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PROGRAM

(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.

(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

(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

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

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

(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

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

(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

(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

(P076) Policing Islam
Organized by Thomas Abowd

Chair: Minoo Moallem, San Francisco State University
Discussant: Juan Cole, University of Michigan

Najeeb A. Jan, University of Michigan
The Politics of Blasphemy: Controlling Islam and Islamicizing Control
Mayanthi Fernando, University of Chicago
Domesticating Islam: State Responses to the Islamic Revival in France
Loren D. Lybarger, California State University, Chico
Policing Structures, Generational Divisions, and the Dialogic Re-Framing of Palestinian Political Identities during the Oslo Peace Process
Thomas Abowd, Wayne State University
The Terrifying "War on Terror": "National Security", Civil Liberties, and the Politics of Fear among Muslims in a Post-9/11 America

(P077) Decline or Transformation: The Economy of the Later Mamluk Sultanate
Organized by Warren C. Schultz

Bethany J. Walker, Grand Valley State University
Tranformations of the Agricultural Economy of Late Mamluk Jordan
John Meloy, American University of Beirut
Patronage, Protection, and Extortion in Mamluk Politics
Warren C. Schultz, DePaul University
The Dinar vs. the Ducat Revisted

(P091) Britain's Moment in the Middle East and the Debate on Empire
Organized by Yoav Alon

Chair/Discussant: Eugene Rogan, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv University
Imperial History and Middle Eastern Studies: Would Parallels Ever Meet?
Niall Ó Murchú, Western Washington University
Ideas and Constraints: Recent Scholarship on Colonialism in the Middle East
James Onley, University of Exeter/American University of Sharjah
Britain's Native Agents in Arabia and Persia in the Nineteenth Century
Toby Dodge, University of London
Bringing Social Theory In: Understanding British Colonial Agency in the Middle East

(P097) Gender and Borderlands of Iran and Beyond
Organized by Diane Tober

Chair/Discussant: Janet Afary, Purdue University

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies

Ayse Gul Altinay, Sabanci University
Problematizing 'Women's Place' in the Multiple Borderzones of Gender and Ethnic Politics in Turkey
Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut, CNRS-Monde Iranien and University of Paris 8
Balouch Women in Iran: How Borders Matter
Mary Elaine Hegland, Santa Clara University
From Village to Suburb: Implications for Gender and Generational Hierarchies
Diane Tober, UC Berkeley
Afghan Refugees in Iran: Ethnicity, Gender and Views toward Repatriation
Ashraf Zahedi, Stanford University
Transnational Marriages, Gender, and Citizenship: Iranian Women and Afghan Men
Shahla Haeri, Boston University
Religion, Politics, and Women in Iran: Edging toward Democracy?

(P100) From Insurgency to Reconstruction: Contexts for Post-Ba'thi Iraq
Organized by Charlie Brown

Chair: Charlie Brown, University of Utah
Discussant: Nabil Al-Tikriti, University of Mary Washington

Oren Barak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dilemmas of Security in Iraq
Sherifa Zuhur, Strategic Studies Inst., U.S. Army War College
Iraq: Neonationalism and Insurgency
Jason Brownlee, University of Texas at Austin
Seeing Like Paul Bremer: Why American Schemes to Impose Democracy Have Consistently Failed
Charlie Brown, University of Utah
The Effects of Insecurity and Insurgency on Iraqi Reconstruction: The Case of Primary and Secondary Education
Weibke Fleig, University of Hamburg
The Shiite-Islamist Movements and the Future of Iraq
Alexander R. Dawoody, Western Michigan University
Federalism and the Kurdish Quest for Self-Rule in Iraq: Examining the Kurdish Political Parties' Proposal for a Federated Iraq and the Road Toward Secession

ROUNDTABLE
(RT005) Cities and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Organized by Jens Hanssen

Chair: Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto

Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
Colonizing Baghdad
Leila Hudson, University of Arizona
John Chalcraft, London School of Economics
Invisible Men in the City: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon since 1945
Mercedes Volait, CNRS
Levantine Circulations in the 20th Century: From Beirut to Heliopolis and Back
Maha Yahya, MIT
Domesticating Modernism: Towards a National Symbolic
Salim Tamari, Institute of Jerusalem Studies
The Emergence of Public Space and New Urban Sensibilities in Mandate Jerusalem

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC006) Publics in Crisis: Academia and Activism in Middle East Studies
Organized by Seteney Shami

Zachary Lockman, New York University
Jennifer Olmsted, Drew University
Lori Allen, Brown University
Rabab Abdulhadi, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Koray Caliskan, Bogazici U

SPECIAL SESSION
(S013) Lebanon: Plus ca Change, Plus c'est la Même Chose?
Organized by Augustus Richard Norton

Chair: Augustus Richard Norton, Boston College

Gwenn Okruhlik, University of Texas
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Leila Fawaz, Tufts University
Fouad Makhzoumi, Head of the National Dialogue Party, Lebanon
Nawaf Salam, American University of Beirut

Monday, November 21
8:30 a.m.

(NP09) Islamic History

Chair: Ghada Osman, San Diego State University
Chair: Patricia L. Niehoff, College of the Atlantic

Steven Judd, Southern Connecticut State University
Re-evaluating al-Walid b. Yazid
Patrick Wing, University of Chicago
A Mongol Tribe and the Experience of Empire: The Jalayir in the Ilkhan Realm
Mohammad Hassan Khalil, University of Michigan
The Intersection of Sira, Tafsir, and Fiqh: Tabari Waqidi, and Ibn Ishaq as Case Studies for Source-Criticism
H. Gilli-Elewy, California State University, Pomona
The Sacred Character of the Last Abbasid Caliph and the Spread of Popular Islam after the Mongol Invasion of Baghdad in 1258

(NP18) Television and Media in Lebanon, Turkey, and Egypt

Chair: Hoda Salah, University of Frankfurt

Matthijs van den Bos, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies
Relocating Dutch-Iranian Exile: On- and Offline Dutch-Iranian Transnational Networks (and Their Comparison with Turkish-Kurdish Networks)
Marwan M. Kraidy, American University
Screens of Contention: Arab Reality Television and the Challenges of Modernity
Patricia Kubala, University of California, Santa Barbara
Melody, Mazzika, and SMS: Music Video Clips and Politico-Ethical Subjectivity in Egypt
Etga Ugur, University of Utah
An Analysis of Turkish Political Culture through the Lens of TV Series
Orhan Tekelioglu, Izmir University of Economics
New Dynamics of Social Mobility and Cultural Conservatism in Turkey: A Sociological Analysis of the Rising Personalities at the Reality Shows and Popular Song Contests of the Turkish TV

(NP37) Contested Space and Identities in Israel and Palestine

Chair: Dov Waxman, Baruch College, CUNY

Rhoda Kanaaneh, American University
Bargaining Soldiers: Palestinians in the Israeli Military
Nathan C. Funk, Conrad Grebel Univjersity College, U of Waterloo
Renegotiating the Sacred: Religious Peacebuilding, Contested Sacred Space, and the Transformation of Symbolic Conflict
Stephen Gasteyer, RCAP/American University
Landscapes of Conflict: Ideology and Historical Perceptions of Landscape Change in Southern West Bank, Palestine
Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, Pamona College
Gender, Nationalism and Citizenship: The Case of Palestinian Women in Israel

(NP42) Islam and Politics

Chair: Asma Afsaruddin, University of Notre Dame

Yudian Wahyudi, Tufts University/UIN Sunan Kalijaga
Quranic Extremism?: Sayyid Qutb versus Hasan Hanafi
Haitham E. Swelam, Indiana University, Bloomington
Applying the Quadruplus Modus to Islamic Political Thought: Al-Farabi's Attempt at Harmonizing the Opinoins of the Two Sages: Plato & Aristotle
Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest University
Weak Framings and Missed Opportunity Structures: Democracy in the Nationalist-Islamist Conferences
Rola El-Husseini, Yale University
The Concept of "Resistance" in Contemporary Arab Shi'a Discourse
David Siddhartha Patel, Stanford University
Ayatollahs on the Pareto Frontier: The Institutional Basis of Religious Authority in Iraq
Iveta Kourilova, Charles University, Prague
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Shari'a, and Islam on al-Jazeera

(NP44) Defining American Interests in the Middle East

Chair: Linda K. Brown, Baltimore County Public Schools

Patrick Conge, University of Arkansas
Interests as Illusions: The Energy of Ideas in the Relationship of the United States with Saudi Arabia
Ahmad Soltani Nejad, Tarbiat Modares University
The U.S. Role in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process and Its Implications for Iran
Annita Lazar, Nanyang Technological University
American Neo-Liberal Internationalism and the Middle East
May Farah, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Terror'tories": 9/11, Media Discourse, and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Younus Mirza, Georgetown University
Evaluating Al Qaeda's Frame of Collective Action: The Implications of Al Qaeda's Injustice Frame, Frame Transformation, and Counterframe on American Policy

