Preliminary Program final ver. 10-17-19

Middle East Studies Association 53rd Annual Meeting November 14-17

bountiful meeting program of more than 300 sessions (starts The best way to support your fellow meeting participants is to plan Aon page 12), a Book Bazaar (see page 4) featuring mountains of to depart New Orleans sometime Sunday afternoon or evening and books brought to you by the people who publish your work, and an to attend the many fine sessions that will be held on that day before exciting FilmFest (sneak peak on page 9) await you at MESA’s 53rd you leave. annual meeting in one of America’s favorite cities, New Orleans. Finally, two requests. First, if you have the means, please book your Rich in history, unparalleled in live music, a foodie’s paradise, and stay at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel using the link on the hotel around-the-clock nightlife make New Orleans magical. Gathering page on MESA’s website and printed below. We need maximum with friends and colleagues is priceless. Rather than extol the virtues bookings to meet our contractual obligations. Second, please of New Orleans here, we suggest you turn to page 6 for the insider’s support the companies that go to great expense to exhibit in the guide to the city by New Orleans native and MESA member Nabil Book Bazaar, by visiting the Book Bazaar and buying a book. The Al-Tikriti. book publishing enterprise faces a lot of challenges. It’s in all of our MESA’s affiliated associations and other groups will hold a majority interests to try to help keep it viable. of their events on Thursday, November 14 (see page 10). The first panel session will be on that day at 5:30pm and the meeting will conclude at the close of the last panel session on Sunday, November 17 at 3:30pm.

Registration To preregister for the MESA 2019 annual meeting, complete the registration form located on the back page of this program and return it along with payment to the MESA Secretariat. If paying by credit card save a stamp and register online by logging into your myMESA account at https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php. Pre- registration is recommended as onsite registration rates are higher. The preregistration deadline is October 24, 2019. Category Preregistration Onsite

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Housing companies or wholesalers NOT affiliated with MESA may Rates/Reservations contact attendees to book hotel rooms for the 2019 annual meet- ing. These companies may actually put people at risk for credit card Cutoff Date $225 single/double Oct. 21 and identity theft. If the hotel is almost sold out, MESA staff will $250 triple let you know. Don’t believe a thing these scammers say. We do not $275 quad recommend doing business with them. All housing for the MESA 2019 annual meeting is handled through the link above. https://book.passkey.com/e/49880909 (plus room tax of 16.35% + $3/night occupancy fee) Travel/Ground Transportation Thematic Conversations Book Bazaar and Roundtables The Louis Armstrong New Orleans Easily the largest display of Middle East Thematic Conversations offer an alternative International Airport (MSY) serves the studies titles anywhere, MESA’s an- place to pose new questions for research, greater New Orleans area. The airport nual book bazaar will include old and new explore new trends and approaches to old is approximately 25 minutes from the friends–U presses, small publishing houses, questions, meet like-minded scholars, and Sheraton. For ground transportation, independent book sellers, and even artisans engage in open academic exchange in an contact Airport Shuttle New Orleans sharing their talents. All will gather in New unstructured space. The conversations have at 504-522-3500 or 866-596-2699, Orleans for a three-day festival of books. a session leader and discussants who set or book online at https://www. The book bazaar will be open 9-6 Friday the agenda for the conversation. They are airportshuttleneworleans.com/. Roundtrip and Saturday (Nov. 15 & 16), and 8-12 on (un)structured to provide for maximum service is $44 per person. One way is $24. Sunday (Nov. 17). Visit MESA’s website participation from those in attendance, and for a list of exhibitors. Share Your Paper there are no formal presentations. Seating is limited to 30 people. You don’t have to rent space to exhibit at with Co-Panelists by Oct. 15 the MESA meeting. For $40 per title, pub- Please share a copy of your paper with your Roundtables promote informed discussion lications can be placed on view in MESA’s co-panelists. You can send a copy attached and debate concerning the current state of Cooperative Book Display. This is an ideal to an email message or upload a copy to in particular fields, work currently arrangement for individuals, independent the myMESA system. No one else will be in progress or the particular problems involved authors, and small presses with few Middle able to view your paper except for your in the employment of new approaches, new East studies titles. models, etc. The roundtable format lends co-panelists. Papers need not be the final If you would like additional information itself to open discussion in an atmosphere copy; drafts are fine. There is no suggested about exhibiting at MESA 2019, please visit where participants provide their points of view paper length. Your topic and your depth of MESA’s website or contact Rose Veneklasen and engage the audience in active discussion. coverage should determine its length. Plan at [email protected] or 520-333-2577. to present a truncated version of your paper Participants do not prepare papers and do not at your panel. lecture to the audience. Seating is restricted to 25-30 maximum. No Show Policy 1. Log-in to myMESA (http://mesana. org/mymesa/login.php). Roommates We understand that things come up at 2. Click the “Annual Meeting” button. the last minute that prevent a participant If you are interested in sharing a room at from attending the meeting. As a courtesy 3. Click the “Paper Abstract” button the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel during the (shows up once you click the annual meeting to your co-panelists, please notify MESA MESA annual meeting, please visit MESA’s if you cannot attend the meeting. If you button). website at https://mesana.org/annual- 4. Click the “Submit/Update full paper” are scheduled to participate in the annual meeting/roommate-locator. MESA maintains meeting in any capacity and you don’t button. a “roommates wanted” page on its website show up and haven’t informed the MESA 5. Under “Upload your attachment” click where those wanting to share rooms can find Secretariat, you will be considered a ‘no- the “browse” button. each other. 6. Locate the file on your computer. show’ and will not be eligible to participate 7. Once the name of your file appears in Child Care in the next year’s meeting. A no-show is the box next to the “browse” button, click MESA can help parents find a local provider someone who is not physically present at the “Save and back to abstract” button. and will reimburse half of the cost of day his/her panel at the conference and hasn’t 8. Your file has now been uploaded. care services up to a maximum of $200 for notified the MESA Secretariat beforehand. 9. Log-out. the conference. Upon request, the Secretariat will be happy to post contact information Want to upload a newer copy later? Repeat of parents who want to share sitting services above. during the meeting. For further information, please contact Rose Veneklasen at rose@ mesana.org or 520 333-2577. Panel Chairs Invited Volunteers are invited to chair panels as- sembled from individually submitted papers at the MESA 2019 annual meeting. For a list of available panels, please visit MESA’s website at mesana.org, click on “Annual Meeting” at the top and then on “Chairs.” Email your choices to Mark Lowder at [email protected]. Before you volunteer, please note that MESA membership and annual meeting pre-registration are required of all meeting participants.

Page 2 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program Anti-Sexual Harassment MESA Members Meeting MESA’s Anti-Sexual Harassment Commit- tee (ASH) will be in full operation at the MESA 2019 meeting in New Orleans. We Saturday, November 16 v 1:15pm-2:45pm v Sheraton New Orleans Hotel ask everyone to read the ASH committee The members meeting is an annual meeting or from the membership. For resolutions to protocol that is posted on MESA’s website. of the membership open to all members. be acted upon at the 2019 Members Meeting, If you are not familiar with what kinds of Voting is restricted to full and student MESA they must be in the hands of the MESA behavior constitute sexual harassment, the members. The meeting mainly consists of Secretariat by Thursday, October 31, 2019. protocol outlines those in detail. reports (see agenda below right). Where Instructions for submitting resolutions can be members play an important role is in voting found in MESA’s Bylaws which are posted on ASH will have a committee member and an for the Nominating Committee and on MESA’s website at mesana.org. ombudsperson on call at the MESA meet- any resolutions that are being presented. A ing. They will be available to swiftly address member in good standing can add names to Sample Agenda instances of sexual harassment by offering the list of people who will be invited to run support to survivors, while working to hold for the Nominating Committee, augmenting offenders accountable. those proposed by MESA’s Board. I. Call to Order II. Report of the Executive Director We encourage anyone who experiences sex- Quorum III. In Memoriam and Moment of Silence ual harassment at the meeting to report it A minimum of 35 voting-eligible members IV. 2019 Election of Officers Results to the designated ASH committee member must be in attendance for votes to be taken. V. Nominating Committee Vote and Call for and/or ombudsperson. They are in place to Failing that, the meeting can be held but votes Names help you. Anyone who witnesses instances cannot be taken. VI. IJMES Report of sexual harassment at the meeting are also VII. RoMES Report encouraged to speak up. Bystander accounts Resolutions VIII. Committee on Academic Freedom Report are enormously helpful in addressing sexual When important issues are before the IX. New Business harassment. Share what you witnessed with membership, resolutions are sometimes X. Adjournment the ASH committee member and/or the presented at the members meeting. ombudsperson. All reporting is held in the Resolutions can originate from MESA’s Board strictest of confidence.

The elimination of sexual harassment will require everyone’s help. It will require a Your Conference Paper: Share it and Prepare for It change in the culture that has made SH Share your paper with your co-panelists by October 15, 2019 possible. MESA’s goal is to eradicate sexual Please upload a copy of your paper to the myMESA system or send a copy via email to your harassment by educating members, main- co-panelists, especially the chair/discussant. No one else will be able to view your paper taining a zero tolerance policy, and acting except for your co-panelists. Papers need not be the final copy; drafts are fine. There is no quickly when instances arise. suggested paper length. Your topic and your depth of coverage should determine its length. Plan to present a truncated version of your paper at your panel.

1. Log into myMESA (http://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php). 2. Click the “Annual Meeting” button. 3. Click the “Paper Abstract” button (shows up once you click the annual meeting button). 4. Click the “Submit/Update full paper” button. 5. Under “Upload your attachment” click the “browse” button. 6. Locate the file on your computer by navigating to the directory where the file is located. 7. Once the name of your file appears in the box next to the “browse” button, click the “Save and back to abstract” button. 8. Your file has now been uploaded. 9. Log-out.

Want to upload a newer copy later? Repeat above.

Planning for your presentation Former MESA board member, James Gelvin (UCLA), kindly shared with MESA some tips on preparing and delivering conference papers that he created for his graduate students. We think they are great tips for those new to paper presentations and for anyone who struggles with the medium. Gelvin begins by reminding folks that, "a conference presentation is a distinct category of communication." Have a look at his tips at: https://mesana.org/pdf/ conference-paper-tips.pdf.

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MESA Cooperative Book Display: Exhibit without Renting Space MESA’s Cooperative Book Display (CBD) is a low-cost option to display books without having to rent a booth. It is perfect for any individual, publisher, organization, or other interested party looking for the opportunity to be a part of the Book Bazaar at an affordable price. Pay $50/title and provide two copies of each title. Your publication is displayed at MESA’s premium location booth and is included in a catalogue. To reserve space in the CBD, complete and mail/fax/email the CBD Reservation Form plus send TWO copies of each title to the address below by October 18, 2019. Please note: All CBD titles become the property of MESA. Please direct questions to Rose Veneklasen at [email protected] or 520-333-2577. MESA 2019 CBD, 3542 N. Geronimo Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705.

Page 4 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program AALIM, Arab American Language Institute in 87 Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations 60 Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane 74 Al Manhal 7 American Association of Teachers of Arabic 74 American Research Center in 5 The American University in Cairo Press 43-44 American University of Beirut 86 AMIDEAST Education Abroad 80 Arabic & Persian at the University of Maryland 30 The Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF) 36 The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington 76 Arab Studies Institute/ 37-38 Aramco World (Aramco Services Company) 13 Brill 14-15 Cambridge University Press 19-21 Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication 61 Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), in 79 Press 31 Council of American Overseas Research Centers/The Fulbright Program 22-24 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program 6 De Gruyter 2-3 Press 73 East View Information Services 48 Edinburgh University Press 33-34 FIE: Foundation for International Education 81 Georgetown University Press 42 Gingko 45 Gulf International Forum 82 Hurst Publishers 55 I.B. Tauris, and imprint of Bloomsbury 53-54 IES Abroad Rabat 56 Independent Publishers Group 78 Indiana University Press 49 Ingram Academic Services 49 The Institute of Ismaili Studies 39 Interlink Publishing 27-28 International Institute for Iranian Studies (Rasanah) 1 International Institute of Islamic Thought 16 ISD LLC 63-64 Lebanese American University 88 Lexington Books 35 Library of Arabic Literature/NYU Press 57-58 Middle East Institute 83 Middlebury Language Schools 84 Noor Majan Arabic Institute 89 Oneworld Academic 4 Palgrave Macmillan 62 Press 52 Project MUSE 66 Qalam wa Lawh Center for Arabic Studies in Rabat, Morocco 17-18 Routledge 11-12 Rowman & Littlefield 35 Press 46-47 Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center 59 Syracuse University Press 25-26 Press 65 Press 75 The University of Texas Press 32 Wafid Arabic Institute () 85

MESA 2019 Preliminary Program u Page 5 “Laissez les bons temps roulez” (“Let the good times roll”)

“Bienvenu a la Nouvelle Pat O’Brien’s, with an entrance just restaurant featuring Creole cooking, Orleans,” says no one ever, except in off Bourbon, is a famous establishment justly famous for its Red Beans and Rice tourist industry videos aimed at the meriting a visit for its “dueling piano” and unfortunately long lines. Francophone or domestic exotica bar, classic courtyard architecture, There are several live music market. While the French, Spanish, and signature cocktails. Café Lafitte in venues in the city, the most famous of Creole, Italian, and several other Exile, located at the far end of Bourbon, which are the House of Blues on the communal legacies abound in the offers the perfect atmosphere for a very downtown side of the Quarter just off city’s history, they tend to whisper specific, exclusively male, clientele. Decatur St., and Tipitina’s, uptown through the architecture and subtle Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, which the near the river. For those interested in local customs rather than shout out faux aforementioned Café Lafitte is said to less prominent live music locations greetings in a foreign tongue. Surviving have been exiled from, is a cozy, rustic, throughout the city, check local listings legacies tend toward the sorts of signals and truly historic little bar a block off at www.wwoz.org. locals use like dog whistles for mutual Bourbon. recognition. For example, people still Unusually for an American shout out “laissez les bons temps rouler” city, New Orleans (b. 1718) boasts when appropriate. They also know what a genuinely rich history worthy of it means [“let the good times roll”], live exploration. Having just celebrated like they mean it, and invite others to the city’s tri-centennial, residents do the same. Likewise, they remember are justifiably proud about the city’s what the Vieux Carré is [“Old Quarter,” cultural legacy. The epicenter of i.e. French Quarter], have a vague sense local history is of course the French of what Café du Monde actually means, Quarter, around which visitors should New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods, and spell certain stock expressions with strive to visit Jackson Square, St. several of which deserve a visit, and eaux, as in “Geaux Saints.” Beyond that, Louis Cathedral, the Louisiana history some of which are within walking seek not contemporary French culture, museum at the Cabildo, the Historic distance from downtown. Just as seekers of such are likely to find New Orleans Collection (a great outside the French Quarter lie the disappointment. structural preservation story), the just neighborhoods of Tremé, Fauburg renovated Moonwalk, and the Ursuline Marigny, and Bywater. Tremé, now Convent (the oldest structure in the famous as the setting for HBO’s realist entire Mississippi Valley). All can be 2010-2013 television series, is a small visited on foot in an afternoon, and each neighborhood which abuts St. Louis has its own variant reasons for a stop, Cemeteries #1 and #2. These cemeteries including detailed museum exhibits on are absolutely worth a visit, if only regional history, funerary slabs devoted to see the city’s distinct, historic, and to early European explorers, views of the geographically appropriate cemetery river, and a thriving street artist scene. design. Plots and crypts are all above For those with both the inclination ground, tend to be owned by extended Go ahead, start your visit with every and the budget for fine dining, families, get recycled from generation tourist’s ritual stroll down Bourbon several famous restaurants are located to generation, and often strive to St. At some point early in your first in the Quarter, including Bayona, outdo each other in extravagance and evening, walk from one end to the Broussard’s, and Galatoire’s. Such high philosophical messaging. Those who other to get it out of your system. Duly end restaurants tend to be better, and go should try to find “Voodoo Queen” convinced of late American decadence, far cheaper, for lunch than for dinner. Marie Laveau’s tomb, buried right next then do yourself, your bank account, Less expensive tastes to explore in the to New Orleans’ first African-American your iPhone, your reputation, your Quarter include the somewhat touristy mayor, Dutch Morial. Plessy, loved ones, and your descendants all a Acme Oyster House for fried seafood of Plessy vs. Ferguson and “Separate, favor and proceed elsewhere. Anyone and fresh oysters, Central Grocery for but Equal” fame, is also buried in the who spends more than fifteen minutes locally famous Muffaletta sandwiches same cemetery. One cautionary note: on Bourbon deserves what happens (they close at 5 pm), Napoleon House these cemeteries are best visited by day, to them. Duly warned, it’s also worth (muffalettas and bar), and the world as the location is notorious for tourist pointing out, however, that just off and famous Café du Monde for beignets muggings after dusk. at the end of Bourbon St. remain some and café au lait, 24/7. Right near the useful destinations to keep in mind. convention hotel is Mother’s, a lunch

Page 6 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program neighborhood of Italian immigrants, Ave. along the Fauburg Marigny and then a primarily poor African-American Bywater, opened in 2016. If you can area following 1960s white flight, spare the time, you should not miss the Bywater is now a rapidly gentrifying iconic St. Charles Ave. streetcar line, neighborhood made up of resident which runs from Canal St. along an oak hipsters, artists, and other assorted tree studded St. Charles Ave. through urban pioneers fighting off the scourge the Garden District, past Loyola and of tourism-driven rental properties. Tulane Universities, Audubon Park Elizabeth’s, on Chartres St. right off (featuring the best zoo in the region), The Fauburg Marigny is the the river, is a wonderful place for and dozens of gorgeous old mansions neighborhood bordering the Quarter breakfast and lunch, and might as well indicative of the city’s past wealth on Esplanade Ave. The most important have provided the model for “Tremé’s” and glory, on to Carrollton Ave. This street in this neighborhood is struggling restaurant owner character. most affluent part of the city was Frenchman St., a center of live music Vaughan’s Lounge (4229 Dauphine nicknamed the “Isle of Denial” in the and bars just beyond the Quarter. St.) is the place to be on a Thursday wake of Katrina because it was largely Unfortunately, while once this street night, when Kermit Ruffins performs. untouched, and remains the city’s served as a social refuge for locals, in Mimi’s (Royal St.), Markey’s (Royal premier residential neighborhood. recent years it has been discovered St.), and the AllWays Lounge are other While there are numerous places of by road-tripping Col students. The storied local drinking holes, each of local interest in this area, for MESA street remains worth a visit during which might require either a taxi or a visitors the one to consider might be daytime hours, as it features Mona’s ride on the Rampart St. / St. Claude The Columns, a hotel bar in a classic Cafe, a Palestinian-owned landmark Ave. streetcar to reach from downtown. old St. Charles mansion with a large specializing in Arab cuisine for those Bacchanal, a wine bar located at veranda overlooking the avenue and its who prefer the MESA culinary Chartres and Streets at the far streetcar line. For those interested in mold. Mona’s, whose main store and end of Bywater, sometimes features fine dining, another option in this part restaurant is in Mid-City, also serves as live performances in its backyard. of town is Commander’s Palace, a world a communal center for the city’s modest Such performances remain a bone of famous restaurant located in the Garden Arab-American population. For those contention between an activist city District. who enjoy urban biking, rent a bicycle council and neighborhood residents Another wonderful neighborhood from Bicycle Michael’s, a locally owned who continue to fight for their right to is Mid-City, which has bounced back business owned by engaged and well- hear live, local music right next door. nicely from its 10-15 ft. inundation informed scholars and gentlemen. If you of floodwaters following Katrina. do wish to explore the nightlife (best on As the name suggests, this is a large a weeknight), several live music venues residential area in the middle of the city, merit mention: Spotted Cat, Apple convenient to everywhere else. There Barrel, DBA, Three Muses, Maison, and are dozens of locally owned restaurants the high end Jazz club and restaurant and bars, and touring Mid-City offers Snug Harbor. If you choose to explore one a great sense of the old city’s local this end of the Quarter, you will need working class patterns. Another streetcar only a 20 minute brisk walk along the line runs from Canal St. to either the river to return to the conference hotel Canal Cemeteries or City Park, and is on Canal St. downtown. In the 1920s, as in other pre- the best way to access this area without If determined to experience a automobile U.S. cities, New Orleans a car. One celebrated example of locally truly local hang out featuring a daily had well over 100 private streetcar owned restaurants is Mandina’s, which changing menu, walk another 10 lines, including the famous line on is right on the Canal streetcar line, near minutes away from the Quarter on Desire St. At its low point, only where it intersects with Carrollton Ave. Dauphine St. and patronize Lost the iconic St. Charles Ave. streetcar The carnivores amongst us should get Love Lounge, managed by Muriel, remained. However, a modest streetcar a taxi to Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse, your correspondent’s sister-in-law. renaissance began with Clinton era a truly amazing steakhouse experience. If you walk that direction, you will federal transportation grants, and now Another famous establishment in this eventually reach Bywater, once known five lines exist. The first new one runs neighborhood is Parkway Bakery & as the Upper Ninth and the next right along the river from Canal St. to Tavern, which specializes in po-boys, neighborhood along the river after Esplanade Ave. The newest, running the city’s answer to grinders, hoagies, Fauburg Marigny. Once a working class along Rampart St. and St. Claude and submarine sandwiches. The po-

MESA 2019 Preliminary Program u Page 7 boys here are excellent, and the owner Café du Monde branch. Those who has lovingly placed on his walls an want to see swamps complete with outstanding collection of New Orleans snakes, alligators, pelicans, and nutria memorabilia. Also roughly in this area should find a way to get over to the is a local icon, Rock N’ Bowl, a bowling West Bank’s Jean Lafitte National alley carved out of an old paint factory Park, which boasts a highly informative on Carrollton Ave. which features live visitor’s center and several stunningly music most nights, great New Orleans beautiful boardwalks over swamp land. bar food, and a veritable museum of To visit everywhere listed in this Considering New Orleans’ local music legends. article would require well over a week reputation as Sodom on the Mississippi, of full time tourism. Hopefully those visitors might be surprised to learn with an extra day or two on either end that the city is a very child friendly of MESA will find time to explore those milieu, with a number of destinations destinations which interest them most. to delight children. Right at the foot Whatever you do, we hope you enjoy of Canal St. lies the New Orleans yourself to the fullest, support local Aquarium, where several donors were culture, make all your panels, and laissez once dumped in the drink when their les bons temps rouler, wherever you are. viewing platform collapsed during a fund-raising cocktail. On the corner of Nabil Al-Tikriti Canal and Decatur lies the Insectarium, Associate Professor Those looking for remnants of a certain hit with some children. This Department of History the Katrina disaster might prove as can be visited on a joint ticket with the U Mary Washington disappointed as those searching for Audubon Park Zoo, a nicely designed Fredericksburg, VA native French speakers. Those interested and managed representative of the in this part of the city’s history should zoological genre, located uptown at the seek out several brave attempts at back of the park across from Tulane environmentally appropriate and and Loyola Universities. In Mid-City’s architecturally fascinating housing in venerable and resurgent City Park there the Lower Ninth, famously co-financed is Storyland, an old fairy tale themed by Brad Pitt. They can also try to find park that every local fondly remembers the Musicians’ Village, an attempt from his/her own childhood. Also in to provide affordable and locally City Park is the New Orleans Museum appropriate housing for area musicians of Art’s Sculpture Garden, which boasts in the wake of the storm, assisted by some excellent pieces just across from Habitat for Humanity. a rustic park café featuring another

Page 8 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program MESA ’19 FilmFest Preview MESA in New Orleans will have lots of attractions apart from those in the French Quarter. Whether you’re looking for a break from the hubbub or seeking out a specific film, the FilmFest will have some eye-popping films to add to your MESA experience. Here are some of the films we expect to screen. House in the Fields Set in an Amazigh community in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains, House in the Fields presents an everyday portrait of a village and community confronted by sud- den social change. The central focus is on the intimate lives of two sisters. The eldest has dropped out of school in preparation for her wedding. She is engaged to a man she barely knows and once married will move to Casablanca. She hopes to find work in the city but doesn’t know whether her husband will permit it. Her younger sister enjoys school and dreams of becoming a judge, contrary to village attitudes.

Women with Gunpowder Earrings Iranian director Reza Farahmand’s film Women with Gunpowder Earrings con- fronts the dilemma facing Noor al-Helli, an Iraqi journalist covering the war against the Islamic State on the Iraq-Syria border. She is a reporter with an anti-IS stance and takes great risks to show the cruelty of the Islamists. Her perspective changes when she meets women and children captured as IS sympathizers. Confronted with women living in misery and holding antithetical views she attempts to understand what led them to adopt this worldview.

Imprisoning a Generation Much has been said about the effects of Israeli occupation on Palestinian lives. Im- prisoning a Generation presents the impact on four young Palestinians. This low- key film does not scream at the audience but instead simply shows what it is like to live in Aida refugee camp near Bait Jala, in East Jerusalem, in Hebron and in Bethle- hem. Each of the stories reveals a facet of life under Israeli control. This beautifully crafted film documents the plight of youthful detainees in the Israeli prison system as well as Palestinian resistance. It analyzes how Israeli occupation forces attempt to intimidate the next generation into fear, silence and complicity.

And There was Regardless of one’s point of view, today Israel, as a country, is a “fact on the ground.” But this was never inevitable. And there was Israel merges historic American, Brit- 10 Days Before the Wedding ish and French newsreel footage with the commentaries of seven scholars from different disciplines who provide engaging analyses of the path from Zionist ambition through to the expulsion of Pal- estinians from the newly created state. Invented history and clever manipulation helped avert poten- tially disastrous pitfalls, yet these actions set the pattern for the con- flict that exists today.

10 Days Before the Wedding is a feature length romantic comedy filmed amid the destruction of war-torn Aden. Even though fighting in the area ended several years ago, the prospective couple face numerous obstacles to getting married. Social and economic problems arise within the groom’s family. Their landlord decides he would like the bride for his own. Despite these setbacks the couple perseveres. In addition to a delightful story, 10 Days speaks out against wartime conditions, the government, families that “pimp” out their daughters for financial security and war profiteering.

