New Orleans! - Middle East Studies Association

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Ne w O r l e a n s!
Middle East Studies Association
47th Annual Meeting
October 10-13
ver. 9-5-13
Preliminary Program
MESA last met in New Orleans in
1985 at a joint meeting with the African
Studies Association. 28 years later, and
on a schedule that is a full six weeks
earlier than usual, we are returning to
this favorite American city.
October in New Orleans should be
delightful, a perfect time to experience
the city. Self-guided walking tours through the French Quarter or
Garden District will give visitors a nice overview of the city. Tours to
plantations, cemeteries, and swamps are available through the many tour
operators in the area.
The French and Spanish influences on New Orleans are wonderfully
evident in its architecture and cuisine. With the proximity of the Gulf,
seafood is plentiful. On restaurant menus you might find crawfish,
soft shell crab, gumbo, jambalaya, and Étouffée. Alligator sausage is
available if you're feeling adventurous. The lattice iron work adorning
the balconies in the French Quarter and the music emanating from
nearly every establishment make a stroll through the Quarter a must.
New Orleans’ most renowned street arguably is Bourbon but other
streets in the Quarter are more charming, less chaotic, and have at least
as good restaurants. Bourbon is more about the forbidden, and stories
about people who have gotten themselves into a fair amount of trouble
on Bourbon Street abound.
The Sheraton New Orleans is located on Canal Street directly across
from where the French Quarter begins. A few blocks down Canal toward
the southeast is the Mississippi River with a lovely boardwalk that
meanders north toward the French Market and Jackson Square. Along
that path, you'll find riverboats that offer narrated 2 hour cruises down
the Mississippi River. New Orleans native and MESA member Nabil
Al-Tikitri has kindly written an insider’s guide to the city which begins
on page 4.
A program of more than 280 sessions—MESA's largest to date—
awaits attendees. Analyses of the Arab spring abound. Ottomanists
have much to appreciate, including a 5 panel bundle that looks at the
legal transformation of the Empire. Anthropologists will swoon over the
abundance of offerings, including a 9-panel collection under the rubric
“Anthropology of the Middle East: Rethinking Paradigms." Six panels
take into consideration the Middle East during World War I on its
almost hundred year anniversary.
Augmenting the program is an exciting four-day film festival, a bustling
book bazaar, and other planned events. MESA’s affiliated associations
and other groups will hold their events on Thursday, October 10. The
first panel session will be on that day at 5:30pm and the meeting will
conclude at the close of the last panel session on Sunday, October 13 at
3:30pm. The best way to support fellow meeting participants is to plan
to depart New Orleans sometime Sunday afternoon or evening and to
attend the many fine sessions that will be held on that day before you
leave. The best way to support your association and the annual meeting
enterprise is to book your room at the Sheraton New Orleans, the place
where everything happens.
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
500 Canal Street
New Orleans LA 70130
504-525-2500  888-627-7033
http://www.sheratonneworleans.com
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Rates/Reservations
$182 single/double
$207 triple
$232 quad
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/mesa2013
(plus room tax of 13% + $3/night occupancy fee)
You would be hard pressed to find a better location to stay in New
Orleans than the Sheraton New Orleans on Canal Street. The
French Quarter is your oyster, and the river and shopping district
are down the street. All MESA 2013 events happen at the Sheraton,
and the Sheraton just completed a major renovation!.
ALERT: Avoid Hotel Booking Scams
Housing companies or wholesalers NOT affiliated with MESA may
contact attendees to book hotel rooms for the 2013 annual meeting.
These companies may actually put people at risk for credit card and
identity theft. We do not recommend doing business with them.
All housing for the MESA 2013 annual meeting is handled directly by the Sheraton’s Group Reservations Department. A link to the
Sheraton reservation page for MESA attendees is listed above. For
further information, please go to mesana.org, click on the annual
meeting logo, and then on hotel.
Registration
Book Bazaar
To preregister for the MESA 2013 annual meeting, complete the registration form
located on the back page of this program and return it along with payment to the MESA
Secretariat. If paying by credit card save a stamp and register online via MESA’s website.
Pre-registration is recommended as onsite registration rates are higher. The preregistration
deadline is September 10, 2013.
Category
Preregistration
full/associate
student member
student non-member
Other non-members
Onsite
$110$130
$70
$90
$90
$110
$140
$160
Travel/Ground Transportation
The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) serves the greater New Orleans
area. The airport is approximately 25 minutes from the Sheraton. For ground transportation,
contact Airport Shuttle New Orleans at 504-522-3500 or 866-596-2699, or book online at
www.airportshuttleneworleans.com. Roundtrip service is $38 per person. One way is $20.
Easily the largest display of Middle East
studies titles anywhere, MESA’s annual book bazaar will include old and new
friends–university presses, small publishing
houses, independent book sellers, and even
artisans sharing their talents. All will gather
in New Orleans for a three-day festival of
books. The book bazaar will be open 9-6
Friday and Saturday (Oct. 11 & 12), and
8-12 on Sunday (Oct. 13). Visit MESA’s
website for a list of exhibitors.
You don’t have to rent space to exhibit at
the MESA meeting. For $40 per title, publications can be placed on view in MESA’s
Cooperative Book Display. This is an ideal
arrangement for individuals, independent
authors, and small presses with few Middle
East studies titles.
If you would like additional information
about exhibiting at MESA 2013, please visit
MESA’s website or contact Rose Veneklasen at
trvene@email.arizona.edu or 520-621-5850.
Tools for Paper Presenters
Upload Your Paper to myMESA by Sept. 15
Planning for Your Presentation
Please upload a copy of your paper to the myMESA system so that
your co-panelists, especially the chair/discussant, will have access
to it. No one else will be able to view your paper except for your
co-panelists. Papers need not be the final copy; drafts are fine. There
is no suggested paper length. Your topic and your depth of coverage
should determine its length. Plan to present a truncated version of
your paper at your panel.
The best way to combat nerves is to be prepared. Remember, the
people in the audience are there because they want to hear what you
have to say. Prepare a summary of your paper for your presentation,
which should last for no more than 20 minutes. Typically, 10-12
double-spaced typed pages will take 20 minutes to read. Practice
and time yourself to make sure your presentation will fit in the
allotted time. Be as dynamic as you can; a little humor goes a long
way. Shy away from monotone presentations that will put the
audience to sleep. A skilled presenter will achieve a balance between
reading the text and making eye contact with the audience. Most of
all, relax and enjoy your moment.
1. Log-in to myMESA (http://mymesa.arizona.edu).
2. Click the “Annual Meeting” button.
3. Click the “Paper Abstract” button (shows up once you click the
annual meeting button).
4. Click the “Submit/Update full paper” button.
5. Under “Upload your attachment” click the “browse” button.
6. Locate your file on your computer by navigating to the directory
where the file is located.
7. Once the name of your file appears in the box next to the
“browse” button, click the “Save and back to abstract” button.
8. Your file has now been uploaded.
9. Log-out.
Want to upload a newer copy later? Repeat above.
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No Show Policy
We understand that things come up at the last minute that prevent
a participant from attending the meeting. As a courtesy to your
co-panelists, please notify MESA if you cannot attend the meeting.
If you are scheduled to participate in the annual meeting in any
capacity and you don’t show up and haven’t informed the MESA
Secretariat, you will be considered a ‘no-show’ and will not be
eligible to participate in the next year’s meeting. A no-show is
someone who is not physically present at his/her panel at the
conference and hasn’t notified the MESA Secretariat beforehand.
The Scoop on Thematic
Conversations and Roundtables
Thematic Conversations offer an alternative
place to pose new questions for research,
explore new trends and approaches to old
questions, meet like-minded scholars, and
engage in open academic exchange in an
unstructured space. The conversations have
a session leader and discussants who set
the agenda for the conversation. They are
(un)structured to provide for maximum
participation from those in attendance, and
there are no formal presentations. Seating is
limited to 30 people.
Roundtables promote informed discussion
and debate concerning the current state of
scholarship in particular fields, work currently
in progress or the particular problems involved
in the employment of new approaches, new
models, etc. The roundtable format lends
itself to open discussion in an atmosphere
where participants provide their points of view
and engage the audience in active discussion.
Participants do not prepare papers and do not
lecture to the audience. Seating is restricted to
25-30 maximum.
Panel Chairs Invited
Volunteers are invited to chair non-preorganized panels at the MESA 2013 annual meeting. For a list of available panels, please visit
MESA’s website at mesana.org, click on the
2013 logo, and then on “panel chairs.” Email
your choices to Mark Lowder at mlowder@
email.arizona.edu.
Before you volunteer, please note that
MESA membership and annual meeting
pre-registration are required of all meeting
participants.
Roommates
If you are interested in sharing a room at
the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel during the
MESA annual meeting, please visit MESA’s
website at http://mesa.arizona.edu/annualmeeting/roommates.html. MESA maintains
a “roommates wanted” page on its website
where those wanting to share rooms can find
each other.
MESA Members Meeting
Saturday, October 12 v 1:00pm-2:30pm v Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Room TBA
The members meeting is an annual meeting
of the membership open to all members
and guests. Voting is restricted to full and
student MESA members. The meeting mainly
consists of reports (see agenda below right).
Where members play an important role is in
voting for the Nominating Committee and
on any resolutions that are being presented. A
member in good standing can add names to
the list of people who will be invited to run for
the Nominating Committee, to augment those
proposed by MESA’s Board.
Quorum
A minimum of 35 voting-eligible members
must be in attendance for votes to be taken.
Failing that, the meeting can be held but votes
cannot be taken.
Resolutions
When important issues are before the
membership, resolutions are sometimes
presented at the business meeting. Resolutions
can originate from MESA’s Board or from
the membership. For resolutions to be acted
upon at the 2013 Members Meeting, they
must be in the hands of the MESA Secretariat
by September 26, 2013. Instructions for
submitting resolutions can be found in
MESA’s Bylaws which are posted on MESA’s
website at mesana.org.
MESA’s Board of Directors to Present a
Resolution to Amend MESA’s Bylaws
MESA’s Board of Directors intends to present
at the 2013 Members Meeting a resolution
to amend MESA’s Bylaws to add a graduate
student member to MESA's board and a
graduate student member to the Nominating
Committee. Currently, there is a graduate
student representative to MESA's board, but
that person is not an official member of the
board and does not have voting privileges.
The change will allow for a graduate student
member of the board with voting privileges
and will also permit a graduate student to
be a voting member on the Nominating
Committee that selects the slate of candidates
to run in MESA's elections. MESA's board
will change from 8 to 9 voting members and
the Nominating Committee will become a
committee of 6 rather than 5.
If the resolution carries at the Members
Meeting, it will be presented to the
membership via ballot in February issue. A 2/3
vote of elgible voting members will be required
to amend the Bylaws.
Sample Agenda
I. Call to Order
II. Report of the Executive Director
III. In Memoriam and Moment of Silence
IV.2013 Election of Officers Results
V.Nominating Committee Vote and Call for
Names
VI. IJMES Report
VII. RoMES Report
VIII.Committee on Academic Freedom Report
IX. Unfinished Business (if tabled from last
meeting)
X. New Business
XI. Adjournment
Child Care
MESA can help parents find a local provider
and will reimburse half of the cost of day
care services up to a maximum of $200 for
the conference. Upon request, the Secretariat
will be happy to post contact information
of parents who want to share sitting services
during the meeting. For further information,
please contact Rose Veneklasen at trvene@
email.arizona.edu or 520 621-5850.
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“Laissez les bons temps roulez” (“Let the good times roll”)
by Nabil Al-Tikitri
“Bienvenu a la Nouvelle Orleans,” says
no one ever, except in tourist industry
videos aimed at the Francophone or
domestic exotica market. While the French,
Spanish, Creole, Italian, and several other
communal legacies abound in the city’s
history, they tend to whisper through the
architecture and subtle local customs rather
than shout out faux greetings in a foreign
tongue. Surviving legacies tend toward the
sorts of signals locals use like dog whistles
for mutual recognition. For example,
people still shout out “laissez les bons temps
roulez” when appropriate. They also know
what it means [“let the good times roll”],
live like they mean it, and invite others
to do the same. Likewise, they remember
what the Vieux Carré is [“Old Quarter,”
i.e. French Quarter], have a vague sense of
what Café du Monde actually means, and
spell certain stock expressions with eaux, as
in “Geaux Saints.” Beyond that, seek not
contemporary French culture, as seekers of
such are likely to find disappointment.
Go ahead, start your visit with the every
tourist’s ritual stroll down Bourbon St.
At some point early in your first evening,
walk from one end to the other to get it
out of your system. Duly convinced of late
American decadence, then do yourself,
your bank account, your I-Phone, your
reputation, your loved ones, and your
descendants all a favor and proceed
elsewhere. Anyone who spends more
than fifteen minutes on Bourbon deserves
what happens to them. Duly warned, it’s
also worth pointing out, however, that
just off and at the end of Bourbon St.
remain some useful destinations to keep
in mind. Pat O’Brien’s, with an entrance
just off Bourbon, is a famous establishment
meriting a visit for its “dueling piano” bar,
classic courtyard architecture, and signature
cocktails. Café Lafitte in Exile, located at
the far end of Bourbon, offers the perfect
atmosphere for a very specific, exclusively
male, clientele. Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop,
which the aforementioned Café Lafitte is
said to have been exiled from, is a cozy,
rustic, and truly historic little bar a block
off Bourbon.
Unusually for an American city, New
Orleans boasts a genuinely rich history
worthy of exploration. The epicenter
of local history is of course the French
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Quarter, around which visitors should
strive to visit Jackson Square, St. Louis
Cathedral, the Louisiana history museum
at the Cabildo, the Moonwalk, and the
Ursuline Convent (the oldest structure in
the entire Mississippi Valley). All can be
visited on foot in an afternoon, and each
has its own variant reasons for a stop,
including detailed museum exhibits on
regional history, funerary slabs devoted to
early European explorers, views of the river,
and a thriving street artist scene. For those
with both the inclination and the budget
for fine dining, several famous restaurants
are located in the Quarter, including
Bayona, Broussard’s, and Galatoire’s.Such
high end restaurants tend to be better, and
far cheaper, for lunch than for dinner. Less
expensive tastes to explore in the Quarter
include the somewhat touristy Acme
Oyster House for fried seafood and fresh
oysters, Central Grocery for locally famous
Muffaletta sandwiches (they close at 5 pm),
Napoleon House (muffalettas and bar),
and the world famous Café du Monde for
beignets and café au lait, 24/7. Right near
the convention hotels is Mother’s, a lunch
restaurant featuring Creole cooking, justly
famous for its Red Beans and Rice and
unfortunately long lines.
There are several live music venues in
the city, the most famous of which are
the House of Blues on the downtown side
of the Quarter just off Decatur St., and
Tipitina’s, uptown near the river. For those
interested in less prominent live music
locations throughout the city, check local
listings at www.wwoz.org.
New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods,
several of which deserve a visit, and some
of which are within walking distance from
downtown. Just outside the French Quarter
lie the neighborhoods of Tremé, Fauburg
Marigny, and Bywater. Tremé, now famous
as the setting for HBO’s realist television
series, is a small neighborhood which abuts
St. Louis Cemeteries #1 and #2. These
cemeteries are absolutely worth a visit, if
only to see the city’s distinct, historic, and
geographically appropriate cemetery design.
Plots and crypts are all above ground, tend
to be owned by extended families, get
recycled from generation to generation,
and often strive to outdo each other in
extravagance and philosophical messaging.
Those who go should try to find Marie
Laveau’s tomb, buried right next to New
Orleans’ first African-American mayor,
Dutch Morial. Homer Plessy, of Plessy vs.
Ferguson and “Separate, but Equal” fame,
is also buried in the same cemetery. One
cautionary note: these cemeteries are best
visited by day, as the location is renowned
for tourist muggings after dusk.
The Fauburg Marigny is the
neighborhood bordering the Quarter on
Esplanade Ave. The most important street
in this neighborhood is Frenchman St., a
center of live music and bars just beyond the
Quarter. One can also eat here, with Mona’s
specializing in Arab cuisine for those who
just can’t, or won’t, break the MESA mold.
Mona’s, whose main store and restaurant is
in Mid-City, is a very popular, Palestinianowned local business, and a communal
center for the city’s modest Arab-American
population. Another dining option here
is The Praline Connection, a mid-priced
Creole restaurant. For nightlife, there are
several live music venues to explore: DBA,
The Apple Barrel, The Spotted Cat, Three
Muses, Maison, and the high end Jazz club
and restaurant Snug Harbor. One can easily
eat, listen to music, drink, and argue about
Syrian intervention on this strip until the
sun rises, at which point you may wish
to consider returning to the convention.
Several family-run bed and breakfast
establishments near this street can provide
an alternative to the downtown convention
hotels for those who plan ahead. If you
choose to stay on this end of the Quarter, it
will only be a 20 minute brisk walk along
the river to Canal St. downtown.
Bywater, which used to be known as the
Upper Ninth, is the next neighborhood
along the river after the Marigny. Once
a working class neighborhood of Italian
immigrants, then a primarily poor AfricanAmerican area following 1960s white
flight, Bywater is now a rapidly gentrifying
neighborhood made up of hipsters,
artists, and other assorted urban pioneers.
Elizabeth’s, on Chartres St. right off the
river, is a wonderful place for breakfast and
lunch, and might as well have provided the
model for “Tremé’s” struggling restaurant
owner character. Vaughan’s Lounge (4229
Dauphine St.) is the place to be on a
Thursday night, when Kermit Ruffins
performs. Mimi’s (Royal St.), Markey’s
(Royal St.), and the Always Lounge are
other storied local drinking holes, each of
which might require a taxi to reach from
downtown. Bacchanal, a wine bar located
at Chartres and Poland Streets at the far
end of Bywater, sometimes features live
performances in its backyard. This recently
became a bone of contention between an
overzealously re-regulating city council and
neighborhood residents who successfully
fought for their right to hear live, local
music right next door.
In the 1920s, as in other pre-automobile
U.S. cities, New Orleans had well over
100 private streetcar lines, including the
famous line on Desire St. At its low point,
only the iconic St. Charles Ave. streetcar
remained. However, a modest streetcar
renaissance began with Clinton era federal
transportation grants, and now four lines
exist. The first new one runs right along
the river from Canal St. to Esplanade Ave.
The newest, running from Canal St. to
right past the Superdome, opened just this
year in time for the Super Bowl. If you can
spare the time, you should not miss the St.
Charles Ave. streetcar line, which runs from
Canal St. along an oak tree studded St.
Charles Ave. through the Garden District,
past Loyola and Tulane Universities,
Audubon Park, and dozens of gorgeous old
mansions indicative of the city’s past wealth
and glory, on to Carrollton Ave. This most
affluent part of the city was nicknamed the
“Isle of Denial” in the wake of Katrina,
because while the rest of the city suffered
through quite difficult, sometimes horrific,
destruction and rebuilding, this area,
Uptown, was largely untouched. While
there are numerous places of local interest
in this area, for MESA visitors the one to
consider might be The Columns, a hotel
bar in a classic old St. Charles mansion with
a large veranda overlooking the avenue and
its streetcar line. For those interested in fine
dining, another option in this part of town
is Commander’s Palace, a famous restaurant
located in the Garden District.
Another wonderful neighborhood is
Mid-City, which has bounced back nicely
from its 10-15 ft. inundation of floodwaters
following Katrina. As the name suggests,
this is a large residential area in the middle
of the city, convenient to everywhere
else. There are dozens of locally owned
restaurants and bars, and touring Mid-City
offers one a great sense of the old city’s local
patterns. The second streetcar line runs from
Canal St. to either the Canal Cemeteries or
City Park, and is the best way to access this
area without a car. One celebrated example
of locally owned restaurants is Mandina’s,
which is right on the Canal streetcar line,
near where it intersects with Carrollton
Ave. The carnivores amongst us should
get a taxi to Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse,
a truly amazing steakhouse experience.
Another famous establishment in this
neighborhood is Parkway Bakery & Tavern,
which specializes in po-boys, the city’s
answer to grinders, hoagies, and submarine
sandwiches. The po-boys here are excellent,
and the owner has lovingly placed on his
walls an outstanding collection of New
Orleans memorabilia. Also roughly in this
area is the recently moved and reopened
local icon, Rock N’ Bowl, a bowling alley
carved out of an old paint factory on
Carrollton Ave. which features live music
most nights, great New Orleans bar food,
and a veritable museum of local music
legends.
Those looking for remnants of the Katrina
disaster might prove as disappointed as
those searching for native French speakers.
Most of the visible damage has by now
been cleared away, but the perceptive
observer might notice how in New Orleans
East and the Lower Ninth Ward remain
miles upon miles of mixed green space and
hodgepodge housing renovations. While
bus companies still bring tourists out to the
Lower Ninth to view hurricane damage,
there is not as much to see as a few years
before, and many locals now rightfully
criticize this particular touring activity
as a tawdry commercialization of others’
misery. Those who either take this tour, ask
a taxi to drive them by it, or drive out there
on their own should look out for the brave
attempts at environmentally appropriate
and architecturally fascinating housing in
the Lower Ninth, famously co-financed
by Brad Pitt. They can also try to find the
Musicians’ Village, an attempt to provide
affordable and locally appropriate housing
for area musicians in the wake of the storm,
assisted by Habitat for Humanity.
Considering New Orleans’ reputation as
Sodom on the Mississippi, visitors might
be surprised to learn that the city is a very
child friendly milieu, with a number of
destinations to delight children. Right at
the foot of Canal St. lies the New Orleans
Aquarium, locally famous for dumping
several donors in the drink when their
viewing platform collapsed during a
fund-raising cocktail. On the corner of
Canal and Decatur lies the Insectarium,
a certain hit with some children. This
can be visited on a joint ticket with the
Audubon Park Zoo, a nicely designed and
managed representative of the zoological
genre, located uptown at the back of
the park across from Tulane and Loyola
Universities. In Mid-City’s City Park there
is Fairyland, an old fairy tale themed park
that every local fondly remembers from his/
her own childhood. It sustained great water
damage after the storm, but has recently
been lovingly restored and reopened. Also
in City Park is the New Orleans Museum
of Art’s Sculpture Garden, which boasts
some excellent pieces just across from a
newly renovated park cafe. Those who
want to see swamps complete with snakes,
alligators, pelicans, and nutria should
find a way to get over to the West Bank’s
Jean Lafitte National Park, which boasts
a highly informative visitor’s center and
several stunningly beautiful boardwalks
over swamp land.
To visit everywhere listed in this article
would require well over a week of full time
tourism. Hopefully those with an extra day
or two on either end of MESA will find time
to explore those destinations which interest
them most. Whatever you do, we hope you
enjoy yourself to the fullest, support local
culture, make all your panels, and laissez les
bons temps roulez, wherever you are.
Our thanks to Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate
professor in the Department of History
at the University of Mary Washington in
Federicksburg, Virginia, for sharing his
insider’s vision of New Orleans. Al-Takriti
was born in New Orleans where he lived until
he was 18 years old.
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Biography
Presidential Biography
Peter Sluglett
National University of Singapore
I
was born in December 1943 in windy,
foggy North Cornwall, where my
father was a country doctor. In 1947 we
moved to the balmier climes of Bristol,
where my parents lived for the rest of their
lives. My father came from great poverty
(‘e never forgot ‘e was workin’ class’,
one of his elderly patients said to me at
his funeral) and was a fervent advocate
of socialised medicine He very much
welcomed the day in May 1948 when the
National Health Service arrived, and he
‘no longer had to charge the patients’. I
had a secure and happy childhood; my
parents had very different characters, my
father mercurial and impulsive, my mother
the calm hand on the tiller. She would
carefully edit and retype his intemperate
letters to the local and medical press; they
were married nearly 60 years.
The funny family name is alas still a
mystery to me, since I never persisted hard
enough in trying to trace its origin. I know
that my grandparents arrived in Glasgow
from Zhitomir in 1904 or 1905, leaving
the Ukraine after the Kishinev pogrom.
Some of his siblings were born before the
family arrived in Glasgow, but my father,
perhaps the fifth of eight children, was
born there in July 1910. Some time in his
early teens, he lost his faith, and remained
a robust 19th century anti-clerical (with a
broad Scottish accent) for the rest of his
life. Religion was simply not discussed at
home; my mother was nominally Anglican, but I really don’t think she gave
much thought to the faith of her fathers
either. My parents’ marriage was greatly
disapproved of in Glasgow, and as far as I
know my grandfather never saw or spoke
to my father again. I am sure that what he
regarded as my grandfather’s sheer unreasonableness hardened my father’s hostility
to religion; he was absolutely devoted to
my mother and could not understand his
attitude.
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So I grew up in Bristol, and eventually
went to Clifton College, where my seniors
included Michael Cook and Roger Allen – as well as John Cleese, who used to
make powerful comic declamations on a
number of topics from the top of the stairs
leading down from the dining hall into the
quadrangle below. With all the limitations
one now takes for granted in the context of
an all-boys’ school (and I boarded, or lived
in, for my last four years), I think we had
a good education, taught by real enthusiasts, particularly in History and English,
who returned all our essays individually,
spattered with comments in red ink – a tradition I continued with my own students
in Durham and Salt Lake. The way the
British ‘O’ and ‘A’ level system worked at
the time was that at quite a young age – I
think I was 15, or even 14 – one could
drop all the subjects one didn’t like or was
no good at. So I never did any Biology,
and soon dropped Chemistry, Maths, and
Physics: I continued with English, French,
History and Latin, and made brief forays
into Spanish and Russian, the latter two
more or less for fun (Vot samolyot, vot
tiperishnji russkiy istrabychil. Here is an
aeroplane; it is a modern Russian fighter
plane).
In December 1961, I went to Cambridge
to take the College Entrance examination;
my history teacher Michael Scott had been
at King’s, and I was fortunate enough
to be accepted at the college of my first
choice. Before going ‘up’ to Cambridge
in 1962, I took a train to Athens and spent
most of the summer and fall in Greece; in
the summer of 1963, I took a train to Istanbul, and reached northern Syria some time
in early July: the graffiti on the walls read
‘Nasser is our chief’. Sitting in one of the
open air cafés under the citadel of Aleppo
a few days later – and with a few weeks
in Turkey already behind me – I realised
that I had found something I had not quite
known that I was looking for: I had always
wanted to be a historian, and I had toyed
with working on Italy (which I had visited) and on Central America (which I had
not). After Aleppo, I knew that I would
work on the Middle East. Whether this
decision was wise, or brave, or foolhardy
is difficult to say: it is a choice that I have
never regretted, and one that has brought
extraordinary richness to my life. So I
went back to Cambridge to learn Arabic,
and took an extra year to do so.
After Cambridge I spent a rather miserable year teaching at the University of
Riyadh; in the course of the year I made
a quick trip to Oxford to meet Albert
Hourani, who would become instrumental
in establishing me firmly on the course
that has dominated the rest of my life.
I was always interested in imperialism
and colonialism, and I chose to study
the British mandate in Iraq. A large run
of British archival documents was made
available in the late 1960s, and I was also
fortunate enough to discover a large and
hitherto untapped source, the Baghdad
High Commission Files, sent to Delhi for
safe keeping in 1941. Hourani was the
most wonderful mentor, but I also learned
a great deal from Robert Mabro and Roger
Owen, who were both teaching at Oxford.
Between 1974 and 1994 I taught Middle
Eastern History at Durham University;
it palled after a while, but I had a very
fruitful writing partnership with my wife
Marion, whom I met in what was then the
Public Record Office off Chancery Lane
in August 1970, until her early death in
1996. Another important influence was the
meetings of the ‘Hull Group’, three times
Presidential Address
Friday, October 11 – 7:00pm
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
a year, a group of ‘Young Turks’ including
Talal Asad, Ken Brown, Michael Gilsenan,
Roger Owen and Sami Zubaida, to discuss
‘contemporary issues in the Middle East’.
Sami’s parties in London were legendary. I
always try to go to a meeting if there’s one
on when I’m in the UK.
In 1992, Zach Lockman took a sabbatical from Harvard, and Hourani asked me
if I would like to replace him. After that
I didn’t want to go back to British academia. In 1996 I became Director of the
Middle East Center at the University of
Utah in Salt Lake City, for some six years,
‘going back’, as it were, to the History Department afterwards. I remarried very happily in Salt Lake: I now have four stepchildren, (two German-Iraqi boys in England,
and a Persian girl and a Persian boy in Salt
Lake) and three step-grandsons. They are
all very different, but, to our great delight,
they all get on with each other when the
grandchildren come to ski in Utah.
All my life I have been sustained by, and
been able to spend a lot of time with,
my family, and I’ve never lived more
than a couple of miles from my office.
I’ve written two books on Iraq, one by
myself, another with Marion. Although
I keep promising never to do it again, I
have co-edited or edited four books: on
the historiography of Iraq, on the Middle
East mandates, on the urban social history
of the Middle East, and a Festschrift for
Abdul-Karim Rafeq on the history of
Ottoman Bilad al-Sham, and a couple of
others where my contribution has been
more narrowly editorial. I very much
enjoy going to small conferences, and I’ve
been fortunate to have been asked to write
for several younger people’s promotions,
so I’ve able to see where the field has been
going over the last few years. During this
time, Shohreh has been more than generous in giving me the space to write and
thrive, and she has also selflessly entertained a couple of generations of students
and colleagues in Salt Lake and now in
Singapore.
So here I am at what will almost certainly
be the last stop in my academic career, at
the Middle East Institute at the National
University of Singapore; much as I’ve
enjoyed American academia, I do not want
to return to it. As I’ve written elsewhere,
Singapore is very far both from the Middle
East and the United States, a fun place to
live, with truly wonderful food and enter-
tainment. Our bright and airy eighth floor
apartment overlooks a major container
port, with huge ships arriving and leaving
at all hours (fortunately, they don’t hoot!).
In general, I am eternally grateful to the
three universities that I have employed
me for never having obliged me to have
to teach any particular topic, or supervise
any graduate student that I had not chosen
myself. I’ve had a rewarding and enriching career, and I hope it continues for a
long time.
When I can get other things out of my
mind, I suppose one of my happiest
pursuits is the act of writing, usually in an
ever-increasingly circular style, returning to the beginning of whatever it is I’m
writing and make a little more progress
with the whole every day. In the immediate future I have two main tasks, a short
talk/article on Gertrude Bell’s views of the
Ottomans, and my presidential address for
New Orleans, on a topic that I will keep
away from the long arm of the paparazzi
for the time being …
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B i g “The rhythms, tastes, colors, neighborhoods, personality, and culture of New Orleans are unmatched in the United States. On a typical New Orleans evening you
can find people sitting out on their porches while jazz beats resonate from the
streets and the streetcar meanders by bringing people home from work and school.
The rich flavors of gumbo, jambalaya, beignets, po’boys, and andouile sausage
quench visitors and locals taste buds alike. The pulse of the french quarter, filled
with artists and musicians practicing their craft, mirrors the large strong flow of the
Mississippi river. New Orleans is a unique experience for visitors who can interact
with a culture unlike any other in the US or even the world!”
