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PROGRAM
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Saturday, 11/19 |
Sunday, 11/20 |
Monday, 11/21 |
Tuesday, 11/22 |
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Session I–5:30pm |
Session II–8:30am
Session III–11:00am
Session IV–2:00pm
Session V–4:30pm
Presidential Address/
Awards–7:00pm
MESA Reception–8:30pm |
Session VI–8:30am
Session VII–11:00am
Session VIII–2:00pm
Session IX–5:00pm
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Session X–8:30am
Session X–11:00am
Session XII–1:30pm |
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NOTE: THIS LIST
ONLY INCLUDES PARTICIPANTS WHO ARE MESA
MEMBERS AND WHO HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE
MEETING. IF YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO PARTICIPATE
AND YOUR NAME ISN'T LISTED IT IS PROBABLY
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IF YOU STILL WANT TO PARTICIPATE, CONTACT
SARA PALMER AT
PALMERS@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU OR BY PHONE AT
520-626-4753.
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Saturday, November 19
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
HELD
AT THE ASA; CO-SPONSORED BY MESA
Contesting
Demographic Implications of Slavery
across the Sahara and North Africa:
Slavery and Cultural Changes I
Session VII
Discussant: Martin Klein
Ahmad Sikainga
Slave Body and Muslim Jurisprudence in
Morocco in the Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries
Benjamin Brower
Slavery and Ethnic Cleansing in Colonial
Algeria
Cynthia Becker
Artistic Roots/Routes of the Gnawa:
Evidence of Cross-Cultural Interactions
Across the Sahara
Kim Searcy
The Changing Relationship between Master
and Slave: The Jihadiyya and Their Role
in the Sudanese Mahdiyya
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Saturday, November 19
11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. |
HELD AT THE ASA;
CO-SPONSORED BY MESA
Contesting
Demographic Implications of Slavery
across the Sahara and North Africa:
Slavery and Population Demographics II
Session VIII
Chair: Ghislaine Lydon, UCLA
Discussant: Ralph Austen
Timothy Cleaveland
Concubinal Reproduction and the Elites
Inconspicuous Consumption of Their
Slaves
Allan Christelow
The Role of Slaves and the Repercussions
of Abolition in Algeria
Madia Thomson
Stemming the Flow: Protectorate Policy
on Slavery and Saharan Expansion,
1912-1950
Chouki El Hamel
Social and Political Transformation of
Blacks in the South of Morocco in the
20th Century
HELD AT THE ASA;
CO-SPONSORED BY MESA
The War on Terror
in the Sahara: Mirage or Reality?
Session VIII
Chair: Amal Ghazal, University of
Toronto
Discussant: Elizabeth A. McDougall,
U of Alberta
Cédric Jourde, U of Ottawa
Constructing Representations of the
“Global War on Terror” in Mauritania
Jeremy Keenan, U of East Anglia
Who Thought Rock Art was about
Archaeology!? The Political Economy of
Saharan Rock Art
David Gutelius
The Saharan Front on the War on Terror
Gilbert Taguem Fah, U of
Ngaoundere
The War on Terror and the Chad-Cameroon
Oil Pipeline
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Saturday, November 19
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
HELD AT THE ASA;
CO-SPONSORED BY MESA
French Gazes on
African Politics, 2004-2005
Session IX-3:00pm-5:00pm
Discussants: Robert Vitalis and
Frederick Cooper
Roland Marchal
Sandrine Perrot
Bruno Losch
Dominique Malaquais
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Saturday, November 19
5:30 p.m. |
(NP04) Modern Arabic Fiction
Chair:
Andrea Flores Khalil, City University
of New York
Samira Aghacy,
Lebanese American University
Modernization Without Modernity in Contemporary Lebanese Fiction
Ching Jen Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Magical Realism in Modern Arabic Fiction Writing
Hanadi Al-Samman, Appalachian State University
The Poetics of Mosaic Autobiography in Contemporary Arabic
Literature
Julie Hakim Azzam, The University of Pittsburgh
The Return of the Repressed: Reading Gothic Histories in Tayeb
Salih's "Season of Migration to the North"
(NP25) Circuits of Early Twentieth-Century Islamic Revivalism
Chair:
John Calvert, Creighton University
Leslie Weaver,
New York University
Pan-Islamic Resistance in Morocco: The Case of 'Abd al-Malik,
1902-1924
Mark Sedgwick, American University in Cairo
Plausibility Structures in the Arab World
Henri Lauziere, Georgetown University
Rashid Rida's Rehabilitation of Wahhabism and Its Consequences
Basri Basri, University of Arkansas
A 19th Century Indonesian 'Alim in Mecca: Salih Darat and
Islamic Reform
(P002) Arab Women Living on the Borders and Making Spaces
Organized by
Fatima Badry
Chair:
Mary Ann Fay, American University
Discussant: Frances S. Hasso, Oberlin College
Rima Sabban,
Dubai University College
Negotiating Gender Borders in Arab Oil Universities: The Case of
the United Arab Emirates
Lena Jayyusi, Zayed University
Modernity's Contested Boundaries: Describing, Inscribing and
Transcribing Arab Women
Fatima Badry, American University of Sharjah
Learning on the Periphery: Acquiring Social and Cultural
Identities through Migration
John Willoughby, American University
Crossing Employment Boundaries: National
Gulf Women and the Drive to Nationalize the
Workforce
Afaf Al-Bataineh, American University
of Kuwait
Producers or Products of Writing: The Voices
of Arab Women
(P046) American Missionary Activities in Ottoman Turkey
Organized by
Mehmet Ali Dogan
Chair:
Benjamin C. Fortna, SOAS, University of London
Discussant: Beth Baron, City University of New York
Brian Johnson,
Amerikan Bord Heyeti
Smyrna Station: The Evolution of a Missionary Enterprise in
Ottoman Turkey
Cemal Yetkiner, CUNY Graduate Center
Footprints of a Pioneer: William Goodell (1792-1867) and the
American Protestant Mission at the Ottman Capital
Mehmet Ali Dogan, University of Utah
Protestant Missionary and Bible Translation: Elias Riggs' 67
Years in the Ottoman Empire
Asli Gur, University of Michigan
Laboratories of Religion, Shrines of Science: Differential
Transculturations of Robert College and Syrian Protestant
College
Carolyn Goffman, DePaul University
Mary Mills Patrick and the "Sanctification of the Intellect"
Moved to
Sunday, November
20 from 2:00pm-4:00pm
(P059) Writing
Arab Americans into the Discourse on
Race: Three Case Studies
Organized by
Hani Bawardi
Chair:
Hani Bawardi, Wayne State University
Fatina Abdrabboh, Harvard University
Arab Immigrants and African Americans: More than Black and White
Rima Meroueh, Wayne State University
Arab-Black Relations: What's Race Got To Do With It?
