preliminary program ver. 10-12-17 Jake McGuire Destination DC MESAʼs 51st Annual Meeting Washington DC November 18-21 We return to DC for MESA’s 51st annual meeting at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel where we have met every three years since 1999. The hotel is located in a lovely residential area near the National Zoo, but a nearby stop on the metro red line makes all parts of DC easily accessible. The program of 230+ sessions (see pages 12-51) spread over four days will offer a smorgasbord to whet the appetite of any Middle East studies aficionado. MESA’s affiliate groups meet mostly on Saturday, November 18 (see pages 10-11) and the first program session begins that day at 5:30pm. Panels run all day Sunday and Monday and end at 3pm on Tuesday. The book bazaar will be open Sunday and Monday from 9am to 6pm and on Tuesday from 8am to 12pm (see pages 8-9). MESAʼs ever-popular FilmFest (see the teaser on pages 6-7) begins screenings on Saturday morning and runs through Tuesday until around 2pm. The MESA Presidential Address & Awards will be held Sunday evening from 6pm to 7:30pm, and the MESA Members Meeting on Monday evening from 6pm to 8:00pm. As you will see, it’s business as usual, except of course for a new administration that is determined to ban nationals of six Muslim majority countries from traveling to the US, and MESA having joined a lawsuit against the ban that is making its way to the US Supreme Court in October. Those traveling to the MESA meeting from abroad, should have a look at the international travel tips on page 2 and keep themselves abreast of any developments that could impact travel.

Hotel Registration Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel To preregister for the MESA 2017 annual meeting, log into your 2660 Woodley Road NW myMESA account, click “Payments” and follow the prompts. Or, Washington DC 20008 complete the registration form found at https://mesana.org/pdf/2017_ MESApreregistration.pdf and return it along with payment to the MESA 202 328-2000  877 212-5752 202 234-0015 fax Secretariat. Pre-registration is recommended as onsite registration rates are higher. The preregistration deadline is October 24, 2017.

Category Preregistration Onsite

full/associate $150 $200 student member $90 $125 student non-member $120 $150 Other non-members $200 $250

Group Rate Cutoff Date October 20 $207 single/double $217 triple/quad (plus room tax of 14.8%) Book on-line: https://aws.passkey.com/e/48994854 MESA has not partnered with any other housing groups to make reservations on your behalf. Book through the above link or by calling 1-877-212-5752 to avoid scams that could compromise your data and result in a dishonored reservation. Airports/Ground Transportation International Travelers Three airports serve the DC area: Implementation of a limited travel ban Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) Nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen are * http://www.metwashairports.com/reagan/reagan.htm banned from travel to the US unless they have a “bona fide relation- * Located 9 miles from hotel. ship” with a US person or entity. One such relationship is a person * Estimated taxi fare: $21 invited to serve as a lecturer before an American audience, which * Estimated subway fare: $3.35 applies to many MESA members. The hotel is located next to the Woodley Park Metro stop on the Red Even with a valid visa, it is important for international travelers to Line. Reagan National is located on the Ronald Reagan Washington stay abreast of developments. We recommend reading Know Your National Airport stop on the Yellow Line. (transfer station between Rights: What To Do When Encountering Law Enforcement at Yellow and Red lines is at the Gallery Place/Chinatown stop.) Airports and Other Ports of Entry into the U.S. These helpful Dulles International Airport (IAD) tips from the ACLU will serve as a guide to anyone undergoing * http://www.metwashairports.com/dulles/dulles.htm stringent evaluation at the airport. https://www.aclu.org/know- * Located 25 miles from hotel. your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports- * Estimated taxi fare: $70 and-other-ports-entry-us * Metrobus 5A to Rosslyn Metro station; Blue line to Metro Center station; transfer to Red line: $9.95 Visa Waiver Program Changes Changes to the Visa Waiver Program were implemented in Novem- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) ber 2015. Changes include new passport requirements (e-passports), * http://www.bwiairport.com/en the Electronic System of Travel Authorization (ESTA) which all * Located 33 miles from hotel. VWP applicants must use, and restrictions on people who have * Estimated taxi fare: $90 -100 traveled to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen * Metrobus B30 to Greenbelt Metro station; Green line to U since March 1, 2011. If you have traveled to one of those countries Street Metro station; U St & 13th St NW bus to NW Calvert St you cannot travel to the US under the VWP. You will need a visa. & NW Connecticut Ave; walk .04 mile to hotel: $13.10 https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visa-waiver-program. html Ground Transportation MESA has partnered with SuperShuttle to offer attendees a 10% e-passports discount on ground transportation. The roundtrip cost from Reagan As of April 1, 2016, e-passports are required for those traveling un- National is $29.20; from Dulles, $54.20; and from Baltimore- der the VWP. These passports have a machine-readable zone on the Washington, $82.80. Most who use SuperShuttle will take a shared biographic page, and a digital chip containing biometric informa- van from the airport to the hotel although more expensive exclusive tion about the passport owner. https://www.dhs.gov/e-passports vans and ExecuCars are available. Book SuperShuttle online using the group code: FPFU4. See SuperShuttle’s flier on the back page of Electronic System for Travel Authorization this document for further information. The Department of Homeland Security has established the Elec- tronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), an automated system to determine eligibility to travel under the VWP. All persons traveling under the VWP must apply for an ESTA. Approved ESTA applications are good for a period of two years. http://www.cbp. gov/travel/international-visitors/esta

Electronic Device Restrictions The Transportation Security Administration ban on main cabin car- ry on of larger electronic devices (laptops, Kindles, tablets, cameras, etc.) has been lifted at all airports except the King Khalid Airport in Saudi Arabia. If traveling to the US from that airport, these devices must be transported in checked baggage. https://www.dhs.gov/ news/2017/03/21/fact-sheet-aviation-security-enhancements-select- last-point-departure-airports

As always, we suggest getting everything in order for travel to the US in advance of purchasing airline tickets. We encourage you to read the information on these new programs by following the above links.

Destination DC Share your stories of border crossing troubles with MESAʼs Execu- tive Director, Amy Newhall, at [email protected].

Page 2 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Instructions for Panel Chairs Invited Thematic Conversations

Paper Presenters Volunteers are invited to chair non-preor- and Roundtables Share your paper with your co-panelists ganized panels at the MESA 2017 annual Thematic Conversations offer an alternative by October 15, 2017 meeting. For a list of available panels, please place to pose new questions for research, Please upload a copy of your paper to the visit MESA’s website at mesana.org, click on explore new trends and approaches to old myMESA system or send a copy via email the DC logo, and then on “volunteer panel questions, meet like-minded scholars, and to your co-panelists, especially the chair/ chairs.” Email your choices to Mark Lowder engage in open academic exchange in an discussant. No one else will be able to view at [email protected]. Before you volunteer, unstructured space. The conversations have your paper except for your co-panelists. please note that MESA membership and an- a session leader and discussants who set Papers need not be the final copy; drafts are nual meeting pre-registration are required of the agenda for the conversation. They are fine. There is no suggested paper length. all meeting participants. (un)structured to provide for maximum Your topic and your depth of coverage participation from those in attendance, and should determine its length. Plan to present there are no formal presentations. Seating is a truncated version of your paper at your Child Care limited to 30 people. panel. MESA can help parents find a local provider Roundtables promote informed discussion 1. Log into myMESA (http://mesana.org/ and will reimburse half of the cost of child and debate concerning the current state mymesa/login.php). care services up to a maximum of $200 for of scholarship in particular fields, work 2. Click the “Annual Meeting” button. the conference. Upon request, the Secretariat currently in progress or the particular 3. Click the “Paper Abstract” button (shows will be happy to post contact information problems involved in the employment of new up once you click the annual meeting of parents who want to share sitting services approaches, new models, etc. The roundtable button). during the meeting. For further information, format lends itself to open discussion in an 4. Click the “Submit/Update full paper” please contact Rose Veneklasen at rose@ atmosphere where participants provide their button. mesana.org or 520 333-2577 ext. 102. points of view and engage the audience in 5. Under “Upload your attachment” click active discussion. Participants do not prepare the “browse” button. papers and do not lecture to the audience. 6. Locate the file on your computer by Roommates Seating is restricted to 25-30 maximum. navigating to the directory where the file is located. If you are interested in sharing a room at the 7. Once the name of your file appears in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel during the box next to the “browse” button, click the MESA annual meeting, please visit MESA’s “Save and back to abstract” button. website at http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/ 8. Your file has now been uploaded. roommates.html. MESA maintains a “room- 9. Log-out. mates wanted” page on its website where those wanting to share rooms can find each other. Want to upload a newer copy later? Repeat above.

Planning for your presentation No Show Policy Destination DC Former MESA board member, James Gelvin (UCLA), kindly shared with MESA some We understand that things come up at the tips on preparing and delivering conference last minute that prevent a participant from papers that he created for his graduate attending the meeting. Please notify MESA students. We think they are great tips for if you cannot attend the meeting. If you those new to paper presentations and for are scheduled to participate in the annual anyone who struggles with the medium. meeting in any capacity and you don’t Gelvin begins by reminding folks that, "a show up and haven’t informed the MESA conference presentation is a distinct category Secretariat, you will be considered a ‘no- of communication." Have a look at his show’ and will not be eligible to participate tips at: https://mesana.org/pdf/conference- in the next year’s meeting. A no-show is paper-tips.pdf. someone who is not physically present at his/her panel at the conference and hasn’t notified the MESA Secretariat beforehand.

MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 3 MESA Members Meeting

Date: Monday, November 20 Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Marriott Salon 1

The members meeting is an annual meeting of the membership open to all members. Voting is restricted to full and student MESA members. The meeting mainly consists of reports (see sample agenda below). Where members play an important role is in voting for the Nominating Committee and on

any resolutions that are being presented. A Destination DC member in good standing can add names to the list of people who will be invited to run for the Nominating Committee, to augment those proposed by MESA’s Board.

Quorum A minimum of 35 voting-eligible members must be in attendance for votes to be taken. Failing that, the meeting can be held but votes cannot be taken.

Resolutions When important issues are before the membership, resolutions are sometimes presented at the members meeting. Resolutions can originate from MESA’s Board or from the membership. For resolutions to be acted upon at the 2017 Members Meeting, they must be in the hands of the MESA Secretariat Destination DC by November 3, 2017. Instructions for submitting resolutions can be found in MESA’s Bylaws which are posted on MESA’s website at mesana.org.

Sample Agenda

I. Call to Order II. Report of the Executive Director III. In Memoriam and Moment of Silence IV. 2017 Election of Officers Results V. Nominating Committee Vote and Call for Names VI. IJMES Report VII. RoMES Report VIII. Committee on Academic Freedom Report IX. Unfinished Business (if tabled from last meeting) X. New Business XI. Adjournment

Page 4 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program MESA attendees are invited to a special event at the

Smithsonian National Postal Museum Monday, November 20, 2017 10:00 AM to Noon

For more than a century and a half, the world relied on postal services and postage stamps for the exchange of ideas between distant people. More than just enabling global conversations, however, postage stamps could be and often were an integral part of the discussion. The governments that created them carefully encoded philosophical, cultural, historical, and social messages they wished to project at home and abroad.

Join the Smithsonian National Postal Museum’s Chief Curator of Philately for an orientation to opportunities for semiotic and iconographic research in the museum’s collections of the stamps and postal history of the Middle East.

After the program, coffee and doughnuts will be served and an optional docent-led tour of the museum will be offered.

The Smithsonian National Postal Museum is located at 2 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E., next door to Union Station. It is easily accessible to conference attendees arriving in Washington on Amtrak and from the conference hotel (take the Metro Red Line from Woodley Park–Zoo Station toward Glenmont, 6 stops to Union Station).

Admission to the museum and attendance at this event are free, but preregistration is encouraged. If you’d like to join us, please send an e-mail with your name and the number of attendees to Dr. Susan Smith at [email protected].

These are essays (trial designs) prepared in 1942 for stamps The first stamps of Afghanistan that were never issued. The (then known as the Kingdom stamps were intended to honor The first postage stamps of of Kabul) were issued by the the millennium of Cairo’s first Israel, issued May 16, 1948, are government of Amir Sher Ali mosque, Al-Azhar Mosque. inscribed simply “Hebrew Post” Khan between 1871 and 1879. Formerly in the collection of because they were clandestinely They were cancelled by having a Egypt’s King Farouk, the essays printed before the new nation chunk torn out of them to prevent were seized and sold during the had been proclaimed or named. reuse. 1952 revolution that deposed him.

Issued by the Kingdom of Hijaz shortly after the successful 1916 Arab revolt against the Turks, the These 1852 postage stamps first stamps of Saudi Arabia were from the Sindh district were designed by T.E. Lawrence. embossed in red wax with the seal of the East India Company. The stamp is rare today because the fragile wax caused many to fall apart.

MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 5 PREVIEW 2017 FILMFEST a glimpse at what’s in store. It is monsoon season in Tucson and its really raining. This is ideal for watching films and the FilmFest has an enormous number to preview. While many submissions focus on the region’s many conflicts, we have plenty of contributions on everyday issues. Here are few films you can expect on the program.

Haram Using old 16mm filmstock, this timely essay presents the contemporary situation at the Haram Al Sharif in the Old City of Jerusalem. The film reflects on the growing Temple Mount Faithful movement whose goal is to build the Jewish Third Temple on this holy landscape and in turn to assert Jewish sovereignty over this holy Muslim site.

Monir

Disturbing the Peace

Inspired by patterns she found in mosques, the Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian pioneered This film follows former enemy combatants - Israeli soldiers contemporary forms of geometric mirror works. Her from elite units and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served innovative pieces created an artistic language informed years in prison - who have joined together to challenge the by traditional Iranian craft and architecture. This film status quo and say "enough." The film reveals their transfor- takes an intimate look at the artist´s life and her prac- mational journeys from soldiers committed to armed battle to tice, and explores how she has become one of the most nonviolent peace activists, leading to the creation of Combat- innovative and influential artists working in the Middle ants for Peace. East today.

Dalya's Julia Meltzer made two wonderful films in Other Syria. Now she turns her camera to Syrians Country living in the United States. Dalya Zeno and her mother leave Aleppo to join their broth- ers/sons in Los Angeles. The film follows Dalya from age 12 through high school grad- uation. Over the years she balances many identities: Syrian, American and, most chal- lenging, Muslim.

Page 6 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Last Men in Aleppo

A Revolution in Four Seasons

The 2017 Oscar for Documentary Short introduced the world to The White Helmets. Last Men in Aleppo presents the lives of the remaining citizens of Aleppo who are getting ready for a siege. This film lets viewers experience the daily life, death, and struggle in the streets through the eyes of the White Hel- mets. In the wake of its revolution, Tunisia grappled with creating a democratic government. Beginning in 2011, this seminal film tells the stories of two women with opposing political Reel Bad Arabs views fighting for their visions of a democratic future. Jour- nalist Emna Ben Jemaa envisions a country governed by free speech and without corruption. Jawhara Ettis of the Islamist party Ennahda works towards a Tunisia guided by Islamic principles. On a public level, both women must navigate how females are treated in their society, while in their own homes they must make difficult choices to balance their public politi- cal roles with marriage and motherhood.

In Light of the Revolution

Jack Shaheen, noted critic of negative stereotypes of Arabs in American popular culture, died in early July. In recogni- tion of Jack’s life’s work, we are rescreening Reel Bad Arabs a decade after its first presentation. The film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "ter- rorists". Along the way the film offers insights into the origin of these images, their development at key points in US history, and why they still matter today.

In the wake of Egypt’s Arab Spring, female artists were em- boldened and their art became radical. This film introduces eight women - musicians, visual artists, a photographer, a filmmaker - and their art. The women’s impressions and re- flections were processed into artistic expression. Their works are more than just a matter of beauty. They are an active, critical voice in the public, where the military and the Muslim Brotherhood struggled to set the agenda.

MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 7 Book Bazaar Arguably the largest display of Middle East studies titles anywhere, MESA’s annual book bazaar will include old and new friends–university presses, small publishing houses, independent book sellers, and even artisans sharing their talents. All will gather in DC for a three-day festival of books. The book bazaar will be open 9-6 Sunday and Monday (Nov. 19 and 20) and 8-12 on Tuesday (Nov. 21). The latest book bazaar information can be found on MESA’s website at: http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/book-bazaar.html. You don’t have to rent space to exhibit at the MESA meeting. For $50 per title, publications can be placed on view in MESA’s Cooperative Book Display. This is an ideal arrangement for individuals, independent authors, and small presses with few Middle East studies titles. If you would like additional information about exhibiting at MESA 2017, please visit MESA’s website or contact Rose Veneklasen at rose@mesana. org or 520-333-2577 ext. 102. Floor Plan

Exhibitors AALIM the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco...... 39 Aga Khan University - Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations...... 81 Al Akhawayn University...... 97 Al Baher Arabic Language Training Center...... 20 Al Manhal...... 3 American Muslims for Palestine...... 74 American Research Center in Egypt...... 71 The American University in Cairo Press...... 22-23 American University of Beirut...... 50 AMIDEAST...... 26 Arab Academy...... 34 The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington...... 7 Arab & Persian at Maryland...... 31 Arab Institute for Research & Publishing...... 4 AramcoWorld...... 19 Association Book Exhibit...... 111 Bloomsbury Digital Resources...... 110 Brill...... 12-13 Cambridge University Press...... 87-89 Center for Contemporary Arab Studies...... 1

Page 8 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Center for International and Regional Studies-Georgetown University in Qatar...... 56 CET Academic Programs...... 37 Columbia University Press...... 86 Council of American Overseas Research Centers...... 103-104 Critical Language Scholarship Program...... 84 Duke University Press...... 105 East View Information Services...... 53 Edinburgh University Press...... 62-63 Foundation for Iranian Studies/Women’s Learning Partnership...... 112 Gale, a Cengage Company...... 51-52 George Mason University...... 47-49 Georgetown University Press...... 32 Gingko Library...... 38 Gorgias Press...... 73 Hurst Publishers...... 106-107 I.B. Tauris Publishers...... 16-18 Ibex Publishers, Inc...... 66 IES Abroad...... 102 Indiana University Press ...... 108-109 Ingram Academic Services...... 57 Institute for Palestine Studies...... 70 Institute of International Education (IIE) - Fulbright Scholar Program...... 82 Interlink Publishing...... 35-36 International House Cairo-ILI...... 54 International Institute of Islamic Thought...... 58-59 IPG Academic & Professional Publishing...... 2 Iran Namag...... 64-65 ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books...... 40-41 Israel Institute...... 96 Jordan Language Academy...... 15 Just World Books...... 85 Lebanese American University...... 28 Lexington Books...... 46 Library of Arabic Literature/NYU Press...... 55 Lynne Rienner Publishers...... 8-9 Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies...... 27 Mazda Publishers...... 64-65 Middle East Institute...... 44-45 Noor Majan Training Institute...... 29 Oxford University Press...... 106-107 Palgrave Macmillan...... 42 Pathfinder Press...... 91 Penguin Random House...... 10 Persian Books & Journals...... 76 Peter Lang Publishing...... 30 Princeton University Press...... 33 Qalam wa Lawh Arabic Language Center in Rabat Morocco...... 14 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group...... 100-101 Rowman & Littlefield...... 46 Springer Nature...... 42 Stanford University Press...... 67-68 Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center...... 83 Syracuse University Press...... 60-61 Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco...... 95 University of California Press...... 21 University of Chicago Press...... 69 University of Texas Press...... 24-25 Westview Press...... 43 World Friend Shop, Sana'a Yemen...... V4 Yale University Press...... 11

MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 9 Meetings in Conjunction wAATA–American Association of wAMECYS–Association of Middle Teachers of Arabic East Children’s and Youth Studies Saturday, 11/18 Sunday, 11/19 Executive Board Meeting, 9am- Business Meeting, 8-10am, Park 12pm, Park Tower Suite 8210 (L) Tower Suite 8212 (L) Panel: “Challenges and Prospects wAGAPS–Association for Gulf and for Teaching Arabic as a Second Arabian Peninsula Studies wCASA–Center for Arabic Study Language”, 1-3pm, Virginia A (L) Saturday, 11/18 Abroad Business Meeting, 3:30-5pm, Virginia Board Meeting, 11am-2pm, Johnson (M) Saturday, 11/18 A (L) General Business Meeting, 3-5pm, Governing Board Meeting, 5-8pm, Harding (M) New Heights Restaurant (2317 Calvert Happy Hour Reception, 5:30- St NW) 7:30pm, Petits Plats Restaurant (2653 Sunday, 11/19 Connecticut Ave) Consortium Luncheon, 12-1:30pm, wAIMS–American Institute for Lebanese Taverna (2641 Connecticut Ave) Maghrib Studies wAIS–Association for Iranian Monday, 11/20 Saturday, 11/18 Studies CASA Alumni Reception, 7-9pm, Board Meeting, 9am-1pm, Delaware Saturday, 11/18 Harding (M) A (L) Council Meeting, 2-5pm, Park Tower Business Meeting, 3-4:30, Virginia C (L) Suite 8210 (L) wCIRS–Center for International General Meeting, 6-7pm, Park Tower and Regional Studies, Georgetown wAIIrS–American Institute of Suite 8216 (L) University in Qatar Iranian Studies Sunday, 11/19 Saturday, 11/18 wAIS–Association for Israel Studies Reception, 7-9pm, Lebanese Taverna Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Taylor (M) Saturday, 11/18 (2641 Connecticut Ave) Reception, 8:30-10pm, Wilson C (M) wAIYS–American Institute for First World War in MENA Yemeni Studies Scholarly Network Saturday, 11/18 Sunday, 11/19 Board Meeting, 4-5:30pm, Cleveland Meeting, 4-6pm, Park Tower Suite 1 (M) 8222 (L) Sunday, 11/19 wAMEA–Association for Middle General Meeting, 4-5pm, Park Tower East Anthropology wFIS-Foundation for Iranian Suite 8216 (L) Saturday, 11/18 Studies Board Meeting, 3-4pm, Park Tower Saturday, 11/18 wARCE–American Research Center Suite 8219 (L) Advisory Group Meeting, 10am-5pm, in Egypt Business Meeting, 4-5pm, Park Park Tower Suite 8224 (L) Monday, 11/20 Tower Suite 8219 (L) Fellowship Alumni Breakfast, 7-8am, wFulbright and the Council of Virginia C (L) American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) wAUC/BCARS–American University Saturday, 11/18 in Cairo and Boston Consortium for Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Delaware A (L) Arab Region Studies wAMEWS–Association for Middle Saturday, 11/18 East Women’s Studies wHarvard University, Center for Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Virginia B (L) Saturday, 11/18 Middle Eastern Studies Board Meeting, 1-2:30pm, Park Sunday, 11/19 wArabic Collections Online Tower Suite 8223 (L) Reception, 8:30-10pm, Virginia A (L) Monday, 11/20 Sunday, 11/19 Advisory Board Meeting, 11am- Members Meeting, 7:30-8:30pm, wHIAA–Historians of Islamic Art 1pm, Jackson (M) McKinley (M) Association Reception, 8:30-11pm, Coolidge (M) Saturday, 11/18 wArabic Overseas Flagship Majlis, 10am-12pm, McKinley (M) Monday, 11/20 wASPS–Association for the Study Business Meeting, 12-1pm, McKinley (M) Business Meeting, 12-2pm, Park of Persianate Societies Tower Suite 8216 (L) Saturday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 4-6pm, Park Tower Suite 8218 (L)