—Ellen E. Whitesides, University of Arizona
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Meetings in Conjunction
wAMIDEAST–America-Mideast
Educational and Training Services,
Inc.
Thursday, 10/10
Academic Consortium Meeting,
5:30-6:30pm, Rampart (5th Floor)
wAATA–American Association of
Teachers of Arabic
Thursday, 10/10
Executive Board Meeting, 9am12nn, Crescent (4th Floor)
Panel: "Content Based Instruction
in the Arabic Language
Classroom," 1-3:30pm, Nottoway (4th
Floor)
Business Meeting, 3:30-4:30pm,
Nottoway (4th Floor)
wAATP–American Association of
Teachers of Persian
Thursday, 10/10
Workshop, 2:30-5:30pm, Evergreen (4th
Floor)
Friday, 10/11
Business Meeting, 6-7pm, Oakley (4th
Floor)
wAIMS–American Institute for
Maghrib Studies
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 9am-1pm, Edgewood
A/B (4th Floor)
Business Meeting, 3-5pm, Gallier A/B
(4th Floor)
wAIYS–American Institute for
Yemeni Studies
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 2-4pm, Salons
816/20/24 (8th Floor)
Friday, 10/11
Business Meeting, 2-4pm, Oakley
(4th Floor)
wAUC–American University in Cairo
Saturday, 10/12
Reception, 7-9pm, Lagniappe (2nd
Floor)
wAUC-P–American University in
Cairo Press
Saturday, 10/12
TAFL Focus Group, 10-11:30am,
Rampart (5th Floor)
wAATT–American Association of
Teachers of Turkic Languages
Thursday, 10/10
Graduate Student Pre-Conference,
11:30am-4:30pm, Grand Couteau (4th
Floor)
Business Meeting, 10-11pm, Rhythms I
(2nd Floor)
wAIAS–American Institute of
Afghanistan Studies
wAASA–Arab American Studies
Association
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 1-3pm, Borgne (3rd
Floor)
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Reception, 8-9:30pm, Edgewood A/B
(4th Floor)
wAMEA–Association for Middle
East Anthropologists
Thursday, 10/10
Business Meeting, 11am-1pm,
Evergreen (4th Floor)
wAMEWS–Association for Middle
East Women’s Studies
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 1-2:45pm, Oakley
(4th Floor)
Business Meeting, 6-7pm,
Estherwood (4th Floor)
Dinner & Presentation, 7:30-9:30pm,
Southdown (4th Floor) featuring a
presentation by Nancy Gallagher, UC
Santa Barbara (Emeritus), “Women and
Gender in the Egyptian Revolution”
(advance reservations required)
Friday, 10/11
JMEWS Editorial Board Meeting,
5-6:30pm, Armstrong (8th Floor)
wAMCA–Association for Modern
and Contemporary Art of the
Arab World, Iran and Turkey
Friday, 10/11
Reception, 5-6:30pm, Estherwood
(4th Floor)
wASPS–Association for the Study
of Persianate Societies
Board Meeting, 10am-12nn,
Thursday, 10/10
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 3-4pm, Salon 817
(8th Floor)
Business Meeting, 4-5pm, Salon 821
(8th Floor)
Saturday, 10/12
wAIIrS–American Institute of
Iranian Studies
wAIS–Association for Israel Studies
Thursday, 10/10
wAGAPS–Association for Gulf and
Arabian Peninsula Studies
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 11am-2pm, Salon 817
(8th Floor)
Business Meeting, 2-5pm, Cornet
(8th Floor)
Social Gathering, 5-8pm, Evangeline's
in the French Quarter, 329 Decatur
Street
Board Meeting, 2-3:15pm, Salon 825
(8th Floor)
Business Meeting, 3:30-4:30pm,
Napoleon D2 (3rd Floor)
wCASA–Center for Arabic Study
Abroad
Thursday, 10/10
Governing Board Meeting, 7:3010:30pm, Crescent (4th Floor)
Friday, 10/11
Consortium Luncheon, 1-2:30pm,
Armstrong (8th Floor)
wCIRS–Center for International
and Regional Studies, Georgetown
University School of Foreign
Service in Qatar
Saturday, 10/12
Reception, 6:30-7:30pm, Evergreen
(4th Floor)
wEWIC–Encyclopedia of Women
in Islamic Cultures
Wednesday, 10/9
Board Meeting, 8:30am-5pm, Salon
820 (8th Floor)
Friday, 10/11
Editors Training Meeting, 12nn2pm, Ellendale (4th Floor)
Public Outreach Workshop, 2-4,
Southdown (4th Floor)
wHarvard University, CMES
Saturday, 10/12
Reception, 9-10:30pm, Edgewood A/B
(4th Floor)
wHIAA–Historians of Islamic Art
Association
Thursday, 10/10
Majlis, 2-4pm, Bayside B (4th Floor)
wIJMES–International Journal of
Middle East Studies
Thursday, 10/10
Editorial Board Meeting, 4-5pm,
Oakley (4th Floor)
wISIS–International Society for
Iranian Studies
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 4-6pm, Salon 829
(8th Floor)
General Meeting, 6-7:30pm, Cornet
(8th Floor)
jmews
wJMEWS-Journal of Middle East
Women’s Studies
Friday, 10/11
Editorial Board Meeting, 5-6:30pm,
wKSA–Kurdish Studies Association
Thursday, 10/10
Business Meeting, 2-4pm, Napoleon
D3 (3rd Floor)
wMECPD–Middle East Center &
Program Directors
Friday, 10/11
Annual Meeting, 8:30-10:30am,
wMELA–Middle East Librarians
Association
Thursday, 10/10
Vendor Showcase, 9am-12nn, Grand
Chenier (5th Floor)
Arab Name Authority's Roundtable
Discussion, 12nn-2pm, Grand Chenier
(5th Floor)
wMEM–Middle East Medievalists
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 3-4pm, Edgewood A/B
(4th Floor)
Business Meeting, 4-5pm, Estherwood
(4th Floor)
MEOC–Middle East Outreach
Council
Friday, 10/11
General Meeting, 5-7pm, Southdown
(4th Floor)
Sunday, 10/13
Board Meeting, 7:30-8:30am,
Crescent (4th Floor)
Nuts & Bolts Workshop for
Outreach Coordinators, 10am-12nn,
Oakley (4th Floor)
wMESA–Middle East Studies
Association
Thursday, 10/10
Committee for Undergraduate
Middle East Studies Meeting,
5-6pm, Edgewood A/B (4th Floor)
Friday, 10/11
Committee on Academic
Freedom Meeting, 4:15-6:30pm,
Rampart (5th Floor)
Saturday, 10/12
Affiliate Officers Meeting, 7:308:30am, Evergreen (4th Floor)
wMESAAS and Duke University
Press
Friday, 10/11
Floor)
wMAPA–Moroccan Association of
Professors of Arabic
Saturday, 10/12
MAPA Launch Meeting, 5:306:30pm, Rampart (5th Floor)
Reception hosted by Arab
American Language Institute in
Meknes, 6:30-7:30pm, Rampart (5th
Floor)
wNational University of Singapore,
Middle East Institute
Saturday, 10/12
Reception, 7-9pm, Grand Chenier
(5th Floor)
wPARC–Palestinian American
Research Center
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 1-4pm, Rampart (5th
Floor)
Fellows & Members Reception,
4-5pm, Napoleon D1 (3rd Floor)
wRoutledge
Saturday, 10/12
Integrating the Colloquial and
MSA in the Arabic Classroom with
Munther Younes, 11am-12nn, Oakley
(4th Floor)
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wSAS–Society for Armenian Studies
Thursday, 10/10
Executive Council Meeting, 4:306:30pm, Ellendale (4th Floor)
Membership Meeting, 6:30-8:30pm,
Salon 825 (8th Floor)
wSSA–Syrian Studies Association
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 1:30-2:30pm,
Business Meeting, 3-3:45pm,
Panel Discussion: “Current
Perspectives on the Syrian
Uprising”, 4-5:30pm, Southdown (4th
Floor)
wTAARII–The American Academic
Research Institute in Iraq
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 12-2pm, Bayside A
(4th Floor)
Saturday, 10/12
Reception, 7-9pm, Gallier A/B (4th
Floor)
wTSA–Turkish Studies Association
Thursday, 10/10
Board Meeting, 12:30-2:30pm, Salon
829 (8th Floor)
Floor)
Business Meeting, 8-10pm, Rhythms I
(2nd Floor)
wWestern Consortium of Middle
East Centers
Friday, 10/11
Meeting, 10:30am-12:30pm, Crescent
(4th Floor)
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MESA '13 FilmFest Sneak Peek
The FilmFest is working on an exciting collection of films to be screened at the 30th Annual FilmFest!
Here's a taste of what's to come in October...
Soldier on the Roof
Films about the Arabian Gulf
Hebron is holy to three religions and
it is also the site of in your face confrontations between Palestinians and
Israeli settlers. To maintain a semblance of order about 4000 Israeli
soldiers protect the 800 armed Israeli
civilians. Film maker Esther Hertog
spent 3 years living in the community filming the lives of the settlers and
the soldiers. Her film lets them speak
for themselves revealing the power
of ideology over logic and how ancient hatreds color reality.
courtesy of Ruth Diskin Films
Although the FilmFest tries to
show films from all areas of the
Middle East, this has not always
been possible. There have been
few documentary or feature
films about the Arabian Gulf region. But
times have changed. We are now in an era
when high quality digital video equipment
and computer editing have created a new,
young crop of Gulf film makers whose work
has been featured in festivals in their home
countries, Europe and the US.
You may recall that last year AGAPS recruited films from these new film makers, eight of
which were selected for screening. The FilmFest is working with AGAPS again this year
to include a number of new works about life
in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. There are more
than 20 submissions. Check the FilmFest program to see which were selected.
courtesy of Global Film Initiative
Cairo 678
courtesy of Kathy Wazana
They Were Promised the Sea
We’ve all heard of the sexual assaults during Egypt’s Arab Spring
but the problem is not new. Saudi born director Mohamed Diab’s
docudrama follows three Cairene women as they battle against
this daily problem. Diab’s film weaves together the stories of
these unlikely compatriots and presents a story that addresses an
often overlooked social issue and the public and private difficulties women face when they try to confront and combat it.
courtesy of Cultures of Resistance
The migration of Jewish Arabs to Israel is well known. Less known is
how these migrants have maintained their connections to their culture
of birth. Moroccan-born Jew, Kathy Wazana’s stunning film shows us
how strongly many still identify with their origins and how the communities they left still mourn their loss. If the issues of dual identity,
“otherness”, and political manipulation don’t stay with you, the gorgeous images and musical score will.
Sponsor a Film
Sponsor the Fest
Info:
Rose Veneklasen
trvene@email.arizona.edu
The Kalasha and the Crescent
This just released short film presents the Kalasha people of northern Pakistan’s Chitral valley. In a predominantly Muslim state, the Kalasha maintain polytheistic beliefs. How have they managed to maintain their rich culture, seasonal festivals, and
traditional practices? Iara Lee’s film introduces us to this largely unknown group and
talks about their future.
The complete list of films and schedule will be posted on M E S A's website in mid-September!
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Program
5:30-7:30PM Thursday October 10
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3247) New Perspectives on the
History of Medicine in Colonial
Algeria
Organized by Hannah-Louise Clark
Chair: Jennifer Johnson Onyedum, City
Col of New York
Discussant: Clifford Rosenberg, City Col
of New York and CUNY Graduate Center
Hannah-Louise Clark, Princeton
U–Medicalization from Below:
Communities in Crisis and the Role of
Shikayat in Wartime Algeria, 1914-1918
Claire Fredj, U Paris-Ouest Nanterre La
Défense–The “Médecin de Colonisation”
in His District: Postwar Management
Difficulties in the Algerian Countryside,
1918-1939
Bertrand Taithe, U Manchester–
Americanising Missionary Humanitarian
Aid in Algeria
Terrence Peterson, U Wisconsin
Madison–Inoculating ‘Frenchness’: French
Army Female Medico-Social Teams and
the Pacification of Muslim Women during
the Algerian War, 1957-1962
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3250) Israeli Domestic and Foreign
Policy after the Israeli Election of
January 2013
Organized by Robert O. Freedman
Sponsored by
Association for Israel Studies
Chair/Discussant: Robert O. Freedman,
Johns Hopkins U
Ilan Peleg, LaFayette Col–Israeli Politics
in the Post-2013 Elections: The Coalition
of the Unwilling?
Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv U–Israel and the
Arab World - Syria First
Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv U–Iran and Israel:
Post 2013 Elections
Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U–Israel’s
Elections and Its Foreign Policy Towards
the Persian Gulf: plus ça change plus
c’est la même chose
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000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3589) Your Money and Your Life
Chair: Mahdi Tourage, King's U Col
Kristina Benson, UCLA–“Your
Portfolio, Your Values”: Bringing Shar’ia
Compliant Financial Products in the
United States
Dan-Erik Andersson, Lund U, Sweden–
Assyrians and Syriacs in Sweden: Could
Soccer Solve the Quest for Belonging?
Geoff Martin, U Toronto–Chequebooks
or Change?: Understanding the Role of
Rents in Mobilization Efforts in Kuwait
Ozgur Burcak Gursoy, Bogazici U–The
Institutional Failure of Turkish Tobacco
Bank, 1938-1961
Travis Bruce, Wichita State U/CNRS–
Middle Ground in the Middle Sea:
Commercial Conflict Resolution between
Tunis and Pisa in the Thirteenth Century
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3282) The Commercial and Legal
World of the Mediterranean: Consuls,
Captives, Converts and Dragoman in
the Eighteenth Century
Organized by Fariba Zarinebaf
Chair: Fariba Zarinebaf, UC Riverside
Fariba Zarinebaf, UC Riverside–
Capitulations and Inter-Communal
Life in Galata: Consuls, Merchants and
Converts in Eighteenth Century Istanbul
Frank Castiglione, U Michigan Ann
Identity and Loyalty: The Pisani Family
of Dragomans
Ariel Salzmann, Queen’s U–Mustafa
Pasha of Malta: French-Maltese-Ottoman
Negotiations over the Fate of the
Governor of Rhodes (1749)
Houssine Alloul, U Antwerp–How
‘Ottoman’ were Dragomans in the Age
of Nationalism?: A Case Study of the
Belgian Legation in Istanbul
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3311) Violence, Identity and
Geography in Turkey: Perspectives
from the Ground
Organized by Gunes Murat Tezcur
Discussant: David Romano, Missouri
State U
Firat Bozcali, Stanford U–Blood Money
vs. Bloody Money: Compensation Court
Cases between Kurdish Litigants and the
Turkish State in a Border Province
Gunes Murat Tezcur, Loyola U Chicago–
Farewell to Life: Participation in the
Kurdish Insurgency
Mustafa Gurbuz, U South Florida–
Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict:
The Case of Kurds in Turkey
Mehmet Gurses, Florida Atlantic U–Is
Islam a Cure for Ethnic Nationalism?:
Evidence from the Kurdish Conflict in
Turkey
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3328) Precarious Vitality: Life in/of
Dubai
Organized by Brian Tilley
Neslihan Demirtas Milz, Izmir U of
Economics–Possibilities of Integration,
Spaces of Exclusion: Young Migrants
from Philippines Working in Dubai
Behzad Sarmadi, U Toronto–Urban
Citizenship in Dubai
Brian Tilley, Johns Hopkins U–Security
Culture and Familiar Fear: Marginal
Community Formation in Dubai
Andrea Wright, U Michigan Ann Arbor–
Labor History and the Production of
Precarity in the United Arab Emirates
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3366) In a Glass Darkly?: Re-Framing
Islamic Inspiration in Modern Arabic
Literature
Organized by Mohammad Salama
Chair: Mohammad Salama, San
Francisco State U
Hanadi Al-Samman, U Virginia–
Contested Frames: Recasting Arab Muslim
Womanhood in Lalla Essaydi’s Art
Elizabeth Saylor, UC Berkeley–“And
the Greatest of These is Love”: ‘Afifa
Karam’s Re-Imagining of Islam in Fatima
Al-Badawiyya
Yaseen Noorani, U Arizona–The
Romantic Islamist Aesthetics of
Muhammad Qutb
Reem M. Hilal, U Wisconsin Madison–
Engaging Islam: The Role of Faith in Robin
Yassin-Kassab’s The Road From Damascus
Mohammad Salama, San Francisco
State U–The Revolt of Islam: Imagining
the ‘Umma in ‘Alī Aḥmad Bākāthīr’s AlThā’r Al-Aḥmar [The Red Revolutionary]
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3565) The Mixed Media of
Representation
Nancy L. Stockdale, U North Texas–
Who Gets to Curate the Middle East?:
Listening in on the New York World’s
Fair of 1939/40
Alon Tam, U Pennsylvania–Representing
Black Identity in Early 20th Century
Egypt: The Theater and Film of Ali AlKassar in a Time of Transition
Arturo Marzano, European U Inst–
Transnational Networks across the
Mediterranean Sea in the 1930s: The
Case of Radio Bari
Robbert Woltering, U Amsterdam
ACMES–Messiri and the Jews: A Case of
Encompassment
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3391) Knowledge Production in
Egypt: Writing, Publishing and
Translation
Organized by Maggie Nassif
Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, NMELRC
Michael Beard, U North Dakota
Doria El Kerdany, UNC Chapel Hill
Enas Abou-Youssef, Cairo U
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3402) The Construction and
Reconstruction of MENA Identity
Organized by Rita Stephan
Chair: Rita Stephan, Georgetown U
Discussant: Nabeel Khoury, US
Department of State
Rola El-Husseini, CUNY Graduate
Center–Women, Democratization and
the Arab Spring
Maro Youssef, Department of State–
Contemporary Intersections of Gender
and Identity in North Africa
Mireille Aprahamian, Johns Hopkins
U–Characterizations of the Middle East
and Their Impact on Present Behaviors
Adam Comfort, US Marine Corps–Policy
Implications of Exchanged Narratives
and Identity Constructs
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3582) Party Politics and Political
Participation in and out of the Arab
World
Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John's U
Noha Aboueldahab, Durham Law Sch–
The Prosecution of Political Leaders in
the Arab Region: A Comparative Case
Study of Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen
Teije Hidde Donker, European U
Institute–The Arab World beyond
Political Parties?: The Politics of an
Islamist Resurgence
Gail Buttorff, U Kansas–Strategic
Tribes?: Electoral Rules and Candidate
Behavior in Jordanian Elections
Perla Issa, Exeter U–Palestinian Political
Factions in Lebanon: An Everyday
Perspective
Jonatan Bäckelie, U Gothenburg–
Muslim Political Participation in Post
Secular Sweden
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3409) Bureaucracy and
Administration in Mandate Palestine:
A Locally Focused Approach
Organized by Alexander Winder
Chair: Shira Robinson, George
Washington U
Discussant: Liora R. Halperin, Princeton U
Alexander Winder, New York U–
Collective Punishment and Sulh in
Rural Mandate Palestine: “Official” and
“Unofficial” Justice and the Maintenance
of Order
Leena Dallasheh, Sewanee U of the
South–Claiming Citizenship: Municipal
Elections in Nazareth under the British
Mandate
Hilary Falb, UC Berkeley–Teachers into
Ministers: Palestinian and Jordanian
Educators 1917-1958
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3521) Towards an Islamic Political
Theology: Normative Questions
Chair/Discussant: Mohammad Fadel, U
Toronto
Omar Shaukat, U Virginia–WesternMuslim Political Thought: Liberalism
and Muslim Theological Concerns
Yasmeen Daifallah, UC Berkeley–
Critiques of the Muslim Political Subject
in Contemporary Arab Thought
Abbas Barzegar, Georgia State U–State,
Text, Heremenuet: Islamist Legislative
Practices in the Muslim Nation State
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000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
The following session is the first in a series of
nine panels under the rubric, "Anthropology of
the Middle East: Rethinking Paradigms" that are
scheduled throughout the program. Look for the
A-ME designation.
A-ME
(3424) Anthropology of Gender,
Victimization and Power in Conflict
and Exile
Organized by Rhoda Kanaaneh
Discussant: Suad Joseph, UC Davis
Diana Allan, Harvard Society of
Fellows–Futures Elsewhere: The
Dialectical Politics of Palestinian
Migrant Imaginaries in Shatila Camp
Sophie Richter-Devroe, U Exeter–
Gendered Practices and Discourses of
Sumud in Palestine Today
Ruba Salih, SOAS, U London–Embodied
Heroism and Narratives of Resilience
among Palestinian Women Refugees
Veronica Buffon, U Exeter–Health
Practices of Migrant Women in Italy: The
Kurdish Case
Rhoda Kanaaneh, Columbia U–Bodies
in Conflict: Narratives of Gender Asylum
in the US
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3425) Diglossia: Issues and Best
Practices in Teaching of Arabic
Organized by Moulay Youness Elbousty
Chair: Susan Chenard, Gateway
Community Col
Ghassan Husseinali, George Mason U–
Pedagogical Issues in Integrating MSA
and Levantine: Teachers’ Perspectives
Muhammad Ali Aziz, Yale U–MSA and
a Yemeni Dialect: Pedagogical Approach
and Its Challenges
Youniss El Cheddadi, UC San Diego–The
Integrative Approach and Authentic
Audiovisuals in Arabic Class
Moulay Youness Elbousty, Yale U–
Communicative Competence: Issues and
Challenges in the Teaching of MSA and MA
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000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3452) Revisiting Bayezid II and
His Reign: Patronage, Image and
Networks
Organized by Hasan Karatas and Cihan
Yuksel Muslu
Didem Havlioglu, Istanbul Sehir U–
Bayezid II: A Renaissance Man
Hasan Karatas, U St. Thomas, MN–
Bayezid II, Müeyyedzade Brothers and
the Transplantation of an Amasyan
Network in Istanbul
Ahmet Tunç Þen, U Chicago–
Astrologers at the Court of Bayezid II
Cihan Yuksel Muslu, U Texas Dallas–
Ottoman-Mamluk Relations and the
Complex Image of Bayezid II
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3470) Integration and Dissent: The
Challenge of Fatimid Rule
Organized by Paul E. Walker
Supported by
Institute of Ismaili Studies
Chair: Farhad Daftary, Inst of Ismaili
Studies
(3459) Ideology, Art, and History in
Museums of Modern Turkey
Organized by Yasemin Gencer
Shainool Jiwa, Inst of Ismaili Studies–
Masters and Slaves: The Role of the Slavs
in the Fatimid Mediterranean Empire in
the 4th/10th Century
Paul E. Walker, U Chicago–Official
Fatimid Refutation of Religious
Opposition: Al-Kirmani and the Nusayris
Delia Cortese, Middlesex U, London (UK)
Upper Egypt: A Shi’ite Powerhouse in the
Fatimid Period?
Maribel Fierro, CCHS-CSIC (Spain)–AlTurtushi and the Fatimids
Discussant: Christiane Gruber, U
Michigan Ann Arbor
000 5:30-7:30pm
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Middle East
Technical U–Conversion, Museum-ification,
Contestation: A Tale of Three Hagia Sophias
Yasemin Gencer, Indiana U–The
Atatürk Museum and the Ceremony of
State Veneration
Lydia Harrington, U Washington–
Anitkabir’s Museum: War, Memory and
the Birth of the Turkish State
Canan Nese Karahasan, U Edinburgh–
Protecting “Sacred” Items and Narrating
“Profane” Stories in the Topkapi Palace
Museum
Helen Human, Stanford U–Dreaming
of Trojan Gold: The Role of New
Archaeological Museums in Turkish Society
Room TBA
(3508) Contentious Spaces: Media and
the Arab Uprisings
Organized by Sara Mourad
Chair/Discussant: Marwan M. Kraidy, U
Pennsylvania
Sara Mourad, U Pennsylvania–“This is
Not Tahrir Yet”: How the Media Framed
the Occupy Movement
Leila Tayeb, Northwestern U–Dania
Ben Sassi: Sonic/Transnational/
Choreography in Revolution
Omar Al-Ghazzi, U Pennsylvania–Collective Memory and the ‘Arab Spring’ Narrative
Rayya El Zein, CUNY–Spatial Dynamics
of Beirut’s Hip Hop Scene
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3529) Educational Reform in the
Contemporary Middle East: A
Crossroad of Global and Local
Organized by Reza Arjmand
Supported by
Centre for Middle Eastern Studies,
Lund University
Chair: Reza Arjmand, Lund U
Torsten Janson, Lund U
Antonia Mandry, UNICEF
Melek El Nimer
Amer Bani Amer
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3542) Space and Culture in Iranian
Modernity
Chair: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, U
Toronto
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
000 5:30-7:30pm
Room TBA
(3558) Administering the Ottoman
Provinces
(3556) Articulations of Authority in
Islamic History
Chair: Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State U
Chair: Jibreel Delgado, U Arizona
Elizabeth Williams, Georgetown U–
Ottoman Constitutional Reform and
Agricultural Change: The Travails of a
Post-1908 Vali
Alex Schweig, U Arizona–Surveying Like
a State: Situating a Proposed Bosnian
Railroad in the Evolution of Ottoman
Governmentality
E. Attila Aytekin, Middle East Technical
U–Belgradi Rashid: An Urban Muslim
Perspective on Dual Administration
in Belgrade during Serbian Autonomy
(1817-67)
Mehmet Celik, U Texas Austin–DeOttomanization of the Balkans: Formation
of Bulgarian Rule in Ruse, 1878-1885
Fatme Myuhtar-May, Arkansas State U–
Preserving Pomak Heritage in Bulgaria:
The Case of Salih Aga of Pashmakli, the
Pomak Governor of the Ahi Çelebi Kaza
of the Ottoman Empire (1798-1838)
Patrick Wing, U Redlands–The Notables
of Baghdad and the Limits of Sultanic
Authority in 8th/14th Century Iraq
Christine Baker, U Texas Austin–
Arabizing the Persian Legacy of the
Buyids: ‘Adud Al-Dawla, Bahram Gur, and
the Lost Origins of the Daylamites
Nina Safran, Penn State U–Book Burning
in Islamic Cordoba
Camilo Gómez-Rivas, American U Cairo–
Exile, Encounter, and the Articulation of
Andalusi Identity in the Works of Lisān
Al-Dīn b. Al-Khaṭīb
Ida Meftahi, U Toronto–The “Negative
Space” of the “Popular” in Twentieth
Century Iran
Golbarg Rekabtalaei, U Toronto–Morality
in Motion: Early Cinema and Education in
Early Twentieth Century Tehran
Jairan Gahan, U Toronto–Private
Matters in Public Space: Prostitution in
Iran in the Pahlavi Period
Nefise Kahraman, U Toronto–In Search
of Curative Spaces: Tubercular Industry
in Early 20th Century Iran as Reflected in
Literary and Medical Texts
u
8:30-10:30AM Friday October 11
Today’s Affiliated Meetings
8:30-10:30am
Middle East Center & Program
Directors Meeting
10:30am-12:30pm
Western Consortium of Middle
East Centers Meeting
11am-12nn
MESA Graduate Student Organization Open Forum
Napoleon D1 (3rd Floor)
12nn-2pm
EWIC Editors Training
Ellendale (4th Floor)
1-2:30pm
CASA Consortium Luncheon
2-4pm
AIYS Business Meeting
Oakley (4th Floor)
4:15-6:30pm
MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom Meeting
Rampart (5th Floor)
5-6:30pm
AMCA Reception
Estherwood (4th Floor)
5-6:30pm
JMEWS Editorial Board Meeting
5-7pm
MEOC General Meeting
6-7pm
AATP Business Meeting
Oakley (4th Floor)
u
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3280) Military Inc.: Arab Army,
Business, and Revolution
Organized by Zeinab A. Abul-Magd
(3297) Social and Cultural Change in
Iran during the Reza Shah Period
Organized by Afshin Marashi
Chair: Sherifa Zuhur, Inst of Middle
Eastern, Islamic & Strategic Studies
Discussant: Paul Amar, UC Santa
Barbara
Chair: Houchang Chehabi, Boston U
Discussant: Cyrus Schayegh, Princeton U
Elke Grawert, BICC–Arab Armies,
Economy, and the Arab Spring
Salam Said, Free U Berlin–Syrian
Military, Private Business, and
Revolution
Shana Marshall, George Washington
U–Barracks to Business?: MilitaryIndustrial Production and the Rising
Influence of the Military in the UAE
Zeinab A. Abul-Magd, Oberlin Col–The
Egyptian Military, Neo-liberalism, and
Islamism
Amy Austin Holmes, Brown U/
American U Cairo–Protecting the Palace:
The Bahrain Defense Force and Their
Backers
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3285) After the Imperial Turn: Arab
Nation-states and the Ottoman Past
Organized by Michael Christopher Low
Chair: Christine M. Philliou, Columbia U
Discussant: Alan Mikhail, Yale U
Michael Christopher Low, Columbia U–
Like Oil and Water?: The Ottoman PreHistory of Saudi Hydro-Centralization,
1878-1960
Aimee Genell, Columbia U–The End of
Occupation: Ottoman Sovereignty and the
British Declaration of Protection in Egypt
Eileen Ryan, Temple U–Water
Management and Regional Authority in
the Libyan Territories, 1835-1919
Dale Stahl, Columbia U–An Ottoman
Vision for Mesopotamia: Developing Iraq
before the Great War
Beeta Baghoolizadeh, U Pennsylvania–
Reza Shah and Manumission: The End of
Slavery in Iran
Mikiya Koyagi, U Texas Austin–The
Other Story of the Persian Corridor:
Experiencing Railways and Highways in
Early Pahlavi Iran
Afshin Marashi, U Oklahoma–Social
History of Bookstores in Tehran, 1900-1950
Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U and Touraj
Atabaki, International Inst of
Social History, Amsterdam–Shifting
Governmentality in the Shadow of Labor
Activism: Revisiting the Roots and Impacts
of the 1929 Abadan Oil Workers’ Strike
Gholam R. Vatandoust, American
U Kuwait–Nationalism, Secularism
and Patriotism: New Narratives in
Elementary and Secondary Textbooks
under Reza Shah
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3323) Recapturing Armenian
Ottomanism through a Man of
Tanzimat: The Ottoman Life of Bishop
Mkrtich Khrimian
Organized by Dzovinar Derderian and
Richard Antaramian
Chair/Discussant: Janet Klein, U Akron
Richard Antaramian, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–Priests as Proxies: Battles over
Bridging and Gridding in Van and Mush,
1857-1869
Can Ozcan, U Utah–Multiple Modalities
of Collective Memories: Remembrance
of Arapgir in Armenian and Turkish Oral
Narratives
Dzovinar Derderian, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–Reading Ottoman Reforms through
Mkrtich Khrimian: An Ottomanist
Reformer and an Armenian Patriot
Gerard Libaridian, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–Mkrtich Khrimian: Revolutionary
Traditionalist or Conservative
Revolutionary?