Saeed A. Khan,
Wayne State University
A Study of Arab and African-American Relations within the Muslim
Community: Briding the Divide Between Indigenous and Immigrant
Groups
Ihsan Alkhatib, Wayne State University
When the Shoe is on the Other Foot: Empowered Blacks and
Supplicant Arabs—Unbalanced Power Relations in a Government
Agency Setting
(P064) The Politics of Religion in Contemporary Iran and Turkey
Organized by
Mirjam Künkler
Chair:
Mirjam Künkler, Columbia University
Discussant: Said A. Arjomand, SUNY-Stony Brook
Nader Hashemi,
University of Toronto
The Secularization of Political Norms in the Islamic Republic
Yasuyuki Matsunaga, New York University
Secularizing Politics and Its
Opponents in the Islamic Republic of
Iran
Berna Turam, Hampshire College
Islamic Actors and the State in Turkey and Iran: Friends or
Enemies?
Gunes Murat Tezcur, Loyola
University Chicago
How is Secularism Relevant for Democracy?: Religiosity and
Politics in Contemporary Iran and Turkey
(P065) Scenes of Social Discipline: Approaches to Egyptian Film
Music
Organized by
Joel Gordon
Roberta L. Dougherty,
American University in Cairo
Music, Women and Leisure: Piano Sheet Music and the Amateur
Musician in Early 20th Century Egypt
Martin Stokes, University of Chicago
The Nightingale's 'Appointment with Love':
Notes on Abd al-Halim Hafiz, Rudolph
Valentino, and Female Listenership
Joel Gordon, University of Arkansas
The Slaps Heard 'round the (Arab) World: Pathos and Patriarch in
2 Abd al-Halim Musicals
Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford
Anywhere but Here: Music and the New Conventions of Location in
Egyptian Visual Culture
(P069) Building a New Moroccan Identity: Democratization, Women,
the Western Sahara and the Berber Question
Organized by
Doris H. Gray
Chair:
Zeina T. Schlenoff, Florida State University
Discussant: Peter P. Garretson, Florida State University
Michael J. Willis,
St Antony's College, Oxford University
A Berber Spring in Morocco?: Political Dimensions of Berber (Amazigh)
Identity in Morocco and Algeria
Nizar Mesari, Pontifícia Universidade
Católica (PUC)
The Western Sahara Issue and Moroccan
Identity Construction
Lise Storm Grundon, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies
The Aims of the Moderate Moroccan Opposition: Broadened
Dictatorship or Democracy?
Jonathan Wyrtzen, Georgetown University
Arab and Berber?: Contesting,
Constructing, and Mobilizing the
Nation in Morocco and Algeria
(1930-1939)
Doris H. Gray, Florida State University
Urban, Professional Women in Morocco: Asserting a New Private
and Public Identity
(P099) Rationality and Legal Change in Shi'ism
Organized by
Rasool Nafisi
Chair:
Rasool Nafisi, Strayer University
Rasool Nafisi,
Strayer University
Secular versus Sacred Laws: The Case of Iran
Karim Douglas Crow, Int'l Institute of Islamic Thought &
Civilization
Ja'far al-Sadiq between Ahl al-Hadith & Ahl al-Ra'y: The Limits
of Legal Rationality
Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, International Islamic University
of Malaysia
Changes in Approach to the Shari'ah: Hemeneutical Readings of
Abu Zaid, Soroush and Shabestari
ROUNDTABLE
(RT010) Sudan Wars and Peace: The Complexity of Identity
Engineering
Organized by
Souad Ali
***Joint
session of MESA and the African Studies Association***
Chair: Souad Ali,
Arizona State U
Francis Deng, The Brookings
Institution
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Rhode Island
College
Abdullahi A. Ibrahim, U of
Missouri-Columbia
Abdullahi A. Gallab, Arizona State U
Overview of the Middle East Collections in
the Library of Congress Prints &
Photographs Division
Arden Alexander,
Library of Congress
Charles Jenkins, Library of Congress
In
this special session, staff of the Library
of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
(P&P) will give an illustrated presentation
on their rich pictorial collections which
are a valuable resource for scholars and
researchers of the Middle East. These unique
visual materials include photographs, glass
negatives, prints, and posters. They
document Middle East history, peoples, and
cultures primarily from the 19th century to
the present day. Presenters will focus on
the massive Matson Collection of the Middle
East (1898-1946), the Abdülhamid II albums
of the Ottoman Empire, the multi-volume
Turkestanskii al'bom which portrays late
19th century Central Asia, and recent
important acquisitions. A representative
from the Library of Congress African and
Middle Eastern Division will describe how
these visual materials can be used in
research and scholarship.
