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MESA ANNUAL MEETING 2011 December 1‐4 Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC

The following listing of CMES and Harvard Affiliated speakers was compiled from the MESA Program that was posted in October. 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: http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/pdf/11_preliminary_program.pdf

Pages 1‐2 Harvard Affiliate Listing with session times

Pages 3‐46 MESA Program with Harvard Affiliate names highlighted

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

Harvard Faculty: . Doherty, Gareth (Lecturer in Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning / Design) – Fri, 2‐4 . Frye, Richard N. (Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, Emeritus) – Sat, 5‐7 . Kafadar, Cemal (Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Miller, Susan Gilson (CMES Associate) – Sat, 11‐1; Sat, 5‐7 . Mottahedeh, Roy (Gurney Professor of History) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Najmabadi, Afsaneh (Professor of Women's Studies; Professor of History) – Sun, 11‐1 . Owen, E. Roger (A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History) – Thurs, 5‐7; Fri, 4:30‐6:30 . Zeghal, Malika (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought & Life) – Sat, 11‐1

Harvard Students: . Balbale, Abigail Krasner (G7 History/MES) – Sat, 2:30‐4:30 . Egemen, Melih (History) – Sat, 11‐1 . Gerbakher, Ilona (G1 Divinity) – Sat, 2:30‐4:30 . Gordon, Jennifer (G4 History/MES) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Kibler, Bethany (G1 Anthropology/MES) – Sun, 1:30‐3:30 . Li, Darryl (G8 Anthropology/MES) – Fri, 2‐4 . Mathew, Johan (History) – Thurs, 5‐7 . McCormick, Jared (Anthropology) – Sat, 5‐7 . Orkaby, Asher (G3 History/MES) – Sun, 11‐1 . Peric, Sabrina (Anthropology) – Fri, 2‐4 . Quinn, Meredith (History) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Salikuddin, Rubina (G5 History/MES) – Fri, 8:30‐10:30 . Sopov, Aleksandar (G5 History/MES) – Sun, 1:30‐3:30 . Vodopyanov, Anya () – Sat, 11‐1

1 Current Visiting Researchers: . Ben‐Yehoyada, Naor (CMES Post‐doctoral Fellow; PhD '11, Anthropology) – Fri, 2‐4 . Clement, Anne (WCFIA Fellow) – Sat, 2:30‐4:30

CMES & Harvard Alumni/ae: . Bulliet, Richard W. (PhD '67, History/MES) – Sat, 11‐1 . DeGeorges, Thomas (PhD '06, History/MES) – Sat, 11‐1 . El Shamsy, Ahmed (PhD '09, History/MES) – Thurs, 5‐7 . Erdemir, Aykan (PhD '04, History/MES) – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Esdaile, James (PhD '11, History/MES; WCFIA Fellow) – Sun, 11‐1 . Fitzgerald, Timothy J. (PhD '09, History/MES) – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Fudge, Bruce (PhD, NELC) – Sat, 11‐1 . Gottreich, Emily (PhD '99, History/MES) – Sun, 8:30‐10:30 . Karakaya‐Stump, Ayfer (PhD '08, History/MES) – Fri, 2‐4 . Kuru, Selim (PhD, NELC) – Sat, 5‐7 . Lockman, Zachary (PhD '83, History/MES) – Fri, 2‐4; Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Maddy‐Weitzman, Bruce (PhD '77, History/MES) – Fri, 4:30‐6:30 . Marglin, Jessica M. (AM '07, MES) – Sat, 11‐1 . Naaman, Erez (PhD ’09, NELC; CMES VR 09‐10) – Fri, 4:30‐6:30 . Shafir, Nir (AM '08, MES) – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Shechter, Relli I. (PhD '99, History/MES) – Fri, 11‐1 . Stilt, Kristen (PhD '04, History/MES) – Sat, 11‐1 . Terc, Mandy (AM '04, MES) – Sat, 2:30‐4:30 . Trepanier, Nicolas (PhD ’08, History/MES) – Fri, 11‐1 . Volk, Lucia (PhD '01, Anthropology/MES) – Fri, 11‐1 . Wittmann, Richard (PhD '08, History/MES; CMES VR 10‐11) – Sun, 1:30‐3:30 . Yom, Sean (PhD '09, Government) – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Yuksel Muslu, Cihan (PhD '07, History/MES) – Fri, 11‐1

Past CMES Affiliates: . Bellin, Eva – Fri, 11‐1 . Dailami, Ahmed – Sun, 8:30‐10:30 . Foster, Angel M. – Sun, 11‐1; Sun, 1:30‐3:30 . Goldberg, Ellis – Fri, 11‐1; Fri, 2‐4 . Ho, Engseng – Fri, 2‐4 . Menoret, Pascal – Fri, 11‐1 . Pearlman, Wendy – Sat, 8:30‐10:30 . Schayegh, Cyrus – Fri, 2‐4 . Sedghi, Hamideh – Thurs, 5‐7 . Shahin, Emad – Fri, 2‐4 . Sluglett, Peter – Fri, 2‐4; Sat, 5‐7

2 Program 5-7PM Thursday December 1

(2599) Future Prospects for the (2645) Grassroots : New Yucel Yanikdag, U of Richmond– Insights into Contemporary Measuring Civilization with Organized by Michael M. Gunter Syphilization?: Ottoman Turkish Society, Politics and Economics Responses to European (Pseudo-)Science Organized by Daniel Neep Organized under the auspices of (2664) Twentieth-Century Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies Sponsored by Muslim Thinkers in Chair/Discussant: Michael M. Gunter, Syrian Studies Association Conversation with Tradition Organized by Ahmed El Shamsy Tennessee Technological U Chair: Daniel Neep, British Inst in /U of Exeter Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Ahmed Chair/Discussant: Umar Ryad, Leiden Inst of Religious Studies Foundation for Kurdish Studies–The Paul Anderson, U of Cambridge–Trust KRG’s Susceptibility to Domestic and in a “Transitioning” Economy: The Rise Amin Venjara, Princeton U–Debating Regional Forces and Fall of Aleppo’s “Money Collectors” Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col–Diaspora Translation: Politics of Qur’an Sophia Hoffmann, SOAS, U of London– Translation in Early 20th Century Voices and the Use of Kurdish Satellite TV UNHCR in Syria: A Humanitarian Regime Jonathan Brown, Georgetown U– Nader Entessar, U of South Alabama– of Miracles in Our Present Day: A , the Green Movement and Bethany Honeysett, Edinburgh Traditionalist Scholar Negotiating Saints Kurdish Prospects in Iran U–Furniture and Pickles: An and Miracles in Early 20th Century Egypt Hakan Ozoglu, U of Central Florida–US Anthropological Take on Grassroots & Syria Diplomatic Correspondence and the Syria Yasmeen Daifallah, UC Berkeley–The Kurds Sebastian Maisel, Grand Valley State U– Political Subject in Contemporary Arab Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Construction of Yezidi Identity in Syria: Thought: Jaberi’s “Critique of Arab Technological U–The Future of Iraq’s Attitudes towards Reform from the Reason” as a Case in Point Relations with Its Kurdish Region Bottom of Society Ahmed El Shamsy, U of Chicago– Erik Mohns, U of Southern Denmark– Negotiating Tradition via Edition: The (2615) Defining the ‘Colonial’: Representations of Nationness among Editing Projects of Shakir Dominant and Muted Palestinians in the ‘’ of Mohammad H. Khalil, Michigan State Discourses Damascus U–Rethinking the Criterion for Non- Organized by James Whidden Muslim Salvation: The Case of Rashīd (2653) Public Health and Riḍā Discussant: Roger Owen, Harvard U Hygiene in the Late and Post- Ottoman World (2674) The Specter of Tamara van Kessel, U of Amsterdam– Organized by Kent F. Schull Authenticity in Persian Literary The Reception of a New “Colonizer”: The Discourse British Council in Egypt, 1934-1954 Chair: Emine O. Evered, Michigan State U Organized by Samad J. Alavi Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington–The Soft Heart of Empire and Its Edges: Omer Turan, Middle East Technical Chair/Discussant: Franklin D. Lewis, U Arab Policy in Colonial Egypt and the U–Proselytization and Public Health: of Chicago The Medical Missions of American Johan Mathew, Harvard U–Gentlemanly Protestants in the Daniel Rafinejad, UCLA–Problems Capitalists and Salacious Smugglers: Cihangir Gundogdu, U of Chicago–The in Autobiography in Classical Persian Alternative Histories of Shipping in the 1876 Mental Health Regulation and Poetry Arabian Sea 1873-1947 Officialization of Mental Health Services Kevin Schwartz, UC Berkeley–Attitudes Martin Bunton, U of Victoria–Colonial in the Late Ottoman Empire and Perceptions of the Bâzgasht-i Perspectives on Agricultural Credit Ibrahim Halil Kalkan, New York U– Ababî’s (Literary Return) Early Founders in Egypt, 1882-1912: A Comparison Public Hygiene and Social Control in Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine–Savushun of Cromer’s Agricultural Bank and Turn of the Century Istanbul (1876-1909) and the Paradoxes of Authenticity Kitchener’s Five Feddan Law Kent F. Schull, U of Memphis–“In Samad J. Alavi, UC Berkeley–Revolu- James Whidden, Acadia U–Colonial Conformity with the Laws of tionary Poet or Rebel Sloganeer?: Sa’id Alternatives: Lawrence and Loder on Civilization”: Health and Hygiene in Soltanpur and His Critics Egypt, Syria, and Iraq Ottoman Prisons during the Second Constitutional Period

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(2677) Death as a Category The following session “kicks-off” the Anthropology Hala Yehia Abd El-Wahab, American U of Analysis in Middle East of the Middle East: A New Millennium series in –Investigating the Effects of AFL of sessions that are scheduled throughout the Learners’ Use of L1 in the L2 Learning Scholarship Process Organized by Shane E. Minkin program. Look for the A-ME designation. Hanan Hassanein, American U in Cairo–Dyslexia and Learning as a Chair: Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore A-ME Foreign Col Laila Al-Sawi, American U in Cairo– Discussant: Miri Shefer, Tel Aviv U (2698) Anthropology of the Pronunciation: A Key to Better Middle East: A New Millennium Communication Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore Organized by Suad Joseph Col–Dissecting Death: Postmortems, (2759) New Perspectives on Governance and Belonging in British Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis Egypt, 1882-1914 in the Gulf Organized by Kristin Smith Diwan Amy Motlagh, American U in Cairo–Of Brinkley Messick, Columbia U Gardens and Graveyards: Examining Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia U Chair: Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U Heterotopic Space in Postrevolutionary Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth Col Iranian Fiction Discussant: Noora Lori, Johns Hopkins Lerna Ekmekcioglu, U of Michigan–“We U/Dubai Schl of Government Can’t Let the Dead Die”: Politics of (2721) Media, People’s Revenge and Commemoration in the Movements, State Power and Manal A. Jamal, U–The Aftermath of the the 2011 Tiering of Citizenship, Migration, and Babek Elahi, RIT–The Poetics and Organized by Niki Akhavan Nationality Rights: The United Arab Politics of Death in Bahman Farmanara’s in Historical Context Films Chair/Discussant: Juan Cole, U of Gwenn Okruhlik, Trinity U–Stateless Michigan in Arabia: Exclusion and the Politics of (2697) National Identities in Citizenship Roel Meijer, Radboud U–The Saudi Transition Niki Akhavan, Catholic U of America– “Soft War” and the Hardline: New Media Shi’as Project for National Citizenship Organized by Patrick J. Adamiak and Kristin Smith Diwan, American U– David Stenner Battlefields in Iran Amy Kallander, Syracuse U–Error 404: Gerrymandering Citizenship: Political Media, Mobilization and the Party State, Participation and Political Polarization David Stenner, UC Davis–The Moroccan Tunisia since 2000 in the Arab Gulf States Independence Movement as an Shawn Powers, Georgia State U– International Network Huntington’s “Demonstration Effect” Çağdas Sümer, Middle East Technical (2766) Social Histories of and the Middle East: Social Media as U–Ottoman Regime Strategies and Non- Labour in the Iranian Oil Democracy or as a Safety Valve? Turkish Muslim Responses Industry William L. Youmans, U of Michigan– Patrick J. Adamiak, UC San Diego–The Organized by Touraj Atabaki The Interactive Effects of Networked Carnegie Endowment Report on the Journalism: Al Jazeera English and Social Balkan Wars and the Ottoman Response Chair/Discussant: Ervand Abrahamian, Media in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising Edward Falk, UC San Diego–Jesuits, Baruch Col CUNY Jews, and Franco-Maronites: La Mission Civilisatrice in Ottoman Lebanon (2732) Less Commonly Touraj Atabaki, International Inst of Addressed AFL Issues: Insights Social History–From Sarkar to Labour and Recommendations Office in the Iranian Oil Industry: The Organized by Laila Al-Sawi Position of Labour Intermediaries in the Early Labour Recruitment Chair: Laila Al-Sawi, American U in Peyman Jafari, International Inst of Cairo Social History–The Political Economy of Oil and Democratization in Iran: Hebatallah Salem, American U in Revisiting the Rentier State Theory Cairo–Teaching Printed Colloquial Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U–Iranian Oil Azza Hassanien, American U in Cairo– Workers in the Islamic Discourse Markers: When to Use or Not Maral Jefroudi, International Inst of Social History–Whither Transition?: دق to Use the Particle The Lifeworld of Oil Workers before and after Iran’s 1951 Oil Nationalization

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(2779) 1950s + 50: Fahmida Suleman, British Museum– (2934) Gender, , and Memory, Space & Politics Princes, Potters and Pioneers: The Art Political Change Organized by Mina Marefat and Material Culture of the Fatimid Period Dawn Nowacki, Linfield Col–Correlates Paul E. Walker, U of Chicago–Ismaili of Women’s Election in Muslim Majority Sponsored by Doctrinal Works from the Fatimid States The American Academic Period: How Much Have We Now Emanuela Dalmasso, U of Turin–From Research Institute in Iraq Recovered? Pro-Democracy NGOs to Advocacy NGOs: Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins U– The Case of the Women’s Movement in Chair: Mina Marefat, Design Research & Fatimid Administrative Documents from Morocco the Cairo Geniza: The Status Quaestionis Georgetown U Hamideh Sedghi, Harvard U–Do Women Protest Organizations Have Political Aline Schlaepfer, U of Geneva–Through (2823) The Vicissitudes of Iran’s Transformative Potential in Iran? the Eyes of Iraqi Jewish Literati: Shi’i Clerical Establishment in Perceptions of Baghdad the 20th Century and the New (2936) Political Science after Bassam Yousif, Indiana State U– Millenium the Economy, Politics and Development: Organized by Arshavez Mozafari Baghdad in the 1950s Chair: Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown Magnus Bernhardsson, Williams Col– Chair: Arshavez Mozafari, U of Toronto U-Qatar Nationalist Nostalgia: Remembering a Peaceful, Progressive Baghdad Kourosh Rahimkhani–The Michael C. Hudson, National U of Caecilia Pieri, French Inst of Near East, Institutionalization of the Clerical Singapore–Upheaval in the Arab World: Beirut–Baghdad’s Concrete Frescoes: Establishment in Post-Revolutionary Back to the Drawing Board for Political Confused Narratives in a Fragmented Iran Scientists City Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky U– Pamela Stumpo, U of Washington– Denying Al-Raj’a While Remaining a Creating a Public Sphere under (2803) Codes, Conventions, Con- “Shī ‘a” Mubarak’s Authoritarian Regime: notations: Intertextuality in Shahram Kholdi, U of Manchester– Effective Use of a Proxy Term Modern Arabic Literature Industrious Memories and Provocative Trevor Johnston, U of Michigan–Co- Organized by Gretchen Head and Alexa Myths: Fifty Years of Revolutionary Optation or Participation?: The Role of Firat Clerical Historiography in Iran the Public Sector in Egyptian Protests Arshavez Mozafari, U of Toronto– Nadine Sika, American U in Cairo– Gretchen Head, U of Pennsylvania–Al- Ayatollah Khomeini and Satanology Dynamics of a Stagnant Religious Tuhāmī Al-Wazzānī’s Al-Zāwiyah and Mateen Rokhsefat, U of Toronto–The Discourse and the Rise of New Secular the Roots of Modern Moroccan Narrative Iranian Government’s (Mis)Use of Movements in Egypt Mara Naaman, Williams Col–Landscapes Apocalyptic Rhetoric Jean Lachapelle, U of Toronto– of Contemporary Iraqi Poetry Institutional Change in Authoritarian Alexa Firat, Temple U–Memories of a (2887) Middle Eastern Regimes: Egypt’s Movement for Trade Union Independence Soul: Recouping Existence in Mamduh Sexualities Azam’s Qasr Al-Matar Emily Regan Wills, New School for Social Research–Party on Steinway Waiel Abdelwahed, Temple U –“Beyond Chair: Hanadi Al-Samman, U of Virginia Beyond Haifa”: Parody and Street: How Arab New York Interpreted the 2011 Egyptian Revolution in Na’il Al-Tukhi’s 2006: The Story of the Rebecca Joubin, Davidson Col– Great War Love, Sexuality, and Marriage in Contemporary Syrian Television Drama: (2816) Fatimid Studies Cultural (De)Constructions of Gender Organized by Paul E. Walker and Self-Identity Noor Al-Qasimi, King’s Col, U of Chair: Farhad Daftary, Inst of Ismaili London–Queer Necropolitics in the UAE Studies Rebecca Moody, Syracuse U–(Un)Fit to Be Tied: Traces of Transcendence in Shainool Jiwa, Inst of Ismaili Studies– Marjane Satrapi’s Embroideries History in the Making: Reviewing the Study of Fatimid History

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(2940) The Politics of European Thematic Conversation Integration in the Middle East (2961) Rethinking / Chair: Serdar Kaya, Simon Fraser U Through the Arts Organized by Nadia G. Yaqub Akin Unver, Princeton U–Regional Security Complex Theory and Turkish Session Leader: Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Foreign Policy Chapel Hill Helin Alagoz, Free U of Berlin–The Attitudes of Political Parties in Najat Rahman, U of Montreal towards the EU Accession Nasrin Himada, Concordia U Jeanene Mitchell, U of Washington– Ella Shohat, New York U Turkey’s Role in Promoting Climate Gil Hochberg, UCLA Change Policy Objectives within the EU Amal Amireh, George Mason U Neighborhood Eva-Maria Maggi, Helmut-Schmidt U & U of Washington–Changing Domestic Action?: European Integration, Institutional Change and Domestic Actors in the Mediterranean

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Today’s Affiliated Meetings Sayres Rudy, Hampshire Col–Social Zeynep Altok, Boğaziçi U–Sixteenth- Resources of War and Peace under Century Ottoman Poetic Miscellanies: 12:30pm-2pm Authoritarian Sovereignty Motivations for Recording Poetry Center for Arabic Study Abroad Reinoud Leenders, U of Amsterdam– Sooyong Kim, U of Pennsylvania– consortium luncheon How Do the Social Sciences Fare under Toward an Ottoman Curriculum of Lebanese Taverna Restaurant (2641 Authoritarianism?: An Exploration and Literacy: Aşık Çelebi’s Tezkire of 1568 Connecticut Ave. NW) Critique of Social Science Research in Baathist Syria (2718) Memory, History, and (2630) Using Media to Forgetting in the Arab Gulf (2704) Discourses of Organized by Farah Al-Nakib and Mai Overcome Challenges Legitimization and Al-Nakib Organized by Dalal Aboel Seoud Transformation in Arabic Literature Chair/Discussant: Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, Supported by Organized by Katrien Vanpee and U of London American University in Cairo Jennifer Hill Boutz Farah Al-Nakib, American U of Kuwait– Chair: Dalal Aboel Seoud, American U Hotham Matthew, UNC Chapel Hill–The Destructive Development: Forgetting in Cairo Transparent Author: Intertextuality Kuwait’s Past through Demolition and in Debates over Asceticism in Sufi Heritage Inas Safeyeldin Hafez, American U Hagiography Mai Al-Nakib, Kuwait U–Remembering in Cairo–The Challenge of Teaching Enass Khansa, Georgetown U–Poetry as Not to Forget: Kuwait in Postcards Grammar Hadith and the Boundaries of Communal Matthew S. Hopper, Cal Poly, San Luis Nora M. Abdel Wahab, American U in Identities Obispo–Slavery and Memory in Oman Cairo–Using Media Sources for Teaching Katrien Vanpee, Georgetown U– and the United Arab Emirates Culture in the Arabic as a Foreign Poetry, Patronage and the Nation-State: Mandana E. Limbert, City U of New Language Class Princely Nabati Poetry from the Arabian York–Violence, Nostalgia, and Self- Mona K. Hassan, American U in Cairo– Peninsula Formation in Omani Accounts of the Interruption: A Challenging Area in Jennifer Hill Boutz, U of Maryland, Zanzibar Revolution Advanced AFL Listening and Speaking College Park– and the Classrooms Construction of Literary Persona: Hassan (2724) Explaining Egypt’s 2011 Dalal Aboel Seoud, American U in Ibn Thabit in the Adab Literature of the Revolt: Transitions to What? Cairo–The Challenge of Code Mixing and ‘Abbasid Period Organized by Emma Deputy and Eric Code Switching Christine Kalleeny, Lehigh U–In Praise Trager Shahira Yacout, American U in Cairo– of Poetry: The Figure and Function of Challenges AFL Teachers Face Teaching Khamr in Abu Nuwas’s Wine Song Political Texts to the Novice Level Chair: Diane Singerman, American U Discussant: Samer S. Shehata, (2710) Literacy and Reading in Georgetown U (2646) Approaches to Early Modern Ottoman Culture Authoritarianism: Theory, Organized by Meredith Quinn, Harvard U Emma Deputy, U of Texas–Toshka: A Evidence and Interpretation in Source of Anger Middle East Politics Chair/Discussant: Cemal Kafadar, Joshua Stacher, Kent State U–Regime Organized by Daniel Neep Harvard U Change or Reinvention?: Power, the Military, and the Opposition in a Post- Daniel Neep, British Inst in Katharina Ivanyi, Princeton U–The Mubarak Egypt Damascus/U of Exeter–Understanding Slippery Slope of Piety: A Case Study Eric Trager, U of Pennsylvania–Failed Authoritarianism in the Middle East: in Sixteenth Century Ottoman Reading Co-optation: The Fall of Mubarak and What Do Interpretive Approaches Practices Egypt’s Political Future Contribute to Political Science? Derin Terzioglu, Boğaziçi U–The Debate Jon Argaman, U of Pennsylvania–The Sam Fayyaz, UMass Amherst–Self- on Vernacular Literacy in Seventeenth- Politics of Building Cairo, Before and Help Literature and Citizenship in Century Ottoman Empire After Authoritarian Iran, or: “Reading Tony Robbins in Tehran” Yasmeen Mekawy, U of Chicago– Democratic Deliberation and Political Performance in the Egyptian Blogosphere

