disaster Mitigation
Hootan Shambayati, Bilkent University
Transition from Military Rule and Judicial Activism: A Comparative Study of Chile and Turkey

Chair: Pinar Batur, Vassar College

Toru Miura, Ochanomizu University
The Salihiyya Quarter of Damscus in the Sixteenth Century: The Religious Institutions and the Waqf Properties
Peter Sluglett, University of Utah
State Formation in the Modern Middle East: Aleppo 1914-1945, A View from Below
Magnus Bernhardsson, Williams College
The Legible Past: The Iraq Development Board and Modernist Plans for 1950s Baghdad
Nur Banu Kavakli Birdal, University of Southern California
The City as a Spectacle: Cultural Policies of the Islamist City Administration of Istanbul

(P001) Arab Land and State Policy in Mandate Palestine and Israel

Chair: Ann M. Lesch, Villanova University
Discussant: Roger Owen, Harvard University

Martin Bunton, University of Victoria
British Land Policy in Palestine: Intentions, Impact, Legacy
Amos Nadan, Truman Institute - Hebrew University
Colonial Misunderstanding of an Efficient Peasant Institution: Land Settlement and Musha‘ Tenure in Mandate Palestine, 1921-47
Geremy Forman, University of Haifa
From 'Arab Land' to 'Israel Lands': The Legal Transformation of Palestinian Refugee Land in Israel (1948-1960)
Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
Legal and Diplomatic Issues Stemming from Israeli Expropriation of Palestinian Refugee Land
Rassem Khamaisi, University of Haifa
Between Territory and Territorial Policies: Israeli Land Policy and Spatial Judaization

Chair: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University
Discussant: Mohsen Ashtiany, Columbia University

Jonathan G. Katz, Oregon State University
Dreams in the Manaqib of a Moroccan Sufi Shaykh: 'Abd al-Aziz ad-Dabbagh (d. 1719)
John C. Lamoreaux, Southern Methodist University
An Early Muslim Autobiographical Dream Narrative: Abu Ja'far Al-Qayini and His Vision of the Prophet Mohammed
Serpil Bagci, Hacettepe University
Divination and Dream Imagery
Olga M. Davidson, Brandeis University
The Dream as a Narrative Device in the Shâhnâma
Eric Ormsby, McGill University
Dream as Prophecy in the Work of Al-Ghazali

(P008) Television and Contemporary Experience: Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq

Chair: Michael Cooperson, UCLA
Discussant: Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas

Lital Levy, University of California, Berkeley
Zabiba, Wahiba, and Saddam: Popular Culture in a Totalitarian Regime
Shawki E. El-Zatmah, UCLA
Popular Culture, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Egypt: The Story of Imam Muhammad al-Sha'raawi
Nadya Sbaiti, Georgetown University
"Contest"ed Nations: Conveiving Lebanon through Game Shows, the Case of "Ya Layl Ya 'Ayn"
Natalie Khazaal, UCLA
Parody, Idealization, and the Anti-Sectarian Discourse in Lebanon

Chair: Raymond K. Farrin, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley

Sam Liebhaber, University of California, Berkeley
Courtly Panegyric in a Colloquial Idiom: Transformation and Convention in Zajal #9 of Ibn Quzman
Nathalie Khankan, UC Berkeley
Loving Lynxes Or: From Ibn Quzman to Umar Ibn Abi Rabi'a With Love
Raymond K. Farrin, University of California, Berkeley
A Poet Hoping to Celebrate: Three 'Id Request Poems by Ibn Quzman
Cyrus Zargar, University of California, Berkeley
Irony and the Sung Refrain
Sam England, University of California, Berkeley
Colloquial Morals in the Andalus

(P023) Rescuing Islamic Political Theory from the Jihadist Ideology

Chair: Louis J. Cantori, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Kamran A. Bokhari, University of Texas at Austin
Jihad & Jihadism: A Rendition of Transnational Militant Non-State Actors
M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Adrian College, Adrain, MI
De-Constructing Jihadism: In Quest of a Theology of Global Peace
Ejaz Akram, Catholic University of America
Ummah & Jihad: Categories of Analysis in the Transnational International Relations of the Muslim World
Anas Malik, DePauw University
Waging Jihads vs. Fighting Wars: A Credible Distinction?

