MESA ANNUAL MEETING 2015 Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, CO November 21-24, 2015

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The following listing of CMES- and Harvard-affiliated speakers was compiled from the MESA Program that was posted in September. Please note that there may have been updates since this time that we were unable to include. For the most current information on times and locations of these panels, visit: https://mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program.php

Pages i.-iii Harvard affiliate listing with session times

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Harvard Affiliate Listing with day(s)/time(s) of MESA sessions

Harvard Faculty: . Bayoumi, Soha (Lecturer, History of Science) – Sun, 11-1 . Cammett, Melani (Professor of Government)—Sat, 5:30-7:30 pm; Mon, 5-7 . Dundar Akarca, Halit (Davis Center Visiting Professor)—Sun 8:30-10:30 . Fahmy, Khaled (Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle East History)—Sat, 5:30-7:30 . Granara, William (CMES Director, Professor of Arabic, NELC) – Sun, 11-1 . Sullivan, Nevenka Korica (Senior Preceptor NELC, CASA Director)– Sun, 11-1 . Mottahedeh, Roy (Gurney Professor of History) – Sun, 2-4 . Ragab, Ahmed (HDS; Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion) – Mon, 5-7

Harvard Students: . Agsar Alibhai, Ali (NELC) – Sun, 2-4; Mon, 11-1 . Andani, Khalil (Divinity, NELC) – Mon, 5-7 . Anderson, Paul (NELC) – Mon, 5-7 . Arslan, C. Ceyhun (NELC) – Sun, 4:30-6:30; Mon, 11-1 . Ben Ismail, Youssef (NELC) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Blecker, Allison (NELC) – Sun, 11-1 . Elston, Mary (NELC) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Gurbuzel, Aslihan (History/MES) – Sun, 11-1 . Hagerdal, Nils (Public Policy) – Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Halaby, Greg (NELC) – Sun, 11-1 . Lessersohn, Nora Cherishian (History/MES) – Sun, 2-4 . Liew, Han Hsien (History/MES) – Sun, 2-4; Chair, Mon, 11-1 i

. Schriber, Ari (NELC) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Shopov, Aleksandar (History/MES) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Thompson, Laura (Study of Religion) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Viengkhou, Aaron (Divinity) – Mon, 5-7 . Vodopyanov, Anya (Government)—Sat, 5:30-7:30

Current Visiting Researchers, Affiliates in Research, Fellows & Associates: . Al-Masri, Khaled (CMES Visiting Scholar) – Sun, 11-1 . Bishara, Dina (HKS Middle East Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow) – Mon, 5-7 . Falb Kalisman, Hilary (CMES Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Kamali, Maryam (CMES Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow) – Sun, 2-4 . Mestyan, Adam (Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Miller, Susan Gilson (CMES Associate) – Sun, 2-4; Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Sharafuddin, Mohammed (CMES Visiting Scholar) – Sun, 4:30-6:30

Harvard CMES Alumni/ae: . Bacharach, Jere L. (AM, MES) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Bazzaz, Sahar (PhD, History/MES)—Sat, 5:30-7:30 . Bowen Savant, Sarah (Phd, HAA/MES)—Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Chalcraft, John (PhD, History/MES) – Sun, 2-4 . Dailami, Ahmed (AM, MES) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Gelvin, James L. (PhD, History/MES)—Chair, Sat, 5:30-7:30; Chair, Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Kanna, Ahmed (AM, MES, PhD Anthro/MES) – Sun, 11-1 . Morrison, Heidi (AM, MES) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Nakissa, Aria (PhD, Anthro/MES) – Sun, 2-4 . Safran, Nina (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Tucker, Judith (PhD, History/MES) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Winder, Alex (AM, MES) – Tues, 1:30-3:30

Other Harvard Alumni/ae: . Bishara, Amahl (BA) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Calderwood, Eric (PhD, RLL) – Sun, 2-4 . Clarke, Killian (BA) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Elfenbein, Madeline (BA) – Mon, 11-1 . Eltantawi, Sarah S. – Sun, 11-1 . Foster, Angel M. (M.D., HMS) – Mon, 5-7 . Gerbakher, Ilona (HDS) – Sun, 11-1 . Halperin, Liora R. (BA) – Sun, 11-1 . Kuru, Selim (PhD, NELC) – Mon, 11-1 ii

. Smith, Benjamin (PhD, NELC) – Sun, 11-1 . Stoltz, Daniel (BA) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Walker, Paul E. (BA) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Yom, Sean (MA, PhD, Government) – Sun, 4:30-6:30

Past CMES/Harvard Affiliates: . Anetshofer, Helga – Mon, 11-1 . Jiwa, Shainool – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Kuru, Selim – Chair, Sat, 5:30-7:30; Chair, Mon, 11-1 . Rollman, Wilfrid J. – Sun, 11-1 . Shahin, Emad – Sun, 2-4 . Tamari, Salim – Sun, 4:30-6:30; Tues, 1:30-3:30

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Program 5:30-7:30PM Saturday November 21 (4022) Piety in the Turkish (4035) Arabian Identities and (4080) Globalization of Science Marketplace: Spatiality, the Nation State in the Middle East Embodiment, and Gender in the Organized by Iain Walker Organized by Sahar Bazzaz Marketing and Consumption of Chair/Discussant: Iain Walker, Max Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, Harvard U Islamic Lifestyle Commodities Planck Inst Organized by Reina Lewis On Barak, Tel Aviv U–Risk and Rizq Amal Sachedina, Brown U–Reconfig- Management: The Globalization of Chair: Carolyn Goffman, DePaul U uring Histories as Part of Nation Actuarial Science Discussant: Carla Jones, U Colorado Building: Creating the Foundation of Sara Pursley, Princeton U–“Rending the Ethics and Religiosity in the Sultanate of Veils of Time and Space”: `Ali al-Wardi, Banu Gökarıksel, UNC Chapel Hill Oman Decolonization, and the Sciences of the and Anna Secor, U Kentucky–Devout Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey– Self Masculinities: Everyday Practices Confronting ‘The Invisible Army’: Mirjam Brusius, U Oxford–Stories and Moral Geographies of Piety and Identity, Community and Migrant Labor beyond Progress and Modernity: Consumption in Istanbul and Konya, in Gulf States Archaeologies in the Ancient Near East Turkey Amin Moghadam, Sciences Po- William Carruthers, European U Ozlem Sandikci, Istanbul Sehir U–The Inalco–Building the Nation through Inst–Messy Knowledge: Science and the Halal Nail Polish: Religion and Body Intimate Relationships: The Portrait of a (Archaeological) Field in 1950s Egypt Politics in the Marketplace Transnational Love Story in Dubai Jane H. Murphy, Colorado Col–‘Strange Nazli Alimen, U of the Arts London– Andrea Wright, U Michigan–National Sciences’: Close Reading Meets Network Islamic Identities, Spaces, and Consumer Identity and Intra-Regional Belonging: Analysis of al-‘ulum al-Ghariba in the Cultures: Male Members of Menzil and Worker Solidarity, Tribal Affiliations, 18th and Early 19th Centuries Süleymanlı Faith-Inspired Communities and the Shaping of Identities in the Gulf Sahar Bazzaz, Col of the Holy Cross–The in Turkey States Arrival of the “Taxonomical Revolution” Reina Lewis, U of the Arts London– in the Arabic Speaking World: Al-Āyāt Visualizing the Umma in Modest Fashion al-bayyināt fī ʿilm al-nabāt Marketing in Turkey (4066) Tunisiaʼs Progress since the Revolution (4093) Arab New Media Theory: (4027) Black Market Mobilities: Organized by Sabina Henneberg At the Intersection of Art, Clandestine Trades and Traffic Chair: John P. Entelis, Fordham U Technology, and Scholarship in the Middle East, 1880-1940 Discussant: Eva Bellin, Brandeis U Organized by VJ Um Amel Organized by Devi Mays and Stacy Fahrenthold Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins Marwan M. Kraidy, U Pennsylvania– U–Security State and Islamism in Reconsidering the Corpus of/in New Chair/Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, U Transitional Tunisia Media Theory: From Body-as-Medium to Arizona Elizabeth R. Nugent, Princeton U– Body-as-Data? Collective Memory and the Making Laila Shereen Sakr, U Southern Stacy Fahrenthold, UC Berkeley– of the Political Cleavage Structure in California–Media Praxis: A Hybrid “Enemy Aliens” or “Alien Slackers?” Tunisia Approach to Studying the Arabic Open Syrian Ottoman Immigrants on the Elizabeth Young, U Michigan–Islam and Source Movement American Home Front, 1914-1918 Islamists in the 2014 Tunisian Elections Laura Marks, Simon Fraser U–Delicate Devi Mays, U Michigan–The Sephardi Alexander Martin, Durham U–Agents Algorithms, Hand-soldered Networks, Connection: Transnational Sephardic of Change: The Role of Tunisian and Human Nodes in Arab Media Art Smuggling Networks between Old and Civil Society in Transition from Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser U–Memes New Worlds Authoritarianism to Democratization as Meaning: Theorizing Authority and David E. Gutman, Manhattanville Col– Authorship in Arab New Media Social and Spatial Dynamics of Migrant Bassam Haddad, George Mason U– Smuggling Networks in Eastern Anatolia, Knowledge Production between Blogs 1885-1908 and Books Michael Christopher Low, Iowa State U–Pauper Pilgrims, Passports, and the Failed Regulation of Indian Ocean Mobilities

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(4126) Sectarianization in the (4179) Sovereignty, (4197) Limitations and Middle East Historiography, and Visual Opportunities of Religious Organized by Nader Hashemi Culture in Middle Eastern Activism in the Middle East Museums Organized by Mona Tajali Supported by Organized by Isaac Hand Center for Middle East Studies, Discussant: Asef Bayat, U Illinois University of Denver Chair/Discussant: Asli Z. Igsiz, New Urbana-Champaign York U Chair: Danny Postel, U Denver Mahmoud Jaraba, Friedrich- Discussant: Nader Hashemi, U Denver Hannah Scott Deuchar, New York U– Alexander-U Erlangen-Nürnberg– The Palestinian Museum: The Dynamics Debating “Shariʿa Parallel Justice” in Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, U of Institutionalization and Palestinian Germany Exeter–Iranian Security Doctrine Emancipatory Politics Lihi Ben Shitrit, U Georgia– and Counterinsurgency in Syria and Jennifer Varela, New York U–Yad Domesticating the Holy: Women for Iraq: Strategic Depth, Militias and Vashem Museum: Spheres of Influence the Temple and the (In)Divisibility of Sectarianization in the Aftermath of the and Narratives of Pain Contested Sacred Places Arab Uprisings Ilker Hepkaner, New York U–The Sahar Maranlou, Oxford U–Religion: A George E. Irani, American U Kuwait– Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Path to Legal Empowerment or a Barrier How Regional Sectarianization Turkish Jews in Istanbul: “Narrative of to Women’s Access to Justice in Plural Threatens Lebanon’s Fragile Balance Rescue” at Display Iran? Fanar Haddad, National U Singapore– Isaac Hand, New York U–Making the Mona Tajali, U Oxford–Internal Pre-2003 Iraq: Sectarian Relations before Land Legible: Landscape and Sovereignty Criticism: Islamic Women’s Rights ‘Sectarianization’ in the Panorama 1915 Museum Activism in Iran and Turkey Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown U– Sachiko Hosoya, U Oxford–Non- The Politicization of Identity: (4185) The Sparring of the Governmental Faith-Based Charity Sectarianization and the New ‘Struggle Organization in Iran: A Case Study of for Syria’ Pen and the Sword: Arguing Kahrizak Charity Care Center Madeleine Wells, George Washington Political Legitimacy in the U–Sectarianism and Authoritarianism in Umayyad and Early ʿAbbasid (4217) States, Citizens, and Kuwait: 2003-2015 Periods Economic Welfare Bargains: Organized by Aram Shahin (4174) Revisiting Ottoman Reconsidering Distributive Literary Culture in the Era of Aram Shahin, James Madison U– Politics in MENA before and Kanunȋ Sultan Suleyman The Body of the Muslim Sovereign after 2011 Organized by Christiane Czygan as Impediment to Legitimate Rule: Organized by Anya Vodopyanov Blindness and Blinding as a Legal Chair: Selim Kuru, U Washington Argument for the Exclusion and Chair/Discussant: Steven Heydemann, Deposition of Rulers Smith Col Selim Kuru, U Washington–Poets at the Abdulhadi Alajmi, Kuwait U–Al-Ḥarra Gates: Patrons as Readers of Poetry in and the Formation of ‘ulamā’ Views Anya Vodopyanov, Harvard U– the Age of Süleyman I toward the Umayyads Reconsidering the Arab Authoritarian Hatice Aynur, İstanbul Şehir U–Literary Hayrettin Yucesoy, Washington U St. Bargain(s), before and after 2011 Space of Istanbul in Ottoman Texts Louis–Dynastic Power as Messianic Melani Cammett, Harvard U–Is There (1520-1566) Promise: Forms of Monotheistic a Faith-Based Welfare Advantage? Zeynep Altok, Istanbul Bilgi U– Messianism in the ʿAbbasid Caliphate Findings from a Pilot Study on the Revisiting Latifiʼs Biographies of (ca. 750-850 C.E.) Quality of Primary Health Care in Poets (1546): A Comparative Historical Lebanon Analysis Christiane Czygan, Hamburg–The Making of an Ottoman Royal Poem Collection

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(4230) Camps and Occupation (4273) The Long Shadow of the (4288) The Future of the Survey in Contemporary Palestine: Ottoman Legal System Course Politics, Economics, Literature Organized by James L. Gelvin Chair: Omar Y. Cheta, Bard Col Chair: Carol Bardenstein, U Michigan Chair: James L. Gelvin, UCLA Feryaz Ocakli, Skidmore Col–Institution Gozde Ege, U Washington–Palestine Building in the Middle East: Comparative Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio U Calling: Turkish Leftistsʼ Memoirs of the Analysis of Ottoman and British Legal Kate Elizabeth Creasey, UCLA Palestinian Camps Reforms Noor-Aiman Khan, Colgate U Ethan Morton-Jerome, U Arkansas– M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U– Corruption and Markets in 19th Century Thematic Enforce the Law? Politics and Labor Conversation Organizing with Palestinians on Israeli Ottoman Laws Settlements Kenneth M. Cuno, U Illinois Urbana- (4291) Effects of the Iraqi Champaign–Claiming Heirship: A Neve Gordon, Ben Gurion U–The Politics Invasion of Kuwait of Human Shielding Litigant Strategy in the Shariʿa Courts of Organized by Christopher Ohan Olivia Martina Dalla Torre, U Fribourg Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Switzerland)–Anthropological Glances Patrick Scharfe, Ohio State U–The Evolution of al-Azhar under Mehmed Ali Session Leader: Christopher Ohan, at the International Community in Texas Wesleyan U Occupied Palestine Pasha: New Archival Evidence Conerly Casey, Rochester Inst of Technology Ildiko Kaposi, U Chester Farah Al-Nakib, American U Kuwait

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A joint MESA/AAA Roundtable 8-9:45AM - Colorado Convention Center (700 14th Street), Mile High 4C

Mediating on Spaces: The Anthropology of the Environment in the MENA Region Organized by Tessa Farmer

Chair: Sofian Merabet, U Texas Austin Discussant: Tessa Farmer, Whittier Col

Mandana E. Limbert, City U of New York Jessica E. Barnes, U South Carolina Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Bard College Hsain Ilahiane, U Kentucky

8:30-10:30AM Sunday November 22

Today’s Affiliated Meetings (4064) Military Insubordination Amelie Le Renard, CNRS Paris–Western in the Middle East Expatriate Participation in Shaping 7:30-9am Organized by Holger Albrecht Hierarchies of Gender, Class and MEOC Board Meeting Nationality in Saudi Arabia Plaza Court 4 (Plaza-C) Chair/Discussant: Marc Lynch, George John M. Willis, U Colorado–Burying 8-9am Washington U Muhammad Ali Jauhar: The Life and CAORC/ORC Meeting Death of the Meccan Republic Plaza Court 2 (Plaza-C) Dorothy Ohl, George Washington U– 9-11am Fight, Flee, or Foment: Soldier Responses (4082) Making History: From Middle East Center & Program to Iraq’s 1991 Uprising Tabari to Tahrir Directors Meeting Kevin Koehler, American U Cairo–The Organized by Heather N. Keaney Governors Square 16 (Plaza-C) Political Economy of Defection from the 11am-1pm Syrian Army Chair/Discussant: R. Stephen MEOC Workshop for Outreach Holger Albrecht, American U Cairo– Humphreys, UC Santa Barbara Coordinators Build Barracks, Not Schools! The Plaza Court 3 (Plaza-C) Political Economy of Coup-Proofing in Amr Osman, Qatar U–The Lesser of Two 11am-1pm the Middle East Evils: Sunni Scholars and Egypt’s 2013 Western Consortium of Middle Coup East Centers Meeting Brian Wright, McGill U–Khawarij vs. Governor's Square 16 (Plaza-C) (4067) Trans/Nationalism in the Arabian Peninsula: Continuities Pharoah: Using Faith to Define Politics 12:45-3pm Heather N. Keaney, Westmont Col– MESA's Committee on Academ- and Disjunctures Shiʿism in the Eyes of al-Azhar Organized by Neha Vora ic Freedom Meeting Aaron Hagler, Troy U–Sunnifying Plaza Court 6 (Plaza-C) ʿAlī: Historiography and Notions of Sponsored by 8:30-10pm Legitimacy in Ibn Kathīr’s Kitāb al- Association for Gulf Brill Press, Middle East Medi- Bidāya wa-l-Nihāya evalists, and Dar el Machreq and Arabian Peninsula Studies Celebration in Honor of Wadad Kadi's Festschrift and Arabic Discussant: Waleed Hazbun, American Articles U Beirut Governors Square 15 (Plaza-C) Neha Vora, Lafayette Col–Vision 2030 and Qatar’s Trans/National Future: Redefining the Terrain of Ethnocracy within American Branch Campuses