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(2740) The International (2818) Religious Authority in (2840) Dissenting Voices: Community and the Horn of the Medieval Islamic World Mapping and Remapping the Africa Organized by Rubina Salikuddin Organized by Charles Dunbar Organized by Lamia Ben Youssef Jennifer Gordon, Harvard U–Obeying Zayzafoon Chair: James Bishop, Independent Those in Authority: Determining Consultant Spiritual Power in Medieval Baghdad Chair: Douja Mamelouk, Georgetown U Discussant: Mark N. Katz, George Mason U Rubina Salikuddin, Harvard U– Discussant: Mounira Maya Charrad, UT Religious Authority and the Timurid Austin Charles Dunbar, Boston U–The United Shrine Nations in the Horn of Africa Mustafa Banister, U of Toronto– Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon, U David Shinn, George Washington U– Revisiting Abbasid Authority in of Alabama at Birmingham–Gender, China and the Horn of Africa Cairo Cyberculture and the Postcolonial Mark Asquino, U.S. Department of Habitus during the Tunisian Revolution State–The International Community and Roundtable Nouri Gana, UCLA–Rapping and the Horn of Africa: Many Actors, Future (2820) What Does it Mean to Remapping the Tunisian Revolution Dilemmas Douja Mamelouk, Georgetown U–The Mike Woldemariam, Princeton U– Study Muslims?: Challenges and Changing Face of Tunisian Masculinity: The African Union in the Horn of Opportunities of a Prospering From Fear to Dignity Africa: Current Limitations and Future Research Field Feriel Bouhafa, Georgetown U–Breaking Possibilities Organized by Riem Spielhaus Public Consensus: The Case of the Tunisian Revolution Chair: Thijl Sunier, VU U Amsterdam A-ME (2889) Urbanism and (2806) Constituting Subjects: Göran Larsson, U of Gothenburg/ U of Urbanization in the Middle East Nebraska/Lund U Subjectivity and Subject- Mona Hassan, Duke U Making in the Anthropology of Chair: Hengameh Fouladvand, Center Juliane Hammer, UNC Chapel Hill for Iranian Modern Arts the MENA Region Naika Foroutan, Humboldt U Berlin Organized by Sherine M. Hafez Riem Spielhaus, CEIT - U of Copenhagen Ferhan Guloglu, Columbia U– Construction of a New City in People’s Chair: Ahmed Kanna, U of the Pacific Minds Discussant: Suad Joseph, UC Davis (2831) Religious Reform and “Modern” Religion in Late 19th Joomi Lee, UT Austin–Urban Politics of the Bouregreg Project: The Integration Katherine P. Ewing, U of Wisconsin- Century Ottoman Empire and of Rabat-Salé and Morocco’s Monarchial Madison–Muslim Sexual Subjectivities: Iran State The Ethical Politics of Consistency, Organized by A. Holly Shissler Bessma Momani, U of Waterloo and Authenticity, and the Secret Luna Khirfan, U of Waterloo–’s Arzoo Osanloo, U of Washington– Chair: Monica Ringer, Amherst Col New Urban Landscape: Inclusive Urban Subjectivities and State Formations in Planning or Democratic Deficit? Post-Revolutionary Iran A. Holly Shissler, U of Chicago–Religion Dr. Samia Rab, American U of Sharjah– Sherine M. Hafez, UC Riverside– and the Modern Man: Ahmet Midhat Seascape Urbanism in Al Khalij Unmapping the “Religious Subject”: The Efendi and the Newspaper Tercüman-i David Siddhartha Patel, Cornell U– Heterogeneity of Desire in Women’s Hakikat Islam and the Spatial Ordering of Urban Islamic Movements in Egypt Ercument Asil, U of Chicago–Imagining Violence in Iraq Banu Gokariksel, UNC Chapel Hill and Religion in Ottoman Popular Scientific Anna Secor, U of Kentucky –Producing Ş Journals: The Example of emsettin (2893) On the Margin of the Pious Subjects and Bodies: The Ethics of Sami’s Hafta Consuming Veiling-Fashion in Turkey Monica Ringer, Amherst Col–Kay State: Alternative Khaled Furani, Tel-Aviv U–Palestinian Khosrow Shahrokh: Rational Religion as Subjectivities in Anthropology a Path to and Citizenship Chair: Spencer Segalla, U of Tampa Ayshe Polat, U of Chicago–Teaching How to Think: Sheikh Al-Islam Mustafa Matthew Hal Ellis, Princeton U–Power, Sabri Efendi’s Engagement in Debates on Piety, and Political Identity at the Islam Margins: The Case of the Sanusiyya continued next page

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Randa R. Farah, U of Western Ontario– (2910) Vice in the Modern Reem Bailony, UCLA–Politics of the The Sahrawi Struggle for Nationhood: Middle East : The and the Khilafat Between a Rock and a Hard Place Movement Johann Chacko, U of Arizona– Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State U Henri Lauzière, Northwestern U– Drones versus Suicide Bombers: The Shortwave Radio and New Horizons in Consolidation of the of North Omar Foda, U of Pennsylvania–The Islamic Transnational Activism: The Waziristan Pyramid and the Crown: The Beer Experiences of Taqi Al-Din Al-Hilali in Geoffrey F. Gresh, The Fletcher Industry in Egypt, 1898-2003 Nazi Germany School of Law & Diplomacy–Beyond Philippe Bourmaud, Université Lyon John M. Willis, U of Colorado–Contested Borders: Globalization and the Rise of 3–Internationalizing Vice: Politics of Universalisms: Indian Pilgrims and the Ethnonationalism in Iran Prohibition and Control in the Middle Inter-War Hajj Lucy Chester, U of Colorado– Eastern Mandates (1919-1939) “Palestinian Pakistans”: Arab and Indian Liat Kozma, Hebrew U, – (2942) Issues and Identity in Muslim Views on Partition in South Asia Across the Mediterranean: The Turkey and the Palestine Mandate Migration of Women for Prostitution, 1920-1939 Chair: Tugrul Keskin, Portland State U (2900) Women, Consumption, Haggai Ram, Ben Gurion U–A Social and Production in the History of in Israel-Palestine Talha Kose, Istanbul Şehir U– Mediterranean and Sudan from the 1920s to the Present Community, Ideology and Ethnicity: Narratives and Re-Imagining Alevi Libby Nutting, UT Austin–Vivir por (2914) Mandate Palestine: Identity in Post-1980 Turkey la Seda: Morisca Women, Household Memory, Media, and Medicine Emine Rezzan Karaman, UCLA–Letters Economies, and the Silk Industry in the from : Şevketlû, Azametlû, Kingdom of Granada, 1492-1570 Chair: Michael Bracy, Oklahoma State U Kudretlû Padişahımız ve Velinimetimiz Carl Davila, Col at Brockport, SUNY– Efendimiz Sultân Abdülhamid Han Woman, Song and Freedom: The Aida Essaid, U of Jordan–Colonial- Hazretlerine Bifurcations of Gender Ideology in 9th- Settler Methods of Land Acquisition in Serhun Al, U of utah–The Rise of Century Cordoba British Mandate Palestine Kurdish Ethnic Consciousness in Turkey Marie Grace Brown, U of Pennsylvania– Andrea L. Stanton, U of Denver– and Its Effects on Fashioning Sudan: Visions of Social Shortages and Expenditures: Managing Elif Andac, U of Kansas–Nationalism, Order and Chaos in Women’s Dress Music and Musicians on the Palestine Diversity and Identity Consensus in Betul Argit, Post-Doctoral Researcher– Broadcasting Service Urban Spaces: A Comparative Analysis Consumption Habits of Palace-Affiliated Shay Hazkani, New York U–The 1948 from Southeastern Turkey Women in the Eighteenth Century War from Below: Reflections of Arab Erzen Oncel, Boston U–Ethnocultural Ottoman Empire Soldiers and Palestinian Spectators Representation in Turkey: Diversity and Anat Mooreville, UCLA–The Inclusiveness since 1900s (2903) Assyrians in Ottoman, “War Against Trachoma”: Colonial Ophthalmology in Mandate Palestine Thematic Mandate and Contemporary Conversation Middle Eastern History Mark Sanagan, McGill U–‘Izz Al-Din Al- Qassam Remembered? (2958) Turning to Indigenous Sargon Donabed, Roger Williams U–The Photography of the Arab World, (2917) Travel, Transmission, Mendacity, Atrocity, and Its Corollary: 1850-1940 Revisiting Simele, Iraq and : Organized by Stephen P. Sheehi Aryo Makko, U of Oxford–Between Twentieth Century Muslims Settlement, Military Service, and Reach Out Issam Nassar, Illinois State U Transit: Jacobite Assyrians under the Lucie Ryzova, U of Oxford French Mandate of Syria Stephen P. Sheehi, U of South Carolina Hannibal Travis, Florida International Chair: Odile Moreau, Montpellier U Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell U U–The Construction of the Armenian Genocide: Unremembering the Ottoman Mikiya Koyagi, UT Austin–The Hajj by Assyrians and the Loyal Subjects of Tenno, 1905-1945 Gavin Brockett, Wilfrid Laurier U– Who Speaks for Islam?: International Islam and the World Muslim Congress Movement, 1948-1953

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(2598) Israel’s Peace-Making (2649) Shifting Gender (2662) Health, Society, and Challenges in 2011 Categories in the Post-World the Environment in the Early Organized by Robert O. Freedman War I Middle East Modern Middle East Organized by Ahmet Serdar Akturk Organized by Nukhet Varlik Sponsored by and Helena Kaler Chair: Sara Scalenghe, Loyola U Association for Israel Studies Chair: Joel Gordon, U of Arkansas Maryland Chair/Discussant: Robert O. Freedman, Discussant: Lisa Pollard, UNC Discussant: Kristina Richardson, CUNY Johns Hopkins U Wilmington Queens Col

Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg, Carnegie Ahmet Serdar Akturk, U of Arkansas– Nukhet Varlik, Rutgers U–Medical Mellon U and Neil Caplan, Concordia Defining Kurdish Women and Knowledge and Public Health Services in U, Montreal–Personality and Peace- Masculinity in the Kurdish Press of Early Modern Istanbul Making: Case Studies from the Arab- the 1930s and 1940s under the French Sam White, Oberlin Col–Livestock Israeli Conflict Mandate Plagues and Public Responses in Early Ilan Peleg, Lafeyette Col–Will the Real Helena Kaler, George Washington U– Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire Bibi Please Stand Up?: Understanding Gender and the Political Construction of Alan Mikhail, Yale U–Animals, Disease, Netanyahu’s Policies on the Israeli- Childhood in Interwar Iraq and Labor in Ottoman Egypt Palestinian Peace Process Sivan Balslev, Tel Aviv U–The Bowtie Miri Shefer, Tel Aviv U–The Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv U–Israel and the Dilemma: Iranian Masculinity between Administration of Mind, Body and Arab World the Two World Wars Garden: Ottoman Bureaucracy in the Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv U–Israel and the Matthew Parnell, U of Arkansas– Early Modern Period and “Green Lungs” Changing Geopolitical Circumstances of Expressions of Youth Masculinity in the Ellen J. Amster, U of Wisconsin- the Middle East Egyptian Revolution of 1919 Milwaukee–Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints as Public Healers in Morocco Thematic (2659) Transnational Islam in Conversation Interwar Europe Roundtable Organized by Umar Ryad (2620) Disciplining a Religious/ (2663) Is Yemen Inexorably on Secular Divide Chair/Discussant: Mohammad H. the Road to Collapse? Organized by Joyce Dalsheim Khalil, Michigan State U Organized by Thomas Juneau Session Leader: Gregory Starrett, UNC Mehdi Sajid, U of Bonn–The Idea of Chair: Thomas Juneau, Carleton U Charlotte Europe in the Middle East: The Role of the Muslim Reformist Network Joyce Dalsheim, UNC Charlotte in Shaping the Idea of Europe in the Lucas Winter, FMSO Khaled Furani, Tel-Aviv U Interwar Period Christopher Boucek, Carnegie Endowment Loren Lybarger, Ohio U Ali Al Tuma, Leiden U–The Entry of Gregory D. Johnsen, Princeton U Esra G. Ozyurek, UC San Diego Moroccan Troops in Europe (1936- Sam Razavi, Privy Council Office Samuli Schielke, Zentrum Moderner 1945): A Study in Military Temporary Orient, Berlin Migration (2670) Ottoman Identity, Part I Goetz Nordbruch, SDU Odense– (13th-15th C.): Anatolian Beylik Negotiating Justice and Future Abyss to Emerging Empire Civic Order in Times of Change: The Organized by Christine Isom- Experience of Arab/Muslim Scholars at Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull, U of the Institut de Droit Comparé in Lyon, Memphis 1920-1939 Umar Ryad, Leiden Inst of Religious Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Studies–The Roots of Pan-Islamist Benedictine U Reformist Admiration towards Germany in the Interwar Period: and Murat Menguc, Seton Hall U–When the Al-Manar (1898-1935) as a Case Study Ottomans Turn Türk continued next page

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Sara Nur Yildiz, Orient-Institut, (2791) Gulf Migration: Assess- A-ME Istanbul–Tracing Muslim Anatolian ing the Impact of Policies Identities through the Sources: Identity Organized by Imco Brouwer Politics in Medieval and Early Modern (2738) Memory Matters: Anthropology in the Middle Nicolas Trepanier, U of Mississippi–The East Organized under the Auspices of Giving Divide: Food Gifts and Social Organized by Aseel Sawalha and Lucia Identity in Post-Byzantine Anatolia Volk Gulf Research Center Zeynep Aydogan, Berlin Graduate (Dubai, Geneva, Cambridge) School Muslim Cultures and Societies– Chairs: Aseel Sawalha, Fordham U and Changing Perceptions along the Lucia Volk, San Francisco State U Chair: Imco Brouwer, Gulf Research Frontiers: Some Geographical Definitions Discussant: Susan Slyomovics, UCLA Center (Dubai, Geneva, Cambridge) in the Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Discussant: Philippe Fargues, European Narratives Rochelle A. Davis, Georgetown U– U Inst F. Ozden Mercan, European U Inst– Palestinian Posters: Revolutionary From the Genoese to the Perots: The Remixes and Visual Rememberings Bina Fernandez, U of Leeds–Traffickers, Genoese Community in Pera after 1453 Lucia Volk, San Francisco State U– Employment Agents or Entrepreneurs?: Cihan Yuksel Muslu, UT Dallas– Memories of Massacres: Locating Manoeuvring around Policies Regulating Ottoman or Mamluk?: Caught Between National Narratives in Lebanon’s the Migration of Ethiopian Domestic Two Loyalties Margins Workers in Kuwait and Lebanon Nadia Latif, Bard Col–Recounting and Helene Thiollet, Sciences Po–Kafala Revisited: Public and Private Actors of (2689) New Ideas, Institutions Omitting, Remembering and Forgetting: Nationalist Narratives of the Nakba and Migration Policies in Saudi Arabia and Adaptations: The Politics Palestinian Camp Refugee Memory in Claire Beaugrand, CNRS, Qatar– of Education Reform after Lebanon Cancelling the Kafala: How Serious Can the in Syria, Egypt and Aseel Sawalha, Fordham U–Beirut’s It Be?: Bahraini Experiment, Kuwaiti Algeria Central District between Memory and Prospects Michael Herb, Georgia State U– Organized by Hilary Kalmbach Amnesia Fida Adely, Georgetown U–The Way My Understanding the Politics of Labor Market Policies in the GCC States Chair/Discussant: Benjamin Fortna, Grandfather Wed: Memories of Marriage George Naufal, American U of SOAS, U of London amidst Jordan’s “Marriage Crisis” Sharjah–Remittance Outflows: The New Dimension of the Structural Change in Randi C. Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM, (2773) The Fresh Language the Source of Labor in the GCC –Situating Maktab ‘Anbar: Scene Attending the Current Between Cultural, Administrative and Religious Reorganization in Late Arab Revolutions (2799) The Politics of New Organized by Muhamed Al Khalil Ottoman Damascus Media in the Middle East Hilary Kalmbach, U of Oxford–Being Organized by Rebecca Luna Stein ‘Modern’ and Religious: Hybridity, Muhamed Al Khalil, New York U Abu Authenticity and Cairo’s Dar Al-‘Ulum Dhabi–The Esthetic and the Combative Chair: Ted Swedenburg, U of Arkansas Dyala Hamzah, Zentrum Moderner in the Poetry of the Current Arab Discussant: Melani McAlister, George Orient–Missionary Islam or the Revolutions Washington U Foundation of an Anti-Azhar (Cairo Mohammed Hirchi, Colorado State U– 1912-1914): The Syllabus and Book of Graffiti and the Cultural Dynamics of the Negar Mottahedeh, Duke U–Calling the Rules of Rashid Rida’s Madrasat Al- Egyptian Revolution Nation into Being: Slogans of Revolt in Da‘wa wa-l-Irshâd Mirko Colleoni, U of Bergamo–The Use Iranian History James McDougall, Trinity Col, Oxford– of Arab Literary and Musical Heritage Amahl Bishara, Tufts U–Community “Practical Education”: The Meanings of for the Reawakening of the Sense of News Websites and Political Schooling Reform in Colonial Algeria Arabness: The Case of Al Jazeera’s Communication among Palestinians Promos across the Green Line Ali Farghaly, LangApps–An Analysis of Rebecca Luna Stein, Duke–YouTube Arabic Social Media on FaceBook: The Occupations: New Media and the Israeli We are All Khalid Saeed Group State Salah-dine Hammoud, US Air Force Alyssa Miller, Duke U–On Pillage and Academy–Protest Arabic On-Line and Pilgramage: Digital Journeys through on the Ground: Blogs, Banners and Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution Headlines

