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PROGRAM

(NP04) Modern Arabic Fiction

Chair: Andrea Flores Khalil, City University of New York

Samira Aghacy, Lebanese American University
Modernization Without Modernity in Contemporary Lebanese Fiction
Ching Jen Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Magical Realism in Modern Arabic Fiction Writing
Hanadi Al-Samman, Appalachian State University
The Poetics of Mosaic Autobiography in Contemporary Arabic Literature
Julie Hakim Azzam, The University of Pittsburgh
The Return of the Repressed: Reading Gothic Histories in Tayeb Salih's "Season of Migration to the North"

(NP25) Circuits of Early Twentieth-Century Islamic Revivalism

Chair: John Calvert, Creighton University

Leslie Weaver, New York University
Pan-Islamic Resistance in Morocco: The Case of 'Abd al-Malik, 1902-1924
Mark Sedgwick, American University in Cairo
Plausibility Structures in the Arab World
Henri Lauziere, Georgetown University
Rashid Rida's Rehabilitation of Wahhabism and Its Consequences
Basri Basri, University of Arkansas
A 19th Century Indonesian 'Alim in Mecca: Salih Darat and Islamic Reform

(P002) Arab Women Living on the Borders and Making Spaces
Organized by Fatima Badry

Chair: Mary Ann Fay, American University
Discussant: Frances S. Hasso, Oberlin College

Rima Sabban, Dubai University College
Negotiating Gender Borders in Arab Oil Universities: The Case of the United Arab Emirates
Lena Jayyusi, Zayed University
Modernity's Contested Boundaries: Describing, Inscribing and Transcribing Arab Women
Fatima Badry, American University of Sharjah
Learning on the Periphery: Acquiring Social and Cultural Identities through Migration
John Willoughby, American University
Crossing Employment Boundaries: National Gulf Women and the Drive to Nationalize the Workforce
Afaf Al-Bataineh, American University of Kuwait
Producers or Products of Writing: The Voices of Arab Women

(P046) American Missionary Activities in Ottoman Turkey
Organized by Mehmet Ali Dogan

Chair: Benjamin C. Fortna, SOAS, University of London
Discussant: Beth Baron, City University of New York

Brian Johnson, Amerikan Bord Heyeti
Smyrna Station: The Evolution of a Missionary Enterprise in Ottoman Turkey
Cemal Yetkiner, CUNY Graduate Center
Footprints of a Pioneer: William Goodell (1792-1867) and the American Protestant Mission at the Ottman Capital
Mehmet Ali Dogan, University of Utah
Protestant Missionary and Bible Translation: Elias Riggs' 67 Years in the Ottoman Empire
Asli Gur, University of Michigan
Laboratories of Religion, Shrines of Science: Differential Transculturations of Robert College and Syrian Protestant College
Carolyn Goffman, DePaul University
Mary Mills Patrick and the "Sanctification of the Intellect"

Moved to Sunday, November 20 from 2:00pm-4:00pm
(P059) Writing Arab Americans into the Discourse on Race: Three Case Studies
Organized by Hani Bawardi

Chair: Hani Bawardi, Wayne State University

Fatina Abdrabboh, Harvard University
Arab Immigrants and African Americans: More than Black and White
Rima Meroueh, Wayne State University
Arab-Black Relations: What's Race Got To Do With It?
Saeed A. Khan, Wayne State University
A Study of Arab and African-American Relations within the Muslim Community: Briding the Divide Between Indigenous and Immigrant Groups
Ihsan Alkhatib, Wayne State University
When the Shoe is on the Other Foot: Empowered Blacks and Supplicant Arabs—Unbalanced Power Relations in a Government Agency Setting

(P064) The Politics of Religion in Contemporary Iran and Turkey
Organized by Mirjam Künkler

Chair: Mirjam Künkler, Columbia University
Discussant: Said A. Arjomand, SUNY-Stony Brook

Nader Hashemi, University of Toronto
The Secularization of Political Norms in the Islamic Republic
Yasuyuki Matsunaga, New York University
Secularizing Politics and Its Opponents in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Berna Turam, Hampshire College
Islamic Actors and the State in Turkey and Iran: Friends or Enemies?
Gunes Murat Tezcur, Loyola University Chicago
How is Secularism Relevant for Democracy?: Religiosity and Politics in Contemporary Iran and Turkey

(P065) Scenes of Social Discipline: Approaches to Egyptian Film Music
Organized by Joel  Gordon

Roberta L. Dougherty, American University in Cairo
Music, Women and Leisure: Piano Sheet Music and the Amateur Musician in Early 20th Century Egypt
Martin Stokes, University of Chicago
The Nightingale's 'Appointment with Love': Notes on Abd al-Halim Hafiz, Rudolph Valentino, and Female Listenership
Joel  Gordon, University of Arkansas
The Slaps Heard 'round the (Arab) World: Pathos and Patriarch in 2 Abd al-Halim Musicals
Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford
Anywhere but Here: Music and the New Conventions of Location in Egyptian Visual Culture

(P069) Building a New Moroccan Identity: Democratization, Women, the Western Sahara and the Berber Question
Organized by Doris H. Gray