MESA 2019 Preliminary Program u Page 9 Meetings in Conjunction wAATA–American Association of wAIS–Association for Iranian Teachers of Arabic Studies Thursday, 11/14 Thursday, 11/14 Executive Board Meeting, 9am- wAASA–Arab American Studies Members General Meeting, 12nn, 4-Oakley Association 3-4:30pm, 4-Oakley Panel: "Arabic Literature in the Saturday, 11/16 Arabic Language Classroom," Joint Reception with AMEWS, wAIS–Association for Israel Studies 1-3pm, 4-Nottoway AMEA, AMECYS, 8-11pm, 4-Bayside A Thursday, 11/14 Business Meeting, 3:30-5pm, Reception, 8-10pm, 4-Gallier A/B 4-Nottoway wArab Barometer Saturday, 11/16 wAMEWS–Association for Middle wAATP–American Association of Reception, 7-8:30pm, 4-Evergreen East Women’s Studies Teachers of Persian Thursday, 11/14 Thursday, 11/14 wArab Political Science Network Board Meeting, 3-5pm, 8-Bacchus/ Annual General Meeting, 3-4:30pm, (APSN) Iris/Muses 3-Napoleon Ballroom, Section D3 Friday, 11/15 JMEWS Editorial Board Meeting, Reception in honor of Professor John Information and Business Meeting, 6-7pm, 8-Bacchus/Iris/Muses Perry, recipient of the AATP Lifetime 1-2pm, 4-Oakley Saturday, 11/16 Achievement Award, 7:30-9:30pm, Business Meeting, 7-8pm, 4-Bayside 4-Oakley wArabic Collections Online (ACO) C Saturday, 11/16 Joint Reception with AASA, AMEA, wACIE–American Councils for Board Meeting, 12-2pm, 4-Oakley AMECYS, 8-11pm, 4-Bayside A International Education Saturday, 11/16 wArabic Council of Directors, wAMEA–Association of Middle Arabic Council of Directors, Arabic Arabic Flagship Program East Anthropology Flagship Program Meeting, 2-6pm, Saturday, 11/16 Saturday, 11/16 8-Armstrong Meeting, 2-6pm, 8-Armstrong Joint Reception with AASA, AMEWS, AMECYS, 8-11pm, wAIMS–American Institute for wArizona State U, Center for 4-Bayside A Maghrib Studies Maghrib Studies Thursday, 11/14 Friday, 11/15 wAMECYS–Association of Middle Board Meeting, 9am-1pm, 4-Edgewood Board Meeting, 7-10pm, 4-Oakley East Children and Youth Studies A/B Saturday, 11/16 Business Meeting, 3-4:30pm, Joint Reception with AASA, 3-Napoleon Ballroom, Section D1 AMEWS, AMEA, 8-11pm, 4-Bayside A wAIYS–American Institute for wASA–Assyrian Studies Association Yemeni Studies Friday, 11/15 Thursday, 11/14 Board Meeting, 6-8pm, 4-Evergreen Board Meeting, 4-5:30pm, 4-Ellendale Friday, 11/15 wAGAPS–Association for Gulf and wCASA–Center for Arabic Study Information Meeting, 4-5:30pm, Arabian Peninsula Studies Abroad 8-Endymion/Mid-City Thursday, 11/14 Thursday, 11/14 Board Meeting, 11am-2pm, Governing Board Dinner Meeting, wARCE–American Research Center 4-Southdown 6-9pm, Palace Cafe (Canal Street Rm) in Egypt Senior Advisory Council Meeting, Friday, 11/15 Friday, 11/15 12:30-2pm, 8-Endymion/Mid-City Alumni Reception, 6-8pm, “Doing Research in Egypt: What General Business Meeting, 3-5pm, 2-Lagniappe You Need to Know”, 10:15am- 8-Orpheus Saturday, 11/16 12:15pm, 4-Edgewood A/B Happy Hour Reception, 5:30- Consortium Annual Luncheon, 8:30pm, Napoleon House, 500 Chartres 11:30am-1pm, location TBA wAmerican University in Cairo–AUC St.) Friday, 11/15 “Doing Research in Egypt: What You Need to Know”, 10:15am- 12:15pm, 4-Edgewood A/B Saturday, 11/16 Reception, 7:30-9:30pm, 2-Lagniappe

Page 10 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program wCIRS-Center for International wMEOC–Middle East Outreach wSAS–Society for Armenian Studies and Regional Studies, Georgetown Council Thursday, 11/14 University in Qatar Friday, 11/15 Executive Council Meeting, 9:30- Friday, 11/15 Business Meeting, 4-5pm, 5-Rampart 11:30am, 4-Ellendale Reception, 7-9pm, Palace Cafe, 605 Board Meeting, 5-6:30pm, 5-Grand Annual Membership Meeting, 3-5pm, Canal St. Couteau 3-Napoleon Ballroom, Section D2 wConsortium of Middle East NRCs wMESA–Middle East Studies wSSA–Syrian Studies Association and FLAS-granting Centers Association Friday, 11/15 Saturday, 11/16 Thursday, 11/14 Board Meeting, 1-2, 4-Ellendale Business Meeting, 11am-1pm, CUMES Undergraduate Research Business Meeting, 5-6pm, 8-Armstrong Poster Session, 4-5pm, 4-Gallier A/B 4-Estherwood CUMES Business Meeting, 5:15- Reception, 6-7:30pm, 4-Estherwood wDuke University, Middle East 6:15pm, 4-Evergreen Studies Center and Islamic Studies Friday, 11/15 wTARII–The Academic Research Center and the Duke-UNC Affiliate Officers Meeting, 7:30-9am, Institute in Iraq Consortium 4-Gallier A/B Saturday, 11/16 Thursday, 11/14 Committee on Academic Board Meeting, 1-3pm, 4-Ellendale Reception, 7:30pm, Antoine’s Freedom Meeting, 9:30am-12:30pm, Reception, 8:30-9:30pm, 4-Southdown Restaurant, 713 Saint Louis Street 4-Gallier A/B Task Force for Civil and Human wUCLA–University of California, wHarvard, CMES Rights Meeting, 5-6:30pm, 4-Ellendale Los Angeles Saturday, 11/16 Saturday, 11/16 Saturday, 11/16 Reception, 8:30-10pm, 4-Gallier A/B Middle East Center & Program Center for Near Eastern Studies Directors Meeting, 9-11am, Alumni Reception, 8:30-10pm, jmews 8-Armstrong 4-Bayside B RoMES Editorial Board Meeting, wJMEWS-Journal of Middle East 9:30-11am, 4-Estherwood wWOCMES–World Congress for Women’s Studies MESA Members Meeting, 1:15- Middle Eastern Studies Thursday, 11/14 2:45pm, 5-Grand C Saturday, 11/16 Editorial Board Meeting, 6-7pm, MESA Global Academy Meeting, International Advisory Council 8-Bacchus/Iris/Muses 3-5pm, 8-Endymion/Mid-City Meeting, 11am-1pm, 8-Endymion/Mid- Sunday, 11/17 City wLSA–Lebanese Studies Meeting and Workshop - Editors Association of Middle East Studies Journals, Thursday, 11/14 8-11am, 8-Orpheus Board Meeting, 2-3pm, 4-Edgewood A/B Business Meeting, 3-4pm, 5-Rampart wOTSA–Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association wMECPD–Middle East Center & Thursday, 11/14 Program Directors Board Meeting, 3-5pm, 8-Endymion/ Saturday, 11/16 Mid-City Annual Meeting, 9-11am, 8-Armstrong Reception, 7:30-8:30pm, 4-Southdown Members’ Meeting, 8:30-10pm, wMELG–Middle East Law and 4-Southdown Governance Journal Friday, 11/15 wPARC–Palestinian American Business Meeting, 8:30-10:30am, Research Center 4-Ellendale Thursday, 11/14 Board Meeting, 12-4pm, 3-Borgne wMELA–Middle East Librarians Friday, 11/15 Association Organizing Faculty-Led, Student Thursday, 11/14 Trips to Palestine: A Conversation Vendor Showcase, 9am-2pm, 4-Bayside A on Opportunities, Obstacles and Best Practices, 5:30-7pm, 5-Rampart wMEM–Middle East Medievalists Thursday, 11/14 Board Meeting, 12-2pm, 4-Ellendale Business Meeting, 3-5pm, 4-Bayside B Reception, 8:30-10pm, 2-Lagniappe

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000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Arin Savran, Trinity Col Dublin–The 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA “Other” Middle East Peace Talks: A Conflict 5431 Legal Regimes of Refugee Transformation Perspective on the Peace 5483 Women in Lebanon: From Late Settlement in the Middle East Process between and the Kurdistan Colonialism to Early Independence Organized by Vladimir Hamed- Workers’ Party (PKK), 2009-2015 Organized by Ziad M. Abu-Rish and Troyansky Kaner Turker, Clark U–Assembling Nova Robinson Community Economies in Northern Kurdistan Chair: Reem Bailony, Agnes Scott Col Huseyin Rasit, Yale–A Tale of Two Kurdistans: Chair: Tsolin Nalbantian, Leiden U Discussant: Laura Robson, Portland State U Ideological Structures and Political Formations in Kurdistan-Syria and Kurdistan-Iraq Nadya J. Sbaiti, AUB–A Single Source: Aslı Z. Igsiz, NYU–Rethinking Politics of Cezary Blaszczyk, U Warsaw–The Ideology of Towards a Theory of Women’s Activism in Expertise and Human Displacement in the Democratic Confederalism and the Rule of Law Lebanon, 1930-1960 Post-Second-World-War Era Sana Tannoury-Karam, Arab Council for Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Furman U– 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Social Sciences–Demanding Political Rights, Making the Late Ottoman Refugee Regime Challenging Democratic Principles: Emily Lauren Banko, Yale–“Masquerading as 5475 The Turkish War of Independence Fares-Ibrahim and the Feminist Struggle for Refugees”: The Absence of the Refugee in 1919-22 Suffrage in Mandate Lebanon Interwar Palestine Organized by Mesut Uyar Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio U–Getting the Ramazan Hakki Oztan, U Neuchatel– Vote: Suffrage and the Women’s Movement in Rethinking the Settlement Law of 1934 and Organized under the auspices of Post-Independence Lebanon the Kemalist Population Politics Antalya Bilim U Nova Robinson, Seattle U–Reaching Rural Women: The Village Welfare Society, Women’s 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Chair: Virginia Aksan, McMaster U Rights, and Development Discourse in Post- Independence Lebanon 5433 Ottoman Political Economy in the Mesut Uyar, Antalya Bilim U–A Deadly Mediterranean Dilemma, Confronting or Embracing Defeat: 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Organized by Ellen M. Nye The Ottomans in the Aftermath of the First World War 5491 From to Lausanne: Chair: Maurits Van Den Boogert, Brill Veysel Simsek, McGill U–Mapping the International Law, Diplomacy, and Turkish Offensive in the War of Independence, the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty in Irena Fliter, U Goettingen–The Commerce August–September 1922 Wartime of the Camondos: Jewish Merchants between Benjamin C. Fortna, U Arizona– Organized by Pinar Odabasi Tasci and Ottoman and European Authorities in the Late Kuþçubaþı Eþref in the Turkish War of Kate Dannies Eighteenth Century Independence Michael Talbot, U Greenwich–Peaceful Ibrahim Sani Mert, Antalya Bilim U– Chair/Discussant: Lale Can, City Col of Commerce and the Abode of Holy War: Professional Military Education during the New York CUNY Regulating Trade between Algiers and Turkish War of Independence Western Europe in the Eighteenth Century Will Smiley, U New Hampshire–A Ellen M. Nye, Yale–Ottoman Monetary 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Question of Interest: The Russian Indemnities Policy and the Shaping of Inter-Imperial Credit Arbitration and Its Eurasian Context Relations at the Turn of the 18th Century Roundtable Pinar Odabasi Tasci, U Akron–Edirne 5481 Advancing and Integrating Legal during the Balkan Wars: Reclaiming 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Scholarship in and on the Middle East Sovereignty and Utilizing Violence in the Organized by Mai El-Sadany Ottoman Western Borderlands 5473 Ideologies, Political Formations, Kate Dannies, Miami U–The 1917 Law of and Conflict in Kurdistan Family Rights and the Ottoman Quest for Organized by Huseyin Rasit Organized under the auspices of The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Sovereignty in Aimee Genell, U West Georgia–From Chair: Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col Chair: Nathan J. Brown, George the Legalist Empire to the Sovereign State: Discussant: Mehmet Gurses, Florida International Law at the Treaty of Lausanne Atlantic U Washington U

Morgan Tufan, Stanford–Allegiance and Ghuna Bdiwi, York U Autonomy in Early Modern Kurdistan Mona Oraby, Amherst Col Mai El-Sadany, Tahrir Inst for Middle East Policy Allison McManus, Tahrir Inst for Middle East Policy Page 12 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program 5:30-7:30PM Thursday November 14

000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Stephanie Wright, Australian National 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA U–Liberalization and the Role of the 5495 Multilingualism, Cultural Corporation in Eastern Mediterranean Port- 5636 Towards a Sensory History of Diversity, and the Evolution of Arabic Cities, 1780-1840 Middle Eastern Societies: Paradigms Literature Deen Sharp, MIT–Capitalized Urbanization and Emerging Trends Organized by Linda Istanbulli Organized by Christian Lange 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Huda Fakhreddine, U Penn–Arabic Poetry Organized under the auspices of by Other Means 5604 Documentary Diplomacy & the The ERC Project Linda Istanbulli, UC Berkeley–Arabic Archive Fiction and the Reclaiming of a Complex Organized by Hadi Gharabaghi Adam Bursi, Utrecht U–I Would Never Cultural Space Touch You: Haptic Questions within Early Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue U– Chair: Hadi Gharabaghi, NYU Islamic Pilgrimage Appropriation of Imperial Texts and the Discussant: Terri Ginsberg, AUC Christian Lange, Utrecht U–Al-Jahiz on Reconfiguration of Arab Cultural History the Senses Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS Col–Arabic Aysehan Jülide Etem, Indiana U–After Arash Ghajarjazi, Utrecht U–The Senses Literatureʼs Contested Borders across the Sahara Diplomacy, What’s Next?: Incomplete Archives (Re)Organized: Towards a Cultural History of of Turkey’s Educational Film Center Anatomy in 19th Century 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Kaveh Askari, Michigan State U– Eyad Abuali, Utrecht U–Music and Preserving an Orphan Film Project: NIRT at Meditation: Sound, Vision, and Identity from 5555 Community, Social History, MSU in the 1970s Classical to Medieval Sufism and the State: New Directions in the Hadi Gharabaghi, NYU–The Syracuse History of the Maghrib Documentary Mission in Iran (1950-1959) & 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Organized by James McDougall the Archive Today 5667 Rebel Rule in the Middle East: Chair: Jennifer Sessions, U Virginia 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Providing Services in Bids for Legitimacy Discussant: James McDougall, Trinity Organized by Brynjar Lia Col, U Oxford Roundtable 5619 Race in the Middle East Chair: Pinar Tank, Peace Research Inst Oslo Malika Rahal, Institut d’histoire du Organized by Sherene Seikaly temps présent (CNRS)–A Social History of Pinar Tank, Peace Research Inst Oslo– the Post-Independence: City Youth and the Chair: Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Barbara Contested Sites of Public Service Provision: Return to the Countryside Education in Rojava Idriss Jebari, Bowdoin Col–Radical Sophia , U Chicago Mathilde Becker Aarseth, U Oslo–Service Histories in the Post-Colonial Maghrib: Eve Troutt, U Penn Provision and Taxation in Mosul under the Students, Leftists and Cultural Dissidents Marc Lamont Hill, Temple U Islamic State (1960s-1970s) Dag Tuastad, U Oslo and Erling Sogge, U Sarah Ghabrial, Concordia U–A Social 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Oslo–Kinship Politics and Service Provisions History of Colonialism?: Negotiating Islamic in Palestinian Refugee Camps Legal ‘Modernization’ in Algeria (1870-1930) 5632 The Middle East as Featured in Anne Stenersen, Norwegian Defence Joshua Schreier, Vassar Col–Palestine in Political Science Research Establishment–Taxation and the Maghreb: Nationalists, Islamic Reformists, Organized by Rabab El-Mahdi Public Service Provision in Taliban-Controlled and Jews in Algeria Areas of Waziristan Elizabeth M. Perego, Shepherd U– Organized under the auspices of AUC Brynjar Lia, U Oslo–Service Provision in Memory Activism, the Malleability of Time, Jihadi Proto-States: A Comparison and Writing in the “White” of the Past in Post- Chair/Discussant: Ellen Lust, U Independence Algeria Gothenburg

000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Melani C. Cammett, Harvard–Trends in Political Science Scholarship on the Middle East 5589 The Corporation Amr Adly, AUC–Political Economy in the Organized by Deen Sharp Middle East: The Limits of Universalism Lisa Anderson, Columbia U–Revisiting the Ibrahim Elhoudaiby, Columbia U–A State in the Middle East and North Africa Tale of Two Firmans: Suez Canal, Universal Rabab El-Mahdi, AUC–Redefining Politics Company, and Shifting Legalities in the Middle East Kristen Alff, U Virginia–The Disappearance of Female Shareholders: Abstracting the Corporation in the Levant, 1880-1918

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000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Scott Curtis, Northwestern U Qatar– Images of Unity: The Use of Media in the New 5682 Mapping Connections across 5717 Contesting Masculinities and Qatar National Museum Space and Time: Combining Gender in Diverse Media Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, Bilkent U– Ethnography and Radical Cartography Introducing Archaeology and Museology to in Cairo, Beirut and Chair: Mohammed A. Salih, U Penn the : The Case of Theodore Organized by Carl Rommel and Patricia Macridy Bey Scalco Mikiya Koyagi, U Texas Austin–Technology and Manhood in Early Pahlavi Iran 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Carl Rommel, U Helsinki–Spatial Mehdi Faraji, NYU–A Double Masculinity: Connections and Temporal Inflections: Mapping The Art of Living Hegemonic and Mundane 5739 The Gulf: Games of Thrones Large and Small Egyptian Projects (Mashari‘) Masculinity in Post-Revolutionary Iran through Ethnography and Cartography Babak Tabarraee, U Texas Austin–Hāmūn Chair: Nimah Mazaheri, Tufts U Patricia Scalco, U Helsinki–Spatio- and the Iranian Psyche: Failed Masculinity Temporal (Dis)Connections in the Istanbul and Intellectual Fandom Mariam Alkazemi, Virginia Grand Bazaar: Ethnographic and Cartographic Ashkon Molaei, UC Santa Barbara– Commonwealth U–Browsing Alarabiya and Insights on the Politics of Location through Womenʼs Representation and Gender Aljazeera: Examining the Impact of the Saudi- the Centuries-old Carpet Trade Discourse under an Islamist State: The Case of Qatari Crisis on Media Coverage of the Syrian Samuli Lähteenaho, U Helsinki– Iran and State-Sanctioned Video-Sharing Site, Conflict on Facebook Circulation of Waste and the Deferral of Aparat Matthew Timmerman, American U– Future on the Littoral of Beirut Composition from Competition: How Regional Philippe Rekacewicz, U Helsinki– 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Rivalry Strengthens Arab Monarchy Ethnographic Insight through the (Radical) Tyler B. Parker, Boston Col–Small Cartographer’s Eye: Mapping Spatiotemporal 5726 New Perspectives on Qajar Iran Sheikhdom Strength: Cavalier, Cautious, and (Dis)Connections in Three Middle East Contexts Compliant GCC Alignments Chair: Mira Xenia Schwerda, Harvard Ildiko Kaposi, Gulf U for Science and 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Technology–Law as Culture in Media Kimya Oskay, Freie Universität Berlin– Ownership Regulation in the GCC 5702 Teaching Middle Eastern Studies The Visual Tactics of Iran from 1870 to 1896: Husain Alshabib, Independent in the American South: Approaches, Employment of Photographs by the Qajar Researcher–How Did the Gulf Kingdoms Challenges, and Strategies Palace Survive the Arab Spring? Organized by Constanze Weise Navid Zarrinnal, Columbia U–Reading the Roshdiyeh Diaries: An Iranian Educator in the 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Sponsored by Ottoman World Arab American Studies Association Chelsi Mueller, Tel Aviv U–Surveilling 5742 Sufism in Medieval and Ottoman the Arabian Frontier in Late Qajar and Early Times Chair: Selden Deemer, U North Georgia Pahlavi Iran Serpil Atamaz, CSU Sacramento–From Chair: Madeline Zilfi, U Maryland Awad Awad, U North Georgia–Landing the Forefront to the Sidelines: Female College Park the Flying Carpet: A Call for a Critical Turn in Revolutionaries in Ottoman Turkey and Qajar Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language Iran Mustafa Kaya, U Chicago–Between Constanze Weise, Henderson State U– Comradery and Conflict: Narratives of Teaching Middle Eastern History and the 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Encounters between Sufis in the Fifteenth History of Islam in the American South Century Hassan Hussain, U North Georgia– 5730 Archeology and Museumology Caitlyn Olson, Harvard–Commanding Integrating Refugees into Arabic Language Right Belief and Forbidding Wrong: Islamic Instruction on the Foothills of the Chair: Erin O’Halloran, Oxford U Theology for the 10th/16th-Century Moroccan Appalachians Masses Lubna Omar, Binghamton U–Saving Christian Blake Pye, U Texas Austin– Cultural Heritage, but not Syrian Tahqiq and Human Perfection: The Impact of Archaeologists the Philosophy of Ibn ‘Arabi on Early-Modern Javier Guirado, Georgia State U–I Can’t Sovereigns Get No Satisfaction: The Contested Legacy of Baris Basturk, U Arkansas–E?refo?lu Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim’s Palace and the : A Shaykh Between “High” and National Museum of Qatar “Popular” Sufi Islam Philip Geisler, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies–The Performativity of Objects: Reconstituting the Islamic Art Museum

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5754 Egypt since 2011 5757 Zionist Settlers and the Palestine/ Israel Conflict Chair: Nathaniel Greenberg, George Mason U Chair: Maayan Hillel, Northwestern U

Ronnie Close, AUC–Cairo’s Ultras: Martin Kear, U Sydney–Dueling States: Resistance & Revolution in Egypt’s Football Understanding the Intractability of the Culture Palestinian/Israeli Conflict Mansoor Moaddel, U Maryland–The Orli Sela, Tel Aviv U–A Land Flowing with Secular Shift in Values in the Post-Arab Milk and Honey...and Water? The Perception Spring of Water Availability and Legal Interests in Caroline Seymour-Jorn, U Wisconsin the Early Years of Israel Milwaukee–Re-Reading the Walls: An Yaron Shemer, UNC-Chapel Hill– Interdisciplinary Approach to Post- Witnessing, Steadfastness, and Agency: The Revolutionary Egyptian Street Art National Cartoon Figures of the Israeli Srulik Michelle Weitzel, New School for Social and the Palestinian Handhala Research–Engineering Affect: Street Politics Natasha Roth-Rowland, U Virginia–The and the Microfoundations of Governance Home Front: Women in Israel’s Far-Right Settler Movement Guy Yadin Evron, NYU–‘The Senate Has Decided That Jerusalem Must Be Built’: Reconsidering the Hebrew Universityʼs return to East Jerusalem

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TODAY’S AFFILIATED MEETINGS 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Joanne Nucho, Pomona Col–Crossed Wires: Electricity Generator Subscription Services, 7:30-9am Roundtable Power Outages, and the State in Lebanon and MESA Affiliated Associations Of- 5396 De-Centering Egyptian History: Beyond ficers Meeting– 4-Gallier A/B Can the “Margins” Speak? Cities, Bridget Guarasci, Franklin & Marshall 8:30-10:30am Towns, Villages, and Ecologies on the Col–Infrastructures Warzone Ecologies in MELG Journal Business Meeting Periphery Iraq’s Marshes – 4-Ellendale Organized by Mohamed Gamal-Eldin, 9:30am-12:30pm New Jersey Inst of Technology/Rutgers U 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA MESA’s Committee on Aca- Newark and Lucia Carminati, Van Leer Thematic demic Freedom Meeting – 4-Gal- Jerusalem Inst Conversation lier A/B 10:15am-12:15pm Hanan H. Hammad, Texas Christian U 5449 Mapping Islam in Middle America “Doing Research in Egypt: What Beth Baron, City U New York Organized by Camila Pastor de Maria You Need to Know" presented Peter Gran, Temple U y Campos, Centro de Investigacion y by AUC and ARCE – 4-Edgewood Zeinab Abul-Magd, Oberlin Col Docencia Economicas A/B Matthew H. Ellis, Sarah Lawrence Col 1-2pm Miguel Fuentes Carreno, UC Santa Arab Political Science Network 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Barbara (APSN) Meeting – 4-Oakley Brittany Dawson, UC Berkeley 1-2pm 5411 The Politics of Suffering: Mariam Saada, UCLA SSA Board Meeting – 4-Ellendale Minorities and the State in the Modern 4-5pm Middle East 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA MEOC General Meeting – 5-Ram- Organized by Amy Fallas and Weston Bland part 5456 Slaves as Agents and Free People 4-5:30pm Chair: Heather J. Sharkey, U Penn as Low-Status Dependents: The AIYS Informational Meeting – Discussant: Alda Benjamen, U Penn Museum Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Worlds 8-Endymion/Mid-City Organized by Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn 5-6:30pm Jeremy Randall, Graduate Center CUNY– Haldun U, Istanbul MESA’s TFCHR Meeting – 4-El- Modular Sectarianism within Lebanon (1943- lendale 1975): Maronites, the Merchant-Republic, and Veruschka Wagner, U Bonn–De Jure Legal 5-6:30pm Phoenicia Property, De Facto Social Agents –An Analysis MEOC Board Meeting – 5-Grand Weston Bland, U Penn–Wild Libya: of the Legal and Factual Status of Slaves Couteau Narratives of Violence on Egypt’s Western in 16th and 17th Century Istanbul Court 5-7:30pm Border Registers SSA Business Meeting & Recep- Chris Rominger, U North Florida– Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington tion – 4-Estherwood Constructing and Debating the “Jewish U–Documenting and Regulating Slaves 5:30-7pm Question” in Tunisia, 1914-1925 and Bonded Laborers in the Persian Gulf PARC presents “Organizing Amy Fallas, UC Santa Barbara–Vanguard 1880s-1920s Faculty-Led Student Trips to of the Persecuted? Middle East Christians and Amal Sachedina, George Mason U–The Palestine” – 5-Rampart American Statecraft under Trump Lasting Legacy of Slavery in the Politics of 6-8pm Social Interactions in Nizwa, Oman Assyrian Studies Association 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Betul Argit, Marmara U–Freed Palace Board Meeting – 4-Evergreen Slaves and Their Former Owners in the 6-8pm 5445 Urbanism and Infrastructure in Ottoman World: The Role of Inheritance CASA Alumni Reception – 2-La- the Contemporary Middle East gniappe Organized by Gokce Gunel 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA 7-10pm 5467 After the American Era: The New Center for Maghreb Studies, Ari- Chair: Joanne Nucho, Pomona Col Regional Politics of the Middle East zona State University Reception Discussant: Ilana Feldman, George Organized by Curtis Ryan 4-Oakley Washington U

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Bard Ruth Hanau Santini, Università L’Orientale, Col–Failure to Build: Insurgent Sewage and Naples, –Multiple Hierarchies in the Infrastructural Time in Palestine Changing MENA Regional Order Gokce Gunel, U Arizona–A Seascape of Morten Valbjorn, Aarhus U–Bringing the Power: Turkish Energy Infrastructures in Global/Regional IR Debate into the Discussion Africa about Changes in Global/Regional Structures of Middle East IR

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Daniel Neep, Georgetown U–Back to the 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Sardar Saadi, U Toronto–Neighborhood as Future! Why International Relations of the the Battleground: The Urban Dynamics of the Middle East Needs the Nineteenth Century 5519 Infrastructure and Power: Oil, Kurdish Movement and Self-Rule Resistance Waleed Hazbun, U Alabama–In America’s Water, Energy in Sur Wake: Turbulence and Insecurity in the Organized by Owain Lawson and Elif Genc, New School for Social Middle East Natasha Pesaran Research–Necroviolence vs. Necroresistance: Curtis Ryan, Appalachian State U– The “Weaponization of Life” [and Death] Shifting Theories and Shifting Alliances in the Shima Houshyar, CUNY Graduate Berivan Sarikaya, U Toronto–Between ‘New’ Middle East Center–Iran’s Past Energy Futures: Silence and Resistance: Kurdish Women Infrastructure, Temporality, and National Political Prisoners 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Modernity in Southwest Iran Natasha Pesaran, Columbia U–The 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA 5511 Reconsidering Jihadism Iraq-Mediterranean Oil Pipelines and the Organized by Mark Sedgwick Post-war Petroleum Order: Transit Agreement Roundtable Negotiations in Lebanon and Syria in the 5538 History on the Move: Mobility and Chair: Anne Stenersen, Norwegian 1950s Circulation in and beyond the Modern Defence Research Establishment Katayoun Shafiee, U Warwick–Governing Middle East Discussant: Brynjar Lia, U Oslo Democratic Futures: Risky Measures of Organized by Jessica M. Marglin and Economic Science along an Iranian Waterway Fahad A. Bishara Anthony Celso, Angelo State U–Sunni Noura Wahby, U Cambridge–Governing Jihadist Groups and Their Progressive Cairo’s Fragmented Waterscape: Techno- Lale Can, City Col of New York CUNY Development of a Total War Doctrine politics and Informality Berke Torunoglu, Princeton Thomas Hegghammer, Norwegian Owain Lawson, Columbia U–Power Failures: Kristen Alff, U Virginia Defence Research Establishment–Muslim Narrating the Litani Disaster, 1958-1962 Jessica M. Marglin, U Southern California Foreign Fighting in the Early 20th Century Will Hanley, Florida State U Bjarke Aae, Aarhus U–Intra-Jihadi 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Fahad A. Bishara, U Virginia Contention and Its Wider Effects: The Case of Libya 5531 Articulating Community and 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Mark Sedgwick, Aarhus U–The Muslim Inter-confessional Interactions across Brothers and the Origins of Modern Jihadism the Middle East and North Africa 5542 Between Ayans, and Organized by Richard Antaramian and Centralization: 19th Century Ottoman 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Murat C. Yildiz Provincial Political Economy before 1850s 5513 Vernacular Transactions in the Chair: Michelle U. Campos, U Florida Organized by M Safa Saracoglu Middle East Discussant: Lior B. Sternfeld, Penn State U Organized by Levi Thompson and Chair: Christine Philliou, UC Berkeley Qussay Al-Attabi Sinem Adar, Humboldt U–Rethinking the Relationship between Family Law Pluralism M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U–After Chair: Ziad Fahmy, Cornell U and Modern Nation-State the Janissaries, before Midhat Pasha: Ottoman Discussant: Marilyn L. Booth, U Oxford Richard Antaramian, U Southern Provincial Economic Institutions between 1826 California–Armenians and Sufis and 1849 Qussay Al-Attabi, Kenyon Col–The Politics Murat C. Yildiz, Skidmore Col–Sports and Ugur Bayraktar, Universitat Basel– of Translating Iraqi Vernacular Poetry Communal Boundaries in Late Ottoman Istanbul Transcending the Local: Empire, Notables, Noha Radwan, UC Davis–The Pluralism of Chris Silver, McGill U–Cosmopolitan and Administration in Ottoman Albania and “Arabics” in the Egyptian Spring Nationalism? Border-Crossing Music and the Kurdistan, 1835-1878 Levi Thompson, U Colorado Boulder– Making of the Nation in the Interwar Maghrib Selçuk Dursun, Middle East Technical Vernacular Transactions in Ahmad Shamlu’s U–Provincial Political Ecology in the Ottoman Persian Translations of Langston Hughes’ 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Empire: Management of Royal Forests and Poetry Local Politics before 1850s Kristin Gee Hickman, U Mississippi– 5533 Cartographies of Violence and Training Linguistic Sensibilities: Memory, Spaces of Resistance in Kurdistan Modernity, and the Writing of Moroccan Organized by Sardar Saadi Arabic Chair: Gulay Kilicaslan, York U, Toronto Discussant: Deniz Duruiz, Northwestern U

Gulay Kilicaslan, York U, Toronto–Forced Migration and Kurdish Political Mobilization in Kurdistan and Turkey