(NP46) Economic Development, Property Rights, and Trade in the Middle East

Chair: Octavius Pinkard, Christopher Newport U

Nadya Hajj, Emory University
Against All Odds: Informal Property Rights and Economic Development in Refugee Camps
Sema Kalaycioglu, Isik University
Is the Outcome Worth the Effort?: Free Trade Agreements and Turkey
Hania Maraqa, MIT
The Role of the United Nations and the World Bank in the Economic Development Process in Palestinians Refugee Camps in Jordan
Nora Ann Colton, Drew University
Can Trade Substitute for Factor Mobility or Does Factor Mobility Substitute for Trade: The Case of North Africa and Europe
Ali Burak Guven, University of Toronto
International Integration, Social Compromises, and the Institutional Impasse in Turkey's Market Reforms
Megan Reif, University of Michigan
The Politics of Consumption in the Islamic World: A Survey of Algerian Youth

(P003) Kurdistan-Iraq, Iraq and Regional Politics: Iran, Turkey and Syria, 2004-2005
Organized by Robert Olson

Chair: Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
Discussant: Phebe Marr, U.S. Institute of Peace

Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
The Goat & the Butcher: Turkey, Kurdistan-Iraq and Iraq Relations, 2004-2005
Nader Entessar, Spring Hill College
Iran and Political Developments in Post-Saddam Iraq and Kurdistan
Malik Mufti, Tufts University
Under Siege: Syrian Ba'thism and the Third Wave of Arab Political Upheaval
Gareth Stansfield, University of Exeter
The Kurdish Conundrum in Iraq, 2004-2005

(P014) Christian Missions and Palestine
Organized by Heather J. Sharkey

Chair/Discussant: Thomas M. Ricks, University of Pennsylvania

Nancy L. Stockdale, University of Central Florida
"They Are Just Like Children": Palestinian Women through the British Missionary Lens, 1840-1914
Charlotte van der Leest, Universiteit Leiden
Protestant Missionary Activities in Palestine (1846-1879): A Source of Rivalry between Protestants and Roman Catholics
Inger Marie Okkenhaug, University of Bergen
Signe Ekblad and the Swedish School in Jerusalem, 1922-1948
Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania
The American Mission in Egypt and the Palestinian Refugee Problem: A Study of Church Politics in the Middle East, 1948-2005

(P025) The Novelization of Islamic Literatures
Organized by Wen-Chin Ouyang

Chair/Discussant: Michael Beard, University of North Dakota

Mohamed-Salah Omri, Univ of Exeter, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies
The Maqamah Effect and the Rise of the Arabic Novel
Wen-Chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London
Transformation of Time and Space in Arabic Narrative of "Journey": Modernization in 'Ali Mubarak's "Al-khitat al-tawfiqiyya" and "'Alam al-Din"
Sibel Erol, New York University
Reading Orhan Pamuk's "Snow" as a Parody
Hashem Ahmadzadeh, Uppsala University
A Generic Journey: When the Kurds Begin to Narrate Themselves

(P037) Syria: Change at the Margins
Organized by Fred H. Lawson

Sponsored by the Syrian Studies Association

Chair: Elisabeth Longuenesse, CNRS Paris
Discussant: Fred H. Lawson, Mills College

Myriam Ababsa, IFPO Amman
Forms of Counter-Revolution in the Syrian Countryside
Hassan Abbas, IFEAD
Cultural Revival as the Portent of Syria's Social Effervescence
Sylvia Chiffoleau, IFPO Damascus
Pilgrimage, Ziyara, and the Enlargement of Syria's Public Sphere
Paulo G. Hilu Pinto, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Disciplining the Faithful: Sufism and the Politics of Morality in Syria
Jordi Tejel Gorgas, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Kurds of Syria: From 'Dissimulation' to Visibility?

(P089) Mapping Arab Diasporas: Gender, Race, and Citizenship
Organized by Rabab Abdulhadi, , University of Michigan-Dearborn

Organized under the auspices of the Center for Arab American Studies-University of Michigan, Dearborn

Chair/Discussant: Laleh Khalili, SOAS

Hani Bawardi, Wayne State University
National Consciousness: The Bedrock of Arab American Identity
Moulouk Berry, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Muslim Lebanese American Women Negotiating Gender, Law, and Religion in Dearborn, Michigan
Randa Serhan, Columbia University
Second-Generation Palestinian Immigrants: At the Intersection of Nationalism and Ethnicity
Fadwa Al Labadi, Al-Quds University
Memory in Diaspora, Remembering, Disremembering, and Healing
Amira Jarmakani, Georgia State U
Little Egypt's Legacy: The Problematics of Reclaiming Roots in Diaspora

(P092) In the Realm of Kharijism: Shurat, Khawarij and Ibadis and the Re/Construction of Identities
Organized by Annie C. Higgins

Discussant: Fred Donner, University of Chicago

Hussam S. Timani, Christopher Newport University
The Kharijites in Western Historiography: The Art of Interpretation
Annie C. Higgins, University of Florida
My Father is Islam: Shurat Poets Redefining Family Ties
Valerie J. Hoffman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thirsting for the Waters of Nahrawan: The Evocation and Evaluation of Kharijism in 19th- and 20th-Century Ibadi Writings
Amal N. Ghazal, University of Toronto
"Ibadis Are Not Khawarij": Salafi Ibadism and the Reordering of History in the Writings of Ibrahim Atfiyyah

ROUNDTABLE
(RT008) Building Strong Language Programs on a Budget or Making Outsourcing Work for You and Your Students
Organized by Kirk Belnap

Organized under the auspices of the National Middle East Language Resource Center

Chair: Kirk Belnap, Brigham Young University

Kirk Belnap, Brigham Young University
"If You Build It, They Will Come"
Dilworth Parkinson, Brigham Young University
Lessons Learned from Taking 57 Arabic Students to Egypt for a Semester
Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown University
Turkish Study Abroad
Benjamin Hary, Emory University
Making the Most of Hebrew Study Abroad

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC005) Modern Turkish Social History: New Approaches and Sources
Organized by Gavin Brockett

Chair: Gavin Brockett, University of Northern British Columbia

Hale Yilmaz, University of Utah
Meltem Türköz, University of Pennsylvania
Kathryn Libal, University of Connecticut
G. Carole Woodall, New York U
Murat Yuksel, Columbia University

(NP05) Religious Texts and Their Interpreters

Chair: Yudian Wahyudi, Tufts University/UIN Sunan Kalijaga
Chair: Patricia L. Niehoff, College of the Atlantic

Najam Haider, Princeton University
A Shafi'i/Zaydi Legal Polemic against the Integrity of 'Amal: The Basmalah as a Case Study
Gabriel Said Reynolds, Notre Dame University
Qur'an 4:155 and Circumcision of the Heart
Richard Serrano, Rutgers University
"Their Skins Shall Be Melted": Ibn Ahmar, al-Akhtal and the Poetics of Tafsir
Rannfrid I. Thelle, University of Oslo
The Biblical Conquest Account and Its Modern Hermeneutical Challenges
Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Memorizing the Qur'an and Reciting the Qur'an in the Medieval Middle East: Religious and Social Meanings

(NP30) Peoples on the Margins

Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State University

Nicola Migliorino, University of Exeter
Minority Cultures and the State: The Experience of the Armenian Communities in Lebanon and Syria
Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame
Between Palestine and Lebanon: Seven Shi'i Villages as a Case Study of Border Dynamics and Identities in the Middle East
Marya T. Green-Mercado, University of Chicago
Demetrio, the "Greek Morisco": Religious Identity and the Ottoman-Habsburg Frontier in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Aomar Boum, University of Arizona
Jews and Muslim Judges: Sources for the Socio-Economic Study of a Saharan Oasis Jewry

(P022) Iraq: A Cultural Panorama (DOUBLE SESSION)
Organized by Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi

Organized under the auspices of the American University of Sharjah

Chair/Discussant: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah

George N. El-Hage, Columbia University
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the Role of the Modern Arab Poet
Hager Ben Driss, Qirawan Faculty of Arts, Tunis
Iraqi Women Writers: The Narrative of Identity
William Granara, Harvard University
Najm Wali and the New "Mahjar" Arabic Novel
Mohammad Salama, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Re-Framing History: How Baathist Iraqi Cinema Constructed the Past
Taoufiq Ben Amor, Columbia University
Diglossia and Code Switching in Iraqi Maqam Music
Sinan Antoon, New York University
In the Vocative Case: Saadi Yousef's Iraq
Nadia Alhasani, American University of Sharjah
Reflections on the Aesthetics of Modern Iraqi Architecture and Art
Nada M. Shabout, University of North Texas
"Feminine Views": Contemporary Iraqi Women Artists
Mateo M. Farzaneh, UC Santa Barbara
Emam Hussein, the Battle of Karbala, Basij-e Enghelab-e Eslami-e Iran, and Iranian Nationalism during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)

(P031) Guantanamo Bay as Foreign Policy: The United States, Political Reform and Human Rights in the Arab World
Organized by Thomas Stevenson

Chair: Thomas Stevenson, Ohio University-Zanesville

Neal Katyal, Georgetown University Law Center
Military Order No. 1 and the US Constitution
Charles Swift, LCDR, JAGC, USN, United States Navy
Guantánamo Bay and the Laws of War
Her Excellency Amat Al-Alim Al-Suswah, Minister of Human Rights, Republic of Yemen
Guantánamo Bay and Human Rights in Yemen
Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch
Guantánamo Bay and Human Rights in the Arab World
Charles Schmitz, Towson University
Gitmo and the Politics of Political Reform in the Arab World