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Sunday, November 20
8:30 a.m. |
(NP06) Sufism: Piety,
Poetry, and Practice
Chair: Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana
University - Purdue University
Daphna Ephrat,
The Open University of Israel
The Expansion of Sufism in Mamluk Palestine
Richard McGregor, Vanderbilt University
The Founding of a Sufi Order: A Medieval Discourse on Spiritual
Authority
John J. Curry, Ohio State University
Contrasting Approaches to the Life and Work of an Early Ottoman
Saint: Cemal el-Halveti (d. 1494)
Farooq Hamid, Whittier College
A Poet Writes without Writing Implements: Examining the Nature
of Grief in Khaqani's Marsiyas for His Son
Daniel Rafinejad, UCLA
"This Discourse Hath No End": Structure and Meaning in the
Conclusion of Jalal al-Din Rumi's "Masnavi"
Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University
Sequential Order in Rumi's "Masnavi": Snakes and Ladders
(NP11) Architecture in Establishing Sites of Power
Chair: Pinar Batur, Vassar
College
Vesselina Naidenova,
Cornell University
The Madrasa Yusufiyya of Granada as a Prominent Representative
of the Golden Age of Marinid Madrasas
Stephen C. Cory, Cleveland State University
Forgotten Palace?: Morocco's al-Badi'a as a Symbol of Caliphal
Splendor
Johannes Pahlitzsch, Free University of Berlin
Islamic and Byzantine Foundations in the 3/9th Century: A
Comparison
Allen Fromherz, St. Andrews University
Marrakech: City as Doctrine
(NP26) Contesting the
Kemalist Regime
Chair:
James Goode, Grand Valley State
University
Yigit Akin, Ohio
State University
Problems in Approaching State and Society during the Early
Republican Turkey: Public Opinion and the Kemalist Regime
Ryan Gingeras, University of Toronto
Portrait of a Rebel: North
Caucasian Resistance during the
Turkish War of Independence
Murat Yuksel, Columbia University
Nation Building as Demographic
Engineering: Forced Migration
and Internal Displacement of the
Kurds in Turkey, 1925-1947
Hale Yilmaz, University of Utah
Transition from Arabic to Latin Script in Everyday Life
(NP28) Perspectives on
Nineteenth-Century Arab Lands
Chair: Mehmet Ali Dogan,
University of Utah
Jonas Kauffeldt,
Florida State University
Missioning to the Believers: The Höyers, the Danish Church
Mission in Arabia, and the Evolution of an Orientalist
Perspective
Hania Abou Al-Shamat, University of Southern California
Educational Divide across
Religious Groups in the Late
Ottoman Empire: Institutional
Effects on the Demand for
Curricular Modernization
Eden Naby, Independent Scholar
American Missionaries and the First Assyrian and Kurdish
Newspapers in Iran
Patricia Singleton, UCLA
Counting Cairenes: Social Categorization and City Structure in
Nineteenth-Century Cairo
The
following
panel
was
originally
scheduled
for
Monday,
11/21,
2:30pm-4:30pm
(NP33) Democracy, Authoritarianism,
and Islam in Egypt
Chair: Anthony
Tirado Chase,
Occidental College
Maye Kassem,
American University in Cairo
The 2005 Legislative Elections in Egypt: Adjusting Authoritarian
Electoral Politics
Guy Laron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Three Incarnations of 'Neutralism': Nasserite Foreign Policy
1954-56
Khairi Abaza, SOAS, Univeristy of London
Education and Media as Agents of Re-Islamization: The Case of
Egypt in the 1980s and 1990s
Gamze Cavdar Yasar, Michigan State University
Political Reform and Egypt
Tamir Moustafa, University of Wisconsin
Political Liberalism and Islamist Activism in the Egyptian Legal
Profession
Julie E. Taylor, Princeton University
The Growing Affinity between Clerics and Islamists in Egypt
(NP40) Security and Violence
in Palestine
Chair: Abid A. Al-Marayati,
University of Toledo
Nasser Abu-Farha,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Making of a Human Bomb: State Expansion and Modes of
Resistance in Palestine
Naomi Weinberger, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Security Sector Reform in Palestine
Maya Rosenfeld, The Truman Research Inst., The Hebrew
University
From Emergency Relief Assistance to Welfare Services and Back:
UNRWA and the Palestinian Refugees
Lori Allen, Brown University
Martyr Bodies: Aesthetics and the Politics of Suffering in the
Palestinian Intifada
Rachael M. Rudolph, West Virginia University
Palestinian Identity, Culture and Martyrdom
(NP43) Iran and the Gulf
Chair: Ali R. Abootalebi,
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Anisseh Van Engeland-Nourai,
Harvard Law School/Institut d'Etudes Politiques
Between Universality of Human Rights and Cultural Relativism: A
Third Path for the Iranian Civil Society?
Sam Blatteis, Georgetown University
Analyzing Saudi Arabi's Foreign Policy Decision to Align with
China
Roxanne D.
Marcotte, The
University of Queensland
Religious Freedom in Islam: An Iranian Discussion
Houman Sadri, University of Central Florida
Iran, Regional Integration, and the Caspian States
Martin Hvidt, University of Southern Denmark
Dubai: A Successful "Developmental State?"
(P007) Agency and Adab: Women and Gender
in the Abbasid Period
Organized by
Matthew S. Gordon
Sponsored by the Middle East Medievalists
Chair:
Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University (Ohio)
Matthew S. Gordon,
Miami University (Ohio)
Yearning and Disquiet: Jahiz and the Singing Girls
Everett K. Rowson, New York University
Women with Attitude: Gender and Eloquence in 'Abbasid Literature
and Society
Kristina Richardson, University of Michigan
Interior Histories: Men and Women's Private Letters of the
Abbasid Period
Hugh Kennedy, University of St. Andrews
Power and Wealth in the Early Abbasid Harem
Nadia Maria El Cheikh, American University of Beirut
Revisiting the Abbasid Harems
(P026) The Smart Classroom? ALI Approach
Organized by
Zeinab Ibrahim
Chair:
Zeinab Ibrahim, American University in Cairo
Zeinab Ibrahim,
American University in Cairo
WH Questions in Using Technology in the Language Classroom
Mariam Attia, American University in Cairo
Technology: A Piece in the Jigsaw Puzzle of Pedagogy
Jehan Allam, American University in Cairo
Why CALL!!!
Nora Abdel Wahab, American University in Cairo
Technology: An Add-On to the Dialect Classroom
Laila Al-Sawi, American University in Cairo
Culture Learning: Technology in Need is Technology Indeed
(P034) The Ottoman Balkans: New Approaches
for Understanding Political, Cultural and Social Transformation
Before and After the Advent of Balkan Nationalism
Organized by
Robert Zens
Chair:
Kemal H. Karpat, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Frederick F. Anscombe,
Birkbeck College, University of London
Reform and Revolt in the Pre-Tanzimat Western Balkans
Tolga U. Esmer, University of Chicago
Religion and Rebellion in the
Life and Practices of the Rumeli
A'yan Kara Feyzi, c. 1795-1830
Robert Zens, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Ayanlik and the Emergence of the Ottoman Warlord, 1791-1815
Ayten Kiliç, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A Russian Machiavelli in the Ottoman Empire: Count Ignatiev
Conquers Istanbul (1864-1877)
(P035) Screen Identities: Problematic
Nationalisms in Middle Eastern Cinema and Television
Organized by
Nadia Yaqub
Chair:
Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Discussant: Ellen McLarney, Duke University
miriam cooke, Duke University
Muhammad Malas Deconstructs Syrian Nationalism
Nadia Yaqub,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Deconstructing Palestinian Cinematic Weddings
Erdag Goknar, Duke University
Transformations of Self & Nation in the New Turkish Cinema
Banu Gokariksel, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
Geographical Imaginaries of the Southeast: Spatial Locations and
Dislocations of Kurdish Identities in the New Cinema and
Television in Turkey
(P070) Medical Anthropology in the Muslim
World: Ethnographic Reflections from Africa and the Middle East
Organized by
Marcia C. Inhorn, Beth Kangas, and Carolyn Sargent
***Joint
session of MESA and the African Studies Association***
Amal
Hassan Fadlalla, U of
Michigan
Infertility and the Negotiation
of Medical Practices in Eastern
Sudan
Ellen Gruenbaum,
California State University, Fresno
Feminist Activism for the Abolition of Female Genital Cutting in
Sudan
Marcia C. Inhorn, University of Michigan
Male Infertility, Masculinity, and New Reproductive Technologies
in the Muslim World: Post 9/11 Reflections
Beth Kangas, Wayne State University
Hope from Abroad in Yemenis'
International Medical Travel
Elisha P. Renne, University of Michigan
Islam and the Polio Immunization Campaign in Northern Nigeria
Carolyn Sargent, Southern Methodist University
Contested Discourses, Assertive Practices: The Gendered
Negotiation of Islam and Reproduction among Malian Migrants in
Paris
(P071) Rights, Rules and Relations:
Politics in Contemporary Yemen
Organized by
Gregory D.Johnsen and Christopher Edens, AIYS
Sponsored by the American Institute for
Yemeni Studies
Chair:
Thomas Stevenson, Ohio University-Zanesville
Discussant: Robert Burrowes, University of Washington
Sheila Carapico,
University of Richmond
Some Yemeni Ideas About Human Rights
Steve Day, St Lawrence University
Yemen: Unification: Power-Sharing, Democracy and Central-Local
Relations
Gregory D.Johnsen, University of Arizona
Reprogramming the Imagination in Yemen: Hamoud al-Hitar and the
Religious Dialogue Council
Mark N. Katz, George Mason University
The Yemeni Tribes and al-Qaeda: What is the Connection?
