MESA 2007 Program

2007 Program

Saturday, November 17
5:00PM-7:00PM

(NP08) Identity and Nation in Contemporary Maghrebi Literature and Film

Chair: Hedi BenAicha, Curry College

Shaden M. Tageldin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Which Qalam for Algeria?: Wars of Colonialism, Liberation, and Language in Djebar’s L’Amour, la Fantasia and Mustaghanami’s Dhakirat Al-Jasad
Jordan Sudermann, Independent Scholar, Portland OR
Unpacking Colonialism and Identity in Jean Genet
Irene Siegel, University of California, Berkeley
Forgetting as a Path to Remembering: Intertextual Subjectivity and the Work of Edmond 'Amron El Maleh
Angelica M. DeAngelis, Arab Open University Kuwait
The Myth of the Prodigal Son in Ismaël Ferroukhi's film Le Grand Voyage
Louisa Matmati, University of Annaba, Algeria
Transgressions in Assia Djebar's Writing

(NP10) Sufi Saints and Guides

Chair: Dina Le Gall, Lehman College, CUNY

Shiraz Sheikh, University of Toronto
Rumi's Introduction to the Mathnawi: A Case Study for an Analysis of the Fenarian Synthesis
Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Catholic University of America
Shuhshtari's Guide for Novices: The Risala Ilmiyya fi al-Tasawwuf
Sibel Erol, New York University
Recontextualizing Seyh Galip's Beauty and Love
Saeko Yazaki, University of Edinburgh
Al-Makki's Contribution to Early Sufism: His Influence on al-Ghazali and the Mystical Image of the Heart
John L. Iskander, U.S. Department of State
Making a Saint of al-Shaykh al-Sha`rawi

(NP24) Legal History

Chair: Madeline C. Zilfi, University of Maryland, College Park

Ibrahim Halil Kalkan, New York University
Prostitution in the Late Ottoman Empire
Karen M. Kern, Hunter College, City University of New York
I Will Slander You and You Will Be Imprisoned for Fifteen Years.' Gender, the Law, and Milk Marriage in Ottoman Birecik
Iris Agmon, Ben-Gurion University
Were the Sharia Courts Bypassed by the Reformers of Tanzimat?
Avi Rubin, Ben-Gurion University
Public Prosecution during the Late Ottoman Empire: The Voice of the State
Kent F. Schull, University of Memphis
Children and Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918

(NP26) Art and Politics

Satoshi Kawamoto, University of Tokyo
Court Ceremonies of Rum Seljuk and Their Spaces
Karin Ruehrdanz, Royal Ontario Museum
Adjusting to Changing Legitimization Strategies: The Bukharan Court Atelier in the Later 17th Century
Darin N. Stephanov, University of California, Los Angeles
Crowns, Swords, Thrones and the Like - Symbolic Deployment of Regalia in the Defense of Autocracy in the Late Ottoman and Russian Empires

(NP34) Andalucian Perspectives

Chair: Allen Fromherz, University of Qatar

Dalia Eltayeb, University of Toronto
Andalusian Women between Fact and Fiction and the Question of Imagined Identities
Eric M. Staples, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moriscan Corsairs: Contested Identity in Seventeenth Century Morocco
Catherine E. DeLong Malloy, Catholic University of America
The Lead Books of the Sacromonte: A Study of Language as Power
Josie Hendrickson, Emory University
Prohibition of the Pilgrimage: A Fatwa from Late Nineteenth-Century Fez
Lutz Richter-Bernburg, University of Tübingen, Germany
Franks, Slavs and Other Denizens of the Exotic North: a View from Umayyad al-Andalus
Justin Stearns, Middlebury College
Placing al-Andalus in History: Andalusi Historical Self-Representation

(NP43) Security Concerns in the Middle East

Chair: Kemal Silay, Indiana University

Haggai Ram, Ben-Gurion U
Constructing Palestine and Lebanon as Zones of Emergency: Israeli Images of the Iranian Threat
Oren Barak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Assaf David, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Why the Security Sector in the Arab States is Understudied and What Can Be Done About It
Naomi Weinberger, Colgate University
International Contributions to Promoting Human Security in Palestine
Carolyn Smith, The Ohio State University
The Kurds, Turkey and NATO: Did NATO Obligations Decrease Turkish Military Attacks against the Kurds?
Thomas W. O'Donnell, University of Michigan
The Political Economy of Iranian Oil: U.S. Sanctions and Iran's Nuclear Gamit

(P014) Blurring the Lines: Nationality and Public Space in British Egypt
Organized by James Whidden

Chair/Discussant: Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Will Hanley, McGill University
Foreign and Local Traffic in Turn-of-the-Century Alexandria
Carmen M.K, Gitre, Rutgers University
Acting Egyptian: Theater and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cairo
Shane Minkin, New York University
The Graveyards of Imperialism: British Cemetaries in Alexandria, Egypt, 1917-1972
James Whidden, Acadia University
Out of Place: Egyptians in Foreign Schools

(P026) The Crowded Field of Political Contestation in Turkey
Organized by Nicole Watts

Chair: Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
Discussant: Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College

Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University and Gilles Dorronsoro, Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
Electing Mehdi: Local Politics and Social Coalitions in 1970s Diyarbakir
Elise Massicard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS
Negotiating Pressures from Above and Below: Local Party Politics in Adana
Emre Öngün, IREMAM
Self-Limited Radicalism: Left-wing Politics and the Lawyers of the Istanbul Bar Association
Hootan Shambayati, Bilkent University
Elections and the Militarization of Politics in the Middle East

(P051) Old Muses, New Voices: Remaking and Reclaiming Iran in the Emerging Literature of the North American Iranian Diaspora
Organized by Persis M. Karim

Chair: Persis M. Karim, San Jose State University
Discussant: Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine

Amy Motlagh, Princeton U
Towards a Typology of Iranian-American Life-Writing: Nahid Rachlin and the Story of An Iranian Woman Caught between Two Cultures
Jasmin Darznik, Princeton University
A Second Exile: The Legacy of Forough Farrokhzad among Writers of the Iranian Diaspora
Nima Naghibi, Ryerson University
Exotic Autobiography Or the Making of New Subjectivities?: The New Generation of Diasporic Iranian Women's Memoirs
Babek Elahi, Rochester Institute of Technology
Iranian(-American) Literary E-Zines: Virtually Reinventing Cultural Identity

(P059) Reading Places: Space in Modern Arabic Fiction
Organized by Nader K. Uthman and Yasmine Ramadan

Chair: Dina Ramadan, Columbia University

Elizabeth Holt, Columbia University
Encountering French Genderings of Space in Arabic Narrative Fiction: 1870-1914
Noha Radwan, Columbia University
Nubian Fiction Beyond Damning the Dam
Yasmine Ramadan, Columbia University
Yusuf Idris and the National Imaginary: The Geographic and Linguistic Spaces of Cairo
Nader K. Uthman, Columbia University
A Storied Exile: Displacement and Subjectivity in Modern Arabic Fiction