Chair: Zeina T. Schlenoff, Florida State University
Discussant: Peter P. Garretson, Florida State University

Michael J. Willis, St Antony's College, Oxford University
A Berber Spring in Morocco?: Political Dimensions of Berber (Amazigh) Identity in Morocco and Algeria
Nizar Mesari, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC)
The Western Sahara Issue and Moroccan Identity Construction
Lise Storm Grundon, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies
The Aims of the Moderate Moroccan Opposition: Broadened Dictatorship or Democracy?
Jonathan Wyrtzen, Georgetown University
Arab and Berber?: Contesting, Constructing, and Mobilizing the Nation in Morocco and Algeria (1930-1939)
Doris H. Gray, Florida State University
Urban, Professional  Women in Morocco: Asserting a New Private and Public Identity

(P099) Rationality and Legal Change in Shi'ism
Organized by Rasool Nafisi

Chair: Rasool Nafisi, Strayer University

Rasool Nafisi, Strayer University
Secular versus Sacred Laws: The Case of Iran
Karim Douglas Crow, Int'l Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization
Ja'far al-Sadiq between Ahl al-Hadith & Ahl al-Ra'y: The Limits of Legal Rationality
Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, International Islamic University of Malaysia
Changes in Approach to the Shari'ah: Hemeneutical Readings of Abu Zaid, Soroush and Shabestari

ROUNDTABLE
(RT010) Sudan Wars and Peace: The Complexity of Identity Engineering
Organized by Souad Ali

***Joint session of MESA and the African Studies Association***

Chair: Souad Ali, Arizona State U

Francis Deng, The Brookings Institution
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Rhode Island College
Abdullahi A. Ibrahim, U of Missouri-Columbia
Abdullahi A. Gallab, Arizona State U

Overview of the Middle East Collections in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

Arden Alexander, Library of Congress
Charles Jenkins, Library of Congress

In this special session, staff of the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (P&P) will give an illustrated presentation on their rich pictorial collections which are a valuable resource for scholars and researchers of the Middle East. These unique visual materials include photographs, glass negatives, prints, and posters. They document Middle East history, peoples, and cultures primarily from the 19th century to the present day. Presenters will focus on the massive Matson Collection of the Middle East (1898-1946), the Abdülhamid II albums of the Ottoman Empire, the multi-volume Turkestanskii al'bom which portrays late 19th century Central Asia, and recent important acquisitions. A representative from the Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division will describe how these visual materials can be used in research and scholarship.

(NP06) Sufism: Piety, Poetry, and Practice

Chair: Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana University - Purdue University

Daphna Ephrat, The Open University of Israel
The Expansion of Sufism in Mamluk Palestine
Richard McGregor, Vanderbilt University
The Founding of a Sufi Order: A Medieval Discourse on Spiritual Authority
John J. Curry, Ohio State University
Contrasting Approaches to the Life and Work of an Early Ottoman Saint: Cemal el-Halveti (d. 1494)
Farooq Hamid, Whittier College
A Poet Writes without Writing Implements: Examining the Nature of Grief in Khaqani's Marsiyas for His Son
Daniel Rafinejad, UCLA
"This Discourse Hath No End": Structure and Meaning in the Conclusion of Jalal al-Din Rumi's "Masnavi"
Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University
Sequential Order in Rumi's "Masnavi": Snakes and Ladders

(NP11) Architecture in Establishing Sites of Power

Chair: Pinar Batur, Vassar College

Vesselina Naidenova, Cornell University
The Madrasa Yusufiyya of Granada as a Prominent Representative of the Golden Age of Marinid Madrasas
Stephen C. Cory, Cleveland State University
Forgotten Palace?: Morocco's al-Badi'a as a Symbol of Caliphal Splendor
Johannes Pahlitzsch, Free University of Berlin
Islamic and Byzantine Foundations in the 3/9th Century: A Comparison
Allen Fromherz, St. Andrews University
Marrakech: City as Doctrine

(NP26) Contesting the Kemalist Regime

Chair: James Goode, Grand Valley State University

Yigit Akin, Ohio State University
Problems in Approaching State and Society during the Early Republican Turkey: Public Opinion and the Kemalist Regime
Ryan Gingeras, University of Toronto
Portrait of a Rebel: North Caucasian Resistance during the Turkish War of Independence
Murat Yuksel, Columbia University
Nation Building as Demographic Engineering: Forced Migration and Internal Displacement of the Kurds in Turkey, 1925-1947
Hale Yilmaz, University of Utah
Transition from Arabic to Latin Script in Everyday Life

(NP28) Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Arab Lands

Chair: Mehmet Ali Dogan, University of Utah

Jonas Kauffeldt, Florida State University
Missioning to the Believers: The Höyers, the Danish Church Mission in Arabia, and the Evolution of an Orientalist Perspective
Hania Abou Al-Shamat, University of Southern California
Educational Divide across Religious Groups in the Late Ottoman Empire: Institutional Effects on the Demand for Curricular Modernization
Eden Naby, Independent Scholar
American Missionaries and the First Assyrian and Kurdish Newspapers in Iran
Patricia Singleton, UCLA
Counting Cairenes: Social Categorization and City Structure in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