Charles F. Dunbar, Jr., Boston University
U.S.-Yemen Relations since 1990: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
ROUNDTABLE
(RT001) Kurdish Nationalism in the
Post-War Context: Shifting Identities and Opportunity Structures
Organized by
Denise Natali
Chair: Denise Natali, U of
Salahadin
Discussant: Birusk Tugan,
Washington Kurdish Institute
Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
Michael Gunter, Tennessee
Technological University
Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Ahmed
Foundation for Kurdish Studies
Jaafar Khidir, U of
Salahadin
The following session has moved to
Tuesday, November 22 from
1:30pm-3:30pm
THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC003) Gender and Reproductive Health in the Middle East and
North Africa: Exploring Future Directions in Research ,
Education, and Health Services
Organized by Angel M. Foster
Chair:
Angel M. Foster, Harvard Medical
School/Ibis Reproductive
Health
SPECIAL SESSION
(S002) Between a 'Spring'
and a 'Fall': Lebanon and Syria at a Crossroads
Organized by Jens Hanssen and Amal N. Ghazal
Sponsored by the Lebanese
Studies Association and the
Syrian Studies Association
Co-Chairs: Amal N. Ghazal, University of Toronto and
Jens Hanssen, University
Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown University
Elizabeth Picard,
Iremam-MMSH
Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown
University
As'ad AbuKhalil, California State
University, Stanislaus
Carol Hakim, University of
Minnesota at Twin Cities
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Sunday, November 20
11:00 a.m. |
(NP16) Women's Place: Feminism and Power
Chair: Kate Lang, University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Nerina Rustomji,
Bard College
Women's Earthly Behavior and Otherworldly Placement in Sahih
Hadith Collections
Delia Cortese, Middlesex University-London
Out of Order: al-Hakim and Women in Fatimid Cairo
Susanne Barsoum, University of Chicago
Critiquing the Literature on the Early Feminist Movement in
Egypt: A Return to the Sources
Hamideh Sedghi, Villanova University
Gender and Resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Is the
Notion of Islamic Feminism Relevant?
(NP19) Genealogies of Power
Chair: Norman A. Stillman,
University of Oklahoma
Leah Kinberg, Tel
Aviv University
The Pharaohs of Our Time: A Koranic Concept in Contemporary
Muslim Discourse
Rannfrid I. Thelle, University of Oslo
The Biblical Conquest Account and Its Modern Hermeneutical
Challenges
Lutz Richter-Bernburg, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Divine Totalitarianism?: (Re-)Readings of Abraham's
Non-Sacrifice in the Koran
Almut Hoefert, Univeristy of Basel
Conceptions of Monarchic Rule in the Islamic and Christian
Middle Ages: The Ruler's Body in Egypt and the Roman-German
(12-13th Century)
Alexandra Cuffel, Macalester College
"Undesirable Geneologies": Transformations of the Toledot Jesu
in Medieval Muslim Apocalyptic and Shi'i-Sunni Polemic
(P009) Citizenship, Gender and Conflict in the Middle East
Organized by Nicola Pratt and Nadje Al-Ali
Chair:
Nicola Pratt, University of East Anglia, UK
Discussant: Valentine Moghadam,
Illinois State
Univeristy & UNESCO
Nadje Al-Ali,
University of Exeter
Contesting the Nation and Citizenship from Diasporic Spaces:
Iraqi Women's Activism in the UK, US and Jordan
Ruba Salih, University of Bologna
Strategies of Citizenship among the Palestinian Diaspora in
Jordan
Anita Fábos, University of East London
Between Citizenship and Belonging: Transnational Ethnic
Strategies of Arab Muslim Sudanese Refugees
Nicola Pratt, University of East Anglia, UK
Reconstructing Citizenship in Post-Invasion Iraq
(P028) Istanbul Neighborhoods: Minority Identities in Place, in
Practice, and in Memory
Organized by Amy Mills
Chair:
Christine M. Philliou, Yale Center for International and
Area Studies
Christine M. Philliou,
Yale Center for International and Area Studies
A New Piece for the Mosaic: Building a Bulgarian Community in
Istanbul, 1830-1850
Amy Mills, University of South
Carolina
From 'Little Paris' to Historic Mahalle: The Place of Kuzguncuk
in Jewish Community Identity
Carel Bertram, San Francisco State
University
Anchoring the Hosts of Ghosts: Istanbul
and the Armenian Pilgrimage Itinerary
Anna Secor, University of Kentucky
Identity and Difference in the Everyday Production of
Neighborhood Space in Istanbul
(P041) Caspian Security, Energy Insecurity, and the Middle East
Organized by
Gregory Gleason
Chair: Mark N. Katz, George Mason
U
Discussant: Houman Sadri, U of
Central Florida
Gregory Gleason, U of New Mexico
and Yuri V. Bossin, Moscow
Lomonosov State U
Kazakhstan’s Caspian Strategy, Russia,
and the Middle East
Jibek Syzdykova, Moscow State U
Iran in the Caspian Negotiation Process
Vladislav Sobolev, St. Petersburg
U and Alexander Sotnichenko, St.