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(2801) Imagining Community: (2908) Topics on Central Asian Marika Snider, U of Utah–Street Approaches to the Polity in History Vendors and Urban Politics in Egypt Nancy Y. Reynolds, Washington U in St. Medieval Islamic Tradition Louis–Egyptian Consumption “After the Organized by Mona Hassan Chair: Kevin Gray, U of Toronto Dam” Pascal Menoret, Harvard U/NYU– Chair: Yahya Michot, Hartford Robert Haug, U of Cincinnati–From City Consumption and Contention in Saudi Seminary of Merchants to City of Murābiṭūn: The Origins of Baykand’s 1,000 Ribāṭs Arabia Abbas Barzegar, Georgia State Renat Shaykhutdinov, Florida Atlantic U–The Discourse of Al-Jama’a: A U–State Response toward Religious (2878) Issues in Teaching Reconsideration of Orthodoxy and Revivalism in Tatarstan Arabic as a Foreign Language Historical Imagination Bernadette Andrea, UT San Antonio– Organized by Elsa Elmahdy Mona Hassan, Duke U–Mapping Ivan the Terrible’s Massacres of Central Asian Tatars and Early Modern English Competing Notions of and Supported by Community in the Thirteenth and Responses Fourteenth Centuries Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State American University in Cairo Ovamir Anjum, U of Toledo–Ibn U–Conflict in the Caucasus: A Military Perspective on Russo-Iranian Wars Chair: Elsa Elmahdy, American U in Taymiyya’s Recovery of the Community Cairo in Islamic Political Tradition Junaid Quadri, McGill U–Cultivating (2817) Issues in Contemporary Mona Attwa, American U in Cairo– Morality in the Islamic Polis: The Role of Turkish Cinema Arabizi and ECA Vocabulary Acquisition Communal Leadership Organized by Burcu Karahan Randa Muhammed, American U in Cairo–Youth Language in Cyberspace: An (2802) Making History: People Supported by Exploratory Study on Arabic Language Power in Egypt Usage on Facebook and the Impact of Organized by Dina Bishara and Holger The Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in on this Usage before, Albrecht Islamic Studies and the Mediterranean during and after the Revolution of Forum at Stanford University January 25th Chair: Lisa Anderson, American U in Sanaa Abou-Ras, American U in Cairo– Cairo Chair: Burcu Karahan, Stanford U The Effect of Teaching Arabic on the Discussant: Eva Bellin, Brandeis U Attitude of Egyptian-Nubian Children Iren N. Ozgur, Princeton U–Changing Elsa Elmahdy, American U in Cairo– Dina Bishara, George Washington U– Representations of Islamists in Turkish Discrepancies in Native and Non-Native Interest vs. Discourse: Making Sense of Cinema Production: The Active Participle in Mass Protests in Egypt Pelin Basci, Portland State U–Gender Modern Standard Arabic Samer Soliman, American U in Cairo– and Memory in the Films By Tomris Haitham Mohamed, American U in ş The Class Basis of the January 25 Giritlioğlu and Ye im Ustaoğlu Cairo–Acting as a Method of Learning a Uprising Suncem Kocer, Indiana U–Represen- Foreign Language: A Study on Egyptian Ellis Goldberg, U of Washington– tations of Kurds and the Kurdish Issue in Colloquial Arabic Thinking about Identity in the Egyptian Turkish Cinema Worlds Revolution Evren Ozselcuk, York U–Politics and ş Holger Albrecht, American U in Cairo– Aesthetics of the Provincial (‘Ta ra’) in Raging against the Machine: Popular Contemporary Turkish Cinema Protest and Authoritarian Regime Change in Egypt (2835) Urban Politics of Mass Consumption in Egypt and Saudi Arabia Organized by Pascal Menoret and Relli I. Shechter

Relli I. Shechter, Ben-Gurion U–Catch- Up Material Culture: Consumer Anxiety in the Making of Neo-Conservative Saudi Socio-Politics during the First Oil Boom, c. 1973-1983

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(2916) Constructing Space (2929) Modern Iran: Revolution, and Self in the Late and Post Oil, Religion, and Development Ottoman World Ramazan Hakki Oztan, U of Utah– Merih Erol, Princeton U–Surveillance, Handling the Unreasonable Nation: Iran Urban Governance, and Legitimacy in and the Western Political Economy of Late Ottoman Istanbul: Spying on Music Oil, 1951-1953 and Entertainment during the Hamidian Beeta Baghoolizadeh, UT Austin–A Regime (1876-1909) Triangle of Fighting Loyalties: The Melis Hafez, UCLA–The Diseased Body Ottomans, the , and the Shi‘is of and Laziness as a Social Disease in Late Iraq Ottoman Society Mateo Farzaneh, Northeastern Illinois Gabriel Piricky, Inst of Oriental Studies, U- Chicago–Financial Interest, Piety, and Bratislava, Slovakia–The Perception of Marjaiyyat: The Fight Between Nuri and Muslim Turks in Grammar Schools and Khurasani Seminaries History Textbooks in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia Ekin Enacar, U of Chicago–Defining and “Ottoman Identity”: Sati Al-Husri’s Journal of Primary School Education (1910-1912)

(2923) Spirituality and Religion in Literature

Chair: Sebastian Guenther, U of Goettingen

Nuha Al-Shaar, Inst of Ismaili Studies– Al-Tawḥīdī’s Al-Şadāqa wa Al-Şadīq: Use of the Sources and the Moral Self and Vision Sean Anthony, U of Oregon–The Mahdi and the Treasures of Al-Talaqan Side Emre, Texas A & M U–Literary Inspirations, Spiritual Heritage, and Crafting Piety: The Voices and Agendas of the Cairene Gülşeniye , 16th and 17th Centuries Irene Siegel, Hofstra U–Challenging Muslims in Mahmoud al-Mas‘adi’s Haddatha Abu Hurayra Qaal

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(2604) Female Religious Author- Hilde Henriksen Waage, U of Oslo, (2628) Rethinking Communism ity in 20th Century Iran Norway–Champions of Peace? Tools in and Anti-Colonial Struggles in Whose Hands?: Norwegians and Peace- Organized by Mirjam Kuenkler Broking in the Middle East the Middle East Organized by Abigail Jacobson Shelley Deane, Bowdoin Col–Compass Chair: , Princeton U Mirjam Kuenkler or Relative Wind: Navigating Israeli Chair: Zachary Lockman, New York U Third Party Negotiations Keiko Sakurai, Waseda U–Development Discussant: Peter Sluglett, National U of Noa Schonmann, U of Oxford–An Actor of Female Hawzas (Islamic Seminaries) Singapore in Search of a Role: Turkey and the Arab- and Mujtahids (Jurisprudent Author- Israeli Peace Process ities) in Iran Awad Halabi, Wright State U–“Their Maryam Rutner, New York U– Ruse Comes to Nothing”: Arab Responses Opportunities for Women’s Religious (2625) Networks of Exchange in to Communist Activities in 1930s Training in Contemporary Shiraz Medieval Muslim Societies Palestine Irene Schneider, U of Goettingen–The Organized by Erik S. Ohlander Abigail Jacobson, Interdisciplinary Discourse about CEDAW: Voices of Center Israel–Between National Female Jurists in Iran Sponsored by Liberation and Anti-Colonial Struggle: Mirjam Kuenkler, Princeton U–Female The National Liberation League in in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Middle East Medievalists Palestine New Opportunities for Old Role Models? Chair/Discussant: Louise Marlow, Orit Bashkin, U of Chicago–Stalin as Wellesley Col Abu Shawarib: Iraqi Jews and the Iraqi (2611) Islamic Law and Communist Party Rami Ginat, Bar-Ilan U–A History of Colonialism Monique Bernards, Antwerp, Belgium– Egyptian Communism: Jews and Their Organized by Kenneth M. Cuno and Iris Social Network Analysis and the Compatriots in Quest of Revolution Agmon Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Arabic Grammatical Circles of Learning Chair: Ido Shahar, Ben Gurion U Mushegh Asatryan, Yale U–Bankers and (2652) Identities and Interests Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, George Politics: The Kufan Money-Changers in in Contemporary Yemen Washington U the Eighth Century and Their Role in the Organized by Charles P. Schmitz Shiite Community Iza Hussin, U of Chicago–Traveling Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana U-Purdue Legacies: Two Trajectories of Law on U Ft. Wayne–From Cairo to and Sponsored by Islam Back Again: What a Thirteenth-Century American Institute for Yemeni Studies Paolo Sartori, Martin Luther U Halle/ Sufi Scholar Collected along the Way Discussant: Sheila Carapico, U of Wittenberg–On Muslims’ Normative Malika Dekkiche, U of Liège (Belgium)– Agency in Russian Central Asia When the Pen Rules: Diplomatic Richmond Kenneth M. Cuno, U of Illinois at Exchanges between the and Urbana-Champaign–Muhammad Qadri’s the Timurids in the Fifteenth Century Stephen Steinbeiser, American Inst for Code of Personal Status Law in Egypt Yemeni Studies–Follow the Bouncing Iris Agmon, Ben Gurion U–Colonialism Roundtable Ball: Practical Approaches to Effective and the Courts in Pre-Mandate Dispute Resolution in Contemporary Palestine, 1917-1922 (2627) The Stability of the Yemen Claudia Gazzini, European U Inst, Authoritarian Arab State? Abdullah Hamidaddin, Kings Col– Florence–When Jurisprudence becomes Organized by Gregory Gause “Seyyids” of Yemen: Old Wine in New Law: How the Italians in Turned Bottles? Islamic Law and Customary Practices Chair: Gregory Gause, U of Vermont Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and into Binding Legal Precedents William Smith Cols–Crafting Opposition: Jason Brownlee, UT Austin The JMP and the Politics of Identity Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U–Tribes Ellen Lust, Yale U (2624) Brokering Peace in the and State in Yemen? Middle East Steven Heydemann, US Inst of Peace Organized by Noa Schonmann Marc Lynch, George Washington U

Discussant: Neil Caplan, Concordia U, Montreal

Marwa Daoudy, U of Oxford– Negotiating to Avoid Settlement?

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(2671) Ottoman Identity, Part II (2768) Cotton, Canals, and A-ME (15-17th C.): Military Conquest Chemicals: Environmental State to World Empire (2731) Transregional Middle Perspectives on the History of Organized by Kent F. Schull, U East Anthropology: Old Bilad Al-Sham of Memphis and Christine Isom- Geographies, New Histories Organized by Samuel Dolbee and Verhaaren Organized by Engseng Ho Elizabeth Williams Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Chair: Engseng Ho, Duke U Sponsored by Benedictine U Discussant: Andrew J. Shryock, U of Discussant: Heather Ferguson, Stanford U Michigan Syrian Studies Association

Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U–Making Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, American Darryl Li, Harvard U–A Hyderabadi U in Cairo Jerusalem Ottoman Yemeni in President Alija Izetbegovi’s Charles L. Wilkins, Wake Forest U– Court: Other Universalisms and the Chris Gratien, Georgetown U–Climate, Ibrahim b. Khidr Al-Qaramani (d. 1556): Nation-State Juridical Order of Things in A Merchant and Urban Notable of Early Geography and Settlement in Ottoman Bosnia-Herzegovina , 1600-1900 Ottoman Aleppo Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Harvard U– Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Cornell U–The Samuel Dolbee, New York U–Fighting Arteries in a Transregional ‘Body’: The Pests and Tarbushes, Too: Rural Anti-Kizilbash Campaigns of the 16th Algeria-Italy Gas Pipeline Construction, Century and the Crystallization of the Development and the Ecology of Class in Mediterranean Visions, and the Tunisian Late 1930s Syria Ottoman Sunni Identity Revolution Nabil Al-Tikriti, U of Mary Washington– Elizabeth Williams, Georgetown U– Sabrina Peric, Harvard U–When Metals Contesting Cotton: The Production of Ibn-i Kemal’s Confessionalism and the and Bones Meet: An Underground Construction of an “Ottoman Islam” Agricultural Space in French Mandate Perspective on the Transregional Syria Leslie Peirce, New York U–Becoming Balkans Ottoman in 16th-Century Aintab Graham Pitts, Georgetown U–Paradise Dadi Darmadi, Center for the Study Dried Up: The Rise and Fall of the River of Islam and Society (PPIM), Jakarta, , a Hydrogeography of Damascus (2683) Shi’i Islamic Activism: Indonesia–Saudi History Seen from from the Beginning of Time to the Transforming the Other, the Edges: Javanese Responses to Saudi Present Transforming the Self Custodianship of Mecca in the Early Organized by Nabil Al-Hage Ali Twentieth Century Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar, Yale U– (2788) Freedom and the 1/11 Revolutions Chair: Juan Cole, U of Michigan Transregional Tensions in Spain’s Organized by Nadia G. Yaqub Discussant: John O. Voll, Georgetown U “Muslim City”: Competing Memories of Al-Andalus and the Production of Unequal Multiculturalism Chair/Discussant: Negar Mottahedeh, Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest U– Duke U Hizb Al-Da‘wa and Hizbullah: Formation of and Change between Two Political (2763) Elements of “Identity” Brandon Gorman, UNC Chapel Hill– Generations of Lebanese Shi‘is and “Heritage” in (Post-) You Can’t Handle Freedom!: How North Nabil Al-Hage Ali, Georgetown Modern Arab Gulf Coastal Cities African Autocrats Talk “Democracy” U–Preachers and Rebels: On the Organized by Nadine Scharfenort Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill–A Construction and Transformation of Case Study of Cultural Communities of Islamic Discourse of Empowerment in Chair: Gunter Meyer, U of Mainz Politics and Freedom: Annemarie Jacir’s Shi‘i Lebanon “Salt of this Sea” Rola El-Husseini, Texas A&M U– Mohsen Mobasher, U of Houston- Sahar Amer, UNC Chapel Hill–Can the Emerging Shi‘a Opposition to Hizbullah: Downtown–Globalization and Socio- “1/11” Revolutions become a Rainbow An Analysis of Sayyed Ali Al-Amine’s Cultural Change in Qatar: A Visual and Revolution? Writings Narrative Analysis Frances S. Hasso, Duke U–Is the Reidar Visser, Norwegian Inst of Gareth Doherty, Harvard U–Unpacking “1/11 Revolution” in Egypt a Feminist International Affairs–The Daawa Concepts of Green in Bahrain’s Urban Revolution?: Assessing Its Gender, Party between Shiite Activism and Environment Sexual, and Marriage Dimensions and Government in Iraq Stephen Ramos, U of Georgia–Dubai: A Implications Port Geography Nadine Scharfenort, U of Mainz/ CERAW–A New Old Suq for Doha: Revitalisation of Suq Waqif

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(2814) Patterns of Popular Elizabeth B. Frierson, U of Cincinnati– (2902) Gender, Violence, and Mobilization from Tunisia to Drugs, Home Remedies, and the New State in the Middle East and Apothecary: Late-Ottoman Culture and Turkey Practices of (Self-)Medication North Africa Organized by Mona El-Ghobashy Chair: Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley Col Chair: Ellis Goldberg, U of Washington (2890) The Middle East in the Discussant: Manal A. Jamal, James West: Diasporas and Identities Ryme Seferdjeli, U of Ottawa–Female Madison U Athletes in Boumediene’s Algeria Serdar Kaya, Simon Fraser U–Exclusion Suzanne E. Joseph, Zayed U–Class, Emad Shahin, U of Notre Dame–When and Minority Integration Kinship and Reproductive Revolutions become Non-Violent: Kristina Benson, UCLA–Islamic Finance: James Casey, Princeton U–Making Democratic Change in Tunisia and Egypt Possibilities and Problems in the Memories: Trauma, Anxiety, and Mona Tajali, Concordia U–Women’s American Financial Marketplace Masculinity in Modern Lebanon and Mobilization for Increased Political Nadia Khan, U of Chicago Divinity Syria Representation in Turkey and Iran School–Partitioned Prayers: Prophetic Doris Melkonian, UCLA–The Role of Berna Turam, Northeastern U–Campus Practice or Gender Apartheid? Gender during the Armenian Genocide Politics: Urban Space and the State Vit Sisler, Charles U in Prague–Cyber Dongxin Zou, U of Illinois at Urbana- Mona El-Ghobashy, Barnard Col–Legal Counselors: The Role of Online Fatwas Champaign–Teaching How to Observe Mobilization of the Administrative and Arbitration Tribunals in Redefining Bodies: Penetrating Women’s Domestic Courts in Contemporary Egypt Islamic Family Law in Europe Sphere in Inter-Revolutionary Egypt Victoria M. Phaneuf, U of Arizona– Roundtable Negotiating Culture, Performing Identities: French-North African, Pied- (2920) Intersecting Identities: (2830) New Directions in Noir and Harki Associations in France Jewish, Arab, and Muslim Turkish Foreign Policy Organized by Joshua Walker (2892) Privatization and the Chair: Howard Eissenstat, St. Lawrence U Private Sector in the Middle Chair: Kemal Kirisci, Boğaziçi U Elizabeth Johnston, Columbia U– East Emergent Modernity: Reading Science in Neslihan Kaptanoglu, American U the Early Nineteenth Century Chair: Sebnem Gumuscu, Yale U Ahmet O. Evin, Sabanci U Soraya Saatchi, Wayne State U–Beyond Joshua Walker, U of Richmond Orientalism: Teaching Intersectionality Gizem Zencirci, UMass Amherst– Juliette Tolay, U of Delaware through Lev Nussimbaum’s Ali and Nino Requiem for a Welfare State: “Sadaqa Kemal Kirisci, Boğaziçi U Drew Paul, UT Austin–Crossing Over: Culture” Debates in Contemporary Return as Displacement in Palestinian Turkey Narratives of Exile (2857) Hiding in Plain Sight: Diana Greenwald, U of Michigan– Rachel Levine, UT Austin–Samir Secrecy, Drugs, Crime, and Building a State While Spending Less: Naqqash, Trauma, and Arab-Jewish Punishment in the Late- National Identity and Bureaucratic Cultural Memory Ottoman Era Reform in the Palestinian Territories Organized by Elizabeth B. Frierson William W. Benton, U of Michigan– Technology Entrepreneurship Networks Chair: Cyrus Schayegh, Princeton U in Beirut: Starting Companies, Discussant: G. Carole Woodall, U of Stabilizing Dynamism Colorado - Colorado Springs Benjamin MacQueen, Monash U– The Private Sector and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Iraq Ebru Aykut, Boğaziçi U/Mimar Sinan Maya Rosenfeld, Hebrew U–World Bank Fine Arts U–The Regulation of Poison Dictates, Public Sector Retrenchment Sale and Poison Murder in the 19th and Rising Unemployment among Century Ottoman Empire University Graduates in the Occupied Ufuk Adak, U of Cincinnati–Trafficking Palestinian Territories and Surveillance: from Field to Consumption in Prisons in the Late- Ottoman Empire

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(2926) The History and Historiography of Early and Classical Islam

Chair: Ghada Lehn-Jayyusi, American U of Sharjah

Brian Ulrich, Shippensburg U–Tribal Networks and Empire in Early Mosul John A. Nawas, Katholieke U Leuven, Belgium–The Patronate System and Its Demise in Early and Classical Islam Patrick Scharfe, Ohio State U– Portrayals of the Later Abbasid Caliphs: A Re-Appraisal of the Caliphate in Buyid and Saljūq-Era Chronicles, 936-1180 Stefan Kamola, U of Washington– Uljaytu at the Fire Temple: Rashid Al- Din’s History of the Sasanians Aydogan Kars, Vanderbilt U–Nasir Al- Din Tusi on the Destruction of Baghdad: A Reevaluation of an Allegedly Eye- Witness Account

Thematic Conversation

(2955) Translating the Sentiments in Organized by Michael Beard

Session Leader: Michael Beard, U of North Dakota

Mounira Soliman, Cairo U Hoda Elsadda, U of Manchester Nariman Youssef, U of Manchester Zeinab Mohamed Ibrahim, Carnegie Mellon U Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward, Ocean Col NJ Loubna Youssef, Cairo U Sahar Abdel-Hakim, Cairo U

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(2608) Egyptian Economic (2656) Public Health, Wellness, A-ME History in Light of Two Recent and the Emerging Nation-State Works, A Glimpse at Future (2642) Anthropological Organized by Emine O. Evered Possibilities Approaches to Gender, War & Organized by Peter Gran Chair: Omer Turan, Middle East Displacement in the Middle East Technical U Organized by Nadje Al-Ali Discussant: Robert Vitalis, U of Discussant: Nukhet Varlik, Rutgers U Pennsylvania Sponsored by Kyle T. Evered, Michigan State U– Roger Owen, Harvard U–Archives as Association for Population, Killer Mosquitoes, and Problems/Archives as Answers: Some Middle East Women’s Studies the Expansion of Governance: An Questions about Archival Research in Examination of Kemalist Public Health and on Egypt Emine O. Evered, Michigan State U– Nelly Hanna, American U in Cairo– Chair: Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U of London Controlling Syphilis in Early Republican Guilds and the Early Modern Economy Discussant: Frances S. Hasso, Duke U Turkey: From Morality to Regimes of Stephanie Boyle, Northeastern U– Information and Enforcement Egyptian Economic History and World Sondra Hale, UCLA–Gendering Sudan’s Beverly (Levine) Tsacoyianis, Wash- History Interchange Conflict Zones: Is There an “Aftermath” ington U in St. Louis–Mental Illness and Peter Gran, Temple U–The Apparent for Women? the Plural Medical Marketplace in Syria, Linkage of the Study of Egyptian Sophie Richter-Devroe, U of 1922-1956 Economic History to the Development Exeter–Between ‘Normality’ and David Baylis, Michigan State U–Uneven Revolution (1945-1970s)-Two Examples ‘Normalisation’: Palestinian Women’s Geographies of “Organic” Agriculture Everyday Resistance in Turkey: Landscape, Livelihoods, and Well-Being (2636) State and Tribe in the Katherine Natanel, SOAS, U of London– Middle East: In Memory of “The Privilege to Feel It When We Want To”: Gender and Political Apathy in Israel (2682) Theorizing the Joseph Kostiner Ayse Gul Altinay, Sabanci U– Palestinian Colonial: Organized by Yoav Alon Transversal Politics, Consciousness- Segregation and Subjects Raising and Violence against Women: Organized by Rochelle A. Davis Chair/Discussant: James Piscatori, Grassroots Theorizing for a Feminist Durham U Continuum of Nonviolence in Turkey’s Southeast Sponsored by Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv U–Mithqal Pasha Ruba Salih, SOAS, U of London –Pal- Palestinian American Research Center Al-Fayiz: A Modern Jordanian Shaykh estinian Women and Intergenerational and Toby Dodge, London School of Narratives on Displacement and Return Economics and Political Science– Mada Al-Carmel Examining (Neo) Colonial Tribal Policies Roundtable (Arab Center for Applied Social Research) in Iraq; 1920-1932 and 2003-2011 Chair: Penny Johnson, Birzeit U Joshua Goodman, Tel Aviv U–State and (2655) Instructional Tribesmen in Sinai: Integration and Technology: Materials and Discussant: Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U Reaction Methods for Turkish and the Emanuel Marx, Tel Aviv–Tribe and Penny Johnson, Birzeit U–“Strange to State: The Case of the of Mount Turkic Palestinian Society”: Young People’s Sinai (Egypt) Organized by Sylvia W. Önder Talk about Urfi Marriage, Moral Dangers and the Colonial Present Sponsored by Aitemad Muhanna, SOAS, U of London– Israeli Spatial Control, Women’s American Association of Reliance on Humanitarian Aid and the Teachers of Distortion of Gendered Subjects in Gaza Lena Meari, UC Davis–Re-Structuring Chair: Erika H. Gilson, Princeton U the Self and Politics: The Experience of Palestinian Political Activists under Francois Victor Tochon, U of Interrogation Wisconsin-Madison Mukaddes Sahin, U of Wisconsin- Madison Feride Hatiboglu, U of Pennsylvania Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown U