The following panel was originally scheduled for Monday, 11/21, 2:30pm-4:30pm
(NP33) Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Islam in Egypt

Chair: Anthony Tirado Chase, Occidental College

Maye Kassem, American University in Cairo
The 2005 Legislative Elections in Egypt: Adjusting Authoritarian Electoral Politics
Guy Laron, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Three Incarnations of 'Neutralism': Nasserite Foreign Policy 1954-56
Khairi Abaza, SOAS, Univeristy of London
Education and Media as Agents of Re-Islamization: The Case of Egypt in the 1980s and 1990s
Gamze Cavdar Yasar, Michigan State University
Political Reform and Egypt
Tamir Moustafa, University of Wisconsin
Political Liberalism and Islamist Activism in the Egyptian Legal Profession
Julie E. Taylor, Princeton  University
The Growing Affinity between Clerics and Islamists in Egypt

(NP40) Security and Violence in Palestine

Chair: Abid A. Al-Marayati, University of Toledo

Nasser Abu-Farha, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Making of a Human Bomb: State Expansion and Modes of Resistance in Palestine
Naomi Weinberger, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Security Sector Reform in Palestine
Maya Rosenfeld, The Truman Research Inst., The Hebrew University
From Emergency Relief Assistance to Welfare Services and Back: UNRWA and the Palestinian Refugees
Lori Allen, Brown University
Martyr Bodies: Aesthetics and the Politics of Suffering in the Palestinian Intifada
Rachael M. Rudolph, West Virginia University
Palestinian Identity, Culture and Martyrdom

(NP43) Iran and the Gulf

Chair: Ali R. Abootalebi, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

Anisseh Van Engeland-Nourai, Harvard Law School/Institut d'Etudes Politiques
Between Universality of Human Rights and Cultural Relativism: A Third Path for the Iranian Civil Society?
Sam Blatteis, Georgetown University
Analyzing Saudi Arabi's Foreign Policy Decision to Align with China
Roxanne D. Marcotte, The University of Queensland
Religious Freedom in Islam: An Iranian Discussion
Houman Sadri, University of Central Florida
Iran, Regional Integration, and the Caspian States
Martin Hvidt, University of Southern Denmark
Dubai: A Successful "Developmental State?"

(P007) Agency and Adab: Women and Gender in the Abbasid Period
Organized by Matthew S. Gordon

Sponsored by the Middle East Medievalists

Chair: Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University (Ohio)

Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University (Ohio)
Yearning and Disquiet: Jahiz and the Singing Girls
Everett K. Rowson, New York University
Women with Attitude: Gender and Eloquence in 'Abbasid Literature and Society
Kristina Richardson, University of Michigan
Interior Histories: Men and Women's Private Letters of the Abbasid Period
Hugh Kennedy, University of St. Andrews
Power and Wealth in the Early Abbasid Harem
Nadia Maria El Cheikh, American University of Beirut
Revisiting the Abbasid Harems

(P026) The Smart Classroom? ALI Approach
Organized by Zeinab Ibrahim

Chair: Zeinab Ibrahim, American University in Cairo

Zeinab Ibrahim, American University in Cairo
WH Questions in Using Technology in the Language Classroom
Mariam  Attia, American University in Cairo
Technology: A Piece in the Jigsaw Puzzle of Pedagogy
Jehan Allam, American University in Cairo
Why CALL!!!
Nora Abdel Wahab, American University in Cairo
Technology: An Add-On to the Dialect Classroom
Laila Al-Sawi, American University in Cairo
Culture Learning: Technology in Need is Technology Indeed

(P034) The Ottoman Balkans: New Approaches for Understanding Political, Cultural and Social Transformation Before and After the Advent of Balkan Nationalism
Organized by Robert Zens

Chair: Kemal H. Karpat, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Frederick F. Anscombe, Birkbeck College, University of London
Reform and Revolt in the Pre-Tanzimat Western Balkans
Tolga U. Esmer, University of Chicago
Religion and Rebellion in the Life and Practices of the Rumeli A'yan Kara Feyzi, c. 1795-1830
Robert Zens, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Ayanlik and the Emergence of the Ottoman Warlord, 1791-1815
Ayten Kiliç, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A Russian Machiavelli in the Ottoman Empire: Count Ignatiev Conquers Istanbul (1864-1877)

(P035) Screen Identities: Problematic Nationalisms in Middle Eastern Cinema and Television
Organized by Nadia Yaqub

Chair: Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Discussant: Ellen McLarney, Duke University

miriam cooke, Duke University
Muhammad Malas Deconstructs Syrian Nationalism
Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Deconstructing Palestinian Cinematic Weddings
Erdag Goknar, Duke University
Transformations of Self & Nation in the New Turkish Cinema
Banu Gokariksel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Geographical Imaginaries of the Southeast: Spatial Locations and Dislocations of Kurdish Identities in the New Cinema and Television in Turkey

(P070) Medical Anthropology in the Muslim World: Ethnographic Reflections from Africa and the Middle East
Organized by Marcia C. Inhorn, Beth Kangas, and Carolyn Sargent