(P074) Resistance and Compliance: Protestant Education and the Complexities of the Ottoman World
Organized by Nancy L. Stockdale and Carolyn Goffman

Chair/Discussant: Ellen Fleischmann, University of Dayton

Emine O. Evered, Michigan State University
Local and Imperial Perceptions of and Responses to Missionary and Foreign Schools in Territories of the Late Ottoman Empire
Carolyn Goffman, DePaul University
Challenging the New and Noble Vocabulary: Student Resistance to Protestant Educators
Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas
Contradiction and Control: Nazareth and the Arab-British Missionary Encounter, 1848-1918
Elizabeth Brownson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Protestant Missions, Education and Political Influence in Palestine from the Late Ottoman Period to the British Mandate

(P080) Roles of Intellectuals in Medieval Muslim Societies
Organized by Tsugitaka Sato, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Takeshi Yukawa, and Kentaro Sato

Chair: Takeshi Yukawa, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Junichi Taniguchi, Kyoto Women's University
The Ulama and Political Power
Nobutaka Nakamachi, Japan
Medieval Arab Historiography and Social Practice: Al-'Ayni and His Chronicles
Kazuo Morimoto, University of Tokyo
Al-Samhudi on the 'Ilm and Nassab': A Reading of the Jawahir al-'iqdayn
Kentaro Sato, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Introduction of the Nativity of the Prophet Muhammad (al-mawlid al-Nabawi) in al-Maghrib: Non-Muslims and an Intellectual in 13th Century Ceuta
Kazuhiro Shimizu, Japan
The Craft of Knowledge: Islam and Knowledge According to State Secretaries

(P082) Christians of the Middle East: Interrogating Identities from Orientalism to the Diaspora
Organized by Hakem Rustom, London School of Economics

Chair: Anthony Shenoda, Harvard University

Magi Abdul-Masih, St. Mary's University
Jesus, a Palestinian Jew? Christian Theology and the Palestine/Israel Conflict
Hakem Rustom, London School of Economics
Armenians in Turkey / Christian-Turks in France: Reflections on the Turkish-Armenian Migration to France
Adel Iskandar, University of Texas at Austin
Indigenizing Orientalism? Reflections on the Mediated Self-Portrayal of Coptic Orthodox Christian Identity

(P088) Afghanistan: Cultural Transformations in War, Displacement, and Reconstruction
Organized by Zuzanna Olszewska

Chair/Discussant: Wali Ahmadi, University of California, Berkeley

Zuzanna Olszewska, University of Oxford
Two Kinds of Exile: Visions of Afghanistan in Refugee Poetry in Iran
Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University
Women, Displacement, and Clandestine Afghan Schools in Iran
Sarah Kamal, London School of Economics and Social Science
Gender and Media Reconstruction in Afghanistan
Antonio De Lauri, University of Milano-Bicocca
Power and Authority in Formal and Informal Justice

(P099) The Implementation of Federalism in Iraq: The Internal Debate
Organized by Reidar Visser

Liam Anderson, Wright State University
The Federal Constitution of Iraq in Comparative Perspective
Reidar Visser, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Federalism and the Iraqi Shiites: The Non-Sectarian Trends
Fanar Haddad, University of Exeter
Misconception of Iraqi Nationalism: Baghdad, Federalism and National Identity
Ronen Zeidel, Haifa University
Sunni Resistance to Federalism in Iraq: A Bridge Over Stormy Water?
Joost R. Hiltermamn, International Crisis Group
Do Iraqis Favor Partition? A Field-Based Approach

(P111) Mediterranean at Large: Islam in a Transhistorical Context
Organized by Nouri Gana

Chair: Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
Discussant: Michael Bonner, University of Michigan

Adnan A. Husain, Queen's University
A Faithful Sea: Placing Islam in a la longue durée of Mediterranean Religious Culture
Nabil I. Matar, Florida Institute of Technology
The Arab in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Ariel Salzmann, Queen's University
Huntington Does Braudel: Moriscos, Migration and the Early Modern Mediterranean Reconsidered
Nouri Gana, UCLA
Andalusian Demarcations: Modalities of Cultural Coexistence in Multilingual Arab Literature

Special Session
Debating The Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World
Organized Frances S. Hasso

Azza Karam
The UNDP Arab Human Development Report: An Outcome or Process?
Hossneya M.H. Gad, Birzeit University
What is New in the Arab Human Development Report on Women?
Fida Adely, Georgetown University
Education as Crisis and Cure: Woman and Education in the Arab Human Development Report
Frances S. Hasso, Oberlin College
Empowering States and Neo-Liberal Transnational Governance Rather than Women: Comments on the Arab Human Development Report 2005
Heba R. Ezzat, Cairo University
Women, Islamism, and the Future of Democracy in the Arab World
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
The Dangers of the Circulation of a Transnational Dialect of Rights

Thematic Conversation
Teaching Arabic Post 9/11: Opportunities, Challenges and New Trends
Organized by Maggie Nassif

Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, Brigham Young University

Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American University in Cairo
Maysa Abou Youssef Hayward, Ocean College, NJ
Ghassan Husseinali, Yale University
Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University
Ghassan Husseinali, Yale University

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
8:30AM-10:30AM

(NP09) Myths of Persia

Chair: Yass Alizadeh, University of Connecticut

Manya Saadi Nejad, Concordia University
Culture, Myth, and Artistic Production in Contemporary Iran
Pouneh Saeedi, University of Toronto
Monstrous Bodies in The Shahnameh
Nasrin Askari, University of Toronto
Firdausi's Shahnameh as a Mirror for Princes
Kathryn Johnston, Indiana University
The Social and Political Power of Unrecognized Kinship in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi

(NP21) Gender in the Public Sphere, Art, Literature: Late 19th Century

Wendy M. K. Shaw, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Women Artists in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
Hulya Yildiz, University of Texas at Austin
Literary Public Sphere of Ottoman Women in the Nineteenth Century Istanbul
George W. Gawrych, Baylor University
Women in the Thought of Shemseddin Sami (1850-1904)
Amira Sonbol, Georgetown University
Gender Violence and Class in Nineteenth Century Egypt

(NP30) Media and Education in the Middle East

Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State University

Betty S. Anderson, Boston University
Rethinking American Missionary Proselytizing: The Case of the American University of Beirut (AUB)
Iren N. Ozgur, University of Oxford
The Effects of the 1997 Reforms on Consumers of Islamic Education
Evren Yalaz, Rutgers University
Teachers in the Turkish Republic: Mediating between State Ideology and Students
Jonathan Smolin, Dartmouth College
Crime Doesn't Pay: The Journal of National Security and the Origins of Modern Crime Journalism in Morocco
~~Mezna Qato~~, University of Oxford
On Reading a Jordanian Primer, c. 1952