(P040) Leisurely Diversions and Transgressive Encounters: Rethinking the Relationship between the Colonized and the Colonizer in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Shaun T. Lopez

Chair: Shaun T. Lopez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Shaun T. Lopez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Equal between the Lines: Negotiating Colonialism in Anglo-Egyptian Soccer Leagues, 1900-1930
Mario M. Ruiz, Hofstra University
To Love, Honor, and Disobey: Euro-Egyptian Romance and Transgressive Behavior in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College
Colonial Love and the Post-Colonial Mourning of Algerian Hybridity in "Nedjma" and "The Lovers of Algeria"
Will Hanley, Princeton University
Second-Rate Foreigners: Algerians and Maltese in Alexandria, 1880-1914

(P045) Facing the Challenges: New CASA Projects and Strategies
Organized by Zeinab Ahmed Taha

Chair/Discussant: Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American University in Cairo

Raghda El-Essawi, American University in Cairo
Challenges in Teaching the Writing Skill
Nevenka Korica, American University in Cairo
A New Summer Course on Culture and History of Egypt
Shahira Yacout, American University in Cairo
New Direction in Teaching Listening: The CASA Experience
Hebatalla Salem, Center for Arabic Study Abroad
Towards Higher Proficiency in Educated Spoken Arabic

(P053) When Islamists Vie for Votes
Organized by Mirjam Künkler and Ipek Gencel Sezgin

Chair: Metin Heper, Bilkent University
Discussant: Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate School

Mona El-Ghobashy, Columbia University
The Transformation of the Egyptian Muslim Brothers, 1984-2003
Ipek Gencel Sezgin, Bilkent University/EHESS
Islamists during the Early Years of Multi-Party Politics in Turkey, 1945-1960
Babak Rahimi, University of California, San Diego
Sistanian Politics: Shi'I Political Organizations and the Democratization of Post-Saddam Iraq
Mirjam Künkler, Columbia University
More Pragmatic Than Liberal: The Case of Indonesia's Muhammadiyah, 1991-2004
Eva Wegner, European University Institute
Trading Ideological Purity for Legality: The Moroccan Islamist Movement in Electoral Politics

(P072) American Protestant Missionaries and Their Influence in the Middle East, 19th-(early)20th Centuries
Organized by Devrim Umit, Columbia University

Chair: Ussama Makdisi, Rice University
Discussant: Carolyn Goffman, DePaul University

Barbara J. Merguerian, Armenian International Women's Association
American Debates over Higher Education for Ottoman Women
Hans-Lukas Kieser, University of Zurich
Hope and Disappointment: American Protestant Missionaries and the Young Turks (1908-1923)
Marwa Elshakry, Harvard University
The Gospel of Science and American Evangelism in Nineteenth Century Beirut
Devrim Umit, Columbia University
The Role of American Protestant Missionaries at the Lausanne Conference, 1922-1923: Missionaries versus Missionaries

(P073) New Directions in Syrian Regional Policy
Organized by Fred H. Lawson

Chair: Malik Mufti, Tufts University

Elizabeth Picard, Iremam-MMSH
Syrian-Turkish Rapprochement: Ways and Signs of Damascus's Compliance with Regional Normalization
Sonoko Sunayama, UNDP
Syrian-Saudi Relations
Najib Ghadbian, University of Arkansas
A New Syrian Policy toward Lebanon?
Fred H. Lawson, Mills College
Syria's Relations with Iran: Coping with the Dilemmas of Alliance

(P094) Comparative Perspectives on the Politics of Muslim Women's Dress
Organized by Mervat F. Hatem

Chair: Mervat F. Hatem, Howard University

Omaima Abou-Bakr, The Women and Memory Forum
Fear of the Hijab: A Personal Reading of the Modern Islamic Head Cover
Sayo Abayomi, Howard University
The Politics of Dress
Rebecca Fenderson, Howard University
American Views of Women's Dress and Reactions to the Veil
Merve Kavakci, George Washington University
Social and Political Implications of the Ban on Headdress in Turkey

(P095) Avenues for the Expression of Contemporary Egyptian Nationalism
Organized by Malak S. Rouchdy, Reem Saad, Maha Abdelrahman, and Iman Hamdy

Chair: Khaled Fahmy, New York University
Discussants: Hanan Sabea, University of Virginia and Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid, Colgate University

Reem Saad, American University in Cairo
Traditional Crafts as Egyptian National Heritage
Maha Abdelrahman, American University in Cairo
The Nationalization of the Human Rights Debate in Egypt
Malak S. Rouchdy, American University in Cairo
Fragments of Memory: Life Stories of Egyptian Women and National Identity
Iman Hamdy, American University in Cairo
"Egypt First": A Different Nationalism for Different Ends
Madiha Doss, Cairo University
Language Legislation in Egypt: A Tentative Reading in Nationalism and Identity

(P098) Religious Minorities in Afghanistan
Organized by Senzil Nawid

Chair: Senzil Nawid, University of Arizona
Discussant: Alam M. Payind, Ohio State U

Carol J. Riphenburg, College of DuPage
The Shi'a and Minority Group Politics in Afghanistan
Grant Farr, Portland State University
Afghan Hazara: A Change in Status?
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University
South Asian Merchants and the Colonial Construction of Minorities and Majorities in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
Sara Kopolik, Albuquerque, NM
The Demise of the Jewish Community in Afghanistan

ROUNDTABLE
(RT003) Israeli Foreign Policy Since Arafat
Organized by Robert O. Freedman

Sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies

Chair: Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University

Efraim Inbar, Bar-Ilan University
Israeli-Palestinian Relations Since Arafat
Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University
Israel and the Arab World Since Arafat
Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University
Israel and the United States Since Arafat
Raphael Danziger, AIPAC
AIPAC and Israel

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC008) Bi-national or Federal Option in Palestine-Israel: Prospects and Feasibility
Organized by Christa Bruhn

Moderator: Christa Bruhn, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Nasser Abu-Farha, University of Wisconsin-Madison

(S008) Skill-Building Workshop: The Job Market 101
Organized by Alan Mikhail

Chair: Alan Mikhail, University of California, Berkeley

Shira Robinson, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa
Tamir Moustafa, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin
Rochelle Davis, Ctr. for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
John McNeill, Professor of History, Director of Graduate Studies, and Cinco Hermanos Chair of Environmental and International Affairs, Georgetown University

One of the most daunting and yet most important tests in one's graduate school career is securing a first job. As you prepare to enter the academic job market, learn from our panel of "experts" about what you can expect from the job search experience. This panel of recent PhDs and members of hiring committees will address academic interviews, job talks, the application procedure, postdocs, and many other related issues. Come learn how best to prepare yourself and to present your credentials for one of the most important steps of your career.

SPECIAL SESSION
(S003) A People's History of MESA: Part II

Chair: Laurie Brand, University of Southern California

Participants TBA

SPECIAL SESSION
(S005) Author Meets Critics: A Look at Elif Shafak's New Book The Saint of Incipient Insanities
Organized by Fatma Müge Göçek

Chair: Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan

Elif Shafak, University of Arizona
Jenny B. White, Boston University
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University
Elmira Bayrasli, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Hercegovina

(NP08) Constructing Historical Traditions

Chair: Hayrettin Yucesoy, Saint Louis University

Hiroyuki Ogasawara, University of Tokyo
The Seljuk Origin of the Ottoman Dynasty: An Analysis of Ottoman Chronicles Up to the Late Sixteenth Century
Sholeh A. Quinn, Ohio University
Ottoman and Safavid Persian Historiography: A Comparative Study
Recep Gurkan Goktas, Harvard University
Did al-Bukhari Solely Depend on the Isnads in His Selection of Hadiths for al-Jamio al-Sahih?
Teruaki Moriyama, University of Tokyo
The Prevalence of Compiling Biographical Local Histories

(NP17) Making Memories

Chair: Amira El Zein, Tufts University

Metin Yuksel, University of Chicago
Kurdish Bards in Turkey
Sune Haugbolle, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
Memory Mongers: Intellectual Representations of Memory in Post-War Lebanon
Edward Gibeau, University of Connecticut
The Lebanese Civil War Onscreen
Sam Liebhaber, University of California, Berkeley
Oral Traditions and the 'New School' of Poetry and Song in the Mahri Language of Southeast Yemen
Awad Awad, UCLA
Al-Taghreeba Al-Falastiniyya: The Re-Making of a Popular National Consciousness

The following panel has moved to Sunday, November 20, 8:30am-10:30am
(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

(NP34) Islam Outside the Middle East

Chair: Weston F. Cook Jr., University of North Carolina, Pembroke

Richard C. Foltz, Concordia University
Islamic Animal Rights on the Internet
Sebastien Peyrouse, French Institute of Central Asian Studies
Managing Religion in Central Asia: The Continuity of the Soviet Conceptual Framework
Lahmuddin Lahmuddin, University of Arkansas
Islamic Law and Military Emergency in Aceh, Indonesia before the Tsunami 2004
Saba Ghori, University of Texas at Austin
The Hudood Ordinance and Its Effect on Women in Pakistan
Mohamed A. Nimer, Council on American-Islamic Relations
The U.S. 2004 Elections: A Victory for American Muslim Identity