Page 10 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program wIJMES–International Journal of Middle East Studies Saturday, 11/18 Editorial Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Delaware A (L) wMESA–Middle East Studies wTAARII–The American Academic Association Research Institute in Iraq wJMEWS-Journal of Middle East Saturday, 11/18 Women’s Studies Sunday, 11/19 Meeting of Officers of MESA's Board Meeting, 10am-12pm, Wilson Saturday, 11/18 C (M) Publications Committee Meeting, Affiliated Organizations, 7-8am, Park Tower Suite 8218 (L) Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, McKinley (M) 12-1pm, Park Tower Suite 8223 (L) Sunday, 11/19 Sunday, 11/19 CAF Annual Meeting, 10am-12pm, McKinley (M) Executive Committee Meeting, Editorial Board Meeting, 7-8am, 9-10am, Park Tower Suite 8210 (L) Park Tower Suite 8219 (L) LAMES Meeting, 4-5:30pm, Park Tower Suite 8212 (L) Monday, 11/20 wUCLA, Center for Near Eastern wLSA–Lebanese Studies Studies Association Middle East Center & Program Directors Meeting, 9-11am, Virginia C (L) Saturday, 11/18 Sunday, 11/19 60th Anniversary Reception, 8:30- Business Meeting, 2-4pm, Johnson (M) 10pm, Coolidge (M) wOTSA–Ottoman and Turksih wMECPD–Middle East Center & wUniversity of Michigan Program Directors Studies Association Saturday, 11/18 Saturday, 11/18 Monday, 11/20 Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Wilson B (M) Annual Meeting, 9-11am, Virginia C (L) Board Meeting, 1-3pm, Cleveland 1 (M) Business Meeting & Reception, 8:30-11pm, Delaware B (L) wWestern Consortium of ME Centers Monday, 11/20

wPARC–Palestinian American Meeting, 11am-1pm, Park Tower Suite wMELA–Middle East Librarians 8223 (L) Association Research Center Saturday, 11/18 Saturday, 11/18 wWOCMES-World Council for Vendor Showcase, 8am-2pm, Board Meeting, 12-4pm, Park Tower Suite 8212 (L) Middle East Studies Maryland C (L) Sunday, 11/19 wRoMES–Review of Middle East Advisory Council Meeting, 10:30am- wMEM–Middle East Medievalists 12:30pm, Park Tower Suite 8222 (L) Saturday, 11/18 Studies Sunday, 11/19 Board Meeting, 11am-1pm, Jackson (M) wYale Council on Middle East Business Meeting, 3-5pm, McKinley (M) Editorial Board Luncheon, 11am- 1pm, Jackson (M) Studies Sunday, 11/19 wMEOC–Middle East Outreach Reception, 8:30pm-10pm, Virginia B (L) Council wSAS–Society for Armenian Studies Sunday, 11/19 Saturday, 11/18 Business Meeting, 10:30am-12:30pm, Park Executive Council Meeting, 9:30- Tower Suite 8216 (L) 11:30am, Park Tower Suite 8218 (L) Board Meeting, 5:30-7pm, Park Tower Workshop, 12-3pm, Virginia B (L) Suite 8224 (L) Annual Meeting, 3-5, Virginia B (L) Monday, 11/20 Outreach Coordinators' wSSA–Syrian Studies Association Workshop, 10:30am-12:30pm, Park Saturday, 11/18 Tower Suite 8222 (L) Executive Board Meeting, 1-2:30pm, Park Tower Suite 8218 (L) wMERIP–Middle East Research Business Meeting, 3-4:30pm, Wilson and Information Project A (M) Monday, 11/20 Business Meeting, 3:30-5:30pm, Delaware B (L)

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Roundtable 4766 Precarious Visibility as a 4845 Activism, Contestation and Mode of Governance: The Case of Political Participation in the 4790 Competing Discourses of Alevis in Turkey Middle East and North Africa Masculinity in the Arab World Organizers: Nazlı Özkan and Besim Organizer: Nadine Sika Organizers: Nicole Fares and Matthew Can Zirh Parnell Chair: Eberhard Kienle, PACTE Chair: Matthew Parnell, American U Chair: Nazlı Özkan , Northwestern U Nadine Sika, American U Cairo-Youth Cairo Discussant: Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Col of William and Mary civic and political participation in the MENA: Does trust matter? Nicole Fares, U Arkansas Ellis Goldberg, U Washington- Kathryn Kalemkerian, McGill U Gulay Turkmen-Dervisoglu, U Demonstrations of democracy Suneela Mubayi, NYU Goettingen-Democratization without James H. Sunday, American U Cairo- Jedidiah Anderson, Wofford Col secularization? The predicament of Alevis in Turkey under the first AKP government Making space: Taking part in the everyday (2002-2007) politics of Cairo’s popular quarters Thematic , U Denver-Student Conversation Ceren Lord, U Oxford-Securatization of Ahmed Abdrabou sectarianism? The Turkish state and the mobilization and political participation in 5030 Usurpation: The Untold Alevis in the post-2011 era Egypt: Why the Egyptian transition has Stories of the Iraq War Nazlı Özkan , Northwestern U-Politics of failed anticipation: Possibilities and impossibilities Khalil al-Anani, Doha Inst for Graduate 2003-Present Studies-Resisting the junta: Forms of Organizer: Afaf Nash of reforming Alevis’ status in Turkey Besim Can Zirh, Middle East Technical political mobilization in Egypt after the coup U-In between invisibility and hyper- of 2013 Session Leader: Saleem Al-Bahloly, visibility: Alevis in the time of post-coup Johns Hopkins U purge in Turkey 4902 Reconsidering Israeli- Lebanese Relations Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS U London 4814 Looking East: Knowledge, Organizers: Asher Kaufman and Oren Afaf Nash, U Southern California Barak Nabil Al-Tikriti, U Mary Washington Travel, and Friendship Between Jeffrey B. Spurr, Independent Scholar the Middle East and Asia in the Nada M. Shabout, U North Texas 19th Century Chair: Asher Kaufman, U Notre Dame Organizer: Mimi Hanaoka Discussant: Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg, Carnegie Mellon U 4733 Old Texts, New Methods: Innovative Methodologies for Organized under the auspices of Social Science Research Elena Aoun, U Catholique de Louvain-A Medieval History Council (SSRC) InterAsia Program bitter encounter: The Shi‘i community under Organizer: Aaron Hagler Israeli occupation in South Lebanon Discussant: Julie Stephens, Rutgers U Daniel Sobelman, Harvard U-A decade Discussant: Nancy Khalek, Brown U after the 2006 war: What next for Israeli- Arash Khazeni, Pomona Col-Indo-Persian Lebanese relations? Reyhan Durmaz, Brown U-“This is views of Southeast Asia and the Buddhist Matthieu Cimino, U Oxford-Teaching what was related in the tash’ith”: Muslim Kingdom of Mrauk U history of an enmity: Israel in Lebanese historians’ use(s) of Syriac hagiography Mana Kia, Columbia U-Bridging schoolbooks, Lebanon in Israeli schoolbooks: Nebil Husayn, U Miami-Interpreting difference: Kinship, friendship and the A comparative perspective (1948-2016) miracles in Muslim sacred texts creation of social bonds Asher Kaufman, U Notre Dame-Sabra Aaron Hagler, Troy U-The theatrics of Kevin Schwartz, Library of Congress-A and Shatila: Silencing, denying, and selective Islamic historiography: Getting into the transregional Persianate library: Tazkirah remembering heads of the historians production and circulation in the 19th Oren Barak, Hebrew U of Jerusalem- Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Ghent century Israel, Lebanon, and their relations on film U-Narrating sultanship: The writing of Mimi Hanaoka, U Richmond-Japanese sultanic biography as performance of social travels in Iran status Jo Van Steenbergen, Ghent U-Narrative strategies, state-formation, and world- making in late medieval Egyptian chronicles

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4904 From the Bedroom to the 4925 Violence, Legality, and Law 4966 Political Parties, Attitudes, Street: Projecting Gender and on the Ottoman Periphery and Elections Sexuality in Public Places Organizers: Will Smiley and Joshua Organizer: Nadine Sinno White Chair: Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins U Chair: Lucia Volk, San Francisco State U Chair: Molly Greene, Princeton U Discussant: Vahid Abedini, Florida Discussant: Amal Amireh, George International U Mason U Joshua White, U Virginia-Corsairs or rebels? North Africa, Istanbul, and Jonas Bergan Draege, European U Kim Canuette Grimaldi, UT Austin-The the legality of maritime violence in the Inst-Electoral polarization in democratic body under siege: Corruption and the female seventeenth-century Mediterranean transitions: Survey evidence from Egypt and body in Betool Khedairi’s “Ghayeb” Julia Leikin, Inst of Historical Research- Tunisia Jess Newman, Yale U-Talking back: At odds with European conventions: Russian Alireza Raisi, Seton Hall U-Political Screening and discussing sexuality in laws of maritime warfare in the 1768-1774 participation in Iran’s parliamentary Morocco Russian-Ottoman war elections: Between two competing narratives Lucia Volk, San Francisco State Will Smiley, Reed Col-From Geneva and Sebnem Gumuscu, Middlebury U-Reframing Germany’s “no means no” Brussels to the Danube: Prisoners of war and Col-Islamists between democracy and debate: Migrants, sexual transgressions, and the law of war in the late Ottoman Empire authoritarianism: Comparing Turkey, Egypt gender politics in public places Aimee M. Genell, UC Berkeley-The law of and Tunisia Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech-“Fight war in Ottoman legal thought and practice Ellen Lust, U Gothenburg and Kristen rape” and “gay is OK”: Gender and sexual on the eve of the First World War Kao, U Gothenburg-Wasta and clientelism: politics in Beirut graffiti The intersection of social and political 4926 Circulating Science and linkage in the MENA 4920 Connection, Contagion, and Scaling Innovation: Science and Amir H. Mahdavi, Harvard U-Oil and Calamity: Social Uses and Effects Technology Studies in the Middle electoral behavior in Iran of Infrastructural Networks in the East Middle East Organizer: Elizabeth Williams 4969 Music and Politics “min al- Organizer: Alex Schweig Mashriq ila al-Maghrib” Chair/Discussant: On Barak, Tel Aviv U Discussant: Gokce Gunel, U Arizona Chair: Carole Woodall, U Colorado Daniel Stolz, Northwestern U-Problems Colorado Springs Alex Schweig, U Arizona-Cholera in the of knowledge in the Ottoman public debt: time of modernization: The spread of the The Latin American connection Guilnard Moufarrej, US Naval 1893 cholera epidemic along the Ottoman Elizabeth Williams, U Massachusetts Academy-Political resistance and Anatolian Railroad Lowell-The technology of fields: The politics nationalism: Women singers in Lebanon Pauline Lewis, UCLA-Entangled: The role of agricultural “science” in late Ottoman and defying the drums of war of private capital in Ottoman submarine French mandate Syria Hicham Chami, Columbia U-A tale of two telegraphy Fredrik Meiton, Northwestern protectorates: Cultural hegemony in colonial Mikiya Koyagi, NYU-Speed, danger, and U-Organic compound: Zionism and science Morocco and its impact on indigenous railway accidents in early Pahlavi Iran Laura Goffman, Georgetown U-Qatar musics Esra Bakkalbasioglu, U Washington- biobank: Crafting the ethno-nation through Christopher Nickell, NYU-Hearing Politics of access and denial: Electricity grid the genetic disease landscape pyrrhic victory in Lebanon’s 2015 protests solar panels and the Naqab Bedouin in Israel Elizabeth Matsushita, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign-Echoes of the Maghreb: Modernity, empire, and the Fez Congress of Moroccan Music Garrett Shuffield, UT Austin-The Arab diaspora and collaborative hip-hop: Globalized and localized identity formation

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4988 Anxieties, Resistances, and 5005 Criminalizing Resistance: 5028 Language and Identity the Clergy in Egyptian and Iranian Producing Palestinial (In)Security Film Chair: Mohssen Esseesy, George Chair: Simona Sharoni, SUNY Washington U Chair: Mario M. Ruiz, Hofstra U Plattsburgh Anastasia Khawaja, U South Florida-To Kelly Houck, UT Austin-A nightmare on Alyssa Bernstein, Harvard Law Schl/ display Hebrew, or not to display Hebrew?: Valiasr Street: Persian-language diasporic Queen’s U Belfast-The Fatah/Hamas divide A study of representation of power and horror films and the cultural capital of among Palestinian prisoners solidarity through signage in Palestine “Iranian” cinema Matthew Kraig Kelly, Independent Lisa J. White, American U Cairo-Speaking Babak Tabarraee, UT Austin-Islamic Scholar-Criminal + nationalist = terrorist: of bodies republic’s treatment of confusing signifiers: “Terrorism” in British crimino-national Brian Jackson, U Penn-Trade and The curious case of “Marmulak” discourse subjective identity between Oman and Mohannad Ghawanmeh, UCLA-News of Maya Rosenfeld, Hebrew U-50 years of Zanzibar the nation: Mohamed Bayoumi’s newsfilms Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance: Monica Katiboglu, UC Irvine-Edebiyat-ı in the newly independent Egypt, 1923-1935 Whither the movement of Palestinian Cedide on modern language: A case against Maziyar Faridi, Northwestern U-“Ode political prisoners? linguistic purification au Monde”: The emergence of Iranian new Julie Norman, Queen’s U Belfast- Mohamed ElSawi Hassan, Amherst wave cinema and the problematic of national Fighting for peace? Ex-combatants and Col-Re-contextualizing discourse and social identity non-traditional peace-building in protracted action in Egypt after the Arab Spring Heba Arafa, Georgia Tech-Maslaha: conflicts Kristin Hickman, U Chicago-Africa in A film sanctioning apparatus or a covert Alaa Tartir, Graduate Inst Geneva- Morocco, Morocco in Africa: Making space censorship? Securitised peace in Palestine/Israel: for foreign voices in the Darijaphone public Criminalizing resistance, entrenching sphere 5002 Urban Imaginaries: authoritarianism Governing Through Housing 5022 Competition and Social Practice in Early and Medieval Chair: Samy Ayoub, UT Austin Islamic Poetry Caroline Abadeer, Stanford U-Local governance and the authoritarian Egyptian Chair: Anita Husen, Stanford U state: Forced evictions in Cairo’s informal settlements Samer M. Ali, U Michigan-Why does Said Ennahid, Al Akhawayn U-“Neo- Shahrazad succeed?: Disrupting the Moorish” art and architecture in colonial- scapegoat cycle with cold hard cachet period Casablanca: The case of Muslim- Avigail Noy, Harvard U-Early uses of the specific workers’ housing (1932-1952) term ittisa’ and the competing approaches to Satoshi Kawamoto, Harvard U/JSPS- metaphorical language in Arabic grammar Houses of infidels: An architectural analysis and poetics of houses in Istanbul in 1455 Mona Hassan, Duke U-Poetic memories of Christopher S. Rose, UT Austin-Sex work the prophet’s family: Ibn Hajar al-’Asqalani’s and protest in World War I Egypt panegyrics for the Cairene Abbasid Sultan- Daniel Williford, U Michigan- Caliph al-Musta’in Infrastructures of violence and zones of Cory Jorgensen, George Washington restraint in colonial urban Morocco U-In defense of poetic reputation: Jarir and al-Farazdaq’s self-oriented naqa’id Th. Emil Homerin, U Rochester-Close encounters of the Sufi kind

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TODAY’S AFFILIATED MEETINGS Thematic Christoph Schwarz, U Marburg Conversation Germany-Young activists in Morocco: Trajectories of engagement after 2011 7-8am 5029 Global Arab America: JMEWS Editorial Board Meeting Park Tower Suite 8219 (L) Cosmopolitanism and Its 4754 The Allure of the Mundane: 7-8am Discontents What to do with the Micro and the Meeting of Officers of MESA's Af- Organizers: Suad Joseph, UC Davis and Daily in Middle East History? Pauline Homsi Vinson filiated Associations Organizer: Lucia Carminati Park Tower Suite 8218 (L) Session Leader: Pauline Homsi Vinson, 8-10am Chair: Julia Clancy-Smith, U Arizona Diablo Valley Col AMECYS Business Meeting Discussant: Farzin Vejdani, Ryerson U Park Tower Suite 8212 (L) Madeline Otis Campbell, Worcester 9-10am Ali Atabey, U Arizona-Living in an State U TAARII Executive Committee ‘Afro-Eurasian’ port-town: Daily life Akram Khater, North Carolina State U Meeting and sociocultural interactions in the Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara Park Tower Suite 8210 (L) seventeenth-century Ottoman Galata Louise Cainkar, Marquette U 10am-12pm Secil Uluisik, U Arizona-A neglected MESA's CAF Meeting history: Chorbadzhis, sovereignty and the McKinley (M) Thematic Conversation Ottoman provinces, 1790s- 1850s 10:30am-12:30pm Lucia Carminati, U Arizona-The power of MEOC Business Meeting 5031 Teaching Palestine: the mundane: Fatima’s story and the history Park Tower Suite 8216 (L) Pedagogical Praxis and the of an Egyptian port-city, 1880s-1890s 10:30am-12:30pm Indivisibility of Justice al Tania Bhattacharyya, Columbia WOCMES Advisory Council U-Between nation and empire: Iranian Meeting Commitment Organizers: Michelle Hartman and bakers, publishers and nomads in early Park Tower Suite 8222 (L) Rabab Abdulhadi twentieth century Bombay 11am-1pm RoMES Editorial Board Luncheon 4794 Form and Language in Arabic Jackson (M) Session Leader: Rabab Abdulhadi, San Poetics 2-4pm Francisco State U Organizers: Jeffrey Sacks and Huda J. Lebanese Studies Association Fakhreddine Business Meeting Michelle Hartman, McGill U Johnson (M) Emilio Dabed, Independent Scholar Chair/Discussant: Mohammad Salama, 4-5pm San Francisco State U AIYS Business Meeting 4751 Spaces of Youth Political Park Tower Suite 8216 (L) Engagement Six Years After the Jeffrey Sacks, UC Riverside-Signaling 4-5:30pm with two hands: Intensifications of language LAMES Meeting 2011 Uprisings Organizers: Christoph Schwarz and in Khalid al-Ma‘ali Park Tower Suite 8212 (L) Linda Herrera Esraa al-Shammari, U Penn-Paratext to 5:30-7pm the poetic practice of Salim Barakat MEOC Board Meeting Chair/Discussant: Linda Herrera, U Huda J. Fakhreddine, U Penn- Park Tower Suite 8224 (L) Illinois Urbana-Champaign Muhammad al-Maghut’s verse-less poem 7:30-8:30pm Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Georgetown AMEWS Business Meeting Ann-Christin Wagner, U Edinburgh- U-Al-Ittijah al-Mu`akis: Al-Ma`arri’s McKinley (M) Syrian refugee youth and the [anti] politics Luzumiyyat and the poetics of constriction 8:30-10pm of survival Harvard University CMES Mina Ibrahim, Justus-Liebig U, Giessen- Reception 4820 “The Political” in Political Coptic youth: From street politics to church Virginia A (L) Islam: Conflict, Consensus, or politics 8:30-10pm Something Else? Dina El-Sharnouby, BGSMCS, FU Berlin- Yale Council on Middle East Organizer: Necmettin Dogan Egyptian youth between despair and hope: Studies The case of the Bread and Freedom Party Virginia B (L) Chair/Discussant: Mucahit Bilici, John Mayada Madbouly, Inst des sciences 8:30-11pm Jay Col CUNY Sociales du Politique (ISP)-Mobilizing the AMEWS Reception past: Nubian youth political engagement in Coolidge (M) Edip Asaf Bekaroglu, Istanbul U-Context- post-2011 Egypt free and context-dependent elements of “the political” Islam: An analysis of Said Halim Pasha, Mawdudi, Shariati, and Ozel MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 15 8:00-10:00AM Sunday November 19