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Roundtable G. Carole Woodall, U Colorado–Riffing (4125) Open Jerusalem! Towards to the Modern: Early Jazz, Modernism, (4090) “Innocents Abroad”: a New Entangled History and Interwar Constantinople of Citadinité (1840-1940): American Undergraduates and Kenan Sharpe, UC Santa Cruz–The the Middle East in an Age of Second New and 1968: Turkish Poetry, Concepts, Methods and Archives Organized by Vincent Lemire Uprising Belated Modernity, and Revolution Organized by Elena D. Corbett Supported by (4118) Rebellion in the Interwar ERC Funded Project Supported by Middle East OPEN JERUSALEM Council on International Organized by Reem Bailony Educational Exchange (CIEE) Discussant: Jens Hanssen, U Toronto Chair/Discussant: James L. Gelvin, UCLA Chair: Kimberly Katz, Towson U Vincent Lemire, U Paris-EST/ERC Open- Reem Bailony, UCLA–“The Children Jerusalem Project–Managing the Open Madiha DeRosa, Council on of the Desert”: The Exiled Rebels of the Jerusalem Project : A Transnational, International Educational Exchange Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927 Collaborative and Democratic Attempt Najeh AbuOrabi, CIEE Amman Study Ctr Nathaniel Greenberg, George Mason U– Michelle U. Campos, U Florida– Koray A. Unur, CIEE Istanbul Study Ctr The Politics of Perception in the Life and Mapping People and Places in Late Elena D. Corbett, CIEE Amman Study Ctr Work of Kamil al-Jadriji (1897-1963) Ottoman Jerusalem through GIS Fredrik Meiton, New York U–The Non- Leyla Dakhli, Centre Marc Bloch (4096) The Materiality of Presence Electrification of Nablus (CNRS)–From Mutual Understandings and Erasure: The Returns of Matthew K. Kelly, UCLA–Crime, to Multiple Translations: Languages Nationalism, and the Logic of Empire: of Jerusalem at the Turn of the 20th Memory and Historicity in The Case of Palestine Palestine and Israel Century Hilary Falb Kalisman, Harvard U– Anouk Cohen, CNRS–Shared Uses of Organized by Alejandro I. Paz and Anne Subversive Teachers and the Limits of Religious Schools, Libraries and Printing Meneley Rebellion: Government Schooling across Press in the Holy City: Questioning the the Interwar Middle East Concept of “Citadinité” through the Chair/Discussant: Lisa Hajjar, UC Santa Construction of Public Knowledge Barbara (4121) Appropriating (1840-1940) Jasmin Habib, U Waterloo–Re/Markable Boundaries: Epistemological Landscapes: Re-Membering Israel as Border Crossing in Middle East (4132) Imagining the Ummah: Palestine Studies Texts, Culture, and the Creation Amahl Bishara, Tufts U–Beyond of Community in Early Islam Solidarity: Palestinian Citizens of Israel’s Chair: Evelyn Alsultany, U Michigan Organized by D. Gershon Lewental Assertions of Presence and Memory through Protest Umayyah Cable, U Southern California– Sponsored by Anne Meneley, Trent U–Rooting and The Queerstion of Palestine: Crossing Middle East Medievalists Uprooting: Olive Trees, Memory and Theoretical Borders in Palestine Studies Materiality in Palestine Lara Deeb, Scripps Col and Jessica Chair: Parvaneh Pourshariati, ISAW/ Alejandro I. Paz, U Toronto Winegar, Northwestern U–Race and NYU-CityTech/CUNY Scarborough–Buying Houses in Silwan: Gender Politics in Middle East Studies El-Ad and the Historicity of Colonialism Careers Elizabeth Urban, West Chester U–Text, Tahereh Aghdasifar, Emory U– History, and Communal Identity in (4116) Modernism in Turkish Interrogating the Banal: Tracing Affect Exegeses of Qurʾan 33:4-6 Arts and Pleasure in Female Homosocial D. Gershon Lewental, U Oklahoma– Organized by Kaitlin Staudt and Kenan Space in Tehran From Israelites to Muslims: Biblical Sharpe Nadine C. Naber, U Illinois Chicago– Paradigms in the Futūḥ Literature Enough Already! Gender and Imperial Scott Savran, Nazarbayev U–So Elizabeth Nolte, U Washington–At War from Palestine and Syria to Chicago Who Were the Shuʿubis Anyway? the Intersection of Modernization, and Dearborn Constructing Identity in the Early Modernity, and Modernism: Aesthetic ʿAbbasid Caliphate Periodicals in Turkey (1950-1965) Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U– Kaitlin Staudt, U Oxford–In Her Mirror: Memory of Iran in Köprülü 01589, a Nezihe Muhiddin’s İstanbul’da bir Landru Library in Miniature and the Mass Culture/Modernism Divide in Turkish Feminist Writing MESA 2015 Preliminary Program u Page 13 8:30-10:30AM Sunday November 22

(4137) Restoring Tunisia: (4192) Shariʿa in Flux: Islamic (4232) Religion, Modernity, and Postrevolutionary Divorce and the Modern State Literature in Modern Iran Repositionings, Unholy Organized by Marya Hannun Alliances, and Indignified Chair: Mehdi Khorrami, New York U Chair: Anny Gaul, Georgetown U Youth Discussant: Judith E. Tucker, Organized by William Lawrence Aghil Daghagheleh, Rutger U– Georgetown U Constructing Differences: How Iranian Arabsʼ Identity Is Narrativized in Chair/Discussant: William Lawrence, Noga Malkin, Georgetown U–When All George Washington U Contemporary Iran Else Is Lost: The Expansion of Judicial Levi Thompson, UCLA–A Phoenix in Discretion in Shariʿa Courts in Israel Ashes: Modernist Poetry in Iran and Iraq Yahia Zoubir, KEDGE Business Marya Hannun, Georgetown U–Islamic School, France–Tunisia’s Security: The Ayat Agah, Claremont Graduate U– Law in US Courts: Sites of Collision or Forugh Farrokhzad and the Shaping of Democratic Transition’s Achilles Heel Conformity? Azzedine Layachi, St. Johnʼs U– Religious Identity and Discourse Samyah Alfoory, Georgetown U–The Kaveh Bassiri, U Arkansas– Tunisia’s Political Economy and the UAEʼs Thirty Year Battle against Citizen Challenges of Post-2011 Recovery and Whatever Happened to The Little Black Out-Marriage: A Gendered National Fish?: Defanging a Classic Iranian Reform Project Mehdi Ayari, U of Tennessee–(Mis) Revolutionary Text Kelli Harris, Georgetown U–The Politics Amir Khadem, U Alberta–The Enigma Managing Authoritarian Coalitions of Personal Status Law Reform: The in Tunisia: Ministerial Survival snce of National Memory in Bahram Beyzaie’s Controversy over Khulʿ in Jordan Yazdgerd’s Death Independence Samia Errazzouki, Georgetown U–The Maro Youssef, George Washington U– Neoliberalization of Shariʿa: A Political (4240) Contesting Power in 20th An Historical Reflection on Identity in Economic History of Moroccoʼs Personal Tunisian Foreign Policy Status Code Reforms Century Egypt Ricardo Rene Laremont, Binghamton U–Tunisian Youth, Predictors of (4205) Gender, Sex and Chair: Mohammad Salama, San Regional Instability, and Prospects for Francisco State U the Future Prostitution in Turkey, 1920s-1950s Nefertiti Takla, UCLA–Nationalizing (4156) War, Revolution, and Organized by Hale Yılmaz the Working Class: Transnational Exile: ‘Turkeyʼ and ‘Russiaʼ Criminality and the Expulsion of Chair: Amy Mills, U South Carolina after the First World War ‘Undesirables’ from Alexandria, Egypt, Organized by Pinar Ure 1926-1935 Emine Ö. Evered, Michigan State U– Sofia Fenner, U Chicago–Generation Seeking Solutions to the Early Turkish Chair: Yucel Yanikdag, U Richmond after Generation: Familial Ties and Republic’s Prostitution Question Opposition Resilience in Authoritarian Hale Yılmaz, Southern Illinois U Regimes Halit Dundar Akarca, Harvard U–The Carbondale–Changes in Gender Relations Relations of the National Liberation Hussam Raafat Ahmed, McGill U–Taha in Urban Turkey, 1930s-1950s Hussein and His Struggle with France Movement of Turkey with the Anti- Kyle T. Evered, Michigan State U– Bolshevik Forces: 1920-1921 over North Africa (1950-1952) Legible Bodies in Invisible and Contained Gerasimos Tsourapas, SOAS U London– Pinar Ure, Istanbul Kemerburgaz Spaces: The Turkish State’s Construction U–White Russian Émigrés in Turkish Nasser’s Educators and Agitators across of Places for Regulated Sex Work al-Watan al-‘Arabi: Tracing the Foreign Nationalist Imagination in the 1920s Roger A. Deal, U South Carolina Aiken– Michael A. Reynolds, Princeton U–The Policy Importance of Egyptian Regional Sexual Relations in Post-World War Two Migration, 1952-1967 East’s Eastern Front: The Ottoman- Ankara Russian Clash in the Great War and Its Gregory Hoadley, UC Berkeley–Legacies Legacy of Statebuilding and the Struggle over Erol Ulker, Istanbul Kemerburgaz U– Authority in Egyptian Official Statistics Bolsheviks, Communists, and Unionists: Formation of the Turkish Resistance Movement in Istanbul under Allied Occupation

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(4253) Constructing Memory: (4267) Making and Breaking Thematic Conversation Archives, Antiquity, and Boundaries in the Ottoman, Archaelogy Safavid, and Mughul Empires (4279) Unraveling the Middle East: Global History, Global Chair: Stefan Peychev, U Illinois Chair: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U South, and Futures Past Urbana-Champaign Organized by Sabah Haider and Wilson Ferenc P. Csirkes, U Chicago–A Chacko Jacob Jameel Haque, CUNY Graduate Center– “Panther-Like Poet”: Sadiqi Beg’s Fall From Jahilliya to Protection: Tanzimat from the Persian Literary Canon Session Leader: Wilson Chacko Jacob, Reforms and Changing Ottoman Conklin Tyler, Yale U–The Boundaries Concordia U, Montreal Attitudes toward Antiquities of Loyalty: Self-Fashioning and the Till Grallert, Orient-Institut Beirut– Kurds in the Seventeenth-Century Sabah Haider, Concordia U/EHESS Ö Publique, Public, ffentlich? Historical Eastern Anatolian Ottoman Borderlands Akram F. Khater, North Carolina State U ʿ Semantics of al- umūm in Late Ottoman Gregory Aldous, U Pittsburgh Michael Gasper, Occidental Col Bilād al-Shām (1875-1914) Greensburg–Turk and Persian in the Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley Joseph N. Hermiz, U Chicago– Early Safavid Court: The Case of the Legitimizing Ancient Lineages through Khurasan Campaign of 1512 Orientalism in the 19th Century: Hormuz Ayelet Zoran-Rosen, New York U–The Rassam’s Assyrian/Chaldean National Gazi of the Sixteenth-Century: Frontier History Warriors in Bosnia and the Imagined John Dechant, Indiana U–Muslim Shrine Past of the Ottoman Empire Graffiti as a Source for the Study of History, Religion, and Society

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(4016) Defining Approaches, (4053) Drugs, Gender, Ethnicity, (4059) Foreign-Policy Making Curricula, and Assessment and the Facebook Age: Culture in Authoritarian States of the Tools for Advanced Persian and Communication in the Middle East Instruction Formation of Afghanistan’s Organized by Noa Schonmann Organized by Samad J. Alavi History and National Identity Organized by Felisa (Farzana) Hervey, Chair/Discussant: Mehran Kamrava, Chair/Discussant: Blake Atwood, U U Arizona Georgetown U Qatar Texas Austin Discussant: Thomas Barfield, Boston U Jason Pack, Cambridge/Libya Analysis– Anousha Sedighi, Portland State U– Foreign Policy Formation in Muammar ʼ Content-Based Instruction of Persian James Bradford, Berklee Col of Qadhafi s Libya: When Ideology Trumps through Web-Based Modules Music–From Trading to Smuggling: An Pragmatism Nahal Akbari, U Maryland–What Is Historical Perspective of the Evolution of Noa Schonmann, U Oxford–Riding “Advancedness” in Foreign Language Drug Control in Afghanistan the Tiger: The Constraints of Populist Education and How Do We Get There?: Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, U Foreign Policy in Nasser’s Egypt The Case of Persian as an Additional Connecticut–Remembering or Russell Lucas, Michigan State Language Constructing the Past? Hazara Ethnic U–Jordanian Public Opinion and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, McGill U– Identity and the Legacy of a Contested Participation in the Anti-ISIS Coalition: Teaching Advanced Persian through History Pandering, Predicated, or Peripheral? Persian Media Zuzanna Olszewska, U Oxford–Online Hussein Banai, Occidental Col–Between Samad J. Alavi, U Washington–Teaching Poetics and Politics: Social Media and Nezam and the National Interest: The Medieval Persian Texts in the Twenty- Contested Visions of the Afghan Nation Burdens of Arbitrary Rule on Iran’s First Century Classroom Andrea Chiovenda, Boston U–“The War Foreign Policy Destroyed Our Society”: Masculinity, Victor Kattan, National U Singapore– (4043) Authenticity, Violence and Shifting Cultural Idioms Foreign Policy in the Making: Inside Palestine’s Statehood Strategy Memory, and Modernity in among Afghan Pashtuns Contemporary Moroccan Helena Zeweri, Rice U–Precarious Progress: The Politics of Fear and Loss (4060) Muslim Rulers, Non- Literature in Afghan Women’s Empowerment Muslim Subjects (1000-1500 Organized by Alexander Elinson Programs CE): Beyond the Dhimmi Discussant: Erin Twohig, Georgetown U Paradigm Organized by Luke Yarbrough and Roundtable Alexander Elinson, Hunter Col CUNY– Thomas A. Carlson Writing Orality and Performing Text: (4057) Ethnic Minority or Sponsored by Language Change and the Contemporary White? Social and Economic Moroccan Zajal Middle East Medievalists Christina E. Civantos, U Miami–The Lives of Arab Americans Moroccan Take on Al-Andalus: Multi- Organized by Rita Stephan, State Chair/Discussant: R. Stephen Layered Conquest in Contemporary Department Humphreys, UC Santa Barbara Moroccan Narrative Brahim El Guabli, Princeton U– Sponsored by Luke Yarbrough, Saint Louis U– Filmic and Novelistic “Returns” of the Arab American Studies Association Niẓām al-Mulk, al-Ṭurṭūshī, and the Moroccan Jews Reinvention of Dhimmis Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS Col–Between Chair: Louise A. Cainkar, Marquette U Eve Krakowski, Princeton U–Jewish Law Utopia and Dystopia in Marrakech and the Islamic Social Order in Geniza Nadeem Istfan, Boston U Legal Documents Claudia Youakim, U Florida Uri Shachar, Ben Gurion U– Germine (Gigi) Awad, U Texas Austin Multiculturalism Reconsidered: Maro Youssef, George Washington U Articulations of Multilingualism in Late Medieval Alexandria Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State U–A Necessary Other: Muslim and Christian Leaders in Medieval Eastern Anatolia and Jazīra

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(4061) A Century of Womenʼs (4134) Crossing Local and (4173) Art and Politics in the Wake Rights in the MENA: Where Global Boundaries: Networks of the Second Intifada: Between Have the Men Gone? of Representation in Ottoman Crisis and Transformation Organized by Katja Zvan Elliott Empire and Contemporary Organized by Kiven Strohm and Sascha Turkey Crasnow Sponsored by Organized by Dzovinar Derderian and American Institute for Sponsored by Neveser Koker Maghrib Studies Palestinian American Research Center Chair/Discussant: Elyse Semerdjian, and Discussant: Dorthe Kirsten Engelcke, U Whitman Col Oxford Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab Neveser Koker, U Michigan–“Heaven World, Iran and Turkey Nadia Sonneveld, Radboud U Nijmegen, for Women, Heaven for Infidels”: Netherlands–Women’s Injustice to Men? Representations of Femininity and An Analysis of the Most Recent Family Otherness in French Embassy Letters Chair: Kiven Strohm, American U Cairo Law Reforms in Egypt and Morocco and Persian Letters Discussant: Kirsten Scheid, American U Doris H. Gray, Al Akhawayn U, Dzovinar Derderian, U Michigan– Beirut Morocco–Gender Equity beyond the Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Ottoman Battle of the Sexes in Morocco and Armenian Marriage Petitions, Nili Belkind, U Illinois Urbana- Katja Zvan Elliott, Al Akhawayn U, 1840s-1870s Champaign–Mozart at Qalandiya Morocco–Men’s Struggle with Personal Ashley Dimmig, U Michigan–The Checkpoint: The Politics and Aesthetics Status Code Reforms in Morocco: Representation of Tradition: Early of a Palestinian Musical Intifada Patriarchy Revisited Exhibitions of Islamic Art in Turkey and Sascha Crasnow, UC San Diego– Fatima Sadiqi–The Role of the Military Europe Occupied Time: Changing Notions of Men in the Emancipation of Moroccan Başak Çandar, Appalachian State U– Palestinian Time in Contemporary Women Literature beyond the East/West Divide: Palestinian Art Orhan Pamuk and Juan Goytisolo Alessandra Amin, UCLA–Contemporary (4072) Beyond Orthodoxy Citizens, Imaginary Cities: Questions of and Confessionalization: New Place and Statehood in Wafa Hourani’s (4163) Rethinking Modernity: Qalandia 2087 and Larissa Sansour’s Perspectives on Ottoman Comparative Cases beyond the Nation Estate Sunnism 19th Century Transformation Rania Jawad, Birzeit U–Locating the Real Organized by Vefa Erginbas Organized by Murat Yildiz and Ziad M. in Palestine: Art, Politics, and the Museum Abu-Rish Chair: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U (4189) Border Crossings Chair: Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio U Yasir Yilmaz, Purdue U–Contextualizing in Arabic Literature: Confessionalism: An Historiographical Murat Yildiz, UCLA–Performing the Transnational Identities and Inquiry into Confessionalization Nation: Sports and Modernity in the Late Texts in Motion Paradigm’s Applicability to Ottoman Ottoman Empire Organized by Allison Blecker Sunnism Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio U–Beyond the Selim Güngörürler, Georgetown U– Non-State: Bureaucratic Expansion Chair/Discussant: William Granara, Sunnism, Qizilbashism and Shiʿism and Political Mobilizations in Early Harvard U in the Context of Ottoman-Safavid Independence Lebanon Confrontation Alma Heckman, UC Santa Cruz– Allison Blecker, Harvard U–Reading Vefa Erginbas, Providence Col–Many Moroccan Jews in the Crosshairs of Palestine through Chernobyl: Faces of Ottoman Sunnism: Approaches Modernity: Nationalism, Zionism and Transnational Crisis in Mohamed Toward Yazid b. Muawiyah in Ottoman the Civilizing Mission Makhzangi’s “Memories of a Meltdown” Literary and Historical Writing Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, U Khaled Al-Masri, Swarthmore Col– Aslihan Gurbuzel, Harvard U–How Pennsylvania–Taming the Machine: Caught in the Trap of Memory: Trauma, “Orthodox” Were the Ottoman ʿulamaʾ?: Technology in the Political Art of the Border Crossing, and Hyperrealism in Approaches to Defining the Islamic Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979-1988 Hassan Blasim’s The Iraqi Christ Community in the Early Modern Age Benjamin Smith, Swarthmore Col–Where Malissa Taylor, U Louisville–A To?: Contesting the Rihla in Yousef al- Sultanic Sunnism, a Hanifized Kanun: Mohaimeed’s Fikhaakh al-Raa’iha The Expansion of the Sultan’s Legal Greg Halaby, Harvard U–Al-Jahiz in Prerogatives (16th and 17th Centuries) “Playboy”: The Curious 20th Century Reception of an ʿAbbasid Mufakhara

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(4225) Anthropology in the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Arab Gulf: 21st-Century Mobilities, Paradoxes, and (4289) Proposal Writing and Research Design: How To Fund Protests, Part I Your Ideas Organized by Marcia C. Inhorn Organized by Suad Joseph

Sponsored by Sponsored by MESA GSO, EWIC Outreach Project, Arab American Association for Middle East Studies Association, Association for Middle East Anthropology, and the Anthropology Association for Middle East Women's Studies

Chair: Noor Al-Qasimi, U Exeter Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis

Ahmed Kanna, U of the Pacific–The Those embarking on academic careers must master the art of writing proposals Anthropologist as Migrant Worker: for research funding. Whether you are conducting research for a dissertation or Encounters of Privilege, Discrimination, book or seeking support for a special project-locating and securing funding is and Governmentality in the Gulf critical. This workshop will provide expert guidelines on how to write compel- Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona Col– Intimate ling proposals from the initial phrasing of the research question, step by step, Mobilities: Migrating Out of the Social to the research outcomes, significance, dissemination, and public outreach. It Contract in Asia will also address such issues as identifying and working with funding agencies, Beth Kangas, TAARII–Studying Medical effectively communicating research methodology and goals, preparing budgets, Tourism: Lessons from Yemeni Medical and planning for the dissemination of results. The workshop will be led by Suad Travelers Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, University Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale U–Cosmopolitan of California at Davis. She has taught proposal writing and lead workshops for Conceptions? IVF Sojourns in Global students, faculty, administrators, and NGO practitioners for over 30 years. Infor- Dubai mation about proposal writing may be found on Dr. Joseph's website at http:// sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/Faculty_Workshop/index.htm. Please sign up for the work- (4252) Islamist and Professional shop in advance by sending an email message to Mark Lowder at mark@mesana. Activism in Post-Mubarak org. Before the workshop, please browse Professor Joseph’s website and read the Egypt document, “Components of a social science and humanities research proposal.” Co-Sponsored by the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Outreach Project, the Arab American Studies Association, the Association for Middle East Chair: Abdullahi A. Gallab, Arizona Women’s Studies, and the Association for Middle East Anthropology. State U

Sarah S. Eltantawi, Evergreen State Col–Nahda vs. Sunna: Tracing the (4257) Media and Political (4258) Popular Uprisings in the Genealogy of the Muslim Brotherhood Expression in Contemporary Early 20th Century Movement in Egypt Ilona Gerbakher, Columbia U–The Turkey Chair: Weston F. Cook, Jr., U North Islamist Ethic and the Spirit of Carolina Pembroke Capitalism: Amr Khaledʼs Self-Help Chair: Frances Trix, Indiana U Mediascape Varak Ketsamanian, U Chicago–A Ewan Stein, U Edinburgh–The Jihad Joshua Hendrick, Loyola U Maryland– Factory of Rebels? The Establishment of Discourse of the Muslim Brotherhood The Politics of (Un)Free Speech in the A.R.F. (Dashnak) Military Academy during the Presidency of Muhammad ‘Conservative Democraticʼ Turkey in 1906-1907 Morsi Josh Carney, Indiana U–Cynical Valley William Bamber, U Washington–Anti- Soha Bayoumi, Harvard U–Egyptian - Conspiracy Genres in the Turkish TV Imperialist Intrigue and the South Asian Doctors’ Fight for Health and Social Drama “Valley of the Wolves” Revolutionary Diaspora in the First Justice: The Paradox of the Activist- Sezin Öney, Bilkent U–Losing the Sight World War Middle East Expert of “Truth”: Conspiracy Theories and Turkey’s Newspapers Liora R. Halperin, U Colorado Boulder– Didem Oral, European U Inst, Florence– Ottoman-Era Violence and Its Mandate- Mobilizing for Peace: Israel and Turkey Era Legacies in Palestine: The 1930 Arab as Unidentical Twins Delegation to London and the Zionist Yavuz Yasar, U Denver–Social Policy, Rediscovery of the Past Religion and Politics in Turkey Suncem Kocer, Kadir Has U–New Politics of News Circulation and

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Nazar Bagci, UC San Diego–War within SPECIAL SESSION War: The Maras Uprising and the Turkish War of Independence Wilfrid J. Rollman, Boston U–A (4296) Academic Boycott: Moroccan Perspective on Resistance and Accommodation to French Conquest Histories, Implications and Consequences during the Great War Joel Veldkamp, U Chicago–Sectarian Chair: Asli Ü. Bâli, UCLA School of Law Violence in the 1925 Syrian Uprising Zachary Lockman, New York U (4263) The Political Economy lorraine j. haricombe, U Texas Libraries of Oil: Divergent Modes of David J. Frantz, Conlon, Frantz & Phelan, LLP Rentierism In response to last year’s resolution urging the program committee ’ Chair: Hootan Shambayati, Florida Gulf to provide a forum for discussing boycott-related issues, this year s Coast U program includes a special session in which various perspectives will be offered. What is MESA’s past experience with controversial issues? What Veronika Deffner, National U is the experience of other scholarly organizations? What legal issues, if Singapore–The Omani Way of any, are at stake? This panel will feature three expert viewpoints and Modernization and Development After provide a venue for members to ask questions and discuss the issues the Oil Boom connected with boycott calls. Mojtaba Mahdavi, U Alberta–Rentier State and Beyond: Problematizing Politics of Petro Populism in Postrevolutionary Iran Katayoun Shafiee, National U Singapore–Petro-Knowledge in the Reassembling of the Iranian State in the Early 20th Century Marie Alienor van den Bosch, Princeton U–The Politics of Economic Diversification in Rentier States. An Expenditure-Centered Framework to Explain Autocratic Survival: The Contrasting Cases of Libya and Saudi Arabia

Thematic Conversation

(4280) Production of Knowledge on the Middle East: Current Access to the Region Organized by Maggie Nassif

Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt

Nevenka Sullivan, Harvard U Iman Aziz Soliman, American U Cairo Christopher S. Rose, U Texas Austin Sonia Shiri, U Arizona Kirk Belnap, Brigham Young U

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(4029) Re-Mapping Moroccan (4070) Democratic, Left, (4077) Towards an History and Culture: Northern Feminist and Liberal Activism Understanding of Identity: Morocco in Transnational in the MENA Ottoman Armenian Art, Perspective Organized by John Chalcraft Literature, and Music Organized by Janell Rothenberg and Organized by Barlow Der Mugrdechian Eric Calderwood Maha Abdelrahman, U Cambridge– Social Movements and the Question of Sponsored by Sponsored by Organisation: Egypt and Everywhere Society for Armenian Studies American Institute for Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U London–Feminist Maghrib Studies Activism in MENA: Iraq and Egypt in Chair/Discussant: Barlow Der Focus Mugrdechian, CSU Fresno Discussant: Susan Gilson Miller, UC Cengiz Gunes, The Open U–Kurdish Davis Activism in Syria: Building a Post- Jirair Christianian, Independent National Consensus in Uncertain Times Researcher–Orphaned Armenian Objects David A. McMurray, Oregon State Toby Matthiesen, Cambridge U–Leftists in Istanbul: The Patriarchate Museum U–‘You Will Die Here Just as My Sister in Arabia: Oil Workers, Activists and the Collection Died Here’: Themes of Success and Gulf Rentier States Nora Cherishian Lessersohn, Harvard Failure in Northern Moroccan Migration John Chalcraft, London School of U–Armenian Self and Ottoman Society: Narratives Economics–The BDS Movement and the Christopher Oscanyan’s Oriental and Eric Calderwood, U Illinois Urbana- Question of Radical Democracy Turkish Museum in London (1853-54) Champaign–Fracoʼs Hajj: Moroccan Ron Marchese, U Minnesota– Pilgrims to Mecca during the Spanish (4071) Parody, Emulation, and Sociological Implications in Armenian Civil War Adaptation: Adab in the Second Religious Art in the Late Ottoman David Stenner, UC Berkeley–“Dry Degree Period: Data from the Armenian Fruits” in Cairo: The Moroccan Student Organized by Matthew Keegan Churches of Constantinople during the Missions and the Failure of Spanish Second Armenian Renaissance - Post Colonial Policy Chair/Discussant: Bilal Orfali, American 1700 Janell Rothenberg, UCLA–Global Port, U Beirut Regional Place: Infrastructure and the (4098) Texts, Reasoning, and Narrative Politics of Region in Northern Jeannie Miller, U Toronto–Don’t Take Ethics in the Anthropology of Morocco It Seriously: Roasting the Patron in the Islam Early Ninth Century Organized by Fabio Vicini and Aria (4032) Israeli Domestic Politics Kelly Tuttle, Earlham Col–An Imitation Nakissa and Foreign Policy after the Game: Al-Ṣafadī in Mockery and Flattery March 17, 2015 Elections Matthew Keegan, New York U–The Discussant: Andrew J. Shryock, U Organized by Robert O. Freedman Indeterminacy of Parody: Ḥadīth Michigan Commentary and Grave Robbing Sponsored by Max Shmookler, Columbia U– Yunus Dogan Telliel, CUNY Graduate Association for Israel Studies Bowdlerizing the Past to Shape the Center–Reformism, Qurʾanic Authority, Present: Muhammad Abduh’s 1889 and Evidence-Seeking Muslims Chair/Discussant: Robert O. Freedman, Edition of al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāmāt Nermeen Mouftah, Northwestern Johns Hopkins U Kevin Blankinship, U Chicago– A U–Reading for Reform: Amr Khaledʼs Second Matching Brocade: Medieval Hermeneutic of Success Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U–Israel Theologians on Emulation (mu`arada) of Aria Nakissa, Washington U in St. and the GCC: The Impact of the Death of the Qur'an Louis–Human Rights, Bodily Practice, King Abdullah and the Divine Intentions behind Rami Ginat, Bar Ilan U–Israeli-Egyptian Scripture: Views from Egypt Relations in a Changing Middle East Nada Moumtaz, Ohio State U–Proof Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv U–Israel and Syria: in Islamic Law from Texts to Statistics: From War to Pecae, from Revolution to Debates on the Family Waqf in the Jihad Levant (1918-1945) Ilan Peleg, Lafayette Col–Assessing Fabio Vicini, Istanbul 29 Mayis Israelʼs Government in the Post-2015 U–“Reading the Book of the Universe”: Elections: Continuity and Change On Modernity, Reflection and Islam in Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv U–Israel and Iran Turkey after the Nuclear Treaty

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(4101) Radical Bodies: Gender (4122) Inclusive Growth in the (4140) The Language of Power: and Sexuality in Arab Digital Post Arab Spring Middle East Articulating Kingship in the Performance Organized by Edward A. Sayre Medieval Islamicate World Organized by Sonali Pahwa Organized by Han Hsien Liew Sponsored by Discussant: Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech Middle East Economic Association Chair: Ali Asgar Alibhai, Harvard U Discussant: Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard U Nadia Latif, Georgia State U–“Syria’s Chair: Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U Heart Eating Cannibal”: Producing and Discussants: Bassam Yousif, Indiana Zainab Mahmood, New York U–A Consuming Incrimination Online State U and Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U Kingly Appointment: Al-Malik, Fir’awn Lamia Benyoussef, Birmingham- and Concepts of Kingship in Medieval Southern Col–‘Allez, viens voir tonton,’ Karen Pfeifer, Smith Col, Emerita– Muslim Exegetical Writing Ummah Lolita: Digital Media and the Bottom-Up Elements in an Inclusive Han Hsien Liew, Harvard U–The Thirty- Reframing of the Sexual Politics of the Program for Sustainable Development Year Caliphate: Revisiting Legitimate Nation in the 2014 Tunisian Elections in Egypt Authority in Medieval Islam Sonali Pahwa, U Minnesota–This Is Not Hadi Salehi Esfahani, U Illinois Urbana- Maryam Kamali, Harvard U–The An Advice Column: Satirizing Gender Champaign–The Role of Institutions and Ghaznavid Dynasty in Connection to Performance on a YouTube Women’s Policies in the Allocation of Female and the Iranian Kingdom and the ʿAbbasid Channel Male Labor in MENA Countries Caliphate Edward A. Sayre, U Southern Jonathan Brack, U Michigan–God’s (4120) Arabic Graphic Novels: Mississippi–Inclusive Growth and the Mongol Caliph: Defining Absolute School to Work Transition of Young Schemes, Sensations, and Kingship in Ilkhanid Iran People in the Middle East and North Mustafa Banister, U Toronto–Walking Urban Spaces Africa the Political Tight-Rope: Ibn Khaldūn’s Organized by Anna Ziajka Stanton Dissection of Kingship and Classical Islamic Authority in Mamlūk Egypt Chair: Tarek El-Ariss, U Texas Austin Roundtable (4170) Shiʿi (Trans)nationalism Radwa El Barouni, U Texas Austin– (4131) Methods and Strategies in Comparative Perspective Recollecting the Self: Mapping Practices for Teaching the History of Organized by Robert J. Riggs and and Fragmented Landscapes of Cairo and Islam Beirut Zackery Heern Organized by Bland Addison, Worcester Benjamin Koerber, Rutgers U–Comics Polytechnic Inst of Conspiracy: Documenting Secret Chair/Discussant: Juan Cole, U Michigan Societies in Zorkany & Nagyʼs Istikhdam Sponsored by al-Hayat (2014) Zackery Heern, Idaho State U–Modern MESA's Committee on Anna Ziajka Stanton, U Texas Usuli Shiʿism as a Transnational Undergraduate Middle East Studies Austin–Getting the Picture: Affects and Movement Aesthetics in the Translation of Arabic Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky U– Chair: Jeff VanDenBerg, Drury U Graphic Literature Shiʿi Nationalism in the Twentieth Chip Rossetti, U Pennsylvania– Century Iran John Curry, U Nevada Las Vegas Translating Cairo’s Hidden Lines: The Najam Haider, Barnard Col/Columbia Heather Ferguson, Claremont McKenna City as Visual Text in Magdy El Shafee’s U–The Houthi Revolt: The Revival of Col Metro Traditional Zaydism in Republican Jeffrey Macris, US Naval Academy Yemen (1962-2015) June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart U Robert J. Riggs, U Bridgeport–Al- Sadr’s Indigenization Strategies and the Emergence of Iraqi Arab Shiʿism

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(4226) Anthropology in the SPECIAL SESSION Arab Gulf: 21st-Century Mobilities, Paradoxes, and (4292) Egypt—Intellectuals, Political Tyranny, Protests, Part II Organized by Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale U and the Death of the Public Sphere Organized by Nader Hashemi Sponsored by Association for Middle East Chair: Nader Hashemi, U Denver Anthropology Discussants: Nathan J. Brown, George Washington U, Mona El- Ghobashy, Independent Scholar, and Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U Discussant: Noor Al-Qasimi, U Exeter Amr Hamzawy, Cairo U/American U Cairo Sarah Trainer, Arizona State U–Piety, Emad Shahin, Georgetown U/American U Cairo Glamour, and Protest: Performing Social Identities in the Modern UAE Rehenuma Asmi, Allegheny Col–Majlis Amr Hamzawy and Emad Shahin are two of Egypt’s most prominent and Musings: Upper Class Qatari Women influential scholars and public intellectuals (albeit of different stripes). Both Debate Power Paradoxes in the Qatari have been active participants in the Egyptian Revolution and outspoken critics Majlis of the July 2013 coup d’état and subsequent crackdown. This Special Session Behzad Sarmadi, U Toronto–When will provide an opportunity for scholars of the Middle East to engage directly Goods Go Bad: Financialization, Crisis with these two towering figures of Egyptian intellectual life in a lively and open and Expatriate Life in Dubai format. The focus of this session will be on Egypt’s failed democratic transition; Mandana E. Limbert, City U New York– what went wrong and what lessons should be learned from this experience both Road Building and Development Fatigue for Egypt and for the broader struggle democracy in the Arab-Islamic world. in Southern Arabia

(4233) Late Ottoman Invocations of Politics, (4234) Kurds and Civil Society (4250) Social Mobilization Education, and Science in Turkey and Political Change in the Contemporary Middle East Chair: Samy Ayoub, U Texas Austin Chair: Giuseppe Acconcia, Bocconi U Discussant: Murat Somer, Koç U Ella Fratantuono, Michigan State Chair: Dilek Cindoglu, Mardin Artuklu U Istanbul U–Mosque, Mekteb and Migrant: Immigrant Petitions for Religious Nadine Sika, American U Cairo– Muna Güvenç, U Pittsburgh–Local Institutions and Educational Resources Contentious Politics and Youth Political Struggles: Contested Landscapes of in the Late Ottoman Empire Participation in Egypt Kurdish Cities in Urban Turkey Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth Emine Deniz, New York U–Relative Senem Aslan, Bates Col–Why Do States U–Hamidian Caliphatism in the Deprivation Theory Revisited: Evidence “Disappear” Their Citizens? Explaining Wilsonian Moment: An Indian from Kurdish Insurgency in Turkey the Variation in Turkey Intellectual’s Defense of the Ottoman Hamid Rezai, UC Riverside–Oppressive Gunes Murat Tezcur, U Central Empire, 1919 State and Authoritarian Opposition: Florida–Who Governs? Ethnicization Shaadi Khoury, George Washington U– Diffusion and Contraction of Social and Regionalization of Political Power in From Constitution to Canon: The Arab Protest in Iran, 1979-1989 Turkey Academy of Science in Damascus in the Kawther Alfasi, U Warwick–Political Sule Yaylaci, U British Columbia–State 1920s Participation in the Libyan Uprising: Legitimacy in the Face of Intrastate Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser U–Of Between Strategy and Symbolism Violence: The Case of Turkey Spoken Words and Knowledgeable Men: Nermin Allam, U Alberta–The Ottoman Knowledge Production and Trenches and Fortifications of Womenʼs Transmission on Yemen Re-Visited, Engagement in the 2011 Uprising 1872-1919 Maria Swanson, US Naval Academy– Russian Influence on the Writings of Mikhail Naimy

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(4268) Institutional and Cultural Transformation in the Interwar Middle East Sunday evening after the Presidential Forum and Awards Ceremony Chair: Dennis Sammut, LINKS (Dialogue, Analysis and Research) Just when you thought it was safe to Paul Tchir, UC San Diego–Passing pack away your dancing shoes the Ball – Britain’s Experiment in Hegemonic Restructuring in Late Colonial Egypt Arturo Marzano, U Pisa–Listening DJ Bassam returns with to Arabic Radio Transmissions in the Middle East (1938-43) Sami Sweis, U Chicago–Remembering ONE MIGHTY al-Kura: Contested Space and Memories in Transjordan, 1921-1922 Ran Levy, Tel Aviv U–Negotiating Law MMESSA DDAANNCEE PPAARRTYY in Transition: Litigating Criminal Intent E A C T under the Colonial Courts in Mandate Palestine Israa Alhassani, James Madison U–John Featuring a mix of electic Global Rhythms Van Ess’s High Hope and the National Education System in Iraq in the Early and a strong dose of Middle Eastern music. Twentieth Century

Thematic WARNING: The Surgeon General has determined that when com- Conversation bined, global rhythms and Middle Eastern music can cause unnatural looking fits of “dancing.” (4281) Is There a Medieval Muslim Mediterranean? Organized by Karla Mallette, U Michigan

Sarah C. Davis-Secord, U New Mexico Brian Catlos, U Colorado Boulder Camilo Gómez-Rivas, UC Santa Cruz Karen C. Pinto, Boise State U