(P004) Departed but Not Dead: The Presence of Figures from the Past in Islamic Lands

Supported by the ILEX Foundation

Chair: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University
Discussant: Louise Marlow, Wellesley College

Olga M. Davidson, Wellesley College
The Burden of the Buried: Alexander and the Dead in Persian Literature
Michael Cooperson, UCLA
No Rest for the Wicked: Harun al-Rashid in Modern Iran
Devin DeWeese, Indiana University
Breaking the Chain: Encounters with the Dead and the Making of the Naqshbandi Silsilah
Mohammad J. Mahallati, ILEX Foundation
Departed but Not Dead: Maintaining a Presence and Leaving a Memory

(P008) Same-Sex Relations Chez Muslims and Iranians
Organized by Firoozeh Papan-Matin

Chair: Firoozeh Papan-Matin, University of Washington

Janet Afary, Purdue University
Was There a Male Ethics of Love in Pre-modern Iranian Society?
Reza Aslan, University of California , Santa Barbara
Queer Jihad: The Struggle for a Gay Muslim Identity
Firoozeh Papan-Matin, University of Washington
Khordadian: An Iran Dancer in Dubai

(P017) Martyrdom, Sacrifice and Collective Identities
Organized by Lucia Volk

Discussant: Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Chair: Tamir Sorek, Cornell University

Tamir Sorek, Cornell University
Cautious Commemoration of a National Minority: Monuments for Palestinian Martyrs in Israel
Laleh Khalili, SOAS
Palestinian and Iranian Discourses of Martyrdom at the Interstices of the Local and the Global
Umut Azak, Leiden University
Turkish Secularism and Its Myths: Commemorations of the Martyr Kubilay Day
Lucia Volk, San Francisco State University
Foreign Martyrs for National Sacrifice: The Changing Images of Lebanon's Heroes

(P022) Iraq: A Cultural Panorama (DOUBLE SESSION-continued)
Organized by Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi

Organized under the auspices of the American University of Sharjah

Chair/Discussant: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah

George N. El-Hage, Columbia University
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the Role of the Modern Arab Poet
Hager Ben Driss, Qirawan Faculty of Arts, Tunis
Iraqi Women Writers: The Narrative of Identity
William Granara, Harvard University
Najm Wali and the New "Mahjar" Arabic Novel
Mohammad Salama, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
Re-Framing History: How Baathist Iraqi Cinema Constructed the Past
Taoufiq Ben Amor, Columbia University
Diglossia and Code Switching in Iraqi Maqam Music
Sinan Antoon, New York University
In the Vocative Case: Saadi Yousef's Iraq
Nadia Alhasani, American University of Sharjah
Reflections on the Aesthetics of Modern Iraqi Architecture and Art
Nada M. Shabout, University of North Texas
"Feminine Views": Contemporary Iraqi Women Artists
Mateo M. Farzaneh, UC Santa Barbara
Emam Hussein, the Battle of Karbala, Basij-e Enghelab-e Eslami-e Iran, and Iranian Nationalism during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)

(P036) Police, Politics, and the State
Organized by Ilana Feldman

Chair: Ilana Feldman, New York University
Discussant: Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara

Samera Esmeir, New York University
Security and the Constitution of the General Juridical Order: The Case of Colonial Egypt (1882-1936)
Ilana Feldman, New York University
Observing the Everyday: Policing and Citizenship in Gaza (1948-67)
Shira Robinson, University of Iowa
Police, Paper Work, and Palestinian Citizenship in Early Israel

(P042) The Mediterranean Memory Trade
Organized by Deborah Starr and Rebecca Bryant

Chairs: Deborah Starr, Cornell University and Rebecca Bryant, George Mason University
Discussant: Eran Kaplan, University of Cincinnati

Yaron Peleg, George Washington University
Mizrahi Nostalgia in Ronit Matalon's "The One Facing Us"
Deborah Starr, Cornell University
Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt
Rebecca Bryant, George Mason University
Writing from the Mediterranean Margins: Women's Histories, Women's Lives
Asli Igsiz, University of Michigan
Politics of Recognition, Genres of Return

(P043) Ottoman Identity and the Development of an Imperial Culture in the Fifteenth Century
Organized by Linda T. Darling

Chair: Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona
Discussant: Douglas A. Howard, Calvin College

Christine Isom-Verhaaren, North Central College
The Formation of Ottoman Identity in the 15th Century
Tijana Krstic, Northwestern University
How to Read Ottoman Soldiers' Stories: "Syncretism," "Anti-syncretism" and Conversion in 15th Century Ottoman Empire
Gottfried Hagen, University of Michigan
Religious Narratives and Ottoman Identity in the 15th Century
Linda T. Darling, U of Arizona
Political Literature and Ottoman Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century

(P048) Gendered Progress: Family Structure, Women, and Modernization Projects in the Middle East
Organized by A. Holly Shissler

Kenneth M. Cuno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Demography, Household Formation, and Marriage in Three Egyptian Villages during the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Oyku Potuoglu-Cook, Northwestern University
A Laboratory Abroad for Modernization: Ottoman Participation in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Monica Ringer, Amherst College
Contested Leadership: Zoroastrian Women's Organizations in Pahlavi Tehran
A. Holly Shissler, University of Chicago
Reform, Family Life, and Economic Development in Late Ottoman Thought

(P049) How Palestinians and Israelis Negotiate: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process
Organized by Tamara Cofman Wittes

Chair/Discussant: Jeffrey W. Helsing, United States Institute of Peace

William B. Quandt, University of Virginia
From Oslo to Camp David II
Omar M. Dajani, University of the Pacific
Surviving Opportunities: Palestinian Negotiating Patterns in Peace Talks with Israel
Aharon Klieman, Tel Aviv University
Israeli Negotiating Culture
Tamara Cofman Wittes, The Brookings Institution
Talking about a Resolution: Culture as an Intervening Variable in the Oslo Process

(P082) Margins of Identity: Examining Religious and Ethnic Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic
Organized by Howard Eissenstat

Chair: Howard Eissenstat, MIT

Hovann H. Simonian, University of Southern California
Armenians and Muslims of Armenian Background in the Pontos: Interactions and Mutual Perceptions during the 1878-1923 Period
Marc Baer, University of California, Irvine
Trans-regional Religious Groups and Globalization in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic
Howard Eissenstat, MIT
Racial Discourse and the Marking of Boundaries in the Formative Period of Turkish Nationalism
Paul Bessemer, University of Oregon
Crypto-Jews and Zionists: A Non-Conspiratorial Reappraisal
Rifat N. Bali, Istanbul, Turkey
The Citizenship of Dilemma of Turkish Jews: Court Jews or Middlemen?

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC001) Arabic Sources for European Colonialism in the Middle East
Organized by Malek Abisaab and Leila Parsons

Moderators: Malek Abisaab, McGill University and Leila Parsons, McGill University

Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia
Beth Baron, City University of New York
Michelle Hartman, McGill University
Ellen Fleischmann, University of Dayton

Skill-Building Workshop
(S006) Publishing in Middle East Studies Journals

Bringing together editors of journals in the field, this special session will be devoted to a discussion of current trends in publishing in journals in the field of Middle East studies. The session will combine discussion of “hot” topics and areas that deserve more attention, with practical information on preparing manuscripts for consideration.

Marcia Inhorn, University of Michigan, JMEWS Editor
Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, The American University of Sharjah, JSA Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Judith Tucker, Georgetown University, IJMES Editor
John VanderLippe, SUNY-New Paltz, MESA Bulletin Editor
Mark Zadrozny, Cambridge University Press
Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

SPECIAL SESSION
(S009) Iran: Domestic Tensions, Nuclear Program, and New Challenges in Foreign Policy

Chair: Ali Banuazizi, Boston College

Fred Halliday, London School of Economics
Iran: The Indispensable Regional Power
Geoffrey Kemp, The Nixon Center
Iran and Nuclear Weapons: Lessons and Linkages
Hadi Semati, Tehran University and The Woodrow Wilson Center
Power or Principle: The Neoconservatives in Iran
Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations
How (Not) to Deal with the Challenge of Ahmadinejad's Presidency
 

(NP03) Language and Linguistics between Secular and Religious Contexts

Chair: Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, U of Washington

Shakir Mustafa, Boston University
Unruly Subjects and the Gracious Book: Qur'anic Negotiations in Muslim Women's Writings
Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, Georgetown University
Identity Construction in the Press of Israel's Arab Citizens: A 'Pragmatic' Approach to a Political Discourse
Mona Kamel Hassan, Arabic Language Institute, AUC
AFL Learners in the Dilemma of CCA Idioms & Expressions
Tom Hill, Trinity College, University of Cambridge PAPER MOVED TO PANEL P066 (SUN 2:00)
The Historicity of Palestinian Literature since Oslo
Azza Hassanein, American University in Cairo
The Development in the Arabic Verb Forms and Their Semantic Meanings in Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial

(NP07) Islamic Law

Chair: S. Rashid Naim, Georgia State University

Fareeha Khan, University of Michigan
Madhhab Structure as Tool for Reform: Establishing and Maintaining Interpretive Authority While Redefining Women's Right to Divorce
Nina Safran, Penn State University
Conversion and Conventions of Neighborliness and Filial Responsibility in Early Maliki Jurisprudence
Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago
The Responsibilities of Public Office as Defined in the Decrees of Appointment Issued by the Fatimids
Mehmetcan Akpinar, University of Chicago
Mawardi's al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya from a Contractual Point of View
Sarah E. Tunney, New York University
Childhood in Islam: Gendering Children in Classical Islamic Texts