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(2699) Algeria at Fifty: (2782) Making Revolution A-ME Reflections and Refractions Personal in Egypt: A History in Organized by Phillip Naylor (2729) The Anthropology Film and Photo of Berber Societies: New Organized by Elizabeth Thompson Sponsored by Approaches to Space, Time, and Chair: Karim Tartoussieh, New York U American Institute for Maghrib Studies History Discussant: Walter Tice Armbrust, U of Organized by Katherine E. Hoffman Oxford Chair/Discussant: John P. Entelis, and Jane Goodman Fordham U Mario M. Ruiz, Hofstra U–Mohamed Chair: Katherine E. Hoffman, Hugh Roberts, International Crisis Bayoumi and Post-Revolutionary Cinema Northwestern U Group–Algeria since 1962: Nationalist Lucie Ryzova, U of Oxford–Irreverent Discussant: Patricia M.E. Lorcin, U of Politics and the Nation-State in Question Children: Youth Voices and Generational Minnesota-Twin Cities Robert P. Parks, Centre d’Études Conflict in Mid-20th Century Egypt Maghrébines en Algérie–Algeria at Fifty: Elizabeth Thompson, U of Virginia– Jane Goodman, Indiana U–Learning Weak State, Weak Society, Resistant Women’s Melodramas in 1940s Egyptian Lines, Learning Language: Theater Regime Cinema: Domestic Allegories of Pedagogy and Language Pedagogy Phillip Naylor, Marquette U–Algeria Revolution among Berbers in Oran, Algeria and France: A History of Post-Colonial Joel Gordon, U of Arkansas–Chahine, Dave Crawford, Fairfield U–Nostalgia Paradox Chaos and Cinema: A Revolutionary Coda for the Present: Picturing Rural Berber Yahia H. Zoubir, Euromed Management, Life Today Marseille Schl of Management, France– Paul Silverstein, Reed Col–The Pitfalls (2785) and the Occult The United States and Algeria: From of Transnational Consciousness: Sciences in the Medieval and Antagonism to Pragmatism and Strategic Amazigh Activism as a Scalar Dilemma Early Modern Periods Partnership Karen Eugenie Rignall, U of Kentucky– Organized by Noah Gardiner Azzedine Layachi, St. John’s U–The Land, Livelihoods, and Renewing a Sense Genesis, Nature and Predicament of of Place in Pre-Saharan Morocco Chair: Ellen J. Amster, U of Wisconsin- Algeria’s Foreign Policy in North Africa Katherine E. Hoffman, Northwestern Milwaukee U–The Monetary Value of Berber Discussant: Alexander Knysh, U of (2706) Internationalisation Women’s Effort in Moroccan Law Michigan and Privatization of Higher Education in the Arab World - (2758) Between Conflict and Edgar W. Francis IV, U of Wisconsin- Challenges and Chances Cooperation: Russo-Ottoman Stevens Point–Shams Al-Maarif: The Organized by Ala Al-Hamarneh Expansion of an Occult Sufi Text after Its Interactions in the Eighteenth Author’s Death and Nineteenth Centuries Ozgen Felek, U of Michigan–Talismans, Chair/Discussant: Seteney Shami, Social Organized by Will Smiley Amulets, and Charms in Ottoman Science Research Council Mysticism Chair/Discussant: Virginia Aksan, Noah Gardiner, U of Michigan–Magic Daniele Cantini, U of Halle-Wittenberg– McMaster U and the Limits of Prayer: Aḥmad Al- Higher : Between Būnī’s Science of Letters in Relation State Control and Internationalization Andrew Robarts, Georgetown U– to Other Late Medieval Precatory and and Privatization Processes Imperial Confrontation or Regional Devotional Practices Marjorie Kelly, American U of Kuwait– Cooperation?: Re-Conceptualizing Anjela M. Mescall, Hamilton Col– American Higher Education in the Arab Ottoman-Russian Relations in the Black Morisco Mysticism and Magic: The 16th World Sea Region, 1768-1830s Century Leaden Texts of Granada, Spain Ala Al-Hamarneh, U of Mainz–German Kahraman Şakul, İstanbul Şehir Ü– Higher Education in the Arab World Ottoman Treatment of the French between Commercialization and Prisoners during the War of Second Capacity-Building Coalition (1798-1802) James H. Meyer, Montana State U– Building the Border: Russian and Ottoman Approaches to Cross-Border Mobility in the Late Imperial Era Will Smiley, U of Cambridge–“True Russians” in the Ottoman Empire: Subjecthood, Slavery, and Early Modern

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(2825) The “Good Religions” (2869) New Approaches to (2909) Constructing Collective of Late Antique Iran: “On the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Identities Ground” History: Politics, Ideology, and Organized by Parvaneh Pourshariati Religion Chair: Ami Ayalon, Tel Aviv U Organized by Ebru Turan Kimberly Katz, Towson U–Whose Sponsored by Historic Monuments?: Restoring Association for the Study of Chair/Discussant: Tijana Krstic, Central European U Qayrawan during the French Persianate Societies Protectorate Huseyin Yilmaz, U of South Florida– Elie Podeh, Hebrew U of Jerusalem– Discussant: Chase Robinson, CUNY Celebrating and Commemorating the Graduate Center Crisis and Consolidation in Early Ottoman State-Building: The Battle of Nation: The Role of National Holidays in and Its Aftermath (1402-1451) the Arab World Richard Payne, Mount Holyoke Abdurrahman Atcil, CUNY Queens Michael Bracy, Oklahoma State U– Col–A Christian Critique of the Yasna: Col–Hierarchy, Rank and Academic Commemorating Victory: The 1973 Conflicting Conceptions of Religion in Excellence: The Change in Attitude of October War Panorama, the National Late Antique Iran Religious Scholars towards Government Army Museum, and the Politics of Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State U– Employment from the 15th to the 16th National Identity in Times of War Iranian Jewry in Late Antiquity: New Centuries Alexander Nagel, Smithsonian Inst– Vistas Ebru Turan, Fordham U–The Rise of the Monuments, Things and Papers: The Patricia Crone, IAS–The Religious Gazavatname Genre and the Conflicting Rediscovery of Sasanian Persia in the Beliefs of Iranian Mountaineers Images of Murad II (r. 1421-1444/1446-51) Early 20th Century Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Freie U Berlin– Hasan Karatas, UC Berkeley and NYU– Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Tel Aviv U– Late Antique Iran and the Arabs: The Re-Centering the Empire: The Forgotten Abdelkrim and the Amazigh Culture Case of Al-Hīra Province of Amasya in the Formative Movement: The Search for a Usable Past Fifteenth Century (2862) Staged Bodies, (2919) Gender, Genre, and Restaged Spaces: Subjective (2885) Popular Culture in the Sexuality in Arabic Literature Elimination in Visual, Literary Contemporary Middle East and Performing Arts in 20th Erez Naaman, American U–Tabooed Language Behavior and Euphemisms in Century Iran Chair: Hengameh Fouladvand, Center Alf Layla wa-Layla Organized by Hamid Rezaeiyazdi for Iranian Modern Arts Amanda Hannoosh, U of Pennsylvania– Wives, Witches, and Warriors: A Re- Chair: Rivanne Sandler, U of Toronto Omar Adam , U of Debrecen Evaluation of Women in Arabian Epic Discussant: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, (Hungary)–The Rise of Muslim Thomas H. Hefter, U of Oklahoma– U of Toronto Superhero Comics and Cartoons Transmitting Corruption: Al-Jahiz’s Yağmur Nuhrat, Brown U–Fairness in Proto-Sunni Adversaries in Risalat Al- Hamid Rezaeiyazdi, U of Toronto– the Love and War of Football in Turkey Qiyan Fictions of Modernity: A Postcolonial Sarah El-Richani, U Erfurt (DAAD)– Katherine Hennessey, American Inst Reading of 20th Century Iranian Novels Convergence in the Lebanese Media for Yemeni Studies–Staging a Protest: Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, U System Actresses and Social Criticism in of Toronto–Imagining Modernity: Kendra Salois, UC Berkeley–Networking Contemporary Yemeni Theatre Investigating the Visual Narrative of the “Jil Jdid”: Hip Hop Entrepreneurship, Nancy Linthicum, U of Michigan– Progress in Early Years of 20th Century Class, and Social Media in Morocco Between Traditional Adab and Blogs: Dar Iranian Newspapers Rana El Kadi, U of Alberta–Free El Shorouk’s Mudawwana Series Ida Meftahi, U of Toronto–From Improvised Music in Beirut: Proposing Zanpush to Angel and Persian Princess: a Model for Post-War Society through The Invention of an Ideal Female Inter-Sectarian Musical Collaboration (2924) The Construction of Race National Dancer in 20th-Century Iran Febe Armanios, Middlebury Col– in Different Context Parisa Zahiremami, U of Toronto– Watching Joyce Meyer in Cairo: Christian and the Firdawsi Satellite Television in the Middle East Mustafa Sahiner, Inonu U, Turkey– Millennium Congress of 1934 Image of the Turk in Early Modern Golbarg Rekabtalaei, U of Toronto– Broadside Ballads Cinematic in Pre- Revolutionary Tehran continued next page

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Boris James, INALCO (Paris)–The Thematic Kurdish Case through Medieval Arabic Conversation Literature: An Ethnonym among the Ethnonyms (2962) The Arab Uprisings: Touria Khannous, Lousiana State U– Women, Youth & Social Writing the Imperial Narrative: Rifa’a Al Networking Tahtawi’s Descriptions of Sudan and the Organized by Therese Saliba Sudanese Angelica Maria DeAngelis, American U Session Leader: Therese Saliba, of Kuwait–Qui Sommes-Nous?: Children Evergreen State Col of Harkis and the Challenge of French/ Algerian National Narratives Loubna Hanna-Skalli, American U Amira Jarmakani, Georgia State U (2937) Electoral Dynamics and Hoda Elsadda, U of Manchester Strategies in the Middle East

Jon Nordenson, U of Oslo and Kjetil Selvik, U of Oslo–Kuwaiti Newspapers as Power Tools and the 2009 Parliamentary Election Jawed Zouari, Seattle Central Col– Tunisia’s First Democratic Elections F. Michael Wuthrich, Bilkent U–An Essential Center-Periphery Electoral Cleavage and the Turkish Party System Bjorn Olav Utvik, U of Oslo–Minor Majorities Kuwaiti Governing Strategies between Chaos and Mara Cowan, U of Washington–Islamists and Democracy: Explaining Islamist Electoral Success in Kuwait and Bahrain Jennifer Nowlin, Ohio State U–Striking Out: Women and Political Behavior in Egypt

(2949) Security Sector as a Political Actor

Melissa Brown, New York U–Insurgent Targeting of Iraqi Police Biriz Berksoy, Istanbul U–The Police Subculture and the “Exclusionist” Neo-Liberal State Strategies in the Post-1980 Turkey: The Construction and Repression of “Bare-Lives” at the Blurred Margins of the Citizenship Status Matthieu Aikins, New York U–The Rise of the Private Security Industry in Post- 2001

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2011 Presidential Address

Suad Joseph University of California, Davis

2011 MESA Awards Ceremony

Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2011, including presentations of the following awards:

Albert Hourani Book Award Roger Owen Book Award Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards MESA Mentoring Award Jere L. Bacharach Service Award MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize

immediately followed by the MESA Dance Party

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Today’s Affiliated Meetings Murat Inan, U of Washington–Learning Persian in the Ottoman Empire: Politics A-ME 9-11am of Language and Mechanisms of Middle East Center & Program Promotion (2709) New Directions in the Directors Meeting Zeynep Seviner, U of Washington– Anthropology of Turkey Harding (M) Disenchanted Decadents: Halid Ziya’s Organized by Kim Shively and Jenny 11am-1pm Mai ve Siyah and the Literary Field of White Western Consortium of Middle Istanbul in 1890s East Centers Meeting Chair: Kim Shively, Kutztown U Discussant: Jenny White, Boston U Harding (M) (2661) The Future of Libya 2:30-4:30pm Organized by Alia Brahimi MESA's CAF Meeting Esra G. Ozyurek, UC San Diego–Turkish and Christian: Secularist Fears of a Park Tower Suite 8219 (L) Chair/Discussant: Lisa Anderson, Converted Nation 7-9pm American U in Cairo TAARII Reception Heiko Henkel, U of Copenhagen–Muslim Park Tower Suite 8222 (L) Civilities after Kemalism Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, U of New Damla Isik, Regis U–Charitable Futures England–Post-Coloniality and the and Charitable Pasts: Entrepreneurship, Jamahiriyya Libyan State Experiment Charity and Poverty in Contemporary Alia Brahimi, London School of Turkey (2648) Social Movements, Economics–The Libyan Islamic Fighting Oyku Potuoglu-Cook, George Mason U– Mobilization, and Contestation Group in the Global and Regional Flesh it Out: Rising Cultural and Political Context in Tunisia, Egypt, and Beyond Tensions in Istanbul, Turkey Dirk Vandewalle, Dartmouth Col–From Organized by Joel Beinin Aykan Erdemir, Middle East Technical Rentier State to Diversified Economy?: U and Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Middle Economic Reform in the Libyan Chair: Joel Beinin, Stanford U East Technical U–Sacred Museums of the Jamahiriyya Discussant: Frédéric Vairel, U of Ottawa Secular State: The Competitive Sharing of the Haci Bektash Museum Hanan H. Hammad, Texas Christian (2700) Between Law and State: U–Fluid Identities and Violent Alliances: The Politics of Acting Up in the Workers, Weavers, and Futuwat of Al- (2730) Dynamics of Ibadi Mahalla Al-Kubra, Egypt, 1927-1954 Middle East Identity Formulation and Organized by Wilson Chacko Jacob Jillian M. Schwedler, UMass Amherst– Transformation Political Protests and the Prospects for Organized by Valerie J. Hoffman and Chair: Zachary Lockman, New York U Reform in Jordan Adam Gaiser Sheila Carapico, U of Richmond–Pro- Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley–The testers and Activists: and Annie C. Higgins, Col of Charleston– Revolution Will Not Be Legalized New Public Realms in Egypt and Yemen Ask the Battle of Qudayd: Victory and Wilson Chacko Jacob, Concordia U– Marie Duboc, EHESS–The Dynamics Identity in the Holy Cities The Power from Elsewhere: Mysticism, of Workers’ Collective Action in Egypt: Adam Gaiser, Florida State U–Al- Migration, and Non-State Sovereignty in Precarization and Local Mobilization in Qalhati’s Kashf wa’l-Bayan and the the Islamic World the Textile Sector Construction of a Medieval Ibadi Identity Michael Gasper, Occidental Col–Whose Valerie J. Hoffman, U of Illinois at Neighborhood is This?: Urban Lebanon Urbana-Champaign–Ibadi Identity in the (2651) Across the Disciplinary and the Civil War 1975-1990 Early Nineteenth Century: The Writings Divide: Bringing Together Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill U– of Nasir b. Abi Nabhan Informal Markets and Political Violence Ottoman History and Literature Anna Rita Coppola, La Sapienza U– in Relation to State Formation and State Organized by Avner Wishnitzer Ibadhism-Imamate-Territory: The Collapse in Sudan and Somalia Emergence of a Religious-National Chair: Walter G. Andrews, U of Identity at the Beginning of the 20th Washington Century Amal Ghazal, Dalhousie U–Ibadi Fruma Zachs, U of Haifa–The Novels of Identity in the Age of Nationalism: The Nu‘man Abdu Al-Qasatili: Masculinity Mzabi Diaspora in Tunisia and Egypt and and the Modern Arab Man the Making of Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv U–When Darkness Takes the City: Nighttime and Nightlife in Early Modern Ottoman Cities

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Roksana Bahramitash, U of Montreal– Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths, U of A-ME Poverty, Gender and the Informal Sector London–Forensic Architecture and the in Iran Politics of War Crime Investigation (2737) Anthropological Lisa Hajjar, UCSB–Israel/Palestine as a Approaches to Queer and (2762) Syria and Latin America: 21st Century Lawfare Laboratory Sexuality Studies in the Middle New Re-alignments in the East and North Africa (2781) Strategies in Arabic Organized by Zeina Zaatari and Pardis Global South Organized by Maria del Mar Logrono- Language Teaching Mahdavi Narbona Discussant: Munther Younes, Cornell U Chair Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona Col Chair: Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara Rajaa Aquil, Georgia Inst of Ghassan Moussawi, Rutgers U– Technology–An Innovative Approach to Queering Gay Tourism: Intersectionality, Maria del Mar Logrono-Narbona, Florida International U–Bridging Songs for Materials Development and Essentialized Masculinites, and Teaching Arabic Representations of Gay Beirut in the Global South?: Syria’s Expatriate Communities in South America Gergana Atanassova, Georgetown Contemporary Gay Travelogues U–Learner Attitudes to Reading in Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona Col–Re- Luis Mesa Delmonte, El Colegio de México–Syrian-Cuban Relations Arabic: Effects of an Intermediate-Level Thinking Human Trafficking and Sex Extensive Reading Program Work in the UAE Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, CIDE–Chavez of Arabia: A Genealogy of Younasse Tarbouni, Washington U in Jason Ritchie, Bucknell U–Suffering St. Louis–The Feasibility and Utility of Nations/Suffering Queers: Queer Diplomatic Relations between Syria and Venezuela Teaching Multiple Varieties of Arabic, A Palestinians, the Politics of Affect, and Case Study! the Will to Survive Roundtable Eva Hashem-Aramouni, CSU Rodney Collins, Georgetown U–Signs of Sacramento– The Power and Manhood: Sign Language, Masculinity, (2770) Taking ‘the Social’ Significance of Language Choice and Deafness in Contemporary Tunisia Zeina Zaatari, Global Fund for Seriously: Ethnographies of Women, Middle East and North Power in Contemporary Iran (2786) Rebellion and Resistance Africa–Interrogating Lebanese Organized by Kaveh Ehsani in the Nineteenth-Century Heteronormativity: Family, Adulthood, Middle East: Subalterns, and Citizenship Chair: Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U Outlaws, and Radicals Dina Siddiqi, Independent Scholar– Organized by Ranin Kazemi Sexuality in the Time of NGOs Norma Claire Moruzzi, U of Illinois at Chicago Chair/Discussant: James Grehan, Kevan Harris, Johns Hopkins U (2761) New Perspectives on Portland State U Nazanin Shahrokni, UC Berkeley Women, Work, and Islam from Narges Erami, Yale U Recent Field Work Azadeh Kian-Thiebaut, U of Paris 7 Assef Ashraf, Yale U–Violence and Organized by Eric Hooglund Eric Lob, Princeton U Change in Late Eighteenth Century Iran: Rasmus Christian Elling, SOAS, U of The Case of Mirza Muhammad Kalantar-i Chair: Eric Hooglund, Lund U London Fars Waleed Ziad, Yale U–“The Disturbance at Bareilly”: Shared Religious Authority Rickard Lagervall, Lund U–The (2778) The “Humanitarian” and Collective Action in Pre-Communal Universal and the Particularistic: The Present in Israel/Palestine: Hindustan Philosophical Projects of Two Moroccan Ranin Kazemi, Yale U–Everyday Forms Philosophers: Muhammad Abd Al-Jabiri Forensic Architecture, of Subaltern Resistance in Qajar Iran and Taha ´Abd Al-Rahman Estrangement and Lawfare Fulya Ozkan, Binghamton U–Trabzon- Dalia Abdelhady, Lund U–Islam and Organized by Lisa Hajjar Erzurum-Bayezid Road as a Contested Cosmopolitanism: Expressions of Space: Highway-Robbery (1854-1914) Religiosity and Public Engagement Chair: Salim Tamari, Inst of Jerusalem among Egyptian Women Studies Jaleh Taheri, Lund U–Aspirations of and Challenges for Educated Working Nasser Abourahme, Palestinian Inst Women in Arabian Peninsula Societies for the Study of Democracy–Spectres of Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U–Unraveling Estrangement: The ‘Ungovernable’ Camp the Gender/Poverty/Employment Puzzle and the Figure of the ‘Irreconcilable’ in the Arab World Refugee