Muhammed Huseyin Mercan, Erciyes 4927 Occupying Space: Land, Umit Kurt, Harvard U-Theaters of U-Islamism and the world order: The Religion, Power in Colonial North violence in the Ottoman periphery: Tracing multipolar world order imagination and Africa the local roots of Hamidian massacres in political perception of the Milli Gorus Organizer: Alexandra Blackman Aintab Movement Ugur Z. Pece, Bard Col-The year of Necmettin Dogan, Istanbul Commerce Chair: Chantal Berman, Princeton U rumor: Crete in the shadow of the Armenian U-Political implications of ‘civilization’ Discussant: James McDougall, Trinity massacres of 1895 discourse in Islamism: Anti-modernism or Col Oxford anti-westernism? 4973 Law, Legitimacy, and Ahmet Koroglu, Istanbul U-Islamist Brock Cutler, Radford U-Border Laziness in Late Ottoman Imperial thinkers’ self-accusations on their own performativity and the limits of sovereignty Culture political attitudes: The case of Abu’l ‘Ala in 19th century Algeria Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb Robert P. Parks, Centre d’Études Chair: Roger A. Deal, U of South Ali Kaya, Erciyes U-Liberal political Maghrébines en Algérie-Conflicting Carolina Aiken discourse, Islamism and “the political” claims: Property rights in Algeria Michelle Weitzel, New Schl for Social Arlen Wiesenthal, U Chicago-Our 4858 Tales of Espionage, Research-French space? Silencing the call to heroic Emperors: Heroism, world order, and Diplomacy, and War prayer in colonial Algeria the social history of monarchy in the late Organizer: Jeffrey G. Karam Alexandra Blackman, Stanford Ottoman Empire, 1900-1918 U-Property and power: The transformation Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv U-Yawn: Chair/Discussant: Salim Yaqub, UC of the ‘waqf’ system in Tunisia Idleness and boredom in the late Ottoman Santa Barbara Empire 4952 Arabic-Script Typography: Benjamin Smuin, UC San Diego-Justice Roberto Mazza, U Limerick-A tale of History, Technology, & Aesthetics and corruption in late Ottoman Aleppo: The secrecy and business: The attempted sale of Organizers: Roberta L. Dougherty and tenure of Cemil Pasha the Western Wall during WW1 Andrea L. Stanton Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth Jeffrey G. Karam, Boston U-Revisiting U-Criminalization of laziness: Punishment, American intelligence and diplomacy during Chair: Sharon C. Smith, MIT reward, and negotiation in the Ottoman the Lebanon crisis of 1958 Discussant: Dagmar A. Riedel, CSIC/ bureaus Salim Yaqub, UC Santa Barbara-Yes we Columbia U Nilay Ozlu, Boğaziçi U-Strategies of can’t: Arab Americans and the Arab-Israeli display during the late Ottoman era: The dispute in the 1970s Roberta L. Dougherty, Yale U Library- Imperial Museum and the Imperial Treasury James Casey, Princeton U-Mandate agent, Salisbury & Oriental typography in the JAOS: colonial subject, and Jewish citizen? The Visualizing scholarly legitimacy through script 4980 Humanitarianism and the many profiles of Jamil Sasson, a francophone Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver-Selling the Syrian Crisis Syrian Arab Jew in the French Mandate for typewriter in the Arab world Syria and Lebanon Julia de Mowbray, Gale-Arabic Chair: Beverly Tsacoyianis, U Memphis typography and digitisation 4891 Law and Ideology in the Wayne Osborn, Georgetown U-Unicode Hélène Rey, Switzerland-Moved by faith: Turkish Republic and Arabic script: Historical legacies and Christian organizations and humanitarian Organizers: James Ryan and Joakim future challenges aid in Syria Parslow Michelle Dromgold-Sermen, UNC 4957 The Great Fear of 1895: Chapel Hill-Responding to Syrian refugees: Discussant: Ceren Belge, Concordia U Armenian Reform, Rumor and A turning point for civil society in Turkey? Violence Across the Ottoman Dolunay Ugur, Yale U-Politics of transnational humanitarianism: Alex Balistreri, Princeton U-Population, Empire International NGOs assisting Syrian refugees movement, and the state in the Turkish- Organizers: Owen Miller and Umit Kurt Soviet borderlands, 1920-1960 in Turkey Senem Aslan, Bates Col-A merciful state? Sponsored by Irene Gibson, U Oxford-Benevolent Political amnesties in early republican Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) Kuwait: Examining Kuwait’s foreign aid Turkey mechanisms through the case study of its Syrian crisis response James Ryan, U Penn-Ideology on trial: Discussant: Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi U Comparing trials of the pan-turanists and leftists at the dawn of Cold War Turkey Owen Miller, Emerson Col-George Perkins Joakim Parslow, U Oslo-Do torturers Knapp of Bitlis and massacres of 1895 dream of electric sheep? Cybernetics, law, and Emre Can Daglioglu, Clark U-Reform technocratic fantasies in Cold War Turkey and violence in the Hamidian era: 1895 anti- Armenian riots in Trabzon Page 16 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 8:00-10:00AM Sunday November 19

4984 Workers Across Borders: 4992 Managing and Manufacturing Paul E. Losensky, Indiana U-A master Labor, Migration, and Class Disaster poet, “in spite of being a Turk”: Shani Takallu and literary culture under Shah Sponsored by Chair: John M. VanderLippe, SUNY Delhi ‘Abbas Association for Gulf and Arabian Yui Kanda, U Tokyo-Poems, crafts, poets Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) Baris Tasyakan, UC San Diego-Disasters and craftsmen: Material culture of Iran and and re-formation of an imperial city: Transoxiana during the Timurid-Safavid Chair: Salma Waheedi, Harvard Law Schl Ottoman Bursa in the mid-nineteenth period century Shahla Farghadani, U Michigan-From Zahra Babar, Georgetown U Qatar-The Ron J. Smith, Bucknell U-Healthcare the garden to the bathhouse: Poetry, eros, GCC-South Asia labor recruitment system: under siege: The geopolitics of healthcare and daily life in Isfahan Comparing Nepal and Pakistan provision in the Gaza Strip Arnon Degani, UCLA-Comrades, not Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser 5011 Women, Islam, and Family enemies? The Histadrut and its Palestinian- U-Managing nature’s hazards, furthering Law Arab members, 1948-1967 state control: Nature and imperial Martin Hvidt, U Southern Denmark- governance in Ottoman Yemen re-visited, Chair: Kent Davis-Packard, Johns Highly-skilled migrants in the Arab Gulf 1872-1914 Hopkins U SAIS countries: Exploring the nexus between Valerie Giesen, Columbia U-Technically economic growth and immigration of highly- long-term: The political economy of Yüksel Sezgin, Syracuse U-“Non- skilled migrants humanitarian technology in Jordan Muslim Mujtahids”: Viability of judicial Jaafar Alloul, U Leuven/U Amsterdam- Ebru Kayaalp, Istanbul Sehir U-Citizens interventions in Muslim family laws by civil Dubai as heterotopia: Liminal notes on the at risk: Uncertainty, preparedness and the courts in non-Muslim regimes ‘status migration’ of European Maghrebi- Istanbul earthquake Hakan Karpuzcu, Princeton U-Reforming Muslim minority publics to a ‘cosmopolitan’ Islamic family law and making moral city 5004 Making the Modern: The subjects in the late Ottoman Empire William Christou, U Florida-The impact Politics of Heritage Jean-Michel Landry, McGill U-“You can’t of foreign labor on class formation in the take my children in the name of religion”: GCC: Examining Bahrain, the UAE and Saudi Chair: Kristi N. Barnwell, U Illinois Sunni and Shi‘i attempts to reform women Arabia Springfield custody rights in Lebanon Elizabeth Brownson, UW Parkside- 4985 Visual Engagement: Between Elizabeth Rauh, U Michigan-An artist Women’s strategies for negotiating divorce in the Self and the Nation curating Islamic heritage: Ali Jabri and the mandate Palestine Jordan Museum of Popular Traditions Chair: Melanie Janet Sindelar, U Vienna Timur Hammond, Syracuse U-Making 5025 Sectarianism: States, Parties, Islam modern: Heritage and worship in 1950s and Representations Amir Khadem, U Toronto-Reproducing Turkey the real: Reviving the discourse of sacred Shayna Silverstein, Northwestern Chair: Amy Mills, U South Carolina defense in “Standing in the Dust” U-Tracing Syrian folk dance: A critical Paniz Musawi Natanzi, SOAS U assessment of Ibn Dhurayl’s anthology of Adham Saouli, U St Andrews- London-Problematizing the gendering of raqs al-semah and dabke Sectarianism and political order in Iraq and Afghan visual knowledge production & art- Chantal El Hayek, MIT-Kuwait National Lebanon producing spaces in Afghanistan, Iran and Museum: Architectural historiography and Anna Hager-From polytheists to partners Pakistan in times of on-going insecurities the changing ethos of modernism in the nation Islamist attitudes towards & the reconstruction of the nation-state in Coptic Egyptians in post-revolutionary Egypt Afghanistan 5009 Politics, Culture, and Satgin Hamrah, Tufts U-Complexities Melanie Janet Sindelar, U Vienna- Everyday Life in Safavid Poetry of the Iran-Iraq war and its long-term Contemporary art production and the and Prose implications ambivalence of nation-building in the United Patrick Harned, UT Austin-Assyrians in Arab Emirates Chair: A. Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech U Iraq: Competing visions of identity Marjan Moosavi, U Toronto-Religiosity Basileus Zeno, U Massachusetts and emotionality in Iranian theatre: (Re) Pouye Khoshkhoosani, U Arizona- Amherst-The construction of “sectarian presentations and interventions Safavid Qaṣīdah: A poetic genre for politics” in Syria legitimizing power Hyun Jeong Ha, U Notre Dame- Ferenc P. Csirkes, Sabanci “Christians are legitimate targets”: U-Confessional politics and vernacular Understanding sectarian violence in Egypt, Turkish in Safavid Iran: A Qizilbash 1970-2014 catechism

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Professional Development Workshop 4725 Broadening the Narrative: Ibadi Islam in Focus 5051 Proposal Writing and Research Design: Organizers: Valerie J. Hoffman and How to Fund Your Ideas Rodrigo Adem Organized by Suad Joseph Chair: Rodrigo Adem, UNC Chapel Hill Discussant: Paul E. Walker, U Chicago Co-Sponsored by Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Outreach Project Abdulrahman Al-Salimi, Ministry of Arab American Studies Association Endowment & Religious Affairs, Oman- Association for Middle East Women’s Studies On the significance of the Aqwal Qatada for Association for Middle East Anthropology early Islamic legal thought Rodrigo Adem, UNC Chapel Hill-A Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis compendium of theological “firsts”: The significance of early Ibadi Kalam texts for Those embarking on academic careers must master the art of writing proposals Islamic thought for research funding. Whether you are conducting research for a dissertation or Cyrille Aillet, U de Lyon (France)- book or seeking support for a special project-locating and securing funding is Ibadism and the construction of ethnicity in critical. This workshop will provide expert guidelines on how to write compel- medieval North Africa ling proposals from the initial phrasing of the research question, step by step, Adam Gaiser, Florida State U-Medieval to the research outcomes, significance, dissemination, and public outreach. It Ibadi images of murji’ism will also address such issues as identifying and working with funding agencies, Valerie J. Hoffman, U Illinois-Ibāḍī effectively communicating research methodology and goals, preparing budgets, discussions on the divine attributes and planning for the dissemination of results. The workshop will be led by Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, University 4730 Diasporic Devotion: of California at Davis. She has taught proposal writing and lead workshops for Transnational Religion and Middle students, faculty, administrators, and NGO practitioners for over 30 years. Infor- mation about proposal writing may be found on Dr. Joseph's website at http:// East Migrations sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/arab-families-working-group-1/images/files/Compo- Organizer: Akram Khater nentsofaHumanitiesSocialSciencesResearchProposal.pdf. Please sign up for the workshop in advance by sending an email message to Mark Lowder at mark@ Organized under the auspices mesana.org. Before the workshop, please browse Professor Joseph’s website and of Moise Khayarallah Center for read the document, “Components of a social science and humanities research Lebanese Diaspora Studies proposal.” Chair: Akram Khater, North Carolina State U

Roundtable Roundtable Jacob Norris, U Sussex-Objects of 4732 AATT Roundtable: Focus on 4785 Histories of Slavery in devotion: Palestinian migrants and their the Learner Medieval Islamic Societies prayer beads, c. 1850-1910 Organizer: Pelin Basci Organizer: Craig Perry Andrew Arsan, U Cambridge-Reading the Middle East from the margins: A forgotten Sponsored by Sponsored by figure, his faithful life, and his moving books American Association of Teachers Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Akram Khater, North Carolina State of Turkic Languages (AATT) U-“Like a wolf who fell upon sheep”: Hend Gilli-Elewy, Cal Poly Pomona Maronite priests in America Chair: Pelin Basci, Portland State U Elizabeth Urban, West Chester U Matthew S. Gordon, Miami U Melike Yucel-Koç, U Washington Craig Perry, U Cincinnati Erika H. Gilson, Princeton U Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, Austrian S. Ebru Ergul, Stanford U Academy of Sciences

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4735 Hebron in the Modern 4744 The South in the Yemeni Behnam Amini, York U-Understanding Period: Social, Political, and Conflict the implications of transcending Economic Dynamics in Southern Organizer: Charles P. Schmitz nationalism: Democratic confederalism and the question of separatism Palestine Berivan Sarikaya, U Toronto-Resistance, Organizer: Alex Winder Sponsored by American Institute for consciousness and social transformation: Sponsored by Yemeni Studies (AIYS) Kurdish women political prisoners in the Palestinian American Turkish military prison in Diyarbakir Research Center (PARC) Noel Brehony, Menas Associates- Regionalism and nationalism in South 4779 “Arab Arabists”: Public Chair/Discussant: Issam Nassar, Illinois Yemen Intellectuals and the Production of State U Elisabeth Kendall, U Oxford-What does Knowledge About the Arab World Eastern Yemen want and what is it doing Organizers: Ellen L. Fleischmann and Susynne McElrone, New York NY- about it? The voice of al-Mahra John Meloy Rethinking the paradigm of Ottoman land- Thanos Petouris, Independent tenure reforms in Palestine in light of new Scholar-Southern Yemen after the Saudi Chair/Discussant: Ilham Khuri- evidence intervention: Political and social change Makdisi, Northeastern U Alex Winder, Brown U-Family, social, Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U-Salafism and professional networks in Mount Hebron in the south Hussam Raafat Ahmed, McGill before and after 1948 U-Intellectual in action: Taha Hussein (1889- Kimberly Katz, Towson U-The law and 4760 Postcolonial Arab Feminisms: 1973) drawing the mission of the faculty of society: Hebron under Jordanian rule, 1951- Past Meets Present arts and the Arabic Language Academy 1953 Organizer: Catherine Batruni John Meloy, American U Beirut- Belal Shobaki, Hebron U-Hebron in Enlightened patriots: Area studies, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Settlement Chair: Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth Col nationalism, and the Arab world without peace Hilary Falb Kalisman, Furman Yasmin Shafei, American U Beirut- U-Educating the Arab world: Intellectuals, 4743 Examining Sign Language Egyptian feminism and the struggle for theory and practice in 20th century Iraq Education in the Middle East women’s rights, 1923-1979 Ellen L. Fleischmann, U Dayton- Organizer: Sanaa Riaz Catherine Batruni, American U Beirut- Searching for Najla: The life and making of a To vote or not to vote? Lebanese women and female Arab intellectual Chair: Engin Arik, Istanbul Medipol U the politics of suffrage Aaron Berman, Hampshire Col-First Zahra Ali, Rutgers U-Exploring feminism encounters: Abraham Rihbany, Ameen Engin Arik, Istanbul Medipol U-History in contemporary Iraq: Legacies of the past Rihani and America’s role in creating Arab and current status of Turkish sign language and present struggles nationalism Sara Siyavoshi, U New Mexico- Tatiana Rabinovich, U Arizona- Standardization and language attitudes in “Fighting for the country, fighting for 4788 Histories of Place Making in the Iranian deaf community ourselves”: Pro-regime female soldiers and the Middle East Sanaa Riaz, Metropolitan State feminism in today’s Syria Organizers: Secil Binboga and Chris U Denver-Pakistan sign language: Gratien Conceptualization, curriculum and cultural 4772 Emancipatory impact Transformations in Kurdistan: Chair: Nilay Ozok Gundogan, Justin Power, UT Austin-Foreign Autonomy, Radical Democracy, Binghamton U influence on the lexicon of Afghan sign and Gender Liberation Discussant: Resat Kasaba, U Washington language Organizer: Sardar Saadi Erin Trine, Western Oregon U-Emerging Meltem Toksoz, Bogaziçi U/Brown professionalization of Arabic/Jordanian sign Chair: Sardar Saadi, U Toronto U-The second Egypt: Capitalist imaginaries language interpreting Discussant: Fatma Müge Göçek, U of late Ottoman Çukurova Michigan Polina Ivanova, Harvard U-Greek economic migration and the rediscovery of Sardar Saadi, U Toronto-The rise and Hellenic Cilicia repression of the pro-Kurdish municipality Chris Gratien, Harvard U-Dystopian movement in Turkey affect and the colonial archive of French Elif Genc, New Schl for Social Research- Cilicia Gender, state and resistance: The Kurdish Secil Binboga, U Michigan-Tectonics of women’s armed struggle for liberation development: The Cold War politics of spatial expertise in Turkey

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4811 Presenting and Representing 4844 Archives, Excavation, and the 4881 Rethinking Wahhabism in Iran in Museum Collections and Arab Present the Gulf Exhibitions Organizer: Zeina G. Halabi Organizer: Alexandre Caeiro Organizer: Anne H. Betteridge Chair: Samer Frangie, American U Organized under the auspices of Sponsored by Beirut Hamad Bin Khalifa University American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) Zeina G. Halabi, American U Beirut- Chair: Alexandre Caeiro, Hamad Bin Obituary of the word: Excavating the self in Khalifa U Chair: Anne H. Betteridge, U Arizona the demise of print media Discussant: Attiya Ahmad, George Fadi A. Bardawil, UNC Chapel Hill-An Washington U Sheila R. Canby, Metropolitan Museum inventory of traces: Post-colonial criticism of Art-Exhibiting Iranian art in the 21st and self-fashioning Anna Lukjanowicz, Hamad Bin Khalifa century Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, U Oslo-The U-Religion, nationality and race: The Sumru Belger Krody, GWU Museum/ sons of Qahtan in South Lebanon: Amateur experiences of Western converts to Islam in The Textile Museum-Ninety years of history writing at the periphery of the state Qatar presenting Iranian art at The Textile Samer Frangie, American U Beirut- Paulino R. Robles Gil, Hamad Bin Museum Excavating criticism from the archive of the Khalifa U-Shi‘ism in the Gulf: Paradoxes of Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County left coexistence in Qatar Museum of Art-The intersection of past and Bothaina Aldosari, Hamad Bin Khalifa present in Iranian art 4870 Politics of Legitimacy in the U-Qatar U-Religious broadcasting in Qatar: Filiz Cakir Phillip, Aga Khan Museum- Maghreb A study of two local television programs The Iranian exhibition program at the Aga Organizer: Michael J. Willis Ady Candra, Hamad bin Khalifa Khan Museum 2016-2017 U-Adapting Indonesian Islam to the Gulf: An Chair/Discussant: Ellen Lust, U ethnographic study of Indonesian Imams in 4812 Tourism, Heritage, and the Gothenburg Qatar Politics of Place in the Middle East Organizer: Daniel E. Coslett Anne Wolf, U Oxford-Embracing 4900 The Islamic and the Modern revolutionary legitimacy: Former RCD in the Twentieth Century Visual Chair: Daniel E. Coslett, Western officials and the Tunisian uprisings Middle East Washington U Vish Sakthivel, U Oxford-Reclaiming Organizers: Saleem Al-Bahloly and Discussant: Ala Al-Hamarneh, U Mainz symbolic legitimacy: Feigning distance from Nada M. Shabout the Algerian state Nadya J. Sbaiti, American U Beirut- Michael J. Willis, U Oxford-A tale of two Sponsored by Constructing the “Arab tourist”: Leisure and elections: The politics of electoral legitimacy Association for Modern and mobility through/in/of Lebanon, 1920-1970s in Algeria and Morocco Contemporary Art of the Arab Emily Schneider, UC Santa Barbara- Yasmina Abouzzohour, U Oxford and World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA) Building and breaking ties: Political tourism Ilyas Saliba, WZB Berlin Social Science in Israel/Palestine Center-Commander of the faithless: Discussants: Nasser O. Rabbat, MIT and Norig Neveu, Ifpo-Islamic tourism Challenging the myth of monarchical Elizabeth Rauh, U Michigan in Jordan: Heritage policies, paths and religious legitimacy in Morocco itineraries since the 1980s Sarah-Neel Smith, Maryland Inst Sandrine Gamblin, American U Cairo- 4880 Tanzimat as Translation College of Art (MICA)-A Mid-Westerner Heritage tourism versus leisure tourism Organizer: Melih Levi in the Middle East: Abby Weed Grey’s art in post-2011 Egypt: Notes about crisis collections of the 1960s management, resilience and strategic choices Chair: Monica Ringer, Amherst Col Nada M. Shabout, U North Texas- Claire Panetta, Graduate Center CUNY- Discussant: A. Holly Shissler, U Chicago Istilham: Jewad Selim’s negotiation of The re-formed city: Urban rehabilitation, continuity in art conservation, and reclamation in post- Melih Levi, Stanford U-Relational Saleem Al-Bahloly, Johns Hopkins revolution Cairo subjectivities: Authorial performance and U-Shakir Hassan Al Said’s theology of line, narrative identification in Ahmet Mithat or the turn to Islamic philosophy after the Etienne Charriere, Koç U-Translation as Ba’ath Coup of 1963 transcription in the Tanzimat era Burcu Karahan, Stanford U-Heroes in the making: Translated European literature in the Tanzimat era Monica Ringer, Amherst Col-‘Creative innovation’ as a language of legitimation Page 20 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 10:30AM-12:30PM Sunday November 19

5007 Genocide and the Unmixing of Peoples: The Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath

Chair: Sarah Shields, UNC Chapel Hill

Doris Melkonian, UCLA-The aftermath of genocide: Armenian women rebuilding their lives Ella M. Fratantuono, UNC Charlotte- Protecting rights for productive Ottomans: Religious and economic belonging in Muhacir (The Immigrant) Newspaper Walter Lorenz, UCLA-Relocation, resettlement, and conscription: Refugee policies during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 Ilker Ayturk, Bilkent U-Right-wing antisemitism in Turkey, 1945-1980 Ali Bolcakan, U Michigan-From multilingualism to monolingualism: Turkish language reform and non-Turks

5019 Protest, Repression, and Cooptation Before and After the Arab Uprisings

Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John’s U

Sean Yom, Temple U-Repression and learning across borders: Cross-policing between the Arab monarchies Michael Burch, Eckerd Col-War correspondents: Journalist fatalities in Middle Eastern conflicts Jean Lachapelle, U Michigan-Protests and police responses in Egypt between 2004 and 2011, a comprehensive dataset Katty Alhayek, U Massachusetts Amherst-Neo-authoritarian feminism: Theorizing the Syrian government’s co- optation of feminist discourse

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SPECIAL SESSION 4806 The Dynamics of Tolerance in the Contemporary Middle East 5046 Thinking Palestine Intersectionally Organizers: Sean Foley and Jocelyn Organizer: Sherene Seikaly Sage Mitchell

Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, UC Berkeley Chair: John O. Voll, Georgetown U Discussant: Jocelyne Cesari, Georgetown U Judith Butler, UC Berkeley Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Cruz (Emerita) John Fahy, Georgetown U Qatar-The Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley globalisation of values and the mobilisation Noura Erakat, George Mason U of tolerance in the Arabian Gulf Sean Foley, MTSU-“The necessary evil”: June 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian terri- The toleration of tobacco in contemporary tories, including the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. This anniver- Oman sary renders clear what many activists and scholars have long noted: the highly Maria Tedesco, Seattle U-Tolerance repressive Israeli military occupation is by no means temporary, but a defining and religious orthodoxy: Reevaluating a structure of the Israeli and Palestinian political landscape. Within the United contested relation through the lens of social States and Europe, the growth of the BDS movement has energized activist and imaginary scholarly critique of Israeli state violence, both within its border and the occu- Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern pied territories. And yet, despite the global growth of popular solidarity with the U Qatar and Calvert Jones, U Maryland Palestinian condition, the actually existing realities of Palestinians only worsen. College Park-The nature of tolerance in contemporary Qatar We are interested in the new kinds of critical thinking and interventions that Marwa Shalaby, Rice U-Drivers of this anniversary demands. In this panel, we aim to build on the current moment tolerance in transitioning democracies: of popular global solidarity with the Palestinian condition by thinking Palestine Rational, elitist, or religious? intersectionally—drawing on histories and experiences of other anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles across the globe to envision an intersectional politics of hope 4819 Gender-Based Violence, in this time of political darkness. We will ask: how do these global histories in- Solidarity, and Advocacy form our understanding of Palestine as well as inform our strategies for moving Organizers: Sumru Atuk and Elif Ege towards radical change in Palestine/Israel? How might intersectional thinking productively recalibrate prevailing academic and activist paradigms for anti-co- Sponsored by lonial work in Palestine/Israel? And what kinds of academic criticism and activ- Association for Middle East ism does this particular anniversary of the Israeli occupation both demand and Women’s Studies (AMEWS) render newly thinkable? Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U-When legal worlds collide: Law and liberation in the United Arab Emirates Roundtable Thematic Gabriella Nassif, SUNY Buffalo-Women’s Conversation and gender rights activism in Lebanon: 4753 Alternative Archives: New 5045 Sex & Sexualities in the Strategies for solidarity and networking Approaches to Egypt’s Modern Elif Ege, SUNY Buffalo-Activism against History Middle East and North Africa gender-based violence in times of conflict: Organizer: Andrew Simon Organizer: Angel M. Foster Kurdish women’s movement in Turkey Sondra Hale, UCLA-Gender-based violence Andrew Simon, Cornell U Session Leaders: Lisa L. Wynn, and the politics of memory in Sudan’s Aaron Rock-Singer, Cornell U Macquarie U and Angel M. Foster, U conflict zones Jacob Hoigilt, Peace Research Inst Oslo Ottawa Sumru Atuk, Graduate Center CUNY- Struggle to end violence against women in the age of new fascism

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4839 Transnational Andalus Brahim El Guabli, Princeton 4888 Who Protect What! Actors of Organizer: Eric Calderwood U-Literature remembers Moroccan Jews Conservation From Late Ottoman Katharine Halls, American U Cairo- Empire to Republican Turkey Discussant: William Granara, Harvard U “Everything was fine”: Rehabilitating Organizers: Firuzan Melike Sumertas the Jewish other in Egyptian and Ahmet Sezgin Eric Calderwood, U Illinois Urbana- historiographical discourse Champaign-The feminist al-Andalus Firuzan Melike Sumertas, Boğaziçi Wail S. Hassan, U Illinois Urbana- 4867 The Future of Middle Eastern U/MEF U-From Paspates to Sillogos: Champaign-Al-Andalus in Brazil Regimes: At the Intersection ‘heritagization’ of Byzantine remnants in Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue of Domestic and International situ U-Morocco, Andalusia and the new world: Politics Ahmet Sezgin, MEF U-Mehmed Ziya: An Rewriting, counternarrative, and resistance Organizer: Jeannie Sowers advocate of ancient monuments between the in Laila Lalami’s “The Moor’s Account” Ottoman city and the Turkish nation Chair: Bruce Rutherford, Colgate U Pinar Aykac, Columbia U-National 4841 Social, Political, and Discussant: Samer Abboud, Arcadia U vs. ‘other’ monuments: The role of the Ideological Activism in the Shi‘i Commission for the Preservation of World Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown U-A Antiquities in the institutionalisation of Organizers: Zackery Heern and Robert structure-identity nexus: Domestic and preservation activities in Istanbul J. Riggs regional drivers of Syria and Turkey’s Burcu Selcen Coskun, Mimar Sinan relations before and after 2011 Fine Arts U-Scraping the layers: Tahsin Chair: Juan Cole, U Michigan Curtis Ryan, Appalachian State U and Öz and his stylistic restorations in Topkapi Discussant: Mirjam Kuenkler, U Morten Valbjorn, Aarhus U-Sectarianism Palace Museum, 1942-1949 Göttingen in less likely places: The impact of rising regional sectarianism even in Jordan 4894 Maintaining Body and Mind Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, U Bruce Rutherford, Colgate U-The future in Modern Iraq Oxford-The popular front in the Middle of Egypt: From despotic to infrastructural Organizers: Alissa Walter and Andrew East: Revolution and anti-colonialism in power? Alger Iran’s tri-continental moment Jeannie Sowers, U New Hampshire- Babak Rahimi, UC San Diego-Performing Targeting environmental infrastructures, Discussant: Sara Pursley, NYU socialist Islam: Embodiment and political- international law, and civilians in the new theology of revolutionary action in Ali Middle Eastern wars Sara Farhan, York U-Medicine and Shariati midan: Venereal disease, sex-work, and the Zackery Heern, Idaho State U-Shi‘i 4877 The Exegetical Tradition of establishment of the Royal Medical College of activism and British imperialism in Avicenna’s “Canon of Medicine” Baghdad Iraq: State formation, resistance, and Organizer: Kamran Karimullah Andrew Alger, Graduate Center CUNY- disenfranchisement “A Beehive of Activity”: Labor and leisure in David Siddhartha Patel, Brandeis Discussant: Robert J. Wisnovsky, McGill U Hashemite Baghdad, 1921-1958 U-Hussein amidst Hasans: The al-Sadr Wisam Alshaibi, UCLA-Resisting intifadas of 1999 Nahyan Fancy, DePauw U-‘We have seen classification: Iraqis’ responses to Robert J. Riggs, U Bridgeport- this many times’: Ibn al-Nafis’s critique of Arabization during the Iran-Iraq War Radicalism, reform and migration: The Galenic humoral theory and the anatomy Michael Degerald, U Washington-The transformations of Shaykh Nimr Baqir and physiology of digestion Ba’th and the non-aligned movement: More al-Nimr Emma Gannagé, Georgetown U-The than a relationship of convenience classification of medicine in some Alissa Walter, Georgetown 4846 Representations of Jews in commentaries on Avicenna’s “Canon” U-Maintaining body and mind in Baghdad Contemporary Arabic Literature Peter E. Pormann, U Manchester-Ibn during the Iraqi sanctions: A state-society Organizer: Mostafa Hussein al-Nafis and Ibn al-Quff on melancholy perspective Hammood Obaid, U Manchester-The Discussant: Carol Bardenstein, U circulation and transmission of Avicenna’s Michigan “Canon” in early modern India Kamran Karimullah, U Manchester- Chair: Emily Gottreich, UC Berkeley Metacommentary in the medieval Islamic medical tradition: Galen, Muḥammad ibn Mostafa Hussein, Postdoctoral Zakarīyā al-Rāzī, Fakhr al-Din al-Rāzī Scholar-Hassan, Marcus, and Cohen: Redefining literary representations of Jews in contemporary Egypt

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4913 Politics of Religion During Katherine Whiting, The Sijal Inst Vivienne Matthies-Boon, U WWI as Lived and Remembered in for Arabic Language and Culture- Amsterdam-Everyday insecurities: Political the Ottoman Empire Metacognitive awareness and strategy trauma and bio-political repression in (post) Organizer: Benan Grams usage among intermediate and advanced L2 revolutionary Egypt readers of Arabic Molly Courtney, UCLA-Literature and Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth F. disenchantment in post-revolutionary Thompson, American U 4959 Implicated Digital Tunisia Transitions in the MENA Region Benan Grams, Georgetown U-The Organizer: Karem Irene Said 5018 Rebels and Insurgents: Greek Orthodox of Antioch : Loyalty or Recruitment, Effectiveness, and pragmatism? Gregarious Haddad: Between Discussant: Frances S. Hasso, Duke U/ Support the Ottoman Empire and the Arab rule JMEWS Sami Sweis, U Chicago-Hashemite Chair: Peter Krause, Boston Col discourse on Wahhabi Islam as anti-Saudi Karem Irene Said, Stanford propaganda during the Arab Revolt U-Transitional differentiation in urban and Samuel Plapinger, U Virginia-Insurgent Joel Veldkamp, Graduate Inst of digital crowds: Reassessing the place of Hay effectiveness in civil wars: Evidence from International and Development Studies- Ettadhamon, Tunis Jordan and Syria Sectarianism, memory and countermemory Yakein Abdelmagid, Duke U-Incongruent Holger Albrecht, U Alabama-Warriors of the Great War in French mandate Aleppo collaborations: The advertising industry and or believers? Strategic choice in rebel Odile Moreau, Montpellier U-IMAF politics of underground music in Egypt recruitment in the Syrian Civil War Paris 1-Politics of religion during the First S. Gokce Atici, Stanford U-The double Gunes Murat Tezcur, U Central Florida- World War: Ottoman Islamic rhetoric in work of behavioral advertising in Turkey: Political violence and civilian victimization Morocco Imaging and branding in Turkey Ekrem Karakoc, Binghamton U-Why 4918 Intersectional Approaches to 4962 The Gulf: Visualizing the ethnic minorities support for a rebel group: Critiquing Orientalism National Narrative The PKK case in Turkey Organizer: Anna Cruz Organizer: Shaikhah Almubaraki

Douja Mamelouk, Le Moyne Col-Paul Sponsored by Bowles’ Orientalist urges Association for Gulf and Arabian Yasmine El Gheur, City College of New Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) York CUNY-The Self-Orientalization of the contemporary Arab artist: “Les Femmes du Chair: Shaikhah Almubaraki, UC Berkeley Maroc,” a case study Discussant: Laura Goffman, Georgetown U Anna Cruz, Tufts U-“Disobedient” archives and the postcolonial poet as Shaikhah Almubaraki, UC Berkeley- decolonial historian Theater as nation: Nationalism as promoted by Kuwaiti theatrical productions 4942 New Perspectives on Literacy Ashleen Williams, U Mississippi- in TAFL Matams, Ashura, and Muharaam: Examining Organizer: Corinne Stokes counter national narratives in Bahrain Amina Alkandari, UC Berkeley-The Chair: Mahmoud Al-Batal, American U “desert” in Expo Milano: Traditions of Beirut architecture practices in the making of a “legitimate” national-Identity Navdeep Sokhey, UT Austin-Social media literacy in the advanced Arabic classroom 4997 Revolution, Refusal and Corinne Stokes, NYU Abu Dhabi-Using Rebellion: Past and Present multimodal materials to develop conceptual fluency in TAFL Silvia Marsans-Sakly, Fairfield U-The Nesrine Basheer, U Sydney-Connectives rebel and the archivist: Tracing Tunisia’s in Arabic native speaker and non-native forgotten history of protest speaker expository and argumentative Brady Patrick Ryan, UCLA-Revolution writing and the abject in Intisab Aswad Emily Sibley, NYU-The politics of no: Street art and public performativity in the Egyptian revolution

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Thematic SPECIAL SESSION Conversation

5048 Academic Freedom Trends and 5033 Evaluating Digital Scholarship the Work of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom - Proposed Guidelines for MESA Organizer: Joshua Stacher Organizer: Amy Singer

Chair: Laurie Brand, U Southern California Session Leader: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U

Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law Elias Muhanna, Brown U Nancy E. Gallagher, UC Santa Barbara E. Natalie Rothman, U Toronto Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey Scarborough Joshua Stacher, Kent State U Chris Gratien, Harvard U Virginia Tilley, Southern Illinois U Virginia Aksan, McMaster U

MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom took on a record number of cases in 2016. 4776 Iraq’s Many Pasts, Iraq’s From the continuing repression in Egypt to the swift decent into authoritarianism Many Presents: Memory, Archive, in Turkey, many countries of the region witnessed significant violations of academic freedom, regardless of educational level or type of institution. Nor was and Representation the US exempt, as the arrival of new administration committed to a discriminatory Organizer: Zainab Saleh approach to, among others, Muslims and Middle Easterners with the issuance of successive travel bans, has made clear. Indeed 2017 has already demonstrated Chair: Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col that current trends are likely to continue, and perhaps worsen. This panel seeks Discussant: Arbella Bet-Shlimon, U to review some of the most important cases from the MENA region and the US of Washington 2017. CAF members will discuss Egypt, Turkey and the Gulf States, while another presentation will highlight the ongoing battles in the academy surrounding the Bridget Guarasci, Franklin & Marshall Col- boundaries for the portrayal of Israel by focusing on the response to the UN Making Iraq’s marshes a world heritage site commissioned ESCWA report concerning Israeli state practices of apartheid. A Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col-Superfluous member of the California Scholars for Academic Freedom will discuss the network nostalgics: Longing for an idealized past and its responses to recent “lawfare” attacks on academics in the UC and Cal State among Iraqis in London systems. These interventions will seek to place recent developments in broader Mona Damluji, UC Santa Barbara-Seeing socio-political and historical context, analyzing them as integral parts of ongoing like an oil company: Photographic archives political transitions, not as developments limited to the academy. The panel will of modern Iraq thus provide an important opportunity for MESA members to learn more, not Orit Bashkin, U Chicago-Iraqi home away only about CAF's work, but also about the broader context in which our colleagues from home – Jewish reflections on Iraq in the who are on the front lines of these battles both in MENA and North America are diaspora struggling to assert their rights to academic freedom. Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington U-Writing Iraq’s history with and against the post-colonial state archive

Roundtable Thematic Conversation 4798 Rethinking Security Studies 4899 Apology Accepted? in the Arab World: In/Security Combatting Islamophobia Without 5036 Is There a Modern Muslim Beyond the State Sacrificing Critical Perspective in Mediterranean? Organizers: Samer Abboud and Waleed the Academy Organizer: Jonathan Glasser Hazbun Organizer: Judd King Session Leader: Jonathan Glasser, Col of Discussant: Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown U Chair: Judd King, American U William and Mary Samer Abboud, Arcadia U-The pre-peace, Sadaf Jaffer, Princeton U Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Col of William and post-conflict reconstruction of Syria Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton U Mary Hamza Meddeb, European U Inst-Zones Judith E. Tucker, Georgetown U of ambiguity. The political economy of Eric Calderwood, U Illinois Urbana- insecurity in Tunisia Champaign Nicole Sunday Grove, U Hawai’i Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Columbia U Manoa-Participatory media and emerging Edmund Burke III, UC Santa Cruz landscapes of security and surveillance Waleed Hazbun, American U Beirut-The politics of in/security in an era of turbulence

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4800 (Trans)nationalisms and the 4828 Restoring History, Recording Will Hanley, Florida State U-Mapping Left in the Greater Maghrib, 1910- History: From Bint al-Shati’ to segregation in turn-of-the-century 1970 Samar Yazbek Alexandria Organizer: Christopher Rominger Organizer: Zimu Niu Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Boğaziçi U-Mapping a moment in the Cypriot Sponsored by Sponsored by agricultural landscape: Historical GIS and American Institute for Association for Middle East the fiscal survey of 1572 Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Osman Özkan, Koç U and Turgay Koçak, Koç U-Mapping historical routes Chair: Joel Gordon, U Arkansas This panel is dedicated to the upon a geo-referenced late Ottoman coastal Discussant: Alma Heckman, UC Santa Cruz memory of Rula Quawas and land transport network

Christopher Rominger, Graduate Chair: Zimu Niu, Beijing Foreign Studies U 4871 Changing Configurations of Center CUNY-“Radical” communists, the Political and the Religious in “moderate” socialists, and the trans- Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State the Early Modern Ottoman and Mediterranean left in post-WWI Tunisia U-A Revolutionary woman exegete: Bint al- Safavid Empires Rebecca Gruskin, Stanford Shāṭi’’s literary approach to Quranic exegesis Organizer: Malissa Taylor U-Nationalism in a transnational place: Hanadi Al-Samman, U Virginia- Communists and nationalists in Tunisia’s Traversing buried cities in Samar Yazbek’s Chair: Linda T. Darling, U Arizona Gafsa Mining Basin (1940s-1960s) “The Crossing” Rami Ginat, Bar Ilan U-Transnationalism miriam cooke, Duke U-Integrating Baki Tezcan, UC Davis-What the and nationalism: The case of Egyptian women into Islamic hagiographies Kadizadelis represent, or how the ejnebis communism (1920-1965) trumped the devshirmes: Politically critical Muriam Haleh Davis, UC Santa Cruz- 4832 The Cultural Politics of mass formation in the early modern Ottoman The 1964 census in Algeria: Markets and Violence Empire national identities during the Cold War Organizers: Hannah Scott Deuchar and Malissa Taylor, U Massachusetts Michael Farquhar Amherst-Contending visions of a ‘properly’ 4813 After the Spring: Contentious Islamic land law in the Ottoman Empire Politics and Political Processes Chair: R. Shareah Taleghani, Queens Hani Khafipour, U Southern California- Beyond 2011 College CUNY Ideological sources of the Safavid system of Organizers: Christopher Barrie and Discussant: James McDougall, Trinity patronage and clientelism Killian Clarke Col Oxford Maryam Moazzen, U Louisville-Imperial Twelver Shi‘ism and Shi‘i ‘Ulama: The case of Chair/Discussant: Eva Bellin, Brandeis U Shimrit Lee, NYU-Simulating the contact Shaykh al-Islam ‘Ali Naqi Kamarehi (d. 1650) zone: Corporate mediations of violence in Dina Bishara, U Alabama-Contentious Israel, Palestine and beyond 4876 Fraught Docs: Questioning processes not protest outcomes: Sit-Ins, Michael Farquhar, King’s Col U London- Categories and Exploring marches, and demonstrations in the Middle Violence, deviancy and police masculinity in Infrastructural Challenges of East and North Africa contemporary Egypt Documentary Filmmaking from Hannah Scott Deuchar, NYU-Terrors of Killian Clarke, Princeton the Arab World translation: Ottoman crime fiction and the U-Overthrowing revolution: The popular Organizer: Nadia G. Yaqub roots of counterrevolution in Egypt politics of fear Hannah Elsisi, U Oxford-Un/Making the Christopher Barrie, U Oxford-Labor Chair: Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill in transition: Labor protest and divergent mu’taqal: Towards a cultural economy of political imprisonment in Egypt democratization patterns in Egypt and Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill- Tunisia Pushing the boundaries of documentary in Ali Kadivar, Brown U-Predicaments of 4851 Historical GIS Applications to post-nationalist Palestinian filmmaking rapid success: Egyptʼs failed democratization Analyze Economic Geography and Jason Fox, CUNY Hunter Col-Refusing 2011-13 Transport Infrastructure in the representation: Speed, mapping, and the Ottoman Empire Abounaddara Film Collective Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Dale Hudson, NYU Abu Dhabi- Documenting the Arab Gulf by hearing South Discussant: Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford U Asia Alia Yunis, Zayed U-Documentary film M. Erdem Kabadayi, Koç U and Semih education in the Middle East Celik, Koç U-A geo-spatiotemporal analysis of population and economic geography for the districts (sancaks) of Ankara and Bursa, 1845–1927 Page 26 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 3:30-5:30PM Sunday November 19

4878 The Occult in Islamicate 4934 From Hope to Päivi Miettunen, Finnish Inst in the Society: The Cases of Magic and Disappointment: The Failure Middle East-The shifting patterns of Alchemy of Reconciliation Processes in information behavior among Syrian Bedouin refugees Organizer: Pamela Klasova Turkey Navid Fozi, Harvard Law Schl-Iranian Organizers: Lenore G. Martin and Shi‘a converts to Christianity: Seeking Sponsored by Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir Middle East Medievalists (MEM) asylum while transiting through Turkey Discussant: Kemal Kirisci, Brookings Chair: Antoine Borrut, U Maryland Inst 5003 Innovations in Foreign Discussant: Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Language Curricula, Instruction, U South Carolina Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins SAIS-Pride, and Proficiency Assessment prejudice, and presidency: A social identity Pamela Klasova, Georgetown U-Magical theory approach to opportunities missed in Chair: Mohssen Esseesy, George and inspired speech in early Islam Turkey’s Kurdish question Washington U Emily Selove, U Exeter-Literature as Lenore G. Martin, Harvard U-A new magic, magic as literature approach to solving Turkey’s Kurdish issue Hala Yehia Abd El-Wahab, American U Salam Rassi, American U Beirut-Syriac Aykan Erdemir, Foundation for Defense Cairo-Assessment of ASL students through Christian interest in late medieval alchemy: of Democracies-The limits of incorporation: technology for enhanced learning The case of one pseudo-Aristotelian treatise The failure of Turkey’s “Alevi opening” Nader Morkus, Indiana U Bloomington- on the craft Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir, U Pittsburgh- Pragmatic transfer and language Nicholas Harris, U Penn-Alchemy and Restoring Armenian heritage in Turkey: A proficiency: American learners of Arabic economy failed story of hope Dris Soulaimani, NYU Abu Dhabi-Stance displays in Arabic academic writing 4882 Gender Struggles and 4944 Noticing the Details: Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, U Washington- Interpretive Frameworks: How Far Approaches to Close Reading of Learners’ and instructors’ preferences for integrated and isolated form-focused Can They Travel? the Persian Tazkira Tradition instruction in Arabic Organizer: Mariz Tadros Organizer: Jane Mikkelson Adil Elkhiyari, Qalam wa Lawh Center for Arabic Studies-Collaborative Chair: Sondra Hale, UCLA Chair: Alexander Jabbari, U Oklahoma platforms for creating and managing Arabic Discussant: Mana Kia, Columbia U Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS U London-Rethinking curriculums gender-based violence in Iraq Theodore Beers, U Chicago-How to write Hoda Elsadda, Cairo U-Traveling critique: a tazkirah: The example of the “Khayr al- 5016 Transitional Justice in Gender and rights discourses bayan” Tunisia and Libya Mariz Tadros, Inst of Development Studies- Shaahin Pishbin, U Chicago-A tale of Challenging unintended reifications of women’s two tazkirahs: Reading Nasrabadi and Chair: Yahia Zoubir, KEDGE Business agency in the Middle East: The case of Egypt Sarkhvush as literary history Schl, France Jane Mikkelson, U Chicago-A style by 4910 Arab, Jewish, and Arab any other name? Arguments about lyric Alyssa Miller, Duke U-Against Jewish Critiques of Zionism style and geographical belonging in four forgiveness: Manich Musamah and the Organizer: Geoffrey Levin early modern Persian tazkeres struggle for Tunisian transitional justice Samuel Hodgkin, U Chicago-Tazkirah Inez Freiin von Weitershausen, Chair/Discussant: Liora R. Halperin, U to chrestomathy: Persian classics between London Schl of Economics and Political Washington national literary historiographies Science-Diplomatic recognition as de facto intervention - Insights from the 2011 Chelsie May, U Chicago-“A girl so quiet 5001 Triangulated Subjects: uprisings in Libya Samar Ben Romdhane, Moncton U will do everything we tell her”: The authority Displacement, Transit, and Canada-Transitional justice in Tunisia of emotions for Zionism in 1940s Iraq Activism Shirly Bahar, American Jewish and the mediated publicness: Towards a memorial consensus? Historical Society-“He made me into a Chair: Rasmieyh Abdelnabi, George spy”: Arab Jewish identity and the making of Mason U Palestine into Israel Geoffrey Levin, NYU-Crisis, victims, Desiree Shayer-McLeod, London Schl prophets: Evolving concepts in Rabbi Elmer of Economics and Political Science- Berger’s anti-Zionist network Why don’t they fight? The emergence and Salim Yaqub, UC Santa Barbara-Yes we persistence of nonviolent activism in the can’t: Arab Americans and the Arab-Israeli Western Sahara dispute in the 1970s MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 27 6-7:30PM Sunday November 19

***Special Event *** “MESA, ACLU and the Muslim Ban”

Beth Baron Cody Wofsy Asli Bali City College and Graduate Staff Attorney and Skadden Fellow, UCLA School of Law Center, CUNY ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project

On March 10, 2017, MESA joined the ACLU and other partner organizations in a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump's second Muslim ban executive order (International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump). The case made its way through the federal courts and was placed onto the U.S. Supreme Court docket. On Sunday, September 24, upon the expiration of the partial travel ban the Supreme Court allowed to go into effect over the summer, the Trump administration issued a new presidential proclamation imposing a ban on certain individuals from eight countries (Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Ven- ezuela, and Yemen) with no expiration date. The Supreme Court canceled the oral arguments in IRAP v. Trump and requested that both sides weigh in on what to do with the case by October 5. Cody Wofsy (Staff Attorney, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project) joins MESA President Beth Baron (City College and Graduate Center, CUNY) and Asli Bali (UCLA School of Law), for a discussion about the administration’s effort to ban travel from certain countries and its impact on higher education.