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(4017) Humanitarianism in Florence Dallo, Oakland U–Functional (4110) Rethinking Muharram: the Middle East: War and Care Limitations among US and Foreign-Born Shiʼi Muslim Minorities Arab Americans: Results from the 2009– Economies 2013 American Community Survey and the Politics of Ashura Organized by Estella Carpi and Lamia Randa Kayyali, George Mason U– Performances Moghnieh Ancestry, Ethnicity and Language: Organized by Mara Leichtman Mapping the US Census Bureau’s Chair: Fabio Vicini, Istanbul 29 Mayis U Classifications of Middle Eastern Chair: Toby Matthiesen, Cambridge U Discussant: Ilana Feldman, George Americans since 1910 Discussant: Chiara Formichi, Cornell U Washington U Rita Stephan, State Department–Arab Americans as Hard-to-Reach and Hard- Samer El-Karanshawy, Qatar Faculty Nell Gabiam, Iowa State U–Palestinians to-Count Population of Islamic Studies–Texts, Interpretation Displaced by the War in Syria: Kristine Ajrouch, Eastern Michigan U– and Commemorating Imām Husayn Governmental Responses and Refugee Socioeconomic Variation among Arab Babak Rahimi, UC San Diego–The Green Networks of Assistance Immigrants in the United States: Does Ashura: Urban Space, Ritual, and Post- Estella Carpi, U Sydney–Human- Gender Matter? Election Iran itarianism and Chronic Emergencies Mara Leichtman, Michigan State U–The in Lebanon: From the July War to the (4079) Infrastructure and ‘Africanization’ of Ashura in Senegal Syrian Refugee Influx Kathryn Spellman Poots, Aga Khan Lamia Moghnieh, U Michigan– Challenges to Sovereignty in U–Muharram Rituals and the Making of Humanitarian Therapies of Violence in the Ottoman Provinces British Shiʼism Lebanon during ‘Warʼ and ‘Peaceʼ Organized by Emily Neumeier and Zoe Omar Dewachi, American U Beirut– Griffith (4117) Discrepant Itineraries: When Wounds Travel Bridget Guarasci, Oberlin Col–Winning Chair: Dina Rizk Khoury, George New Perspectives on the Hearts and Minds: Environment as a Form Washington U Politics of Travel, Leisure, and of Humanitarianism in the Recent Iraq War Discussant: Christine M. Philliou, UC Pilgrimage Berkeley Organized by Timur Hammond

Roundtable Zoe Griffith, Brown U–Bequeathing Discussant: Michael Gasper, Occidental Col the Nile: Irrigation Waqfs and Political (4018) Technology in the Challenge in Late-Eighteenth-Century Emily Schneider, UC Santa Barbara– Service of Pedagogy Egypt Jewish Travel to the Occupied Organized by Jeannette E. Okur Faisal Husain, Georgetown U–Ottoman Palestinian Territories: Challenging Hydraulic Projects and Condominium Transnational Ties through Alternative Sponsored by Rule in Iraq, 1638-1750 Tourism American Association of Michael Polczynski, Georgetown Timur Hammond, UCLA–Between Teachers of Turkic Languages U–Memâlik-i Mahrûse, Antemurale Islam and the Orient: Shifting Christianitatis: The “Well Protected Practices of Pilgrimage and Tourism in Chair: Jeannette E. Okur, U Texas Austin Domains” and the “Bulwark of Contemporary Turkey Christendom” on the Ottoman/Polish- Joana Lucas, CRIA-FCSH/NOVA–On the Funda Derin, U Wisconsin Madison Lithuanian Frontier Periphery of the Empire: Tourism and Jason Vivrette, UC Berkeley Emily Neumeier, U Pennsylvania– Leisure in Mauritania under French Ahmet Okal, U Arizona Rules of Engagement on the Ionian Colonial Administration Sea: Conflict and Confrontation over Gwenn Okruhlik, National U Singapore– (4058) Arabs in the US Census the Construction of Ottoman Coastal Displacement, Seclusion and Social Organized by Rita Stephan Fortresses Identities: Oman on the Verge

Sponsored by Arab American Studies Association

Chair: Randa Kayyali, George Mason U

Rachel Marks, US Census Bureau and Roberto Ramirez, US Census Bureau– The Development and Classification of the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Category for the 2015 National Content Test Page 24 u MESA 2015 Preliminary Program 4:30-6:30PM Sunday November 22

(4124) Turmoil and Tolerance: (4148) Banking on Land: (4167) Negotiating the Unpacking the Current Crisis in Agriculture, Capital, and the Intellectual Legacy of the 1960s Yemen Politics of Empire, 1850-1950 in Contemporary Cultural Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco Organized by Elizabeth Williams and Production in Morocco Aaron G. Jakes Organized by Ahmed Idrissi Alami Sponsored by American Institute for Chair/Discussant: Ahmad Shokr, New Discussant: Mohammed Hirchi, Yemeni Studies York U Colorado State U

Chair: Daniel Martin Varisco, Qatar U Nora Barakat, Qatar U–Contested Mbarek Sryfi, U Pennsylvania–Sab ‘at Credit: The Dynamics of Mortgage in Abwāb: A Renewed Commitment to Life Mohammed Sharafuddin, U Sanaʼa– Late Ottoman Syria Said Graiouid, U Mohammed V, Rabat, Yemen and the Culture of Tolerance Aaron G. Jakes, The New School U– Morocco & School for International Najwa Adra, Independent Researcher– Crisis Profiteering and the Nationalist Training–Contemporary Cultural Mediating Social Hierarchies in Yemen’s Critique of Finance in Egypt, 1907-1914 Production and Patronage in Morocco Highlands Elizabeth Williams, Brown U–The Mary B. Vogl, Colorado State U–The Marieke Brandt, Austrian Academy of Agricultural Bank: From Ottoman Legacy of the Journal Souffles for the Sciences–Huthis and Tribes: Prospects Institution to French Mandate Crisis in Contemporary Moroccan Cultural Press for Tribalism in Huthi-Controlled Areas Syria Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue U– Waleed F. Mahdi, U Minnesota–US Charles Anderson, Western Washington Resisting Neoliberal Subjectification in Drones–Houthi Responses: A Critical U–What’s Credit Got to Do with It? Laila Lalami’s Secret Son Reading of Ansarullah’s Resistance Capitalism, Class, and Palestinian Society Politics in Yemen under British Rule, 1919-1939 (4186) The Somatics of Reading Sam Liebhaber, Middlebury Col–A New Era for Language Diversity in Yemen: Hoda Barakat (4157) Identity Politics in the Organized by Michal Raizen Mahri and Socotri in the New Yemeni Fatimid Ismaili Tradition Constitution Organized by Paul E. Walker Chair: Aziz Shaibani, Baylor Col of Medicine (4143) Focusing Research on Chair: Farhad Daftary, Inst of Ismaili the Lives of Slave Women in Studies Drew Paul, U Tennessee Knoxville– Muslim Society The Materiality of Forgetting in Hoda Organized by Kathryn Hain Supported by Barakat’s A Stranger’s Letters Institute of Ismaili Studies Katie Logan, U Texas Austin–Women of Chair: Peter Sluglett, National U the Cloth: Histories of Touch and Illness Singapore Samer Traboulsi, UNC Asheville–The in Tiller of Waters Discussant: Lisa Nielson, Case Western Latter-Day Fatimids: Construction and Johanna Sellman, Ohio State U–Hoda Reserve U Expression of Identity in the Ṭayyibī Barakat’s The Stranger’s Letters and Ismāʿīlī/Bohra Community Shifting Notions of Diaspora in Arabic Karen Moukheiber, American U Beirut– Shainool Jiwa, Inst of Ismaili Studies– Literature Concubines and Qiyan in ʿAbbasid Lineage & Legitimacy: Examining the Michal Raizen, Ohio Wesleyan U– Biographical Compilations: Revisiting Baghdad Manifesto Debunking Fayruziat al-hawa: Listening the Boundaries of Slave Women’s Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev U–The as Individual Prerogative in Hoda Cultural Roles Fatimid Legacy and the Foundation of Barakat’s The Stranger’s Letters and Jocelyn Sharlet, UC Davis–Elegance, the Modern Nizari Ismaili Imamate Disciples of Passion Eloquence and Obscenity in the Life and Paul E. Walker, U Chicago–Rhetorical Work of ‘Inan (d. 814), Poet and Slave Methods of Demeaning an Enemy: Kathryn Hain, U Utah–The Chinese Fatimid References to the ʿAbbasids Connection: T’ang Influence onʿ Abbasid Royal Household Slavery Marina Tolmacheva, Washington State U–Ibn Battutaʼs Concubines: Mobility, Dislocation, and Ownership

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(4194) Law and Society in (4204) Jerusalemʼs Landscapes (4270) Representation, War, Turkey: Courts, Rights and of Loss, 1900-2014: Memory and Media in Contemporary Mobilization and Spatial Politics Lebanon Organized by Filiz Kahraman Organized by Thomas P. Abowd Chair: Ghenwa Hayek, U Chicago Chair: Resat Kasaba, U Washington Chair: Thomas P. Abowd, Tufts U Discussant: Amahl Bishara, Tufts U Kifah Hanna, Trinity Col–Writing the Ayse Toksoz, U Washington–When Body in Lebanese War Literature “Laws Are Important, But Not That Issam Nassar, Illinois State U–From May Farah, American U Beirut–Gender Much”: Regulating Reproductive Health a Center to a Periphery: The De- Representations in Lebanese Television: in Contemporary Turkey Urbanization of Jerusalem in 1948 Inequality on and behind the Small Screen Joakim Parslow, U Oslo–Jurisdiction Thomas P. Abowd, Tufts U–Jerusalem’s Hiba Bou Akar, Hampshire Col–The and Prerogative in Turkey’s Single-Party Post-1967 Landscape of Loss: Spatial Doubleness of Beirut’s Ruins: Between a Regime, 1931-1947: Siddik Sami Onar Politics at the Site of the Western Wall/ Past War and Wars Yet to Come and Ali Fuad Basgil Moroccan Quarter Onur Bakiner, Seattle U–Turkey’s Paul E. Chevedden, Independent Judiciary during the Kurdish Conflict Scholar–The Crusader Conquest Thematic Filiz Kahraman, U Washington–A New of Jerusalem in 492/1099: Arabic Conversation Avenue for Labor Activists in Turkey? Historiography vs. Historical Claiming Labor Rights as Human Rights Reconstruction (4286) BDS and Middle East Salim Tamari, IPS–Carnivalesque Studies: Historical, Political (4199) Envisioning and Jerusalem (1908-1930) and Legal Dimensions Experiencing the Colonial City: Organized by Jens Hanssen, U Toronto Cairo’s Downtown, Its Publics, (4236) State Policies of Control Session Leader: Suad Joseph, UC Davis and Urban Heterotopia in the Contemporary Middle Organized by Lucie Ryzova East Omar Al-Shehabi, Gulf Centre for Policy Studies Discussant: G. Carole Woodall, U Chair: Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State U Lisa Hajjar, UC Santa Barbara Colorado Kevin W. Martin, Indiana U–“The Voice Rima Kapitan, Kapitan Law Office Adam Mestyan, Harvard U–The Club of Syria”: Mass Media and the Arab des Princes and the Origins of ‘Imad al- World’s First Cult of Personality Din Street Lisa Blaydes, Stanford U–Rumors Mohamed Elshahed, New York U–A as Resistance in Iraq under Saddam Modernist Architectʼs History of Hussein: Evidence from the Ba`th Party Downtown Cairo Bureaucracy Elizabeth Frierson, U Cincinnati– Sean Yom, Temple U–Diffusion-Proofing Pharmacists’ Shops as Outposts of after the Arab Spring: New Authoritarian Modern Science in Downtown Cairo Strategies of Framing and Control Hanan H. Hammad, TCU–Students and Killian Clarke, Princeton U–When Do Their Brothel Friends in Underworld the Dispossessed Protest?: Contentious Downtown Cairo Politics among Syrian Refugees in Jordan, Lucie Ryzova, U Birmingham–From Lebanon, and Turkey Darb al-Gamamiz to Ismailiyya: Strolling and Spatial Practices of Efendi Youths

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2015 Presidential Forum

“The Future of Higher Education in the Middle East”

Moderator: Seteney Shami, Arab Council for the Social Sciences Lisa Anderson, American University in Cairo John Waterbury, American University of Beirut

2015 MESA Awards Ceremony Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2015, including presentations of the following awards:

Albert Hourani Book Award Roger Owen Book Award Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards MESA Mentoring Award Jere L. Bacharach Service Award Academic Freedom Award Undergraduate Education Award MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize

immediately followed by Back by

popular demand! MESA Dance Party with DJ Bassam

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Today’s Affiliated Meetings (4063) Gendered Spaces in the Roundtable Arabian Peninsula (4091) Researching Lebanon: 7-8:30am Organized by Sean Foley and Jocelyn Meeting of Officers of MESA's Af- Sage Mitchell The Newly Emerging Archival filiated Associations Terrain Governors Square 9 Sponsored by Organized by Ziad M. Abu-Rish 12noon-1pm Association for Gulf "Early Arabic Printed Books from and Arabian Peninsula Studies Chair: Nadya J. Sbaiti, American U Beirut the British Library" presented by Gale, Cengage Learning Chair: Sami Hermez, Northwestern U Qatar Graham Pitts, Georgetown U Director's Row H (Plaza-lobby) Discussant: Suad Joseph, UC Davis Linda Sayed, New York U 12nn-2pm Nada Moumtaz, Ohio State U American Council for Interna- Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U–Gender, Tsolin Nalbantian, Leiden U tional Education Luncheon the Courts and the Law: Challenging the Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio U Plaza Court 1 (Plaza-concourse) Private Space of the Home in the Public 6-8pm Space of the Court Arab Council for the Social Sci- (4092) Techniques and Tensions Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee State of Power in North African ences Reception U–“Women are Killing Us on Instagram”: Plaza Court 1 (Plaza-concourse) Gender, Social Space, and Saudi Arabia’s Narrative Epistemologies 8-10:30pm Online Community Organized by Jamiella Brooks AMEWS Reception Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern Sponsored by Director's Row H (Plaza-lobby) U Qatar–Qatari Women and the Majlis al- American Institute for Maghrib Studies Hareem: Participation and Effects Jessie Moritz, Australian National U– Amy Riddle, UC Davis–Social Products: (4041) Islamic Authority Women in Protest: Bahraini and Omani Women in the Arab Spring A Fictional Account of Martyrdom in Ben and National Identity: The Vania Carvalho Pinto, U Brasilia– Jelloun’s By Fire Evolution of a Dialectic Emirati Female Intellectuals: On Charlotte Pardey, Philipps U Marburg, Organized by Ari Schriber Challenges, Spaces for Advancement and Germany–Disentangling Fact and Fiction Production of Gendered Discourse in Times of Turmoil: Kamal al-Riahi’s Chair/Discussant: Osama Abi-Mershed, al-Ghurillā as a Multilayered Narrative of Georgetown U the Tunisian Uprising (4075) Palestinian Childhoods: Jamiella Brooks, UC Davis–Paroles Ari Schriber, Harvard U–Freedom as Negotiating a Place of Their Own Mésurées: Creative Agency in Two North Revival: Forging the Salafi Politics of Organized by Heidi Morrison African Francophone Narratives ʿAllal al-Fasi in 1930s Morocco Amy Kallander, Syracuse U–Radhia Sponsored by Youssef Ben Ismail, Harvard U–Good Haddad: A Political Personal Testimony Palestinian American Research Center ʿUlamaʾ and Bad ʿUlamaʾ: History (Re-) on the Bourguiba State Writing as Identity Making in Post- Colonial Tunisia Chair: Chiara Diana, IREMAM/Aix- (4094) The View from the Edge: Laura Thompson, Harvard U–Who Marseille U Discussant: Rebecca Granato, Bard al Decentered Histories of Modern Speaks for the Sacred?: Locating & Egypt Punishing Blasphemy in Post-Arab Quds Col Organized by Hoda Yousef Spring Tunisia Mary Elston, Harvard U–Threatening Bree Akesson, Wilfrid Laurier U–The Chair/Discussant: Heather J. Sharkey, Seclusion after the Coup: The Limits Socio-Spatial Development of U Pennsylvania of al-Azhar’s Political and Religious National Identity for Palestinian Authority Families and Children: Insights from the Concept of Territoriality Anny Gaul, Georgetown U–Kitab Abla Mohammed Alrozzi, U Fribourg–The Nazira: Egyptian Cuisine in the 1930s Everyday Negotiation of Palestinian Children Aaron Rock-Singer, Princeton U– Heidi Morrison, U Wisconsin La Forming a Pious Public: Islamic Crosse–Memory, Agency and Palestinian Magazines and Religious Revival in Children of the Second Intifada Egypt, 1976-1981 Omri Grinberg, U Toronto–The Child Hoda Yousef, Franklin & Marshall Col– Witness - Understanding the Key Role The Three Pleas of Jalila: Negotiating of Children in Testimonies Collected by Poverty and Patriarchy, 1908-1913 Israeli Human Rights NGOS

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(4097) Politics of the Body and Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara–Love Gokce Gunel, Columbia U–Spaceship in Masculinity in Turkey Curriculum, Passion Infrastructure: Neo the Desert: Energy and Climate Change Organized by Zeynep Korkman and S. Authoritarian Egypt and the Right in Abu Dhabi Can Aciksoz Ahmed Dailami, U Oxford–Moderate Arabs: Towards a New History of the (4196) Emerging Voices: Sponsored by Association Iranian Revolution in the Arab World Identity, Otherness and for Middle East Women's Studies Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Barbara–On Bread and Freedom: The Neoliberal Belonging in Mai Al-Nakibʼs Kuwaiti Narratives Discussant: Gul Ozyegin, Col of William Frontier of 1977 Organized by Angelica Maria DeAngelis and Mary (4147) History and Practices: Chair/Discussant: Nancy L. Stockdale, Zeynep Korkman, U Arizona and S. Can Social-Cultural Perspectives on U North Texas Aciksoz, U Arizona–Gendering Political Arab Music Power: Performing and Resisting Organized by Carl Davila Hanan Muzaffar, American U Kuwait– Sovereign Masculinity Locating Home in the Hidden Light of Sertaç Sehlikoglu, U Cambridge– Chair: Dwight F. Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara Objects Invisible Becoming: Masculinity, Piety, Angelica Maria DeAngelis, American and Transformation in Turkey Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve U– U Kuwait–Silence and the Agency of Oyman Basaran, U Massachusetts– The History of Arabian Music: Revisiting Objects: Negotiating Identity, Loss and Modernity, the Welfare State and Male the Legacy of Henry George Farmer in Belonging in Mai Al-Nakib’s The Hidden Circumcision in Turkey Western Musicology Light of Objects Serap Ruken Sengul, U Michigan– Carl Davila, Col at Brockport, SUNY– Emanuela Buscemi, U Aberdeen–A Circumscriptions: Violence, Sovereignty The Moroccan Andalusian Music Language Held Captive: Transcultural and Identity in the Frontier Anthologies: Evidence for Orality? Hybridity, Loss and Belonging Philip Murphy, UC Santa Barbara–Birds Viviana Peiretti, American U Kuwait– (4133) Law and (Public) Order: Who Sing in Many Trees: Sufi Singers & Challenging the Hegemonic Narrative Political Science Engages the Professionalization in Fez, Morocco of Orientalism: A South-to-South New Middle East Christopher Witulski, Florida State Perspective on Identity and Belonging in Organized by Jillian M. Schwedler U–“Because People Will Like It!”: Mai al-Nakib’s The Hidden Light of Objects Locating Malḥūn and Its Audiences Sarah Parkinson, U Minnesota–US Law, through Musical Flexibility (4201) (Re)Mappings: Zoning the “War on Terror,” and Middle East Gender Sexuality, and (4169) Governing Landscapes: Research Modernity in Iran Jillian M. Schwedler, Hunter Col, Experts and the Politics of CUNY–Protests are Legal: Law and Public Environmental Management in Chair: Behzad Sarmadi, U Toronto Dissent in Jordan the Contemporary Middle East Robert P. Parks, Centre d’Études Discussant: Camron M. Amin, U Organized by Sarah El-Kazaz and Maghrébines en Algérie–Law and Michigan Dearborn Elizabeth Angell Disorder: Demonstrations, Riots and the Uncertainty of Property Rights in Algeria Lior B. Sternfeld, Penn State U– Chair/Discussant: Toby C. Jones, Rutgers U Laryssa Chomiak, American Inst Accenting Iranian Femininity: The Story for Maghrib Studies–Configurations of the Polish Exiles in Iran Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Bard of Order: Judicial (Re-) Design in Ida Meftahi, U Maryland–“Degenerate” Col–Managing Waste in the Impossible Contemporary Tunisia Bodies, “Degenerate” Performances State: Experts and the Technical- Leila Pourtavaf, U Toronto–Gender, National in Palestine Interiority and the City Center: Locating (4136) Will the Arab Right Jessica E. Barnes, U South Carolina– the Golestan Harem during Nasser al-Din Please Stand Up?: History and What Does It Mean to “Have Awareness?” Shah’s Reign Politics since 1967 Knowledge Narratives in Egyptian Water Jairan Gahan, U Toronto–The Making of Organized by Hussein Omar, Sherene Management Shahrinaw: A History of the Formation of Seikaly, and Ahmed Dailami Elizabeth Angell, Columbia U–Governing the Red-Light District of Tehran, 1921-1979 Risk: Earthquake Preparedness and Chair: Jens Hanssen, U Toronto Urban Transformation in Istanbul Discussant: Walter Armbrust, U Oxford Sarah El-Kazaz, Oberlin Col–Etching Socio-Political Change into Stone: The Hussein Omar, U Oxford–Liberal Politics of Urban Transformation in Longings in Republican Egypt (1977-2013) Istanbul and Cairo

