preliminary program ver. 08-15-17 Jake McGuire Destination DC MESAʼs 51st Annual Meeting Washington DC November 18-21 We return to DC for MESA’s 51st annual meeting at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel where we have met every three years since 1999. The hotel is located in a lovely residential area near the National Zoo, but a nearby stop on the metro red line makes all parts of DC easily accessible. The program of 230+ sessions (see pages 12-51) spread over four days will offer a smorgasbord to wet the appetite of any Middle East studies aficionado. MESA’s affiliate groups meet mostly on Saturday, November 18 (see pages 10-11) and the first program session begins that day at 5:30pm. Panels run all day Sunday and Monday and end at 3pm on Tuesday. The book bazaar will be open Sunday and Monday from 9am to 6pm and on Tuesday from 8am to 12pm (see pages 8-9). MESAʼs ever-popular FilmFest (see the teaser on pages 6-7) begins screenings on Saturday morning and runs through Tuesday until around 2pm. The MESA Presidential Address & Awards will be held Sunday evening from 6pm to 7:30pm, and the MESA Members Meeting on Monday evening from 6pm to 8:00pm. As you will see, it’s business as usual, except of course for a new adminstration that is determined to ban nationals of six Muslim majority countries from traveling to the US, and MESA having joined a lawsuit against the ban that is making its way to the US Supreme Court in October. Those traveling to the MESA meeting from abroad, should have a look at the international travel tips on page 2 and keep themselves abreast of any developments that could impact travel.
Hotel Registration Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel To preregister for the MESA 2017 annual meeting, log into your 2660 Woodley Road NW myMESA account, click “Payments” and follow the prompts. Or, Washington DC 20008 complete the registration form found at https://mesana.org/pdf/2017_ MESApreregistration.pdf and return it along with payment to the MESA 202 328-2000 877 212-5752 202 234-0015 fax Secretariat. Pre-registration is recommended as onsite registration rates are higher. The preregistration deadline is October 24, 2017.
Category Preregistration Onsite
full/associate $150 $200 student member $90 $125 student non-member $120 $150 Other non-members $200 $250
Group Rate Cutoff Date October 20 $207 single/double $217 triple/quad (plus room tax of 14.8%) Book on-line: https://aws.passkey.com/e/48994854 MESA has not partnered with any other housing groups to make reservations on your behalf. Book through the above link or by calling 1-877-212-5752 to avoid scams that could compromise your data and result in a dishonored reservation. Airports/Ground Transportation International Travelers Three airports serve the DC area: Implementation of a limited travel ban Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) Nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen are * http://www.metwashairports.com/reagan/reagan.htm banned from travel to the US unless they have a “bona fide relation- * Located 9 miles from hotel. ship” with a US person or entity. One such relationship is a person * Estimated taxi fare: $21 invited to serve as a lecturer before an American audience, which * Estimated subway fare: $3.35 applies to many MESA members. The hotel is located next to the Woodley Park Metro stop on the Red Even with a valid visa, it is important for international travelers to Line. Reagan National is located on the Ronald Reagan Washington stay abreast of developments. We recommend reading Know Your National Airport stop on the Yellow Line. (transfer station between Rights: What To Do When Encountering Law Enforcement at Yellow and Red lines is at the Gallery Place/Chinatown stop.) Airports and Other Ports of Entry into the U.S. These helpful Dulles International Airport (IAD) tips from the ACLU will serve as a guide to anyone undergoing * http://www.metwashairports.com/dulles/dulles.htm stringent evaluation at the airport. https://www.aclu.org/know- * Located 25 miles from hotel. your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports- * Estimated taxi fare: $70 and-other-ports-entry-us * Metrobus 5A to Rosslyn Metro station; Blue line to Metro Center station; transfer to Red line: $9.95 Visa Waiver Program Changes Changes to the Visa Waiver Program were implemented in Novem- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) ber 2015. Changes include new passport requirements (e-passports), * http://www.bwiairport.com/en the Electronic System of Travel Authorization (ESTA) which all * Located 33 miles from hotel. VWP applicants must use, and restrictions on people who have * Estimated taxi fare: $90 -100 traveled to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen * Metrobus B30 to Greenbelt Metro station; Green line to U since March 1, 2011. If you have traveled to one of those countries Street Metro station; U St & 13th St NW bus to NW Calvert St you cannot travel to the US under the VWP. You will need a visa. & NW Connecticut Ave; walk .04 mile to hotel: $13.10 https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visa-waiver-program. html Ground Transportation MESA has partnered with SuperShuttle to offer attendees a 10% e-passports discount on ground transportation. The roundtrip cost from Reagan As of April 1, 2016, e-passports are required for those traveling un- National is $29.20; from Dulles, $54.20; and from Baltimore- der the VWP. These passports have a machine-readable zone on the Washington, $82.80. Most who use SuperShuttle will take a shared biographic page, and a digital chip containing biometric informa- van from the airport to the hotel although more expensive exclusive tion about the passport owner. https://www.dhs.gov/e-passports vans and ExecuCars are available. Book SuperShuttle online using the group code: FPFU4. See SuperShuttle’s flier on the back page of Electronic System for Travel Authorization this document for further information. The Department of Homeland Security has established the Elec- tronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), an automated system to determine eligibility to travel under the VWP. All persons traveling under the VWP must apply for an ESTA. Approved ESTA applications are good for a period of two years. http://www.cbp. gov/travel/international-visitors/esta
Electronic Device Restrictions The Transportation Security Administration ban on main cabin car- ry on of larger electronic devices (laptops, Kindles, tablets, cameras, etc.) has been lifted at all airports except the King Khalid Airport in Saudi Arabia. If traveling to the US from that airport, these devices must be transported in checked baggage. https://www.dhs.gov/ news/2017/03/21/fact-sheet-aviation-security-enhancements-select- last-point-departure-airports
As always, we suggest getting everything in order for travel to the US in advance of purchasing airline tickets. We encourage you to read the information on these new programs by following the above links.
Destination DC Share your stories of border crossing troubles with MESAʼs Execu- tive Director, Amy Newhall, at [email protected].
Page 2 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Instructions for Panel Chairs Invited Thematic Conversations
Paper Presenters Volunteers are invited to chair non-preor- and Roundtables Share your paper with your co-panelists ganized panels at the MESA 2017 annual Thematic Conversations offer an alternative by October 15, 2017 meeting. For a list of available panels, please place to pose new questions for research, Please upload a copy of your paper to the visit MESA’s website at mesana.org, click on explore new trends and approaches to old myMESA system or send a copy via email the DC logo, and then on “volunteer panel questions, meet like-minded scholars, and to your co-panelists, especially the chair/ chairs.” Email your choices to Mark Lowder engage in open academic exchange in an discussant. No one else will be able to view at [email protected]. Before you volunteer, unstructured space. The conversations have your paper except for your co-panelists. please note that MESA membership and an- a session leader and discussants who set Papers need not be the final copy; drafts are nual meeting pre-registration are required of the agenda for the conversation. They are fine. There is no suggested paper length. all meeting participants. (un)structured to provide for maximum Your topic and your depth of coverage participation from those in attendance, and should determine its length. Plan to present there are no formal presentations. Seating is a truncated version of your paper at your Child Care limited to 30 people. panel. MESA can help parents find a local provider Roundtables promote informed discussion 1. Log into myMESA (http://mesana.org/ and will reimburse half of the cost of child and debate concerning the current state mymesa/login.php). care services up to a maximum of $200 for of scholarship in particular fields, work 2. Click the “Annual Meeting” button. the conference. Upon request, the Secretariat currently in progress or the particular 3. Click the “Paper Abstract” button (shows will be happy to post contact information problems involved in the employment of new up once you click the annual meeting of parents who want to share sitting services approaches, new models, etc. The roundtable button). during the meeting. For further information, format lends itself to open discussion in an 4. Click the “Submit/Update full paper” please contact Rose Veneklasen at rose@ atmosphere where participants provide their button. mesana.org or 520 333-2577 ext. 102. points of view and engage the audience in 5. Under “Upload your attachment” click active discussion. Participants do not prepare the “browse” button. papers and do not lecture to the audience. 6. Locate the file on your computer by Roommates Seating is restricted to 25-30 maximum. navigating to the directory where the file is located. If you are interested in sharing a room at the 7. Once the name of your file appears in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel during the box next to the “browse” button, click the MESA annual meeting, please visit MESA’s “Save and back to abstract” button. website at http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/ 8. Your file has now been uploaded. roommates.html. MESA maintains a “room- 9. Log-out. mates wanted” page on its website where those wanting to share rooms can find each other. Want to upload a newer copy later? Repeat above.
Planning for your presentation No Show Policy Destination DC Former MESA board member, James Gelvin (UCLA), kindly shared with MESA some We understand that things come up at the tips on preparing and delivering conference last minute that prevent a participant from papers that he created for his graduate attending the meeting. Please notify MESA students. We think they are great tips for if you cannot attend the meeting. If you those new to paper presentations and for are scheduled to participate in the annual anyone who struggles with the medium. meeting in any capacity and you don’t Gelvin begins by reminding folks that, "a show up and haven’t informed the MESA conference presentation is a distinct category Secretariat, you will be considered a ‘no- of communication." Have a look at his show’ and will not be eligible to participate tips at: https://mesana.org/pdf/conference- in the next year’s meeting. A no-show is paper-tips.pdf. someone who is not physically present at his/her panel at the conference and hasn’t notified the MESA Secretariat beforehand.
MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 3 MESA Members Meeting
Date: Monday, November 20 Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Marriott Salon 1
The members meeting is an annual meeting of the membership open to all members. Voting is restricted to full and student MESA members. The meeting mainly consists of reports (see sample agenda below). Where members play an important role is in voting for the Nominating Committee and on
any resolutions that are being presented. A Destination DC member in good standing can add names to the list of people who will be invited to run for the Nominating Committee, to augment those proposed by MESA’s Board.
Quorum A minimum of 35 voting-eligible members must be in attendance for votes to be taken. Failing that, the meeting can be held but votes cannot be taken.
Resolutions When important issues are before the membership, resolutions are sometimes presented at the members meeting. Resolutions can originate from MESA’s Board or from the membership. For resolutions to be acted upon at the 2017 Members Meeting, they must be in the hands of the MESA Secretariat Destination DC by November 3, 2017. Instructions for submitting resolutions can be found in MESA’s Bylaws which are posted on MESA’s website at mesana.org.
Sample Agenda
I. Call to Order II. Report of the Executive Director III. In Memoriam and Moment of Silence IV. 2017 Election of Officers Results V. Nominating Committee Vote and Call for Names VI. IJMES Report VII. RoMES Report VIII. Committee on Academic Freedom Report IX. Unfinished Business (if tabled from last meeting) X. New Business XI. Adjournment
Page 4 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program MESA attendees are invited to a special event at the
Smithsonian National Postal Museum Monday, November 20, 2017 10:00 AM to Noon
For more than a century and a half, the world relied on postal services and postage stamps for the exchange of ideas between distant people. More than just enabling global conversations, however, postage stamps could be and often were an integral part of the discussion. The governments that created them carefully encoded philosophical, cultural, historical, and social messages they wished to project at home and abroad.
Join the Smithsonian National Postal Museum’s Chief Curator of Philately for an orientation to opportunities for semiotic and iconographic research in the museum’s collections of the stamps and postal history of the Middle East.
After the program, coffee and doughnuts will be served and an optional docent-led tour of the museum will be offered.
The Smithsonian National Postal Museum is located at 2 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E., next door to Union Station. It is easily accessible to conference attendees arriving in Washington on Amtrak and from the conference hotel (take the Metro Red Line from Woodley Park–Zoo Station toward Glenmont, 6 stops to Union Station).
Admission to the museum and attendance at this event are free, but preregistration is encouraged. If you’d like to join us, please send an e-mail with your name and the number of attendees to Dr. Susan Smith at [email protected].
These are essays (trial designs) prepared in 1942 for stamps The first stamps of Afghanistan that were never issued. The (then known as the Kingdom stamps were intended to honor The first postage stamps of of Kabul) were issued by the the millennium of Cairo’s first Israel, issued May 16, 1948, are government of Amir Sher Ali mosque, Al-Azhar Mosque. inscribed simply “Hebrew Post” Khan between 1871 and 1879. Formerly in the collection of because they were clandestinely They were cancelled by having a Egypt’s King Farouk, the essays printed before the new nation chunk torn out of them to prevent were seized and sold during the had been proclaimed or named. reuse. 1952 revolution that deposed him.
Issued by the Kingdom of Hijaz shortly after the successful 1916 Arab revolt against the Turks, the These 1852 postage stamps first stamps of Saudi Arabia were from the Sindh district were designed by T.E. Lawrence. embossed in red wax with the seal of the East India Company. The stamp is rare today because the fragile wax caused many to fall apart.
MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 5 PREVIEW 2017 FILMFEST a glimpse at what’s in store. It is monsoon season in Tucson and its really raining. This is ideal for watching films and the FilmFest has an enormous number to preview. While many submissions focus on the region’s many conflicts, we have plenty of contributions on everyday issues. Here are few films you can expect on the program.
Haram Using old 16mm filmstock, this timely essay presents the contemporary situation at the Haram Al Sharif in the Old City of Jerusalem. The film reflects on the growing Temple Mount Faithful movement whose goal is to build the Jewish Third Temple on this holy landscape and in turn to assert Jewish sovereignty over this holy Muslim site.
Monir
Disturbing the Peace
Inspired by patterns she found in mosques, the Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian pioneered This film follows former enemy combatants - Israeli soldiers contemporary forms of geometric mirror works. Her from elite units and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served innovative pieces created an artistic language informed years in prison - who have joined together to challenge the by traditional Iranian craft and architecture. This film status quo and say "enough." The film reveals their transfor- takes an intimate look at the artist´s life and her prac- mational journeys from soldiers committed to armed battle to tice, and explores how she has become one of the most nonviolent peace activists, leading to the creation of Combat- innovative and influential artists working in the Middle ants for Peace. East today.
Dalya's Julia Meltzer made two wonderful films in Other Syria. Now she turns her camera to Syrians Country living in the United States. Dalya Zeno and her mother leave Aleppo to join their broth- ers/sons in Los Angeles. The film follows Dalya from age 12 through high school grad- uation. Over the years she balances many identities: Syrian, American and, most chal- lenging, Muslim.
Page 6 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Last Men in Aleppo
A Revolution in Four Seasons
The 2017 Oscar for Documentary Short introduced the world to The White Helmets. Last Men in Aleppo presents the lives of the remaining citizens of Aleppo who are getting ready for a siege. This film lets viewers experience the daily life, death, and struggle in the streets through the eyes of the White Hel- mets. In the wake of its revolution, Tunisia grappled with creating a democratic government. Beginning in 2011, this seminal film tells the stories of two women with opposing political Reel Bad Arabs views fighting for their visions of a democratic future. Jour- nalist Emna Ben Jemaa envisions a country governed by free speech and without corruption. Jawhara Ettis of the Islamist party Ennahda works towards a Tunisia guided by Islamic principles. On a public level, both women must navigate how females are treated in their society, while in their own homes they must make difficult choices to balance their public politi- cal roles with marriage and motherhood.
In Light of the Revolution
Jack Shaheen, noted critic of negative stereotypes of Arabs in American popular culture, died in early July. In recogni- tion of Jack’s life’s work, we are rescreening Reel Bad Arabs a decade after its first presentation. The film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "ter- rorists". Along the way the film offers insights into the origin of these images, their development at key points in US history, and why they still matter today.
In the wake of Egypt’s Arab Spring, female artists were em- boldened and their art became radical. This film introduces eight women - musicians, visual artists, a photographer, a filmmaker - and their art. The women’s impressions and re- flections were processed into artistic expression. Their works are more than just a matter of beauty. They are an active, critical voice in the public, where the military and the Muslim Brotherhood struggled to set the agenda.
MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 7 Book Bazaar Arguably the largest display of Middle East studies titles anywhere, MESA’s annual book bazaar will include old and new friends–university presses, small publishing houses, independent book sellers, and even artisans sharing their talents. All will gather in DC for a three-day festival of books. The book bazaar will be open 9-6 Sunday and Monday (Nov. 19 and 20) and 8-12 on Tuesday (Nov. 21). The latest book bazaar information can be found on MESA’s website at: http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/book-bazaar.html. You don’t have to rent space to exhibit at the MESA meeting. For $40 per title, publications can be placed on view in MESA’s Cooperative Book Display. This is an ideal arrangement for individuals, independent authors, and small presses with few Middle East studies titles. If you would like additional information about exhibiting at MESA 2017, please visit MESA’s website or contact Rose Veneklasen at rose@mesana. org or 520-333-2577 ext. 102.
Floor Plan
Exhibitors AALIM the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco...... 39 Aga Khan University - Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations...... 81 Al Baher Arabic Language Training Center...... 20 American Research Center in Egypt...... 71 The American University in Cairo Press...... 22-23 American University of Beirut...... 50 AMIDEAST...... 26 Arab Academy...... 34 Arab & Persian at Maryland...... 31 Arab Institute for Research & Publishing...... 4 AramcoWorld...... 19
Page 8 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Bloomsbury...... 110 Brill...... 12-13 Center for Contemporary Arab Studies...... 1 Center for International and Regional Studies-Georgetown University in Qatar...... 56 CET Academic Programs...... 37 Duke University Press...... 105 East View Information Services...... 53 Edinburgh University Press...... 62-63 Gale, a Cengage Company...... 51-52 George Mason University...... 47-49 Georgetown University Press...... 32 Gingko Library...... 38 Gorgias Press...... 73 Hurst Publishers...... 106-107 I.B. Tauris...... 16-18 IES Abroad...... 102 Indiana University Press ...... 108-109 Ingram Academic Services...... 57 Institute for Palestine Studies...... 70 Institute of International Education (IIE) - Fulbright Scholar Program...... 82 Interlink Publishing...... 35-36 International House Cairo-ILI...... 54 International Institute of Islamic Thought...... 58-59 Iran Namag...... 64-65 ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books...... 40-41 Jordan Language Academy...... 15 Just World Books...... 85 Lebanese American University...... 28 Lexington Books...... 46 Library of Arabic Literature/NYU Press...... 55 Lynne Rienner Publishers...... 8-9 Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies...... 27 Mazda Publishers...... 64-65 MERIP...... 72 Middle East Institute...... 44-45 Noor Majan Training Institute...... 29 Oxford University Press...... 106-107 Penguin Random House...... 10 Peter Lang Publishing...... 30 Princeton University Press...... 33 Qalam wa Lawh Arabic Language Center in Rabat Morocco...... 14 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group...... 100-101 Rowman & Littlefield...... 46 Springer Nature...... 42 Stanford University Press...... 67-68 Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center...... 83 University of California Press...... 21 University of Chicago Press...... 69 University of Texas Press...... 24-25 Westview Press...... 43 World Friend Shop, Sana'a Yemen...... V4 Yale University Press...... 11
MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 9 Meetings in Conjunction wAATA–American Association of wAIS–Association for Iranian wCASA–Center for Arabic Study Teachers of Arabic Studies Abroad Saturday, 11/18 Saturday, 11/18 Saturday, 11/18 Executive Board Meeting, 9am- Council Meeting, 2-5pm, Park Tower Governing Board Meeting, 5-8pm, 12pm, Park Tower Suite 8210 (L) Suite 8210 (L) New Heights Restaurant (2317 Calvert Panel, 1-3pm, Virginia A (L) General Meeting, 6-7pm, Park Tower St. NW) Business Meeting, 3:30-5pm, Virginia Suite 8216 (L) Sunday, 11/19 A (L) Consortium Luncheon, 12-1:30pm, wAIS–Association for Israel Studies Lebanese Taverna (2641 Connecticut Saturday, 11/18 Ave.) Reception, 8:30-10pm, Wilson C (M) Monday, 11/20 CASA Alumni Reception, 7-9pm, Harding (M) wAIMS–American Institute for wHarvard University, Center for Maghrib Studies Middle Eastern Studies Saturday, 11/18 wAMEA–Association for Middle Sunday, 11/19 Board Meeting, 9am-1pm, Delaware East Anthropology Reception, 8:30-10pm, Virginia A (L) A (L) Saturday, 11/18 Business Meeting, 3-4:30, Virginia C (L) Board Meeting, 3-4pm, Park Tower wHIAA–Historians of Islamic Art Suite 8219 (L) Association wAIIrS–American Institute of Business Meeting, 4-5pm, Park Saturday, 11/18 Iranian Studies Tower Suite 8219 (L) Majlis, 10am-12pm, McKinley (M) Saturday, 11/18 Business Meeting, 12-1pm, McKinley (M) Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Taylor (M) wIJMES–International Journal of wAIYS–American Institute for Middle East Studies Yemeni Studies Saturday, 11/18 Saturday, 11/18 wAMEWS–Association for Middle Editorial Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Board Meeting, 4-5:30pm, Cleveland East Women’s Studies Delaware A (L) 1 (M) Saturday, 11/18 Sunday, 11/19 Board Meeting, 1-2:30pm, Park wIIE–Fulbright General Meeting, 4-5pm, Park Tower Tower Suite 8223 (L) Saturday, 11/18 Suite 8216 (L) Sunday, 11/19 Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Delaware A (L) Members Meeting, 7:30-8:30pm, wAUC/BCARS–American McKinley (M) wMECPD–Middle East Center & University in Cairo and Boston Reception, 8:30-11pm, Coolidge (M) Program Directors Consortium for Arab Region Monday, 11/20 Studies wASPS–Association for the Study Annual Meeting, 9-11am, Virginia C (L) Saturday, 11/18 of Persianate Societies Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Virginia B (L) Saturday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 4-6pm, Park Tower Suite 8218 (L) wMELA–Middle East Librarians wAMECYS–Association of Middle Association East Children’s and Youth Studies Saturday, 11/18 Sunday, 11/19 Vendor Showcase, 8am-2pm, Business Meeting, 8-10am, Park Maryland C (L) Tower Suite 8212 (L) wMEM–Middle East Medievalists wAGAPS–Association for Gulf and Saturday, 11/18 Arabian Peninsula Studies Board Meeting, 11am-1pm, Jackson (M) Saturday, 11/18 Business Meeting, 3-5pm, McKinley (M) Board Meeting, 11am-2pm, Johnson (M) General Business Meeting, 3-5pm, Harding (M) Happy Hour Reception, TBA
Page 10 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program wMEOC–Middle East Outreach wOTSA–Ottoman and Turksih Council Studies Association Sunday, 11/19 Saturday, 11/18 Business Meeting, 10:30am-12:30pm, Park Board Meeting, 1-3pm, Cleveland 1 (M) Tower Suite 8216 (L) Business Meeting & Reception, Board Meeting, 5:30-7pm, Park Tower 8:30-11pm, Delaware B (L) wTAARII–The American Academic Suite 8224 (L) Research Institute in Iraq Monday, 11/20 wPARC–Palestinian American Saturday, 11/18 Outreach Coordinators' Research Center Board Meeting, 10am-12pm, Wilson Workshop, 10:30am-12:30pm, Park Saturday, 11/18 C (M) Tower Suite 8222 (L) Board Meeting, 12-4pm, Park Tower Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, McKinley (M) Suite 8212 (L) Sunday, 11/19 wSAS–Society for Armenian Studies Executive Committee Meeting, 9-10am, Park Tower Suite 8210 (L) Saturday, 11/18 Executive Council Meeting, 9:30- wUniversity of Michigan 11:30am, Park Tower Suite 8218 (L) Saturday, 11/18 wMESA–Middle East Studies Workshop, 12-3pm, Virginia B (L) Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Wilson B (M) Association Annual Meeting, 3-5, Virginia B (L) Sunday, 11/19 wWestern Consortium of ME Centers Meeting of Officers of MESA's Monday, 11/20 Affiliated Organizations, 7-8am, Meeting, 11am-1pm, Park Tower Suite Park Tower Suite 8218 (L) 8223 (L) CAF Annual Meeting, 10am-12pm, Washington 2 (E) wYale Council on Middle East Monday, 11/20 Studies Middle East Center & Program Sunday, 11/19 Directors Meeting, 9-11am, Virginia C (L) Reception, 8:30pm-10pm, Virginia B (L)
Sponsored by Saturday, November 18 MESA’s Committee on 4-5pm Undergraduate Middle East Studies Undergraduate Research Poster Session
Prior to the poster session, the undergraduate students will participate in a workshop meant to hone their research skills by focusing on placing their work in the academic literature, developing research methods, and exposing students to data, archives, and other primary sources in Middle East studies. MESA 2017 attendees are invited to the poster session to engage these young scholars in a discussion of their research.