(NP36) Expressions of Arab Identities

Chair: Joseph Zeidan, Ohio State University

Maysa Abou Youssef Hayward, Ocean College, NJ
Negotiating and Deconstructing Dynamics in Arab American Literature
~~Galeet Dardashti~~, University of Texas at Austin
Arab Music and the Politics of Culture-Brokering in Israel
Carol Fadda-Conrey, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia
Writing Arab-American Identity Post 9/11
Bruce Fudge, Ohio State University
A Handful of Saints: The Wise and the Weird in Modern Arabic Fiction

(NP40) Topics in Islamic Thought, Science, and Philosophy

Chair: Hamoud Salhi, CSU, Dominguez Hills

Cecile Bonmariage, Princeton University
Mulla Sadra on Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's Mabahith al-Mashriqiya
Rizwan Mohammad, McGill University
Suhrawardi's Analysis of the Problem of an Infinite Regress of Beings in the Ontology of Avicenna
Sara Verskin, Princeton University
Philosophy, Jurisprudence, and Piety in Ibn Rushd's Fasl al-Maqal (Averroes' Decisive Treatise)
Martha E. Morgan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Scientific and Technological Knowledge of Metals as Transcendant Experience

(NP49) History of Elites in Palestine

Chair: Maryanne A. Rhett, Washington State University

Yeliz Baloglu-Cangay, Brandeis University
Ottoman-Zionist Diplomacy: The Repercussions of Abdülhamid-Herzl Correspondence
Liora Halperin, UCLA
Cross-Cultural Orientalism: The Palestine Oriental Society in Jerusalem (1920-1948)
Laura Robson, Yale University
Demanding a Voice: Christian Palestinians in the Greek Orthodox Church and the British Mandate
Itamar Radai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Collapse of the Palestinian-Arab Middle Class in 1948: The Case of Qatamon
Noah Haiduc-Dale, New York University
The Influence of Foreign Clergy on Palestinian Christian Political Participation during the British Mandate

(NP60) Across Contested Territories: Discourse, Narrative, Configuration, Reevaluation

Chair: Kimberly Katz, Towson University

Michael J. Reimer, American University in Cairo
The Emir and the Mufti: A Comparative Study in Jordanian and Palestinian Nationalist Historiography
Clea Lutz Bunch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Re-Evaluating the 1967 War: Hussein, Israel and the Attack on Samua
Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
Palestinian and Israeli Third Zones: Fantasies of Ethnicity and Nationalism
May Ahmar, Columbia University
Discourse Analysis, Case Study: Lebanon-Israel War

(P008) Ottoman Environmental History: Problems, Sources, Directions
Organized by Alan Mikhail

Discussant: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University

Alan Mikhail, University of California, Berkeley
Water Be Dammed: A History of Irrigation in Ottoman Fayyoum
Sam White, Columbia University
The Little Ice Age and the Celali Rebellion
Gunhan Borekci, The Ohio State University
Narrative Sources for a Reconstruction of Climate in the Ottoman Empire (ca. 1580-1680)
Nukhet Varlik, University of Chicago
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and Changing Disease Balances in the Old World of the Mediterranean (1300-1600)

(P040) Competing Discourses of Justice and Violence in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Organized by Tolga U. Esmer

Chair: Hakan Karateke, Harvard U
Discussant: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University

Stefan Winter, Université du Québec à Montréal
Perceptions of Imperial and Local Sovereignty in 18th-Century Mt. Lebanon
Basak Tug, New York University
Governing Sexual Violence in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia
Betul Basaran, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Public Order and Immigrants in Istanbul at the End of the 18th Century
Frederick F. Anscombe, Birkbeck College, London
Tepedelenli Ali of Yanya: Pasha and Rebel
Tolga U. Esmer, University of Chicago
Bandits and Bureaucrats Revisited: Acknowledging Competing Discourses of Justice and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries

(P058) National and Local Strategies for Competition and Survival in the Global Economy
Organized by Gregory White, Smith College

Chair: Roger Owen, Harvard University
Discussant: Karen Pfeifer, Smith College

Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant University
Free Trade and Freer Unions? Globalization, Labor Market Reforms, and Workers' Organizations in the Arab World
Pete W. Moore, Case Western University
The War Economy of Iraq in Comparative and Regional Perspective
Mine Eder, Bogazici University
Informal Transnationalism?: The Underside of Turkey's Economic Globalization

(P063) Teaching ''Educated Spoken Arabic''
Organized by Zeinab Ahmed Taha

Chair: Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American University in Cairo

Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American University in Cairo
Educated Spoken Arabic: Reality or Misnomer
Hebatalla Salem, American University in Cairo
Syntatic and Morphological Features of Egyptian Educational Spoken Arabic
Shahira Yacout, American University in Cairo
Phonological and Lexical Aspects of Egyptian Educational Spoken Arabic
Sherifa Attalla, American U in Cairo and Abbas Al-Tonsi, American University in Cairo
Raghda El-Essawi, American University in Cairo
Role of Teacher Training in Developing Spoken Skills

(P067) Modern Anxieties in Iran: New Perspectives on Society and Culture, 1800-2007
Organized by Ranin Kazemi and Farzin Vejdani

Discussants: Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware and Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto

Arash Khazeni, Claremont McKenna College
On the Eastern Borderlands of Iran: The Baluch in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Books
~~Serdar Poyraz~~, Ohio State University
Science, Materialism and Intellectuals: A Comparative Study of the Early Influence of European Materialistic Thought in Turkey and Iran in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ranin Kazemi, Yale University
The Fantastic Aura of a Herb: The Dynamics of Opium Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Iran
Farzin Vejdani, Yale University
Alternative Constructions of the Secular Nation: Folklore Studies in Pahlavi Iran
Kaveh Khoshnood, Yale School of Public Health
Social Stigma, Homosexuality and Transsexuality in the Islamic Republic of Iran

(P084) Cities at Stake: Urban Life in Bilad al-Sham
Organized by James A. Reilly

Sponsored by the Syrian Studies Association

Chair: Peter Sluglett, University of Utah
Discussant: Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto

James Grehan, Portland State U
Public Ritual and Popular Culture in Syrian Towns, c. 1500-1800
Ruba Kana’an, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
From ‘City-Centre’ to ‘Public Square’: Local Discourses on Modernity in Jaffa c. 1900
James A. Reilly, University of Toronto
Recent Lebanese Histories of Ottoman Saida
Mafalda Ade Winter, University of Tübingen
Waqf Tenancy and Consular Jurisprudence in Late Ottoman Aleppo

(P096) Evaluating Memory Campaigns in Lebanon
Organized by Sune Haugbolle

Supported by Centre for Lebanese Studies

Discussant: Patrice C. Brodeur, University of Montréal

Craig A. Larkin, University of Exeter
Negotiating the Lebanese Past: A New Generation Forgets to Remember?
Pamela Chrabieh, University of Montreal / St. Josef University
Building a Culture of Peace and Conviviality: Contributions of the 25-40 Lebanese Age Group
Sune Haugbolle, University of Oxford
Into the Spoken: The Development of War Memory in Lebanon 1990-2005
Mark A. Farha, Harvard University
Fleeing Forward from One War of the Others to the Next?