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(2832) From Printing Press Sanaa Riaz, Arkansas State U–Private Fatih Kursun, U of Chicago– to the Digital Age: Exploring Islamic Schools in Egypt and Pakistan: and Prophets: The Politics of Calendar Beyond Fundamentalism? Writing during the Time of Bayezid II Armenian Book Production Nassim Abdi Dezfooli, U of Maryland–A (1481-1512) from the Early Modern Period Portrait of Practitioners’ Understanding to the Present and the Use of Freirean Pedagogy in a Thematic Organized by Tamar Marie Boyadjian Summer Camp for Girls in Iran Conversation Cara Lane, American U in Cairo–Factors Influencing an Increase in the U.S. Study (2956) Sources and Resources Sponsored by Abroad Population in the Middle East/ on Middle Eastern Americans Society for Armenian Studies North Africa Organized by Anny Bakalian Chair: Tamar Marie Boyadjian, UCLA Session Leader: Jonathan Friedlander, Discussant: Sergio La Porta, CSU Fresno (2901) Intellectuals and Their UCLA (Retired) Impact on the Middle East Sebouh Aslanian, CSU Long Beach– Akram Khater, North Carolina State U From Venice to Istanbul, Surat, and Chair: Noor-Aiman Khan, Colgate U Mehdi Bozorgmehr, CUNY Graduate Madras: Reflections on Armenian Center Printing History Madeleine Elfenbein, U of Chicago– Anny Bakalian, CUNY Graduate Center Nanor Kebranian, Columbia U–Making The Spirit of Şerī’at: Namık Kemal at Sense of Ottoman Censorship: The Politics the Intersection of Islamic and French of Ottoman-Armenian Print Culture Enlightenment Thought (2964) Shahnameh: Literary Talar Chahinian, CSU Long Beach–Lost Shuang Wen, Georgetown U–Mediated Perspectives for a New in Publication: The Incongruous Life of a Imaginations: The First Sino-Japanese Millenium, Part I Literary Work in the Armenian Diaspora War (1894-95) in the Eyes of Arab Organizer: Franklin D. Lewis Intellectuals (2844) Change and Continuity Derya Göçer Akder, LSE (PhD) and Dick Davis, Ohio State U–Ferdowsi’s Funda Hulagu, Middle East Technical Choices and What They Imply in Middle East Politics U–Communist Intellectuals in the Organized by Sean Yom Kevin Gledhill, U of Chicago–The Royal Late Ottoman/Early Republican Era in Legitimacy of Ardashir I and Ferdowsi’s Turkey: An International Perspective Chair/Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, Approach to Sasanian Sources Angela Giordani, U of Texas–From the George Washington U Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Stanford Mithaq to the Shari’a: Tariq Al-Bishri U–Retelling the Shahnameh: Fourteenth- and the Islamist Reorientation of Arab Century Poetic Reconfigurations of Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U– Nationalism Jamshid Emigration and Power: The Case of Lebanon Fernando Carvajal, U of Exeter–Imamic Ariel I. Ahram, U of Oklahoma–War and Yemen’s Sacred National Charter (1948): State Formation in the Middle East: Pax Failed Interpretations of an Established (2966) Tweeting the Revolution: Asiatica and Bella Levantina Revisited Social Compact Literature, Media, and the Sean Yom, Temple U–The Monotony of Postcolonial End, Part I Monarchy: Diffuse Power and Opposition (2953) Spatial Temporal and Organized by Moneera Al-Ghadeer and Traps in the Arab World Tarek El-Ariss Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve Textual Geographies in the U–Act Three: Return of the Modernized Ottoman Empire Chair: Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Columbia U “Moslem” Chair: Vefa Erginbas, Ohio State U Tarek El-Ariss, UT Austin–Digital (2888) Transnational Schooling Activism: Arabic Literature and the New in the Middle East and Beyond Semi Ertan, U of Michigan–On the Political Urban Geography of Seventeenth Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Qatar U– Chair: Devrim Umit, Karabuk U Century Ottoman Istanbul: Boundaries Tweeting the Revolution in Literary and Politics of Coexistence in Eremya Sites Abigail Boggs, UC Davis–Exceptional Chelebi Komurcuyan (1637-1694) Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Columbia U– Inclusions in American Futurity: Nir Shafir, UCLA–Verifying Sainthood: The Interchangeable Dissent/Internet: International Students and U.S. Higher Abd Al-Ghani Al-Nabulusi’s 17th Century What Theoretical Referents for Popular Education Travelogue in Light of the Kadizadeli Revolutions? Louise A. Cainkar, Marquette U–“Half/ Movement Hatim El-Hibri, NYU–Blind Spots, or, Half”: The Experiences of Palestinian Timothy J. Fitzgerald, James Madison U– the Cultural Logic of the Visbility of the American Teens Brought Back “Home” Literacy, Law, and Empire in the 15th-16th- 2011 Uprisings for High School Century Eastern Mediterranean World Page 30 u MESA 2011 Preliminary Program 11AM-1PM Saturday December 3

(2623) Colonial Rule and Its Jessica M. Marglin, Princeton U–Many Antonis Hadjikyriacou, SOAS, U of Fissures: Arabs under the Paths to Justice: Re-Examining European London–Projecting an Institutional Intervention on Behalf of Moroccan Identity: Non-Muslim Communal Israeli Military Government Jews, 1863-1912 Organization and Leadership in (1948-1966) Joshua Schreier, Vassar Col–A Jewish Eighteenth-Century Organized by Seraj Assi and Arnon “” in Late Colonial Algeria: Fear Degani and Pluralism in a Dying Colonial Order Yaron Tsur, Tel Aviv U–The Quasi- A-ME Chair: Liat Kozma, Hebrew U, Jerusalem European Jews in 18th Century North Discussant: Shira Robinson, George Africa: (2679) Examining Environ- Washington U ments: New Themes in the (2660) Expanding the Source Environmental Anthropology of Leena Dallasheh, New York U–The Base for the Historical Study of the Middle East Military Government and Municipal Organized by Jessica E. Barnes and Elections in Nazareth Sufi Communities Emily McKee Seraj Assi, Georgetown U–The Quest Organized by Devin A. DeWeese for Identity: Arabs in Israel under the Discussant: Mandana E. Limbert, City U Military Rule (1948-66) Ahmet T. Karamustafa, Washington of New York Arnon Degani, UCLA–Colonial Agency: U in St. Louis–Deciphering Early Sufi The Weakness of the Israeli Military Discourses in Anatolian Turkish: The Emily McKee, U of Michigan–Clinging Voice of Kaygusuz Abdal Government as Power through Land: Culture and the Politics of Devin A. DeWeese, Indiana U–Hagio- Belonging in the Negev/Naqab graphical Rhetoric and the Testimony (2632) Islamic Law and Political Murat Arsel, ISS-Erasmus U–Resisting of Lost Documents: Writing a Sufi Life Like the State: Environmental Justice in Authority in the Medieval and for a Shrine Saint in Eighteenth-Century Turkey Ottoman Middle East Kāshghar Bridget Guarasci, U of Michigan– Organized by James E. Baldwin Shahzad Bashir, Stanford U–The World Conservation in Iraq’s Marshes 2003- as Seen in a Hat: A Sixteenth-Century 2007 Chair/Discussant: Intisar Rabb, Boston Qizilbāsh Apologia Jessica E. Barnes, Yale U–Ten Sticks Col Green, UCLA–The Economy of are Stronger than One: Promoting Enchantment in Oceanic India: Sufi Participation in the Management of Mathieu Tillier, Institut Français du Writings from Industrial Bombay Proche-Orient–The Qudat of -Misr Egypt’s Water Resources Tessa Farmer, UT Austin–Managing under the and the Ikhshidids: (2672) Ottoman Identity, The Judiciary and Egyptian Marginal Water in an Egyptian Squatter Kristen Stilt, Northwestern U–Legal Part III (17th-18th C.): Settlement Authority and Social Regulation in Transformation to an Mamluk Egypt Administrative State (2691) Rethinking State Guy Burak, New York U–“According Organized by Kent F. Schull, U Formation: Changing Variables, to Their Exalted Kanun”: Rethinking of Memphis and Christine Isom- Alternative Frameworks the Institution of the Mufti in the Early Verhaaren, Benedictine U Organized by Ziad M. Abu-Rish and Modern Ottoman Empire Rosie Bsheer James E. Baldwin, Queen Mary, U of Chair: Virginia Aksan, McMaster U London–Mazalim in Ottoman Cairo: The Discussant: Resat Kasaba, U of Chair: Hesham Sallam, Georgetown U Role of the and the Provincial Washington Discussant: Steven Heydemann, US Inst Governor in Administering Justice of Peace Linda T. Darling, U of Arizona– (2644) Maghribi Jews between Qualifications of an Ottoman, According Ziad M. Abu-Rish, UCLA–Institution Europe and North Africa to the Advice Writers of the Seventeenth Building, Social Conflict, and State Organized by Jessica M. Marglin and Century Formation in Lebanon: 1943-1975 Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA–Ottoman Rosie Bsheer, Columbia U–State and Identities: Our Concern, Their Words Citizenship in Saudi Arabia’s Urban Chair/Discussant: Susan Gilson Miller, Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U–Out of Development Plans UC Davis Africa, into the Palace: The Ottoman John Warner, CUNY Graduate Center– Chief Harem Eunuch Fiscal Reform, Sovereignty and Baki Tezcan, UC Davis–From Ali Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli, Ben-Gurion Economic Subjectivity in Neoliberal the Hyacinth to Mullah Ali: The U–When Colonizer’s Fascism and Yemen Construction of an African-Ottoman Colonized Nationalism Meet continued next page Identity MESA 2011 Preliminary Program u Page 31 11AM-1PM Saturday December 3

Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law– Simon Stjernholm, Lund U–A Sufi Onur Isci, Georgetown U–Advocates of Renegotiating Elite Bargains in Shaykh for the Entire World: The Empire: Turkish Liberalism in a Russian (Re)Building the State: Turkey’s Transnationalism of Shaykh Nazim and Mirror Constitutional Challenge His Disciples in the 21st Century Samuel Hirst, U of Pennsylvania–Soviet- Torsten Janson, Lund U–The Turkish Anti-Westernism: The 1932-1933 Islamization of Images for Religious State Visits as Political Demonstration A-ME Socialization Masha Kirasirova, New York U– and Other Arab Students in Moscow in (2696) Anthropology of the 1960s and 70s Masculinities (2790) Interstice, Intersection, Organized by Rhoda Kanaaneh, and Interaction: Transnational Columbia U Approaches to Russian and (2810/2971) Democracy- Middle Eastern History Promotion in the Making of Discussant: Gil Hochberg, UCLA Organized by Samuel Hirst Turkish Foreign Policy Organized by Saban Kardas, Insight Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale U–Reconceiving Chair: Mustafa Aksakal, American U Turkey Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Discussant: Michael A. Reynolds, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Princeton U Akif Kirecci, Bilkent U–As the Arab Masculinities Spring Unfolds: Can Turkey Still Serve as Karim Tartoussieh, New York U– Melih Egemen, Harvard U–Politics ‘Potential Model’ for Democratization in Arab Homo Terrorism and the Gay of Quarantine: Regulating the Russo- the Middle East? Pornographic Cyber Imaginary Ottoman Borderlands in the Late 19th Saban Kardas, Insight Turkey– Gustavo Barbosa, London School of Century Economics and Political Science–On Doing/Undoing Gender in Shatila, Lebanon: Becoming a Man under PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Institutional Violence Sylvain Perdigon, Johns Hopkins U– (2805) The Art of Writing for Non-Specialists Sexual Honor, Masculinity, Ethics in the Organized by Chris Toensing Palestinian Community of Tyre, Lebanon Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara–Police Chair: Chris Toensing, MERIP Praetorianism, Protection-Racket Governance, and the Non-Religious Linda Butler, Inst for Palestine Studies Origins of Militant Masculinities in Cairo Adam Shatz, London Review of Books

(2760) Representations of Islam There is acute and ever rising demand in the public sphere for specialized in the West: Diverse Muslim knowledge of the Middle East—its politics, cultures and international relations. Motifs in Art, Literature and North American media outlets and their audiences want to learn what is hap- pening in the region and how it may affect them. They need this information the Internet delivered relatively quickly and in clear, accessible language. Scholars in Middle Organized by Eric Hooglund, Lund U East studies are the people best positioned to supply this knowledge, because they understand the region in depth and with the requisite sensitivity to avoid Chair: Leif Stenberg, Lund U misleading generalizations and interpretive dead ends. Too often, however, scholars are ill equipped to communicate with the non-specialist public, wheth- Vanja Mosbach, Lund U–Mosques in er because of the expectation of theoretical relevance among their colleagues or Denmark and Sweden: Negotiations of the conventions of academic prose. Frequently, as well, scholars are unwilling to Public Space, Borders and Identity tackle controversial topics in the public sphere for fear of buttressing harmful Anders Ackfeldt, Lund U–By All Means stereotypes about the Middle East and/or Islam. This workshop will emphasize Necessary: Representations of Islam in the importance of engaging non-specialists through writing for newspapers, American Hip-Hop Album Cover Art magazines and journals of opinion that form the prevalent discourse and de- Göran Larsson, U of Gothenburg/U lineate the terms of debate. More to the point, it will provide practical advice of Nebraska/Lund U–Representations about how to do it. The participants are all experienced "gatekeepers," editors of the Prophet Muhammad in Two and writers who have shepherded the work of fine scholars into the pages of Contemporary Non-Muslim Novels in publications aimed at a broad non-academic readership. The participants have the West a scholarly bent, and place a premium upon the type of knowledge that only scholars have, but also have a feel for writing in more popular registers.

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Ellen Lust, Yale U–Women, Tribes, SPECIAL SESSION and Ruling Parties in Nondemocratic Elections: Theory and Evidence from the (2957) Oleg Grabar’s Contributions to the Cultural History Arab World of the Near and Middle East Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State U– Organized by Marianna Shreve Simpson Why Quotas Matter: Gender Quotas and Popular Attitudes toward Gender Equality in Public Life in the Sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art Association (2846) Bridging the Gap between FuSHaa and the Arabic Chair: Renata Holod, U of Pennsylvania Dialects in the Teaching of Discussant: Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Program, MIT Arabic as a Foreign Language R. Stephen Humphreys, UC Santa Barbara Organized by Abdellah Chekayri Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia U Benjamin Kedar, Hebrew U of Jerusalem (Emeritus) Sponsored by Prudence Oliver Harper, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Emerita) American Association of Teachers of Arabic The sudden passing of Oleg Grabar, MESA Founding Member and Honorary and Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane Fellow, at the beginning of the year inevitably leads to reflections on his Chair: Salah-dine Hammoud, US Air immense intellectual legacy, including his contributions to and impact on Force Academy the study of Near and Middle Eastern history, art and culture. This session, organized by the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA), looks at Ahmed Kabel, Al Akhawayn U–Teach- selected aspects of Professor Grabar’s myriad contributions to the field, with ing Arabic as a Foreign Language: four papers by senior colleagues influenced by his ideas and scholarship. Problematizing the Standard/Colloquial Divide Naima Boussofara, U of Kansas–A New Integrative Textbook Generation Turkey and the Democratization of Understanding the Tunisian Revolution Munther Younes, Cornell U–Educated the Neighborhood: Demonstrative or Malika Zeghal, Harvard U–The 2011 Spoken Arabic: A Solution to the Hindering Effect? Tunisian Revolution: The Multiple Problem of the Colloquial in the Arabic Hasan Kosebalaban, Istanbul Sehir U Narratives of Political Transition Classroom? Abdellah Chekayri, Al Akhawayn U– (2815) The Spark Felt Round (2833) Gender Quotas in the Intercultural Communication in Arabic the World: The Tunisian Arab World: Political and Social as-a-Foreign Language Classrooms Revolution, Causes and Implications Prospects Organized by Ellen Lust (2921) Questions of Genre in Organized by Silvia Marsans-Sakly Classical Poetry and Prose Chair: Laurie Brand, U of Southern Chair: Julia Clancy-Smith, U of Arizona California Chair: Majd Yaser Al-Mallah, Grand Discussant: John P. Entelis, Fordham U Discussants: Laurie Brand, U of Valley State U Southern California and Janine A. Thomas P. DeGeorges, American Clark, U of Guelph Cory Jorgensen, UT Austin–Basra’s U of Sharjah–Tunisian Media Mirbad as Venue for the Satiric Transformations in the Aftermath of the Anya Vodopyanov, Harvard U–Electoral Performance of Lampoon Revolution Quotas and Constituent Services in Jordan Maurice Alex Pomerantz, New York Sonia Shiri, UC Berkeley–The Language Bozena Welborne, U of Nevada at U–Performing Medieval Arabic Prose of the Tunisian Revolution: Slogans, Reno–De Jure vs. De Facto: Exploring Literature: Stylistic Features in the Tweets and Facebook Posts Quotas as a Tool for Women’s Political Letters of Al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995) Silvia Marsans-Sakly–Mobilization and Empowerment in the Arab World Bruce Fudge, Ohio State U–Genre the Geography of Protest Sarah Bush, Princeton U and and Narrative in the Tale of ʿUmar al- Michele Penner Angrist, Union Col– Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U–The Nuʿman Old Grievances and New Opportunities: Consequences of International Support Mustafa Binmayaba, Indiana U for Women’s Political Participation in Bloomington–The Ritual of the Gift Jordan: A Survey Experiment Exchange

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(2931) Fatimids and ‘Alawis (2965) Shahnameh: Literary Perspectives for a New Attention Chair: Paul E. Walker, U of Chicago Millenium, Part II Organized by Franklin D. Lewis MESA Members... Christine D. Baker, UT Austin–Buyid Representations of the Fatimids: Franklin D. Lewis, U of Chicago–Ethical Articulations of Legitimacy between Hermeneutics and the Moral Universe of ʿ Rival Shi i States the Shâhnâma Stefan Winter, U du Québec à Laurie Pierce, U of Chicago–Trickery, MESA Montréal–Beyond the Mountain Refuge: Sorcery, and the Serpentine: The ʿ The Constitution of the Alawi (Nusayri) Demonic in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh Members Community in Northwestern Syria, 11th- Theodore Beers, U of Chicago–The 14th Century Hajw-Nāma of Ferdowsī: A Tradition of Jessica Mutter, U of Chicago–Tools of Uncertainty Meeting the Trade: Fatimid Governance and the Cam Lindley Cross, U of Chicago–“If Medieval Egyptian Marketplace Death is Just, What is Injustice?”: Illicit 1-2:30pm Rag in Sohrab and Rostam and The Knight’s (2943) Identity Formation and Tale Room TBA Political Mobilization (2967) Tweeting the Revolution: See page 3 for details. Chair: Lizabeth A. Zack, U of South Literature, Media, and the Carolina Upstate Postcolonial End, Part II Arash Reisinezhad, Florida Organized by Moneera Al-Ghadeer, International U–The Emergence Qatar U and Tarek El-Ariss, UT Austin of Collective Identity in the Green Movement Chair: Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Columbia U Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State U– The Rise of the Jordanian Tea Party Kathy Kamphoefner, AMIDEAST Movement Cairo–Successful Nonviolence Strategies Ali Kadivar, U of North Carolina– Employed in Egypt’s 25 January Electoral Opportunities and Emotional Revolution Energies: Evidence from 2009 Iranian Michael Allan, U of Oregon–From Green Movement Twitter to Tom-Toms: Fanonian Yusuf Sarfati, Illinois State U– Reflections on #Jan25 in Egypt Religiopolitical Mobilization in Israel Boutheina Khaldi, American U of and Turkey: A Comparative Perspective Sharjah–Tweeting the “Nahdah”? Hager El Hadidi, Bloomsburg U Thematic of Pennsylvania–The Rallying Cry Conversation of an Emerging Egyptian “Virtual” Vernacular: Facebook “Viral” Posters (2960) Early Iranian Journals: during January 2011 Secular, Religious or Somewhere in Between Organized by Julie M. Ellison-Speight