Facilitators Courtney Dorroll, Wofford Steve Tamari, Southern Illinois U Edwardsville June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart Jeff VanDenBerg, Drury U Presenters Farahnaz Afaq, Wofford Col Ibtihal Makki, U Michgan Roxanna Alizadeh, Metro State U-Denver Mena Muneb, U Stockholm Jordan Ecker, Oberlin Col Padraigin O’Flynn, Kent State U Sally Elfishawy, American U Cairo Paulina Prasad, Boston U Hannah Ellis, UC Berkeley Nalini Ramachandran, Northeastern U Ryan Gilcrest, U Michigan Marcus Robinson, Dickinson Col Benjamin Gladstone, Brown U Lily Sadowsky, Macalester Col Adam Goldstein, American U Florence Sloan, Wofford Col Matthew Kimani, UC Berkeley Audrey Tovar, U Alabama-Huntsville Melissa Levinson, NYU Abu Dhabi
MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 11 Program 5:30-7:30PM Saturday November 18
Roundtable 4766 Precarious Visibility as a 4845 Activism, Contestation and Mode of Governance: The Case of Political Participation in the 4790 Competing Discourses of Alevis in Turkey Middle East and North Africa Masculinity in the Arab World Organizers: Ozkan Nazli and Besim Can Organizer: Nadine Sika Organizers: Nicole Fares and Matthew Zirh Parnell Chair: Eberhard Kienle, PACTE Chair: Matthew Parnell, American U Chair: Ozkan Nazli, Northwestern U Dina Shehata, Ahram Center for Cairo Discussant: Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Col of William and Mary Political and Strategic Studies-The mobilization around Tiran and Sanafir Nicole Fares, U Arkansas Islands: A case of successful multi-faceted Kathryn Kalemkerian, McGill U Gulay Turkmen-Dervisoglu, U mobilization under authoritarian conditions Suneela Mubayi, NYU Goettingen-Democratization without Hanaa Ebeid, Ahram Center for Political Jedidiah Anderson, Wofford Col secularization? The predicament of Alevis in Turkey under the first AKP government and Strategic Studies-From activism (2002-2007) to apathy? The psychology of political Thematic engagement in post-revolutionary Egypt Conversation Ceren Lord, U Oxford-Securatization of sectarianism? The Turkish state and the Nadine Sika, American U Cairo-Youth 5030 Usurpation: The Untold Alevis in the post-2011 era civic and political participation in the MENA: Stories of the Iraq War Ozkan Nazli, Northwestern U-Politics of Does trust matter? 2003-Present anticipation: Possibilities and impossibilities 4902 Reconsidering Israeli- Organizer: Afaf Nash of reforming Alevis’ status in Turkey Besim Can Zirh, Middle East Technical Lebanese Relations U-In between invisibility and hyper- Organizers: Asher Kaufman and Oren Session Leader: Saleem Al-Bahloly, visibility: Alevis in the time of post-coup Barak Johns Hopkins U purge in Turkey Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS U London Chair: Asher Kaufman, U Notre Dame 4814 Looking East: Knowledge, Afaf Nash, U Southern California Discussant: Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg, Nabil Al-Tikriti, U Mary Washington Travel, and Friendship Between Carnegie Mellon U Jeffrey B. Spurr, Independent Scholar the Middle East and Asia in the Nada M. Shabout, U North Texas 19th Century Elena Aoun, U Catholique de Louvain-A Organizer: Mimi Hanaoka bitter encounter: The Shi‘i community under Israeli occupation in South Lebanon 4733 Old Texts, New Methods: Discussant: Julie Stephens, Rutgers U Daniel Sobelman, Harvard U-A decade Innovative Methodologies for after the 2006 war: What next for Israeli- Medieval History Arash Khazeni, Pomona Col-Indo-Persian Lebanese relations? Organizer: Aaron Hagler views of Southeast Asia and the Buddhist Matthieu Cimino, U Oxford-Teaching Kingdom of Mrauk history of an enmity: Israel in Lebanese Discussant: Nancy Khalek, Brown U Mana Kia, Columbia U-Bridging schoolbooks, Lebanon in Israeli schoolbooks: difference: Kinship, friendship and the A comparative perspective (1948-2016) Reyhan Durmaz, Brown U-“This is creation of social bonds Asher Kaufman, U Notre Dame-Sabra what was related in the tash’ith”: Muslim Kevin Schwartz, Library of Congress-A and Shatila: Silencing, denying, and selective historians’ use(s) of Syriac hagiography transregional Persianate library: Tazkirah remembering Nebil Husayn, U Miami-Interpreting production and circulation in the 19th Oren Barak, Hebrew U of Jerusalem- miracles in Muslim sacred texts century Israel, Lebanon, and their relations on film Aaron Hagler, Troy U-The theatrics of Mimi Hanaoka, U Richmond-Japanese Islamic historiography: Getting into the travels in Iran heads of the historians Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Ghent U-Narrating sultanship: The writing of sultanic biography as performance of social status Jo Van Steenbergen, Ghent U-Narrative strategies, state-formation, and world- making in late medieval Egyptian chronicles
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4904 From the Bedroom to the 4925 Violence, Legality, and Law 4966 Political Parties, Attitudes, Street: Projecting Gender and on the Ottoman Periphery and Elections Sexuality in Public Places Organizers: Will Smiley and Joshua Organizer: Nadine Sinno White Chair: Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins U Chair: Lucia Volk, San Francisco State U Chair: Molly Greene, Princeton U Discussant: Amal Amireh, George Jonas Bergan Draege, European U Mason U Joshua White, U Virginia-Corsairs Inst-Electoral polarization in democratic or rebels? North Africa, Istanbul, and transitions: Survey evidence from Egypt and Kim Canuette Grimaldi, UT Austin-The the legality of maritime violence in the Tunisia body under siege: Corruption and the female seventeenth-century Mediterranean Alireza Raisi, Kent State U-Political body in Betool Khedairi’s “Ghayeb” Julia Leikin, Inst of Historical Research- participation in Iran’s parliamentary Jess Newman, Yale U-Talking back: At odds with European conventions: Russian elections: Between two competing narratives Screening and discussing sexuality in laws of maritime warfare in the 1768-1774 Sebnem Gumuscu, Middlebury Morocco Russian-Ottoman war Col-Islamists between democracy and Lucia Volk, San Francisco State Will Smiley, Reed Col-From Geneva and authoritarianism: Comparing Turkey, Egypt U-Reframing Germany’s “no means no” Brussels to the Danube: Prisoners of war and and Tunisia debate: Migrants, sexual transgressions, and the law of war in the late Ottoman Empire Ellen Lust, U Gothenburg and Kristen gender politics in public places Aimee M. Genell, UC Berkeley-The law of Kao, U Gothenburg-Wasta and clientelism: Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech-“Fight war in Ottoman legal thought and practice The intersection of social and political rape” and “gay is OK”: Gender and sexual on the eve of the First World War linkage in the MENA politics in Beirut graffiti Amir H. Mahdavi, Harvard U-Oil and 4926 Circulating Science and electoral behavior in Iran 4920 Connection, Contagion, and Scaling Innovation: Science and Calamity: Social Uses and Effects Technology Studies in the Middle 4969 Music and Politics “min al- of Infrastructural Networks in the East Mashriq ila al-Maghrib” Middle East Organizer: Elizabeth Williams Organizer: Alex Schweig Guilnard Moufarrej, US Naval Chair/Discussant: On Barak, Tel Aviv U Academy-Political resistance and Discussant: Gokce Gunel, U Arizona nationalism: Women singers in Lebanon Daniel Stolz, Northwestern U-Problems defying the drums of war Alex Schweig, U Arizona-Cholera in the of knowledge in the Ottoman public debt: Hicham Chami, Columbia U-A tale of two time of modernization: The spread of the The Latin American connection protectorates: Cultural hegemony in colonial 1893 cholera epidemic along the Ottoman Elizabeth Williams, Brown U-The Morocco and its impact on indigenous Anatolian Railroad technology of fields: The politics of musics Pauline Lewis, UCLA-Entangled: The role agricultural “science” in late Ottoman and Christopher Nickell, NYU-Hearing of private capital in Ottoman submarine French mandate Syria pyrrhic victory in Lebanon’s 2015 protests telegraphy Fredrik Meiton, Northwestern Elizabeth Matsushita, U Illinois Mikiya Koyagi, NYU-Speed, danger, and U-Organic compound: Zionism and science Urbana-Champaign-Echoes of the railway accidents in early Pahlavi Iran Laura Goffman, Georgetown U-Qatar Maghreb: Modernity, empire, and the Fez Esra Bakkalbasioglu, U Washington- biobank: Crafting the ethno-nation through Congress of Moroccan Music Politics of access and denial: Electricity grid the genetic disease landscape Garrett Shuffield, UT Austin-The solar panels and the Naqab Bedouin in Israel Arab diaspora and collaborative hip-hop: Globalized and localized identity formation
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4988 Anxieties, Resistances, and 5005 Criminalizing Resistance: 5028 Language and Identity the Clergy in Egyptian and Iranian Producing Palestinial (In)Security Film Chair: Mohssen Esseesy, George Chair: Simona Sharoni, SUNY Washington U Chair: Mario M. Ruiz, Hofstra U Plattsburgh Anastasia Khawaja, U South Florida-To Kelly Houck, UT Austin-A nightmare on Alyssa Bernstein, Harvard Law Schl/ display Hebrew, or not to display Hebrew?: Valiasr Street: Persian-language diasporic Queen’s U Belfast-The Fatah/Hamas divide A study of representation of power and horror films and the cultural capital of among Palestinian prisoners solidarity through signage in Palestine “Iranian” cinema Matthew Kraig Kelly, Independent Brian Jackson, U Penn-Trade and Babak Tabarraee, UT Austin-Islamic Scholar-Criminal + nationalist = terrorist: subjective identity between Oman and republic’s treatment of confusing signifiers: “Terrorism” in British crimino-national Zanzibar The curious case of “Marmulak” discourse Monica Katiboglu, UC Irvine-Edebiyat-ı Mohannad Ghawanmeh, UCLA-News of Maya Rosenfeld, Hebrew U-50 years of Cedide on modern language: A case against the nation: Mohamed Bayoumi’s newsfilms Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance: linguistic purification in the newly independent Egypt, 1923-1935 Whither the movement of Palestinian Lisa J. White, American U Cairo-Speaking Maziyar Faridi, Northwestern U-“Ode political prisoners? of bodies au Monde”: The emergence of Iranian new Julie Norman, Queen’s U Belfast- Mohamed ElSawi Hassan, Amherst wave cinema and the problematic of national Fighting for peace? Ex-combatants and Col-Re-contextualizing discourse and social identity non-traditional peace-building in protracted action in Egypt after the Arab Spring Heba Arafa, Georgia Tech-Maslaha: conflicts Kristin Hickman, U Chicago-Africa in A film sanctioning apparatus or a covert Alaa Tartir, Graduate Inst Geneva- Morocco, Morocco in Africa: Making space censorship? Securitised peace in Palestine/Israel: for foreign voices in the Darijaphone public Criminalizing resistance, entrenching sphere 5002 Urban Imaginaries: authoritarianism Governing Through Housing 5022 Competition and Social Practice in Early and Medieval Chair: Samy Ayoub, UT Austin Islamic Poetry Caroline Abadeer, Stanford U-Local governance and the authoritarian Egyptian Samer M. Ali, U Michigan-Why does state: Forced evictions in Cairo’s informal Shahrazad succeed?: Disrupting the settlements scapegoat cycle with cold hard cachet Said Ennahid, Al Akhawayn U-“Neo- Avigail Noy, Harvard U-Early uses of the Moorish” art and architecture in colonial- term ittisa’ and the competing approaches to period Casablanca: The case of Muslim- metaphorical language in Arabic grammar specific workers’ housing (1932-1952) and poetics Satoshi Kawamoto, Harvard U/JSPS- Mona Hassan, Duke U-Poetic memories of Houses of infidels: An architectural analysis the prophet’s family: Ibn Hajar al-’Asqalani’s of houses in Istanbul in 1455 panegyrics for the Cairene Abbasid Sultan- Christopher S. Rose, UT Austin-Sex work Caliph al-Musta’in and protest in World War I Egypt Cory Jorgensen, George Washington Daniel Williford, U Michigan- U-In defense of poetic reputation: Jarir and Infrastructures of violence and zones of al-Farazdaq’s self-oriented naqa’id restraint in colonial urban Morocco Th. Emil Homerin, U Rochester-Close encounters of the Sufi kind
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TODAY’S AFFILIATED MEETINGS Thematic Lucia Carminati, U Arizona-The power of Conversation the mundane: Fatima’s story and the history of an Egyptian port-city, 1880s-1890s 7:30-8:30am 5031 Teaching Palestine: Meeting of Officers of MESA's Af- Tania Bhattacharyya, Columbia Pedagogical Praxis and the filiated Associations U-Between nation and empire: Iranian Park Tower Suite 8218 (L) Indivisibility of Justice al bakers, publishers and nomads in early 8-10am Commitment twentieth century Bombay Association of Middle East Chil- Organizers: Michelle Hartman and dren's and Youth Studies Busi- Rabab Abdulhadi 4794 Form and Language in Arabic ness Meeting, Park Tower Suite Poetics 8212 (L) Session Leader: Rabab Abdulhadi, San Organizers: Jeffrey Sacks and Huda J. 9-10am Francisco State U Fakhreddine The American Academic Re- search Institute in Iraq Executive Michelle Hartman, McGill U Chair/Discussant: Mohammad Salama, Committee Meeting Emilio Dabed, Independent Scholar San Francisco State U Park Tower Suite 8210 (L) 10am-12pm 4751 Spaces of Youth Political Jeffrey Sacks, UC Riverside-Signaling MESA's Committee on Academic Engagement Six Years After the with two hands: Intensifications of language Freedom Meeting in Khalid al-Ma‘ali Washington 2 (E) 2011 Uprisings Esraa al-Shammari, U Penn-Paratext to 4-5pm Organizers: Christoph Schwarz and the poetic practice of Salim Barakat American Institute for Yemeni Linda Herrera Huda J. Fakhreddine, U Penn- Studies (AIYS) Business Meeting Muhammad al-Maghut’s verse-less poem Park Tower Suite 8216 (L) Chair/Discussant: Linda Herrera, U Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Georgetown 8:30-10pm Illinois Urbana-Champaign U-Al-Ittijah al-Mu`akis: Al-Ma`arri’s Harvard University CMES Recep- Luzumiyyat and the poetics of constriction tion Ann-Christin Wagner, U Edinburgh- Virginia A (L) Syrian refugee youth and the [anti] politics 4820 “The Political” in Political of survival Islam: Conflict, Consensus, or Mina Ibrahim, Justus-Liebig U, Giessen- Coptic youth: From street politics to church Something Else? Organizer: Necmettin Dogan Thematic politics Conversation Dina El-Sharnouby, BGSMCS, FU Berlin- Egyptian youth between despair and hope: Chair/Discussant: Mucahit Bilici, John 5029 Global Arab America: The case of the Bread and Freedom Party Jay Col CUNY Cosmopolitanism and Its Mayada Madbouly, Inst des sciences Edip Asaf Bekaroglu, Istanbul Discontents Sociales du Politique (ISP)-Mobilizing the U-Context-free and context-dependent Organizers: Suad Joseph, UC Davis and past: Nubian youth political engagement in elements of “the political” Islam: An analysis Pauline Homsi Vinson post-2011 Egypt Christoph Schwarz, U Marburg of Said Halim Pasha, Mawdudi, Shariati, and Ozel Session Leader: Pauline Homsi Vinson, Germany-Young activists in Morocco: Muhammed Huseyin Mercan, Erciyes Diablo Valley Col Trajectories of engagement after 2011 U-Islamism and the world order: The multipolar world order imagination and Madeline Otis Campbell, Worcester 4754 The Allure of the Mundane: political perception of the Milli Gorus State U What to do with the Micro and the Movement Akram Khater, North Carolina State U Daily in Middle East History? Necmettin Dogan, Istanbul Commerce Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara Organizer: Lucia Carminati U-Political implications of ‘civilization’ Louise Cainkar, Marquette U discourse in Islamism: Anti-modernism or Chair: Julia Clancy-Smith, U Arizona anti-westernism? Discussant: Farzin Vejdani, Ryerson U Ahmet Koroglu, Istanbul U-Islamist thinkers’ self-accusations on their own Ali Atabey, U Arizona-Living in an political attitudes: The case of Abu’l ‘Ala ‘Afro-Eurasian’ port-town: Daily life Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb and sociocultural interactions in the Ali Kaya, Erciyes U-Liberal political seventeenth-century Ottoman Galata discourse, Islamism and “the political” Secil Uluisik, U Arizona-A neglected history: Chorbadzhis, sovereignty and the Ottoman provinces, 1790s- 1850s
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4858 Tales of Espionage, Robert P. Parks, Centre d’Études 4973 Law, Legitimacy, and Diplomacy, and War Maghrébines en Algérie-Conflicting Laziness in Late Ottoman Imperial Organizer: Jeffrey G. Karam claims: Property rights in Algeria Culture Michelle Weitzel, New Schl for Social Chair/Discussant: Salim Yaqub, UC Research-French space? Silencing the call to Chair: Roger A. Deal, U of South Santa Barbara prayer in colonial Algeria Carolina Aiken Alexandra Blackman, Stanford Roberto Mazza, U Limerick-A tale of U-Property and power: The transformation Arlen Wiesenthal, U Chicago-Our secrecy and business: The attempted sale of of the ‘waqf’ system in Tunisia heroic Emperors: Heroism, world order, and the Western Wall during WW1 the social history of monarchy in the late Jeffrey G. Karam, Boston U-Revisiting 4952 Arabic-Script Typography: Ottoman Empire, 1900-1918 American intelligence and diplomacy during History, Technology, & Aesthetics Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv U-Yawn: the Lebanon crisis of 1958 Organizers: Roberta L. Dougherty and Idleness and boredom in the late Ottoman Salim Yaqub, UC Santa Barbara-Yes we Andrea L. Stanton Empire can’t: Arab Americans and the Arab-Israeli Benjamin Smuin, UC San Diego-Justice dispute in the 1970s Discussant: Dagmar A. Riedel, CSIC/ and corruption in late Ottoman Aleppo: The James Casey, Princeton U-Mandate agent, Columbia U tenure of Cemil Pasha colonial subject, and Jewish citizen? The Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth many profiles of Jamil Sasson, a francophone Roberta L. Dougherty, Yale U Library- U-Criminalization of laziness: Punishment, Syrian Arab Jew in the French Mandate for Salisbury & Oriental typography in the JAOS: reward, and negotiation in the Ottoman Syria and Lebanon Visualizing scholarly legitimacy through bureaus script Nilay Ozlu, Boğaziçi U-Strategies of 4891 Law and Ideology in the Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver-Selling the display during the late Ottoman era: The Turkish Republic typewriter in the Arab world Imperial Museum and the Imperial Treasury Organizers: James Ryan and Joakim Julia de Mowbray, Gale-Arabic Parslow typography and digitisation 4980 Humanitarianism and the Wayne Osborn, Georgetown U-Unicode Syrian Crisis Discussant: Ceren Belge, Concordia U and Arabic script: Historical legacies and future challenges Chair: Beverly Tsacoyianis, U Memphis Alex Balistreri, Princeton U-Population, movement, and the state in the Turkish- 4957 The Great Fear of 1895: Hélène Rey, Switzerland-Moved by faith: Soviet borderlands, 1920-1960 Armenian Reform, Rumor and Christian organizations and humanitarian Senem Aslan, Bates Col-A merciful state? Violence Across the Ottoman aid in Syria Political amnesties in early republican Empire Michelle Dromgold-Sermen, UNC Turkey Organizers: Owen Miller and Umit Kurt Chapel Hill-Responding to Syrian refugees: James Ryan, U Penn-Ideology on trial: A turning point for civil society in Turkey? Comparing trials of the pan-turanists and Sponsored by Dolunay Ugur, Yale U-Politics leftists at the dawn of Cold War Turkey Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) of transnational humanitarianism: Joakim Parslow, U Oslo-Do torturers International NGOs assisting Syrian refugees dream of electric sheep? Cybernetics, law, Discussant: Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi U in Turkey and technocratic fantasies in Cold War Irene Gibson, U Oxford-Benevolent Turkey Owen Miller, Emerson Col-George Perkins Kuwait: Examining Kuwait’s foreign aid Knapp of Bitlis and massacres of 1895 mechanisms through the case study of its 4927 Occupying Space: Land, Emre Can Daglioglu, Clark U-Reform Syrian crisis response Religion, Power in Colonial North and violence in the Hamidian era: 1895 anti- Africa Armenian riots in Trabzon 4984 Workers Across Borders: Organizer: Alexandra Blackman Umit Kurt, Harvard U-Theaters of Labor, Migration, and Class violence in the Ottoman periphery: Tracing Chair: Chantal Berman, Princeton U the local roots of Hamidian massacres in Zahra Babar, Georgetown U Qatar-The Discussant: James McDougall, Trinity Aintab GCC-South Asia labor recruitment system: Col Oxford Ugur Z. Pece, Bard Col-The year of Comparing Nepal and Pakistan rumor: Crete in the shadow of the Armenian Arnon Degani, UCLA-Comrades, not Brock Cutler, Radford U-Border massacres of 1895 enemies? The Histadrut and its Palestinian- performativity and the limits of sovereignty Arab members, 1948-1967 in 19th century Algeria