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000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Myriam Sfeir, Lebanese American U– Chez Maurice Chambers on Stage 5610 Current Issues in Hebrew Pedagogy 5639 Navigating Transition: Responses to Organized by Yael Gaulan Tunisia’s Changing Political Landscape 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Organized by Mohamed-Dhia Hammami Organized under the auspices of and Nate Grubman 5688 Enforced Disappearances in School of Hebrew, Middlebury College the Middle East: Histories, Trends, Nate Grubman, Yale–What’s the Difference? Theories and Approaches in Activism Itamar Manoff, U British Columbia–Can Party Platforms in Postuprising Tunisia Organized by Jessica Mecellem Hebrew be ‘Disinvented’ in the Classroom? Pietro Marzo, Laval U–’s Soft Reflections on Critical Hebrew Education in Power in Tunisian Democratization Leila Zonouzi, UC Santa Barbara– Israel and Palestine Kimberly Guiler, U Texas Austin– Diasporization of the Intelligentsia: The Case Yael Gaulan, Hebrew U and Yuli Hatzofe, Benefiting from Victimhood: Why Mainstream of Iran and Turkey Hebrew U–Teaching Hebrew as a Political Act: Muslims Elect Islamists Jessica Mecellem, U the South–The “Ulpanim” for African Asylum Seekers in Israel Mohamed-Dhia Hammami, Wesleyan Origins of Enforced Disappearance as a State U–Democratization as a Conflict : Tunisia’s Security Practice 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Active Army of Labor in a War of Position Ozgur Sevgi Goral, U Paris 8–Unpacking Nicholas Lotito, Yale–An Organizational the Memory Debate in Turkey: Amnesia, 5627 Zionism at Imperial Crossroads: Theory of Military Responses to Revolution Cultural Aphasia and Enforced Disappearances From Fin de Siècle Anatolia to 1948 Palestine 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Organized by Omri Eilat 5660 The Politics and Poetics of 5718 Contending Visions of Media Chair/Discussant: Hillel Cohen, Hebrew U Language in the Persianate World Organized by Alexander Jabbari and Chair: Youness Mountaki, Wofford Col Omri Eilat, Tel-Aviv U–Ottomanizing the Ferenc Csirkes Professional Elite of the Jewish Yishuv, 1890-1918 Eoghan Stafford, Harvard Kennedy Dotan Halevy, Columbia U–The Zionist Gaza: Chair: Sooyong Kim, Koç U School of Government–Opposition Utopia and Ruins at an Imperial Borderland Representation in the Media in Algerian Liora Sion, U Copenhagen–The Colonial Marijana Misevic, Harvard–Cosmopolitan Elections: 2007-2017 Legacy of the British Mandatory Rule and the and Vernacular in a Quadrilingual Ottoman Gabriel Lavin, UCLA–The Audible Empire: Assassination of British Agents Poem from Bosnia British Intelligence, the BBC, and the Curation Louis Fishman, Brooklyn Col CUNY– Ferenc Csirkes, Sabanci U–Cross-Linguistic of Cultural Content for the Aden Protectorate Modern Jewish Settlements in Ottoman Poetic Play in a Time of Tumult: The Divan of and Gulf Arab Territories, 1933-1939 Anatolia: Between Ottomanism and Zionism Masih of Tabriz from Late and Post-Safavid Iran Mary Elston, Harvard–Social Media Suhba: Alexander Jabbari, U Oklahoma–The Erotics The Limits of Online Islamic Education in 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA of Language in 20th Century Iranian Poetry Contemporary Cairo Metin Yuksel, Hacettepe U–Reading Sahar Bostock, Columbia U–Arab Palestinian 5634 Negotiating Social Identities and Cegerxwîn’s Poetry: Awakening, Solidarity Listenership to the Radio in Mandate Palestine Livelihoods in Interwar Turkey and Autobiography Organized by Semih Gokatalay 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA 000 8:00-10:00am Room TBA Chair: Yigit Akin, Tulane U 5749 The Abbasids: Society and Culture Discussant: Roger A. Deal, U South 5680 Representations of the Feminine Carolina Aiken in Modern Arabic Visual and Chair: Rosabel Ansari, Georgetown U Performing Arts Semih Gokatalay, UC San Diego– Organized by Nada Saab Aseel Najib, Columbia U–Religio-Legal Turning Ottoman Merchants into Turkish Conceptualizations of Land Ownership in the Businessmen: Commercial Fairs and Capitalist Organized under the auspices of Early Abbasid Period Development in Post-Ottoman Turkey Lebanese American University (LAU) Andrew McLaren, Columbia U–Quotation Gozde Emen Gokatalay, Independent and Structure: Letters in Ibn A‘tham al-Kufi’s Scholar–Turning Ethnic Minorities into Chair: Nada Saab, Lebanese American U (fl. 3rd/9th) Kitab al-Futuh Religious Minorities: Debates on the Migration Discussant: Gabriella Nassif, SUNY Buffalo Ilona Gerbakher, Columbia U–“Nothing of Gagauzes to Turkey in the Interward Period but a Great Whorehouse:” Sex Work in Nada Saab, Lebanese American U –Sexuality Abbasid Baghdad and Fantasy in the Theater of Sa‘d Allah Wannus Rachel Friedman, U Calgary–On Accessing Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Lebanese the Qur’an: Abbasid-Era Discourse on American U–Women Who Cross Dressed in Methods of Interpretation 1920s Lebanon Abolfazl Moshiri, U Toronto–Al-Hallaj and the Abbasid Golden Age of the Devil Page 18 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program 10:15AM-12:15PM Friday November 15

000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Makio Yamada, Princeton–How Do Low Oil 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Prices Affect Rentier Peripheries? 5409 Israel in the Middle East: Dania Thafer, American U–The Plight 5493 (Alternative) Arts as (Alternative) Following the 2019 Elections of Youth and Institutional Development in Politics: Iranian Aesthetic Dissidence Organized by Itamar Radai Rentier Economies from the Revolution to the Present Emma Soubrier, Arab Gulf States Inst in Organized by Norma Claire Moruzzi Sponsored by Washington–Arms Trade in the Gulf as an Association for Israel Studies (AIS) Illustration of “Globalized Rentierism” Chair: Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U Discussant: Pamela Karimi, U Massachusetts Chair: Itamar Radai, Tel Aviv U 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Norma Claire Moruzzi, U Illinois Discussant: Robert O. Freedman, Johns Chicago–Breaking Down Walls: Iranian Art Hopkins U 5454 Studying the Sira in the Digital Age Installations, Condemned Buildings, and Organized by Sarah Bowen Savant Utopian Possibilities Ilan Peleg, Lafayette Col–The Impact of the Mahrou Zhaf, Boston Graduate School of Israeli 2019 Elections on the Israeli Right Chair: Mathew Barber, Aga Khan U Psychoanalysis–Alternative Masculinities in Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U–Israel Iranian Cinema: Mehrjui’s Men and the Persian Gulf: New Challenges in an R. Kevin Jaques, Indiana U–Tubba’ and Leili Adibfar, U Illinois Chicago–Ali Shariati: Evolving Relationship How the Ka’bah Got the Kiswah: The Differing Islam, Modernity, and the Complicated Aesthetic Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv U–Israel and Syria: Versions in the Ibn Ishaq Sirah Tradition of the Iranian Revolution Revolution, Civil War and Peace Process – Abdul Rahman Azzam, Qatar National between Moscow and Tehran Library–The Lady of the Two Belts 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv U–25 Years Down the Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U-ISMC– Road: Jordanian-Israeli Relations The Written Legacy of Orality: Ibn Ishaq’s 5505 Women’s Tafsir: Beyond Feminism Harel Chorev, Tel Aviv U–Israel and the Text and Its Versions Organized by Ellen McLarney and Hina Challenge of the Young Palestinian Generation Z Maxim Romanov, U Vienna–Something Azam Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Computational Analysis of Writing Practices Sponsored by of Islamic Scholars Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 5413 Beyond Sectarianism: New (AMEWS) Directions in Iraqi Studies 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Organized by Zahra Ali Hina Azam, U Texas Austin–Women and 5478 Medieval Armenian Entanglements Gender in the Qur’an: A Narrative Ethics Chair: Omar Sirri, U Toronto Organized by Alison Vacca Approach Discussant: Omar Dewachi, Rutgers U Hanadi Al-Samman, U Virginia–Towards Sponsored by a Queer Qur’anic Tafsir Zahra Ali, Rutgers U–“Militia-zation” and Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) Ellen McLarney, Duke U–Qur’an Tafsir Protest Movements in Post-2014 Iraq in Popular Culture: Bint al-Shati’s Literary Marsin Alshamary, MIT–Politician Tamar M. Boyadjian, Michigan State Interpretations Preachers: Clerical Participation in the Iraqi U–The “Eastern” Queen: Intersecting Jamila Davey, U Texas Austin–The Beauty Parliamentary Elections Representations of Armenian Princesses in of Joseph and the Gendered Gaze: Assia Shamiran Mako, Boston U–Statebuilding Medieval Mediterranean Literature Djebar’s Literary Account of Sura XII minus Peacebuilding: Evaluating and Alison Vacca, U Tennessee–The Women Remedying the Legacies of Iraq’s De- and the Foreigners of Abbasid Armenia, a 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Baathification Commission Study of Sasna Crer Sergio La Porta, CSU Fresno–Hell Hath 5512 Non-Sunni Muslims, Yezidis, and 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA No Fury: Sexual and Communal Relations in the (Local) Ottoman State: Politics of Twelfth-Century Arts‘akh Difference between Persecution and 5452 Rentierism and Power Dynamics in/ Michael Pifer, U Michigan–“Straight Accommodation of the Gulf Countries: Evolving Nexuses Like a Minaret”: Armenian Riddles in a Organized by Benjamin Weineck Organized by Makio Yamada and Emma Mediterranean Milieu Soubrier Chair/Discussant: Vefa Erginbas, Providence Col Chair: Jill Crystal, Auburn U Discussants: Adam Hanieh, SOAS U London Ines Asceric-Todd, U Edinburgh–Heretics, and Michael Herb, Georgia State U Atheists or Simply Undesirable? The Ottoman Officials’ Treatment of Bayrami-Melami Sufis and Jessie Moritz, Australian National U–The the Anatolian Kizilbas in the Late 16th Century Transnational Dimensions of Civil Society in continued next page Gulf Rentier States

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Benjamin Weineck, U Bayreuth– 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Kizilbash and Nusayri in the Ottoman State, 16-18th Centuries: Ottoman Strategies of 5544 The 1960s: Reshaping Pasts and 5605 Methodological Advances in the Accommodation in Comparative Perspective Futures Study of Middle East and North African Bahadin H. Kerborani, U Chicago–Yezidi Organized by Nelida Fuccaro Elections Resistance on the Peripheries of the Ottoman Organized by Daniel L. Tavana Empire Chair: Nelida Fuccaro, NYU Abu Dhabi Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser U–Zaydi Discussant: Vivian Ibrahim, U Mississippi Chair: Elizabeth R. Nugent, Yale Elites Claim an Ottoman Yemeni Fatherland: Discussant: Luciano Zaccara, Qatar U Negotiating Imperial Citizenship in Ottoman Vivian Ibrahim, U Mississippi–Cultural , 1908-1914 Exchange, International Aid and Sovereign Aytug Sasmaz, Harvard–Recruitment Rights: Egyptian Antiquities in the 1960s and Selection of Candidates for the First 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Nelida Fuccaro, NYU Abu Dhabi–Oil’s Democratic Local Elections in Tunisia: The Militant Public Cultures: Intertwining Past Tale of Two Parties Roundtable and Futures in the Making of Petroleum Christiana Parreira, Stanford–The Art of 5525 AATP Roundtable–Teaching Arabism, 1959-1964 Not Governing: Local Governance and Family- Material for Maya Kesrouany, NYU Abu Dhabi– Party Relations in Postwar Lebanon Organized by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi Painted Drafts: The Pre-Memory of 1960s and Daniel L. Tavana, Princeton–The Origins 70s Socialist and Communist Trends in Egypt of Electoral Opposition under Authoritarian Sponsored by Laure Guirguis, Aarhus Inst of Advanced Rule: Evidence from Kuwait American Association of Teachers of Persian Studies–Archives of Past Defeats and Yuree Noh, Harvard–Public Goods Provision (AATP) Imagined Futures: From Left-wing Melancholy in Authoritarian Regimes: Education versus to New Paths in Resistance, Historiography Infrastructure in Postwar Algeria Chair: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, McGill U and Political Criticism? 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Michelle Quay, Columbia U 5609 Medicine on the Move: Medical Peyman Nojoumian, U Southern California 5599 Newsmen: Facilitating Agents Crossing Borders, Part I - Webs Farima S. Mostowfi, Georgetown U Mediterranean Information Flows of Influence Mohamad Esmaili-Sardari, JHU SAIS since 1900 Organized by Hagit Krik Anousha Shahsavari, U Texas Austin Organized by Arthur Asseraf Latifeh E. Hagigi, UCLA Chair: Liat Kozma, Hebrew U Azita Taleghani, U Toronto Sponsored by Pardis Minuchehr, U Virginia American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Benoit Pouget, Aix Marseille U, CNRS, EFS, ADES–French Medical Support for Lebanon 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Chair/Discssant: Amahl Bishara, Tufts U from Independence (1943/46) to the Beginning Thematic of the Civil War (1975): Medical Mobilities, Conversation Valentina Zagaria, London School of Nation Building and Health Diplomacy Economics–Chamseddine and the Making of Moriel Ram, SOAS U London–Health 5537 The Semantics of Slavery and a Hopeful Story in Times of Border Deaths Archipelago: Israeli Medical Knowledge and Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies David Stenner, Christopher Newport Aid in Africa Organized by Craig Perry, Emory U U–Muhammad Ali al-Tahir and the Hratch Kestenian, Graduate Center Forgotten History of Palestinian-Maghribi CUNY–Armenian Doctors with No Borders: Elizabeth Urban, West Chester U Anticolonialism Producing, Translating, and Circulating Karen Moukheiber, U Balamand Arthur Asseraf, U Cambridge–Fixer, Medical Knowledge, 1875-1925 Chris PreJean, UCLA Journalist, Scammer, Spy: Khoualdia Salah and Hagit Krik, Hebrew U–Networking Care: Matthew Gordon, Miami U the Networks of Pan-Islamic News around 1900 British Nurses in the Middle East Parisa Vaziri, Cornell U Zoe LeBlanc, Vanderbilt U–Information Francisco Javier Martínez, CIDEHUS, Stephan Conermann, U Bonn, Germany and the Egyptian Cause: Muhammed Abd al- U Évora, –Medical Circulations in Hannah Barker, Arizona State U Qadir Hatim and Egypt’s News Infrastructure Pre-Colonial Morocco: Protestant Missionary Physicians and Moroccan Modern Doctors, 1877-1916

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000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Emin Lelic, Salisbury U–Physiognomical 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Roots of Early Modern Ottoman “Proto- 5620 New Research on Egypt’s Ethnology” 5762 Literature and Literary Production I Counterrevolution Organized by Killian Clarke 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Chair: Jonas Elbousty, Yale

Chair/Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, 5719 Journalism and Film Histories Merve Tabur, Pennsylvania State U– George Washington U Ecological Futures and Biopolitics in “Iraq+100” Chair: Ece Algan, Loughborough U Seerwan Hariry, U Texas Austin–Arabo- Amy Austin Holmes, AUC–Comparing London Kurdish Novel as an Alternative Source for International Support for Egypt’s Coup and Documenting Kurdish History: A Case Study Counterrevolution Fatima El Issawi, U Essex–Egyptian of Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish Novels Killian Clarke, Princeton–The Popular Journalists and the Struggle for Change Hiroki Okazaki, Chiba U–Representation of Roots of Egypt’s Counterrevolution following the 2011 Uprising: The Ambiguous the Palestinian Experience in Contemporary Michael Hoffman, U Notre Dame– Journalistic Agency between Change and Syrian Literature Depression, Disappointment, and Democratic Conformity Ian Campbell, Georgia State U–Double Values after Failed Revolution Hazem Fahmy, U Texas Austin–Whom Estrangement in Arabic Science Fiction: Dalia Fahmy, Long Island U–The Three Should We Shoot: Assigning Blame and Ahmad Sa‘dawi’s “Frankenstein in Baghdad” Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood Revising History in 70s Egyptian Cinema Debra Beilke, Concordia U St. Paul– Ayse Basaran, Istanbul Sehir U–The Embodying Iraq: The Aesthetics of War 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Commercialization of the Ottoman Printing in Betool Khedairi’s “Absent” and Sinan Enterprise: 1831-1863 Antoon’s “The Corpse Washer” Roundtable Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, U Kansas– 5631 Lisa Wedeen’s Authoritarian Gendering the Screen, Rewriting the Past: On 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, the Early Cinematic Career of Shahla Riahi, 5773 Politics and Resistance in the and Mourning in Syria the First Iranian Woman Filmmaker Ottoman Balkans Organized by Danny Postel 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Chair: Amy Singer, Brandeis U Chair: , Northwestern U Danny Postel 5745 Islamic Theologies and Ideologies Naqaa Abbas, Qatar U–Ali Pasha of Anne-Marie McManus, Washington U St. Chair: Youssef Yacoubi, Seton Hall U Yannina and the Manipulation of Orientalism Louis Fredrick Walter Lorenz, UCLA–Migrants, Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara Maryam Alemzadeh, Brandeis U– Militias, and Martinis: Generative Forces of Lisa Wedeen, U Chicago Bringing Religion Back In: Cultural Practice Local Security in the Late Ottoman Balkans Suad Joseph, UC Davis and Post-Revolutionary Institution Building K. Herman Adney, UCLA–Rebellion on Bassam Haddad, George Mason U in Iran (1979-80) the White Sea: The Peasant Challenge to Timothy Mitchell, Columbia U Dragos Stoica, Independent Scholar– Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Brinkley Messick, Columbia U No Sovereignty but God’s Sovereignty: A Macedonia and Thrace Lori Allen, SOAS U London Comparison between Sayyid Qutb’s Doctrine Jelena Radovanovic, Princeton–Negotiating of Hakimiyyah and Rousas Rushdoony’s Property of Pious Foundations in Post-Ottoman 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Reconstructionist Theonomy Niš 5640 “Ancient” Knowledge and “New” Zeynep Oktay Uslu, Bogaziçi U–Alevism as Mohamed Abdou, NYU–Waqf Reform as Learning in the Early Modern Ottoman Islam: How Alevi Poetry Forces Us to Rethink International Treaty: Empire, Sovereignty, World Shahab Ahmed’s Conceptualization of Islam and Minority Rights in the Khedival Waqfs in Organized by Side Emre Nadav Samin, National U Singapore–The Kavala and Thasos, 1902-1924 Making of a Da’wa: Muhammad b. ‘Abd al- Chair: Taylor M. Moore, Rutgers U Wahhab between Poesy and Scripture Harald Viersen, Radboud U Nijmegen– Carlos Grenier, Florida International U– Meaning and Islam: Tracing Wittgenstein in Solomon, His Temple, and Ottoman Imperial the Writings of Talal Asad Anxieties A. Tunç Sen, Columbia U–Rivalry of “Occult” Powers and Sufi Disdain for Astrologers in the Ottoman World Side Emre, Texas A&M U–“Mystical Cosmologies” in Early Modern Ottoman Sufi Literature: An Analysis of Letters, Numbers, and Diagrams MESA 2019 Preliminary Program u Page 21 10:15AM-12:15PM Friday November 15

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5774 Politics in Turkey I 5784 Infrastructure: Concrete and 5796 Recentering the Maghreb, Part I Constructed Organized by Brahim El Guabli and Chair: G. Carole Woodall, U Colorado Edwige Tamalet Talbayev Colorado Springs Chair: Ingy Higazy, UC Santa Cruz Organized under the auspices of Azat Gundogan, Florida State U– Tariq I. Adely, Georgetown U–Literary Center for Maghreb Studies, Caught between Kemalist and Islamist Infrastructures: Reading and Writing the Arizona State U Authoritarianisms: The Masses as Auxiliary Nation in Jordan Power in Turkey Alaa Attiah, AUC–Tolls Politics and Poetics Chair/Discussant: Brian T. Edwards, Vahram Ter Matevosyan, American U Sara Dima Abisaab, NYU–The Municipal Tulane U Armenia–Transnational History of : Act of 1977: Municipal and Infrastructural Turkey and the Politics in Postwar Lebanon Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Tulane Jamie Pelling, Princeton–National Defense, Anthony Greco, UC Santa Barbara– U–Linguistic Recenterings: Theorizing a Religious Duty, and the : A Engineering Egypt, 1800-1920 Maghrebi “Pluri-langue” Glimpse into Ottoman Society Nada El-Kouny, Rutgers U–A Comparative Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, U Penn–The Pelin Ayan Musil, Anglo-American U, Analysis of Wasta as “Social Infrastructure” Red in Red-Carpet Regalia: The Journées Prague–What Went Wrong with the Theories in Rural Egypt Cinématographiques de Carthage and the of Moderation and What Does the AKP Case of Fight for African Liberation Turkey Show Us? Chouki El Hamel, Arizona State U–The Hidden Story of the Moroccan Maroons 000 10:15am-12:15pm Room TBA Brahim El Guabli, Williams Col– Theorizing the Sahara/Desert as a Center 5776 Social Reform and the Politics of Modernity

Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State U

Stefano Taglia, Oriental Inst - Czech Academy of Sciences–‘Their Faces Reveal a Countenance of Stupidity and Imbecility’: Cannabis Addicts as a Social Problem in the Late Ottoman Empire Sari Madi, U Montreal–Institutional Change in Tunisia and Lebanon: The Cases of the Labour Code and the Social Pact Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv U–A Pillow Talk: On Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire Yasmin Shafei, AUB–The Professionalization of Psychiatry and Constructions of the “New Woman” in Egypt, 1880-1950 Hamdi Karakal, Bilkent U –Sword vs. Mountain: Folk Songs’ Depiction of Ottoman Settlement Policies towards Avsar Tribe in the 19th Century

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5400 The Question of Palestine in 5424 The Social Life of Texts and 5448 State of the Field: Queer and American and Ethnic Studies Textual Practices in Modern and Feminist Theories and Methodologies Organized by Bayan Abusneineh Contemporary Iran Organized by Miguel Fuentes Carreno Organized by Seema Golestaneh and Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos Sponsored by Arab American Studies Association Discussant: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, U Toronto Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Chair: Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Barbara Economicas–Prostitutional Proletariats: Neda Bolourchi, Rutgers U–Riots and Remuneration, Cohabitation and Labor in the Tamar Ghabin, SOAS U London–Asserting Revolution: The Forgotten Mottos and Impact Mandate Mediterranean ‘A Sense of Place’: Tracing Black-Palestinian of Shuresh Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara–“The Solidarity to the Prison Seema Golestaneh, Cornell U– in the State of the Field: Deep Cartographies of Tareq Radi, NYU–From Mortgages to Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Poetic Verse Epistemology and Citation; Red Lines of Sex Foreclosure: Financialized Urbanization as and Material Objects in Iran and Gender” Allotment in the West Bank Hosna Sheikholeslami, Denison U–“Books Miguel Fuentes Carreno, UC Santa Bayan Abusneineh, UC San Diego– are Objects and Ideas”: Examining the Material Barbara–Abortion, Misoprostol and Reproducing Race: Discourses of the Body, Infrastructures of Translation in Contemporary Resistance to Pharmocracies in Egypt Nation, and Reproduction in Palestine and Israel Iran Dina Fergani, U Toronto–Three Bodies of Loubna Qutami, UC Berkeley–Crisis, Grief Sheida Dayani, Harvard–Iranian Kamshish: Embodied Revolts, Global Solidarity and the Paralysis of Insecurity: Palestinian Improvisatory Theatre and the Anachronistic and Local Decolonization Youth Movements after the Arab Uprisings Notion of Censorship 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA 5466 Rethinking 1919: The Global 5410 Gulf Technostates: Science, 5428 Alternative Histories of Knowing History of a Nationalist Revolution Modernity, and Expertise in Modern Lebanon Organized by Kyle Anderson Organized by Feras Klenk and Natalie Organized by Susanna Ferguson Koch Sponsored by Sponsored by American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Chair: Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Lebanese Studies Association (LSA) Northwestern U Qatar Chair: Ziad Fahmy, Cornell U Discussant: Gokce Gunel, U Arizona Chair: Nadya J. Sbaiti, AUB Christopher S. Rose, U Texas–Disease, Calvert W. Jones, U Maryland–Gender Edward Falk, UC San Diego–Educating Famine, and Death in Egypt 1914-1919: and the Gulf Technostate: Civic Effects of Race and Nation in Ottoman Lebanon ‘Peasants in Revolt’ Revisited Desegregating the Public Sphere Johanna L Peterson, UC San Diego–The Nefertiti Takla, Manhattan Col–Labor Feras Klenk, U Arizona–Start Up Nation: Case of the Tripoli Girls’ School: Rethinking Uprisings in Early Interwar Alexandria: Building an Entrepreneurial Society in Oman Women, Education, Nation, and Citizenship Rethinking the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 in Andrea Wright, William & Mary–Dreams Susanna Ferguson, Columbia U–On The the Framework of the Global Economy of Modernity: Indian Migrant Laborers and Study of Heavenly Bodies: Girls’ Education Kyle Anderson, SUNY Old Westbury– Technostate Logics in Ottoman Mount Lebanon before the Whose Revolution? The Dayrut Train Natalie Koch, Syracuse U and Neha Utilitarian Age Massacre and British Military Labor Vora, Lafayette Col–Laboratories of Recruitment in World War I Liberalism: American Higher Education in the Arabian Peninsula and the Discursive Production of Authoritarianism

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000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Sohaib Baig, UCLA–The Hajj in the 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Shadows of Mughal Decline: Indian Roundtable Travelogues and New Articulations of 5602 Exploring Freedom, Emancipation, and Manumission in the 5510 Fieldwork in Zones of Conflict: Imperial Politics, 1786-1822 Middle East Access, Ethics, Security Dzenita Karic, Oriental Inst in Sarajevo– Organized by Lisa Nielson and Kathryn Organized by Tine Gade The Hajj under Two Empires: Reshaping of Ritual and Religion in the 19th Century Bosnia Hain Organized under the auspices of Chair: Karen Moukheiber, U Balamand Hyrbid Pathways to Resistance in the Islamic 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Discussant: Lisa Nielson, Case Western World (RCN Project 2017-20) 5562 From Revolution to Devolution? Reserve U Exploring the Potential for Chair: Kjetil Selvik, Norwegian Inst of Decentralizing Reforms in the Middle Elizabeth Urban, West Chester U–How International Affairs East and North Africa Free Were the Early Islamic Mawali? Organized by Omar M. Dajani Kathryn Hain, Northeast Community Tine Gade, Norwegian Inst of Col–Unwelcomed Freedom: What Do You Do International Affairs Chair/Discussant: Asli Bali, UCLA When You Dismantle a Royal Harem? Are John Knudsen, Chr. Michelsen Inst Chris PreJean, UCLA–Enslaved to Freedom: Morten Boas, Norwegian Inst of Peter Bartu, UC Berkeley–There Will Be Forced Freedom in Iraq from 8th through the International Affairs Blood: Iraqi-Kurdistan’s Elastic Autonomy 10th Century C.E. Carmen Geha, AUB Omar M. Dajani, McGeorge School Hadi Hosainy, Texas Christian U– Dlawer Ala’Aldeen, Middle East Research of Law, UOP and Dahlia Scheindlin, Manumission and Kinship Formation in Inst Independent Scholar–“Stuck Together”: A Islamic Law Mathilde Becker Aarseth, U Oslo Confederal Solution for Israel/Palestine? Abdoul Wakhab Cissé, ARGA Omar Shehabi, Yale Law School–‘Dans ses 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Virginie Collombier, European U Inst frontières authentiques’? Morocco’s Advanced Regionalization and the Question of Western 5611 Reversing the Telescope: Global 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Sahara and Transregional Histories of the Thematic Elissa Miller, Tufts U–A Dual Approach to Middle East Conversation Decentralization in Libya Organized by Adrien Zakar and Erin Benoit Challand, Scuola Normale O’Halloran 5524 Big Data and Mega Corpora in Superiore–Reconstituting the Collective Middle East Studies Body: Yemeni Debates about Federalism after Chair: John Chen, Columbia U Organized by Richard Nielsen and President Saleh Discussant: Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Charles Kurzman Northeastern U 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Eid Mohamed, Doha Inst for Graduate Adrien Zakar, Stanford–The Global Studies 5592 The Archives of Arab Thought Nakbah: Disaster and Disasters in Arab Richard Nielsen, MIT Organized by Esmat Elhalaby Historiography Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U-ISMC Ulug Kuzuoglu, Columbia U–Forgotten Tamar Mitts, Columbia U Discussant: Ussama Makdisi, Rice U/UC Traces: The Arabic Script in the Chinese Charles Kurzman, UNC Chapel Hill Berkeley (Visiting) Alphabet VJ Um Amel, UC Santa Barbara Erin O’Halloran, Oxford U–From Mosul to Hanan H. Hammad, Texas Christian Guernica: Europe and Its Orient, 1919-1939 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA U–The Evolution of Persian Studies in Egypt Nadim Bawalsa, Independent Scholar– from Orientalism to Khomeinism “Be Civilized but Do Not Imitate:” How 5559 Pious Encounters with Empire Esmat Elhalaby, NYU Abu Dhabi– Arabic-Speaking Migrants Brought the World Organized by Tyler Kynn and Dzenita Philologist as Guest: Arab Indology and Global to Interwar Latin America Karic Intellectual History Ziad Dallal, Bard Col–Saving the Text: Discussant: Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, History, Literature, and the Nahdah Archive Rutgers U Hana Sleiman, U Cambridge–Streams of Knowledge: Hadith and the History of Yahya Nurgat, U Cambridge–Sacred Historiography Space, Ritual and Religious Experience and the Ottoman Hajj, 1660-1760 Tyler Kynn, Yale–The Seasonal Empire: Ottoman Authority in the Early Modern Harameyn

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000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Yasar Tolga Cora, Boğaziçi U–Rumors of 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Bankruptcies and Financial Difficulties: Crisis Roundtable in the Ottoman Markets (1906-1908) 5746 Islam and the West: Discourses, Spaces, and Practices 5653 Middle Eastern Studies within