***Joint session of MESA and the African Studies Association***

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, U of Michigan
Infertility and the Negotiation of Medical Practices in Eastern Sudan
Ellen Gruenbaum, California State University, Fresno
Feminist Activism for the Abolition of Female Genital Cutting in Sudan
Marcia C. Inhorn, University of Michigan
Male Infertility, Masculinity, and New Reproductive Technologies in the Muslim World: Post 9/11 Reflections
Beth Kangas, Wayne State University
Hope from Abroad in Yemenis' International Medical Travel
Elisha P. Renne, University of Michigan
Islam and the Polio Immunization Campaign in Northern Nigeria
Carolyn Sargent, Southern Methodist University
Contested Discourses, Assertive Practices: The Gendered Negotiation of Islam and Reproduction among Malian Migrants in Paris

(P071) Rights, Rules and Relations: Politics in Contemporary Yemen
Organized by Gregory D.Johnsen and Christopher Edens, AIYS

Sponsored by the American Institute for Yemeni Studies

Chair: Thomas Stevenson, Ohio University-Zanesville
Discussant: Robert Burrowes, University of Washington

Sheila Carapico, University of Richmond
Some Yemeni Ideas About Human Rights
Steve Day, St Lawrence University
Yemen: Unification: Power-Sharing, Democracy and Central-Local Relations
Gregory D.Johnsen, University of Arizona
Reprogramming the Imagination in Yemen: Hamoud al-Hitar and the Religious Dialogue Council
Mark N. Katz, George Mason University
The Yemeni Tribes and al-Qaeda: What is the Connection?
Charles F. Dunbar, Jr., Boston University
U.S.-Yemen Relations since 1990: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

ROUNDTABLE
(RT001) Kurdish Nationalism in the Post-War Context: Shifting Identities and Opportunity Structures
Organized by Denise Natali

Chair: Denise Natali, U of Salahadin
Discussant: Birusk Tugan, Washington Kurdish Institute

Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
Michael Gunter, Tennessee Technological University
Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies
Jaafar Khidir, U of Salahadin

The following session has moved to Tuesday, November 22 from 1:30pm-3:30pm
THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC003) Gender and Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: Exploring Future Directions in Research , Education, and Health Services
Organized by Angel M. Foster

Chair: Angel M. Foster, Harvard Medical School/Ibis Reproductive Health

SPECIAL SESSION
(S002) Between a 'Spring' and a 'Fall': Lebanon and Syria at a Crossroads
Organized by Jens Hanssen and Amal N. Ghazal

Sponsored by the Lebanese Studies Association and the Syrian Studies Association

Co-Chairs: Amal N. Ghazal, University of Toronto and Jens Hanssen, University

Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown University
Elizabeth Picard, Iremam-MMSH
Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown University
As'ad AbuKhalil, California State University, Stanislaus
Carol Hakim, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

(NP16) Women's Place: Feminism and Power

Chair: Kate Lang, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Nerina Rustomji, Bard College
Women's Earthly Behavior and Otherworldly Placement in Sahih Hadith Collections
Delia Cortese, Middlesex University-London
Out of Order: al-Hakim and Women in Fatimid Cairo
Susanne Barsoum, University of Chicago
Critiquing the Literature on the Early Feminist Movement in Egypt: A Return to the Sources
Hamideh Sedghi, Villanova University
Gender and Resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Is the Notion of Islamic Feminism Relevant?

(NP19) Genealogies of Power

Chair: Norman A. Stillman, University of Oklahoma

Leah Kinberg, Tel Aviv University
The Pharaohs of Our Time: A Koranic Concept in Contemporary Muslim Discourse
Rannfrid I. Thelle, University of Oslo
The Biblical Conquest Account and Its Modern Hermeneutical Challenges
Lutz Richter-Bernburg, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Divine Totalitarianism?: (Re-)Readings of Abraham's Non-Sacrifice in the Koran
Almut Hoefert, Univeristy of Basel
Conceptions of Monarchic Rule in the Islamic and Christian Middle Ages: The Ruler's Body in Egypt and the Roman-German (12-13th Century)
Alexandra Cuffel, Macalester College
"Undesirable Geneologies": Transformations of the Toledot Jesu in Medieval Muslim Apocalyptic and Shi'i-Sunni Polemic

(P009) Citizenship, Gender and Conflict in the Middle East
Organized by Nicola Pratt and Nadje Al-Ali

Chair: Nicola Pratt, University of East Anglia, UK
Discussant: Valentine Moghadam, Illinois State Univeristy & UNESCO

Nadje Al-Ali, University of Exeter
Contesting the Nation and Citizenship from Diasporic Spaces: Iraqi Women's Activism in the UK, US and Jordan
Ruba Salih, University of Bologna
Strategies of Citizenship among the Palestinian Diaspora in Jordan
Anita Fábos, University of East London
Between Citizenship and Belonging: Transnational Ethnic Strategies of Arab Muslim Sudanese Refugees
Nicola Pratt, University of East Anglia, UK
Reconstructing Citizenship in Post-Invasion Iraq

(P028) Istanbul Neighborhoods: Minority Identities in Place, in Practice, and in Memory
Organized by Amy Mills