2017 MESA Awards Ceremony Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2017

Albert Hourani Book Award MESA Mentoring Award Recognizing outstanding publishing in Middle East studies. Recognizing exceptional contributions retired faculty have made to the education and training of others.

Roger Owen Book Award Jere L. Bacharach Service Award Recognizing the very best in economics, economic his- Recognizing extraordinary service to MESA, other tory, or the political economy of MENA. societies, and the field of Middle East studies.

Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards Academic Freedom Award Recognizing exceptional achievement in research for and Given in recognition of sustained contributions in support of writing of dissertations in Middle East studies. academic freedom in the MENA and/or North America.

MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize Undergraduate Education Award Recognizing achievements in research for and Recognizing outstanding scholarship on teaching or other writing of a graduate-level paper. material contributions to undergraduate education.

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TODAY’S AFFILIATED MEETINGS Thematic 4815 Gendering Migration & Conversation Transnationalizing Gender in the 7-8am Middle East & North Africa ARCE Fellowship Alumni 5032 Unraveling the Middle East Organizers: Lily Pearl Balloffet and Breakfast III: The End...? Elizabeth C. Saylor Virginia C (L) Organizer: Wilson Chacko Jacob 9-11am Organized under the auspices Session Leader: Wilson Chacko Jacob, Middle East Center & Program of Moise Khayarallah Center for Concordia U, Montreal Directors Meeting Lebanese Diaspora Studies Virginia C (L) 10:30am-12:30pm Fahad A. Bishara, U Virginia Discussant: Stacy Fahrenthold, CSU Andrew Arsan, U Cambridge MEOC Outreach Coordinators' Stanislaus Workshop Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley Park Tower Suite 8222 (L) Will Hanley, Florida State U Elizabeth C. Saylor, Middlebury Col- 11am-1pm Mohammed A. Bamyeh, U Pittsburgh Visualizing Arab women’s writings in the Arabic Collections Online Advi- mahjar: A digital humanities project sory Board Meeting 4742 The Prize?: Energy, Security, Lily Pearl Balloffet, Western Carolina Jackson (M) and Expertise U-The enterprising spirit: Writing women 11am-1pm Organizer: Osamah Khalil into South American mahjar history Western Consortium of Middle Annalise DeVries, Samford U-Migrants East Centers Meeting Chair/Discussant: Osamah Khalil, of privilege: Masculinity, foreign capital, and Park Tower Suite 8223 (L) Syracuse U shaping national identity in Egypt 12-2pm Oguz Alyanak, Washington U St. Louis- Arabic Overseas Flagship Busi- Roger Stern, U Tulsa/UPenn-The experts’ Turkish men and their going-out habits: A ness Meeting apocalypse: Peak oil and phantasm on the moral critique of masculinity and everyday Park Tower Suite 8216 (L) road to the Middle East life on the Franco-German borderland 3:30-5:30pm Karine Walther, Georgetown U Qatar- MERIP Business Meeting The Arabian mission and British political 4859 Rethinking Pastoralists Delaware B (L) agents in the Arabian Gulf, 1920-1945 7-9pm and Pastoral Nomadism in the Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Cal State Ottoman Empire CASA Alumni Reception Stanislaus-Oil sovereignty, American Organizers: Zozan Pehlivan, McGill U Harding (M) foreign policy, and the 1968 coups in Iraq and Samuel Dolbee Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U-A useful enemy? Libya, the United States, and the Chair/Discussant: Sabri Ates, Southern making of insecurity Methodist U

Roundtable 4761 Islam and the State in Egypt: Elcin Arabaci, Georgetown 4748 Conducting Archival An Institution-Centered Approach U-Dispossession at the crossroads of the Organizer: Aaron Rock-Singer Research in MENA: Current nomads, local Bursan villagers and Balkan- Caucasian immigrants Challenges, Creative Solutions Discussant: Gregory Starrett, UNC Samuel Dolbee, NYU-Provincializing the Organizer: Kate Dannies, Georgetown U Charlotte Shammar Matthew Ghazarian, Columbia U-To Chair: Nova Robinson, Seattle U Nathan J. Brown, George Washington fly or starve: Nomads, arms, and aid in the U-State Islam and regime Islam in the Arab Ottoman famines of 1878-81 Anny Gaul, Georgetown U world Nora Barakat, NYU Abu Dhabi-Pastoral Benan Grams, Georgetown U Hilary Kalmbach, U Sussex-The root of land use and Ottoman law in late Ottoman Matthew MacLean, NYU Egyptian ‘culture wars’: Religion, state, and Syria Belle Cheves, Harvard U the ‘future of Egyptian culture’ in interwar Egypt Aaron Rock-Singer, Cornell U-Censoring the Kishkophone: Religion and state power in Mubarak’s Egypt Mary Elston, Harvard U-Al-Majalis Al-‘Ilmiyya: Revival and critique in Egypt’s al-Azhar

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4898 Sovereignty Reformed: 4907 Contested Cultures of Anne Marie Butler, SUNY Buffalo- Ottoman Authority Between the Revolution: Cultural Production in Chouftouhonna: A Tunisian feminist International and the Islamic in the Islamic Republic of Iran art festival making space for the queer imaginary the Tanzimat Era Organizers: Annie Tracy Samuel and Duygu Ula, U Michigan-Towards a local Organizers: Madeleine Elfenbein and Eric Lob queer aesthetics: Nilbar Güres’s photography Selim Karlitekin Annie Tracy Samuel, U Tennessee and female homoerotic intimacy Selim Karlitekin, Columbia U-Tanzimat Chattanooga-Promoting the culture of and the sworn sovereign: Oath, subjection sacred defense 4922 Local Governance and Social and authority after the ‘Greek Interregnum’ Eric Lob, Florida International U-The Accountability Reforms in the (1821-1839) cultural production of Jihadi culture and Wake of the Arab Spring Madeleine Elfenbein, U Chicago-Illiberal management Organizer: Sylvia Bergh Ottomanism: Ali Suavi’s critique of liberal Ladan Zarabadi, U Cincinnati-A moral internationalism city or spatial reproduction of Islamic Chair: Dawn Chatty, U Oxford Barbara Henning, Bamberg U-Knowing patriarchy (A critical analysis of the image Discussant: Mariz Tadros, Inst of one’s place in Ottoman Trabzon: Entangled and spatial relations of Iranian cities) Development Studies conceptualizations of social boundaries Jordan Amirkhani, U Tennessee during the Tanzimat period Chattanooga-Museum as microcosm: The Ward Vloeberghs, Erasmus U Col Aria Nakissa, Washington U St. historical and cultural legacy of The Tehran Rotterdam-The Beirut Madinati campaign: Louis-Ijtihad and civilizational progress: Museum of Art The politics of social accountability in Imperialism, capitalism, and the roots of Lebanon 19th century Muslim religious reform 4912 Liminal Urbanity: Cities Joni Schwartz, CUNY LaGuardia and Between Ruin and Prosperity Habiba Boumlik, CUNY LaGuardia -Civic 4903 Colonial Regimes and Anti- Organizer: Shima Houshyar participation, engagement and organized Colonial Revolts Between Maghrib action: A case study of a Tunisian activist and Mashriq, 1920-1950 Chair: Shima Houshyar, Graduate Asya R. El-Meehy, United Nations-Local Organizer: John Boonstra Center CUNY governance and social accountability in Iraq: Reflections from the education and social Chair: Graham Auman Pitts, North Shima Houshyar, Graduate Center sectors Carolina State U CUNY-The afterlives of Abadan: Spatial and Mays Abou Hegab, CARE International Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, U temporal disjunctures in an Iranian oil city in Egypt-Enhancing citizen-state Arizona Zehra Husain, Graduate Center CUNY- relationships by using social accountability Destabilizing regional frontiers: Mobility, tools? CARE Egypt’s experience with Egypt’s John Boonstra, U Wisconsin Madison- cosmopolitanism and belonging in Karachi Social Fund for Development Myths of protection and pacification: Syria China Sajadian, Graduate Center CUNY- Sylvia Bergh, Erasmus U Rotterdam- and greater Lebanon under early French Between nostalgia and futures-otherwise: Enhancing social accountability through mandate colonialism Performances of memory in Lebanon’s community score cards? Evidence from the Reem Bailony, Agnes Scott Col-A tale of railway ruins education sector in Morocco two rebellions: The Rif and Syrian revolts in Hazal Corak, Graduate Center 1925 CUNY-Shifting mobility regimes and 4930 Between the National and the Guillaume Wadia, Harvard U-Climate labor migration in post-communist and International: Arab Communists and the political economy of the Europeanizing Kardzhali from the Mashreq to the Maghreb French Protectorate of Morocco during in the 1940s and 1950s “pacification,” 1927-1934 4919 Contemporary Political Art of Organizer: Sana Tannoury Karam Shoko Watanabe, Inst of Developing the Middle East Economies-Nationalists, transnational Organizer: Anne Marie Butler Chair: Zachary Lockman, NYU mobilization, and popular movements: Discussant: Orit Bashkin, U Chicago Tunisian volunteers for Palestine in 1948 Nama Khalil, U Michigan-Iconographic battle: Visual responses to Rab’a Massacre Kamilia Rahmouni, U Arizona-Between Elisabeth Friedman, Illinois State French assimilationism and nationalist U-Strategies of counter-occupation in communism: The impact of WWII on contemporary Palestinian art Tunisian Jews’ ideological orientations, 1939- Sascha Crasnow, UC San Diego- 1945 Capitalism and conservatism: The Alma Heckman, UC Santa Cruz-From transformation of Ramallah in Inass Yassin’s fluidity to exclusivity: Interwar Moroccan Cinema Waleed project Jewish leftists and their Legacies

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Sana Tannoury Karam, Northeastern Joelle Abi-Rached, Harvard U-The birth 5006 Histories of Infrastructure U-This war is our war: Communism, of psychiatry in the Middle East: Power, and Techno-Politics democracy, and internationalist nationalism knowledge, and the banality of good and evil in Lebanon, 1939-1945 Soha Bayoumi, Harvard U-Doctors as Chair: Michael Christopher Low, Iowa witnesses: Forensic medicine and medical State U 4946 Articulations of Struggle testimonies in post-revolutionary Egypt in Transnational Palestinian Beyza Lorenz, UCLA-Urban modernity Resistance Circuits 4977 The Impact of External and steamboats in Ottoman Istanbul Organizer: Jennifer Mogannam Actors on Political Economy Isacar Bolanos, Ohio State U-The Hazine-i Hassa Nezareti (Privy Purse Suraya Khan, Rice U-Fulfilling a “special Chair: William A. Lawrence, George Ministry) and the expansion of irrigation in role”: Arab activism in the US for Palestine Washington U Hamidian Iraq, 1877-1901 and the Third World in the 1960s Mohamed Gamal-Eldin, NJIT/Rutgers Omar Zahzah, UCLA-“I won’t follow Ali Hamdan, UCLA-Proxies, laboratories, Newark-Cesspools, mosquitos and fever: An you”: Movements of resistance in Ghassan and the production of space in Syria’s environmental history of malaria prevention Kanafani’s “Letter to Gaza” and Edward liberated territories in Ismailia and Port Sa‘id, 1869-1910 Said’s “Tribute to Abu Omar” Cornwall Kerry-Ann, U Guelph- Zachary D. Cuyler, NYU-The poetics Jennifer Mogannam, UC San Diego- Transitional constitutionalism: The role of of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline: Competing Violence as methodology in Palestinian international NGOs in Tunisia’ constitution- visibilities of an infrastructural assemblage, armed resistance and revolution making process 1950-1975 Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern Gabriel Young, NYU-Development work: 4953 Politics, History and State U-Whither civil resistance? Labor at the Aswan High Dam, 1960-1971 Formation in the Modern Middle Humanitarianism’s impact on Syrian mobilization 5021 Analyzing the Islamic State: East Erin Snider, Texas A&M U-Economies in Organizer: Allison Hartnett Strategies and Counter-Strategies transition: International donor assistance after the Arab uprisings Chair: Matteo Legrenzi, Ca’ Foscari U of Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley Venice State U Discussants: Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col 4990 Knowledge Exchange and and Matteo Legrenzi, Ca’ Foscari U of Production Across Borders Didier Leroy, Royal Military Academy Venice of Belgium-Countering Daesh extremism, Chair: Ahmet Serdar Akturk, Georgia perspectives from Belgium Allison Hartnett, U Oxford-Colonial Southern U Muhammad Masud, U Massachusetts legacies, landed elites and regime survival in Boston-Poetry as a weapon: The poetics of the Middle East Mehtap Ozdemir, U Massachusetts jihad in ISIS’s textbooks Daniel Neep, Georgetown U-A historical Amherst-Ottoman literary modernity in Akin Unver, Kadir Has U-Who joins sociology of crisis in the Middle East: From triangulation: Imperial mimesis and textual ISIS? Explaining recruitment through uneven development to civil war in Syria transactions in Ahmed Midhat’s “Hasan discrimination-exclusion model Djene Rhys Bajalan, Missouri State Mellah” Marwan M. Kraidy, U Penn-Fun against U-Unionists and liberals: An alternative Engin Kiliç, Sabanci U-Khent (The Fool): fear: The Islamic State spectacle and paradigm An Armenian utopian vision as the mirror counter-spectacle image of Turkish utopias 4954 From the Body to the Body- Kaitlin Staudt, U Oxford-Slow futurism: Politic: The Politics of Medical Peyami Safa and the avant garde James H. Meyer, Montana State U-Nâzim Knowledge and Practice Hikmet in the Soviet archives Organizers: Ahmed Ragab and Joelle Jeannette E. Okur, UT Austin-State Abi-Rached perpetrators of violence and political victims in Müge Iplikçi’s Kafdagi and Mehmed Chair/Discussant: Sherine Hamdy, UC Uzun’s “Ask Gibi Aydinlik Ölüm Gibi Irvine Karanlik” Ahmed Ragab, Harvard U-Making local medicine: Colonial discourses and the making of modern medicine in the Middle East Elise Burton, U Cambridge-The missing enzyme: Medical genetics and historical identity in Iran and Israel

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Issues in the Profession Workshop 4734 International Law in the Contemporary Middle East: 5050 Confronting Sexual Harassment in the Academy Impeding or Facilitating Violence? Organized by Fatma Müge Göçek (Part 1) Organizer: Lisa Hajjar Chair: Beth Baron, Graduate Center CUNY Discussant: Fatma Müge Göçek, U Michigan Neve Gordon, SOAS/BGU-The US drone wars and the apparatus of distinction: Marty Langelan, Langelan & Associates Examining the implications of the post- humanist turn This follow-up workshop to one held at MESA 2016 in Boston, will feature an Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law-Assessing address by “The Godmother of Direct Intervention,” Marty Langelan, author of liability for war crimes in Yemen Back off: How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment and Harassers. Noura Erakat, George Mason U-Dangerous expansions: The principle of Sexual harassment of students and faculty is not a new problem in the academy. proportionality in irregular combat This problem is especially acute for graduate students and junior faculty across Lisa Hajjar, UCSB-International fields of study. Research suggests that 30% of graduate students surveyed stated humanitarian law versus the that they experienced some form of sexual harassment in the course of their study. counterterrorism war paradigm: Analyzing This finding has remained consistent over the past three decades. A new wave the contradictions and consequences of the of student activism in the United States has forced colleges and universities to US “War on Terror” review their existing policies on sexual harassment and sexual assault. However, the issue of faculty harassers has been largely ignored. 4784 Fatimid Studies Organizer: Paul E. Walker

Organized under the auspices of Roundtable 4729 The Preservation of Historic Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) Architecture in North African 4921 Material Politics in the Cities Middle East Chair: Farhad Daftary, Inst of Ismaili Organizer: Susan Slyomovics Organizer: Fredrik Meiton Studies Sponsored by Fredrik Meiton, Northwestern U American Institute for Mohamad Ballan, U Chicago- Joanne Nucho, Pomona Col Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Sectarianism and violence in Zirid Ifriqiyah: A Elizabeth Williams, U Massachusetts reinterpretation of the massacres of 407/1016 Lowell Shainool Jiwa, Inst of Ismaili Studies- Chair: Diana Wylie, Boston U Begum Adalet, NYU Between the founder of Cairo and the Caliph of Cairo: An appraisal of the reign of the Diana Wylie, Boston U-The preservation Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Aziz Billah Thematic of historic architecture in North African Conversation Paul E. Walker, U Chicago-Titles of honor cities: An overview and status in the Fatimid realm 5042 Funding Opportunities in the Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Inst of MENA Region: Joint Degrees Technology-An unlikely duo in Algiers: The Mosque al-Djadid and the Statue of Duc 4803 The Conflicted Legacies of Organizer: Maggie Nassif d’Orléans the Iran Iraq War Susan Slyomovics, UCLA-Dismantling a Organizer: Kaveh Ehsani Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, world: French military monuments in Algeria Fulbright Commission Daniel E. Coslett, Western Washington Chair: Robert Vitalis, U Penn U-Globalization and preservation in Tunisia: Discussant: Ervand Abrahamian, CUNY Ehab M. Abouaish, Cairo U On the colonial past in the neocolonial Jacobus Boers, Georgia State U present Achim Rohde, Philipps-U Marburg Amr I.A. Elatraby, Ain Shams U Marc Andre, LARHRA Lyon-Repatriating (Germany)-Military masculinity and its Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward, Ocean militant Algerian bodies: The heritage of El- discontents in Ba’thist Iraq County Col Alia Cemetery in Algiers Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U-The antinomies of the war in post-revolutionary Iran Norma Claire Moruzzi, U Illinois Chicago-Sisters and mothers: Iranian women’s war memoirs Kevan Harris, UCLA-Legacies of Mass Mobilization in the Iran-Iraq War: Findings

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Roundtable SPECIAL SESSION 4818 Teaching Middle East Studies in a Controversial Time: Between 5053 Turkey Since the July 2016 Coup Attempt Activism and Accountability Organizers: Mostafa Minawi, Cornell U and Hale Yılmaz, Southern Illinois U Organizer: Victoria Hightower Sponsored by Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) Chair: Victoria Hightower, U North Georgia Chair: Yiğit Akın, Tulane U Neha Vora, Lafayette Col Beth Derderian, Northwestern U Sinan Birdal, U Southern California Daniel Blumlo, Rock Valley Col Howard Eissenstat, St. Lawrence U Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern U Azat Gündoğan, Florida State U Qatar Aslı Z. Iğsız, NYU þ Rachael Eggebeen, Sunnyside Unified Meltem Türköz, I ık U, Istanbul School District Jill Crystal, Auburn U Turkey entered a new era of confusion and uncertainty in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in July 2016. Government response to the coup attempt has led to unprecedented levels of investigations, arrests and imprisonments throughout 4808 Gender and Mobility in Arab the country. Empowered by the state of emergency powers, the Justice and Women’s Writings Development Party government has used executive orders to clamp down not Organizers: Rima Sadek and Nancy only on individuals and organizations suspected of having supported the coup, but Linthicum also any individual or association critical of the JDP government. Over a one-year period since the coup attempt, more than one hundred thousand civil servants Chair: Johanna Sellman, Ohio State U (including teachers, university professors, doctors, judges and others) have been fired by executive orders and more than forty thousand people have been detained Nancy Linthicum, U Michigan-Egyptian on accusations of affiliation with the Gülen movement. Along with individual “girls’ writing” and the politics of translation liberties, freedom of the press has declined rapidly. More than 184 media outlets Manar Shabouk, Syracuse U-In (such as newspapers, television and radio stations) have been closed permanently remembrance of ruins or reinventing home and more than 170 journalists (including journalists from the main opposition Rima Sadek, U South Carolina- newspaper Cumhuriyet) have been detained on allegations of links to the Gülen Identity, gender and American politics in movement. More than 375 civil society organizations, including women’s rights transnational Arab women’s literature groups and humanitarian organizations have been shut down permanently. Wael Salam, U Jordan-The exile as a These developments have profound implications for Turkey, for the region, and transgenerational fate in Susan Muaddi for human rights and liberties throughout the world. The papers on this panel Darraj’s “The Inheritance of Exile” address the current crisis in Turkey from a range of academic perspectives.