Jewish Studies and Vice Versa 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Chair: Talinn Grigor, UC Davis Organized by Mark Wagner 5696 Assyrian Studies in Political Science: Critical Approaches and Sena Duran, U Michigan–Sexual Chair Mark Wagner, Louisiana State U Emerging Trends Terror and the Arab Demon: Identifying Organized by Nahrain Rasho Ethnoreligious Monstrosity in “The Exorcist” Alma Rachel Heckman, UC Santa Cruz Semra Horuz, TU Wien - Bilgi U–Ottoman Annie Greene, Col of William and Mary Sponsored by Bourfeois en route: Conceptions of Cityspace, Nancy E. Berg, Washington U in St Louis Assyrian Studies Association (ASA) Architecture and Art in 19th Century Ottoman Alon Tam, U Penn Travelogues on Europe Ari Ariel, U Iowa Chair: Nahrain Rasho, UC Davis Ihsan Alkhatib, Murray State U– American Muslims, Law and Interfaith 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Michael Youash, U Toronto–Insecurity Divorce 5658 The Nahj al-Balagha as a Case and Federalism’s Diminishing Promise in Iraq: Pegah Zohouri Haghian, U Oxford– Study of Early Islamic Pietistic Assyrian Struggles in the Nineveh Plain Belie Negotiating the Politics of Islamic Literature Iraq’s Federal Bargain Reformation in the “West:” The Case of Nasr Organized by Chad Mowbray Riva Gewarges, McMaster U–The Hamid Abu Zayd and Abdolkarim Soroush Internationalization of Indigenous Rights: The Eliana Abu-Hamdi, MIT–The Growing Sarah Aziz, U Chicago–The Imam’s Battle Case of the Assyrian People Invisibility of Islamic Space in America: The Prayer: An Inquiry into Ali ibn Abi Talib’s Nahrain Rasho, UC Davis–Regional Case of Park51 Supplications in Siffin Autonomy and Local Ethnic Conflict: The Ameena Yovan, U Chicago–The Kharijites Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Assyrian 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA in the Caliphate of Ali: Developing Ideologies Minorities 5763 Literature and Literary of Rule Mariam Georgis, U Manitoba–Erasing Production II Sam Jaffe, U Chicago–Philosophy of Assyrians: National Narratives, Indigeneity Governance in the Thought of ’Alī ibn Abī and Constitutional Rights in Post-2003 Iraq Chair: Kimberly Canuette Grimaldi, U Tālib Texas Austin Elon Harvey, U Chicago–Commander of the 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Faithful or Faithful Commander? Challenging 5720 Shall We Go to the Cinema? Greg Bell, Princeton–Avant the Avant- Umayyad Ideals of Leadership in the Nahj Garde: Mikhail Naimy and the Literature of al-Balagha Chair: Ghenwa Hayek, U Chicago Commitment (al-Iltiz?m) Chad Mowbray, U Chicago–The Meaning Saniya Taher, UC Berkeley–“I Returned of Rhetorical Order and Disorder in the Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill–The City but Did Not Return”/“Odt Wa Laken Lam “Creation Khutbah” of ‘Ali in Alternative Arab Cinema of the 1970s A’od”: The Exilic, Metamorphic Self in Husayn Touria Khannous, Louisiana State U– al-Barghouthi’s “Al-daw’ al-‘azraq” and “Sa- 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA Trauma and Class Representation in Faouzi akunu bayna al-lawz” 5675 Imperial Creditors, Global Crises: Bensaidi’s Film “Volubilis” Yael Kenan, U Michigan–‘Here, I Didn’t Views from the Ottoman Provinces Zeina Tarraf, AUB–Controversy and the Die; I Haven’t Died Yet’: Time, Place and the Organized by Zoe Griffith Circulation of Contested Memories: The Case Body in Darwish’s Memory for Forgetfulness of “The Insult” Rania Mahmoud, U Arkansas–Naguib Chair: Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Boğaziçi U Suzi Mirgani, Georgetown U Qatar– Mahfouz’s “Sugar Street”: A Tale of Female Discussant: Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford Filmmaking and the Arts as Civil Society in Development in a Mostly Male Narrative the Gulf Cooperation Council Zoe Griffith, Baruch Col CUNY–Paying Viviane Saglier, Concordia U–Emergency, for a New Order: Financiers and Ottoman Film Festivals, and the Life of Cinema in Gaza Reforms in Egypt, 1786-1806 Gürer Karagedikli, Middle East Technical U–Villagers and Waqfs: Credit Activities of Pious Endowments in Rural Societies in Early Modern Ottoman Europe, 1740s-1810s

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000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA SPECIAL SESSION 5765 Migrants and Refugees I 5794 Special Session-Hirak - Algeria’s New Revolution? Organized by Robert P. Parks and James McDougall Chair: Kenneth Christie, Royal Roads U Robert P. Parks, Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie Nina Ter Laan, Utrecht U–Creating an James McDougall, Trinity Col, U Oxford Alternative Religious Space: Home-Making Malika Rahal, Institut d’histoire du temps présent (CNRS) Practices among Dutch and Belgian Muhijarat Muriam Haleh Davis, UCSC in Morocco Brian Van Wyck, Harvard–“Not Far Away in From late February this year, Algerians began taking to the streets of towns the Orient”: Orientalism, Islam, and Integration and cities across the country in their thousands, then in their millions, in Policies in West Germany, 1979-1984 massive, peaceful, weekly demonstrations. The effectively incapacitated Navid Fozi, Bridgewater State U–A President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose projected candidacy for a fifth term Religious Minority in Transit: Iranian Baha’i of office sparked the protests, resigned in early April, and several of the and Convert Asylum Seekers in Turkey country’s most prominent businessmen close to his circle were arrested. By Marwan D. Hanania, UC Berkeley–New early June, the caretaker government under interim President Abdelkader Migrants: Amman, 1990-2019 Bensalah was paralysed and unable to find credible candidates for a new Zahra Babar, Georgetown U Qatar–The presidential election. Two former Prime Ministers and several other former Golden Ticket: Pakistani Migrants in the ministers had been referred to the Supreme Court on corruption charges, Persian Gulf and the men who had run the internal security services since the early 1990s were in jail. Popular pressure, having forced incremental concessions, was 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA calling for systemic change. This special session will provide an opportunity 5775 Politics in Turkey II to discuss these extraordinary events, their origins and potential outcomes. Participants will address the historical context, the place of the hirak in Chair: Hale Yilmaz, Southern Illinois U Algeria’s long tradition of protest and in relation to similar movements Carbondale elsewhere, the role of actors and institutions, popular culture, media, and mobilization. Sonay Ban, Temple U–“Art as the Backyard of Terrorism”: Repercussions of Turkish Cultural Policies on Cinematic Censorship 000 12:30pm-2:30pm Room TBA after the 2000s Ekrem Karakoc, Binghamton U–Business- 5795 Medicine on the Move: Medical Politics Ties in the Rise of Right-Wing Agents Crossing Borders, Part II - Populism: Turkish Case Contested Identities Matthew deTar, Ohio U–FETÖ: Brief Organized by Hagit Krik, Hebrew U History of an Acronym Bengi Ruken Cengiz, Sabanci U–Turkish Nicole Khayat, Hebrew U–A Nurse and a Citizenship in the Eyes of Citizens: Change or Scholar: Kulthum ‘Awda’s Intellectual and Continuity? Physical Journey Philippe Bourmaud, Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3–Trajectories of Professionalization. Global Mobilities and the Making of Modern Nursing in the Middle East (1900s-1940s) Yoni Furas, U Haifa–Open Borders, Glass Ceiling: A Syrian Doctor in Palestine’s Mandate Health System Benyamin Nurieli, Hebrew U–Students from “Developing Countries” at the Hebrew U Medical School, 1961-1972

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Roundtable 5438 Transitions in 7th-9th Century 5479 Revisiting the “Jewish Question” Iraq and Syria: Muslims and Non- and the “Arab Question”: Past Denials 5403 Reimagining the Revolutionary Muslims and Contemporary Engagements Year of 1958: New Perspectives on Organized by Pamela Klasova Organizer: Leila Farsakh Iran, Turkey, , the , and the Soviet Union Sponsored by Chair/Discussant: Leila Farsakh, U Organized by Jeffrey G. Karam Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Massachusetts Boston Chair/Discussant: Salim Yaqub, UC Santa Chair: Alison Vacca, U Tennessee Gil Anidjar, Columbia U–Jackals and Arabs Barbara Discussant: Luke Yarbrough, UCLA (Once More: The German-Jewish Dialogue) Hillel Cohen, Hebrew U–Jewish Elizabeth Bishop, U d’Oran (Algeria) Simcha Gross, UC Irvine–From Local Alternatives to Balfour Declaration Jeffrey G. Karam, Lebanese American U Community to Transregional Authorities: Hakem Al-Rustom, U Michigan–Returning Nathan Citino, Rice U The Spread of Babylonian Rabbinic Influence to the Critique of Europe: On Arabs, Jews, and John Ghazvinian, U Penn between the Sasanian and Early Islamic Arab-Jews Murat Kasapsaracoglu, Antalya Bilim U Periods Amal Ghazal, Simon Fraser U–Palestine Pamela Klasova, Bowdoin Col–The in Algeria: The Emergence of an Arab-Islamic 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Foundation of Wasit: History and Memory Question in the Interwar Period Roundtable Michael Payne, Brown U–Zandaqa, Race, Moshe Behar, U Manchester–Is Bi- and the Reactionary Politics of al-Jahiz nationalism a Form of Normalization? 5408 Organization of Sources and Jessica Mutter, Bowdoin Col–Syriac Connected Histories: The Case of Christian Responses to Islam: Conversion and 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Ottoman-Armenian Studies Apostasy in the Legal Literature Organized by Dzovinar Derderian 5500 State of the Field: Whose 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Universalism? Unsettling the Sponsored by Geographies of the World in Queer and Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) 5444 Chequebooks or Change? Feminist Studies & Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Assessing Gulf Rentierism after the Organized by Dina Fergani (OTSA) Arab Uprisings Organized by Geoff Martin Chair: Sima Shakhsari, U Minnesota Chair: Bedross Der Matossian, U Discussants: Dina Fergani, U Toronto and Nebraska-Lincoln Chair: Fahed Al-Sumait, Gulf U for Sima Shakhsari, U Minnesota Science and Technology, Kuwait Murat Cankara, Social Sciences U Discussant: Michael Herb, Georgia State U Sonali Pahwa, U Minnesota–Strategic Yasar Tolga Cora, Boğaziçi U Universalism in Arab Women’s Social Media Dzovinar Derderian, Independent Scholar Justin Gengler, SESRI, Qatar U, Michael Silvia Marsans-Sakly, Fairfield U–Process Anoush Tamar Suni, U Michigan Ewers, UNC Charlotte, and Bethany and Practice of Revolutionary Democracy: The Shockley, American U Sharjah–Inequality World Social Forum in Tunisia 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA and Citizen Preferences toward Fiscal Reform Heba Ghannam, American U–An in the Gulf Oil Monarchies Intersectional and Counterhegemonic Account 5435 Approaching Enslavement in the Batul K. Sadliwala, Tufts U–At Work in of the Arab Spring Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate Kuwait: A Network Survey of Interpersonal Nadje Al-Ali, Brown U–Critiquing U.S. Centrism (16th and 17th Centuries) Interactions and the Making of Office Life Organized by Victor Ostapchuk, U Toronto Crystal A. Ennis, Leiden U–Promises and 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Expectations: Radical Transformations and Suraiya Faroqhi, Ibn Haldun U, Istanbul– Job Creation in the Sultanate of Oman 5536 Narratives of Selfhood and African Slaves in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Courtney Freer, London School of Accounts of Culpability in the Late Anatolia Economics and Political Science–The Ottoman World Firat Yasa, Düzce U–Born and Bred in Rentier State and Religious Sphere: Examining Organized by Ugur Z. Pece Seventeenth-Century Crimea: Child Slavery, the Limits of Co-optation Social Reality and Cultural Identity Geoff Martin, U Toronto–‘Want-Avoid’: Chair: Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt U Guel Sen, U Bonn–Galley Slavery in the Rentier Mentality in Ontological and Discussant: Christine Philliou, UC Berkeley Mediterranean: The Organization of Unfree Epistemological Perspective Labor for the Ottoman Imperial Shipyards Ümit Selim Kurt, Van Leer Jerusalem Inst– Maryna Kravets, U Toronto–Sexual Life and Death from Yemen to Euphrates: Syrian Violence in the Slaving Zone of the Crimean Governor Cemal Pasha in Armenian Memoirs Khanate: Fact or Folklore? continued next page

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Secil Yilmaz, Franklin and Marshall Col– Nermin Allam, Rutgers U–Affective Becoming Riza Nur: Selfhood, Desire, and Life Encounters: Locating Hope in MENA Politics in Hayatim ve Hatiratim Eid Mohamed, Doha Inst for Graduate Emre Can Daglioglu, Stanford–What Studies–Politics and Popular Culture in Can a Propaganda Book Tell Us about the Egypt since 2011: Contested Narratives and Genocide? Faiz el-Ghusein’s Memoir on the Competing Identities Armenian Genocide Ugur Z. Pece, Lehigh U–Reminiscing in Greek, Narrating in Turkish: Constructing SPECIAL SESSION Ethnic Origin in Ahmet Cevat Emre’s “Iki Neslin Tarihi” 5791 Special Session-The Neoliberalization of the University Organized by Joshua Stacher and Sherene Seikaly, UC, Santa Barbara 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Chair: Joshua Stacher, Kent State U 5543 Voyage to Tomorrow: Futurism and Science Fiction in Middle Eastern Omar Dahi, Hampshire Col Art & Design Joel Beinin, Stanford Organized by Elizabeth Rauh Maya Mikdashi, Rutgers U

Sponsored by Last April, the Provost of Stanford began procedures to disable one of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art nation’s most esteemed academic presses. According to the provost, Persis of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA) Drell, the subsidy cut would encourage “a financial model for the press that is sustainable.” This announcement galvanized immediate resistance and the Chair: Elizabeth Rauh, U Michigan provost relented on the subsidy cut for one year, although the nature of this Discussant: Nasser O. Rabbat, MIT reprieve is still unclear. This is part of a broader attack that forces academics to protect spaces for knowledge production in the humanities and social Anneka Lenssen, UC Berkeley–Futurity sciences. But there are costs. and the Arts of a New Syria, 1960-1970 Pamela Karimi, U Massachusetts–Life In many instances, administrative changes are not only destroying careers but after Earth: Nader Khalili’s “Futuristic Homes result in the narrowing down of remaining spaces for dissent. At Hampshire for Lunar Surfaces” College, one of the most progressive liberal arts Colleges in the US, a de Joan Grandjean, U Geneva–Gulf Futurism: facto decision made by about four or five people (President and a few Board An Art Historical Approach, Definition, and of Trustees members) not to accept students for the Fall 2019 semester had Characteristics catastrophic implications for staff and faculty, who were told more than 50% Sascha Crasnow, U Michigan–Subverting of all employees would be fired by the end of the academic year. Extraordinary Narratives of Occupation in Science Fiction: mobilization and a public campaign forced the President to resign and is Larissa Sansour’s “Nation Estate” and “In the now fighting to revive the College based on the principles of democratic Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain” governance. This destruction of universities as public goods is not limited to North America. 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Administrators at UK universities have used government policy to broadly 5553 Arab Political Science Network: marketize education and assess productivity while also introducing Prevent, Arab Scholars and Politics during which effectively asks professors to monitor students and report on them Times of Uncertainty as part of a “deradicalization agenda.” American-led corporatization of the Organized by Nermin Allam American University of Beirut (AUB) and the American University in Cairo (AUC) has been underway. Faculty and senior administrators battle over Organized under the auspices of APSN economic efficiency, top-down strategic visions imposed from above and abroad, and institutional hiring priorities. All over, specific administrators Chair/Discussant: Dalia Fahmy, Long that operate on behalf of the superrich are grabbing larger portions of the Island U surplus product, which enflames more class struggle.

Mona Farag, Zayed U–The Misconception The participants of this panel will discuss the neoliberalization of the of Communitarian Norms and the Khaleeji university. The panelists will help us think about the assaults on humanities, Identity: The Breakdown of the GCC in the social sciences, and area studies before leading a discussion about how to Midst of Ancient and Contemporary Threats collectively respond and actively resist these encroachments. We will also Hind M Ahmed Zaki, Harvard–The Arab discuss different organizing strategies to redistribute resources by redirecting Spring and Arab Academics: Unequal Patterns them to spending for human needs, including university activities and presses. of Knowledge Production

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000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Michael Ferguson, Concordia U–Towards 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA a History of African Foodways in Late 5586 Recentering the Maghreb, Part II Ottoman Izmir 5670 Economy-Making at Empire’s Organized by Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Sara Pekow, Graduate Center CUNY–The End: Law and Capital in the Ottoman Tulane U and Brahim El Guabli, Williams Application of the Science of Nutrition in Syria Gilded Age Col Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley, Northwestern Organized by Camille Cole U–Layered Authenticities: The Commodification Organized under the auspices of of Arab Identity in the Chilean Foodscape Discussant: Ahmad Shokr, Swarthmore Col Center for Maghreb Studies, Arizona State U 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Nora Barakat, NYU Abu Dhabi– Codification and Conflicts over Capital in the Chair/Discussant: Brian T. Edwards, 5633 Re-Examining the State in the Eastern Mediterranean Tulane U Middle East Camille Cole, Yale–Guaranteeing Fraud: Organized by Oliver Schlumberger Shaykh and Merchant Partnerships in ‘Amara Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams Col– Land Auctions, 1900-1914 Bidonvilles, High-Rises, and Their Aftermath: Chair: Nadine Sika, AUC Elizabeth Williams, U Massachusetts Re-Centering the Maghreb in the Global Discussant: Lisa Anderson, Columbia U Lowell–Capital, Sovereignty, and Debt: History of Mass Housing Securing Rural Credit in the Late Ottoman Anne-Marie McManus, Washington U St. Inna Rudolf, King’s Col London– Empire, 1880-1918 Louis–Absent Centers: The Postcolonial Arab Contesting the Monopoly on Violence: Al- Left in/and the Maghreb Hashd al-Sha‘abi and the Iraqi State 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Hakim Abderrezak, U Minnesota–New Koray Saglam, Eberhard Karls U Migratory Trends and Centering Narratives of Tuebingen–The Political Economy of 5681 What Violence Generates: Views the Maghreb Personalized State Capture from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Felicia McCarren, Tulane U–Contraflow: Oliver Schlumberger, Tuebingen U–When Micro-politics and Geo-poetics in the Does Regime Breakdown Lead to State Collapse? Organized by Sumayya Kassamali Moroccan South Renad Mansour, Chatham House–Chaos or Business as Usual? Rethinking State- Veronica Ferreri, Zentrum Moderner 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Building in Iraq (and Elsewhere) Orient–Legal Death and the Infrastructure of (Non-)Legal Personhood in the Syrian 5597 Rethinking 1919: The Afterlives of 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Displacement in Lebanon a Contested Revolution Madiha Tahir, Columbia U–Sensing the Organized by Katharine Halls 5655 Beyond Monarchy? Political Drone in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas Economy and Society in Contemporary Huma Gupta, MIT–Broadcasting Alia Mossallam, Alexander von Morocco Development & Revolution in Iraq, 1955-1963 Humboldt Foundation–Prelude to a Organized by Chantal Berman Sumayya Kassamali, Tufts U–The Revolution - Mapping the Growth of Political Intimate Violences of Migrant Domestic Labor Dissent by Egyptian Peasants across the Chair: Michelle Weitzel, New School for in Lebanon Geographies of World War I Social Research Onur Gunay, Princeton–Violence and Katharine Halls, U Manchester–‘Not Multiple Sovereignties in Kurdish Istanbul Worthy of Belief’: Testimonies of Rape in Erin Snider, Texas A&M U–Debt, Taxes, Egypt, 1919 and Protest: Morocco and the Development of 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Dina Heshmat, AUC–A Story of Defeat and Global Financial Orders in the Middle East Resistance: 1919 as Narrated after 1967 Chantal Berman, Harvard–Social 5695 Female Religiosity and Sainthood Khaled Fahmy, Cambridge U–The Great Mobilization and State Response in Phosphate in Early Modern Iran and Central Asia Theft of History: World War One and the Mining Towns: Tunisia and Morocco in Organized by Aziza Shanazarova Prelude to Revolution Comparative Perspective Diana Partridge, U Maryland–Nation of Devin A. DeWeese, Indiana U–On His 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Lobbyists: Why Social Movements become Mother’s Side: Tracing Sanctity and Initiation Sustained through Female Ancestors in 18th- and 19th- 5623 Food for Thought: The Transfer Daniele Rossi-Doria, International Inst Century Central Asia of Knowledge along Middle Eastern Social Studies, The –Collective Michael Krautkraemer, Indiana U– Foodways Action, Institutional Appropriation and Cloistered by the Graves of Her Forefathers: Organized by Sara Pekow Local Development: The Case of Water User The Genealogy and Hagiography of a Female Associations in Ain Leuh, Morocco Saint of Yarkand Laura Bier, Georgia Tech–The Hidden Carolyn Barnett, Princeton–The Politics of continued next page Histories of Bulu Beef in Egypt Women’s Economic Empowerment in Morocco Ari Ariel, U Iowa–Yemeni Jewish Cultural Practice: Between Israel and Yemen

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Aziza Shanazarova, Indiana U Mariam Sheibani, Harvard–Innovation, 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Bloomington–A Female Saint in Muslim Borrowing, and the ‘Anxiety of Influence’ in Polemics: Aga-yi Buzurg and the Rhetoric of Mamluk Legal Thought: The Case of Ibn ‘Abd 5772 Ottoman History: Sources and Female Religiosity al-Salam and al-Qarafi’s Canon Collections Perspectives Ahoo Najafian, Carleton Col–Soul of the Mohammed Al Dhfar, U Nottingham– World: Ghazals of Jahan Malik Khatun Tafsir and the Conflict of the Empires in the Chair: Mark Stein, Muhlenberg Col 14th Century: Al-Subki on al-Zamakhshari’s 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Kashshaf Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth U– Late Ottoman Moral Entrepreneurs Thematic 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Patrick Schilling, Georgetown U–Model Conversation and Rival: The Image of Russia in Ahmed 5715 Covering Muslim Women: 5764 Literature and Literary Midhat Efendi’s “Acâib-i Âlem” (1882) Working with Journalists for Accurate Production III Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Brigham Representation Young U–Why Did the Noble Corsair Cigala Chair: , U Arkansas Organized by Sarah Gualtieri Rania Mahmoud Marry the Dizdar’s Daughter? Basil Salem, U Chicago–Biographical , Allegheny Col–Poetry and Suad Joseph, UC Davis Sami Alkyam Dictionaries as Emotional Histories: Towards Righting: How Do You Think I Feel? Sarah Gualtieri, U Southern California a New Reading of Biographical Writing in , Harvard–Return to the Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State U William Tamplin Eighteenth-Century Damascus Desert: Environmental Apocalypse and the Usman Ahmedani, U Amsterdam–For 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Figure of Jesus Christ in Two Novels by ‘Abd Love and Homeland: The Travels of Abdülhak al-Rahman Munif and Ibrahim al-Kuni Hamit Tarhan’s “Tarik” 5724 Arabic: Language, Pedagogy, and Domenico Ingenito, UCLA–“We Bade Media Farewell in Kashgar:” Sa‘di’s Geopoetics of 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Seduction and Nostalgia Chair: Adil Elkhiyari, Qalam wa Lawh Marjan Moosavi, U Toronto–Ambivalent 5779 The Kurds: Politics and Identity Center for Arabic Studies, Rabat Morocco Dances and Anxious Dilemmas: A Comparative Study of the Dramatization of Living Young in Chair: Mohammed A. Salih, U Penn Mona Farrag Attwa, Tilburg U - U of Plays from Egypt, Iran and Syria Colorado Boulder–Structuring Arabic Inter- Burcu Alkan, Justus Liebig U–The Case of Ufuk Sahin, Freie Universität Berlin– Dialectal Communication: Pan-Arab Popularity Psychoanalysis in “Tradition vs. Modernity”: The Rise and Fall of Turkey’s Policy of and Media Epistemologies of the Self-in-Crisis in the Transforming the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict Said Hannouchi, Harvard–Cross-Cultural Modern Turkish Novel Jacob Maze, Charles U–Moderation in Sensitivity and Willingness to Engage in Arab Ideology but Immoderation in Tactics: Cultural Practices 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Understanding the Hybrid Transformation of Hanada Al-Masri, Denison U–The the Kurdish Movement in Turkey Effectiveness of Oral History Projects as 5766 Migrants and Refugees II Asli Bali, UCLA–Democratic Confederalism? Interactive Pedagogical Tools: A Case Study Political Experimentation and Institutional of the Arab American Migrant Community in Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John’s U Design in Turkish Kurdistan Central Ohio , U Penn–Interstellar Renee Spellman, U Arizona–Examining Philippe Atallah Palestinians’ Literacy and Social Media Diaspora: Arabfuturism and the Search for a Practices, Motivations, and Linguistic Choices Space Duygu Ergun, U Michigan–“The Album is 000 2:45pm-4:45pm Room TBA Alive:” Politics of the Photographic Image in Yasemin Samdereli’s “Almanya: Welcome to 5748 Medieval Islam and Islamic Law Germany” Danae C. Panissié, U Tuebingen–Priorities Chair: Josie Hendrickson, U Alberta vs. Realities: German Migration Policies in the Middle East Sami Al Daghistani, Columbia U– Environmental and Economic Ethics: Revisiting the Islamic Tradition Evan Metzger, UCLA–Not All Zakat Is Equal: Zakat and Legality in Mamluk Egypt Yasser Sultan, Georgetown U–Space & Gender in Islamic Law: The Early Discourses

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000 5-7pm Room TBA Parnia Vafaeikia, U Toronto–Iranian 000 5-7pm Room TBA Landscapes of the Shi’i Messianism 5391 Modes and Methods of Hamza Esmili, ENS/EHESS, Paris– Thematic Conversation Manuscript Publication in the Early GivingTime. About an Islamic Da’awa in Paris Modern Period: The Ottoman, Safavid, Suburbs 5529 State of the Field: The Politics and European Realms of Translation, Teaching, Knowledge Organized by Evren Sunnetcioglu 000 5-7pm Room TBA Production Organized by Dima Ayoub Chair/Discussant: John Curry, U Nevada Roundtable Las Vegas 5497 Generating Precarity in the Session Leaders: Dima Ayoub, Middle East Middlebury Col and Minoo Moallem, UC Aslihan Gurbuzel, McGill U–Manuscript as Organized by Jennifer Derr, UC, Santa Berkeley Family Archive: Notes on the Life of an ‘Ulama Cruz Family in Early Modern Ottoman Bursa Amal Amireh, George Mason U , Central European U– Evren Sunnetcioglu Chair/Discussant: Elliott Colla, Nadje Al-Ali, Brown U From Archival Documents to a Reference Book Georgetown U Asli Zengin, Brown U of Jurisprudence: A Culture of Compiling Legal Maya El Helou, U Toronto Opinions in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Naghmeh Sohrabi, Brandeis U Sarah Ghabrial, Concordia U , Özyeğin U–An “Elegant” Melis Taner Ilana Feldman, George Washington U Lucia Sorbera, U Sydney Compilation Lewis Turner, Arnold Bergstraesser Inst Paul Babinski, Princeton–Haqvirdi’s 000 5-7pm Room TBA Manuscripts: A Persian Amanuensis in Early 000 5-7pm Room TBA Modern Europe 5551 Gender and Labor in Israel/ 5527 Beyond Islamic Art: New Palestine 000 5-7pm Room TBA Approaches to the Material Culture of Organized by Hilary Falb Kalisman and the Middle East Julia Shatz 5393 Whither Islamic Finance: Beyond Organized by Stefan Maneval Conventional Banking? Chair/Discussant: Ellen L. Fleischmann, Organized by Clement Moore Henry Chair: Stefan Maneval, Martin-Luther- U Dayton Universität Halle-Wittenberg Chair: , U Texas Clement Moore Henry Deborah Hertz, UC San Diego–Hebrew Austin (Emeritus) Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion U– Bedouins and Muscular Eves: Sexuality Violence Discussant: Ibrahim Warde, Tufts U From Master Copy to Sacred Relic to Museum and Romance in Era of First Kibbutzim Artifact: The Vicissitudes of the `Uthmani Julia Shatz, CSU Fresno–Gendered Mahmoud El-Gamal, Rice U–The Financial Qur’an (7th-20th Centuries) Expertise: Palestinian Women in Social Meeting Point of Three Islamisms: Pietist, Irfana Hashmi, Whittier Col–The Lockers Welfare Work during the Mandate Parasitic, and Political of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ghunaymi al-Ansari at Hilary Falb Kalisman, U Colorado Boulder– Walid Hegazy, Hegazy & Partners Law al-Azhar Mosque, 1634 to 1637 The Gender of Teaching in Mandate Palestine Firm–Islamic Finance: What Went Wrong? Katie J. Hickerson, U Chicago–The Three- Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U–Shifting , Col of New Jersey– Miriam R. Lowi Dome Problem: The Syncretic Architecture of Concepts of Gendered Employment in Islamic Banking and Finance in GCC States Healing in Sudan Palestine Sara Kuehn, IDEMEC-CNRS–Piercing the 000 5-7pm Room TBA Skin: Materializing the Sensory in Rifa’i and 000 5-7pm Room TBA Sa’di Dhikr Rituals (Remembrance of God) 5469 Time and Anthropology of Islam 5564 Contemporary Arabic Literature Organized by Delbar Khakzad Enaya Othman, Marquette U–Crossroad Imagination: The Thob Mediating between and Theatre in Northern Europe Organized by Johanna Sellman Chair: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, U Palestinian Material Culture and Gendered Toronto Activism Discussant: Haytham Bahoora, U Toronto , McGill U–’s Response Hassan Arif Margaret Litvin, Boston U–Hailed and to the Challenge of Time and Temporality Haunted: Syrian Playwrights in 2016-2018 Delbar Khakzad, U Toronto–A New Time, Berlin a Modern Calendar: The Formation of the Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh), Tufts Hijri-Shamsi Calendar Alongside the Islamic U–Indigeneity without Land: Barakat and Hijri Calendar in 19th Century Iran Koni in Perspective Johanna Sellman, Ohio State U–Rasha Abbas’s Short Stories and the Project to Reinvent Exile Literature