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(4211) The Ottoman Genocide Sharon Silzell, U Texas Austin–Blood Thematic Conversation of Christian Minorities: The on the Text: The Mushaf and the Construction of the Sacred Armenians and Assyrians Pamela Klasova, Georgetown U–Poets (4278) International Law, Organized by Doris Melkonian on the Periphery: Tajmīr and Taʿarrub in Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Umayyad Poetry Chair: Arda Melkonian, UCLA the Late Ottoman Empire Organized by Michael Christopher Low Discussant: Sargon Donabed, Roger and Aimee Genell Williams U (4265) Migration and Identity: Transnationalisms in Politics Session Leader: Aimee Genell, U Miami Arda Melkonian, UCLA–Resisting Attempts and Literature to Re-Create Identity by Renaming Will Smiley, Reed Col Doris Melkonian, UCLA–Tattooed: Chair: Elise Salem, Lebanese American U Lale Can, City Col of NY, CUNY Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion Virginia Aksan, McMaster U Avedis Hadjian, Journalist–Kurds, the Mary Youssef, Binghamton U–Re- Kent F. Schull, Binghamton U Armenian Genocide and the Evolving imagining Migration and Gender in Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington U Relationship between Both Nations Miral al-Tahawi’s Brooklyn Heights and Michael Christopher Low, Iowa State U Nicholas Al-Jeloo, U Melbourne–A ᶜAlaᵓ al-Aswani’s Chicago Linda T. Darling, U Arizona Clean Sweep?: The Attempted Purging of Chelsie May, U Chicago–On A Assyrians from Hakkâri Contemporary Notion of Arab Jewish Identity: Reading Haviva Pedaya (4014) New Approaches to (4231) Understanding the Intersectionally Christians in the Middle East Iraqi State: Sectarianism and Victoria M. Phaneuf, U Arizona–“We Organized by Febe Armanios and Candace Lukasik Authoritarianism Aren’t Hidden!”: Material Culture as Communication in French North African, Pied-Noir, and Harki Civic Associations Chair: Akram F. Khater, North Carolina Chair: Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota Leila Tarakji, Michigan State U– State U Passeurs across Time and Space: Discussant: Orit Bashkin, U Chicago Dr. Nassima Neggaz, National U Transnational Poetics of Muslim Singapore–Sunnis, Shiʿa, and the State American Poetry Alda Benjamen, U Maryland, Col in Iraq since 2003: The Construction of a Jeff VanDenBerg, Drury U and Dhia Park–Assyrians in Baʿthist Iraq: From Sectarian-Authoritarian State Ben Ali, U Arkansas–All Politics Is “National Minority” to “Religious Tim Jacoby, U Manchester–(Mis) (Not) Local: The Regional Impact on Denomination” Representing the Sunni Uprising in Iraq: Democratization in Tunisia Febe Armanios, Middlebury Col–Télé Culture Talk and the “Islamic State” Lumière: Christian Television in Postwar Yaniv Voller, U Edinburgh–The Lebanon Socio-Political Aspect of the Baʿth (4269) Education, Gender, and Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman Col– Government-Sponsored Militias in Colonial Legacies Conversations in Hybridity: Islamicized Northern Iraq: New Archival Findings Armenian Conversos in Contemporary Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State U Turkey and Syria (4247) Reading Islamic Texts: Candace Lukasik, UC Berkeley– Law, Biography, and Social Jonathan Sciarcon, U Denver–Changing Mobilizing Copts: Lay Politics and the History the Program: The AIU Girlsʼ School in Coptic Orthodox Church in Post-2011 Baghdad after WWI Egypt Samuel Anderson, UCLA–Domesticating Anna Dowell, Duke U–Renditions of Chair: Dale J. Correa, U Texas Libraries the Médersa: Islamic Education and Christian Citizenship and National Colonial Rule in French Algeria Belonging among Protestant Egyptians Alyssa Gabbay, UNC Greensboro–‘And Carine Bourget, U Arizona– It Is Not the Word of a Poet’: Poetical Communautarisme or Intégration? Ambivalence in the Prefaces of Amir Muslim Schools in France Khusraw (d.1325) Johanna Peterson, UC San Diego– Rachel Hagler Schine, U Chicago–The Nation, Girlsʼ Education, and the Etiology of the Black-Arab Hero: The Womenʼs Press in Lebanon, 1919-1922 Case of ‘Abd al-Wahāb Sarra Hilali, U Chicago–Women and Amir Toft, U Chicago–The Construction and Function of Precedent in Hanafi Education in Mamluk Cairo Jurisprudence

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(4024) Muslims, Moriscos, (4034) States of Imagination: Mehmet Fatih Uslu, Istanbul Sehir U– and Christians: Conflictual Four Perspectives on Iraqi Armenian Provincial Literature in the Ottoman Empire Encounters, Conversions, and Political Culture, 1900-2014 Toygun Altintas, U Chicago–Organizing, Organized by Annie Greene and Carl Exchange in the Early-Modern Framing and Policing Disobedience: Shook Mediterranean World Revolutionary Action, and Reactions in Organized by Diana Galarreta-Aima Sasoun Sponsored by Ohannes Kilicdagi, İstanbul Bilgi U– The American Academic Chair: Andrew Devereux, Loyola Responses of the Ottoman Armenians to Research Institute in Iraq Marymount U Military Service Law of 1909: Idea and Discussant: Diana Galarreta-Aima, U Practice Virginia Discussant: Peter Wien, U Maryland, Col Park (4055) Turkey in the First Two Nadia Zeldes, Ben Gurion U in the Decades of the 21st Century Negev–Conversos and the Inquisition in Annie Greene, U Chicago–From Baghdad Organized by Metin Heper Sicily in the Age of Carlos V with Love: Negotiating Ottoman-Iraqi Aaron Stamper, U Colorado Boulder– Regionalism under the CUP Carl Shook, U Chicago–Rivers and Supported by Ambiguous Boundaries: The Córdoba y Turkish Studies Journal Válor Family, Christian Concomitants Ruins: The British Imperial Episteme of and Muslim Dissenters in Sixteenth Iraq’s Geo-Space Chair: Metin Heper, Bilkent U Ankara Century Granada Pelle Valentin Olsen, U Chicago–Idle Discussant: Ahmet O. Evin, Sabanci U Libby Nutting, Bates Col–Morisco Days in Baghdad: Coffee Shops and the Corsair Narratives: Between Islam Politics of Leisure Paul Kubicek, Oakland U–Turkey in and Christianity in the Early Modern Omar Sirri, U Toronto–Seeing, the 21st Century: A Rising, Revisionist Mediterranean 1610-1631 Perceiving and Believing the Spatial Power? Nabil Matar, U Minnesota–Arab Politics of Baghdad Metin Heper, Bilkent U Ankara–Some Resistance to Conversion: From Malta to Notes on Secularism in Turkey Syria (4038) Identity and Selin Akyüz, Bilkent U–Governing Mohamad Ballan, U Chicago–The Sectarianism in Modern Syria Syrian Conundrum in Turkey: The 1501 Hispano-Muslim Qasida to Sultan Organized by Kevin Mazur Multifaceted Map of Forced Migration Bayezid II: A Reconsideration Alev Cinar, Bilkent U–Bringing the Chair: Steven Heydemann, Smith Col Ottoman Back In: The New Role Model (4025) Lebanese Writing beyond of Turkish Modernity at the Turn of the Max Weiss, Princeton U–The Idea of al-Ahdath Century Organized by Zaki Haidar Syrian Sectarianism Daniel Neep, Georgetown U–The State as Sectarian Relation? Rethinking Syria (4089) The Politics of Parody: Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech– Satire, Comedy, and Contestation Scandalous Women, Gay Men, and in Historical Sociological Perspective Biracial Children: Exploring Emergent Annika Rabo, Stockholm U–Regional in Arabic Literature and Culture ʼ Subjectivities in the Contemporary Politics and Shawai a Identities in the Organized by Emily Drumsta Lebanese Novel Raqqa Province Zaki Haidar, Carleton Col–Tropic Kevin Mazur, Princeton U–Sectarianism Chair: Emily Drumsta, UC Berkeley Exhaustion and Mountain Modernism as Social Boundary Activation: The Case Discussant: Elliott Colla, Georgetown U Ghenwa Hayek, U Chicago–Everyday of the 2011 Syrian Uprising Writing in an Extraordinary City: New Ian Campbell, Georgia State U–There Perspectives on Beirut (4052) Ottoman Armenians Is No Mystery Here: Patriarchy and before 1915: Old Debates, New Superstition in Wajdi al-Ahdal’s A Land without Jasmine Questions Samuel England, U Wisconsin-Madison– Organized by Yasar Tolga Cora Violent Laughter in Medieval Egyptian Arabic Chair/Discussant: Bedross Der Ayelet Even-Nur, UC Berkeley–Syntactic Matossian, U Nebraska Lincoln Satire: Language, Identity and Humor in Arab Labor Yasar Tolga Cora, U Chicago–Textile Samer M. Ali, U of Michigan–Wine Manufacturing in Yerzinka/Erzincan Satire in the Medieval Islamic Public and the Social Structure of an Armenian Sphere: New Money Ahsabis and the Community in the Nineteenth Century Politics and Poetics of the Bacchic

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(4100) Gender, Erotica and (4142) Accoutrements of Power: (4171) Teaching Arabic in the Literature in the Islamicate The Portrayal of Kingship in Globalized Arab Societies of the World the Medieval Islamicate World Gulf: Opportunities, Merits, and Organized by Nazli Ipek Huner-Cora Challenges Sponsored by Organized by Muhamed Osman Al Chair/Discussant: Selim Kuru, U Middle East Medievalists Khalil Washington Chair: Han Hsien Liew, Harvard U Supported by Helga Anetshofer, U Chicago–How Discussant: Wadad Kadi, U Chicago New York University Abu Dhabi Equal Were Female Converts? The Case of the Medieval Warrior Heroine Heba Mostafa, U Kansas–The Dar al- Laila Familiar, NYU Abu Dhabi– Efromiya Imara in Early Islam Contemporary Gulf Narrative as a Franklin D. Lewis, U Chicago–The C. Ceyhun Arslan, Harvard U–Poetics Pedagogical Tool to Promote Language Scintillating Sanā’ī, the Prickler Sūzanī and Politics Reconsidered: Ruins and and Culture Proficiency and the Sexual Lexicon of Persian Poetry ʿImāra in Classical Arabic Qaṣīda Nasser Isleem, NYU Abu Dhabi and Nazli Ipek Huner-Cora, U Chicago– Ali Asgar Alibhai, Harvard U–An Khulood J.M. Kittaneh, NYU Abu Dhabi Expanding the Boundaries of Mes̱nevi: Aqueduct of Glass: Understanding the –Promoting Language Proficiency and The Narration of Erotic Desires Relation of Fatimid Hydraulics and the Intercultural Competence in Arabic Irvin Cemil Schick–The Visual Codes of Legitimacy of Rule Language through Short Intensive Ottoman Erotic Illustrations Cameron Cross, U Chicago–The Man Immersion Program in the City of Al Ain Inside the Mountain: Architectonics of Mahmoud Azaz, U Arizona–Challenges Power and Kingship in Vis and Ramin Facing Arabic Language Planning Roundtable Dana Brostowsky Gilboa, Hebrew U Policies in the Gulf and Their Jerusalem–From Mamluk to Sultan: Implications in Teaching Arabic (4123) Whatʼs Happening In Appropriating Legitimacy by Visual Muhamed Osman Al Khalil, NYU Abu Yemen Means – The Case of Badr al-Dīn Luʼluʼ Dhabi–Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco Influences on Language Policy in and Ali Asgar Alibhai, Harvard U (4149) Anthropology of Hope Globalized Economies: The United Arab Emirates as a Case Study Sponsored by and the Futures of the Middle East, Part I American Institute for (4172) Economic Development Yemeni Studies Organized by Daniel Monterescu and Noa Shaindlinger, U Toronto and the Transformation of Gulf Discussants: Daniel Martin Varisco, Landscapes Qatar U and Sheila Carapico, U Sponsored by Organized by Brian Ulrich Richmond Association for Middle East Anthropology Sponsored by HE Amat Al-Alim Alsoswa, Former Association for Gulf Yemen Ambassador to The Netherlands Chair: Daniel Monterescu, CEU and Arabian Peninsula Studies Discussant: Benoit Challand, NYU Chair: Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee Kristen Waymire-Alhareedi, American State U U in Cairo–Shaheed: A New Signifer of ‘Adi Brian Ulrich, Shippensburg U–The Yasmin Moll, U Michigan–“Despair Is Transformation of Gulf Landscapes in Betrayal”: Practicing (and Losing) Hope the Early Islamic Period on Islamic Television in Egypt Noah Haiduc-Dale, Centenary Col, NJ– Reflecting the Gulf: Arab Views of the Sea in Literature and Song Victoria Hightower, U North Georgia Dahlonega–From Barren Wasteland into Productive Space: Abu Dhabi’s Environmental Development Projects, 1971-2004 Matthew MacLean, New York U–Nation- Building and the Commercialization of Agriculture in the Trucial States/UAE: The Case of Digdagga, Ras al-Khaimah

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(4187) Questioning the Moral in (4239) Networks of Empire: (4272) Womenʼs Activism: Islamic Education: Modernity Money, Pilgrims, and Texts Entrepreneurship, Networking, and the Reconfiguration of and the Pursuit of Rights Islamic Knowledge Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U Organized by Hasan Azad Chair: Michela Cerruti, EHESS Irena Fliter, Tel Aviv U–In the Service Sami Emile Baroudi, Lebanese of Ottoman Diplomats: Prussian Jews Namie Tsujigami, U Tokyo–Womenʼs American U–Sheikh Wahbah al- as Brokers of Financial Networks and Networks and Empowerment in Saudi Zuhaili on International Relations: The Cultural Exchange in the Second Half of Arabia Discourse of a Prominent Contemporary the Eighteenth Century Roksana Bahramitash, U Montréal– Islamist Scholar (1932-) Tobe Shanok, Independent Scholar– Social Economy, Social Entrepreneurship Hasan Azad, Columbia U–Creating a Economic Largesse to Palestine during & Women’s Economic Empowerment: Virtuous Muslim: Ebrahim Col and the WW I Generated New Realities A Case Study from Iran’s Sistan and Question of Islamic Ethics Donal Hassett, European U Inst– Baluchistan Province Caitlyn Bolton, Graduate Center, CUNY– Provision and Supervision: The Comité Zahra Ali, EHESS–Post-2003 Iraqi Colonizing Curriculum: Modernity, des Amitiés Africaines and Algerian Womenʼs Rights Activism: Between Morality and Islamic Education in Veterans of the Great War NGOs, Sectarianism and Rise of Colonial Zanzibar Madeleine Elfenbein, U Chicago– Conservatisms Archana Prakash, U Illinois Urbana- Ottomanism on a European Stage: Ali Hanan Nazier, Cairo U and Racha Champaign–Teaching Egyptians Suavi and Teodor Kasap in the Pages of Ramadan, Cairo U –Women’s Translation: The Role of Madrasat the French and British Press Participation in Labor Market in Egypt: al-Alsun in Indigenizing “Useful” Assef Ashraf, Yale U–At the Edge of Constraints and Opportunities Knowledge Empire: Frontier Administration and the Formation of Qajar Iran (4202) Law and Society in Post Thematic Revolution Egypt (4262) Populism, Resistance, Conversation and Social Media in the Israeli- Organized by Mahinour El-Badrawi (4276) State of the Art in Palestinian Conflict Chair: Amy Shalakany, American U Middle East Studies Organized by miriam cooke Cairo Chair: Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth U Discussant: Sherief Gaber, American U Session Leader: miriam cooke, Duke U Cairo Sara Hughes, UCLA–Land for Lives: Memorializing Violence through West Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State U Farida Makar, American U Cairo–Let Us Bank Settlement Construction Gunter Meyer, CERAW Mainz U Legislate Learning: The Dynamics of Law Maia Carter Hallward, Kennesaw State Randi C. Deguilhem, CNRS, TELEMME- and Education in Egypt U and Crystal Douglas, Kennesaw State MMSH, France Amr Abdulrahman, American U Cairo– U–Tweeting Resistance: The Evolution of Toru Miura, Ochanomizu U Who Really Fears Religious Liberties in Engagement Egypt? Religion and the Restrictions of Personal Freedoms in the Post- Brotherhood Egypt Mahinour El-Badrawi, American U Cairo–The Human Rights Movement and the Judiciary in Egypt: An Integrated Development Spanning Two Decades Karim Medhat Ennarah, American U Cairo–A Love-Hate Relation with the Law: The Changing Face of Legal Repression in Egypt Attention MESA Members... MESA Members Meeting 1-2:30pm Room TBA