(P098) Dispossessions, Reparations, and Claims Against Post-Independent North African States
Organized by Michael R. Fischbach

Chair: Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
Discussant: Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania

Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
North African Reparation Histories: From Vichy to Post-Independence Commissions
Mustapha Kamal, University of Illinois at Chicago
Muddling Mea Culpa: Redress or Democracy?
Fadoua Loudiy, Duquesne University
Counting and Accounting for the Years of Lead in Morocco
Joelle Bahloul, Indiana University
Soldier or Prisoner?: The Colonial Dispossession of Algerian Jewish Memory of WWII
Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
The Complexities Surrounding Jewish Property Claims against Libya

(P105) 'Arab Nationalism from Below': Pan-Arabism as Lived Experience in the 20th Century Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Peter Wien

Chair: Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Christoph Schumann, University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Michael Provence, University of California, San Diego
The Intellectual Bases of Popular Insurgency and Nationalism in the Arab East, 1920-1950
Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago
Iraqi Pan Arabism(s): The Dynamics of a Fragmented Discourse
Peter Wien, University of Maryland
A Festival of Pan-Arab Nationalism: The Funeral of Iraq's Former Prime Minister Yasin al-Hashimi in Damascus in 1937

(P127) Armenians in Canada: Production and Transmission of Culture
Organized by Aida Boudjikanian

Chair : Aida Boudjikanian, Université de Montréal
Discussant: Sima Aprahamian, Concordia University

Nellie Hogikyan, University of Montreal
Armenianness in Atom Egoyan's Films
Gabriella Djerrahian, McGill University
Preliminary Comparisons on a Diasporic Movement: Hip Hop from Here to There
Viken Tufenkjian, Université de Montréal
A Haze of Petals: The Propagation of Cultural Patrimony by Canadian-Armenian Writers

(RT004) Contemporary Iraqis: Cultural Voices of Resistance
Organized by Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Alkamano

Chair Deborah Alkamano, University of Southern California

Sinan Antoon, New York University
Nada Shabout, University of North Texas
~~Rashad Salim~~~~, International Network of Contemporary Iraqi Artists~~
Ella Habib Shohat, New York University

(TC001) Afghanistan: Change and Challenges
Organized by Ashraf Zahedi

Session Leader: Ashraf Zahedi, University of California, Berkeley

Shahla Haeri, Boston University
Diane Tober, University of California, San Francisco
Sarah Kamal, London School of Economics and Social Science
Zuzanna Olszewska, University of Oxford

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
11:00AM-1:00PM

(NP07) Masculinities/Femininities and Sexualities

Chair: Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia

Samira Aghacy, Lebanese American University
Jabra Ibrahim Jabbra's In Search of Walid Massoud: Masculinity and Resistance
Ken Seigneurie, Lebanese American University
Homosexuality in Rashid al-Daif's 'Awdat al-almAni ilA rushdih (The German Comes Back to His Senses)
Andrea Siegel, Columbia University
Interracial Encounters in Hebrew Culture of Early Zionism: A Gendered Perspective
Hanadi Al-Samman, University of Virginia
A Man Against His Will: Suppressed Homosexuality and Ruptured National Memory in Hoda Barakât's The Stone of Laughter

(NP22) Health Discourse I: General

Chair: Angel M. Foster, Ibis Reproductive Health

Sarah E. Tunney, New York University
Geniza Medicine: Plurality & the Consumer in Late Medieval Cairo
Mikiya Koyagi, University of Texas at Austin
Making the Future Mothers of the Iranian Nation: Female Physical Education under Reza Shah
Adina Keryn Batnitzky, University of Oxford
Carrying the Weight of Disease: Female Obesity in Morocco
Yucel Yanikdag, U of Richmond
Curing the Nation: Health and Eugenics Discourse among Medical Professionals in the Early Turkish Republic

(NP39) New Readings of Islamic Historiography

Chair: A. Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech University

Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn
Al-Ma'mun's Last Will: A New Reading of al-Tabari's Account
Heather Empey, McGill University
Was Ibn Tumart a Shafi'i Scholar?: An Appraisal of al-Subki's View
Mateo Farzaneh, UC Santa Barbara
Al-Mamun and a Sasanian Tradition
Rebecca Williams, University of South Alabama
The Role of Authorial Opinion in al-Tabari's Depiction of the Supernatural in the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
Malik Mufti, Tufts University
Jihad as Statecraft: War in the Political Thought of Ibn Khaldun

(NP48) Conflict and Change in Iraq

Chair: Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University

Nida Alahmad, The New School University
Oil and the Corruption of Power: A look into the Politics and Flow of Iraqi Oil (1991-2003)
Kathryn Libal, University of Connecticut and Scott Harding, University of Connecticut
The Iraq War and the Politics of Iraqi Refugees
Marc A. Lemieux, Forum of Federations
Iraqi Democracy, Sovereign or Master Import?

(NP56) Regional Identities in the Ottoman Empire

Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Benedictine University

Zeynep Turkyilmaz, UCLA
Ambiguous Loyalties, Uncertain Conversions: The Struggle for the Kizilbas in the Nineteenth Century
Metin Atmaca, University of Texas at Austin
Competing for the Crown of Kurdish Baban Sanjaq: Alliance and Rivalry in the 19th Century Ottoman Baghdad
Karen A. Leal, St. John's University
Faux Foreign Observers in Foreign Lands: 'Persian' Travelers in Early Eighteenth Century Paris and Istanbul
Lale Can, New York University
A Bukharan in Istanbul: Sheikh Suleyman Efendi and the Central Asian-Ottoman Connection
Milena B. Methodieva, Princeton University
History and Propaganda or How Turks and Bulgarians Became Ethnic Brothers

(P024) Migration and Urban Integration (Professional, Civic, Social, Spatial) in Ottoman and Middle-Eastern Cities 18th-20th C.
Organized by Nora Lafi

Discussant: Johann Büssow, Free University, Berlin

Florian Riedler, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies
Seasonal Labour Migration in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Malte Fuhrmann, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) Berlin
European Working Migrants in Late Ottoman Port Cities
Nora Lafi, Zentrum Moderner Orient
From Urban Charity to Municipal Assistance and from Precariousness to Integration: Rural Migrants in Ottoman Towns (18th c.-Early 20th c.)
Ulrike Freitag, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) Berlin
The City and the Stranger: Jeddah in the 19th Century
Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, University of London
Cities of Pearls and Oil: 'Foreigners', 'Nationals' and Urban Political Sociability in the Persian Gulf (c. 1880s-1960s)

(P025) The Arabic Ode: Formations and Transformations
Organized by Suzanne P. Stetkevych

Chair/Discussant: Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University

Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
Transformations of the Abbasid Tardiyyah (Hunt Poem): 'Ali ibn al-Jahrm's We Walked Over Saffron Meadows
Raymond K. Farrin, American University of Kuwait
Reframing Defeat: Al-Mutanabbi's Panegyric to Sayf al-Dawla after the Kharshana Campaign
James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley
Hybridization in Andalusi-Arabic Poetry: The Case of the Zajal and the Muwashshaha
Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Indiana University
Imperialisms and Identities: Ahmad Shawqi's Nahj al-Burdah

(P031) Divergence or Convergence? The European Union and the United States Security Policies in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Francesco Cavatorta and Vincent Durac

Sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies

This double session will be held from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with a break for lunch.