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Martin Hvidt, U Southern Denmark- Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser 5011 Women, Islam, and Family Highly-skilled migrants in the Arab Gulf U-Managing nature’s hazards, furthering Law countries: Exploring the nexus between state control: Nature and imperial economic growth and immigration of highly- governance in Ottoman Yemen re-visited, Chair: Kent Davis-Packard, Johns skilled migrants 1872-1914 Hopkins U SAIS Jaafar Alloul, U Leuven/U Amsterdam- Valerie Giesen, Columbia U-Technically Dubai as heterotopia: Liminal notes on the long-term: The political economy of Yüksel Sezgin, Syracuse U-“Non- ‘status migration’ of European Maghrebi- humanitarian technology in Jordan Muslim Mujtahids”: Viability of judicial Muslim minority publics to a ‘cosmopolitan’ Ebru Kayaalp, Istanbul Sehir U-Citizens interventions in Muslim family laws by civil city at risk: Uncertainty, preparedness and the courts in non-Muslim regimes William Christou, U Florida-The impact Istanbul earthquake Hakan Karpuzcu, Princeton U-Reforming of foreign labor on class formation in the Islamic family law and making moral GCC: Examining Bahrain, the UAE and Saudi 5004 Making the Modern: The subjects in the late Ottoman Empire Arabia Politics of Heritage Jean-Michel Landry, McGill U-“You can’t take my children in the name of religion”: 4985 Visual Engagement: Between Chair: Kristi N. Barnwell, U Illinois Sunni and Shi‘i attempts to reform women the Self and the Nation Springfield custody rights in Lebanon Elizabeth Brownson, UW Parkside- Chair: Melanie Janet Sindelar, U Elizabeth Rauh, U Michigan-An artist Women’s strategies for negotiating divorce in Vienna curating Islamic heritage: Ali Jabri and the mandate Palestine Jordan Museum of Popular Traditions Amir Khadem, U Toronto-Reproducing Timur Hammond, Syracuse U-Making 5025 Sectarianism: States, Parties, the real: Reviving the discourse of sacred Islam modern: Heritage and worship in 1950s and Representations defense in “Standing in the Dust” Turkey Paniz Musawi Natanzi, SOAS U Shayna Silverstein, Northwestern Chair: Amy Mills, U South Carolina London-Problematizing the gendering of U-Tracing Syrian folk dance: A critical Afghan visual knowledge production & art- assessment of Ibn Dhurayl’s anthology of Adham Saouli, U St Andrews- producing spaces in Afghanistan, Iran and raqs al-semah and dabke Sectarianism and political order in Iraq and Pakistan in times of on-going insecurities Chantal El Hayek, MIT-Kuwait National Lebanon & the reconstruction of the nation-state in Museum: Architectural historiography and Anna Hager-From polytheists to partners Afghanistan the changing ethos of modernism in the nation Islamist attitudes towards Nahid Siamdoust, NYU-The VHS medium Coptic Egyptians in post-revolutionary Egypt in 1980s revolutionary Iran: A window onto 5009 Politics, Culture, and Satgin Hamrah, Tufts U-Complexities the world outside Everyday Life in Safavid Poetry of the Iran-Iraq war and its long-term Melanie Janet Sindelar, U Vienna- and Prose implications Contemporary art production and the Patrick Harned, UT Austin-Assyrians in ambivalence of nation-building in the United Pouye Khoshkhoosani, U Arizona- Iraq: Competing visions of identity Arab Emirates Safavid Qaṣīdah: A poetic genre for Basileus Zeno, U Massachusetts Marjan Moosavi, U Toronto-Religiosity legitimizing power Amherst-The construction of “sectarian and emotionality in Iranian theatre: (Re) Ferenc P. Csirkes, Sabanci politics” in Syria presentations and interventions U-Confessional politics and vernacular Hyun Jeong Ha, U Notre Dame- Turkish in Safavid Iran: A Qizilbash “Christians are legitimate targets”: 4992 Managing and Manufacturing catechism Understanding sectarian violence in Egypt, Disaster Paul E. Losensky, Indiana U-A master 1970-2014 poet, “in spite of being a Turk”: Shani Chair: John M. VanderLippe, SUNY Takallu and literary culture under Shah Delhi ‘Abbas Yui Kanda, U Tokyo-Poems, crafts, poets Baris Tasyakan, UC San Diego-Disasters and craftsmen: Material culture of Iran and and re-formation of an imperial city: Transoxiana during the Timurid-Safavid Ottoman Bursa in the mid-nineteenth period century Shahla Farghadani, U Michigan-From Ron J. Smith, Bucknell U-Healthcare the garden to the bathhouse: Poetry, eros, under siege: The geopolitics of healthcare and daily life in Isfahan provision in the Gaza Strip
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Professional Development Workshop 4725 Broadening the Narrative: Ibadi Islam in Focus 5051 Proposal Writing and Research Design: Organizers: Valerie J. Hoffman and How to Fund Your Ideas Rodrigo Adem Organized by Suad Joseph Chair: Rodrigo Adem, UNC Chapel Hill Discussant: Paul E. Walker, U Chicago Co-Sponsored by Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Outreach Project Abdulrahman Al-Salimi, Ministry of Arab American Studies Association Endowment & Religious Affairs, Oman- Association for Middle East Women’s Studies On the significance of the Aqwal Qatada for Association for Middle East Anthropology early Islamic legal thought Rodrigo Adem, UNC Chapel Hill-A Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis compendium of theological “firsts”: The significance of early Ibadi Kalam texts for Those embarking on academic careers must master the art of writing proposals Islamic thought for research funding. Whether you are conducting research for a dissertation or Cyrille Aillet, U de Lyon (France)- book or seeking support for a special project-locating and securing funding is Ibadism and the construction of ethnicity in critical. This workshop will provide expert guidelines on how to write compel- medieval North Africa ling proposals from the initial phrasing of the research question, step by step, Adam Gaiser, Florida State U-Medieval to the research outcomes, significance, dissemination, and public outreach. It Ibadi images of murji’ism will also address such issues as identifying and working with funding agencies, Valerie J. Hoffman, U Illinois-Ibāḍī effectively communicating research methodology and goals, preparing budgets, discussions on the divine attributes and planning for the dissemination of results. The workshop will be led by Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, University 4730 Diasporic Devotion: of California at Davis. She has taught proposal writing and lead workshops for Transnational Religion and Middle students, faculty, administrators, and NGO practitioners for over 30 years. Infor- mation about proposal writing may be found on Dr. Joseph's website at http:// East Migrations sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/arab-families-working-group-1/images/files/Compo- Organizer: Akram Khater nentsofaHumanitiesSocialSciencesResearchProposal.pdf. Please sign up for the workshop in advance by sending an email message to Mark Lowder at mark@ Organized under the auspices mesana.org. Before the workshop, please browse Professor Joseph’s website and of Moise Khayarallah Center for read the document, “Components of a social science and humanities research Lebanese Diaspora Studies proposal.” Chair: Akram Khater, North Carolina State U
Roundtable Roundtable Jacob Norris, U Sussex-Objects of 4732 AATT Roundtable: Focus on 4785 Histories of Slavery in devotion: Palestinian migrants and their the Learner Medieval Islamic Societies prayer beads, c. 1850-1910 Organizer: Pelin Basci Organizer: Craig Perry Andrew Arsan, U Cambridge-Reading the Middle East from the margins: A forgotten Sponsored by Sponsored by figure, his faithful life, and his moving books American Association of Teachers Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Akram Khater, North Carolina State of Turkic Languages (AATT) U-“Like a wolf who fell upon sheep”: Hend Gilli-Elewy, Cal Poly Pomona Maronite priests in America Chair: Pelin Basci, Portland State U Elizabeth Urban, West Chester U Matthew S. Gordon, Miami U Melike Yucel-Koç, U Washington Craig Perry, U Cincinnati Erika H. Gilson, Princeton U Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, Austrian S. Ebru Ergul, Stanford U Academy of Sciences
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4735 Hebron in the Modern 4744 The South in the Yemeni Behnam Amini, York U-Understanding Period: Social, Political, and Conflict the implications of transcending Economic Dynamics in Southern Organizer: Charles P. Schmitz nationalism: Democratic confederalism and the question of separatism Palestine Berivan Sarikaya, U Toronto-Resistance, Organizer: Alex Winder Sponsored by American Institute for consciousness and social transformation: Sponsored by Yemeni Studies (AIYS) Kurdish women political prisoners in the Palestinian American Turkish military prison in Diyarbakir Research Center (PARC) Noel Brehony, Menas Associates- Regionalism and nationalism in South 4779 “Arab Arabists”: Public Chair/Discussant: Issam Nassar, Illinois Yemen Intellectuals and the Production of State U Elisabeth Kendall, U Oxford-What does Knowledge About the Arab World Eastern Yemen want and what is it doing Organizers: Ellen L. Fleischmann and Susynne McElrone, New York NY- about it? The voice of al-Mahra John Meloy Rethinking the paradigm of Ottoman land- Thanos Petouris, Independent tenure reforms in Palestine in light of new Scholar-Southern Yemen after the Saudi Chair/Discussant: Ilham Khuri- evidence intervention: Political and social change Makdisi, Northeastern U Alex Winder, Brown U-Family, social, Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U-Salafism and professional networks in Mount Hebron in the south Hussam Raafat Ahmed, McGill before and after 1948 U-Intellectual in action: Taha Hussein (1889- Kimberly Katz, Towson U-The law and 4760 Postcolonial Arab Feminisms: 1973) drawing the mission of the faculty of society: Hebron under Jordanian rule, 1951- Past Meets Present arts and the Arabic Language Academy 1953 Organizer: Catherine Batruni John Meloy, American U Beirut- Belal Shobaki, Hebron U-Hebron in Enlightened patriots: Area studies, the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Settlement Chair: Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth Col nahda, and the Arab world without peace Hilary Falb Kalisman, Furman Yasmin Shafei, American U Beirut- U-Educating the Arab world: Intellectuals, 4743 Examining Sign Language Egyptian feminism and the struggle for theory and practice in 20th century Iraq Education in the Middle East women’s rights, 1923-1979 Ellen L. Fleischmann, U Dayton- Organizer: Sanaa Riaz Catherine Batruni, American U Beirut- Searching for Najla: The life and making of a To vote or not to vote? Lebanese women and female Arab intellectual Chair: Engin Arik, Istanbul Medipol U the politics of suffrage Aaron Berman, Hampshire Col-First Zahra Ali, Rutgers U-Exploring feminism encounters: Abraham Rihbany, Ameen Engin Arik, Istanbul Medipol U-History in contemporary Iraq: Legacies of the past Rihani and America’s role in creating Arab and current status of Turkish sign language and present struggles nationalism Sara Siyavoshi, U New Mexico- Tatiana Rabinovich, U Arizona- Standardization and language attitudes in “Fighting for the country, fighting for 4788 Histories of Place Making in the Iranian deaf community ourselves”: Pro-regime female soldiers and the Middle East Sanaa Riaz, Metropolitan State feminism in today’s Syria Organizers: Secil Binboga and Chris U Denver-Pakistan sign language: Gratien Conceptualization, curriculum and cultural 4772 Emancipatory impact Transformations in Kurdistan: Chair: Nilay Ozok Gundogan, Justin Power, UT Austin-Foreign Autonomy, Radical Democracy, Binghamton U influence on the lexicon of Afghan sign and Gender Liberation Discussant: Resat Kasaba, U Washington language Organizer: Sardar Saadi Erin Trine, Western Oregon U-Emerging Meltem Toksoz, Bogaziçi U/Brown professionalization of Arabic/Jordanian sign Chair: Sardar Saadi, U Toronto U-The second Egypt: Capitalist imaginaries language interpreting Discussant: Fatma Müge Göçek, U of late Ottoman Çukurova Michigan Polina Ivanova, Harvard U-Greek economic migration and the rediscovery of Sardar Saadi, U Toronto-The rise and Hellenic Cilicia repression of the pro-Kurdish municipality Chris Gratien, Harvard U-Dystopian movement in Turkey affect and the colonial archive of French Elif Genc, New Schl for Social Research- Cilicia Gender, state and resistance: The Kurdish Secil Binboga, U Michigan-Tectonics of women’s armed struggle for liberation development: The Cold War politics of spatial expertise in Turkey
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4811 Presenting and Representing 4844 Archives, Excavation, and the 4881 Rethinking Wahhabism in Iran in Museum Collections and Arab Present the Gulf Exhibitions Organizer: Zeina G. Halabi Organizer: Alexandre Caeiro Organizer: Anne H. Betteridge Chair: Samer Frangie, American U Organized under the auspices of Sponsored by Beirut Hamad Bin Khalifa University American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) Zeina G. Halabi, American U Beirut- Chair: Alexandre Caeiro, Hamad Bin Obituary of the word: Excavating the self in Khalifa U Chair: Anne H. Betteridge, U Arizona the demise of print media Discussant: Attiya Ahmad, George Fadi A. Bardawil, UNC Chapel Hill-An Washington U Sheila R. Canby, Metropolitan Museum inventory of traces: Post-colonial criticism of Art-Exhibiting Iranian art in the 21st and self-fashioning Anna Lukjanowicz, Hamad Bin Khalifa century Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, U Oslo-The U-Religion, nationality and race: The Sumru Belger Krody, GWU Museum/ sons of Qahtan in South Lebanon: Amateur experiences of Western converts to Islam in The Textile Museum-Ninety years of history writing at the periphery of the state Qatar presenting Iranian art at The Textile Samer Frangie, American U Beirut- Paulino R. Robles Gil, Hamad Bin Museum Excavating criticism from the archive of the Khalifa U-Shi‘ism in the Gulf: Paradoxes of Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County left coexistence in Qatar Museum of Art-The intersection of past and Bothaina Aldosari, Hamad Bin Khalifa present in Iranian art 4870 Politics of Legitimacy in the U-Qatar U-Religious broadcasting in Qatar: Filiz Cakir Phillip, Aga Khan Museum- Maghreb A study of two local television programs The Iranian exhibition program at the Aga Organizer: Michael J. Willis Khan Museum 2016-2017 4900 The Islamic and the Modern Chair/Discussant: Ellen Lust, U in the Twentieth Century Visual 4812 Tourism, Heritage, and the Gothenburg Middle East Politics of Place in the Middle East Organizers: Saleem Al-Bahloly and Organizer: Daniel E. Coslett Anne Wolf, U Oxford-Embracing Nada M. Shabout revolutionary legitimacy: Former RCD Chair: Daniel E. Coslett, U Washington officials and the Tunisian uprisings Sponsored by Discussant: Ala Al-Hamarneh, U Mainz Vish Sakthivel, U Oxford-Reclaiming Association for Modern and symbolic legitimacy: Feigning distance from Contemporary Art of the Arab Nadya J. Sbaiti, American U Beirut- the Algerian state World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA) Constructing the “Arab tourist”: Leisure and Michael J. Willis, U Oxford-A tale of two mobility through/in/of Lebanon, 1920-1970s elections: The politics of electoral legitimacy Discussants: Nasser O. Rabbat, MIT and Emily Schneider, UC Santa Barbara- in Algeria and Morocco Elizabeth Rauh, U Michigan Building and breaking ties: Political tourism Yasmina Abouzzohour, U Oxford and in Israel/Palestine Ilyas Saliba, WZB Berlin Social Science Sarah-Neel Smith, Maryland Inst Norig Neveu, Ifpo-Islamic tourism Center-Commander of the faithless: College of Art (MICA)-A Mid-Westerner in Jordan: Heritage policies, paths and Challenging the myth of monarchical in the Middle East: Abby Weed Grey’s art itineraries since the 1980s religious legitimacy in Morocco collections of the 1960s Sandrine Gamblin, American U Cairo- Nada M. Shabout, U North Texas- Heritage tourism versus leisure tourism 4880 Tanzimat as Translation Istilham: Jewad Selim’s negotiation of in post-2011 Egypt: Notes about crisis Organizer: Melih Levi continuity in art management, resilience and strategic choices Saleem Al-Bahloly, Johns Hopkins Claire Panetta, Graduate Center CUNY- Chair: Monica Ringer, Amherst Col U-Shakir Hassan Al Said’s theology of line, The re-formed city: Urban rehabilitation, Discussant: A. Holly Shissler, U Chicago or the turn to Islamic philosophy after the conservation, and reclamation in post- Ba’ath Coup of 1963 revolution Cairo Melih Levi, Stanford U-Relational subjectivities: Authorial performance and narrative identification in Ahmet Mithat Etienne Charriere, Koç U-Translation as transcription in the Tanzimat era Burcu Karahan, Stanford U-Heroes in the making: Translated European literature in the Tanzimat era Monica Ringer, Amherst Col-‘Creative innovation’ as a language of legitimation Page 20 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 10:30AM-12:30PM Sunday November 19
5007 Genocide and the Unmixing of Peoples: The Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath
Chair: Sarah Shields, UNC Chapel Hill
Doris Melkonian, UCLA-The aftermath of genocide: Armenian women rebuilding their lives Ella M. Fratantuono, UNC Charlotte- Protecting rights for productive Ottomans: Religious and economic belonging in Muhacir (The Immigrant) Newspaper Walter Lorenz, UCLA-Relocation, resettlement, and conscription: Refugee policies during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 Ilker Ayturk, Bilkent U-Right-wing antisemitism in Turkey, 1945-1980 Ali Bolcakan, U Michigan-From multilingualism to monolingualism: Turkish language reform and non-Turks
5019 Protest, Repression, and Cooptation Before and After the Arab Uprisings
Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John’s U
Sean Yom, Temple U-Repression and learning across borders: Cross-policing between the Arab monarchies Michael Burch, Eckerd Col-War correspondents: Journalist fatalities in Middle Eastern conflicts Jean Lachapelle, U Michigan-Protests and police responses in Egypt between 2004 and 2011, a comprehensive dataset Katty Alhayek, U Massachusetts Amherst-Neo-authoritarian feminism: Theorizing the Syrian government’s co- optation of feminist discourse
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SPECIAL SESSION 4806 The Dynamics of Tolerance in the Contemporary Middle East 5046 Thinking Palestine Intersectionally Organizers: Sean Foley and Jocelyn Organizer: Sherene Seikaly Sage Mitchell
Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, UC Berkeley Chair: John O. Voll, Georgetown U Discussant: Jocelyne Cesari, Georgetown U Judith Butler, UC Berkeley Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Cruz (Emerita) John Fahy, Georgetown U Qatar-The Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley globalisation of values and the mobilisation Noura Erakat, George Mason U of tolerance in the Arabian Gulf Sean Foley, MTSU-“The necessary evil”: June 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian terri- The toleration of tobacco in contemporary tories, including the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. This anniver- Oman sary renders clear what many activists and scholars have long noted: the highly Maria Tedesco, Seattle U-Tolerance repressive Israeli military occupation is by no means temporary, but a defining and religious orthodoxy: Reevaluating a structure of the Israeli and Palestinian political landscape. Within the United contested relation through the lens of social States and Europe, the growth of the BDS movement has energized activist and imaginary scholarly critique of Israeli state violence, both within its border and the occu- Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern pied territories. And yet, despite the global growth of popular solidarity with the U Qatar and Calvert Jones, U Maryland Palestinian condition, the actually existing realities of Palestinians only worsen. College Park-The nature of tolerance in contemporary Qatar We are interested in the new kinds of critical thinking and interventions that Marwa Shalaby, Rice U-Drivers of this anniversary demands. In this panel, we aim to build on the current moment tolerance in transitioning democracies: of popular global solidarity with the Palestinian condition by thinking Palestine Rational, elitist, or religious? intersectionally—drawing on histories and experiences of other anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles across the globe to envision an intersectional politics of hope 4819 Gender-Based Violence, in this time of political darkness. We will ask: how do these global histories in- Solidarity, and Advocacy form our understanding of Palestine as well as inform our strategies for moving Organizers: Sumru Atuk and Elif Ege towards radical change in Palestine/Israel? How might intersectional thinking productively recalibrate prevailing academic and activist paradigms for anti-co- Sponsored by lonial work in Palestine/Israel? And what kinds of academic criticism and activ- Association for Middle East ism does this particular anniversary of the Israeli occupation both demand and Women’s Studies (AMEWS) render newly thinkable? Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U-When legal worlds collide: Law and liberation in the United Arab Emirates Roundtable Thematic Gabriella Nassif, SUNY Buffalo-Women’s Conversation and gender rights activism in Lebanon: 4753 Alternative Archives: New 5045 Sex & Sexualities in the Strategies for solidarity and networking Approaches to Egypt’s Modern Elif Ege, SUNY Buffalo-Activism against History Middle East and North Africa gender-based violence in times of conflict: Organizer: Andrew Simon Organizer: Angel M. Foster Kurdish women’s movement in Turkey Sondra Hale, UCLA-Gender-based violence Andrew Simon, Cornell U Session Leaders: Lisa L. Wynn, and the politics of memory in Sudan’s Aaron Rock-Singer, Cornell U Macquarie U and Angel M. Foster, U conflict zones Jacob Hoigilt, Peace Research Inst Oslo Ottawa Sumru Atuk, Graduate Center CUNY- Struggle to end violence against women in the age of new fascism