Session Leader: Kamran Talattof, U of Arizona

Julie M. Ellison-Speight, U of Arizona

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(2639) Maps, Borders, and Spatial Perceptions in the Arab- SPECIAL SESSION Israeli Conflict (2969) Reflections on Contemporary Islamic Thought: Organized by Asher Kaufman Abdulkarim Soroush on the Legacies of Mohammed Arkoun, Chair: Asher Kaufman, U of Notre Dame Nasr Hamed Abu Zayd and Mohammed `Abed Al-Jabri Organized by Forough Jahanbakhsh, Queen’s U Asher Kaufman, U of Notre Dame– Between Sealed and Permeable Borders: Chair: Forough Jahanbakhsh, Queen’s U The Trans-Arabian Pipeline and the Arab Israeli Conflict Abdolkarim Soroush, Independent Scholar Karen Culcasi, West Virginia U– Geopolitics and Cartography in the “Arab Homeland” 2010 saw the loss of three eminent scholars of contemporary Islamic thought. Christine Leuenberger, Cornell U– MESA welcomes Abdolkarim Soroush as he reflects on the unique legacies of Making Maps and Making States in these intelletual leaders while interjecting his own personal memories of them. Palestine/Israel Efrat Ben Zeev, Ruppin Academic Ctr– Elusive Boundaries: Cognitive Maps of Palestinians and Jews in Israel Today Roundtable (2726) Arab Revolts: A Critical (2673) Ottoman Identity, Part (2708) Is Iberia a ‘Middle View on the Narratives of IV (19th-20th C.): Empire to Freedom and Authoritarianism, : Mass Politics and Eastern’ Topic? Organized by Abigail Krasner Balbale Part I Nationalism Organized by Sami Zemni and Zakia Organized by Kent F. Schull, U Chair: Gen Liang, Wheaton Col Salime of Memphis and Christine Isom- Verhaaren, Benedictine U Antoine Borrut, U of Maryland Chair: Zakia Salime, Rutgers U Camilo Gomez-Rivas, American U in Discussant: Christopher Parker, Ghent U Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, U of Cairo Arizona Brian Catlos, U of Colorado at Boulder Sami Zemni, Ghent U–The Tunisian Abigail Krasner Balbale, Harvard U Revolution: The Breakdown of a Darin N. Stephanov, U of Memphis– Political-Economic Formula–What Millet, Millet-ism, Nationalism: A New Thematic Does the Fall of Ben Ali Teach Us about Approach to the Study of the Rise of Conversation Political Change? Modern Group Consciousness in the Late Tamirace Fakhoury, European U Inst– Ottoman Empire (2716) Whither the Iranian Lebanon in the Wave of Arab Revolts: A Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt Diaspora?: Questions for Counter-Revolution? U–“Only Paradoxes to Offer”: Sephardi Scholars & Activists (Year Two) Kevan Harris, Johns Hopkins U–Politics Jews, Ottoman Identity, and the Politics Organized by Amy Motlagh in a Martyrs’ Welfare State: Social Policy of Undecidability and Opposition Dynamics in the Islamic Mehmet Alper Yalcinkaya, Ohio Session Leader: Babek Elahi, RIT Republic of Iran Wesleyan U–“Muslim Contributions to Koenraad Bogaert, Ghent U–Uneven Science” and Ottoman Identity Amy Motlagh, American U in Cairo Development and Neoliberal Reform: Deniz Kilincoglu, Princeton U–From Amy Malek, UCLA New Perspectives on Political Change in Indolent to Industrious: The Evolution of Leyli Behbahani, SOAS, U of London the Arab World Modern Ottoman Identity Mohsen Mobasher, U of Houston- Brecht De Smet, Ghent U–Back to Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi U– Downtown Class?: Activist-Intellectuals and the Ottomanism and Notions of Empire on Egyptian Workers Movement the Verge of Its Collapse Roozbeh Shirazi, Columbia U

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(2750) Re-Envisioning Islam’s Christopher Davidson, Durham U–The Laura Menin, U of Milano-Bicocca– Relationship to Authority, Persian Gulf and Pacific Asia Crafting Lives, Negotiating Ambivalence: Patrick J. Conge, U of Arkansas– Young Women’s Romantic Imaginaries Literature, the Public Sphere Whither Politics?: Saudi Arabia, China and Social Change in Morocco and Politics and the Business of Oil Organized by Mervat F. Hatem (2796) Comparative Approaches Chair: Mervat F. Hatem, Howard U (2776) Exploring Gender to Modern Persian and Arabic Representation and Identity in Literatures Mervat F. Hatem, Howard U– the Middle East Organized by Arta Khakpour and Amir Literature, Gender and Nation Building Organized by Roberta Micallef Moosavi Dietrich Jung, U of Southern Denmark– Arab, European, and Muslim Public Chair: Roberta Micallef, Boston U Chair/Discussant: M. Mehdi Khorrami, Spheres: Life and Work of Muhammad New York U Abduh in Global Perspective Zjaleh Hajibashi, U of Virginia–The Denise A. Spellberg, UT Austin–Thomas Lens of Language: Telling Confines of Arta Khakpour, New York U–Imitation, Jefferson’s Qur’an: The Politics of Persian Prison Memoirs Independence, or Intertextuality?: History and the Origins of the Political Roberta Micallef, Boston U–Blood and Rethinking the Nahda Paradigm in Rights of Muslims in the Eighteenth- Belonging: Leftovers of the Sword Persian and Arabic Century United States John M. VanderLippe, New Schl for Somy Kim, UT Austin–Through the Anver Emon, U of Toronto–The Muslim Social Research and Pinar Batur, Vassar Looking Glass: Negotiating Crisis in Guru: The Romantic Turn in the ‘Crisis Col–Symbol of a Life: Türkan Saylan, Postwar Iranian and Lebanese Cinema of Authority’ Veiling and a Portrait of a Feminist Amir Moosavi, NYU–Changing the Intellectual in Turkey Poster on the Wall: The Evolving Face of (2756) History of the Medieval Sandra G. Carter, Independent the Martyr in Arabic and Persian Novels Scholar–Women’s Representation in Islamic Book Post-Independence Moroccan National Organized by A. Nazir Atassi (2797) Local Governance and Cinema State-Society Relations in Sponsored by Morocco and Jordan (2794) The Ambiguity of Great Organized by Sylvia I. Bergh Middle East Medievalists Expectations: Ethnographic Dagmar A. Riedel, Columbia U–Are Approaches to Living a Life in Chair: Janine A. Clark, U of Guelph They Islamic, or What?: How to Think the Middle East about Manuscripts that Preserve Arabic Organized by Samuli Schielke and Eleanor Gao, U of Michigan–Do the Literature in Persian Translation Paola Abenante Buses Run on Time?: Local Government A. Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech U–A and Public Goods Provision in Jordan Social History of Ibn Saˋd’s Kitāb Al- Chairs: Samuli Schielke, Zentrum Janine A. Clark, U of Guelph–Municipal Ṭabaqāt Al-Kabīr Moderner Orient, Berlin and Paola , Service Delivery and Abenante, SMI U of Bergen Authoritarian Persistence (2765) The Gulf across East and Discussant: Nefissa Naguib, Chr. Sylvia I. Bergh, International Inst of Michelsen Inst Social Studies, The Hague–The National West: Charting GCC and Iranian Human Development Initiative in Inter-Asian Relations Morocco: Some Implications for Local Organized by Matteo Legrenzi Lucile Gruntz, EHESS–Bitterness Governance and Nostalgia in Cairo: Ambiguous Yasmine Berriane, Zentrum Moderner Chair: Matteo Legrenzi, Ca’ Foscari U of Narratives of Migration to the Gulf Orient–From NGO Leader to Council Venice Jessica Winegar, Northwestern Member?: Women and Local Politics in U–Sitting on Rusty Old Chairs or Morocco Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col–Deciphering Filling in Excel Spreadsheets: The China’s Relations with the Gulf: Old Lived Experience of Developmental Assumptions, New Initiatives Modernism among Egypt’s Culture Makio Yamada, U of Oxford–A “China Workers Model” for GCC Political Economy? Susanne Dahlgren, Helsinki Col for Naysan Rafati, U of Oxford–Closing the Advanced Studies–Great Expectations: Door, Opening the Window?: Trends and Southern Yemeni Youth, Unemployment Tensions in Iran’s Relations with the Far and Marriage Crisis East

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(2891) Political Economy of the Anne Clement, Harvard U–Fallahin on A-ME Arab World Trial in Colonial Egypt: Apprehending the Peasantry through Orality, Writing (2874) Anthropology (of Sound) Chair: Melani Cammett, Brown U and Performance (1884-1914) in the Middle East and North Lina Eklund, Lund U–Environmental Africa: A New Millennium, Part I Sang Hyun Song, U of Utah–Saudization Migration in the Middle East: Mapping Organized by Deborah A. Kapchan and Rentierism History, Present and Future using GIS Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, London and Spatial Modeling Chair: Deborah A. Kapchan, New York U School of Economics–‘Global Governance’ or the ‘Governance of (2911) Islamic Legal Formations Galeet Dardashti, Purchase Col SUNY– Globalization’?: Gulf States’ Perspectives from the Mamluks to the Listening for “Peace”: Middle Eastern on Global Engagement Present Law Music in Israel during the 2000s Karen Pfeifer, Smith Col–The Amy Horowitz, Ohio State U–Scholarly Investment Dimension of Growth and Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U Compositions: Writing across Sound Crisis in the Arab East in the 2000s Barriers and Resolutions in Israel- Palestine Lev Weitz, Princeton U–‘He Has Gone John Schaefer, American U in Cairo– (2897) The Uses of Arabic: on a Long Journey’: Wives, Disappeared Wired for Sound: State and Corporate Language and Linguistics in the Husbands, and East Syrian Law in Interests in Moroccan Folk Music Middle East Abbasid Iraq Jeanette S. Jouili, Cornell U–New Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim, Georgetown Islamic Soundscapes and Contested Chair: Kifah Hanna, Trinity Col U–Al-Shaˋrani’s Al-Mizān: A Relativist Modes of Listening: The Case of Britain’s Approach to Sunni Legal Pluralism Kursad U. Akpinar, Bilkent U–Ottoman Contemporary Islamic Cultural Scene Ayesha Kamal, U of Kent–‘Liberints’ Fetvas in the Kadi Court Registers Ted Swedenburg, U of Arkansas–The and ‘Deenatics’: An Exploration of How Bethany J. Walker, Missouri State Sounds of Palestinian Rap and Algerian Kuwait University Students Creatively U–Seeking Justice on the Mamluk Rai Manipulate Language to Express Their Frontier: The Formal and Informal Identity Legal Institutions of Late Medieval (2886) Memories and Histories Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State U– Transjordan Modernity and Its Impact on Language of Turkey Ilona Gerbakher, Harvard Divinity Attitudes of Youth in Morocco School–Female Intellect in 20th Century Mandy Terc, U of Michigan–“Class A Hande Ozkan, Yale U–Historicizing Jewish and Islamic Legal Thought: A Talks English”: Linguistic Choice and Forests, Naturalizing History: State Comparative Perspective Forestry in Modern Turkey Social Inequality in Damascus Michael Ferguson, McGill U–The Rehemma Asmi, Columbia U–Qatar’s Emergence of an “Afro-Turk” Identity Arabic Catch-22: An Arab(ic) Revival since 2005 with an English Twist Erkan Ercel, York U–Encountering Loss and Nostalgia: Turkey on the Way to (2904) Environment and Becoming European Agriculture: From Mauritania Nagihan Haliloglu, Independent to Antolia Scholar–Ceci N’est Pas Un Chapeau: Re- membering Turkey’s Hat Revolution of Sharif S. Elmusa, American U in Cairo– 1925 The Ecological Bedouin: Ibn Khaldun and Desert Literature Onur Inal, U of Arizona–“King Cotton” Visits the : Western Anatolia during the American Civil War Evan R. Murphy, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign–The Development of Egyptian Agricultural Practice and Science, 1882-1936 Kay Moseley, Independent Scholar– Water, Wells and Social Structure: The Oasis Towns of Mauritania

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(2938) Lebanon and the UN (2945) Trust, Values, and Special Tribunal: Balancing Democracy in the Middle East Justice and Stability Chair: Beken Saatcioglu, Inst for Omri Nir, Hebrew U of Jerusalem– European Integration Research Sectarian Politics in Lebanon: An Obstacle or an Encouraging Factor for Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State U–Democratic Inter-Community Cooperation Values, Sharia, and the Freedom Gap: Erminia Chiara Calabrese, U Explaining Support for Democracy and of Tarragona–Hizbullah and the Sharia in the Arab World “Resistance Society”: The Path of the Sarah Meyrick, New York U–Democracy Followers Promotion in Iraq: How Empire is a Ahmed Dardir, Columbia U–Campus Pedagogical Project Sacer: Nahr Al Bared, the Sacred Camp Masaki Kakizaki, U of Utah– Dalia Mikdahi, American U of Beirut– Determinants of Political Trust in Lebanese Views on Palestinian Rights Turkey: Pooled Findings from World in Lebanon: A Recipe for Economic and Values Surveys in Turkey Political Instabilities Benedetta Berti, Fletcher School/Tel Aviv U–Lebanon and the UN Special Tribunal: Balancing Justice and Stability Rima Majed, U of Oxford–From Political Protest to Sectarian Violence: The Case of the Sunni-Shia Split in Lebanon

(2944) Continuity, Change and the Media

Chair: Sena Karasipahi, Texas A&M U

Maral Yessayan, Dartmouth Col– Monarchy in the Age of Internet: Queen Rania, Media Spectacle, and Politics of Modernity Patricia L. Niehoff, Columbus State Community Col–Muslim Perceptions and Interpretations of and Da’wa Post 9/11: Voices from the Internet Daniel Gilman, U of Mississippi–Heroes and Agents: Mass Media Figures in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Anne-Marie McManus, Yale U– Narrating the Revolution(s): Al Jazeera, Tunisia, Egypt

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(2612) Coming of Age: Rethink- (2717) Media(ting) Otherness: (2727) Arab Revolts: A Critical ing Youth and Childhood in the Visual Representations of View on the Narratives of Middle East and North Africa “Islam” and “the West” in the Freedom and Authoritarianism, Organized by Kristin V. Monroe and Post-9/11 Era Panel II Rania Kassab Sweis Organized by Eid Mohamed Organized by Zakia Salime

Chair: Kristin V. Monroe, U of Kentucky Chair: Amal Amireh, George Mason U Chair: Sami Zemni, Ghent U Discussant: Michaelle Browers, Wake Elif Babul, Stanford U–Protecting and Edith Szanto, U of Toronto–“That Forest U Overlooking: Juvenile Justice System and Which Your Right Hands Possess”: Children’s Rights Trainings in Turkey Liberation, Otherness, and Religion in a Fatima Hadji, George Mason U–Youth: Aomar Boum, U of Arizona–“Net- Syrian Soap Opera Political Reality and State Policies in Intifada”: Moroccan Youth, Cyberspaces, Eid Mohamed, George Washington Morocco and the Palestinian Conflict U–Occidental Fear of Unknown East: Zakia Salime, Rutgers U–Spaces of Jared McCormick, Harvard U–Becoming America in an Egyptian 9/11 Movie Revolution and Citizenship: Egyptian Beiruti: Syrian Migrant Youth Coming of Waleed Mahdi, U of Minnesota–Re- Women Blogs, Moroccan Rappers Age in Lebanon Imagining Arab Americans in Film: A Issam Aburaya, Seton Hall U– Shayna Silverstein, U of Chicago–New Reconciliatory Model Authoritarian Regimes, Religion and Movements, Old Forms: Contesting Syed Adnan Hussain, U of Toronto–Are Revolts: The Case of Algeria Youth and Belonging in Syrian Popular the “Bad Muslims” Speaking Back?: Cheryl Leung, Columbia U–Soundtrack Culture America’s Othering of Islam in South of a Revolution: Politically Engaged Rania Kassab Sweis, Stanford U– Asian Cinema Tunisian Rappers Healing the Poor Child’s Mind: Psychiatric Humanitarianism and the (2725) Rethinking Public (2736) The Struggle for Water Transnational Management of Street Children in Neoliberal Egypt Violence in Modern Middle in the Middle East: Potential Eastern Cities and Pitfalls of Transboundary Roundtable Organized by Nelida Fuccaro Cooperation Organized by Karin Aggestam (2626) The Spatial Turn Chair: Hanan H. Hammad, Texas in Middle East Studies: Christian U Sihem Jebari, Lund U–Transboundary Interdisciplinary Methods and Discussant: Peter Sluglett, National U of Water Management in the Middle East: A Singapore Approaches Study of the Mejerda River Organized by Amy Mills Karin Aggestam, Lund U and Anna Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois U–Re- Sundell Eklund, Lund U–Water Shaping the Holy City: The Nebi Musa Chair: Amy Mills, U of South Carolina Conflict?: Moving Beyond the Water- Riots in 1920 War Discourse Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, U of London– Carel Bertram, San Francisco State U Khaldoon Mourad, Lund U–Water Understanding Violence in an Oil City: Availability in Syria, Will It Be Enough? Anna Secor, U of Kentucky Kirkuk, 1927-1959 Susan Gilson Miller, UC Davis Hossein Hashemi, Lund U and Ronny Rasmus Christian Elling, SOAS, U Berndtsson, Lund U–Floodwater Maureen Jackson, Carleton Col of London–Roots of Ressentiment: Mona Hassan, Duke U Recharge to Improve Sustainable Water Repression, the State and Oil Power in Supply in Arid Iran Faedah Totah, Virginia Commonwealth U Abadan, 1929-46 Luna Khirfan, U of Waterloo Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Dartmouth Col– Banu Gokariksel, UNC Chapel Hill Mutiny and Reorder or “Cleansing the Berna Turam, Northeastern U Capital”?: The 31 March Incidents and Marika Snider, U of Utah the Hareket Ordusu in Istanbul Ulrike Freitag, ZMO Berlin–Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman

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(2745) A View From the Edge: (2747) Why is Arabic (2798) The Collateral Effects Middle Eastern and African “Untranslatable?” of the Syro-Lebanese Political Constructions of the Distant Organized by Dima Ayoub Crisis Post 2005: Army, Non- and Exotic state Actors, and External Organized by James De Lorenzi Dima Ayoub, McGill U– Zones of Conflict or Translation?: Linguistic Ambiguity in Meddlers Organized by Tine Gade and Nayla Chair: Gottfried Hagen, U of Michigan Somaya Ramadan’s Awraq Al-Narjis Sabah Fatima Haider, Independent Moussa Scholar–The Translatability of Language, Hyunhee Park, CUNY John Jay Col– Themes and Aesthetics of Resistance in Chair: Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col China in the World Geography of the Films of the “Palestinian New Wave” Medieval Islamic World Najat Rahman, U of Montreal– Catherine Le Thomas, CEIFR Paris–The James De Lorenzi, CUNY John Jay ‘Translating Waves into Language’: Post-2005 Syro-Lebanese Crisis as a Col–Making Sense of Ya’eslam Mangest: Suheir Hammad’s Breaking Poems Catalyst for the Shiite Community Constructions of the Muslim World Michelle Hartman, McGill U–Can Tine Gade, Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Ethiopian Historiography of the “Always Coca Cola” be Translated?: de Paris–The Conjuncture of the Political Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Alexandra Chreiteh’s “Da’iman Coca Crisis within the Sunni Space in North John Curry, U of Nevada, Las Vegas– Cola” from Arabic to English Lebanon 2005-2010 Katip Çelebi’s Conception of the Indian Hala C. Abou-Zaki, EHESS/IRD/ Subcontinent and Indian Ocean World in CEMAM–Shatila’s Camp Experience after the Cihânnümâ (2792) Materiality of Social the Syrian Withdrawal in 2005 Kaveh Hemmat, U of Chicago–The Transformation in Egypt and Nayla Moussa, Instit d’Etudes Politiques Chinese-Islamic Contact Zone and the Ottoman Empire, 1875-1945 de Paris–The New Missions of the Vernacular Macrohistory Organized by Ceyda Karamursel and Lebanese Army in the Aftermath of the Shehab Ismail Syro-Lebanese Crisis (2746) Self-Craft and State- Craft in Qatar and Kuwait: Chair/Discussant: On Barak, Princeton U (2808) Assyrian Identity: National Identity, Education, Institutions, Tribes, and and Political Discourse Aaron G. Jakes, New York U–“A Work of General Interest”: Agricultural Roads, Organized by Fahed Al-Sumait Organized by Eden Naby Public Utility, and the Rescaling of the Egyptian State under British Rule Chair: Fahed Al-Sumait, U of Chair: Eden Naby, Independent Scholar Ceyda Karamursel, U of Pennsylvania– Washington Pocket Monuments of Historical Discussant: Mary Ann Reed Tetreault, Eden Naby, Independent Scholar– Consciousness: Calendars and Almanacs Trinity U Institutions, Churches and Conflicting in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Identities Republic, 1875-1945 Benjamin Trigona-Harany–Ottoman Andrew Gardner, U of Puget Sound and Shehab Ismail, U of Pennsylvania–A Süryani Identity at the End of the Ali Alshawi–Tribalism, Identity and History of Cairo’s Organic Functions: Empire Citizenship in Contemporary Qatar Sewers, Water and the Colonial Politics Nicholas Al-Jeloo, U of Sydney–The Talal Al-Rashoud, Kings Col London– of Health, 1880s-1920s Assyrian Adventure: The Chaldean Between and Tribal Nurcin Ileri, Binghamton U–Artificial Catholic Church and Pre-1933 Discourses : The Balancing Act of Kuwait’s Lighting as a New Urban Technology and of Identity Islamic Constitutional Movement Lower Class Vice and Elite Fear in fin de Richard N. Frye, Harvard U (Emeritus)– Rania Al-Nakib, Inst of Education, siècle Istanbul U of London–Kuwait’s Democratic Assyrians from Nineveh to Persepolis Aspirations and the Kuwaiti Curriculum: In Tension or Perfectly in Sync? Ildiko Kaposi, American U of Kuwait– Collateral Democratisation: Newspapers in Kuwait Fahed Al-Sumait, U of Washington– Variable Terrain: Kuwaiti Discourses on Arab Democratization