Chair: Christine M. Philliou, Yale Center for International and Area Studies

Christine M. Philliou, Yale Center for International and Area Studies
A New Piece for the Mosaic: Building a Bulgarian Community in Istanbul, 1830-1850
Amy Mills, University of South Carolina
From 'Little Paris' to Historic Mahalle: The Place of Kuzguncuk in Jewish Community Identity
Carel Bertram, San Francisco State University
Anchoring the Hosts of Ghosts: Istanbul and the Armenian Pilgrimage Itinerary
Anna Secor, University of Kentucky
Identity and Difference in the Everyday Production of Neighborhood Space in Istanbul

(P041) Caspian Security, Energy Insecurity, and the Middle East
Organized by Gregory Gleason

Chair: Mark N. Katz, George Mason U
Discussant: Houman Sadri, U of Central Florida

Gregory Gleason, U of New Mexico and Yuri V. Bossin, Moscow Lomonosov State U
Kazakhstan’s Caspian Strategy, Russia, and the Middle East
Jibek Syzdykova, Moscow State U
Iran in the Caspian Negotiation Process
Vladislav Sobolev, St. Petersburg U and Alexander Sotnichenko, St. Petersburg U
Russia's Caspian Strategy

(P044) War, Memory and Violence in Modern Arabic Writing
Organized by Valerie Anishchenkova

Chair: William Granara, Harvard University
Discussant: Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan

Jonathan Smolin, Dartmouth College
Writing Algerian Violence: New Literary Terrains
Valerie Anishchenkova, Tufts University
Memories of War: Rediscovering Selfhood through War Stories in Contemporary Iraqi Writing
David DiMeo, Harvard University
Narrative Consistency in the Disjointed World of Civil War: Hanan al-Shaykh's "Hikayat Zahrah"
Kari Neely, University of Michigan
War, Homeland Displacement and Epic Remembrance in the Workd of Zahra Omar

(P057) Situating the Gulf in World-Historical Context
Organized by Fred H. Lawson, Mills College

Chair: James Onley, University of Exeter/American University of Sharjah

Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
Between Arabs, Turks and Iranians: The Autonomy of Basra, 1600-1700
Calvin H. Allen, Jr., Shenandoah University
Global City 1900: Muscat and the Pre-World War I World Economy
Hasan M. al-Naboodah, United Arab Emirates University
Wilfred Thesiger and European Images of Arabia
Frauke Heard-Bey, Centre for Documentation & Research, Abu Dhabi
Lineages of Tribal Rule in the Arab States of the Gulf
Matteo Legrenzi, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
GCC Defense Cooperation: Beyond Symbolism?

(P063) Palestine and South Africa: A Fruitful or Futile Comparison?
Organized by Leila Farsakh

***Joint session of MESA and the African Studies Association***

Chair: Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Discussant: Ilan Pappé, Haifa University

Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego
Social Boundaries and Settler Privilege in South Africa and Israel/Palestine
Laetitia Bucaille, Bordeaux 2 University
Palestinian and South African Activists: The Meaning of the Struggle
Raif Zreik, Harvard Law School
Palestine, Apartheid and the Rights Discourse

(P074) Transnational Paradoxes: The Production and Reproduction of Elite Power
Organized by Najib B. Hourani

Chair/Discussant: Michael Gasper, Yale University

Joshua Schreier, Vassar College
Religion Reform and Revolution in Algeria: Indigenous Jews in 1848
Ozlem Altan, New York University
Apolitics of Power: Mapping Elite Capitals in Egypt, Lebanon, and Turkey
Munir Fakher Eldin, New York University
Undoing Empire: International Social Sciences and the Making of Colonial Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s
Najib B. Hourani, Fordham University
Landscapes of Competition: Globalization and the Malling of Beirut

(P078) Reconsidering the Press: The Formation of Middle Eastern Public Spheres 1900-1930
Organized by Orit Bashkin

Chair: Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Malek Abisaab, McGill University

Ami Ayalon, Tel Aviv University
Assessing Readership: Exposure to the Press in pre-1948 Palestine
Negin Nabavi, Princeton University
Readership and the Public Sphere in Constitutional Iran
Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago
"The Tongues of all Prophets of Evil Have Been Effectively Silenced": Iraqi Dalies and the Colonized Public Sphere, 1921-1924
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University
The Nahda Revisited: Socialism and Radicalism in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, 1900-1914

(P088) Bandung at 50: Histories of Resistance and Legacies of Solidarities
Organized by Adnan A. Husain and Rabab Abdulhadi

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

***Joint session of MESA and the African Studies Association***

Chair: Rabab Abdulhadi, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Discussant: Joel Beinin, Stanford University

Adnan A. Husain, New York University
Black Power and Arab Revolution: Afro-Asian People's Solidarity and the "Spirit of Bandung" in the Late 50s and 60s from Harlem to Algiers
Barbara Harlow, University of Texas at Austin
Bandung at 50: Self-Determination, Non-Alignment, Re-Alignment
Poonam Arora, U of Michigan-Dearborn
Bandung at 50: Judgement on the World or Shift in Consciousness?
Steven Salaita, U of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Non-Alignment and Indigenous Alliance: Transnational Solidarities among Indians and Palestinians

ROUNDTABLE
(RT007) Building Reading Fluency in Turkish
Organized by Erika H. Gilson

Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT)