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3334) Fractures and Fusions of the
Arab American Experience
Organized by Matthew Jaber Stiffler,
Arab American National Museum
(3368) Physicality, Sexuality
and Representation: Theoretical
Approaches to Muslim Women in Sports
Organized by Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Chair/Discussant: Louise A. Cainkar,
Marquette U
Discussant: Sertaç Sehlikoglu, U
Cambridge
Pauline Homsi Vinson, Diablo Valley
Col–A Study in Contrasts: Narrative
Heritage, Cultural Mobility, and
Transnational Belonging in Laila
Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and Alia
Yunis’ The Night Counter
Waleed F. Mahdi, U Minnesota–ReNarrating Otherness: Arab Americans
and Articulations of Difference
Randa Kayyali, George Mason U–The
Middle East Outside the Middle East: Arab
American Identity in a Global World
Jasmijn Rana, Free U Berlin–Young
Moroccan-Dutch Women in Combat
Sports in the Netherlands
Haifa Tlili, Paris Descartes U–Health
and Body Construction of Maghrebian
Women in France - Montreal and Tunisia
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
A-ME
(3343) The Anthropology of Men,
Family and Parenting in the
Contemporary Middle East
Organized by Nefissa Naguib
Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis
Laila Prager, U Hamburg, Germany–
Struggling for Masculinity in the
Modern World: The Case of Urban
Middle Class Palestinians in Amman
Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale U–Male
Infertility, Masturbation, and Other
Middle Eastern’s Men’s Secrets
Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore Col–
Beyond the Patriarch: Modalities of
Fatherhood in Revolutionary Egypt
Nefissa Naguib, Chr. Michelsen Inst–
Doing the Right Thing: Fathers, Husbands
and Food in Contemporary Egypt
Johannes Becker, U Goettingen,
Germany–Palestinian Family
Fathers in the Old City of Jerusalem:
Intergenerational Negotiations and
Transmissions
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3393) Print Culture and the Literary
Market in the Ottoman Empire and
Turkey: Emergence, Dynamics and
Cultural Implications
Organized by Zeynep Seviner
Chair: Walter G. Andrews, U Washington
Selim Kuru, U Washington–Literary
Texts and Authorly Imprints in the 19th
Century Ottoman Empire
Zeynep Seviner, U Washington–
“Sixteen Pages for Forty Kurush”:
Authorship and Literary Market in
Istanbul at the Turn of the Century
Elizabeth Nolte, U Washington–The
Cost of Publication amidst Political
Polarization: Censorship and the Turkish
Literary Market in the 1950s-60s
Muge Salmaner, U Washington–Writing
from the Margins: The Contemporary
Armenian Literature in the Turkish
Publishing Scene
000 8:30-10:30am
Jennifer Pruitt, Smith Col–Painting Tahrir
Square: Martyrs, Murals, and Memory
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3405) Islam, Moral Economy and
Empire in the Western Indian Ocean
Organized by Elke Stockreiter
Sponsored by
Association for Gulf and Arabian
Peninsula Sudies (AGAPS)
Chair: Elke Stockreiter, U Iowa
Dodie McDow, Ohio State U–Liberating
Slavery: Moral Economies of Servitude
and Manumission in the Gulf and Indian
Ocean
Fahad A. Bishara, Col of William &
Mary/Harvard U–The Most Enduring
Obligation: Debt, Personhood and
Commerce in the Western Indian
OceanElke Stockreiter, U Iowa–
Moral Obligations and Pecuniary
Embarrassment in the Zanzibar
Protectorate
Scott S. Reese, Northern Arizona
U–Media, Marginality and the Moral
Community in Twentieth-Century
Colonial Aden: Why Zar Failed Where
Tamburra Succeeded
Room TBA
(3404) Sensing Cairo: Sights, Sounds,
and Public Spaces since the LateNineteenth Century
Organized by Hoda Yousef
Carmen M.K. Gitre, Seattle U–
Coffeehouses, Mimics, and the Shaping
of National Identity
Hoda Yousef, Franklin & Marshall Col–
Writing to be Seen: Public Literacies and
Petitions in Egypt, 1900-1930
Ziad Fahmy, Cornell U–Listening to the
Streets: Noise, Sounds and the Cries of
Street Hawkers in Interwar Egypt
u
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3413) Tourism, Solidarity,
Intervention, and Management:
Negotiating International Presence in
the Post-Oslo West Bank
Organized by Jennifer Kelly
Sponsored by
Palestinian American
Research Center (PARC)
Chair/Discussant: Rabab Abdulhadi,
San Francisco State U
Ryvka Barnard, New York U–Tourism
and the Politics of Heritage
Jennifer Kelly, U Texas Austin–“Your
Work is Not Here:” Solidarity Tourism in
Occupied Palestine
Sa’ed Atshan, Brown U–Solidarity or
Intervention: International Aid and
Ideology in the Palestinian Territories
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Bard
Col/Columbia U–“We Prepare for the
Day”: Waste, Environmental Standards
and Sincerity in Post-Oslo Palestinian
Statecraft
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3436) Theorizing Ideology in Light of
the Arab Uprisings
Organized by Sune Haugbolle
Chair: Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest U
Discussant: Samer Frangie, American U
Beirut
Sune Haugbolle, Roskilde U–Contours
of a New Arab Left
Miriam Younes, Roskilde U, Denmark–
Living Ideology within Lebanese
Communist Biographies
Manfred Sing, IEG Mainz–Ideological
Changes - Changes in Studies on
Ideology
Lisa Wedeen, U Chicago–Neoliberal
Autocracy and Protest in Syria
u
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3437) Political Mobilization in the
Middle East: Common Challenges and
Solutions?
Organized by Eleanor Gao
Chair: David Siddhartha Patel, Cornell U
Discussant: Quinn Mecham, Middlebury Col
Peter Krause, Boston Col–Where You
Stand (on Violence) Depends Upon
Where You Sit (in the Movement
Hierarchy): Political Violence and the
Hierarchies of National Movements
Eleanor Gao, U Exeter–Too Many or Too
Few Candidates?: Tribal Coordination in
Jordan under SNTV
Esen Kirdis, Rhodes Col–Between
Pragmatism and Idealism: Constructing
an Islamic Political Identity
Yael Zeira, Stanford U–The
Microdynamics of Participation in the
Palestinian National Movement
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3451) The Need to Compare: Going
Beyond the Area Studies Approach to
Waqf Endowments
Organized by Randi C. Deguilhem and
Toru Miura
Chair: Randi C. Deguilhem, CNRS,
TELEMME-MMSH, Aix-en-Provence
Tunku Alina Alias, INCEIF, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Toru Miura, Ochanomizu U, Tokyo
Jean-Pierre Dedieu, CNRS, FRAMESPA,
Toulouse
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3462) Space and Place in Late
Medieval Anatolia
Organized by Rachel Goshgarian
Nicolas Trepanier, U Mississippi–
Reconstructing the Rural Landscape in
Medieval Anatolia
Rachel Goshgarian, Lafayette Col–(Re)Orienting the City of Ani
Suna Cagaptay, Bahcesehir U–Medieval
Anatolia is Elsewhere: Mapping
Cultural Encounters and Impasses of
Architectural Historiography
Iklil Selcuk, Ozyegin U–The Social
Meaning, Structure and Functions of Ahi
Hospices in Medieval Anatolia
Patricia Blessing, Stanford U–Style
and Power in Medieval Anatolia: Three
Thirteenth-Century Madrasas in Sivas
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3525) Ethical Listening and the Ethics
of Listening: Musical Aesthetics, Style,
and Public Piety in Contemporary
Morocco
Organized by Christopher Witulski
Chair: Christopher Witulski, U Florida
Philip Murphy, UC Santa Barbara–The
Beautiful Voice Will Bring Them Home:
Sufi Devotional Music and the Creation
of Islamic Subjectivities
Kendra Salois, U Maryland, Col Park–
Jedba for the Nation: Embodied Listening
and the Ethics of Political Participation
in Moroccan Hip Hop
Christopher Witulski, U Florida–Ritual
and Entertainment: Permeable Ethics
and Aesthetics at the Pilgrimage at Sidi
Ali, Morocco
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3549) Cities of Stone: Issues in the
New Social History of Syria, Part I
Organized by Keith David Watenpaugh,
UC Davis
Sponsored by
Syrian Studies Association
in honor of Peter Sluglett
Chair/Discussant: Fred H. Lawson, Mills
Col
Heghnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis–
The Courtyard House as an Object
of Heritage in Syria: The Politics of
Urbanization, Memory and Gender
Vivian Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman
Col–Urban Displacement and the Passing
of Aleppo’s Armenian Community: A
Eulogy for Judayda
Jim Grehan, Portland State U–The Life
and Times of a ‘Christian Mufti’: Shaykh
Bishara Al-Khuri (1805-1886) and the
Birth of a Sectarian Legal System
Michael Provence, UC San Diego–RuralUrban Integration and Alienation in
Syria during the Mandate and Beyond
Benjamin Smuin, UC San Diego–Berets
and Bullets: Military Instruction and
Nationalism in French Mandate Syria
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3576) Space and Place in
Contemporary Middle Eastern
Literature
Chair: Ghenwa Hayek, Claremont
McKenna Col
Alya ElHosseiny, New York U–Lost
Cities: History, Allegory and Resistance
Literature
Christopher Micklethwait, St. Edward’s
U–Out of Nowhere: The Critique of
Historical Space in Hisham Matar’s
Novels
Razi Ahmad, U Kansas–The Interstitial,
Liminal and Hybrid in Simin Daneshvar’s
Novels
Ikram Masmoudi, U Delaware–The
Spatiality of the Occupation in Iraqi
Fiction
Fadia Suyoufie, Yarmouk U–The Poetics
of Proximity in Mahmud Darwish’s Athar
Al-Farashah
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3591) Speaking of Violence
Chair: Jonathan K. Zartman, Air U
Dominic Coldwell, U Oxford–Reconfiguring Resistance: Zionism and the
Making of the Islamist Subject in Egypt
after 1967
Irm Haleem, Independent Scholar–
Death as Existence: Radical Islamist
Promotion of Martyrdom
Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate
School, Monterey–Al Qa’ida’s Response
to the Arab Spring: A Discursive Analysis
Jerome Drevon, Durham U–Towards a
New Approach to the Study of the Role
of Islamist Ideology in Violent Contexts
Sami Emile Baroudi, Lebanese
American U–Political Realism and
Framing Contemporary Islamists’
Discourses on Jihad
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3595) Theologizing Otherness in
Medieval Islam
Chair: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U
Jon Hoover, U Nottingham–Ibn AlWazir’s Conciliatory Critique of Ibn
Taymiyya’s Vision of Universal Salvation
Mohammad H. Khalil, Michigan
State U–Ibn Taymiyya and the Fate of
Deceased Children
Talia Gangoo, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–The Making of “Iran-i Saghir”:
Persianization in the Kashmir Valley in
the 14th-15th Centuries
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3612) The Early Muslim Community
Chair: Yehia Mohamed, Georgetown U
Katrin Jomaa, U Rhode Island–The
Qur’anic Umma: A New Perspective for
Civil Society in a Global Context
Sharon Silzell, U Texas Austin–Hafsa
and Al-Mushaf: Women and the Written
Qur’an in the Early Centuries of Islam
A. Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech
U–‘A’isha bin Talha: Umayyad Aristocrat
and Hadith Transmitter
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3600) Arabic Language Acquisition
Chair: Mona K. Hassan, American U Cairo
Abdullah R. Lux, Eckerd Col–Pattern
Recognition of the Foreign Learner
(FL) in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign
Language (TAFL): A Cognitive and
Neurolinguistic Approach to the
Efficacy of Phonological-Morphological
Correlations, Al-Ishtiqaq and ‘ilm Altasrif
Said Hannouchi, U Wisconsin Madison–
Development of Cultural Understanding
among Arabic Students in US
Universities
Shahira Yacout, American U Cairo–
Error Analysis of Verbal Production:
A Case Study of Errors Committed
by Advanced Learners of Arabic as a
Foreign Language
Hala Yehia Abd El-Wahab, American
U Cairo–How to Reach Fluency Using
Formulaic Language?: The Case of AFL
Learners at the Elementary Level
Hanan Hassanein, American U Cairo–
Teaching Techniques Facilitating
Vocabulary Acquisition for Dyslexic
Students Learning Arabic as a Foreign
Language
Mona K. Hassan, American U Cairo–
Discourse Markers: Essential Tools in
Arabic Conversations
(3621) Women & the Arab Uprisings:
Political, Economic & Gender
Violences
Organized by Therese Saliba
Session Leader: Therese Saliba,
Evergreen State Col
Mohja Kahf, U Arkansas
Sarah Eltantawi, Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin
Savvina Chowdhury, Evergreen State
Col
Rita Stephan, Georgetown U
Isis Nusair, Denison U
u
11AM-1PM Friday October 11
11am-12nn
Open Forum
with the Outgoing and Incoming
Graduate Student Representative to MESA’s Board of Directors
This open forum will provide a space for student members of MESA to meet
the Graduate Student Representative as well as connect with other graduate
students. The meeting will feature a short presentation by the representative
of where things stand at MESA regarding opportunities for the identification
and support of graduate student interests. It will also be a forum to voice any
thoughts or pose any questions that students attending the MESA Annual
Meeting might want to, that can subsequently be worked on by the Graduate
Student Representative.
Kyle Anderson, Cornell U–Revolution
and the Rural Imaginary: Committed
Realism and Nasserist Ideology in
Egyptian Literature
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3265) Armenian Art and Architecture
in 18th-20th Century Constantinople:
A Re-Evaluation
Organized by Barlow Der Mugrdechian
Sponsored by
Society for Armenian Studies (SAS)
Chair/Discussant: Barlow Der
Mugrdechian, California State U, Fresno
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3248) Materializing Piety at the
Shrines of the Ahl Al-Bayt
Organized by Rose Aslan
Chair/Discussant: Kamran Aghaie, U
Texas Austin
Stephennie Mulder, U Texas Austin–
“May God be Pleased with All the
Companions of His Prophet”: Sunni
Patronage of Shi’i Shrines in Medieval
Aleppo
Rose Aslan, UNC Chapel Hill–At the
Threshold of the Sacred: Nineteenth
Century Persian Narratives of Pilgrimage
to Najaf
Edith Szanto, American U Iraq,
Sulaimani–Economies of Piety at the
Syrian Shrine of Sayyida Zaynab
Faegheh Shirazi, U Texas Austin–Arizeh
Nevisi: Votive Petitioning to Al Mahdi,
The Imam Zaman in the Islamic Republic
of Iran
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3262) Developing a Curriculum to
Teach Turkish in the 21st Century
Organized by Roberta Micallef
Sponsored by
American Association of Teachers
of Turkic Languages (AATT)
Chair/Presenter: Roberta Micallef,
Boston U
Ercan Balci, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mehmet Kanik, U Houston
Saadet Ebru Ergul, Stanford U
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3264) Marxist Minorities:
Communism in the Mid-twentieth
Century Middle East
Organized by Lior Sternfeld and Alma
Rachel Heckman
Chair/Discussant: Susan Gilson Miller,
UC Davis
Lior Sternfeld, U Texas Austin–The
History of Communism in Iran: An
Armenian-Jewish Story
Alma Rachel Heckman, UCLA–Edmond
Amran El Maleh: Jewish Nationalists and
the Moroccan Communist Party
Aline Schlaepfer, U Geneva–Old and
New Allegiances: Baghdadi Jews in
Leftist Circles
u
Alyson Wharton, Mardin Artuklu U–
Armenian Architects and the Making of
an “Ottoman Renaissance” in Nineteenth
and Early-Twentieth- Century
Constantinople
Jean Murachanian, U New England–
Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Portraits
by Armenian Court Artist, Rafayel Manas
Vazken Khatchig Davidian, Birkbeck Col,
U London–Simon Hagopian’s Hamals on
the Bridge at Karakoy: The Convergence of
Ottoman Armenian Realism and the Visual
Arts in Late 19th Century Constantinople
Ron Marchese, U Minnesota–Treasures
of Faith: Religious Artifacts from
the Armenian Orthodox Churches of
Constantinople and What They Tell Us
About Society and Culture
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
A-ME
(3275) Anthropology of the Gulf
Arab States I: New Ethnographic
Approaches to Power
Organized by Neha Vora
Sponsored by
Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) and
Association for Middle East
Anthropology (AMEA)
Chairs: Noora Lori, Harvard U and Neha
Vora, Lafayette Col
Discussant: Annelies Moors, U
Amsterdam
Attiya Ahmad, George Washington
U–Household Contestations: Religious
Conversions, Domestic Workers and
Political Discourses in Kuwait
Ahmed Kanna, U of the Pacific–
“Imperial” Dubai: A Lefebvrian Reading
Neha Vora, Lafayette Col–Knowledge
Economies as ‘Expert Camps’: Toward a
New Ethnography of Labor Migration in
the Gulf
Noora Lori, Harvard U–‘Civilizing’
Security: Active Policing and
Contestations over the Enforcement of
UAE Decency Laws
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3291) What’s in a Revolution?:
Ideology, Practice and Social Change
in the Second Constitutional Era
Organized by Ceyda Karamursel
Bedross Der Matossian, U NebraskaLincoln–Between Religious and Secular:
Impact of the Revolution on Religious
Politics in the Ottoman Empire
Erdem Sönmez, Bilkent U–History
Writing during the Second Constitutional
Period: An “Unfinished Revolution”
Kent F. Schull, Binghamton U–Criminal
Justice after the 1908 Revolution:
Continuity and Intensification
Murat C. Yildiz, UCLA–Envisioning,
Sculpting, and Exhibiting the (Strong,
Beautiful, and Healthy) Male Body in
Late Ottoman Istanbul
Ceyda Karamursel, U Pennsylvania–The
End of Slavery and the Realignment of
Legal and Administrative Institutions in
the Ottoman Empire
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3294) Local Politics and
Contemporary Transformations in the
Arab World
Organized by Anja Hoffmann and
Malika Bouziane
Chair: Janine A. Clark, U Guelph
Discussant: Katharina Lenner, Free U
Berlin
Koenraad Bogaert, Ghent U–The
Revolt of Small Towns: The Meaning of
Morocco’s History and Geography of
Social Protests
Katharina Lenner, Free U Berlin–
Too Many Cooks in the Development
Kitchen?: The Elusiveness of the State in
Southern Rural Jordan
Anja Hoffmann, Free U Berlin and
Malika Bouziane, Free U Berlin–
Conceptualizing the ‘Local’: Findings
from Jordan and Morocco
Naoual Belakhdar, Free U Berlin–
Challenging the Center from the
Margins?: Political Participation in
Algeria
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3299) Towards the Centennial: WWI
in the Middle East—The Ottoman
Great War: Soldiers’ Loyalties
Organized by Yucel Yanikdag
Discussant: Michael Provence
Eugene Rogan, St Antony’s Col,
Oxford–From the Western Front to
Mesopotamia: North African Soldiers in
the Great War
Yucel Yanikdag, U Richmond & IAS–
Motivation and Morale in the Ottoman
Great War
Suzanne Schneider, Columbia U–A
Different War, a Different Zion: Yehuda
Burla and the WWI Jewish Experience
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3315) History and Scripture in
Medieval Arabic Literature
Organized by Jessica Andruss and
Shatha Almutawa
Sponsored by
Middle East Medievalists (MEM)
Chair/Discussant: David J. Wasserstein,
Vanderbilt U
Fred Astren, San Francisco State U–Quid
Ergo Baghdathensis et Hierosolymis?:
Reappraising Jewish Sectarianism in
Early Islam
Shatha Almutawa, U Chicago–Allegory
and History in Ikhwan Al-Safa’s Reading
of Biblical Narrative
Jessica Andruss, U Chicago–History
as Moral Instruction in Tenth-Century
Jewish and Islamic Literature
Walid A. Saleh, U Toronto–Al-Biqaì’s
(d. 885/1480) use of Sefer Jossipon in His
Qur’an Commentary
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3358) Family Histories of Religious
Notables in Central Asia
Organized by Jo-Ann Gross
Chair: Jo-Ann Gross, Col of New Jersey
Devin A. DeWeese, Indiana U–Sainthood
and Sacred Descent in the Generations of
a Khwārazmian Family: An EighteenthCentury Source on the Succession to
Ḥakīm Ata
Jo-Ann Gross, Col of New Jersey–The
Genealogical History and Narrative
Traditions of Sayyid Families of
Shughnan, Badakhshan in the 18th-20th
Century
James Pickett, Princeton U–
Opportunity in Upheaval: New Islamic
Family Dynasties in Central Asia’s Long
Nineteenth Century
Eren Tasar, UNC Chapel Hill–Family and
Religious Authority in Soviet Central
Asia: Evaluating the Archival Evidence
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Waleed Ziad, Yale U–Emerging
Transregional Authority amidst Political
Fragmentation: The Mujaddidi Sahiban
of Shor Bazaar, Kabul
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3389) Public and Private Spaces and
the Maghrib Spring
Organized by Odile Moreau
Chair: Odile Moreau, Praxiling-U
Montpellier
Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, U
Arizona
Odile Moreau, Praxiling-U Montpellier–
Public Space and Civic Journalism in
Tunisia
Robert P. Parks, Centre d’Études
Maghrébines en Algérie, American Inst
for Maghrib Studies–Algeria and the
Politics of Riots
Mohsine El Ahmadi, Cadi Ayyad U
Marrakech & International U, Rabat–The
Change in Public and Private Space as a
Result of the PJD Victory in Moroccan
Elections
Stuart Schaar, Brooklyn Col & Amideast
Rabat–Stages in the Recent Tunisian
Revolt: Public Space and the Digital
Revolution
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3469) Trajectories of Islamism
Organized by Steven Brooke
Chair/Discussant: Joshua Stacher, Kent
State U
Steven Brooke, U Texas Austin–A
Political Geography of Islamist Medical
Charity in Egypt
Kimberly Gouz, U Texas Austin–
Conceptualizing Political Religiosity:
Informal Religious Norms and the
Turkish Case Study
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, US Military
Academy–Diminishing Returns: Salafi
Ideology and the Success of the Islamic
Bloc in Egypt’s Foundational Elections
Aaron Hagler, Cornell Col–A Memory of
Just Governance: Early Islamic History
and Modern Islamist Governmental
Theory in Egypt and Iran
u
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3472) Constitution-Writing,
Religion and Constitutionalism in
the Middle East: Between Rawlsian
Grand Compromises and Hirschlian
Hegemonic Preservation
Organized by Mirjam Kuenkler
(3478) Digital Humanities in Middle
East Studies I: Traditional Sources,
Nontraditional Methods
Organized by Børre Ludvigsen, Østfold
U Col and AUB, Will Hanley, Florida
State U, and Maxim Romanov
Chair: Nathan J. Brown, George
Washington U
Discussant: Karima Bennoune, UC Davis
Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U–The
Usefulness of Digital Technology for
the Study of Cultural Memory in the
Medieval Middle East: A Case Study
Maxim Romanov, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–Islamic World Connected (6601300 CE)
Pascal Abidor, McGill U–The Historical
Experience of Jabal ‘Amil as Captured in
Text
Majied Robinson, Edinburgh U–The
Digital Humanist and the Rise of Islam:
Applying Quantitative Methods to the
Nasab Tradition
Erin Pocock, U Western Ontario–
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
and the Mapping of 14th and 15th
Century Levantine Agriculture
Ellis Goldberg, U Washington–The
Uncertain Consequences of the Egyptian
Constitution
Mark Farha, Georgetown U Sch of
Foreign Service Qatar–Secularism in a
Sectarian Society?: The Divisive Drafting
of the 1926 Lebanese Constitution
Ceren Belge, Concordia U–Constitutional Negotiations and Regime
Change in Turkey (1961) and Egypt
(2012)
Mirjam Kuenkler, Princeton U–No
Facade Constitution: Constitutional Law
and Political Change in Post-1979 Iran
Joakim Parslow, U Washington–Taking
the Courts to the Streets: Turkey’s State
Security Courts between Constitutional
Review and Public Spectacle
000 11am-1pm
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
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(3477) Critical Perspectives on ArabEuropean Relations in Light of the
Arab Uprisings
Organized by Corinna Mullin and Polly
Pallister-Wilkins
Cengiz Gunay, Austrian Inst for
International Affairs–Turkey: A Model
for a Good Islamic Democracy?
Polly Pallister-Wilkins, U Amsterdam–
Securitization, Externalization,
Privatization: European MigrationControl in the MENA
Abdessamad Fatmi, U Liverpool–
Moroccan-EU Relations: More Hot Air
than Hot Deals?
Corinna Mullin, U Tunis–Europe and
the Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions:
Legacies of Colonialism and Western
Intervention
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3482) Persian Literary
Historiography: Perspectives on the
History and Interpretation of Persian
Literature
Organized by Matthew Thomas Miller
Chair: Paul E. Losensky, Indiana U
Discussant: Franklin D. Lewis, U
Chicago
Alexander Jabbari, UC Irvine–Literary
History as Modernization in Iran
Cameron Cross, U Chicago–Finding
Romance: Vis, Varqa, and the Origins of
a Genre
Matthew Thomas Miller, Washington
U in Saint Louis–Reconceptualizing
Medieval Poetic Biographical Traditions as
Interpretative and Discursive Constructs:
A Case Study of the Biographical Tradition
of Fakhr Al-Din ‘Eraqi
Jane Mikkelson, U Chicago–Ardent
Mystical Longing, Black Humour, or
Searing Social Commentary?: Sati in
Three Indo-Persian Poems
Shahla Farghadani, Islamic Azad U,
Islamshahr Branch–The Question of
Style and Genre in Khan-i Arzu’s Majma`
Al-Nafa’is
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3527) Realms of Power and
Contestation: The Egypt of Mubarak
and Morsi
Organized by Ian M. Hartshorn
Discussant: David Faris, Roosevelt U
Rachel Sternfeld, U Texas Austin–
Persuasion in Print: Privately-Owned
Newspapers and the Egyptian Uprising
Emma Hayward, U Pennsylvania–
Contestation and the Egyptian Judiciary:
Group Rights and Personal Status Laws
Ian M. Hartshorn, U Pennsylvania–
Neoliberalism and Corporatist Decline in
Egypt
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3550) Cities of Stone: Issues in the
New Social History of Syria, Part II
Organized by Keith David Watenpaugh
Sponsored by
Syrian Studies Association (SSA)
in honor of Peter Sluglett
Chair/Discussant: Fred H. Lawson, Mills
Col
Seda Altug, Bogazici U–The Pillars
of Making of French-Jazira and
Sectarianism
Dick Douwes, Erasmus U Rotterdam–
The Impact of the Creation of Hatay
on Communities and Their Regional
Relations
Geoffrey D. Schad, Inst for
Palestine Studies–Ambivalence and
Accommodation: Aleppo’s Industrial
Bourgeoisie and the Corporatist Bargain
Laura C. Robson, Portland State U–
Assyrian and Armenian Refugee Camps
in Interwar Syria
Keith David Watenpaugh, UC Davis–
Debating National Citizenship in 1930s
Syria: Edmond Rabbath, Minorities and
the Régime de cloisons étanche
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3575) Configuring Religious
Authority in Islamic Law
(3563) The Body Israel
Chair: Ahmed E. Souaiaia, U Iowa
Anat Mooreville, UCLA–“A Parcel
of Human Eyes”: Israeli Ophthalmic
Expertise in Africa, 1959-1973
Cathrine Moe Thorleifsson, Fafo Inst
for Applied International Studies–
Nationalism and the Politics of Fear in
Israel: Race and Identity on the Border
with Lebanon
Yehuda Sharim, UCLA–Inferior Jews:
Racialized Sephardic-Mizrahi Identities
in Palestine/Israel, 1935-1948
Donna Herzog, New York U–The Day
the Wells Went Dry: Between Local and
National Waters
Chair: Dale J. Correa, New York U
(3568) Sexuality on the Margins
Rainer Brunner, CNRS, Paris–Between
Authoritarianism and Intellectualism:
Some Recent Controversies on the Role
of Hadith in Sunnite Islam
Nathan Spannaus, U Tennessee
Knoxville–Ijtihad and Post-Classical
Legal Reformism
SherAli Tareen, Franklin & Marshall
Col–The Prophet Muhammad Contested:
Competing Imaginaries of Normativity
in Muslim Colonial India
Samy Ayoub, U Arizona–If Abu Hanifa
Were Here: Authority, Continuity, and
Revision in Hanafi Jurisprudence
Simonetta Calderini, U Roehampton
London–Citing the Past to Address the
Present: Unexpected Interlocutors
Discussing Women Leading Men in Prayer
Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State U
000 11am-1pm
Hina Azam, U Texas Austin–
Interrogating Gender Difference in
Islamic Law: The Case of Interfaith
Marriage
Shirin Gerami, New York U–Intermarriage and Gendered Citizenship: The
Struggles of Iranian Women Married to
Afghan Refugees
Kate Dannies, Georgetown U–
Measuring Manhood: Reverend Henry
Jessup, Evangelical Protestantism and
Masculinity in Syria, 1856-1910
Nayel Badareen, U Arizona–The Role
of Women in Marriage as Seen by Three
Salafis: Obstacles, Rights, and Duties
Rania Salem, U Toronto–Egyptian
Youth Navigating Liminality: Gendered
Consequences of Informal Legal
Practices among Couples Involved in
‘Urfi Marriages
(3583) Mediums of Protest
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
Room TBA
Chair: Nezar AlSayyad, UC Berkeley
Naama Nagar, U Wisconsin Madison–
Israeli Summer: Explaining the Success
of the 2011 Social Protest in Israel
Yakein Abdelmagid, Duke U–Aesthetic
Mediations in Neoliberal Times: Public
Art and the Reconfiguration of Political
Fields in Egypt
Stephanie Dornschneider, Graduate
Inst of International and Development
Studies–Mapping the Mobilization
Mechanisms Underlying the Unexpected
Outbreak of the Arab Spring in Egypt
and Morocco
Ivan Panovic, Oxford U–Fresh History,
Stale Hopes: An Anthropological Reading
of Early Literary Engagements with the
Egyptian Revolution
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000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3615) Empire and Belonging: Ottoman
Empire to Modern Turkey
Chair: Nabil Al-Tikriti, U Mary
Washington
Omer Turan, Istanbul Bilgi U–Writing
against Global Hierarchies: Colonial
Criticism and Ahmed Riza
Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Dartmouth Col–
Apostates or Seekers of the Truth:
Muslim Conversion into Christianity in
the 19th Century Ottoman Empire
Aaron Scott Johnson, Missouri Valley
Col–Ali Suavi and Turkish Nationalist
Historiography
Andrea Karlsson, Lund U–The Struggle
for the Public Sphere in Turkey: Liberal
Intellectuals and Nationalist Taboos
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3631) Teaching Arabic on-line
Organized by Zeinab A. Taha
Session Leader: Zeinab A. Taha,
American U Cairo
Dalal Aboel Seoud, American U Cairo
Iman Aziz Soliman, American U Cairo
Rasha Essam, American U Cairo
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2-4PM Friday October 11
(3638) Impact of the 2010-12
Uprisings on International Relations
in the Middle East, Part I
Organized by Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col
Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col–ReImagining Kurdistan in the Diaspora
Nader Entessar, U South Alabama–Are
Kurds Ascending in Iran?
Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Tech U–
Syrian Kurds Ascending
Chair: F. Gregory Gause III, U Vermont
000 2-4pm
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
Morten Valbjorn, Aarhus U–Revisiting
and Upgrading the (New) Arab Cold WarFramework
Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U Sch
of Foreign Service Qatar–Qatari Foreign
Policy and the Exercise of Subtle Power
Ewan Stein, U Edinburgh–The Muslim
Brotherhood and Egyptian Foreign Policy:
Are there New Rules of the Game?
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3243) Tangier, City of Circulation
Organized by Janell Rothenberg
Sponsored by
American Institute of
Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
Chair: Janell Rothenberg, UCLA
Discussant: Brian T. Edwards,
Northwestern U
Sahar Bazzaz, Col of the Holy Cross–
Fasis and Levantines in Tangier
Anna Reidy, New York U–Sawt Tanjah:
Acoustics, Matter and Circulation in
Tangier
George Bajalia, Fulbright Program–
Power Plays: Circulation and the
Performance Public in Tangier
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3251) The Kurds Ascending
Organized by Michael M. Gunter
Supported by
Foundation for Kurdish Studies
Chair: Robert Olson, U Kentucky
Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Ahmed
Foundation for Kurdish Studies–Iraqi
Kurds Ascending
Joost Jongerden, Wageningen U, the
Netherlands–Trickling Down or Bubbling
Up?: The Politics of Connectivity and the
Kurdish Movement in Turkey and Syria
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
Gergana Atanassova, CSCC–Learning
“Proper” Arabic - Heritage Learners’
Attitudes towards Diglossia
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3337) Governance and Welfare in the
Middle East
Organized by Melani C. Cammett and
Janine A. Clark
Chair: Melani C. Cammett, Brown U
(3261) Historical Ethnography of
Palestinian Circulations
Organized by Camila Pastor de Maria y
Campos
Jacob Norris, U Sussex
Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, CIDE
Sarah Gualtieri, U Southern California
Kathy Saade Kenny, Independent
Researcher
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3278) Heritage Learners in the Arabic
Language Classroom: Identities,
Needs, and Learning Experiences
Organized by Gergana Atanassova
Sponsored by
American Association of
Teachers of Arabic (AATA)
Chair: Hana Zabarah, Georgetown U Sch
of Foreign Service Qatar
Discussants: Gergana Atanassova, CSCC
and Hana Zabarah, Georgetown U Sch
of Foreign Service Qatar
Emma Trentman, U New Mexico–Arabic
Heritage Learners Studying Abroad:
Identity Negotiation and Language
Acquisition
Sara Hillman, Michigan State U–Humor,
Identity Construction, and Participation
amongst Arabic Heritage Language
Learners in the Classroom
Siham A. Serry, American U Cairo–
Using Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in
Enhancing Heritage Students’ Writing
Skill in Modern Standard Arabic
Anita Husen, Georgia State U–Religious
Heritage Learners: Competencies and
Needs of Non-Arab Muslims in the
Arabic Classroom
Lisa Blaydes, Stanford U–Human
Welfare, War and Sanctions in Iraq
under Saddam Hussein
Janine A. Clark, U Guelph and
Emanuela Dalmasso, CIES-U Inst
of Lisbon–Accountable versus
Unaccountable: A Case Study of the
PJD Municipal Government in Kenitra,
Morocco
Sami Atallah, Lebanese Center for
Policy Studies–Regional Governments,
Development and Public Goods in
Lebanon: Why Do Some Municipal
Unions Perform Better than Others?
Melani C. Cammett, Brown U–Is There
an Islamist Governance Advantage?
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3383) Tribes, Peasants and
Merchants: Social Transformation in
the Eastern Provinces of the Ottoman
Empire in the Nineteenth Century
Organized by Yasar Tolga Cora
Chair/Discussant: Ariel Salzmann,
Queen’s U
Zozan Pehlivan, Queen’s U–State-Tribe
Relations and the Ihtilal of 1819 in
Diyarbekir
Yasar Tolga Cora, U Chicago–Excerpts
from the Diary of Simeon of Sasun: A
Micro-Cosmos of Ethnic-Relations in the
Mid-Nineteenth Century
Cihangir Gundogdu, U Chicago–An
Examination of Derova Case: The Politics
of Land-Grabbing in Dersim Sandjak in
the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Vural Genc, Istanbul U–Mamasogullari:
A Nineteenth Century Armenian
Entrepreneur Family in Arapkir
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000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3388) Negotiating Political Inclusion:
Women and Party Politics in the
Middle East
Organized by Mona Tajali
Chair: Mona Tajali, Concordia U
Discussant: Aili Mari Tripp, U
Wisconsin Madison
Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State
U–Gender Stereotypes and Support
for Female Candidates in Transitional
Tunisia and Egypt
Homa Hoodfar, Concordia U–Women
and Party Politics in Iran: Re-Mapping
the Political Landscape
Mona Tajali, Concordia U–Strategic
Framing: Women’s Framing Processes
for Political Representation in Iran and
Turkey
Bozena Welborne, U Nevada Reno–Arab
Women as Emerging Veto-Players in the
Politics of the Middle East and North
Africa
Lihi Ben Shitrit, U Georgia Athens–
Women’s Quotas and Religious Parties in
the Middle East
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3395) Religious Authorities and
Political Transitions in the Middle
East
Organized by Ali Kadivar and Ali Reza
Eshraghi
Chair: Mirjam Kuenkler, Princeton U
Discussants: Mirjam Kuenkler,
Princeton U and Juan Cole, U Michigan
Ann Arbor
Sarah Eltantawi, Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin–The Rhetoric of “Authenticity”
in the Political Theology of the Muslim
Brotherhood
Alexander Henley, Harvard U–
Attachment to the State among Religious
Authorities in Civil War Lebanon
Ali Reza Eshraghi, UNC Chapel Hill and
Ali Kadivar, UNC Chapel Hill–When Do
Grand Ayatollahs Support a Democratic
Movement?
David Warren, U Manchester–Yusuf
Al-Qaradawi, the Arab Spring, and Qatari
Foreign Policy: Collusion, Co-Option or
Something Else?
u
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3407) Drawing the Line(s): Iraq as a
Transregional Frontier, 1780-1972
Organized by Annie Greene
(3432) The Mamluk Sultanate and the
Projection of Empire I
Organized by Malika Dekkiche, Ghent U
Discussant: Karen M. Kern, Hunter Col
Sponsored by
Idan Barir, Tel Aviv U/Yale U–Frontier
Cities and the Pacification of Nomadic
Tribes: Late Ottoman Kirkuk as a Test Case
Annie Greene, U Chicago–Al-Zawra’ and
the East: Locating Baghdad through the
Pages of Its First Newspaper
Faisal Husain, Georgetown U–The
Euphrates as an Ottoman Frontier River:
The Eighteenth Century
Carl Shook, U Chicago–Ba’thist Frontier
Ideology: Analyzing the Deportation of
Iranian Nationals from Iraq, 1971-72
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3429) Towards the Centennial: WWI
in the Middle East—The Home Front
as a Battlefield: The Ottoman Empire
in World War I
Organized by Mustafa Aksakal
Chair: Ellen L. Fleischmann, U Dayton
Discussant: Benjamin Carr Fortna,
SOAS, U London
Najwa Al-Qattan, Loyola Marymount U–
Eating Grass in WWI Syria: Animals and
Identity in the Discourses of the Famine
Yigit Akin, Tulane U–War, Gender
and the State: Soldiers’ Families in the
Ottoman Home Front during World War I
Zachary Foster, Princeton U–A What
Price History Can Teach Us About
Famine: World War I in Greater Syria
Mustafa Aksakal, Georgetown U–Food
and Fodder: The Ottoman Hunger Crisis,
1914-1918
Chair: Anne F. Broadbridge, U
Massachusetts Amherst
Jo Van Steenbergen, Ghent U–The Flux
and Reflux of Mamluk State Formation:
Reconsidering Mamluk Notions of Elite,
State and Empire
John Meloy, American U Beirut–
Intermittent Empire: Dominance and
Hegemony in Mamluk Peripheries
Bethany J. Walker, U Bonn–The Local
Experience of Mamluk Rule: A Study of
Imperial Projects ‘From Below’
Carl F. Petry, Northwestern U–Imperial
Projection Challenged: Espionage and
Insurrection as Criminal Threats to the
Mamluk Security Blanket
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
A-ME
(3442) Anthropology of the Gulf Arab
States II: Ethnography and the Study
of Gulf Migration
Organized by Andrew Gardner and
Pardis Mahdavi
Sponsored by
Peninsula Sudies (AGAPS) and
Anthropology (AMEA)
Chairs: Andrew Gardner, U Puget Sound
and Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona Col
Discussant: Sharon Nagy, Clemson U
Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona Col–
Ethnographies of Power and Privilege:
Examining Racialized Morality and
Developmentalist Approaches to Gulf
Migration through Lived Experience
Andrew Gardner, U Puget Sound–Labor
Migration in Contemporary Qatar: New
Data
Filippo Osella, U Sussex–Labour
Immigration, Brokerage, and
Governance in the State of Qatar
Elizabeth Frantz, Open Society
Foundation–Beyond the Ivory Tower:
Reflections on the Practical Impact of
Ethnographic Research about Migration
in the Gulf
Mark Johnson, U Hull–Imagining ‘Saudi’:
Filipino Muslim Migrants’ Stories in and
about the Kingdom
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
East Studies II: Digital Communication
Organized by Will Hanley, Florida State
U, Maxim Romanov, U Michigan Ann
Arbor, and Børre Ludvigsen
Discussant: Charles Kurzman, UNC
Chapel Hill
VJ Um Amel, U Southern California–The
Digital Humanities Meets Modern Egypt:
Between Technology and Revolution
(3460) New Strategies and
Methodologies for Teaching of Modern Børre Ludvigsen, Østfold U Col and
American U Beirut–Mapping War
Armenian Language
Walter G. Andrews, U Washington–
Organized by Ani Kasparian
The Svoboda Diaries Project: A Digital
Text from Manuscript to Multi-Media
Chair: Barlow Der Mugrdechian,
Publication and More
California State U, Fresno
Roundtable
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
Kevork B. Bardakjian, U Michigan Ann
Arbor
Ani Kasparian, U Michigan Dearborn
Anahid Keshishian, UCLA
Shushan Karapetian, UCLA
Santoukht Mikaelian, UC Berkeley
(3479) Persianate Travel Writing and
Ethnography in the Early Nineteenth
Century
Organized by Arash Khazeni
000 2-4pm
Chair: Carl W. Ernst, UNC Chapel Hill
Discussant: Naghmeh Sohrabi, Brandeis U
Room TBA
(3467) Arab Youth: From Engagement
to Inclusion?
Organized by Oliver Schlumberger,
Nadine Sika, and Saloua Zerhouni
Chair: Oliver Schlumberger, Tübingen U
Discussant: Sheila Carapico, U Richmond
Kressen Thyen, U Tübingen and Nadine
Sika, American U Cairo–Youth Inclusion,
Youth Exclusion, and Contentious
Practices: The Cases of Egypt and
Morocco
Somaia El Sayed, Cairo U–From Informal
to Formal Politics: Changing Forms of
Youth Political Participation in PostRevolutionary Egypt
Saloua Zerhouni, Mohamed V U souissi–
Youth and Protest in Morocco: Engaging
Differently
Amani El Naggare, Mohamed V U
Souissi–Being a Woman Protestor: The
Cases of Egypt and Morocco
Mana Kia, Columbia U–Writing
Difference between Iran and India
Arash Khazeni, Pomona Col–IndoPersian Crossings
Sunil Sharma, Boston U–Performing
Persianateness in Mohan Lal Kashmiri’s
Travel Book
Nile Green, UCLA–The Persian Student
Expedition to Britain: Mutual Learning
between London and Tabriz
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3495) Neoliberalization and the
Security Regime in Turkey: Politics of
Legitimacy
Organized by Jim Kuras and Didem
Turkoglu
Mehmet Deniz, Binghamton U–The
Power of Business Groups in the Decision
Making Process of the Commodification
of Water Reservoirs in Turkey
Didem Turkoglu, UNC Chapel Hill–
Neoliberalism and/or Centralization:
Debates on the Transformation of Higher
Education in Turkey
Jim Kuras, UNC Chapel Hill–Outside the
Walls of Silivri Prison
Eric Schoon, U Arizona–The Legitimacy
Discount: Theorizing the Benefits of
Illegitimacy for the Kurdistan Workers’
Party
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3517) Environmental Governance and
the Arab Uprisings: Egypt and Jordan
Organized by Jeannie Sowers
Sharif S. Elmusa, American U Cairo–
Unprepared for the Environmental
Behemoth: Egypt’s Muslim Brothers and
the Freedom and Justice Party
Neda Zawahri, Cleveland State U–The
Arab Uprising and the Governance of
Scarce Freshwater in Jordan
Jeannie Sowers, U New Hampshire–
Environmental Contestation in PostMubarak Egypt
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3545) New Histories of the Lebanese
Civil Wars
Organized by Najib B. Hourani
Chair: Sami Hermez, U Pittsburgh
Najib B. Hourani, Michigan State U–
The Looting of Lebanon: The Civil Wars
Reconsidered
Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State U–A
War Bequest: Incendies’ Reconstruction
of the Lebanese Civil War
Michael Gasper, Occidental Col–Every
Day Life during the Lebanese Civil War
(1975-1991)
Chair/Discussant: Brian Silverstein, U
Arizona
Danielle van Dobben, U Arizona–
Becoming Roma: The Impact of
Liberalization Policies in Turkey on
Gypsy Identity and Civic Engagement
u
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
(3637) Public Intellectuals:
Taking Research Outside the Academy
Supported by
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
Workshop Leader: Suad Joseph, UC Davis
It is increasingly important for scholars to educate outside the academy—to take
their research results, their theories, and their methods to the media, to the
communities in which they circulate, to K-12 teachers, to NGO’s and to appropriate government agencies. Research foundations require effective dissemination
to our publics in language, styles and venues that are accessible; legislators link
university budgets to the impact of its research outside scholarly circles; merits
and promotions are enhanced by the attention the research receives publically;
and the society calls upon academics to give back to the public good.
Organized by the Editors of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures
(EWIC), this workshop trains graduate students and young scholars in public
outreach work. We will use examples of how to use research to challenge and refigure public representations of Islam, Arab and Muslim Americans, the Middle
East, and Muslim women. The workshop will discuss communicating with the
media, preparing materials and training for K-12 teachers, working with NGO’s,
writing for appropriate government agencies. The workshop will also introduce
new scholars to writing for EWIC and offer opportunities for publishing in EWIC.
The workshop leader is Suad Joseph, General Editor of the EWIC and Past-President of the Middle East Studies Association. She is Distinguished Professor of
Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California,
Davis. She is joined by the Editors of EWIC.
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3570) God, Nation, and Revolution
Chair: William Ochsenwald, Virginia
Tech
Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana U–When
Mujtahids Learn from Rivals and
Westerners: Explaining Change in the
Positions of the Tunisian Al-Nahdha
Movement
Candace B. Lukasik, UC Berkeley–
Egyptian Revolution, Coptic Revolution?:
Coptic Political Activism and
Nationalism after January 25, 2011
A. Najib Burhani, Indonesian Inst of
Sciences (LIPI)–The Arab Spring and
Reformasi ’98: A Comparative Study
of Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and
Indonesia
Rachel M. Scott, Virginia Polytechnic
Inst–“God Brought about the
Revolution”: History, God, and Agency in
the Arab Spring
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Sarah Anne Rennick, Lund U/EHESS–
Strategic Alliance vs. Multisectorial
Mobilization: Understanding the Shifting
Position of the Youth Revolutionary
Movement in Tri-Polar Egypt
Alexander Arifianto, U Notre Dame–
Religious Freedom, Authoritarianism,
and Inter-Religious Conflict: Indonesia
and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3578) Loose Canons in Middle Eastern
Literature
Chair: Mahnia Nematollahi, Leiden U
Fatemeh Shams Esmaeili, U Oxford–
Post-Revolutionary Court Poetry?:
Ethnography of the Annual Persian
Poetry Nights with Iran’s Supreme
Leader
Mona El-Sherif, U Miami–Public
Intellectuals and Religious Authority
between Literary and Media
Representation in Post-Revolution Egypt
Levi Thompson, UCLA–The Mission of
the Intellectual in the Developing World
and the Works of Mahmud Al-Mas’adi
Youssef Yacoubi, Ohio State U–Recasting an “Archaic Modernism” in the
Classical Literary Canon
Jeannette E. Okur, U Texas Austin–
Re-Telling the Classic: Postmodern
Narrative Elements in Nazan Bekiroglu’s
Yûsuf ile Züleyha – Kalbin Üzerinde Titreyen
Hüzün [Yusuf and Zulaikha – The Sadness
Hovering over the Heart]
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3593) Winning Media Battles
Chair: Charles L. Wilkins, Wake Forest U
Rebecca Joubin, Davidson Col–The
Politics of Masculinity in the Mini-Series
of Syrian Screenwriter Samer Redwan:
Cultural Expression and Protest amidst
Government Co-optation and War
Beau Bothwell, Columbia U–Civil War,
Radio and Fairuz (Again): Musical Shifts
in the Syrian Radioscape during the
Crisis
David Faris, Roosevelt U–All the News
That’s Fit to Tweet: Egypt’s Rassd News
Network and the Rise of Volunteer
Reporting
Daryl Carr, U Texas Austin–The Syrian
Civil War in Lebanese Nightly News
Laura Fish, U Texas Austin–Pleasantries
for Power: Interviewer and Interviewee
Mujamala Practice on Bila Houdoud
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3601) Performing the Self and the
Nation
Chair: William O. Beeman, U Minnesota
Josh Carney, Indiana U–A Dizi-ying
Empire: Constructions of Turkish
Eminence through the International
Distribution of TV Drama
Sonali Pahwa, U Minnesota–Per-forming
Downtown: D-CAF and the Festivalization
of Creative Space in Cairo
Patricia Kubala, UC Berkeley–The
Muslim Brotherhood’s Theater Troupe
in Pre-1952 Egypt: Drama as Da’wa and
Ethical-Aesthetic Practice
Maral Yessayan, Dartmouth Col–
Performing Power: A Case Study of
Jordan’s National Dance Representations
000 2-4pm
Room TBA
(3611) Shi’ites Under Cover
Chair: Camilo Gómez-Rivas, American
U Cairo
Hafsa Oubou, U Arizona–Moroccan
Shi’ites, Social Media, and Virtual Asylum
Jennifer Gordon, Harvard U–The End of
Authority: Reconciling Approaches to the
Occultation of the Twelfth Imam
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, Princeton U–
Tapping Sources: The Maraji’ and Their
Followers in Pakistan
Farah Kawtharani, U Michigan
Dearborn–A Modern Shi’i Legal
Argument on Cooperation with Secular
Governments: Shams Al-Din and Lebanon
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4:30-6:30PM Friday October 11
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3259) Rethinking Nationalisms in the
Late Ottoman World
Organized by Ramazan Hakki Oztan
(3293) Power, Subjectivity, and Desire
in a Shifting Political Context
Organized by Ahmed Dardir
(3306) What Does State Fragility Mean
in the Yemeni Case?
Organized by Charles P. Schmitz
Chair: Isa Blumi, Graduate Inst
Discussant: M. Hakan Yavuz, U Utah
Mina Khanlarzadeh, Columbia U–
Colonialism, Sexuality, and Gender
Normativity in Iran
Ahmed Dardir, Columbia U–Notes From
the Egyptian Counterrevolution: The
Licentious Space and the Normalizing
Paternal Gaze
Marianna Reis, Columbia U–Desire to
Annihilate: The IDF Erotics of Killing and
Subjectivity in Operation Cast Lead
Abdullah Awad, Columbia U–Iranian
Performance and the Challenge of Late
Modernity
Sponsored by
American Institute for
Yemeni Studies (AIYS)
Garabet K. Moumdjian, UCLA–
Armenian “Nationalism” in the
Ottoman Empire: Separatist Ideology or
Ottomanist Patriotism?
Tetsuya Sahara, Utah U–Vernacular
Education: A Cradle of Nationalism or
Something Else?
Eyal Ginio, Hebrew U Jerusalem–
Celebrating the Rejuvenation of the
Nation: National Holidays under the
Young Turk Regime
Ramazan Hakki Oztan, U Utah–
Ottoman Official Nationalism:
Modernization, Assimilation, and
Imperial Constraints
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3288) Responses to Kemalism in the
Middle East from 1920s through 1940s
Organized by Ahmet Serdar Akturk
Chair: Joel Gordon, U Arkansas
Discussant: Howard Eissenstat, St.
Lawrence U
Ahmet Serdar Akturk, Georgia
Southern U–Kurdish Nationalists
Respond to Kemalism in Syria and
Lebanon: Rival Nationalisms and Similar
Visions
Djene Bajalan, U Oxford–Iraqi Kurdish
Intellectuals and Kemalism: Admiration
and Dismay
Serpil Atamaz, TOBB ETU–A Strong
Ally or a Possible Threat?: Iranian
Perceptions of Kemalist Turkey
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000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3295) Shi’ism in a Historical
Perspective
Organized by Mushegh Asatryan
Chair: Samer Traboulsi, UNC Asheville
Discussant: Said Arjomand, Stony Brook
U SUNY
Sean Anthony, U Oregon–Hidden
Redeemers, Sleeping Heroes, and
Wandering Messiahs: Early Shi’ite
Messianism in the Sectarian Milieu
Gurdofarid Miskinzoda, Inst of Ismaili
Studies–Identity, Doctrine and the
Writing of History: The Kitab Al-Irshad
of Shaykh Al-Mufid (d. 413/1022) and
the History of Twelver Shi’i Islam
Mushegh Asatryan, Inst of Ismaili
Studies–Kitab Al-Azilla, Nusayri
Literature, and the Transmission of
Texts Between Iraq and Syria in the
Tenth Century
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Inst of Ismaili
Studies–Mysticism, Messianism, Sufi/
Shi’i Eclecticism and Religious Authority
in Post-Mongol Muslim Societies
Chair: Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U
Kamilia Al-Eriani, U Melbourne–The
State Fragility Thesis and the Case of
Yemen
Larissa Alles, U St. Andrews–Conditions
for State Building in Yemen: But What’s
the State in Yemen Anyway?
David B. Hollenberg, U Oregon–
Houthism and Houthaphobia in the PostSaleh Yemeni State
Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U–The
Yemeni State in International Context
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3317) The Role of Culture in the
Arabic Classroom: Practices and
Beliefs
Organized by Laila Familiar
Chair: Laila Familiar, U Texas Austin
Danilo Aquino, U Texas Austin–The
Significance of Colloquial Arabic in
Learning Culture in the Classroom
Emilie Durand-Zuniga, U Texas Austin–
What Arabs Have to Say about Arabic
Culture: Adopting a Survey Approach in
the Selecting of Culture Materials for the
Arabic Language Classroom
Jung Min Seo, U Texas Austin–
Integrating Culture into Arabic
Curriculum: Arabic Teachers’ Beliefs and
Practices about the Teaching of Culture
Radwa El Barouni, Alexandria U–How
Do You Pack a Lifetime of Knowledge of
Culture/Culture(s) into Classes?