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(2836) Palestine Now: Solidarity Zeynep Dortok Abaci, Uludag U–The Anne K. Rasmussen, Col of William and Self Determination in the Employment of Ottoman Shariyyah and Mary–Space, Place, and the Sound Registers as a Historical Source for Worlds of Islam: Synergy and Disconnect Post-Oslo Context Analyzing Social Networks in the in the Indian Ocean Trade Winds Organized by Salah D. Hassan Ottoman Society: The Case of Bursa Nilufer Alkan Gunay, Uludag U–An Chair: Chris Toensing, MERIP (2928) Mystical, Moral, and Analysis of Social Structure: The Âyan in Legal Philosophy Bursa (1770-1800) Sherene Seikaly, American U in Cairo– Aysenur Bilge Zafer, Uludag U–A Solidarity after the Revolution Comparison of the Social Networks: Chair: Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana U Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State U– Native and Immigrant Women of İnegöl Internationalizing Gaza Nurcan Abaci, Uludag U–Mountain Slobodan Ilic, Eastern Mediterranean Noura Erakat, Georgetown U–Palestinian and Immigrant Villages of Bursa in U–Man as Microcosm: The Concept of Representation, Diaspora, and BDS Comparative Perspective: Hierarchical Al-Insan Al-Kamil in the Light of the Thomas Abowd, Tufts U–The Politics or Egalitarian Social Structure? Mystical Treatises of Husayn Lamakani and Principles of North American (d. 1625) Cultural Boycotts: An Historical David Larsen, New York U–Engage- Comparison between Contemporary (2865) Bodies and Sexualities in ments of Aristotle by ‘Amr b. Bahr Al- Israel and Apartheid South Africa Post-Revolutionary Iran Jahiz Organized by Kristin Soraya Roxanne Marcotte, U of Queensland– (2845) Appropriating the Batmanghelichi Knowledge and Illumination in the 13th Century Sasanian Legacy: From Central Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi, Faraz Sheikh, Indiana U Bloomington– Asia to Iberia Columbia U–Bodies Talking: Iranian Conceptions of Moral Selfhood in Early Organized by Ghazzal Dabiri Women and Taboo Technologies in Islam: The Case of Al-Shafii’s Risala Contemporary Iran Sponsored by Shirin Saeidi, Cambridge U–Gender and (2930) Leadership, Citizenship, Post-Revolutionary Iran: Configuring Association for the Study of Feminist Approaches for Examining the and Modernity Persianate Societies Warring State Chair: Ilke Civelekoglu, Dogus U Ghazzal Dabiri, Columbia U–Narrating Leila Mouri Sardar Abady, Columbia U–Tortured Body, Citizenship, and the Legitimacy and Equality in Late Antique Iran Gözde Erdeniz, Northwestern U–Paths Istvan T. Kristo Nagy, U of Exeter–Iranian Notion of Gender in Post-Revolutionary Iran to Democratization in the Wake of Revival after Post Conquest Trauma as Charismatic Leadership: The Cases of Reflected in Ibn Al-Muqaffa’s Oeuvre Turkey and Tunisia Jennifer London, Tufts U–The Abbasid A-ME Haldun Gulalp, Yildiz Technical U–The “Circle of Justice”: Re-Reading Ibn al- Globalization Paradox: Freedom of Muqaffa‘’s Risala fi’l-Sahaba (2875) Anthropology (of Sound) and the Ottoman Abolala Soudavar, Independent in the Middle East and North Legacy Scholar–From India to the Nile: A Marcie J. Patton, Fairfield U– Lasting Rhetorical Slogan Africa: A New Millennium, Part II Organized by Deborah A. Kapchan Constructions of Citizenship in the Merce Viladrich, U of Barcelona–On the Political Economy of Turkey Transfer of Late Antique Iranian Taxation Hasan Kosebalaban, Istanbul Sehir Practices to the Iberian Peninsula through Chair: Dwight F. Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara U–Globalization and Islamic Identity Early Umayyad Fiscal Organization Transformation: Turkey, Egypt and Malaysia Michael Frishkopf, U of Alberta– (2848) Clio Harnessing the Towards an Anthropology of Musical Spider: SNA (Social Network Silence: The Sound of Reformist Islam in (2935) Modern Islamic Political Analysis) of Ottoman Bursa the Middle East and Its Diasporas Thought (15th - 20th Centuries) Richard Jankowsky, Tufts U–Absence Organized by Gursu Gursakal and “Presence”: El-Hadra and the Chair: Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana U Reconfiguration of Sufi Sound for the Chair: Selim Kuru, U of Washington Tunisian Stage Nura Hossainzadeh, UC Berkeley– Deborah A. Kapchan, New York U– Ruhollah Khomeini’s Political Theory: Gursu Gursakal, Uludag U–A Primer Listeracies of Listening: Sacred Affect, Elements of Consent, Guardianship, and on the Social Network Techniques in Aural Pedagogies and the Spread of Sufi Representative Government Historical Studies: A Technical Appraisal Islam continued next page

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Begum Uzun, U of Toronto and Özlem Aslan, U of Toronto–Post-Islamist PLENARY SESSION Intellectuals in Iran and Turkey: Paradoxes of and Prospects for Post- Saturday, December 3 u 7:30-9pm u Room TBA Islamist Democracy Sami Emile Baroudi, Lebanese American U–Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi on International Relations: The Counter- Hegemonic Discourse of a Leading u u Islamist Scholar Islamophobia Juliette Tolay, U of Delaware–Islamic Teachings Regarding Immigration Kelly Al-Dakkak, U of Oxford–The Chair: Qur’an, Pluralism, and New Tunisian Carl Ernst : The Work of Hmida Ennaifer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2948) Perceptions in Foreign Kambiz GhaneaBassiri Politics Reed College Hisae Nakanishi, Doshisha U–Iran’s Security Policy since 9/11: A Special Peter Gottschalk Focus on the Stabilizaton of the Middle Wesleyan University East and Nuclear Negotiations Naisy Sarduy, U of Oxford–Iran’s America: Iran’s Post-Revolutionary Juliane Hammer Narrative of the United States University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill David Palkki, Conflict Records Research Center–Saddam, Israel, and the Bomb: Andrew Shryock Nuclear Alarmism Justified? University of Michigan

Thematic Conversation

(2954) Debating the Holocaust, Antisemitism and Fascism in Middle Eastern Studies Organized by Jens-Peter Hanssen

Session Leader: Jens-Peter Hanssen, U of Toronto

Gudrun Kraemer, Free U Berlin Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, U of London Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv U

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Today’s Affiliated Meetings Ahmad Aminpour, UT Austin–Kurds in (2787) Portable States and European Travel Diaries Liminal Populations: Assessing 12nn-2pm Maryam Shariati, UT Austin–Al-e AMIDEAST Arabic Advisory Ahmad’s Memoir: Investigating Self and Mobility in the Gulf and Indian Board Meeting the Other Ocean, c. 1800-2010 Park Tower Suite 8224 (L) M. R. Ghanoonparvar, UT Austin– Organized by Fahad A. Bishara and Through Tinted Lenses: New Media Ahmed Dailami Travel Narratives (2643) The Poetics, Politics Chair: Lawrence Potter, Columbia U and Performance of Sahrawi (2722) Contemporary Identity Thomas Dodie McDow, George Mason Approaches to the Study of U–Sultans at Sea: Mobility and State Organized by Jacob A. Mundy Middle East Conflicts Power in Muscat and Zanzibar (1804- Organized by Colin Owens 1913) Chair/Discussant: Jacob A. Mundy, Fahad A. Bishara, Duke U–Merchant- Colgate U Matt Flannes, U of Arizona–Neoliberal- Princes and Proto-States: Life in Motion ism, Creative Destruction and the in the Gulf and Indian Ocean, c. 1850- Elena Fiddian-Qamiyeh, U of Oxford– Economic Reconstruction of Iraq, 2003- 1920 The Pragmatics of Religious Performance 2010 Ahmed Dailami, St. Antony’s Col, in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps David Callen, U of Arizona–Regulation, Oxford–Crude Nationalisms: Oil and the Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U–Moroccan Kinetic Action and Resource National Imaginary in Bahrain (1953- Settlers in : Colonists or Interdiction: An Adaptive Approach to 1956) Fifth Column? Countering Conflict Financing Noora Lori, Johns Hopkins U/Dubai Patrick Healy, American U of Beirut– Colin Owens, U of Arizona–Insurgency School of Government–“Offshore The Inception of Sahrawi Nationalisms: and Counterinsurgency Development Citizens”: The Political Management of Contested Identities, Contingent and Its Implications Rentier Transformations, Naturalization Outcomes Dylan Baun, U of Arizona–From Social Policy, and Liminal Populations in the Tara Deubel, U of South Florida– Tension to Protracted Civil Conflict: UAE Dialogues across the Divide: Poetic Using fsQCA to Analyze Conflict in Expression as Political Critique in the Lebanon Sahrawi Diaspora (2827) New Approaches to Late Ottoman History Roundtable (2743) The Revolution Will Not Organized by Fatma Müge Goçek Be Tweeted: Social Media and (2654) Integrating Middle Uprisings in the Middle East Chair/Discussant: Fatma Müge Goçek, U Eastern “Jewish” Studies Organized by Assem Nasr of Michigan Organized by Ari Ariel Chair: Roberta L. Dougherty, UT Austin Adil Baktiaya, Istanbul U–Ottoman Chair: Daniel J. Schroeter, U of Discussant: Somy Kim, UT Austin Empire Negotiates Terrorism: Dynamics Minnesota of Imperial Participation in the Secret Assem Nasr, Indiana U-Purdue U, 1898 Rome Conference on Threats Posed Emily Gottreich, UC Berkeley Fort Wayne (IPFW)–Censorship, by Anarchist Terrorism Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore Col Satellites, and Tech-Savvy Arabs: Media Murat Ozyuksel, Istanbul U–Construc- Eyal Ginio, Hebrew U of Jerusalem Revolutions and Social Transitions in the tion of the Absolutist/Islamist Policy of Ari Ariel, New York U Arab World Sultan Abdulhamit II Ikram Toumi, UT Austin–Facebook Use Sarah Shields, UNC Chapel Hill– (2715) Perceived and and the Tunisian Revolution: A Media Transformation of the Minority Issue: Misperceived Self and the Literacy Perspective From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic Other in Middle Eastern Travel Lior Sternfeld, UT Austin–Once We Were Alike Namik Sinan Turan, Istanbul U– Memoirs Roberta L. Dougherty, UT Austin– Origins of Ottoman Sociopolitical Organized by M. R. Ghanoonparvar “Smiling and Waving Witty Banners”: Transformation: The Emergence of the The Expressive Culture of the Egyptian Concept of Secularization during the Chair/Discussant: M. Mehdi Khorrami, Revolution Reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II New York U

Dena Afrasiabi, UT Austin–The Other as Self in the Travel Memoirs of Second- Generation Iranian-Americans

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(2842) Ottoman Charity: Mohammad Homayounvash, Florida Lise Galal, Roskilde U, Denmark– Imperial Pious Foundations International U–Shi’a Ethics and Mediations of Christian-Muslim the Atom Question: Contours of the Relations in Egypt: Situated (Waqfs) in the Ottoman Empire Unfolding Debate Representations During the 16th and 17th W. Scott Harrop, U of Virginia– Peter Limbrick, UC Santa Cruz– Centuries Resolving the Nuclear Impasse: Why Moumen Smihi and a Modern Arab Organized by Şerife (Eroğlu) Memiş Mutual Respect Matters Cinema

Nilgün Çevrimli, Gazi U–A Textual (2896) Displacement: Refugee A-ME Analysis of the Endowment Deed of Communities in the Middle East Mihrimah Sultan’s Pious Foundation (2876) High-tech Horizons (Waqf) Mezna Qato, St. Antony’s Col, Oxford– Muradiye Simsek, Middle East in the Middle East: The Socialization and Surveillance: Refugees Technical U–Structural Transformation Anthropology of Science and in the Hashemite Classroom (1948-1959) of the Schools of Higher Education Medicine, Part I Arzu Yılmaz, Ankara U–Kurdish (Medreses) of Sultan Mosque Complexes Organized by Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale U Refugees in Kurdistan: A Case Study on (Külliyes) in Istanbul Turkish Kurds in Northern Iraq Nilgün Çevrimli, Hacettepe U–Feeding Mazyar Lotfalian, UC Irvine–Mapping Joost Jongerden, Wageningen U–Rural the Poor: Fodula and Taamiye Records the Horizon of Iranian Science, Minimalism: The Reconstruction of of Sultan Süleyman’s Imarets in Istanbul Technology, and Medicine through Oral Rural Space in War and Development and Damascus History Practices in the Kurdistan Region in Soraya Tremayne, U of Oxford–Zahra’s Turkey (1993-2002) (2854) Agency, Modernity and Paradise, Muslim Burial, and Digital May Farah, New York U–Palestinian Gender Technology in Tehran Refugees in Lebanon: Lives Worthy of Organized by Mounira Maya Charrad Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, U of Living Haifa, Israel–High-Tech Medicine Far Senay Ozden, Koç U–Borders of Forced Rita Stephan, US Census Bureau– Out on the Horizon: The Ordeal of Gaza Migration: Internally Displaced Kurds Modern Framing of Gender Activism in Children with Cancer and Afghani/Iranian Refugees in Turkey Lebanon Beth Kangas, TAARII–Depictions of Mounira Maya Charrad, UT Austin– Middle Eastern Medical Travelers: Wealth, Extravagance, and Special Needs (2915) Reform, Adaptation, and Modernity in Law: Multiple Agencies in Resistance in the Early Turkish Tunisia Vickie Langohr, Col of the Holy Thematic Republic Conversation Cross–The Politics Surrounding Female- Chair: Hale Yilmaz, Southern Illinois U Friendly Legislation in the Arab World: (TC2883) Mapping Change in Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen Carbondale Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U of London– Islamic Authority: Shifting Iraqi Women’s Agency: Contesting Cultures of Knowledge, Tim Rich, U of Washington–The Turkish Modernities & Traditions Learning, and Practice Ezan and State Language Reform Organized by Hilary Kalmbach Murat Metinsoy, Boğaziçi U–The Everyday Forms of Peasant Politics in (2864) Iran’s Nuclear Program: Session Leader: Hilary Kalmbach, U of Early Republican Turkey: Resistance to New Prisms, New Paradigms Oxford Agricultural Taxes Organized by Marsha B. Cohen Aysen Isler Sarioglu, Middle East Technical U–The Power of the Wheel: Gudrun Kraemer, Free U Berlin Hamid Serri, Florida International U– Sewing Machine and the Modernization Thomas Pierret, U of Edinburgh American Narratives against the Iran of , 1940-1970 Mirjam Kuenkler, Princeton U Nuclear Program: Case Study of the Sevgi Adak, Leiden U–Kemalism in Martijn de Koning, Radboud U Texts of Major American Foreign Policy the Periphery: Anti-Veiling Campaigns Nijmegen, The Netherlands Thinks between 2000 and 2010 and State-Society Relations in Early Marsha B. Cohen, Independent Republican Turkey Scholar/Journalist–Headlines and Red (2895) New Perspectives on Lines: Vectors for Analysis of Israel’s Middle Eastern Cinema View of the “Iranian Threat” Saziye Burcu Giray, Florida Blake Atwood, UT Austin–Re/Form: International Relations–Turkey’s New Forms in Cinema and Media in Post- Changing Policy towards Iranian Nuclear Khatami Iran Program: Ideology or Interest?

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(2925) Literature and Authority (2941) Non-State Actors in (2950) Bureaucracy and in Early and Classical Islam Israel-Palestine Colonial Administration

Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve U– Barak Mendelsohn, Haverford Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser U–‘What Celebrity, Propriety and Repentance in Col–Ideological Entrepreneurs and Do We Know about Yemen?’: Ottoman Early Abbasid Musical Culture Challenged State Authority: The Israeli Politics of Knowledge Production and Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion State and Violent Jewish Non-State Imperial Governance in Southwest U of the Negev–Bonding with Bilad Actors Arabia, 1872-1914 Al-Sham: The Familiarization and Itzchak Weismann, Haifa U–Preaching Yossef Ben-Meir, High Atlas Sanctification of Palestine and Syria in and Politics in the Islamic Movement in Foundation–Moroccan Regionalization, Early Islamic Literature Israel Human Development, and the Western Elizabeth Urban, U of Chicago–The Harel Chorev, Tel Aviv U–Changes in Sahara Foundations of Islamic Society as the Status of West Bank Elite Families: Eric Schewe, U of Michigan–The Expressed by the Qur’anic Term Mawlā The Network of the Al-Masri Family Egyptian Administration of Martial Law Mimi Hanaoka, U of Richmond–Dreams and Neocolonial Struggle in World War II as Tools of Legitimation and Prophecy in Dorothee Kellou, Georgetown U– Local Historical Writing Colonial Practice of Resettling the Population during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962): The Example of the Village of Mansourah Jeffrey Sachs, McGill U–Rules of Law in Colonial Sudan: The Logic of Legal Ambiguity

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(2622) Philosophical Narratives (2675) Superpower Antagonism (2749) Mediating Desire: in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew on the Periphery: The Two Female Homosociality in the Thought Yemens during the Cold War Modern Middle East Organized by Shatha Almutawa and Organized by Roland Popp Organized by Tahereh Aghdasifar Jessica Andruss Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley Discussant: Afsaneh Najmabadi, Discussant: Richard McGregor, State U Harvard U Vanderbilt U Discussant: Gregory Gause, U of Vermont Sara Pursley, CUNY Graduate Center– Alexander Orwin, U of Chicago– Domesticating Women, Reproducing the An Indispensable Handmaiden to Roland Popp, Center for Security Future: Homosociality as Wasted Time in Philosophy: The Use of Stories in the Studies, ETH Zurich–Turning Point in Revolutionary Iraq Thought of Farabi South Arabia?: The Soviet Union, the US Tahereh Aghdasifar, Emory U– Shatha Almutawa, U of Chicago–The and the PDRY Leadership Struggle, 1986- Diminishing Desires: Effects of the Green Use of Narrative in Rasa’il Ikhwan Al- 1987 Movement and LGBT Organizations on Safa Asher Orkaby, Harvard–Komer’s War: Iranian Female Desire Peter Heath, American U of Sharjah– U.S. Policy during the North Yemeni Nadia L. Dropkin, New York U–“I’m Narrative Textures in Ibn `Arabī’s Civil War, 1962-1970 Not a Lesbian”: Embodiments and Accounts of Spiritual Ascent James Esdaile, Harvard U–Anti-Imperial Constructions of Female Same-Sex Jessica Andruss, U of Chicago–Parables Turning Point, Imperial Starting Point?: Sexuality in Contemporary Cairo as Pedagogy in Abraham Ibn Hasday’s Aden’s General Strike of April 25th, 1958 Book of the Prince and the Ascetic Thanos Petouris, SOAS, U of London– (2757) Middle East Studies in Superpower Responses to Regional the Post September 11 Era (2631) Media Personalities and Challenges: Nasser’s Role, and Britain in Organized by Tugrul Keskin the Makings of Public Spheres South Arabia in the Middle East Chair: Tugrul Keskin, Portland State U Organized by Daniella Kuzmanovic (2714) Negotiating Categories Discussant: Mohammed A. Bamyeh, U and Methodologies: Expressing of Pittsburgh Chair: Dietrich Jung, U of Southern Minorities in Turkey Denmark Organized by Ilker Hepkaner Osamah Khalil, UC Berkeley–The New World Order: The Decline of Middle East Daniella Kuzmanovic, U of Chair/Discussant: Asli Z. Igsiz, U of Studies and the Rise of the Think Tanks, Copenhagen, Denmark–“Martyrs of Arizona 1971-2001 the Press”: On the Makings of Icons of Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra U–The Journalism in Turkey David Gramling, U of Arizona–“In Net Worth of Orientalism: Can Discourse Joe F. Khalil, Northwestern U Qatar–The Lingual Lockdown”?: Turkish Youth in be Hegemonic in Cyberspace? Making and Unmaking of Revolutions: Multiple Languages Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison The Antagonistic Symbiosis of Youth Ahmet Abdullah Sacmali, U of Arizona– U–Orientalism and Afghanistan Studies Generated Media and Mainstream Media The Transformation in Ahmed Emin’s Ehab Galal, U of Copenhagen–Media Perception of Non-Muslims in the (2775) Quests for Belonging: Personalities at Islamic Arab Satellite- Armistice Period (1918-1923) Perspectives of Middle Eastern Television: Authority and Role Model Ilker Hepkaner, U of Arizona–Yilmaz Youths Amidst Normalizing Guney’s Cinema: A Minority in Which Donatella Della Ratta, U of Copenhagen Discourses and Danish Inst in Damascus and Sense? Organized by Lory Dance Augusto Valeriani, U di Bologna– Muge Salmaner, U of Washington– Creating Media Personalities through Themes of Nostalgia and Loss in Chair: Reza Arjmand, Lund U/Columbia U the Social Arab Web the Case of Al Contemporary Turkish Armenian Jazeera during #Jan25 Egyptian Uprising Literature Sune Haugbolle, Copenhagen U–Art, Ipek Celik, Brown U–Taking Fiction Erica Li Lundqvist, Lund U–“Gayted” Iconicity, and Mass Mediation: A to Court: Pamuk and Safak on the Communities: Marginalized Mascu- Comparative Analysis of Ziad Al-Rahbani Armenian Genocide linities in Lebanon and Naji Al-Ali Jonas Otterbeck, Lund U–Constructing a Respectable Islam in Malmö and Copenhagen: Young Adult Muslims Negotiating Islamic Traditions with Family, Friends and Foes