(NP13) Art, Representation, and Politics

Chair: Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, University of Minnesota-Duluth

Dick Doughty, Saudi Aramco World/ASC
"Bridging East & West": 55 Years of Intercultural Representation in "Saudi Aramco World" Magazine
Zahra Faridany-Akhavan, Atlanta, Georgia
Orientalism in Afghanistan: Romanticism or Colonialism?
Nicholas Al-Jeloo, University of Leiden
The Disposition of Assyrian Historical Sites in Iran
Peter Chelkowski, New York University
The Shahnameh in British Government Propaganda in World War II

(NP23) Aspects of Modernity in Egypt

Chair: Alan Mikhail, University of California, Berkeley

Yoav Di-Capua, University of Texas at Austin
"The Age of  Speed":  Class, Aviation and the Egyptian Expereince of Modern Technology, 1920-1952
Laura Bier, Georgia Tech
Socialism as Re-veiling: Creating a Post-colonial Public Sphere in Nasser's Egypt
Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University
"Enclave Orientalism" and Beyond: Thomas Cook & Son and the Origins of the International Tourism Industry in Egypt
On Barak, New York University
Modern Egyptian Times: Clock-Disciplining Egyptian Railway Workers
Misako Ikeda, Koryo International College
Bint al-Shati' and Early Poverty Debates in Egypt
Mériam Belli, Georgetown University
Burning Edmund..Al-Limby

(NP45) Viewing Politics from Outside the State: Civil Society in the Middle East

Chair: Haldun Gülalp, Yildiz Technical University

Helen Rizzo, American University in Cairo and Katherine Meyer, Ohio State University
The Role of Religion and Secularism in Women's Political Participation
Jessica Dumes Lieberman, George Washington University
Global Civil Society and the Middle East: A Case Study of Transnational Human Rights Networks in Jordan
Cihan Z. Tugal, University of California, Berkeley
"Poor People Don't Do It": The Restricted Engagement of Construction Workers in Collective Action
Joshua Gubler, University of Michigan
Civil Society in the Middle East: The Promise of Democracy?
Manal Jamal, McGill University
Palestinian Civil Society and NGO Development in Comparative Perspective

(P030) Democratizing Reform, Gendered Rights, and Women's Agency: Cross-Regional Comparisons in the Arab World
Organized by Eleanor Abdella Doumato

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies

Discussant: Sherifa Zuhur, Strategic Studies Inst., U.S. Army War College

Susan Schaefer Davis, Independent Scholar/Consultant
Moroccan Women's Agency and the 2004 Personal Status Code
Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton University
The Arab Democratic Deficit and the Status of Women
Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Brown University
Democratizing Reform and Public Openings in the Gulf: An Inverse Relationship When It Comes to Women?
Gwenn Okruhlik, University of Texas
The Slippery Slope: Women and the Struggle over Nation in Saudi Arabia
Ayesha Al-Rifai, Jerusalem Consortium for Research and Development
In Quest of Statehood: Women Agency for Democratic Reform in Palestine

(P033) Community and Identity: Coptic Christians in Shifting Contexts
Organized by Febe Armanios

Chair/Discussant: Adnan A. Husain, New York University

Maged S.A. Mikhail, James Madison University
Fasting and Feasting as Markers of Communal Identity among the Copts and Melkites of Egypt
Tamer El-Leithy, Harvard Society of Fellows
Changing Times, Changing Laws: Family Praxis and Coptic Identity in Medieval Egypt
Febe Armanios, Middlebury College
'Bewitch'd': The Martyr Cult of Sitt Dimyana in Ottoman Egypt
Elizabeth Oram, Princeton University
The Peculiarities of Space and the Creation of 'Self' and 'Other': Coptic-Muslim Relationships in a Contemporary Cairene Neighborhood

(P052) Perso-Islamic Chancellery Culture and the Insha Tradition
Organized by Colin Paul Mitchell

Chair/Discussant: Paul Losensky, Indiana University

Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies

Klaus U. Hachmeier, Gottingen University
Buyid insha' (4th/10th Century AH/AD)
Julie Scott Meisami, Independent Scholar
Bayhaqi and the Rise of Persian Insha'
Said A. Arjomand, SUNY-Stony Brook
Saljuq Insha' and the Principles of Statecraft with Special Reference to "al-Tavassul ila'l-tarassul"
Colin Paul Mitchell, Dalhousie University
Introducing the 'Insha-yi 'Alam-ara'

(P056) Bodies, Texts, Subjects: Performance and the Arts of Everyday Life
Organized by Sonali Pahwa

Wilson Chacko Jacob, New York University
"Beautiful Bodies" and "Sexuality Studies": Colonial Modernity and Performing Masculinity in Interwar Egypt
Sofian Merabet, Columbia University
Queering the Performance: Alternative Appropriations of Urban Space in Lebanon
Sonali Pahwa, Columbia University
Rewinding Television: Theatrical Interpretations of the Egyptian Media Phenomenon
G. Carole Woodall, New York U
The "Zenci", The Charleston, and Josephine Baker: The Primitive, Femininity, and Social Responsibility in 1920s Istanbul

(P058) The Multiple Economies of Palestine: Survival or Development?
Organized by Sara Roy

Sponsored by the Palestinian American Research Center

Chair: Sara Roy, Harvard University

Jennifer Olmsted, Drew University
Examining the Palestinian (and Israeli) Economies within the Framework of Sanctions
Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The Multiple Economies of Palestine: Survival or Development?
Claude Bruderlein, HPCR, Harvard School of Public Health
Gaza 2010: A Prospective Assessment of Palestinians' Livelihood in the Gaza Strip
Denis J. Sullivan, Northeastern University
Prospects for Egypt-Palestine Free Trade and Economic Cooperation: A Policy Analysis
Nubar Hovsepian, Chapman University
Neoliberalism & Palestinian Economic Development Strategies (1993-2003)

(P061) Ninety Years: The Armenian Genocide in Literature, Memoir, and Film
Organized by Barlow Der Mugrdechian

Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies

Chair: Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA

Barlow Der Mugrdechian, California State University, Fresno
Across the Chasm: From Catastrophe to Creativity
George B. Kooshian, Jr., UCLA
The Web of Hope: The Memoirs of George B. Kooshian. His Birth and Education in Turkey; His Passage to Exile and Genocide; and His Rebirth in America
Rubina Peroomian, UCLA
Historical Memory: Threading the Contemporary Literature of Armenia
Vahram Shemmassian, California State Univeristy, Northridge
Literature, Film, and Genocide Denial: The Case of Franz Werfel's "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh"

(P080) Transforming Loss into Beauty, A Panel in Honor of Magda al-Nowaihi (1958-2002)
Organized by Dina Amin

Chair/Discussant: George Saliba, Columbia University

Mervat F. Hatem, Howard University
Writing about Life through Loss: Taymur's Elegies and the Subversion of the Arabic Canon
Ellen McLarney, Stanford University
Home, Land, and Loss: Wanderings in Poetic Imagery
Dina Amin, Georgetown University
"Sleep in Peace": Salah 'Abd al-Sabur's Gentle Elegy to the Death of a Hero
Eve M. Troutt Powell, University of Georgia
Grief and Redemption in the Worship of Saint Josephine Bakhita
Andras Hamori, Princeton University
The Composition of Abu Tammam's Elegy for Muhammad Ibn Humayd al-Tusi

(P083) The Levantine Bourgeoisie between Empire and Nation-State
Organized by Geoffrey D. Schad

Sponsored by the Syrian Studies Association

Chair: Peter Sluglett, University of Utah
Discussant: James A. Reilly, University of Toronto

Mafalda Ade Winter, University of Tübingen
Foreign Trader Families and Their Social Milieu in 19th Century Aleppo
Geoffrey D. Schad, Franklin and Marshall College
Corporatism and Colonial Civil Society: The Struggle over the Syrian Chambers of Commerce, 1934-38
Kevin W. Martin, University of Memphis
"Deliver Us from Foreign Economic Aggression": Al-Sharika al-Khumasiyya and Adib al-Shishakli—Private-Sector Development under a Populist-Authoritarian Regime
Bassam Haddad, St. Joseph's  University
Syria's New Rentier Bourgeoisis: Its Origins and Impact on Socioeconomic Transformation in Syria

(S004) The New Kid on Campus:  Balancing Teaching and Community/Media Work as First Hires in Middle East Studies
Organized by Elizabeth B. Frierson

Chair: Jonathan Knight, American Association of University Professors

Cameron Michael Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Elizabeth B. Frierson, University of Cincinnati
Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Dana Sajdi, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Since 9/11 increasing numbers of graduate students are hired into new faculty positions in Middle East studies on campuses where such a line has not existed before, and where there are few or no Middle East colleagues.  Many of us have been asked by our institutions to serve as “Middle East experts” and this request often has little to do with one’s area of scholarly or teaching expertise.  So, a Safavid or Mamluk or North Africa scholar might be asked to discuss Iraq on the 6:00 news, lead a community forum on same, as well as teach a course on the Arab-Israeli conflict.  While many of us embrace the chance to be of service to our communities, these sorts of requests make unusual demands on a young scholar’s time as well as, in some cases, putting them in front of a hostile public eye.
 