Petersburg U
Russia's Caspian Strategy
(P044) War, Memory and Violence in Modern Arabic Writing
Organized by
Valerie Anishchenkova
Chair:
William Granara, Harvard University
Discussant: Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
Jonathan Smolin,
Dartmouth College
Writing Algerian Violence: New Literary Terrains
Valerie Anishchenkova, Tufts University
Memories of War: Rediscovering Selfhood through War Stories in
Contemporary Iraqi Writing
David DiMeo, Harvard University
Narrative Consistency in the Disjointed World of Civil War:
Hanan al-Shaykh's "Hikayat Zahrah"
Kari Neely, University of Michigan
War, Homeland Displacement and Epic Remembrance in the Workd of
Zahra Omar
(P057) Situating the Gulf in World-Historical Context
Organized by Fred H. Lawson, Mills College
Chair:
James Onley, University of Exeter/American University of
Sharjah
Rudi Matthee,
University of Delaware
Between Arabs, Turks and Iranians: The Autonomy of Basra,
1600-1700
Calvin H. Allen, Jr., Shenandoah University
Global City 1900: Muscat and the Pre-World War I World Economy
Hasan M. al-Naboodah, United Arab
Emirates University
Wilfred Thesiger and European Images of
Arabia
Frauke Heard-Bey, Centre for Documentation & Research,
Abu Dhabi
Lineages of Tribal Rule in the Arab States of the Gulf
Matteo Legrenzi, St. Antony's College, University of
Oxford
GCC Defense Cooperation: Beyond Symbolism?
(P063) Palestine and South Africa: A Fruitful or Futile
Comparison?
Organized by Leila Farsakh
***Joint
session of MESA and the African Studies Association***
Chair: Leila Farsakh, University
of Massachusetts, Boston
Discussant: Ilan Pappé, Haifa University
Gershon Shafir,
University of California, San Diego
Social Boundaries and Settler Privilege in South Africa and
Israel/Palestine
Laetitia Bucaille, Bordeaux 2 University
Palestinian and South African Activists: The Meaning of the
Struggle
Raif Zreik, Harvard Law School
Palestine, Apartheid and the Rights
Discourse
(P074) Transnational Paradoxes: The Production and Reproduction
of Elite Power
Organized by
Najib B. Hourani
Chair/Discussant: Michael Gasper, Yale University
Joshua Schreier,
Vassar College
Religion Reform and Revolution in Algeria: Indigenous Jews in
1848
Ozlem Altan, New York University
Apolitics of Power: Mapping Elite Capitals in Egypt, Lebanon,
and Turkey
Munir Fakher Eldin, New York University
Undoing Empire: International Social Sciences and the Making of
Colonial Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s
Najib B. Hourani, Fordham University
Landscapes of Competition: Globalization and the Malling of
Beirut
(P078) Reconsidering the Press: The Formation of Middle Eastern
Public Spheres 1900-1930
Organized by
Orit Bashkin
Chair:
Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Malek Abisaab, McGill University
Ami
Ayalon, Tel Aviv
University
Assessing Readership: Exposure to the Press in pre-1948
Palestine
Negin Nabavi, Princeton University
Readership and the Public Sphere in Constitutional Iran
Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago
"The Tongues of all Prophets of
Evil Have Been Effectively
Silenced": Iraqi Dalies and the
Colonized Public Sphere,
1921-1924
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi,
Northeastern University
The Nahda Revisited:
Socialism and Radicalism in
Beirut and Mount Lebanon,
1900-1914
(P088) Bandung at 50: Histories of Resistance and Legacies of
Solidarities
Organized by Adnan A. Husain and Rabab Abdulhadi
Organized under the auspices of the Center for Arab American
Studies-University of Michigan, Dearborn
***Joint
session of MESA and the African Studies Association***
Chair:
Rabab Abdulhadi, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Discussant: Joel Beinin, Stanford University
Adnan A. Husain,
New York University
Black Power and Arab Revolution: Afro-Asian People's Solidarity
and the "Spirit of Bandung" in the Late 50s and 60s from Harlem
to Algiers
Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin
Bandung at 50: Self-Determination, Non-Alignment, Re-Alignment
Poonam Arora, U of
Michigan-Dearborn
Bandung at 50: Judgement on the
World or Shift in Consciousness?
Steven Salaita, U of
Wisconsin-Whitewater
Non-Alignment and Indigenous
Alliance: Transnational
Solidarities among Indians and
Palestinians
ROUNDTABLE
(RT007) Building Reading Fluency in Turkish
Organized by
Erika H. Gilson
Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Turkic
Languages (AATT)
Chair:
Erika H. Gilson, Princeton University
Suzan Özel, Indiana University
Guliz Kuruoglu,
UCLA
Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown University
Hakan Özoglu, University of Chicago
Hilâl Sürsal, The Ohio State University
Roberta Micallef, Boston
U
Sibel Erol, New York University
THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC009)
Islamophobia in the Academy
Organized by Anila Daulatzai
Moderator: Anila Daulatzai, Johns Hopkins
University
Junaid
Rana,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sohail Daulatzai, UCLA
Jessica Winegar, School of American Research
SPECIAL SESSION
(S011) Roundtable in Honor of André Raymond
Organized by Peter Sluglett
Chair:
Peter Sluglett, University of Utah
André Raymond,
Professor Emeritus, University of Provence
Nelly Hanna, American University in Cairo
Kenneth L. Brown, Méditerranéans
Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence (France)
Leila Fawaz, Tufts University
Abdul-Karim Rafeq, College of William and Mary
Toru Miura, Ochanomizu University
On
the occasion of his eightieth birthday, friends, colleagues and
students from Egypt, Europe, Japan, Syria, and North America
will gather to honor the work of leading social historian of the
Middle East, André Raymond. Professor Emeritus at the University
of Aix in Provence, Raymond pioneered the use of Islamic court
records for the study of urban social history, particularly in
Ottoman Egypt and Syria. He is the doyen of Middle
Eastern studies in France.
State of the Field Session
Internet
Technologies and Middle East Studies
Organized by
Michael Toler
This special session considers the frontierless world of
Internet technologies in Middle East studies, focusing on the
efforts of three initiatives–ARTstor, the ACLS History E-Book
Project and the NITLE Al-Musharaka Initiative–to increase the
quantity and quality of resources available to scholars in the
field, as well as the effectiveness with which these resources
can be deployed in higher education.
