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