Chair: Erika H. Gilson, Princeton University

Suzan Özel, Indiana University
Guliz Kuruoglu, UCLA
Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown University
Hakan Özoglu, University of Chicago
Hilâl Sürsal, The Ohio State University
Roberta Micallef, Boston U
Sibel Erol, New York University

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC009) Islamophobia in the Academy
Organized by Anila Daulatzai

Moderator: Anila Daulatzai, Johns Hopkins University

SPECIAL SESSION
(S011) Roundtable in Honor of André Raymond
Organized by Peter Sluglett

Chair: Peter Sluglett, University of Utah

André Raymond, Professor Emeritus, University of Provence

Nelly Hanna, American University in Cairo
Kenneth L. Brown, Méditerranéans
Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence (France)
Leila Fawaz, Tufts University
Abdul-Karim Rafeq, College of William and Mary
Toru Miura, Ochanomizu University

On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, friends, colleagues and students from Egypt, Europe, Japan, Syria, and North America will gather to honor the work of leading social historian of the Middle East, André Raymond. Professor Emeritus at the University of Aix in Provence, Raymond pioneered the use of Islamic court records for the study of urban social history, particularly in Ottoman Egypt and Syria. He is the doyen of Middle Eastern studies in France.

State of the Field Session
Internet Technologies and Middle East Studies
Organized by Michael Toler

ACLS History E-Book Project:
Ronald G. Musto, Project Director
Eileen Gardiner, Project Director

ARTstor:
Max Marmor, Director of Collection Development
Kimberly Brandt, User Services Specialist

NITLE:
Michael Toler, Al-Musharaka Program Director
Amy McGill, Associate Director

(NP12) Performance and Politics

Chair: Yoram Meital, Ben-Gurion University

Christopher Stone, Hunter College, CUNY
Popular Culture and Palestine: The Case of Fairuz and the Rahabina
Hanan Hammad, University of Texas at Austin
Layla Murad: An Egyptian Singer Caught in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Josef Gugler, University of Connecticut and and Robert Lang, University of Hartford
New Images of Arab Women on the Screen: Nadia El Fani's "Bedwin Hacker"

(NP39) Governance and State-building in Turkey

Chair: Kim Shively, Kutztown University

Yesim Arat, Bogazici University
Afetinan and Feminist Nation Building in Early Republican Turkey
Ahmet T. Kuru, University of Washington
Between French and American Models: Turkish Secularism in a Comparative Perspective
Yorgo Pasadeos, University of Alabama
Becoming Eurocentric: International News in the Turkish Daily Press
Hootan Shambayati, Bilkent University
Establishing Horizontal Accountability: The Turkish Experience
Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University
Democratization in Diyarbakir: Changing Norms and Practices in Southeast Turkey
Elif Andac, University of Washington
The Ottoman Empire in Transition: The Role of Pan-Ideologies in State Building

(P011) Part I: Arabic Poetry: Contexts and Dimensions
Organized by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

Supported by Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

Chair: James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah

Raymond K. Farrin, University of California, Berkeley
Making the Remembrance Dear: The Poetic Art of al-Khansa'
Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
Ibn Muqbil: Structural Inversion and the Politics of Nostalgia in an Early Islamic Qasida
Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona
Representations of Public and Private in Early Islamic Court Culture
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University
From Text to Talisman: Myth, Relic and Miracle in the Two Mantle Odes

(P024) Art and War
Organized by Jessica Winegar and Kirsten Scheid

Chair: Jessica Winegar, Fordham University
Discussant: Nasser Rabbat, MIT/Aga Khan Program

Roxanne Varzi, SOAS, University of London
Dying to be Displayed
Kirsten Scheid, Princeton University
Liberation and Looting in Iraq: Fragmentation and the Work of Art in the Founding of New Empires
Jessica Winegar, Fordham University
Bridges of Understanding?: American Interest in Middle Eastern Cultural Production after 9/11
Silvia Naef, University of Geneva
Globalization, 9/11 and the Visual Arts Scene in the Eastern Mediterranean
Sarah Rogers, MIT
The Politics of Display: Lebanon's Postwar Art Scene

(P027) Afro-Arab Borders: Conflicts and Conciliations
Organized by Eve M. Troutt Powell

***Joint session of MESA and the African Studies Association***

Chair/Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, New York University

David L. Schoenbrun, Northwestern University
Slavery and Enslavement Between the Great Lakes (and Beyond) to 1800: Some Linguistic Evidence
Beth Baron, City University of New York
Rescuing Bodies and Saving Souls: British Abolitionists, American Missionaries and African Slaves
Mandana Limbert, Queens College, CUNY
Marriage, Sufficiency and the Politics of Arabness in Zanzibar
Hisham Aidi, Columbia University
Studying Race and Ethnicity in the Arab World: The Politics of It All

The following panel was previously scheduled for Tuesday, November 22, 11:00am-1:00pm
(P032) The Politics of Authoritarianism in the MENA
Organized by Ellen Lust-Okar

Chair: Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant University
Discussant: Eva Bellin, Hunter College

Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross
Does Gender Discrimination Explain Arab Authoritarianism?
Ellen Lust-Okar, Yale University
Elections under Authoritarianism
Michele Penner Angrist, Union College
When Do Single-Party Regimes Become Vulnerable to Rupture?: Reflections on Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria
Michael Herb, Georgia State University
Do Islamist Movements Matter?: Explaining the Democratic Deficit in the Arab World
Fayez Hammad, University of Southern California
The United States and the Resilience of Authoritarianism in the Arab World

The following panel has moved to 4:30pm-6:30pm on Sunday
(P039) Crossing Non-Borders: Shrines and Waqf in Central Asia
Organized by Jo-Ann Gross

Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies

Chair: Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
Discussant: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto

Bahriddin Aliev, Inst. of Lang/Lit, Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan
Towards a History of the Mausoleum of Muhammad Bashara in Panjikand
Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
The Waqf History of the Shrine of Muhammad Bashara
Florian Schwarz, University of Washington
The Politics of Sacred Space: Shaybanid Appanage Politics and Waqf in Samarqand
Bahriddin Aliev, Institute of Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan
Towards a History of the Mausoleum of Muhammad Bashara in Panjikand

(P047) Middle Eastern Refugees: Global and Local Perspectives (double session from 2:00pm-6:30pm)
Organized by Kimberly Katz and Rochelle Davis

Previously scheduled for Saturday, November 19 from 5:30pm-7:30pm
(P059) Writing Arab Americans into the Discourse on Race: Three Case Studies
Organized by Hani Bawardi

Chair: Hani Bawardi, Wayne State University

Fatina Abdrabboh, Harvard University
Arab Immigrants and African Americans: More than Black and White
Rima Meroueh, Wayne State University
Arab-Black Relations: What's Race Got To Do With It?
Saeed A. Khan, Wayne State University
A Study of Arab and African-American Relations within the Muslim Community: Briding the Divide Between Indigenous and Immigrant Groups
Ihsan Alkhatib, Wayne State University
When the Shoe is on the Other Foot: Empowered Blacks and Supplicant Arabs—Unbalanced Power Relations in a Government Agency Setting

(P060) Egyptian Business History: New Sources, New Methods and New Directions in Research
Organized by Roger Owen, Harvard University

Chair: Roger Owen, Harvard University
Discussant: AbdelAziz EzzelArab, Economic and Business History Research Centre (EBHRC), American University in Cairo

Robert J. Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
Captive Narratives: On the History of Firms and States in the Middle East (and Beyond)
Karim Mostafa El-Sayed, EBHRC, American University in Cairo
Café Riche: In Pursuit of a Non-Quantitative Business Model: Implications of Macro Changes for Small Eateries in Downtown Cairo
Dina Khalifa Hussein, EBHRC, American University in Cairo
A Brave New City! Heliopolis: Place, Business and People
Mostafa Hany Hefny, American University in Cairo
The Business History Voyager: Revisiting Western Methods in the Light of Oral History Accounts of Egypt's Industrial Experience

(P066) Palestinian National Identity and Resistance in the 20th Century: Textual Approaches
Organized by Maha Nassar and Mezna Qato, St. Antony's College, Oxford U

Discussant: Ghada Al Madbouh, U of Maryland Marion Boulby, Trent University

Rena Barakat, University of Chicago
Seeing the Trees through the Forest: Mass Politics and Thawrat al-Buraq in Palestine
Mezna Qato, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
National Erasures: Palestine and History in a Jordanian Classroom, c. 1950-1958
Maha Nassar, University of Chicago
On the Front Lines: The Arab "Discovery" of Palestinian Citizens of Israel, 1967-1970
Lynne Rogers, University of Connecticut at Avery Point
Palestinian History through the Contemporary Novel
Tom Hill, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
The Historicity of Palestinian Literature since Oslo

(P068) New Perspectives on Jordanian Foreign Policy
Organized by Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg

Chair: Jillian Schwedler, University of Maryland, College Park
Discussant: Scott Greenwood, California State University, San Marcos

Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State University
Iraq and Roles: Jordanian and Syrian Responses to the U.S. War on Iraq
Ken Rutherford, Missouri State University
Jordan's Leadership Role on Global Humanitarian Issues
Fares Braizat, Center for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan
Jordanian Masses and Elites: Perceptions of the US and Terrorism
Russell E. Lucas, University of Oklahoma
Public Opinion and Jordanian Foreign Policy
Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg, Drury University
Where is the King?: Leaders and Foreign Policymaking in Jordan

(P084) Teaching and Learning Arabic to High Levels of Proficiency
Organized by Jerry Lampe

Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Arabic

Chair: Jerry Lampe, The National Foreign Language Center

Jerry Lampe, The National Foreign Language Center
Lessons Learned from the Arabic Media Project: Improving Instruction/Learning in the Presentational and Interpersonal Modes
Zeinab Ahmed Taha,
Beyond the Main Ideas: The CASA Experience in Reaching Higher Proficiency in Arabic
Hanaa Kilany, Washington University
High Level: Online Interactive Learning Material
Alaa Elgibali, University of Maryland
Advanced Proficiency in Arabic: A Path for the Future

(P085) Muslim Women's Ritual Practices: Local and Transnational Religious Agency and Authority
Organized by Margaret J. Rausch

Chair: Kelly Pemberton Lamb, The George Washington University
Discussant: Catharina Raudvere, Copenhagen University

