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The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the American University of Beirut Fourth International Conference Shifting Borders America and the Middle East / North Africa Conference Program January 11–14, 2012 Table of Contents Table of Contents Important Reminders ...........................................................................................4 Guide to Conference Rooms .................................................................................6 Conference Program ............................................................................................7 Participants ......................................................................................................17 Restaurant Guide ..............................................................................................23 The Conference Proceedings Volume ..................................................................27 3 Important Reminders Important Reminders Emergencies (or pressing questions) Please contact Dr. Alex Lubin: mobile: 76-922636; email: [email protected] Name Tags Mrs. Nancy Batakji Sanyoura: mobile: 03-801927; email: [email protected] Please wear your name tag at all times during the conference. Your name tag assures your entrance to the opening ceremony, reception, and closing dinner. You may also Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) be asked to show your name tag when entering through one of AUB’s gates. American University of Beirut Phone: +961-1-350000 453 College Hall ext. 4195, 4196, 4197 PO Box 11-0236 Fax: 961-1-744461 Registration Riad El Solh 1107 2020 Email: [email protected] You can complete your registration and pick up your conference materials at the Beirut, Lebanon Website: www.aub.edu.lb/fas/casar Conference Registration Desk at Golden Tulip Serenada Hotel, beginning at 11:00 am on Wednesday, 11 January. On Thursday and Friday (January 12 and 13), a For medical emergencies: Registration and Information Desk will be available beginning at 8 am near the Please contact ground floor entrance of West Hall on the AUB campus. Red Cross office at AUB Room 316, West Hall on 3rd floor (AUB campus), ext. 3184 Abstracts Other On-Campus Numbers Full conference abstracts can be accessed on the CASAR website: http://www.aub. General Inquiries .............................+961-1-350000 edu.lb/fas/casar/Conferences/IV/Pages/Program.aspx. Office of Protection..........................Ext. 2400 (24 hrs/7 days) Ambulance ......................................Ext. 7777 (24 hrs/7 days) Fire .................................................Ext. 5555 (24 hrs/7 days) University Health Services ...............Ext. 3000 (8:00 am–5:00 pm) Audio Visual Equipment AUB Medical Center Head Nurse ......Ext. 6605 (24 hrs/7 days) All paper presenters are asked to arrive at least 5 minutes before the beginning of AUBMC Information .........................Ext. 6604 (24 hrs/7 days) their sessions; those planning to use audio/visual equipment during their presen- Office of Communications ................Ext. 2670/1 (8:00 am–5:00 pm) tations should arrive 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the session to download their presentations. Other Numbers: Police .............................................112 Red Cross .......................................140 Trip Beirut Fire Brigade ...........................175 On Saturday, 14 January 2012, Nakhal Travel Agency will organize a field trip to the Civil Defense ..................................125 south of Lebanon. The trip will be both political and touristic in nature thus comple- Information .....................................100, 120, 1515 menting the conference theme. The travel agency will pick you up from the hotel at Airport ............................................+961-1-628120 7:30 am. After a short stop in Saida, there will be a full day visit to Mlita (museum Tourist Police ..................................+961-1-343209 (for directions) of Hezbollah), Beaufort Castle (also known as Shakif castle), Khyam and the Gate of General Security ..............................1717 (questions related to passports) Fatima at the southern border. We will stop for late lunch in Hasbani and will return Allo Taxi ..........................................