4810 Refugees From Syria: State Policies, Humanitarian Aid, and 4817 Seeking Order: Sufi 4834 Narratives of Struggle: the Lived Experience of Exile Responses to Ottoman Power in Maintaining and Preserving Organizer: Wendy Pearlman 16th-17th Century Egypt and Syria Kurdish Cultural Heritage Organizer: Kristof D’hulster Organizer: Christian Sinclair Chair/Discussant: Rochelle Anne Davis, Georgetown U Chair/Discussant: John Curry, U Sponsored by Nevada, Las Vegas Kurdish Studies Association (KSA) Lamis Abdelaaty, Syracuse U-The strategic use of labels for Syrians in Turkey Timothy J. Fitzgerald, James Madison Chair: Christian Sinclair, Moravian Col Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U-Sovereignty and self-control: Shaykh U-Socio-economic class and the lived `Alwan al-Hamawi’s (d. 1530) advice for the Anna Grace Tribble, Emory U-Is there experience of exile among Syrian refugees in Ottoman ruler a “Kurdish” dish?: Exploring the effects of Germany and Turkey Kristof D’hulster, Ghent U-Sword and aid and internal displacement on culturally Daniel Masterson, Yale U-How pen at the service of the Ottoman Sultan: A cohesive concepts of food in Iraqi Kurdistan humanitarian aid shapes the development of semiotic reading of two Ottoman texts of the Ruken Isik, U Maryland Baltimore County- refugee self-governance hand of Muhyi-i Gulsheni (d. 1604-1605) Reclaiming Kurdish dress as political struggle Nell Gabiam, Iowa State U-“Istanbul has Side Emre, Texas A & M U-Negotiated many refugees from Syria but no refugee piety: Interactions of the Khalwati-Gulshanis continued next page camps”: Creating home at a community and Egyptian Sufis with political authority center in 16th century Egypt MESA 2017 Preliminary Program u Page 33 10:30AM-12:30PM Monday November 20

Thomas McGee, Independent 4865 Formulaic Language and Kristine Ajrouch, Eastern Michigan Researcher-Rebuilding the city or a museum Pragmatic Competence U-Immigration, Middle Eastern Americans, left in ruins? Mapping heritage in post- Organizer: Zeinab A. Taha and census categories displacement reconstruction plans for Kobani Danielle Haque, Minnesota State U Amir Sharifi, CSU Long Beach-The city Organized under the auspices of Mankato-Muslim and Arab Americans and of Kermanshan, the site of cultural rebellion American University in Cairo the surveillance state and rebirth Erik Love, Dickinson Col-Islamophobic Aynur De Rouen, Binghamton U-The Chair: Zeinab A. Taha, American U Cairo racism and civil rights advocacy in the US, struggle within: Documenting the Kurdish 2001-2017 experience in Binghamton Hala Elshamy, American U Cairo-An analysis of the pragmatic functions of idiomatic 4916 New Boundaries of State/ 4847 Fashioning Philosopher- expressions in the Egyptian novel “Taxi” Resistance Constellations in the Kings in the Post-Mongol Persian Shaimaa N. Abdel Aziz, American U Middle East Cosmopolis, 13th-19th Centuries (I) Cairo-Teachers’ perceptions on formulaic Organizer: Laryssa Chomiak Organizer: Matthew Melvin-Koushki language Zeinab A. Taha, American U Cairo- Organized under the auspices of Chair/Discussant: Kathryn Babayan, U Formulaic language in media Arabic: The Middle East Law and Governance Michigan case of pseudo-titles (MELG) Hala Abdelmobdy, American U Cairo- Jonathan Brack, Hebrew U Jerusalem- Cultural nuances that create challenges Chair: Jillian M. Schwedler, Hunter Col Philosopher-Kings in the age of Chinggisid of teaching terms of address and terms of CUNY auspicious kingship: The Sahibqiran Öljeitü endearment in AFL/ASL classrooms and his mujaddid vizier Elizabeth R. Nugent, Princeton U-The Noah Gardiner, U South Carolina-Al-Malik 4883 The Arab Revolt in Palestine psychology of repression and polarization in al-Zahir Barquq as millennial sovereign? (1936-39): Internal and External authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Egypt Matthew Melvin-Koushki, U South Factors and Tunisia Carolina-Performing (occult) philosopher- Organizer: Richard Cahill Lana Salman, UC Berkeley-Expectation as Kingship in Timurid Transoxania: Ulugh Beg a mode of statecraft: ‘municipal encounters’ as sultan-scientist Chair: Charles Anderson, Western in post-revolution Tunisia Marian Elizabeth Smith, U Michigan- Washington U Laryssa Chomiak, American Inst for Refiguring Timur the philosopher-king in the Discussant: Salim Tamari, Inst of Maghrib Studies-Visions of dissent in Safavid cultural imagination” accretions and Jerusalem Studies Algeria, Jordan and Tunisia interpolations to Hatifi’s Timur-nama Chantal Berman, Princeton U-Protest Michael Provence, UC San Diego- policing in Tunisia and Morocco 4853 Regulating Print in the Late Damascus, Jerusalem and Baghdad in the Ottoman Empire: A New Look into autumn 1936 4949 Networks of Circulation and the Question of Censorship Laila Parsons, McGill U-The Palestine the Exchange of Ideas in Modern Organizers: Till Grallert and Kathryn Revolt and the Peel Commission intertwined Afghanistan Schwartz Richard Cahill, Berea Col-Of walls and Organizers: Marjan Wardaki and fortresses: Sir Charles Tegart, the Arab revolt Mejgan Massoumi Chair/Discussant: Benjamin Carr and beyond Fortna, U Arizona Sponsored by 4893 What’s Really New About the American Institute of Till Grallert, Orient-Institut Beirut- Trump Era for Arab and Muslim Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) Authoritarianism versus liberty of speech? Americans? The theory and practices of press censorship Organizer: Louise Cainkar Chair: Robert Crews, Stanford U in Bilad al-Sham (1875–1914) Annie Greene, U Chicago-“The Sponsored by Benjamin Hopkins, George Washington suspension of print is the hand of tyranny”: Arab American Studies Association U-Ruling the rimlands: Frontier Freedom of the press in Ottoman Iraq? (AASA) governmentality along the edges of empire Kathryn Schwartz, Harvard U-Print Faiz Ahmed, Brown U-Islam, monarchy, regulations in Ottoman Egypt, 1820–1881 Chair: Louise Cainkar, Marquette U and the nation-state: Religious authority, Ekin Enacar, U Chicago-Laughing at royal legitimacy, and the Amani-Kemalist times of censorship: Anti-imperialism and Louise Cainkar, Marquette U-Counting dialectic constitutionalism in Ottoman cartoons (1908-1911) Arab Americans in light of the threat Marjan Wardaki, UCLA-An Afghan narrative and white privilege student in Nazi Germany: The life of Ahmad Fofolzai, 1933-1960

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Mejgan Massoumi, Stanford U-Kabul 4991 Poetics of the Political 5008 Neoliberalism in the City cosmopolitan? Radio broadcasting and Afghan connectivity to the world, 1960-1979 Chair: Anastasia Khawaja, U South Chair: Bilal Humeidan, U Virginia Florida 4950 Between Continuity & Hannes Baumann, U Liverpool- Change: Conceptualizing Slavery, Deborah L. Wheeler, US Naval Dependent neoliberalism: How Gulf capital is Tyranny, Gender, and Tolerance in Academy-Digital resistance and state (in) reshaping Amman and Rabat Islamic Thought & the Middle East stability in Arab monarchies: Lessons from Robert Mogielnicki, U Oxford-The Organizer: Bader Mousa Al-Saif Kuwait and Jordan political utility of free zones in the Sultanate Nasser Athamneh, Yarmouk U-Al-Quds/ of Oman Chair/Discussant: John O. Voll, Jerusalem between the east and the west: Basak Durgun, George Mason Georgetown U Images of the holy city in Arabic and English U-Rethinking heritage conservation and poetry urban greening in Istanbul through food Omar Anchassi, U Exeter-‘…So their Ilkim Buke Okyar, Independent sovereignty lineages are not cut off’: The reframing Scholar-Eastern eyes, western gaze: The and reformulation of the legal discourse on politics of Alexandretta in Tarik Mümtaz’s slavery and slave-concubinage from the mid- cartoons, 1933-1934 nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries Waed Athamneh, Connecticut Col- Mohammed Bushra, Georgetown Taking the state to court: Qabbani’s poetics U-Conceptual change through of the political transformation of linguistic norms: Tyranny Katrien Vanpee, U Minnesota-Poetic in the Arab Muslim context bay’a: Allegiance performance and M. Amine Tais, Georgetown patronage dynamics in the televised poetry U-Constructing gender egalitarianism in competition Sha’ir al-Milyun Islamic feminist discourses: The works of Merve Tabur, Penn State U-On self, Mernissi and Lamrabet specters and seeds: Poetics of potentiality Bader Mousa Al-Saif, Georgetown and female diasporic subjectivities in Lisa U-Diversity & tolerance in the Arabian Suhair Majaj’s “Geographies of Light” Peninsula? Conceptual (re)production and its implication on religious reform

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Roundtable 4726 Provincializing Political Geraldine Chatelard, IFPO-Negotiating Theory: Islamic Intellectuals and mobility across regimes of sovereignty: 4861 Navigating Jewish Campus the Production of Knowledge in Displaced Iraqis between Jordan and Iraq and Community Debates on Israel/ Rochelle Anne Davis, Georgetown Turkey Palestine in the Age of Trump U-Models of refugee administration and Organizer: Alev Cinar Organizer: Matthew H. Ellis hierarchies of aid Michael Vicente Perez, U Washington- Discussant: Murad Idris, U Virginia Chair: Matthew H. Ellis, Sarah Lawrence Everyday life and the politics of survival among ex-Gaza refugees Col Alev Cinar, Bilkent U-Toward an Lewis Turner, SOAS U London-Economics anthropology of political theory: The Islamic under encampment: Re-Thinking Syrian Liora R. Halperin, U Washington intellectual field and the reemergence of refugee camps in Jordan Benjamin Schreier, Penn State U political theorizing in Turkey Joel Beinin, Stanford U Gizem Zencirci, Providence Col-Islamic Shira Robinson, George Washington U political theory and the Ottoman heritage of 4746 A New Social Contract for Joshua Schreier, Vassar Col civil society in Turkey the MENA Countries: Concepts, Sarah Anne Minkin, Independent Talha Koseoglu, Bilkent U-Practices of Challenges and Opportunities Scholar Islamic political knowledge production in Organizers: Markus Loewe and Steven Turkey: Between local and universal Heydemann Thematic Conversation Dunya Deniz Cakir, National U Singapore-An Islamist genealogy of Steven Heydemann, Smith Col- 4965 Middle East Feminist and knowledge and comparative political theory Rethinking social contracts in the MENA region Queer Studies: State of the Field in Turkey Alp Eren Topal, Koç U-Impact of the West Markus Loewe, German Development Organizer: Frances S. Hasso vs Islamic tradition: Continuity in Turkish Inst (DIE)-The social contract as a tool of political thought analysis for MENA countries Session Leader: Frances S. Hasso, Duke Georgeta Vidican Auktor, U Erlangen- U/JMEWS 5052 International Law in the Nürnberg-Towards a new social contract: Reforming energy subsidies in Morocco Banu Gokariksel, UNC Chapel Hill Contemporary Middle East: Ariel Ahram, Virginia Tech-Revisiting Rachel Greenspan, Duke U Impeding or Facilitating Violence? the rebel social contract: Evidence from Iraq miriam cooke, Duke U (Part 2) and Syria Amy Kallander, Syracuse U Organizer: Lisa Hajjar 4747 Negotiating Gender and 4722 Trump’s Foreign Policies Nicola Perugini, U Edinburgh-“Hospitals Morality in the Ottoman First shields”: International humanitarian law toward the Kurds World War and the targeting of medical facilities in Organizer: Vera Eccarius-Kelly Organizer: Kate Dannies Middle Eastern conflicts Organized under the auspices of Omar Dewachi, American U Beirut- Chair: Malek Abisaab, McGill U Ahmed Foundation IraqiBacter: Pathologies of intervention and Discussant: Elizabeth F. Thompson, for Kurdish Studies the decades of US-led wars in Iraq American U Jonathan Whittall, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders- Chair: Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col Secil Yilmaz, Cornell U-“Licensed Treating ‘terrorists’: Impartial humanitarianism microbes”: Public morality, gender, and in the time of counter-terrorism Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col-The prostitution in Ottoman Istanbul during and Ghassan Abu Sittah, American U Kurdish lobby and the Trump administration after World War I Beirut-The political capital of war wounds Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Tech- Graham Auman Pitts, NC State President Trump’s policy towards Kurdish U-‘Karmal Allah send me ten lira’: Women, refugees 4745 (Im)Mobilizing Agency in the migration, and World War I in Mount David Pollock, Washington Inst for Near Context of Short, Medium, and Lebanon East Policy-Triangulating US interests: Long-term Displacement in Jordan Kate Dannies, Georgetown U-Waging Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Russian, Iranians and Organizer: Rana B. Khoury reform: Law and gender in the Ottoman First more World War David Romano, Missouri State Chair: Rana B. Khoury, Northwestern U Stefan Hock, Georgetown U-“Ever in U-Kurdistan’s Trump card? Discussant: Sarah Tobin, Brown U need of safeguarding”: Gender and violence Michael Rubin, American Enterprise in Ottoman Anatolia, 1914-1918 Inst-Turkey, NATO, and the Kurds: Rawan Arar, UC San Diego-Shouldering Balancing military interests from Bush 41 the refugee burden: Jordanian sovereignty through Trump and the global refugee crisis Page 36 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 1-3PM Monday November 20

4795 Protest in the Contemporary 4842 Rethinking the Maghreb: 4887 Fashioning Philosopher- Middle East and North Africa: Liminality and Transversal Kings in the Post-Mongol Persian Strategic Interaction Perspectives Connections Cosmopolis, 13th-19th Centuries (II) Organizer: John Chalcraft Organizer: Brahim El Guabli Organizer: Jonathan Brack, Hebrew U Jerusalem Chair: Charles Kurzman, UNC Chapel Hill Sponsored by Discussant: James M. Jasper, Graduate American Association Chair/Discussant: A. Azfar Moin, UT Center CUNY of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) Austin

Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi, U Lausanne- Chair: Brahim El Guabli, Princeton U A. Tunç Sen, Leiden U-Displaying Beyond structure and contingency: Towards Discussant: Naima Hachad, American U scientific wealth and erudition: A portrait an interactionist and sequential approach to of Bayezid II (r. 1481-1512) as a philosopher- the 2011 uprisings Shaden M. Tageldin, U Minnesota- king Jann Boeddeling, London Schl of Sounding the Maghreb in the “nahda”: Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz, CORPI, CSIC- Economics and Political Science- Nineteenth-Century Arabic/European Using knowledge in the making of Sultan Ambiguity, spontaneity, and creative agency language politics at the interstices Süleyman’s legacy in the 2010/11 Tunisian revolution Hisham Aidi, Columbia U-Tangier to Hunter Bandy, Duke U-Universalizing John Chalcraft, London Schl of Havana: Race, jazz, political nostalgia Shi‘i kingship in the 17th century Deccan Economics and Political Science- Deborah A. Kapchan, NYU- James Pickett, U Pittsburgh-First among Transnational activism and Veolia: A Transversality and translation in Moroccan equals? The precarious relationship between dynamic interaction analysis contemporary poetry Islamic scholars and philosopher-kings in Jillian M. Schwedler, Hunter Col CUNY- Brian T. Edwards, Northwestern 18th-19th century Bukhara Protest temporalities and the meaning of U-Beyond binaries: The Maghreb after post- contention colonialism 4897 Slave Women in Muslim Society: Their Portrayal as 4824 Politics, Space, and 4854 Materialities of Translation Singers and Poets, Criminals and Subjectivity in the Arabian and Circulation: Rethinking Late Concubines Peninsula Ottoman Intellectual History Organizer: Kathryn Hain Organizers: Natalie Koch and Waleed Organizers: Karim Malak and Casey Hazbun, American U Beirut Primel Chair: Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve U Sponsored by Sponsored by Discussant: Dwight F. Reynolds, UC Association for Gulf and Arabian American Research Center in Egypt Santa Barbara Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) (ARCE) Simone Prince-Eichner, U Michigan- Chair: Natalie Koch, Syracuse U Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Holt, Bard Embodying the empire: Singing slave girls in Discussant: Neha Vora, Lafayette Col Col medieval Islamicate historiography Carl F. Petry, Northwestern U-Female Natalie Koch, Syracuse U-Sporting cities: Karim Malak, Columbia U-Translation’s slaves in Cairo’s medieval underworld: Geopolitical encounters and elite sport discontents: Intellectual histories of Khayr Gendered aspects of criminality and bondage initiatives in the Arabian Peninsula al-Din al-Tunisi rexamined in the Mamluk period Namie Tsujigami, U Tokyo-Saudi women Nada Khalifa, Columbia U-Sense, power, Marina Tolmacheva, Washington State as emerging new social actors: Consumption struggle: Nietzsche’s “Philosophy of Life” in U-Female and slave: Aspects of concubine and business opportunities in sex-segregated interwar Egypt value within a household Riyadh Jeffrey Culang, Graduate Center CUNY- Kathryn Hain, U Utah-The end of harem Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey- The blood libel on trial: Translations of slavery in the Mediterranean Muslim world.... Charity as politics ‘writ small’ in GCC states public interest in colonial Egypt or not Shaundel Sanchez, Syracuse U-Doing the Casey Primel, Harvard U-Translating state’s work: Self-Governing practices by US despotism in the east: al-Kawâkibî’s science citizens living in the United Arab Emirates of politics and journalism in the late Gwenn Okruhlik, National U Singapore- Ottoman Empire Tourism and political crisis: Reframing people, place and plot in Saudi Arabia

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4948 Arab Leftist Intellectuals Stephen P. Gasteyer, Michigan State 5000 Textual Configurations of as (Re)Active Agents in Times of U-Landscape change and the implications of Gender and the Body Change intermittent water supply in the West Bank: Organizer: Jeremy Randall An environmental justice case study Chair: Sara Scalenghe, Loyola U Dina Najjar, International Center for Maryland Discussant: Jens-Peter Hanssen, U Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas- Toronto Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: Suha Kudsieh, Col of Staten Island - “The more things change, the more they stay CUNY-The poems of Isma’il al-Khashshab (d. the same?” Samar Nour, U Toronto-Socialism and the 1815) on Rémy Raige: Homoerotics or madih? Carly Krakow, U Cambridge-The politics evolution of socialist thought in colonial Egypt Rawad Wehbe, UT Austin-Fever dreams: of access under occupation: International Mohamad J Hodeib, Graduate Center The narrative structuring of fever in Arabic law and violations of the human right to CUNY-Leftist militant music and the literature water in Gaza and the West Bank revolutionary war of position in Lebanon Ezgi Saritas, Ankara U-Dandies, Jeremy Randall, Graduate Center CUNY- tomboys and femme-fatales: Destabilizing Revolutionary sarcasm in the works of Ziad 4982 Border and Boundaries heteronormativity in late Ottoman Empire Rahbani during the Lebanese Civil War Elizabeth M. Perego, Shepherd U-“My Chair: Meriam N. Belli, U Iowa name’s Muhammad but everyone calls me 4970 Civil Society and Social Aisha”: Emasculating jokes from Algeria’s Aziza Khazzoom, Indiana U “Dark Decade,” 1991-2002 Activism Bloomington-Gender traditionalism Indira Falk Gesink, Baldwin Wallace among western identified Israeli Jewish U-“He makes them male and female”: Chair: Emre Erol, Sabanci U women from Poland and Iraq Intersexuality in tafsir and hadith literature Itamar Radai, Tel Aviv U-al-Madaniyyat: Golrokh Niazi, U Ottawa-The UGTT An alternative civil perception for the 5014 Medieval Islamic Thought at in Tunisia: Reclaiming the role of labor Palestinian Arab minority in Israel? the Intersection of Intellectual and movements and trade unions as agents of Ola Galal, Graduate Center CUNY- Social History political change Working along El-Had: Producing (il)legality Berrin Koyuncu, Hacettepe U and and contesting citizenship at Tunisia’s Chair: Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben- Aylin Özman, TED U, Ankara-The state margins in post-revolutionary times Gurion U of the Negev and rights-based organizations’ relations Pascal Abidor, McGill U-Contrebandes in Turkey since 2011: Uninstitutionalized d’Oignons: Cross-border smuggling and the Lutz Gerhard Richter-Bernburg, U processes, conflictual encounters and limits of the Lebanese mandate personalized politics Tuebingen-The Abbasid ‘house of wisdom’ revisited Janine A. Clark, U Guelph-LGBTQ 4999 Nahda, Translation, and the activism in Lebanon Jeremy Farrell, Emory U-Isnad-based Josepha Wessels, Lund U-Every day Transnational analysis of the emergence of Sufism: A peace: The ignored role of civil society in the network approach Syrian uprising Chair: Ida Nitter, U Penn Mushegh Asatryan, U Calgary-The Agnieszka Paczynska, George Mason Nusayris in medieval Syria: What can a 13th U-Who strikes? Understanding workers Peter Hill, U Oxford-Protestantism, c. theological debate tell us about them? protests in Sisi’s Egypt enlightenment, and unbelief in nineteenth- Muhammad U. Faruque, UC Berkeley- century Syria Between mind and reality: Mulla Sadra on Terri L. DeYoung, U Washington-Khalil the problem of natural universals 4978 Water Politics Mutran’s poem “Boycott” and the power of censorship Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Maryam Fatima, U Massachusetts Brigham Young U Amherst-Reverberations of the nahda across Asia: Reading Zaidan in Urdu Jeanene Mitchell, U Washington- Maria L. Swanson, United States Naval At the confluence: Transnational water Academy-Russian influences on the poetry management and local participation in of Mikhail Naimy and Naseeb ‘Adeedah Turkey’s Kura River Basin Rama Alhabian, Cornell U-Thou shalt not Henny Ziai, Columbia U-The “indebted translate me: Equivalence and contiguity in peasant”: Human capital, development and the work of (Aḥmad) Fāris al-Shidyāq neoliberalism in Sudan’s Gezira Scheme

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SPECIAL SESSION M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U-Local elites and governance in late Ottoman Bulgaria 5047 BDS: A Critical Evaluation Organizer: Robert O. Freeman 4805 De-Centering the Study of Shi‘ism Sponsored by Organizer: Mirjam Kuenkler Association for Israel Studies Chair: Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv U Chair: Robert O. Freedman, Johns Hopkins U Discussant: Said Arjomand, Association for the Study of Persianate Societies Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U (ASPS) Cary Nelson, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ilan Troen, Brandeis U Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, U Cambridge- The salience of alternative Shi‘i religious The Boycott, Divest and Sanction [BDS] movement has acquired increasing im- authority in Pakistan portance in academia in recent years, including in MESA. This panel will evalu- Mirjam Kuenkler, U Göttingen-Beyond ate the central propositions of BDS and subject them to a critical academic anal- marja’iyyat? Training women as religious ysis. Topics to be discussed include the so-called right of return of Palestinian authorities refugees, an end to the occupation of the West Bank, and the improvement of the Thomas Fibiger, Aarhus U-The place and status of Palestinian citizens of Israel (Israeli Arabs). An examination will also be role of religious authority among Kuwaiti made of the fate of the BDS issue in the academic organizations that have dealt Shi‘a with it. Hafsa Oubou, Northwestern U-Moroccan-Belgian Shi‘a Muslims in Brussels: Rethinking religious practices outside traditionally Shi‘a centers Roundtable Thematic Conversation 4807 Frictions of Governing in the 4740 Updating the Conflict in MENA Yemen 5035 Everyday Life of Sectarianism Organizer: Mona Atia Organizer: Daniel Martin Varisco in the Middle East: Ambivalent Articulations of “Sectarian” Chair/Discussant: Christopher Parker, Sponsored by Difference and the “Other” Ghent U American Institute for Organizers: Yasemin Ipek and Jenna Yemeni Studies (AIYS) Rice Rahaim Katharina Lenner, U Bath-Poverty alleviation as assemblage - (Re-)producing HE Amat Al-Alim Alsoswa, Former Session Leader: Yasemin Ipek, Stanford U and governing ‘poverty pockets’ in Jordan Minister for Human Rights/Yemen Hiba Bou Akar, Columbia U-On the Daniel Martin Varisco, American Inst Suad Joseph, UC Davis urbanization of violence: Contested access for Yemeni Studies Joanne Nucho, Pomona Col to housing for Syrian refugees in a Beirut Sheila Carapico, U Richmond Jenna Rice Rahaim, Macalester Col periphery Nadwa Aldawsari, Project on Middle Ussama Makdisi, Rice U Mona Atia, George Washington East Democracy U-Governing poverty: Moroccan poverty Waleed F. Mahdi, U Oklahoma 4777 Waqf and Administration in mapping in the margins the Ottoman Balkans Catherine Herrold, Indiana U-From Organizer: Jane Hathaway activism to clientelism: The effects of foreign aid on Palestine’s NGO sector Chair/Discussant: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U