Author Meets Critics Session
000 4:30-6:30pm
(3318) The Cruelty of Belonging in Hoda Barakat’s Fiction
Organized by Tarek El-Ariss and Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Translation and
Interpreting Institute/Qatar Foundation
Chair: Tarek El-Ariss, U Texas Austin
Repondent: Hoda Barakat, Novelist
Room TBA
(3321) Empire, Revolutions, and
Expertise: Articulations of Power and
Agency in the Middle East and North
Africa
Organized by Osamah Khalil
Chair: Najib B. Hourani, Michigan State U
Discussant: Osamah Khalil, Syracuse U
Nadia Marzouki, European U Inst–The
Arab Spring and Western Expertise
Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U–Uncle Sam
in the Sahara: Exploring the Energy/
Intervention Nexus in America’s North
Africa
Lisa Stampnitzky, Harvard U–“The
Only Thing I Know Certain about Him is
That He’s Evil”: Expert Knowledge about
the Middle East in the US War on Terror
Waleed Hazbun, American U Beirut–
Security from the Outside (of the West):
Towards a “Beirut School” of Security
Studies
Mayssun Sukarieh, Brown U-American
U Cairo–Revolution’s Gatekeepers:
Making the Leaders and the Experts of
the Arab Spring
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3394) The Arab World in Transition:
The Remaking of Public Discourse
Organized by Muhammad Masud
Chair: Muhammad Masud, Connecticut
Col
Muhammad Masud, Connecticut
Col–Ideology and Political Discourse in
Syrian Textbooks
Abdullah A. Hasan, Ball State U–From
“Oppressed” to “Oppressor”: Power
and Corruption in Al-Kouni’s Knights of
Slaughtered Dreams
000 4:30-6:30pm
(3433) The Mamluk Sultanate and the
Projection of Empire II
Organized by Malika Dekkiche and
Warren C. Schultz
Sponsored by
Marilyn L. Booth, U Edinburgh–Translator Meets Audience: Desire, Apathy and
Forgetting in Anglophone Receptions of Arabic Literature
Kifah Hanna, Trinity Col–Narrating Desire: Sexuality and Belonging in Hoda
Barakat’s War Literature
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
Room TBA
(3412) Arab Gulf Migration: Practices,
Data and Policies
Organized by Imco Brouwer
Supported by
Gulf Labor Markets and Migration
Program, a Joint Program of
GRC and the EUI
Chair: Imco Brouwer, Gulf Research
Center (GRC)
Ganesh Seshan, Georgetown U Sch
of Foreign Service Qatar–A Survey of
Migration Policies and Programs in
Sending and GCC Host Countries
Abdelkader Latreche, PopulationQatar–The Transformations of
International Migrants in UAE
George Naufal, American U Sharjah–
The Flow of Information in the Story of a
Typical Expatriate Worker in the Gulf
Zahra Babar, CIRS, Georgetown U Sch
of Foreign Service Qatar–Negotiating the
Alien Arab: Labor Mobility in the State
of Qatar
Chair: Anne F. Broadbridge, U
Massachusetts Amherst
Warren C. Schultz, DePaul U–Names,
Claims, and Titles: Mamluk Politics and
Mamluk Coins
Malika Dekkiche, Ghent U–Between
the Lines: The Diplomatic Letter and the
Projection of Empire
Robert Moore, John Brown U–Building a
Madrasah and a Community: A Convert’s
Integration into Muslim Social Groups in
Mamluk Cairo
Daniel Redlinger, U Bonn–Writing
a Powerful Memory: Inscriptions as
Mnemonic System for the Visualization
of the Past in Mamluk Architecture
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3435) Gender and Medicine in Late
Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies
Organized by Gulhan Balsoy
Chair: Aysecan Terzioglu, Koc U
Gulhan Balsoy, Okan U, Istanbul–
Infertility and the Infertile in the
Ottoman Advice Literature
Gokcen Dinc, Humboldt U Berlin–
“Handy Women with Magical Hands,
Prayerful Mouths”: Midwives as Healers
in Modern Turkey
Tuba Demirci, Istanbul Kemerburgaz
U–Venereal Contagion and the Body of
Ottoman Syphilitic: Venereal Disease,
Medical Discourse and Gender in the
Late Ottoman Empire
Aysecan Terzioglu, Koc U–Engendering
the History of Medicine in Turkey: From
Midwives to Female Doctors
Waed Athamneh, Connecticut Col–The
Conflicting Poetic Voices of Ahmad Abd
Al-Muti Hijazi
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000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
A-ME
(3445) Sufi Vocabularies and
Living Islamic Traditions: An
Anthropological Exploration of
Ethical Discourses and Forms of Life
Organized by Fabio Vicini and Paola
Abenante
Chair: Berna Zengin Arslan, Ozyegin U,
Istanbul
Discussants: John O. Voll, Georgetown U
and Deborah A. Kapchan, New York U
Fabio Vicini, 29 Mayıs U–‘Modern’
Methods, Old Cosmologies: Reflecting on
Existence in Two Nur Communities in
Istanbul
Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins U–The
Reflexive Turn in Iran and Forms
of Knowledge: Prayer and Poetry in
Everyday Life
Ariela Marcus-Sells, Stanford U–From
Spells to Prayers: Constructing Practice
and Friendship with God in the Kunta
Community
Kasper Mathiesen, Aarhus U–“Unplug
and Edit Your Experience”: Physical
Fitness, Suluuk and the Zuhd of Being
Off-line in Contemporary Sufi Discourse
Paola Abenante, Columbia U–ZahirBatin and ‘Modern’ Sufi Islam:
The Vocabulary and Experience of
‘Moderness’ in a Contemporary Egyptian
Sufi Brotherhood
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3447) Iran and Syria through the
Lens of Local Histories
Organized by Mimi Hanaoka
Discussant: James M. Gustafson,
Indiana State U
Andrew Magnusson, UC Santa Barbara–
Historiography and the Desecration
of Zoroastrian Fire Temples in Early
Islamic Iran
Mimi Hanaoka, U Richmond–
Perspectives from the Peripheries:
Strategies for “Centering” Persian
Histories from the “Peripheries”
William Sherman, Stanford U–A City
between the Pen and the Grave: The
Geographical Imagination of Ibn Tulun’s
History of Al-Salihiya
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Seema Golestaneh, Columbia U–Hidden
in Plain Sight: The Nimatullahi Sufi
Order and the Cultivation of Private
Archives
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
Roundtable
East Studies III
Organized by Maxim Romanov, U
Michigan Ann Arbor, Børre Ludvigsen,
and Will Hanley, Florida State U
Harry Diakoff, Alpheios Project
Jo Van Steenbergen, Ghent U
Børre Ludvigsen, Østfold U Col and
American University Beirut
Chris Gratien, Georgetown U
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3465) Impact of the 2010-12
Uprisings on International Relations
in the Middle East, Part II
Organized by Fred H. Lawson
Chair: Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U
Sch of Foreign Service Qatar
Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State
U–Navigating between Internal and
External Pressures: Jordanian Foreign
Policy and the Arab Spring
Debra Shushan, Col of William & Mary–
Prestige at Home and Abroad: Qatar’s
Bold Foreign Policy in an Embroiled
Region
Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col–The
Transformation of Egypt’s Relations
with Ethiopia
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3500) Periphery and Identity:
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Religion
in Mizrahi Popular Culture
Organized by Ari Ariel and Galeet
Dardashti
Galeet Dardashti, New York U–
Transnational Cyber-Music Encounters:
The Case of Rita, the Iranian-born Israeli
Pop Music Diva
Yaron Shemer, UNC Chapel Hill–The
Ethno-Religious Juncture: An Emerging
Trend in Young Mizrahi Cinema
Ari Ariel, New York U–YouTube Music
Videos and the Construction of Yemeni
Identity
Dana Hercbergs, American U–
The Politics of Ethnic Identity in
Israel: Sephardim and Mizrahim in
Representations of ‘Old Jerusalem’
Gabrielle A. Berlinger, Indiana U–The
Search for Belonging in Jewish Ritual
Today: Sukkot in South Tel Aviv
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3504) Towards the Centennial-WWI
in the Middle East—Visual Media and
the Great War (1914-1918)
Organized by Issam Nassar
Discussant: Roberto Mazza, Western
Illinois U
Salim Tamari, Inst of Palestine Studies–
Khalil Raad and War Time Ottoman
Photographic Propaganda
Issam Nassar, Illinois State U–John
Whiting’s Album of the Great War in
Palestine
Pheroze Unwalla, SOAS, U London–
Invoking the ‘Spirit of Gallipoli’: The
Historical Underpinnings of Conflicting
Visual Representations of the First
World War in Contemporary Turkey
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3536) The King’s Dilemma: Politics
and Protest in Contemporary Morocco
Organized by William A. Lawrence
Maati Monjib, U Mohamed V–
Monarchy, Political Parties and the
Consequences of Arab Spring in Morocco
Anouar Boukhars, McDaniel Col–
Morocco’s Islamist Opposition at a
Crossroads
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Tel Aviv U–
The Amazigh Movement and Morocco’s
‘Democracy Spring’
Abdeslam Maghraoui, Duke U–Allah
Made Me Liberal: Social Norms and NonConformity Toleration among Moroccan
Youths
William A. Lawrence, Independent
Scholar–The Makhzen, Mass
Contestation, and Reformist Aspiration
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3566) Problems in Mandate Palestine
Chair: Martin Bunton, U Victoria
Itamar Radai, U Haifa–A Story of a
Defeat Foretold?: Palestinian Arab
Jerusalem in 1948
Mark Sanagan, McGill U–The Nahalal
Murders: Palestine, 1932
Matthew Kelly, UCLA–Participant
Observers: The Role of the Mandatory in
the Palestinian Great Revolt
Elizabeth Brownson, U Wisconsin
Parkside–Negotiating Divorce in
Mandate Palestine
Marion Boulby, Trent U–Bertha
Spafford Vester, the American Colony
and the Zionist Cause
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3573) Popular Piety across Space and
Time
Chair: Hasan Karatas, U St. Thomas, MN
Hassan Lachheb, U Tennessee
Knoxville–“Dear Prophet”: The
Invention of the Tradition of Sending
Letters to the Prophet Muhammad From
the 10th to 16th CE in the Maghreb and
Andalus
Mariam Banahi, Johns Hopkins U–
Orienting the Dead: Spaces of Death &
Disruption in Afghanistan
Tara Deubel, U South Florida–Wearing
the Melhafa: Sahrawi Women and the
Identity Politics of Dress
Maike Neufend, U Marburg–Popular
Urban Sufism in Beirut and Aesthetic
Style of Community Formation
John Dechant, Indiana U–Ahmad-i Jam
and the Purpose of Miracle Stories in
Hagiographic Literature
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
(3580) Patronage and the Production
of Material Culture
Chair: Robert Zens, Le Moyne Col
Ayse Hilal Ugurlu, Istanbul Technical
U–Mosque Courtyards as Open Public
Spaces in Early Modern Istanbul
Ridha Moumni, IREMAM (MMSH)–
Collecting Antiques in the Regency
of Tunis: A Cultural Expression of the
Ruling Establishment
Satoshi Kawamoto, Tokyo U–Divan and
Arz: Development of Topkapi Palace in
the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
000 4:30-6:30pm
000 4:30-6:30pm
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3626) Assyrians and Minority Studies
Organized by Fadi Dawood
Session Leader: Fadi Dawood, SOAS, U
London
David Beamish, SOAS, U London
Shamiran Mako, U Edinburgh
Jacques Rouyer Guillet, SOAS, U
London
Nicholas Al-Jeloo, U Sydney
Room TBA
(3585) Living with the Neighbors
Chair: Farida Ali Abbas Badr, UNC
Chapel Hill
Asher Kaufman, U Notre Dame–The
May 17, 1983 Lebanon-Israel Agreement:
A Reexamination
Karyn Wang, Johns Hopkins U–
Contesting Hierarchy: Gulf States and
Saudi Arabia
René Rieger, MEIA Research–Saudi
Arabia as Mediator in International
Relations
Moritz Pieper, U Kent–Turkey’s Role
in the Iranian Nuclear Dossier and the
Impact of the Syrian Civil War
Amnon Aran, City U, London–From
Cold Peace to Strategic Peace: Egyptian
Foreign Policy towards Israel since 1981
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7:00pm-8:30pm Grand Ballroom C (5th Floor)
v
2013 Presidential Address
Peter Sluglett
National University of Singapore
2013 MESA Awards Ceremony
Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2013,
including presentations of the following awards:
Albert Hourani Book Award
Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award
Roger Owen Book Award
Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards
MESA Mentoring Award
Inaugural Undergraduate Education Award
MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize
immediately followed by the
MESA Dance Party
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8:30-10:30AM Saturday October 12
7:30-8:30am
Meeting of Officers of MESA's Affiliated Associations
10-11:30am
AUC Press TAFL Focus Group
Rampart (5th Floor)
10am-12nn
AIAS Board Meeting
11am-12nn
Routledge presents "Integrating
the Colloquial and MSA in the
Arabic Classroom" with Munther
Younes
Oakley (4th Floor)
5:30-7:30pm
Moroccan Association of Professors of Arabic Launch
Rampart (5th Floor)
6:30-7:30pm
CIRS-Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service in Qatar Reception
7-9pm
American University in Cairo
Reception
Lagniappe (2nd Floor)
7-9pm
National University of Singapore,
Middle East Institute Reception
Grand Chenier (5th Floor)
7-9pm
TARRII Reception
Gallier A/B (4th Floor)
9-10pm
WWI Study Group Meeting
Oakley (4th Floor)
9-10:30pm
Harvard Reception
Edgewood A/B (4th Floor)
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3249) Egypt after 1919: PostRevolutionary Politics and Culture
Organized by James Whidden
Chair: Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington
Discussant: Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv U
Matthew Parnell, U Arkansas–On
Whose Shoulders?: Investigating
the Diverse Conceptions of Youth in
Interwar Egypt
Marina Romano, U Naples–The 1923
Egyptian Constitution: Between Drafts,
Amendments and Political Struggle
Mona L. Russell, East Carolina U–Who
is the New Man: Depictions of the
Effendiyya in Egyptian Advertising,
1922-1936
James Whidden, Acadia U–Effendis and
Notables: The Elections of the 1920s and
1930s
Nadim Bawalsa, New York U–
Palestinians in Their First Diaspora:
Emigration, Identification, and the New
World Order (1920-1930)
Shay Hazkani, New York U–Imperial
Citizenship and the Politics of the
Possible in Ottoman Palestine, 1911-1912
Maayan Hilell, Tel Aviv U–Under the
Radar: Arab and Jews Crossing Cultural
Boundaries in Mandatory Palestine
000 8:30-10:30am
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
A-ME
(3267) Tribe and Diatribe:
Anthropology Meets Political Science
Organized by Najwa Adra
Sponsored by
Anthropology (AMEA)
Chair: Daniel Mahoney, U Chicago
Discussant: Lisa Anderson, American U
Cairo
Jon W. Anderson, Catholic U America–
Tribalism, Strategies and Metaphysics of
Identity
Dawn Chatty, U Oxford–Syrian Tribes,
National Politics and Transnationalism
Laurence O. Michalak, UC
Berkeley–The Return of Tribalism in
Contemporary Tunisia
Najwa Adra, New York U–Tribalism in
Yemen: Social Capital Confronts Political
Unrest
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3276) Crossing Boundaries in
Ottoman and Mandate Palestine
Organized by Shay Hazkani
Sponsored by
Research Center (PARC)
Discussant: Michelle U. Campos, U
Florida
Lauren Banko, SOAS, U London–“The
Marvel of Palestinian Nationality”:
Negotiating Nationality, Citizenship and
Colonial Borders in Mandate Palestine
Room TBA
(3284) Narrating Jewish Morocco after
Mass-Migration
Organized by Aviad Moreno
Chair: Susan Gilson Miller, UC Davis
Discussant: Yaron Tsur, Tel-Aviv U
Aviad Moreno, Ben-Gurion U–Dewesternizing Morocco: Ethnic-Oriented
Narratives among Tangier’s Natives in
Israel
Emanuela Trevisan, Ca’ Foscari U–
Narrating Jewish Morocco in Postmigration Context through Museums
and Novels in Israel
Yolande Cohen, U Québec Montréal–
Memories of Departures: Stories from
Moroccan Jews in Montreal
Frédéric Abécassis, U Lyon–When
Moroccan Television Channels Broadcast
Information about Jews
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3307) Traveling Texts and
Translators: Arabic and Arabic
Manuscripts across the Spanish
Moroccan Frontier in Early Modern
Period
Organized by Claire Gilbert
Chair/Discussant: Vincent Barletta,
Stanford U
Seth Kimmel, Columbia U–Fictions of
Mediterranean Unity and the Peninsular
Politics of Arabic
Claire Gilbert, UCLA–Arabic and
Spanish Translators in the Western
Mediterranean (16th and 17th Centuries)
Daniel Hershenzon, U Connecticut–The
Arabic Manuscripts of Muley Zidan and
the El Escorial Library
Oumelbanine N. Zhiri, UCSD–A King’s
Library
u
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3316) Palestine and the Arab
Uprisings
Organized by Wafa Ghnaim, Inst for
Palestine Studies and Ahmad Samih
Khalidi
Supported by
Institute for Palestine Studies
Khaled Elgindy, Brookings Inst
Ahmad Samih Khalidi, St. Antony’s Col
Jamil Hilal, Inst for Palestine Studies
Mouin Rabbani, Inst for Palestine
Studies
Helene Thiollet, CERI-Sciences Po–
Resilient Residents: The Paradoxes of
Migrants’ Identity in Gulf Countries
Lucile Gruntz, EHESS Paris–The Good,
the Failure and the Libertine: Contested
Manliness between Egypt and the UAE
Michael Farquhar, London School
of Economics and Political Science–
Migrant Students and the Wahhabi
Da’wa: Unpacking Talk of Saudi Cultural
Imperialism
Delphine Pagès-El Karoui, INALCO,
Paris–Egyptian Imaginative Migrations:
When Mobility Redefines the Self and
the Nation
000 8:30-10:30am
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3325) Agents of Contestation in
MENA: Emergent Dynamics of
Interaction between the State, Society
and Religion
Organized by Pinar Kemerli and Gulay
Turkmen-Dervisoglu
Chair: Frank Griffel, Yale U
Discussant: Senem Aslan, Bates Col
Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale U–The Forms
and Stakes of Moroccan Secularity
Pinar Kemerli, Cornell U–Contesting the
Influence of Islam in Turkish National
Defense: An Islamist Antimilitarism?
Jeffrey Guhin, Yale U–The Islamic
Pedagogies of Sayyid Qutb and Fethullah
Gülen: Criticizing Secularism and
Practicing Utopia
Gulay Turkmen-Dervisoglu, Yale
U–‘Religious Brethren’ No More: Islam
as a Tool of Resistance in the Kurdish
Movement in Turkey
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3335) Migration, Politics and
Contested Identities in the Middle East
Organized by Helene Thiollet
Supported by SYSREMO-ANR
Chair: Philippe Fargues, European U
Inst Florence
Claire Beaugrand, Ifpo/ERC Wafaw
Program–Emergence and Persistence
of Statelessness: Framing Nationality in
Kuwait in the Migratory Context
u
Room TBA
(3351) Imagining an Other World:
Revolutionary Iranian Politics in
Global Context
Organized by G.S. Nikpour and Arash
Davari
Chair/Discussant: Behrooz GhamariTabrizi, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Arash Davari, UCLA–The Violence of
Recognition: Techniques of the Self from
Fanon to Shariati
G.S. Nikpour, Columbia U–
Revolutionary Ethics in Comparison: The
Hajj Writings of Jalal Al-e Ahmad and
Malcolm X
Manijeh Nasrabadi, New York U–The
Revolutionary Affects of Diaspora:
Afro-Iranian Solidarities in the US
(1961–1979)
Leah Mirakhor, Col of Wooster–
Bio Terror and the Privatization of
Torture in Shahla Talebi's “Ghosts of A
Revolution”
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3362) Law and Legitimacy in the
Ottoman Empire, Panel I: Legal
Opinions and Practical Concerns in
the Ottoman Empire
Organized by Kent F. Schull,
Binghamton U and M. Safa Saracoglu,
Bloomsburg U
Discussant: Christine Isom-Verhaaren,
Benedictine U
Jun Akiba, Chiba U–Uniformity and
Diversity of Legal Practices in Late
Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia:
A Case Study on the Issue of Missing
Husbands
Kenneth M. Cuno, U Illinois UrbanaChampaign–From Pluralism to Hanafism
and Back: How Legal Modernization Set
Back Women’s Rights in NineteenthCentury Egypt
Will Smiley, Yale Law School–
Lawmaking, Legitimation, or Legal
Advice?: The Seyhülislam’s Role in the
Long Eighteenth Century, Seen through
Captivity Policy
Hadi Hosainy, U Texas Austin–When
the Law Intersects Gender and Class:
The Dual Impacts of Early Modern
Legal Transformation on the Women of
Istanbul
Joshua White, U Virginia–Legitimating
Ottoman Inter-state Law in Murky
Waters: The Role of the Seyhülislam
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3372) Coming to Our Senses:
Historicizing Sound and Noise in the
Middle East
Organized by Ziad Fahmy
Chair: Ziad Fahmy, Cornell U
Nadya J. Sbaiti, Smith Col
Deborah A. Kapchan, New York U
Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver
G. Carole Woodall, U Colorado Colorado
Springs
Camron Michael Amin, U Michigan
Dearborn
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3403) The Shock of the New and
Nostalgia for the Old: Transformation
and Its Consequences in the Arabian
Gulf
Organized by Mary Ann Fay
Chair: Trinidad Rico, U Col London
Qatar
Discussant: Manal A. Jamal, James
Madison U
John Willoughby, American U–The
Emergence of Higher Educational Cities
and the Transformation of Gulf Societies
Fatima Badry, American U Sharjah–
Arabic in the UAE of the 21st Century:
From an Identity Marker to a Devalued
Commodity
Rima A. Sabban, Zayed U–Globalization
and the Transformation of the Family in
the United Arab Emirates
Thomas P. DeGeorges, American U
Sharjah–Challenging Sanctity: The
Visitor’s Quandary at Two Kuwaiti
Museums Dedicated to the Iraqi Invasion
and Its Aftermath
Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U–Heritage
Sites, Collective Memory and National
Identity in the United Arab Emirates
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3414) The Body and the Body Politic
in North Africa: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives
Organized by Ellen J. Amster
Chair: Angel M. Foster, U Ottawa & Ibis
Reproductive Health
Discussant: Anne Marie Baylouny,
Naval Postgraduate School
Justin Stearns, New York U-Abu Dhabi–
Constructing the Body in 17th Century
Moroccan Debates on Smoking
Emilio Spadola, Colgate U–Expelling
Difference: The Call-to-Islam as
Exorcism
Rachel Newcomb, Rollins Col–Cuisine
and Citizenship: Food and Embodiment
in Moroccan Society
Ellen J. Amster, U Wisconsin
Milwaukee–Corporeality and Politics:
Theoretical Reflections on the Arab
Spring
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3428) Diversity and Debate in Hadith
Scholarship
Organized by Mareike Koertner
(3486) Abu Al-Qasim Lahuti: Persian
and Soviet Cosmopolitan
Organized by Samuel Hodgkin
Discussant: Jonathan A.C. Brown,
Georgetown U
Discussant: Touraj Atabaki,
International Inst of Social History,
Amsterdam
Nebil Husayn, Princeton U–Treatises on
the Salvation of Abu Talib
Michael Dann, Princeton U–A Survey
of Shi’ite Hadith Narrators in Sunni
Collections
Mareike Koertner, Yale U–Dala’il AlNubuwwa: Proofs of Prophecy between
Hadith and Theology
Jacob Olidort, Princeton U–Reporters
and [Prophetic] Reports: The Journal AlTamaddun Al-Islami and Al-Albani’s Early
Career as a Hadith Commentator
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3463) Force of Change:
Representations of Violence in
the Late Ottoman Empire and
Contemporary Turkey
Organized by Neveser Koker and Basak
Çandar
Chair: Fatma Muge Gocek, U Michigan
Ann Arbor
Neveser Koker, U Michigan Ann Arbor–
Narrating Political Exclusion: Tropes
of Nativeness, Decline, and Progress in
“The General Tableau of the Ottoman
Empire”
Ali Bolcakan, U Michigan Ann Arbor–
Legal Violence: Literary Representations
of Discriminatory Policies in Turkey
1940s
Basak Çandar, U Michigan Ann Arbor–
Murderous Theater: Violence and
Performance in Orhan Pamuk’s “Kar”
Duygu Ula, U Michigan Ann Arbor–
Representations of State Violence:
The Language Reform in Film and
Contemporary Art from Turkey
Masha Kirasirova, New York U–
Biography on Trial: Comintern
Evaluations of the Life of Abdulqasim
Lahuti
Samuel Hodgkin, U Chicago–Formal
Experimentation and Neoclassicism in
Lahuti’s Soviet Poetics
Lisa Yountchi, U Pennsylvania–Beyond
Mere Translation: Abulqasim Lahuti,
Soviet Tajik Translators, and the Nature
of Russian-Iranian Cultural Exchange
Katharine Holt, Columbia
U–“Easternizing” Soviet Literature:
Lahuti and the Birth of Multi-National
Socialist Realism
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3507) Bacteria and Bureaucrats: Late
Ottoman Medicine and Its Context
Organized by Secil Yilmaz
Discussant: Samuel A. White, Ohio State U
Samuel Dolbee, New York U–Rails and
Rabies in the Late Ottoman Empire
Chris Gratien, Georgetown U–From
Bad Air to Bad Peasants: Changing
Approaches to Malaria in the Ottoman
Empire
Secil Yilmaz, Graduate Center, CUNY–
Franchised Science, Royalized Practice:
The Bakteriolojihane-i Hümayun and
the World around It in the Late Ottoman
Empire
u
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3528) The Political Economy of
Arab Spring: Pre and Post Uprising
Analyses
Organized by Jennifer Olmsted
Sponsored by
Middle East Economic Association
(MEEA)
Discussants: Glenn E. Robinson, Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey and
Nefissa Naguib, Chr. Michelsen Inst
Bassam Yousif, Indiana State U and
Jennifer Olmsted, UNFPA/Drew U–
Economic Stress and Political Uprising
Or How Not to Explain the Arab Spring
Edward A. Sayre, U Southern
Mississippi–Generation Awakening:
Middle East Youth on the Eve of the Arab
Spring
Erin Snider, Princeton U–The Political
Economy of Aid and Transition in the
Middle East
Roksana Bahramitash, U Montreal and
Hadi Salehi Esfahani, U Illinois UrbanaChampaign–Women’s Employment and
Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region
Karen Pfeifer, Smith Col–The Tortuous
Path to a New Economic Agenda for
Egypt and Tunisia
Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U–
The Future Role of the US in the
Development of Egypt’s Political
Economy: A Micro-Level Analysis
on Gift-Giving, Gate-Keeping, and
Conditionality
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3552) Islamist Pragmatists, Secular
Spoilers?: Contesting the Rules of the
Game in the New Middle East, Part I
Organized by Bjorn Olav Utvik
Chair: Albrecht Hofheinz, U Oslo
Pinar Tank, Peace Research Inst Oslo–
Islamist Responses to the Politics of
Contention: The Case of Turkey’s Justice
and Development Party and the Kurdish
Opposition
Dag Tuastad, U Oslo–Pragmatic Power
and Its Effects on Hamas–PLO Relations
Jenny Holmsen, European U Inst–
Algeria: An Alternative Trajectory of
Change?
u
Kai E. Kverme, U Oslo–The Patriarch,
the General and the Doctor: Vying for
Leadership of the Maronite Community
Bjorn Olav Utvik, U Oslo–A Question of
Faith?: Brothers, Salafis and Secularists
Debating the Egyptian Constitution
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3569) Labor and Collective Action
Maral Jefroudi, International Inst of
Social History, Amsterdam–Forms of
Collective Action in the Iranian Oil
Industry 1951-1979
Daniel P. Jakab, George C. Marshall
European Center for Security Studies–
The Collective Political Efficacy of the
Iranian Bazaar in the Era of the Islamic
Republic
Filiz Kahraman, U Washington–Labor
Rights as Human Rights: Legal Mobilization
of Turkish Workers at the ECtHR
Lucia Carminati, U Arizona–Turnof-the-Century Egypt: Working-Class
Cosmopolitanism?
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3572) Urban Planning and Social
Space
Chair: Saima Akhtar, UC Berkeley
Hiba Bou Akar, Hampshire Col–
Constructing “Sectarianism”:
Urban Planning, Religious-Political
Organizations, and the Spatial
Production of Sectarian Difference in
Beirut, Lebanon
Joomi Lee, U Texas Austin–A Tale of
Two Cities: Remaking of the Bouregreg
Valley in Rabat-Salé, Morocco and the
Legacy of Lyautey’s Urban Planning
Marieke Krijnen, Ghent U–Urban
Transformation in Beirut: Implications
of Two Case Studies for the Research on
Urban Renewal in the Global South
Azam Khatam, York U–Beyond
Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in
Iran: Case Study of the Tehran Renewal
Project
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3579) Moving Pictures of Self and
Other in Middle Eastern Cinema
Chair: Hengameh Fouladvand, Center
for Iranian Modern Arts, NY
Ali Sengul, Mardin Artuklu U–
Modernization, Nation-Space and the
Problem of ‘the Outside(r)’ in Turkish
Cinema: The Case of Anatolian Western
Emir Benli, U Massachusetts Amherst–
Absent Mothers, Absent MotherTongues: The Politics of Loss in Kurdish
Biographical Documentaries
Ilona Gerbakher, Harvard Divinity Sch–
Sex and the City and the “New Middle
East”: Problematizing Orientalism and
Consumerism in Abu Dhabi
Omer Shah, New York U–Between
Friends: Representations of Afghans in
Iranian Cinema
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3604) Visions of Gender
Chair: Firouzeh Dianat, Morgan State U
Phil Dorroll, Wofford Col–Theorizing
Desire: Shams Al-Din Al-Dhahabi on the
Power of Homoerotic Attraction
Nazli Huner, U Chicago–What is in a
Man? What is in a Woman?: Conditions
of Manhood and Womanhood in
Bedayiü`l-Àsar
Suphan Kirmizialtin, U Texas Austin–
“Women’s Revolution” in Ottoman
Press: Feminism in Kadinlar Dunyasi
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3624) Islamic Authority and the
State, Medieval and Modern
Organized by Hilary Kalmbach, U
Sussex
Jonathan P. Berkey, Davidson Col
Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana U
Juan Cole, U Michigan Ann Arbor
Scott S. Reese, Northern Arizona U
Rachel M. Scott, Virginia Polytechnic
Inst
11AM-1PM Saturday October 12
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3252) Power and Contestation: Built
Environment in the Middle East
Organized by Esra Bakkalbasioglu
Chair/Discussant: Resat Kasaba, U
Washington
Koca Mehmet Kentel, U Washington–
Galata and Pera across the ‘Historical
Peninsula’: Late 19th Century Istanbul
and Construction/Contestation of Urban
Dualities
Ozge Sade Mete, Bellevue Col–Contested
Spaces of Fragmented Memories:
From Regional Museums to Provincial
Museums in Turkey
Zach Richer, U Maryland–“The Quality
Customers Don’t Go to Akmerkez
Anymore”: A Social Topography of the
Istinye Bazaar
Colette Apelian, Berkeley City Col &
Centre Jacques Berque–Photography
and Social Space at the Mausoleum of
Mohammed V in Rabat
Esra Bakkalbasioglu, U Washington–
The West Bank Wall and the Non-Violent
Anti-Wall Movements
000 11am-1pm
(3292) Towards the Centennial-WWI in
the Middle East—Against the Wall of
Suffering: Community and Individual
Responses to Humanitarian Crisis in
the Middle East during World War I
Organized by Ellen L. Fleischmann
Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth F.
Thompson, U Virginia
Abigail Jacobson, MIT–Welfare, Politics
and Power: The “Politics of Welfare” in
World War I Jerusalem
Melanie Tanielian, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–Feeding the City: The Beirut
Municipality and the Provisioning of
Civilians during WWI
Ellen L. Fleischmann, U Dayton–“Living
in an Isle of Safety?": Isolation and
Empathy in a World of Suffering during
World War I
Aaron Tylor Brand, American U Beirut–
Suffering in the Eye of the Storm: The
Emotional Toll of the Famine in World
War I on Relief Workers in Beirut and
Mount Lebanon
000 11am-1pm
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3273) Neoliberal Urbanizations in the
Arab World
Organized by Ala Al-Hamarneh
Session Leader: Ala Al-Hamarneh, U
Mainz
Christopher Parker, Ghent U
Leïla Vignal, Rennes-2 U, France
Ahmed Kanna, U of the Pacific
Pascal Menoret, New York U Abu Dhabi
Koenraad Bogaert, Ghent U
Room TBA
Room TBA
(3296) The Gulf States and the
Arab Spring: Policy Responses and
Consequences
Organized by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Sponsored by
Peninsula Sudies (AGAPS)
Chair: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen,
London School of Economics
Discussant: Kristin Smith Diwan,
American U
Christopher Davidson, Durham U–The
UAE and the Arab Spring: Opposition
Emerges
Toby Matthiesen, LSE and U
Cambridge–Sectarian Gulf: How the
Gulf Monarchies Responded to the Arab
Uprisings
Marc Valeri, U Exeter–The QaboosState and the ‘Omani Spring’: Costs and
Benefits of the Extreme Personalization
of Power in Times of Crisis
Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch–The
Conundrum of Security Sector Reform in
Bahrain
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3300) Entangled Histories:
Experiencing Modernity in the Maghrib
Organized by Etty Terem and James
McDougall
Sponsored by
American Institute of
Chair/Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, U
Arizona
Emily R. Gottreich, UC Berkeley–
The Question of Early Modernity in
Moroccan (Jewish) History
Brock Cutler, Radford U–Massacres and
Modernities: Local Ecology and Scandal
in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
Etty Terem, Rhodes Col–Anxieties of
Moroccan Modernity: A NineteenthCentury Fatwa in Defense of Christian
Manufactured Commodities
James McDougall, Trinity Col, Oxford–Rule
of Experts?: Information and Improvisation
in the Late Colonial Maghrib
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3310) The Palestinians in Syria: Their
Past, Present and Changing Realities
Organized by Anaheed Al-Hardan
Sponsored by
Research Center (PARC) and
Chair/Discussant: Dawn Chatty, U Oxford
Adel Abdul-Malik, Independent
Researcher–The Current Reality of
Palestinian Refugees in Syria in Light of
the Syrian Uprising
Anaheed Al-Hardan, ICI Berlin Inst
for Cultural Inquiry–Remembering the
Nakba in Syria
Nell Gabiam, Iowa State U–Palestinian
Refugees in Syria: Imagining Liberation
and Return Beyond the Nation-State
Bassem Sirhan, Independent Researcher–
The Unknown Fate of Palestinian Refugees
in Syria in Light of the Syrian Conflict
Faedah M. Totah, Virginia
Commonwealth U–Refugees in Historic
Places: Palestinians in the Old City of
Damascus
u
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
A-ME
(3313) Religion, Media and Politics:
Perspectives from Anthropology
Organized by Yasmin Moll and Narges
Bajoghli
Chair: Yasmin Moll, New York U
Discussant: Emilio Spadola, Colgate U
Alexandre Caeiro, QFIS/Hamad Bin
Khalifa U–Performativity, Agency,
Citizenship: Debating the Chaos of
Fatwas in the Arab World
Narges Bajoghli, New York U–Creating
the “Shi’i Crescent” via Media
Wazhmah Osman, New York U–
Television and Religion in the Afghan
Culture Wars
Yasmin Moll, New York U–Dreams,
Dawa and Distinction in Revolutionary
Egypt
Ellen McLarney, Duke U–Taswir: Vision
and Imagination in Islamic Print Media
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3370) Revisiting Arab Theater: The
Construction of Resistance
Organized by Asaad Al-Saleh
Chair: Ahmet Serdar Akturk, Georgia
Southern U
Discussant: Margaret Litvin, Boston U
Edward Ziter, New York U–The
Interrogation as Represented in Syrian
Theatre
Asaad Al-Saleh, U Utah–Dialogue in the
Legacy of Saadallah Wannous
Bilal Maanaki, U Virginia–Staging
Resistance through Romance: The Case
of Shawqi’s Majnun Layla
Katherine Hennessey, American Inst
for Yemeni Studies–The Revolution Will
Be Staged Tonight: Contemporary SocioPolitical Theater in Yemen and Oman
u
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3377) Law and Legitimacy in
the Ottoman Empire, Panel II:
Legal Change, “Modernity,” and
Institutional Transformations in the
19th Century Ottoman Empire
Organized by M. Safa Saracoglu and
Kent F. Schull
Discussant: Kent F. Schull, Binghamton U
Will Hanley, Florida State U–Ottoman
International Law: Followers or Leaders?
Avi Rubin, Ben-Gurion U–Glocalized
Law: The Mecelle and Ottoman
Codification
M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg
U–Düstur before “Birinci Tertib”:
Liberalism, Codification and
Government in the Nineteenth Century
Ottoman Empire
Pamela Dorn Sezgin, U North Georgia–
Modernizing the Millet: Late Nineteenth
Century Legal Reforms for Non-Muslim
Ottomans
Omri Paz, Ben Gurion U–The Dialectic
Evolution of the Ottoman Criminal Court
System and Police during the Tanzimat,
1840-1879
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3392) The Home and the World:
Migrant Domestic Workers in the
Middle East, Part I
Organized by Bina Fernandez
Chair: Rima A. Sabban, Zayed U
Discussant: Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona Col
Ray Jureidini, Lebanese American U–
Agency, Understanding and Acceptance:
Recruitment of Domestic Workers from
the Philippines to the Middle East
Bina Fernandez, U Melbourne–Degrees
of (Un)Freedom: The Experiences of
Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers in
the Middle-East
Naomi Hosoda, Kagawa U, Japan and
Akiko Watanabe, Toyo U–Creating
“New Home” Away from Home?:
Religious Conversion of Filipino
Domestic Workers in Dubai and Doha
Namie Tsujigami, U Tokyo–Exploration
of Vulnerability/Agency of the Female
Migrant Domestic Workers
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3400) The Bazargan Era in Iran: A
Critical Reappraisal
Organized by Mark Gasiorowski
Discussant: Houchang Chehabi, Boston U
Mark Gasiorowski, Tulane U–US Covert
Operations in Iran, February-November
1979: Was the United States Trying to
Overthrow the Islamic Regime?