(P026) "Family and State in the Middle East: Theoretical Explorations" has been reworked into a roundtable entitled "Family, Gender and Politics in the Middle East"

The session will chaired by Mary Ann Tétrault, Trinity University. Panelists include Miriam Cooke, Duke University, Sondra Hale, UCLA, Marcia Inhorn, University of Michigan, and Suad Joseph, University of California Davis, and Jennifer Olmsted, Sonoma State University. The session is sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.

Chair/Discussant: Mary Ann Tétreault, Trinity University

Mounira M. Charrad, University of Texas at Austin
States and Family Law: In Search of a Typology
Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis
The State of Family in the State
Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University
Families on the Move: The Changing Structures of Afghan Refugee Families
Dicle Kogacioglu, Columbia University
Law, Gender, and Family in Turkey: Between Sign and Practice

Chair: Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Discussant: Solomon I. Sara, Georgetown University

Solomon I. Sara, Georgetown University
The Way of Phonetic Exceptions in Sibawayh
Lutfi Y. Hamad, University of Oklahoma-Norman
Ibn Jinni's Distinctive Feature System
Wolfhart Heinrichs, Harvard University
Najm Al-Din Al-Tufi on the Incorrect Reading of the Fatiha
Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Capturing Al-Khalil's System of Prosody: The Numerical Approach

(RT006) Turkey in a Changing World

Sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association

Chair: Resat Kasaba, University of Washington

Umit Cizre, Bilkent University
Marcie J. Patton, Fairfield University
Menderes Cinar, Baskent University

(TC002) International Collaboration at a Time of Crisis

Session Leader: Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council

Ray Jureidini, American University of Beirut
Modjtaba Sadria, Chuo University
Mike Robinson, Sheffield Hallam University
Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
8:30AM-10:30AM

SPECIAL SESSION
(S003) Iraq after the Baath

Chair: Juan Cole, University of Michigan

Peter Sluglett, University of Utah
Iraq after the Fall of Saddam
Gareth Stansfield, University of Exeter
The Kurds in post-Baathist Iraq
Juan Cole, University of Michigan
The Realm of the Shiites in the Shadow of War
Keith Watenpaugh, Le Moyne College
Civil Society in Post-War Baghdad: Newspapers, Cafes, Salons, and Weblogs
Nabil Al-Tikriti, University of Chicago/Loyola University, New Orleans
The Post-War State of Iraqi Manuscript Collections

(NP01) Issues in Nation Building

Chair: Mahmood Ibrahim, Cal Poly Pomona

Hasan Bülent Kahraman, Sabanci University
When We Will All Be Transvestites?: Tranformation of the Hegemonic Discourse as a Matter of Epistemology, Conservatism and Modernity
Devrim Sezer, Carleton University
Between Modernity and Tradition: A Hermeneutical Account of Tradition in A.H. Tanpinar's Thought
Amal Sachedina
A Nation in the Making: The Case of the Sultanate of Oman
Valerie J. Hoffman, University of Illinois
Leadership and Scholarship in Oman's Modern Ibadi Renaissance

Chair: Ayad Al-Qazzaz, California State University, Sacramento

E. Burak Arikan, Sabanci University
Turkish Nationalists Oppose Turkey's European Union Membership
Emma Jorum, University of Uppsala
Beyond the Border: Syrian Policies Towards Hatay and the Golan Heights
Hasan Kosebalaban, University of Utah
Identity and Foreign Policy: The Case of the AKP Government in Turkey
Lawrence Rubin, UCLA
Identities, Ideas, and Foreign Policies Toward the Kurds

Chair: Asma Afsaruddin, University of Notre Dame

Yudian Wahyudi, Harvard University
Islamic Legal Deconstruction
Hayrettin Yucesoy, Saint Louis University
Is Political Leadership Necessary?: Religious and Rational Morality in Islamic Political Thought
Ali Bakr Hassan, University of California, Berkeley
Torture in Early Islam
Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University
Exiled Harem Eunuchs and the Hanafi Madhhab in Ottoman Cairo
Hülya Canbakal, Sabanci University
Moral Obligation, Legality and Liability in Ottoman Public Life (17th-18th cc)

Chair: Robert A. Fernea, University of Texas at Austin

Khatereh Sheibani, University of Alberta
Old Conventions, New Cinema
Montserrat Rabadán, University of Chicago
Rai Music as a Melting Pot: Its Social and Cultural Significances
John Morgan O'Connell, Brown University/University of Limerick
Singing Across Boundaries: Engendering the Past in Turkish Vocal Performance
Stale Knudsen, University of Bergen
Identity Construction through Seafood in Turkey