Chair: Vincent Durac, University College Dublin
Discussant: Robert Mortimer, Haverford College

Francesco Cavatorta, Dublin City U
EU and US Security Policies in the Middle East in Context
Haizam Amirah-Fernandez, Elcano Royal Institute and Irene Menendez, Juan March Institute
From the Barcelona Process to the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative: A Comparison of European and American
Democracy Promotion in the MENA Region
Patrick Holden, U of Plymouth
Cooperation or Competition? The US and the EU’s use of Economic Instruments to Further Their Political and Security Interests in North Africa
Eva Wegner, SWP and Miguel Pellicer, Humboldt U
Western Policies towards Islamist Inclusion in the MENA

(P035) Nationalism Across the Waters: Exploring a Neglected Marker of Identity in the Lives of Arab and Muslim Immigrants in the U.S.
Organized by Hani Bawardi

Supported by the Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Hani Bawardi, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Syria for the Syrians”: Nationalist Content in the Arabic-language Press in the U.S. before WW I
Eric Fritzler, Wayne State University
Rethinking Arab-Zionist Debates on Palestine before 1948: A Discussion of Methods, Styles, and Identities
Tara Lannen-Stanton, Wayne State University
Arab Nationalism at the Brooklyn Bridge: An Examination of the Nationalist Ideas of Ameen Rihani as a Arab-American
~~Alia Charara~~, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Lebanese American Responses to Israeli Militarism: A Construction of a New Lebanon?
Saeed Khan, Wayne State University
The Iraq War and the Emergence of New Construction of Arab Nationalism among Iraqi Americans in Metropolitan Detroit

(P046) Family, Gender and Law 18th-20th Centuries
Organized by Kenneth M. Cuno

Chair: Iris Agmon, Ben Gurion Universiy
~~Discussant: Amira Sonbol, Georgetown University~~

Etty Terem, Harvard University
Fatwas and Family: Indigenous Interpretation in Late 19th Century Morocco
Kenneth M. Cuno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Restitution of Conjugal Rights/Bayt al-Ta'a in Egyptian Law
Susanne Stein, SUNY Albany
So That Her Son Will Not Be a Burden Upon Her: Divorce, Migration, and Child Custody in Cairo, 1941-1946
Elizabeth Bishop, U of North Carolina, Wilmington
The Card in Her Purse: Citizenship and Gender in Arab Egypt

(P049) Revisiting al-Hamdani: New Perspectives on the Indigenous Language Communities of the South Arabian Periphery
Organized by Samuel Liebhaber

Chair: Gregory D. Johnsen, Princeton University

Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University
Turning Ploughshares into Words: Dialectical Diversity in Yemeni Arabic
Nathalie Peutz, Princeton University
Reorienting Heritage: Poetic Exchanges Between Soqotra and the Gulf
Bonnie Glover Stalls, Independent Scholar and Shelagh G. Weir, University of London
The Syntax of Particles in Razihi
Samuel Liebhaber, University of California, Berkeley
Humayni Poetry in al-Mahra?

~~(P054) The Magic of Rituals and Rituals of Magic in the Persianate World~~
Organized by Derek Mancini-Lander

Chair: Kathryn Babayan, U of Michigan
Discussant: Engseng Ho, Harvard University

Derek Mancini-Lander, University of Michigan
Habitus, Blessing, and Authority: Mimetic and Contagious Modalities of Transmission in Early Modern Persianate Rites of Passage
Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
Passing Into Manhood in Safavi Craft Circles
A. Azfar Moin, University of Michigan
The Magic of Mughal Paintings: Jahangiri Allegorical Paintings Reconsidered

(P083) The Palestine Police and the End of the Mandate: British, Arab and Jewish Perspectives
Organized by Eugene Rogan

Sponsored by the Palestinian American Research Center

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

John L. Knight, University of Oxford
Securing Zion? Public Security in Mandate Palestine
Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv University
Treading a Fine Line: The Jewish Segment of the Palestine Police
Adel Yahya, PACE, Ramallah
Arab Policemen in Mandate Palestine: Conflict of Loyalties
Eugene Rogan, St. Antony's College, Oxford
The British in the Palestine Police: Narratives of Adversity

(P118) Topics in Qur'anic Studies
Organized by Elias Muhanna

Chair/Discussant: Walid Saleh, University of Toronto

Alexander Key, Harvard University
The Status of Qur'anic Revelation: Al-Nawmi
Elias Muhanna, Harvard University
The Word and the Wound: The Meaning of Kalam in the Qur'an
Martin Nguyen, Harvard University
The Subtleties of the Subtleties: Investigating al-Qushayri's Sufi Commentary of the Qur'an
Naseem Surhio, Harvard University
Laying the Foundations of Sufi Exegesis: Al-Sulami's Haqa'iq al Tafsir

(P128) Art Without History?: Evaluating 'Arab' Art
Organized by Nada Shabout, Dina Ramadan, and Sarah Rogers

This double session will be held from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with a break for lunch.

Chairs: Nada Shabout, University of North Texas and Silvia Naef, Université de Genève
Discussant: Shiva Balaghi, New York U

Dina Ramadan, Columbia University
Visualizing the Nahda: Egyptian Artists' Collectives and Their Criticism during the Interwar Years
Sarah Rogers, MIT
Building a Market, Defining an Audience: Beirut's Gallery System, 1960s & 1970s
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College
Art in the Streets: Modern Art, Museum Practice and the Urban Environment in Contemporary Morocco
Salwa Mikdadi, Independent Curator
Women and Institutionalization of Contemporary Art Practices in the Arab World
~~Rashad Salim~~, Internatl Network of Contemporary Iraqi Artists
Rethinking 'the Contemporary' in Arab Art
Anneka Lenssen, MIT
London's Arab Renaissance c. 1975
Nadine Khalil, American U of Beirut
Lebanese Cultural Workers and Artists: Navigating the Arab Cultural Terrain in New York and Beirut
Caecilia Pieri, EHESS, Paris/Amman Ahlia University
Modernity and its Post in Constructing an Arab Capital: Baghdad's Urban Space, Contexts and Questions

(P135) Learning about the Middle East through Youth Literature
Organized by Laurence O. Michalak

Sponsored by the Middle East Outreach Council and dedicated to Ellen-Fairbanks ‘Taffy’ D. Bodman

Chair: Laurence O. Michalak, American Institute for Maghrib Studies

Jean B. Campbell, Portland State University
Excellence in Youth Literature about the Middle East
Elsa Marston Harik, Bloomington, IN
An Author's Perspective on Literature for Youth about the Middle East
Jonathan Friedlander, UCLA
The Middle East In/and the American Graphic Novel
Claire Pettengill, Maret School and Zeina A. Seikaly, Georgetown University
Learning about the Arab World through Literature: A High School Curriculum Project