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, U
Manchester–Mossadegh Heirs at a
Crossroads: The Relationship between
the PRG and the National Front
Reconsidered
Christian Emery, U Plymouth–Reevaluating America’s Relations with the
Bazaragan Administration
Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State U–
Iranian Left and the “Liberal” Bazargan
Government: Poor Choices and Lost
Chances
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3406) Researching Iraq Today: Archives,
Oral Histories, and Ethnographies
Organized by Mona Damluji
Sponsored by
The American Academic Research
Institute in Iraq (TAARII)
Chair: Mona Damluji, UC Berkeley
Haytham Bahoora, U Colorado Boulder
Alda Benjamen, U Maryland Col Park
Arbella Bet-Shlimon, U Washington
Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col
Bridget Guarasci, UCLA
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3420) Suspect Service: Migrating
Women, Labor and Prostitution in the
Interwar Mediterranean
Organized by Camila Pastor de Maria y
Campos and Liat Kozma
Chair: Hanan H. Hammad, Texas
Christian U
Discussant: Nadya J. Sbaiti, Smith Col
Liat Kozma, Hebrew U–Regulation of
Prostitution and the Egyptian Medical
Profession
Francesca Biancani, Bologna U–Female
Migration from Italy to Egypt in the
19th and 20th Centuries: The Case of the
Aleksandrinke
Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos,
CIDE–Women in Service and other
Scandals in the Moral Economy of the
Mandate Mediterranean
Simon Jackson, European U Inst–
Women’s Movements and Movements of
Women: Syro-Lebanese Humanitarian
Philanthropy in the Diaspora and at the
League of Nations, 1915-1926
Mark Wyers, Leiden U–Tracking the
Usual Suspects: The Foreign Prostitutes,
White Slavers and “Terrible Turk” of
Interwar Istanbul
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3426) Comparing Unveiling in
1920s and 1930s Turkey, Iran, and
Afghanistan
Organized by Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi
Chair/Discussant: Afshin Matin-Asgari,
California State U, Los Angeles
Sevgi Adak, Leiden U–The Role of the
Provincial Elite and Local Dynamics in the
Anti-Veiling Campaigns: The Turkish Case
Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul U–
Reconsidering Turkish Unveiling
Reform: Everyday Resistance and
Adaptation to Unveiling during the Early
Republican Era
Thomas Wide, Oxford U–Astrakhan,
Borqa’, Chadari, Dreshi: The Economy of
Dress in Early 20th Century Afghanistan
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California
State U, Fullerton–Understanding Iran’s
1930s Unveiling
Kathryn Libal, U Connecticut–Waging
“Unveiling” Campaigns in Early
Republican Turkey through Popular
Culture and the Media
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3430) Cinema as a Social Lens:
Iranian Post-Revolutionary Films
Organized by Pardis Minuchehr
Chair/Discussant: Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U
Banafsheh Madaninejad, Southwestern
U–Portrayals of Shi’i Islam in PostKhatami Iranian Cinema
Somy Kim, Boston U–In-sighting the
Witness: Performativity in Jafar Panahi’s
“Crimson Gold”
Pardis Minuchehr, George Washington
U–The Subversive Aesthetics of SelfReflexive Cinema
Norma Claire Moruzzi, U Illinois Chicago–
Reflections in Film and Politics: Reflexive
Cinema in Post-Revolutionary Iran
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3440) Critical Interventions:
Modalities of Public Criticism in the
Contemporary Arab World
Organized by Fadi A. Bardawil and
Samer Frangie
Chair: Zeina G. Halabi, UNC Chapel Hill
Discussant: Lisa Wedeen, U Chicago
Fadi A. Bardawil, U Chicago–Distilling
Revolutionary Lives: Registers of
Critique in Waddah Charara’s “The
Comrades”
Hoda El Shakry, Pennsylvania State U–
Novelistic Discourse and Critique: The
Ethics and Aesthetics of ‘Adab’ in the
Maghreb
Samer Frangie, American U Beirut–
The Tragic Self: Yasin Al-Hafiz’s
Autobiographical Writings
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3453) The Manipulation and
Resilience of National Identity
Organized by Annelle Sheline
Chair: Adria Lawrence, Yale U
Karam Dana, U Washington–Arab States
and Political Survival: State Power, and
the Politics of Designing Identities
Calvert Jones, Yale U–Innovators…
for the Nation?: Hazards of
Using Nationalism to Motivate
Entrepreneurship
Annelle Sheline, George Washington U–
Imposing a Peaceful National Identity
Joshua Goodman, Yale U–“We Are Not
Egyptian, We Are Arabs”: Contesting
National Identities in South Sinai
David Siddhartha Patel, Cornell U–
Remembering Failed States in the
Middle East
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3481) “Who is Shaping the City”: A
Discussion on the Agents of Ottoman
Urban Transformation
Organized by Firuzan Melike Sumertas
Discussant: Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Col of
William & Mary
Elcin Arabaci, Georgetown U–Burning
Crises of the Late Ottoman Urban
Transformation: A Case of Silk Factory
Fire in Bursa (1862)
Firuzan Melike Sumertas, Bogazici
U–The Role of Greek Orthodox “Elite”
at the Making of Urban Context in Late
19th Century Istanbul
Ozlem Sert, Hacettepe U/Harvard U–
At the Edge of the City: Cart-Drivers,
Butchers, Candle Makers in the
Sixteenth Century, Rodosçuk
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3483) The Ethics of Reading in
Islamic Manuscript Culture
Organized by Noah Gardiner
Chair: David B. Hollenberg, U Oregon
Discussant: John Dagenais, UCLA
Joel Blecher, Princeton U–Handwritten
Media in the Reading Culture of Al-Bukhari
Kathryn Babayan, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–The Adab of Reading and
Collecting in Early Modern Isfahan
Noah Gardiner, U Michigan Ann Arbor–
The Ethics of Esotericism and the Early
Transmission of the Works of Ahmad
Al-Buni
Anne Regourd, Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique–The Ethics
of Cataloguing in Modern Yemen:
Questions of Inclusion
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3539) The Countours of Intimate
Citizenship in Turkey
Gamze Cavdar, Colorado State U–
Islamist Governments and Women: The
Case of Turkey
Betul Eksi, Northeastern U–Gendering
Charisma: Masculinity of Prime Minister
Erdogan’s Power and Politics
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SPECIAL SESSION
(3634) On Unstable Ground: Academic Freedom and the Future of the
University Work Force
Chair: Chris Toensing, MERIP
John W. Curtis, American Association of University Professors
Alan Trevithick, New Faculty Majority
Roberta Micallef, Boston U
Amy W. Newhall, MESA/U Arizona
Kirk Belnap, Brigham Young U/ NMELRC
000 11am-1pm
The academic work force in the United States is in deep crisis. Over 70 percent
of courses at US institutions of higher education are now taught by adjunct
professors or others ineligible for tenure. It is an almost complete inversion of
the tenured-to-untenured ratio in 1969. Adjuncts and their non-tenure-track
peers face the problems of other contingent workers in the contemporary
economy -- little or no job security, low wages, poor working conditions and
minimal leverage with employers. Most pay out of pocket for health care;
many commute long hours to multiple campuses to make ends meet. Time
(and funding) for research is scarce, as are tenure-track opportunities. As
universities rely more and more on contingent labor, in fact, everyone's job
security may be imperiled. In 2009, the Modern Language Association said that
the trend "threatens the integrity" of the academic profession. This special
session will address several questions: What is the true scale of the problem
and what does the future hold? What are the implications of this crisis for
academic freedom? How have non-tenure-track professors been able to
improve their lot in the past? What such efforts are underway now -- and what
can we all do to help?
Asli Cirakman, Middle East Technical
U–Citizens of Parallel Publics: Urban
Veiled Women in Turkey
Selin Akyuz, Zirve U–Bargaining for
Citizenship: Masculine Citizen in Turkey
Feyda Sayan Cengiz, Bilkent U–Intimate
Contestations: How to be “the Good
Muslim Woman” in Turkey
Tor Håkon Tordhol, U Oslo–Rural
Revolution?: Farmers, Fishermen and
the Egyptian Revolution
Kristian Takvam Kindt, U Oslo–
Bridging the Divide: Ideologically
Independent Unionism in Egypt
Jacob Hoigilt, Fafo–Failing against the
Odds?: Palestinian Youth Mobilization in
the West Bank, Gaza and Israel
000 11am-1pm
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3610) Gendered Vices and Devices
Chair: Dag Tuastad, U Oslo
Graham Hough-Cornwell, Georgetown
U–Gendered Drinking in Colonial
Morocco
Fatemeh Hosseini, U Maryland–
Undesired Visibility: Social Geography of
Prostitution across Iran, 1940-1979
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(3616) Body and Soul in Late Ottoman
Times
Chair: Serpil Atamaz, TOBB ETU
James Ryan, U Pennsylvania–
“Unveiling” the Tramway: Consumerism
and the Intimate Public Sphere in Late
Ottoman and Republican Istanbul
Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth
U–Character-Building, Nation-Building:
The Lazy and the Dandy of Late Ottoman
Novels
Avner Wishnitzer, Ben-Gurion U of the
Negev–On Time and Emotions in the
Late Ottoman Period
Seyma Afacan, U Oxford–Discourses on
the Soul in the Late Ottoman Empire
Room TBA
(3553) Islamist Pragmatists, Secular
Spoilers?: Contesting the Rules of the
Game in the New Middle East, Part II
Organized by Bjorn Olav Utvik, U Oslo
Albrecht Hofheinz, U Oslo–
#WhyIHateIkhwan: Islamist-Secular
Polarization in Egyptian Social Media
Jon Nordenson, U Oslo–Activism and
the Internet: The Fight against Sexual
Harassment in Post-Revolution Egypt
Julie M. Ellison-Speight, U Arizona–
Opium Use among Women in Modern
Iran
Zeynep Korkman, Col of William
& Mary–Gendered Fortunes: Coffee
Divinations in Contemporary Turkey
Tahereh Aghdasifar, Emory U–
Intersections of Neoliberalism and
Female Homosociality: Exploring the
Site of the Bra Shop in Tehran
Chair: Roger A. Deal, U South Carolina
Aiken
Attention MESA Members...
MESA
Members
Meeting
1-2:30pm
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2:30-4:30PM Saturday October 12
000 2:30-4:30pm
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(3245) The Politics of Violence
Organized by Jason Brownlee
Chair: Melani C. Cammett, Brown U
Discussant: Sean Yom, Temple U
Megan E. Reif, U Colorado Denver/U
Michigan Ann Arbor–Cycles of Cosmetic
Reform, Flawed Elections, Violence
and Democratization in Old and New
Democracies: The Middle East and North
Africa in Comparative Perspective
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, U Virginia–
Mortal Allies: A Theory of Factionalism
and the Civil War in Syria
Sarah Parkinson, U Minnesota–The
Old Guard and the Die Hards: Violence,
Finance, and Generational Effects in
Fateh
Jason Brownlee, U Texas Austin–
Repression without Borders: Middle East
Authoritarianism as an International
Problem
000 2:30-4:30pm
CURRENT EVENTS SESSION
(3639) The Syria Crisis: America, the Middle East, and the Future of Syria
Organiced by March Lynch
Chair: Marc Lynch, George Washington U
Bassam Haddad, George Mason U
Joshua Landis, U Oklahoma
Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U
Lisa Wedeen, U Chicago
Max Weiss, Princeton U
Two and a half years of conflict in Syria have had profound effects not only
on Syrians but on the broader Middle East. The degeneration from popular
uprising to armed struggle has left over one hundred thousand Syrians dead
and millions of refugees displaced, with no end in sight. The region and the
world have struggled to respond to the humanitarian, political and strategic
crisis. This panel brings together a range of scholars to discuss the profound
analytical, moral, political and policy questions raised by Syria’s tragedy. How
should we understand the origins and evolution of the conflict? What are the
possible responses? What is the appropriate role of outside powers such as the
United States? And what is the appropriate role of the scholarly community of
Middle East studies?
Room TBA
(3298) Genre and Figurative Language
in Classical Arabic Poetry and Poetics
Organized by Lara Harb
Chair/Discussant: Suzanne P.
Stetkevych, Indiana U/Georgetown U
Akiko M. Sumi, Kyoto Notre Dame U–
How to Interpret a Poem: The PreIslamic Poet, Al-Muraqqish Al-Asghar’s
Poem and Its Anecdot
Cory Jorgensen, George Washington U–
Reinterpreting the Abbasid Reception of
Jarir and Al-Farazdaq’s “Naqa’id”
Samuel T. England, U Wisconsin
Madison–Al-Sahib Ibn ‘Abbad’s Politics
and Ethics of Insult
Ali Hussein, U Haifa–Mental and
Linguistic Tropes and Their Relationship
to the Metaphor
Lara Harb, Dartmouth Col–The Role of
Discovery in Abd Al-Qahir Al-Jurjani’s
“Theory of Simile”
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
000 2:30-4:30pm
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(3301) New Histories of National
Development during the Middle
Eastern Cold War
Organized by Jeffrey Byrne
(3304) The Transnational Middle East:
Culture and Political Society in Arab
Diasporas
Organized by Stacy Fahrenthold
Chair/Discussant: Robert Vitalis, U
Pennsylvania
Sponsored by
Arab American Studies Association
(AASA)
Jeffrey Byrne, U British Columbia–Each
of Us Uses the Weapons Available to Us:
The Algerian Revolution, the Oil Crisis of
1973, and the Apex of Third Worldism
Maurice Jr. M. Labelle, U
Saskatchewan–The Point of No Return:
Naksa, National Development, and the
United States in Lebanese Imaginations
Massimiliano Trentin, U Bologna–How
the Cold War was Entrapped into the
Middle East: The Case of Ba’thist Syria
and the German Democratic Republic,
1963-1970
Artemy Kalinovsky, U Amsterdam–
Exporting the Soviet Central Asian
Experience
Chair/Discussant: Akram F. Khater,
North Carolina State U
Reem Bailony, UCLA–Petitioners and
Politics: Syrian Emigres and the League
of Nations in 1925
Stacy Fahrenthold, Northeastern U–
Sound Minds in Sound Bodies: Nadi
Homsi and Patriotic Masculinity in
Syrian Brazil, 1920-1932
Ghenwa Hayek, Claremont McKenna
Col–“Carrying Africa around on His
Face”: Imagining ‘Africa’ in Lebanese
Fiction
Isil Acehan, Ipek U–Reconstructing
the Boundaries of Belonging:
Transnationalization among Middle
Eastern Immigrants in the United States
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(3348) Towards the Centennial-WWI in
the Middle East—The Gender Politics
of WWI: Ottoman Women Embodying
the Great War
Organized by Ayshe Polat
(3357) Shi’i Relations: Historical
Narratives of Conflict and
Cooperation
Organized by Robert J. Riggs and
Zackery Heern
Chair/Discussant: Yigit Akin, Col of
Charleston
Chair/Discussant: Peter Sluglett,
National U Singapore
Benjamin Carr Fortna, SOAS, U
London–Married to It: World War I as
Seen by the Wife of an Ottoman Special
Organization Officer
Ayshe Polat, U Chicago–Dar’ul Hikmet’il
Islamiye’s Surveillance of Public
Morality in Post-WWI Ottoman Society
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT–The Female
Body as Site of Vengeance: Armenians
and Turks at (Great) War
A. Holly Shissler, U Chicago–To Whom
Should She Appeal: Resimli Ay and the
Problem of Missing Persons, Widows,
and Orphans in Post-WWI Turkey
Alessandro Cancian, Institute of Ismaili
Studies–Shi’i Sufism and the Ulama in
19th Century Iran: The Case of Sultan-AliShah and Anti Sufism in the Qajar Era
Farhad Dokhani, Harvard U–Political
or Religious?: Shaykh Hadi Najmabadi’s
Shi’i Reformist Vision of Pan-Islam
Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky U–
Islamic Ecumenism in Iran, 1930s to
1960s
Zackery Heern, Murray State U–Shi’iBritish Relations and the Creation of Iraq
Robert J. Riggs, U Bridgeport–
Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq Al-Sadr
versus the Hawza: An Intra-Shi’i ZeroSum Game or a False Dichotomy?
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3352) Palestine, Pedagogy and the
Arts
Organized by Nadia G. Yaqub
Chair: Rula Quawas, U Jordan
Discussant: Linda Quiquivix, Brown U
Gonzalo Fernandez, U Autónoma
de Madrid–Reception and Distortion
of Palestinian Literature: Darwish as
Paradigm
Monika Borgmann, UMAM
Documentation and Research–Memory
at Work
Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill–A
Forensics of Home: Reading the Spaces
and Objects of Palestinian Cinema
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Room TBA
(3367) Law and Legitimacy in the
Ottoman Empire, Panel III: Law and
the Politics of Administration in the
Ottoman Empire
Organized by M. Safa Saracoglu,
Bloomsburg U and Kent F. Schull,
Binghamton U
Discussant: Tolga U. Esmer, Central
European U
Timothy J. Fitzgerald, James Madison
U–Reaching the Flocks: The Mass
Reception of Ottoman Law in the 16thCentury Arab World
James E. Baldwin, U Warwick–The
Deposition of Defterdar Ahmed Pasha
and the Rule of Law in SeventeenthCentury Egypt
Nora Barakat, UC Berkeley–Sources
of Legitimacy in Ottoman Property
Administration: Contested Legal
Pluralism in Late Ottoman Syria
John Bragg, New Jersey City U–The
Basis of Law and Legitimacy in State:
Notable Relations in Tanzimat-Era Tokat
Selcuk Dursun, Middle East Technical U
(Turkey)–The Legal Aspects of Fisheries
Management in the Ottoman Empire
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3371) ‘Othering’ and Kurds:
Exploring Displacement, Belonging,
and Resistance
Organized by Mehmet Kurt
Sponsored by
Kurdish Studies Association (KSA)
Chair: Christian Sinclair, U Arizona
Discussant: Diane E. King, Ohio State
U/U Kentucky
Ozgur Bal, Middle East Technical U–
Violated Be-Longings: Becoming Kurd on
the Edge of ‘Turkishness’
Ozge Sensoy Bahar, UIUC–“Back
Then and Now”: Experiences of Armed
Conflict, Migration, and Its Aftermath
through the Eyes of Kurdish Migrant
Women
Mehmet Kurt, Bingol U–Changing Social
Structure in Kurdish Border Towns: The
Reflections of State-Society Relations on
Identity Formation
Ipek Demir, U Leicester, UK–Translating
and Transforming Kurdishness in
Diaspora
Mija Sanders, U Arizona–Being a
Kurdish Transgender Woman SexWorker in Diyarbakir: Narratives of
Displacement, Belonging, and Resistance
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3379) From Uprising to Revolution?
Organized by Joshua Stacher
Chair: Vickie Langohr, Col of the Holy
Cross
Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, George
Washington U
Joshua Stacher, Kent State U–Dividing
the Spoils: A Political Economy of
Egypt’s Transition
Hesham Sallam, Georgetown U–Egypt’s
Uprising and the Politics of Narratives
Samer S. Shehata, U Oklahoma–
Snapshots of a Changing Polity?:
Elections in Revolutionary Egypt
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3398) Revisiting the Rentier State
Theory in the Gulf and Beyond
Organized by Marta Saldana
Co-chairs: Mary Ann Reed Tetreault,
Trinity U and Gwenn Okruhlik,
Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)
Jim Krane, Cambridge U–Revolution and
the Rentier State: Theory of Stability to
Theory of Crisis?
Eckart Woertz, Barcelona Centre for
International Affairs (CIDOB)–NonHydrocarbon Minerals as Strategic
Resources in the MENA Region
Marta Saldana, U Exeter–Collateral
Effects of Rentierism on Emirati Political
Culture
Jocelyn S. Mitchell, Northwestern U
in Qatar–Beyond Allocation: NationBuilding in Qatar
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3422) The Home and the World:
Migrant Domestic Workers in the
Middle East, Part II
Organized by Bina Fernandez
Chair: Bina Fernandez, U Melbourne
Marina de Regt, VU U Amsterdam–
From One War into Another?: The
Impact of Yemen’s Political Crisis on
Migrant Domestic Workers
Maysa Ayoub, American U Cairo–
Migrants and the Arab Spring: Domestic
Workers in Egypt
Amira Ahmed Mohamed, International
Organization for Migration–Return
to the ‘New Flower’: Reexamining
the Debate of Gender, Migration and
Development in the Case of Ethiopian
Return Migrant Domestic Workers from
the Middle East
000 2:30-4:30pm
000 2:30-4:30pm
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(3399) The City Inscribed: Tales of
Ottoman Damascus
Organized by Helen Pfeifer
Sponsored by
Chair: Helen Pfeifer, Princeton U
Discussant: Cornell Hugh Fleischer, U
Chicago
Sooyong Kim, Koç U–A Remarkable
Place Indeed: Damascus in Evliya Çelebi’s
Book of Travels
Nir Shafir, UCLA–The City of Pilgrims:
Hajj and Saintly Pilgrimage in
Seventeenth-Century Damascus
Helen Pfeifer, Princeton U–How To Win
Friends and Influence People: Prescribing
Etiquette in Damascus Majalis
Dana Sajdi, Boston Col–Ibn Àsakir’s
Children: Narrations of Damascus from
the 12th to the 18th Centuries
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3441) Challenging Entrenched
Categories: Re-thinking Approaches
to Armenian Literature
Organized by Tamar M. Boyadjian
Chair: Tamar M. Boyadjian, Michigan
State U
Talar Chahinian, California State U,
Long Beach
Myrna Douzjian, UCLA
Kevork B. Bardakjian, U Michigan Ann
Arbor
Sergio La Porta, California State U Fresno
Lilit Keshishyan, UCLA
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3461) Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in
North African Literature, History and
Culture
Organized by Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Chair: Ellen J. Amster, U Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Discussant: Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale U
Mary Youssef, Binghamton U–
Rethinking Difference: Racial and
Cultural Diversity in Baha’ Tahir’s Wahat
Al-Ghurub
Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue U–The
Performance of Berber Identity in Laila
Lalami’s Secret Son
David Alvarez, Grand Valley State U–
Formations and Deformations of “Race”,
“Region”, and Nation in Moroccan
Literature of Clandestine Migration
Touria Khannous, Louisiana State U–
Images of Blackness: Exploring Selected
Literature and Film from the Maghreb
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3496) Re-visioning Arabic: Multiple
Literacies, Diverse Goals
Organized by Elizabeth M. Bergman
Sponsored by
Chair: Emma Trentman, U New Mexico
Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan
U–The Optimality of Translation in the
Arabic Curriculum
Zeinab A. Taha, American U Cairo–The
Arabic Variety to Teach: A Paradox or an
Existentialist Issue?
Elizabeth M. Bergman, Miami U Ohio/
AATA–Arabic Dialects: Unity in Diversity
Karin C. Ryding, Georgetown U–Ten
Principles for Developing Translingual
Competence
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3499) Mothers, Lovers, Queens, and
Commodities: Comparing Roles of
Medieval Concubines in Islamdom,
Christian Europe, and Jewish Cairo
Organized by Kathryn Hain
Chair: Lisa Nielson, Case Western
Reserve U
Discussant: Marina Tolmacheva,
Washington State U
Younus Mirza, Allegheny Col–Ibn
Kathir’s (d. 1373) Legal Treatise on the
Umm Walad
Kathryn Hain, U Utah–Concubines as
Commodity: Europe’s Export of Slave
Women to the Muslim World in the 8th9th Centuries
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
(3636) Professional Development Workshop—Publishing in Peer-Reviewed
Journals
Organized by Ziad M. Abu-Rish
Sponsored by
MESA Graduate Student Organization
Chair: Ziad M. Abu-Rish, UCLA
Beth Baron, CUNY
Sara Pursley, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Nadya J. Sbaiti, Smith Col
Jake Passel, Middle East Journal
000 2:30-4:30pm
000 2:30-4:30pm
(3502) Language and Conflict:
Linguistic Anthropology in the
Arab(ic) World
Organized by Mandy Terc
Discussant: Flagg Miller, UC Davis
Diane Riskedahl, U Toronto–Contested
Ideologies in the Scriptorial Landscape
of Lebanon
Amy Johnson, MIT–Interlocutor,
Activist, FOAF, Character: Participation
Roles of a Bahraini Twitter Parody
Account
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Mandy Terc, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–“They Don’t Like to Develop
Themselves”: Linguistic Practices and
Class Conflict in Neoliberal Syria
Becky Schulthies, Rutgers U–
Reinscribing Contention: The
Revolutionary Acts of Written Darija in
Morocco
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A-ME
000 2:30-4:30pm
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(3587) Arab Militaries: Power and
Money
This panel workshop will feature representatives from some of Middle East
studies’s leading academic journals, providing graduate students with insights
into the review process for both articles and book reviews. Presenters will also
share some of the most effective strategies for having a submission accepted
for publication, as well as some of the most common mistakes that get in the
way of having a submission accepted for publication. Featured journals include:
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Arab Studies Journal, and Middle East
Journal. This panel is part of the the Graduate Student Professional Development
Workshop Series that is organized by the Graduate Student Representative to
the MESA Board.
Craig Perry, Emory U–Illicit
Concubinage in the Jewish Community
of Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt
Thomas J. MacMaster, U Edinburgh–
Queens, Cleaners, and Concubines:
Early Medieval Female Slavery across
Cultures, 580-850
Naisy Sarduy, Florida International U–
Iran’s Islamic Narrative: Implications for
US-Iran Relations
Reza Sanati, Florida International U–
The Much-Delayed Peace Pipeline: How
Iran-US Hostility Impedes South Asian
Economic Integration
Houman Sadri, U Central Florida–
Iranian Foreign Relations in the
Caucasus Region: The Linkages between
Domestic and International Factors
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(3544) Iran’s Foreign Policy: The
Domestic-International Nexus
Organized by Mohammad
Homayounvash
Chair: Russell Lucas, Michigan State U
Discussant: Mahmood Monshipouri,
San Francisco State U
Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida
International U–Framing Iran’s Foreign
Policy: Domestic Determinants and the
International System
Mohammad Homayounvash, Florida
International U–Iran’s Nuclear Discourse
and the Future of the International NonProliferation Regime
Chair: Octavius Pinkard, U Kent
Hicham Bou Nassif, Indiana U–Generals
and Autocrats: How Coup-Proofing
Predetermined the Military Elite’s
Behavior in the Arab Spring
Ahmed Khalifa, Bonn International
Center for Conversion–Allies or
Competitors: The Economic Interests
of the Armed Forces and the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt
Marina Calculli, Ca’ Foscari U Venice–
Improving Lebanon’s Sovereignty
through the Army: Shifting Political
Discourse and Civil-Military Relations in
the Wake of the Syrian Crisis
Janicke Stramer, U Nevada Reno–
Revolution in North Africa: MilitaryPoliticization and Regime-Change
Matthieu Rey, Col de France–
The Soviet-Syrian “Honey Moon”
Reconsidered (1945-1957)
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3596) Claiming Space and Place
Chair: Camelia Suleiman, Michigan
State U
Erin Cory, UC San Diego–Stitching the
City Together: Dystopian Spaces and the
Politics of Hope in Postwar Beirut
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams Col–More
than Crime and Terrorism: Mobilizing
and Memorializing the Shantytown in
Casablanca
James M. Dorsey, S. Rajaratnam Sch of
International Studies/Inst of Fan Culture–
Rooted in History: The Politics of Middle
Eastern and North African Soccer
Frances S. Hasso, Duke U–Gendered
and other Spatializations of ‘Thawrat AlLuLu’ in Bahrain
Petra Y. Kuppinger, Monmouth Col–
Muslim Public Spheres in German Cities
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
(3617) Blended Rhythms
Candace Bordelon, Independent
Scholar–The Emergence of Tarab
through Merging Memories: Oriental
Dance, Saidi, and Umm Kulthum
Hazem Jamjoum, New York U–From
Melody to Text: Re-composing the Nahda
Debate on the Codification of Music
Andrea Shaheen, U Texas El Paso–
Arab Music in Latin America: Music
and Representation in Buenos Aires,
Argentina
000 2:30-4:30pm
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3618) Disciplining a Religious/Secular
Divide: Living Together Well
Organized by Joyce Dalsheim
Session Leaders: Gregory Starrett, UNC
Charlotte and Joyce Dalsheim, UNC
Charlotte
Aria Nakissa, Brandeis U
Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth U
Loren Lybarger, Ohio U
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, U Toronto
Jeffrey Guhin, Yale U
u
5-7PM Saturday October 12
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3241) Bad Girls of the Arab World
Organized by Rula Quawas, Nadia G.
Yaqub, and Elizabeth Bishop
Chair: Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill
Discussant: Jan Bardsley, UNC Chapel
Hill
Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State U–The
Baddest Girl of All: Diana Spencer during
the Last Mubarak Decade
Amal Amireh, George Mason U–“They
are Not Like Your Daughters or Mine”:
The Bad Girls of the Arab Spring
Rula Quawas, U Jordan–Bad Girls of
Jordan: An Oppositional View which
Enables Creative Self-Actualization
Martine Antle, UNC Chapel Hill–Leaving
the Kitchen to Speak about Sex and
Politics: The Journey of a Good Arab Girl
who Turned Bad
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3246) The Politics of Taste in the Late
Ottoman Empire and Egypt
Organized by Toufoul Abou-Hodeib and
Adam Mestyan
Discussant: Nasser O. Rabbat, MIT
Deniz Turker, Harvard U–Ephemeral
Architecture in the Ottoman Capital
Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt U–
Defining Tastes Alaturka: The “Oriental”
Styles of Ottoman Jews
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, U Oslo–
Consuming Tastes: Local Labor and New
Commodities in an Ottoman Port City
Adam Mestyan, U Oxford–Monarchical
Patriotism: Power, Taste and the
Khedivial Opera House, 1880s
Benjamin Geer, National U Singapore–
Nationalist Tastes and Intellectual
Struggles in Egypt: Creating Markets and
Prestige for the Effendiya
u
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3266) Minorities, Identities and the
Modern Iraqi State
Organized by Fadi Dawood and Alda
Benjamen
Sponsored by
The American Academic Research
Institute in Iraq (TAARII)
Chair/Discussant: Joseph Sassoon,
Georgetown U
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
A-ME
(3324) Anthropological Approaches
to Urban Infrastructure in the Middle
East and North Africa
Organized by Jared McCormick
Discussant: Farha Ghannam,
Swarthmore Col
Alda Benjamen, U Maryland Col Park–
Ba’thist “Generosity” and the Assyrian
Literary Movement
Samuel Helfont, Princeton U–The Iraqi
Shi’a and the Question of Sectarianism
under Saddam
Fadi Dawood, SOAS, U London–Assyrian
Identity Formation and the Ba’qubah
Refugee Camp
Hilla Peled-Shapira, Bar-Ilan U–“Ten
Identities in a Land without an Identity”:
Kurdish and Iraqi Identities in the Works
of an Émigré Kurdish-Iraqi Poet
Janell Rothenberg, UCLA–Social
Infrastructures of Transportation in the
‘Post-Port City’ of Tangier
Joanne Randa Nucho, UC Irvine–
Making the Municipal: Producing
Community through Infrastructure in
Urban Lebanon
Claire Panetta, CUNY Graduate Center–
Producing the “Islamic City”: Al-Azhar
Park and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture
in “Historic Cairo”
Jared McCormick, Harvard U–
Privileging Tourism: Infrastructure,
Access, and Defining “Toursits” in
Lebanon
000 5-7pm
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
Room TBA
(3281) It’s Good to be the King: The
Arab Uprising and Monarchical
“Exceptionalism”?