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5567 Debating the Nation: 5585 Magical Materialities: Toward A Roundtable Transformative Politics and Discursive History of (Occult) Technology in the 5651 Iraqi Studies across Disciplines: Trends in Pahlavi Iran Islamicate World from the 13th to the The Future for an Iraqi Research Organized by Kelly Houck 21st Century Center Organized by Taylor M. Moore Organized by Amanda Long, The Chair: Kamran Aghaie, U Texas Austin Academic Research Inst in Iraq Chair: Side Emre, Texas A&M U Andrew Akhlaghi, U Texas Austin–The Sponsored by Tehran Bread of 1942: A Reexamination of the Taylor M. Moore, Rutgers U–Occult(ed) The Academic Research Institute in Iraq Crowd Ontologies (TARII) David Rahimi, U Texas Austin–Fashioning Noah Gardiner, U South Carolina–Are Intimate Consumers: Iran and the US Point IV Islamic Books of Magic Magical Books? Chair: Peter Wien, U Maryland Program in the 1950s Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Arabic Kelly Houck, U Texas Austin–Educating Occult Texts Matthieu Rey, CNRS - Wits U the Masses: Domestic and International Nicholas Harris, U Penn–Becoming a Katharyn Hanson, Smithsonian Institution Efforts at Educating Rural Iran, 1960-1979 Time-Lord: Later Islamicate Alchemy as a Alda Benjamen, U Penn Museum Bryan Sitzes, U Texas Austin–Hunters, Technology of Time Antoine Borrut, U Maryland Technocrats, and Academics: The Challenges Matthew Melvin-Koushki, U South Nabil Al-Tikriti, U Mary Washington and Solutions of Pre-revolution Iranian Carolina–Talismans as Technology: The Environmentalists Construction and Operation of Magical 000 5-7pm Room TBA Machines in Early Modern Persian Grimoires 000 5-7pm Room TBA and Chronicles 5668 Different Faces of State and Alireza Doostdar, U Chicago–Sensing Jinn Society Relationship in Anatolia 5573 Slavery, Power, and the State in during Late Ottoman and Early the Premodern Islamic World 000 5-7pm Room TBA Republican Era: Negotiation, Conflict Organized by Hannah Barker or Cooperation 5624 Rethinking 1919: Political Organized by Mustafa Batman Sponsored by Economy, Political Strategy and Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Political Ideas Chair: Seda Ozdemir Simsek, Boğaziçi U Organized by Hussein A H Omar Chair: Matthew Gordon, Miami U Seda Ozdemir Simsek, Boğaziçi U– Discussant: Aimee Genell, U West Georgia Different Representations of Greek-Turkish Craig Perry, Emory U–Nubia, the Buja, and Forced Population Exchange: State and the the Slave Trade at the Frontiers of Medieval Hussein A H Omar, U Col Dublin–Neither Middle Class Immigrants in Ayvalik Egypt Wilson nor Lenin: 1919 as a Revolution in Ideas Mustafa Batman, Yale–Dynamics of Hannah Barker, Arizona State U–Flight, Neil Ketchley, U Oslo–Telegraphing Contention: Analyzing Mass Protests in Apostasy, Murder: Resistance by Elite Slaves Revolt: Protest Diffusion in the 1919 Egyptian Erzurum and Bitlis 1906 - 1908 in the Mamluk Era Revolution Önder Uçar, Boğaziçi U–Young Turk Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State U– Ahmad Shokr, Swarthmore Col– Officials’ Alternative Approaches to the Enslaving Dhimmis: Rulers, Fiqh, and Religious Capitalism after Empire? Nationalism and Armenian Question: Two Sub-District Diversity in Late Medieval Türkmen States Economic Thought in Egypt Circa 1919 Governors of Zeitun Baki Tezcan, UC Davis–Empowering the Aaron G. Jakes, The New School–“But Özkan Akpinar, Özyeğin U–Immigrants, Emasculated: Arabic and Turkish Literary These Excesses Were Abnormal and Short- Local Tribes and the State: Land Property Sources on African Eunuchs Lived”: 1919, the Milner Mission, and the Disputes in Late 19th Century Sivas Legacies of Colonial Economism in Egypt

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000 5-7pm Room TBA Marino Auffant, Harvard–Democratic 000 5-7pm Room TBA Radicalism, Autocratic Moderation, and the 5669 Gender on the Line in the Long Global Politics of Oil: The Making of the U.S.- 5734 Gender Reform, Resistance, and Nineteenth Century: Translating Saudi Energy Partnership, 1967-1973 Trans-Nationalism Violation and Protection in Ottoman Neha Ansari, Tufts U–Defeating with and Egyptian Debates about the Drones: Challenging Coercive Airpower Chair: Helen M. Rizzo, AUC “Woman Question” Theories with Evidence from FATA Organized by A. Ebru Akcasu Daniel Chardell, Harvard–Unmoored in the Charlotte Lysa, U Oslo–Fighting for the Storm: Arab Opposition to the Gulf War and the Right to Play: Female Football and Rightful Chair: Usman Ahmedani, U Amsterdam End of the Cold War in the Middle East Resistance in Saudi Arabia Satgin Hamrah, Tufts U–The Mobilization Elena Aoun, U Louvain and Alena Sander, Marilyn L. Booth, U Oxford and A. Holly of Militant Islamists in the Cold War & Its U Louvain–Colliding Visions – A Fieldwork on Shissler, U Chicago–Translating ‘Women of Long Term Impact on the Greater Middle East the Diffusion of and Resistance to International Islam’ from Istanbul to Alexandria to Paris and South Asia Women’s Rights Norms in Jordan A. Ebru Akcasu, Charles U and Maha Michael Peddycoart, U Chicago–Feminine AbdelMegeed, AUB–The Woman Question: 000 5-7pm Room TBA Comrades: Women and Armed Struggle in the Historicizing the Debates on ‘Human Nature’ PFLP, 1967-1975 Claire Savina, Aga Khan Centre, London 5699 Muslim Youth and Sports Farinaz Basmechi, U North Texas– and Hannah Scott Deuchar, NYU–“Define Organized by Terrence Peterson and Gendered Framing Processes and Feminist ‘Rape’?”: Translation and Correction of Gwyneth Talley Activism: Protesting Mandatory Hijab in Iran Sexual Violence across French, Ottoman and Egyptian Penal Codes Terrence Peterson, Florida International 000 5-7pm Room TBA U–Sports, Development, and Muslim Youth in 000 5-7pm Room TBA the Algerian War, 1957-1964 5740 The Gulf: Politics and Society Paul Silverstein, Reed Col–Jeu de 5689 Refugees, Order, and Change in Boules/Coup de Boule: On Masculinity, Chair: Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan Postcoloniality, and Amazigh Activism Qatar Organized by Daniel Masterson A. George Bajalia, Columbia U–Dima Africa, Daily Darija: Spectatorship, Sociality, and Sports Robert Mogielnicki, Oxford U/AGSIW– Chair/Discussant: Kelsey P. Norman, Rice U among Im/Migrants in Tangier, Morocco The Political Instrumentalization of Qatari Gwyneth Talley, UCLA–Tbourida Women Special Economic Zones Allison Hartnett, Yale–Capitalizing on as a Social Nonmovement in Morocco Hae Won Jeong, Abu Dhabi U–UAE’s Look Crisis: Firm Owners and Informal Refugee East Policy and Economic Diversification Labor in Jordan 000 5-7pm Room TBA Strategies in Post-Zayed Era Daniel Masterson, Stanford–Who Returns, Farah Atoui, McGill U–Make Dubai the Who Stays? Understanding the Dynamics of 5722 Contestation, Coup, and Islam in Happiest City On Earth Syrian Refugee Return Turkey Mai Alkhamissi, Princeton–Wouldn’t You Lama Mourad, Harvard–General (In) Want to Live in a Dubai? Security: Ambiguity and Spatial Fix in Chair: Özde Celiktemel-Thomen, Middle Lebanon’s GSO East Technical U 000 5-7pm Room TBA Diala Lteif, U Toronto–Refugees and the Making of Beirut Yusuf Sarfati, Illinois State U–Contesting 5743 Islam and Islamist Movements Official Religious Narratives in Turkey: after the Arab Uprisings 000 5-7pm Room TBA Democratic Islamic Egalitarianism in Ihsan Eliacik’s Works Chair: Didier Leroy, Royal Higher Inst for 5693 From the Cold War to the War Timur Hammond, Syracuse U– Defence on Terror: The Paradoxes of U.S. Remembering to Forget: Memorial Practices of Involvement in the Middle East & the July 15, 2016 Coup Attempt Guy Eyre, SOAS–Divine Paths to Politics: South Asia since the Second World War Özgür Özkan, U Washington–The Turkish Salafism, Islamism, and the State in North Africa Organized by Satgin Hamrah Military’s Social Alienation through Purges Lucia Ardovini, Swedish Inst of and Promotions: The Composition of Officer International Affairs and Erika Biagini, Organized under the auspices of Corps and Its Implications for the Military- Dublin City U–Mapping the Egyptian Muslim Tufts U-History Department and Fletcher Society Relations in Turkey Brotherhood’s Internal Divisions after 2013 School & Harvard-History Department Nora Fisher-Onar, U San Francisco– Inga Kristina Trauthig, King’s Col Pathways to Pluralism: Islam, Liberalism and London–The New Islamist Scene in Libya: Wendy Qian, Tufts U–Iraqi Modernism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond How Did the Salafi-Madkhalis Develop in Post- the Cold War: 1958-1979 Qaddafi Libya?

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Quinn Mecham, Brigham Young U– SPECIAL SESSION Islamists and the State: Why Some Islamist Groups Survive and Thrive under State 5793 Special Session: Politics and Prospects for Peace and Reconstruction in Repression Yemen Organized by Stacey Philbrick Yadav and Jillian Schwedler 000 5-7pm Room TBA Chair: Jillian Schwedler, Hunter Col CUNY 5785 Territorial Space and the Meanings of Citizenship Adam Hanieh, SOAS U London Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart & William Smith Cols Mark Levine, UC Irvine/Lund U–Chiapas- Danny Postel, Northwestern U Rojava-Western Sahara-Palestine: Post Sovereign Waleed F. Mahdi, U Oklahoma Imaginaries of Resistance and Freedom Salwa Dammaj, AIYS Paul M. Esber, U Sydney–Between Claims, Residence and Recognition: The Conceptual After nearly five years, the effects of the war in Yemen - driven by local, Unity of Jins?yah and Muw?tanah? regional, and global dynamics alike - have been fragmentary and highly Dov Waxman, Northeastern U–The localized. The erosion of governance has invited partnerships of necessity Nation-State Law and the Rightwing Populist (and sometimes of choice) with foreign powers, donor agencies, and private Challenge to Israeli Democracy or semi-private firms and patrons. One effect of these partnerships has been Drew Paul, U Tennessee Knoxville– a “privatization of peace,” where the sources of insecurity vary widely in Arrested Movement: Palestinian Airport different parts of the country. This has broad implications for the experience Detention Narratives of national belonging, the process of reconstruction, and the prospects for Saghar Bozorgi, U Texas Austin–Our Vote post–war peace. Matters if We Are Ra‘yats of Iran: Local Electoral Struggles and Efforts for Identity Formation in This roundtable brings together scholars who approach this privatization at Kashan and Kermanshah (1909-1915) different scales. At the local level, participants will offer first-hand accounts of dynamics of community self-organizating in Sana’a and discussion of a recent field study of women’s activism in areas under Houthi and Coalition control, as well as the way the war’s fragmentation is reflected in and reproduced by humanitarian initiatives originating in the Yemeni diaspora. Participants will also address the regional politics of the GCC and its development of patronage ties to members of the Yemeni private sector engaged in reconstruction, and recent political efforts in the United States and Europe to reorient policy toward the war in Yemen and build innovative forms of political solidarity. Together, the roundtable contributors will show how the protracted nature of crisis in Yemen has created new opportunities for specific stakeholders, while rendering the prospect of a sustainable, negotiated peace at the national level more challenging.

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2019 MESA Awards Ceremony Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2019, including presentations of the following awards: Albert Hourani Book Award Nikkie Keddie Book Award Fatima Mernissi Book Award Roger Owen Book Award Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards MESA Mentoring Award Undergraduate Education Award MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize MESA Academic Freedom Award

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9-11am 2-6pm 5406 From al-Hadi ila al-Haqq Middle East Center & Program Arabic Council of Directors, Ara- to Husayn al-Huthi: The Zaydi Directors Meeting bic Flagship Program Meeting Phenomenon in Yemen 8-Armstrong 8-Armstrong Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco 9:30-11am 3-5pm RoMES Editorial Board Breakfast MESA Global Academy Meeting Sponsored by 4-Estherwood 8-Endymion/Mid-City American Inst for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) 11am-1pm 7-8pm Consortium of Middle East NRCs AMEWS Business Meeting Discussant: Brinkley Messick, Columbia U and FLAS-Granting Centers Meet- 4-Bayside C ing 7-8:30pm Najam Haider, Columbia U–Making an 8-Armstrong Arab Barometer Reception Imam: The Rebellion of Yahya b. ‘Abd Allah in 11am-1pm 4-Evergreen Zaydi Historiography WOCMES International Advisory 7:30-9:30pm Alexander Weissenburger, Austrian Council Meeting AUC Reception Academy of Sciences–The ahl al-bayt’s 8-Endymion/Mid-City 2-Lagniappe Return to Power: The Legitimation of Religious 11:30am-1pm 8-11pm Rule in the Speeches of Husayn al-Huthi in the CASA Consortium Annual Lun- AMEWS, AMEA, AMECYS, ASA Context of the Current Crisis in Yemen cheon Meeting Reception Daniel Martin Varisco, American Inst for location TBA 4-Bayside A Yemeni Studies–Rasulid Sultans and Zaydi 12-2pm 8:30-9:30pm Imams: War (Mostly) and Peace (a Little) in Arabic Collections Online Board TARII Reception Yemen during the 13th-15th Centuries Meeting 4-Southdown David B. Hollenberg, U Oregon–Title 4-Oakley 8:30-10pm TBA 12-2pm Harvard CMES Reception Iranian Studies Editorial Board 4-Gallier A/B 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Meeting 8:30-10pm 5439 Territoriality and Population: 4-Evergreen UCLA CNES Reception “Arab” Nation States in the Age of the 1-3pm 4-Bayside B League of Nations TARII Board Meeting Organized by Adam Mestyan 4-Ellendale Chair/Discussant: Cyrus Schayegh, 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Graduate Inst of International and 5395 Popular Culture: Past, Present, 5399 Bilingualism, Translation, and Development Studies Future Diglossia in the Nahda Organized by Andrew Simon Organized by Annie Greene Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale–War Makes Boundaries: Interwar Revolts and the Discussant: Marwan M. Kraidy, U Penn Chair: Annie Greene, Col of William and Territorialization of the Middle East and Mary North Africa Christa Salamandra, CUNY–Television Discussant: Basil Salem, U Chicago Adam Mestyan, Duke U–The Empty Throne Matters of Syria, 1926-1928: Territorial Unification and Andrew Simon, Dartmouth Col–A Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern the Missing ‘Native Ruler’ Comedic Crisis: Overpopulation, Family U–The Nahda, Translation Movements Sarah Shields, UNC Chapel Hill– Planning, and the Popular Press in Egypt between Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, and Taxonomy and Territory: Science, Identity, Michael Frishkopf, U Alberta–Exploring Bilingualism 1860-1914 Borders, and the League of Nations Cairo’s Informal Popular Music Archives: An Peter Hill, U Oxford–‘A Man Who Knows Laura Robson, Portland State U– Actor-Network Theory (Auto)Ethnography Only Arabic’: The Multilingual Networks of a Statelessness and Citizenship: Enforcing Ted Swedenburg, U Arkansas–Popular Monolingual Intellectual, Mikha’il Mishaqa Territoriality in the Mandates Music Archives of North Africa (1800-1888) C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç U–Beyond a Monolingual Nahda: The Role of Translations in the Works of Maruf al-Rusafi Annie Greene, Col of William and Mary–The Arabic Languages: Diglossia and Language Hybridity in Baghdadi Print Culture

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000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Ezgi Guner, U Illinois Urbana- 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Champaign–Turkish Sufi Curricula in Roundtable Muslim Africa 5574 Encountering the State: The Institutional Mediation of Identity in 5460 Conceptualizing Sectarianism(s): Feyza Burak-Adli, Boston U–Training Sufis in the Middle East Structures and Changes in Modern the Secular U: The Rifaiyye and the Institutional Organized by Nihal Kayali Lebanon Transformations of Sufism in Turkey Organized by Rima Majed and Pascal Nihal Kayali, UCLA–Navigating Healthcare: Abidor 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Syrian Refugees’ Experiences in Turkey 5502 Socio-Natures of Development Gilad Wenig, UCLAs–The Military and Sponsored by and Extractive Capitalism Religious Politics in Egypt Lebanese Studies Association (LSA) Organized by Karen Eugenie Rignall and Sima Ghaddar, UCLA–Realms of Belonging: Brittany Cook Institution Building and Public Education in Chair: Seda Altug, Boğaziçi U 1960’s Lebanon Discussant: Bridget Guarasci, Franklin & Maya El Helou, U Toronto–Queering Linda Sayed, Michigan State U Marshall Col Uprising Infrastructures Joanne Nucho, Pomona Col Rima Majed, AUB Hande Ozkan, Transylvania U, KY–Local 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Joseph Daher, U Lausanne or Parochial? Place, Identity and Energy in Pascal Abidor, McGill U Northern Turkey 5579 Queering Lebanese Social Max Ajl, Cornell U–The Loss of Gabès’s Movements 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Gardens and Environmentalism of the Poor Organized by Janine A. Clark 5465 Electrifying Media: Telegraph, Karen Eugenie Rignall, U Kentucky– Organized under the auspices of Radio, and Television in the Modern Morocco’s New Extractivism: Governance, Claims, Middle East Law and Governance (MELG) Middle East and Rurality in Natural Resource Extraction Organized by Matthew Ghazarian Brittany Cook, U Louisiana Lafayette– From Wheat to Olives: Development and the Chair: Jillian Schwedler, Hunter Col CUNY Discussant: Lara Deeb, Scripps Col Chair: Ziad Fahmy, Cornell U Rural Landscape of Jordan Discussant: Yasmin Moll, U Michigan 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Sophie Chamas, U Oxford–Queering the Lebanese Left: Fugitivity and Alter-Politics in Matthew Ghazarian, Columbia U– 5552 The Vocabularies of Islamic Post-Civil War Lebanon Telegraphy, Credit, and Sectarianism in the Sovereignty: Fashioning Authority in Janine A. Clark, U Guelph–LGBT and Ottoman East, 1865-81 the Medieval Maghrib and Mashriq Queer Women’s Regional Ties and Activism , UCLA–Telegrams of Pauline Lewis Organized by Ali Karjoo-Ravary Violence and Relief: The Telegraph in the 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Armenian Genocide Discussant: Sara Nur Yildiz, Max-Planck Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver–Messages to Inst for History of Science 5588 Worlding Arabic Literature Pilgrims: The Advent of Radio Broadcasting at through Transnational Contexts the Hajj Jonathan Brack, Hebrew U–“The King’s Organized by Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Wazhmah Osman, Temple U–Radio Speech”: The Muslim, Persian, Buddhist and Purdue U Television : A Century of National Mongolian Contexts of the Ilkhan Öljeitü’s Broadcasting and Its Backlashes Questions Sponsored by Mohamad Ballan, Stony Brook U–“The American Association of Teachers of Arabic 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Last of the Himyarites”: Pre-Islamic (AATA) 5472 Adaptation, Transformation and Genealogy and Royal Legitimacy in the Nasrid Chair: Nizar F. Hermes, U Virginia Transcendence - Sufi Communities in Kingdom of Granada (1238–1492) Discussant: Mbarek Sryfi, U Penn the Contemporary World Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Bucknell U– Organized by Feyza Burak-Adli Muhammad’s Song, Firaydun’s Wine: Language and Kingship in 14th Century Anatolia Sara Forcella, U Rome – La Sapienza– Scheherazade in Academic Literature: Chair: Annika Schmeding, Boston U and Enass Khansa, AUB–From Damascus to Multidisciplinary and Multi-Theory Harvard Córdoba: Kinship and the Construction of the Interpretations in a Global Context Discussant: Seema Golestaneh, Cornell U Umayyad Caliphal Model Peiyu Yang, McGill U–Za’ir al-Sin: Translating a Chinese Anti-colonial Struggle Rose Aslan, California Lutheran U–Art, for a Nahdawi Context Sufism, and Politics in Contemporary Istanbul Rama Alhabian, Cornell U–On al-Shidyāq, Annika Schmeding, Boston U and Harvard– the Untranslatable: Writing against Equivalence The Death of the Pir and the Dream of a New Path in the Work of a Nahḍah Intellectual - Contemporary Sufism in Afghanistan MESA 2019 Preliminary Program u Page 37 8:30-10:30AM Saturday November 16

000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Yosra Hussein, Independent Scholar–Al- Azhar from al-Riwaq to the Classroom: The 5616 Surviving Revolution? 5646 Speculative Imaginaries in the Modernization of al-Azhar (1895-1910) Disillusions, Expectations and Moving Image: Citizenship, Matter, Lydia Wytenbroek, U Virginia–Nursing Mobilities in Post-2013 Egypt and Space-Time Slippages in the Global (Inter)Nationalism in Iran, 1907-1947 Organized by Marie Vannetzel and Middle East Rosemary Admiral, U Texas Dallas–The Marine Poirier Organized by Rana Jarbou Influence of Women on the Early Education of Premodern Scholars Organized under the auspices of Sponsored by Laurie Brand, U Southern California– CEDEJ Association for Modern and Contemporary Art Educating States: Educational Reform in the of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA) Wake of the Arab Uprisings Chair: Walter Armbrust, U Oxford Discussant: Carl Rommel, U Helsinki Chair: Sintia Issa, UC Santa Cruz 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Discussant: Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth Col Youssef El Chazli, CNRS ()–The Day 5729 Youth Activism in the Middle East After: Dynamics of Collective Demobilization Rana Jarbou, UC Santa Cruz–#IAmReal and Individual Disengagement - Mediating Difference between Amna and Chair: Vickie Langohr, Col of the Holy Cross Sixtine Deroure, Université Paris 1 Sophia: Citizenship, Gender and Hyperreality Panthéon-Sorbonne–Becoming a Martyr’s in Saudi Arabia Sarah Anne Rennick, Arab Reform Family. State’s Recognition of Loss and Social Raed El Rafei, UC Santa Cruz–Queer Initiative–Apolitical Engagement and Active Changes among Families of Revolutionary or Subjectivities and Spatial Dimensions in Citizenship: Reconceptualizing Arab Youth as Counter-Revolutionary Martyrs Tripoli, Lebanon Political Actors Giedre Sabaseviciute, Oriental Inst, Suzy Halajian, UC Santa Cruz–A Grammar Karim Zakhour, Stockholm U–While We Czech Academy of Sciences–“The High Art Built with Rocks: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Wait: Public Space and Youth in the Interior Unites Us”. Dealing with Political Divisions in Abou-Rahme of Tunisia Cairo’s Literary Clubs Sintia Issa, UC Santa Cruz–Mapping Waste Nareman Amin, Princeton–Revolutionary Marie Vannetzel, CNRS - CEDEJ– Matters for a Time of Flowers: Marwa Arsanios Religion: Egyptian Youth and Islam in Post- “Expectation Kills. Please Do Not Expect.” 2011 Egypt Ethnography of an Egyptian Middle Class 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Talha Kose, Ibn Haldun U–Radicalization Family after the Storm in Turkish Universities: A Relational Analysis Marine Poirier, CEDEJ, Cairo–Staying 5706 Late Ottoman Communities and Alive. Competing Legacies and Mobilities the Centralizing State 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA within the Former Regime’s Political Elites Organized by William Bamber and Michael Sims 5733 Exclusions and Belonging: 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Identities through Conversion, Slavery, Pelin Tünaydin, U Washington– and Family Roundtable Precarious Belonging: The Ottoman Roma at the End of Empire Chair: Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young U 5643 Iran’s Revolution Turns 40: William Bamber, U Washington–Sartorial Consequences of Islamic Republican Change and the Transformation of Social Bilal A. Kotil, Istanbul, Turkey–“Beyond Governance Order in Mahmud II’s Post- Reforms the Circle of Toleration”: Runaway Slaves, Organized by Nahid Siamdoust Tuna Basibek, U Washington–The International Law, and Politics of Intimacy in Ottoman Refugee between Enslavement and the Late Ottoman Empire Chair: Nahid Siamdoust, Yale Abolitionism, 1856-1890 Matthew Sharp, U Penn–Trusting in Michael Sims, U Washington–The Impact the Benevolence of the Caliph: Petitions to Alireza Doostdar, U Chicago of April, 1909 on Ottoman Syriac Christian Abdülhamid II from British Female Converts Nahid Siamdoust, Yale and Kurdish Nationalist Movements to Islam , London School of Nazanin Shahrokni Aykut Mustak, Independent Scholar– Economics 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Spouse Selection among the Ottoman Élite in Shervin Malekzadeh, Williams Col the Eighteenth Century , SOAS U London Orkideh Behrouzan 5723 Education and Educational Ezgi Cakmak, U Penn–Remnants of the Kevan Harris, UCLA Reform in the Middle East Past: Encounters with the History of African Hosna Sheikholeslami, Denison U Slavery in the Early Turkish Republic , Boston Col Ali Kadivar Chair: Sara Musaifer, U Minnesota/ U Ayse Zeren-Enis, Binghamton U–Women’s Penn Petitioning to the Hamidian State: The Case of Mustafa Edib Pasa’s Family Shaherzad Ahmadi, U St. Thomas– Allopathy for the Masses: Practicing Modern Medicine in Pahlavi Iran

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5735 Gender, Labor, and Political 5755 North African Politics Post 2011 5781 Regional Politics and the Activism in Iran and Turkey Palestine/Israel Conflict Chair: Esen Kirdis, Rhodes Col Chair: Arash Azizi, NYU Chair: Awad Halabi, Wright State U Tereza Jermanová, Charles U in Prague– Yesim Arat, Boğaziçi U–Feminist “There Was No Alternative.” Explaining the Carl Forsberg, Harvard Kennedy School– Movement and the Women of the Gezi Park Cross-Partisan Constitutional Agreement in The 1974 Rabat Conference: Power and Amirhossein Teimouri, U Illinois Tunisia after the 2010/11 Uprising Legitimacy in Arab Summits Urbana-Champaign–Cultural Roots of Chris Thornton, U Oxford– Dominic Coldwell, U Oxford–The Killing of Conservative Mobilization in Iran’s State Political Trajectories and Transitional Sa’d Halawa and His Legacy in Egypt Politics (1994-2000) Administrations: A Paired Analysis of Libya Elie Podeh, Hebrew U–The “Mistress Zehra Betul Atasoy, Rutgers U & New and Tunisia Syndrome”: Israel’s Secret Relations with Jersey Inst of Technology–Gendered Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins SAIS– States and Minorities in the Middle East, Expressions of Labor: The Case of Sümerbank Stability and Change in North Africa following 1948-2018 Textile Factory, Istanbul the Arab Uprisings Pouya Alimagham, MIT–Two Peoples, Samaneh Oladi, Virginia Commonwealth Eva Schmidt, Berlin, Germany–The One Struggle. The Green Movement and U–The Contested Debate over Equal Development of the Field of Gender Politics Palestinian Liberation Compensation: Between Tradition and in the Course of Tunisia’s Democratization Modernity Process 2011 -2014 Mohamed Abufalgha, U Texas Austin– 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA The Role of Political Parties in Libya Post 2011

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Chair: Nicholas E. Roberts, Sewanee: U 5767 Pre-Modern Minorities the South Chair: Saghar Sadeghian, Willamette U Inna Blaich Chemla, Ben Gurion U– Sharia Courts and Legal Pluralism - The Case Sona Tajiryan, UCLA–Indian Diamonds of Muslim Highlanders in Soviet Dagestan, for Mediterranean Coral: A Global Armenian 1917-1927 Family Firm of Gem Merchants in Early Radha Dalal, Virginia Commonwealth Modern Safavid Iran U Qatar–The Khilafat Movement and the Armen Abkarian, U Michigan–“Human- Satirical Press Faced Beasts”: Racial Depictions of the Jonathan McCollum, Brigham Young U– Mongols in Armenian Manuscript Colophons Young Turks, Hamidian Alliances, and Global Luis Salés, Scripps Col–Systems-Intelligent Muslim Anticolonial Resistance: Volunteerism Microbehaviors and ‘Abbasid-Era Syriac in the Italo-Turkish War and the Turkish War Christian Courtroom Manuals: An Unexpected of Independence Angle on Early Christian-Muslim Relations Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate Susan Abraham, U Virginia–Ink, Agency, School–Homogenizing Trends in Islam under and the Writing of Truth in a Seventeenth Globalization: Revisiting Clifford Geertz Century Morisco Text John M. Willis, U Colorado–All is a Constant Mobility: ’s Geography of the Middle East

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SPECIAL SESSION 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Roundtable 5792 Special Session-The Arab Barometer 5th Wave Organized by Amaney A. Jamal and Michael Robbins 5389 Assessment(s) for the 21st Century Literacy in Teaching & Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton Learning Turkish Abdul-Wahab Kayyali, Princeton Organized by Nalan Erbil-Erkan Michael Robbins, Princeton Mark A. Tessler, U Michigan Sponsored by The Arab Barometer is the first and largest project of its kind seeking to American Association of Teachers systematically give voice to the opinions and concerns of ordinary citizens of Turkic Languages (AATT) across the Middle East and North Africa. It conducts rigorous and nationally representative public opinion surveys across the Arab world. The project gives Chair: Roberta Micallef, Boston U a voice to ordinary Arab citizens and allow their views to inform national conversations and policy debates. In the biggest, most in depth and wide- Zeynep Elbasan, Indiana U ranging public opinion survey of its kind ever carried out, the Arab Barometer Nalan Erbil-Erkan, U Wisconsin-Madison 5th wave explores what it is like to live in the Arab world today. The survey Beyza Lorenz, UCLA includes more than 27,000 respondents in 2018-9 across the region in 13 Jeannette E. Okur, U Texas Austin countries covering more than 80% of the Arab population living in the Middle Nilay Sevinc, U Michigan East and North Africa. The Arab Barometer 5th wave is a unique resource to scholars working on the Middle East and North Africa since all the data are 000 11am-1pm Room TBA made available free of charge to scholars and interested individuals thanks to generous funding from the Middle East Partnership Initiative, the BBC 5397 Gender and Conflict in Kurdistan Arabic, Princeton University, the , Organized by Vera Eccarius-Kelly and Qatar National Research Foundation. It supports research in a variety of disciplines given the wide variety of topics investigated, including but not Organized under the auspices of limited to economic issues and personal well-being; evaluations of political Ahmed Foundation of Kurdish Studies institutions and political attitudes; engagement in politics; elections; traditional and new media; governance; culture and religion; and Chair: Nader Entessar, U South Alabama international relations. In this special session will serve as a launch event for the study and provide an overview of the major findings from the survey, Ozum Yesiltas, Texas A&M U-Commerce– covering a wide range of topics such as views toward political institutions and Rojava: A Feminist Revolution governance, economic challenges, the role of women in society, views of Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col–Kurdish international actors, and concerns of youth. Additionally, the session will Women: Feminist Consciousness in the Diaspora include an open discussion of potential improvements that can be made on Mehmet Gurses, Florida Atlantic U–A existing questions and allow time to discuss new potential topics areas that Quiet Social Revolution: The Rise of Kurdish can be included in the 6th wave of surveys planned for 2020. Since the Arab Women in Turkey Barometer is a public resource, this special session offers an important David Romano, Missouri State U–The benefit to MESA members to have the opportunity to engage with the project Demonstration Effect: Women Fighters in the and provide feedback that could benefit the project’s future research. KDP and PUK Michael Gunter, Tennessee Tech U– Gender & Conflict in Iraqi Kurdistan