Special Session
(P138) On Hrant Dink and Armenian-Turkish Relations
Organized by Andras J. Riedlmayer and Richard G. Hovannisian

Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies and the Turkish Studies Association

Chair: Andras J. Riedlmayer, Harvard University and Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA

Hratch Tchilingirian, Cambridge University
Hrant Dink before Hrant Dink: Armenians in Turkey
Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan
Hrant Dink and Turkish-Armenian Dialogue
Levon Zekiyan, Universita Ca'Foscari, Venice
Hrant Dink's Innovative Approach to Armenian-Turkish Relations. Its Context, Challenge, and Prospects
Etyen Mahcupyan, Journalist/Writer, Turkey
Agos and the Hrant Dink Foundation: Looking at the Future

(RT001) Islamist Movements and Parliamentary Elections in the Arab World: Current Research
Organized by Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University

Chair: Jillian Schwedler, University of Massachusetts

Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University
Amr Hamzawy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Samer Shehata, Georgetown University
Stacey Philbrick Yadav, University of Pennsylvania
Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
2:00PM-4:00PM

(NP23) Health Discourse II: Reproductive Health

Chair: Alan Mikhail, UC Berkeley

Thomas Eich, University of Bochum
Abortion after Rape in Islamic Law: A Historical Perspective
Angel M. Foster, Ibis Reproductive Health
The Internet and Intra-Generational Exchange: Improving Sources of Sexual and Reproductive Health Information in Tunisia, Jordan and Palestine
L. L. Wynn, Macquarie University
Reproductive Health Technologies and Cyber Fatwas

(NP33) The Question of Algeria

Chair: William A Lawrence, State Department

Carine Bourget, University of Arizona
Remembering Colonial Algeria in an Algerian Childhood
Jacob A. Mundy, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, U of Exeter
Pyrrhic Victory? Assessing Algeria's Counter-Terror Strategy (1992-2000)
Lawrence McMahon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Mosque and the Charcuterie: Muslims, Pork, and Social Distance in Colonial Algeria
Ryme Seferdjeli, University of Ottawa
Women Moudjahidate as Viewed by the Moudjahidine during the Algerian Decolonisation-War

(NP41) Islamic Thought Past and Present

Chair: Shaun E. Marmon, Princeton University

Maryam Moazzen, University of Toronto
Correspondences between the Visible (Mulk) and Invisible (Malakut) Worlds as Described by Haydar Amuli
Shafique Virani, University of Toronto
Pythagoras, Polygons and the Islamic Profession of Faith: A Cosmic Cipher in Islamic Thought
Elizabeth Alexandrin, University of Manitoba
Al-Mu'ayyad fi al-Din al-Shirazi's Concept of the Qa'im: A Commentary on the “Khutbat al-Bayan”?
Simonetta Calderini, Roehampton University, London
A Queen, a Hujja, in Front of Whom the Majority of Slaves are Humbled. Female Spiritual Authority in Islam: The Case of Queen Arwa (1045-1138) of Yemen
Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev
Repentance and Charity in Medieval Islamic Thought and Practice

(NP55) Living Under Occupation, Palestine

Chair: Nubar Hovsepian, Chapman U

Amy Wanounou, York University
Palestinian Women between the Two Intifadas
Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University
From Colonization to Separation: Exploring the Structure of Israel's Occupation
Zeynep Baser, Middle East Technical University
Israeli Security Discourses Reconsidered: The Closure System in the West Bank
Taroob R. Boulos, University of Michigan
While Waiting for The Dream: Palestinian Women Bear Witness to Their Detention Experiences

(NP62) South Arabia and the Gulf

Chair: Jacqueline Armijo, Zayed University

Charles Schmitz, Towson University
Post-Petroleum Yemen: Chaos and Collapse or Relief from the Curse of Oil?
Frederico Velez, Zayed University
Abu Dhabi: Great Britain and the Crisis over Jurisdiction, 1959-1960
Benjamin N. Smith, Florida International University
Who's Afraid of Persian Gulf Investors? Dubai Ports World and the Cultural Economy of the Middle East

(P001) Personal Historiography, Mythic Narratives: Contemporary Persian Literature and the Official Discourse
Organized by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami

Chair/Discussant: Michael Beard, University of North Dakota

Faridoun Farrokh, Texas A&M International University
The Emergence of the Salon-Society Discourse and the Fiction of Ali Dashti
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, New York University
Who Writes Iran?: Counter-Narratives and the Transition from Personal to Collective Historiography in Contemporary Fiction
Shouleh Vatanbadi, New York University
Stories beyond History: Translations beyond Nation
M.R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
The True History of the Iran-Iraq War

(P011) Creating a Paradoxical Political Class: Islamist Parties and Women's Activism
Organized by Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Discussant: Jillian Schwedler, University of Massachusetts

Janine Clark, University of Guelph, Canada and Amy E. Young, Gettysburg College
Islamists and Shifts in Family Law in Morocco and Jordan
Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University and Safinaz El Tarouty, British University in Egypt
Women's Electoral Participation in Egyptian Parliamentary Elections
Marion Boulby, Trent University
Islamist Women and Politics of Palestine
Stacey Philbrick Yadav, University of Pennsylvania
Veiled Expectations: Islahi Women's Activisms in Yemen

(P029) Specters of Turkish Modernity
Organized by Nergis Erturk and Ozge Serin

Chair: Ozge Serin, Columbia University

Rabia Harmansah, U of Pittsburgh
Mystical Aspects of “Disenchantment” in Turkey: Uncanny Roots of the Secular Republic in Bektashi Imaginations
Meltem Ahiska, Bogazici University
The Missing Archives: Occidentalism and Registers of Truth in Turkey
Nergis Erturk, Binghamton University, SUNY
Specters of a Reformed Alphabet
Ozge Serin, Columbia University
The Uncanny Remains of the Turkish Hunger Strike 2000-2007: Bodies without Interiority and Temporality without Presence

(P030) Religious Conversion and Communal Identity in the Medieval Middle East
Organized by Tamer el-Leithy

Chair: Maryann Shenoda, Harvard University
Discussant: Tamer el-Leithy, Harvard Society of Fellows

Maryann Shenoda, Harvard University
Veiling Dhimmi: Coptic Representations of Dhimmi Status in Fatimid Egypt
Tamer el-Leithy, Harvard Society of Fellows
Coptic Martyrdom and Apostasy in the Age of Mass Conversion
Marina Rustow, Emory University
Religious Conversion in Medieval Egypt and Syria: Evidence from the Geniza
Marc Baer, University of California, Irvine
Hunting for Converts: Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV and Religious Conversion in the 17th Century

(P031) Divergence or Convergence? The European Union and the United States Security Policies in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Francesco Cavatorta and Vincent Durac

Sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies

This double session will be held from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with a break for lunch.