Organized by Mohamed Daadaoui
(3326) Media, Media Literacy and
Teaching MES
Organized by June-Ann Greeley, Sacred
Heart U
Chair: Michael Herb, Georgia State U
Sponsored by
MESA’s Committee for
Undergraduate Middle East Studies
(CUMES)
Sean Yom, Temple U–The Diffusion
of Monarchical Survival: Cognition,
Royalism, and Historical Experience
Anya Vodopyanov, Harvard U–The
Monarchical Exception?: Explaining
Variation in the Strength of Protest
Movements during the Arab Spring
Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City
U–Morocco’s “Spring”: Monarchical
Advantage and the Limits of the Protest
Movement
Adria Lawrence, Yale U–Long Live the
King: Monarchy and Protest in the Arab
Spring
Kristin Smith Diwan, American U–A
House Divided: Political Factionalism in
the (Quasi) Parliamentary Monarchies of
Kuwait and Bahrain
Chair: Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg, Drury U
Noor-Aiman Khan, Colgate U
Ranjit Singh, U Mary Washington
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3327) A Relocated Politics: Making
Art Elsewhere than the Nation
Organized by Kirsten Scheid and
Anneka Lenssen
Sponsored by
Association for Modern and
Contemporary Art of the Arab
World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA)
Chairs: Kirsten Scheid, American U
Beirut and Anneka Lenssen, American
U Cairo
Discussant: Kirsten Scheid, American U
Beirut
Hanan Toukan, EUME/BERLIN–Who
Imagines the Nation-State?: Picasso,
Palestine and the Cultural Politics of
Modernity in Ramallah
Sandra Skurvida, FIT–Alien-Nation in
the Global Art Economy
Kiven Strohm, U Montreal–Impossible
Identification: The Politics of Palestinian
Contemporary Art in Israel
Saleem Al-Bahloly, UC Berkeley–
Modern Art and the Arab Awakening:
Eros as a Figure of Vitality in the
Painting of Jawad Salim
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3339) The Impossibility of Justice:
Media as Mediator in Contemporary
Iran
Organized by Amy Motlagh
Chair: Amy Motlagh, American U Cairo
Discussant: Arzoo Osanloo, U
Washington
Amy Motlagh, American U Cairo–
This is Not Justice: Film as a Means of
Extrajudicial Appeal in Contemporary
Iran
Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine–Playing
Hat Tricks with Justice
Babak Elahi, RIT–Cultural Commentary
as Political Activism in Iran’s Blogabad
Sharareh Frouzesh, UC Irvine–‘A
Separation’ Apart from the Melancholy
of Injustice
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3356) Institutional Reform in North
Africa: The Security Sector, Ideologies
and Social Action
Organized by Doris H. Gray
Sponsored by
American Institute for
Monica L. Marks, Oxford U
Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U
Daniel Zisenwine, United States Naval
Academy/Tel Aviv U
Doris H. Gray, Florida State U
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3369) Law and Legitimacy in
the Ottoman Empire, Panel IV:
Legitimizing Rule in the Ottoman
Empire: Justice, Mercy, Politics &
Religion
Organized by M. Safa Saracoglu,
Bloomsburg U and Kent F. Schull,
Binghamton U
Chair: Iris Agmon, Ben-Gurion U
Discussant: Bogac A. Ergene, U
Vermont
Baki Tezcan, UC Davis–Political
Legitimacy and the Transformation
of the Ottoman Succession in the
Seventeenth Century: A Case Study in
Ottoman Constitutional Law
Guy Burak, New York U–The Kanun
of Qaytbay, Yasaq and Siyasa in Early
Ottoman Egypt and Syria
Lale Can, CUNY–Not Quite Foreign, Not
Quite Ottoman: Central Asian Muslims
and the Politics of Citizenship and
Islamic Legitimacy, 1865-1914
Heather Ferguson, Claremont McKenna
Col–Re-Inventing Tradition as a
Response to Crisis: Ethical Categories
and Administrative Strategies in
Seventeenth-Century Ottoman
Documentary Genres
Cigdem Oguz, Bogazici U–Pardoning the
“Outlaws”: Legitimacy and Negotiation
during the Hamidian Era
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3431) Who Was/Is Egyptian?: Screen
Shots from an ‘Old’ Social Contract
Organized by Deborah Starr and Joel
Gordon
Chair: Christopher Stone, Hunter Col
CUNY
Heba S. ‘Arafa, Georgetown U–‘Abd
Al-Fattah Al-Qasri: The Uneducated
Progressive Ibn Al-Balad
Deborah Starr, Cornell U–In Bed
Together: Coexistence in Togo Mizrahi’s
Alexandria Films
Joel Gordon, U Arkansas–Hasan and
Marcos – Where’s Cohen?: Screen Shots
of a Changing Egypt
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3471) Towards the Centennial-WWI
in the Middle East—The Wilsonian
Moment in Greater Syria: Struggles
for Justice and Self-Determination
Denied, 1918-1923
Organized by Elizabeth F. Thompson
Chair/Discussant: Mustafa Aksakal,
Georgetown U
Muhannad Salhi, Library of Congress–
Syrian Political Parties and the Palestine
Question, 1918-1920
Elizabeth F. Thompson, U Virginia–
Justice Interrupted: Shaykh Rashid
Rida, the Aborted 1920 Syrian Arab
Constitution, and the Demise of a Liberal
Consensus
Andrew J. Patrick, Tennessee State
U–Political Possibilities in 1919 Greater
Syria
Awad Halabi, Wright State U–Between
Ottoman, Arab and Palestinian
Nationalism: The Career of Shaykh AlMuzzafar, 1917-1923
Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Col of William &
Mary–Syrian-Turkish Relations, 19181921
u
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3488) Voices from the Periphery:
Literature, Music and Agency in the
Medieval Islamicate World
Organized by Lisa Nielson
Sponsored by
Chair: Matthew S. Gordon, Miami U
John Franklin, U Viridis Montis– Female
Musicians and Cultural Intercourse in
the Ancient Near East
Andrew Hicks, Cornell U–Ghaznavid
Hhulaman and Musico-Poetic Agency in
the Poetry of Farrukhi Sistani
Dwight F. Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara–
New Information on the Qiyan of AlAndalus
Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve U–
Gender Borderlands as Musical Agency
in the Early Islamicate Courts
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3498) Colonialism, Spatial Politics,
and Violence in Contemporary
Palestine/Israel
Organized by Thomas P. Abowd
Chair: Thomas P. Abowd, Tufts U
Discussant: Salim Tamari, Inst of
Palestine Studies
Amahl Bishara, Tufts U–Infrastructure
as Key to Political Structure: On the
Road in Israel and the West Bank
Linda Quiquivix, Brown U–Toward a
Cartography of Palestine from Below
Nasser Abourahme, Columbia U–The
Camp as Authorless Production: Towards
a Materialism of Spatial Practice in
Palestinian Refugee Camps
Thomas P. Abowd, Tufts U–Up From the
Ruins?: Demolishing Homes, Regulating
Space, and Building Solidarity in
Contemporary Jerusalem
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3516) Voicing the Past in the Present:
Contemporary Arabic Historical
Fictions
Organized by Alexa Firat
Gretchen Head, UC Berkeley–From
Fiction to Forgery: The Evolution of the
Historical Novel in Morocco
R. Shareah Taleghani, Queens
Col–Madness and Rule: Intertextual
Authority and Violence in Bensalem
Himmich’s “Majnun Al-Hukm”
Zaki Haidar, U Pennsylvania–Stories
of Silk: Historical Threads in Recent
Lebanese Novels
Alexa Firat, Temple U–On Being
Jordanian: Reading the Self in Two
Contemporary Historical Novels
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3561) Narratives of Nation Building
Chair: Rania Mahmoud, U Washington
Nathan Fonder, U Georgia–Denying
Revolution: The British Non-Official
Community of Cairo in 1919
Kristin S. Tassin, U Texas Austin–
Egyptians Abroad: Early TwentiethCentury Nationalism in an International
Context
Olivia Luce, U Oxford–‘An
Apprenticeship in Modernity’:
Questioning a Traditional Paradigm in
the Study of Islamic Cultural Encounters
with Europe in the Mid-Twentieth
Century
Laurie Brand, U Southern California–
National Narrative and Founding Myth:
The (Great) Arab Revolt from the Sharif
Husayn to Abdallah II
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3567) Public Disorder in Turkey
Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U
Toygun Altintas, U Chicago–The Yildiz
Bombing: Revolutionary Violence and
“Propaganda by the Deed” in Hamidian
Ottoman Empire
u
Ilgin Erdem, U Massachusetts Amherst–
From “Liberated Areas” to “Dangerous
Places:” Law(-lessness) and Order in
Istanbul’s Margins
Kaya Akyildiz, Bahcesehir U–The
Turkish Arbitrariness of “Reasonable
Suspicion” in Neo-Liberal Times
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3571) (In)stability and the State
Chair: Andrew Kurt, Clayton State U
Irene Weipert-Fenner, Philipps U
Marburg–The Egyptian Parliament:
Norm Dynamics in the Search for Social
Justice, 2005-2010
Mohammad Yaghi, U Guelph–The
Potency of “Injustice” Master Frames:
Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan as Case
Studies
Michael Makara, Syracuse U–
Surviving Political Instability through
Manipulating the Legislature: Jordan in
the 1950s
Quinn Mecham, Middlebury Col–
Leadership Strategies Under Duress:
Governmental Responses to Popular
Uprisings in the Arab World
Feryaz Ocakli, Skidmore Col–
Colonialism and the Limits of Legal
Institution Building: Civil and Ottoman
Law in Palestine Mandate
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3584) Politics and Tribal Identity
Chair: Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota
Barbara J. Michael, UNC Wilmington–
Conflict and Resolution in a Pastoral
Nomadic Society in the Sudan
Nadav Samin, Princeton U–Race and
Tribal Origin in an Arabian Oasis Town:
The Case of Al-‘Ula
Marielle Risse, Dhofar U, Salalah,
Oman–“I Do Not Need the Night”: The
Gibali Conception of Self-Respect in
Southern Oman
Laura Goffman, Georgetown U–
Incorporating Ibadis of the Mzab into
Algerian Nationalism and Pan-Islamism
Julia Choucair, Yale U–Tribes ‘Made
in Taiwan’: Reinvented Identities in
Authoritarian Iraq
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3598) Constructing Economic
Identities
Chair: Soheyl Amini, Salve Regina U
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, Bilkent U–
The Energy Scramble in the Eastern
Mediterranean: Between Regional
Conflict and Prospective Economic
Cooperation
Noah Haiduc-Dale, Waynesburg U–Gulf
Inhabitants and Imperial Change: An
Environmental History
Jeanene Mitchell, U Washington–
Whither Mitigation or Adaptation?:
Influences on Climate Change Policy in
Turkey and Azerbaijan
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
(3608) Claiming Our Rights as Citizens
Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John's U
Vickie Langohr, Col of the Holy Cross–
How Working to Stop Sexual Assault at
Protests in Cairo Affects Women’s Rights
Organizing
Mohamed Zayani, Georgetown U–From
Subjects to Citizens: The Arab Spring,
the Internet and the Reinvention of
Politics
Andrew M. Spath, Rutgers U–
Competing Visions: Remaking the
Relationship between Ruler and Ruled in
Abdullah’s Jordan
Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U–
Breaking the Barrier of Fear: Personal
Transformation in the Syrian Uprising
000 5-7pm
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3622) Interdisciplinary Perspectives
on Islamic Charitable Practices
Organized by Mona Atia, and Benoit
Challand
Mona Atia, George Washington U
Benoit Challand, New York U
Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U
Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington
Nora Derbal, Free U Berlin
(3602) Arabian (Imagi)Nations
Chair: Manal A. Jamal, James Madison U
Iain Walker, U Oxford–Nostalgia for
a Lost Homeland: The Hadramawt
Independence Movement in Saudi
Arabia
John M. Willis, U Colorado–Hearing
Prayers in the Grave: The Lives of the
Dead and the Saudi Biopolitical State
Ryan Craig, U Washington–The
Legitimacy of ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz Ibn Sa’ud:
The Invasion of Mecca and the Hedjaz
Region
Sang Hyun Song, U Utah–Saudi
Bureaucratic System and Its Influence
on Oil Policy
Nathan Christensen, New York U–
Between Aden and Dhofar: The Lasting
Image of Revolution in South Arabia
Nate Hodson, Princeton U–Evolving
Business-State Relations Under Ibn Sa’ud
u
8:30-10:30AM Sunday October 13
7:30-8:30am
MEOC Board Meeting
10-12nn
MEOC Nuts & Bolts Workshop
for Outreach Coordinators
Oakley (4th Floor)
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3242) The Integration of Salafis?:
Political Salafism before and after the
Arab Spring
Organized by Joas Wagemakers
Discussant: Francesco Cavatorta,
Dublin City U
Chair: Benoit Challand, New York U
Stephane Lacroix, Sciences Po–Sheikhs,
Politicians and Revolutionaries: The
Transformations of the Salafi Movement
in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
Laurent Bonnefoy, CERI/CNRS/ERC
WAFAW–The Revolution and the Salafis
in Yemen
Joas Wagemakers, Radboud U
Nijmegen–The Dual Effect of the Arab
Spring on Salafi Integration: Political
Salafism in Jordan
Monica L. Marks, Oxford U–Youth and
the Politics of Salafi Jihadism in Tunisia
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3286) Perspectives from the Year 1 of
the Revolution: Algerian Discourses of
the Past in the Present
Organized by Samuel Sami Everett and
Malika Rahal
Chair: James McDougall, Trinity Col,
Oxford
Malika Rahal, IHTP-CNRS (Paris)–
Impossible Opposition?: Communist
Activists and Their Relation to the
Nation-State
Natalya Vince, U Portsmouth–1962 as
Event and Netaphor in Women’s Oral
Histories
Samuel Sami Everett, SOAS, U London–
Testing Prejudice, Researching the
Invisible: The Jew, the Israelite and the
Margins of Algerian National Identity
u
Ed McAllister, U Oxford–Algeria’s Belle
Epoque: Memories of Nation-Building in
the 1970s
Thomas Serres, EHESS Paris–“Give Us
Back Our Oil!”: Claims for Justice and
Equality in Light of Algeria’s Colonial
Past
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3312) Through the City’s Prism:
Cultures and the Politics of Resistance
in Modern Iraq
Organized by Dina Rizk Khoury and
Nelida Fuccaro
Organized in honor
of Peter Sluglett
Chair: Sarah D. Shields, UNC Chapel Hill
Sami D. Zubaida, Birkbeck, U London–
Political Modernity and Iraqi National
Identification: Literary Perspectives
Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, U London–
Reading Hashemite Kirkuk as an Urban
and Industrial Landscape of Power:
Violence and Resistance in Iraq’s Early
Oil Industry
Orit Bashkin, U Chicago–Urban
Violence and the Rebirth of the Arab
Jew, Baghdad and Tel Aviv
Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington
U–The Changing Face of Resistance in
Wartime Basra
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3322) The Dynamics of Contention in
Middle East Studies
Organized by John T. Chalcraft
Discussant: Edmund Burke III, UC Santa
Cruz
Neil Ketchley, London School of
Economics–Political Islam, Social
Movements and the Global Repertoire of
Contention, 1912-1942
Charles Kurzman, UNC Chapel Hill–
Mechanisms of the Arab Spring
Maha Abdelrahman, U Cambridge–
The ‘Normalisation’ of Protest: Egypt’s
Undiminshed Revolution
John T. Chalcraft, London School of
Economics–Hegemonic Contestation in
the Arab Uprisings
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3345) The Muslim Brotherhood and
Egypt’s Jews, Ideology and “RealPolitik”
Organized by Najat Abdulhaq
Chair/Discussant: Khaled Fahmy,
American U Cairo
Deborah Starr, Cornell U
Omar El Shafei, Paris Diderot U
Najat Abdulhaq, Fridrich Alexander U
Erlangen
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3354) Documenting the Ordinary and
the Unspeakable in Middle Eastern
Cinema
Organized by Zeina G. Halabi
Chair: Johanna Sellman, U Texas Austin
Kelsey Rice, U Pennsylvania–“Ravished
Armenia”: Contestations of Authenticity
in Representing the Armenian Genocide
(1919)
Blake Atwood, U Texas Austin–“I Have
the Technology”: Life, Narrative, and
Super-8 Technology in ‘West Beirut’
Nisrine Mansour, U of the Arts London–
Shooting Like a Victim: The Ethics of
Autobiographical Documentation of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Drew Paul, U Texas Austin–Building
Blocks: Constructing a Wall in Simone
Bitton’s “Mur”
Zeina G. Halabi, UNC Chapel Hill–“Ok,
Enough, Goodbye” to the Lebanese
Postwar Film: The Peripheral Narratives
of Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3365) Abandonment in Urban Spaces:
Dismantled Lives, Ruined Alleyways
and Reclaimed Pasts
Organized by Ali Sipahi and Joseph
Viscomi
Yektan Turkyilmaz, Duke U–Urbicide
in Van: Destruction and Death of an
Ottoman City, April-August 1915
Ali Sipahi, U Michigan Ann Arbor–
Pieces of Harput: Duality of Urban Life
in the Ottoman East during the Age of
Reform
Joseph Viscomi, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–Remembering Alexandria: Italiani
d’Egitto, Repatriation, and Disaccord
with the Past
Francesco Grisolia, U Siena–Avoiding
or Re-Appropriating the Walled City:
Discourses and Practices of Young
Cypriots in Nicosia
Regev Nathansohn, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–Coexistence and/in the Built
Environment: Narration, Separation and
Politicization in Haifa City Tours
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3380) Rethinking the Consolidation
of Sufi Traditions in the Medieval and
Early Modern Period
Organized by Nate Hofer
Chair: John J. Curry, U Nevada Las
Vegas
Nate Hofer, U Missouri–Abu l-Hasan AlShadhili and the Institutionalization of
Sufi Identity
Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana U-Purdue U
Ft. Wayne–The Organizing Concept of
“Khirqa” in the Tiryaq Al-Muhibbin of
Taqi Al-Din Al-Wasiti (d. 744/1343)
Blain Auer, U Lausanne–The Origins and
Evolution of Sufi Communities in South
Asia Revisited
John J. Curry, U Nevada Las Vegas–
Ottoman Library Collections and Sufi
Genealogies: A Case Study of the Nasuhi
Branch of the Halveti Order
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3401) The “State of Palestine”
and the Crisis of the Oslo Accords:
Authoritarianism, Resistance and
Alternative Visions
Organized by Alaa Tartir
Supported by
Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy
Network and the Council for British
Research in the Levant (CBRL)
Chair/Discussant: Osamah Khalil,
Syracuse U
Allison Hodgkins, American U Cairo–
Partial Measures, Full Distrust: The
Dangerous Legacy of Oslo’s Enduring
Interim Power Sharing Strategy
Philip Leech, U Plymouth–Analysing
Popular Consent and the Palestinian
Authority’s Security Agenda after 2007
Tahani Mustafa, U Exeter–The Limits of
the Arab Spring: Post Oslo Palestine and
Its Authoritarian Dispensation
Alaa Tartir, London School of
Economics and Political Science–
Wanted Alternative: Challenging Oslo
Economic Neo-Liberalism and Advancing
Resistance Economy
Mandy Turner, Council for British
Research in the Levant–Challenging the
‘Oslo Paradigm’: Resistance and Visions
of Peace in Palestine and Israel
000 8:30-10:30am
Dario Miccoli, Cà Foscari U Venice–
“One Same Family”: Imagining a Jewish
Middle Class in Colonial Alexandria,
1880s-1920s
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3490) Reflecting on the Social and
Economic History of Nineteenth
Century Iran
Organized by James M. Gustafson
Chair: James M. Gustafson, Indiana
State U
Ram B. Regavim, Tel Aviv U–Success
Story: Iran’s Opium Trade and the
Economic History of the Late Qajar
Period, 1850-1920
James M. Gustafson, Indiana State
U–On States and Estates: Writing the
Provinces into the Social and Economic
History of Qajar Iran
Joanna de Groot, York U–Depicting
Social Hierarchy and Social
Interdependence in Nineteenth Century
Iran: Historians and Narratives
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3513) Recasting the Political Actors
of the Ottoman Empire: Global
Connections at the Turn of the
Nineteenth Century, 1789-1815
Organized by Lela Gibson and
Mukaram Hhana
Room TBA
(3419) A Virtuous and Commercial
People?: Rethinking the Eastern
Mediterranean Middle Classes
Organized by Vangelis Kechriotis and
Paris Papamichos Chronakis
Chair: Michelle U. Campos, U Florida
Discussant: Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, U
Oslo
Vangelis Kechriotis, Bogazici U–Clerical
Visions of Urban Morality and Middle
Class Order among the Greek-Orthodox
in Istanbul and Smyrna at the End of the
19th Century
Paris Papamichos Chronakis, Brown
U–Revisiting the Late Ottoman Port
Merchants: Professional Identity, Urban
Attachment and Ethnic Hierarchies
among the Merchants of Salonica, 18821912
Mukaram Hhana, U Pennsylvania–
Contexualizing 1798 in the Ottoman and
North African Worlds
Lela Gibson, UCLA–Ottoman Diplomats
in Habsburg and Prussian Enlightenment
Society, 1791-98
Emily Neumeier, U Pennsylvania–
“There is a Çapanoglu behind This:”
Transformations in Patronage,
Architecture and Urbanism in the
Ottoman Provinces; 1779-1804
u
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3532) Rethinking Political Concepts
in Modern Middle Eastern Thought
Organized by Angela Giordani
Chair/Discussant: Anupama Rao,
Columbia U
Elias Salfity, U Arizona–Ibn Rushd
and Al-Ghazali in the Thought of Farah
Antun and Muhammad Abduh
Heather N. Keaney, Westmont Col–
Righting and ReWriting Past Wrongs:
The Failures of the Rashidun Caliphs in
Early 20th Century Islamiyyat
Angela Giordani, Columbia U–Thawrah
versus Inqilab: A Reading along the
Conceptual Fault Lines of “Revolution”
in Arabic
Selim Karlitekin, Columbia U–This is
Not a Refugee: Muhajir as a (Ruined)
Form of Life
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3540) Dignity, Piety, Revolution:
Towards New Political
Understandings of the Body
Organized by Sami Hermez and Sherine
M. Hafez
Chair: Sherine M. Hafez, UC Riverside
Sherine M. Hafez, UC Riverside–The
“Girl in the Blue Bra”: Piety, Sexuality
and State Violence in Revolutionary
Egypt
Sami Hermez, U Pittsburgh–On Dignity:
Rethinking Emotions of Resistance
Cécile Boëx, CEIFR–The Showing of
Bodies Stigmatized by Repression:
Ethic and Aesthetics of Audio-Visual
Testimonies in the Syrian Uprising
William O. Beeman, U Minnesota–The
Theatrical Body in Iranian Traditional
Performance
Neda Ali Zadeh Kashani, U Macerata–
The Influence of the Erotic-Mystical
Images of Persian Poetry on the EroticPolitical Language of Adrienne Rich
u
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3557) Theology of Revelation and
Scriptural Hermeneutics
(3562) Politics of Notables in the Bilad
Al-Sham
Chair: Abdul Rahman Chamseddine,
Georgetown U SFS.Q
Chair: Hayrettin Yücesoy, Washington
U in St. Louis
Javad Abedifirouzjaie, U Texas
Austin–Ibn Al-Arabi’s Approach to the
Interpretation of the Qur’an
Tehseen Thaver, UNC Chapel Hill–
Language, Revelation, and the Qur’an’s
Ambiguous Verses in Al-Sharif Al-Radi’s
(d.1015) “Shi’i” Qur’an Commentary
Khalil Andani, Harvard Divinity School–
The Qur’an – Word of God or Word of
Muhammad: Prophetic Revelation in
the thought of Abdulkarim Soroush and
Nasir-i Khusraw
Serife Eroglu Memis, Hacettepe U–
Pious Foundations (Waqfs) in Jerusalem
as a Tool for the Rise of Local Notables
during the 18th Century
Basil Salem, U Chicago–Differing
Views on Eighteenth Century Muftis of
Damascus
Harel Chorev, Tel Aviv U–Networking
Organizations: A New Approach to Elite
Families in the Fertile Crescent
Alireza Raisi, Kent State U–The Political
Economy of Clientelism in Provincial
Iran
Linda Sayed, Columbia U– Negotiating
Borders: Jabal ‘Amil and the Seven Shi’i
Villages
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3559) Identifying Religiously in
Modern Turkey
Chair: Dennis Summut, St. Peter's Col,
Oxford U
Brett Wilson, Macalester Col–The Dark Side
of Sufism: Religion, Class, and Gender in
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu’s “Nur Baba”
Hakki Gurkas, Kennesaw State U–The
Blessed Birth Week: Invention of a New
Religious Cultural Expression in Turkey
Semiha Topal, Fatih U–Building a Pious
Self in Secular Settings: Pious Women in
Modern Turkey
Caroline Tee, U Bristol–Science, Islam
and Cultural Agency: The Gülen Hizmet
Movement in Turkey
Candas Pinar, Yale U–Religion-State
Relations in Turkey Since the AKP: A
Changing Landscape? Evidence from
Parliamentary Debates on the Alevi
Matter
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3577) Characters and
Characterization in Modern Middle
Eastern Literature
Matthew Hotham, UNC Chapel Hill–
Mi’raj as Sufi Initiation: Bestowal of
Garments in the Ascension Narratives
of Nizami Ganjavi’s Makhzan Al-Asrar,
Jami’s Tohfat Al-Asrar, and Amir
Khosrow’s Matla Al-Anwar
Valentine Edgar, Columbia U–Exploring
the Desert: Identity Formation in the
Travelogues of Rosita Forbes and Ahmed
Hassanein Bey
Allison Blecker, Harvard U–The
Question of Animals in Ibrahim Al-Koni’s
The Bleeding of the Stone
Ian Campbell, Georgia State U–Ahead of
Her Time: The Figure of the Intellectual
Female Activist in Arabic-Language
Moroccan Novels of the 1960s and Early
1970s
Chip Rossetti, U Pennsylvania–The
Death of the Artist?: Ambiguity and
“Openness” in Muhammad Khudayyir’s
Fiction
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3581) The Economics of Political
Intervention
Chair: Nur Laiq, International Peace Inst
Yousef Baker, UC Santa Barbara–
Managing Dissent and Building
Neoliberal Hegemony: The Case of PostInvasion Iraq
Matthew Goldman, U Washington–
Revolution or Elections?: Land Reform
and Regime Type in Comparative
Perspective
Dariush Bozorgmehri, UC Berkeley–
The Developmental State and the Rise of
the Iranian Automobile Industry
Sinem Kavak, Bogazici U–
Neoliberalization of Tobacco Production
in Turkey: Differentiating Impacts on
Peasant Communities
Karen Pfeifer, Smith Col–Neoliberalism
and the Economic Roots of Political
Crisis in Tunisia and Egypt
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3597) Managing Minorities on the
Move
Chair: Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, Coastal
Carolina U
Ramazan Kilinc, U Nebraska Omaha–
Islam, Nationalism and Religious Liberty:
State Policies toward Non-Muslim
Minorities in Turkey and Jordan
Farid Senzai, Santa Clara U–Muslim
Americans and Patterns of Political
Engagement with Local Government
Nadia Marinova, Wayne State U–
How Host States Use Diasporas: In
Support of US Policy after Lebanon’s
“Cedar Revolution” and of Economic
Development after Tunisia’s Jasmine
Revolution
Masako Ishii, U–Reconstructing
Relationship with “the Others” in the
Gulf States: A Case of Muslim Filipina
Domestic Workers
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
(3605) Women’s Political Agency
(3614) Sounds of Minds and Bodies
Ginger Feather, U Kansas–Moroccan
Women’s Agency in Securing Family Law
and Gendered Reform
Dwaa Osman, Center for International
and Regional Studies–Agency of the
Socially Excluded: Women in Pakistan
and Sudan
Sevil Cakir Kilincoglu, Leiden U–
Reconceptualizing Women’s Agency in
Iran and Turkey at the Turn of the 20th
Century
Priya Rahmouni, Independent Scholar–
Women and the State: A Comparative
Study of Iraq in the 1970s with Morocco
in the 1980s
Alison Minor, U Texas Austin–
Understanding Women’s Cooperatives as
an Empowerment Tool: Women’s Argan
Cooperatives in Southern Morocco
Chair: Iclal Vanwesenbeeck, SUNY
Fredonia
000 8:30-10:30am
(3630) Pre-Ottoman Technology in
Islamic History
Organized by Karen C. Pinto
Room TBA
(3613) Visual Representations
Chair: Shouleh Vatanabadi, New York U
Diana Leilani Fonner, U North Texas–
Social Movements and Representation
in Arab-American Communities and
Networks
Wayne Osborn, Georgetown U–
Digitizing Arabic: A Story of Script
Technologies
Rustin Zarkar, Harvard U–Building
an Insurgent Consciousness: Political
Posters of the Fada’i-e Khalq (1978-80)
Elizabeth Perego, Ohio State U–Drawing
in the Face of Death: Motivations behind
Algerian Cartooning during the Civil
War, 1991-2002
Angel M. Foster, U Ottawa & Ibis
Reproductive Health–Assessing the
Reproductive Health Content of Medical
Education in Jordan
Ana Maria Vinea, CUNY Graduate
Center–Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
and the Devil’s Whispers: Reconfiguring
Psychiatric and Islamic Traditions in
Contemporary Egypt
Parisa Chavoshi, New York U–Human
Rights and HIV: The Politics of Public
Health in the Islamic Republic
000 8:30-10:30am
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
Session Leader: Richard W. Bulliet,
Columbia U
Jonathan M. Bloom, Boston Col
Karen C. Pinto, Gettysburg Col
Karl R. Schaefer, Drake U
Stuart J. Borsch, Assumption Col
William Greenwood, Museum of Islamic
Art, Qatar
u
11AM-1PM Sunday October 13
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3253) Personal and Public Memory in
Lebanon and Morocco
Organized by Norman Saadi Nikro
Supported by
Zentrum Moderner Orient
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3302) Across the Maghrib-Mashriq
Divide: The Language of Anti-Colonial
Resistance in North Africa and the
Eastern Mediterranean, 1908-1939
Organized by Hilary Kalmbach and
Jacob Norris
Chair: Monika Borgmann, UMAM
Chair/Discussant: Andrew Arsan, U
Cambridge
Sonja Hegasy, Zentrum Moderner
Orient–Transforming Memories: The
Experience of Zamane
Makram Rabah, Georgetown U–
Collecting the Collective: The War of
the Mountains and Maronite and Druze
Projects of Collective Memory
Laura Menin, Zentum Moderner
Orient–A Life of Waiting: Family
Memories, Structural Violence and
Enforced Disappearance in Morocco
Norman Saadi Nikro, Zentrum
Moderner Orient–Trauma and
Testimony: ReMemory as an
Intergenerational Dynamic
Jacob Norris, U Sussex–The Italian
Invasion of Libya in 1911 and Its Impact
in Palestine
James Roslington, U Cambridge–The
Moral Vision of the Rif War (Morocco,
1921-26) in Mashriqi Poetry and Prose
Hilary Kalmbach, U Sussex–Resisting
Colonialism through Language Reform:
Arabic Language Academies in Egypt and
Beyond, from 1908
Martin Evans, U Sussex–The MaghribMashriq Connection: The International
Imaginary of Algerian Nationalism 19191939
000 11am-1pm
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3287) Mamluks and Rasulids:
Why They Both Should Matter to
Historians
Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco
Sponsored by
American Institute for Yemeni
Studies (AIYS)
Chair: Jere L. Bacharach, U Washington
Discussants: John Meloy, American U
Beirut and Warren C. Schultz, DePaul U
Roxani Margariti, Emory U–Enter
the Rasulids: The Dahlakis and Their
Powerful Neighbors in the Red Sea
Daniel Mahoney, U Chicago–The Effects
of Rasulid and the Mamluk Rule over the
Resistant Central Highlands of Yemen
Arianna Dottone, U Rome–The Yemeni
Manuscript Tradition in Context:
Materials, Texts and Decorations in
Rasulid Times
Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra U–Heirs
of the Ayyubids: The Formation of the
Rasulid State in Yemen
u
Room TBA
Roundtable
(3303) Historical Interpretation in the
Teaching of Egypt’s 2011 Uprising
Organized by Michael J. Reimer
Chair: Michael J. Reimer, American U
Cairo
Pascale Ghazaleh, American U Cairo
Michael J. Reimer, American U Cairo
Khaled Fahmy, American U Cairo
Hanan Kholoussy, American U Cairo
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3305) Modern Middle Eastern Jewish
Thought: Prospects, Possibilities,
Limitations
Organized by Moshe Behar
Chair/Discussant: Najat Abdulhaq,
Fridrich Alexander U Erlangen
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York U–Was
There an “Arab-Jewish Question” in the
Middle East?
