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2008 Program
Session VIII
Monday, November 24
2:30pm-4:30pm
(NP24) The Personal and the Political: Arab and Arab-American Women Writers
Chair: Shaden M. Tageldin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee–Religious and Cultural Confluence in Salwa Bakr’s “Novel of Novels”: Al-Bashmouri
Annick Durand, Zayed U–The Personal Becomes Political Boudjedra, Djebar and the Engagement against Algerian Radical Islamism
Dana Olwan, Queen’s U–Rewriting the ‘Fault Line’: Liberty, Respect, and Justice in the Works of Mohja Kahf
(NP31) Conflict, Diversity and Inclusion in Education
Chair: Minoo Derayeh, York U
Dan Walsh, Georgetown U–Exploring the Formative History of Political Zionism (1897-1947) through Poster Art: A Curriculum Model
Angel M. Foster, Ibis Reproductive Health–Reproductive Health and Nursing Education in Palestine: Identifying and Addressing Curricular Gaps
miriam cooke, Duke U and Shai Ginsburg, Duke U–Teaching the Literature and Cinema of the Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Report
Nurten Kilic-Schubel, Kenyon Col–Finding Their Voices: Women’s Writing and Culture in 19th Century Central Asia
Maya Rosenfeld, Truman Research Inst., Hebrew U–The Expansion of Higher Education in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the Face of Protracted Economic Social and Political Crisis
(NP42) Islamist Contention
Chair: Joseph W. Roberts, Roger Williams U
Thomas Pierret, National Fund for Scientific Research–Charities and Islamic Movements in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria
Shadi Hamid, Oxford U–Do Beliefs Matter?: An Alternative Approach to Understanding Islamist Political Behavior
Lauren E. Pinkus, Ohio State U–Religious Restriction and Contentious Political Activity in the Middle East
Imad Salamey, Lebanese American U–Political Support to Islamists in Lebanon and the Middle East: The Case of Hezbollah
(NP63) Making and Unmaking States
Chair: Sarah Shields, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yektan Turkyilmaz, Duke U–The Route from Conflict to Catastrophe: The Violent Collapse of Coexistence in Eastern Anatolia, November 1914-April 1915
Mansour Nsasra, U of Exeter–Resistance to Middle Eastern States: The Negev Bedouin under the Rule of the Ottoman and British 1900-1948
Helen M. Rizzo, American U in Cairo and Katherine Meyer, Ohio State U –The Dynamics of Conflict Cycles: The Middle East in the 1990s
Sarah Washburne, U of Exeter–A Sudanese Identity Crisis?: A Discourse Analysis of the Problem of Legitimacy of the Bashir Regime since 1999
(NP66) Balkan Themes in Ottoman History
Chair: Mark Stein, Muhlenberg Col
Cenk Palaz, Columbia U–Young Turks and Irregular Armed Forces in Late Ottoman Macedonia, 1902-1908
Zeynep Atademir, EHESS–Epidemic Diseases in the Balkan Wars: Studying Cholera and Its Social Effects in Edirne 1912-1913
M. Fatih Calisir, Bilkent U–“I Want To Marry A Janissary!”: Social Change in the Ottoman-Habsburg Frontier (ca. 1570-1670)
Nikolay Antov, U of Chicago–Patterns of Demographic and Ethno-Religious Change in the Rural Countryside in the 16th Century Northeastern Ottoman Balkans: Turkoman Colonization and Conversion to Islam
(P002-I) Dreams in Islamic Societies, Part I: Through Biographical and Historical Literature
Organized by Ozgen Felek, U of Michigan
Chair: Alexander Knysh, U of Michigan
Discussant: Jonathan G. Katz, Oregon State U
Sarah Z. Mirza, U of Michigan–Dreaming the Truth: The Case of the Sira of Ibn Hisham
Gottfried Hagen, U of Michigan–Annunciation, Motivation, Meaning: Dreams in Ottoman Chronicles
Derek Mancini-Lander, U of Michigan–Constructing the Local: Leadership, Authority, and Social Practice in Early Modern Persianate Dream-Narratives
Leah Kinberg, Tel Aviv U–Dreams On Line: Traditional Approaches to Dreams in Contemporary Islam
(P015) Cross-Cultural Travel: Reflections and Re-evaluations of Middle Eastern Travel Writing
Organized by Yaron Ayalon
Chair/Discussant: Ami Ayalon, Tel Aviv U
Katharina Ivanyi, Princeton U–Accounts of Early 14th Century Anatolia: Ricoldo da Montecruce, Ibn Battuta and Ibn Fadl Allah al-’Umari
Yaron Ayalon, Princeton U–Run, Hide or Die: Europeans and Natural Disasters in Ottoman Syria
Alan Verskin, Princeton U–Seeing the Orientalist through the Eyes of His Native Guide: The Travelogue of Hayyim b. Yahya Habshush
Avishai Ben-Dror, Open U of Israel–“Their Old Mosques’ Minarets Are Shaking”: European Missionaries and Traders in ‘Egyptian Harar’, 1880-1887
(P026) Conflict and Shifting Gender Norms
Organized by Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U
Discussant: Shahrzad Mojab, U of Toronto
Sondra Hale, UCLA–Shifting Gender Subjectivities in Conflict Zones: Cases from Sudan
Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U of London–Occupation and Resistance: Shifting Gender Ideologies in Iraq
Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U–Gender, Conflict and the Palestinian Economy
Sophie Richter-Devroe, Exeter U–Palestinian Women’s Peacebuilding Strategies in Conflict Resolution and Nonviolent Resistance
(P033) The EU Post-Normative Turn?: The European Union in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Francesco Cavatorta
Chair: Francesco Cavatorta, Dublin City U
Frederic Volpi, U of St Andrews–European Initiatives in the Mediterranean: Framing North-South Power Relations in a ‘Civilised’ Manner
Vincent Durac, U Col Dublin–The European Union in Yemen-Democracy and Security in the Post-Normative Turn
Michelle Pace, U of Birmingham–The European Union’s Moral Dilemma: Post-Normativity in EU-Middle East Relations
Peter Seeberg, U of Southern Denmark–EU Neighbourhood Policy, Post-Normativity and Legitimacy: Differential EU Policies in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, London Schl of Economics–Libya’s New Image: Causes and Consequences
(P039) Under Western Eyes: Arab Performances and Dissident Politics Since 9/11, Part I
Organized by Hala Kh. Nassar
Chair: Edward Ziter, New York U
Discussant: Batool Samir Khattab, Ain Shams U
Batool Samir Khattab, Ain Shams U–The Visual in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Kandahar
Joseph Shahadi, New York U–The Traps of the Visible
Katherine Wilson, CUNY Graduate Center–Arabic Theatre, Festivals, and the Right to Exist
(P055) Palestinian Intelligentsia in Israel: Negotiating Gender and Nationalism Within and Beyond the State
Organized by Maha Nassar and Amal Eqeiq
Chair/Discussant: Shira Robinson, George Washington U
Joyce Dalsheim, U of North Carolina at Charlotte–Demonized Muslims, Vilified Jews: Considering the Implications of Equivalency
Maha Nassar, U of Arizona–The Generation Gap: Marxism and Nationalism in Palestinian-Israeli Literary Productions, 1948-1967
Amal Eqeiq, U of Washington–Palestinian Cinema in Israel: The New Generation
Lilian Abou-Tabickh, Bar-Ilan U–Palestinian Women in a Dual Struggle: Will the Struggle against the Israeli Policy Concerning Land Resources Free Women from the Rule of Patrilocal Residence?
(P059) Medicine, Disease, and Public Health in Colonial North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt
Organized by Jennifer Johnson
Chair: James McDougall, SOAS, U of London
Brock Cutler, UC Irvine–Disease, Surveillance, and Insurrection in Algeria, 1866-1871
Jennifer Johnson, Princeton U–Propaganda and Solicitation: The Algerian Red Crescent in the International Arena, 1958-1962
Hannah-Louise Clark, Princeton U–La Syphilis Arabe of Georges Lacapère: Medical Expertise and Colonial Discourse in Early Protectorate Morocco, 1916-1919
Daniel Stolz, Princeton U–“All Civilized Countries”: The Politics of Rabies Treatment in Egypt, 1884-1906
(P069) Searching for Certainty: Topics in Ghazalian Epistemology
Organized by Dale J. Correa
Chair: Everett K. Rowson, New York U
Dale J. Correa, New York U–Emerging from al-Juwayni’s Influence: Al-Ghazali’s Treatment of Tawatur
Luke Yarbrough, Princeton U–Knowledge of Right Action: Modulating Ghazalian Voluntarism
Zora Hesova, LMU Munich–Did Al-Ghazâlî Have a Philosophy of Religion?
(P076) Middle Class Politics and the Politics of the Middle Class: A Perspective from Contemporary Egypt
Organized by Reem Saad, Iman Hamdy, Maha Abdelrahman, and Malak S. Rouchdy
Chair: Maha Abdelrahman, U of Cambridge
Maha Abdelrahman, U of Cambridge–When ‘Kefaya’ is Not Enough: Middle Class Activism in Egypt
Iman Hamdy, American U in Cairo–Academics in Opposition Politics: Agents for Change?
Rabab el-Mahdi, American U in Cairo–Women Islamist Activism in Egypt
Malak S. Rouchdy, American U in Cairo–In Search of Arts and Creativity: The Role of the Egyptian “Middle Class” in Redefining Urban Cultural Spaces
Habib Ayeb, American U in Cairo–Irrigation Engineers in Egypt: A Middle Class Social Group in Crisis
Reem Saad, American U in Cairo–Middle Class and the Changing Face of Rural Resistance
(P077) After Arab-Jews: New Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Organized by Moshe Behar
Chair: Moshe Behar, U of Manchester
Discussant: Joel Beinin, American U in Cairo
Moshe Behar, U of Manchester–What’s in a Name? Terminological Formations and the Case for ‘Arabized Jews’
Zvi Ben-Dor, New York U–An Arab-Jew in Rome: A History in Three Acts
Emily Gottreich, UC Berkeley–The Arabness of Maghribi Jews
Lital Levy, Princeton U–The Creation of Arab Jewish Identity in the Mashriq, 1880-1950
(P085) The Role of Academics in Building Civil Society in Iraq
Organized by Eric Davis
Chair: Eric Davis, Rutgers U
Riyadh Aziz Hadi, Baghdad U–The Role of the Academics in Spreading the Culture and Dialogue of Reconciliation Since 2003
Amal Shlash, Bayt al-Hikma Research Centre–Academics and the Development of Human Capital in Iraq: The National Human Development Report
Amer Qader, Kirkuk U–The Role of the University Faculty and Academic Institutions in Building Civil Society in Iraq since 2003
(P118) The Armenians of Lebanon
Organized by Joseph A. Kechichian
Chair: Joseph A. Kechichian, Society for Armenian Studies
Ohannes Geukjian, American U of Beirut–The Role of the Armenian Political Parties in Lebanese Politics in the Post-Taif Period (1989-Present)
Ara Sanjian, U of Michigan-Dearborn–The Armenians of Lebanon since the Adoption of UN SC Res. 1559 (2004)
Tsolin Nalbanian, Columbia U–Native To National?: The Presence and Absence of Beirut’s Armenian Community and the Lebanese Nation-State
(P138) Maghrebi and Beur Filmmaking: Negotiating Cultural Identities
Organized by Michael A. Toler
Chair: Michael A. Toler, National Inst for Technology and Liberal Education
Discussant: Joelle Vitiello, Macalester Col
Laura K. Reeck, Allegheny Col–Reclaiming Authorship in Rachid Djaidani’s Sur ma Ligne
Fazia Aitel, Claremont McKenna Col–Honor and Tragedy and the Fate of Community in Amazigh Cinema
Claudia Esposito, U of Massachusetts, Boston–Ports of Call: Geographies of Resistance in Beur Cinema
(RT005) The Power and Potential of Assessment tools
Organized by Kirk Belnap, Erika H. Gilson, Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, and Kamran Talattof
Chair: Kirk Belnap, Brigham Young U
Erika H. Gilson, Princeton U
Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, U of Washington
Kamran Talattof, U of Arizona
Vardit Ringvald, Brandeis U
(S002) SPECIAL DOUBLE SESSION
Linguistic and Cultural Exchange in the Wider Persianate Cultural Sphere, Part I
Organized by Franklin D. Lewis
Chair: Franklin D. Lewis, AIIrS/U of Chicago
Sara Nur Yildiz, Deutsche Orient-Institut, àstanbul–R‰vandi’s Instructions in Adab: The Development of a Persian Literary Culture at the Seljuk Court in Konya
Rahim Ra’isnia, U of Tabriz, Iran– ‘Aziz ebn Ardeshir-e Astarâbâdi and His Bazm o Razm
Kioumars Ghereghlou, Ferdowsi U, Mashhad, Iran–Ìrifi Rumi’s Persian Mathnavi Entitled ShŒhnŒma-ye Suleym‰ni
Ferenc Csirkes, U of Chicago–The Turkish Poets of the Shah: The Status of Turkish Language and Literature in the Safawid Realm
Bahriddin Aliev, Inst of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe–Sayyido Nasafi, The Poet from Mavaraunnahr
Amir Banu Karimi, U of Tehran (Emerita), Iran–Sâ’eb’s Role in the Diffusion of the “Isfahani Style” (sabk-e Esfahâni) of Persian Poetry in India
Hajnalka Kovacs, U of Chicago–Bedil’s Sâqi-nâma: Toward an Understanding of the Use of Metaphor and Imagery in the “Indian Style”
In the Venture of Islam (v3: 49-50), Marshall Hodgson speaks of “the Persianate flowering” of Islamicate culture at the court of Husayn Bayqara in Herat and subsequently in Safavid Persia, which he compares to the Italian Renaissance. This Persianate efflorescence “set the fashion elsewhere,” particularly in the domains of the Mughal and Ottoman empires, not only in the fields of painting and architecture, but of course in the cultivation of Persian as a vehicle of literary, scholarly and scientific expression. This special double session will explore the processes by which this transnational Persianate cultural tradition was created and sustained over the 13th through the 18th centuries of the Common Era, and the role that non-native Persian-speakers (especially speakers of Turkic languages) played in helping shape and expand this Persianate efflorescence.
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