Catalina Hunt, Denison U-Pious foundations (vakifs) in Ottoman Dobruca Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U-The waqfs of Ottoman chief harem eunuchs on the Danube in Romania and Bulgaria Sanja Kadric, Ohio State U-Poturnaks and their endowments in the Ottoman Western Balkans

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4833 Schooling in Iraq: Modernity 4850 Arab Public Opinion 4874 Excavating Memories of and Education in Iraqi Memory Research: Challenges and Minorities in the Middle East Organizers: Levi Thompson and Pelle Prospects Organizer: Faedah Totah Valentin Olsen Organizer: Tamara Kharroub, Arab Center Washington DC Sponsored by Sponsored by Ottoman and Turkish The American Academic Research Organized under the auspices of Studies Association (OTSA) Institute in Iraq (TAARII) Arab Center Washington DC Chair: Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman Col Chair: Qussay Al-Attabi, Kenyon Col Chair/Discussant: Amaney A. Jamal, Discussant: Emily Drumsta, Brown U Princeton U Paul Sedra, Simon Fraser U-From citizenship to protection in Egyptian public Kevin M. Jones, U Georgia-‘A Cage Mohammad Almasri, Arab Center for life: The role of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Disquiet’: Revolution, modernity, and Research and Policy Studies-Challenges to in modern sectarianism political awakenings in Najaf, 1905-1932 public opinion research in the Arab world: A Heghnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis-The Levi Thompson, Brown U-The poets of comparative analysis international cultural heritage regime and the Baghdad Teachers College Justin Gengler, Qatar U; Mark A. Armenian churches in Turkey: The medieval Pelle Valentin Olsen, U Chicago-Youth Tessler, U Michigan; and Jonathan ghost city of Ani on the UNESCO World mobilization and foreign education in Forney, George Washington U-Survey Heritage List interwar Iraq: The case of the Baghdad attitudes in the Middle East: Hindrance or Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman College-The College help? human archive: Conversations with crypto- Russell Lucas, Michigan State Armenians 4840 Community Based U-Competing conceptions of public opinion Faedah Totah, Virginia Commonwealth Learning (CBL), An Instructional in Qatar U-Remembering the Jews of Damascus Methodology for Attaining Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State U; Michael Professional Proficiency in Arabic: Wuthrich, U Kansas; and Ammar 4915 Blackness in the Middle East: Shamaileh, U Louisville-Limitations in The CASA Experience A Comparative Perspective Arab public opinion survey data: A context- Organizer: Iman Aziz Soliman Organizer: Beeta Baghoolizadeh dependent model of measuring religiosity Sponsored by and regime preferences in the Arab world Chair: Aslı Z. Iğsız, NYU Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Discussant: Michael Ferguson, New (CASA) 4862 The Beast in Image, Text and School for Social Research Politics Chair: Nevenka Korica, Harvard U Organizers: Khaled Malas and Tarek Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton Discussants: Chloe Bordewich, Harvard El-Ariss U-Afrocentrism, orientalism and other U and Henry Clements, Yale U pitfalls of studying the Swahili: New Chair: Khaled Malas, NYU thoughts on an old problem Iman Aziz Soliman, American U Cairo- Beeta Baghoolizadeh, U Penn-Buying Community engagement for language Jeannie Miller, U Toronto-Animal reason; and selling blackface: Theatrical anti- learning beyond classroom walls: The case of Human compulsion blackness in Pahlavi era Iran, 1930-1965 “CASA without borders” Benjamin Koerber, Rutgers U-Zombie Zavier Wingham, NYU-Dana Bayrami Chloe Bordewich, Harvard U-Arabic publics and leviathan regimes: Literary Festival: Forging solidarity through Afro- beyond the classroom in uncertain times: figuration and political affect in recent Turkish identity in modern Turkey CASA without borders and the Egyptian Egyptian fiction Mayowa Willoughby, Cornell U-The nonprofit sector Khaled Malas, NYU-Representing ‘al-Fil’ gender of that which might be called Nik Nevin, American U Cairo-Atlases [The Elephant] blackness: Reading the Arap Baci/Kizi within and candy shops: A semester spent teaching Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth Col-The Turkish popular culture geography in Establ Antar ghoul: Mythical creature, political practice, Michael Ernst, Independent Scholar- digital condition Film study, community-based learning, and Kāsāwiyīn bilā ḥudūd

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4931 Rethinking State-Society 4945 A New Corpus for the 4958 Nationalism In and Out Relations in Modern Egypt Islamicate World and Methods for of “Translation”: Theater, Organizer: Omar Foda Its Exploration Satire, and Memoirs Across the Organizers: Matthew Thomas Miller Persianate World Sponsored by and Sarah Bowen Savant Organizers: Rustin Zarkar and Sheida American Research Center in Egypt Dayani (ARCE) Sponsored by Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Chair: Blake Atwood, UT Austin Chair: Heather J. Sharkey, U Penn Discussant: Relli Shechter, Ben-Gurion Chair: Nancy Khalek, Brown U Belle Cheves, Harvard U-Love and U of the Negev Discussant: Paul M. Cobb, U Penn socialist realism: Translating Gorky in Iran Sheida Dayani, Harvard U/NYU- Ibrahim Gemeah, Cornell U-Al-Azhar Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U-How Staging “Hobb-al-Vatan”: Patriotism and and educational reform in the thought of were so many authors so very productive? nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth- Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abduh Exploring authorial strategies in the 10th- century Iranian plays Nefertiti Takla, Manhattan Col- 12th century Middle East Rustin Zarkar, NYU-Turning hooligans Theorizing the informal economy during Maxim Romanov, Leipzig U-Looking for into toilers: Satire and Tajik nationalism in WWI: Workers and political economic change the author behind the words: Stylometric Mullo Mushfiqi (1926-1931) in Alexandria, Egypt, 1914-1921 analysis of al-Dhahabi’s (d. 1347) writings Kyle Anderson, SUNY Old Westbury- Matthew Thomas Miller, U Maryland 4968 Cultural Politics of Youth The development and institutionalization of College Park-Topic modeling genre in agricultural cooperatives in Egypt medieval Persian poetry: A computational Chair: Michelle Mann, Washington Omar Foda, Independent Scholar-Stella approach to medieval thematic collections of State U is always delicious: The nationalization of poetry the Egyptian beer industry Elijah Cooke, U Maryland-New Jacob Hoigilt, Peace Research Inst advances in Arabic-script optical character Oslo-Arabic adult comics and the politics of 4938 Gendering the Body in the recognition youthfulness Middle East Delal Aydin, Binghamton U-The Organizers: Sherine M. Hafez and 4955 Rivalry, Revival, and formation of revolutionary subjects: Kurdish Angie Abdelmonem Survival: Contemporary Algerian youth politics in the 1990s and Tunisian Contestations and Cara Piraino, U Chicago-“Omanis Sponsored by being Omanis, there aren’t going to be any Association for Middle East Reconfigurations problems”: Youth in Muscat and the aging Anthropology (AMEA) and Organizer: William A. Lawrence Renaissance Association for Middle East Jonathan Guyer, Harvard U-Nationalism Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Chair/Discussant: Jacob A. Mundy, for kids: How Egyptian comics teach conflict Colgate U Manata Hashemi, U Oklahoma-Mobility Chair/Discussant: Sherine M. Hafez, UC and status in Iran’s Pāyin-e Shahr Riverside Yahia Zoubir, KEDGE Business School, France-The giant afraid of its shadow: 4974 State Consolidation and Algeria, the reluctant middle power Angie Abdelmonem, Arizona State Contestation in Qajar and Pahlavi U-The predatory male body in sexual Azzedine Layachi, St. John’s U-How Iran violence activism in Egypt institutions, structure and agency hamper Marta Agosti, SOAS U London-My body, Tunisia’s economic revival Chair: Saghar Sadeghian, Willamette U my violence and my political resistance: Maro Youssef, UT Austin-Contesting Rape, public testimony, and silence at the elite & state feminism: A new generation of Lior B. Sternfeld, Penn State U-The margins of Tahrir Tunisian feminists Pahlavi era as a golden age for Jewish Murat C. Yildiz, Skidmore Col-Building William A. Lawrence, George political activism in Iran blocks of the nation(s): Male bodies in early- Washington U-Enemies, frenemies, or Daniel Sheffield, Princeton U-Toward twentieth-century Istanbul rivals: The Islamic State-AQIM nexus a social history of late Pahlavi (Zoroastrian Maria Frederika Malmström, Lund U-A M. Tahir Kilavuz, U Notre Dame- Middle Persian) “real man”, while Egypt falls apart Reconfiguring authoritarianism: Post-crisis Saghar Bozorgi, NYU-Localization of Sherine Hamdy, UC Irvine-Comics as regime consolidation in Algeria national politics: The experience of conducting theory: Bodily vulnerability and resilience in elections in Kashan, Iran (1909-10) “Lissa”: An ethnoGRAPHIC novel Chelsi Mueller, Tel Aviv U-Contesting the Persian Gulf: Iran’s naval vision past and present continued next page

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James M. Gustafson, Indiana State Feyza Burak Adli, Boston U-Female Anas Alahmed, Indiana U U-Vaqf and ecology: Reading the endowment religious authority and Islamic feminist Bloomington-A study of the cultural of the Madrasa-yi Sultani from an “counterpublic” in Turkey: The case of Rifai production of modernity in Saudi Arabia environmental history perspective Shaykha Cemalnur Sargut through the general authority for Assef Ashraf, Bryn Mawr Col-A familial entertainment and neoliberal capitalist state: The divan and the formation of Qajar 4989 States and Identities in the politics Iran Oil-Rich Arab World Faris Almutairi, Carbondale, IL-An analysis of study abroad: Understanding the 4976 Women and Leadership: Past Chair: Kristi N. Barnwell, U Illinois state-society relationship in Saudi Arabia and Present Springfield Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U Qatar- The state and the changing social contract Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State U Erick Viramontes, Australian National in the GCC U-Self-determination, otherness and Tara Stephan, NYU-The public presence subjectivities: Constructing Qatari national of Mamluk princesses identity in a period of reform Sarah Fischer, Marymount U-Women and secular opposition parties in Islamist- dominated political systems

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Roundtable Kevin Blankinship, U Chicago-Al- 4831 Circulation and Migration: Ma`arri’s menagerie in the Maghreb Armenian Migrants in the Ottoman 4830 “Can You Read This One?” Enass Khansa, Harvard U/American U New Advances and Issues in Empire and Beyond Beirut-How an anthology curated a caliphate: Organizers: Yasar Tolga Cora and Digital Recognition of Printed/ On “al-’Iqd” (“The Necklace”) and the Dzovinar Derderian Handwritten Arabic Characters Umayyads of al-Andalus Organizer: M. Safa Saracoglu Nizar F. Hermes, U Virginia-When a poet’s Chair/Discussant: Houri Berberian, UC heart burns for a burned city: Ibn Sharaf al- Irvine Chair: M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U Qayrawānī’s elegy for Qayrawan Vazken Khatchig Davidian, Birkbeck, U Kursat Aker, Miletos R&D/METU 4823 Imagery in Jewish Morocco London-Black news of an absent bantoukhd M. Erdem Kabadayi, Koç U Organizer: Patricia Goldsworthy son: Garabed Nichanian’s “The Reading of the Mehmet Can Yavuz, Koç U Letter” M. Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U Sponsored by Dzovinar Derderian, U Michigan- Maxim Romanov, Leipzig U American Institute for Traversing space and transforming belongings Maghrib Studies (AIMS) to nation and empire among itinerants of Van, 4737 Reflections on the State and 1820s-1870s Statelessness in the Post-Arab Discussant: Katarzyna Pieprzak, Yasar Tolga Cora, Bogaziçi U-Local Williams Col Spring Era belongings, (trans-)imperial networks, non- Organizers: Sami Emile Baroudi, Rola state actors: Armenian homeland associations Patricia Goldsworthy, Western Oregon El-Husseini and Lina Beydoun in the late Ottoman Empire and beyond U-Picturing the mellah: Joseph Bouhsira and David Low, U Michigan-The itinerant Moroccan Jewish photography Organized under the auspices of image: Domestic photographs in an age of Aomar Boum, UCLA-Captives of the global movement Lebanese American University mellah?: Moroccan rural Jewry in the colonial postcard 4892 Children, Youth, and Media in Chair/Discussant: Nadim Shehadi, Tufts U Emma Chubb, Smith Col-Documents of Middle Eastern Conflict Zones diaspora: The Boccaras in Ntifa, 1971/2011 Organizer: Yael Warshel Imad Salamey, Lebanese American U-The Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark Col-Saints rise of communitarian states in the Middle in the age of mechanical reproduction: East Religious icons in Jewish Morocco Chair: Yael Warshel, Penn State U Rola El-Husseini, Lund U-Gender and the sectarian state 4829 Historical Perspectives on the Yael Warshel, Penn State U-Children, youth, and media in Middle Eastern, North Sami Emile Baroudi, Lebanese American Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil U-The problematic notion of the “Islamic African, and Gulf conflict zones Organizer: Nelida Fuccaro State” in the discourses of contemporary Weeda Mehran, McGill U-Militant children Islamists on social media: “Cubs of the Caliphate” and Chair: Nelida Fuccaro, NYU Abu Dhabi , Lebanese American “Taliban’s Soldiers of God” Tamirace Fakhoury Discussant: Mandana E. Limbert, U-Displacement and statehood: The case of Tugce Kayaal, U Michigan-War, Queen’s Col CUNY Lebanon’s coping mechanism with Syria’s orphanages, and print media: Gendering and refugee influx nationalizing orphan boys in the late Ottoman Mattin Biglari, SOAS U London-Making Konya during the First World War (1914-1918) Lina Beydoun, Lebanese American workers invisible: The production and U-Statelessness in the post-Arab Spring era Mariam Abdul-Dayyem, U Otago-Digital representation of expertise in the Abadan culture of contention of Palestinian youth in refinery and beyond, 1939-53 the West Bank 4775 Literary Genealogy in Gregory Brew, Georgetown U-Building the Medieval and Modern Iberia and petrochemical paradise: Oil, water and soil in North Africa the US-Iranian project in Khuzestan Organizer: Kevin Blankinship Nelida Fuccaro, NYU Abu Dhabi-Telling stories of urban, suburban and industrial oil Chair: Kevin Blankinship, U Chicago lives: Corporate propaganda in Iraq, Kuwait Discussant: Suzanne P. Stetkevych, and Bahrain in the 1950s Georgetown U Matthew MacLean, NYU-Oil, mobility, and state-building in the United Arab Emirates Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS Col-Resistance to loss through the preservation of form: The continuing practice of adab in the 20th century

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4905 Egypt’s Judiciary Since the 4967 Islamist Thought and Practice 4983 Diaspora and Political Revolution Participation Organizer: Jeffrey Sachs Chair: Quinn Mecham, Brigham Young U Chair: Ammar Naji, Colorado Col Discussant: Ellis Goldberg, U Washington Yaseen Noorani, U Arizona-The literary aesthetic foundations of Islamism in Sayyid Tarek Shago, U Chicago-Nationalism at Monika Lindbekk, U Oslo-Judicial activism Qutb home and abroad: The impact of expatriate in the field of Egyptian shari‘a-derived family Yasser Sultan, Georgetown U-The Libyan opposition on the development of a law ambivalence of religious modernization: national identity Jeffrey Sachs, Acadia U-Technically Women’s education and veiling between Ammar Naji, Colorado Col-Rethinking speaking: Locating the law in post- Rashid Rida, Qasim Amin and Malak Hifni post-colonialism through the lenses of modern revolutionary Egypt Nasif Middle Eastern migratory formations Hind M Ahmed Zaki, U Washington- Joshua Donovan, Columbia U-Between Emanuela Dalmasso, U Amsterdam-May The triumph of sovereignty over legitimacy: liberalism and Islamism: The Muslim Brothers I borrow your MPs? The political participation The weakening of the judiciary in post- and the United Nations of “authoritarian” diasporas revolutionary Egypt Mounah Abdel Samad, San Diego State Michael Akladios, York U-The stigma Mona Oraby, Amherst Col-Law, rights, U-Do Islamist parliamentarians provide of ‘Arab-ness:’ Coptic immigrants’ self- and judicial activism: The politics of religious services to the poor and middle class? Orientalism in Toronto, 1954-1981 conversion in Egypt Evidence from North Africa 4996 The Surreal and the Real Roundtable 4971 Foreign Relations in and between Orientalism and Post- 4929 Social Media, Feminist Praxis, Beyond the Middle East Orientalism and State Power Chair: Robert Mason, American U Cairo Organizer: VJ Um Amel Chair: Sena Karasipahi, Texas A&M U Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U-Out of Mark Le Vine, UC Irvine Angelica Maria DeAngelis, American Arabia: The Mahmal Incident of 1926 and the U Kuwait-La chose inachevée: The role of Lisa Parks, MIT demise of Egyptian influence in the Hijaz Manal Hassan, Motoon women in contemporary Algerian society and Ana Torres-Garcia, U de Sevilla-The cinema VJ Um Amel, UC Santa Barbara impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war on Abir Ghattas, Majal Defne Kirmizi, Boston U-The neo-avant- Morocco’s foreign relations garde art scene in Turkey from 1970s to Islam Hassan, Georgetown U Qatar-UAE: present 4940 Authority in Concrete: State, A small state with middle power aspirations Alyeh Mehin Jafarabadi, U Arizona- Space, and Infrastructures in Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity U-Iran-China Shirin Neshat’s photos in the frame of Turkey relations: Past, present, and future Orientalism: For whom do we pose? Organizer: Sinan Erensü Matthew Cebul, Yale U-Military audience Laura Metzler, Maraya Art Centre- costs and the Six Day War: Evidence from Genetics, physics, and transcendence in the Chair/Discussant: Emrah Yildiz, Egypt and Jordan later work of Saloua Raouda Choucair Northwestern U Sam Bardaouil, Art Reoriented- 4972 Transactions of Knowledge Rethinking surrealism: Art et liberté (f. 1938), Sinan Erensü, Northwestern and Power: East-West and West- and the subjective realism of Ramses Younane U-Infrastructure rules: On Turkey’s East (1913-1966) infrastructures-led regime of urgency Zeynep Oguz, Graduate Center CUNY- Chair: Gökser Gökçay, Texas State U Wells of failure: Oil exploration, conspiracy theory and power in Turkey Kent F. Schull, Binghamton U-Criminal Bengi Akbulut, Concordia U-Troubled justice reform in the global progressive era: waters of hegemony: Shifting nexus of hydro- Eurasia of the early 20th century power in Turkey Jameel Haque, Minnesota State U, Firat Bozcali, U Penn-Contested Mankato-Reflections of war: The US infrastructures: Batman refinery, oil pipelines, consulate during World War I and Kurdish economies of oil theft in Batman, Amjad Dajani, Northwestern U-Sheikh Turkey al-Islam of the British Isles, Sheikh Abdullah Cihan Tekay, Graduate Center CUNY- Quilliam Electrifying the nation-state: Generating consent in republican Turkey

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5013 The Formation of the Secular 5020 Leisure, Consumerism, and 5024 Ethnographies of Everyday Since Ottoman Times Food Politics

Chair: Metin Heper, Bilkent U Chair: Roberto Mazza, U Limerick Chair: Hale Yılmaz, Southern Illinois U Carbondale Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City Amber J. Howard, UT Austin-Kitchen U-Secular Islamists: The Rise of neo-Islamism resistance: Occupied foodways and Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul U-Reconsidering in Tunisia and Morocco Palestinian womenʼs cookbook Turkey’s democratization: Role of social Amir Toft, U Chicago-Sacred and secular production resistance in everyday life in 1939-1945 justice in the Ottoman Empire: The execution Maayan Hilel, Tel Aviv U-“We also lived Mine Eder, Boğaziçi U-Migrant perceptions of Râziye and its aftermath (c. 1590) a little”: Leisure and recreation of ordinary in Istanbul: Is it the economy? Omar Omar, American U Cairo-Between Palestinians; Women, children and workers, Elise Massicard, Centre National de la the magical and the mundane: Holy fools, the 1920-1948 Recherche Scientifique-Street-level officials homeless and street-dwellers in contemporary Barbara J. Michael, UNC Wilmington- and everyday politics in Turkey Egypt Sustenance, power and autonomy: Baqqara Hebatallah Khalil, U Illinois Urbana Arthur S. Zárate, Columbia U-Rethinking women’s private and public assertion of Champaign-Revolution in parallel times: An Sufism and the supernatural in Islamic reform autonomy through food ethnography of an Egyptian village in flux David Rahimi, UT Austin-“To make Jose Ciro Martinez, U Cambridge-Site 5017 Perspectives on Nationalism: a man’s life happy”: Prostitution and of resistance or apparatus of acquiescence? Anti-Imperialism, Community- consumerism in 1960s and 1970s Iran Everyday tactics at the bakery Building and the Body

Chair: Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State U San Marcos

Nicholas E. Roberts, Sewanee: U of the South-Pan-Islam and Palestinian nationalism in mandate Palestine Syeda Quratulain Masood, Brown U-Where we are born and the soil from where we eat: The idea of terric nationhood Jonathan Sciarcon, U Denver-Picking up the pieces: The alliance Israélite Universelle in Baghdad, 1917-1921 Joseph Leidy, Brown U-Competing masculinities in the mahjar: Syrian social nationalist recruitment in Argentina (1939- 1947)