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4839 Transnational Andalus Brahim El Guabli, Princeton 4888 Who Protect What! Actors of Organizer: Eric Calderwood U-Literature remembers Moroccan Jews Conservation From Late Ottoman Empire to Republican Turkey Discussant: William Granara, Harvard U 4867 The Future of Middle Eastern Organizers: Firuzan Melike Sumertas Regimes: At the Intersection and Ahmet Sezgin Eric Calderwood, U Illinois Urbana- of Domestic and International Champaign-The feminist al-Andalus Politics Firuzan Melike Sumertas, Boğaziçi Wail S. Hassan, U Illinois Urbana- Organizer: Jeannie Sowers U/MEF U-From Paspates to Sillogos: Champaign-Al-Andalus in Brazil ‘heritagization’ of Byzantine remnants in Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue Chair: Bruce Rutherford, Colgate U situ U-Morocco, Andalusia and the new world: Discussant: Samer Abboud, Arcadia U Ahmet Sezgin, MEF U-Mehmed Ziya: An Rewriting, counternarrative, and resistance advocate of ancient monuments between the in Laila Lalami’s “The Moor’s Account” Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown U-A Ottoman city and the Turkish nation structure-identity nexus: Domestic and Pinar Aykac, UCL-National vs. ‘other’ 4841 Social, Political, and regional drivers of Syria and Turkey’s monuments: The role of the Commission Ideological Activism in the Shi‘i relations before and after 2011 for the Preservation of Antiquities in the World Curtis Ryan, Appalachian State U and institutionalisation of preservation activities Organizers: Zackery Heern and Robert Morten Valbjorn, Aarhus U-Sectarianism in Istanbul J. Riggs in less likely places: The impact of rising Burcu Selcen Coskun, Mimar Sinan regional sectarianism even in Jordan Fine Arts U-Scraping the layers: Tahsin Chair: Juan Cole, U Michigan Bruce Rutherford, Colgate U-The future Öz and his stylistic restorations in Topkapi Discussant: Mirjam Kuenkler, U of Egypt: From despotic to infrastructural Palace Museum, 1942-1949 Göttingen power? Jeannie Sowers, U New Hampshire- 4894 Maintaining Body and Mind Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, U Targeting environmental infrastructures, in Modern Iraq Oxford-The popular front in the Middle international law, and civilians in the new Organizers: Alissa Walter and Andrew East: Revolution and anti-colonialism in Middle Eastern wars Alger Iran’s tri-continental moment Babak Rahimi, UC San Diego-Performing 4877 The Exegetical Tradition of Discussant: Sara Pursley, NYU socialist Islam: Embodiment and political- Avicenna’s “Canon of Medicine” theology of revolutionary action in Ali Organizer: Kamran Karimullah Sara Farhan, York U-Medicine and Shariati midan: Venereal disease, sex-work, and the Zackery Heern, Idaho State U-Shi‘i Discussant: Robert J. Wisnovsky, McGill U establishment of the Royal Medical College of activism and British imperialism in Baghdad Iraq: State formation, resistance, and Nahyan Fancy, DePauw U-‘We have seen Andrew Alger, Graduate Center CUNY- disenfranchisement this many times’: Ibn al-Nafis’s critique of “A Beehive of Activity”: Labor and leisure in David Siddhartha Patel, Brandeis Galenic humoral theory and the anatomy Hashemite Baghdad, 1921-1958 U-Hussein amidst Hasans: The al-Sadr and physiology of digestion Wisam Alshaibi, UCLA-Resisting intifadas of 1999 Emma Gannagé, Georgetown U-The classification: Iraqis’ responses to Robert J. Riggs, U Bridgeport- classification of medicine in some Arabization during the Iran-Iraq War Radicalism, reform and migration: The commentaries on Avicenna’s “Canon” Michael Degerald, U Washington-The transformations of Shaykh Nimr Baqir Peter E. Pormann, U Manchester-Ibn Ba’th and the non-aligned movement: More al-Nimr al-Nafis and Ibn al-Quff on melancholy than a relationship of convenience Hammood Obaid, U Manchester-The Alissa Walter, Georgetown 4846 Representations of Jews in circulation and transmission of Avicenna’s U-Maintaining body and mind in Baghdad Contemporary Arabic Literature “Canon” in early modern India during the Iraqi sanctions: A state-society Organizer: Mostafa Hussein Kamran Karimullah, U Manchester- perspective Metacommentary in the medieval Islamic Discussant: Carol Bardenstein, U medical tradition: Galen, Muḥammad ibn Michigan Zakarīyā al-Rāzī, Fakhr al-Din al-Rāzī
Chair: Emily Gottreich, UC Berkeley
Mostafa Hussein, Independent Scholar-Hassan, Marcus, and Cohen: Redefining literary representations of Jews in contemporary Egypt
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4913 Politics of Religion During Katherine Whiting, The Sijal Inst Molly Courtney, UCLA-Literature and WWI as Lived and Remembered in for Arabic Language and Culture- disenchantment in post-revolutionary the Ottoman Empire Metacognitive awareness and strategy Tunisia Organizer: Benan Grams usage among intermediate and advanced L2 readers of Arabic 5018 Rebels and Insurgents: Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth F. Recruitment, Effectiveness, and Thompson, American U 4959 Implicated Digital Support Transitions in the MENA Region Benan Grams, Georgetown U-The Organizer: Karem Irene Said Chair: Peter Krause, Boston Col Greek Orthodox of Antioch : Loyalty or pragmatism? Gregarious Haddad: Between Discussant: Frances S. Hasso, Duke U/ Samuel Plapinger, U Virginia-Insurgent the Ottoman Empire and the Arab rule JMEWS effectiveness in civil wars: Evidence from Sami Sweis, U Chicago-Hashemite Jordan and Syria discourse on Wahhabi Islam as anti-Saudi Karem Irene Said, Stanford Holger Albrecht, U Alabama-Warriors propaganda during the Arab Revolt U-Transitional differentiation in urban and or believers? Strategic choice in rebel Joel Veldkamp, Graduate Inst of digital crowds: Reassessing the place of Hay recruitment in the Syrian Civil War International and Development Studies- Ettadhamon, Tunis Gunes Murat Tezcur, U Central Florida- Sectarianism, memory and countermemory Yakein Abdelmagid, Duke U-Incongruent Political violence and civilian victimization of the Great War in French mandate Aleppo collaborations: The advertising industry and in Turkey Odile Moreau, Montpellier U-IMAF politics of underground music in Egypt Ekrem Karakoc, Binghamton U-Why Paris 1-Politics of religion during the First S. Gokce Atici, Stanford U-The double ethnic minorities support for a rebel group: World War: Ottoman Islamic rhetoric in work of behavioral advertising in Turkey: The PKK case in Turkey Morocco Imaging and branding
4918 Intersectional Approaches to 4962 The Gulf: Visualizing the Critiquing Orientalism National Narrative Organizer: Anna Cruz Organizer: Shaikhah Almubaraki
Douja Mamelouk, Le Moyne Col-Paul Chair: Shaikhah Almubaraki, UC Berkeley Bowles’ Orientalist urges Discussant: Laura Goffman, Georgetown U Yasmine El Gheur, City College of New York CUNY-The Self-Orientalization of the Shaikhah Almubaraki, UC Berkeley- contemporary Arab artist: “Les Femmes du Theater as nation: Nationalism as promoted Maroc,” a case study by Kuwaiti theatrical productions Anna Cruz, Tufts U-“Disobedient” Ashleen Williams, U Mississippi- archives and the postcolonial poet as Matams, Ashura, and Muharaam: Examining decolonial historian counter national narratives in Bahrain Amina Alkandari, UC Berkeley-The 4942 New Perspectives on Literacy “desert” in Expo Milano: Traditions of in TAFL architecture practices in the making of a Organizer: Corinne Stokes “legitimate” national-Identity
Chair: Mahmoud Al-Batal, American U 4997 Revolution, Refusal and Beirut Rebellion: Past and Present
Navdeep Sokhey, UT Austin-Social media Silvia Marsans-Sakly, Fairfield U-The literacy in the advanced Arabic classroom rebel and the archivist: Tracing Tunisia’s Corinne Stokes, NYU Abu Dhabi-Using forgotten history of protest multimodal materials to develop conceptual Brady Patrick Ryan, UCLA-Revolution fluency in TAFL and the abject in Intisab Aswad Nesrine Basheer, U Sydney-Connectives Emily Sibley, NYU-The politics of no: in Arabic native speaker and non-native Street art and public performativity in the speaker expository and argumentative Egyptian revolution writing Vivienne Matthies-Boon, U Amsterdam-Everyday insecurities: Political trauma and bio-political repression in (post) revolutionary Egypt
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Thematic SPECIAL SESSION Conversation
5048 Academic Freedom Trends and 5033 Evaluating Digital Scholarship the Work of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom - Proposed Guidelines for MESA Organizer: Joshua Stacher Organizer: Amy Singer
Chair: Laurie Brand, U Southern California Session Leader: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U
Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law Elias Muhanna, Brown U Nancy E. Gallagher, UC Santa Barbara E. Natalie Rothman, U Toronto Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey Scarborough Joshua Stacher, Kent State U Chris Gratien, Harvard U Virginia Tilley, Southern Illinois U Virginia Aksan, McMaster U
MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom took on a record number of cases in 2016. 4776 Iraq’s Many Pasts, Iraq’s From the continuing repression in Egypt to the swift decent into authoritarianism Many Presents: Memory, Archive, in Turkey, many countries of the region witnessed significant violations of academic freedom, regardless of educational level or type of institution. Nor was and Representation the US exempt, as the arrival of new administration committed to a discriminatory Organizer: Zainab Saleh approach to, among others, Muslims and Middle Easterners with the issuance of successive travel bans, has made clear. Indeed 2017 has already demonstrated Chair: Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col that current trends are likely to continue, and perhaps worsen. This panel seeks Discussant: Arbella Bet-Shlimon, U to review some of the most important cases from the MENA region and the US of Washington 2017. CAF members will discuss Egypt, Turkey and the Gulf States, while another presentation will highlight the ongoing battles in the academy surrounding the Bridget Guarasci, Franklin & Marshall Col- boundaries for the portrayal of Israel by focusing on the response to the UN Making Iraq’s marshes a world heritage site commissioned ESCWA report concerning Israeli state practices of apartheid. Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col-Superfluous These interventions will seek to place recent developments in broader socio- nostalgics: Longing for an idealized past political and historical context, analyzing them as integral parts of ongoing among Iraqis in London political transitions, not as developments limited to the academy. The panel will Mona Damluji, UC Santa Barbara-Seeing thus provide an important opportunity for MESA members to learn more, not like an oil company: Photographic archives only about CAF's work, but also about the broader context in which our colleagues of modern Iraq who are on the front lines of these battles both in MENA and North America are Orit Bashkin, U Chicago-Iraqi home away struggling to assert their rights to academic freedom. from home – Jewish reflections on Iraq in the diaspora Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington U-Writing Iraq’s history with and against the post-colonial state archive
Roundtable Thematic Conversation 4798 Rethinking Security Studies 4899 Apology Accepted? in the Arab World: In/Security Combatting Islamophobia Without 5036 Is There a Modern Muslim Beyond the State Sacrificing Critical Perspective in Mediterranean? Organizers: Samer Abboud and Waleed the Academy Organizer: Jonathan Glasser Hazbun Organizer: Judd King Session Leader: Jonathan Glasser, Col of Discussant: Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown U Chair: Judd King, American U William and Mary Samer Abboud, Arcadia U-The pre-peace, Sadaf Jaffer, Princeton U Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Col of William and post-conflict reconstruction of Syria Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton U Mary Hamza Meddeb, European U Inst-Zones Judith E. Tucker, Georgetown U of ambiguity. The political economy of Eric Calderwood, U Illinois Urbana- insecurity in Tunisia Champaign Nicole Sunday Grove, U Hawai’i Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Columbia U Manoa-Participatory media and emerging Edmund Burke III, UC Santa Cruz landscapes of security and surveillance Waleed Hazbun, American U Beirut-The politics of in/security in an era of turbulence
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4800 (Trans)nationalisms and the 4828 Restoring History, Recording Will Hanley, Florida State U-Mapping Left in the Greater Maghrib, 1910- History: From Bint al-Shati’ to segregation in turn-of-the-century 1970 Samar Yazbek Alexandria Organizer: Christopher Rominger Organizer: Zimu Niu Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Boğaziçi U-Mapping a moment in the Cypriot Sponsored by Sponsored by agricultural landscape: Historical GIS and American Institute for Association for Middle East the fiscal survey of 1572 Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Osman Özkan, Koç U and Turgay Koçak, Koç U-Mapping historical routes Chair: Joel Gordon, U Arkansas This panel is dedicated to the upon a geo-referenced late Ottoman coastal Discussant: Alma Heckman, UC Santa Cruz memory of Rula Quawas and land transport network
Christopher Rominger, Graduate Chair: Zimu Niu, Beijing Foreign Studies U 4871 Changing Configurations of Center CUNY-“Radical” communists, the Political and the Religious in “moderate” socialists, and the trans- Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State the Early Modern Ottoman and Mediterranean left in post-WWI Tunisia U-A Revolutionary woman exegete: Bint al- Safavid Empires Rebecca Gruskin, Stanford Shāṭi’’s literary approach to Quranic exegesis Organizer: Malissa Taylor U-Nationalism in a transnational place: Hanadi Al-Samman, U Virginia- Communists and nationalists in Tunisia’s Traversing buried cities in Samar Yazbek’s Chair: Linda T. Darling, U Arizona Gafsa Mining Basin (1940s-1960s) “The Crossing” Rami Ginat, Bar Ilan U-Transnationalism miriam cooke, Duke U-Integrating Baki Tezcan, UC Davis-What the and nationalism: The case of Egyptian women into Islamic hagiographies Kadizadelis represent, or how the ejnebis communism (1920-1965) trumped the devshirmes: Politically critical 4832 The Cultural Politics of mass formation in the early modern Ottoman 4813 After the Spring: Contentious Violence Empire Politics and Political Processes Organizers: Hannah Scott Deuchar and Malissa Taylor, U Massachusetts Beyond 2011 Michael Farquhar Amherst-Contending visions of a ‘properly’ Organizers: Christopher Barrie and Islamic land law in the Ottoman Empire Killian Clarke Chair: R. Shareah Taleghani, Queens Hani Khafipour, U Southern California- College CUNY Ideological sources of the Safavid system of Chair/Discussant: Eva Bellin, Brandeis U Discussant: James McDougall, Trinity patronage and clientelism Col Oxford Maryam Moazzen, U Louisville-Imperial Dina Bishara, U Alabama-Contentious Twelver Shi‘ism and Shi‘i ‘Ulama: The case of processes not protest outcomes: Sit-Ins, Shimrit Lee, NYU-Simulating the contact Shaykh al-Islam ‘Ali Naqi Kamarehi (d. 1650) marches, and demonstrations in the Middle zone: Corporate mediations of violence in East and North Africa Israel, Palestine and beyond 4876 Fraught Docs: Questioning Killian Clarke, Princeton Michael Farquhar, King’s Col U London- Categories and Exploring U-Overthrowing revolution: The popular Violence, deviancy and police masculinity in Infrastructural Challenges of roots of counterrevolution in Egypt contemporary Egypt Documentary Filmmaking from Hannah Scott Deuchar, NYU-Terrors of Christopher Barrie, U Oxford-Labor the Arab World translation: Ottoman crime fiction and the in transition: Labor protest and divergent Organizer: Nadia G. Yaqub democratization patterns in Egypt and politics of fear Hannah Elsisi, U Oxford-Un/Making the Tunisia Chair: Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill Ali Kadivar, Brown U-Predicaments of mu’taqal: Towards a cultural economy of political imprisonment in Egypt rapid success: Egyptʼs failed democratization Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill- 2011-13 Pushing the boundaries of documentary in 4851 Historical GIS Applications to post-nationalist Palestinian filmmaking Analyze Economic Geography and Jason Fox, CUNY Hunter Col-Refusing Transport Infrastructure in the representation: Speed, mapping, and the Ottoman Empire Abounaddara Film Collective Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Dale Hudson, NYU Abu Dhabi- Documenting the Arab Gulf by hearing South Discussant: Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford U Asia Alia Yunis, Zayed U-Documentary film M. Erdem Kabadayi, Koç U and Semih education in the Middle East Celik, Koç U-A geo-spatiotemporal analysis of population and economic geography for the districts (sancaks) of Ankara and Bursa, 1845–1927 Page 26 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 3:30-5:30PM Sunday November 19
4878 The Occult in Islamicate 4934 From Hope to Päivi Miettunen, Finnish Inst in the Society: The Cases of Magic and Disappointment: The Failure Middle East-The shifting patterns of Alchemy of Reconciliation Processes in information behavior among Syrian Bedouin refugees Organizer: Pamela Klasova Turkey Navid Fozi, Independent Scholar-Iranian Organizers: Lenore G. Martin and Shi‘a converts to Christianity: Seeking Sponsored by Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir Middle East Medievalists (MEM) asylum while transiting through Turkey Jinan Bastaki, United Arab Emirates Discussant: Kemal Kirisci, Brookings U-The evolving meanings of citizenship for Chair: Antoine Borrut, U Maryland Inst Palestinian refugees Discussant: Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins SAIS-Pride, U South Carolina prejudice, and presidency: A social identity theory approach to opportunities missed in 5003 Innovations in Foreign Pamela Klasova, Georgetown U-Magical Turkey’s Kurdish question Language Curricula, Instruction, and inspired speech in early Islam Lenore G. Martin, Harvard U-A new and Proficiency Assessment Emily Selove, U Exeter-Literature as approach to solving Turkey’s Kurdish issue magic, magic as literature Aykan Erdemir, Foundation for Defense Chair: Mohssen Esseesy, George Salam Rassi, American U Beirut-Syriac of Democracies-The limits of incorporation: Washington U Christian interest in late medieval alchemy: The failure of Turkey’s “Alevi opening” The case of one pseudo-Aristotelian treatise Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir, U Pittsburgh- Hala Yehia Abd El-Wahab, American U on the craft Restoring Armenian heritage in Turkey: A Cairo-Assessment of ASL students through Nicholas Harris, U Penn-Alchemy and failed story of hope technology for enhanced learning economy Nader Morkus, Indiana U Bloomington- 4944 Noticing the Details: Pragmatic transfer and language 4882 Gender Struggles and Approaches to Close Reading of proficiency: American learners of Arabic Dris Soulaimani, NYU Abu Dhabi-Stance Interpretive Frameworks: How Far the Persian Tazkira Tradition displays in Arabic academic writing Can They Travel? Organizer: Jane Mikkelson Organizer: Mariz Tadros Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, U Washington- Learners’ and instructors’ preferences Chair: Alexander Jabbari, U Oklahoma for integrated and isolated form-focused Chair: Sondra Hale, UCLA Discussant: Mana Kia, Columbia U instruction in Arabic Adil Elkhiyari, Qalam wa Lawh Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS U London-Rethinking Theodore Beers, U Chicago-How to write Center for Arabic Studies-Collaborative gender-based violence in Iraq a tazkirah: The example of the “Khayr al- platforms for creating and managing Arabic Hoda Elsadda, Cairo U-Traveling critique: bayan” curriculums Gender and rights discourses Shaahin Pishbin, U Chicago-A tale of Mariz Tadros, Inst of Development Studies- two tazkirahs: Reading Nasrabadi and Challenging unintended reifications of women’s Sarkhvush as literary history 5016 Transitional Justice in agency in the Middle East: The case of Egypt Jane Mikkelson, U Chicago-A style by Tunisia and Libya any other name? Arguments about lyric 4910 Arab, Jewish, and Arab style and geographical belonging in four Chair: Yahia Zoubir, KEDGE Business Jewish Critiques of Zionism early modern Persian tazkeres Schl, France Organizer: Geoffrey Levin Samuel Hodgkin, U Chicago-Tazkirah to chrestomathy: Persian classics between Alyssa Miller, Duke U-Against Chair/Discussant: Liora R. Halperin, U national literary historiographies forgiveness: Manich Musamah and the Colorado Boulder struggle for Tunisian transitional justice 5001 Triangulated Subjects: Inez Freiin von Weitershausen, London Schl of Economics and Political Chelsie May, U Chicago-“A girl so quiet Displacement, Transit, and Science-Diplomatic recognition as de will do everything we tell her”: The authority Activism of emotions for Zionism in 1940s Iraq facto intervention - Insights from the 2011 Shirly Bahar, American Jewish uprisings in Libya Chair: Rasmieyh Abdelnabi, George Samar Ben Romdhane, Moncton U Historical Society-“He made me into a Mason U spy”: Arab Jewish identity and the making of Canada-Transitional justice in Tunisia Palestine into Israel and the mediated publicness: Towards a Desiree Shayer-McLeod, London Schl memorial consensus? Geoffrey Levin, NYU-Crisis, victims, of Economics and Political Science- prophets: Evolving concepts in Rabbi Elmer Why don’t they fight? The emergence and Berger’s anti-Zionist network persistence of nonviolent activism in the Salim Yaqub, UC Santa Barbara-Yes we Western Sahara can’t: Arab Americans and the Arab-Israeli dispute in the 1970s MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 27 6-7:30PM Sunday November 19
2017 Presidential Address
Beth Baron City College and Graduate Center, CUNY
2017 MESA Awards Ceremony Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2017
Albert Hourani Book Award MESA Mentoring Award Recognizing outstanding publishing in Middle East studies. Recognizing exceptional contributions retired faculty have made to the education and training of others.