At the same time, the virulence, violence, and malice present in public “assessment” of Middle East scholars has created a hostile environment for independent thinking and judicious discussion of hot topics in many parts of the U.S.  What are the practical, strategic, and ethical considerations of creating a new field of study in these situations?  How should junior hires balance teaching, research, and the likely heavy demand for Middle East “expertise” in community and media venues?  Are there obligations to be a community and media resource?  Are there ethical or practical constraints on being politically engaged?  What can departments who may be primarily U.S. or European in scholarly interests do to foster and, if necessary, protect their new colleague’s career?  How can young scholars keep their research careers alive while writing new courses and creating curriculum where none existed before?  Speakers will include faculty from public and private colleges and universities who are newly on the other (tenured) side of this equation.

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC007) The Middle East in Brazil
Organized by Paul Amar

Moderator: Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara

Ella Shohat, New York University
Paulo G. Hilu Pinto, Universidade Federal Fluminense
John Tofik Karam, DePaul University
Maria del Mar Logrono-Narvona, UC Santa Barbara
Armando Vargas, Williams College

(NP02) Women's Discourses in Modern Arabic Writing

Chair: Adel S. Gamal, University of Arizona

Lital Levy, University of California, Berkeley
A Jewish Woman in the Nahda: Arabism, Feminism, and Judaism in the Writing of Esther Azhari Moyal
Anchi Hoh, The Library of Congress
The Journey to Self-Empowerment in Contemporary Kuwaiti Women's Short Stories
Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward, Ocean College, NJ
The Sacred and the Secret: Egyptian Women Writing the Divine and the Profane
Nouri Gana, Queen's University
In Search of Andalusia: The Reinvention of Arabness in Recent Arab American Fiction
Clarissa Burt, USNA
We Crazies: Huda Hussein's Poetics and Text Production in Contemporary Egypt

(NP10) Meanings and Reinventions of Urban Space

Chair: Arang Keshavarzian, Concordia University

Faedah M. Totah, University of Texas at Austin
Back to the Original or How Suq Hamadiyeh in Damascus Became Old Again
Cagla Caner, Middle East Technical University
The Evolution of Building Complexes and Their Contribution to Urban Development in Medieval Western Anatolia
Aliaa El-Sandouby, UCLA
Re-inventions and Renovations: The Periodic Revival of the Ahl al-bayt Shrines in Cairo and Damascus
Mohammad Gharipour, Georgia Institute of Technology
A Study of the Syntactic Structure of Bazaar in Iran (Case Study: The Bazaar of Isfahan)

(NP24) Late-Ottoman and post-Ottoman Historiography

Chair: Joseph G. Rahme

Yeliz Baloglu-Cangay, Brandeis University
Abdulhamid II in the Turkish Historiography: A Three Generational Approach
Michael J. Reimer, American University in Cairo
The Historiography of the Adwan Revolt in Jordan, 1923
Coskun Cakir, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Economic and Social Surveys in the Modernization and Centralization Process: The Case of Temettuat Registers of the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Shaden M. Tageldin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Napoleon Redux: Translation, Seduction, and al-'Attar's Anti-History of the French in Egypt
Ali Yaycioglu, Harvard University
Ottoman State between Enlightened Despotism and Oriental Republicanism: Internuntius von Stürmer's Reports on the Revolutions of 1807 and 1808

(NP27) Studies in the Late Ottoman Era

Chair: Virginia H. Aksan, McMaster University

James H. Meyer, Brown University
Migration, Return, Negotiation: Russian Muslims in the Late-Period Ottoman Empire
Suhnaz Yilmaz, Koç University
Merchants, Missionaries and Dollar Diplomats in Action in Muslim Lands: Ottoman-American Relations in Perspective
Milena B. Methodieva, Princeton University
Voicing the Nation: The Muvazene Newspaper, Community Reform and Nationalism among the Muslims in Bulgaria, 1897-1905
Scott Morrison, Columbia University
The Complaint Box Awaits: Ideas of Traditional Government Untraditionally limited, in Tunis and Egypt Circa 1870
Mustafa Erdem Kabadayi, University of Munich/Trier
Gender and Ethnical Division of Labor in the Late Ottoman State Factories
Karen Alexandra Leal, Harvard University
From Philotheos' Diversions to Observe the World: Two Ottoman Greek Novels of the 18th and 19th Centuries

(NP36) Obstructing, Operating, and Observing Democracy in the Middle East

Chair: Julie E. Taylor, Princeton University

Feriha Perekli, Indiana University
The Path towards Democratization in the Middle East: What is the Real Impediment?
Lindsay Benstead, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Explaining Variation in Casework Level among Algerian Lower House Members
Quinn Mecham, Harvard University
The Strategic Transformation of Islamist Parties: Why Muslim Parties Moderate Their Positions in Competitive Politics
Iliya Harik, Indiana University
Democracy, "Arab Exceptionalism", and the Social Sciences
Louis J. Cantori, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Republican Alternative to Liberal Democracy in the Middle East
Khaled Helmy, Harvard University
The Contrasting Fates of Middle Eastern Politicized Islam & European Politicized Christianity: Historical Origins & Trajectories of Divergence in Configurations of Secularization and Democratization

(P001) Persianate Political Thought
Organized by Said A. Arjomand

Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies

Chair: Said A. Arjomand, SUNY-Stony Brook

Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona
Persiante Political Thought in Seljuq/Ilkhanid/Early Ottoman Anatolia

(P015) Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality and Kinship
Organized by Frances S. Hasso

Chair/Discussant: Rhoda Kanaaneh, American University

Mary Ann Fay, American University
Old is Gold: Gender and Changing Patterns of Marriage and Family in the United Arab Emirates
Angel M. Foster, Harvard Medical School/Ibis Reproductive Health
Marriage, Sexuality and Reproductive Health: A Survey of University Students in Tunisia and Jordan
Frances S. Hasso, Oberlin College
Transnationalism, Globalization, and Emerging Kin and Sexual Relations among Egyptians and Emiratis
Afra Al-Mussawir, University of Texas at Austin
Kinship, Women's Sexuality, and Violence in Transnational Iraqi Narratives
Alisa Perkins, University of Texas at Austin
Is There a "Crisis of Marriage in Morocco?": Pre-marital Sexuality, Marriage Delay, and the 2004 Family Law Reform

(P016) Arab and Muslim Americans: Between Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
Organized by Evelyn Alsultany

Organized under the auspices of the Center for Arab American Studies-University of Michigan, Dearborn

Chair/Discussant: Aminah B. McCloud, DePaul University

Louise Cainkar, University of Illinois-Chicago
Thinking Outside the Box: Arabs and Race in the US
Stephanie Abraham, California State University, Los Angeles
Hollywood's Harem Girl/Housewife: Orientalist Representation in "I Dream of Jeannie"
Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan
"Going Muslim": News Narratives of Terrorism and Conversion in the Cases of John Walker Lindh, Jose Padilla, and John Allen Muhammad
Christoph Schumann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
How to Transcend Differences: Language, Culture and Religion in the Case of Al-Hewar/Arab American Dialogue

(P018) Muftis and Their Fatwas: Text and Context
Organized by David S. Powers

Chair: David S. Powers, Cornell University
Discussant: Susan Spectorsky, Queen's College, CUNY

Camilo Gomez-Rivas, Yale University
Water in the Way
Intisar Rabb, Princeton University/Yale Law School
Custom Knows No Law, But Is Familiar with Andalusian Judicial Practice
David S. Powers, Cornell University
The Black Death and Inheritance: Two Fatwas from mid-14th Century Fez
Etty Terem, Harvard University
From the Mi'yar of al-Wansharisi to the Mi'yar al-Jadid of al-Wazzani
Richard Wittman, Harvard University
Fatwa Collections and Ottoman Court Practice

(P021) New Perspectives on a Changing Middle East
Organized by Deborah L. Wheeler

Chair/Discussant: Brannon M. Wheeler, US Naval Academy

Naomi J. Sakr, University of Westminster
Media Pluralism, Civic Engagement and Foreign Development Assistance for Arab Media: A Reappraisal
Deborah L. Wheeler, University of Bergen
Engaging a Cyberpublic: Internet Cafes and the Spread of Civic Culture in the Arab World
Mary Ann Tétreault, Trinity University
New Spaces for Old Politics: Bottom-up Democratization Strategies in Kuwait
Robert Rook, Towson University
A Light to Be Followed by Future Generations: War and Remembrance in Three Arab States
Loubna Hanna Skalli, American University
Gender Re-Visions: Moroccan Women's Magazines
Lina Khatib, Royal Holloway, University of London
Orientalism and Beyond: Middle Eastern Politics between Hollywood and Arab Cinemas

(P038) Port Cities of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden: New Perspectives on Historical Sources and Maritime Culture
Organized by Nancy Um

Sponsored by the American Institute for Yemeni Studies and the Syrian Studies Association

Chair: Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University
Discussant: Edward Alpers, UCLA