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Chair: Miri Shefer Mossensohn, Tel Aviv U Discussant: Julia Bray, U Oxford (UK)

Ayse Dalyan, American U Cyprus– Ottoman Poetry in the Context of Culture, Neuroscience and Emotions Ido Ben-Ami, Tel Aviv U–Early Modern Imperial Ottoman Architecture and the Notion of Bewilderment/Wonder Page 40 u MESA 2019 Preliminary Program 11AM-1PM Saturday November 16

Gorkem Ozizmirli, Boston Col–A 000 11am-1pm Room TBA 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Traveler’s Fears: Understanding Evliya Çelebi’s Identity and Perceptions in the 5440 Vernacular Arabic and Literary 5442 The Dialogic Persianate: Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire History Historical Models of Literary Miri Shefer Mossensohn, Tel Aviv U– Organized by Elias Muhanna Production and Cultural Exchange Professional Jealousy and Envy: Competition (1700-1950) among Physicians in the Ottoman World Chair: Margaret Litvin, Boston U Organized by Aria Fani Discussant: Qussay Al-Attabi, Kenyon Col 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Chair: Aria Fani, UC Berkeley Johannes Stephan, Freie Universität Discussant: Domenico Ingenito, UCLA Roundtable Berlin–Middle Arabic Prose as a Mediator 5427 Historicizing the Middle East: between Texts and Traditions C. Ryan Perkins, Stanford–The Vernacular Roger Owen’s Influence on the Field Greg Halaby, Brown U–Archiving the Strikes Back: Pashto and Tales from the Other and Its Future Directions Vernacular: Early Literary Forays into Spoken Side Organized by Joelle Abi-Rached, Arabic Nathan Tabor, Western Michigan U–The Kathryn Schwartz, and Sreemati Mitter Elias Muhanna, Brown U–Proofreading the Necklace of the Pleiades: Uncharted Rekhtah Nahda: The Role of Editors in Shaping a New and Persian Literary History in a 1780s Tazkirah Chair: Khaled Fahmy, Cambridge U Arabic Literature Aria Fani, UC Berkeley–Eqterah and the Alexander Elinson, Hunter Col CUNY– Proliferation of Adabiyat as a New Discourse of Leonard Wood, Sidley Austin LLP Blogs, Social Media, and Writing in Yassin Literature in Iran and Afghanistan (1916-1949) Arbella Bet-Shlimon, U Washington Adnan’s “Hot Maroc” Mana Kia, Columbia U–The Imprint of Johan Mathew, Rutgers U History: Sociality and Commemoration Sreemati Mitter, Brown U 000 11am-1pm Room TBA between Empires Kathryn Schwartz, U Massachusetts 5441 New Directions in Mental Health 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Amherst in Palestine Joelle Abi-Rached, Columbia U Organized by Heidi Morrison Thematic Conversation 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Sponsored by 5458 Between Egypt and the Egyptian Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) 5432 Geographical Cognizance of the Diaspora: The Changing Contours of & Association of Middle East Children and Indian Ocean in West Eurasian Scientific Coptic Studies Yourth Studies (AMECYS) and Political Practices, 700-1700 Organized by Heather J. Sharkey, U Penn Organized by Kaveh Hemmat Chair: , CSU East Bay Rachael Stryker Hiroko Miyokawa, Tokyo U Discussant: , Col of Sponsored by Stephen Sheehi David D. Grafton, Hartford Seminary William and Mary Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Gaétan Du Roy, Catholic U Louvain Paul Sedra, Simon Fraser U Chair/Discussant: Zayde Antrim, Trinity Col Heidi Morrison, U Wisconsin La Crosse– Ongoing Traumatic Stress Disorder: Listening 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Hyunhee Park, John Jay Col and to How Palestinians Conceive of Their Own Graduate Center CUNY –Mapping Suffering and Well-Being 5471 Tunisian Exception? Overlapping in West Asia during the 7th through 14th Said Shehadeh, Independent Scholar, Frameworks and Trajectories in the Centuries Ramallah/NY–On Community Resilience Modern Period Kaveh Hemmat, Benedictine U–The and Palestinian Selfhood: Notes from Clinical Organized by Julian Weideman Geography of Kingship in Persian Epics, Practice in West Bank, Palestine 1000–1400 Rachael Stryker, CSU East Bay– Sponsored by Malika Dekkiche, U Antwerp–“A World of Emotional Suspicion and Emerging Pediatric American Inst for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Kings and Realms”: Mamluk Diplomacy and Psychologies in Palestine’s West Bank the Spatial Turn Layaly Hamayel, Palestinian Counseling Chair/Discussant: Amy Kallander, Pinar Emiralioglu, Sam Houston State Center–Who Seeks Counseling/Therapy in Syracuse U U–Indian Ocean in Early Modern Ottoman Palestine: The Ten-year Pattern of Adult Geographical and Imperial Consciousness Mental Health Service Utilization Behavior in Rebecca Gruskin, Stanford–For the Sake a Non-profit Centre in the West Bank of Greener Fields: Tunisian Phosphates and Global Capitalism in the Interwar Period Julian Weideman, Princeton–‘Tunisian Islam’? ‘Islamic Legislation,’ Women’s Rights, and Connected Histories of Reform in Tunisia and Egypt continued next page MESA 2019 Preliminary Program u Page 41 11AM-1PM Saturday November 16

Lana Salman, UC Berkeley–Local Fixes and Morten Boas, Norwegian Inst of Mostafa Abedinifard, U British Global Knowledge Flows: Probing Tunisia’s International Affairs and Abdoul Wakhab Columbia–Masculinist Gheyrat: The Missing Best Practices in Urban Upgrading Programs Cissé, ARGA–Appetite Comes with Eating - Link in Iranian Transgender Studies Religious Actors on the Campaign Trail Mehrdad Alipour, U Exeter–Intersex 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Virginie Collombier, European U Inst– and Transsexual People, Gender Conforming Libya’s Salafis after 2011: Conquering or Surgery, Medical Treatment, and Illness: A 5474 Hybrid Pathways to Resistance in Supporting the Nascent State? Close Examination of Five Islamic Fatwas the Islamic World: Islamist Groups in Tine Gade, Norwegian Inst of Iraq, , Libya and Lebanon International Affairs–‘Kurdish Islam’?: 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Organized by Tine Gade The Invention of Sunni Orthodoxy in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq 5522 On the Margins of Shi’r: Organized under the auspices of Historical and Philosophical Hyrbid Pathways to Resistance in the Islamic 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Perspectives on the Development of World (RCN Project 2017-20) Modern Arabic Poetry (Panel I) 5503 Intersex and Trans* Identities Organized by Adey Almohsen and Chair: Dlawer Ala’Aldeen, Middle East and Rights in Islamic Societies Hamad Al-Rayes Research Inst Organized by Mehrdad Alipour and Indira Falk Gesink Sponsored by Kjetil Selvik, Norwegian Inst of Lebanese Studies Association (LSA) International Affairs–Juggling Roles Chair: Everett K. Rowson, NYU and Messages: On the Political Strength of Chair: Hamad Al-Rayes, Loyola U New Muqtada al-Sadr Shaminder Takhar, London South Bank Orleans Are John Knudsen, Chr. Michelsen Inst U–Muslim Hijras, Khawaja Sira and Third Discussant: Terri L. DeYoung, U (CMI)–Sheikhs and the City: Urban Pathways Gender Recognition in India Washington of Resistance in Sidon, Lebanon Indira Falk Gesink, Baldwin Wallace U– Intersex and Gender Conforming Surgery: A Terri L. DeYoung, U Washington– History of “Islamic” Options Egyptian Modernism: From the Center to the Periphery Adey Almohsen, U Minnesota–Before Shi’r, after the Nakba: A History of Palestinian PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Contributions in Prose-Poetry 1948-63 Esraa al-Shammari, U Penn–Salim (5797) Professional Development Workshop: Barakat and the Language of Poetry Proposal Writing and Research Design: How To Fund Your Ideas Hatem Alzahrani, Georgetown U–The Poet as Palm-Tree: Muhammad al-Thubayti Sponsored by and the Re-Imagining of Saudi Identity Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Workshop Leader: Suad Joseph, UC Davis 5549 Political Ecologies in the Modern Those embarking on academic careers must master the art of writing proposals Middle East for research funding. Whether you are conducting research for a dissertation or Organizer: Nimrod Ben Zeev and Ciruce book or seeking support for a special project-locating and securing funding is A. Movahedi-Lankarani critical. This workshop will provide expert guidelines on how to write compel- ling proposals from the initial phrasing of the research question, step by step, Chair: Basma Fahoum, Stanford to the research outcomes, significance, dissemination, and public outreach. It Discussant: Sara Pursley, NYU will also address such issues as identifying and working with funding agencies, effectively communicating research methodology and goals, preparing bud- Nimrod Ben Zeev, U Penn–Political gets, and planning for the dissemination of results. The workshop will be led by Ecologies of Stone, Race, and Labor in Israel/ Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, UC at Palestine, 1948-1964 Davis. She has taught proposal writing and lead workshops for students, faculty, Shira Pinhas, Tel Aviv U–Roads, (Im)Mobility administrators, and NGO practitioners for over 30 years. Information about and the Origins of Separatism in Palestine proposal writing may be found on Dr. Joseph’s website at http://sjoseph.ucdavis. Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, U Penn– edu/arab-families-working-group-1/images/files/ComponentsofaHumanities- Natural Gas Geology and Imagined Nationalist SocialSciencesResearchProposal.pdf. Please sign up for the workshop in advance Futures in Iran by sending an email message to Mark Lowder at [email protected]. Before the On Barak, Tel Aviv U–Jaffa 1929 and the workshop, please browse Professor Joseph’s website and read the document, ‘Global’ of Global Warming “Components of a social science and humanities research proposal.”

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000 11am-1pm Room TBA Laura Fish, U Texas Austin–Marketing 000 11am-1pm Room TBA beyond the Masses: Iran’s Film Trailers and 5560 The Dimensions of Sacred Sound: Popular Cinema History 5652 Race in the Middle East and North Analyzing the Various Contemporary Muge Turan, U Toronto–Ghost Voices in Africa: “Blackness” in Literature, Lives of the Islamic Call to Prayer Turkish Popular Cinema Media, and Legal Scholarship Organized by Laura Thompson Tamara Maatouk, Graduate Center Organized by Sara Seweid-DeAngelis CUNY–The Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema, and Razan Idris Chair: Ali Asgar Alibhai, U Texas at Dallas 1957-1971: A State Venture Discussant: Denise Gill, Stanford Peter Limbrick, UC Santa Cruz– Razan Idris, U Penn–Blackness and Genealogies of Realism and Modernism in Marriage in al-Mudawwana: A History of Eve McPherson, Kent State U Trumbull– Arab Cinema Maliki Legal Interpretation The Persuasive Voice, the Call, and Neil Sara Seweid-DeAngelis, U Minnesota– Armstrong’s “Conversion” to Islam 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Blackness in Medieval Arabic Literature: Laura Thompson, Harvard–Does God Deviance and Animality in “Alf Layla W Layla” Belong in a Discotheque?: Remixing the 5603 Securing Insecurity: Islamic Call to Prayer in a Tunisian Nightclub Transnational Disciplinary Regimes 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Ian VanderMeulen, NYU–Medina and Middle Eastern Diasporas Acoustics and Immersive Religion: The Islamic Organized by Amy Malek 5687 The Sultan’s Creole: Shifts and Call to Prayer in Rabat’s Traditional Quarter Oscillations in Algeria’s Political, Elif Sari, Cornell U–Not So ‘Golden’ Economic, Foreign Policy, and 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Anymore: Iranian LGBTI Refugees in Turkey Counterterrorism Strategies under Jean Beaman, UC Santa Barbara– Bouteflika 5566 Ibn Khaldun in the Ottoman Diaspora, Difference, and France’s Maghrebin Organized by William Lawrence Empire Second-Generation Organized by Vefa Erginbas Amy Malek, Col of Charleston–Im/ Chair: William Lawrence, George Mobility, In/Security, and Non/Belonging: Washington U Chair: Vefa Erginbas, Providence Col Paradoxes of Iranian Dual Citizenship Discussant: Robert P. Parks, Centre Joshua Donovan, Columbia U–Disciplining d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie Kenan Inan, Avrasya U–Tursun Bey’s Diasporas, Surveilling Subjects: The French Tarih-i Ebü’l-Feth (1488) and Ibn-i Haldun’s Mandate and the Syro-Lebanese Mahjar Abdelkader Berrahmoun, Middlebury Mukaddime Inst of International Studies at Monterey– Vefa Erginbas, Providence Col–Ibn 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Evolution of the Algerian Opposition from Khaldunism in the Seventeenth Century: 1999 to the Present Khaldunian Concepts in Katip Celebi’s 5628 The Production of Space and the Karima Benabdallah, Independent “Fadhlaka” Modern Middle East Researcher–Algerian Foreign Policy: Between Uygar Aydemir, Üsküdar U–Mahmud Organized by Amr T. Leheta Old Dogmas and the Need for Change Nedim Pasha’s “Ayine-i Devlet” as a Modern Jacob Mundy, Colgate U–Oil for Insecurity Khaldunian Political Credo Chair: Mostafa Minawi, Cornell U & AUB and the Making of the Jihadi Working Class Madeleine Elfenbein, U Göttingen– Djallil Lounnas, Al Akhawayn U– Namik Kemal and Ibn Khaldunism in an Age Aslihan Gunhan, Cornell U–Displaced From National Reconciliation to Renewed of Nationalist Historiography Modernities: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey Eradication: Algeria’s Shifting Strategies in Yeliz Cavus, Ohio State U–Between Ibn and the Specters of Armenian Architects the Fight against Terrorism, 1999 to 2018 Khaldunism and Ottoman Exceptionalism: Emilio Ocampo Eibenschutz, Cornell Yahia Zoubir, KEDGE Business School– Abdurrahman Seref Efendi’s “Tarih-i Devlet-i U–Space, Abolitionism, and Empire: Slave Twenty-Years of Bouteflika’s Sultanist Rule: Osmaniyye” (“History of the Ottoman State”) Markets in the 19th C. Western Indian Ocean The Endurance of Neopatrimonialism Amr T. Leheta, Cornell U–Space & 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Sovereignty in Undefined Territory: Tiran and Sanafir in Modern Times 5601 Industrial, Institutional, and Ideological: Cinema Histories in the Middle East/North Africa Organized by Laura Fish

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Chair: Nancy L. Stockdale, U North Chair: James Clark, U Nebraska Omaha Chair: James H. Sunday, Johns Hopkins U Texas James H. Meyer, Montana State U–Escape Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore Col– Mary Momdjian, UCLA–From the Mundane to the East: Nâzim Hikmet and the Early Cold Entanglements: The Social Life of Hair in to the Intellectual: A Reconstruction of the War Borderlands Urban Egypt Life and Times of a Hybrid Levantine Consul Sarp Kurgan, UC Santa Barbara–A Model Gustavo Espinosa, Col of William & through His Inventory Revisited: Marxist-Leninist Currents in Iran Mary–Girls Dressed as Boys: Queering the Israa Alhassani, James Madison U– and Turkey, 1920s-1983 Global Discourse on Afghanistan’s Bacha Posh Dorothy Van Ess, a Missionary Educator in Lina Wang, U Washington–“The Road to James Redman, Zayed U Abu Dhabi– Basra 1912-1950 as Allah’s Road”: The Roles of Army Silversmithing, Writing and Protection: The Mazin Tadros, Georgia Gwinnett Col–17th Imams and Religious Motifs in Turkey’s Imperfect Nature of Pious Texts Century Jesuit Reports and the Syrian Other Participation in the Korean War Manami Goto, Tokyo U Foreign Studies– Devrim Umit, Karabuk U, Turkey–Caught Reuben Silverman, UC San Diego–Beggars Fashioning the Mask: Material, Craft, and by the Storm: Robert College of Istanbul and the or Choosers: The American Cold War Order and Memory Committee of Union and Progress, 1909-1914 Turkey’s Democrat Party Diplomats, 1954-1958 Kathryn Kalemkerian, McGill U–An Ellis Garey, NYU–Reconsidering Early Arab Encounter between Race and Masculinity: Communism: Fu’ad al-Shamali & the Lebanese Ottoman Beirut, the Missionaries, and the People’s Party Case of John Wortabet

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5392 The Suez Canal in Multi-Scaled 5415 Epidemics, Public Health Roundtable Historical Perspectives: Local Meet Regimes, and Social Histories in the 5419 An Encyclopaedic Collection of Regional Meet Global Broader Middle East in the Long Early Modern Knowledge: The Library Organized by Lucia Carminati and Nineteenth Century Inventory of Bayezid II Mohamed Gamal-Eldin Organized by Amir A. Afkhami and Organized by Ferenc Csirkes Ranin Kazemi Discussant: Zachary Lockman, NYU Chair: Gulru Necipoglu, Harvard Chair: Ali Gheissari, U San Diego Mohamed Gamal-Eldin, New Jersey Cornell Hugh Fleischer, U Chicago Inst of Technology/Rutgers U Newark Andrew Robarts, Rhode Island School Cemal Kafadar, Harvard –Surveillance and Policing of Port Sa‘id, of Design–Quarantines, Public Health, and Noah Gardiner, U South Carolina Ismailia and Suez’s Streets: An Urban History State-Society Relations in the Ottoman- A. Tunç Sen, Columbia U of the Suez Canal Zone Russian Black Sea Region, Late 18th-Early Guy Burak, NYU Mariam Abdelazim, New Jersey Inst of 19th Centuries Nukhet Varlik, Boğaziçi U-Newark Technology–Ismailia: From a Colonial City to Amir A. Afkhami, George Washington U– Pinar Emiralioglu, Sam Houston State U an Egyptian Conglomorate Cholera and Revolution in Qajar Iran Sooyong Kim, Koç U Lucia Carminati, Van Leer Jerusalem Burcak Ozludil, New Jersey Inst of Nikolay Antov, U Arkansas Inst–Fecal Matters. The Historical Role of Technology–When the Asylum Catches Aleksandar Shopov, Max Planck Inst for Refuse and Olfaction in Port Said and the Suez Cholera: Istanbul, 1893 the History of Science Canal Region Ranin Kazemi, San Diego State U– Himmet Taskomur, Harvard Olga Verlato, NYU–“Their Parents Are Epidemics and Protests in Qajar Iran: The All Sailors and Factory Workers:” Daily Life Case of the Public Health Crisis and Social 000 3-5pm Room TBA and Ideology in the Italian Schools of Suez, Agitations in 1890-92 Zagazig, and Alexandria in Late-Nineteenth Roundtable Century Egypt 000 3-5pm Room TBA 5436 After the Colonial Turn: Middle 000 3-5pm Room TBA 5416 Crime, Criminality, and East Studies and Challenges of Theory Criminalization across the Modern Organized by Muriam Haleh Davis 5394 Morocco under Mohamed VI, Middle East Twenty Years On Organized Sara Farhan and Pelle Chair: Aaron G. Jakes, The New School Organized by Daniel Zisenwine Valentin Olsen Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Sponsored by Chair/Discussant: Sara Farhan, York U Community Col CUNY American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Hussein A H Omar, U Col Dublin Kimberly Katz, Towson U–The Crime of Naghmeh Sohrabi, Brandeis U Chair: Gregory White, Smith Col Returning Home: Palestinians and the Israel- Muriam Haleh Davis, UC Santa Cruz Discussant: Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Tel Jordan Border in the 1950s Aviv U Peter Wien, U Maryland–Killing 000 3-5pm Room TBA Shahbandar: Locating a 1940 Political Murder Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City U– in Damascus between Working Class Self- 5470 The Mixed Legacies of Recent The King’s Dilemma in Morocco: Social Unrest Assertion and Young Men’s Patron-Client Uprisings in the Middle East: and the Failure of Regime Control Dependency Authoritarianism, Social Policy, and Daniel Zisenwine, Tel Aviv U–The Return Carl Shook, Loyola U Chicago–Making Conflict to Africa and Other Diplomatic Efforts: the ‘Other’ Illegal: Criminalization of Iranian Organized by Bruce Rutherford Mohamed VI’s Foreign Policy Nationals in Northern Iraq, 1918-1988 Francesco Cavatorta, Laval U–The Samar Nour, U Toronto–Juvenile Chair/Discussant: Steven Heydemann, Continuity of Popular Dissatisfaction Delinquency and Colonial Modernity in Egypt Smith Col 1882-1951 Pelle Valentin Olsen, U Chicago– Bruce Rutherford, Colgate U–The Causes Juvenile Delinquents as Lumpenproletariat: and Consequences of Egypt’s Deepening Problematic Youth and Rehabilitation Efforts Authoritarianism in Hashemite Iraq Elizabeth R. Nugent, Yale–Propaganda and Personality: Determinants of Support for Authoritarianism in Egypt

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Markus Loewe, German Dev’t Inst (DIE)– Lyubomir Pozharliev, Transottomanica, 000 3-5pm Room TBA New Social Contracts in MENA Countries? Justus-Liebig U–Vehicles as “Civilization”: Evidence from Social Policy Reforms in Egypt, The Steamship Transport between the Danube 5523 On the Margins of Shi’r: Morocco and Iran and the Black Sea in the Second Half of the Historical and Philosophical Jeannie Sowers, U New Hampshire– 19th Century Perspectives on the Development of Targeting Infrastructure, Health, and Dennis Dierks, U Jena–Explaining ‘Science’ Modern Arabic Poetry (Panel II) Civilians in the Yemen War and ‘Progress’ at the Periphery. Transimperial Organized by Adey Almohsen and Knowledge Circulations in Ottoman and Hamad Al-Rayes 000 3-5pm Room TBA Habsburg Bosnia Sponsored by 5480 Intersections of Sufism and Law 000 3-5pm Room TBA Lebanese Studies Association (LSA) in the Maghreb and Mashreq Organized by Kameliya Atanasova 5489 The Ottoman Capitulations Chair: Adey Almohsen, U Minnesota “Revisited:” New Approaches and New Discussant: Huda Fakhreddine, U Penn Discussant: Jamal J. Elias, U Penn Perspectives on a Much-Discussed Ottoman Institution Nevine Fayek, U Muenster–Arabic Prose Nathan Hofer, U Missouri–Bureaucratic Organized by Tommaso Stefini Poetry – A Path of Its Own: Reviewing Early Sufism in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Approaches to Prose Poetry from the Egyptian Sultanates Chair: Joshua White, U Virginia Press Archive of the 1930s and 1940s Elias Saba, Grinnell Col–Sufis and Sufism Delilah Clark, Francis Marion U– in the Jamal al-Din al-Asnawi’s Biographical Tommaso Stefini, Yale–An Ottoman Mediation and Meditation: Fu’ad Rifqa’s Dictionary Institution or Part of a Mediterranean-Wide Phenomenological Poetry Carolyn Baugh, Gannon U–Ibn Khaldun’s Tradition of Charters for Foreign Merchants? Rawad Wehbe, U Penn–Khalil Hawi: Poetry Fatwa on Sufism: The Shifa’ al-sa’il fi tahdhib The Ottoman Capitulations in a Comparative on the Margins of Suicide al-masa’il Perspective (16th-Century) Hamad Al-Rayes, Loyola U New Orleans– Kameliya Atanasova, Washington & Ana Sekulic, Princeton–The Making of an Exhuming the “Dead Chorus” in Qassim Lee U–Ibn ‘Abbad’s Fatwa on the Prophet’s Ottoman Document: Tracing the History of the Haddad and Amin Saleh’s Al-Jawashin Birthday: An Example of Sufi-Legal Discourse Franciscan Ahdname, 16th-19th Century in Fourteenth-Century Maghreb Ian Hathaway, European U Inst–Permits, 000 3-5pm Room TBA Matthew Ingalls, American U in Dubai– Passes, and the Capitulations. A Comparative Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Sufism View of Travel Papers and Practices from the 5547 Composing Sexed Subjects: Love, through the Fatwas of Ibn Hajar al-Haytami Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire Affection, and Desire in the Middle (d. 974/1567) East 000 3-5pm Room TBA Organized by Tugce Kayaal 000 3-5pm Room TBA Thematic Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis 5487 Concepts on the Move in Conversation Discussant: Baki Tezcan, UC Davis Transottoman Spaces. Case Studies 5518 De-centering the Middle East: from the Long 19th Century Challenging the Status Quo Stefan Hock, Georgetown U–Pious Youths Organized by and Dennis Dierks Barbara Organized by Sargon Donabed with Unsound Habits: Medical Professionals, Henning Sexual Health, and Forging a New Nation in Chair/Discussant: Sargon Donabed, Early Republican Turkey Chair: Stefan Rohdewald, Giessen U Roger Williams U Tugce Kayaal, U Michigan–A Groovy Kind Discussant: Michael A. Reynolds, of Love: Adolescent Female Same-Sex Desire Princeton Mariam Georgis, U Manitoba and “Illicit Intimacies” Gregory Christakos, St. Vladimir’s Sahin Acikgoz, U Michigan–Under Robert Born, Leibniz Inst for the History Orthodox Theological Seminary Metronormative Eyes: Ihsan Hala and the and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Riva Gewarges, McMaster U Discontents of the Biomedical Transgender Leipzig–Monument Protection in the Middle Michael Youash, U Toronto Modernity Turkey East during World War I as an Arena of Duygu Ula, Barnard Col–Classed Transnational Exchange? Sexualities in Yesim Ustaoglu’s “Clair Obscur” Barbara Henning, Otto-Friedrich- Universität Bamberg–Ottoman Concepts of Social Difference from a Transcultural Perspective: Late-Ottoman Layiha-Reports on Tribal Society

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5561 The Dimensions of Sacred Sound: 5582 Building Up Morphological 5661 Fantasy and Imagination Historicizing the Various Lives of the Competence in Arabic as a Foreign/ in Classical : Islamic Call to Prayer in the Medieval Second Language: Insights from Representation of Science, Illusion, World Innovative Data-Driven Pedagogical and Nature in Context Organized by Ali Asgar Alibhai Research Organized by Kamran Talattof Organized by Mahmoud Azaz Chair: Laura Thompson, Harvard Chair: Kamran Talattof, U Arizona Discussant: Lisa Nielson, Case Western Organized under the auspices of Reserve U U Arizona, School of Middle Eastern Sajedeh Hosseini, U Arizona–Imagined and North African Studies Philosophy: Animal Symbolism in Attar’s Andrew Petersen, U of Wales–The Form Poetry and Function of Minarets in Early Islam Chair: Mahmoud Azaz, U Arizona Kamran Talattof, U Arizona–Faith, Facts, Sihem Lamine, Harvard–Minarets in Times and Fantasy: Nezami’s Various Portrayal of of Discord in Fatimid Tunisia Youness Mountaki, Wofford Col–The the Story of Ascension Ali Asgar Alibhai, U Texas Dallas Relative Effects of Processing Instruction and Gianni Izzo, U Arizona–Sacred Botany of (EODIAH)–Melodies of Power: Understanding Traditional Instruction on the Acquisition of the ‘Alam al-Mithal: A Survey of Harmal from Sacred Sound and the Demarcation of Space Arabic Subjunctive the Vedas to the Shi’a Imami Traditions in Almohad Andalus and the Maghrib Hicham Assaoui, U Arizona–Building Shahram Parastesh, U Arizona–The Morphological Awareness One Morpheme Gentle Winds: Time, Space, and Nature in 000 3-5pm Room TBA at a Time: Evidence from Arabic Verbal Classical Persian Poetry Morphology 5572 Revisiting Rome in the Medieval Mahmoud Azaz, U Arizona–Effects of 000 3-5pm Room TBA Middle East Structured Input and Structured Output in Organized by Alexander Brey and Emily Instructed Second Language Acquisition of 5685 Transitional Spaces and Selove Morphosyntactic Intricacies: The Case of Liminal Figures: Performing Iranian Agreement Asymmetry in Arabic Modernities Mohammed Allehbi, Vanderbilt U– Riyad Alhomsi, U Texas Austin–Effects Organized by Leila Pourtavaf Parallels in Criminal Justice: The Abbasids of Co-Curricular Technology Engagement and Imperial Rome on Agreement Morphology in Arabic as a Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Seton Hall U– Alexander Brey, Wellesley Col–A Tale Foreign/Second Language Cosmopolitan Tehran and the Shaping of the of Two Tents: Roman-Byzantine Tents in Urban “Modern Woman,” 1920s-1950s Umayyad Visual Culture 000 3-5pm Room TBA Ida Meftahi, U Maryland–(Geo)Political Emily Selove, U Exeter–Donkeys across Tumults and Leisurely Spaces in Lalehzar- Time and Space: Some Shared Features of 5657 Infrastructures of Istanbul: Tehran, 1900-1926 Roman and Medieval Arabic Literature Unearthing the Networks of a Modern Leila Pourtavaf, NYU–Labor, Intimacy and Jordan Pickett, U Georgia–Roman and City Power: The Servant Class of Harem in Byzantine Hydraulic Infrastructure Survivals Organized by Sarah El-Kazaz Late Qajar Iran in the Umayyad Levant Chair/Discussant: Begum Adalet, Cornell U 000 3-5pm Room TBA

Amy Mills, U South Carolina–Dismantling 5721 Displacement, Resistance, and War the Infrastructure of Occupation Nurcin Ileri, Université Grenoble Alpes, Chair: Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota LARHRA–A Switchboard Saga: Electrical Network(s) in Istanbul from Empire to Nation- Esha Momeni, UCLA–The Messianic State (1910-1937) Generation: Current Politics of Mourning Sarah El-Kazaz, Oberlin Col–Remaking Rituals in Iran Property: Infrastructure, Affect, Geopolitics Isabel Käser, SOAS U London–‘Irade’ – or and Evolving Property Rights in Istanbul Obtaining ‘the Will to Resist’ in the Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Movement Natalie -Towe, Concordia U and Maha Tazi, Concordia U–Victims of Gender-Based Violence or Victims of War? An Intersectional Analysis of Representations of Syrian Refugee Women

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Shirin Saeidi, U Arkansas–“It Will Not Be 000 3-5pm Room TBA 000 3-5pm Room TBA Easy, but You Can Be Strong:” Martyrdom and Gendered Strategies for Cultivating Resilience 5759 Occupational Challenges and 5770 Ottoman Politics, Governance, in Contemporary Iran Hazards in the West Bank and Authority Lewis Turner, Arnold Bergstraesser Inst–Syrian Refugee Men as Objects of Chair: Richard Cahill, Berea Col Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U Humanitarianism Maya Rosenfeld, Hebrew U–The Role of Doga Ozturk, Ohio State U–Ottoman 000 3-5pm Room TBA the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement as a Orders and Medals in Egypt: Symbols of Vanguard of the National Movement in the Ottoman Consciousness, 1841-1909 5737 Gender Trials in MENA I OPT: Past and Present Ashley Sanders Garcia, UCLA–Dependent Paul Kohlbry, Johns Hopkins U–Settler Power: Ottoman Governors and Algerian Elites Chair: Angel M. Foster, U Ottawa Capital and the Temporalities of Palestinian in Constantine, 1567-1837 Land Politics Gunes Murat Tezcur, U Central Florida Dawn Chatty, U Oxford–A Curious Twist: Joshua Stacher, Kent State U–Questioning and Yusuf Magiya, Columbia U–Provincial Transnational Women’s Lives between Oman Strava’s Darkness: GPS, Big Data, and Who’s Power & Representation: An In-depth Analysis and the UAE Running in Palestine of the Ottoman and Turkish Governors Angelica Maria DeAngelis, American Sophia Goodfriend, Duke U–A Street View between 1876 and 2014 U Kuwait–The Moudawana Syndrome: of Occupation: Google Maps and the Politics of Peter Kitlas, Princeton–Ragusa in the Discourse and Popular Culture in Zakia Representation in Hebron Middle?: Exploring 18th Century Diplomatic Tahri’s Number One (2004) Mediations between Morocco and the Nehal Elmeligy, U Illinois Urbana- Ottoman Empire Champaign–Making Cairene Roads Less Charles Wilkins, Wake Forest U–Mustafa Travelled: Consequences of Egypt’s 2016 IMF b. Taha (d. 1681) and the Rise of the Urban Loan on Women’s Mobility Notables of Aleppo Bader Mousa Al-Saif, Kuwait U–“Religions Are Not Limited to Men Only!” Islamic Feminism in Saudi Arabia Zakia Salime, Rutgers U New Brunswick– Gender and Land Grab in Morocco 000 Special Session 3-5pm

Celebrating Scholarship: MESA Book Awards Recipients Discuss Their Work

Recipients of this year’s Hourani, Keddie, and Mernissi prizes engage in a discussion with members of the book-prize selection committee. In the panel the authors will discuss the approaches they took; the challenges they faced in research, writing, and framing their books; and the contributions they have made towards pushing Middle East studies in new directions.

Committee Members

Fred M. Donner, U Chicago Ellen McLarney, Duke U Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity U

Awards Recipients

Will be announced via the mobile meeting app. and on a sign near MESA registration following the Awards Ceremony on Friday evening.

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Roundtable 5790 Special Session-Archive: Endangerment, Ruination and Retrieval Organized by Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington U, Omar Sirri, U 5437 Doing Palestine while Palestinian: Toronto, and Mezna Qato, Cambridge U Overcoming the Fragmentation of our Intellectual Diaspora Sara Farhan, York U Organized by Nadim Bawalsa Laila Moustafa, U Illinois Omar Dewachi, Rutgers U New Brunswick Sponsored by Khaled Fahmy, Cambridge U Palestinian American Research Center

What is the relationship between the stories we tell and the materials with Chair: Salim Tamari, IPS which we use to tell them? Concern with archival practice and theory has grown exponentially in the last decade. In a long century of colonialism, Nadim Bawalsa, Independent Scholar repression, and decimation across the Middle East, disciplinary practices Amal Eqeiq, Williams Col in the humanities and social sciences have been particularly entangled Manal A. Jamal, James Madison U with the question of archival precarity, and the search for paper trails. This Samer Al-Saber, Stanford special session brings together two historians, a medical anthropologist, and Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Freie Universität an archivist to consider the challenges to collection, documentation, and Berlin preservation, across the region, and what those challenges might tell us about the futures of history-writing, and the limits of current disciplinary methods 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA and practices. This session will ask us to see how endangerment of materials emerges, what happens to materials during and after endangerment, Roundtable and the vexed, complex, consequences of war, violence, ecological and 5451 The Gulf Regional Security economic disaster to erasures of data and records. Moreover, how does Complex at 40 the disappearance of archives choke capacities for accountability and Organized by Matteo Legrenzi and justice? Omar Dewachi will address the biological afterlives of war, and the Emma Soubrier possibilities of archiving pathogens and ecological consequences of violence. Sara Farhan will explore the politics and practices of seizure, access, and Chair: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice U replevin through an examination of the misadventures of the ISIS Papers, Khaled Fahmy will reflect on the archival challenges to writing a history of Waleed Hazbun, U Alabama the 1967 war, and the conditions of archives under authoritarianism, and F. Gregory Gause III, Texas A&M U Laila Hussein Mustafa will contour the terrains of preservation efforts of Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee State U endangered materials across the region. Matteo Legrenzi, Ca’ Foscari U Venice Fred H. Lawson, Naval Postgraduate School We hope this session will bring to the fore the work of practitioners and Emma Soubrier, Arab Gulf States Inst in scholars who use non-normative approaches to archives, collected or not, Washington state-produced or not, and think through some of the questions emerging from their work, and the ways that work advances both archival theory and 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA practice. 5468 Liberal Cinema, Illiberal Reactionism: Organized Laborers, 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Secil Dagtas, U Waterloo–Governance Egyptianness, “Foreigners,” and the through Difference: The Case of Displaced Secular Faithful 5420 Middle Easterners Mixed In: The Syrians in Antakya Near Turkey’s Border with Organized by Mohannad Ghawanmeh Animus, Rhetoric, and Economies and Syria Border Control in/beyond the Middle Shana E. Minkin, Sewanee: U of the Discussant: Joel Gordon, U Arkansas East South–‘If You Wish to Employ Englishmen Organized by Stacy Fahrenthold You Must Do So at Your Own Risk…’: Hashish, Mario M. Ruiz, Hofstra U–Seeing and Murder, and Boundary-Making in the Foreign Hearing the Egyptian Labour Corps (1917) Chair/Discussant: Andrew Arsan, U Cemeteries of Alexandria Mohannad Ghawanmeh, UCLA– Cambridge David E. Gutman, Manhattanville Col– Egyptianness and the Cinema of the Nation, States of Siege, Revolutionary Politics, and 1896-1934 Stacy Fahrenthold, UC Davis–Prayer Rugs Border Security in the Hamidian Era Ottoman Deborah Starr, Cornell U–Togo Mizrahi, in the Desert: Muslim Migrants in U.S.- Empire Agent of Exchange Borderlands Lily Pearl Balloffet, UC Santa Cruz– Heba Arafa Abdelfattah, Georgia Tech– Navigating Exclusion: Middle Eastern Negotiating Islam and Modernity in Postwar Migrants in the 20th Century Caribbean Basin Egyptian Cinema

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000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA U–Hamid Ashraf: Iran’s Leading Tactician of 5490 Mortals and Afterlives: Social and Guerrilla Warfare 5548 Youth Activities, Positionality, Political Life of Death Younes Jalali, Independent Scholar– and Future Aspirations in the Maghreb Organized by Asli Zengin Taghi Erani (1902-1940) - Pioneering Exponent Organized by David Balgley and Erin of Existential Modernization in Iran Gould Chair: Asli Zengin, Brown U Ali Banuazizi, Boston Col–Shahrokh Discussant: Sima Shakhsari, U Minnesota Meskoob and His Vision beyond Ideological Sponsored by Boundaries Association of Middle East Children and Youth Osman Balkan, Swarthmore Col–Death in Studies (AMECYS) the Diaspora: Migration and the Necropolitics 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA of Belonging Chair/Discussant: Dylan Baun, U Nukhet Varlik, Rutgers U Newark– 5540 Cultivating Temporal Alabama Huntsville Governing Bodies and Souls: Death and Burial Subjectivities in Turkey in Early Modern Ottoman Society Organized by Alize Arican Erin Gould, UC Riverside–If Not in the Denise Gill, Stanford–Deathwork, Sensory Square, Where? Transitions in Place-Making Ethnography, and the Sonic Remnants of Chair: Alize Arican, U Illinois Chicago of Youthful Storytelling Lives Lived Discussant: Farha Ghannam, Nada Berrada, Virginia Tech–Young Asli Zengin, Brown U–“Cemetery for the Swarthmore Col People Getting By: Contextualizing Everyday Unknown”: A Mortal Topography of Social Practices of Agency among Moroccan Youth Margins in Turkey Aydin Ozipek, Northwestern U–The David Balgley, Georgetown U–Youth Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford–Inventories of Promise of Authenticity in Uncertain Times: Aspirations in Rural Morocco: The Case of the Death: Politics of Post-Mortem Documentality Politics of Youth and Temporality in Turkey Gharb Plain in the Ottoman Empire Alize Arican, U Illinois Chicago–Caring Sarah Schwartz, U Texas Austin– Ahead: Delays and Futures in Tarlabasi, Istanbul Institutionalization and the Underground in 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Deniz Duruiz, Northwestern U– Moroccan Youth Culture Sociopolitical Seasons of Kurdish Rural Labor 5504 Between Damascus and Delhi: Migration in Turkey 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Travelers and Pilgrims in the Early Zeynep Oguz, Northwestern U– Contested Modern Middle East and Indian Ocean Futures: Articulating Oil’s Temporalities in 5600 Post-1967 Arab Thought beyond Organized by Jyoti G. Balachandran and Turkey’s Kurdistan the Nahda Paradigm: Epistemological Nir Shafir Innovations and Contributions from 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA the Margins Discussant: A. Azfar Moin, U Texas Austin Organized by Idriss Jebari 5541 Yearnings and Power: Assessing Jyoti G. Balachandran, Penn State U– Political Change through Affective Chair: Idriss Jebari, Bowdoin Col From Nahrawal to Mecca and Istanbul: The Conditions in the Arab World Networks of a Muslim Intellectual Organized by Leila Tayeb, Heather Mohammed Hashas, FSCIRE Foundation Nir Shafir, UC San Diego–When is a Jaber, Yakein Abdelmagid, and Rayya for Religious Sciences, Bologna-Palermo– Travelogue Not a Travelogue? Early Modern El Zein The Case of Trusteeship Paradigm in Arabic Travelogues in the Ottoman Empire Contemporary Arab Thought Rishad Choudhury, Oberlin Col–Pilgrim Discussant: Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth Col Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest U– Passages: Tradition and Transition in the Debates over Post-67 Materialist Approaches South Asian Hajj Hazem Jamjoum, NYU–An Ethereal to the Analysis of Islamic History and the Hegemony: Music, Radio and the Conquest of Problem with New/Old Left Historiographies 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Arab Yearning in Interwar Egypt Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Doha Inst for Yakein Abdelmagid, U Penn–Yearning in Graduate Studies–The Turn of Millennium 5515 Iranian Intellectual and Political Ambivalence: Independent Music Production Tanwir Debates: From Turath Back to Nada Biographies: Lives on the Left and Nationalism in Post-Revolution Egypt Yasmeen Daifallah, UC Santa Cruz– Organized by Afshin Matin-Asgari Rayya El Zein, Wesleyan U–Yearning From Decolonial to Post-Decolonial Thought: for Politics: The Aesthetics of Istifzaz in Revolution and Pedagogy in Abdullah Laroui’s Chair: Afshin Matin-Asgari, CSU Los Angeles Experimental Arabic Rap Political Thought Discussant: Negin Nabavi, Montclair State U Heather Jaber, U Penn–Pleasure in Panic: Restaging the moral panic in Egypt Afshin Matin-Asgari, CSU Los Angeles– Leila Tayeb, Cornell U–Yearning for (an) Fatemeh Sayyah: Twentieth-Century Iran’s Authority: Militia Praise Songs in Post- Forgotten Scholar, Public Intellectual and Gaddafi Libya Women’s Rights Advocate

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5614 Conceptualizing the Sahara: 5673 Ottoman Armenian Subjectivities: Thematic Images and Imaginings across Identity and Image on the Eve of Conversation Languages and Locations Modernity 5716 Everyday Life of Sectarianism Organized by and Organized by July Blalack Abbass Armen Manuk-Khaloyan in the Middle East: Ambivalent Braham Articulations of “Sectarian” Difference Chair: , Georgetown U Mustafa Aksakal and the “Other” Discussant: , Purdue U Discussant: , Stacy E Holden Ipek K. Yosmaoglu Organized by Jenna Rice Rahaim and Northwestern U Yasemin Ipek Jill Jarvis, Yale–Timbuktu/Heremakono: Abderrahmane Sissako’s Counter- , Northwestern U– Hazal Ozdemir Session Leaders: Jenna Rice Rahaim, Cartographies of a Sahara under Threat Denaturalizing Armenians, Recording Their Macalester Col and Yasemin Ipek, Stanford U July Blalack, SOAS U London–West of the Photographs: Ottoman State Policies towards Sahara before the Western Sahara: “Bilad al- Armenian Return Migration, 1888-1915 Sumaiya A. Hamdani, George Mason U Shinquit” in Precolonial Arabic Sources , Georgetown Armen Manuk-Khaloyan Jean-Michel Landry, Carleton U , U Arizona–The U–Reimagining the Past: Ottoman Armenians, Abbass Braham Sarah Tobin, Chr. Michelsen Inst Construction of Zawaya Identity in 19th Public Heritage, and the Politics of the 1913 Simon Mabon, Lancaster U Century Mauritania Jubilee Irem Gülersönmez, Birkbeck Col– 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Witnessing the Catastrophe: A Case Study of the German Consulate in Erzurum in 1915 5738 Gender Trials in MENA II 5649 Not Just Spatial Art: MENA Graphic Novels 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Chair: Dima Ayoub, Middlebury Col Organized by Melanie Trexler and George Potter 5677 Disability Studies in the Amal Amireh, George Mason U–Heroic Middle East: New Approaches, New Contestations: Palestinian Masculinity in George Potter, Valparaiso U–Redrawing the Possibilities Post-Oslo Literature Archive: Leila Abdelrazaq’s “Baddawi” and the Organized by Sara Scalenghe Ana Ghoreishian, U Arizona–Claiming Reconstruction of Palestinian Visual History Queerness and Queering Nationalism: Lara Tarantini, U Arizona–Communal Chair/Discussant: Jeffrey Culang, Locating Fereydoun Farrokhzad in Cyberspace Identities and Belonging in Brigitte Findakly’s Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Alainna Liloia, U Arizona–Gender Reform “Poppies of Iraq” and Representation in Contemporary Saudi David Tittensor, Deakin U, –The Halla Attallah, Georgetown U–Disability Arabia Understated Islam of Ms. Marvel and the Issue Studies and the Qur’an: A Literary Approach Mariam Rahmani, UCLA–What Is Agency? of Relatability to the Icon Polemics in Qur’an 21:51-70 Or, Is Agency Masculine in Modern Iranian Melanie Trexler, Roanoke Col–Marvel’s Vardit Rispler Chaim, U Haifa–Sexual Feminisms? Ummah: Intra-racism in Jersey City Disabilities in Islamic Law, Past and Present Sara Scalenghe, Loyola U Maryland– 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Photography and Disability in the Late Ottoman Empire 5741 Society and Identity in Kuwait 5656 Frontiers of the Nakba: Beverly Tsacoyianis, U Memphis–From Citizenship, Exclusion, Migration, and Patient to Survivor: Enriching Palestinian and Chair: Katrien Vanpee, U Minnesota Memory after 1948 Israeli Psychiatric History through Disability Organized by and Susann Kassem Studies Approaches Anwar Alsaad, Kuwait U–Narrative Annalise DeVries Christine Sargent, U Colorado Denver– Formation of Identity: A Study of Self- Uncertain Passage: Care and Disability in Narration and Representation of Minorities in Susann Kassem, U Oxford–“No Mines, Contemporary Jordan the Modern Kuwaiti Novel No Borders”: The Experience of the Nakba in Inas Mahfouz, American U Kuwait– South Lebanese Frontier Communities Metadiscourse Markers in First Year Writing: Annalise DeVries, Samford U– A Cross Cultural Study Cosmopolitan Nostalgia: The Nakba, Egyptian Shaikhah Almubaraki, Kuwait U– Jews, and Forgetting Commercial Migration Building Kuwaiti Nationalism through Michael J. Reimer, AUC–“An Inescapable Televised Urbanism Responsibility”: AUC’s Position on Palestine and Abrar Alshammari, Georgetown U– Support for Palestinian Students after the Nakba Citizen-State Contestations in Kuwait’s Sreemati Mitter, Brown U–Financial Creative Sector Dispossession through Law: Israeli Absentee Property Laws

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Fahed Al-Sumait, Gulf U for Science and 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA 000 5:30-7:30pm Room TBA Technology, Kuwait–Evaluating Kuwait’s Digital Ecosystem: The Prospects and Pitfalls 5780 Democratization and Development 5787 Identities and Exclusions in the of Technological Transformation in the Contemporary Middle East Contemporary Middle East

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5747 Medieval Islamic History and Golrokh Niazi, U Ottawa–Reversing the Doug Jones, Loyola U Chicago–Public Thought Cooptation Argument: The Relevance of State- Opinion on Wasta and the Shaping of Affiliated Civil Society Jordanian Political Attitudes Chair: Christian Mauder, Yale Benjamin Schuetze, U Freiburg–US Chris Nickell (they/them), NYU–Race and European ‘Democracy Promotion’ and Difference in Beirut-Based Battle Rap Brian J. Ulrich, Shippensburg U–The Interventions in Jordan: The Reinforcement of David DiMeo, Western Kentucky U– Qualities of a Sayyid: A Case of Bedouin Authoritarian Rule and Acts of Resistance Nubian Identity in the Novels of Idris Ali Ideals and Cultural Construction in the Ninth Gizem Zencirci, Providence Col and Eline Rosenhart, Tel Aviv U–The Politics Century Catherine Herrold, Indiana U–Project of Identity and Exclusion in Sudan: From Rachel T. Howes, CSU Northridge–The Think: A Critical Perspective on NGOs, Independence to the 2018-19 Uprising Great Crisis: The Political, Environmental, Development, and Democracy in the Middle Ahmed Mitiche, U Michigan–From Intellectual, and Social Dimensions of the East Colonial Divide Et Impera to the War on Egyptian Famine and Civil War of 1058-1074CE Terror: A Case Study on the Racialized Muslim Elaine van Dalen, Columbia U–Should Subject in the Moroccan Hirak al-Rif Physicians Theorize? Ibn Rushd’s Redefinition of the Medical Discipline Kaveh Niazi, Stanford Online High School–Rhetoric and Power: Political Expediency in Tusi’s Risala-yi Muiniya Tamer El-Leithy, Johns Hopkins U–The Various Traces of Moral Regulation: New Evidence on the Damascus Fire of 1340

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5760 Society and Identity in Jordan

Chair: Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve U

Aseel Sawalha, Fordham U–Women and War and the Remaking of Amman’s Urban Landscapes Miriam Bohn, Friedrich-Alexander U Erlangen-Nürnberg–The Uninvited Guest? Assessing the Impact of Decentralization on Elite Networks in Jordan Jamil Wekhian, Kent State U–Scoring the Jordanian-Palestinian Identity-Driven Conflict: How Football Rivalry Continues to Shape the Jordanian-Palestinian Identity Lilian Tauber, Durham U–Rising Tide or Alluring Mirage: The Status of Jordan’s Social Enterprises Matthew Lacouture, Wayne State U– Assembling Power: Neoliberalism and Youth- Labor Alliance in Jordan (2002-2012)

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8-9:15am Roundtable 5617 Scandinavian Emigration to the Islamic Caliphate Middle East Studies Journal Edi- 5517 Africa and Africans in Ottoman/ Organized by Ümit Necef tors Meeting Turkish Studies: Past, Present, Future 8-Orpheus Organized by Michael Ferguson 9:30-11am Organized under the auspices of University of Southern Middle East Studies Journal Edi- Michael Ferguson, Concordia U tors Workshop Ezgi Cakmak, U Penn Ümit Necef, U Southern Denmark–“I Was 8-Orpheus Mostafa Minawi, Cornell U & AUB After Something I Could Identify With” – An Ezgi Guner, U Illinois Urbana Champaign Islamic State Warrior Tells His Story Aysegul Kayagil, The New School Henriette Frees Esholdt, Lund U–“Completely Ordinary Girl”: Firsthand 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Narrative from a Swedish Syrian Traveler Who Joined Islamic State 5402 Breaking Boundaries or 5546 Policing, Populism, and Entrenching Old Ones? Post-Arab Authoritarianism in Modern Turkey 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Spring Experiences of Women and Organized by Betul Eksi Political Representation 5642 Networks of Knowledge and Chair: Hayal Akarsu, Brandeis U Organized by Rola El-Husseini and Connectivity in the Early Modern Discussant: Elif Babul, Mount Holyoke Col Sarah Tobin Mediterranean and the Near East Organized by Emire Cihan Yuksel Chair/Discussant: Homa Hoodfar, Hayal Akarsu, Brandeis U–Afterlives of Police Reform: Informing, Complicity, and Concordia U Samet Budak, U Michigan–Reframing Citizen-Police Intellectual History of the Eastern Betul Eksi, U Ottowa–Enforcers of Law or Rola El-Husseini, Lund U–Theorizing State Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages: Protectors of (Dis)order?: Strongman Politics Feminism in the Arab World after the 2011 Intellectual Networks and Epistemological and Security Overhaul in Turkey Uprisings Commonalities Gail Buttorff, U Houston–It’s in the Blood: Emire Cihan Yuksel, U Houston–Fifteenth 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA The Effect of Dynastic Rule on the Substance Century Ottoman-Mamluk Networks: Trade of Gender Quotas 5607 Mobility as Method: Mapping and Knowledge Sarah Tobin, Chr. Michelsen Inst–Female Entanglements between the Gulf and Ertugrul Okten, Istanbul 29 Mayis U–A MPs, Wasta, and the Role of Protest in Post- the Indian Ocean 14th Century Scholar in Mecca: Imam al-Yafi Arab Spring Jordan Organized by Lindsey Stephenson and ‘i (d. 768/1367) and His Circle Mona Tajali, Agnes Scott Col–From Ahmed AlMaazmi Abdurrahman Atcil, Istanbul Sehir U– ‘Gender Equality’ to ‘Gender Justice’: The Kanun Laws and Sharia Courts in Egypt Bargaining for Women’s Political Chair/Discussant: Fahad A. Bishara, U during the Mamluk-Ottoman Transition Representation in Iran and Turkey Virginia (1517–1524)

000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Matthew MacLean, Independent 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Scholar–Migration and the Making of the 5482 Servet-i Fünun: New Media, Roundtable Hybrids and Modernity UAE Nation & State Organized by Burcu Karahan Ahmed AlMaazmi, Princeton–Oman as an 5648 Speculative Urban Futures Empire: Transoceanic Mobilites and Legacies Organized by Deen Sharp Fatih Altug, Istanbul Sehir U–Motion, in the Western Indian Ocean Body and Intermediality: Reading Tevfik Lindsey Stephenson, Princeton–Oceanic Huma Gupta, MIT Fikret’s “La Danse Serpentine” and Halit Mobility and the Shaping of Twentieth- Deen Sharp, MIT Ziya’s “Mosyo Kanguru” Century Gulf Towns Sarah El-Kazaz, Oberlin Col Burcu Karahan, Stanford–A Novel of Mansur al-sharida, U Arkansas–The Hybrid Lives and Hybrid Narratives: Safveti Qusman Traders in the Indian Ocean: Economic, Ziya’s “In the Corners of Salons” (1888-9) Political and Cultural Impact, 1820-1938 Esra Tasdelen, North Central Col– Wandering among Thorns and Roses: Themes and Modes of Narration in Ahmet Hikmet Müftüoglu’s ‘Haristan ve Gülistan’ Zeynep Seviner, Bilkent U–Registering the Self: Photography, Memory and Autobiographic Writing in Servet-i Fünun MESA 2019 Preliminary Program u Page 53 8:30-10:30AM Sunday November 17

000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Khaled Al Hilli, Graduate Center CUNY– 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Fiction of War: Contemporary American 5650 The Egyptian Landscape: New Literature about Iraq and the Memory Industry 5752 Colonialism, Islamic Law, and Insights on Agrarian and Rural Trends Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col–Home, Gender in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Authenticity, and Economic Precarity among Periods the Iraqi Diaspora Chair: Marya Hannun, Georgetown U Organized by Muhammad Shaaban Yousef K. Baker, CSU Long Beach–The Political Economy of Muslim Racialization in Hassanaly Ladha, U Connecticut–Islamic Anthony T. Quickel, Philipps-Universität the American Invasion of Iraq Law and the Postcolonial State Marburg–Using Nature and Open Spaces in Josie Hendrickson, U Alberta–Go Ahead Mamluk Cairo 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA and Lie to Me: French-Sponsored Taqiyya in Greg Williams, Bonn U–‘Clay of Wisdom’: Colonial Mauritania Archaeological Approaches to the Study of the 5704 (Dis)Assembling the Subject in Katrina E. Yeaw, U Arkansas Little Rock– Medieval Egyptian Landscape Middle East Studies: Materialities of Colonialism Remembered: Libyan History in Stuart Borsch, Assumption Col–Systems Resistance Women’s Imagination Ratio Analysis for the Comparison of Apples Organized by Ali Ugurlu Ari Tolany, U Texas Austin–Conflict or and Oranges Collaboration? Discourses on the Shariat Muhammad Shaaban, Queen Mary, Chair: Timothy Mitchell, Columbia U Application Act (1937) and the Dissolution of U London–Counting Feddans and Dinars Discussant: Nasser Abourahme, NYU Muslim Marriages Act (1939) in Mamluk Egypt: Exploring New Trends through Data Mattin Biglari, SOAS U London–Subjectivity 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA in the “City of Science”: Expertise, Labor and the 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Technopolitics of the Abadan Refinery, c. 1939-51 5756 Zionism and the Palestinians: Peter Lagerqvist, Columbia U–Auto- Violence and Co-Existence 5662 Psychoanalysis, Colonialism and Intifada: Accidental Agency and the Narrative Cultural Critique in the Maghreb of Things Chair: Yaron Ayalon, Col of Charleston Organized by Thoraya Tlatli Rana Baker, Columbia U–Railway Delinquents: Subjectivity and Delinquency in Shay Hazkani, U Maryland–Pan-Arabism Chair/Discussant: Dina Al-Kassim, U World War I Egypt and ‘Pan-Judaism’ in the Mobilization of British Columbia Hengameh Ziai, Columbia U–From Volunteers for the War in Palestine, 1947-1949 Mahdists to Peasants: The Corporation and Liora R. Halperin, U Washington – Stefania Pandolfo, UC Berkeley–The Colonial Power in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan Capitalist “Coexistence” and the Politics of Vertigo of History Ali Ugurlu, Columbia U–Technics and Apoliticism: Zionist Memories of Arab Labor Nouri Gana, UCLA–The Colonial Subjects: Rethinking Secularity at the Turn of after 1948 Unconscious and Affective Critique the 20th Century Ottoman World Omar Berrada, –Drawing the Dreams of History 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Thoraya Tlatli, UC Berkely–Memory and the Unconscious in Kateb Yacine, Mohammed 5744 Islamist Politics and Mobilization Dib and Nabile Fares Chair: Martin Kear, U Sydney 000 8:30-10:30am Room TBA Raihan Ismail, Australian National U– 5698 US War in Iraq: A Discursive Rethinking Salafism: Transnational Networks Analysis of Power Relations through of Salafi ‘Ulama Visual Culture, Ethnography, and Arran Walshe, NYU–Sealed with a Literary Representation Thumbprint: The Epistemology and Poetics of Organized by Yousef K. Baker, Zainab a Martyrdom Contract Saleh, Khaled Al Hilli, and Dena Al- Ahmad Kindawi, Rowan U–A New Adeeb Synthesis: Saudi Salafism and the Contested Ideologies of Muḥammad Surūr Chair: Zahra Ali, Rutgers U Emy Matesan, Wesleyan U–Organizational Change and the Politics of Exile: Ennahdha Dena Al-Adeeb, UC Davis–The and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Architecture of War: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq Sumita Pahwa, Scripps Col–Remaking and Its Cultural Engineering Project Emotional Selves and Communities: Narratives of Islamist Mobilization in Morocco and Egypt