Roger Owen Book Award Jere L. Bacharach Service Award Recognizing the very best in economics, economic his- Recognizing extraordinary service to MESA, other tory, or the political economy of MENA. societies, and the field of Middle East studies.
Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards Academic Freedom Award Recognizing exceptional achievement in research for and Given in recognition of sustained contributions in support of writing of dissertations in Middle East studies. academic freedom in the MENA and/or North America.
MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize Undergraduate Education Award Recognizing achievements in research for and Recognizing outstanding scholarship on teaching or other writing of a graduate-level paper. material contributions to undergraduate education.
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TODAY’S AFFILIATED MEETINGS Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Cal State 4859 Rethinking Pastoralists Stanislaus-Oil sovereignty, American and Pastoral Nomadism in the 9-11am foreign policy, and the 1968 coups in Iraq Ottoman Empire Middle East Center & Program Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U-A useful Organizers: Zozan Pehlivan and Samuel Directors Meeting enemy? Libya, the United States, and the Dolbee Virginia C (L) making of insecurity 11am-1pm Chair/Discussant: Sabri Ates, Southern Western Consortium of Middle 4761 Islam and the State in Egypt: Methodist U East Centers Meeting An Institution-Centered Approach Park Tower Suite 8223 (L) Organizer: Aaron Rock-Singer Zozan Pehlivan, McGill U-Relief for whom? Peasants, crop failure, and politics in Discussant: Gregory Starrett, UNC Ottoman Kurdistan, 1840-1896 Charlotte , Georgetown Roundtable Elcin Arabaci U-Dispossession at the crossroads of the 4748 Conducting Archival Nathan J. Brown, George Washington nomads, local Bursan villagers and Balkan- Research in MENA: Current U-State Islam and regime Islam in the Arab Caucasian immigrants Challenges, Creative Solutions world Samuel Dolbee, NYU-Provincializing the Hilary Kalmbach, U Sussex-The root of Organizer: Kate Dannies, Georgetown U Shammar Egyptian ‘culture wars’: Religion, state, and Matthew Ghazarian, Columbia U-To the ‘future of Egyptian culture’ in interwar Chair: Nova Robinson, Seattle U fly or starve: Nomads, arms, and aid in the Egypt Ottoman famines of 1878-81 Aaron Rock-Singer, Cornell U-Censoring Anny Gaul, Georgetown U Nora Barakat, NYU Abu Dhabi-Pastoral the Kishkophone: Religion and state power in Benan Grams, Georgetown U land use and Ottoman law in late Ottoman Mubarak’s Egypt Matthew MacLean, NYU Syria Mary Elston, Harvard U-Al-Majalis Belle Cheves, Harvard U Al-‘Ilmiyya: Revival and critique in Egypt’s 4898 Sovereignty Reformed: al-Azhar Thematic Ottoman Authority Between the Conversation International and the Islamic in 4815 Gendering Migration & the Tanzimat Era 5032 Unraveling the Middle East Transnationalizing Gender in the Organizers: Madeleine Elfenbein and III: The End...? Middle East & North Africa Selim Karlitekin Organizer: Wilson Chacko Jacob Organizers: Lily Pearl Balloffet and Elizabeth C. Saylor Selim Karlitekin, Columbia U-Tanzimat Session Leader: Wilson Chacko Jacob, and the sworn sovereign: Oath, subjection Concordia U, Montreal Organized under the auspices and authority after the ‘Greek Interregnum’ of Moise Khayarallah Center for (1821-1839) Fahad A. Bishara, U Virginia Lebanese Diaspora Studies Madeleine Elfenbein, U Chicago-Illiberal Andrew Arsan, U Cambridge Ottomanism: Ali Suavi’s critique of liberal Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley Discussant: Stacy Fahrenthold, CSU internationalism Will Hanley, Florida State U Fresno Barbara Henning, Bamberg U-Knowing Mohammed A. Bamyeh, U Pittsburgh one’s place in Ottoman Trabzon: Entangled Elizabeth C. Saylor, Middlebury Col- conceptualizations of social boundaries 4742 The Prize?: Energy, Security, Visualizing Arab women’s writings in the during the Tanzimat period mahjar: A digital humanities project and Expertise Aria Nakissa, Washington U St. Lily Pearl Balloffet, Western Carolina Organizer: Osamah Khalil Louis-Ijtihad and civilizational progress: U-The enterprising spirit: Writing women Imperialism, capitalism, and the roots of into South American mahjar history Chair/Discussant: Osamah Khalil, 19th century Muslim religious reform Annalise DeVries, Samford U-Migrants Syracuse U of privilege: Masculinity, foreign capital, and shaping national identity in Egypt Roger Stern, U Tulsa/UPenn-The experts’ Oguz Alyanak, Washington U St. Louis- apocalypse: Peak oil and phantasm on the Turkish men and their going-out habits: A road to the Middle East moral critique of masculinity and everyday Karine Walther, Georgetown U Qatar- life on the Franco-German borderland The Arabian mission and British political agents in the Arabian Gulf, 1920-1945
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4903 Colonial Regimes and Anti- 4912 Liminal Urbanity: Cities Joni Schwartz, CUNY LaGuardia-Civic Colonial Revolts Between Maghrib Between Ruin and Prosperity participation, engagement and organized and Mashriq, 1920-1950 Organizer: Shima Houshyar action: A case study of a Tunisian activist Organizer: John Boonstra Asya R. El-Meehy, United Nations-Local Chair: Shima Houshyar, Graduate governance and social accountability in Iraq: Chair: Graham Auman Pitts, North Center CUNY Reflections from the education and social Carolina State U sectors Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, U Shima Houshyar, Graduate Center Mays Abou Hegab, CARE International Arizona CUNY-The afterlives of Abadan: Spatial and in Egypt-Enhancing citizen-state temporal disjunctures in an Iranian oil city relationships by using social accountability John Boonstra, U Wisconsin Madison- Zehra Husain, Graduate Center CUNY- tools? CARE Egypt’s experience with Egypt’s Myths of protection and pacification: Syria Destabilizing regional frontiers: Mobility, Social Fund for Development and greater Lebanon under early French cosmopolitanism and belonging in Karachi Sylvia Bergh, Erasmus U Rotterdam- mandate colonialism China Sajadian, Graduate Center CUNY- Enhancing social accountability through Reem Bailony, Agnes Scott Col-A tale of Between nostalgia and futures-otherwise: community score cards? Evidence from the two rebellions: The Rif and Syrian revolts in Performances of memory in Lebanon’s education sector in Morocco 1925 railway ruins Guillaume Wadia, Harvard U-Climate Hazal Corak, Graduate Center 4930 Between the National and the and the political economy of the CUNY-Shifting mobility regimes and International: Arab Communists French Protectorate of Morocco during labor migration in post-communist and from the Mashreq to the Maghreb “pacification,” 1927-1934 Europeanizing Kardzhali in the 1940s and 1950s Shoko Watanabe, Inst of Developing Organizer: Sana Tannoury Karam Economies-Nationalists, transnational 4919 Contemporary Political Art of mobilization, and popular movements: the Middle East Chair: Zachary Lockman, NYU Tunisian volunteers for Palestine in 1948 Organizer: Anne Marie Butler Discussant: Orit Bashkin, U Chicago
4907 Contested Cultures of Nama Khalil, U Michigan-Iconographic Kamilia Rahmouni, U Arizona-Between Revolution: Cultural Production in battle: Visual responses to Rab’a Massacre French assimilationism and nationalist the Islamic Republic of Iran Elisabeth Friedman, Illinois State communism: The impact of WWII on Organizers: Annie Tracy Samuel and U-Strategies of counter-occupation in Tunisian Jews’ ideological orientations, 1939- Eric Lob contemporary Palestinian art 1945 Sascha Crasnow, UC San Diego- Alma Heckman, UC Santa Cruz-From Annie Tracy Samuel, U Tennessee Capitalism and conservatism: The fluidity to exclusivity: Interwar Moroccan Chattanooga-Promoting the culture of transformation of Ramallah in Inass Yassin’s Jewish leftists and their Legacies sacred defense Cinema Waleed project Sana Tannoury Karam, Northeastern Eric Lob, Florida International U-The Anne Marie Butler, SUNY Buffalo- U-This war is our war: Communism, cultural production of Jihadi culture and Chouftouhonna: A Tunisian feminist democracy, and internationalist nationalism management art festival making space for the queer in Lebanon, 1939-1945 Ladan Zarabadi, U Cincinnati-A moral imaginary city or spatial reproduction of Islamic Duygu Ula, U Michigan-Towards a local 4946 Articulations of Struggle patriarchy (A critical analysis of the image queer aesthetics: Nilbar Güres’s photography in Transnational Palestinian and spatial relations of Iranian cities) and female homoerotic intimacy Resistance Circuits Jordan Amirkhani, U Tennessee Organizer: Jennifer Mogannam Chattanooga-Museum as microcosm: The 4922 Local Governance and Social historical and cultural legacy of The Tehran Accountability Reforms in the Suraya Khan, Rice U-Fulfilling a “special Museum of Art Wake of the Arab Spring role”: Arab activism in the US for Palestine Organizer: Sylvia Bergh and the Third World in the 1960s Omar Zahzah, UCLA-“I won’t follow Chair: Dawn Chatty, U Oxford you”: Movements of resistance in Ghassan Discussant: Mariz Tadros, Inst of Kanafani’s “Letter to Gaza” and Edward Development Studies Said’s “Tribute to Abu Omar” Jennifer Mogannam, UC San Diego- Ward Vloeberghs, Erasmus U Col Violence as methodology in Palestinian Rotterdam-The Beirut Madinati campaign: armed resistance and revolution The politics of social accountability in Lebanon
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4953 Politics, History and State Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern 5021 Analyzing the Islamic State: Formation in the Modern Middle U-Whither civil resistance? Strategies and Counter-Strategies East Humanitarianism’s impact on Syrian Organizer: Allison Hartnett mobilization Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley Erin Snider, Texas A&M U-Economies in State U Chair: Matteo Legrenzi, Ca’ Foscari U of transition: International donor assistance Venice after the Arab uprisings Didier Leroy, Royal Military Academy Discussants: Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col of Belgium-Countering Daesh extremism, and Matteo Legrenzi, Ca’ Foscari U of 4990 Knowledge Exchange and perspectives from Belgium Venice Production Across Borders Muhammad Masud, U Massachusetts Boston-Poetry as a weapon: The poetics of Allison Hartnett, U Oxford-Colonial Chair: Ahmet Serdar Akturk, Georgia jihad in ISIS’s textbooks legacies, landed elites and regime survival in Southern U Akin Unver, Kadir Has U-Who joins the Middle East ISIS? Explaining recruitment through Daniel Neep, Georgetown U-A historical Mehtap Ozdemir, U Massachusetts discrimination-exclusion model sociology of crisis in the Middle East: From Amherst-Ottoman literary modernity in Marwan M. Kraidy, U Penn-Fun against uneven development to civil war in Syria triangulation: Imperial mimesis and textual fear: The Islamic State spectacle and Djene Rhys Bajalan, Missouri State transactions in Ahmed Midhat’s “Hasan counter-spectacle U-Unionists and liberals: An alternative Mellah” paradigm Engin Kiliç, Sabanci U-Khent (The Fool): An Armenian utopian vision as the mirror 4954 From the Body to the Body- image of Turkish utopias Politic: The Politics of Medical Kaitlin Staudt, U Oxford-Slow futurism: Knowledge and Practice Peyami Safa and the avant garde James H. Meyer, Montana State U-Nâzim Organizers: Ahmed Ragab and Joelle Hikmet in the Soviet archives Abi-Rached Jeannette E. Okur, UT Austin-State perpetrators of violence and political victims Chair/Discussant: Sherine Hamdy, UC in Müge Iplikçi’s Kafdagi and Mehmed Irvine Uzun’s “Ask Gibi Aydinlik Ölüm Gibi Ahmed Ragab, Harvard U-Making Karanlik” local medicine: Colonial discourses and the making of modern medicine in the Middle East 5006 Histories of Infrastructure Elise Burton, U Cambridge-The missing and Techno-Politics enzyme: Medical genetics and historical identity in Iran and Israel Chair: Michael Christopher Low, Iowa Joelle Abi-Rached, Harvard U-The birth State U of psychiatry in the Middle East: Power, knowledge, and the banality of good and evil Beyza Lorenz, UCLA-Urban modernity Soha Bayoumi, Harvard U-Doctors as and steamboats in Ottoman Istanbul witnesses: Forensic medicine and medical Isacar Bolanos, Ohio State U-The testimonies in post-revolutionary Egypt Hazine-i Hassa Nezareti (Privy Purse Ministry) and the expansion of irrigation in 4977 The Impact of External Hamidian Iraq, 1877-1901 Mohamed Gamal-Eldin, NJIT/Rutgers Actors on Political Economy Newark-Cesspools, mosquitos and fever: An environmental history of malaria prevention Chair: William A. Lawrence, George in Ismailia and Port Sa‘id, 1869-1910 Washington U Zachary D. Cuyler, NYU-The poetics of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline: Competing Ali Hamdan, UCLA-Proxies, laboratories, visibilities of an infrastructural assemblage, and the production of space in Syria’s 1950-1975 liberated territories Gabriel Young, NYU-Development work: Cornwall Kerry-Ann, U Guelph- Labor at the Aswan High Dam, 1960-1971 Transitional constitutionalism: The role of international NGOs in Tunisia’ constitution- making process
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Issues in the Profession Workshop 4734 International Law in the Contemporary Middle East: 5050 Confronting Sexual Harassment in the Academy Impeding or Facilitating Violence? Organized by Fatma Müge Göçek (Part 1) Organizer: Lisa Hajjar Chair: Beth Baron, Graduate Center CUNY Discussant: Fatma Müge Göçek, U Michigan Neve Gordon, SOAS/BGU-The US drone wars and the apparatus of distinction: Marty Langelan, Langelan & Associates Examining the implications of the post- humanist turn This follow-up workshop to one held at MESA 2016 in Boston, will feature an Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law-Assessing address by “The Godmother of Direct Intervention,” Marty Langelan, author of liability for war crimes in Yemen Back off: How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment and Harassers. Noura Erakat, George Mason U-Dangerous expansions: The principle of Sexual harassment of students and faculty is not a new problem in the academy. proportionality in irregular combat This problem is especially acute for graduate students and junior faculty across Lisa Hajjar, UCSB-International fields of study. Research suggests that 30% of graduate students surveyed stated humanitarian law versus the that they experienced some form of sexual harassment in the course of their study. counterterrorism war paradigm: Analyzing This finding has remained consistent over the past three decades. A new wave the contradictions and consequences of the of student activism in the United States has forced colleges and universities to US “War on Terror” review their existing policies on sexual harassment and sexual assault. However, the issue of faculty harassers has been largely ignored. 4784 Fatimid Studies Organizer: Paul E. Walker
Organized under the auspices of Roundtable 4729 The Preservation of Historic Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) Architecture in North African 4921 Material Politics in the Cities Middle East Chair: Farhad Daftary, Inst of Ismaili Organizer: Susan Slyomovics Organizer: Fredrik Meiton Studies Sponsored by Fredrik Meiton, Northwestern U American Institute for Mohamad Ballan, U Chicago- Joanne Nucho, Pomona Col Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Sectarianism and violence in Zirid Ifriqiyah: A Elizabeth Williams, Brown U reinterpretation of the massacres of 407/1016 Shainool Jiwa, Inst of Ismaili Studies- Chair: Diana Wylie, Boston U Thematic Between the founder of Cairo and the Caliph Conversation of Cairo: An appraisal of the reign of the Diana Wylie, Boston U-The preservation Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Aziz Billah of historic architecture in North African 5042 Funding Opportunities in the Paul E. Walker, U Chicago-Titles of honor cities: An overview MENA Region: Joint Degrees and status in the Fatimid realm Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Inst of Organizer: Maggie Nassif Technology-An unlikely duo in Algiers: The Mosque al-Djadid and the Statue of Duc 4803 The Conflicted Legacies of Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, d’Orléans the Iran Iraq War Fulbright Commission Susan Slyomovics, UCLA-Dismantling a Organizer: Kaveh Ehsani world: French military monuments in Algeria Ehab M. Abouaish, Cairo U Daniel E. Coslett, U Washington- Chair: Robert Vitalis, U Penn Jacobus Boers, Georgia State U Globalization and preservation in Tunisia: Discussant: Ervand Abrahamian, CUNY Amr I.A. Elatraby, Ain Shams U On the colonial past in the neocolonial Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward, Ocean present Achim Rohde, Philipps-U Marburg County Col Marc Andre, LARHRA Lyon-Repatriating (Germany)-Military masculinity and its militant Algerian bodies: The heritage of El- discontents in Ba’thist Iraq Alia Cemetery in Algiers Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U-The antinomies of the war in post-revolutionary Iran Norma Claire Moruzzi, U Illinois Chicago-Sisters and mothers: Iranian women’s war memoirs
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4808 Gender and Mobility in Arab SPECIAL SESSION Women’s Writings Organizers: Rima Sadek and Nancy 5053 Turkey Since the July 2016 Coup Attempt Linthicum Organizers: Mostafa Minawi, Cornell U and Hale Yılmaz, Southern Illinois U
Chair: Johanna Sellman, Ohio State U Sponsored by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) Nancy Linthicum, U Michigan-Egyptian “girls’ writing” and the politics of translation Chair: Yiğit Akın, Tulane U Manar Shabouk, Syracuse U-In remembrance of ruins or reinventing home Sinan Birdal, U Southern California Rima Sadek, U South Carolina- Howard Eissenstat, St. Lawrence U Identity, gender and American politics in Azat Gündoğan, Florida State U transnational Arab women’s literature Aslı Z. Iğsız, NYU Wael Salam, U Jordan-The exile as a Meltem Türköz, Iþık U, Istanbul transgenerational fate in Susan Muaddi Darraj’s “The Inheritance of Exile” Turkey entered a new era of confusion and uncertainty in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in July 2016. Government response to the coup attempt has led to 4810 Refugees From Syria: State unprecedented levels of investigations, arrests and imprisonments throughout Policies, Humanitarian Aid, and the country. Empowered by the state of emergency powers, the Justice and the Lived Experience of Exile Development Party government has used executive orders to clamp down not Organizer: Wendy Pearlman only on individuals and organizations suspected of having supported the coup, but also any individual or association critical of the JDP government. Over a one-year Chair/Discussant: Rochelle Anne Davis, period since the coup attempt, more than one hundred thousand civil servants Georgetown U (including teachers, university professors, doctors, judges and others) have been fired by executive orders and more than forty thousand people have been detained Lamis Abdelaaty, Syracuse U-The on accusations of affiliation with the Gülen movement. Along with individual strategic use of labels for Syrians in Turkey liberties, freedom of the press has declined rapidly. More than 184 media outlets Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern (such as newspapers, television and radio stations) have been closed permanently U-Socio-economic class and the lived and more than 170 journalists (including journalists from the main opposition experience of exile among Syrian refugees in newspaper Cumhuriyet) have been detained on allegations of links to the Gülen Germany and Turkey movement. More than 375 civil society organizations, including women’s rights Daniel Masterson, Yale U-How groups and humanitarian organizations have been shut down permanently. humanitarian aid shapes the development of These developments have profound implications for Turkey, for the region, and refugee self-governance for human rights and liberties throughout the world. The papers on this panel Nell Gabiam, Iowa State U-“Istanbul has address the current crisis in Turkey from a range of academic perspectives. many refugees from Syria but no refugee camps”: Creating home at a community center Side Emre, Texas A & M U-Negotiated Ruken Isik, U Maryland Baltimore County- piety: Interactions of the Khalwati-Gulshanis Reclaiming Kurdish dress as political struggle 4817 Seeking Order: Sufi and Egyptian Sufis with political authority Thomas McGee, Independent Responses to Ottoman Power in in 16th century Egypt Researcher-Rebuilding the city or a museum left in ruins? Mapping heritage in post- 16th-17th Century Egypt and Syria displacement reconstruction plans for Kobani Organizer: Kristof D’hulster 4834 Narratives of Struggle: Maintaining and Preserving Amir Sharifi, CSU Long Beach-The city of Kermanshan, the site of cultural rebellion Chair/Discussant: John Curry, U Kurdish Cultural Heritage and rebirth Nevada, Las Vegas Organizer: Christian Sinclair Aynur De Rouen, Binghamton U-The struggle within: Documenting the Kurdish Timothy J. Fitzgerald, James Madison Sponsored by experience in Binghamton U-Sovereignty and self-control: Shaykh Kurdish Studies Association (KSA) `Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) advice for the Ottoman ruler Chair: Christian Sinclair, Moravian Col Kristof D’hulster, Ghent U-Sword and pen at the service of the Ottoman Sultan: A Anna Grace Tribble, Emory U-Is there semiotic reading of two Ottoman texts of the a “Kurdish” dish?: Exploring the effects of hand of Muhyi-i Gulsheni (d. 1604-1605) aid and internal displacement on culturally cohesive concepts of food in Iraqi Kurdistan