Marion H. Katz, New York University
Yemeni Women Chanters and the Re-Interpretation of the Prophet's Mawlid
Kelly Pemberton Lamb, The George Washington University
An Assembly of Love Songs: Gender, Genre, and Performance in Contemporary Sufi Practice
Margaret J. Rausch, University of Kansas
Tajik, Uzbek and Moroccan Berber Women's Sufi Rituals: Local, National and Transnational Agency
Catharina Raudvere, Copenhagen University
Exile and Tradition: Mevlud Performances among Bosnian Women in Scandinavia

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
(TC010) Meeting the Needs of a Neglected Region: A Newly Established Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Organized by Sandy Sufian

Moderator: Sandy Sufian, University of Illinois-Chicago

Louise Lambert, University Warnborough
Ellen Amster, U of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Angel M. Foster, Harvard Medical School/Ibis Reproductive Health
Navid Madani, Harvard University
Kamiar Alaei, Harvard University/Triangular Clinic, Kermanshah Iran
Debra Budiani, University of Pennsylvania

(NP21) Crime, Punishment, Law, and Legal Institutions in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Regimes

Chair: Odile Moreau, University Montpellier III, France

Yüksel Sezgin, University of Washington
A Comparative Analysis of Modern Forms of "Millet" System in Israel, Egypt and India
Kent F. Schull, UCLA
Counting the Incarcerated in the Ottoman Empire: The 1912 Ottoman Campaign to Systematically Collect Prison Statistics and Its Effects on Prison Reform
Havva G. Guney-Ruebenacker, Harvard Law School
The 1917 Ottoman Family Law: Revisiting the First Legal Debate on Women Rights in Islamic Law
Roger Deal, University of Utah
The Rule of Law in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Abdulhamid II's Criminal Courts
Betul Basaran, University of Chicago
Policing Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Selim III and His Urban Policies (1789-1792)

(NP32) Palestine and Israel: Post-Partition Issues

Chair: Miriam Joyce, Purdue University (Calumet)

Haggai Ram, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Between Homeland and Exile: Iranian Jewry in Zionist/Israeli Political Thought
Geremy Forman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Military Rule, Political Manipulation, and Jewish Settlement: Israeli Mechanisms for Controlling Nazareth in the 1950s
Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
Comparing Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish Property Claims in Discourse and Diplomacy
Leanne Piggott, The University of Sydney
An Ideal Betrayed: Australia, Britain and the Palestine Question, 1947-1948

(P012) Part II: Arabic Poetry: Contexts and Dimensions
Organized by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

Supported by Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

Chair: Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
Discussant: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University

James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley
The Visit of Sir Gold (Ibn Quzman's Zajal 88)
Cyrus Zargar, University of California, Berkeley
The Poetry of "Tayf al-Khayal" in Context: Power and the Corruption of Sacred Language
Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, Kyoto Notre Dame University
A Double Imitation in the Siniyyah of Ahmad Shawqi
Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah
Dedications Revisited: The Present in the Past

The following panel has been rescheduled to this time slot.
(P039) Crossing Non-Borders: Shrines and Waqf in Central Asia
Organized by Jo-Ann Gross

Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies

Chair: Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
Discussant: Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto

Bahriddin Aliev, Inst. of Lang/Lit, Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan
Towards a History of the Mausoleum of Muhammad Bashara in Panjikand
Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
The Waqf History of the Shrine of Muhammad Bashara
Florian Schwarz, University of Washington
The Politics of Sacred Space: Shaybanid Appanage Politics and Waqf in Samarqand
Bahriddin Aliev, Institute of Language and Literature, Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan
Towards a History of the Mausoleum of Muhammad Bashara in Panjikand

(P047) Middle Eastern Refugees: Global and Local Perspectives (double session from 2:00pm-6:30pm)
Organized by Kimberly Katz and Rochelle Davis

(P050) Early Islamic History according to the Papyri
Organized by W. Matt Malczycki

Sponsored by the Middle East Medievalists

Chair: Jere L. Bacharach, University of Washington

W. Matt Malczycki, American University in Cairo
A New Arabic Papyrus Collection
Petra M. Sijpesteijn, University of Oxford
Administering Islamic Egypt: A New Papyrus Letter from the Umayyid Period
Lennart Sundelin, Princeton University
Reassessing a 'Medieval Green Revolution' in the Egyptian Countryside
Uriel Simonsohn, Princeton University
Response and Transmission: Non-Muslim Response to Islam and the Communication Which Followed It

(P054) From Ideology to Pragmatism: Libya, the Rogue Turned Respectable State
Organized by Yahia H. Zoubir and Haizam Amirah-Fernández

Sponsored by the American Institute of Maghrib Studies

Chair: Haizam Amirah-Fernández, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid/St. Louis University
Discussant: R. Bruce St John, Independent Scholar

Yahia H. Zoubir, Euromed Marsellie, Ecole de Management
Libya and the United States: From Confrontation to Cooperation
Mary Jane Deeb, Library of Congress
Domestic Changes in Libya and Their Impact on Foreign Policy
Haizam Amirah-Fernández, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid
The EU and Libya: Opportunities and Limits of the Rapprochement, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid</