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2008 Meeting Program
Session I
Saturday, November 22
5:00pm-7:00pm
(P011) Changing Urban Landscapes in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt
Organized by Lisa Pollard
Chair: Alan Mikhail, Stanford U
Pascale Ghazaleh, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales–Whose City? Cairo in the 19th Century
Shane Minkin, New York U–Foreign Hospital, Local Ailment: Public Health and Public Space in Late 19th Century Alexandria, Egypt
Lisa Pollard, U of North Carolina at Wilmington–Not Just the Local Store: Gama`iyya Space in Turn of the 20th-Century Cairo
Mériam Belli, MIT–“Où enterrer les cadavres?” : The Compagnie Universelle du Canal de Suez, the State, and Entrepreneurial City Building in Late 19th Century-early 20th Century Egypt
Jennifer L. Derr, Stanford U–The New Nile and a City’s Transformation: Aswan after the 1902 Dam
(P022) Discourses on Legal Traditions and Practices in Modern Morocco
Organized by Etty Terem
Chair/Discussant: Wilfrid J. Rollman, Wellesley Col
Wilfrid J. Rollman, Wellesley Col–The Ministry of Complaints and the Administration of Justice in Pre-Colonial Morocco
Etty Terem, Harvard U–The New Mi’yar of al-Wazzani: Asserting Maliki Legal Tradition in an Age of Reform
Jessica Marglin, Princeton U–An Unheeded Discourse: French Ethnography and the Berber Dahir, 1915-1930
Brinkley Messick, Columbia U–The Maghrebi Method in Jurisprudence: Readings in Jacques Berque
(P038) Race and Islam in Post-Colonial France
Organized by Hisham Aidi, Columbia U
Chair: Ted Swedenburg, U of Arkansas
Discussant: Paul Silverstein, Reed Col
Mayanthi Fernando, UC Santa Cruz–Secularizing Islam, Racializing Muslims
Tricia D. Keaton, U of Minnesota–Racialization and “Rioting” in France: Perspectives from the Subaltern
Laetitia Bucaille, Bordeaux 2/CERI-Sciences-PO–Symbolic Victories: Historical Narratives and French Colonial Nostalgia
Hisham Aidi, Columbia U–Black Paris, Arab Paris: Race, Style and Counter-Publics
(P042) Islam and Politics in Turkey
Organized by Ahmet T. Kuru
Chair: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia U
Discussant: Ahmet T. Kuru, Columbia U
Mostafa Gökçek, U of Wisconsin-Madison–Islamic Secularization: Ottoman Islamist Intellectuals’ Justifications for a Secular State
Gokhan Bacik, Fatih U–Islam and Democracy in Turkey: The AK Party Case
Zeynep Akbulut Kuru, U of Washington–Being Modern in a Muslim Way? The Islamic Headscarf and Women Subjectivity in Turkey
Ahmet Yukleyen, U of Mississippi–Turkish Islamic Organizations in Europe
(P052) Minorities under Mandate: Arab Christians in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1948
Organized by Noah Haiduc-Dale and Laura Robson
Discussant: Geraldine Chatelard, French Inst for the Near East (IFPO)
Seda Altug, Utrecht U–Making up a Minority Identity in the Turkish-Syrian Border under the French Mandate
Noah Haiduc-Dale, New York U–Palestinian Christians and Communal Identification during the Revolt, 1936-1939
Benjamin White, St. Antony’s Col, Oxford–Millets or Minorities? Syrian Christians under French Mandate
Laura Robson, Yale U–Re-Imagining Sectarianism: Palestinian Arab Christians and the Millet System under the British Mandate
(P067) Tell Me a Story: Memory, Poetry, and Narrating the Arabo-Islamic Past
Organized by Christine D. Baker and Samer Ali
Chair/Discussant: Samer Ali, U of Texas at Austin
Allen Fromherz, Qatar U–Women, Poetry and War: The Symbolic Representation of Women in the Naqa’id of Jarir and al-Farazdaq
Christine D. Baker, U of Texas at Austin–The Poetry of al-Ya’qubi’s Tarikh: Innovation and Contestation in the Construction of Medieval Islamic Historical Memory
Delia A. Atmaca, U of Texas, Austin–A Woman’s Word: Arwa bint al-Harith and the Shaming of Caliph Mu’awiyya b. Abi Safyan
Melanie A. Clouser, U of Texas, Austin–The Farewell Journey of a Twelfth-Century Sicilian Elegy
(P073) Tribes and States in the Early Modern and Modern Middle East: Social Reality, Cultural Identity and Popular Perceptions
Organized by Orit Bashkin
Chair: Fred Donner, U of Chicago
Discussant: Najwa Adra, Hofstra U
Hakan Özoglu, U of Central Florida–The Ottoman Administrative Policies of Kurdish Tribes Since the 16th Century
Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv U–Ottoman Pasha, Tribal Shaykh, Arab Za’im: The Social Biography of Mithqal Al-Fayiz
Erol Ulker, U of Chicago–Nomads, Assimilation and Security in the Settlement Policies of the Interwar Turkey
Reidar Visser, Norwegian Inst of International Affairs–The Tribes of Southern Iraq: Resurgent Force or Anachronism in the Modern State?
Orit Bashkin, U of Chicago–Debates on Tribal Policies in Hashemite Iraq: Subaltern Politics, Colonial Reform, and National Authenticity
(P078) In Search of New Paradigms: Armenian Literature and Globalization
Organized by Talar Chahinian
Chair: Rubina Peroomian, UCLA
Discussant: Kovork B. Bardakjian, U of Michigan
Tamar Boyadjian, UCLA–Relocating Jerusalem: Reading Medieval Armenian Literature through Contemporary Literary Politics
Talar Chahinian, UCLA–The Paris Attempt: Menk and Armenian Literary Identity in the Diaspora
Kari Neely, Middle Tennessee State U–Returning Home? Middle Eastern Repatriations to Soviet Armenia in Literature
Lilit Keshishyan, UCLA–Writing Identity: Situating Armenian-Language Texts of the Diaspora
Myrna Douzjian, UCLA–A Postcolonial Armenia?
(P088) Building Arabic Corpora: Needs and Challenges
Organized by Zeinab Ahmed Taha
Chair: Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American U in Cairo
Muhammad Al-Sharkawi, American U in Cairo–Problems of Definition in Arabic
Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American U in Cairo–Why Do We Need Spoken Corpora?
Dilworth Parkinson, Brigham Young U–arabiCorpus.byu.edu: Making Arabic Text Useful for Students and Researchers
Tim Buckwalter, U of Maryland–Building a Representative Corpus for a New Arabic Word Frequency Dictionary: Dealing with Messy Web-Derived Corpus Data in Arabic
(P101) Ottoman Transformations through WWI and the End of Imperial World Order
Organized by Halit Akarca and Cemil Aydin
Chair: Yucel Yanikdag, U of Richmond
Discussant: Howard Eissenstat, Seton Hall U
Mustafa Aksakal, American U–The Meaning of Jihad in 1914
Halit Akarca, Princeton U–Clash of Legitimacies: Ottoman and Russian Empires in the First World War
Cemil Aydin, U of North Carolina at Charlotte–Ottoman Transformations through WWI and the End of Imperial World Order
(P102) Commodification of the Body in the Arab and Islamic World
Organized by Sandra Beth Doherty and Rola Abimourched
Chair/Discussant: Sara Scalenghe, Indiana U, Bloomington
Rola Abimourched, Georgetown U–Regulating Migrant Domestic Workers in Jordan
Sandra Beth Doherty, Georgetown U–Beauty ‘Til It Hurts: The Normalization of Cosmetic Surgery in Lebanon
Elizabeth Clark, Georgetown U– Transsexuality and “True” Sex in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Discourse
Anne Meneley, Trent U–Blood, Sweat and Tears
(P115) Crossing the Lines: Women and War in the Middle East
Organized by Olivia C. Harrison and Kifah Hanna
Chair: Christine B. Lindner, U of Edinburgh
Layali Eshqaidef, Florida Atlantic U–Muslim Women and the “War on Terror”: The Emergence of a Transnational Postcolonial Islamic Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Kifah Hanna, U of Edinburgh–On the Threshold: A Feminist Critique of Sahar Khalifah’s Bab as-Sahah
Olivia C. Harrison, Columbia U–Domestic Transgressions: Economies of Gender and Genre in Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie Rose
Ghenwa Hayek, Brown U–Writing War in the City: Huda Barakat’s Harith al-Miyah
L. Stephanie Tait, U of Edinburgh–Putting Down the Knitting and Picking Up the Sword: Women at War in Youssef Chahine’s al Nasser Salah al-Din
(P135) Case Studies of Identity Transitions in Islamic Societies
Organized by Will Smiley, U of Cambridge
Chair: Didem Havlioglu, U of Utah
Mila C. Hover, U of Utah–North Cyprus: Identity at the Line Divided by History, United by Struggle
Brad Dennis, U of Utah–Nationalist Separatists or Tribal Opportunists? A Reassessment of the Boundaries of Kurdish Ethnic and Political Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire
Marika Snider, U of Utah–Early Mosques and Islamic Identity in the 8th & 9th Centuries
Sarah Lehmann, U of Utah–Body Hair and Foreskin: Sacred Veiling and Unveiling in Turkish Village Life
Jason Wessel, U of Utah–Transitions in Modern Islamic Fundamentalist Political Identity: From Accommodation to Extremism?
(P144) Yemen: Domestic Politics & Regional Relations
Organized by Tarek Alwazir, Yemen Heritage & Research Center
Chair: Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown U
Discussant: Robert Burrowes, U of Washington
Lisa Wedeen, U of Chicago–Politics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
Mohammed Zabarah, Yemen Heritage & Research Center–Authoritarianism and Democracy in Yemen: The Competition for Power
Daniel M Corstange, U of Maryland–Tribes and the Rule of Law in Yemen
Abdu Sharif, Yemen Heritage & Research Center–Yemen-GCC Relations: Debating Inclusion/Exclusion
Stephen Day, Rollins Col–Yemen’s Non-Violent Protest Movement, 2007-2008
(RT008) The Meanings of ‘Friendship’ in Islam: Exploring a Neglected Area in Islamic Studies
Organized by Delia Cortese
Chair: Delia Cortese, Middlesex U
Carol Bardenstein, U of Michigan
Simonetta Calderini, Roehampton U, London, UK
Sumaiya A. Hamdani, George Mason U
Lutz Richter-Bernburg, U of Tübingen, Germany
Nerina Rustomji, St. John’s U
(S005) SPECIAL SESSION
International Relations of the Middle East
Organized by Marc Lynch
Chair: Marc Lynch, George Washington University
Laurie Brand, University of Southern California
Gregory Gause, University of Vermont
Lisa Anderson, American U in Cairo
Gilles Kepel, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland
How have scholars of the international relations of the Middle East responded to the challenges of the last decade? With the ups and downs of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 9/11, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Iranian challenge and so much more, such scholars should have had much to say both academically and in the policy realm. Too often, however, this has not been the case. The voices of serious scholars of the region have frequently been drowned out in the public debate, while academic research has not always prioritized these urgent new problems. This session brings together some of the leading scholars of the international relations of the Middle East to discuss the state of the field: what has gone right, what has gone wrong, and the future of the field over the next decade.
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