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4847 Fashioning Philosopher- 4865 Formulaic Language and Danielle Haque, Minnesota State U Kings in the Post-Mongol Persian Pragmatic Competence Mankato-Muslim and Arab Americans and Cosmopolis, 13th-19th Centuries (I) Organizer: Zeinab A. Taha the surveillance state Organizer: Matthew Melvin-Koushki Erik Love, Dickinson Col-Islamophobic Organized under the auspices of racism and civil rights advocacy in the US, Chair/Discussant: Kathryn Babayan, U American University in Cairo 2001-2017 Michigan Chair: Zeinab A. Taha, American U Cairo 4916 New Boundaries of State/ Jonathan Brack, Hebrew U Jerusalem- Resistance Constellations in the Philosopher-Kings in the age of Chinggisid Hala Elshamy, American U Cairo-An Middle East auspicious kingship: The Sahibqiran Öljeitü analysis of the pragmatic functions of idiomatic Organizer: Laryssa Chomiak and his mujaddid vizier expressions in the Egyptian novel “Taxi” Noah Gardiner, U South Carolina-Al-Malik Shaimaa N. Abdel Aziz, American U Organized under the auspices of al-Zahir Barquq as millennial sovereign? Cairo-Teachers’ perceptions on formulaic Middle East Law and Governance Matthew Melvin-Koushki, U South language (MELG) Carolina-Performing (occult) philosopher- Zeinab A. Taha, American U Cairo- Kingship in Timurid Transoxania: Ulugh Beg Formulaic language in media Arabic: The Chair: Jillian M. Schwedler, Hunter Col as sultan-scientist case of pseudo-titles CUNY Marian Elizabeth Smith, U Michigan- Refiguring Timur the philosopher-king in the 4883 The Arab Revolt in Palestine Elizabeth R. Nugent, Princeton U-The Safavid cultural imagination” accretions and (1936-39): Internal and External psychology of repression and polarization in interpolations to Hatifi’s Timur-nama Factors authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Egypt Organizer: Richard Cahill and Tunisia 4853 Regulating Print in the Late Lana Salman, UC Berkeley-Expectation as Ottoman Empire: A New Look into Chair: Charles Anderson, Western a mode of statecraft: ‘municipal encounters’ the Question of Censorship Washington U in post-revolution Tunisia Organizers: Till Grallert and Kathryn Discussant: Salim Tamari, Inst of Laryssa Chomiak, American Inst for Schwartz Jerusalem Studies Maghrib Studies-Visions of dissent in Algeria, Jordan and Tunisia Chair/Discussant: Benjamin Carr Michael Provence, UC San Diego- Chantal Berman, Princeton U-Protest Fortna, U Arizona Damascus, Jerusalem and Baghdad in the policing in Tunisia and Morocco autumn 1936 Till Grallert, Orient-Institut Beirut- Laila Parsons, McGill U-The Palestine 4949 Networks of Circulation and Authoritarianism versus liberty of speech? Revolt and the Peel Commission intertwined the Exchange of Ideas in Modern The theory and practices of press censorship Richard Cahill, Berea Col-Of walls and Afghanistan in Bilad al-Sham (1875–1914) fortresses: Sir Charles Tegart, the Arab revolt Organizers: Marjan Wardaki and Annie Greene, U Chicago-“The and beyond Mejgan Massoumi suspension of print is the hand of tyranny”: Freedom of the press in Ottoman Iraq? 4893 What’s Really New About the Sponsored by Kathryn Schwartz, Harvard U-Print Trump Era for Arab and Muslim American Institute of regulations in Ottoman Egypt, 1820–1881 Americans? Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) Ekin Enacar, U Chicago-Laughing at Organizer: Louise Cainkar times of censorship: Anti-imperialism and Chair: Robert Crews, Stanford U constitutionalism in Ottoman cartoons (1908-1911) Sponsored by Arab American Studies Association Benjamin Hopkins, George Washington (AASA) U-Ruling the rimlands: Frontier governmentality along the edges of empire Chair: Louise Cainkar, Marquette U Faiz Ahmed, Brown U-Islam, monarchy, and the nation-state: Religious authority, Louise Cainkar, Marquette U-Counting royal legitimacy, and the Amani-Kemalist Arab Americans in light of the threat dialectic narrative and white privilege Marjan Wardaki, UCLA-An Afghan Kristine Ajrouch, Eastern Michigan student in Nazi Germany: The life of Ahmad U-Immigration, Middle Eastern Americans, Fofolzai, 1933-1960 and census categories Mejgan Massoumi, Stanford U-Kabul cosmopolitan? Radio broadcasting and Afghan connectivity to the world, 1960-1979
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4950 Between Continuity & 4991 Poetics of the Political 5008 Neoliberalism in the City Change: Conceptualizing Slavery, Tyranny, Gender, and Tolerance in Chair: Anastasia Khawaja, U South Chair: Bilal Humeidan, U Virginia Islamic Thought & the Middle East Florida Organizer: Bader Mousa Al-Saif Hannes Baumann, U Liverpool- Deborah L. Wheeler, US Naval Dependent neoliberalism: How Gulf capital is Chair/Discussant: John O. Voll, Academy-Digital resistance and state (in) reshaping Amman and Rabat Georgetown U stability in Arab monarchies: Lessons from Robert Mogielnicki, U Oxford-The Kuwait and Jordan political utility of free zones in the Sultanate Omar Anchassi, U Exeter-‘…So their Nasser Athamneh, Yarmouk U-Al-Quds/ of Oman lineages are not cut off’: The reframing Jerusalem between the east and the west: Basak Durgun, George Mason and reformulation of the legal discourse on Images of the holy city in Arabic and English U-Rethinking heritage conservation and slavery and slave-concubinage from the mid- poetry urban greening in Istanbul through food nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries Ilkim Buke Okyar, Independent sovereignty Mohammed Bushra, Georgetown Scholar-Eastern eyes, western gaze: The U-Conceptual change through politics of Alexandretta in Tarik Mümtaz’s transformation of linguistic norms: Tyranny cartoons, 1933-1934 in the Arab Muslim context Waed Athamneh, Connecticut Col- M. Amine Tais, Georgetown Taking the state to court: Qabbani’s poetics U-Constructing gender egalitarianism in of the political Islamic feminist discourses: The works of Katrien Vanpee, U Minnesota-Poetic Mernissi and Lamrabet bay’a: Allegiance performance and Bader Mousa Al-Saif, Georgetown patronage dynamics in the televised poetry U-Diversity & tolerance in the Arabian competition Sha’ir al-Milyun Peninsula? Conceptual (re)production and its Merve Tabur, Penn State U-On self, implication on religious reform specters and seeds: Poetics of potentiality and female diasporic subjectivities in Lisa Suhair Majaj’s “Geographies of Light”
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Roundtable 4726 Provincializing Political Geraldine Chatelard, IFPO-Negotiating Theory: Islamic Intellectuals and mobility across regimes of sovereignty: 4861 Navigating Jewish Campus the Production of Knowledge in Displaced Iraqis between Jordan and Iraq and Community Debates on Israel/ Rochelle Anne Davis, Georgetown Turkey Palestine in the Age of Trump U-Models of refugee administration and Organizer: Alev Cinar Organizer: Matthew H. Ellis hierarchies of aid Michael Vicente Perez, U Washington- Discussant: Murad Idris, U Virginia Chair: Matthew H. Ellis, Sarah Lawrence Everyday life and the politics of survival among ex-Gaza refugees Col Alev Cinar, Bilkent U-Toward an Lewis Turner, SOAS U London-Economics anthropology of political theory: The under encampment: Re-Thinking Syrian Liora R. Halperin, U Colorado Boulder daily life of the notion of civilization from refugee camps in Jordan Benjamin Schreier, Penn State U production to politics in Turkey Joel Beinin, Stanford U Gizem Zencirci, Providence Col-Islamic Shira Robinson, George Washington U political theory and the Ottoman heritage of 4746 A New Social Contract for Joshua Schreier, Vassar Col civil society in Turkey the MENA Countries: Concepts, Sarah Anne Minkin, Just Vision Talha Koseoglu, Bilkent U-Practices of Challenges and Opportunities Islamic political knowledge production in Organizers: Markus Loewe and Steven Thematic Heydemann Conversation Turkey: Between local and universal Dunya Deniz Cakir, National U 4965 Middle East Feminist and Singapore-An Islamist genealogy of Steven Heydemann, Smith Col- Rethinking social contracts in the MENA Queer Studies: State of the Field knowledge and comparative political theory in Turkey region Organizer: Frances S. Hasso Alp Eren Topal, Koç U-Impact of the West Markus Loewe, German Development vs Islamic tradition: Continuity in Turkish Inst (DIE)-The social contract as a tool of Session Leader: Frances S. Hasso, Duke political thought analysis for MENA countries U/JMEWS Georgeta Vidican Auktor, U Erlangen- Nürnberg-Towards a new social contract: Banu Gokariksel, UNC Chapel Hill 5052 International Law in the Reforming energy subsidies in Morocco Rachel Greenspan, Duke U Contemporary Middle East: Mara Revkin, Yale U/Yale Law School- miriam cooke, Duke U Impeding or Facilitating Violence? Revisiting the rebel social contract: Evidence Amy Kallander, Syracuse U (Part 2) from Iraq and Syria Organizer: Lisa Hajjar 4722 Trump’s Foreign Policies 4747 Negotiating Gender and toward the Kurds Nicola Perugini, U Edinburgh-“Hospitals Morality in the Ottoman First shields”: International humanitarian law Organizer: Vera Eccarius-Kelly World War and the targeting of medical facilities in Organizer: Kate Dannies Organized under the auspices of Middle Eastern conflicts Ahmed Foundation Omar Dewachi, American U Beirut- Chair: Malek Abisaab, McGill U for Kurdish Studies IraqiBacter: Pathologies of intervention and Discussant: Elizabeth F. Thompson, the decades of US-led wars in Iraq American U Chair: Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col Jonathan Whittall, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders- Secil Yilmaz, Cornell U-“Licensed Treating ‘terrorists’: Impartial humanitarianism Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col-The microbes”: Public morality, gender, and in the time of counter-terrorism Kurdish lobby and the Trump administration prostitution in Ottoman Istanbul during and Ghassan Abu Sittah, American U Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Tech- after World War I Beirut-The political capital of war wounds President Trump’s policy towards Kurdish Graham Auman Pitts, NC State refugees U-‘Karmal Allah send me ten lira’: Women, David Pollock, Washington Inst for Near 4745 (Im)Mobilizing Agency in the migration, and World War I in Mount East Policy-Triangulating US interests: Context of Short, Medium, and Lebanon Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Russian, Iranians and Long-term Displacement in Jordan Kate Dannies, Georgetown U-Waging more Organizer: Rana B. Khoury reform: Law and gender in the Ottoman First David Romano, Missouri State World War U-Kurdistan’s Trump card? Chair: Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern U Stefan Hock, Georgetown U-“Ever in Michael Rubin, American Enterprise Discussant: Sarah Tobin, Brown U need of safeguarding”: Gender and violence Inst-Turkey, NATO, and the Kurds: in Ottoman Anatolia, 1914-1918 Balancing military interests from Bush 41 Rawan Arar, UC San Diego-Shouldering through Trump the refugee burden: Jordanian sovereignty and the global refugee crisis Page 36 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 1-3PM Monday November 20
4795 Protest in the Contemporary 4842 Rethinking the Maghreb: 4887 Fashioning Philosopher- Middle East and North Africa: Liminality and Transversal Kings in the Post-Mongol Persian Strategic Interaction Perspectives Connections Cosmopolis, 13th-19th Centuries (II) Organizer: John Chalcraft Organizer: Brahim El Guabli Organizer: Jonathan Brack, Hebrew U Jerusalem Chair: Charles Kurzman, UNC Chapel Hill Sponsored by Discussant: James M. Jasper, Graduate American Association Chair/Discussant: A. Azfar Moin, UT Center CUNY of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) Austin
Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi, U Lausanne- Chair: Brahim El Guabli, Princeton U A. Tunç Sen, Leiden U-Displaying Beyond structure and contingency: Towards scientific wealth and erudition: A portrait an interactionist and sequential approach to Shaden M. Tageldin, U Minnesota- of Bayezid II (r. 1481-1512) as a philosopher- the 2011 uprisings Sounding the Maghreb in the “nahda”: king Jann Boeddeling, London Schl of Nineteenth-Century Arabic/European Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz, CORPI, CSIC- Economics and Political Science- language politics at the interstices Using knowledge in the making of Sultan Ambiguity, spontaneity, and creative agency Hisham Aidi, Columbia U-Tangier to Süleyman’s legacy in the 2010/11 Tunisian revolution Havana: Race, jazz, political nostalgia Hunter Bandy, Duke U-Universalizing John Chalcraft, London Schl of Deborah A. Kapchan, NYU- Shi‘i kingship in the 17th century Deccan Economics and Political Science- Transversality and translation in Moroccan James Pickett, U Pittsburgh-First among Transnational activism and Veolia: A contemporary poetry equals? The precarious relationship between dynamic interaction analysis Brian T. Edwards, Northwestern Islamic scholars and philosopher-kings in Jillian M. Schwedler, Hunter Col CUNY- U-Beyond binaries: The Maghreb after post- 18th-19th century Bukhara Protest temporalities and the meaning of colonialism contention 4948 Arab Leftist Intellectuals 4854 Materialities of Translation as (Re)Active Agents in Times of 4824 Politics, Space, and and Circulation: Rethinking Late Change Subjectivity in the Arabian Ottoman Intellectual History Organizer: Jeremy Randall Peninsula Organizers: Karim Malak and Casey Organizers: Natalie Koch and Waleed Primel Discussant: Jens-Peter Hanssen, U Hazbun, American U Beirut Toronto Sponsored by Chair: Natalie Koch, Syracuse U American Research Center in Egypt Samar Nour, U Toronto-Socialism and Discussant: Neha Vora, Lafayette Col (ARCE) the evolution of socialist thought in colonial Egypt Natalie Koch, Syracuse U-Sporting cities: Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Holt, Bard Mohamad J Hodeib, Graduate Center Geopolitical encounters and elite sport Col CUNY-Leftist militant music and the initiatives in the Arabian Peninsula revolutionary war of position in Lebanon Namie Tsujigami, U Tokyo-Saudi women Karim Malak, Columbia U-Translation’s Jeremy Randall, Graduate Center CUNY- as emerging new social actors: Consumption discontents: Intellectual histories of Khayr Revolutionary sarcasm in the works of Ziad and business opportunities in sex-segregated al-Din al-Tunisi rexamined Rahbani during the Lebanese Civil War Riyadh Nada Khalifa, Columbia U-Sense, power, Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey- struggle: Nietzsche’s “Philosophy of Life” in 4970 Civil Society and Social Charity as politics ‘writ small’ in GCC states interwar Egypt Activism Shaundel Sanchez, Syracuse U-Doing the Jeffrey Culang, Graduate Center CUNY- state’s work: Self-Governing practices by US The blood libel on trial: Translations of Chair: Emre Erol, Sabanci U citizens living in the United Arab Emirates public order in colonial Egypt Gwenn Okruhlik, National U Singapore- Casey Primel, Harvard U-Translating Golrokh Niazi, U Ottawa-The UGTT Tourism and political crisis: Reframing despotism in the east: al-Kawâkibî’s science in Tunisia: Reclaiming the role of labor people, place and plot in Saudi Arabia of politics and journalism in the late movements and trade unions as agents of Ottoman Empire political change Jessica Mecellem, Sewanee: The U of the South-Gendered repertoires of contention: Enforced disappearances and the political work of symbolic identities
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Berrin Koyuncu, Hacettepe U and Ola Galal, Graduate Center CUNY- 5014 Medieval Islamic Thought at Aylin Özman, TED U, Ankara-The state Working along El-Had: Producing (il)legality the Intersection of Intellectual and and rights-based organizations’ relations and contesting citizenship at Tunisia’s Social History in Turkey since 2011: Uninstitutionalized margins in post-revolutionary times processes, conflictual encounters and Pascal Abidor, McGill U-Contrebandes Chair: Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben- personalized politics d’Oignons: Cross-border smuggling and the Gurion U of the Negev Janine A. Clark, U Guelph-LGBTQ limits of the Lebanese mandate activism in Lebanon Lutz Gerhard Richter-Bernburg, U , Lund U-Every day Josepha Wessels 4999 Nahda, Translation, and the Tuebingen-The Abbasid ‘house of wisdom’ peace: The ignored role of civil society in the Transnational revisited Syrian uprising Jeremy Farrell, Emory U-Isnad-based , George Mason Agnieszka Paczynska Chair: Ida Nitter, U Penn analysis of the emergence of Sufism: A U-Who strikes? Understanding workers network approach protests in Sisi’s Egypt Peter Hill, U Oxford-Protestantism, Mushegh Asatryan, U Calgary-The enlightenment, and unbelief in nineteenth- Nusayris in medieval Syria: What can a 13th 4978 Water Politics century Syria c. theological debate tell us about them? Terri L. DeYoung, U Washington-Khalil Muhammad U. Faruque, UC Berkeley- Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Mutran’s poem “Boycott” and the power of Between mind and reality: Mulla Sadra on Brigham Young U censorship the problem of natural universals Maryam Fatima, U Massachusetts Jeanene Mitchell, U Washington- Amherst-Reverberations of the nahda At the confluence: Transnational water across Asia: Reading Zaidan in Urdu management and local participation in Maria L. Swanson, United States Naval Turkey’s Kura River Basin Academy-Russian influences on the poetry Henny Ziai, Columbia U-The “indebted of Mikhail Naimy and Naseeb ‘Adeedah peasant”: Human capital, development and Rama Alhabian, Cornell U-Thou shalt not neoliberalism in Sudan’s Gezira Scheme translate me: Equivalence and contiguity in Stephen P. Gasteyer, Michigan State the work of (Aḥmad) Fāris al-Shidyāq U-Landscape change and the implications of intermittent water supply in the West Bank: 5000 Textual Configurations of An environmental justice case study Gender and the Body Dina Najjar, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas- Chair: Sara Scalenghe, Loyola U Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: Maryland “The more things change, the more they stay the same?” Suha Kudsieh, Col of Staten Island - Carly Krakow, U Cambridge-The politics CUNY-The poems of Isma’il al-Khashshab (d. of access under occupation: International 1815) on Rémy Raige: Homoerotics or madih? law and violations of the human right to Rawad Wehbe, UT Austin-Fever dreams: water in Gaza and the West Bank The narrative structuring of fever in Arabic literature 4982 Border and Boundaries Ezgi Saritas, Ankara U-Dandies, tomboys and femme-fatales: Destabilizing Chair: Meriam N. Belli, U Iowa heteronormativity in late Ottoman Empire Elizabeth M. Perego, Shepherd U-“My Aziza Khazzoom, Indiana U name’s Muhammad but everyone calls me Bloomington-Gender traditionalism Aisha”: Emasculating jokes from Algeria’s among western identified Israeli Jewish “Dark Decade,” 1991-2002 women from Poland and Iraq Indira Falk Gesink, Baldwin Wallace Itamar Radai, Tel Aviv U-al-Madaniyyat: U-“He makes them male and female”: An alternative civil perception for the Intersexuality in tafsir and hadith literature Palestinian Arab minority in Israel? Katharine Halls, American U Cairo- Rupture and ambivalence in narratives of Jewish departure from Egypt
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SPECIAL SESSION M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U-Local elites and governance in late Ottoman Bulgaria 5047 BDS: A Critical Evaluation Organizer: Robert O. Freeman 4805 De-Centering the Study of Shi‘ism Sponsored by Organizer: Mirjam Kuenkler Association for Israel Studies Chair: Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv U Chair: Robert O. Freedman, Johns Hopkins U Discussant: Said Arjomand, Association for the Study of Persianate Societies Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U (ASPS) Cary Nelson, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Selwyn Troen, Brandeis U Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, U Cambridge- Benny Morris, Ben Gurion U of the Negev The salience of alternative Shi‘i religious authority in Pakistan The Boycott, Divest and Sanction [BDS] movement has acquired increasing im- Mirjam Kuenkler, U Göttingen-Beyond portance in academia in recent years, including in MESA. This panel will evalu- marja’iyyat? Training women as religious ate the central propositions of BDS and subject them to a critical academic anal- authorities ysis. Topics to be discussed include the so-called right of return of Palestinian Thomas Fibiger, Aarhus U-The place and refugees, an end to the occupation of the West Bank, and the improvement of the role of religious authority among Kuwaiti status of Palestinian citizens of Israel (Israeli Arabs). An examination will also be Shi‘a made of the fate of the BDS issue in the academic organizations that have dealt Hafsa Oubou, Northwestern with it. U-Moroccan-Belgian Shi‘a Muslims in Brussels: Rethinking religious practices outside traditionally Shi‘a centers Roundtable Thematic Conversation 4807 Frictions of Governing in the 4740 Updating the Conflict in MENA Yemen 5035 Everyday Life of Sectarianism Organizer: Mona Atia Organizer: Daniel Martin Varisco in the Middle East: Ambivalent Articulations of “Sectarian” Chair/Discussant: Christopher Parker, Sponsored by Difference and the “Other” Ghent U American Institute for Organizers: Yasemin Ipek and Jenna Yemeni Studies (AIYS) Rice Rahaim Katharina Lenner, U Bath-Poverty alleviation as assemblage - (Re-)producing HE Amat Al-Alim Alsoswa, Former Session Leader: Yasemin Ipek, Stanford U and governing ‘poverty pockets’ in Jordan Minister for Human Rights/Yemen Hiba Bou Akar, Columbia U-On the Daniel Martin Varisco, American Inst Suad Joseph, UC Davis urbanization of violence: Contested access for Yemeni Studies Joanne Nucho, Pomona Col to housing for Syrian refugees in a Beirut Sheila Carapico, U Richmond Jenna Rice Rahaim, Macalester Col periphery Nadwa Aldawsari, Project on Middle Ussama Makdisi, Rice U Mona Atia, George Washington East Democracy U-Governing poverty: Moroccan poverty Waleed F. Mahdi, U Oklahoma 4777 Waqf and Administration in mapping in the margins the Ottoman Balkans Catherine Herrold, Indiana U-From Organizer: Jane Hathaway activism to clientelism: The effects of foreign aid on Palestine’s NGO sector Chair/Discussant: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U
Catalina Hunt, Denison U-Pious foundations (vakifs) in Ottoman Dobruca Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U-The waqfs of Ottoman chief harem eunuchs on the Danube in Romania and Bulgaria Sanja Kadric, Ohio State U-Poturnaks and their endowments in the Ottoman Western Balkans
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4833 Schooling in Iraq: Modernity 4850 Arab Public Opinion 4874 Excavating Memories of and Education in Iraqi Memory Research: Challenges and Minorities in the Middle East Organizers: Levi Thompson and Pelle Prospects Organizer: Faedah Totah Valentin Olsen Organizer: Tamara Kharroub, Arab Center Washington DC Sponsored by Sponsored by Ottoman and Turkish The American Academic Research Organized under the auspices of Studies Association (OTSA) Institute in Iraq (TAARII) Arab Center Washington DC Chair: Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman Col Chair: Qussay Al-Attabi, Kenyon Col Chair/Discussant: Amaney A. Jamal, Discussant: Emily Drumsta, Brown U Princeton U Paul Sedra, Simon Fraser U-From citizenship to protection in Egyptian public Kevin M. Jones, U Georgia-‘A Cage Justin Gengler, Qatar U; Mark A. life: The role of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Disquiet’: Revolution, modernity, and Tessler, U Michigan; and Jonathan in modern sectarianism political awakenings in Najaf, 1905-1932 Forney, George Washington U-Survey Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT-A failed Levi Thompson, Brown U-The poets of attitudes in the Middle East: Hindrance or belonging? Turkish Armenians (Un) the Baghdad Teachers College help? remembering dark pasts Pelle Valentin Olsen, U Chicago-Youth Russell Lucas, Michigan State Heghnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis-The mobilization and foreign education in U-Competing conceptions of public opinion international cultural heritage regime and interwar Iraq: The case of the Baghdad in Qatar Armenian churches in Turkey: The medieval College Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State U; Michael ghost city of Ani on the UNESCO World Wuthrich, U Kansas; and Ammar Heritage List 4840 Community Based Shamaileh, U Louisville-Limitations in Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman College-The Learning (CBL), An Instructional Arab public opinion survey data: A context- human archive: Conversations with crypto- Methodology for Attaining dependent model of measuring religiosity Armenians Professional Proficiency in Arabic: and regime preferences in the Arab world Faedah Totah, Virginia Commonwealth U-Remembering the Jews of Damascus The CASA Experience Organizer: Iman Aziz Soliman 4862 The Beast in Image, Text and Politics 4915 Blackness in the Middle East: Sponsored by Organizers: Khaled Malas and Tarek A Comparative Perspective Center for Arabic Studies Abroad El-Ariss Organizer: Beeta Baghoolizadeh (CASA) Chair: Khaled Malas, NYU Chair: Aslı Z. Iğsız, NYU Chair: Nevenka Korica, Harvard U Discussant: Michael Ferguson, New Discussants: Chloe Bordewich, Harvard Jeannie Miller, U Toronto-Animal reason; School for Social Research U and Henry Clements, Yale U Human compulsion Benjamin Koerber, Rutgers U-Zombie Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton Iman Aziz Soliman, American U Cairo- publics and leviathan regimes: Literary U-Afrocentrism, orientalism and other Community engagement for language figuration and political affect in recent pitfalls of studying the Swahili: New learning beyond classroom walls: The case of Egyptian fiction thoughts on an old problem “CASA without borders” Khaled Malas, NYU-Representing ‘al-Fil’ Beeta Baghoolizadeh, U Penn-Buying Chloe Bordewich, Harvard U-Arabic [The Elephant] and selling blackface: Theatrical anti- beyond the classroom in uncertain times: Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth Col-The blackness in Pahlavi era Iran, 1930-1965 CASA without borders and the Egyptian ghoul: Mythical creature, political practice, Zavier Wingham, NYU-Dana Bayrami nonprofit sector digital condition Festival: Forging solidarity through Afro- Nik Nevin, American U Cairo-Atlases Turkish identity in modern Turkey and candy shops: A semester spent teaching Mayowa Willoughby, Cornell U-The geography in Establ Antar gender of that which might be called Michael Ernst, Independent Scholar- blackness: Reading the Arap Baci/Kizi within Film study, community-based learning, and Turkish popular culture Kāsāwiyīn bilā ḥudūd
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4931 Rethinking State-Society 4945 A New Corpus for the 4958 Nationalism In and Out Relations in Modern Egypt Islamicate World and Methods for of “Translation”: Theater, Organizer: Omar Foda Its Exploration Satire, and Memoirs Across the Organizers: Matthew Thomas Miller Persianate World Chair: Heather J. Sharkey, U Penn and Sarah Bowen Savant Organizers: Rustin Zarkar and Sheida Discussant: Relli Shechter, Ben-Gurion Dayani U of the Negev Sponsored by Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Chair: Blake Atwood, UT Austin Ibrahim Gemeah, Cornell U-Al-Azhar and educational reform in the thought of Chair: Nancy Khalek, Brown U Belle Cheves, Harvard U-Love and Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abduh Discussant: Paul M. Cobb, U Penn socialist realism: Translating Gorky in Iran Nefertiti Takla, Manhattan Col- Sheida Dayani, Harvard U/NYU- Theorizing the informal economy during Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U-How Staging “Hobb-al-Vatan”: Patriotism and WWI: Workers and political economic change were so many authors so very productive? nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth- in Alexandria, Egypt, 1914-1921 Exploring authorial strategies in the 10th- century Iranian plays Kyle Anderson, Cornell U-The 12th century Middle East Rustin Zarkar, NYU-Turning hooligans development and institutionalization of Maxim Romanov, Leipzig U-Looking for into toilers: Satire and Tajik nationalism in agricultural cooperatives in Egypt the author behind the words: Stylometric Mullo Mushfiqi (1926-1931) Omar Foda, Independent Scholar-Stella analysis of al-Dhahabi’s (d. 1347) writings is always delicious: The nationalization of Matthew Thomas Miller, U Maryland 4968 Cultural Politics of Youth the Egyptian beer industry College Park-Topic modeling genre in medieval Persian poetry: A computational Jacob Hoigilt, Peace Research Inst 4938 Gendering the Body in the approach to medieval thematic collections of Oslo-Arabic adult comics and the politics of Middle East poetry youthfulness Organizers: Sherine M. Hafez and Elijah Cooke, U Maryland-New Delal Aydin, Binghamton U-The Angie Abdelmonem advances in Arabic-script optical character formation of revolutionary subjects: Kurdish recognition youth politics in the 1990s Sponsored by Cara Piraino, U Chicago-“Omanis Association for Middle East 4955 Rivalry, Revival, and being Omanis, there aren’t going to be any Anthropology (AMEA) and Survival: Contemporary Algerian problems”: Youth in Muscat and the aging Association for Middle East and Tunisian Contestations and Renaissance Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Jonathan Guyer, Harvard U-Nationalism Reconfigurations for kids: How Egyptian comics teach conflict Chair/Discussant: Sherine M. Hafez, UC Organizer: William A. Lawrence Riverside 4974 State Consolidation and Chair/Discussant: Jacob A. Mundy, Contestation in Qajar and Pahlavi Angie Abdelmonem, Arizona State Colgate U Iran U-The predatory male body in sexual violence activism in Egypt Yahia Zoubir, KEDGE Business School, Chair: Saghar Sadeghian, Willamette U Marta Agosti, SOAS U London-My body, France-The giant afraid of its shadow: my violence and my political resistance: Algeria, the reluctant middle power Lior B. Sternfeld, Penn State U-The Rape, public testimony, and silence at the Azzedine Layachi, St. John’s U-How Pahlavi era as a golden age for Jewish margins of Tahrir institutions, structure and agency hamper political activism in Iran Murat C. Yildiz, Skidmore Col-Building Tunisia’s economic revival Daniel Sheffield, Princeton U-Toward blocks of the nation(s): Male bodies in early- Maro Youssef, UT Austin-Contesting a social history of late Pahlavi (Zoroastrian twentieth-century Istanbul elite & state feminism: A new generation of Middle Persian) Maria Frederika Malmström, Lund U-A Tunisian feminists Saghar Bozorgi, NYU-Localization “real man”, while Egypt falls apart William A. Lawrence, George of national politics: The experience of Sherine Hamdy, UC Irvine-Comics as Washington U-Enemies, frenemies, or conducting elections in Kashan, Iran (1909- theory: Bodily vulnerability and resilience in rivals: The Islamic State-AQIM nexus 10) “Lissa”: An ethnoGRAPHIC novel M. Tahir Kilavuz, U Notre Dame- Reconfiguring authoritarianism: Post-crisis Chelsi Mueller, Tel Aviv U-Contesting regime consolidation in Algeria the Persian Gulf: Iran’s naval vision past and present continued next page
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James M. Gustafson, Indiana State Feyza Burak Adli, Boston U-Female Anas Alahmed, Indiana U U-Vaqf and ecology: Reading the endowment religious authority and Islamic feminist Bloomington-A study of the cultural of the Madrasa-yi Sultani from an “counterpublic” in Turkey: The case of Rifai production of modernity in Saudi Arabia environmental history perspective Shaykha Cemalnur Sargut through the general authority for Assef Ashraf, Bryn Mawr Col-A familial entertainment and neoliberal capitalist state: The divan and the formation of Qajar 4989 States and Identities in the politics Iran Oil-Rich Arab World Faris Almutairi, Carbondale, IL-An analysis of study abroad: Understanding the 4976 Women and Leadership: Past Chair: Kristi N. Barnwell, U Illinois state-society relationship in Saudi Arabia and Present Springfield Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U Qatar- The state and the changing social contract Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State U Carolyn Barnett, Princeton in the GCC U-Authoritarian autonomy and welfare Tara Stephan, NYU-The public presence spending volatility in oil-rich states of Mamluk princesses Erick Viramontes, Australian National Sarah Fischer, Marymount U-Women U-Self-determination, otherness and and secular opposition parties in Islamist- subjectivities: Constructing Qatari national dominated political systems identity in a period of reform
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Roundtable Kevin Blankinship, U Chicago-Al- 4831 Circulation and Migration: Ma`arri’s menagerie in the Maghreb Armenian Migrants in the Ottoman 4830 “Can You Read This One?” Enass Khansa, Harvard U/American U New Advances and Issues in Empire and Beyond Beirut-How an anthology curated a caliphate: Organizers: Yasar Tolga Cora and Digital Recognition of Printed/ On “al-’Iqd” (“The Necklace”) and the Dzovinar Derderian Handwritten Arabic Characters Umayyads of al-Andalus Organizer: M. Safa Saracoglu Nizar F. Hermes, U Virginia-When a poet’s Chair/Discussant: Houri Berberian, UC heart burns for a burned city: Ibn Sharaf al- Irvine Chair: M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U Qayrawānī’s elegy for Qayrawan Vazken Khatchig Davidian, Birkbeck, U Kursat Aker, Miletos R&D/METU 4823 Imagery in Jewish Morocco London-Black news of an absent bantoukhd M. Erdem Kabadayi, Koç U Organizer: Patricia Goldsworthy son: Garabed Nichanian’s “The Reading of the Mehmet Can Yavuz, Koç U Letter” M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U Sponsored by Dzovinar Derderian, U Michigan- Maxim Romanov, Leipzig U American Institute for Traversing space and transforming belongings Maghrib Studies (AIMS) to nation and empire among itinerants of Van, 4737 Reflections on the State and 1820s-1870s Statelessness in the Post-Arab Discussant: Katarzyna Pieprzak, Yasar Tolga Cora, U Michigan-Local Williams Col Spring Era belongings, (trans-)imperial networks, non- Organizers: Sami Emile Baroudi, Rola state actors: Armenian homeland associations Patricia Goldsworthy, Western Oregon El-Husseini and Lina Beydoun in the late Ottoman Empire and beyond U-Picturing the mellah: Joseph Bouhsira and David Low, U Michigan-The itinerant Moroccan Jewish photography Organized under the auspices of image: Domestic photographs in an age of Aomar Boum, UCLA-Captives of the global movement Lebanese American University mellah?: Moroccan rural Jewry in the colonial postcard 4892 Children, Youth, and Media in Chair/Discussant: Nadim Shehadi, Tufts U Emma Chubb, Smith Col-Documents of Middle Eastern Conflict Zones diaspora: The Boccaras in Ntifa, 1971/2011 Organizer: Yael Warshel Imad Salamey, Lebanese American U-The Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark Col-Saints rise of communitarian states in the Middle in the age of mechanical reproduction: East Religious icons in Jewish Morocco Chair: Yael Warshel, Penn State U Rola El-Husseini, Lund U-Gender and the sectarian state 4829 Historical Perspectives on the Yael Warshel, Penn State U-Children, youth, and media in Middle Eastern, North Sami Emile Baroudi, Lebanese American Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil U-The problematic notion of the “Islamic African, and Gulf conflict zones Organizer: Nelida Fuccaro State” in the discourses of contemporary Weeda Mehran, McGill U-Militant children Islamists on social media: “Cubs of the Caliphate” and Chair: Nelida Fuccaro, NYU Abu Dhabi , Lebanese American “Taliban’s Soldiers of God” Tamirace Fakhoury Discussant: Mandana E. Limbert, U-Displacement and statehood: The case of Tugce Kayaal, U Michigan-War, Queen’s Col CUNY Lebanon’s coping mechanism with Syria’s orphanages, and print media: Gendering and refugee influx nationalizing orphan boys in the late Ottoman Mattin Biglari, SOAS U London-Making Konya during the First World War (1914-1918) Lina Beydoun, Lebanese American workers invisible: The production and U-Statelessness in the post-Arab Spring era Mariam Abdul-Dayyem, U Otago-Digital representation of expertise in the Abadan culture of contention of Palestinian youth in refinery and beyond, 1939-53 the West Bank 4775 Literary Genealogy in Gregory Brew, Georgetown U-Building the Medieval and Modern Iberia and petrochemical paradise: Oil, water and soil in North Africa the US-Iranian project in Khuzestan Organizer: Kevin Blankinship Nelida Fuccaro, NYU Abu Dhabi-Telling stories of urban, suburban and industrial oil Chair: Kevin Blankinship, U Chicago lives: Corporate propaganda in Iraq, Kuwait Discussant: Suzanne P. Stetkevych, and Bahrain in the 1950s Georgetown U Matthew MacLean, NYU-Oil, mobility, and state-building in the United Arab Emirates Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS Col-Resistance to loss through the preservation of form: The continuing practice of adab in the 20th century
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4897 Slave Women in Muslim 4940 Authority in Concrete: State, Islam Hassan, Georgetown U Qatar-UAE: Society: Their Portrayal as Space, and Infrastructures in A small state with middle power aspirations Singers and Poets, Criminals and Turkey Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity U-Iran-China relations: Past, present, and future Concubines Organizer: Sinan Erensü Matthew Cebul, Yale U-Military audience Organizer: Kathryn Hain Chair/Discussant: Emrah Yildiz, costs and the Six Day War: Evidence from Egypt and Jordan Chair: Lisa Nielson, Case Western Northwestern U Reserve U Discussant: Dwight F. Reynolds, UC Sinan Erensü, Northwestern 4972 Transactions of Knowledge Santa Barbara U-Infrastructure rules: On Turkey’s and Power: East-West and West- infrastructures-led regime of urgency East Simone Prince-Eichner, U Michigan- Zeynep Oguz, Graduate Center CUNY- Embodying the empire: Singing slave girls in Wells of failure: Oil exploration, conspiracy Kent F. Schull, Binghamton U-Criminal medieval Islamicate historiography theory and power in Turkey justice reform in the global progressive era: Carl F. Petry, Northwestern U-Female Bengi Akbulut, Concordia U-Troubled Eurasia of the early 20th century slaves in Cairo’s medieval underworld: waters of hegemony: Shifting nexus of hydro- Jameel Haque, Minnesota State U, Gendered aspects of criminality and bondage power in Turkey Mankato-Reflections of war: The US in the Mamluk period Firat Bozcali, U Penn-Contested consulate during World War I Marina Tolmacheva, Washington State infrastructures: Batman refinery, oil pipelines, U-Female and slave: Aspects of concubine and Kurdish economies of oil theft in Batman, 4983 Diaspora and Political value within a household Turkey Participation Kathryn Hain, U Utah-The end of harem Cihan Tekay, Graduate Center CUNY- slavery in the Mediterranean Muslim world.... Electrifying the nation-state: Generating Tarek Shago, U Chicago-Nationalism at or not consent in republican Turkey home and abroad: The impact of expatriate Libyan opposition on the development of a 4905 Egypt’s Judiciary Since the 4967 Islamist Thought and Practice national identity Revolution Ammar Naji, Colorado Col-Rethinking Organizer: Jeffrey Sachs Chair: Quinn Mecham, Brigham Young U post-colonialism through the lenses of modern Middle Eastern migratory formations Discussant: Ellis Goldberg, U Washington Yaseen Noorani, U Arizona-The literary Emanuela Dalmasso, U Amsterdam-May aesthetic foundations of Islamism in Sayyid I borrow your MPs? The political participation Monika Lindbekk, U Oslo-Judicial activism Qutb of “authoritarian” diasporas in the field of Egyptian shari‘a-derived family Yasser Sultan, Georgetown U-The Michael Akladios, York U-The stigma law ambivalence of religious modernization: of ‘Arab-ness:’ Coptic immigrants’ self- Jeffrey Sachs, Acadia U-Technically Women’s education and veiling between Orientalism in Toronto, 1954-1981 speaking: Locating the law in post- Rashid Rida, Qasim Amin and Malak Hifni revolutionary Egypt Nasif 4996 The Surreal and the Real Hind M Ahmed Zaki, U Washington- Joshua Donovan, Columbia U-Between between Orientalism and Post- liberalism and Islamism: The Muslim Brothers The triumph of sovereignty over legitimacy: Orientalism The weakening of the judiciary in post- and the United Nations Mounah Abdel Samad, San Diego State revolutionary Egypt Chair: Vahid Abedini, Florida U-Do Islamist parliamentarians provide Mona Oraby, Indiana U-Law, rights, and International U judicial activism: The politics of religious services to the poor and middle class? Evidence from North Africa conversion in Egypt Angelica Maria DeAngelis, American U Kuwait-La chose inachevée: The role of Roundtable 4971 Foreign Relations in and women in contemporary Algerian society and Beyond the Middle East 4929 Social Media, Feminist Praxis, cinema , Boston U-The neo-avant- and State Power Defne Kirmizi Chair: Robert Mason, American U Cairo garde art scene in Turkey from 1970s to Organizer: VJ Um Amel present Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U-Out of Alyeh Mehin Jafarabadi, U Arizona- Mark Le Vine, UC Irvine Arabia: The Mahmal Incident of 1926 and the Shirin Neshat’s photos in the frame of Lisa Parks, MIT demise of Egyptian influence in the Hijaz Orientalism: For whom do we pose? Manal Hassan, Motoon Ana Torres-Garcia, U de Sevilla-The Laura Metzler, Maraya Art Centre- VJ Um Amel, UC Santa Barbara impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war on Genetics, physics, and transcendence in the Abir Ghattas, Majal Morocco’s foreign relations later work of Saloua Raouda Choucair
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Sam Bardaouil, Art Reoriented- 5020 Leisure, Consumerism, and 5024 Ethnographies of Everyday Rethinking surrealism: Art et liberté (f. 1938), Food Politics and the subjective realism of Ramses Younane (1913-1966) Chair: Roberto Mazza, U Limerick Chair: Hale Yılmaz, Southern Illinois U Carbondale 5013 The Formation of the Secular Amber J. Howard, UT Austin-Kitchen Since Ottoman Times resistance: Occupied foodways and Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul U-Reconsidering Palestinian womenʼs cookbook Turkey’s democratization: Role of social Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City production resistance in everyday life in 1939-1945 U-Secular Islamists: The Rise of neo-Islamism Maayan Hilel, Tel Aviv U-“We also lived Mine Eder, Boğaziçi U-Migrant perceptions in Tunisia and Morocco a little”: Leisure and recreation of ordinary in Istanbul: Is it the economy? Amir Toft, U Chicago-Registered silence: Palestinians; Women, children and workers, Elise Massicard, Centre National de la The institutional logic of the Ottoman sicils 1920-1948 Recherche Scientifique-Street-level officials Omar Omar, American U Cairo-Between Barbara J. Michael, UNC Wilmington- and everyday politics in Turkey the magical and the mundane: Holy fools, the Sustenance, power and autonomy: Baqqara Hebatallah Khalil, U Illinois Urbana homeless and street-dwellers in contemporary women’s private and public assertion of Champaign-Revolution in parallel times: An Egypt autonomy through food ethnography of an Egyptian village in flux Arthur S. Zárate, Columbia U-Rethinking David Rahimi, UT Austin-“To make Jose Ciro Martinez, U Cambridge-Site Sufism and the supernatural in Islamic reform a man’s life happy”: Prostitution and of resistance or apparatus of acquiescence? consumerism in 1960s and 1970s Iran Everyday tactics at the bakery 5017 Perspectives on Nationalism: Anti-Imperialism, Community- Building and the Body
Chair: Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State U San Marcos
Nicholas E. Roberts, Sewanee: U of the South-Pan-Islam and Palestinian nationalism in mandate Palestine Syeda Quratulain Masood, Brown U-Where we are born and the soil from where we eat: The idea of terric nationhood Jonathan Sciarcon, U Denver-Picking up the pieces: The alliance Israélite Universelle in Baghdad, 1917-1921 Joseph Leidy, Brown U-Competing masculinities in the mahjar: Syrian social nationalist recruitment in Argentina (1939- 1947)
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Roundtable Lamia Moghnie, Arab Council for Social Camila Pastor, CIDE-That whore called Sciences-“The forsaken sufferers of mental Tangier 4727 Defining Early Modernity in diseases”: Massacre, humanitarianism and Ottoman History the emergence of modern psychiatry in late 4780 Making Falsafa: Towards Organizers: Antonis Hadjikyriacou and Ottoman Syria a Modern History of Arabic Bogac Ergene Filippo Maria Marranconi, EHESS- Philosophy Mental health services as politics: Exploring Organizer: Angela Giordani Chair: Bogac Ergene, U Vermont the experience of suffering among Syrian displaced in Lebanon Robert J. Wisnovsky, McGill Palmira Brummett, Brown U Ana Vinea, U Michigan-Debating law, U-Muhammad ‘Abduh as Avicennian Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Boğaziçi U culture, and mental health: A view from philosopher Virginia Aksan, McMaster U contemporary Egypt Murad Idris, U Virginia-Illustrating Dana Sajdi, Boston Col Mac Skelton, Johns Hopkins U-“We are all Islamic philosophy: Post-colonial canons, Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U psychiatrists”: Oncology and palliative care education, identity, and Ibn Tufayl’s “Hayy in Iraq ibn Yaqzan”, 1937-1992 Thematic Conversation Angela Giordani, Columbia U-Arabic 4762 Tradition and Modernity: philosophy, competing universalisms, and the 5040 Reading Middle Eastern Reform, Gender, and Neo- Egyptian nahda Traditionalism in Egypt and Literatures Comparatively Ahmed El Shamsy, U Chicago-Editing classics of Islamic philosophy, late 19th and Organizer: Roberta Micallef Beyond Organizer: Mark Sedgwick early 20th centuries Session Leader: Roberta Micallef, Boston U Chair: Morten Valbjorn, Aarhus U 4801 Mizrahi Cultural Trespassers: C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç U Boundary Crossing, Patriotism and Persis M. Karim, San Francisco State U Dietrich Jung, U Southern Denmark-“The Betrayal in Israel/Palestine Hulya Adak, Sabanci U modern authenticity of Islamic traditions”: Organizer: Shay Hazkani Modernity and multiple modernities in the Muslim world Discussant: Michelle Campos, U Florida 4724 Labor, Capitalism and Mervat Hatem, Howard U-The 1929 Mobilization After the Arab Spring Egyptian Personal Status Law, its modern Shay Hazkani, U Maryland College Park- Organizer: Zep Kalb re-inventions of Islamic traditions and the When both foe and friend look alike: Mizrahi construction of gendered individuals Jews in the 1948 War Chair/Discussant: Joel Beinin, Stanford U Mark Sedgwick, Aarhus U-Neo- Bryan K. Roby, U Michigan-Repatriation traditionalist Islam as postmodernity and transgressive migrations of Mizrahi Jews Lorenzo Feltrin, U Warwick-Between a Kirstine Sinclair, U Southern Denmark- from Israel to the Arab world rock and a hard place: Trade unions, class, “Is clinical psychology useful, Shaykh?” Hillel Cohen, Hebrew U Jerusalem- and the state in Algeria and Tunisia Questions of modernity, tradition and Sephardi-Arab joint resistance to European- Zep Kalb, U Oxford-‘Etelaf (coalition) or authority at Islamic colleges Zionism: Reality and hope 1908-1948 ekhtelaf (contention)? Labor insurgency and Shayna Zamkanei, U Michigan-Do class politics after Iran’s Green Movement 4763 Gendered Transformations: Mizrahi Holocaust commemorative practices Sahan Savas Karatasli, Princeton “New Women” of the Mandate challenge the Zionist project? U-Capitalism, crisis and labor unrest in the post-Arab Spring Middle East: A comparative- Period Organizers: Camila Pastor and Nova historical perspective 4856 Mediterranean Crossings and Robinson Tunisian Settlements, 1860-2017 Organizer: Sarah DeMott Chair/Discussant: Ellen L. Fleischmann, 4750 Psychiatry in the Middle East: U Dayton Discussants: Mark I. Choate, Brigham Hospitals, Science and Care Young U and Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Organizers: Lamia Moghnie and Ana Leyla Dakhli, CNRS (Centre Marc Bloch, Columbia U Vinea Berlin)-Women at work (Jerusalem, 1920- 1936) Sarah DeMott, NYU-Mediterranean Discussant: Chris Dole, Amherst Col Nova Robinson, Seattle U-Showcasing the intimacies: An archipelago formation between new Arab woman abroad: Syrian women’s Sardinia and Tabarka Chris Wilson, U Cambridge-‘All capable speaking tours in the United States in the Gabriele Montalbano, Ecole Pratique of work should be thus employed’: The 1940s des Hautes Etudes-Nation-buiding across therapeutic, social, and economic benefits of Susanna Ferguson, Columbia U-Maids, transnational boundaries: The construction of patient work in mental institutions at Cairo, servants, and wet-nurses in the Arabic a national identity among the Italians living Beirut, and Bethlehem, ca. 1884-1948 women’s press in French Tunisia Page 46 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 10:30AM-12:30PM Tuesday November 21
Chiara Pagano, “Roma Tre”-Tripolitanian Mustafa Gurbuz, American U-The rise of D. Gershon Lewental, U Oklahoma/ migrants in Tunisian protectorate: Kurdish quasi-state in Syria: Prospects and Shalem Col-Call-and-response battles in Challenging the colonial imaginary of French challenges Syria and Iraq: The literary construction of Maghreb Seevan Saeed, U Exeter-Independency and Islamic collective memory Giorgia Cantarale, Sapienza U of Rome- sovereignty; The state and non-state actors: EU-Tunisia relations after the Arab Spring: The case of Syria 4979 Peasants, Land, and Politics Migration politics, asylum and human rights Wendelmoet Hamelink, Center for protection Gender Research, Oslo-Images in exile. Chair: Harrison Guthorn, Sultan Qaboos Ilaria Giglioli, UC Berkeley-Colonial Gender, representation and everyday life of Cultural Ctr mobilities & contemporary connections. Syrian Kurdish women in Norway Mobilizing histories of Sicilian southward Marion Dixon, American U-Land Mediterranean migration in contemporary 4933 Art and Mediation: Affective reclamation and expanded commodity Sicily and Socio-Political Practices of production in the longue durée Valentina Zagaria, London Schl of Revolutionary Challenges Yelda Kaya, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Economics and Political Science-Death Organizer: Rania Gaafar U-Parliamentary politics in early republican at Europe’s border: Burial practices and Turkey: Contestations over settlement, land mourning across the Mediterranean Sea Chair: Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser U use and property rights Jeffrey D. Reger, Georgetown U-The 4869 Loyalists in the Gulf: Reliable Surti Singh, American U Cairo-The Palestinian olive sector of the West Bank: Partners or Independent Actors subjective turn in contemporary Egyptian art Between Israel and Jordan, 1949-1987 Organizers: Courtney Freer and Jessie Maymanah Farhat, Independent Bengu Kurtege Sefer, Binghamton Moritz Scholar-Cynicism and sorrow in Syrian art U-Competitive party politics, landless peasant after the uprising women, and their political activism in two Chair: Jessie Moritz, Australian National U Rania Gaafar, U Siegen (Germany)- villages: Rethinking rural class structure in Discussant: Farah Al-Nakib, American U Aesthetics of crisis in the Arab world – Turkey after World War II Kuwait Epistemologies of connectivity in documentary Andrew Akhlaghi, UT Austin-Peasant modes of the real activism during the Soviet occupation of Iran Anastasia Nosova, London Schl of VJ Um Amel, UC Santa Barbara-Media Economics and Political Science-The voice sousveillance on its back 4993 Melancholia, Race, and and loyalty of business in Kuwait Enslavement Courtney Freer, London Schl of 4951 Missionary Renegades: Economics and Political Science-Clients Resisting the Metanarrative in the Leila Pourtavaf, U Toronto-In the shadows or challengers?: Tribal constituents in Kuwait, Ottoman Empire and Turkey of Gulistan: Servants and eunuchs of Nasser Qatar, and the UAE Organizer: Carolyn Goffman al-Din Shah’s court Kristin Smith Diwan, AGSIW- Katie Hickerson, U Penn-The Seligmans’ Transnational clerical associations in Qatar Chair: Allen Hibbard, Middle Tennessee snapshot: Funerary rites, a history of violence, and the UAE State U and cultural resilience in Sudan, 1865-1909 Jessie Moritz, Australian National Noa Shaindlinger, North Carolina State U-Loyalist roots, reformist attitude: The Al- Henry Clements, Yale U-Local expertise U-Israel and the social sciences, or why race Fateh Youth Coalition in Bahrain and the East Turkey mission: Syriac orthodox- matters missionary encounters in the late Ottoman 4890 Syrian Kurds: Contesting Empire 4995 Teaching in and on MENA: Boundaries Carolyn Goffman, DePaul U-Relegating Programs and Histories Organizer: Huseyin Rasit “race hatred” to the Ottoman past: Mary Mills Patrick’s positive narrative of the new Turkey Chair: Tessa Farmer, U Virginia Chair: Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst U-“Don’t College, let America go to war!”: The pacifist views of Ghada Swadek, U Minnesota-Teach me Discussant: Mehmet Gurses, Florida Edith Parsons too: “Talking” about children with disabilities Atlantic U and education 4964 Echoes of Battle: Legitimation, Tessa Farmer, U Virginia-Coherence Huseyin Rasit, Yale U and Alexander Memory, and the Distant Past in and equivalence: Geographic imaginaries of Kolokotronis, Yale U-Vanguards of anti- global/Middle East/South Asia statism: Hope and tension in the ideological Islamic Narratives Organizer: D. Gershon Lewental Manal Saleh, Lebanese American U and project of Rojava Ketty Sarouphim-McGill, Lebanese Ipek Demir, U Leicester UK-The global Scott Savran, King Abdullah Academy- American U-Establishing programs for gifted south in the Middle East?: The case of Syrian learners in Lebanon Kurds Righteous Huns and Islamic Kerygmatic memory
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5010 Invoking Religion in and 5012 Literary Configurations of 5026 Media: Circulation and Against Imperialism, Occupation, Secular Modernity Censorship and War Radwa El Barouni, UT Austin- Chair: Ozde Celiktemel-Thomen, U Chair: Hind Arroub, Fordham U Contemporary Egyptian historical fiction: College London What’s at stake? Veysel Simsek, Yale U-How the “infidel Ahmad Agbaria, UT Austin-Dar al-Taliaa Jennifer Boutz, U Maryland College Sultan” called his Muslim subjects to war: a powerhouse of secular ideas Park-Taboo language in Arabic social media: Islam, state discourse, and organized violence Razi Ahmad, U Kansas-Heterogeneity of Recent developments and emerging trends during the later reign of Mahmud II (1826- Iranian modernity in Ja’far Modarres Sadeqi’s Amirhossein Teimouri, U Illinois 1839) “Nakoja-Abad” (“Nowhereland”, 1990) Urbana-Champaign-Representations of Iran Isaac Friesen, U Toronto-A bishop, not Adam Spanos, NYU-The past, present in Arab conventional and new social media: a pawn: The roots and reflexivity of Anba and future of literary commitment in Arab Al-Jazeera versus Faisal Al-Kasim’s Twitter Athanasius’ tolerant liberalism anticolonialism activity Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Texas Maral Karimi, U Toronto-A movement A&M U-Contesting religious legitimacy in the co-opted: A critical discourse analysis of the Iran-Iraq War Iranian Green Resistance Movement of 2009 Lyndall Herman, U Arizona-Hamas Dena Afrasiabi, UT Austin-Walking the through a difference lens: What memoirs digital city: Language and space in Iranian reveal about the organization’s competing digital folk narratives priorities Eoghan Stafford, UCLA-Media reform and Kenny Schmitt, Exeter U-Sufism in censorship in Ben Ali’s Tunisia Jerusalem: Institutional disruptions and subversive transformations
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Roundtable 4755 Memory and identity: Andrew Simon, Cornell U-Vulgarizing The Significance of Locality in sounds: Tapes, taste, and the end of high 4818 Teaching Middle East Studies Nineteenth- and Twentieth- culture in modern Egypt in a Controversial Time: Between Febe Armanios, Middlebury Col-“Touch Century Egypt and Israel/Palestine Activism and Accountability your screen and be healed!”: Reconsidering Organizer: James Whidden Organizer: Victoria Hightower the history of televangelism in the Middle East Chair: Mona L Russell, East Carolina U Chair: Victoria Hightower, U North 4826 Vulnerability and Exclusion: Georgia Shana E. Minkin, Sewanee: U of the Examining Access to Services and South-Mourning the imperial dead in turn- Institutions for Syrian Refugees Neha Vora, Lafayette Col of-the-century Egypt and Residents of Cairo’s Ashwayyat Beth Derderian, Northwestern U James Whidden, Acadia U-Things left Organizer: Colette Salemi Daniel Blumlo, Rock Valley Col unsaid: Colonial memory and belonging Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern U Ruth Amir, Yezreel Valley Col-Who, after Chairs: Denis J. Sullivan, Northeastern U Qatar all, remembers today the Armenian village? and Diane Singerman, American U Rachael Eggebeen, Sunnyside Unified Sara Nimis, American Research Center Discussant: Denis J. Sullivan, School District in Egypt-Remembrance as protest: Multiple Northeastern U Jill Crystal, Auburn U meanings under the Dome of Sayyida Nafisa in Cairo Alice Verticelli, Northeastern U-Victims 4739 On the Verge of Rout: or undeserving: Access to services for refugees The Politics of Hope and 4783 Humanitarianism in the in Turkey and the EU Disappointment Post the Arab Ottoman Empire During World War I Colette Salemi, U Minnesota-Public Spring Organizer: Stacy Fahrenthold participation, communicative action, and the Organizer: Nermin Allam Jordan response platform for the Syria crisis Sponsored by Rasha Hassan, Cairo U-Informality and Chair: Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) access to services among youth of Cairo’s Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, George ashwaiyyat Washington U Chair/Discussant: Barlow Der Mugrdechian, CSU Fresno 4852 Social and Environmental Shimaa Hatab, Cairo U-Contested power Histories of the Middle East in the and authoritarian restructuring: Egypt Melanie S. Tanielian, U Michigan- Nineteenth Century between January 2011 and June 2013 Nourishing bodies and souls: The Maronite Organizer: Ranin Kazemi Nermin Allam, Princeton U-Activism Church’s relief effort in Mount Lebanon amidst disappointment: Women’s groups and during the Great War Chair/Discussant: Arash Khazeni, the politics of hope in Egypt Stacy Fahrenthold, CSU Fresno-American Pomona Col Steven T. Brooke, U Louisville-Sparks relief and émigré politics in the Syrian mahjar and firewalls: The dillusion of protest and Asya Darbinyan, Clark U-Can refugees Noah Haiduc-Dale, Centenary U, NJ- quiescence in the post-Arab Spring Middle speak? Humanitarian crisis at the Ottoman- Water and society in the Gulf littoral East Russian border (1914-1917) Camille Cole, Yale U-Social, economic, and Mariam Georgis, U Alberta-Post-2003 Iraq: Khatchig Mouradian, Columbia U-Not environmental geographies of steamshipping A postcolonial, Iraqi perspective on the crisis like a lamb to the slaughter: Humanitarian in Southern Iraq, 1865-1909 of “democratic nation-building” resistance during the Armenian Genocide Zozan Pehlivan, McGill U-Relief for whom? Peasants, crop failure, and politics in Ottoman 4802 Mass Media in Middle East Kurdistan, 1840-1896 Historiography Ranin Kazemi, San Diego State U-The Organizer: Andrew Simon Black Winter of 1860-61: War, famine, and the political ecology of disasters in Qajar Iran Chair: Jonathan Smolin, Dartmouth Col Sabri Ates, Southern Methodist U-Nature of rebellion: The 1880 Kurdish Rebellion and Yasemin Gencer, Independent Scholar- the role of environmental factors Between reality and fiction: Interpreting visual culture in early Turkish republican print media Golbarg Rekabtalaei, North Carolina State U-The reel 1940s: Cinema, popular culture and politics in post-World War II Iran
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4886 Colonialism and Culinary 4939 Representations of Struggle Ian Jones, UC San Diego-An archaeological Cultures in the Middle East and and Horizons of Freedom approach to the political economy of Ayyubid North Africa Organizer: Maryam Griffin Southern Jordan Organizers: Graham Cornwell and Anny Heiko Schuss, Abdullah Gül U-The Gaul Chair/Discussant: Golnar Nikpour, U influence of politics on the development of Wisconsin Madison participation banking in Turkey Discussant: Stacy E. Holden, Purdue U Amanda Batarseh, UC Davis-History 4987 Gendering and Governing the Graham Cornwell, Georgetown U-Tea, interrupted: Form in contemporary Body sugar, and rural consumers in colonial Palestinian literature Morocco Arash Davari, Whitman Col-Auto- Chair: Michela Cerruti, EHESS Ecole des Kelly Hammond, U Arkansas-“They do Empathy: Cultures of pragmatism and Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales drink tea, just not like us”: Imperial Japan, collective action in revolutionary Iran perceptions of tea drinkers in the Middle Maryam Griffin, U Washington, Bothell- Diana P. Hatchett, U Kentucky- East and North Africa, and expanding global Mobility and struggle: Palestinian artists’ Bodybuilding and building the body politic in markets during WWII imaginaries of freedom and return Iraqi Kurdistan Anny Gaul, Georgetown U-Mother sauces Yousef Baker, CSU Long Beach-Conjuring Miguel Fuentes Carreno, UC Santa and civilizing processes: Writing cuisine in old dreams to imagine new futures; Oral Barbara-The construction of masculinity Egypt and Morocco histories of Iraqi refugees and exiles through HIV in Egypt Sylvie Durmelat, Georgetown U-“Art Keren Zdafee, Tel Aviv U-The good, the couscous”: Chewing on the colonial experience 4975 Women and Contemporary bad, and the evil: Images of women in modern Politics Egyptian caricature 4895 Practices of Translation in the Pascale N. Graham, McGill U-Lebanon: Ottoman and Safavid Empires Chair: Fatemeh Hosseini, Georgetown U Codification of sexual labor and its detractors Organizer: Yusuf Unal Silvana Toska, Davidson Col-Does Islam 4994 Schooling the Nation: The Elif Bozgan, U Chicago-The Ottoman explain gender inequality? Reassessing Islam Politics of Education in Historical Turkish translation of history of Shah Abbas and its impact on gender outcomes Perspective the Great Lars Berger, U Leeds-A symbol of Philip Bockholt, Freie U Berlin-Scholarly inequality? Arab perceptions of the veil Chair: Sebastian Guenther, U of interest or enemy studies? Ottoman Turkish Victoria Gilbert, U Penn-Sister citizens: Goettingen translations of Arabic and Persian chronicles Women’s identities and roles in Syria’s conflict in the 16th to 18th centuries Hisae Nakanishi, Doshisha U-Emerging Johanna Peterson, UC San Diego-Policy Ercan Akyol, U Vienna-In search of post-Islamist discourse on women’s rights in in practice: Subverting the colonial and the originality: Hamsa of Nevizade Atayi contemporary Iran national in Lebanese girls’ schools during the Yusuf Unal, Emory U-The translation of Jesilyn Faust, UC Santa Barbara-Between French mandate non-Shi‘ite works in Safavid Iran the world and the state: Women’s bodies as a Ghada AlMadbouh, Birzeit U-Education in battle ground in Morocco Palestine: A good case to be made 4896 Rethinking ISIS: War, Crisis, Christiana Parreira, Stanford U-Students and Transformation 4986 From Commerce to Economics into Iraqis: The politics of education in Organizer: Feras Klenk in Islamic Thought and Society Ba’athist Iraq Grace Wermenbol, U Oxford-The birth Chair: Leila O. Hudson, U Arizona Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U of the refugee problem as presented in Israeli Discussant: Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara and Palestinian textbooks Ibrahim Elhoudaiby, Columbia Archana Prakash, Stanford Moses Adams, Columbia U-Semiotics of U-Bifurcated partnerships: Debt and the rise U-Epistemological convergences: Exploring the Islamic State: Interpreting narratives of of families and corporations in Egypt hybridized education in Egypt, 1825-82 ISIS’ western sympathizers William Murrell, Vanderbilt Abe Jimenez, U Arizona-The U-Translators in the diwan: Facilitating cross- transformation of IS Inc.: Restructuring and cultural trade in the Eastern Mediterranean in rebranding under the war economy the crusader period Feras Klenk, U Arizona-The state of Deniz Kilincoglu, Middle East Technical education: Violence, boundary formation, and U-Northern Cyprus Campus-The first the territorial imaginary of ISIS treatise on political economy in the Middle Cheikh Isselmou, U Arizona-Jihad, East: Content and context secularity, and eschatology: A new look into the discourse of ISIS
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4998 Disillusionment, Ambivalence, 5023 Militaries of the Middle East: 5027 Islamism, Liberalism, and and Narrations of the Self Politics and Economics Beyond in Turkish Politics
Chair: Ghenwa Hayek, U Chicago Chair: Hind Arroub, Fordham U Chair: Quinn Mecham, Brigham Young U
Greg Bell, Princeton U-Mahjar doughboy: Marwa Maziad, U Washington-Oscillating Aysenur Sonmez Kara, George Mason Mikhail Naimy and the canon of Great War economic roles of Middle East militaries: U-Welcoming Syrian refugees in Turkey: literature Comparative inception stories of military The role of religious discourse in the case of Niki Akhavan, Catholic U-On the business in Turkey, Egypt and Israel diyanet homefront? Women’s memoirs and the Iran- Özgür Özkan, U Washington- Nora Fisher Onar, Coastal Carolina Iraq War Transformation of the Turkish civil-military U-Post-Factual politics and the illiberal turn: Maya Aghasi, American U Sharjah- relations in the 21st century The case of Turkey Historical fiction and the postcolonial, Loosineh Markarian, U Denver-The Yusuf Sarfati, Illinois State U-Challenging transnational condition impact of privatization on the political religious neoliberal governmentality under Anwar Alsaad, American U of the Middle autonomy of the militaries of Iran and Egypt the AKP East-The hidden sarcasm in The Arabic Flash Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve Aykut Ozturk, Syracuse U-The Fiction; A study of the Kuwaiti short-short U-Jordan’s longest war: Fiscal crisis and democratizing potential of Islamic social story militarization organizations: The case of HAK-IS in Turkey Ghada Mourad, UC Irvine-Civil war and Sean Burns, Northwestern U-Military the disembodied self: Hoda Barakat’s “Ahl revolt and repression in the Arab Spring Al-Hawa”
5015 Negotiating Memories and Legacies of Communal Violence in WWI Anatolia
Chair: John Walbridge, Indiana U Bloomington
Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Independent Scholar-“Good Germans” in the Armenian Genocide Leigh Stuckey, U Michigan-Undercover politics: Exchange organizations and minority identity in Turkey Leonidas Karakatsanis, British Inst at Ankara-Displacement, memory and empathy: A comparative analysis of Greek-Turkish and Turkish-Armenian rapprochement Anoush Tamar Suni, UCLA-Palimpsests of violence: History, memory, and the ruins of Anatolia
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