Yair Wallach, SOAS, U London–The Lost
Jews of Palestine: A Research Agenda
Moshe Behar, U Manchester–
Reappraising the “Arab Question” within
Zionism: Evidence from Four Pre-1937
Controversies between Ashkenazi and
Mizrahi Intellectuals
Bryan Roby, New York U–Writing on
the Margins: Leftist Mizrahi Political
Thought in the 1950s and 1960s
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3346) China and the Arab World in
the Twentieth Century
Organized by Kyle Haddad-Fonda
Chair: Robert Vitalis, U Pennsylvania
Discussant: Jonathan N. Lipman, Mount
Holyoke Col
Shuang Wen, Georgetown U–An
Invisible Bound: Chinese-Egyptian
Commercial Connections in the Late
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries
John Chen, Columbia U–Re-Orientation:
The Chinese Azharites between AlBanna’s “Umma” and Nasser’s “Third
World,” 1938-1955
Kyle Haddad-Fonda, U Oxford–Chinese
Muslims, Egyptian Leftists, and the
Development of Sino-Egyptian Relations,
1955-1959
Makio Yamada, U Oxford–China’s
Cross-Strait Competition in the Arab
World: The Case of Saudi Arabia
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3349) Intimate Dislocations: Mapping
Transformations in Arabic Literary
Texts
Organized by Anna Ziajka Stanton
Chair: Lital Levy, Princeton U
Discussant: Martino Lovato, U Texas
Austin
Rachel Green, U Texas Austin–
Islamiyyat as Geographic Disruption:
The Reconfiguration of Sacred Space
between Taha Husayn’s ‘Ala Hamish
Al-Sira and Mahmud Mas’adi’s Haddatha
Abu Hurayra, Qal
Michal Raizen, U Texas Austin–
Homeward Bound: Toward a PanLevantine Acoustic Politics in Emile
Habiby’s “Sudasiyya”
Anna Ziajka Stanton, U Texas Austin–
Translating the Other: Close Language
Encounters in Colonial Egyptian Novels
of Europe
Kate Goodin, U Texas Austin–Recasting
Arabic Folklore for Medieval Christendom
Katie Logan, U Texas Austin–Google It:
Brooklyn Heights, Virtual Mapping, and
the Anxiety of Forgetting
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3350) Negotiating Power in Contested
Spaces: Citizens, States, and Sites of
Transgression
Organized by Norma Claire Moruzzi
Chair/Discussant: Norma Claire
Moruzzi, U Illinois Chicago
Nazanin Shahrokni, Harvard U–Offside
and Out-of-Sight: Women and Sports
Spectatorship in Iran
Defne Over, Cornell U–State Security
Courts in Turkey: Judicial Spaces of
Negotiation over the Limits of Freedom
of Expression
Ceyhun Arslan, Harvard U–Turk-Arab
Relations in Rifa’a Rafi’ Al-Tahtawi’s An
Imam in Paris: Identitarian Anxieties in
Intra-Middle Eastern Interactions
Ali Honari, VU U Amsterdam–The
Cyberspace of Protest: Dynamics of Off
and Online Protest Participation in the
Iranian Green Movement
Momen El-Husseiny, UC Berkeley–
The De-/Re-Walling of Tahrir: Space,
Agency, and Regimes of Power
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3353) Muslim Women in Change:
Aspirations, Desire and Leisure
Organized by Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Sertaç Sehlikoglu, U Cambridge–
Becoming Fit in “Men-Free” Spaces:
Islamic Segregation and Self-Making
Sarah Trainer, U Arizona–Body
Concerns and Self-Projects Enacted by
Young Emirati Women Living in the 21st
Century UAE
Anja Kublitz, Aalborg U–Girl Talk
as a Site of Transformation among
Palestinian Women in Denmark
Aymon Kreil, American U Cairo/U
Zurich–Desire without Trouble:
Promoting Right Behaviour through
Self-Expression in a Cairene Counseling
Centre
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3374) Ruling the Desert: Ottoman
and European Colonial Policies along
Their Imperial Frontiers
Organized by Yoav Alon and Mostafa
Minawi
Chair/Discussant: Eugene Rogan, St
Antony’s Col, Oxford
Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv U–The Ottoman
Government in the Syrian Desert: The
Creation of Modern Tribal Leadership
Robert Fletcher, U Exeter–Desert
Frontiers, Colonial Careers: Britain and
‘the Tribal Question’
Mostafa Minawi, Cornell U–The
Geopolitical Dimension of OttomanBedouin Relations at the Height of InterImperial Rivalry
Mansour Nsasra, Exeter U–Resistance
to the Colonial State: The Bedouin of
Southern Palestine under the British
Rule, 1917-1948
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3384) Religious Propaganda, Rhetoric
and Intervention as Means of Policy
Making and Molding Public Opinion
against the Ottoman Empire in 19th
and Early 20th Century
Organized by Serkan Gul
Chair: Omer Turan, Middle East
Technical U
Serkan Gul, Bozok U–Religious
Propaganda and Rhetoric in Legitimizing
the French Intervention to Eastern
Mediterranean in 19th Century
Omer Turan, Middle East Technical
U–Missionaries and Diplomats: The
American Policy and the Missionaries in
the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Corinne Blake, Rowan U–Mustafa
Shekib Bey: An Ottoman Diplomat’s
Response to Religious Propaganda,
Rhetoric and Intervention
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3385) Comparative Perspectives on
Ottoman and Turkish Studies: Why,
and How?
Organized by Ilker Hepkaner
Chair/Discussant: Asli Z. Igsiz, New
York U
Elektra Kostopoulou, New York U–The
Mediterranean and the Mediterranean
World in the Age of Süleyman the
Magnificent: A View from Today
Ilker Hepkaner, New York U–“Who
is the Woman in Furs?”: Reading Ali’s
“Madonna in the Fur Coat” and SacherMasoch’s “Venus in Furs” Together
David Gramling, U Arizona–Yolculuk
Nereye? [Journey to Where?]:
Disarticulating the Turkish Turn in
German Studies
Ozen Nergis Dolcerocca, New York U–
Dialectical Images of Time: The Arcades
Project and Five Cities
Kristin Dickinson, UC Berkeley–
Recontextualizing Late Ottoman
Translations: A Turkish-German
Comparative Analysis
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3396) Scaling the Political: Urban
Encounters between Istanbul, Cairo,
and Berlin
Organized by Timur Hammond
Chair/Discussant: Kerem H.L. Oktem, U
Oxford
Amy Mills, U South Carolina–Urban
Geopolitical Knowledge and Humorous
Encounters: Istanbul during Allied
Occupation (1918-1923)
Timur Hammond, UCLA–Between the
Mosque and the School: Eyüp (Sultan)
and Narratives of Place in a Shifting
Istanbul
Sarah El-Kazaz, Princeton U–The
Politics of the Public’s Interest:
Historical Preservation and Contesting
Public Spaces in Istanbul and Cairo
Berna Turam, Northeastern U–
Democracy and Politics of Space:
Kreuzberg, the Contested “Turkish
Neighborhood” of Berlin
u
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3408) Authoritarianism and the
Writing of History in Iraq
Organized by Joseph Sassoon
Fanar Haddad, National U Singapore
Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown U
Orit Bashkin, U Chicago
Toby Dodge, London School of
Economics and Political Science
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3415) Sounds Like Resistance: Music
and Popular Culture in a Muslim
Context
Organized by Pierre Hecker
Albrecht Fuess, U Marburg–“The War of
First-Names”: Music and Islam in France
Ines Braune, U Marburg–Music and
Parkour: Contesting Hegemonic Ways of
Movement
Pierre Hecker, U Marburg–Turkish
Metal: Contesting Islamic Concepts of
Morality
Thomas Burkhalter, Zurich U of the
Arts–“This Music is Westernized”:
Absurd Allegations about Musicians
from Beirut
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3421) In and Out of Pollution:
Emergent Forms of (In)visibility in
Contemporary Iran
Organized by Narges Erami
Chair: Mazyar Lotfalian, UC Irvine
Discussant: Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine
Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm U–
Arazel Owbash: Stigmatizing Young Men
as Polluted and Polluting
Mazyar Lotfalian, UC Irvine–Polluted
Lives: Information Systems and
Emergent Forms of (In)Visibility
Targol Mesbah, California Inst of
Integral Studies–Ecologies of War and
Media: State Secrecy and Pollution in
Iran
Narges Erami, Yale U–The Social World
of “Polluted” Carpets
u
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3450) Insider-Outsider-Boundaries
in Iran and the Post-Arab Uprising
Political Systems
Organized by Kjetil Selvik
(3487) Exploring the Dynamics of
Changing State-Society Relations in
Contemporary Turkey
Organized by Begum Uzun
Chair: Bjorn Olav Utvik, U Oslo
Discussant: Daniel Brumberg,
Georgetown U
Chair: Sude Bahar Beltan, U Toronto
Kjetil Selvik, CMI/U Bergen–Contested
Boundaries: Insiders and Outsiders in
Iranian Politics
Dina Bishara, George Washington
U–Insiders and Outsiders in PostAuthoritarian Labor Politics in Egypt
Tora Systad Tyssen, U Oslo–The
Awakening of a Sunni Street in Bahrain
Alison Pargeter, Royal United Services
Inst–The New ‘Outsiders’ in Post-Qadhafi
Libya
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3457) Linguistic Performance and
Speakers’ Repertoires: Evidence from
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Organized by Kristen Brustad
Sponsored by
Chair: Kristen Brustad, U Texas Austin
Corinne Stokes, U Texas Austin–Verbal
Performance and Variety: Sung Poetry
in Speaker Repertoires
Nesrine Basheer, U Texas Austin–Morsi
on Stage
Mona AlShihry, U Texas Austin–The
Role of Performance in the Creation of a
New Variety in Saudi Arabia
Michael Mendoza, U Texas Austin–
Linguistic Performance in Qatari Arabic
Yavuz Yasar, U Denver–Turkey’s Justice
and Development Party and the Social
Policy
Ozlem Aslan, U Toronto–Subjective
Aspects of Water Privatization in
Turkey: An Analysis of Emerging Public
Critique of Small-Scale Dams
Begum Uzun, U Toronto–Cultivating a
Compliant Youth: The State and Youth
Political Disengagement in Post-1980
Turkey
Fatmanil Doner, Bogazici U–
Understanding Local-Based Rural
Resilience in Turkey: Challenges and
Strategies for Structural Adjustment
Sude Bahar Beltan, U Toronto–Seeing
Like a Firm: Norms of Municipal
Governance in Istanbul
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3574) The Mechanics of Control
Chair: Hale Yilmaz, Southern Illinois U
Carbondale
Dris Soulaimani, UCLA–Investigating
the Language Ideologies and Politics of
Berber Standardization in Morocco
Noa Shaindlinger, U Toronto–
Imagining Futures: Planning the Return
of the Palestinian Refugees
Nigel Parsons, Massey U–Biopolitics and
Resistance in Palestinian East Jerusalem
Shamiran Mako, U Edinburgh–
Governing Iraq: The Impact of State
Institutional Design on Ethno-Religious
Fragmentation
Alissa Walter, Georgetown U–Peasant
Resistance and the Egyptian Family
Planning Program
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3586) At the Crossroads of Education
Chair: Hany Abdul Galiil Fazza,
Georgetown U SFS-Q
Elizabeth Buckner, Stanford U–The
Politics and Policies of Private Higher
Education in Jordan, Morocco and
Tunisia
Kendra Taylor, Pennsylvania State U–
Peace Education as a Tool to Address
Youth Violence in Morocco
Rebecca Hodges, Washington U
St. Louis–Female Teacher Agency
in Jordan’s Education Reform for a
Knowledge Economy
Catherine Orsborn, U Denver/Iliff
School of Theology–Teaching Religion
in Jordan: Approaches to Reform in
Jordanian Textbooks and the Meaning of
“Inter-Faith” Education
000 11am-1pm
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3599) Palestinians All Over the Place:
Repercussions of Nation Building
Sharri Plonski, SOAS, U London–
The Politics of Space and Palestinian
Citizens’ Struggle in Israel
Caroline Mall Dibiasi, European U
Institute–The Question of Democratic
Participation: Palestinian Discourses on
Violence and Peace
Sergio I. Moya Mena, U Costa Rica/
National U–The Diaspora and the
Recognition of the Palestinian State: The
Case of Honduras and El Salvador
Rawan Arar, UC San Diego–Adversarial
Allegiances: Appropriating the IsraeliPalestinian Conflict in Northern Ireland
Jeffrey Reger, Georgetown U–
Historiography of the Arabic Press in
Palestine c. 1908-1948
000 11am-1pm
Room TBA
(3609) Early Modern Social Tensions
Chair: Linda T. Darling, U Arizona
Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, Ozyegin U–
Glimmers of a Specialized Court System
in the Eighteenth Century: The Davud
Pasha Court in Istanbul
Onur Yildirim, Middle East Technical
U–Rethinking the Student Rebellions in
the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire:
The Case of Bursa
Stefan Winter, U Québec à Montréal–
‘Alawi Peasants, Landlords and Gentry in
18th-Century Syria
Ali Atabey, U Arizona–Marriage as
Status: Preserving the Existing Social
Hierarchy in the Ottoman Context
Room TBA
(3594) Scars of War
Salih Aciksoz, U Arizona–Beingon-the-Mountains: Turkish Disabled
Veterans, Embodied War Memories, and
Masculinities
Heidi Basch-Harod, Tel Aviv U–
Reclamation, Reconstruction and
Revolution: The Kurdish Women of
Turkey (1980s-2012)
u
1:30-3:30PM Sunday October 13
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3309) Masking Muslim: Islam as
Disguise in the Middle East, Europe,
and the United States
Organized by Mark Wagner
(3342) Imagined Cartographies and
Transformations of Urban Space in
the Ottoman Empire
Organized by Irfana Hashmi
Discussant: Julia Phillips Cohen,
Vanderbilt U
Chair: Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Col of William
& Mary
Discussant: Alan Mikhail, Yale U
Mark Wagner, Louisiana State U–Tarzan
of Yemen: A Carnivalesque CounterNarrative of Muslim-Jewish Relations
Ethan Katz, U Cincinnati–Jews as
Muslim, and Religion as Race in
Occupied France (1940-1944)
Jacob Berman, LSU–Masking Moor:
Islam and New Negro Uplift
Gundela Hachmann, Louisiana State U
Baton Rouge–Mimesis and Irony: Ilija
Trojanow’s Ways of Worldmaking
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3336) Monarchs, Presidents, and the
Quest for Survival in the Middle East:
Past, Present and Future
Organized by Thomas Richter, Andre
Bank, and Anna Sunik
Chair: Morten Valbjorn, Aarhus U
Discussant: Jason Brownlee, U Texas
Austin
Thomas Richter, German Inst of Global
and Area Studies, Andre Bank, German
Inst of Global and Area Studies, and
Anna Sunik, German Inst of Global and
Area Studies–From King’s Dilemma to
King’s Advantage?: Regime Trajectories
in the Middle East, 1945-2011
Russell Lucas, Michigan State U–Path
Dependencies or Political Opportunities:
Monarchical Resilience in the Arab
Uprisings
Michael Herb, Georgia State U–The
People Want the Fall of the Regime ... Or
Not
u
Ayelet Zoran-Rosen, New York U–The
Making of an Ottoman City: Endowments
in Sixteenth-Century Sarajevo
Robyn D. Radway, Princeton U–
Remapping the Ottoman-Hungarian
Frontier in Sixteenth-Century
Topographical Views, an Iconological
Approach
Irfana Hashmi, New York U–Practices
of Space in the Ottoman Empire: The
Neighborhoods (Haras) of Al-Azhar
Abdulhamit Arvas, Michigan State U–
Early Modern Spatial Sexualities and the
Ottoman Empire
Jessica R. Boll, Carroll U–Istanbul as
Embodiment of Geographic Good
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3344) Real, Compared To What?: The
Fiction of History in Modern Iran
Organized by Arta Khakpour and Amir
Moosavi
Chair: M. Mehdi Khorrami, New York U
Discussant: Mohammad R.
Ghanoonparvar, U Texas Austin
Amir Moosavi, New York U–A Scorpion
on the Steps of the Andishmak Railroad
and the Turn towards Modernist
Aesthetics in Iranian War Fiction
Arta Khakpour, New York U–Waking
From History’s Nightmare: Past as
Heterocosm in Hushang Golshiri’s
Novels
Sheida Dayani, New York U–History and
Drama in Nineteenth-Century Iranian
Plays?: From Comedy to Nationalism
Ehsan Siahpoush, New York U–A
Private Auschwitz: Reza Baraheni’s
Innovative Historical Narratives
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3360) The International and Its Sites:
Sovereignty, Gender and Struggle
Organized by Samera Esmeir
Andrew Arsan, U Cambridge–The
Paradoxes of Imperial Political Thought:
International Intervention, Provincial
Law, and Shared Sovereignty in Late
Ottoman Lebanon
Darryl Li, Columbia U–Jihad and
Intervention: Pan-Islamism and
International Law in the Bosnia Crisis
Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley–In the
Land of the International: Revolutions
and Their Possibilities
Wilson Chacko Jacob, Concordia U–
Colonial Rule in Malabar and a Family
from Hadhramawt: Gender Politics,
Sovereignty, and (Non)Intervention
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3361) Formations of the Subject:
Psychoanalysis, Pedagogy, and the
Sciences of the Soul in the Modern
Middle East
Organized by Sara Pursley
Chair: Omnia El Shakry, UC Davis
Discussant: Afsaneh Najmabadi,
Harvard U
Dina Al-Kassim, U British Columbia–
Psychoanalysis in the Postcolony:
Arguments for an Intercultural
Subjectivity
Omnia El Shakry, UC Davis–Theorizing
the Soul: Psychoanalysis and the Psyche
in Postwar Egypt
Sara Pursley, International Journal of
Middle East Studies–“Education for Real
Life”: Psychology, Islam, and Adolescent
Normalization in Hashimite Iraq
Shaden M. Tageldin, U Minnesota–
Phonetic Engineering: Willcocks, AlKhalidi, and the Vernacular Reformation
of the Modern Arab Subject
Stephen Sheehi, U South Carolina–The
Portrait as Effect: Nahdah Photography
as After-Image
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3375) Action, Innovation, and
Change: Assessing the Efficacy of
Islamic Legal Concepts
Organized by Elias Saba and Tilman
Neuschild
(3464) The Reception of Biological
Evolution in Muslim Societies
Organized by Salman Hameed
(3505) Expertise and Socio-Technical
Assemblages in Turkey
Organized by Chris Dole
Chair: Berna Turam, Northeastern U
Chair/Discussant: Felicitas Opwis,
Georgetown U
Anila Asghar, McGill U–Biological
Evolution in Curricula and Muslim
Students’ Perceptions
Donald Everhart, UC San Diego–
Muslims and Evolution: A Study of
Pakistani Physicians in the United States
Salman Hameed, Hampshire Col–
Evolution, Islam, and Identity: The
Reception of Biological Evolution in
Pakistan and Malaysia
Ehab Abouheif, McGill U–A Muslim
Evolutionary Biologist Confronts Islamic
Creationists
Chair: Brian Silverstein, U Arizona
Discussant: Salih Aciksoz, U Arizona
Tilman Neuschild, U Kiel–‘Revealed
Normativity’ or ‘Divine Islamic Law’?:
Studying the Shari’a from a Conceptual
Perspective
Carolyn Baugh, Gannon U–The Role of
Consensus in the Issue of Prepubescent
Marriage
Elias Saba, U Pennsylvania–Explanation
or Innovation?: An Analysis of the Farq
Fiqhi
David Zvi Kalman, U Pennsylvania–A
“Fiqh” Description of Halakhah: AlMaqdisi’s Attempt to Understand Jewish
Law
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3458) Wayni Al Dawleh?: The
Lebanese State in Its Presence and
Absence
Organized by Hannes Baumann and
Jamil Mouawad
Chair/Discussant: Michael C. Hudson,
National U Singapore
Raja Abillama, Georgetown U–Where is
the State?: Taking the Question Literally,
or, A Roadside Murder in Lebanon
Hannes Baumann, Georgetown U–The
Neoliberal Restructuring of the State in
Post-Civil War Lebanon
Daniel Meier, St. Antony’s Col-Oxford–
South Lebanon’s Contested Areas:
Identity Shaping in Political Discourses
Jamil Mouawad, SOAS, U London–The
Lebanese National Football Team:
Reviving the Ruritanian Lebanon?
000 1:30-3:30pm
Brian Silverstein, U Arizona–Statistics,
Commensurability and the Government
of Agriculture in Turkey
Chris Dole, Amherst Col–The Social
as Site of Repair: Post-Earthquake
Psychiatric Expertise in Turkey
Ebru Kayaalp, Istanbul Sehir U–
Separating Politics From Economics:
Experts, Regulation and Neoliberal
Governance
Elif Babul, Mount Holyoke Col–
Harmonizing Governance: EU Accession
and Human Rights Standards in Turkey
Room TBA
(3493) Islam and Democratization:
Lessons Learned from the Arab Spring
Organized by Jocelyne Cesari
Chair/Discussant: John O. Voll,
Georgetown U
Nader Hashemi, U Denver–Islam and
Democracy after the Arab Spring:
Toward a New Democratic Theory for
Muslim Societies
Michael Driessen, John Cabot U–Muslim
Democratization and Power Realities:
A Comparative Analysis of Islamist
Political Constraint in Algeria, Turkey
and Indonesia
Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard U–Redefining
Political Islam in the Context of the
Arab Awakening: Tunisia and Egypt in a
Comparative Perspective
Eric Davis, Rutgers U–What is the
Future of Iraq: Sectarianism or
Democracy?
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3518) The Production of Space in the
Middle East and North Africa: Scales
and Strategies of Contestation
Organized by Pascal Menoret and
Muriam Haleh Davis
Chair: Justin Stearns, NYU-Abu Dhabi
Discussant: Mona Atia, George
Washington U
Muriam Haleh Davis, New York
U–From Colonial Crops to National
Commodities: The Development of Olive
Oil and Wine in Algeria, 1958–1965
Fredrik Meiton, New York U–
Nation, Nature, and Technology:
Hydroelectricity on River Jordan
Pascal Menoret, New York U Abu
Dhabi–The Remaking of Riyadh and the
Emergence of “Global Urban Planning”
Arang Keshavarzian, New York U–
Who’s Afraid of the Persian Gulf?:
Geopolitical Imaginaries as Political
Alibis
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000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3537) Border Anxieties: Managing
Loyalties and Identities in New States
Organized by Lindsey Stephenson
Lindsey Stephenson, Princeton U–
Geography and Belonging: Social
Navigation and the Kuwaiti Houla
Matthew MacLean, New York U–
Transnational Nation: Mobility, Identity,
and Place in Emirati Memoirs
Johan Cato, Lund U–The Swedish
Political Construction of Islam, Muslims
and the Middle East: Creating the Right
Forms of Religious Adherence and
Democracy
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3560) Contemporary Egyptians and
Islamist Political Theory
Chair: Jerome Drevon, Durham U
Marwa Abdel Samei, Cairo U–Are
Islamists Losing Voters?: A Quantitative
Reading of the Egyptian Elections
Results after the 2011 Revolution
Andrew Simon, Cornell U–“The Salafis”:
Unpacking a Chameleon-Like Concept in
Contemporary Egypt
Aria Nakissa, U Winnipeg–Islamic
Theories of Secularism: The Views of
Safar Al-Hawali and Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Dina Rashed, U Chicago–Limited
Expressions: Intellectuals and Security
in Mubarak’s Egypt
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3564) The Burden of Historiography
Scott Savran, Virginia Tech–Khusraw
II Parviz and the Arabs in the Islamic
Historiographical Tradition
Oscar Aguirre Mandujano, U
Washington–Donkey Business: Ottoman
Patrons, Ancient Poets, and 16th
Century Biographical Dictionaries
Theodore Beers, U Chicago–The Tuhfayi Sami as a Source for Early Safavid
Literary History
Erez Naaman, American U–Nurture
over Nature: Habitus from Al-Farabi to
‘Abduh
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000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3588) From Ideology to Governance
Bahar Tabakoglu, New School For
Social Research–Working Class as a
Social Constituent of Religious Politics:
Comparative Reflections on Turkish and
Indian Cases
Lama Mourad, U Toronto–Personal
Status Reforms and Institutional
Differences: The Cases of Lebanon and
Israel
Ayhan M. Akman, Sabanci U–Religious
Pluralism, Secularism and the State in
Turkey and Greece
Sumita Pahwa, Independent
Researcher–Adapting the Islamist
Project to Governance: Some
Preliminary Observations from the
Muslim Brothers in Egypt 2012-2013
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3590) Managing Minorities in Late
Ottoman Empire
Chair: Ekrem Karakoc, Binghamton U
Emine Rezzan Karaman, UCLA–
Formation of Kurdish Identities in the
Late Ottoman Period
Brad Dennis, U Utah–Relations between
Kurdish and Assyrian Communities
in the Eyalets of Van, Diyarbakir, and
Mosul 1831-1864: The Logic of Peace and
Violence
Nilay Ozok-Gundogan, Denison U–
Kurdish Emirs, the Ottoman State, and
the Sharecroppers: The Making of the
Tanzimat State in the Kurdish Periphery,
1840-1880
Mehmet Ali Dogan, Istanbul Technical
U–American Missionary Activities in
Mardin
Sumaya Saati, Independent Scholar–
The Asiret Mektebi Revisited: Schools
and Arab Cohort Formation in the Late
Ottoman Empire
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3592) Dreams or Reality: Visual
Media as Shapers of People and
Culture
Chair: Dinah Assouline Stillman, U
Oklahoma
Ariane Sadjed, Independent Scholar–
Consumer Culture and the Design of
a Modern Self in Iran: A Discourse
Analysis of Iranian Lifestyle-Magazines
Kira Allmann, U Oxford–A Revolution
in Motion: Mediating the Digital Divide
in Egypt through Mobility and Mobile
Technology
Houda Abadi, Georgia State U–February
20th Movement’s Campaign Videos:
Collective Identity as a Political
Constitutive Rhetorical Strategy for
Change and Action
Vit Sisler, Charles U in Prague–Virtual
Visions, Digital Dreams: Video Game
Production in the Middle East
Hikmet Kocamaner, U Arizona–
Governing the Family through
Television: Secularism, Neoliberalism,
and Islamic Broadcasting in Turkey
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3603) (Re)creating Social Fabrics
Spencer Segalla, U Tampa–Catastrophe,
Loss, and Empire: Responses to the 1960
Agadir Earthquake in Morocco
Stephen J. Steinbeiser, American Inst
for Yemeni Studies–Protecting the
Moveable (and Immoveable) Feast: A
Survey of Legal Safeguards for Yemen’s
Cultural Heritage
Faiz Ahmed, Brown U–Preaching
the Rule of Law in Afghanistan: Shah
Amanullah’s Friday Sermons in
Qandahar, Autumn 1925
Rachel Hertzman, U Arizona–
Migration as Resilience and Contestation
to Social Structure
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3606) Acts of Women
Chair: Zaha Bustami, Independent
Scholar
Rebecca S. Robinson, Arizona State
U–Female, Muslim Bridge Bloggers:
Diasporic Currents on Women’s Rights
and Islam
Sara Chehab, Zayed U–The Role of
Social Media in the Acquisition and
Sharing of News: The Case of Emirati
Women
Naima Hachad, American U–Aesthetics
of Violence in Contemporary Muslim
Women’s Art
Mounira Soliman, American U Cairo–
Egyptian Women between Art and
Activism
Susana Galan, Rutgers U–Jointly
Redefining Honor and Shame: Personal
and Political Bloggers Discuss Sexual
Harassment in the Post-Mubarak
Egyptian Virtual Sphere
Sarah Fischer, Marymount U–What’s in
Vogue?: The Hijab, Islam, and Women’s
Magazines for Religious Women
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
(3607) Empire and Resistence in North
Africa
Chair: Abdelilah Bouasria, Monterey
Inst of International Studies
Maysam Taher, New York U–
Mediterranean Mirrors: Fascist Visual
Culture and the Making of Italian Empire
Eric Schewe, U Michigan Ann
Arbor–Whose Fifth Column?: Italian
Internment, Law and the Redefinition
of Foreign Communities in Egypt during
the Second World War
Osire Glacier, Bishop’s U–Resisting
Patriarchy: Political Women in PreModern Morocco
Johannes Becke, Free U Berlin–
Irredentism after Empire: Morocco’s
Rule over Western Sahara as a Case of
Postcolonial State Expansion
000 1:30-3:30pm
Room TBA
Thematic
Conversation
(3627) The Revolution within
Palestinian History
Organized by Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Session Leader: Karma Nabulsi, Oxford U
Karma Nabulsi, Oxford U
Abdel Razzaq Takriti, U Sheffield
Jamil Hilal, Inst for Palestine Studies
Mezna Qato, St. Antony’s Col, Oxford
Ilan Pappe, IAIS Exeter
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