Chair: Vincent Durac, U College Dublin
Discussant: Francesco Cavatorta, Dublin City U

Yahia H. Zoubir, Euromed Marsellie, Ecole de Management and Hakim Darbouche, U of Liverpool
The Algerian Crisis in European and US Foreign Policies: ‘Venus and Mars’ or ‘the Gods’ Helplessness?
Breig T. Powel, U of Exeter
Convergence or Conflict of Interest? The US, the EU and Tunisia
Sami Zemni, U of Ghent and Koenraad Bogaert, U of Ghent
The Islamist Question in Morocco: The Global Embeddedness and Impact of
International Governmental and Non-Governmental Networks
Maura Conway, Dublin City U, Ireland
A Comparative Analysis of Online
Representations of the US & EU by Political Violence Groups in the Middle East

(P032) Evolution and Impact of Modern and Ancient Identities in the Middle East: Assyrians, Land, Identity, and the Modern Nation State
Organized by Waleeta Canon

Sponsored by the Assyrian Academic Society

Chair: Hannibal Travis, Florida International University

Waleeta Canon, Assyria Foundation
Nationalism, Land, and Identity: Iraqi Assyrians in an Era of Plurinationalism
Shamiran Mako, Wilfred Laurier University
Cultural Genocide and the State of Assyrian Christians in Iraq: Demographic Manipulations, Acculturation, and Assimilation
Aryo Makko Demir, Stockholm University
International Diplomacy during the Interwar Period: The Mosul Question 1924-25 and the League of Nations
Nineb Lamassu, Firodil Institute, UK
Assyrian-Kurdish Relations in Hakkari: A History of Coexistence and Calamity

(P043) Ottoman Justice in Historical Perspective
Organized by Linda T. Darling

Chair/Discussant: Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis

Huseyin Yilmaz, Stanford University
Justice Advised, Justice Applied: The Controversy on Capital and Summary Punishments in the Ottoman Empire
Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
Metamorphoses in Ottoman Art of Government
Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr, University of Virginia
Ottoman Minorities Seeking Justice: Overlapping Legal Boundaries in 18th Century Istanbul
Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona
Westernization or Ottoman Modernization? The Tanzimat and the Circle of Justice

(P114-I) The Arab Literary Elite and the Predicament of the Nation-State, Part I
Organized by Muhsin J. al-Musawi and Moneera Al-Ghadeer

Chair: Moneera Al-Ghadeer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant: Elliott Colla, Brown University

Mary N. Layoun, U of Wisconsin-Madison
On the Fault Lines of National Narratives: Alternative Stories of Justice and Community
Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University
The Islamic Dynamic in Literary Production: The Sacred Critique of the Nation-State
Sinan Antoon, New York University
The Last Iraqi Communist: Sa'di Yusif on the Disintegration of Iraq
Tarek El-Ariss, New York University
A Hero Despite Himself: Muhammad Ali and the Egyptian Nation in al-Tahtawi's Takhlis al-Ibris fi Tarikh Baris
Christopher Stone, Hunter College, CUNY
Tawfiq al-Hakim, Yusuf al-Qaid and the Peasant as Egypt

(P128) Art Without History?: Evaluating 'Arab' Art
Organized by Nada Shabout and Dina Ramadan

This double session will be held from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with a break for lunch.

Chairs: Nada Shabout, University of North Texas and Silvia Naef, Université de Genève
Discussant: Shiva Balaghi, New York U

Dina Ramadan, Columbia University
Visualizing the Nahda: Egyptian Artists' Collectives and their Criticism during the Interwar Years
Sarah Rogers, MIT
Building a Market, Defining an Audience: Beirut's Gallery System, 1960s & 1970s
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College
Art in the Streets: Modern Art, Museum Practice and the Urban Environment in Contemporary Morocco
Salwa Mikdadi, Independent Curator
Women and Institutionalization of Contemporary Art Practices in the Arab World
~~Rashad Salim~~, International Network of Contemporary Iraqi Artists
Rethinking 'the Contemporary' in Arab Art
Anneka Lenssen, MIT
London's Arab Renaissance c. 1975
Nadine Khalil, American U of Beirut
Lebanese Cultural Workers and Artists: Navigating the Arab Cultural Terrain in New York and Beirut
Caecilia Pieri, EHESS, Paris/Amman Ahlia University
Modernity and its Post in Constructing an Arab Capital: Baghdad's Urban Space, Contexts and Questions

(P141) Using Middle Eastern Film in the Classroom
Organized by Nadia Hlibka, MESA FilmFest Coordinator

Chair: Thomas B. Stevenson, Ohio University- Zanesville

Thomas B. Stevenson, Ohio University-Zanesville
Media Literacy: Creating Context and Developing Visual Perceptivity
Elizabeth Bishop, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Using Arab Film in the Classroom
John Sinno, Arab Film Distribution
Marketing Middle Eastern Films in the US: A Distributors Point of View
Nitin Sawhney, Cytex and Salma Abu Ayyash
Bahlam fi Falistine: Dreaming in Palestine
Digital Storytelling Workshops for Palestinian Youth: A Collaborative Project in Palestinian Refugee Camps
Kendra Olson Hodgson, Media Education Foundation
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(RT002) Internal Dynamics and Transformation in Contemporary Kurdistan
Organized by Nader Entessar

Chair: Nader Entessar, University of South Alabama

David Romano, Rhodes College
Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University
Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Foundation for Kurdish Studies
Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
Aliza Marcus, Washington, DC
Nader Entessar, University of South Alabama
Aram Nigogosian, Bayside NY

(TC007) Cross-Regional Approaches to Middle East Studies: Constructing and Deconstructing a Region
Organized by Charles Kurzman

Session Leader: Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
4:30PM-6:30PM

(NP46) Participation and Protest in the Middle East

Chair: Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta

A.M. Spiegel, University of Oxford
Between Party and Movement: Competing Islamisms in Contemporary Morocco
Andrew Barwig, University of Denver
How Electoral Rules Matter: Voter Turnout in Moroccan Elections
Lindsay Benstead, Yale U
Public Perceptions of the Parliament and Confidence in Democracy in Morocco and Algeria
Anne Price, Ohio State University
Protest Potential in the Middle East: An Analysis of Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey

(NP51) Islamic Feminisms

Chair: Ozlem Sensoy, Simon Fraser University

Hilary E. Kalmbach, University of Oxford, St. Antony's College
Female Islamic Leadership in Damascus: A New Kind of Feminism?
Ruth Roded, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Algerian Islamic Feminism: Assia Djebar's Loin de Medine (1991)
Raja Rhouni, Mohammed V University, Rabat
Reconsidering Islamic Feminism: Perils and Prospects
Line Khatib, McGill University
The Politics of Visuals and the Visual Interpretation of the Muslim Woman in North America

(P004) The Renegade in Ottoman Context in the Early Modern Era
Organized by Palmira Brummett

Chair: Virginia Aksan, McMaster University
Discussant: Leslie Peirce, New York University