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(4030) Population-Based Survey (4141) Concealment and (4154) Elites, State Formation, Experiments in the Middle East Manifestation: A Reappraisal and Post-Colonial Politics in Organized by Matt Buehler of Ghayba and Satr in Shiʼi Algeria History Organized by Robert P. Parks Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern U Organized by Edmund Hayes Qatar Chair/Discussant: Robert P. Parks, Discussant: David B. Hollenberg, U Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie Matt Buehler, U Tennessee–Corruption Oregon at the Courthouse? Evidence from a Hugh Roberts, Tufts U–Withholding List Experiment on Citizen Attitudes of Daryoush Mohammad Poor, Inst Allegiance, Seeking Recognition: Ait Morocco’s Judicial System of Ismaili Studies–Manifestation and Ahmed and the FFS Revolt, 1963-65 Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State U Concealment in Ismailism: Hermeneutics Malika Rahal, IHTP (CNRS, France)– and Ellen Lust, U Gotenburg–Traits, of Revival Vangard, Opposition and “Critical Competencies or Policy Signals? Edmund Hayes, U Chicago–The Political Support” to the FLN: the Parti de l’avant- Candidate Identity and Electability Production of the Twelver Occultation garde socialiste (1966-1989) in Tunisian, Libyan, Egyptian and Doctrine in the Late 3rd/9th Century Clement Moore Henry, National U Jordanian Elections and Early 4th/10th Century Singapore–The UGEMA Generation of Steven T. Brooke, U Louisville– Omid Ghaemmaghami, Binghamton Algeria’s Civilian Leadership Measuring Preference Falsification in U–Notes on Three Curious Reports an Authoritarian Regime: Results from a Concerning the Ghayba (4164) Negotiating List Experiment in Egypt Fragmentation: The Recent (4146) Anthropology of Hope (4036) Mobilizing against History of Four Islamist and the Future of the Middle Sexual Harassment in Egypt: Movements East, Part II Organizd by Laurence Deschamps- Reconfiguring Public Space and Organized by Noa Shaindlinger, U Laporte Social Responsibility Toronto and Daniel Monterescu Organized by Helen M. Rizzo, Susana Chair: Joshua Landis, Oklahoma U Galan, Angie Abdelmonem, Nicole Chair: Daniel Monterescu, CEU Grove, and Elisa Wynne-Hughes Discussant: Ted Swedenburg, U Jose Vericat, U Oxford–The Influence Arkansas of Regional Political and Religious Sponsored by Developments on Hamas Association for Middle East Nora Tataryan, U Toronto–Lingering Victor Willi, U Oxford–The Fourth Ordeal: Women's Studies between Defeat and Hope: Hearing the An Organisational History of the Muslim Stories of Armenian Women Immigrants Brotherhood in Egypt from 1973 to 2013 Chair: Helen M. Rizzo, American U beyond the Limits of Transnational Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, Cairo Migration U Oxford–Da‘wa before Politics? Discussant: Nancy E. Gallagher, UC Hosna Sheikholeslami, Yale U– The Egyptian Da’wa Salafiyya’s Santa Barbara Navigating Hope and Uncertainty: The Fragmentation under the Rule of Sisi Precarious Status of the Publication of Rory McCarthy, U Oxford–Tunisia’s Nicole Grove, U Hawaiʼi–The Western Social Science in Iran Ennahdha: Between Preaching and Cartographic Ambiguities of HarassMap: Daniel Monterescu, CEU–“The Right of Politics Crowdmapping Security and Sexual Return to Old Jaffa”: National, Binational Violence in Egypt and Postnational Hopes (4168) A Birds Eye of View on Elisa Wynne-Hughes, Cardiff U–Self- Sondra Hale, UCLA–The Concept of Governance in Zero-Tolerance Zones: Failure Transformed: Sudan and the New Code Switching in Modern The Spatial Politics of Stop Street Insurrections Arabic Harassment Campaigns in Cairo Organized by Sahar H. Ramadan Susana Galan, Rutgers U–Fighting Back: Self-Defense Initiatives against Street Supported by Sexual Harassment and Assault in Post- American University in Cairo Revolution Egypt Angie Abdelmonem, Arizona State U– Ghada Abdel Rehim, American U Cairo– The Social Is Political: The Politics of Patterns and Functions of Code Switching: Mobilizing Bystanders against Sexual The Case of Egyptian TV Commercials Harassment in Egypt Mona Hussein, American U Cairo–Code- Switching in Egyptian Advertisement Banners

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Esraa Essa, American U Cairo–The (4206) Interpretation and Jo-Ann Gross, Col of New Jersey–Local Functions of Code-Switching in the Practice of Maliki Law in the Expressions of Ismāʿīlī Identity in 19th Written Discourse of Three Egyptian Century Badakhshān Contemporary Novels: Based on Islamic West Devin A. DeWeese, Indiana U–Local Organized by Nina Safran Badawi’s Model Shrine Guides and Regional Identities Sahar H. Ramadan, American U Cairo– in 19th-Century Central Asia: The Discussant: Mohammad Fadel, U Code Switching in Opinion Columns: A ‘Description of Khwārazm’ and the Toronto Necessity or a Trend? Geography of Pilgrimage Russell Hopley, Bowdoin Col–The (4176) Narrative, Nationalism, Thematic Concept of ‘Amal between the Hijaz Conversation and the Modern Middle Eastern and North Africa: Legal Practice in the State Muwatta’ of Malik ibn Anas and the (4228) Orientalisms from the Organized by Fadi Dawood Fatwas of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani Periphery Nina Safran, Penn State U–The Maliki Organized by Maria Cardeira Da Silva, Supported by Promotion and Practice of Uṣūl al-Fiqh CRIA/FCSH-UNL Modern Assyrian Research Archive in al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Session Leader: Camila Pastor de Maria Chair/Discussant: Roberto Mazza, SOAS Camilo Gómez-Rivas, UC Santa Cruz– y Campos, CIDE U London The Islamic Legal Background to Spanish Imperial Protocols of Possession Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth Col Mariam Georgis, U Alberta–Nation and Paulo G. Hilu Pinto, U Federal Identity in Post-2003 Iraq: Re-inserting Roundtable Fluminense, Brazil the Assyrians Francisco Freire, CRIA/FCSH - Lisbon Fadi Dawood, SOAS U London–Assyrians (4209) MENA Middle Class Laura Mijares Molina, U Complutense and the Narrative of the Simile Massacre Report: Analysis and Cretique de Madrid David Simonowitz, Pepperdine U–Arab Organized by Prof. Hassan Y. Aly Artists in Cold War Capitals: Travelogues and Visual Narratives of Moscow and Sponsored by (4246) The Maturation of the Beijing Middle East Economic Association Turkish Republic Jacques Rouyer Guillet, SOAS U London–Lanu Yesh Falafel: Non-State Chair: Hadi Salehi Esfahani, U Illinois Chair: Hale Yılmaz, Southern Illinois U Narratives in the Forming of Israeli Urbana-Champaign Carbondale National Identity Aljaz Kuncic, United Nations Economic Seval Yildirim, Whittier Col School of (4178) Theater of Loss: Trauma and Social Commission for Western Asia Law–Development Clothed in Sacred (UN ESCWA) in Modern and Contemporary Robes: Neoliberal Religious Parties and Edward A. Sayre, U Southern the Secular State in Turkey and India Arabic Drama Mississippi Jessica Mecellem, Loyola U Chicago– Organized by Hanadi Al-Samman and Karen Pfeifer, Smith Col, Emerita Disappearances and Individual Criminal Mohammad Salama Hassan Y. Aly, Ohio State U Responsibility in Algeria and Turkey Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst U– Chair: Mohammad Salama, San (4220) Local Sources on the Converting Missionaries: Shifting Francisco State U Religious History of Central Missionary Perspectives on the Kemalist Regime miriam cooke, Duke U–Staging Trauma Asia from the Fifteenth to the Reuben Silverman, UC San Diego– Hanadi Al-Samman, U Virginia– Nineteenth Century People’s Party, People’s Houses: The Witnessing Traumas, Performing Organized by Jo-Ann Gross Origins of Political Polarization in Alterity in Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Turkey, 1950-1954 Desire Chair: Jo-Ann Gross, Col of New Jersey Ozturk Kart, Necmettin Erbakan Mohammad Salama, San Francisco U–“From Fatherland to the Motherland”: State U–Performing Loss: Tawfiq al- Ghulam Ayha Hossaini, Georg- A View to the Mass Migration Cases of Hakim’s Ahl al-Kahf (The People of the August-U Göttingen–The Religious Turkic Communities from Central Asia Cave) ’ Boundaries of Jami s Views to Turkey during the Republican Period Waleed Ziad, Yale U–Hazrat Fazl Ahmad William Stroebel, U Michigan– Peshawari: Excavating the Bukhara- Testimonial Fiction of the Greco-Turkish Peshawar Nexus after Nadir Shah War: A Comparative Textual History of Truth-Telling and Myth-Making in the Mediterranean MESA 2015 Preliminary Program u Page 35 2:30-4:30PM Monday November 23

(4248) The Environment: Urban (4264) Constructing the Islamic (4275) Language Politics: and Rural Biospheres State: Propaganda, Practice, Liturgy, Discourse, and Space Persecution Chair: Meriam Belli, U Iowa Chair: Sabahat Adil, U Colorado Boulder Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley Jackson Perry, Georgetown U–Planting State U Annette Lienau, U Massachusetts the State: The FAO Forestry Division in Amherst–Liturgical Arabic as a World Mid-20th Century Morocco Quinn Mecham, Brigham Young U–Is Language and Politicized Symbol: The Yaron Ayalon, Ball State U–Natural the “Islamic State” a State? Implications Case for Comparative Literary Studies Disasters and Religious Boundaries in of an Emergent Statehood beyond the Middle East the Pre-Tanzimat Ottoman Empire Michael Sims, U Washington–Yezidi Touria Khannous, Louisiana State U– Keiko Iwamoto, Osaka City U–A Study Identity in the Neighbor’s Gaze: Syriac Race and Spacial Politics in Selected on Turning Point for the Ottoman Policy Orthodox and Kurdish Perceptions Maghrebian Writings Applied to Nomads: The Settlement Seth Cantey, Washington and Lee U– Rachel Friedman, Williams Col– Policy on Turkish and Kurdish Nomads The Other Battle for Hearts and Minds: A Redefining Terms to Redraw the in the 17th-18th Centuries Comparative Study of English-Language Boundaries: Al-Bāqillānī’s Interpretation Robert Greeley, Middlebury Col– Jihadi Magazines of Muḥkam and Mutashābih Governed and Ungoverned Territory: Sabah Firoz Uddin, Merrimack Col– Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State U– Lebanon’s Shouf Biosphere Reserve Fashioning the Ummah – A Thoroughly Language Commodification in Morocco: Tamer Elshayal, Harvard U and Modern Muslim Movement An Emerging Discourse Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Harvard U and U Pennsylvania–The Sahara (4274) Perceptions of Culture as a Sociotechnical Space: Energy, Urbanization, and the Geographies of and Society in the Ottoman Power Period Suraiya Faroqhi, Istanbul Bilgi U– Conflicts Involving Sheep-Breeding in Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, an Agricultural District: Gebze in the Brigham Young U Mid-1700s Levent Kaya Ocakacan, Marmara (4255) Structures and U–Karayazıcı Revolt in Venetian Transformations of Political Documents Peter Kitlas, Princeton U–Infra- Economy Islamic Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean Chair: Sahar Taghdisi Rad, King’s Col Hatice Yildiz, Graduate Theological London Union–Understanding The Qizilbash Ritual and the Ritual Space in the Michael Siemon, Cornell U–The Social Buyruk Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Structure of Publicly Traded Firms in the Century Middle East and North Africa Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi U– Steve Monroe, Princeton U–Small Between History, Geography and Two Business and Collective Inaction in the Nations: The Political Thought of Pavlos Arab World Carolidis (1849-1930) Erin A. Snider, Texas A&M U–The Nizar F. Hermes, U Virginia–Recalling Politics of Economic Change in Sisiʼs al-Andalus in Early Modern Moroccan Egypt Diplomatic Writing: Al-Ghassānī’s Rihlat Mohamed Sallam, U Minnesota–I Am al-wazir fi iftikak al-ʾasīr (1690-1691) as Not a Farmer, I Value Education: NGOs a Case Study and the Fashioning of a Provincial, Rural-Urban Dualism in Upper Egypt Brandon Gorman, UNC-Chapel Hill– Tunisia’s Women Entrepreneurs: Religiosity, Self-Efficacy, and Success Gozde Guran, Princeton U–Expert Networks and Economic Governance in Syria

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(4026) Middle Eastern States vs. Linda Sayed, New York U–Asserting (4078) Medieval Ismaili Muslim ISIS: Governance Challenges in Roots: Muhammad Jabir al-Safa and His Thought: Methodology, Writing of a Shiʿa History Comparative Perspective Lynda Clarke, Concordia U, Montreal–A Hermeneutics and Cosmology Organized by Ioannis N. Grigoriadis Organized by Khalil Andani Shīʿite Clerical View of the Lebanese State: Muḥammad Jawād Maghnīyah Gulriz Sen, TOBB U Economics Chair: Daniel Beben, Nazarbayev U (1904-1979) and Technology–Iran and the ISIS: Challenges and Opportunities for Iranʼs Aaron Viengkhou, Harvard Divinity Diplomacy Roundtable School–The World as Discourse: Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, Bilkent U–EU Hermeneutics, Cosmology, and Natural and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle Science in the Jābirian Corpus and Early East and ISIS: Pragmatism vs. Ideology? (4045) Qatar after Sheikh Ismāʿīlism Yasin Bostanci, Bilkent U–Allies Hamad Khalil Andani, Harvard U–The Ismā‘īlī Divided: Differing Israeli, American and Organized by Mehran Kamrava Influence on al-Ghazālī: A Reassessment Turkish Understandings of the Islamic Paul Anderson, Harvard U–Ties of State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) Supported by Blood and Water: The Ritualization of CIRS, Georgetown University Qatar Knowledge and the Legitimization of the (4031) Egypt and the Dāʿī Muṭlaq in Ṭayyibī Shiʿism Contradictions of Liberalism: Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U Qatar Illiberalism within the Egyptian Steven Wright, Qatar U (4085) Women Writers of the Intelligentsia Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice U Late Ottoman Empire and Zahra Babar, CIRS, Georgetown U Qatar Organized by Dalia Fahmy Turkish Republic Abdullah Baabood, Qatar U Organized by James Ryan and Kara A. Chair: Dalia Fahmy, Long Island U Peruccio Discussant: Daanish Faruqi, Duke U (4047) Palestinian Decolonization and the Politics Chair: Kathryn Libal, U Connecticut Mohamad Elmasry, U North Alabama– of Self-Representation, 1948-67 When Myth Becomes Reality: The Organized by Maurice Jr. Labelle Nazan Maksudyan, Istanbul Discursive Construction of the Muslim Kemerburgaz U–An Unhappy Ending Brotherhood in Egypt Sponsored by Snow White: Ottoman Womenʼs Joel Gordon, U Arkansas–A New ‘Crisis Palestinian American Subjectivation and Empowerment in of Orientation’: Egyptʼs Liberals after Research Center Saibe Örsʼ Memoirs Tahrir and Rabʼa Kara A. Peruccio, U Chicago–My Self is Ann M. Lesch, American U Cairo– Chair: Shira Robinson, George Mine!: The Politics of Nezihe Muhiddinʼs Advocacy Organizations Struggle against Washington U Fiction in the Early Republican Era the Authoritarian State Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Kathryn Libal, U Connecticut–Suat Sahar Aziz, Texas A&M School of Barbara Derviş’s Reportage in the Early Turkish Law– The Paradox of Egypt’s Judiciary: Republic: Pioneering an Investigative Independent and Coopted Leena Dallasheh, Humboldt State U– Journalist Voice Decolonization Interrupted: Nazareth A. Holly Shissler, U Chicago–Public (4044) The Shiʿah of Lebanon: across the 1948 Divide Lives Publicly Remembered: Memoirs Maha Nassar, U Arizona–Colonial and of Two Women of the Early Turkish Inter-Confessional Discourse Republic and Relations Anticolonial Discourses Regarding Palestinian Women in Israel James Ryan, U Pennsylvania–“A Turk Organized by Lynda Clarke and Farah Maurice Jr. Labelle, U Saskatchewan– Named OʼBrien”: Bedtime Stories of Kawtharani “We Have Right on Our Side”: Izzat Childhood in the Early Turkish Republic Tannous and the Palestinian Politics of from the Memoirs of Sevim Sertel Chair: Max Weiss, Princeton U Self-Representation in the United States, OʼBrien Discussant: Sabrina Mervin, CNRS 1955-64 Mezna Qato, U Cambridge–Class Farah Kawtharani, U Michigan Liberations: Schools, Development, and Dearborn–Shiʿis Responding to Decolonial Possibility in Jordan, 1955- Lebanon’s Sectarian State: Hizbullah and 1958 Jurist Shams al-Din Pascal Abidor, McGill U–The Anti- Sectarian Politics of Ahmad ‘Arif al-Zayn and His Majallat al-‘Irfan

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(4087) History Making in (4099) Symptom of a Crisis (4127) Whoʼs Arab? Whereʼs Tourism and Leisure in Egypt or Driver for Change? America?: Interrogating “Arab and Lebanon Socioeconomic Protests and American” Organized by Waleed Hazbun and Political Transformations in Organized by Matthew Stiffler, Arab Sandrine Gamblin the MENA Region American National Museum Organized by Irene Weipert-Fenner Supported by Sponsored by American University in Cairo and Arab American Studies Association Chair: Ellen Lust, U Gotenburg American University of Beirut Discussant: Melani Cammett, Harvard U Chair/Discussant: Nadine C. Naber, U Chair/Discussant: Tsolin Nalbantian, Nadine Abdalla, Arab Forum for Illinois Leiden U Alternative Studies (AFA)–The Labor Movement in the Egyptian Eid Mohamed, Doha Inst for Graduate Sandrine Gamblin, American U Transformation: Which Challenges for Studies–The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Cairo–Manufacturing the Modern City: Driving Socio-Political Change? South Asian Subalternity and the Re- Tourism and Antiquities in Luxor (Egypt) Irene Weipert-Fenner, Peace Research framing of Arab American Studies at the Turn of the 20th Century Inst Frankfurt (PRIF)–Facilitate, Amanda Eads, North Carolina Karin Ahlberg, SOAS U London– Mitigate, Forestall: Tunisia’s Labor State U–Lebanese-American in the Infrastructures of Image Making Union UGTT and Its Role in Formal and South: Transition from Diasporic to in Mubarak’s Egypt: Tourism, Informal Socioeconomic Protests Hyphenated Identity Authoritarian Conditions and Global Jan-Philipp Vatthauer, Peace Research Danielle Haque, Minnesota State U Marketing Networks Inst Frankfurt–Development and Impact Mankato–Reading Identity in Arab Nadya J. Sbaiti, AUB–Land, Tourism, of Socioeconomic Protests in the MENA American Writing and Pageantry in 1930s Lebanon Region: A Quantitative Comparison John Tofik Karam, DePaul U–Redrawing Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver–Locating Dina Bishara, Harvard U–Unions Area and Ethnic Studies: Arab America “Palestine’s Summer Residence”: and Transitions in North Africa: A Across and beyond the Hemisphere Mandate-Era Tourism as a Site for Comparative Analysis of Egypt and National Identity Tunisia (4158) Traveling Knowledge: Waleed Hazbun, American U Beirut– Middle East Airlines and the Making of Psy-Sciences in the Modern Beirut as a Regional Travel Hub (4108) Narratives of Identity: Middle East Conceptualizing and Contesting Organized by Ana Maria Vinea (4095) The Reconfiguration of the Self in Arabic Literature Organized by Anna C. Cruz Chair: Sara Pursley, Princeton U the Relationship between Civil Discussant: Ahmed Ragab, Harvard U Society, State, and the Market Pei-Chen Tsung, UC Berkeley– in Contemporary Turkey Figurative Language and the Self in the Secil Yilmaz, Graduate Center CUNY– Organized by Hikmet Kocamaner and Wine Poetry of Abū Nuwās and Li Bai Unnatural Love: The Pathology of Desire Zeynep Atalay Linda Istanbulli, UC Berkeley–I, We, Us during the Late Ottoman Period and Them: Metamorphosis and Rebirth Kutlughan Soyubol, Graduate Center Discussant: Damla Isik, Regis U in Fadwa Tūqān’s Published Words CUNY–Diagnostics across Cultures: Douja Mamelouk, U Tennessee Translating Psychoanalysis into Turkish Zeynep Atalay, St. Maryʼs Col Knoxville–Reinventing Tunisian Selim Karlitekin, Columbia U–Detoxing of California–State-Civil Society Identity: Revolution, Violence and Our Souls from the West: Turkish Partnership in Turkey: Power, Agency, Trauma in Emna Rmili-Weslati’s al-Bāqī Theology and the Invention of a Psyche and Co-Optation Anna C. Cruz, UC Berkeley–One for Homo Islamicus Danielle V. Schoon, Ohio State U– Thousand and One Confessions: The Ana Maria Vinea, Graduate Center Romani (“Gypsy”) Citizenship and the Fractured and Constructed Self in Elias CUNY –“The Person Who Has Strong Changing Nature of the Political in Khouryʼs Yalo Faith Does Not Get Depressed”: Debating Turkey Depression in Contemporary Egypt Hikmet Kocamaner, Brandeis U–Islamic Civil Society, the State, and the Politics of the Family in Turkey Kim Shively, Kutztown U–Social Entrepreneurship and Profit-Making in the Hizmet Movement