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5761 Labor, Class, and Gender in Iran 5786 Archiving and Memory 5788 Society, Culture, and the Economy in the Late Ottoman Empire Chair: John Ghazvinian, U Penn Chair: Elise Salem, Lebanese American U Chair: Fariba Zarinebaf, UC Riverside Vahid Vahdat, Texas A&M U–An Erotics Zohreh Soltani, Binghamton U–The of Exchange: Civic Sites for (Gendered) Public Prison of Time: Tehran’s Qasr Prison Museum Ahmet Yusuf Yuksek, NYU–Sufis and Mourning in Yazd, Iran as a Transfunctional Monument the Sufi Lodges in Istanbul in the Late 19th Zep Kalb, UCLA–Has Iran Become a Tamar Sella, Harvard–Preservation and Century: A Spatial Analysis More Meritocratic Society? New Findings Erasure: Ambivalent Encounters within the Onursal Erol, U Chicago–In-Transit: on the Effect of the 1979 Revolution on National Sound Archive of Israel Women’s Publics and Urban Transportation Intergenerational Class Mobility Alyeh Mehin, U Arizona–Adl-e Khomeni in Ottoman Istanbul Peyman Jafari, Princeton–“In the Name of (Former Adl-e Pahlavi): Rediscovering Street Naz Yucel, George Washington U– the God of the Oppressed”: Labor and Political Names in Mashhad Ottoman Political Economy in the Hamidian Contestation in Iran, 1979-1989 Wisam Alshaibi, UCLA and Rebecca Era: The Writings and the Career of Sakizli Maral Karimi, U Toronto–Birth of a Whiting–The Dark Archive of the Wars in Ohannes Pasha Political Alternative: The Case of Haft Tapeh Iraq: Introducing the Kanan Makiya Papers Ozde Celiktemel-Thomen, Middle East Sugarcane Factory Workers’ Strikes in Iran Technical U–Cinema and Entertainment in M. Stella Morgana, Leiden U– Imperial Istanbul Appropriating Workers’ Grievances through Ceren Abi, UCLA–Entertainment in Times of Populist Narratives in Iran: Shifting War: Istanbul during World War I Discursive Strategies from Khomeini to Ahmadinejad (1979-2009)

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5455 The Figuration of Elites during 5476 Education, Gender, and 5498 Contested Modes of Islamic the Mamluk Period: Fresh Approaches Modernity: Islamic and Secular Leadership Organized by Anna Kollatz Schooling in the Middle East and Organized by John Walbridge France Chair/Discussant: Stephan Conermann, Organized by Dahlia El Zein Chair: John Walbridge, Indiana U U Bonn Chair: Ami Ayalon, Tel Aviv U SeyedAmir Asghari, Indiana U–Qāḍī Florian Saalfeld, U Bonn–The Awlad al- Ṭabāṭabā’ī as a (Hidden) Sufi Master in the Nas and Their Agency: Tracing a Neglected Dahlia El Zein, U Penn–Revisiting State Shi’a Seminary Elite Feminism: Education and Gender in the Neset Ulusal, Indiana U Bloomington–A Christian Mauder, Yale–The Participation United Arab Republic 1958-1961 Shaykh in the Ottoman Palace: Ismail Haqqi of Mamluks in Arabo-Islamic Scholarship: Amina Tawasil, Columbia U–The Howzevi Bursawi’s Struggle against Moral Decline, How Did it Develop, and Why Did it Take Place (Seminarian) Women in Iran: Constituting Corruption, and Injustice at All? and Reconstituting Paths Andi Herawati, Indiana U Bloomington– Mohammad Gharaibeh, U Bonn–When Afaf Khoshman (Alkhashman), Sufi Women in America: Innovation and Intellectual and Political Collide. The Rise Columbia U–Socialization and Societal Adaptation in Muslim’s Spirituality Today and Fall of the Muqaddima of Ibn al-Salah (d. Change-Families Negotiating Changing Alexander Shepard, Indiana U 643/1245) in Damascus under the Mamluks Education Environment-Al-Rawda Jordan Bloomington–Intra-Shi’ite Polemics in Anna Kollatz, U Bonn–A Son of the Carine Bourget, U Arizona–How Can One Kulayni’s “Usul Al-Kafi” Mamluks Writes History: Locating Ibn Iyas Be a Muslim French? Religious Studies in al-Hanafi Muslim Schools in France 000 11am-1pm Room TBA

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Chair/Discussant: Hiba Bou Akar, Chair: Narges Bajoghli, Johns Hopkins U Chelsie May, U Chicago–“What Kind Columbia U Discussant: Aaron Rock-Singer, U of Agreement Was Even Possible”: Zionist Wisconsin-Madison Imperial Whiteness, the Iraqi Communist Samuel Dolbee, Harvard–‘Is It Now That Party, and the Disparate Future of Iraq’s Jews We Are Inventing Such Things?’ Ethnicity and Hatim El-Hibri, George Mason U–The Elise Burton, U Cambridge–An African Sedentarization in the Late Ottoman Jazira Mediatization of Islam: Hizbullah’s Mleeta Gene? Discovering Sickle Cell Disease in the Nada Moumtaz, U Toronto–Solidere, Museum, Verticality, and Contemporaneity Middle East Waqfs, and the Reproduction of the Lebanese Narges Bajoghli, Johns Hopkins U– Maha Nassar, U Arizona–Mahmoud Muslim Sunni Sect Iranian Regime Media: Islam, Nationalism, Darwish’s “Letters to a Negro”: Transnational Seda Altug, Boğaziçi U–Conflict over Land and Political Control Connections and the Logics of Racialized and Sectarianism in Syria under the French Yasmin Moll, U Michigan–Sovereign Oppression Mandate Categories: The Concept of Islamic Media in Sarah Gualtieri, U Southern California– the Arab Postcolony Race in Early 20th Century Arab Amairka Marwan M. Kraidy, U Penn–“Islamic State” Media and the Age of Pyropolitics 000 11am-1pm Room TBA

5554 Gazetteers for Digital Geographical Research on the Historical Middle East Organized by David Joseph Wrisley

Chair: Nora Barakat, NYU Abu Dhabi Discussant: Maxim Romanov, U Vienna

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Will Hanley, Florida State U–Representing 000 11am-1pm Room TBA 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Ottoman Administrative Hierarchies using Ontologies 5581 Palestine through Its Landscape: 5596 Mapping Exchange: Dialogues David Joseph Wrisley, NYU Abu Dhabi– Memory, Invention and Continuity in between Cairo, Baghdad, and Beirut Open Gulf: Collating the Imperial Knowledge the Arts Organized by Haytham Bahoora and of Historical Gazetteers of Arabia Organized by María Gómez López and Dina A. Ramadan Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Boğaziçi U– Danae Fonseca Working towards an Ottoman Gazetteer Chair/Discussant: Samah Selim, Rutgers U Chair: Joan Grandjean, U Geneva 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Discussant: Javier Guirado, Georgia State U Amir Moosavi, Rutgers U Newark–Even Now, Another World is Possible: The Journal 5556 Refugees and the State in the Samirah Alkassim, George Mason U– al-Badil’s Fight for Liberation in Iraq and Middle East Landscape, Erasure, and Representation as Beyond Organized by Gerasimos Tsourapas Agential in Palestinian Cinema Dina A. Ramadan, Bard Col–Conversations Riccardo Legena, U Bern–Emily Jacir’s with Baghdad: Ahmed Morsi and the Iraq Chair: Stacy Fahrenthold, UC Davis “Stazione” at the First Palestinian Pavilion Influence Discussant: Lillian Frost, George – The Predictably Unrealizable Typographic Haytham Bahoora, U Toronto–On Washington U Landscaping of Palestinian and Arab History Peripheral Nahdas: Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi and in Venice the Question of Women’s Liberation Kelsey P. Norman, Rice U–Publicly Alessandra Amin, UCLA–Dystopian Yasmine Ramadan, U Iowa–Al-Tali’a: Condemn, Privately Permit: Institutional Immediacy in the Landscapes of Samira Visions of the Arab Cultural Field Forbearance and De Facto Integration in Badran c. 1977 Middle East and North African Host States María Gómez López, Universidad 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity U–Foreign and Complutense de Madrid–A Latent Refugee Policies: Comparative Studies of Iran Landscape 5598 The Aftermath of Reforms: and Pakistan Danae Fonseca, Autonomous U Madrid– Health, Medicine, and Care in Gerasimos Tsourapas, U Birmingham– Gendering the Palestinian Landscape Contemporary Turkey The Refugee Rentier State and the Organized by Seda Saluk Commodification of Displacement in the 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Middle East Discussant: Chris Dole, Amherst Col Matt Buehler, U Tennessee–AIDS 5594 Margins, Marginals, and Anxieties: A New Explanation for Opposition Marginalities in the Late Ottoman Oyman Basaran, Bowdoin Col– to Refugees and Migrants in North Africa Empire Neoliberalism, Inequalities, and Healthcare in Organized by Canan Bolel Turkey 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Seda Saluk, U Massachusetts Amherst– Chair/Discussant: Neveser Koker, Medical Surveillance, Reproductive Privacy, Roundtable Arizona State U and the (Un)Making of the Liberal Subject in 5571 “Keef Halak, Y’all!” Middle Turkey Eastern Diasporas in the U.S. South: A Amaan Merali, U Oxford–Righting Wrongs Alaz Kilicaslan, U Wisconsin-Whitewater– Roundtable on Oral History, Archives in Late Ottoman Syria: Ismaili Petitions to the Shadow Health: African-Origin Immigrants and Community Sultan in the Second Constitutional Era Navigating the Healthcare Sphere in Turkey Organized by Elizabeth Saylor Sebnem Yucel, MEF U, Istanbul–Marginal Hatice Nilay Erten, Yale–Reproduction, Spaces/Sheltering the Marginals: Izmir’s Health and Care in “Mother-Friendly” Turkey Sponsored by Cortijos Arab American Studies Association Canan Bolel, U Washington–Jewish Body, Jewish Quarter, Jewish Disease: Cholera Chair: Akram Khater, North Carolina Epidemics in Late Ottoman Izmir State U Nefise Kahraman, U Toronto–Nerves on the Loose: Female Nervousness in Halid Ziya Gregory Gormanous, LSU Alexandria Usakligil’s Early Novels Maria F. Curtis, U Houston-Clear Lake Ruth Ann Skaff, Arab American National Museum Rosemarie M. Esber, Independent Scholar Elizabeth Saylor, Middlebury Col

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000 11am-1pm Room TBA Bradley Walker Hutchison, Binghamton Walid Ghali, Aga Khan U–A Newly U–Education, Empire, and Migration at the Discovered Letter by Sheikh Muhammad 5622 Rethinking Contention: Economic American University of Beirut Abduh (d.1905) Brings Insight into His Policies and Struggles for Social Justice Burak Basaranlar, Binghamton U–When Political Participation after the Urabi in Jordan Neighbors Become Aggressors: Local Tensions Revolution Organized by Sara Ababneh and the Role of Civilians in the Expulsion of Li Xiaoyue, U Michigan– Usurpers of Jews from Thrace in 1934 Modernity: Railway Robbery and Thievery in Jose Ciro Martinez, U Cambridge– 1880s Egypt Ambiguities of Stateness: Marginalization and 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Claim-Making in the Jordanian South 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Sara Ababneh, U Jordan–The People Want 5665 The Qajar Empire Economic Sovereignty Organized by Arash Khazeni 5728 Eco-Criticism I Yazan Doughan, Brandeis U–Wasta, Rule of Law, and the Ambivalences of Social Justice Chair: Ali Gheissari, U San Diego Chair: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS Col in Jordan Discussant: Mimi Hanaoka, U Richmond Colin Powers, Johns Hopkins SAIS–The Chip Rossetti, Library of Arabic Political Economy of a Lower Middle Income Arash Khazeni, Pomona Col–The Literature–The Reassertion of Nature in Trap: Jordan’s Development Policy in the 21st Fortressed City: Space and Sovereignty in the Isma’il Fahd Isma’il’s al-Sabiliyyat and Diya’ Century Durrani Kingdom of Afghanistan, Circa 1817 Jubaili’s La Tawahin Hawa’ fi l-Basra Farzin Vejdani, Ryerson U–Seeking Refuge Ayse Nal Akcay, U Washington–Why 000 11am-1pm Room TBA in Qum, ‘The Abode of Faith’: Between Qajar Urban Diaspora Matters for the Protection of Imperial Law and Shari‘ah the Rivers in Turkey? 5635 Women as Patrons and Producers Assef Ashraf, U Cambridge–Loyalty, Çagdas Dedeoglu, Center for Critical of the Islamic Sciences Leadership, and the Formation of Qajar Iran Research on Religion–Unpacking Organized by Mirjam Kuenkler the Relationship among Dogmatism, 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Environmental Attitudes and Political Chair: Behnam Sadeghi, Oxford U Ideology in Turkey Discussant: Roy P. Mottahedeh, Harvard Roundtable Carly Krakow, London School of 5684 The Arabic Classroom: Challenges Economics and Political Science–The Yasmin Amin, Exeter U–Umm Salamah: A and Opportunities International Law and Politics of Water Female Auhority Legitimating the Authorities Organized by Mbaye Lo, Duke U Access: Experiences of Displacement, Yusuf Unal, Emory U–Princesses, Statelessness, and Armed Conflict in the Patronage, and the Production of Knowledge Chair: Mbaye Lo, Duke U Modern Middle East in Safavid Iran Edith Szanto, American U Iraq, David DiMeo, Western Kentucky U 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Sulaimani–The ‘Alimat of Sayyida Zaynab: Hanada Al-Masri, Denison U Female Shi’i Religious Authority in a Syrian 5731 Contemporary Politics in Syria and Iraq Seminary 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Mirjam Kuenkler, NIAS–Women Islamic Scholars and Jurists in Shi’i Lands 5725 Egyptian Social History: The Chair: David Siddhartha Patel, Brandeis U Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Jihan Mohammed, Michigan State Chair: Jenna Rice Rahaim, Macalester Col U–Sectarian Discrimination in Iraq: An 5654 Migration and Statebuilding in Empirical Study on Arab Sunnis and Arab the Interwar Middle East Omar Foda, Independent Scholar–The Shiites in Iraq Organized by Bradley Walker Hutchison Delenda Affair: How Beer Helps Explain Keiko Sakai, Chiba U–Transformation Sadat’s Egypt of the “Source of the Fame” in the Eyes of Discussant: Nilay Ozok-Gundogan, Hussam R. Ahmed, U Cambridge– Political Blocs in Post-2003 Elections in Iraq Florida State U Revisiting the Egyptian Kuttab: Some Joseph Kotinsly, U Texas Austin–The Thoughts on the Struggle for the Mastery of Road to Baghdad Runs through Washington: Sibel Karakoc, Binghamton U–Global Classical Arabic An Examination of the Supreme Council for Trade Networks: The Impact of Turkish- Akram Beniamin, Henley Business Islamic Revolution’s Relationship with the American Tobacco Trade on the Settlement School, UK–The Structure of Egyptian United States of the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange Capitalism, 1923-1948: New Evidence using the Fernando Brancoli, U Rio de Janeiro, Refugees in Turkey Interlocking Directorates Technique –Narratives of Nonpolitical Timur Saitov, Binghamton U–Turning Reconstruction: BRICSs Role in Post-Conflict Migrants into Refugees in the Post-WWI Syria Middle East: Russian Expatriates

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Mona Elswah, Oxford Internet Inst–The 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Evolution of Arab Online Opposition: The Case of Syria 5778 Social and Cultural Formations in Colonial North Africa 000 11am-1pm Room TBA Chair: Chris Rominger, U North Florida 5768 Modern Ethnic and Religious Minorities I Hicham Chami, Columbia U–Marketing the “Music of Morocco”: The Evolution of the Chair: Marwan D. Hanania, UC Berkeley Bowles Project Ahmad Agbaria, U Texas Austin–Politics Aghil Daghagheleh, Rutgers U–The of Decolonization: The Case of Mohammad Genesis of Refusal: The Colonial Encounter Abid Al-Jabiri and Modalities of Resistance among Arab Daniel Williford, U Michigan–Revisiting Communities of Khuzestan in the 18th and the Figure of the “Laboratory” in Morocco’s 19th Centuries Colonial History Pascal Abidor, McGill U–Revisiting the Martin Bunton, U Victoria–Demarcating Shi’i Experience under Ottoman Rule: The the Egyptian-Sudanese Border, 1899-1902 Political and Economic Lives of the al-Amin Elizabeth Matsushita, U Illinois–An Family in Jabal ‘Amil Ambivalent “Renaissance”: Si Mammeri, Andrew Wickersham, U Arizona– Beaux Arts, and the Maintenance of Turkey’s Ambivalent Minority: Situating Difference in Colonial Morocco the Alevis within Çağaptay’s Hierarchy of Turkishness

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5417 Ottoman Genres beyond the 5459 Islamism between Cold and Gulf 5516 Disaggregating Middle East Literary: New Methodologies for Wars: A Crucial Decade Militaries Tracing Historical Change Organized by Samuel Helfont and Aaron Organized by Drew Kinney Organized by Isin Taylan and Choon Rock-Singer Hwee Koh Discussant: Sarah E. Parkinson, Johns Discussant: Thomas Hegghammer, Hopkins U Chair/Discussant: C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç U Norwegian Defence Research Establishment Sarah E. Parkinson, Johns Hopkins Sasson Chahanovich, Harvard–A U–The Savior Complex: Military Power in Supernatural Genre: Jafr and Esoteric Vish Sakthivel, U Oxford–Religion and Emergency Response Revelation in the 15th – 17th Century Ottoman Polemics in Post-Conflict Algeria Holger Albrecht, U Alabama–Diversionary Intellectual World Aaron Rock-Singer, U Wisconsin- Peace: Foreign Peacekeeping and Isin Taylan, Yale–The Birth of a Genre: Madison–Winds of Pious Change: The Authoritarian Civil-Military Relations Atlas in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Consolidation of Salafi Social Practice, 1980-1995 Sharan Grewal, Col of William & Mary– Intellectual World Michael Brill, Princeton–The Muslim The Soldier and the Sheikh: Egypt’s Failed Choon Hwee Koh, Yale–The Post Station Brotherhood in 1990s Iraq: Repression or Transition Register (Menzil Defteri): Creating New Fiscal Accommodation? Zeinab Abul-Magd, Oberlin Col–Egypt’s Genres and Administrative Knowledge in the Rachel Kantz Feder, Tel Aviv U, Haifa U– Military, Economy, and Social Conflict under Ottoman Empire over the Long 18th Century The Struggle for Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr’s al-Sisi Zeinab Azarbadegan, Columbia U–A Authority in Exile: Intra-Iraqi Shi‘i Splits amid Drew Kinney, Tulane U–The Coup Taboo Provincial Genre?: Baghdad Salnames and Shifting Political Dynamics, 1980-2003 Modern Global Administrative Practices Samuel Helfont, Naval War Col–Baghdad 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA Chloe Bordewich, Harvard–The Afterlives or Riyadh: The Struggle for Islamist Support of Ottoman Espionage: Treason, Slander, and in the 1990s Roundtable the Memoir Genre in the Interwar Middle East 5528 Narrating Migration: Emerging 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA Methods and Cross-Disciplinary 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA Directions 5463 The City as Social Laboratory: Organized by Chris Gratien 5447 The Political Economy of Labor Scientific Knowledge and Urbanity in Mobilizations in MENA the Late 19th and Early 20th Century Chair: Chris Gratien, U Virginia Organized by Ahmad Al-Sholi and Nada Middle East Matta Organized by Isaac Hand Neda Maghbouleh, U Toronto Reem Bailony, Agnes Scott Col Chair: Ian M. Hartshorn, U Nevada Chair: Elise Burton, U Cambridge Rawan Arar, Brown U Discussant: Dina Bishara, Cornell U Discussant: Aslı Z. Igsiz, NYU Andrew Arsan, U Cambridge Nada Matta, Drexel U–The Economic and Nazan Maksudyan, Freie Universität Political Origins of the Egyptian Uprising of Berlin–Modern Times, Modern Sounds: New 2011 Infrastructures and “Noise” in Late Ottoman Lea Bou Khater, Lebanese American U– Istanbul Labour Unrest and Contentious Politics in Elizabeth Frierson, U Cincinnati–Modern Lebanon Masculinity on Display: City Pharmacists as Ahmad Al-Sholi, Stony Brook U–Limits of Men of Science a Labor-Free Democracy Movement: The Case Brittany Haynes, NYU–Addiction and of the Failed Arab Spring in Jordan Degeneration in Istanbul: The Racialization of Keenan Wilder, Brown U–Historical a Mental Disorder in Early Republican Turkey Origins of Worker Power in Tunisia Isaac Hand, NYU–Ideal Municipalism: Urban Expertise in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Cities, 1900-1960 Lydia Harrington, Boston U–Children, Labor, and Architecture in Late Ottoman Baghdad

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5535 Ulamalogy and the Arabic 5575 The Northern Tier and the 5663 Neoliberalism and Its Challenges Biographical Tradition Southern Tier: A New Order in the in Turkey Organized by Arafat A. Razzaque and Middle East? Organized by Gamze Cavdar Rich Heffron Organized by Serkan Yolacan Chair: Fikret Adaman, Bogaziçi U Chair/Discussant: Nancy Khalek, Brown U Chair/Discussant: Glenn E. Robinson, Discussant: Simten Cosar, Cornell U Naval Postgraduate School Rich Heffron, U Chicago–Recovering Gamze Cavdar, Colorado State U–Social the History of Early Islamic Hims: A Nisha Mathew, National U Singapore– Assistance Programs and Women Reconstruction and Analysis of Ahmad b. Abu Dhabi’s String of Ports and a New Simten Cosar, Cornell U–Neoliberalism Muhammad al-Baghdadi’s (d. Late 3rd/9th C.) Maritime Order in the Middle East and Academe in Turkey – A Feminist Reading “Ta’rikh al-Himsiyyin” and `Abd al-Samad b. Serkan Yolacan, National U Singapore– Murat Arsel, Erasmus U Rotterdam– Sa`id al-Himsi’s (d. 324/936) Ta’rikh Hims In-Between Lands and Mobile Societies: The Resisting Like the State: Environmental Nebil Husayn, U Miami–Al-Ka’bi, Josef van Architecture of the Northern Tier Conflicts in a Neoliberal Turkey Ess and the Preservation of Early Mu’tazili Ameem Lutfi, National U Singapore– Yavuz Yasar, U Denver–JDP’s Social Policy Tabaqat Military Dependency as a Strength in the Practices: An Analysis of Social Welfare Arafat A. Razzaque, U Cambridge– Southern Tier Recipients in Turkey between 2003 and 2016 Scandal and the Making of Biographical Narrative: Ibn Aktham between Theology and 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA Personality Jeremy Farrell, Emory U–When Did Sufis 5606 Undone Jinns and Dragons: The Roundtable Limits of the Human and the Borders Ally with Shafiˋis? A Network Analysis of 5666 New Directions: Heritage, of the Other in Medieval Islamicate Multiple Prosopographical Traditions Memory, and State Un/Making Literatures Organized by Chiara De Cesari 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA Organized by Alexandra Hoffmann Chair: Chiara De Cesari, U Amsterdam 5558 Syria in Transition from Mamluk Allison Kanner-Botan, U Chicago–Women to Ottoman in the Late 15th - Early of Paradise: Houris of the Qur’an and Early Nermin Elsherif, U Amsterdam 16th Centuries Islamicate Romance Heghnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis Organized by Linda T. Darling Samantha Pellegrino, U Chicago–Gender, Rosie Bsheer, Harvard Magic, and Ontology in the Sirat Sayf bin Dhi Chiara De Cesari, U Amsterdam Chair: Guel Sen, U Bonn Yazan Nathalie Peutz, NYU Abu Dhabi Discussant: Adam Sabra, UC Santa Alexandra Hoffmann, U Chicago–The Barbara Monster within: Sexuality in Iranshah b. Abi Khayr’s Kushnameh Timothy J. Fitzgerald, James Madison U– Samuel W Lasman, U Chicago–Snakemen: Of Renegades and Renaissance Men: Ludovico The Anthropomorphic Dragons of Persian Epic di Varthema (d. 1517) in Late Mamluk Damascus Wakako Kumakura, Research Inst for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa–Land Holding and Financial Activities of the Awlād al-Nās: Continuity and Change during the Transition Period Aleksandar Shopov, Max Planck Inst for the History of Science–Agricultural Manuscripts and the Mobility of Agricultural Science and Practice between Cairo, Damascus, and Istanbul around 1500 Linda T. Darling, U Arizona–A Changing Geopolitical Role for a New Ottoman Province: The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition in Syria

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5683 Post-Ottoman Challenges to 5727 Eco-Criticism II 5751 Middle Eastern Communities in Imperialism the US: National and Islamic Identities Organized by Alp Yenen Chair: Joel Beinin, Stanford Chair: Kent Schull, Binghamton U Chair: Ramazan Hakki Oztan, U Neuchatel Basma Fahoum, Stanford–Palestinian Discussant: Houri Berberian, UC Irvine Peasants and Tobacco: Natural Cultivators, or Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana U–Muslim, Hindrance to Industry? Christian Arab and Chaldean Paths to Political Sarah Khayati, U Basel–‘L’Orient aux Dale Stahl, U Colorado Denver–A People Integration: Representation, Participation and Orientaux’: Middle Eastern Activists under Freed from Need: Security, Sustainability, and Activism in Metro Detroit International and National Surveillance in the State in Southeastern Anatolia Sean Widlake, Independent Scholar– Interwar Switzerland Ekin Kurtiç, Harvard–Built in the Iranian Counterpublics: Social Media, Remzi Çagatay Çakirlar, Leiden U - Landscape: Large Dam Construction and Diaspora, and Changing Culture EHESS Paris–Anti-British Currents in Post- Expertise in Turkey Afsane Rezaei, Ohio State U–Framing and War Middle East: Transnational Encounters of Damla Isik, Regis U–Peri-urban Imaginary Affect in Faith-Based Gatherings of Iranian Kemalists, Bolsheviks, and French Radicals as Resistance and Alternative: Slow City, Women in Southern California Alp Yenen, Leiden U–‘Enver & Talaat & the Slow Food, and Women’s Entrepreneurship in Ehsan Estiri, Ohio State U–Talking to CUP-Jew-German-Bolshevik Combination’: Seferihisar, Turkey America: How Iranian Public Events in Los Making Sense of Muslim Revolutionary Hussam Hussein, U Kassel (Germany)– Angeles Respond to American Political and Societies after World War I Water Politics in Jordan: Unpacking Media Discourses Discourses, Power, and Geopolitical Dynamics Lydia Yousief, U Chicago–Mapping 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA Community and Its Implications: A Case Study 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA of Copts in Nashville 5707 Leadership, Laws and Dissent in Tunisia and Algeria: The Perils of 5732 Literary Modernity and Civic 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA Elite Bargains, Legislating Dignity, and Society Shared Protest Modalities 5753 Colonial Politics, Practices, and Organized by William Lawrence Carmen M.K. Gitre, Virginia Tech– Perspectives Nonsense and Morality: Interwar Egypt and Azzedine Layachi, St. John’s U– the Comedy of Najib al-Rihani Chair: James H. Sunday, Johns Hopkins U Gerontocracy, Elections, and the Politics of Michael Ernst, NYU–“Global” 1968 in Muddling through in Algeria and Tunisia Egypt: Radwa Ashour’s “Farag” and the Heidi Walcher, Universitiy of Munich Aymen Abderrahmen, Journalist– Disarticulation of Area Studies (LMU)–About Prostitution and Syphilis in Transitional Injustice: Youth Disillusion and 19th Century Iran: Inquiring into J. E. Polak‘s the Demise of Tunisia’s Dignity Commission 000 1:30-3:30pm Room TBA Report of 1861 Houda Mzioudet, Independent Scholar– Arman Azimi, Graduate Center CUNY– Tunisia’s Landmark Criminalization of 5736 Gender and Representations Refining Iran: Education, Health, Leisure, and Racism: From Denial to Liminal Visibility the Civilizing Mission of the Anglo-Iranian Oil William Lawrence, George Washington Chair: Onursal Erol, U Chicago Company in Iran, 1907-1951 U–Borderline Disorder: Hybridities and Cross- Youssef Yacoubi, Seton Hall U–Mapping border Connections in Algerian and Tunisian Demet Gulcicek, U Warwick–Negotiations New Directions in Middle Eastern Studies: Popular Protest of Women’s ‘Iffet’ and Nation’s ‘Namus’: Democratizing Post-colonial Theory Femininities and Masculinities in the Late Maysam Taher, NYU–Carceral Thresholds: Ottoman Empire Modernization Confinement and Deportation in the Afterlives Nazli Akhtari, U Toronto–Performing of Colonialism Digital and Archival: An Inquiry into (Trans) National Iranian Media Landscapes Ozge Calafato, U Amsterdam–Posing for the Republic: Gender and Turkish Vernacular Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s Eugene Riordan, Jr, UC Santa Barbara– Consuming Pornography, Eroticizing Violence, and Protecting Women to Reconstruct Israeli Masculinity Meltem Safak, U Georgia–Identity Crisis and Male Hysteria in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Novel

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5758 Memory and History in the 5769 Modern Ethnic and Religious 5783 Foreign Policy, Intervention, and Palestine/Israel Conflict Minorities II International Law

Chair: Terri Ginsberg, AUC Chair: Vahram Ter Matevosyan, Chair: Suhnaz Yilmaz, Koc U American U Armenia Sami Hermez, Northwestern U Qatar– Lars Erslev Andersen, Danish Inst for Sireen: An Oral History of Palestinian Tutku Ayhan, U Central Florida–“We Are International Studies–Displacement of Dispossession and Resistance Yezidi, being Otherwise Never Stopped Our Global Power Balance: The China–USA–Iran Callie Maidhof, Colby Col–Imagined Persecution”: Yezidi Perceptions of Kurds and Triangle as a Test Case Coexistence: Historical Fantasies of West Bank Kurdish Identity Mahdi Ganjavi, U Toronto–Franklin Book Settlement Hazal Halavut, U Toronto–Mourning the Programs: Imperialism, State, and Knowledge Unmourned: “Those Who Died, and Those Production Who Killed!” Farid Boussaid, U Amsterdam–Foreign Julie Tegho Bou Nassif, Université Saint Interventions by Middle Eastern and North Joseph, Beirut-Lebanon–A Bishop at War: African States in Africa in the 1970s The Diaries of Zahle’s Greek-Catholic Bishop Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota–The ICC in the Lebanese Wars (1975-1976) in the Levant: A Case against Bashar al-Assad Charalampos Minasidis, U Texas and Abu Bakr al-Badhdadi Austin–Mobilizing Minorities: Asia Minor Orthodox Christian Citizen Soldiers’ Responses during the War Period of 1912-1923

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