Chair: Yaron Shemer, University of Texas at Austin

Dagmar Riedel, Indiana University
The Order of Beasts: Representations of Animals in Iranian Encyclopedias from the 11th to 13th Centuries
Nada M. Shabout, University of North Texas
Al-Azzawi: A Visual Renegotiation of an Iraqi Identity
Vildan S. Serdaroglu-Sisman, Harvard University
Does the Ottoman Poetry Reflect Daily Life?: An Analysis of Architectural Elements in the 16th Century Ottoman Poets' Imaginary World
Rannfrid I. Thelle, University of Oslo
The Conquest of the Past: Archeology and Historiographic Representation of Ancient Mesopotamia in Relief

Chair: Ibrahim Dakkak, Palestinian American Research Center

Penny Johnson, Palestinian American Research Center
A Father's No Shield for His Child: Crisis and Change in Palestinian Families and Gender Dynamics in the Second Palestinian Intifada
Lori A. Allen, University of Chicago
The Banalization of Violence and the Nationalization of Emotions: Towards an Ethnography of the Palestinian Intifada
Manal Jamal, McGill University
'Popular" and 'Not So Popular': Responses to Donor Assistance in Palestine
Khaled Furani, Graduate Center, CUNY
Secular Prayers: An Ethnographic Encounter with Contemporary Palestinian Poetry
Carol Malt, Palestinian American Research Center
Museums: Cultural Survival Under Occupation

(P019) Society in the Making of the State: Perspectives from the Late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey

Chair: Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
Discussant: Tuna Ali Kuyucu, UCLA

Elif Akcetin, University of Washington
State and Bandits in the Greek War of Independence
Elif Andac, University of Washington
From Islamism to Turkish Nationalism: Ottoman Empire in the Struggle against Nationalism
Senem Aslan, University of Washington
Governing Kemalist Missionaries: Student Movements and the State in the Early Turkish Republic
Ceren Belge, University of Washington
Limits of Judicial Activism in Turkey: The State and the Constitutional Court
Arda Ibikoglu, University of Washington
Turkish Prisons: From Wards to Cells

Chair: Cyrus Schayegh, Columbia University

Hibba Abugideiri, George Washington University
Midwives, Housewives and Colonial Medicine: The 'Scientization of Culture' in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt
Ellen Amster, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Poison, Jinn and the Sleeping Child: Women's Traditional Medicine and French Colonialism in Morocco, 1912-1935
Cyrus Schayegh, Columbia University
The Rise of Scientific Authority: Bio-Medical Bases of the Iranian Modernist Re-definition of Gender, 1900s-1940s

Jamil Hasanli, Baku State University
The Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946 in the Soviet Archives
Nima Shafaieh, Ohio State University
Hamid Notghi, Azerbaijani Poet, Author, and Scholar
Bahlul Huri, Inst. of Oriental Studies, Nat'l Academy of Sciences
Iran, Islam and the Republic of Azerbaijan

Chair: Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant College
Discussant: Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota

Zafiris Tzannatos, The World Bank
Social Protection in MENA: Achievements and Prospects
Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant College
Structural Adjustment and Labor Protection in Oil-Poor Arab Countries
Iqbal Kaur, The World Bank
Child Poverty and Protection in MENA: A Case for World Bank Intervention
Florence Eid, American University of Beirut
Governance and Incentives in Corporatized Public Hospitals: The Case of Lebanon

Chair: Kirk Belnap, Brigham Young University

Mahmoud Al-Batal, Emory University
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Washington
Erika H. Gilson, Princeton University
Benjamin Hary, Emory University

Chair: Deborah S. Akers, Independent Scholar

Marlene Laruelle, French Institute of Central Asian Studies
Thinking about the National and Regional Boundaries in the Central Asian States: Intellectual and Political Discourses
Carol J. Riphenburg, College of DuPage
The Politics of Contestation in Afghanistan: Warlords, Ethnic Rivalry, and State
Abdulkader Sinno, Stanford University
State Building in Divided Muslim Societies: Can the US Create Client Regimes Based on Participatory Institutions in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Arash Khazeni, Yale University
The Turkman Frontier: Tribes and Borderlands in Nineteenth Century Central Asia
Elizabeth Bishop, American University in Cairo
Vision and Measure: Statistics and Public Authority in the Nile Valley