+961-1-517030 (Average rate: $15 between to Beirut around 20:00. AUB and the airport) 4 5 Conference Program Guide to Conference Rooms Conference Program All conference sessions will take place in West Hall on the AUB campus. There is an elevator on the left (east) side of the building. Please find below directions for Day 1: Wednesday , January 11, 2012 finding the West Hall conference rooms: 11:00-17:00 Registration Golden Tulip Serenada Hotel Registration Desk: ground floor, entrance Opening Ceremony Golden Tulip Serenada Hotel: • Dr. Alex Lubin Director of CASAR, Opening Comments Auditorium A: ground floor, left of the stairs • Dr. Patrick McGreevy Dean of FAS, Comments 17:00-17:45* • Dr. Ahmad Dallal Provost of AUB, Welcome Auditorium B: second floor, left of the stairs • Representative from Alwaleed Foundation • Dr. Alex Lubin Brief Logistical comments Auditorium C: third floor, facing the stairs Opening address by Keynote speaker Mr. Rami Khouri, Director Bathish Auditorium: second floor, to the right 17:45-20:00* of Issam Fares Institute for International Affairs and Public Policy, American University of Beirut 20:00-21:30* Cocktail Reception Golden Tulip Serenada Hotel Day 2: Thursday, January 12, 2012 All paper sessions will take place on the AUB campus in West Hall 8:30-17:00 Late registration will be available at West Hall, Ground floor Session 1: Aesthetics and the Muslim International: Politics, Ethics and Islamic Futures Chair: Alex Lubin, American University of Beirut • Suad Abdul-Khabeer Muslim Cool: Blackness, Hip Hop and 8:30-10:30 American Islam Auditorium A • Sohail Daulatzai Darkness and A Blade: The Battle of Algiers in the Black Power Imagination • Maryam Kashani A Muhammadan Breeze, From Tarim to Oakland • Junaid Rana Sci-Fi Islamica: American Empire and the Fantasy of Pakistan 6 7 Day 2: Thursday, January 12, 2012 Conference Program Day 2: Thursday, January 12, 2012 Day 2: Thursday, January 12, 2012 All paper sessions will take place on the AUB campus in West Hall All paper sessions will take place on the AUB campus in West Hall Session 2: Geneaologies of Zionism, anti-Zionism, and Session 5: Border Crossing, Translation, and Empire Orientalism in the U.S. Chair: Belinda Walzer, University of North Carolina Greensboro Chair: Adam John Waterman, American University of Beirut • Shouleh Vatanabadi Perspectives of a “Specular Border- • Chapin Rydingsward Orientalism, Anti-Zionism, and the Crosser”:Reconsidering Global Shifting Borders 8:30-10:30 11:00-12:30 Arab(s) in America, 1945-1948 • Jens Hanssen Translating Revolutions – Hannah Arendt in the Auditorium B Auditorium B • Maurice Labelle “A Historic Tragic Mistake:”Transnational Arab World Dissent and the U.S. Intervention in the Lebanese Civil War of • Lisa Arnold Rethinking History, Composition Studies as an 1958 International Discipline • Hazem Jamjoum The United States and Palestinian Autonomy, • Karen Walther Mission to Morocco: American Perceptions of 1978-1984 Muslim-Jewish Relations, 1880-1906 Session 3: Cultural Borderlands Session 6: Regional Views on the Future of the Middle East and Chair: Magda Shahin, American University of Cairo North Africa • Charles Sabatos Slaves, Slavs, Turks, and Renegades: the Chair: Danyel Reiche, American University of Beirut ‘Ottoman Captivity Narrative’ as a Cross-Cultural Genre • Miloud Barkaoui Post-coloniality Revisited: the U.S. and the • Jonathan Shannon Routes and Itineraries of Culture: Song, Making of the New Arab Order 8:30-10:30 11:00-12:30 Spice, and Struggle in the New Mediterranean: Notes toward a • Mounira Soliman The Reception of U.S. Discourse on the Auditorium C Auditorium C Pirate Ethnography Egyptian Revolution: Between the Popular and the Official • Emrah Yildiz The Market on the Road for Pilgrimage: Field • Mohammad Ali Mousavi “Rebirth of the Middle East;” not for Notes on Religion, Economy and Family across the Iran/Turkey/ the U.S. Interests but for the People Syria Borderlands • Waleed Hazbun Be identified with the emerging future rather • Christine Lindner Resting in Peace: Identity Construction at the than the decaying past: The U.S. and Middle East in the wake Anglo-American Cemetery of Beirut of the Arab Uprisings 2010-11 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break West Hall, 2nd Floor 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break See program booklet for restaurant suggestions Session 4: America/ Middle East Intersections Session 7: Obama, the Arab Spring, and the “American Autumn” Chair: Malini Schueller, University of Florida Chair: Anne Sada’ah, Dartmouth University • Anne Norton Practical Andalusias: How Democratic Practices 14:00-15:30 • Adam Ramadan and Sara Fregonese Sovereignty and Challenge the Discourse of Dominion Auditorium A Responsibility: Between ‘a new beginning’ and ‘a moment of • From Mascara to ElKader: Emir 11:00-12:30 Selma Mokrani Barkoui opportunity’ in Obama’s Middle East policy Auditorium A Abdelkader between (De)Territorialization and (De) • Juan Cole The Obama Administration and the Arab Spring Commemoration • Brian Edwards Arab Spring, American Autumn • Allen Hibbard Middle East Meets Middle Tennessee: Mosques, Immigrant Communities, Wars, Travel and Academic Programs • Tsolin Nalbantian The Lebanonization of the Armenian- Americans: From 1958 to