Palmira Brummett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Renegade in Ottoman Space: A Taxonomy
Gabor Agoston, Georgetown University
Empire, Knowledge and Brain Gain: Foreign Servants and Military Renegades in the Ottoman Empire
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto Scarborough
Conversion and Subjecthood in the Early Modern Venetian-Ottoman Contact Zone
Claire Norton, St. Mary's University College
Lust, Greed, Torture and Identity: Narrations of Conversion and the Creation of the Early Modern "Renegade"

(P010) Creating an Islamic Cultural Space: Contested Notions of Art, Leisure and Entertainment
Organized by Karin van Nieuwkerk

Chair: Karin van Nieuwkerk, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Cynthia Becker, Boston University
The Influence of Sufism and Calligraphy on Contemporary Moroccan Art: Lyrical Mysticism or Self-Censorship?
Christa Salamandra, Lehman College, CUNY
Of Slings and Arrows: Syrian Television Makers between Secularism and Islamism
Jonas Otterbeck, Malmö University
Battling Over the Public Sphere: Islamic Reactions on the Musim of Today
Mark Levine, UC Irvine
Heavy Metal Islam: Ozzy vs. Ossama and the Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East
Joska Samuli Schielke, University of Mainz
Boredom and Despair in Rural Egypt
Karin van Nieuwkerk, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Repentant Artists in Egypt: Debating Gender, Art and Religion

(P016) Specters of Europe in Modern Egyptian Culture
Organized by Salah D. Hassan

Chair : Najat Rahman, Université de Montréal
Discussant: Mona El-Ghobashy, Barnard College

Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University
From Ar-Rashid to Luxor: Orientalism, Modern Archeology and the Aura of Classical Egypt
Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston
Against Europe: The Early Twentieth Century Egyptian Intellectual's Critique of Orientalism
Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona
The Moral Discourse of Modernity: Orientalism and Gender in Early 20th Century Egypt
Christina E. Civantos, University of Miami
Reading and Writing the Egyptian Woman Intellectual: Nabawiyya Musa’s Ta’rikhi bi-Qalami

(P027) Educating the Native in Algeria, Libya, and Lebanon
Organized by Osama Abi-Mershed

Chair/Discussant: Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania

Osama Abi-Mershed, Georgetown University
The Moral Conquest: Colonial Education in Algeria, 1830-1848
~~Sara Scalenghe~~, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Italo-Arab School in Colonial Libya
Nadya Sbaiti, Smith College
The Education of History in Lebanon, 1920-1945
Zeena Zakharia, Teachers College, Columbia U
Language, Schooling, and the (Re-)Construction of Identity in Lebanon

(P041) Displacing the Nation: Diaspora, (Im)mobility and Empire in the Modern Middle East
Organized by Omar Dewachi

Chair: Omar Dewachi, Harvard University

Omar Dewachi, Harvard University
From Professional Hajj to Professional Refugee: Journeys of the Iraqi Doctor to Britain
Didem Danis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Limits of Transnational: Iraqi Christian Transit Migrants' Networks in Turkey
Senay Ozden, Duke University
Borders of Belonging: Palestinian Refugees and the Politics of Opposition in Syria
Stefanie Nanes, Hofstra University
The Impact of Iraqi Refugees on Jordanian Perceptions of Citizenship and National Identity
~~Are Knudsen~~, Chr. Michelsen Institute
From Guerrillas to Guests: Changing Political Relations of Palestinian Refugees in Post-War Lebanon

(P044) The Wild Card of Memory, Challenging the Present: Egyptian, Palestinian and Armenian Historical Consciousness
Organized by Carel Bertram and Mohammad Salama

Carel Bertram, San Francisco State University
New Signposts on the Landscape of Memory: Armenian Pilgrims in Modern Turkey
Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State University
Re-Membering Nasser: Egyptian Nationalism between Memory and History
Rochelle Davis, Georgetown U
Turning Memory Into History: Palestinian Narratives of Village Life Before 1948
Salim Tamari, UC Berkeley/Bir Zeit University
Soldiers' Diaries and the Reconstruction of WWI in Popular Memory: Palestine and Anatolia
Issam Nassar, Illinois State University
Palestinian Articulation of the Past: The Role of al-Nakba as a Collective Memory

(P081) New Approaches to Tafsir
Organized by Walid Saleh

Chair: Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
Discussant: Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria

Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College
Al-Hakim al-Jishumi (d. 494/1101) and the Mu'tazilite Tradition of Qur'anic Exegesis
Tariq Jaffer, University of Oregon
The Systematization of God's Names and Attributes in Razi's (d. 1210) Theology
Karen Bauer, Princeton University
How Does Customary Practice Affect Qur'anic Interpretation? The Case of Household Roles
Ludmila Zamah, U of Pennsylvania
Narrative Meets Legal Exegesis: The Hermeneutical Principles of Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Qurtubi (d. 671/1272)

(P108) Ethnic Politics in the Post-Revolutionary Ottoman Empire (1908-1918)
Organized by Bedross Der Matossian

Chair/Discussant: Aykut Kansu, Ufuk University

Bedross Der Matossian, Columbia University
Political Discourse among the Ethnic Groups after the 1908 Revolution
Vangelis Kechriotis, Bogazici University
On the Margins of National Historiography: The Greek Ittihatci Emmanouil Emmanouilidis: Opportunist or Ottoman Patriot?
Yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Chicago
A Zionist Torn between Two Worlds: Aharon Eizenberg at the Jerusalem Branch of the Committee on Union and Progress
Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The End of the '1908 Spirit': The Balkan Wars and the Marginalization of the Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire

(P110) Politicizing Environmental Change in the Middle East
Organized by Jeannie Sowers and Murat Arsel

Chair/Discussant: Arang Keshavarzian, Concordia University

Jeannie Sowers, University of New Hampshire and Murat Arsel, Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
Environmental Narratives, National Imaginaries, and Transformation of Nature in the Middle East
Sarah Harris, University of Texas at Austin
Environment, History, and Politics on Cyprus
Mohammadreza G. Eskandari, Clark University
Sweet for Whom?: Sugar-Cane Plantation in Southern Iran and the Experience of Development from Above
Fikret Adaman, Bogazici University
Corruption, Environmental Regulation and the Turkish State: The Case of Lake Burdur

(P114-II) The Arab Literary Elite and the Predicament of the Nation-State, Part II
Organized by Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University and Moneera Al-Ghadeer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair: Christopher Stone, Hunter College, CUNY

Jeffrey Sacks, Columbia University
Poking Holes in the Night Sky: Muhammad al-Muwaylih's Hadith 'Isa ibn Hisham
Alexander Elinson, Hunter College, CUNY
The Family Home and the Moroccan Nation-State: From Abdelkarim Ghallab to Mohammed Berrada
Sage Goellner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moving Memories: Leila Sebbar's Mes Algeries en France
Dina A. Amin, Villanova University
Disorientation and the Metropolis in A Tiller of Waters

(P133) Field Research in Iran: Unsung Sources of Reform
Organized by Hossein Akhavi-Pour