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(4180) As Images Move: (4193) Captivity and Ottoman Thematic Conversation Circulation, Appropriation, Wartime Diplomacy and Transformation in Organized by Will Smiley (4277) Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Visual Chair: Virginia Aksan, McMaster U the Middle East and North Production Discussant: Benjamin Carr Fortna, U Africa Organized by Haytham Bahoora and Arizona Organized by Lisa L. Wynn and Angel Dina A. Ramadan M. Foster Kahraman Sakul, Istanbul Sehir Sponsored by U–Mutiny at Palermo, Diplomacy in Lisa L. Wynn, Macquarie U Association for Modern & Istanbul Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara Contemporary Art of the Arab Will Smiley, Reed Col–Freeing “The Mija Sanders, U Arizona World, Iran and Turkey Enslaved People of Islam”: Treaty Law Jess Newman, Yale U and Inter-Imperial Honor, 1739-1815 Angel M. Foster, U Ottawa/Ibis Chair/Discussant: Sarah-Neel Smith, Emrah Safa Gurkan, Istanbul 29 Reproductive Health Maryland Inst Col of Art Mayis U–Captives, Diplomats and Spies: The Extraordinary Career of a Trans- Tammer El Sheikh, Concordia U– Imperial Go-Between: Bartolomeo Brutti Psychoanalysis and the Social Life of (1560s-1590s) ʼ Dreams in Hassan Khan s Trusted Sources Kent F. Schull, Binghamton U–Ottoman Haytham Bahoora, U Colorado World War I POWs and “Enemy Aliens” Boulder–Art after Abu Ghraib: Spectacle in British Hands: Incarceration, and Medium in the Fashioning of Iraqi Citizenship Status, and Wartime War Art Diplomacy Dina A. Ramadan, Bard Col–The Straw That Broke the Camel’s Back

(4183) Studying the Iraqi Baʿth Party: Challenges, Opportunities, and New Findings Organized by Michael Brill

Chair/Discussant: Ibrahim Al Marashi, CSU San Marcos

Samuel Helfont, Princeton U–War and Regime Entrenchment in Saddamʼs Iraq Michael Brill, Georgetown U–“To Strengthen Faith and Commitment”: The Contours of Iraqi-Sudanese Relations, 1979-2003 Aaron Faust, Independent Scholar– “Culturalization” in Baʿthist Iraq Ibrahim Al Marashi, CSU San Marcos– Rationalizing Gas Attacks: The Ba’ath’s Conceptualization of Iraqi Kurdishness in the Anfal Campaign and Halabja Attack

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(4037) Contentious Politics in Momen El-Husseiny, Cairo U–Private Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie U–F Is for Post-Coup Egypt Security and the Perception of Fath: Qazi Mir Husain Maybudi and His Organized by Neil Ketchley Upper-Middle Class in Cairo’s Gated Model Victory Letter Communities Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer, Ohio State Chair: Steven T. Brooke, U Louisville Feyda Sayan Cengiz, İstanbul Bilgi U, U–Turning Kızılbaş, Turning Safavid: Discussant: Jillian M. Schwedler, Turkey–“She Just Does Not Fit in Here”: Pro-Safavid Propaganda in Anatolia Hunter Col CUNY Headscarf and Class in Retail Jobs in during the 15th and 16th Centuries Turkey Amy Austin Holmes, American U Cairo– Dina Makram-Ebeid, Max Planck Inst (4181) Maghrebi Literature and The Military and Mass Mobilization in for Social Anthropology–Waẓῑfa as the Re-Appropriation of the Property: Passing One’s Job to Their Egypt: Explaining the Ouster of Morsi Euro-American Figure Neil Ketchley, U Oxford–When Is Children and Local Understandings of Class in an Industrial Suburb of Cairo Organized by Brahim El Guabli and Protest Repressed? Muslim Brothers and Anouar El Younssi Mass Mobilization after the Egyptian Coup of July 2013 (4152) Muslims in Europe in Chair: Nizar F. Hermes, U Virginia Ian M. Hartshorn, U Nevada Reno– the Interwar Years: A Trans- Discussant: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS Regime Strategy and Protester Response: Cultural Perspective Col Workers in Sisi’s Egypt Organized by Umar Ryad Yasmine Laveille, LSE–Local Jill Jarvis, Princeton U–Doing Justice: Dynamics of Popular Mobilisation and ERC Funded Project: "Neither Nor: Kamel Daoud Cross-Examines Albert Demobilisation in Upper Egypt: Ordinary Muslims in interwar Europe" Camus Networks, Brokers and Loyalties in the Anouar El Younssi, Penn State–Tahar Protests against Deteriorating Public Chair: Eid Mohamed, Doha Inst for Ben Jelloun and the Limits of “Worlding” Services Graduate Studies Maghrebi Literature Nancy Demerdash, Princeton U– Umar Ryad, U Utrecht–Muslim Integration, Exile and Postmemory in Roundtable Religious Hypridity in Interwar Europe: the Franco-Maghrebi Graphic Novel European Converts to Islam in Salafiyya Nathan H Dize, U Maryland, Col Park– (4084) Methodology and and Ahmadiyya Networks La Sexualité et l’ethnicité sont des sujets Margins: Studying Jewish Sophie Spaan, Utrecht U–Western chauds: Intersectionality and Abdellatif Histories of the Middle East and European Muslim Discourse: The Search Kechiche’s La Vie d’Adèle North Africa for Modernity and Rationalism in the Organized by Lior B. Sternfeld Interwar Period (4182) The Social History Andrei Tirtan, Utrecht U–Muslim of the Middling, Petty, and Chair: Rami Ginat, Bar Ilan U Politics in Post-Great War Europe: Laying the Foundations of a Movement Impoverished Scholars ʿ ʾ Orit Bashkin, U Chicago Mehdi Sajid, U Utrecht–Laying the ( Ulama ) of the Early Modern Susan Gilson Miller, UC Davis Foundations for a European Islam in Ottoman World Alma Heckman, UC Santa Cruz the Modern Age – Islam and Muslims in Organized by A. Tunc Sen and Basil Lior B. Sternfeld, Penn State U Interwar Germany as a Case Study Salem

(4105) When Class Matters: (4159) Pro- and Anti-Safavid A. Tunc Sen, U Chicago–The Multiple Faces of the 16th Century Ottoman Interdisciplinary Inquiries on Propaganda, 1480-1580 Organized by Matthew Melvin-Koushki Scholars: The Case of Zaifi (d. 1557) and Class in the Middle Eastern His Embittered Voice Cities Chair/Discussant: Sara Nur Yildiz, St Carlos Grenier, U Chicago–“I Saw Some ş Organized by Yasemin Ipek Can Andrews U/Orient-Institut Istanbul Suba ıs and Asked How They Could Favor Me”: The Making of a Family of Chair: Kristin V. Monroe, U Kentucky Christopher Markiewicz, U Chicago– Ottoman Popular Litterateurs on the Discussant: Farha Ghannam, The Evolving Rhetorical Response to Fifteenth-Century Frontier Swarthmore Col Shah Ismail: Idris Bidlisi and Ottoman Michael D. Sheridan, Bilkent U–“So ʿ ʾ Anti-Safavid Sentiment, 1501-1513 Much for the Ulama ”: Early 17th- Yasemin Ipek Can, Stanford U– Matthew Melvin-Koushki, U South Century Ottoman Invective and Tensions Aspirant Youth and Social Class: Making Carolina–The Unpatriotic Persian: Fazl within the Learned Classes Connections and Upward Mobility in Allah Khunji as Pioneer of Anti-Safavid Basil Salem, U Chicago–The Social ʿ ʾ Beirut Propaganda Category of Ulama in Eighteenth Century Ottoman Damascus

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(4190) Changing Discourses of Islah Jad, Qater U–When Gender (4244) Displacement, Memory, Nationalism in Contemporary Meets Colonization and Conservatism: and Identity Construction Teaching Gender in Colonized Palestine Turkish Politics and Qatar Organized by Huseyin Levent Koker Chair: Madison Marks, Qatar Foundation International Chair/Discussant: Neveser Koker, U (4237) Rethinking Premodern Michigan Persian Texts: Poetry, Prose, Toni Rouhana, UC Santa Cruz–Sectarian and Theater Imaginations: The Shifting of Sectarian Halise Karaaslan Sanli, Ankara U– Habitus in Lebanon Democracy and Nationalism in Political Chair: Yaseen Noorani, U Arizona Rawan Arar, UC San Diego–Placing the Party Leader’s Speeches: An Assessment Refugee Burden: Refugees Immigration with a Focus on 2015 Elections Laurie Pierce, U Chicago–New Sources Policy in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon Ulku Doganay, Ankara U–The Discourse for Mahsati: Rethinking the Poet and Nils Hagerdal, Harvard U–Ethnic of Ottomanism in 2015 General Elections Her Impact on the Persian Quatrain Cleansing as Military Strategy: Lessons Huseyin Levent Koker, Near East U– Pouye Khoshkhoosani, U Arizona– from Lebanon, 1975-1990 The Nationalist Impasse in Turkeyʼs Amorous Depiction of Love: Gender, Philip Issa, U Texas Austin–Organizing Constitution Making Process Religion and Power in Classical Persian before the Organization: Palestinian Nur Betül Çelik, Ankara U– Poetry Civic Leadership in Lebanon before 1964 Antagonisms, Political Frontiers, and Ana Ghoreishian, U Arizona–Disruption Nationalisms in Turkey of Constructed Gendered Frameworks of (4254) Patterns of Household “Properness” in Iraj Mirza’s Arefnameh Formation: Gender, Family, Law (4207) Negotiating Authority in Theodore Beers, U Chicago–The Contemporary Shiʿism Baharistan of Jami and Persian Canon Chair: Samy Ayoub, U Texas Austin Organized by David Thurfjell Formation Hamid Rezaeiyazdi, U Toronto–Looking Etienne Paulin, Université de Moncton Chair: David Thurfjell, Sodertorn U, Back at the Future: Modern Prose (Canada)–Limiting the Growth: Patterns Sweden Literature in Iran and the Myth of of Household Formation among the Translation Berbers of Southern Morocco in Johan Gärde, Ersta Sköndal U Precolonial Times Col, Sweden–Marginalization and (4242) Contestation in Early Elizabeth Perego, Ohio State U–War- Disappointment? The Socio-economic Islamic Historiography Torn Algeria as Woman: Representations Conditions of Shiʿite Populations in the of Women during Algeria’s “Dark Middle East Chair: Brian Ulrich, Shippensburg U Decade,” 1991-2002 David Thurfjell, Sodertorn U, Sweden–A Yasser Sultan, Indiana U, Bloomington– Charismatic Challenge: The Heyyati- Michael Dann, U Illinois Urbana- What If She Were the Exegete? A Movement in Contemporary Iran Champaign–Values and Specialization Feminist Critique of the Classical Tafsīrs in the Hadith Milieu of the Late 2nd/8th on the Issue of Interfaith Marriage (4218) Gender Trouble in the and Early 3rd/9th Centuries Sara Verskin, U Rhode Island– Gulf and Palestine: Challenges Brian Dee, Georgia State U– Compassionate Conservatives: Medieval of Approaching Gender Issues Reexamining the Berber Revolt Muslim Jurists Imagine the Spiritual Experiences of Women in the Classroom and Society Alison Marie Vacca, U Tennessee– Organized by Jacqueline Armijo “The Year of the Fire”: Muḥammad b. Marwān, the Second Fitna, and the Chair: Jacqueline Armijo, Qatar U Churches of Naxčawan and Xram Discussant: Judith E. Tucker, Georgetown U Florian Schwarz, Austrian Academy of Sciences–Revisiting the Urbanization of Lina Kassem, Qatar U–Educating Women Iran in the Early Islamic Period in the Gulf: Unintended Consequences Michael Bonner, U Michigan–The Ridda and Developing New Strategies in East Arabian Perspective Hatoon Al Fassi, Qatar U–Teaching Dr. Karim Samji, Gettysburg Col– “Women in Islam” in the Gulf Narrative Reconstruction in Early Esraa Al-Muftah, Qatar U/U of British Islamic Historiography: The Case of Columbia–Transformations in Higher Dūmat al-Jandal Education: What Have They Meant to Qatari Women?

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(4266) Competing Identities and Diverging Lives: Israel/ Palestine after 1948

Chair: Rebecca Granato, Bard al Quds Col

Noa Shaindlinger, U Toronto–Point of No Return: The Nakba and the “New Normal” in Jaffa, 1948-1949 Hillel Gruenberg, Jewish Theological Seminary–Yesh 1972: The GSS-Abetted Victory of Haifaʼs Jewish-Arab Student Left Kimberly Katz, Towson U–Hebron under Jordanian and Egyptian Rule: The “Dual Era” in 1949 Molly Theodora Oringer, UCLA– Consuming the Homeland: Luxury Commodities and Diaspora Tourism in Israel

Thematic Conversation

(4290) Reframing the Debate about Secularism in the MENA Region; or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Religion Organized by Suzanne Schneider

Session Leader: Ajay Chaudhary, Columbia U

Gregory Starrett, UNC Charlotte Suzanne Schneider, NYU Brooklyn Inst Joyce Dalsheim, UNC Charlotte

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Roundtable Michael Herb, Georgia State U–The Jeremy Siegman, U Chicago–Securing Resource Curse and Civil Conflict in the and Contesting a Settler Frontier: (4033) Iran, the Genre; or, Who Arab World Policing and Politics in Occupied West Writes Iran? Joshua Stacher, Kent State U–Military Bank Commercial Spaces Organized by Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona Inc. and Dividing the Spoils: A Political Col and Amy Motlagh, American U Cairo Economy of Egypt’s Uprising (4107) On the Margins Max Ajl, Cornell U–Social Origins of of Ottoman Modernity: Chair: Persis Karim, San Jose State U Agricultural Underdevelopment Sheila Carapico, U Richmond– Multidimensional Negotiations Zuzanna Olszewska, U Oxford Peripheral Underdevelopment and of Identity Roxanne Varzi, UC Irvine Upheaval in Yemen Organized by Tugce Kayaal Blake Atwood, U Texas Austin Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm U (4065) Patriarchy, State and Chair/Discussant: Resat Kasaba, U Washington Legitimacy in Turkey (4042) Conversion, Diaspora Organized by Meral Ugur Cinar Daniel Fields, Princeton U–Remapping and Inquisition in the XVI the Empire: State Imposed Place Name Century: Conversos and Chair: Dilek Cindoglu, Abdullah Gul U Change in the Late Ottoman Period Moriscos in the Spanish Discussant: Ozlem Altiok, U North Texas Canan Bolel, U Washington–Quest for Empireʼs Mediterranean a Portable Homeland on the Verge of Sezen Yaras, Bilkent U–Politics Extraterritoriality: Conceptualization of Policies of Inclusion and Engendering the Organized by Diana Galarreta-Aima Ladino as the Affective Linguistic Space Narrations of ‘Inclusive Political in İzmir, 1909-1914 Authority’ in Turkey’s Latest Onder Eren Akgul, Georgetown U– Chair: Mayte Green-Mercado, U Constitution Making Process Michigan Ottoman Imperial Attempts to Build a Ozlem Altan-Olcay, Koç U and Ayse Local Army: Asakir-i Hamidiye in Yemen Alniacik, U Pittsburgh–Public Policy 1880-1882 Lisette Balabarca, Siena Col–The Making in Turkey: How Technical Goals Representation of the Defeated Moriscos Tugce Kayaal, U Michigan–The of Development Turn into Conservative Emergence of Charity as a Contested through the Portrayal of El Abencerraje’s Gender Politics Abindarráez Domain: Armenian Orphans of Istanbul Simten Cosar, Hacettepe U–Feeling during the Hamidian Era 1876-1907 Conxita Domènech, U Wyoming–Pedro Socially Secure in Turkey: The JDP’s Manrique’s Legacy in Don Quixote: The Gender Regime in Focus Moriscos in Catalonia Meral Ugur Cinar, Bilkent U–“Don’t (4144) The Islamic Middle East Diana Galarreta-Aima, U Virginia– Worry Mom, We Are Protesting in and Memorial Space in the Zoraida/María: Inclusion of New the Back Rows”: Patriarchy and Its North American Public Sphere Christians in the Spanish National Body Subversion in the Gezi Movement Organized by Nadeen Kharputly through Inter-ethnic Marriages Dilek Cindoglu, Abdullah Gul U and Zainab Cheema, U Texas Austin– Didem Unal, Bilkent U–Authoritarian Chair: Babak Rahimi, UC San Diego Poetics of Exile: Examining the Dialogue Discursive Strategies on Women’s Discussant: Afshin Marashi, U between Spain’s Sixteenth-Century Sexuality in “New Turkey” Oklahoma Maurophilic Ballads and North Africa’s Malhoun Poetry (4106) Securing and Contesting Sally Howell, U Michigan Dearborn– Chad Leahy, U Denver–“I Am a Moor Middle Eastern Frontiers: Iraq Mosques as Sites of Muslim American with the Moors, with the Christians, a History Making Christian”: Negotiable Identities in the and Palestine Kate DeConinck, Harvard Divinity Early Modern Mediterranean Organized by Jeremy Siegman and Kali School–Park51: A Vision, a Controversy, Rubaii and a Path Forward (4048) Political Economies Nadeen Kharputly, UC San Diego– Discussant: Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley of Upheaval and War in the Institutional Narratives of Inclusion and Exclusion at the National 9/11 Memorial Middle East Dina Omar, Yale U–Debating Ghosts: An Organized by Joshua Stacher Ethnographic Study of the UC Berkeley Divestment Campaign Chair/Discussant: Joel Beinin, Stanford U Kali Rubaii, UC Santa Cruz–Conducted Chaos: Frontiering Iraq’s Anbar Province Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve Ross Caputi, Fitchburg State U–Moral U–Jordan’s Long War: Iraq, Capital, and Disengagement and the Perception of Underdevelopment the Enemyʼs Use of Human Shields