ACLS History E-Book Project:
Ronald G. Musto , Project
Director
Eileen Gardiner, Project Director
ARTstor:
Max Marmor , Director of
Collection Development
Kimberly Brandt, User Services Specialist
NITLE:
Michael Toler , Al-Musharaka
Program Director
Amy McGill, Associate Director
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Sunday, November 20
2:00 p.m. |
(NP12)
Performance and Politics
Chair: Yoram Meital,
Ben-Gurion University
Christopher Stone,
Hunter College, CUNY
Popular Culture and Palestine: The Case of Fairuz and the
Rahabina
Hanan Hammad, University of Texas at Austin
Layla Murad: An Egyptian Singer Caught in the Arab-Israeli
Conflict
Josef Gugler, University of Connecticut
and and Robert Lang,
University of Hartford
New Images of Arab Women on the Screen: Nadia El Fani's "Bedwin
Hacker"
(NP39) Governance and State-building in Turkey
Chair: Kim Shively, Kutztown
University
Yesim Arat,
Bogazici University
Afetinan and Feminist Nation Building in Early Republican Turkey
Ahmet T. Kuru, University of Washington
Between French and American Models: Turkish Secularism in a
Comparative Perspective
Yorgo Pasadeos, University of Alabama
Becoming Eurocentric: International News in the Turkish Daily
Press
Hootan Shambayati, Bilkent University
Establishing Horizontal Accountability: The Turkish Experience
Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University
Democratization in Diyarbakir: Changing Norms and Practices in
Southeast Turkey
Elif Andac, University of Washington
The Ottoman Empire in Transition: The Role of Pan-Ideologies in
State Building
(P011) Part I: Arabic Poetry: Contexts and Dimensions
Organized by
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Supported by Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Chair:
James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, American University
of Sharjah
Raymond K. Farrin,
University of California, Berkeley
Making the Remembrance Dear: The Poetic Art of al-Khansa'
Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
Ibn Muqbil: Structural Inversion and the Politics of Nostalgia
in an Early Islamic Qasida
Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona
Representations of Public and Private in Early Islamic Court
Culture
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University
From Text to Talisman: Myth, Relic and Miracle in the Two Mantle
Odes
(P024) Art and War
Organized by
Jessica Winegar and Kirsten Scheid
Chair:
Jessica Winegar, Fordham University
Discussant: Nasser Rabbat, MIT/Aga Khan Program
Roxanne Varzi,
SOAS, University of London
Dying to be Displayed
Kirsten Scheid, Princeton University
Liberation and Looting in Iraq: Fragmentation and the Work of
Art in the Founding of New Empires
Jessica Winegar, Fordham University
Bridges of Understanding?: American Interest in Middle Eastern
Cultural Production after 9/11
Silvia Naef, University of Geneva
Globalization, 9/11 and the Visual Arts Scene in the Eastern
Mediterranean
Sarah Rogers, MIT
The Politics of Display: Lebanon's Postwar Art Scene
(P027) Afro-Arab Borders: Conflicts and Conciliations
Organized by
Eve M. Troutt Powell
***Joint
session of MESA and the African Studies Association***
Chair/Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, New York University
David L. Schoenbrun,
Northwestern University
Slavery and Enslavement Between the Great Lakes (and Beyond) to
1800: Some Linguistic Evidence
Beth Baron, City University of New York
Rescuing Bodies and Saving Souls: British Abolitionists,
American Missionaries and African Slaves
Mandana Limbert, Queens College, CUNY
Marriage, Sufficiency and the Politics of Arabness in Zanzibar
Hisham Aidi, Columbia University
Studying Race and Ethnicity
in the Arab World: The
Politics of It All
The
following
panel
was
previously
scheduled
for
Tuesday,
November
22,
11:00am-1:00pm
(P032) The Politics of
Authoritarianism in the MENA
Organized
by Ellen Lust-Okar
Chair: Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant University
Discussant: Eva Bellin, Hunter College
Vickie Langohr,
College of the Holy Cross
Does Gender Discrimination Explain Arab Authoritarianism?
Ellen Lust-Okar, Yale University
Elections under Authoritarianism
Michele Penner Angrist, Union College
When Do Single-Party Regimes Become Vulnerable to Rupture?:
Reflections on Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria
Michael Herb, Georgia State University
Do Islamist Movements Matter?: Explaining the Democratic Deficit
in the Arab World
Fayez Hammad, University of Southern California
The United States and the Resilience of Authoritarianism in the
Arab World
The following panel has
moved to 4:30pm-6:30pm on
Sunday
(P039) Crossing Non-Borders: Shrines
and Waqf in Central Asia
Organized by Jo-Ann Gross
Sponsored by the Association for the
Study of Persianate Societies
Chair:
Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
Discussant: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto
Bahriddin Aliev, Inst. of
Lang/Lit, Academy of Sciences,
Tajikistan
Towards a History of the
Mausoleum of Muhammad Bashara in
Panjikand
Jo-Ann Gross, The
College of New Jersey
The Waqf History of the Shrine of Muhammad Bashara
Florian Schwarz, University
of Washington
The Politics of Sacred Space: Shaybanid Appanage Politics and
Waqf in Samarqand
Bahriddin Aliev,
Institute of Language and
Literature, Academy of Sciences,
Tajikistan
Towards a History of the
Mausoleum of Muhammad Bashara in
Panjikand
(P047) Middle Eastern Refugees: Global and Local Perspectives
(double session from 2:00pm-6:30pm)
Organized by
Kimberly Katz and Rochelle Davis
Chair: Kimberly Katz, Towson U
Discussant: Rochelle Davis, Georgetown U
2:00pm–Zinaida Miller, Harvard Law School
Settling with History: Considering a Commission of Historical
Inquiry for Israel/Palestine
2:25pm–Noura Erakat, Boalt Hall Law School, UC Berkeley
Non-State Parties in International Criminal Tribunals: A Case
Study of Palestinian Refugees from Jenin Refugee Camp
2:50pm–David M. DeBartolo, Georgetown U
Political Representation of External Communities: Palestinian
Refugees and Iraqi Expatriates
3:15pm-3:40pm **Discussion**
3:45pm–Isabelle Humphries, St. Mary’s College, U of
Surrey, UK
Neither Here Nor There: Palestinian Internal Refugees Seek a
Space in the Narrative
4:10pm–Amahl Bishara, New York U
Representing Palestinian Refugees: Mass-Mediated Negotiations
versus the Discomforts and Pleasures of Embodied Experience
4:35pm-4:50pm **Discussion**
4:55pm–Traci L. Lombré, U of Chicago
The 1991 Persian Gulf War and the Global Integration of Arab
Migration
5:20pm–John Dale, George Mason U
Multi-Network Survey Research on the Organization of
Transnational "Homes" among Afghans of Diverse Family: A New
Method for Researching Transnational Refugee Diasporas
5:45pm–Brendan Furey, UC Berkeley
Artistic Representation among Afghan Refugees in Northern
California
6:10pm-6:30pm **Discussion**
Previously scheduled for
Saturday, November 19 from 5:30pm-7:30pm
(P059) Writing
Arab Americans into the Discourse on
Race: Three Case Studies
Organized by
Hani Bawardi
Chair:
Hani Bawardi, Wayne State University
Fatina Abdrabboh, Harvard University
Arab Immigrants and African Americans: More than Black and White
Rima Meroueh, Wayne State University
Arab-Black Relations: What's Race Got To Do With It?