Roxani Margariti, Emory University
Conflict and Competition in the World of Indian Ocean Trade: A View from Medieval Aden
Li Guo, University of Notre Dame
Maritime Traffic between Egypt and Yemen in the 13th Century: Evidence from the Quseir Documents
Nancy Um, Binghamton University
The Merchant Community of Eighteenth Century Mocha: Ship-Owning, Travel, and Authority on the Western Edge of the Indian Ocean
Jonathan Miran, Western Washington University
Becoming Red Sea Citizens: Mercantile Community, Urban Authority, and Cultural Change in Mid- to Late Nineteenth-Century Massawa

(P075) Palestinian and Israeli Narratives of Nonviolent Resistance
Organized by Kathy Kamphoefner

Chair: Paul J. Kaldjian, U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Robert Hostetter, North Park U
Peacemakers in Israel and Palestine: An Oral History
Maia Carter Hallward, American University
Israeli and Palestinian Visions of Peace
Gay Young, American University
Feminist Peace Activism Challenging Israeli Society
Kathy Kamphoefner, Quaker Service-Jerusalem (ASFC)
Narratives of Nonviolent Resistance from Palestinian Villages
Virginia Keller, DePaul University
Reframing Images and Narratives of Palestinian Resistance

(P079) The Occupation of Iraq and Socio-economic Change in the Middle East
Organized by John Measor

Chair: John Measor, University of Victoria (Canada)

Samer Abboud, University of Exeter
Unsettling the Regional Political Economy: Effects of the Iraqi Occupation in Syria
Joshua Stacher, The University of St. Andrews
Changing Relationships and Dynamics to Maintain Authoritarian Rule: The Case of Egypt
Christopher Parker, University of Ghent, Belgium
Jordan First!: Economic Action and Regime Consolidation in the Wake of the Iraq War

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC004) Constructing and Deconstructing a Region: Cross-Regional Approaches to the Middle East
Organized by Charles Kurzman

Chair: Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Carl Ernst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Juan Cole, University of Michigan
Banu Gokariksel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council

(NP01) Literary and Cultural Representation in Classical Islam

Chair: Moneera Al-Ghadeer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sebastian Günther, University of Toronto
"Praise to the Book!": Al-Jahiz and Ibn Qutayba on the Excellence of Writing and the Written Word in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture
Abbas Hamdani, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Relation between the Persian Authorship of the Rasa'il Ikhwan Al-Safa' and the Time of Its Composition
Heather N. Keaney, American University in Cairo
Gambling on the Past, Gaining the Present: Religio-Political Rhetoric in Medieval Islamic Spain
Samuel England, University of California, Berkeley
"What Is The Story of These People You Have Mentioned?": Names in Ibn Daniyal's Shadowplay
Tom Hefter, University of Chicago
Faulting Misers: Rhetorical Traps in the Introduction to al-Jahiz's Kitab al-Bukhala'

(NP20) Economy and Experience in Turkish Villages

Chair: Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona

Iklim Goksel, University of Illinois at Chicago
Black Cumin, Coffee-Ground: Challenges to Notions of Literacy and Illiteracy
Damla Isik, University of Arizona
Gendering Globalization: The Changing Conditions of Women Weavers and the Weaving Industry in Turkey
Ebru Kayaalp, Rice University
The Production of New Crops, the Constitution of New Subjectivities: An Ethnography of Virginia Tobacco Production in Turkey

(NP22) Nationalist Projects

Chair: Arthur Goldschmidt, Penn State University

William Ochsenwald, Virginia Tech
Provincial Acceptance of Central Control: Administration and Opposition in the Hijaz under Saudi Rule, 1926-1939
Elie Podeh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Cementing the Nation: The Politics of National Celebrations in Iraq, 1921-2004
Maria del Mar Logrono-Narvona, UC Santa Barbara
Beyond the Mahjar: Long Distance Nationalism among Syrian and Lebanese Communities in Argentina, 1915-1929
Kimberly Katz, Towson University
Constructing Arab Cultural Heritage: From the Arab League to the Nation-State
Don Matthews, Oakland University
Race and Nation, Time and History: An Arab Conceptualization in 1924
Renee Worringer, University of Queensland
Colonial Triangle: Egyptian Nationalists, British Occupation, and Meiji Japan in the Early 20th Century

(NP31) Perspectives on Ottoman and Mandate Palestine

Chair: Devrim Umit, Columbia University

Andrea L. Stanton, Columbia University
Mixing Media: Mandate Palestinian Newspapers and the Palestine Broadcasting Service
Nicholas Roberts, New York University
Working with Sites: The Use of Holy Places in Mandatory Palestine
Maryanne Rhett, Washington State University
The Threat of the Khilafat Movement: How Indian Nationalism Influenced the Creation of a Jewish National Home
Yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Chicago
Local Feuds or Premonitions of a Bi-National Conflict?: A Re-examination of the Encounter between Jews and Arabs in Palestine during Early Zionist Colonization (1882-1903)

(NP35) State and Economic Relations: Lebanon and Syria

Chair: Sami Emile Baroudi, Lebanese American University

Mona Harb, American University of Beirut
Hizballah's Institutions: An Alternative Policy Network in Post-War Lebanon
Matt Johnson, University of Texas at Austin
Beyond Occupation: The Political Economy of Syrian-Lebanese Integration
John Chalcraft, London School of Economics
Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon since 1945: The Politics of the Disciplined Commodity
Are Knudsen, Chr. Michelsen Institute
Precarious Peacebuilding: Post-War Lebanon, 1990-2005
Bryan R. Early, University of Georgia
"Larger Than a Party, Yet Smaller Than a State": Hezbollah's Place within Lebanon's State and Society

(NP41) Managing Political and Economic Change

Chair: Hooshang Pazaki, Drury University

Husain Abdulla, University of West Florida
Bahrain and the Political Reforms: Could Bahrain become a Leading Example for Political Reform in the Persian Gulf Region?
Serhat Guvenc, Istanbul Bilgi University
Think-Tanks and Pursuit of a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy Consensus in Turkey
Pamela Stumpo, University of Washington
Information Flow from Regimes to Populations after Natural Disasters
Shafiga Daulet, Independent Scholar
Tatarstan's Sovereignty, Democracy and Economic Progress Threatened by Putin's Authoritarianism

(P006) Hushang Golshiri: A Retrospective
Organized by M.R. Ghanoonparvar

Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Persian

Chair/Discussant: Michael Beard, University of North Dakota

Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, New York University
Flexible Identities in Hushang Golshiri's "Ayeneh-ha-ye Dardar" (Folding Mirrors)
M.R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
Golshiri's "The Book of Jinns", the Persian "Ulysses"
Faridoun Farrokh, Texas A&M International University
Hushang Golshiri and the Discourse of Dissent: Dramatic Monologue as Elliptical Protest
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
Classical Narrative Modes Made Modern: Voice, Narration, and the Structuring of Meaning in Hushang Golshiri's Fiction
Reza Poudeh, Texas Southern University
Golshiri and Film

(P010) Arabness Through Otherness: Blacks, Berbers, Jews and Persians
Organized by Lisa Pollard

Chair: Sara D. Shields, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Discussant: Eve M. Troutt Powell, University of Georgia

Emily Gottreich, University of California, Berkeley
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews
Sarah Bowen Savant, Harvard University
Ibn Qutayba and His "Fadl al-'Arab": Constructing 'Arab and 'Ajami Identity in Medieval Islam
James McDougall, Princeton University
Lineages of Heresy and Salvation: Berbers, Arabs and Islam
Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Making the Sudanese Mahdi Arab

(P019) Echoes of Al-Andalus: Music, Orality, Identity, Nostalgia
Organized by Dwight F. Reynolds

Jonathan Glasser, University of Michigan
Uncovering Al-Andalus in Colonial Algeria: Music and Text, 1855-1905
M. Ikraam Abdu-Noor, Yale University
"Kun shafi'i" (Be my intercessor): Orality and Literacy in the Moroccan Ala
Jonathan H. Shannon, Hunter College, CUNY
Performing al-Andalus, Remembering al-Andalus: Mediterranean Soundings from Mashriq to Maghrib
Dwight F. Reynolds, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Cultural Politics of Andalusian Music in Contemporary Spain

The following panel has moved to Sunday, November 20, 2:00-4:00pm
(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

(P051) Archaeology in Yemen and Recent American Contributions

Sponsored by the American Institute for Yemeni Studies

Chair: Christopher M. Edens, American Institute for Yemeni Studies
Discussant: Juris Zarins, Southwest Missouri State U

Abdallah BaWazir, General Organization for Antiquities & Museums, Yemen
Activities of the General Organization for Antiquities and Museums, Yemen
Joy McCorriston, Ohio State U and Rich Oches, U of South Florida
The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia
Christopher M. Edens, American Institute for Yemeni Studies and Muhammad al-Nood, Foundation for Protection of Cultural Heritage, Yemen
Bronze Age Developments in the Highlands of Yemen
Abduh Othman Ghaleb, Sana’a U
Recent Excavations at the Mahram Bilqis, Marib
Krista Lewis, U of Chicago
The Rise of Himyar in Early Historic Yemen

(P093) Imaging and Imagining Peasants in Egypt
Organized by James Toth and Michael Gasper