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(4155) New Directions in (4162) The Relation of (4241) Culture and Politics the Study of Charity and Engineering to Sociopolitical in the Aftermath of the Arab Philanthropy Developments in the Modern Spring Organized by Miriam R. Lowi Middle East Organized by Sadegh Foghani Chair: Suncem Kocer, Kadir Has U Discussant: Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey Stefan Peychev, U Illinois Urbana- Nour Halabi, U Pennsylvania–From Champaign–Was There an Ottoman City? Democratic State to Democratic Media: Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U–‘Development,’ Urban Governance and Water Supply The Case of Egyptian Media After Mubarak Charity and the Social Contract Management in Ottoman Sofia Kareem Mahmoud Kamel, Future U in Aliaa Remtilla, Simon Fraser U–Charity Selim Tezcan, Social Sciences U Ankara– Egypt–Turning the 2011 Revolution on as Love: Religion and Development in Western Technology and Eastern Its Head?: Redefining the Nation and the Post-Soviet Tajik Ishkashim Morals? Some Perplexing Observations National Narrative of the Post-July 2013 El-Sayed el-Aswad, United Arab on Ahmet Mithat’s Ideas about the Egyptian Regime Emirates U–Philanthropy and Social Synthesis of the East and the West Claire Cooley, U Texas Austin–Mobile Responsibility: A Case Study of the Abdullah Haris Toprak, ISAR Phone Camera Revolution? Destabilizing Culture of Giving in the United Arab Foundation–Between Tradition and the Authority of the Citizen Journalist Emirates Modernity: Majmua al-Ulum al- Image in Iran and Egypt Damla Isik, Regis U–Volunteerism, Riyadiyah of Bash Hoca Ishaq Effendi Emily Cury, Northeastern U–Diasporas Aid Relief, Entrepreneurship and Pious Sadegh Foghani, U South Carolina– and the Arab Spring: Transnational Economies in Turkey Engineering the Revolution: French Communities as Drivers of Conflict, Thermodynamics and the Formation of Peace, and Reconstruction (4161) Cultural Heritage Religio-Political Thought in Twentieth- Destruction: Evidence and Century Iran (4243) Diaspora, Migration and Emergency Responses in Syria, Identity Iraq, and Libya (4214) Palestine Letters: Exile, Organized by Brian I. Daniels Resistance, Solidarity Chair: David Sayers, San Francisco State U Organized by Salah D. Hassan Chair: Brian I. Daniels, U Pennsylvania Cal Margulis, UCLA–Finding Iranians Museum Chair/Discussant: Salah D. Hassan, of African Descent in English-Language Discussant: Stephennie Mulder, U Michigan State U Travel Literature Texas Austin Menahem Merhavy, Hebrew U–From Dina Al-Kassim, UBC–“Who Will Write Pahlavi Rule to a Iranian Diaspora – Katharyn Hanson, U Pennsylvania– the History of the Moss?”: 1948, 1971, Shojaeddin Shafaʼ and His Polemics of Efforts in Iraq to Document and Preserve 1982, 2002, 2008, 2014 Iranian Identity Cultural Heritage in Crisis Hosam Aboul-Ela, U Houston–From Hager El Hadidi, CSU Bakersfield– Susan Kane, Oberlin Col–Libya’s the First Well to the Last House: The Dynamic of Belonging: The Cultural Heritage under Threat Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s Exilic Poetics of Social History of a Yemeni American Corine Wegener, Smithsonian Nationalism Settlement Institution–The Plight of Museums in Karim Mattar, U Colorado Boulder– Calvert Jones, U Maryland-College Armed Conflict: A Syria Case Study Negotiations of Loss: Palestine and the Park–Does Diversity Influence Ethical Susan Wolfinbarger, American Comparative Turn in Contemporary Decision-Making? Experimental Association for the Advancement of Arabic Criticism Evidence from Middle Eastern Youth Science–Monitoring Cultural Heritage in Yaseen Noorani, U Arizona–Sacrificial Ilaria Giglioli, UC Berkeley–Celebrating Conflict Using Satellite Imagery: Syria Palestine and Arab Identity Arabness While the Arabs Are Leaving: and Iraq Cross-Border Cooperation and Tunisian Migration to Sicily Ammar Naji, Colorado Col–Diasporic Inside the Homeland: Black Yemenis and Belonging in Ali Al-Muqri’s Black Taste… Black Smell Fiona McCallum, U St Andrews, UK–Homeland Ties, Community Cohesion and Youth Disengagement?: Middle Eastern Christian Diasporic Humanitarian and Political Activism in the UK

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(4249) Public Health: Sex, Birth (4256) Sufi Texts and Rituals in (4261) Pedagogies of Teaching Control, Stress, and Mental the Pre-Modern Era Arabic Language and Middle Health East Studies Chair: Sebastian Guenther, U Goettingen Chair: Saghar Sadeghian, Yale U Chair: Madison Marks, Qatar Aiyub Palmer, U Kentucky–Rethinking Foundation International Ellen J. Amster, McMaster U–The Early Islamic Authority, Contextualizing Politics of Birth in Morocco: A History al-Hakim al-Tirmidhiʼs Vision of Emma Trentman, U New Mexico and between Muslim Midwifery, French Sainthood Heather Sweetser, U New Mexico–Using Colonial Obstetrics, the WHO, and the Zachary Wright, Northwestern U Qatar– the ACTFL Can-Do Statements to Design Arab Revolutions Sufi Selfhood in the Eighteenth Century a Proficiency Based Arabic Curriculum Joanna Wulfsberg, U Arizona–Madness Ṭarīqa Muḥammadiyya Said Hannouchi, U Wisconsin Madison– and Marginality in the Making of a Local John Walbridge, Indiana U Investigating Cultural Awareness of Icon: The Case of Bursaʼs Deli Ayten Bloomington–The Content and Learners of Arabic as Compared to Anat Mooreville, U Washington–The Transmission of Suhrawardi’s “Creed of Moroccan Native Speakers of Arabic Mass Trachoma Project: Jews and Global the Sages” Cindy Elder, U Washington– Health in Morocco, 1949-1956 Sara Abdel-Latif, U Toronto–Al- Normalizing Middle East Studies Monica Alessandra Ronchi, U Exeter– Sulamī’s Ḥaqā’iq al-Tafsīr: Interpreting David Henen, American U Cairo–A Psychiatry and the Mental Health the Qurʾan through Lived Mystical Corpus Linguistic Exploration of the System in Colonial and Postcolonial Experience Particle yā in Five Egyptian Films Algeria: A Doomed Institution? Yara Asi, U Central Florida–Quality (4259) Court Systems and Legal of Life in Palestine: The Role of Stress, Reform: Gender, Family Law, Thematic Conversation Insecurity, and Sumud and Terrorism Gholam R. Vatandoust, American U Kuwait–Building a Brothel City: Reza (4287) The Revolution in Shah of Iranʼs Social and Health Policies Chair: Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota Palestinian History (1926-1945) Organized by Abdel Razzaq Takriti Tara Deubel, U South Florida–Divorce and Women’s Status: Impacts of Family Chair: Karma Nabulsi, Oxford U (4251) Identity and Discourse Law Reform in Southern Morocco in the Development of Yüksel Sezgin, Syracuse U–“Democ- Abdel Razzaq Takriti, U Sheffield Nationalism ratizing” Muslim Family Laws: What Ilan Pappe, U Exeter Explains and the Success or Failure in Mezna Qato, U Cambridge Chair: Mirna Wasef, UC San Diego Family Law Reform Samaneh Oladi, UC Santa Barbara– Huma Gupta, MIT–The ‘Always, Already Religious Activism: Reformation of Hybrid’ One: The Diaries of Alexander Women’s Legal Status Svoboda from Baghdad to Paris and Back Aisha Ghani, Stanford U–Invocations of Defne Bilir, Florida State U–Through the Islam in Terrorism Courts: Challenges Lens of David Douglas Duncan: Picturing of and to Secular Law, Categories, and the Palestine Territories of 1946 Space Mina E. Khalil, U Pennsylvania–Magda Brock Cutler, Radford U–The Man in and Nadia Haroun: Two Jewish Sisters the Middle: Gender and the Courts in Claiming Their Egyptian Homeland Colonial Algeria Asher Kaufman, U Notre Dame– “Belonging and Continuity”: Israeli Druze and the First Lebanon War 1982- 2000

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Roundtable Thematic Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart Conversation & William Smith Cols–Islamist (4049) Middle East Primary Republicanism, Sectarian Conflict, and Resources in Times of Conflict: (4062) Whither the History of International Misrecognition in Yemen The Future of Collections and Islamic Science Fieldwork Organized by Miri Shefer-Mossensohn (4111) Towards an Anthropology Organized by Dale J. Correa and Laila of Aftermath - Ethnographic Session Leader: Miri Shefer- Moustafa Mossensohn, Tel Aviv U Perspectives from the MENA Region Chair: Dale J. Correa, U Texas Libraries Glen Cooper, Claremont McKenna Col Organized by Karin Ahlberg and Carl Gottfried Hagen, U Michigan Rommel Laila Moustafa, U Illinois Urbana- Robert G. Morrison, Bowdoin Col Champaign Daniel Stolz, Northwestern U Sponsored by Noah Gardiner, U Michigan Elizabeth Frierson, U Cincinnati Association for Elizabeth R. Nugent, Princeton U Middle East Anthropology David B. Hollenberg, U Oregon (4081) Societal Transformations James Casey, Princeton U Chair: , SOAS U London in Contemporary Turkey Karin Ahlberg Discussant: Samuli Schielke, ZMO (4050) Judges, Lawyers, and Organized by Sarah Fischer and Seda Demiralp Change in the MENA: When and Nora Danielson Lanier, U Oxford–A Tale of Two Aftermaths: Time, Protest How Do Judicial Practitioners Chair: Timur Hammond, UCLA and the Politics of Asylum in Cairo, Challenge or Defend the Status Discussant: Gamze Cavdar, Colorado Egypt State U Quo? Alice Elliot, U Col London–The Organized by Dorthe Kirsten Engelcke Aftermath of Return: Revolution, Crisis, Sarah Fischer, American U–Women and and Homecoming in Tunisia Chair: , Northeastern U the Transformation of Party Politics in Denis J. Sullivan Fuad Musallam, London School of Turkey, 2002-2015 Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, George Economics–Possible Politics in the Solen Sanli, Santa Rosa Junior Col–End Washington U Aftermath: The Production of Activist of Hegemony? AKP, Neoliberalism and Subjectivities in Lebanon after the Arab Social Disciplining Rania Maktabi, U Oslo–Female Lawyers Uprisings on the Rise in Kuwait: Potential Agents Seda Demiralp, Işık U–The New Turkey? Youssef El Chazli, U Lausanne–Godot Urban Renewal and Beyond of Reform? Is Here. Now What? The Biographical Fulya Apaydin, Instit Barcelona Monique C. Cardinal, Université Laval– Consequences of Revolutionary Activism Dissident Prosecutors, Judges and Courts dʼEstudis Internacionals–Financial- Carl Rommel, SOAS U London–In ization and the Push for Non-state in Syria since the Revolution of March the Aftermath of Port Said: Fading Social Service Provision: Philanthropic 2011 Emotionality and Remade Politics within Activities of Islamic and Conventional David Mednicoff, U Massachusetts a Ruined Landscape of Egyptian Football Amherst–Legal Practitioners in Qatar Banks in Turkey and the Gulf: Agents of Stability, Change (4129) Modern Infrastructural or Both? (4109) Subjectivity, Meaning- Development in Ottoman and Dorthe Kirsten Engelcke, U Oxford– Making, and Misrecognition in Morocco’s Judges Club: Calling for Post-Ottoman Mesopotamia Islamist Discourse Dignity and Independence in the Name Organized by Pauline Lewis Organized by Stacey Philbrick Yadav of the King Discussant: Fredrik Meiton, New York U Chair/Discussant: Yasmeen Daifallah, U Massachusetts Amherst Pauline Lewis, UCLA–Signaling Sovereignty: Ottoman-British Murad Idris, U Virginia–Making Islam Cooperation and Contestation over Meaningful: Submission and Peace Telegraphy, 1858-1875 between Islamists and Orientalists Samuel Dolbee, New York U–Ancient Ahmed Khanani, Earlham Col–De- Infrastructures, Modern Borders: Roads, centering the Human: A Moroccan Ruins, and Locusts on the 1920s Syrian- Islamist Articulation of Rights Turkish Frontier Roxanne L. Euben, Wellesley Col– Rhetorics of Humiliation: The Case of Islamist Discourse

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Natasha Pesaran, Columbia U– Mohammed Allehbi, Vanderbilt U– (4238) Gender and Sexuality in Transporting Iraqi Oil: Empire, Sectarian Strife or Political Rivalry?: the Modern Arab World Internationalism and the Politics of the Abbasid and Seljuq Relations within a Iraq-Mediterranean Oil Pipeline, 1928-31 Ḥanbalī and Shāfiʿī Conflict (469-475 Chair: Debra Baldwin, Utah State U AH/ 1077-1083 AD) Rachel T. Howes, CSU Northridge– (4135) Prisoners, Policing and Mehreen Jamal, U Arkansas–Images Courtiers in the Cairo, Shiraz, and Policy in Mandate Palestine and of Women in Egyptian and Pakistani Baghdad Courts: Does a Common Pool Literature: Two Classic Works by Latifa Early Israel of Personnel Mean Common Court al-Zayyat and Khadija Mastoor Organized by Shay Hazkani Cultures? Rebecca Joubin, Davidson Col–The Discussant: Salim Tamari, IPS Politics of Love and Desire in Post- (4160) The Transfer of Uprising Syrian Television Drama Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv U–Palestinian and Innovation in Medical Dr. Marielle Risse, Dhofar U–“Why Attitudes towards the Palestine Police Knowledge in Western Eurasia, Would I Hurt a Woman? ”: Respectful/ Force, 1921-1936 1300–1700 Respecting Women in the Southern Alex Winder, New York U–Caught in the Organized by Sara Nur Yildiz Oman Middle: Palestinian Policemen between Nada Ayad, U Southern California– Colonial State and Rebel Counter-State Chair/Discussant: Matthew Melvin- Between Mudhakirati and Harem Years: during the 1936–1939 Revolt Koushki, U South Carolina A Story of Movement Steven Wagner, McGill U–British Najmeh Moradiyan Rizi, U Kansas– Intelligence and Colonial Control: Nahyan Fancy, DePauw U–The Role of Reclaiming Womanhood, Redefining The Internment and Freedom of Arab Commentaries and Their Movements in Gender: A Study of Iranian Society’s “Renegades” during and after the the Production of Medical Knowledge in Gender Roles in Mania Akbari’s Film “20 Second World War Islamic Societies, 1300–1520 Fingers” (2004) Shay Hazkani, New York U–“I Think Sara Nur Yildiz, St Andrews U/ Betul Eksi, Northeastern U–Hegemonic Food Is More Important Than Pictures”: Orient-Institut Istanbul–Traveling Masculinity in Politics: The Case of Palestinian POWs Correspond with Their Pharmaceutical Knowledge: Prime Minister Erdogan Families under Israel’s Watchful Eye, Abridgements and Translations of Ibn al- 1948-1949 Baytar’s Compendium of Simples (14th- (4245) Gulf Studies: 17th Centuries) Development of State and (4139) Challenging ʿAbbasid Aleksandar Shopov, Harvard U–Ibn Society Dominance: The ‘Otherʼ Islamic Kemal as Writer and Practitioner: Texts, Appointments and New Medical Regimes Powers of the Medieval Islamic Chair: Kristi N. Barnwell, U Illinois World Springfield Organized by Christine Baker and Eric (4235) Regional and J. Hanne Transnational Movements in James Redman, Zayed U–Guestrooms Iran and Public Property Law in Kuwait: Chair: Jere L. Bacharach, U Washington Demarcating the Boundaries of Tradition Chair: Yass Alizadeh, UNH and State Christine Baker, Indiana U Chantal El Hayek, Massachusetts Pennsylvania–Remembering the James M. Gustafson, Indiana State U– Inst of Technology–Traditionalism, ‘Shiʿi Century’: The Fatimids, Buyids, The Local Roots of Iranian Nationalism: Consumerism, and Exhibitionist ʿAbbasids, and Local Reactions to Tenth- Identity and Space in Persian Local Nationalism: The Evolution of Souks in Century ‘Sectarianism’ Histories, 1870-1910 Kuwait, 1960-Today Robert Haug, U Cincinnati–I will Give Mikiya Koyagi, New York U–The Courtney Freer, London School of the Kharaj to al-Mu`tasim, Not `Abdallah Transnational Formation of the Iranian Economics–Qabila in the 21st Century: b. Tahir: Local Authority vs. Regional Railway Workforce Tribes as Civil Society in the Arabian Authority vs. Imperial Authority in Maryam Alemzadeh, U Chicago–An Gulf Tahirid Khurasan Unconventional Military Organization John Willoughby, American U– Eric J. Hanne, Florida Atlantic U–The in a Conventional Battle: Islamic Higher Education Reform and the Contested History of the Early Mazyadid Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Disempowerment of Gulf National Amirate and Its Role in the Fourth-Fifth/ Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 Citizens of the Gulf: A Comparative Tenth-Eleventh Century Political Arena Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Perspective Texas A&M U–Theology, Elites, and Luai Allarakia, U Houston–Legislatures Contentious Politics in Authoritarian Rentier States: The Case Gi Yeon Koo, Seoul National U–Making of Kuwait an Alternative Public Sphere in Iran

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(4260) Youth and Creative (4271) 20th Century Fiction: Production: Music and Film Experiments in Re-Envisioning a Multilingual Canon Chair: William Lawrence, George Washington U Chair: Roger A. Deal, U South Carolina Aiken Sandra G. Carter, U Houston-Victoria– Dirty Cops, Prostitutes, Murderers, Paul A. Sundberg, American U Cairo–A Criminals: Moroccan Film Noir Literary Geography of Naguib Mahfouz’s Erin Gould, UC Riverside–Community Midaq Alley à la Franco Moretti and Censorship: Heavy Metal Music in Nancy Linthicum, U Michigan–The Morocco Literary Broadsheet Akhbar al-Adab and Alyssa Miller, Duke U–Arts of Failure: the “New Writing” of Egyptʼs Nineties Bidoun 2 and the Aesthetics of Tunisian Generation Post-Revolution Sevinç Türkkan, Binghamton U– Caroline Seymour-Jorn, U Wisconsin Multilingual Identities and Fictions of Milwaukee–Post-Revolutionary Creative Cultural Translation: Güneli Gün’s The Production in Cairo, Egypt Book of Trances (1979) Spencer Scoville, Brigham Young U– From Utopia to Dystopia: Moments in Arabic Science Fiction

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