(NP16) Women, Gender Issues and Representation in Iran

Chair: Hadi Sultan-Qurraie, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Hadi Sultan-Qurraie, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Gender as a Modern Theme in the Poetry of Iranian Constitutional Era: Ashrafudin of Gilan, Bahar, Iraj, Lahuti and Mo'juz of Shabustar
Z. Pamela Karimi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chador: The Portable Habitat--Women's Veiled Bodies and Urban Space in Iran
Nacim Pak, Institute of Ismaili Studies
Women and Boundaries in Iranian Cinema

Laurie A. Brand, University of Southern California
Mughtarib, Expatrie, 'Amil F-il-kharij: The Politics of State Emigration Terminology
Victoria Mason, Curtin University of Technology
Palestinians Exiled from Kuwait in Australia: Community, Identity and Home
Lina Beydoun, Wayne State University
Lebanese-Sierra Leoneans, Multi-Layered Citizenship, and the Construction of a Globalized Identity
Sargon Donabed, Assyrian Academic Society/University of Toronto
The Assyrian Legacy of Kharput Transplanted in New England: The Ideology of Ashur Yousuf and Others on Assyrian Nationalism
Ghislaine Lydon, UCLA
Trans-Saharan Cultures: The Case of the Tikna Trade Network

(NP21) Islamic Activism Revisited

Chair: Emile A. Nakhleh, Potomac, MD

Hussam S. Timani, University of Redlands
Extremist Thought in Islam: The Case of al-Takfir wa'l Hijra Group
Barak Mendelsohn, Cornell University
The State System Meets Islamic Fundamentalism
Khaled Helmy, Harvard University
An Electoral Road to Islamism? Or an Islamist Road to Democracy?: Electoral Participation of Islamist Parties in the Middle East
Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate School
A Typology of Islamist Networks

Jennifer De Maio, UCLA
The Impact of Intervention on Peacebuilding in Ethnic Conflicts: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Leah Graham, University of Arkansas
The Impact of External Intervention on the Political Maturation of Opposition Movements
Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Danish Institute for International Studies
Egyptian-Israeli Cooperation during the Cold Peace
Michael Irving Jensen, Danish Institute for International Studies
International Donor Aid and Its Impact on Local Politics: A Case Study from Palestine

(P002) National Symbols and Commemorations: Palestinian Identity in Contest

Chair: Tamir Sorek, Cornell University
Discussant: Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas

Awad Halabi, Tufts University
Islamic Festivals in British-Ruled Palestine: Fields of Competing Discourses
Tamir Sorek, Cornell University
The Orange and the "Cross in the Crescent": Imagining Palestine in 1929
Shira Robinson, Stanford University
Spectacles of Sovereignty: Palestinian Celebrations of Israeli Independence Under Military Rule
Laleh Khalili, Columbia University
Massacres and Battles: Palestinian Commemorative Practices in Lebanon

(P007) Demarcation Lines Across Lebanon's Cultural Landscape

Chair: Christopher Stone, Middlebury College
Discussant: George E. Irani, Royal Road University

Michelle Hartman, McGill University
A Francophone Druze Novel?
Elise Salem, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Theme Park Solidere: Beirut's New Meeting Places and Dividing Lines
Stephen Sheehi, American University of Beirut
The Lebanese War Did Not Happen
George E. Irani, Royal Road University
Women's Work is Never Done: Gender Demarcation Lines and Redefining Political Action During the Lebanese Civil War

Discussant: Michael Beard, University of North Dakota

Sabry Hafez, SOAS, University of London
Literature and the Reconstruction of Marginal Histories
Stefan Sperl, SOAS, University of London
Crossing Boundaries Through Catharsis?: Evidence from al-Buhturi and Virgil
Wen-Chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London
Intertextuality, Narrative and Epistemology in Himmich's "Al-'allama"
Ayman El-Desouky, SOAS, University of London
Sayyida Zeinab, the Virgin Mary or Isis?: Identity as Speaking Across Sensibilities in Narrative Discourse

(P018) Focal Points and Critical Perspectives in Turkish Literature

Chair/Discussant: Walter G. Andrews, University of Washington

Didem Havlioglu, University of Washington
The Gazels of Mihri Hatun: Love Poetry as Occasional Poetry
Selim Kuru, University of Washington
Modernizing Sacred Love: Enderunlu Fazil's 'Love's Register' and Poetics of Ottoman Modernity
Hande Solakoglu, University of Washington
Hammer-Purgstall, an Austrian in Istanbul
Emine Hosoglu, University of Washington
The Poetry of Islamists in Turkey after 1950s: S. Karakoc and C. Zarifoglu

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