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Roundtable Lamia Moghnie, Arab Council for Social Camila Pastor, CIDE-That whore called Sciences-“The forsaken sufferers of mental Tangier 4727 Defining Early Modernity in diseases”: Massacre, humanitarianism and Ottoman History the emergence of modern psychiatry in late 4780 Making Falsafa: Towards Organizers: Antonis Hadjikyriacou and Ottoman Syria a Modern History of Arabic Bogac Ergene Filippo Maria Marranconi, EHESS- Philosophy Mental health services as politics: Exploring Organizer: Angela Giordani Chair: Bogac Ergene, U Vermont the experience of suffering among Syrian displaced in Lebanon Robert J. Wisnovsky, McGill Palmira Brummett, Brown U Ana Vinea, U Michigan-Debating law, U-Muhammad ‘Abduh as Avicennian Antonis Hadjikyriacou, Boğaziçi U culture, and mental health: A view from philosopher Virginia Aksan, McMaster U contemporary Egypt Ahmed El Shamsy, U Chicago-Editing Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U Mac Skelton, Johns Hopkins U-“We are all classics of Islamic philosophy, late 19th and Linda T. Darling, U Arizona psychiatrists”: Oncology and palliative care early 20th centuries in Iraq Angela Giordani, Columbia U-Arabic Thematic Conversation philosophy, competing universalisms, and the 4762 Tradition and Modernity: Egyptian nahda 5040 Reading Middle Eastern Reform, Gender, and Neo- Murad Idris, U Virginia-Illustrating Traditionalism in Egypt and Literatures Comparatively Islamic philosophy: Post-colonial canons, education, identity, and Ibn Tufayl’s “Hayy Organizer: Roberta Micallef Beyond Organizer: Mark Sedgwick ibn Yaqzan”, 1937-1992 Session Leader: Roberta Micallef, Boston U Chair: Morten Valbjorn, Aarhus U 4801 Mizrahi Cultural Trespassers: C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç U Boundary Crossing, Patriotism and Persis M. Karim, San Francisco State U Dietrich Jung, U Southern Denmark-“The Betrayal in Israel/Palestine Hulya Adak, Sabanci U modern authenticity of Islamic traditions”: Organizer: Shay Hazkani Modernity and multiple modernities in the Muslim world Discussant: Michelle Campos, U Florida 4724 Labor, Capitalism and Mervat Hatem, Howard U-The 1929 Mobilization After the Arab Spring Egyptian Personal Status Law, its modern Shay Hazkani, U Maryland College Park- Organizer: Zep Kalb re-inventions of Islamic traditions and the When both foe and friend look alike: Mizrahi construction of gendered individuals Jews in the 1948 War Chair/Discussant: Joel Beinin, Stanford U Mark Sedgwick, Aarhus U-Neo- Bryan K. Roby, U Michigan-Repatriation traditionalist Islam as postmodernity and transgressive migrations of Mizrahi Jews Lorenzo Feltrin, U Warwick-Between a Kirstine Sinclair, U Southern Denmark- from Israel to the Arab world rock and a hard place: Trade unions, class, “Is clinical psychology useful, Shaykh?” Hillel Cohen, Hebrew U Jerusalem- and the state in Algeria and Tunisia Questions of modernity, tradition and Sephardi-Arab joint resistance to European- Zep Kalb, U Oxford-‘Etelaf (coalition) or authority at Islamic colleges Zionism: Reality and hope 1908-1948 ekhtelaf (contention)? Labor insurgency and Shayna Zamkanei, U Michigan-Do class politics after Iran’s Green Movement 4763 Gendered Transformations: Mizrahi Holocaust commemorative practices Sahan Savas Karatasli, Princeton “New Women” of the Mandate challenge the Zionist project? U-Capitalism, crisis and labor unrest in the post-Arab Spring Middle East: A comparative- Period Organizers: Camila Pastor and Nova historical perspective 4856 Mediterranean Crossings and Robinson Tunisian Settlements, 1860-2017 Organizer: Sarah DeMott Chair/Discussant: Ellen L. Fleischmann, 4750 Psychiatry in the Middle East: U Dayton Discussants: Mark I. Choate, Brigham Hospitals, Science and Care Young U and Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Organizers: Lamia Moghnie and Ana Leyla Dakhli, CNRS (Centre Marc Bloch, Columbia U Vinea Berlin)-Women at work (Jerusalem, 1920- 1936) Sarah DeMott, NYU-Mediterranean Discussant: Chris Dole, Amherst Col Nova Robinson, Seattle U-Showcasing the intimacies: An archipelago formation between new Arab woman abroad: Syrian women’s Sardinia and Tabarka Chris Wilson, U Cambridge-‘All capable speaking tours in the United States in the Gabriele Montalbano, Ecole Pratique of work should be thus employed’: The 1940s des Hautes Etudes-Nation-buiding across therapeutic, social, and economic benefits of Susanna Ferguson, Columbia U-Maids, transnational boundaries: The construction of patient work in mental institutions at Cairo, servants, and wet-nurses in the Arabic a national identity among the Italians living Beirut, and Bethlehem, ca. 1884-1948 women’s press in French Tunisia Page 46 u MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 10:30AM-12:30PM Tuesday November 21

Chiara Pagano, “Roma Tre”-Tripolitanian Mustafa Gurbuz, American U-The rise of D. Gershon Lewental, U Oklahoma/ migrants in Tunisian protectorate: Kurdish quasi-state in Syria: Prospects and Shalem Col-Call-and-response battles in Challenging the colonial imaginary of French challenges Syria and Iraq: The literary construction of Maghreb Seevan Saeed, U Exeter-Independency and Islamic collective memory Giorgia Cantarale, Sapienza U of Rome- sovereignty; The state and non-state actors: EU-Tunisia relations after the Arab Spring: The case of Syria 4979 Peasants, Land, and Politics Migration politics, asylum and human rights Wendelmoet Hamelink, Center for protection Gender Research, Oslo-Images in exile. Chair: Harrison Guthorn, Sultan Qaboos Ilaria Giglioli, UC Berkeley-Colonial Gender, representation and everyday life of Cultural Ctr mobilities & contemporary connections. Syrian Kurdish women in Norway Mobilizing histories of Sicilian southward Marion Dixon, American U-Land Mediterranean migration in contemporary 4933 Art and Mediation: Affective reclamation and expanded commodity Sicily and Socio-Political Practices of production in the longue durée Valentina Zagaria, London Schl of Revolutionary Challenges Yelda Kaya, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Economics and Political Science-Death Organizer: Rania Gaafar U-Parliamentary politics in early republican at Europe’s border: Burial practices and Turkey: Contestations over settlement, land mourning across the Mediterranean Sea Chair: Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser U use and property rights Jeffrey D. Reger, Georgetown U-The 4869 Loyalists in the Gulf: Reliable Surti Singh, American U Cairo-The Palestinian olive sector of the West Bank: Partners or Independent Actors subjective turn in contemporary Egyptian art Between Israel and Jordan, 1949-1987 Organizers: Courtney Freer and Jessie Maymanah Farhat, Independent Bengu Kurtege Sefer, Binghamton Moritz Scholar-Cynicism and sorrow in Syrian art U-Competitive party politics, landless peasant after the uprising women, and their political activism in two Chair: Michael Herb, Georgia State U Rania Gaafar, U Siegen (Germany)- villages: Rethinking rural class structure in Discussant: Farah Al-Nakib, American U Aesthetics of crisis in the Arab world – Turkey after World War II Kuwait Epistemologies of connectivity in documentary Andrew Akhlaghi, UT Austin-Peasant modes of the real activism during the Soviet occupation of Iran Courtney Freer, London Schl of VJ Um Amel, UC Santa Barbara-Media Economics and Political Science-Clients sousveillance on its back 4993 Melancholia, Race, and or challengers?: Tribal constituents in Kuwait, Enslavement Qatar, and the UAE 4951 Missionary Renegades: Kristin Smith Diwan, AGSIW- Resisting the Metanarrative in the Leila Pourtavaf, U Toronto-In the shadows Transnational clerical associations in Qatar Ottoman Empire and Turkey of Gulistan: Servants and eunuchs of Nasser and the UAE Organizer: Carolyn Goffman al-Din Shah’s court Jessie Moritz, Princeton U-Loyalist roots, Katie Hickerson, U Penn-The Seligmans’ reformist attitude: The Al-Fateh Youth Chair: Allen Hibbard, Middle Tennessee snapshot: Funerary rites, a history of violence, Coalition in Bahrain State U and cultural resilience in Sudan, 1865-1909 Andrew Leber, Harvard U-Trading off on Noa Shaindlinger, North Carolina State loyalty: Business elites in the Gulf Henry Clements, Yale U-Local expertise U-Israel and the social sciences, or why race and the East Turkey mission: Syriac orthodox- matters missionary encounters in the late Ottoman 4890 Syrian Kurds: Contesting Empire 4995 Teaching in and on MENA: Boundaries Carolyn Goffman, DePaul U-Relegating Programs and Histories Organizer: Huseyin Rasit “race hatred” to the Ottoman past: Mary Mills Patrick’s positive narrative of the new Turkey Chair: Tessa Farmer, U Virginia Chair: Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst U-“Don’t College, let America go to war!”: The pacifist views of Tessa Farmer, U Virginia-Coherence Discussant: Mehmet Gurses, Florida Edith Parsons and equivalence: Geographic imaginaries of Atlantic U global/Middle East/South Asia 4964 Echoes of Battle: Legitimation, Manal Saleh, Lebanese American U and Huseyin Rasit, Yale U and Alexander Memory, and the Distant Past in Ketty Sarouphim-McGill, Lebanese Kolokotronis, Yale U-Vanguards of anti- Islamic Narratives American U-Establishing programs for gifted statism: Hope and tension in the ideological learners in Lebanon project of Rojava Organizer: D. Gershon Lewental Ipek Demir, U Leicester UK-The global south in the Middle East?: The case of Syrian Scott Savran, King Abdullah Academy- Kurds Righteous Huns and Islamic Kerygmatic memory

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5010 Invoking Religion in and 5012 Literary Configurations of 5026 Media: Circulation and Against Imperialism, Occupation, Secular Modernity Censorship and War Chair: Nathaniel Greenberg, George Chair: Ozde Celiktemel-Thomen, U Chair: Hind Arroub, Fordham U Mason U College London

Veysel Simsek, Yale U-How the “infidel Radwa El Barouni, UT Austin- Jennifer Boutz, U Maryland College Sultan” called his Muslim subjects to war: Contemporary Egyptian historical fiction: Park-Taboo language in Arabic social media: Islam, state discourse, and organized violence What’s at stake? Recent developments and emerging trends during the later reign of Mahmud II (1826- Ahmad Agbaria, UT Austin-Dar al-Taliaa Amirhossein Teimouri, U Illinois 1839) a powerhouse of secular ideas Urbana-Champaign-Representations of Iran Isaac Friesen, U Toronto-A bishop, not Razi Ahmad, U Kansas-Heterogeneity of in Arab conventional and new social media: a pawn: The roots and reflexivity of Anba Iranian modernity in Ja’far Modarres Sadeqi’s Al-Jazeera versus Faisal Al-Kasim’s Twitter Athanasius’ tolerant liberalism “Nakoja-Abad” (“Nowhereland”, 1990) activity Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Texas Adam Spanos, NYU-The past, present Maral Karimi, U Toronto-A movement A&M U-Contesting religious legitimacy in the and future of literary commitment in Arab co-opted: A critical discourse analysis of the Iran-Iraq War anticolonialism Iranian Green Resistance Movement of 2009 Lyndall Herman, U Arizona-Hamas Dena Afrasiabi, UT Austin-Walking the through a difference lens: What memoirs digital city: Language and space in Iranian reveal about the organization’s competing digital folk narratives priorities Eoghan Stafford, UCLA-Media reform and Kenny Schmitt, Exeter U-Sufism in censorship in Ben Ali’s Tunisia Jerusalem: Institutional disruptions and subversive transformations

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4739 On the Verge of Rout: 4783 Humanitarianism in the Colette Salemi, U Minnesota-System The Politics of Hope and Ottoman Empire During World War I resiliency and the Jordan response platform Disappointment Post the Arab Organizer: Stacy Fahrenthold for the Syria crisis Rasha Hassan, Cairo U-Informality and Spring access to services among youth of Cairo’s Organizer: Nermin Allam Sponsored by Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) ashwaiyyat Chair: Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, George Chair/Discussant: Barlow Der 4852 Social and Environmental Washington U Mugrdechian, CSU Fresno Histories of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century Shimaa Hatab, Cairo U-Contested power Melanie S. Tanielian, U Michigan- Organizer: Ranin Kazemi and authoritarian restructuring: Egypt Nourishing bodies and souls: The Maronite between January 2011 and June 2013 Church’s relief effort in Mount Lebanon Chair/Discussant: Arash Khazeni, Nermin Allam, Princeton U-Activism during the Great War Pomona Col amidst disappointment: Women’s groups and Stacy Fahrenthold, CSU Stanislaus- the politics of hope in Egypt American relief and émigré politics in the Noah Haiduc-Dale, Centenary U, NJ- Steven T. Brooke, U Louisville-Sparks Syrian mahjar Water and society in the Gulf littoral and firewalls: The dillusion of protest and Asya Darbinyan, Clark U-Can refugees Camille Cole, Yale U-Social, economic, and quiescence in the post-Arab Spring Middle speak? Humanitarian crisis at the Ottoman- environmental geographies of steamshipping East Russian border (1914-1917) in Southern Iraq, 1865-1909 Mariam Georgis, U Alberta-Post-2003 Iraq: Khatchig Mouradian, Columbia U-Not Zozan Pehlivan, McGill U-Relief for whom? A postcolonial, Iraqi perspective on the crisis like a lamb to the slaughter: Humanitarian Peasants, crop failure, and politics in Ottoman of “democratic nation-building” resistance during the Armenian Genocide Kurdistan, 1840-1896 Ranin Kazemi, San Diego State U-The 4755 Memory and identity: 4802 Mass Media in Middle East Black Winter of 1860-61: War, famine, and the The Significance of Locality in Historiography political ecology of disasters in Qajar Iran Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Organizer: Andrew Simon Sabri Ates, Southern Methodist U-Nature Century Egypt and Israel/Palestine of rebellion: The 1880 Kurdish Rebellion and Organizer: James Whidden Chair: Jonathan Smolin, Dartmouth Col the role of environmental factors

Chair: Mona L Russell, East Carolina U Yasemin Gencer, Independent Scholar- 4886 Colonialism and Culinary Between reality and fiction: Interpreting Cultures in the Middle East and Shana E. Minkin, Sewanee: U of the visual culture in early Turkish republican North Africa print media South-Mourning the imperial dead in turn- Organizers: Graham Cornwell and Anny Golbarg Rekabtalaei, North Carolina of-the-century Egypt Gaul James Whidden, Acadia U-Things left State U-The reel 1940s: Cinema, popular culture and politics in post-World War II Iran unsaid: Colonial memory and belonging Discussant: Stacy E. Holden, Purdue U Ruth Amir, Yezreel Valley Col-Who, after Andrew Simon, Cornell U-Vulgarizing sounds: Tapes, taste, and the end of high all, remembers today the Armenian village? Graham Cornwell, Georgetown U-Tea, culture in modern Egypt Sara Nimis, American Research Center sugar, and rural consumers in colonial Febe Armanios, Middlebury Col-“Touch in Egypt-Remembrance as protest: Multiple Morocco your screen and be healed!”: Reconsidering meanings under the Dome of Sayyida Nafisa Kelly Hammond, U Arkansas-“They do the history of televangelism in the Middle East in Cairo drink tea, just not like us”: Imperial Japan, perceptions of tea drinkers in the Middle 4826 Vulnerability and Exclusion: East and North Africa, and expanding global Examining Access to Services and markets during WWII Institutions for Syrian Refugees Anny Gaul, Georgetown U-Mother sauces and Residents of Cairo’s Ashwayyat and civilizing processes: Writing cuisine in Organizer: Colette Salemi Egypt and Morocco Sylvie Durmelat, Georgetown U-“Art Chair/Discussant: Denis J. Sullivan, couscous”: Chewing on the colonial experience Northeastern U

Alice Verticelli, Northeastern U-Victims or undeserving: Access to services for refugees in Turkey and the EU

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4895 Practices of Translation in the 4975 Women and Contemporary Keren Zdafee, Tel Aviv U-The good, the Ottoman and Safavid Empires Politics bad, and the evil: Images of women in modern Organizer: Yusuf Unal Egyptian caricature Chair: Fatemeh Hosseini, Georgetown U Pascale N. Graham, McGill U-Lebanon: Elif Bozgan, U Chicago-The Ottoman Codification of sexual labor and its detractors Turkish translation of history of Shah Abbas Silvana Toska, Davidson Col-Does Islam the Great explain gender inequality? Reassessing Islam 4994 Schooling the Nation: The Philip Bockholt, Freie U Berlin-Scholarly and its impact on gender outcomes Politics of Education in Historical interest or enemy studies? Ottoman Turkish Lars Berger, U Leeds-A symbol of Perspective translations of Arabic and Persian chronicles inequality? Arab perceptions of the veil in the 16th to 18th centuries Victoria Gilbert, U Penn-Sister citizens: Chair: Sebastian Guenther, U of Ercan Akyol, U Vienna-In search of Women’s identities and roles in Syria’s conflict Goettingen originality: Hamsa of Nevizade Atayi Hisae Nakanishi, Doshisha U-Emerging Yusuf Unal, Emory U-The translation of post-Islamist discourse on women’s rights in Johanna Peterson, UC San Diego-Policy non-Shi‘ite works in Safavid Iran contemporary Iran in practice: Subverting the colonial and the Jesilyn Faust, UC Santa Barbara-Between national in Lebanese girls’ schools during the 4896 Rethinking ISIS: War, Crisis, the world and the state: Women’s bodies as a French mandate and Transformation battle ground in Morocco Ghada AlMadbouh, Birzeit U-Education in Organizer: Feras Klenk Palestine: A good case to be made 4986 From Commerce to Economics Christiana Parreira, Stanford U-Students Chair: Leila O. Hudson, U Arizona in Islamic Thought and Society into Iraqis: The politics of education in Discussant: Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara Ba’athist Iraq Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U Grace Wermenbol, U Oxford-The birth of Moses Adams, Columbia U-Semiotics of the refugee problem in Israeli and Palestinian the Islamic State: Interpreting narratives of Ibrahim Elhoudaiby, Columbia textbooks ISIS’ western sympathizers U-Bifurcated partnerships: Debt and the rise Archana Prakash, Stanford Abe Jimenez, U Arizona-The of families and corporations in Egypt U-Epistemological convergences: Exploring transformation of IS Inc.: Restructuring and William Murrell, Vanderbilt hybridized education in Egypt, 1825-82 rebranding under the war economy U-Translators in the diwan: Facilitating cross- Feras Klenk, U Arizona-The state of cultural trade in the Eastern Mediterranean in 4998 Disillusionment, Ambivalence, education: Violence, boundary formation, and the crusader period and Narrations of the Self the territorial imaginary of ISIS Deniz Kilincoglu, Middle East Technical Cheikh Isselmou, U Arizona-Jihad, U-Northern Cyprus Campus-The first Chair: Ghenwa Hayek, U Chicago secularity, and eschatology: A new look into treatise on political economy in the Middle the discourse of ISIS East: Content and context Greg Bell, Princeton U-Mahjar doughboy: Ian Jones, UC San Diego-An archaeological Mikhail Naimy and the canon of Great War 4939 Representations of Struggle approach to the political economy of Ayyubid literature and Horizons of Freedom Southern Jordan Niki Akhavan, Catholic U-On the Organizer: Maryam Griffin Heiko Schuss, Abdullah Gül U-The homefront? Women’s memoirs and the Iran- influence of politics on the development of Iraq War Chair/Discussant: Golnar Nikpour, U participation banking in Turkey Maya Aghasi, American U Sharjah- Wisconsin Madison Historical fiction and the postcolonial, 4987 Gendering and Governing the transnational condition Amanda Batarseh, UC Davis-History Body Anwar Alsaad, American U of the Middle interrupted: Form in contemporary East-The hidden sarcasm in The Arabic Flash Palestinian literature Chair: Michela Cerruti, EHESS Ecole des Fiction; A study of the Kuwaiti short-short Arash Davari, Whitman Col-Auto- Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales story Empathy: Cultures of pragmatism and Ghada Mourad, UC Irvine-Civil war and collective action in revolutionary Iran Diana P. Hatchett, U Kentucky- the disembodied self: Hoda Barakat’s “Ahl Maryam Griffin, U Washington, Bothell- Bodybuilding and building the body politic in Al-Hawa” Mobility and struggle: Palestinian artists’ Iraqi Kurdistan imaginaries of freedom and return Miguel Fuentes Carreno, UC Santa Yousef Baker, CSU Long Beach-Conjuring Barbara-The construction of masculinity old dreams to imagine new futures; Oral through HIV in Egypt histories of Iraqi refugees and exiles

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5015 Negotiating Memories and 5023 Militaries of the Middle East: 5027 Islamism, Liberalism, and Legacies of Communal Violence in Politics and Economics Beyond in Turkish Politics WWI Anatolia Chair: Hind Arroub, Fordham U Chair: Quinn Mecham, Brigham Young U Chair: John Walbridge, Indiana U Bloomington Marwa Maziad, U Washington-Oscillating Aysenur Sonmez Kara, George Mason economic roles of Middle East militaries: U-Welcoming Syrian refugees in Turkey: Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, Independent Comparative inception stories of military The role of religious discourse in the case of Scholar-“Good Germans” in the Armenian business in Turkey, Egypt and Israel diyanet Genocide Özgür Özkan, U Washington- Nora Fisher Onar, Coastal Carolina Leigh Stuckey, U Michigan-Undercover Transformation of the Turkish civil-military U-Post-Factual politics and the illiberal turn: politics: Exchange organizations and minority relations in the 21st century The case of Turkey identity in Turkey Loosineh Markarian, U Denver-The Yusuf Sarfati, Illinois State U-Challenging Leonidas Karakatsanis, British Inst at impact of privatization on the political religious neoliberal governmentality under Ankara-Displacement, memory and empathy: autonomy of the militaries of Iran and Egypt the AKP A comparative analysis of Greek-Turkish and Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve Aykut Ozturk, Syracuse U-The Turkish-Armenian rapprochement U-Jordan’s longest war: Fiscal crisis and democratizing potential of Islamic social Anoush Tamar Suni, UCLA-Palimpsests militarization organizations: The case of HAK-IS in Turkey of violence: History, memory, and the ruins of Sean Burns, Northwestern U-Military Anatolia revolt and repression in the Arab Spring

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