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Dan-Erik Andersson, Lund U–Belonging Maha Abdelrahman, U of Cambridge– Fatemeh Hosseini, U of Maryland– in Your New Context by Holding on to “Rooted Cosmopolitans” and Political Whores or Wives: Discourses on Your Old Context: Middle Eastern Youth Activism in Egypt Prostitution in Modern Iran, 1969-2006 in Western European Societies Habib Ayeb, American U in Cairo–Social Nazanin Shahrokni, UC Berkeley, Lory Dance, Lund U–“I Want to Be a Geography of the Tunisian Revolution: Sociology–Everyday Sites of State Graduate But Politicians Treat Me as a From Sidi Bozid to Sid Bousaïd and Formation: Gender Segregated Spaces in Problem!”: Middle Eastern Swedes and Return… Tehran Black Americans in Large Urban High Rabab el-Mahdi, American U in Cairo– Schools Egypt: Where Did the Revolution Come (2899) “Foreigners” in the Barzoo Eliassi, Lund U–The Experience From? Middle East of Subordinated Inclusion in Sweden among Young A-ME Chair: Roger A. Deal, U of South Carolina Aiken (2795) New Approaches in (2877) High-Tech Horizons Central Asian Naqshbandi in the Middle East: The Natalia Chernichenkina, Inst of Asian Studies Anthropology of Science and and African Studies–European Personnel Organized by Daniel Beben Policy in the Late Ottoman Empire Medicine, Part II (Based on the Records of the Ottoman Organized by Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale U Chair/Discussant: Devin A. DeWeese, Public Debt Administration (1879-1885)) Indiana U Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst U– Kylea Laina Liese, Yale U–Being American Missionaries and the State in Seen: Visibility and Community-Based John Dechant, Indiana U–Silsila- Turkey and Iran in the Inter-War Period Midwifery in Afghanistan Consciousness, Sufi-Transmission, and Angel M. Foster, Ibis Reproductive the Non-Existent Rivalry between the Health & U of Ottawa–Emergency (2905) Commerce, Crafts, and Naqshbandiyya and the Shaykhs of Jām Contraception in the Middle East and Commercial Classes in the Late Nick Walmsley, Indiana U–‘Alā’ Al-Dīn North Africa Ottoman Empire Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Mū’min Tsipy Ivry, U of Haifa–Terrified of Al-Abīzī Al-Quhistānī ‘Maktabār’, a Becoming Frightened: The Risks that Chair: Najib B. Hourani, Michigan State U Naqshbandi Shaykh in Timurid Herat Prenatal Diagnostic Technologies Pose Daniel Beben, Indiana U–The for Pregnant Haredi Women Secil Uluisik, U of Arizona–A Naqshbandī Community of Herat in the Zeynep Gurtin-Broadbent, U of Nineteenth Century Ottoman Sarraf as 18th and 19th Centuries Cambridge–God’s Will and Doctors’ an Intermediary: Mıgırdıç Cezayirliyan Kwang Tae Lee, Indiana U–Naqshbandī Orders: Explaining IVF Outcomes in Anne Regourd, CNRS/U Paris- Influence on the Bukharan Court in the Turkey Sorbonne–The Paper Trade of Red Middle of the 19th Century Sarah Trainer, U of Arizona–Weight Sea from the End of the 17th to the and Beauty Technologies in the UAE: Beginning of the 20th Centuries: Roundtable Potential Longterm Consequences for Evidence of a Competition between Italy (2824) The Politics of Archiving Health and Reproduction and the Ottomans in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Omar Cheta, New York U–How (2898) Practices and Piety in Commerce Became Legal: Defining and Palestine “Commerce” in Late Ottoman Egypt Contemporary Iran M. Erdem Kabadayi, Istanbul Bilgi Rosie Bsheer, Columbia U U–Demise of Urban Crafts and Ethno- Zainab Saleh, Columbia U Chair: Anne H. Betteridge, U of Arizona Religious Division of Labor in Ottoman Maya Mikdashi, Columbia U Cities in Mid-Nineteenth Century Samar Saremi, U of Montreal–Nego- (2872) From Protests to tiating the Politics of Sacrality: Reconstruction of the Imam Reza Shrine, Revolution Iran Organized by Rabab el-Mahdi Kathleen Foody, UNC Chapel Hill– Rethinking the Commons: Debates John T. Chalcraft, London School of over Religious Expertise and Political Economics–Protest, Hegemony, Ordinary Citizenship in the Islamic Republic of People, and Border-Crossing: Towards Iran an Unruly, Post-Colonial History from Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei, UC Santa Below Barbara–Temporary Marriage and the Modern Concept of Dating in Iran

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(2912) Constructing Nationalism Michael Driessen, U of Notre Thematic Conversation and Narrating the Nation: Dame–Regime Type, Religion-State Arrangements and Religious Markets in Turkey and North Africa the Muslim World (TC2963) Arab Women’s Crystal Ennis, U of Waterloo–Rentier Contributions to the Early Chair: James A. Reilly, U of Toronto Revised?: Governance Responses to the Modern Arabic Novel Youth Challenge Organized by Elizabeth Saylor Daniel Zisenwine, Tel Aviv U–New Perspectives on Moroccan Nationalism: Session Leader: Elizabeth Saylor, UC Profiles of Nationalist Leaders (2933) Activism in the New Berkeley Erkan Dogan, Gazikent U–’s Media Age Experience with Nation and Nationalism Marilyn Booth, U of Edinburgh Olivia Luce, U of Oxford–Malek Bennabi Chair: Steve Stottlemyre, U.S. Ghenwa Hayek, MIT and Muhammad Hassan Wazzani: On the Department of State Mervat F. Hatem, Howard U Fringes of Maghrebi Nationalism Elizabeth Holt, Bard Col Gulsum Gurbuz, U of Arizona–The Courtney C. Radsch, American U/ Convergence and Divergence of Kurdish Freedom House–Re-Imagining Cleopatra: and Turkish Nationalist Discourse in Gendering Cyberactivism in Egypt the 20th Century Ottoman Empire as Maia Carter Hallward, Kennesaw State Reflected in the Jin Journal U–Exploring the Mechanisms of the BDS Aaron Berman, Hampshire Col– Movement against Israeli Occupation Charles R. Crane, Orientalism and Arab Mervat Youssef, Grinnell Col– Uprising: Redefining Egyptian Political Laurie Brand, U of Southern California– Community and Reclaiming the Public National Narrative and Religion: The Space Case of Algeria Mohamed Zayani, Georgetown U–New Media and Political Change in the Arab (2922) Politics in Iranian and World: The Tunisian Revolution Halim Rane, Griffith U andSumra Persian Literature Salem, Griffith U–Diffusion of Revolution: Lessons Learnt and Taught Kamran Talattof, U of Arizona–Early by Egypt’s Social Movement against the Persian Literary Reviews: Reformist, Mubarak Regime Universalist, and Inconsistent Ingenito Domenico, U of Oxford– Alchemy and Mockery: Intertextual (2947) Neutralizing the Arab Relationships between Sa’di, Hāfez and Israeli Conflict Shāh Ne‘matollah Vali Alexander Jabbari, UC Irvine–Indian Chair: Zaha Bustami, Independent Stylistics in the Literature of Iran’s Scholar Constitutional Revolution Eulalia Han, Griffith U, Australia– (2932) Change and Continuity Australia’s Policy on the Israel- Palestine Peace Process: Influences and in State-Society Relations Implications Can Ozcan, U of Utah–Turkey’s Chair: Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col International Mediation Efforts in Syrian-Israeli and Palestinian- Quinn Mecham, Middlebury Col–Public Israeli Conflicts since 2002: Impact of Feedback in Authoritarian Regimes: Impartiality of the Mediator on the When Do Arab Gulf Monarchs Consult Mediation Outcomes with Their Citizens? Avi Raz, U of Oxford–The Phone Call Andrew Spath, Rutgers U–Leadership Israel Dreaded: King Hussein’s Peace Succession and Government-Activist Initiative, July 1967 Interaction in Jordan and Syria Aaron Y. Zelin, Brandeis U– Hamid Rezai, Columbia U–Authoritarian The Neglected Duty and Sadat’s States and Contentious Societies: Assassination, a 30 Year Retrospective Comparative Analysis of State-Dissidents Interactions in Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria Page 48 u MESA 2011 Preliminary Program 1:30-3:30PM Sunday December 4

(2605) Screening Silent Films in Maureen Jackson, Carleton Col–The A-ME the Middle East Silent Informant: Discordant Narratives Organized by Mario M. Ruiz of Public History in Turkey (2618) Anthropology of the Melis Sulos, CUNY Graduate Center– Bedouin: State of the Art Childhood, Memory, and Turkish Politics Chair/Discussant: Mario M. Ruiz, Organized by Dawn Chatty Hofstra U towards Social and Ethnic Diversity: Tenth Anniversary Celebrations Chair: Dawn Chatty, U of Oxford (1933) of the Turkish Republic and Its Magdy El-Shamma’, U of Alberta–Early Narratives Egyptian Filmmaking; Early Egyptian Haian Dukhan, Independent Scholar– Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle U (UK)– Filmmakers Conservation Theory and Bedouin Erasing Collective Memory from Urban Canan Balan, Istanbul Sehir U–Cinema Livelihood Realities in the Syrian Badia Space: The Case of Early Republican between Resistance and Surrender: Justa Hopma, U of Oxford–Conflict and Ankara Silent Films in Istanbul during and after Cooperation in the Wadi Arabah, Jordan the Great War Donald Cole, American U in Cairo–Small Kaveh Askari, Western Washington Pastoralist Transformations since the (2705) People, Fauna, and U–Odd Reels and Infrastructures: 1960s: Looking Forward Environment in the Ottoman Reconstructing Commercial Film Hilary Gilbert, U of Manchester– Empire Exhibition in Tehran in the Late Silent Development, Conservation and Bedu in Organized by Richard Wittmann Period South Sinai Hossein Khosrowjah, U of Rochester– Discussant: Sam White, Oberlin Col Looking Back: Re-Visiting the 1900 Roundtable Archival Footage Shot by Iranian Suraiya Faroqhi, Istanbul Bilgi U–Fish Cinematographer Akkasbashi used in (2637) Thinking beyond Co- and Fishermen in the Istanbul Region Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s “Once Upon a optation and Resistance in (Mid-16th to Mid-18th Centuries) Time, Cinema” Authoritarian States: Iraq, Aleksandar Sopov, Harvard U–Science, Bulgaria and Stalinist Soviet Expertise, Politics: The Bosnian Mountain Horse and Developments in (2607) Slavery in the Union Islamic World: Comparative Breeding in the Ottoman Balkans Organized by Dina Rizk Khoury Christoph Herzog, Bamberg U–The Perspectives on Enslaved Problem of the Hindiyya Channel in Late Africans in Middle Eastern and Chair: Dina Rizk Khoury, George Ottoman Iraq African Households Washington U Richard Wittmann, Orient-Institut Organized by Mary Ann Fay Istanbul–“For They Cannot Speak...” An Golfo Alexopolous, U of South Florida Early Example of Pathocentric Animal Chair: Kenneth M. Cuno, U of Illinois at Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown U Protection in the Islamic World Urbana-Champaign Martin Dimitrov, Dartmouth Col Discussant: Terry Walz, Independent Scholar (2694) Telling, Retelling, and A-ME Not Telling: Stories of the State (2754) You Say You Want a Rima A. Sabban, Zayed U–The Silent in Turkey History of Domestic Slavery in the UAE: Revolution?: Anthropology, Organized by Maureen Jackson and Finding Alternative Methodologies Media, and Agendas for Radical Kimberly Hart Sarah Ghabrial, McGill U–‘Histoire Change in the Middle East d’une Petite Nègress’: Redeeming the Chair: Kimberly Hart, Buffalo State Col Organized by W. Flagg Miller and ‘Slave-Wives’ of the Mzab Valley, Algeria Discussant: Senem Aslan, Bates Col Walter Tice Armbrust (1880-1900) Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U–Race, Kimberly Hart, Buffalo State Col– Chairs: W. Flagg Miller, UC Davis and Gender and Slavery in the Mamluk Memories of Radical Secularization Walter Tice Armbrust, U of Oxford Households of Eighteenth-Century Egypt Policies in Rural Turkey Discussant: Jessica Winegar, Anthony A. Lee, UCLA–Enslaved African Leila Harris, U of British Columbia– Northwestern U Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Ethnographic and Narrative Approaches Life of Fezzeh Khanum of Shiraz to the Turkish State from the Walter Tice Armbrust, U of Oxford– Borderlands Intisar Al-Shabab: Media Practices of Egypt’s January 25th Revolution continued next page

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W. Flagg Miller, UC Davis–“Words Hissa Al Dhaheri, Zayed U–The Helen M. Rizzo, American U in Could Well Be Whispered”: On the Reinvention and Creation of Culture and Cairo–The Role of Women’s Rights Contribution of Sound Studies to Heritage: Museums and the Tourism Organizations in Promoting Masculine Research on Muslim Ethics and Al-Qa’ida Industry in Abu Dhabi Responsibility: The Anti-Sexual Yasmin Moll, New York U–Seeing God Harassment Campaign in Egypt in Tahrir: Islamic Televangelism and the (2873) Social and Religious Egyptian Revolution Adaptations to Egypt’s (2906) Pacts, Parties, and Miriyam Aouragh, Oxford Internet Policies: The Middle East and Inst–Challenges of Palestinian Internet Revolutionary Moment Activism Organized by Heather N. Keaney the Cold War Chair: Steven C. Judd, Southern Noel Brehony, Menas Associates–The (2777) Tunis Metropolitan Connecticut State U PDRY and South Yemen Today Organized by Laryssa Chomiak and Discussant: Nancy L. Stockdale, U of Alden Young, Princeton U–Sudanese Rodney Collins North Texas Development and the Cold War Nick Danforth, Georgetown–A Neo- Chair: Angel M. Foster, Ibis Mourad Sinot, American U in Cairo– Ottoman NATO Reproductive Health & U of Ottawa Egyptian Christians and the Revolution Harrison Guthorn, U of Maryland Discussant: Rodney Collins, Georgetown U Michael J. Reimer, American U in Col Park–Saying “No” Wasn’t the End: Cairo–Al-Lijan Al-Sha`biyya in Egypt’s Ramifications of the Baghdad Pact for Kyle Liston, Indiana U-Bloomington– Revolution: Adjusting Relations between Jordan Beneath the Cosmopolitan Air: Toward a Police and People Ana Torres-Garcia, Universidad de New Urban Social History of Tunis under Brian Wright, American U in Cairo– Sevilla–A Difficult Search for Common the Protectorate Egypt’s Youth Revolution: The Interests in North Africa: John F. Jessica Gerschultz, Emory U–La Sociètè Democratization of Islamic Authority Kennedy and Hassan II of Morocco Zin: Modern Art and Monopoly in Heather N. Keaney, Westmont Col– (1961-1963) Metropolitan Tunis Muslim Brotherhood Contra Mundum Daniel E. Coslett, U of Washington–(Re) (2907) Ottoman Sultans and Branding a (Post)Colonial Streetscape: Thematic Tunis’ Avenue Conversation Ottoman Governors: Reforming Asma Nouira, U Tunis-Manar–Tunis' the Empire Jasmine Revolution: Space, Protest & (TC2882) Neoliberal Symbols Urbanizations in the Arab Chair: Weston F. Cook Jr., U of North Laryssa Chomiak, U of Maryland–Cult Carolina, Pembroke Crush: An Inquiry into Tunis’ Spatial- World Organized by Ala Al-Hamarneh Political Void Funda Berksoy, Mimar Sinan U of Fine Arts–Political Rationality and Art during Andrew Gardner, U of Puget Sound the Reign of Sultan Abdülaziz: Stanislaw (2851) Constructing and Diane Singerman, American U Deconstructing National Chlebowski’s Portrait of “The Ottoman Identities in the Gulf: Museums, Sultans” (2894) The Politics of Gender in Letitia Wheeler Ufford, Princeton Stadiums, and Demolitions the Middle East Research Forum–Reform versus Organized by Jacqueline Armijo Stability: Lord Ponsonby and Mustafa Chair: Lucy L. Melbourne, Saint Reshid Pasha, 1839-1841 Chair: Jacqueline Armijo, Qatar U Augustine’s Col Naci Yorulmaz, U of Birmingham– Discussant: miriam cooke, Duke U Provocative Suggestions from the Bethany Kibler, Harvard U–Beleaguered ‘Honest Broker’ Bismarck’s Advice to Hatoon Al Fassi, Qatar U/King Saud Masculinity and Syrian Political Culture Sultan Abdülhamid II: “Govern with U–“They Paved Paradise, and Put Up a Vânia Carvalho Pinto, U of Brasilia– Lion’s Claw Hidden in a Silken Glove!” Parking Lot”: The Challenges of Preserving An Ideational Approach to Explaining Hale Yilmaz, Southern Illinois U the Identity of Makkah & Madinah Gender Politics in the United Arab Carbondale–History and Memory: Lina Kassem, Qatar U–Build It, and They Emirates Memoirs of a Late Ottoman Governor Will Come: Stadiums, Museums, and the May Seikaly, Wayne State U–The Promotion of National Identity in the Writing is on the Wall: Call for Gulf Participation and Empowerment in the Thayyiba Ibrahim, Qatar U–Demolitions Gulf in Doha: Strengthening the Nation, Losing the Neighbourhood

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(2918) Lebanon in Literature Zahra Babar, Georgetown U Qatar–Free Milena Methodieva, U of Toronto, Movement of People within the Gulf Mississauga–Political Mobilization and Zaki Haidar, U of Pennsylvania–Beirut’s Cooperation Council Reform among the Muslims in Bulgaria, Undergrounds: Narrating the Post-Civil Melissa Runstrom, New York U–Return 1878-1908 War City Migrants and Egyptian Conceptions of Beyza Mert Gunaydin, Hacettepe Ziad R. AbiChakra, U of Arizona–On Homeland U–Greek Emigration from Russia to Coquets, the French Franc, and High Ottoman Anatolia in the 19th Century: Commissioners: ‘Umar Al-Z’inni’s (2946) “Moderation:” Islamic The Case of Giresun Satirical Poetry in French Mandate Movements Hakem Rustom, London School of Lebanon Economics–The Lausanne Treaty and the Making of the Armenian Minority in Kristin Shamas, U of Oklahoma– Chair: Susanne Olsson, Södertörn U Bridging “Old” and “New” Media: Turkey in 1923 Decolonized Poetics in Lebanese Civil Esen Kirdis, U of Minnesota–Why Do War Novels and Lebanese Blogging Islamist Movements Go Transnational?: Ghenwa Hayek, MIT–Rabi’ Jabir’s Beirut: A Comparative Study of the Moroccan Recovering an Obscured Urban History Justice and Spirituality Movement and Amaya Martin, U of Notre Dame– the Turkish Gulen Movement Official vs. Subjective Lebanon, an Feriha Perekli, Indiana U–Political Internal Perspective from Maronite Inclusion and Islamist Moderation in Fictional Texts during the Period of the Turkey French Mandate (1919-1945) Ahmet Yukleyen, U of Mississippi– Political Opposition and Mysticism in (2927) Shaping the Islamic Morocco: Religious Authorization in the Canon: Qur’an, Hadith, Sira, Jamaat Al-Adl Wal Ihsan Shar’a Sultan Tepe, U of Illinois at Chicago– Participation without Deliberation: Turkey’s Democratic Paradox Chair: Andrea L. Stanton, U of Denver Samuel Helfont, Princeton U– Development of the Popular Islamic Ahmet Temel, UC Santa Barbara–Early Conference Organization in Ba’thist Iraq Debates on Legal Theory: Ahl Al-Madina and Ahl Al-Kufa on Legal Sources Gurdofarid Miskinzoda, Inst of Ismaili (2951) History of Medicine Studies–Literary Models of Story and History in the Sīra Literature Lutz Richter-Bernburg, U of Stijn Aerts, U of Leuven–“The Salat Tuebingen–The Pox but Not the Plague?: Prayers are Five in Number, Together The (Non-)Communicability of Disease in Worth Fifty, for My Word Does Not Pre-Modern Islam Change” (Bukhari, 8:1): A Critical Reza Yeganehshakib, UC Irvine–Plague Appraisal of Methods of Dating Hadith of Shiruyah: A Disaster for Iranshahr in Sharon Silzell, UT Austin– and the 7th Century CE? Mushaf: Caliphal Power and the Written Daniel Smith, NYU–Kidnapping and Qur’an Cancer: Crimes of the Israeli State against Mizrahim? (2939) Human Mobility and Political Change (2952) Minorities in Late Ottoman and Early Republic Jonathan Nehmetallah, U of Windsor– Turkey The Impact of the Diaspora on the Lebanese Economy Chair: Kari Neely, Middle Tennessee Isabel Schäfer, Humboldt U Berlin– State U Migrants’ Reform Potential for North Africa: Mobility, Identity and Transition Edip Golbasi, Simon Fraser U–“Culture in the Mediterranean Area Committees”, or Hars Komitaları: Farida Souiah, Sciences Po Paris–“Voice Acculturation and Assimilation as through Exit”: Illegal Emigration and a Population Politics in the Early Public Protests in Algeria Republican Turkey

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