Saeed A. Khan,
Wayne State University
A Study of Arab and African-American Relations within the Muslim
Community: Briding the Divide Between Indigenous and Immigrant
Groups
Ihsan Alkhatib, Wayne State University
When the Shoe is on the Other Foot: Empowered Blacks and
Supplicant Arabs—Unbalanced Power Relations in a Government
Agency Setting
(P060) Egyptian Business History: New Sources, New Methods and
New Directions in Research
Organized by
Roger Owen, Harvard University
Chair:
Roger Owen, Harvard University
Discussant: AbdelAziz EzzelArab, Economic and Business
History Research Centre (EBHRC), American University in
Cairo
Robert J. Vitalis,
University of Pennsylvania
Captive Narratives: On the History of Firms and States in the
Middle East (and Beyond)
Karim Mostafa El-Sayed,
EBHRC, American University in Cairo
Café Riche: In Pursuit of a Non-Quantitative Business Model:
Implications of Macro Changes for Small Eateries in Downtown
Cairo
Dina Khalifa Hussein,
EBHRC, American University in Cairo
A Brave New City! Heliopolis: Place, Business and People
Mostafa Hany Hefny,
American University in Cairo
The Business History Voyager: Revisiting Western Methods in the
Light of Oral History Accounts of Egypt's Industrial Experience
(P066) Palestinian National Identity and Resistance in the 20th
Century: Textual Approaches
Organized by
Maha Nassar and Mezna Qato, St. Antony's College,
Oxford U
Discussant: Ghada Al
Madbouh, U of Maryland
Marion Boulby, Trent
University
Rena Barakat,
University of Chicago
Seeing the Trees through the Forest: Mass Politics and Thawrat
al-Buraq in Palestine
Mezna Qato, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
National Erasures: Palestine and History in a Jordanian
Classroom, c. 1950-1958
Maha Nassar, University of Chicago
On the Front Lines: The Arab "Discovery" of Palestinian Citizens
of Israel, 1967-1970
Lynne Rogers, University of Connecticut at Avery Point
Palestinian History through the Contemporary Novel
Tom Hill, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
The Historicity of Palestinian Literature since Oslo
(P068) New Perspectives on Jordanian Foreign Policy
Organized by
Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg
Chair:
Jillian Schwedler, University of Maryland, College Park
Discussant: Scott Greenwood, California State University,
San Marcos
Curtis R. Ryan,
Appalachian State University
Iraq and Roles: Jordanian and Syrian Responses to the U.S. War
on Iraq
Ken Rutherford, Missouri State University
Jordan's Leadership Role on Global Humanitarian Issues
Fares Braizat, Center for Strategic Studies, University
of Jordan
Jordanian Masses and Elites: Perceptions of the US and Terrorism
Russell E. Lucas, University of Oklahoma
Public Opinion and Jordanian Foreign Policy
Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg, Drury University
Where is the King?: Leaders and Foreign Policymaking in Jordan
(P084) Teaching and Learning Arabic to High Levels of Proficiency
Organized by
Jerry Lampe
Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Arabic
Chair:
Jerry Lampe, The National Foreign Language Center
Jerry Lampe, The
National Foreign Language Center
Lessons Learned from the Arabic Media Project: Improving
Instruction/Learning in the Presentational and Interpersonal
Modes
Zeinab Ahmed Taha,
Beyond the Main Ideas: The CASA Experience in Reaching Higher
Proficiency in Arabic
Hanaa Kilany, Washington University
High Level: Online Interactive Learning Material
Alaa Elgibali, University of Maryland
Advanced Proficiency in Arabic: A Path for the Future
(P085) Muslim Women's Ritual Practices: Local and Transnational
Religious Agency and Authority
Organized by
Margaret J. Rausch
Chair:
Kelly Pemberton Lamb, The George Washington University
Discussant:
Catharina Raudvere, Copenhagen University
Marion H. Katz,
New York University
Yemeni Women Chanters and the Re-Interpretation of the Prophet's
Mawlid
Kelly Pemberton Lamb, The George Washington University
An Assembly of Love Songs: Gender, Genre, and Performance in
Contemporary Sufi Practice
Margaret J. Rausch, University of Kansas
Tajik, Uzbek and Moroccan Berber Women's Sufi Rituals: Local,
National and Transnational Agency
Catharina Raudvere, Copenhagen University
Exile and Tradition: Mevlud Performances among Bosnian Women in
Scandinavia
THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC010) Meeting the Needs of a Neglected Region: A Newly Established Global
Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa
Region
Organized by Sandy Sufian
Moderator: Sandy Sufian,
University of Illinois-Chicago
Louise Lambert, University Warnborough
Ellen Amster, U of
Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Angel M. Foster, Harvard
Medical School/Ibis
Reproductive Health
Navid Madani, Harvard
University
Kamiar Alaei, Harvard
University/Triangular
Clinic, Kermanshah Iran
Debra Budiani,
University of Pennsylvania
SKILL BUILDING WORKSHOP
Proposal Writing Workshop for Graduate Students
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences do not, in
general, receive sufficient training in the increasingly
all-important professional skill of writing research
proposals. Following the successful proposal writing
workshop held at the MESA 2004 annual meeting in San
Francisco, Professor Suad Joseph (UC Davis) has kindly
agreed to run another workshop at the MESA 2005 annual
meeting in Washington, DC. The workshop will be sponsored by
the Association for Middle East Women's Studies.
Suad Joseph (AMEWS founder and first president) has taught
proposal writing for 25 years and run workshops for graduate
students at the University of California, Davis and American
University in Cairo, for faculty at American University in
Cairo, American University in Beirut and University of
California, Davis; as well as for public service agencies in
Lebanon and the United States. She has posted extensive
proposal writing resources on her website at
http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/.
Although walk-ins will be welcome (space permitting),
students are encouraged to sign up for the workshop in
advance, to give the organizers an idea of the appropriate
room size. To do so, please send the following information
to MESA
mesana@u.arizona.edu with a copy to Suad Joseph
sjoseph@ucdavis.edu:
1.
Name
2.