Co-chairs: James Toth, Northeastern University and Michael Gasper, Yale University
Discussant: Peter Gran, Temple University

El-Sayed El-Aswad, University of Bahrain
Egyptian Peasants and the Elite: From Feudalism to Globalism
Michael Gasper, Yale University
Public Peasants in 1890s Egypt
James Toth, Northeastern University
Surplus Labor and Surplus Libido: Imagined Peasant Fecundity and Agricultural Economics in 20th Century Egypt
Fadwa El Guindi, Georgetown University
Complexity in Conceptualization of 'Fallah': Word, Image and Context

ROUNDTABLE
(RT002) Middle Eastern Women's Studies Post-9/11: Problems and Perspectives in Current Graduate Research
Organized by Alexandra Jerome

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies

Chair: Alexandra Jerome, University of Exeter
Discussant: Nadje Al-Ali, University of Exeter

Alisa Perkins, University of Texas at Austin
"Who is the Non-Feminist Other?": Feminist Ethnographic Approaches to Studying Difference
Alexandra Jerome, University of Exeter
The Media and Deconstructing the Monolithic Muslim Woman in Post-9/11 Research
Rita Stephan, University of Texas at Austin
Changing Discourse: Middle Eastern Women's Movements in a Global Context
Azza Basarudin, UCLA
Organic Feminism within Islamic Thought: Questions of Theory, Identity, Legitimacy, Authenticity, and Belonging
Sabah Firoz Uddin, UCLA
Organic Feminism within Islamic Thought: Questions of Theory, Identity, Legitimacy, Authenticity, and Belonging

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC002) Martinis, Marxists and Mullahs: Were the 1950s a 'Golden Age' in the Middle East?
Organized by John M. VanderLippe

Moderator: John M. VanderLippe, SUNY-New Paltz

Pinar Batur, Vassar College
Magnus Bernhardsson, Williams College
Gavin Brockett, University of Northern British Columbia
Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University
Robert J. Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania

(NP14) First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage

Chair: Jacqueline Armijo, Zayed University

Issam Elias Khoury, George Mason University
"They Cannot Represent Themselves; They Must be Represented": Orientalism and Western 'Scholarship' on 'Homosexuality' in the Middle East
Jane Bristol Rhys, Zayed University
Do Emirati Brides Cost Too Much?
Jehan Saleh, Wayne State University
Sex and Sexuality: Some Insights on Mut'a Marriages among the Shi'is of Dearborn, Michigan
Ayse Akalin, CUNY, Graduate Center
Love as a Commodity: Marriage in the Age of Transnationalism
Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez, Georgetown University
Criminalizing the Queer: Muslim Intellectual Responses to Same-Sex Relationships in the United States

(NP15) Women in Between

Chair: Gamze Cavdar Yasar, Michigan State University

Sonia Gaha, University of Paris X
Alma and Lila or the Face of the French "Racial Harmony"
Hebat-Allah El Attar, Cleveland State University
Intertwined Identities: Women In/Between Latin America and the Arab World
Camelia Suleiman, Independent Scholar
Peace Talking: Israeli and Palestinian Women Activists Talk
Edith Szanto, Duke University
Fulla: An Arab Muslim Doll for Arab Muslim Girls
Keith Walters, University of Texas at Austin
The Role of Education for Girls in the Spread of French in Colonial Tunisia

(NP29) Studies in Ottoman Social and Administrative History

Chair: Elena Frangakis-Syrett, Queen's College, CUNY

Bogac Ergene, University of Vermont
Patterns of Social Interaction and Networks of Association in the Court of Kastamonu (1741-45)
Attila Aytekin, SUNY Binghamton
Beyond the ciftlik Debate: Agrarian Conflict and the Evolution of the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman State
Stefan Winter, Université du Québec, Montréal
Periphery or Keystone?: The Province of Raqqa and Ottoman Rule, 1500-1800
Ismail Eris, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Islamic Law and Custom: Discussions of Waqf in the 16th and 17th Century Ottoman Empire: Theory and Practice

(NP38) Education in the Middle East and Central Asia

Chair: Gary Garrison, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars

Imad K. Harb, United States Institute of Peace
Higher Education and Democracy in the Future Iraq
Marlene Laruelle, French Institute of Central Asian Studies
The Politicization of Science: Ethnology in the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
Betty  Anderson, Boston University
The Oral History Project of the American University of Beirut (AUB)
Eileen T. Lundy, University of Jordan at Amman
American Studies in Arab Universities in the Middle East: A Growing Phenomenon
Edward Lundy, University of Jordan at Amman
American Studies in Arab Universities in the Middle East: A Growing Phenomenon
Christa Bruhn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Palestinian Universities and the Persistence of Palestine
Mark Farha, Harvard University
Stumbling Blocks to the Secularization of the Lebanese Personal Status Laws and Educational System 1920-2004

(P005) Conflict and Accommodation across Ideological Divides: Evidence from Contemporary Islamist Politics
Organized by Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Chair/Discussant: Marc Lynch, Williams College

Janine Clark, University of Guelph, Canada
The Limits of Islamist Moderation: Unpacking Cross-Ideological Cooperation in Jordan
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Emory University
Islamist Debates on Gender and Citizenship: Assessing New Interpretations and Directions
Stacey Philbrick Yadav, University of Pennsylvania
Harnessing Apostasy: Lughat at-Takfir and Islamist Political Parties

(P013) Commerce and Culture in Egypt: Synergies, Contradictions, and the Creation of Local Meaning
Organized by Relli Shechter

Chair/Discussant: Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford

Nancy Y. Reynolds, Washington University
Department Stores and Communities of Urban Commerce in Egypt, 1890s-1950s

Mona L. Russell, Framingham State College
Who is the New Woman: Images of Women & Clothing in Egyptian Advertising, 1892-1952
Lucie Ryzova, Oxford University/CEDEJ, Cairo
Consuming What?: Visual Culture and the Performance of Middle-Classness in Interwar Egypt
Relli Shechter, Ben-Gurion University
Glocal as a Business Strategy: The Re-emergence of Advertising in Egypt since 1974

(P055) Periphery and Identity: Mizrahim in Israeli Music, Film, and Television
Organized by Galeet Dardashti

Chair: Galeet Dardashti, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Ella Shohat, New York University

Yaron Shemer, University of Texas at Austin
Salvage Cinema: Remembering, Memory, and Identity in the Films of Second-Generation Mizrahi Immigrants
Galeet Dardashti, University of Texas at Austin
Music on the Margins: Discourses of Middle Eastern Music in Israel
Eric Saranovitz, New York University
Marginal History and History of the Marginal: The Cooptation of Mizrahi Memories in the Israeli Mass Media
Amy Horowitz, The Ohio State Univeristy
Contentious Soundscapes: The Music Appropriations of Zehava Ben and Subliminal

(P062) International Influences on State Building and Political Liberalization in the MENA Region
Organized by Abdulkader Sinno

Chair: Roger Owen, Harvard University
Discussant: Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton University

Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana University
Does It Matter Who Builds the State?: How Outside Intervention Affects Regime Stability
Marie-Joelle Zahar, Université du Montréal
A Blessing or a Bane?: Foreign Intervention and State-Building in Lebanon
Jillian Schwedler, University of Maryland, College Park
Policing as State Building: Lessons from Jordan
Heidi Rutz, Naval War College
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?: Anti-Terrorism Measures and the Implications for Political Liberalization
Rolf S. Schwarz, Princeton U
Organic State Formation in the Arab Middle East

(P067) Rebuilding War-Torn Economies
Organized by Miriam R. Lowi

Chair: Miriam R. Lowi, The College of New Jersey
Discussant: Steven Heydemann, Georgetown U and Ibrahim A. Elbadawi, World Bank

Samir Makdisi, American University of Beirut
Rebuilding a Devastated Economy: The Case of Lebanon
Miriam R. Lowi, The College of New Jersey
War-Torn or Systematically Distorted?: Rebuilding the Algerian Economy
Karen Pfeifer, Smith College/MERIP
Rebuilding Small Devastated Economies: Palestine in Comparative Perspective
Marvin G. Weinbaum, Middle East Institute
Rebuilding a Small Devastated Economy: Afghanistan
Bassam Yousif, Indiana State University
Shock Therapy in Iraq: Coalition Economics Policies

(P090) Crime and the Evolution of Punishment in Muslim Societies
Organized by Fariba Zarinebaf

Chair: Fariba Zarinebaf, Northwestern University
Discussant: Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona

Carl F. Petry, Northwestern University
Crime without the Blood Money Option?: The Paucity of References to Blood Money in Criminal Narratives by Mamluk Historians in Cairo and Damascus
Fariba Zarinebaf, Northwestern University
Regulating Prostitution in 18th Century Istanbul
Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman College
"Offend Not Your Neighbor": Policing Crimes of Vice in 18th Century Aleppo
Amira Sonbol, Georgetown University
Crime and Class in Nineteenth Century Egypt

(TC011) Medieval Arabic-Islamic Philosophy: Theory and Practice
Organized by Charles E. Butterworth

Moderator: Charles E. Butterworth, University of Maryland

David DiPasquale, Boston College
Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
Richard Taylor, Marquette University

The following session was originally scheduled for Sunday, November 20 at 8:30 a.m.
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

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