Department and University
3.
Year in graduate program
4.
Email address
Further, all
participants are asked to log on to
http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu and click on the proposal
writing workshop for Faculty and for Graduate students.
Please print out IN ADVANCE of
the workshop the following:
1.
Components of a Research Proposal
2. Ten Tips
3. List of
Funders
You are welcome to print out
and bring with you any other of the documents, and please
read as many as possible before the workshop.
Please direct questions about the workshop to Mark Lowder at
MESA (mlowder@u.arizona.edu).
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Sunday, November 20
4:30 p.m. |
(NP21) Crime,
Punishment, Law, and Legal Institutions in Ottoman and
post-Ottoman Regimes
Chair: Odile Moreau,
University Montpellier
III, France
Yüksel Sezgin,
University of Washington
A Comparative Analysis of Modern Forms of "Millet" System in
Israel, Egypt and India
Kent F. Schull, UCLA
Counting the Incarcerated in the Ottoman Empire: The 1912
Ottoman Campaign to Systematically Collect Prison Statistics and
Its Effects on Prison Reform
Havva G. Guney-Ruebenacker, Harvard Law School
The 1917 Ottoman Family Law: Revisiting the First Legal Debate
on Women Rights in Islamic Law
Roger Deal, University of Utah
The Rule of Law in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Abdulhamid II's
Criminal Courts
Betul Basaran, University of Chicago
Policing Istanbul at the
End of the Eighteenth
Century: Selim III and
His Urban Policies
(1789-1792)
(NP32) Palestine and Israel:
Post-Partition Issues
Chair: Miriam Joyce, Purdue
University (Calumet)
Haggai Ram,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Between Homeland and
Exile: Iranian Jewry in
Zionist/Israeli
Political Thought
Geremy Forman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Military Rule, Political Manipulation, and Jewish Settlement:
Israeli Mechanisms for Controlling Nazareth in the 1950s
Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
Comparing
Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish Property Claims in Discourse and
Diplomacy
Leanne Piggott, The University of Sydney
An Ideal Betrayed: Australia, Britain and the Palestine
Question, 1947-1948
(P012) Part II: Arabic Poetry:
Contexts and Dimensions
Organized by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Supported by Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Chair:
Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
Discussant: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana
University
James T. Monroe,
University of California, Berkeley
The Visit of Sir Gold (Ibn Quzman's Zajal 88)
Cyrus Zargar, University of California, Berkeley
The Poetry of "Tayf al-Khayal"
in Context: Power and
the Corruption of Sacred
Language
Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, Kyoto Notre Dame University
A Double Imitation in the Siniyyah of Ahmad Shawqi
Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi,
American University of Sharjah
Dedications Revisited: The Present in the Past
The following panel has been
rescheduled to this time
slot.
(P039) Crossing Non-Borders: Shrines
and Waqf in Central Asia
Organized by Jo-Ann Gross
Sponsored by the Association for the
Study of Persianate Societies
Chair:
Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
Discussant: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto
Bahriddin Aliev, Inst. of
Lang/Lit, Academy of Sciences,
Tajikistan
Towards a History of the
Mausoleum of Muhammad Bashara in
Panjikand
Jo-Ann Gross, The
College of New Jersey
The Waqf History of the Shrine of Muhammad Bashara
Florian Schwarz, University
of Washington
The Politics of Sacred Space: Shaybanid Appanage Politics and
Waqf in Samarqand
Bahriddin Aliev,
Institute of Language and
Literature, Academy of Sciences,
Tajikistan
Towards a History of the
Mausoleum of Muhammad Bashara in
Panjikand
(P047) Middle Eastern Refugees: Global and Local Perspectives
(double session from 2:00pm-6:30pm)
Organized by
Kimberly Katz and Rochelle Davis
Chair: Kimberly Katz, Towson U
Discussant: Rochelle Davis, Georgetown U
2:00pm–Zinaida Miller, Harvard Law School
Settling with History: Considering a Commission of Historical
Inquiry for Israel/Palestine
2:25pm–Noura Erakat, Boalt Hall Law School, UC Berkeley
Non-State Parties in International Criminal Tribunals: A Case
Study of Palestinian Refugees from Jenin Refugee Camp
2:50pm–David M. DeBartolo, Georgetown U
Political Representation of External Communities: Palestinian
Refugees and Iraqi Expatriates
3:15pm-3:40pm **Discussion**
3:45pm–Isabelle Humphries, St. Mary’s College, U of
Surrey, UK
Neither Here Nor There: Palestinian Internal Refugees Seek a
Space in the Narrative
4:10pm–Amahl Bishara, New York U
Representing Palestinian Refugees: Mass-Mediated Negotiations
versus the Discomforts and Pleasures of Embodied Experience
4:35pm-4:50pm **Discussion**
4:55pm–Traci L. Lombré, U of Chicago
The 1991 Persian Gulf War and the Global Integration of Arab
Migration
5:20pm–John Dale, George Mason U
Multi-Network Survey Research on the Organization of
Transnational "Homes" among Afghans of Diverse Family: A New
Method for Researching Transnational Refugee Diasporas
5:45pm–Brendan Furey, UC Berkeley
Artistic Representation among Afghan Refugees in Northern
California
6:10pm-6:30pm **Discussion**
(P050) Early Islamic History
according to the Papyri
Organized by W. Matt Malczycki
Sponsored by the Middle East Medievalists
Chair:
Jere L. Bacharach, University of Washington
W.
Matt Malczycki,
American University in
Cairo
A New Arabic Papyrus Collection
Petra M. Sijpesteijn, University of Oxford
Administering Islamic Egypt: A New Papyrus Letter from the
Umayyid Period
Lennart Sundelin, Princeton University
Reassessing a 'Medieval
Green Revolution' in the
Egyptian Countryside
Uriel Simonsohn, Princeton University
Response and
Transmission: Non-Muslim
Response to Islam and
the Communication Which
Followed It
(P054) From Ideology to Pragmatism:
Libya, the Rogue Turned Respectable State
Organized by Yahia H. Zoubir and Haizam
Amirah-Fernández
Sponsored by the American Institute of Maghrib Studies
Chair:
Haizam Amirah-Fernández, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid/St.
Louis University
Discussant: R. Bruce St John, Independent Scholar
Yahia H. Zoubir,
Euromed Marsellie, Ecole
de Management
Libya and the United States: From Confrontation to Cooperation
Mary Jane Deeb, Library
of Congress
Domestic Changes in Libya and
Their Impact on Foreign Policy
Haizam Amirah-Fernández, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid
The EU and Libya: Opportunities and Limits of the Rapprochement,
Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid |