08/18/2014 WOCMES 2014 - DAY 1

Yemen in Transition: Historic Opportunity or Intractable Crisis? 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 C Hall Roundtable

Stephen Steinbeiser, Susanne Dahlgren, Katherine Hennessey, Laurent Bonnefoy, Hamdan Dammaj, Wahbiya Sabra

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The European Union’s Involvement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (I): Crises, Change and Continuity 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 B Hall Moderators: Dimitris Bouris; D: TBA

Münevver Cebeci: The EU and Arab Change: A Post-structuralist Analysis of the Union’s Discourse and Practice

Maili Vilson: The "more for more" approach in the southern neighborhood

0428 Lucía Ferreiro Prado: “Good Governance” implementation programmes: the role of the European Union and the promotion of democracy

in Tunisia

Sergio Castaño: The contradictory position of the EU towards Political Islam and the new rapprochement after the Arab Spring

Bridging both Ends of the 'East': Trans-Regional Socio-Economic Interactions in the Middle East and Asia 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 D Hall Moderators: Miura Toru; D: Sakai Keiko; (AFMA special panel)

Mo Chen: Analyses of China’s Economic Development and the Possible Impact on China-GCC Relations

0535 Akira Usuki :Japanese Attitudes towards the Middle East from a Historical Viewpoint

Kim Joong Kwan: The Multi-Cultural Phenomenon in the Life of Muslims and Modern Dynamism Les Jeunes et les mobilisations dans le monde arabe: a propos des nouvelles manieres de faire de l’action collective et du reajustement des aines 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 F 14 Moderators: Larbi Chouikha; D: TBA

Larbi Chouikha: Effets générationnels et formes de la contestation politique sous Ben Ali: de la génération des années 1990 à celle des années 2000,

Hamida El Bour: Cyber activisme des jeunes tunisiens et expression de l'engagement politique après le 14 janvier 2011 en Tunisie

0676 Abderrahim El Maslouhi: La révolution improbable. Le Mouvement du 20 février: une victime de la désaffection publique au Maroc?

Fayçal Sahbi, Medih Souiah: Jeunes et lieux du politique en Algérie. Archéologie d’un glissement de sens

Joseph Hivert: Mobilisation collective et effets intergénérationnels de la socialisation politique. Le cas des militants de la génération des années 1970 et de leurs enfants dans le « mouvement du 20 Février Urbanism in Turkey 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 F 16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Esra Can, Haktan Ural: New Trends in Housing Patterns in Ankara: Tracing and Mapping Out the Changing Boundaries of Household

1120 Formations

Başak Ergüder: Mapping the commons in Istanbul: Finance of public infrastructural investments

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Cansu Civelek: Natural Disasters as Means to Neoliberal Urbanism: An Anthropological Case Study into the Karapınar Valley

0997 Regeneration Project in Eskişehir, Turkey

Social protection policies in the Middle East and North Africa I 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 F 17 Moderators: Markus Loewe D: TBA Markus Loewe: Contributory and non-contributory social insurance schemes in Arab countries

0787 Mehdi Ben Braham: Determinants of density contribution in the Tunisian retirement system: a cross-sectional analysis

Mahmoud Meskoub: Cash transfers as a social policy instrument or a tool of adjustment policy: Iran 2009-2014 Transnational Dynamics of the Shia Diaspora in the United Kingdom 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 09 Moderators: Oliver Scharbrodt; D: TBA

Oliver Scharbrodt: “Karbala in London” - Using a Spatial Methodology in Researching Shii Transnational Networks in London

Yafa Shanneik: Religion and Remembering among Shii Women Communities in London - Sufrat Ruqayya as a Space of Diversity

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Reza Gholami: Discourses of Difference - New Shii Spaces in the UK

Kathryn Spellman Poots: Non-Islamiosity within London’s Iranian Diaspora - Research Implications and Possibilities Tariqas 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 14 Gabriel Piricky: The İsmailağa community: shifting religious patterns in contemporary Turkey

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Ismail Albayrak, Sulaiman B.ali B.amir Al Shu'eili: Gulen (Hizmet) Movement’s role in Interfaith Dialogue in Turkey

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Badlihisham Mohd Nasir, Rahimin Afandi Abdul Rahim, Kamaruzzaman Mohd Yusof, Mohd Kamil Abdul Majid, Nor Hayati Md Dahlal

0621 The contribution of al-azhar Students in the Development of Islam in Malaysia

Yunus Dumbe: From Tarbiyya Debates to Ethno-nationalist struggles: Umar Ibrahim and the Salafis Transformation of the Islamic 1039 Research

Architecture of Collective Housing 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 15 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA 0468 Kıvanç Kılınç: From the entrance hall to the sofa and corridor: the journey of a siedlung in yenimahalle, Ankara 1349 Nihal Coşkun: Mediterranean modernism revisited: Aktur Bodrum Holiday Village and Demir Holiday Village 0982 Wiem Zerouati: Collective housing in historic center: between "traditional" spaces and "modern" social practices Minorities in the Middle East 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

1441 Michal Nobis: The Moroccan Jewry and their role in the contemporary Moroccan society. The road to continuation or extinction?

Maryam Nazeri: The representation of the “subaltern identities” in the Pahlavi I period in Iran

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Eid Mohamed, Said Hassan, Naglaa Mahmoud :Identity Politics of Color, Nation, Religion and Land in the Literature of Nubian-

1170 Egyptians

Rupakjyoti Borah: Ethnicity, conflict in Northeast India and its linkages with Southeast Asia

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Politics after the Decline Caliphate 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 101 Jennifer Viehl: Institutional thought in the time of local sovereign rule (12th-16th century)

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Moustapha Mohamed Baba Elemine: Al-hadrami, azougui et le commerce transsaharien: quels rapports?

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Burhan Bin Che Daud: Nur al-din ibn zengi and the quest for tajdid in 12th century Syria

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The MENA protest movements and the study of Middle East politics 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 102 Moderators: Priscilla Álamos-Concha; Co-Chair: Cindy Reiff D:Evren Altinkas-Ezgi Kiziltan

Evren Altinkas Ezgi Kiziltan :A fifth force in politics?: social media, revolutions and non-state actors in politics

Ilyas Saliba: Learning from mistakes? The international dimension of authoritarian stability

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Abdalhadi Alijla: Is the Arab Spring a social movement?

Silvia Ilonka Wolf: The Gezi Park Protests - Turkey at the juncture of new social realities

Visual staging of meaning: exploring borders of religion, identity and politics 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 16 Moderators: Torsten Janson; D:TBA

Pekka Tuominen: Visual Environment as a Valued Social Order: Aesthetic Practices and Cultural Intimacy in the Beyoğlu District of Istanbul

Canan Nese Karahasan: Staging Islam at a time of unrest in Turkey: Re-organizing the Holy Relics Section in the Topkapı Palace Museum

1032 Anders Ackfeldt: Multimodal staging of Islam in Music Video: Semiotic perspectives on “Paid in Full (Mini Madness – The Cold Cut

Remix

Ea Arnoldi: Graffiti as a form of performance and resistance in Palestine

Reza Arjmand: Inscribed bodies: Tattoo among Iranian Youth

Youth and Youth Studies in Turkey 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 106 Moderators: Asuman Goksel; D:TBA

Asuman Göksel and Özgehan Şenyuva:

1072 Yörük Kurtaran: Turkey, Israel and the Arab Middle East 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 107 Moderators: Aviad Rubin; D:TBA

Aviad Rubin: The Perils of Hegemonic Political Culture: What can Kemalism and AKPism teach us about regime transition in the Middle 0559 East?

Uri Ben Eliezer: Armies’ political influence within Divided Societies in a Post-Statist Era: Israel and Turkey reconsidered

As'ad Ghanem: Regional Power and Stability in the Arab World – Turkey, Iran and Israel

1241 Didem Oral: Turkey and Israel as Unidentical Twins: Frames and Political Opportunity Structures of Peace Movements in Militarist Societies Civic & Political Participation of Women in Turkey 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 108 Mezher Yuksel: Gendering the Parliament: Women Deputies in Turkey

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Corinna Eleonore Trogisch: Turkey as post- and multiple patriarchy. Dynamism or bleak Era?

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Tuba Kancı, Melike Argıt: Re-making citizenship and gender in Turkey: from the pedagogical state's desirable citizen to the enacting

1398 citizen

Models & Methods 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 109 Warick Grant Smith: Yemeni Youth and MOOCs – A piece of the puzzle of education provision in Yemen

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Palestine: Solidarity and Resistance I Disrupting Zionism: Alternatives to Exclusivity and Ethnic Cleansing 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 110 Moderators: Saed Abu Hijleh; D: Displacement in an-Naqab; Sponsored by Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) Mandy Turner: Creating a counter-hegemonic praxis: Israeli activists and the challenge to Zionism

Mariam Griffin: On buses and vans: movement as/and non-movement in Palestine

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Thabet Aburass: Displacement in an-Naqab

Reconstructing Islamic Empires: a comparative study of Iran and Turkey 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 111 Moderators: Ebrahim Towfigh; D:Bob Jessop, Ngai Ling Sum

Çağdaş Summer: Turkey’s Quest for a ‘Nationhood’

Firooze Farvardin: On the limits of the ‘Islamic World’: building an alternative conceptual framework to discuss spatiality in Turkey and Iran comparatively

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Nader Talebi: The state as a polymorphous reality: A theoretical framework for studying Iran and Turkey comparatively

Seyyed Mehdi Yousefi: Empire Structure and Nation-State Logic in Iran

Middle Eastern Diasporas 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 201 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Swetlana Czerwonnaja: The Crimean Tatars on the Kiev’s Maydan (the winter of 2013 / 2014)

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Natalia Agnieszka Hapek: The Circassian question. Memory, rights, self-determination

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Elmira Gutieva: Anatolian Ossetic: some aspects of functioning of the language of Ossetian diasporic communities in Turkey

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Arab Spring and Muslim Brotherhood 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 202 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Birol Başkan: The changing fortunes: the Muslim brotherhood in the Arab gulf region

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Naomi Ramirez: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria: internal dynamics after the coup in Egypt

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Ahmad Rizky M Umar: Islamism and the Politics of Hegemony: Analyzing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Movement in Contemporary Egypt

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The Geopolitical Origins of the Middle East? Historical Sociological Perspectives on the Late Ottoman Period 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 204 Moderators: Can Cemgil; D: TBA

Jamie Christoper Allinson: Uneven and Combined Development in Late Ottoman Transjordan

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Clemens Maximilian Hoffman: The Ottoman Empire and the Fallacy of Modernity

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Kerem Nisancioglu: The Late Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Question Paradox

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Identity & Diaspora 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 206 Moderators: TBA; TBA

Wesam Al Assadi: Arab Women Diasporic Writers: Hyphenated Selves in Quest for Identity

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Katja Janßen: The spatial dilemma of Palestinian diaspora poetry

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Nino Surmava: Issue of cultural identity in Ameen Rihani’s writings (“The book of Khalid” and “Outside the Harem”)

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Women's Activism in History 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 207 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Enrique Bengochea Tirado: Experiencing the colony: Women activism for empire in Spanish Sahara

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Sevil Cakir Kilincoglu: A comparative study of women's experiences in revolutionary movements in Iran and Turkey in the 1970s

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Serpil Atamaz: Riding the Waves of Change: Women in the Constitutional Revolutions in Qajar Iran and Ottoman Turkey

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0623 Ali Akbar Jafari Zadeh: The Demands of Secular and Islamist women in Iran: A Historical Study Explorations in medieval Islamic theology 18.08.2014 14.30-16.30 G 208 Moderators: M. Sait Özervarlı; D: TBA

0408 Maha El Kaisy: The Mu‘tazila: the critical thinkers of Islam

Harith Bin Ramli: Abu Talib al-Makki and the Salimiyya in the later Hanbalite tradition

Muammer Iskenderoğlu: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi and Ibn ‘Arabi on the ways to knowledge of God: unveiling or reflection and reasoning?

Jon Hoover: Ibn Taymiyya on God’s relation to space and spatial orientation

Language, Communication, Literature 18.08.2014 14:30-16.30 FZ 17 Moderators: TBA, D: TBA

Hiroko Kinoshita: The Phenomena of "The verse of love": Social role of al-Azhar Graduates in Contemporary Indonesia

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Deina A Rabie: Classical Arabic: Not my Mother Tongue. An investigation of language affect and ideology in Egypt

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Tanya Cariina Hsu: Arabian versus Western communication styles and misinterpretations

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Managing codification of Islamic law in Malaysia: methods, issues and way forward I 18.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G 104 Moderators: TBA D: TBA

Lqman Zakariyah: History and methods of codification of Islamic law

Abdul Azeez Yusuf: Problems of codification of Islamic Law in Malaysia

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Azman Mohd Noor: Codification of Islamic Finance Law in Malaysia

Managing codification of Islamic law in Malaysia: methods, issues and way forward II 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 104 Moderators: TBA D: TBA Ibrahim Ahmad Basri: Codification of Islamic criminal law in Malaysia

Mek Wok Mahmud: Codification of Islamic Family Law in Malaysia 1087

Naim Mohd Mokhtar: Issues in Administering Codified Islamic law in Malaysia Courts

Arab Spring and the EU 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 F 16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Ali Mourad: Le devenir du paradigme de la conditionnalité politique dans les relations euro-méditerranéennes après le Printemps arabe

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Axel Gehring: Defending the order: EU-AKP relations and the 2013 Gezi events

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Muzaffer Senel: European Union and the Arab Spring: Power by Stealth?

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Adolfo Calatrava: The importance of the economical and security international structures in the Arab Spring political processes

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Social protection policies in the Middle East and North Africa II 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 F 17 Moderators: Markus Loewe; D:TBA

0789 Ursula Kulke: A Case study: Jordan. How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the EU agenda on decent work?

Randa Alami: Inclusive growth and social health protection in the MENA region

Burcu Yakut Cakar: The gender dimension of social protection in Turkey

Rana Jawad: Social protection in the Arab region: An assessment of policy discourses and impacts

Theology & Religiosity 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 FZ 09 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Mahsa Asadollahnejad :Social hope, confrontation of epistemological and critical Shia theology in Iran

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Magdalena Zaborowska: The Anatomy of Lie. Strategy of Dissimulation in Contemporary Iranian Society

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Shima Gholamreza Kashi: Modern pilgrims in the court of a traditional shrine

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Muhiba Mahmadjanova Talatjanovna: The role of culture of tolerance in regulating religious misunderstandings

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Les Amazighes dans la tourmente des 'Printemps árabes'. Enjeux et perspectives des revendications berbères en Afrique du Nord 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 FZ 14 Moderators: Mohand Tilmatine; D: Thierry Desrues

Mohand Tilmatine: L’évolution du discours amazigh en Afrique du Nord. Des revendications linguistiques aux projets d’autonomie

0597 Stéphanie Pouessel: Amazighité versus Islam politique ? Configuration des revendications amazighes en régime post-autoritaire

Marisa Fois: La Tunisie en transition: quel rôle pour les Amazighs?

Bruce Maddy- Weitzmann: Amazigh Spring Redux? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh Movement

Didier Le Saout: La contestation amazighe au prisme de l’institutionnalisation Islam & Medicine 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 FZ 15 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Ahmet Karakaya: Bioethics through Religious Lens: The Case of Stem Cell Researches

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Labeeb Bsoul: An Arab-Muslim Scientific Heritage: Islamic Medicine

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Class and Working Life in Turkey 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 FZ 16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Saniye Dedeoğlu, Çisel Ekiz Gökmen: Socially Excluding Immigrants in Turkey: Female Migrants’ Work in the Textile and Tourism

0660 Sectors

Coşku Çelik, Hilal Erkuş Öztürk: Spatial Disintegration as a Barrier of Class Formation: The Case of Tourism Workers in Antalya

0975 Tourism Region

Idil Safiye Soyseckin Ceylan: Commodification of Care Work in the Informal Sector in Turkey

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Anthropology of Senses 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 FZ 17 Asghar Izadi Jeiran: Bodies on the Streets: Sensory (Re)making of Tehran Culture

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Maria Frederika Malmström: The sound of silence: materiality, affect and transformative politics in Egypt

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Roma People in the Middle East 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 FZ 19 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Mehmet Nuri Gültekin, Vural Tarla: Caste, class and borders: the long way of gypsies in the Syria war

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Aleksandra Bujalska: Meeting penetrating sight of the gypsy women somewhere in the middle east

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The Middle East and the World: 20th Century 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 101 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Fahriye Begum Yildizeli: Tactical Manoeuvre or a Political Leap for British Imperialism in the Middle East? A review on the British

0809 Occupation of Egypt in 1882

Howard John Dooley: "Lucky break" to curveball: intelligence revelations as catalysts for Suez and Iraq crises

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Mehdi Beyad: Narrative and Agency: Beyond the "Invention" of the Middle East

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Nadya Filipova: Nourishing political and sectarian polarization: the Soviet bloc foreign policy in the Arab Middle East

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Turkey as a Model 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 102 Efe Sevin: Turkish Public Diplomacy in a Time of Flux

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Meryem Ay, Mustafa Kursad Birinci, Ibrahim Uslu: The Middle East from the Eyes of Turkey: A Perception of the Public

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Imanol Ortega: Conservative Democracy (Muhafazakar Demokrasi) and political identity in the ideological reformulation of the Adalet ve

0279 Kalkınma Partisi, AKP: resurgence of Islam (Milli Görüş) or refund the center-right ruling party (Turk-Islam Sentezi)

A Research Agenda for Arab Youth Three Years On 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 106 Moderators: Asuman Goksel; D:Emma Murphy

Iván Martín, Moussa Bourekba: Taking Stock of the Research Agenda on Arab Youth

José Sánchez and Carles Feixa: Qualitative methods and methodologies on contemporary youth social changes research in SEM countries: the case of the SAHWA Project

1319 Maria Cristina Paciello and Daniela Pioppi: A comprehensive approach to the understanding of youth exclusion and the prospects for youth inclusion in the South and East Mediterranean: the case of POWER2YOUTH

Afaf Jabiri: Gender and the Youth Movements in the MENA Region: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Research

New Historical Perspectives 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 107 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Chisako Omoso: Ideological Background of Islamic Policy in Japan before World War Ⅱ: Focusing on the Religious Organization Nihon

1021 Kokkyo Daidosha

Seda Erkoç: King vs. historian: James I and Richard Knolles’ narrative of the battle of Lepanto 1257

Leila Khubashvili: A Letter from Romanus Pontifex Pius II to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II

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Oral Toğa: Franco - Ottoman Relations in Terms of France's Middle Eastern Policies During The Reign of King Louis XIV

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Women, Religion and Workplace 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 108 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Tally Zingher: Contextual Factors in Female Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship in the Middle East – Gender and the Startup Accelerator

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Fatiha TALAHITE: Déterminants et évolutions du travail des femmes au MENA (Middle East and North Africa)

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Sema Arslan: A Comparative Study Between the UK and Turkey: Factors Affecting Religion Practicing Muslim Women’s Motivation

0628 and Performance in the Workplace

Deniz Batum, Willy Jansen: Comparing notions of work and home lives: Turkish-Dutch and Turkish veiled students

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Between the Safavid and Mughals’ Empires: Knowledge, Religion and Literature in the Quṭbshāhī dynasty 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 109 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Mohammad Karimi Zanjani Asl: The Quṭbshāhīs and Qur’anic Studies in Persian:Ṣawāme‘al-Malakūt by Shāh Qāżī

Seyyed Sadegh Asef Agah: Meteorological Studies in the Quṭbshāhī’s Period

Azadeh Karbasian: From the Saljuki court to the Quṭbshāhī dynasty Instance: Neẓāmī’s Haft Peykar and Rūh al-Amīn Eṣfahānī’s Bahrām

0643 Nāmeh

Golaleh Honari: New documents on the Azar Keywānīs in the Quṭbshāhī’s Period

Malihe Karbassian: Some observations on the Quṭbshāhī’s philosophical writings

Palestine: Solidarity and Resistance II - Counterhegemonic Narratives: Historicizing Nakba, Contesting Racism & Islamophobia 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 110 Moderators: Lina Miari; D: Rabab Abdulhadi, Sponsored by Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) Robin D.G. Kelley:

1232 Sunera Thobani: Death by inclusion: the colonizing politics of feminism in the academy

Hatem Bazian: Palestine, Islamophobia and pro-Israel producers’ of Muslim otherness History of Cooking in the Middle East 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 201 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Tamon Baba: The Distribution of Court Cooking Ingredients and the Sovereign under the Rasūlids during the 13th Century

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Parvaneh Seyed Almasi: The introduction, description and reflection of Turkish dishes in Persian literature

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Sectarian Fault-lines in the wake of the Arab Revolutions 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 202 Moderators: Shahram Akbarzadeh; D:TBA Mark Farha: Searching for Sectarianism in the Arab Spring: Colonial Conspiracy or Indigenous Instinct?

Naser Ghobadzadeh: From competition to confrontation: Khomeinism and Wahhabism in the Syrian Proxy War

0730 Elham Fakhro: Reconciliation Initiatives in Bahrain

Geneive Abdo: The New Sectarianism: A Contemporary Political Conflict or the Resurgence of a Historic Doctrinal Dispute?

Luciano Zaccara: Iran’s influence in the gulf after the ‘Arab spring’: failed strategy or successful Saudi containment? History of Kurds 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 204 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Emine Rezzan Karaman: Neither Persian nor Kurdish: Imposition of Osmanlilik in the Kurdish Frontier and Making of the Ottoman-

1461 Persian Border

Muhammad Mahmood Saleh: Trajectories of Kurdish-Ottoman Relations vis-à-vis Southern Kurdistan Region in the Post-Bitlisi Plan:

1078 Transformation of Political Culture and Identity

Abbas Zarei Mehrvarz: Confrontation between Britain and the Ottoman Empire in the Iranian Kurdistan in World War I

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Images of Children and Women in Middle Eastern Literature 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 206 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Muhammad Sabri Hamad: Political significances in Palestinian children literature within Israel

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Feryal Awan: Children of Palestine: Definitions and Implications for Screen-Based Media

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Kana Oyabu, Chiho Oyabu: Images of the middle east in religious children's literature

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Women's Political Activism in the 2000s 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 207 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Giulia Daniele: Women’s political activism in the West Bank and Israel: the alternative road towards a fair conflict resolution?

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Ewa Strzelecka: Women’s rights activists in the 2011 Yemeni Revolution

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Yüksel Kamacı: The Status of the Reformist Women in Iran during Ahmadinejad Presidency (2005-2013)

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Politics in the Gulf 18.08.2014 17.00-19.00 G 208 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

0762 May Darwich: Wahhabism vs. Islamism: A Comparative Analysis of the Saudi Foreign Policy in 1979 and 2011

Karyn Wang: Historical parallels in contesting hierarchy: Gulf states and Saudi Arabia

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Sherif Elashmawy: The foreign policies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar toward the Arab uprisings: a comparative perspective

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Rachid Aarab: Qatar: Power, Energy and Transition

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Mimoun Attaheri: Les sociétés arabes du Proche-Orient face a la mondialisation culturelle 0640

The European Union’s Involvement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (II): Old and New Conflicts 18.08.2014 17:00-19:00 B Hall Moderators: Patrick Muller; D:TBA

Dimitris Bouris: The European Union and state-building in the southern neighborhood: lessons from Palestine and Libya

Justine Luis: The EU, informal governance and the middle east quartet: survival of the unfittest?

Hirah Azhar: Squaring the circle? The EU, Regional Cooperation and Conflict Transformation in the Middle East and North Africa

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Ameena Alrasheed: EU politics in the Middle East, Planting/Removing dictators from Saddam to Ghadafi

Ludovica Marchi Balossi Restelli: The CSDP at test: Strategic culture approach vis-à-vis domestic level approach

Young Migrants' Experiences around the Globe 18.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F14 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Neslihan Demirtas Milz: Possibilities of Integration, Spaces of Exclusion: Young Migrants from Philippines Working in Dubai

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Idil Akinci: Identity and Belonging among second generation South Asian migrants in Dubai

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Carmella Pfaffenbach, Veronika Deffner: Temporary integration for a life in transition: The segmented urban immigrant society in Muscat

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The narratives of the Arab uprisings: Towards a cultural analysis of social movements in the Middle East 18.08.2014 17:00-19:00 D Hall Moderators: Mark Levine; D:TBA 1429 Dalia Abdelhady1, Mark Levine2, Joergen Aske1, Steffen Schimko1, Nicole Roy1, Milos Davidovic Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa II 18.08.2014 17:00 -19:00 F 17 Moderators: Markus Loewe; D:TBA Ursula Kulke: Case study Jordan: How to strengthen social protection coverage in the context of the EU agenda on decent work

Randa Alami: Inclusive growth and social health protection in the MENA region

0789 Burcu Yakut-Caka: The gender dimension of social protection in Turkey

Rana Jawad: Social protection in the Arab region: An assessment of policy discourses and impacts

08/19/2014 WOCMES 2014 - DAY 2

One Land-Two States: Israel and Palestine As Parallel States - Sharing Sovereignty to resolve an intractable territorial conflict | 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 C Hall- ROUNDTABLE Moderators: Nimrod Hurvitz

1296 Mark Levine, Dror Ze'vi, Nimrod Hurvitz, Raja Khalidi, Hiba Husseini, Mark Levine, Mathias Mossberg

Moving in and out of Islam in Europe and the Middle East I 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 D Hall Moderators: Karin Van Nieuwkerk

Karin Van Nieuwkerk: Chair

Leon Moosavi: Lamenting the lost “sisters” and “brothers”: Lithuanian convert Muslims’ reflections on apostasy

0244 Egdunas Racius: Representations of Muslim Converts and Ex-Muslims in the News Media and Beyond

Oleg Yarosh: Muslim Brotherhood networks and Islamic activism in Eastern Europe: reinventing Islamic identities

New Visions for Refugee Education in the Middle East 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F14 Moderators: Laetitia Lemaistre; D: TBA Maha Shuayb: The Art Of Inclusive Exclusions: Educating Palestinian Refugee Students In Lebanon

Nisrine Makkouk: Defining “Quality” Education for Syrian Refugee Children In Lebanon

Dina Kiwan: Challenging Constructions Of Palestinian, Syrian And Syrian Palestinian Refugee Students In The Lebanese Educational

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Laetitia Lemaistre: A Field Practitioner’s Examination into Current Education Policies and Interventions in Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon

Multiple Faces of Neoliberal Policies in Turkey: Networks and Local Strategies 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F16 Moderators: Ceren Ark; Co-Chair: Işıl Erdinç;

D: Bürge Abiral Işıl Erdinç: The relations between the Trade Unions and the Political Field in Turkey during the 2000s: Local and National Political Engagement Strategies of Trade Unionist-Deputies in the National Assembly of Turkey

Ceren Ark: Trading on a Dream: Neoliberal Transformation and Clientelist Exchange

1154 Müge Neda Altınoklu: The crisis of media and journalistic practices during the 2000s: How far are we from relative autonomy of the media?

Bürge Abiral: Discussant

Turkish Model: Reality and Applicability 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F17 Moderators: Masanori Naito; D: Multiple Discussants; Supported by the JSPS Project “Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Vitalizing Brain Circulation in Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University” Idiris Danismaz: A Conceptual Framework of “Turkish Model”

Iwasaka Masamichi: Civilianization Process of Politics and Democratization in Turkey

Yuna Iguchi: The Alevilik in contemporary Turkey: Negotiations between state and the Alevis Discussant: Hisane Nakanishi

0367

Masako Nakaya: State Control System of Religion: Comparison of Turkey and China Discussant: Oyamada Eiji

Emin Yilmaz: Particularities of Turkish Civil Society and its Contribution to the democratization Discussant: Ihsan Yilmaz

Politics of Hamas 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Frode Løvlie: Hamas after 2006 – opportunistic pragmatism or real moderation?

0755

Fadi Zatari: Global or local? The concept of jihad according to al-Qaeda and Hamas

1368

Ancient Empires: East and West 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ08 Mohamed Saleh Solieman: Who is who in Roman Society Did Romans know racial discrimination?

0885

Leonardo Gregoratti: Loyal to the Great King: The Parthian Empire and Its Client Kingdoms

1345

Islamic Law 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ09 Samy Ayoub: Rethinking Islamic Law and the Ottoman State: Authority, Continuity, and Revision in Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence

0173

Betty De Hart, Iris Sportel: “Laws that are bad for women” Dutch women in Dutch-Moroccan and Dutch-Egyptian families navigating

0924 Islamic family law

Ayman Shabana: Normative status of custom in Islamic law between tradition and modernity

0203

Disparités régionales, frontières et identités Dans le contexte de la Révolution et la transition tunisiennes 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ14 Moderators: Gharbi Mohamed Lazhar; D: TBA

Gharbi Mohamed Lazhar: Les deux Tunisies de la Révolution

Ben Aziza Hmaied:

Ben Khater Houaida: El harga: représentations sociales d’une transgression

0609

Mejri Lazhar: Frontières, révolution, et terrorisme: quels rapports?

Saadaoui Fawzi: La contrebande dans des zones frontalières: ou la transition en péril?

Tizaoui Hamadi: Développement industriel et disparités régionales en Tunisie, 1956-2014

Political Islam in Egypt I 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Marwa Wasfy: The Egyptian identity and Political Islam in the post-revolutionary era

0299

Mauro Saccol: The Egyptian transition through al-Kawākibī’s words

0992

Jerome Drevon: The development of salafi jihadi networks after the 2011 Egyptian revolution

0830

Nataša Kubíková: Al-Nour Party: Between politicization of masses and electoral activism

1460

Contentious Politics Approaches to MENA Conflicts and Institutional Change 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ17 Moderators: Yasuyuki Matsunaga; D: TBA

Yasuyuki Matsunaga: Chair

Housam Darwisheh: Socio-political origins of the coup against Muhammad Mursi: Intra-state conflicts and regime-protest movement dynamics

0457 Khalil Dahbi: Gradual Change, Significant Transformations: A Historical Institutionalist Account of the Evolution of Morocco’s Parliament and Political Parties

Mohamed Omar Abdin: Damaging Impacts on Democracy: The Sudanese North-South Peace Process

Makiko Nambu: Cultural Articulation of Palestinian Identity: Its Formation and Contestation

Writers of Transformation: Memoirs, Blogs and Autobiography 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Teresa Pepe: Embodied Identities in the Egyptian Blogosphere

0790

Renata Rusek-Kowalska: Siba-Zeynab-Ziba: the metamorphoses of an Iranian woman

1236

Norman Saadi Nikro: Edward Said: Autobiography and Critical Practice

0862

Silke Schmidt: Scheherazade Teaching Arabs, Writing Self: Negotiating Arab American Womanhood

1247

Analysis of Literature and Media in the Gulf States 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G101 Erdem Tunçer: The role of English language daily press in the making of Qatari national identity

1382

Nadia Wardeh: Dubai Cultural Magazine: The Quest for a “Modern Emirati Culture”

0189

Abdullah Hamoud Alfauzan: Contribution of Place towards Social Freedom and Alienation in the Saudi City - Literary Point of View

0488

Late Ottoman Economic History 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G102 Semih Gökatalay, Seven Ağır: Political Economy of Entrepreneurship in the Ottoman Empire during the Second Constitutional Period

1180 (1908-1918): An Analysis of Business Networks

Giampaolo Conte: Italian interests in the Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt

1291

Deniz Kilincoglu: The Invention of Tradition in Action: The Emergence of “Islamic Economics” in the Late Ottoman Empire

1265

Tribalism in the Middle East I: Tribe and diatribe: Anthropology meets political science 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G104 Moderators: Najwa Adra; D: Lisa Anderson

Jon Anderson: Tribalism as strategy and the metaphysics of identity

Daniel Martin Varisco: Yemen’s tribal idiom: an ethno-historical survey of genealogical models

Dawn Chatty: Syrian Tribes, National Politics and Transnationalism

0455

Najwa Adra: Qabyila: Tribal Identity in Yemen

Lisa Anderson: Discussant

Gezi Uprising I: Dissent and Civil Disobedience 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G106 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Ebru Deniz Ozan Aytekin: The June 2013 (Gezi Park) Uprising and the Turkish Bourgeoisie

1373

0632 Nazli Cagin Bilgili: Let the Bridging Social Capital Win Over the Bonding: Gezi Park Protests as a Test of Consolidation for the

Turkish Democracy

Gabriela Ozel Volfova: Citizen Movement in Turkey: The Case of Occupy Gezi

1269

Cenk Saraçoğlu: 2013 Uprising in Turkey: The Reversal of the Process of “Ideological Dispossession”

0675

Studying Kaman-Kalehöyük 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G107 Meltem Cemre Ustunkaya: Studying local climate patterns through stable isotope analysis

1474

Nathan Wright: Results of wood charcoal analysis at Kaman-Kalehöyük, Central Anatolia, Turkey

1476

Jeunesses, changement social et politique (s) dans les sociétés du Maghreb et du monde arabe I: Étudiants et jeunes diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur du monde arabe: opinions, positions, mobilisations, valeurs et insertions professionnelles 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G108 Moderators: Fatima Zahid; D:Ana Velasco Arranz; Sponsored by: Secrétariat d’Etat à la recherche du Ministère español de l’Économie et la compétitivité Ana Velasco, Fatima Zahid: Positions et représentations des jeunes étudiants en agronomie face à une situation de crise: mobilisations et changements dans les sociétés arabes et méditerranéennes

Abellaoui El Hassane: Les mécanismes d’insertion professionnelle et sociale des jeunes diplômés d’origine rurale

0685

Samir Larabi: Les révoltes estudiantines en Algérie, entre tentation politique et corporatisme syndical. Le cas du mouvement de protestation de 2011

Mounira Chariet: Étudiants et diplômés algériens: stratégies linguistiques face aux inégalités des systèmes d'enseignement

Houria Sadou: Les aspirations des jeunes algériens et la stratégie de la réussite

Classical Middle Eastern Literature I: Theory and Themes 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G109 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Amidu Olalekan Sanni: Time and timelessness in artistic efficiency and authority: the discourse on periodization in Arabic literary

0151 theory and history

Ali Ahmad Hussein: A Unique Pattern of Love Poetry by Mulayh b. al-Hakam

0195

Marjan Ferdowsi, Nasrin Faghih Malek Marzban: The role of allegory and metaphor in the interpretability of sonnets by the 14th

1123 century poet, Hafez Shirazi

Palestine: Solidarity and Resistance III Palestine and Indigeneity: Resistance and Solidarities 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G110 Moderators: Shouleh Vatanabadi; D: Joanne Barker Sponsored by Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) Shouleh Vatanabadi: Chair

Leanne Howe: Indigenous and Palestinian activism and land tenure: Idle No More

1399

Dana Olwan: Idle No More, indigenous alliances and rhetorics of solidarity

Eman Ali Mohd Ghanayem: Shifting geographies: the triad of time, space/place, and indigeneity in American Indian and Palestinian fiction(s)

Joanne Barker: Discussant

Greek and Arab Political Thought I 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G201 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Ikbal Bozkaya : Apolitical Freedom

1282

Almuth Lahmann: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī and Saadia Gaon as recipients of the Nicomachean Ethics?

0838

Katrin A. Jomaa: The Qur’anic Umma “Wasaṭ”, Aristotelian Justice of the “Mean” and the Arab Spring

0846

The European Union and the Middle East I 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G202 Caglar Ezikoglu: The Role of EU in the Middle East Peace Process

0579

Ann Kristin Jonasson: Constructions of democracy: Meanings of “democracy” in the EU’s relations with the Mediterranean region

0335

Vincent Durac: The European Union and Egypt after the ‘coup’: the security/democracy dilemma revisited

0954

Sunni prophetologies: Discourses and representations 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G204 Moderators: Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino; D: Mareike Koertner

Nadjet Zouggar: The impact of Islamic philosophy (falsafa) on Ibn Taymiyya’s prophetology

Mareike Koertner: To be or not to be – Epistemological Discourses on Prophecy in Early Hadith Literature

0986 Martin Riexinger: Prophetology in Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb’s Mukhtaṣar Sīrat al-Rasūl

Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino: Classical vs Salafi Prophetology: the Mafāhim yajibu an tuṣaḥḥaḥ by Ibn ‘Alawī al-Mālikī (1944- 2004) and the response of traditional scholarship to reformist narratives about the Prophet Muḥammad

Gender and Citizenship in the South Shore of the Mediterranean 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G206 Moderators: Alberto Tonini D: TBA

Alberto Tonini:

Leila El Houssi:

Sara Borrillo:

0328

Alessia Belli:

Cecilia Dalla Negra:

Earth architecture in West and North Africa 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G207 Moderators: Stéphane Pradines; Co-Chair: Christian Darles D: TBA Christophe Bouleau: Les mosquées en terre du Mali, conservation et architecture

Chafik Benchekroun: La Qarawiyyīn originelle de Fès était-elle en terre crue?

0160 Marinella Arena and Paola Raffa: Draa Valley Tighremt

Perotti Giovanni, De Blasi Ottavio, Arena Marinella and Raffa Paola: Tunisian Ksour for Humanity Heritage

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya: De l’usage de la terre dans la construction des qṣūr du Sud-Est algérien Gendering Faith: Arab Women and the Islamic Revival I 19.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G208 Moderators: Zakia Salime D: TBA; Sponsored by Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy Zakia Salime:

Ferial Khalifa:

0902 Liv Tønnessen:

Aitemad Muhanna:

Islamist visions on the demise? Comparing pretenders for a leadership role in the Middle East 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 B Hall Moderators: Henner Fuertig; D: Meliha Altunisik

0247 Henner Fuertig: Regionalization of Regional Politics as a Result of the Arab Spring?

Annette Ranko: The Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood: Implications for Egypt’s post-Arab Spring regional status

Maren Koss: Hamas in decline? Mursi’s fall and its implications for the Islamic Resistance Movement in the Palestinian Territories

Andre Bank: The “Arab Spring”: Chance or Handicap for an Iranian Leadership role in the Region?

Martin Beck: High Rise and Deep Fall? Turkey’s Position in Middle East before and after the Arab Spring

Moving in and out of Islam in Europe and the Middle East II 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 D Hall Moderators: Egdunas Racidus; D: TBA

Karin van Nieuwkerk: Learning to Be Muslim, American and French Converts to Islam and the Collective Learning of Muslimness

Juliette Galonnier: Cookies with Moroccan butter do not taste as good as with Dutch butter” Home-making practices and belonging

0354 among Dutch Female Muslim

Nina Ter Laan: Religious journeys with and without Islam

Aspects of Early Republican Turkish History 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F14 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Burcu Turan: "Blue Anatolia": A Narrative of Modern Nation Building Within the Context of "Mediterraneanism"

1091

Efe Arık: Bergson’s Philosophy against Ziya Gökalp and Durkheim’s Sociology in the journal of Dergâh throughout The National

1449 Struggle in Turkey

Yalın Alpay: Yirmi Kur'a Case

0697

Metin Yuksel: Between Two Nation-States: Ferzende's Story

0887

Where is the state? rethinking government and politics in the Arab World 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F16 Moderators: Jamil Mouawad

Jamil Mouawad: In the Name of the “Weak” State, We rise above it: State-society Relations in Akkar, North Lebanon

Katharina Lenner: ‘Teaching a man to fish?’ Paradoxes of state and development narratives in Southern rural Jordan

1275 Ilka Eickhof: Regulations from Beyond: The Governmentalization of Cultural Politics and Civil Society through Foreign Cultural

Institutions in Cairo in the Frame of the so-called Arab Spring

Fouad Marei: Émigrés and Mujahids: The Glocalisation of Development and Local Government in Lebanon

Honor Crimes and Violence 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Angie Abdelmonem: Mythologizing local knowledge: NGOs redefine sexual harassment in Cairo, Egypt

0165

Ibtesam Al Atiyat: Honor Crimes Discourse in Jordan, Revisited

0394

1472 Nelly Ali: Street Families in Cairo: An Ethnographic Studies of Child Street Mothers, Gendered Violence and Gender Specific Services

Susana Galan: "Out of the street and the square, and into the Starbucks: Cartographies of sexual violence, political protest and

0785 neoliberal (sub)urban developments in contemporary Cairo"

Venues of Artistic Creation 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Selen Artan: Turkish Mosques as Venues of Cultural Production in New York

1043

Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive: “Islamic Art” in the Museum

0228

Domestic sphere, a Site of otherness or the space for creativity? 0410

Halal Food and Medicine 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ08 Abdul Aziz Mohamad Mohamad: Development of The Halal Industry in Singapore: A case study in the Impact of Halal Nutraceuticalα

1077

Deniz Parlak: Religion Desacralized: The Case of Halal Food

1326

Orhan Pamuk from a Comparative Perspective 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ09 Tamar Alpenidze: The issue of eschatology in F. Dostoevsky and O. Pamuk novels (“Karamazov brothers” and “ The Black book”)

0971

Orhan Oğuz: Comparing Najib Mahfuz's Cairo Trilogy and Orhan Pamuk's Cevdet Bey and His Sons

0706

Elvan Julia Sayarer: The Poetics of Spatial Mobility in Orhan Pamuk's İstanbul. Hatıralar ve Şehir

1157

Rentier state structures and the competing discourses on citizenship 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ14 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA; Convener: Ulrika Mårtenssonf, Abdulhadi Khalaf Ulrika Mårtenssonf: The significance of umma in Muslim Brotherhood policy: problems and prospects of Islam as ethical foundation of civil rights

Rania Maktabi: Female citizenship and the patriarchal order in Kuwait and Qatar: Rentierism and the politics of citizenship

0192

Abdulhadi Khalaf: Citizenship as a tool for Rent-allocation- the case of Bahrain

Sabria al-Thawr and Connie Carøe Christianse: The Akhdam in Yemen – a stigmatized group in transition?

Political Islam in Egypt II: Muslim Brotherhood 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Muqtedar Khan: Islam, Islamism and Democracy in Egypt after the Counterrevolution

1018

Mona Farag: The Turbulent Relationship of Egypt's Military Forces and the Muslim Brotherhood

0146

Mohamed Chami Mkouboi Abdoulkahar: A Comparative Study between Jamal Abdel Nasser Coup d’état in 1952 and Abdel Fateh

1324 Sisi’s Coup in 2013: The Dissolution and the Survival of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

Moving Beyond the Primordialist-Constructivist Divide: How Does Sectarianism/Communalism Actually Work in Iraq, Lebanon, and Beyond? 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ17 Moderators: Keiko Sakai; D: TBA

Keiko Sakai: Plasticity and the Interchangeability of Boundaries among Traditional Social Identities and their Selectability in the Middle East

Dai Yamao: The Transformation of Politicised Sectarianism in Iraq

0275 Kota Suechika: Reconfiguring Sectarian and National Identities in Lebanon: The Case of the Lebanese Army

Yasuyuki Matsunaga: Theorising Cross-National Conflict Diffusion: How Does Sectarian Violence Spread in the Middle East and Beyond?

Science and Technology 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Ahmet Öncü: On the Evolution of Turkish and American Engineers: A Veblenian Explanation

1467

Volkan Sezgin: The effect of EU accession process on innovation performance of Turkey

1220

Al-Sha‘ab Yathûru: Representations of “the People in Revolt” in Intellectual Production 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G101 Moderators: Layla Dakhli; D: Gennaro Gervasio

Marianna Ghiglia: The Press and the “Revolutionaries”: Egyptian Newspapers’ Portrays of Insurrectionaries in the January 2011 – July 2013 Period

Ifdal Elsaket: An Ambiguous Subversion: Egyptians in Revolt at the Cinema

Mélanie Henry: We or I? The Self/Collective Dichotomy in Literary and Cinematographic Narratives of the Egyptian 1977 Uprising

0934 Ahmed Galal: “Rebelling in Arabic and Recording in English”: Depictions of “Shabab” in Cairo My City, Our Revolution (2012) Ahdaf Soueif

Marion Slitine: Representations of Revolt in Palestinian Visual Arts: the Intifadas through the Eyes of Artists

Gennaro Gervasio: Discussant

State Structure and Policy Making in Iran and Egypt 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G102 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Zahra Ahmadipour: Evaluating Iran’s industrial clusters development program

0906

Hajar Amidian: The Iranian-Islamic Model of Development

0779

Saleh Zamani, Dimokritos Kavadias: A comparative study on vulnerability of the state structure: Iran (1979) and Egypt (2011)

1192

Tribalism in the Middle East II: Tribes in Yemen: the view from within 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G104 Moderators: Saad Sowayan

Mohammed Sharafuddin: Poetry and tribalism in Yemen

Adel Mujahid Al Shargabi: The future political role of Yemeni tribal sheikhs in light of the expected outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference

0618 Fuad Al Salahi: The true role of the tribe in the Arab political scene: the case of Yemen

Abdul Karim Alaug: Tribalism in the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference

Saad Sowayan: Chair Gezi Uprising II: Resistance, Network and Discourse 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G106 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Çiğdem Aksu Çam, Aydın Çam: Analysing Hemzemin Forum Post: building the discourse of an urban social movement

1379

Atilla Aytekin: Reading Peter Weiss’s: The Aesthetics of Resistance in light of June 2013 protests in Turkey

1481

Gul Caliskan: Symbols and humor as works of justice and citizenship in the Gezi protests of Istanbul

0519

Ahmet Öncü, Gürcan Koçan: Balancing mixophobia with mixophilia: The network community of Gezi

1468

Günes Koc: An example of occupied house: Don Kişot social center and 'getting public spheres back'

1370

Lebanon in tension: political parties between modernity and ”new” traditional leadership 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G107 Moderators: Sabrina Bonsen

Hussein Gharbieh: The Role of “Political Parties” in Lebanon in Enhancing Sectarianism

Sabrina Bonsen: Amal and the Politics of Martyrdom in Lebanon between Tradition and Modernity

0503

Christian Thuselt: Between personal leadership and “training in morals” – Lebanese political parties as products of a hybridization- process

Jeunesses, changement social et politique (s) dans les sociétés du Maghreb et du monde arabe II: Les jeunes en milieu rural au Maghreb. Opinions, stratégies de vie, participations et préoccupations 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G108 Moderators: Abderrahim Bentaïbi; D: Noureddine Bahri; Sponsored by: Secrétariat d’État à la Recherche du ministère español de l’Économie et la compétitivité Abderrahim Bentaïbi, Noureddine Bahri, Thierry Desrues: Jeunes ruraux du Maroc: la question de la diversité des valeurs et des stratégies de vie de jeunes en contexte de contraintes sociale, économique et écologique

Zhour Bouzidi: Insertion des jeunes ruraux dans les initiatives de développement: défis et capacités d’agence

Hichem Amichi, Sami Bouarfa, Marcel Kuper: Le rôle des arrangements informels dans l’ascension sociale des jeunes ruraux au sein

0638 des agricultures irriguées en Algérie

Hana Cherigui: Titre de la communication: Jeunes ruraux au Maroc: valeurs et strategies

Fatima Zahid, Oussama Nah: Stratégies d’existence de la jeunesse rurale des montagnes au Maroc

Classical Middle Eastern Literature II: Theory and Themes 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G109 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Alireza Korangy: Tashkhīs as Didactic Pun: Animals and the Inanimate Prompting Social Consciousness in Parvīn’s Divan

1457

Faheem Hussain: The Surah Yusuf (q.12) and the case of the animals: analyzing literary qualities

1351

Mohammad Ragheb: Fictionality in Islamic Historiography and its Effect on Tarikh-e Bayhaqi

1393

Palestine: Solidarity and Resistance IV: Comparative Border Studies: Gender, Sexuality, and Intimacy 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G110 Moderators: Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian; Sponsored by Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian: Chair Melissa Garcia: Summoning casual witnesses: border feminists and the politics of knowledge

Cavlan Erengezgin: Where do the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on women, peace and security (in Kurdistan and Palestine) lead us?

1486

Sarah Ihmoud: Gendered and sexual settler colonialism: Israeli anti-miscegenation practices

Maria Josefina Saldana Portillo: Discussant

Greek and Arab Political Thought II 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G201 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

1407 Janne Mattila: Philosophical Prayer in Arabic Philosophy

Elias Giannakis: Some Remarks on al-Fārābī’s Treatise on Vacuum

1433

Zora Hesova: A medieval philosophical view of religion: Al-Ghazali's Niche of Lights

1073

The European Union and the Middle East II: Morocco and Tunisia 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G202 Sedef Eylemer: European Neighborhood Policy and European Union’s External Governance in the Middle East and North Africa: An

1153 Effective Policy or Just Rhetoric?

Zerrin Torun: The European Union and Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Is the EU Closing Its Theory-Practice Gap?

1028

Bosco Govantes Romero: 2005-2010: The settlement of a privileged relation between the EU-Morocco

0719

Fabian Stroetges: The European Union and Tunisia’s transition from authoritarianism: what impact?

0669

Comparative Religious Studies I: Islam and Christianity in Medieval Period 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G204 Bulent Senay: “The Other” in the Paintings of 15th century Orthodox Bucovina Monasteries in Romania

0327

Irma Makharadze: Islamic-Christian parallels in the light of Religious Dialogue

0390

Alfons Teipen: Changing perceptions of Judaism in early biographies of Muhammad

0235

0868 Elif Tokay: Searching for the perfect human being: continuity and transformation of Gregory Nazianzen’s theosis theology in the 10-

11th century Melkite Church of Antioch

Mariam Nanobashvili, Enrico Gabidzashvili: Christian-Muslim debates held in Tbilisi in the 12th century

1206

The author in his own mirror: the self-representation in Islamic tradition 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G206 Moderators: Samer Rashwani; D: TBA

Samer Rashwani: The Quranic self-authorization: the authorship and the process of revelation

Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino: Healing the Umma through the veneration of the prophet: al-Qadi ´Iyad´s Kitab Al-Shifa and the defense of Sunnism in medieval Maghreb

Serkan Ince: Reconstruction of the author and his epistemological principles: argumentation-theoretic analysis of the Ṣāliḥ ibn al-

0280 Ḥusayn al-Jaʿfarī texts on Christian teaching

Ismail Yavuzcan: Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī: theory and practice of writing

Fatih Ermiş: What does the Muslim scholar mean, when he disgraces himself?

Earth architecture in Middle East and Beyond 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G207 Moderators: Christophe Bouleau; Co-Chair: Stéphane Pradines D: TBA Rolando Melo da Rosa: The adobe-made abode of Islam: earthen architecture and the technologies of belief

0160 Stéphane Pradines: Ethnicity and earth architecture in Egypt: Diversity of Cultures and Materials in the Fatimid Town walls

Christian Darles: La brique crue au Yémen, actualité.

Atri Hatef Naiemi: Residential Compounds: Earthen Architecture in the Central Desert of Iran

Adrienn Papp: Ottoman Earth Architecture in Buda (1541-1686)

Gendering Faith: Arab Women and the Islamic Revival II 19.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G208 Moderators: Hilde Kjøstvedt; D: TBA Sponsored by Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy Hilde Granås Kjøstvedt:

Suheir Daoud:

0905 Zahra Ali:

Rouba Mhaissen:

Urban Restructuring and Urban Policy in the Arab World 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 B Hall Moderators: Günter Meyer; D: TBA

Jonas Margraff: Patterns of neoliberal urbanization. Urban policy in Bahrain

0802 Azzurra Sarnataro: Contesting urban space in Cairo: towards new forms of urban citizenship?

Carmella Pfaffenbach & Veronika Deffner: Temporary integration for a life in transition: The segmented urban immigrant society in Muscat (Oman)

Najet Mouaziz Bouchentouf: "Batimet taliane" (Oran-Algeria) or attempted gentrification of a social housing district

L’Algérie des années Bouteflika: nouveaux enjeux et nouvelles approches 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 C Hall - ROUNDTABLE Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Françoise Lorcerie Abdelkader Lakjaa: Ahmed Ghouati: Wassila Aïssat:

0747 Mounira Chariet:

Louisa Dris Aït Hamadouche: Ammaria Lachelache: Djaouida Lassel: Toufik Malek Chelih” Key figures in Ottoman intellectual history 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 D Hall Moderators: Helen Pfeifer; D: TBA

M. Sait Özervarlı: Al-Ghazali defended or criticized? An examination of his perception among pre-modern Ottoman scholars

Helen Pfeifer: A man of letters between Mamluk Cairo and Ottoman Istanbul

1198

Derin Terzioğlu: Ibn Taymiyya’s al-Siyasa al-shar‘iyya and its renditions in early modern Ottoman political thought

Sara Nur Yıldız: Hacı Paşa’s commentaries: textual and learning communities and the transmission of Islamic learning to western Anatolia in the late 14th century

Politics of Contestation: The Jordanian Hirak (Popular Protest Movement) 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F14 Moderators: Maria Blanco Palencia

Maria Blanco Palencia: Radical Groups in Collective Action: Organization, Ideology and Strategy in the Hirak Movement of Jordan

Ahmad Al Sholi: Preemptive tactics of the Jordanian State: Sudden Bureaucratization of the Newly Formed Teachers’ Trade Union

Claudie Fioroni: The "Arab Spring" Effect and the Reshaping of the Jordanian Politics: The Contribution of the Independent Trade

0405 Unions to the Reform Movement in Jordan

Shizuka Imai: The Development and Provisional Outcome of the Popular Protest Movement in the Era of the Arab Spring

Sara Ababneh: Un/doing the Political: Women in the Jordanian Day-Waged Workers Movement

Culture and Identity of Kurdish People in Turkey 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Volkan Gulsen: The Impact of the Kurdish Immigration Practices on the Civil Society Structure of Turkey

0832

Karol Kaczorowski: Social construction of cultural identity among young Kurdish migrants in Istanbul

1462

Engin Sustam: Art subalterne kurde et Transgression culturelle en Turquie

0292

Travelling Concepts: New Research Trends and Findings on Gender and Society in Morocco 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F17 Moderators: Yasmine Berriane; D: TBA

Aicha Barkaoui: Does research on gender in Moroccan universities help in deconstructing old sexist patterns?

Leila Bouasria: Gender roles and ideologies within the couple of female textile workers in Morocco

Meriam Cheikh: The sexual transaction theory applied to Moroccan cases

0281

Hanane Darhour: Studying changing power dynamics within Morocco’s associational sphere through a gender perspective

Bettina Dennerlei: Engendering political representation in the aftermath of the Arab Spring

State and Society in the Post-Arab Spring Era 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Janicke Stramer: Military-politicization and outcomes of regime-change: a comparative case study of civil-military relations in Tunisia

1166 and Egypt

Hassan Ali Jamsheer: State and Society in the Arab World: Arab Revolutions in Search of Legitimacy

0735

0766 Søren Schmidt: The Role of the military in Democratization during The Arab Spring. The Cases of Tunisia, Egypt and Syria 1171 Eid Mohamed: Identity Politics of Nation, Religion and Land in Post-Arab Spring Contex Critiques of Modernity in Middle Eastern Literature 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 FZ08 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Maryam Hoseini, Nafise Moradi: The function of myth in post-colonial discourse in modern Persian novel

0208

Sernaz Arslan: A critique of bureaucracy: Revisiting Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s “The Time Regulation Institute”

1011

Kara Abdolmaleki: The Return of the Repressed: The Neurotic Experience of Modernity in Iran

0581

Aspects Discursifs, Sociales et Politiques du Printemps Arabe 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 FZ09 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Raja Daoues Fenniche: Réseaux sociaux et expressions sémiotiques dans la révolution tunisienne

1361

Mercedes Jiménez Alvarez: Régime frontalier dans la Méditerranée et révoltes arabes: nouvelles mobilités et nouvelles formes de

0524 contrôle en Afrique du Nord

Menaifi Ferial Menaifi, Gherbi Rokia Gherbi: Le rôle desidées et le discours dans le changement social et politiques elon l'approche

1312 constructiviste: étude de casles pays du "printemps arabe"

Kerdoudi Kolali Jawad: Impact du printemps arabe sur la politique et l’économie des pays du Moyen-Orient

0545

Hafsa Afailal: Craintes face à la nouvelle politique migratoire marocaine: analyse global de la politique dans son contexte euro- 1490 méditerranéen Women's Clothing 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 FZ14 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Nadia Poorabbastahvildari: Women’s Clothing in Shahnameh Ferdowsi

0795

Hadas Hirsch: Dress and colors in early Islam: a discourse in adornment and gender

0631

Faezeh Esmaeili: Wearing Policy: Methods of Performing and Resistances, A Historical Sociology Analysis of First Unveiling Policy

1480 (1941-1925) in Iran

Political Development and Democracy in Egypt 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 FZ16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Solava Ibrahim: First things first: the 3C-Model of grassroots-led development and grassroots democracy in Egypt

0783

Misako Ikeda: Parliamentary Development in modern Egypt

0977

Amro Ali: Alexandria - a political laboratory in the struggle over public space

1280

Sectarianism, Tribalism and Kinship 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 FZ17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Marieke Brandt: Playing the “al-Qaeda” card in Ṣaʿdah: Local power politics in Yemen’s northern frontier province

0258

1245 Özgür Dirim Özkan: Impact of Kinship Structure on Political Life: A Case Study in Pervari/Siirt

Sarfraz Khan: Narrating Shia Rituals in the Re-emerging Sectarian Situation in Pakistan

0852

Comparative Religious Studies II: Islam and Christianity 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 FZ19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Mohsen Ebadi: A comparative study between political Islam in Middle East and liberation theology in Latin America

1219

Gaetan Du Roy: Between ecumenism and sectarianism: a study on Coptic activists and the impact of charismatic Christianity on their

1330 commitment other evolution in Egypt

Fatiha Kaoues: Le développement du protestantisme évangélique au Moyen-Orient: le cas du Liban 681

Serdar Kaya: The Dimensions of Religiosity and the Attitudes toward Religious Out-groups: The Case of Anti-Muslim Prejudice in the 0426 West Sociology of Music in the Middle East 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G101 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Ines Fabiunke: Music videos in the arab world: transforming the musical legitimacy hierarchies

1240

Elif Çağlı: Jazz as a soft power in Turkey- USA relations

0915

Michal Moch: The Arabic hip hop. Describing the contemporary cultural phenomenon in the Arab World

1097

Alessa Flores Vela: Music can be a tool of war

0167

Ratiba Hadj Moussa: Imagination and the poetics of indignation in the web: Maghreb music of/at the margins

0318

Democracy and Reform in Iran from a Historical Perspective 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G102 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Farinaz Aryanfar: Democracy in Iran: an analysis of the effects of televised presidential elections' debates of 2013

0196

Maziyar Ghiabi: The Politics of Drugs in Iran: everyday practices and ethical dilemmas

0250

Ivan Sascha Sheehan: Strategies for Change in the Middle East: Clarifying the Contested Concept of Regime Change from Within

0605

Reyhaneh Javadi: Historical Sociology Analysis of Short Term Reforms in 19th Century’s Iran

1129

Sacred Cities of the Middle East: Jerusalem and Medina 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G104 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Khalid El Awaisi: Jerusalem and Early Islam: Muhammad’s longing for the Holy Land

1045

Theodora Zampaki: Ibn al-Athīr on the Conquest of Jerusalem (492/1099)

1422

Atef Alshehri: The Holy City Image: The 16th Century Medina in Traveler Accounts

1161

The roots within: Socio-ecological struggles in Turkey under neoliberal developmentalism 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G106 Moderators: Ethemcan Turhan; D: Fevzi Özlüer

Begüm Özkaynak, Pınar Ertör Akyazı, Cem Iskender Aydın, Irmak Ertör: Towards a better understanding of environmental conflicts in Turkey: Statistical political ecology meets with societal metabolism

Ethemcan Turhan: The Will to Adapt: Divergent developmentalism(s) in Turkish climate change adaptation policy

Ayşen Eren: Water As “Commodity”, River as “Infrastructure”: What Does Massive and Rapid Small Scale Hydropower Development

0863 in Turkey Tell Us?

Mine Işlar: Unrepresentables: The ecological citizen in social movements in Turkey

Sinan Erensü: Rethinking commons against the repertoire of ecology activism in Turkey

Women: Marriage and Education 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G107 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Natasha Dar: Existing in the Liminal: Materializing Muslim Bodies and Marriages in the French-North African Immigrant Courtroom

0736

Marzieh Kaivanara: Women's Empowerment: Restrictions and Contradictions

0547

Jeunesses, changement social et politique (s) dans les sociétés du Maghreb et du monde arabe III: Diversity des expressions et des localizations de engagement des jeunes dans le monde arabe. Demandes d'intégration, participations et contestations 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G108 Moderators: Thierry Desrues; D: Yasmine Berriane; Sponsored by: Secrétariat d’État à la Recherche du ministère español de l’Économie et la compétitivité Thierry Desrues, Ana Velasco Arrant: Des jeunes Maghreb ins engages dans des actions collectives et le « printemps arabe »

Zakary Kediri, Mohamed Tozy: Jeunes, leaders et agriculteurs: fragmentation de l’élite rurale au Maroc

Eric Gobe: Le barreau tunisien dans la « révolution »: sens et portée des actions collectives jeunes avocats

0611 Claudie Fioroni: Clivage générationnel et mobilisations dans le sud de la Jordanie: le cas des mobilisations des « jeunes » demandeurs d’emploi

Hind Ftouhi, Abdellaoui El Hassane, Mohamed Mahdi: L’implication des jeunes ruraux dans les projets de développement local (cas des projets de l’INDH et du PMV) dans la zone Meknès-El Hajeb au Maroc

Arab Spring and Change 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G109 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Jan Claudius Voelkel, Bahi Riham: Talking shops or power centres? The role of national parliaments in the Arab transformation

0153 countries

Anastasiia Nosova: Kuwaiti Arab Spring? The role of trans national factors in Kuwait’s contentious politics

0702

Ilyas Saliba: The fourth dimension of authoritarian (in)stability? Conceptualizing the effects from international context during the Arab

0626 Uprisings

0416 Waleed Ali: “Disecuritization” of the Middle-East: the Post Arab-Spring

Palestine: Solidarity and Resistance V: Queer Visions for Palestine: Contextualizing Colonialism and Diasporas 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G110 Moderators: Gayatri Gopinath; D: Paolo Bacchetta Sponsored by Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) Umayyah Cable: Cinematic activism: cultural politics at the Boston Palestine Film Festival

Joanne Barker: Indigenationalism: the politics of indigenous relations with Israel in the United States

1485

Haneen Maikey, Ghaith Hilal: Dismantling the image of the "Palestinian homosexual”

Angela Davis: Negotiating identity and modernity in middle eastern art 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G201 Moderators: Silvia Naef; D: Martina Becker

Mirl Redmann: Accessing the modern through the contemporary? The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster” appropriated for the discourse about modern Arab art

Elahe Helbig: Unrevealed Exchange. Early Photography in Iran

0349

Katrin Nahidi: Saqqakhaneh - Artistic concepts for Iranian modern art

Charlotte Bank: The artist in Syrian society: official vs. unofficial art and the problem of engaged artistic practice

Understanding Justice and Development Party Rule 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G202 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Emine Bademci: The Role of Islam in the Ideology and Political Communication of the Justice and Development Party

0923

Hatice Simten Coşar, Nalân Soyarık Şentürk: The Republic, the social and the individual: understanding the JDP’s regime

0974

Umut Bozkurt: Making sense of the Dynamics behind the hegemonic crisis of the AKP

0721

Melehat Kutun Gurgen: Seeking for the Theoretical Traces of JDP’s Authoritarianism: Its Assessment on Schmitt and Hayek

0968

Themes in Islamic Theology 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G204

Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Zeynep Yucedogru: Taḥrīf of the Bible or the Religion? Reflections from Ibn Taymiyya on the Corruption of the Bible

0792

Youshaa Patel: The Social Imaginary of a 17th century Sufi-Jurist: Najm al-Dīn al-Ghazzī on Jews, Christians and Others

1470

Mehmet Paçacı: Muslim Apocalypticism and Today's Middle East

1244

Kadir Gömbeyaz: Heresiographical Classification in Islamic Literature

1140

Patrick Laude: Reflections on the Quranic Notion of Ayāt and Some of Its Contemporary Implications

0786

Gender-based violence in the Middle East 19.08.2014 17:00-19:0 G206 Moderators: Marwan Khawaja

Banu Akadlı Ergöçmen, Ilknur Yüksel Kaptanoğlu: Domestic violence against Women in different household structures

Jinan Usta: Domestic violence in crisis settings

Enshrah Ahmed: UNFPA strategy and framework for action to addressing gender based violence

0979

Mehrinaz El Awady: Arab national legislation on violence against women

Cari Clark: Intimate partner violence, other family violence, and unmet need for family planning in Jordan

The European Union and the Eastern Mediterranean 19.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G208 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Ozker Kocadal : The EU in Cyprus Peace Process: An Ambivalent Peacemaker

1061

Nilgun Onal

08/20/2014 WOCMES 2014 - DAY 3

Iraqi Politics in Post-Saddam Era 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 B Hall Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Benjamin Isakhan : Bombing Mosques and Spikes in Violence in Iraq: Heritage Destruction and Ethno-Sectarian Violence, 2006-7 0290

Mehair Kathem : The political economy of NGO Aid in the Middle East: a case study of Sadr City NGOs 0893

Mariam Georgis : Nation and Identity Construction in Iraq 0871

Marc Lemieux : Iraq elections and political concession-making since 2005, between Islam and secular nationalism 0985

Gender equality in (times of) crisis: neoliberalism and neo-conservatism in Turkey 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 D Hall Moderators: Gulbanu Altunok; D: TBA Gülbanu Altunok: Biopolitics, Security and Gender (equality): Neo-conservatism (against Feminism) in Turkey

Saniye Dedeoğlu: Female Employment Policies in Turkey: A Pendulum between Conservatism and Neoliberalism 1197 Melda Yaman: Neo-liberal Policies, Industrial Strategy and Female Employment

Handan Koç: Understanding Neoliberalism and the New Conservatism in Middle East: Turkey Experience and Prospects for Feminism Comparative Political Economy of Middle East I 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F14 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Oğuzhan Göksel: The Turkish Economic Development Experience and the Post-Revolutionary Middle East in Comparative Perspective 0236

Ines Trojette: Determinants of conditional convergence MENA-Euro Zone: the institutional effect 1401

Ali Somel: The impacts of nationalization and privatization in the transformation of Turkey and Egypt 1483

Taner Beyoğlu: The Effect of Neoliberal Policies on the Administration of Culture in Turkey 0874

Globalisation, Local Government and Governance in the Middle East 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F15 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Rami Zeedan: Minorities Local Government in the Middle East 0471

Seyed Mousa Pourmousavi, Hossein Mohammadian: Analysis of Middle East Islamic cities Position in World Cities Network 0520

Transformation, elite change and new social mobilization in the Arab world I: Reconfiguration of the Politically Relevant Elite 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F16 Moderators: Muriel Asseburg; Co-Chair: Heiko Wimmen; D: Steven Heydemann Chérine Chams El Dine: The Military’s Shifting Alliances and Egypt’s Transformation Process 0298

Nadine Abdalla: Youth Movements in the Egyptian Transformation

Amel Boubekeur: Difficult Elite Coalitions and the Tunisian Transformation

Anna Antonakis: Unequal Agendas: Contentious Politics and Participation in Tunisia’s Transformation Migration and Diasporas 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA 0963 Wai Yip Ho: The Emerging Yemeni Diaspora in China and China's Growing Presence in Yemen 0336 Florian Kohnle: Religious aspects in the context of autochthonous Christians’ diaspora networks in the middle east Emanuelle Degli Esposti: Narrating the diaspora, creating the nation: discourse, identity, and the state in the making of the Iraqi Shi'a 0585 diaspora Israeli Politics: Ideology and Polarisation 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Merom Kalie: A comparative study of Albert Camus and the Israeli Zionist left 1427

Mtanes Edmon Shihadeh: The Impact of Globalization on Ideological Polarization: Israel since 1992 0886

Reform in Morocco 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ08 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA 1336 Volkan Ipek: The European morocco: a postcolonial aspect of how the treaty of Rome was interpreted by the king Hassan the second?

Mohammed Masbah: Understanding Morocco’s Slow Motion Reform Process 0668

Islamic charities in Egypt: Contemporary realities 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ09 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Sarah Sabry: The boom in Islamic charity in Cairo’s informal areas

0323 Yasmine Moataz Ahmed: Mediating politics: Islamic charities in an Egyptian village

Sara Lei Sparre: Formation of Muslim citizens: The meaning and embodiment of charity work among young Egyptians One empire, many religions: religion and society under Fatimid rule I: Fatimid narratives of authority 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ14 Moderators: Almut Hoefert; D: Ismail Poonawala Jamel A. Velji: Imminence, distance: narrative reframings of early Fatimid apocalyptic

Shainool Jiwa: The Baghdad Manifesto: A lineage exposed or an expose on lineage? 0741

Arzina R. Lalani: Fatimid notion of authority: historical and intellectual premises

Espace Public et Conversation de la Nature 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ15 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Khadijetou Seneh: Système territoriale: Développement et conservation, faut-il choisir? Impact de la route Nouakchott Nouadhibou su le 0870 Parc National du Banc d'Arguin (PNBA)

Louafi Ep Bellara Samira, Abdou Saliha: Les arbres d’alignement dans L’espace public urbain et son influence sur la qualité des 0424 ambiances thermiques

Representation of Women in Media 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Sinan Kadife: Representations of Women in “Islamist Films” in Turkey 0922

Nancy Gallagher: Women and Gender in Contemporary Egyptian Documentaries 0589

Sabah Firoz Uddin: Burka Avenger, Pakistani Cartoon taking on the Taliban: A Move to Feminism or Keeping women on the Margins? 0168

Kurdish Politics I 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Ozlem Kayhan Pusane, Asli Ilgit: Counterinsurgency as foreign policy: Turkey’s struggle with the PKK at the international front 0470

Şemsa Özar: The return of Kurdish villagers to their hometowns 1331

Ozlem Goner: Spatial Formations of the Nation and the Outsiders: The Case of Dersim 1102

1413 Gokhan Duman: Turkey’s Kurdish issue: complexity between history and actuality

Neither visitors, nor colonial victims: the history of Muslims in interwar Europe 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G101 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Sophie Spaan: Towards a Trans-cultural history of Muslim Networks in Interwar Europe

Usman Ahmedani: Muslim Religious Identity and Institutions in interwar Europe 0708 Mehdi Sajid: Political activism and Pan-Islamism in interwar Europe

Andrei Tirtan: Muslim Images of Europe from within Post-Arab Spring: Russia and the Middle East 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G102 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Muharrem Erenler: The extent and instruments of Russian soft power in the contemporary middle east 1325

Seven Erdoğan: Coming Back of Russia: The Case of Arab Uprisings 0231

Morteza Shoja, Akbar Valizadeh: Russia and Arabian Uprisings 1301

Socio-political changes and future prospects in the Gulf I: from the perspectives of political actors, class, ethnicity and gender 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G104 Moderators: Abdullah Babood and Namie Tsujigami; D: Abdullah Babood Kristian Coates Ulrichsen: Shifting Dynamics of Politics and Opposition in Kuwait

Hirotake Ishiguro: Experiment of Elections and Development of Parliamentary Politics in the Gulf 0233

Takuya Murakami: Non-Ideological Demonstration in Oman: New Forms of Lobbying or Threat of Regime Change?

Conceptualising de-democratisation in Turkey: An analysis from the perspective of human security 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G106 Moderators: Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz; D: TBA Birgul Demirtas: Justice and Development Party’s Understanding of Democracy: “Advanced Democracy” in Rhetoric, De- Democratisation in Practice

Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz: The Justice and Development Party: On Women’s Bodies and Humans’ Insecurities 0684 Funda Gencoglu Onbasi: A Discussion on the Notion of Hate Speech from the Perspective of the Relationship between Democracy and (Human) Security

Bezen Balamir Coskun: Turkeyʼs Refugee Regime and the Construction of “Syrian Refugee” as a Human Security Issue L'architecture, les villes et les sites symboliques dans le Maghreb 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G107 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Senda Fendri, Mounir Dhouib: Ordre derrière l'apparent désordre 0876

Khadidja Boughazi, Samia Rebouh, Harkat Naim, Aiche Messaoud: La vallée du m'zab, une leçon d'architecture 0237

0691 Mansouri Lamia, Debache Samira, Djeridi Anis: Spatialité et symbolique d'un espace soufi à Alger au XVIIIe siècle

Haoui Bensaada Samira: El kantara, exemple d'une architecture vernaculaire oasienne en Algérie 0313

Changing identities in history 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G108 Moderators:Michael Marten; D: TBA Michael Marten: The ramifications of Scottish Presbyterian influence on British policy in the Mandate period after 1948

Jacob Norris: The blurring of confessional boundaries in Ottoman Bethlehem, 1750-1914 0555 Deanna Womack: Gospel Preachers, Gospel Printers: Syrian Protestants & the Nahda

Karene Sanchez: Language, identity and the Catholics of the Holy Land: the case of the Melkite community (1920-1950) From Modernization to Westernization: some observations on the course of the Tanzimat 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G109 Moderators: Butrus Abu Manneh, D: TBA Butrus Abu Manneh: Social Mobility in Ottoman-Turkish Society and its impact on the Tanzimat

1477 Mehmet Seyitdanlioglu: Tanzimat: Beginnings of Separations of Powers in Ottoman Empire in Tanzimat Era 1838-1878

Berrak Burcak: Beyond East-West Dichotomy: Some Observations on the Tanzimat Reforms Palestine: Solidarity and Resistance VI: Resistant Economies and Questions of Solidarity 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G110 Moderators: Samia Al-Botmeh; D:Saed Abu Hijleh;

Sponsored by Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) Ryvka Barnard: Domestic tourism and consciousness raising in occupied Palestine

1228 Jennifer Kelly: The forest for the trees: tourism, erasure, and solidarity in Palestine

Lila Sharif: Savory politics: neoliberalism, eco-occupation, and the Palestinian olive Afghanistan in Historical Perspective 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G201 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Zeynep Tuba Sungur: Tribal Encounters with Modernity: the Case of Pashtuns in Afghanistan 0948

Yahia Baiza: The Changing Pattern of Power in Afghanistan, 1964-2014: A Critical Analysis 0540

Alam Payind, Melinda McClimans: Inside Afghanistan 24 Years After the Soviet Withdrawal 1010

Role of Media in Egyptian Revolution 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G202 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Kai Hafez: Radically polarized publics and the demise of media freedom in Egypt 0947

Tolga Yazici: Different Perceptions of Egyptian Coup D’etat by Turkish Media 1342 Theodora Papadopoulou : The Role of Media in the Case of the Turmoil in Egypt 0122

Reconfigurations of Space 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G204 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Zahra Ahmadipor, Erfan Dalili Didar: Principals and Methods of Administrative Division in Iran 0126

Guillaume Vareilles: Géographie politique et géohistoire des frontières au Proche-Orient: (re)naissance d'une modernité ? 1251

Post-Islamism in Turkey I: Theoretical Approach 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G206 Moderators: Isabel David and Tugrul Keskin; D: Beken Saatcioglu;

Co-sponsored by the Journal Sociology of Islam Michelangelo Guida: Intellectual debate on Post-Islamism

Kemal Sılay: Respeaking the Ottoman Words, Reliving the Ottoman World: The Cultural Significance of Turkey’s Imperial Past and Its Political Significance for Turkish 0938 Islamism(s)

Damla Işık: Vakif as Intent and Practice: Charity and Poor Relief in Contemporary Turkey

Neslihan Çevik: Muslimism: Islamic engagements of modernity in Contemporary Turkey Oral and Written Narratives in Education Practices 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G207 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA 1049 Deniz Yüksel: Affecting Turkish girls and boys - dissertation project: gender, nation, and religion in contemporary Turkish school textbooks

Aslıhan Zengin: Reasons of internally displaced Kurdish women for not participating in PECs (Peoples' Education Centers): a narrative 0162 analysis

Jennifer L Nichols: The Arabic Language Fog of War: Veterans' language learning experiences during deployment and after 0215

Tatar Exiles in Interwar Japan 20.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G208 Moderators: Nobuo Misawa; D: TBA Nobuo Misawa: Sayeko Numat: Merthan Ali Dündar: 0213 Abdullah Gündoğdu: Ismail Türkoğlu:

The unknown known’s: Iraq after 10 years of occupation 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 B Hall Moderators: Tareq Y. Ismael; D: Gamal M. Selim; Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES), in cooperation with the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS) Tareq Y. Ismael, and Jacqueline S. Ismael: The rule of the preacher’s: Examining today’s Iraq through Al-Wardi’s lens

1156 Hussain Shaban: State and the roots of the democracy in Iraq

Raymond Baker: Breaking windows: Corruption, Iraq, and American empire

Sherzad Ameen Al-Najjar: The views of al-Wardi on the prospects of democracy in Iraq Expressions of Resistance: The Mainstreaming of the Alternative: Roundtable 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 C Hall Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Mariz Momtaz Shaker Kelada, Noha Sherif Khattab, Zainab Magdy Afifi, Dana Alawnah Alawnah 0811

Toward an Islamicate cosmopolitan imagination: the moral legacy of Marshall GS Hodgson 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 D Hall Moderators: Miriam Cooke; D: TBA Huricihan Islamoglu: World history as fulfillment of individual moral responsibility

0586 Ercument Asil: Tradition in the technicalistic age: a Hodgsonian example from Ottoman popular science

Bruce B. Lawrence: Hodgson the cosmopolitan historian, with Islamicate accents Comparative Political Economy of the Middle East II 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F14 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Moritz Schmoll: Explaining state inactivity in tax collection: a study of Egyptian state capacity and state-society relations 1332

Maria Fernandez Vivancos Marquina: Class, lifestyle, and automobiles in Cairo 0511

0403 Matthew Wainscott: Egypt's capitalist class and revolution

Mehmet Hecan: Comparative political economy of IMF packages; Egypt and Tunisia 1365

Political Violence 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F15 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Alexander Mark Baxter: The Socio-Political and Historical Development of Political Violence in Lebanon. ‘Surrogate Victims’ and 0326 Ontological Insecurity

Mustafa Yetim: Impact of Hezbollah after “Arab Spring” as a Violent Non-State Actor: Limitations and Prospects 0406

Dila Vardal: Types of violence in the Middle East: Why peaceful co-existence appears to be an ideological dream 1116

Transformation, elite change and new social mobilization in the Arab world II: Social Mobilisation and New Patterns of Participation 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F16 Moderators: Heiko Wimmen; Co-chair: Muriel Asseburg; D:Steven Heydemann Wolfram Lacher: The rise of the local in Libya: Towards a New Elite bargain?

Rafaa Tabib: Bottom-Up Participation and Political Contestation in Libya 0284 Mareike Transfeld: The GCC Roadmap, Shifting Elite Coalitions and the Transformation in Yemen

Atiaf Al Wazir: Independent Youth in the Yemeni Transformation Issues in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Fedra Rodríguez Hinojosa: The jihadist character in 21st century Arabic literature 0152

Ralph Heyndels: La signification socio-culturelle des trois romans ayant reçu le prix de la Mamounia 0155

Alireza Nabilou: Literature in the Middle East between tradition and innovation 0576

Hanan H Jasim: Rewriting Romance in Thousand and One Nights 1479

Irene Siegel: History and The Ethics of Allegory in the Writing of Edmond Amran El Maleh 1446

The Role of China in the Middle East 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Zhiguang Sam Yin: The Politics of Resistance: Mao Zedong’s Perspective on the Politics of “The Third World Countries” in the 1950s 0877 and a Review of Post-Cold War Narrative of Cold War History

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Norafidah Ismail: China: Dealing with the Arab uprisings and crises 1321

Television Discourse and Images 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ08 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Trudy Anderson: In the telly of the beast: from post-colonialism to neo-colonialism in the depiction of the arab in British and American 1101 media

Tatiana Mozhaeva: Signification and Temporality across Cultures 0759

Anne Grüne: Global entertainment TV formats in German/Egyptian comparison: transcultural identity discourses and collective readings 1318

Citizenship in the Muslim Mind: Merging Constructs and Applications of Citizenship in Domestic and Transnational Spaces 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ09 Moderators: Saeed A Khan; D: TBA Saeed A Khan: Isra El Beshir: 0912 Jason Huyghe: Sidra Ali:

One empire, many religions: religion and society under Fatimid rule II: Fatimid techniques of power 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ14 Moderators: Serena Tolino; D: TBA Almut Hoefert: Rule as experiment: the religious policy of Caliph al-Hakim 0741 Serena Tolino: Eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire: Ranks, Masculinities and Sacredness Islam and Theology: Tafsir, Fiqh, Hadith 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ15 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Alena Kulinich: Perceptions of Mu‘tazilite exegesis in pre-modern Islamic tradition 0769

Mohammed Moussa: Muhammad al-ghazali and the jurist's craft: alternatives to history in contemporary Islam 0781

Luay Radhan: Did Muhammad really say that?! Jamal al-Banna’s doubts about "Sahih al-Bukhari" 0289

Susanne Olsson: Changing notions of the phrase al-wala’ wa al-bara’ (‘allegiance and disavowal’) 0182

Women’s experiences of public space in Turkey 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ16 Moderators: Elif E. Aksit; D: TBA Elif E. Aksit: Forgotten spaces, dislocated politics

Selda Tuncer: Stepping out of home: everyday conditions of women’s going public in Turkey 1168 Elifhan Köse: Urban space and gender geography in the Turkish “taşra”: case study of Karaman

Figen Uzar Özdemir: Pious women’s religious activities at the mosques in Ankara, Turkey Kurdish Politics II 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Hatice Yaprak Civelek, Sinan Zeyneloğlu: Researching Ethnicity in Turkey: “Mother tongue” as a Discursive Choice 0552

Eser Selen: Rethinking Ethno-racist Fictions, Nationalist Myths: Turkish Variations 0476

Ulrike Flader: Undermining subjectivation in the everyday: Kurdish children’s practices of subverting the national vow in Turkey 1231

History of Mandate in the Middle East 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G101 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Itamar Radai: A Tale of Cultural Hybridity: the Palestinian Middle Class in Jerusalem under the Mandate 0342

Mohammad Masad: Reexamining British Mandate’s Orientalist Approach to Palestine 1340

Catherine Wadad Batruni: Lebanon and the Second World War: The End of A Mandate and the Birth of A Nation 0137

Idir Ouahes: Press & Censorship during the first five years of France's Syrian Mandate 1302

State and Society in Revolutionary Egypt 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G102 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Salma Soliman: Researching Egyptian business and society after the Arab Spring 0995

Christoph Sorg: Social Struggles in the Making of a Post-Neoliberal Order: Revolutionary Egypt as a Laboratory for Global Social 0716 Change

Abdulgani Bozkurt, Korkmaz Yıldırım: Democratization in Egypt during Mubarak and Mursi era 0978

Lucia Ardovini: “Forgetting a Revolution: the disintegration of the Egyptian ‘state’” 1081

Socio-political changes and future prospects in the Gulf II: from the perspectives of class, ethnicity and gender 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G104 Moderators: Abdullah Babood and Namie Tsujigami; D: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen Masaki Matsuo: Ethnocracy of the Arab Gulf States

0635 Koji Horinuki: Social Security and Housing Policy in the UAE

Namie Tsujigami: Gender Policies and Legitimacy in the Gulf Remapping the realm of ideologies in Turkey: Approaches beyond the official ideology debate 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G106 Moderators: Ali Somel; D: TBA Cangül Örnek: The official ideology debate in Turkey: Assumptions, ambiguities and problems

Funda Hülagü Demirbilek: The role of the police apparatus in the re-making of the ideological sphere in post-cold war Turkey 1295 Neslişah Leman Başaran: The ideology of the Muslim-Turkish merchant bourgeoisie in the formation years of the republic in Turkey

Sezgi Durgun: Ideology of place/space in today’s Turkey: Politics at the “urban frontier” Architecture, Patrimonie et Transformation Urbaine en Algerie 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G107 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA 0778 Said Madani, Abderrahmane Diafat: Mutations Urbaines de la Cité des Cheminots à Sétif, Algérie

Khaled Chorfi: Le Fait Urbain en Algérie Pour une Refonte sur les Pratiques. Cas de Sétif Algérie 0880

Benharkat Sarah, Bouchahm Garmia: Environnement lumineux et confort visuel dans les espaces d’enseignement universitaire à 0352 Constantine: A propos de deux bâtiments

Sehili Farida Farida: Un Essai d’application d’un système d’indicateurs pour évaluer la durabilité d’un site historique. Cas d’étude: 0179 Mansourah K’bira, Bordj Bou Arréridj, Algérie

Djemai Boussouf Faima: La mise en valeur d'un secteur sauvegardé: le Rocher de Constantine 1184

Displacement/Migration 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G108 Moderators: Michael Marten; D: TBA Marta Wozniak: Assyrians/Syriacs in Sweden: old and new challenges

Fiona McCallum and Alistair Hunter: Migrant perspectives on homeland political developments: responses of Middle Eastern Christians 0556 in the UK to the Arab Uprisings

Lise Paulsen Galal and Sara Lei Sparre: Voices and negotiations among Middle Eastern Christian communities in Denmark Ottoman Law and Family 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G109 Moderators: Hadi Hosainy; D: Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik Hadi Hosainy: Slavery and Adoption: Integration of Slaves into the Early-Modern Istanbul Households 1199

Zoe Griffith: Family, Property and Inheritance in Ottoman Lebanon: the Case of Keçecizade Mehmed Ağa’s Mulberry Trees

Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik: Experiences of Children and Single Mothers in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

Minna Rozen: The impact of Ottoman law on Rabbinical Court Rulings Concerning Issues of Personal Status in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Istanbul

Gülay Yılmaz: The Children of Bursa Taken as Devshirmes in 1604 Palestine: Solidarity and Resistance VII: Historical Approaches to Palestine Studies: Student Movement, Political Alliances and Dirty War 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G110 Moderators: Hasan Ayoub; D: Esmail Nashef;

Sponsored by Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) Mjriam Abu Samra: Palestinian transnational student movements: vanguard or solidarity?

Jennifer Moghannam: Unity and political power: infrastructure, victories, and pitfalls of the LNM-PLO alliance 1415

Tamara Lea Spira: Conjunctures and divergences: hemispheric American solidarities with Palestine, from the Dirty War to the War on Terror Security in the Middle East: The Role of Internal and External Powers 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G201 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA María Constanza Apodaca Del Hoyo: International relations of the Middle East, and British plans for the defence of the area, 1945-1948 0601

Noa Schonmann: Voice of the Arabs: Societal Factors in the Foreign Policy Making of Authoritarian States 1050

Siarhei Bohdan: Modern Arms for the Islamic Republic? Role of Post-Soviet Sources of Weapons and Defence-Related Technologies in 1215 Strengthening Iran's Military Might After 1989

John Aldon Wahlquist: Power/influence conversion and the US.-Jordanian arms transfer relationship 0283

Limits of discourse 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G202 Moderators: Paola Abenante; Co-Chair: Samuli Schielke; D: TBA Paola Abenante: “I feared myself so much that I gave up”. The predicament of self-discipline in the life of a young Egyptian woman

Samuli Schielke: To the one it concerns: Finding a literary voice and the difficulty of being heard

0859 Alice Elliot: Ordinary future, anomalous present: Rescaling ‘the ordinary’ in a Moroccan emigrant town

Aymon Kreil: Legitimate Realms of the Unsaid: Psychology and Taboo in Cairo

Jessica Winegar: Making Sense, or Not, of Revolution Aux marges des villes: formes et récits littéraires 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G204 Moderators: Anna Madoeuf; D: Elena Chiti Elena Chiti: La marginalité à l’épreuve de l’histoire: perceptions arabes et européennes d’Alexandrie (1879-1940)

Anna Madoeuf: Le juge, l’officier et le visionnaire. Figurations et assignations à la marge de la ville ancienne du Caire 0304

Muriel Rosemberg: Les marges d'Istanbul, Istanbul en marge

Nora Semmoud: Alger clair-obscur. Hôtel Saint-Georges de Rachid Boudjedra

Florence Troin: Fractures de la ville et de la société constantinoises. Al Zilzàl de Tahar Ouattar Post-Islamism in Turkey II: The Gülen movement and post-Islamism 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G206 Moderators: Isabel David and Tugrul Keskin; D: Kemal Silay; Co-sponsored by: the Center for Turkish Studies at Portland State University and Turkish and Ottoman Studies at Indiana University Fabio Vicini: Post-Islamism or Veering Toward Political Modernity? Ideology and Islam in the Gülen Movement

Marhabo Saparova: Becoming Muhacir, becoming Şakirde: A Case of Female University Students from Central Asia in the Gülen Movement in Turkey 0937 Kristina Dohrn: Post-Islamist practices between Turkey and Tanzania: A perspective on teachers and businessmen inspired by Fethullah Gülen

Oğuz Alyanak: Emergent Actors, Emerging Narratives: Competing Representations of Islam and Turkey in North America Migration and Minorities from a Legal Perspective 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G207 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Marta Burgos Gonzalez: Migration policies and integration in Israel 1252

Ylenia Rocchini: Moroccan kafāla in migration context Islam, the best interests of the child and cross-border family issues 1344

Gulce Tarhan Celebi: Courts Shaping National Identity: the Supreme Court of Israel and the Constitutional Court of Turkey 1406

Elites and Intellectuals in the Periphery of the Middle East in the 19th Century: Maghreb and Central Asia 20.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G208 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Aziza Shanazarova: Laziz Azizzoda: An Unexplored Jadid in Central Asia 0564

Idriss Jebari: Reconfiguring understandings of intellectual engagement and disengagement by critical North African thinkers, 1965-1980 1459

Lamia Bougrioua: The extremist assimilated Algerian elite and the Algerian national movement ( 1819-1945 ) 0124

LOC: Transformation of Health Policy in Turkey 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 B Hall Moderators: TBA; D: TBA 1493 Gülbiye Yenimahalleli Yaşar: Universal Health Coverage in Turkey: An Evaluation on Financial Protection 1268 Ipek Eren Vural: Politics of pharma price and expenditure control Iraq: The human costs of occupation 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 B Hall Moderators: Seif Da’Na; Organised by: Tareq Y. Ismael; Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES), in cooperation with the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS) Abdul Kadhum Al-Aboudi: Radioactive contamination and the legacy of war waste, Iraq as a case study 1158

Mundher Al-Adhami : Iraqi education as a prolonged emergency

Dirk Adriaensens: Accountability and justice in the 'New Iraq' Islamic Prayers: Experience, Imagination, and the Weight of Daily Life: ROUNDTABLE 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 C Hall Moderators: Niloofar Haeri; D: TBA;

Organizers: Paola Abenante and Niloofar Haeri Paola Abenante, Niloofar Haeri, Butch Ware, Travis Zadeh, Fabio Vicini, Ingvild Flaskerud, Alessandro Cancian, Galina Oustinova 1274 Stjepanovic, Mohammad Reza Haeri Respectability and gendered mobility in the early twentieth century Middle East and North Africa I: Negotiating respectability 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 D Hall Moderators: Liat Kozma; D: TBA Simon Jackson: Performing relief: Syro-Lebanese women’s humanitarian philanthropy in the diaspora, 1915-1926

Francesca Biancani : Conflicting narrations of gendered liminality: the case of Slovenian migrant domestic workers in Egypt at the turn of 1118 the 20th Century

Camila De Maria Y Campos Pastor: Women in Service and other Scandals in the Moral Economy of the Mandate Mediterranean Comparative Political Economy of Middle East III 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 F14 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Wenke Krestin: Economic international partnerships in contemporary Algeria: the brokers as mediators and designers 0772

Erin A Snider: Engineering transition: The new political economy of aid and security in the Arab region 1464

Asma Ahmed Ali Farah: What factors shape attitudes towards wasta and its utilisation in the Middle East and North Africa? 0958

Boualem Zerouati: Foreign languages, global economy and formation 0888

New research on the Syrian conflict 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 F15 Moderators: André Bank; D: Tina Zintl Francesca De Chatel: The Role of Drought and Climate Change in the Syrian Uprising: Untangling the Triggers of the Revolution

0473 Thomas Pierret: Syrian Salafis at War: External Support and Local Realities

Stephan Rosiny: Challenges and Chances of Power Sharing for Syria and the Region Iran and the West in the 20th Century 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 F16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Roland Popp: Transnational Opposition: Iranian Students in West Germany and the East German-Iranian Diplomatic Rapprochement 0434

Mansoureh Ebrahimi, Kamaruzaman Yusoff: The British Plot to Remove Iranian Prime Minister Mosaddeq from Power (1951-1953) 0501

Murat Yümlü: Revisiting The German Influence In Iran and The Deposition of Reza Shah (1926-1941) 0138

Experiences of Youth 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 F17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Arash Beidollahkhani: The Middle East Revolutions: courageous uprising of the youth against the current and entrance into the area of 1075 public policy

Anne Linda Amira Augustin: Ansar al-Shariah’s Emirate of Waqar and the struggle of youth in Southern Yemen 0510

Sina Birkholz: “Globalisation has done its job” - Young Egyptians' everyday cosmopolitanisms 1188

Islamic Political Thought 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 F19 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Roida Oktay Rzayeva: Postmodern and religion: the discursive analysis 0345

Okazaki Hiroki: A critical assessment of despotism and the modern evolutionary approach in the Arab world ---A view of Shublī 0373 Shumayyil’s thought---

Ottoman Empire and Balkans in the 17th-18th Century 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 FZ08 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Birol Gündoğdu : A Story of Ottoman Success or Failure in the Peloponnese prior to the Greek Insurrection of 1770? An Attempt to 0251 Distinguish between Myths and Facts on the Issue of Ottoman Incompetence

Keiko Iwamoto :The change of the Ottoman semi-military classes in the Balkan Peninsula: a study of the yörük in Rumeli and the 0320 descendants of the conquerors in the 17th and 18th centuries

Arab Spring and Turkey from a Comparative Perspective 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 FZ09 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Cemal Karakas : Historical Path-Dependence, Actorness, Structure, or External Conditionality? A Conceptual Framework for Turkey's 0214 Role as a 'Model' for Muslim States

Hayriye Ozen, Cenk Aygul : Tahrir and Taksim compared: the (non-) incorporation of the demands of protesters into institutionalized 0677 politics

Natalia Ribas Mateos: De-centering conceptual globalization. An approximation from Arabic and Turkish Worlds 0630

One empire, many religions: religion and society under Fatimid Rule II: Empire and religion in Syria and Palestine 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 FZ14 Moderators: Serena Tolino; D: TBA Hatim Mahamid: The Fatimids in Syria and the Sunni Shi‘i conflict 0741 Daniella Talmon-Heller: Religious innovation in 11th century Palestine Ibadi Religio-Intellectual Tradition 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 FZ15 Moderators: Sulaiman Al Shu’eili; D: TBA Valeria J. Hoffmann: Ibadi Islam: Its Place in Islamic Thought

0496 Sulaiman b. Ali b. Amir al-Shu’eili: The History of Qur’anic Exegesis in the Tradition of the Ibadi School of Islam

Ismail Albayrak: Ibadis’ Approaches to the Methodology of Qur’anic Exegesis Queer Studies 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 FZ16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Eda Hatice Farsakoglu, Katrine Scott : Reflexivity, Positionality, and Power: Thinking Through Ethnographic Studies from the Middle 0758 Eastern Field Setting

Ece Saltan: Transness: An Urban Phenomenon In Istanbul 1334

Matthew Clare: Complex subjectivities: the place (?) of queer middle eastern migrants in the Netherlands 0662

Kurdish Politics III 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 FZ17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Nail Elhan, Deniz Solmaz: Transformation of Northern Iraq: An Analysis of Class Struggle and Possibility of a "Passive Revolution" 1469

Melisande Marie Genat: Land Reform and Collective Failure: The Mixed Lessons of Iraqi Development in the Kurdish Region During the 0385 1970’s

Can Cemgil: Kurdish foreign policy: an analysis of the foreign policy of a non-state nation 0930

Religious and Social Communities in the Middle East 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G101 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Cengiz Sisman, Muharrem Varol: When Kabbala Meets Sufism: Crypto-Jewish Dervishes in the Ottoman Empire 0821

Rıza Yıldırım: From Ethos Comitatus to Village Religion: The Making of Qizilbash Faith in the Sixteenth Century 0763

Success and Failure of Authoritarian Inclusion: Lessons From the Arab Uprisings 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G102 Moderators: Steven Heydemann; Co-chair: Oliver Schlumberger; D: Roy Karadag Maria Josua: Successful Exclusion, Failing Inclusion? Algeria and Jordan after the Arab Uprisings

Tina Zintl: The changing face of religion in Syrian politics: Pre-Uprising Baathist ‘secular’ inclusion versus post-2011 sectarian exclusion 1084 Kressen Thyen, Nadine Sika: Youth inclusion and participation in post-uprising Egypt and Morocco

Mirjam Edel: Inclusiveness, loyalty, defection: pathways of military behavior during the Arab Uprisings Varieties of Social Movements in MENA 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G104 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Abdelfattah Mady, Gökhan Bozbaş: Islamic social movements and democratization: A Comparison between Egypt and Turkey 1455

0347 Manal A Jamal: Analogical Reasoning, History and Social Movement Organization/Mobilization

Rethinking single-party period in Turkey: new approaches to authoritarianism, resistance and agency 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G106 Moderators: Gülhan Balsoy; D: Gavin Brockett Alexandros Lamprou: “Such kind of people should not become MPs”: political denunciations and state-society relations during the single- party period in Turkey

Sanem Güvenç Salgırlı: What Comes After the Critique? Questioning Population Politics through Medical Practices during the Interwar Years in Turkey 0689

Umut Azak: Reforming Islam through or despite the Directorate of Religious Affairs? Rethinking the “Control” Aspect of Secularism in the Single-Party Period in Turkey

Sevgi Adak: Social change and women’s agency in early republican Turkey: the case of anti-veiling campaigns Heritage 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G107 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Abdelkader Ababneh: Heritage management planning, stakeholders and legal problematic; the case of the archeological site of Jarash in 0573 Jordan Theo Loinaz: At the medico-magical interface: obstetric charms and amulets across communal borders in the Mediterraneo- 1000 Mesopotamian area Changing identities in contemporary contexts 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G108 Moderators: Michael Marten; D: TBA Paul Rowe: Serve to Survive: Palestinian Christian Civil Society Organizations and political change in Israel and Palestine

Mark Calder: A different world in Manger Square: Bethlehem Christian experiences of change in a local frame 0557 Joseph Hermiz: ‘Assyrianism,’ a double edged sword”: identity and conflict in independent Assyrian journalism (1906-2008)

Tijmen Baarda: Four churches, four communities: Syriac Christians of the early Iraqi state Representation and Images in Arab Television Channels 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G109 Moderators:TBA; D: TBA Christine Crone: TV and Popular Culture in the Middle East: New Trends in the Aftermath of ‘Arab Spring’ 1214

Habiba Boumlik, Burcin Ogrenir: Turkish dubbed soap operas in Morocco Hybridization, liberation and alienation 1164

Palestine: Solidarity and Resistance VIII: Palestine and US Communities of Color: Labor and Anti-Racist Solidarities 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G110 Moderators: Leanne Howe; D: Robin D.G. Kelley;

Sponsored by the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) Marisol LeBron: We face the same aggressor: Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the politics of colonial comparison

1484 Justin Leroy: Empire and the obligations of Blackness: toward a Black/Palestinian solidarity politic

Jaime Veve: US labor and Palestine: historical challenges, future possibilities Philosophy in the Modern Middle East I 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G201 Moderators: Anke von Kügelgen; Co-chair: M. Sait Özervarlı Anke von Kügelgen: Philosophy and Philosophers in the Modern Arab speaking World

M. Sait Özervarlı: Philosophy and Philosophers in Modern Ottoman and Turkish History 0356 Roman Seidel: Philosophical trends and developments in 19th and 20th century Iran

Jan-Peter Hartung: The Culture of Philosophising in an Ideological State Arab Uprisings and Media Coverage 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G202 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Estibaliz Ortega: Mediterranean youth and its representation in the press of the region 0523

Ehab Galal: From Spring to Autumn: Competition over political legitimacy in post-revolutionary media 1237

Billie Jeanne Brownlee: The revolution "from below" and its misinterpretations "from above" 0260

Mohamad Hamedi: How the “Islamic Awaking” or “Arabic Spring” is highlighting in the Iranian Press(Case study of “Keyhan” and 0904 “Shargh” newspapers; from January 2011 to January 2012)

Democracy and Citizenship 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G204 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Zahra Albarazi: Citizenship: a unifying force or a weapon for exclusion? 1056

Hannu Juusola: Towards a secular liberal democracy? Israel and Lebanon in a comparison 1218

Karin Esposito: Democracy and its Laws: A Cultural Concept for Change 0462

Post-Islamism in Turkey III: JDP, post-Islamism and neoliberalism 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G206 Moderators: Isabel David and Tugrul Keskin; D: Michelangelo Guida Beken Saatcioglu: AKP’s Shifts between Islamism and post-Islamism: What can the “December 17 Process” Tell Us?

Nora Fisher Onar: Beyond Takkiye vs. Liberalism?: Turkey’s “Post-Islamist” Foreign Policy

0796 Gül Berna Özcan, Umut Gündüz: A Customized Neo-Liberalism with a Moral Call: An Assessment of the Growing JDP Connections in Turkish Businesses

Bilge Azgin: Distilling the Problems of Post-Islamism through the case of Turkey’s AKP (or AKP through a glass darkly) Teachers' unions discourse on reform in Lebanon and Tehran: opportunities and challenges 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G207 Moderators: Maha Shuayb; D: TBA Maha Shuayb; Marie-Noelle AbiYaghi: The discourse of reform in the teachers’ unions in Lebanon: quality education verses political reform 1114

Mohammad Maljoo: Teachers’ Syndicates Movement in Tehran 2001- 2004: a failed attempt? Foreign policies in the Middle East and North Africa I/Les politiques étrangères du Moyen Orient et de l’Afrique du Nord I 20.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G208 Moderators: Irene Fernandez Molina; D: TBA;

Sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Ali Fathollah-Nejad: Development-Based Foreign Policy? Comparing Iran’s and Turkey’s Strategies

Henrietta Wilkins: Lebanese Foreign Policy During the Arab Uprisings

Rosa Alba Ruffo: Israeli foreign policy: The Particular Case of Turkey 0297

Miguel Hernando de Larramendi; Irene Fernández Molina: The evolving foreign policies of North African states (2011-2013): new trends in constraints, political processes and behavior

Raimundo Gregoire Delaunoy: EU-Morocco’s relationship in the new Maghreb: none, little or big changes? Linking the Middle East with world history: W.S.Blunt (1840-1922) and his networks revisited 20.08.2014 17:00-19:00 B Hall Moderators: Yoshiko Kurita; D: Umar Ryad;

Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies, IAMES Riad Nourallah: Blunt's Middle East and the first World War

Mansour Bonakdarian: Cultivating Irish solidarity with nationalist struggles in the Middle East: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and his anti- imperialist networks, 1882-1914 1183 Yoshiko Kurita: Blunt and Theodore Rothstein: from Egyptian nationalism to the Russian revolution

Warren Dockter: The Influence of a poet: Wilfrid S Blunt and the Churchills Co-IRIS: Islamic Perspectives on Theory and Praxis in International Relations 20.08.2014 17:00-19:00 C Hall Moderators: Nassef Manabilang Adiong; D: TBA Nassef Manabilang Adiong: Islam and International Relations: A Comparative Study on Sovereignty

Raffaele Mauriello: Democracy and the ‘Stillborn God'

Deina Abdelkader: Islam and Democracy are they Compatible? 0411

Abdalhadi M. Alijla: Nation-State in IR and Islam

Waleed Ali: Mustad‘afun vs. Mustakbirun Reconsidered: A Shi‘itologic Genealogy of the International Relations Outlook of the Islamic Republic of Iran Respectability and gendered mobility in the early twentieth century Middle East and North Africa, Part II: Non-respectable Realms 20.08.2014 17:00-19:00 D Hall Moderators: Francesca Biancani; D: TBA Liat Kozma: Traveling prostitutes, traveling johns: Gendered migration around the Mediterranean

Mustafa El Qadery: The Military Brothels during Colonial Period in Morocco 1131 Nessim Znaien: Prostitution in Beirut during the French mandate

Daniel Lee: Exposing Julot the Pimp: Jewish Prostitution and Trafficking in 1930s and 1940s Tunisia The Modern Historiography in Iran: A Critical Approach 20.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F14 Moderators: Heydar Shadi; D: TBA Heydar Shadi: History as text: on hermeneutics of modern historiography in Iran: The case of "the Cyrus Cylinder"

Seyedali Seyedrazaghi: The myth of pure identity: the case of Iran

1205 Naseraddin Alizadeh: New waves in Iranian historiography and the challenging of ‘Arian Myth’

Artum Dinç; Hossein Ahmadian Dishkedouki: The memory construction and destruction games: within the scope of Persianization politics in Iran Traditional Architecture of Iran 20.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F15 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Kiarash Eftekhary, Nahid Kahnamouei: The role of soil in traditional architecture of Iran 1362

Atri Hatef Naiemi: Residential Compounds: Earthen Architecture in the Central Desert of Iran 0392

Everyday Life and Egypt Revolution 20.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Mohamed Abdel Rahman Elgohari: The ultras political role and the state in Egypt 0478

Hanan Hosni Sabea: Chronicles of Laughter and Revolution: Caricatures, Jokes and the Everyday of Being in Revolutionary Times 1234

Politics of Food 20.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F17 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA Christian Henderson: "Never say no to Panda." GCC investments in Egyptian food and agriculture, and the power of production, state and 1496 ideology

Yusuke Kawamura: Structural adjustment, social contracts and social protection in the Middle East: food subsidies in Jordan 0264

Arab Regional Politics 20.08.2014 17:00-19:00 F19 Moderators:TBA; D: TBA Zeynep Sütalan: Arab Spring and the New Arab Cold War 1132

Bartosz Bojarczyk: The Persian Gulf security system - challenges and threats 0713

Muhammad Atif Khan: Compétition ou coopération: l'étude analytique pour le succès et l'échec de la régionalisation dans le Moyen- 0571 Orient

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Nazgul Sultanova: The Rivalry between Turkey and Iran in Central Asia 1038

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1177 Mustafa Berkay Aydın: Workers and Politics in the Karabük Iron and Steel Factory in the 1950s

Onur Can Taştan: From Insubordination to Institutionalization: Understanding the Labour Upsurge in the 1970s in Turkey– the Arçelik Case

1864-2014: 150th Anniversary of the Circassian Exodus, Challenges, Opportunities for Diaspora and Homelands 21.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G 106 Moderators: Sevda Alankuş; D: Erol Taymaz

Ergün Özgür: 150th Anniversary of the Circassian Exodus: Challenges and Opportunities

Chen Bram: Warriors, Muhajireen, Exiled: Historical Memory and Ethnic Continuity – the Case of Israeli Circassians

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1001

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Ishayahu Landa: Tribal Identity and Tribal Migration in Mongol Eurasia: the Oyirad Case

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1145

Florence Hodous: Faith and the law: cultural exchange and religious influence on the law under the Mongol empire

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Sara Salem: Reflecting on the 2011 uprising: narratives, identity and attempts to re-write the revolution

1410 Asmaa Soliman: Unveiling the Egyptian military’s anti-Muslim Brotherhood discourse -The ‘Other’ within

Stefanie Felsberger: Orientalism and Political Islam: the Western Analysis of Islamic Parties in Egypt post-Mubarak

Cándido Cabana Porto: When Idols clash. Aesthetics and conflict of Egypt's ongoing revolution

Rethinking ‘post’-colonial borders: Central Asian and Middle Eastern mobility, cooperation, and belonging 21.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G 109 Moderators: Sanaa Alimia; D: TBA

Jawan Shir Rasikh: Building Borders in South America and the Arab World: The ASPA Summit

Sanaa Alimia: The ‘Multinational’ Informal City: How Afghans and Pakistanis Offer a ‘New’ Way of Conceptualising Politics, Belonging, and Regional Cooperation

0839

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Silvia Ferabolli: A Nationalist in Question: The So-Called ‘European Tour of Amanullah Khan,’ December 1927-1928

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0694 The role of non-state actors in enhancing Malaysia's relationship with the Arab Gulf states

Mohd Fauzi Abu Hussin, Mohd Afandi Salleh, Kamaruzaman Yusoff: Malaysia’s relationship with Arab Gulf countries: from religious

0216 affiliation to economic advantageous

0242 Asmak Ab Rahman, Mohd Fauzi Abu Hussin: What would lead Malaysia and Arab Gulf countries as fertile grounds for Islamic Insurance

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1065 Irene Panozzo: Whose Nile is it? Hydropolitics and regional interdependence in Northeast Africa

Andrew Delatolla: South Sudanese oil: a trigger for conflict or for regional integration

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Md Abdul Gaffar: Iran’s Foreign Policy Towards Post- Saddam Iraq

0267

Bayram Sinkaya: Iran Under Rohani and its Implications for the International Relations of Middle East

0255

Maysam Behravesh: Revisionist and status quo at once?: theorizing Iran’s foreign policy towards Syria

0829

Farhang Morady: Rouhani’s Discourse of Moderation: A New Vision in Iran’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East and Beyond?

0656

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0398 Antonio Barrios: Historical Changes in the Costa Rican Foreign Policy toward the Middle East in the Oscar Arias Sanchez Presidency (2006-2010)

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1383

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0380

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1005

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1262 Jens Denissen: Istanbul’s Iki Deniz Arasi hiking trail as a way to rethink suburban mobility

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Matt Mclean: Informal Mobility in Abu Dhabi

Ed Mcallister: Urban space, sociability and mobility in Algiers

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0123

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1316 Abdul Salam Al Taie: Theological and ethnical democracy in new Iraq

Ali Khalil Al Hadithi: The principal of reparation in the public international law Feminist Problematics in the Middle East and North Africa: The New Century 21.08.2014 14:30-16:30 C Hall Moderators: Suad Joseph; D: TBA

0185 Suad Joseph, Miriam Cooke, Hoda Elsadda, Sondra Hale (ROUNDTABLE) I. Shi'i Moharram Rituals: Contesting Religious Practices 21.08.2014 14:30-16:30 D Hall Moderators: Mary Elaine Hegland; D: TBA Paul Rollier: For the sake of Syeda,' Azadari in context: a case study of Pakki Shah Mardan

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0602 Vafaeikia Parnia: The Sorrowful Carnivals of Moharram: Transgression and the Bloody Rituals of Lamentation

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1083 context

Thomas Hill : "Is Gaza the capital?": Gaza in the Palestinian national imagination 2000-present

1395

Ayşe Ömür Atmaca: Whose Capital?: Representation of Jerusalem in the Oslo Peace Process

1409

Luisa Gandolfo: Comparative Discourses of Memory and Trauma in Palestinian and Israeli Art

0274

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1042 Pinar Tank: Turkey after the Arab Spring: Examining the Sunni/Alevi divide

Jonas Dræge: Protest movements as a force of democratization- Kurdish movement-party relations in Iraq and Turkey

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0672

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0193

Muge Aknur, Irem Askar Karakır: Deteriorating women’s rights in the post-arab spring: a contradiction in terms?

1063

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0764

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1408 model"

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0332

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0875

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1266

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1288

Dina Hosni: The potential rise of an Islamist youth within 25 January Revolution: a case study of the Muslim Brotherhood youth

0580

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1193

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0798

0129 Ladan Rahbari: Discourse of Sexuality in Persia during Safavid Era

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0825

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0648

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0419

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0748

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0440

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0254 "Arab Spring"

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0991 «mission civilisatrice»

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Gennaro Gervasio: Peasant Women and Rights to Land in Mid-Nineteenth Century Egypt: Sites of Resistance or Security Trade-offs?

Maha Ghalwash: Marginalised Migrants and State-building process in Nineteenth century Egypt

Lucia Sorbera: Feminism and Gender Agency in Egypt after 2011. Ethnography of a continuing revolution

1002

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0767 Richat Sabitov: Turkey’s geopolitical interests in Black Sea region

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0465

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1367 Are John Knudsen, Nasser Yassin, Ismael Sheikh Hassan, Marie Kortam

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1374

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1347

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0760

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1217

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0310 Syrian Crisis

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0637

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0495

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0679

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0827

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0705

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0990

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0175 and support, reproducing national identity narratives

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Angel Blanco: Venezuelan Foreign Policy towards the Middle East under Hugo Chávez Frías (2000 – 2012): Strategic continuities and

0398 ideological preferences

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0715 Mafalda Ade: The ticaret tribunals 'in action': Commercial jurisdiction in the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century

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0692 East made visible

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1451

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Kei Takahashi: Tariqas and Voluntary Associations in Early Twentieth Century Egypt

0144 Daisuke Maruyama: Redefining Sufism in Social and Political Context: The Relationship among Sufis, Salafis and the Government in

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1202

1196 Fouad Brigui: An extension of Arabic Mountain Dialects to South-East of Fez

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1230

Jacques Jawhar Vignet Zunz: From the maghrebi capitals to their Mediterranean harbors: itineraries that fertilize mountain societies

1211 (Rif, Trara, Kabylias, Ouaslat, Nafusa)

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1185

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1179 Ayca Köseoğlu, Ipek Tureli: Visualizing spatial (In)justice in Middle Eastern cities

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0724

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Religious Beliefs and Practices of Muslim Migrants in East and Southeast Asia: Socio-Political Changes in the Middle East and the Muslim World: Re-examining the Present Situation and Future Prospects from Japanese Perspectives 21.08.2014 17:00-19:00 D Hall Moderators: Hiroshi Kojima; D: TBA; Sponsored by: The Japanese Association for Middle Eastern Studies;

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Nimfa B. Ogena: Religious Practices of Male Muslim Migrants in Metro Manila

0711

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1402

0654 Ali Kadri: Land confiscation and the making of wage labour in the occupied West Bank

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0472

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1008

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0726 Introduction of Madrasah Educational Reform in Colonial Bengal(1905-1915): A Study on “Middle Madrasah Scheme” Warfare and Destruction in relation to Urban Heritage 21.08.2014 17:00-19:00 FZ 09 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

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0803

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0699

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0664

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0246

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0840

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1356 (1863/64)

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0371 Legal Reform

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1144

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1106

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0896

1366 Hamideh Sedghi: Politics, Women’s Protests and Civil Society in Iran

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0378

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1250 Modernization (1805-1848)

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1162 Estella Carpi: Everyday Life in the Southern Suburbs of Beirut and Akkar: Unpacking Humanitarianism from the 2006 war to the

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0823

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0174

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1432

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0404

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0674

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0976

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0379

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1254

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İlhan Sağsen: The Impact of Climate Change on Water Security: The Case of Euphrates-Tigris River Basin

Tuğba Evrim Maden: Water Security and Groundwater Management in the Middle East

Iran’s Foreign Relations in the 21st Century: The Dawn of a New Era? The U.S., the EU, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia 21.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G204 Moderators: Gülriz Şen; D: TBA

Gülriz Şen: Understanding Iran–U.S. Relations: Patterns of Conflict and Prospects for Change

Rouzbeh Parsi: The Iran–EU Relationship: Beyond Usual Explanations

1404 Şafak Baş: Turkey–Iran Relations: An Example for Stability in the Middle East?

Luay Radhan: Saudi Sectarianism in Saudi–Iranian Relations

Al fasad: corruption et malversation au Maghreb 21.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G206 Moderators: Ben Tahar Jamel; D: Boujarra Hussein

Yazidi Bechir: Malversation et corruption: quand l’Etat s’en mêle. L’affaire Couitéas

Ben Slimane Fatma: Réformes et corruption: l'affaire Nessim Shemama (1873-1881)

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Dali Hammadi: Le ministère de Khayreddine pacha 1870-1877 Justice transitoire inachevée

Imaginaire de la Femme entre orient et occident 21.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G207 Moderators: Amel Fakhfakh; D: TBA

Tlili Mahbouba: Le Harem barbaresque dans Gil Blas de Santillane

Fitouri Sonia: Narration et sororité dans Ombre sultane d’Assia Djebbar

1125 Tnani Najet: Le personnage de Shéhérazade, une nouvelle image de la femme.

Khadhar Hedia: La leçon de Shéhérazade et les Lumières

Role of Education in Islam 21.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G208 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Aslıhan Gürbüzel: Preachers and the Popularization of Formal Sciences: The Case of Mehmed Altıparmak (d. 1624 ) and His Work on

1213 Rhetoric

Sheryn Rindermann: Contemporary Shiʻite theological higher education in Lebanon

1421

0717 Sebastian Elsässer: Tarbiya (education) in the Muslim Brotherhood

Chanfi Ahmed : Al-Jāmiʿ wa al-Jāmiʿa (the Mosque and the University): Places and traditional modes of transmission of Islamic

0474 knowledge

08/22/2014 WOCMES 2014 - DAY 5

End of the Arab Spring? Reflections on revolutionary and post-revolutionary politics in the Arab world 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 B Hall Moderators: Hisham Wahby (The British University in Egypt); D: TBA; Organized by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES);

Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES) Ibrahim Arafat: The dilemma of political linearity in the Arab region: Revolutionary change in the hands of constancy oriented Powers

Moncef Kaddar: Tunisia: Dashed hopes of the ‘Arab Spring’ caught between the end of the last autocratic regime and the re-activation of the oligarchic despotic legacy at the hands of the elites

1146

Gamal M. Selim: Egypt after Mubarak: The SCAF-Brotherhood alliance and the dynamics of counter-revolution

Hanan Kandil: Can non-democrats lead a path toward democracy? State-society relations in Egypt since 2011 and Egyptian 'exceptionalism'

II. Shi'i Moharram Rituals and Politics 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 D Hall Moderators: Paul Rollier; D:TBA

0603 Hossain Abadian: Moharram Rituals and Constitution Movement of Iran (1906-1911)

Mohd Faizal Musa: Moharram Rituals from the Malay World

Irina Lita Shingiray: From Baranjar to Besh-Barmak: A long term perspective on Shia Muharram Rituals in the Eastern Caucasus

Gholam R. Vatandoust: The Changing Role of the Contemporary “Madah” in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Saghar Sadeghian: The Tradition of Attack to Non-Muslim Quarters in Iran during the Moharram and Safar (XIX- 0604 XX centuries)

Tunisian Uprisings and its Aftermath 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F14 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

1027 Malika Frimeche: Arab Spring's challenges in Maghreb Arab Countries. Tunisian case study

Kelly Lynn Al Dakkak, Ravza Altuntas Cakir: Transition and trends in secularist thought in post-revolutionary

0920 Tunisia

0598 Teije Hidde Donker: Bureaucratic Mobilization: Islamists vs. bureaucrats after the Arab Spring

Nadia El Ouerghemmi: Procedural aspects and Transitional Justice discourses: The Tunisian case

1360

The Recovery of Duzce from Two Huge Earthquakes in 1999 and its Future: Comparative Study to the Earthquakes and Tsunami in Northeastern Japan in 2011 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F16 Moderators: Hikari EGAWA; Co-chair: İlhan ŞAHİN; D:TBA

0913 Hikari Ishikawa Egawa and İlhan Şahin: The Family Structure and Economic Activities in Düzce Based on the

Nüfus Defterleri (Population Register) and Temettüat Defterleri (Income Register) of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century

Koji Yoshikawa, Shigeru Kakumoto, Yoshio Kajitani, Halit Ramazan Kubilay, Michinori Hatayama, Mahito Usui: Reconstruction process and remaining issue of traffic network in Düzce

Yoshio Kajitani, Ilhan Sahin, Shigeru Kakumoto, Koji Yoshikawa, Hikari Ishikawa Egawa, and Halit Ramazan Kubilay: Building a resilient city based on the memories and history of natural disasters: A case of Duzce City, Turkey.

Shigeru Kakumoto, Halit Ramazan Kubilay, Koji Yoshikawa, Yoshio Kajitani, Hikari Ishikawa Egawa and İlhan Şahin: Interdisciplinary Research of Historical, Anthropological and Information Science For Regional Management and Disaster Prevention: Comparing Japan And Turkey

Migration in the Middle East 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 F17 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Brian William Beeley: Migration without moving: a Turkish example

0599

Sobhi Albadawi: Palestinian Refugees at the intersection of return, resettlement and current peace process

1036

Kelsey P Norman: Aiming for Europe, Stranded in MENA: Migrant Engagement in New Countries of Settlement

1448

Practices of Urban Governance 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ09 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Sarah Eldefrawy, Maike Didero: Right to the city? Forced evictions and relocation processes in Cairo. From past

0854 policies to current practices

Seba Asaaied: Analyzing Success factors of Participatory Urban Development in the Arab Cities Alexandria and

1339 Aleppo

Abderrahmane Diafat, Said Madani: Urban Strategies for Sustainable Land Use in the Highlands: Case of Setif –

0883 Algeria Different Aspects of Turkish Politics: 50s-60s-70s 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ14 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Fuat Özdinç: Nationalist Front Governments: Coalition or Hegemony?

1357

Kübra Akçay: Response of the Turkish public opinion to the religious policies and debate in the 1950s

1285

Erkan Doğan: An Alternative Historiography of Ottoman-Turkish Modernization and the Kemalist “Revolution”

1313 Offered by the Turkish Left of the 1960s

Social Policy: Health 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ15 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Brahim Brahamia: Health care in Arab countries: progress and divergence

0301

Selma Kahraman, Selma Kahraman, Fatma Ersin: Determining The Troubles The Cultural Value Imposed To The

1112 Patient Relatives And Views About This: A Sample Of Şanliurfa

Yaser Bagheri: Confront of Shi’a Fiq-h and health system in Iran: a historical review

0815

Television and Popular culture in the Middle East: New Trends in the Aftermath of 'Arab Spring' 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ16 Moderators: Ayşe Saktanber; D:TBA (waiting for discussant's confirmation);

Organized by Ayşe Saktanber (METU, Turkey); Marc Saurina (TEIM, Spain)

Marc Saurina Lucini: Reading MBC Group's market strategies: spreading liberalism, its limitations and the establishment of a new regional model

Anne Grüne: Global Entertainment TV Formats in German/Egyptian Comparison: Transcultural Identity Discourses and Collective Readings

0583 Ece Algan: Turkish television: The new symbol of Turkey’s economic and political power Emanuela C. Del Re, Nicolamaria Coppola: "Arab Idol, the satellite show which promotes regional unity"

Gabrielle Clarke: Tantalising Turkish TV: How Turkish Soap Operas are Challenging Identity Formation in the Contemporary Arab World

Israel's Foreign Policy 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 FZ17 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Efrat E Aviv: The Efraim Elrom affair and Israel-Turkey relations

0133

Stephen Ellis: Tenuous Link: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and Regional Proliferation

0200

Konstantinos C. Zarras: Dilemmas and challenges: the Israeli dimension of the Syrian civil war

0262

Turkish-Armenian Question 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G101 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Birsen Erdogan, Fred Grunfeld: How and Why the Discursive Strategies Used in the Denial Change? Turkish

0989 Discourse on Armenian Genocide and Its Denial

Hira Kaynar: La Construction Mémorielle du Génocide Arménien chez les Arméniens de Turquie

1284

State and Civil Society Relations in Middle East 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G102 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Nadine Kreitmeyr, Beste Isleyen: Enterprising youth in Jordan and Palestine through neo-liberalism: a critical

1209 perspective

Leen Al Habash: Civic Engagement at the Grassroots Level in Syria: Motivation and Development

0652

Mohsen Moheimany: The Political Role of NGOs in the Local Policy Making of Authoritarian Governments The

0642 case of Iran

Taking religion seriously: dealing with religious factors in analyzing socio-political processes (WAFAW program) 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G104 Moderators: Marie Vannetzel; D:TBA Organized by the WAFAW ERC Program Robin Beaumont: Assessing the “sectarian factor” in war contexts: the cases of contemporary Iraq and Syria

Monica Marks: Islamism in Transition: Ideological and Organizational Restructuring inside Tunisia's Ennahda after the Revolution

Julien Pélissier: Référent religieux et formation d'un discours économique en Iran

1227

Marie Vannetzel: « al-Islam huwwa al-hall ! » How did the Egyptian Muslim Brothers mobilize religion in electoral campaigns ?

Dilek Yankaya: When religiosity meets economic rationality: the case of Turkish Islamic bourgeoisie

Legends, Heritage, Politics 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G106 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Mutasem Khader Adileh: The Role of Popular Heritage in the Promotion of National Palestinian Identity

0725

0271 Anastasiia Zherdieva: The Others in Turkish and Crimean legends: identity and ethnicity

Anna Tozzi Di Marco: The Seven Sleepers’ devotion in the Mediterranean: a comparative analyses between

0956 Muslim and Christian holy sites

Sectarianism in the Middle East I 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G107 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Arash Reisinezhad: The Shia crescent

0687

Afshin Shahi: The Arab Uprising, Religious Sectarianism and the New Challenge to Nation-State Building in the

1040 Middle East

Dynastic Cairo, 1805-1952 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G108 Moderators: Adam Mestyan; D: Doris Behrens Abouseif

Khaled Fahmy: Khedive Ismail: a Westernizing monarch or a Muslim prince?

Adam Mestyan: The Ministers of Public Works and urbanism in the Egyptian Khedivate

0499 Mercedes Volait: Fin-de-siècle palatial buildings designed by Antonio Lasciac

Mohamed Elshahed: Architecture and nationalism between architects and royalty on the eve of 1952

Challenges to the State from within 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G109 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Daniel Meier: Iraqi Kurdistan and South Sudan Republic: borders as political resources

1194

Yaniv Voller: National liberation in a post-colonial context: second generation decolonisation in the Middle East

0209

Language and Identity Construction: Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G201 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Sahar Ghyasi: Virtual social networks (Facebook) and social identity. (case study: Turkish-speaking users in Iran

0782 and Turkey)

Turan Keskin: New Discourses on Language Policies in Iran and Turkey, A Comparative Analysis

0774

Indexes of Development 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G202 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Hakan Mıhcı, Mehmet Tolga Taner: Comparative Human Development and Gender Inequality Performance

1465 Analysis of Middle Eastern, North African and Central Asian countries with Turkey

Montasser Ibrahim Mahmoud Abdelghani, Talal Yousuf Mohammed Al Awadhi: Spatial variation of the levels of

0967 deprivation in the Sultanate of Oman

0936 Sibel Kalaycıoglu, Kezban Celik, Irmak Karademir Hazir: Techniques and Challenges of Measuring Socio-

Economic Status (S.E.S) in Turkey

Understanding state and society through pathology: Ottoman and post-Ottoman notions of disease (18th-21st century) (part 1) 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G204 Moderators: Ceren İlikan Rasimoğlu

Edna Bonhomme: Plague, Death, and Funerary practice in Late Eighteenth Century Cairo

Rakefet Zalashik: Space and Leprosy in Ottoman Jerusalem

0908

Luc Chantre: Epidemic and «pilgrimage policy» in the French colonial empire (19th-20th centuries)

Ceren Ilikan Rasimoğlu: State, Medicine and Disease: Population Policies and Tuberculosis in Inter-War Turkey Literature and Nationalism 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G206 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Rima Abunasser: Redefinitions of gender and nation in Arab women's literature

0842

Kaveh Ghobadi: Identity on the borderline of self and other: representations of identity in two Kurdish novels

1403

Hakan Karahasan: Poetry as a Way to Challenge the Status Quo? An Evaluation of Cypriot Poetry after 1974

1070

Farangis Ghaderi: Kurdish nationalism and poetry of Hacî Qadirî Koyî

1384

Forms of Fine Art 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G207 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Leila Honari: Persian mystical stories and traditional arts’ circular mandala structure

0911

Mohammad Azamzade, Tayebe Radfar: Iconographic evaluation of earthenware in two regions (Iran and Anatolia)

0481 in Saljuqs era by using Erwin Panofsky method

Heidi Ch Gomi: Smart serene performers

0740

Islam and Role of Women 22.08.2014 09:00-11:00 G208 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Sahar Noor: Female religious authority in the Netherlands and Belgium

0857

Afaf Badr Bataineh: The classification of women in the Qur'an

1279

Najah Nadiah Amran: Piety and Break with Tradition: Narratives of Muslim Women Participating in Religious

1286 Circles in Scotland

Mohammad E Mesbahi, Islam Uddin: The rights of the wife, in theory and practice, according to religious texts,

0625 when facing violence

The Arab Spring and the return of 'Great Power' politics in the Arab world 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 B Hall Moderators: Hanan Kandil (Cairo University, Egypt); D:TBA Organizer: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES)

Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES) Mohammad El Sayed Selim: China’s emerging role in a new Arab World"

Hisham M. Wahby: The Arab Spring, the end of history and how the West lost

1149

Riham Bahy: The Arab revolutions in the international system: Great power balances and interactions

Osama Mekheimar: Euro-Mediterranean relations from Barcelona to the Arab Spring: What lessons can be learned? The Armenian Question, Deportation, Genocide: Discussing 1915 in 2015 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 C Hall Moderators: G. Gürkan Öztan; Organized by Tarih Vakfı (History Foundation) Yaşar Tolga Cora: Some Thoughts on History of the Ottoman-Armenians in the 19th Century

Ohannes Kılıçdağı: Understanding Armenian Political Position(s) After 1908

Oya Gözel Durmaz: Deportation and Conversion to Islam

Aytek Soner Alpan: Writing the History of Forced Migration and Mass Murder

G. Gürkan Öztan and Ömer Turan: The development of post-1980 denial discourse in Turkey

III. Shi'i Moharram Rituals--History, Change and Transformation 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 D Hall Moderators: Mara Leichtman; D:TBA

Elio Cristoph Brancaforte: “Hussein Hocen, Hocen Hussein”—Portrayals of Safavid Muharram Rituals in Early Modern European Travel Narratives

Elham Malekzadeh: Takieh, Hosseynieh and Women’s Shrines in Bushire during the Reza Shah Era

Aysen Baylak: Ashura Commemorations in Istanbul: Re-formulation of Ritual, Re-articulation of Piety

0614 Mary Elaine Hegland: Women’s Moharram Practices: Expanding Opportunities in an Iranian Village from 1978/1979--2006

Mohammad Dolatatiani: Čâyine Ritual in Ilam; Conspicuous Presence of Women, an Artistic Life Story of Celebration, Lamentation, and Union

Social Media and Arab Spring 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F14 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Shubhda Chaudhary: The Role of Social Media as a Decisive Actor in Arab Political Transition

0393

Juan Ricardo Cole: Youth Movements and Political Blogging in Tunisia since 2011

0538

Lea Müller Funk: Ḥizb il-kanaba, āṣirī l-laymūn wa-l-inqilābīyīn: A transnational revolutionary vocabulary?

1346

Johanne Kuebler: “Wired“ diaspora engagement in proto-revolutionary Arab cyber activism

1378

0665 Sarrah Kassem: The Perpetuation of Hyperreality: The Case of the Arab Spring

Representation in Films and Cinema 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F16 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Haim Saadoun, Haim Saadoun: History and Cinema - The representation of World War II in North Africa in new

1025 movies

Ula Zeir: The Socio-political Dimensions of Ziad Rahbani’s Works: Nazl al-Surur and Film Amriki Tawil

0895

Florence Martin: Le nouvel espace de la censure du film arabe

0278

Middle Eastern Migrants in Europe 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 F17 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Deniz Cosan Eke: Transnational Communities: Alevi Immigrants in Europe

0514

Carina Grosser Kaya: Negotiating social role models - Men of Turkish descent in Germany and their perspectives

1148 toward work, parenting and gender

Benjamin Weineck: ‘Cultural heritage’ contested: Negotiating Alevi 'useable pasts' in transnational space

0322

Diversity and commonality in theory and in practice: analyzing waqf and other endowment models in the Islamic World, Europe and beyond 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ09 Moderators: Randi Deguilhem; D: Toru Miura Sponsored by: Toyo Bunko The Oriental Library, Tokyo, Japan Cnrs (National Centre for Scientific Research), GDRI (International Research Network) Waqf, Paris, France Telemme (Time, Place, Language in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean), MMSH (Mediterranean Institute for Humanities), Aix-en-Provence, France. Tomoki Okawara: Islamic Waqf in Europe: Adapting Endowments to New Situations

Murat Cizakça: Islamic Waqf Institutions in the Ottoman Judicial Reform Period (19th century)

Yasuhiro Otsuki: Re-designing the Waqfs of Stocks to Enhance Risk Sharing in Islamic Finance

1258 Jean Pierre Dedieu: Civil Donations and Christian Philanthropy in the Later Roman Empire: Some Analysis of Justinian Edicts on Donations to the Ecclesiastical Institutions

Toru Miura: Islamic waqf, Catholic benefices and lay entails. A probe in mortmain and social practice

Secularism in Turkey 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ14 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Ayşegül Kars Kaynar: Secular state under anti-secular rule?: secularism of the state in turkey after July 2008

0951

Cemil Boyraz, Murat Borovalı: Reactive politics or revised founding ideology? current secularist and Kemalist

0541 reactions in Turkey

Irmak Yazici: The Sacred Strikes Back in Turkey: Blasphemy as crime in a secular democracy

0966

0464 Volkan Ertit: Two Different Concepts That Are Used Interchangeably: Secularization and Laicization

Environmental Threats and Possible Solutions 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ15 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Raed A I Bashitialshaaer: Basic life for the Palestinian: Gaza water and environmental problems

0698

Matthew Isaac Weiss: History May Not Repeat Itself: Anticipating and Averting Fresh

0220 Conflicts in an Age of Discontinuity and Uncertainty

Lichtenthaeler Gerhard: Solar energy farming in Jordan. A water scarcity and climate change adaptation measure

1314

Nadhir Al Ansari, Mawada Abdellatif, Mohammed Ezeelden, Salahalddin Ali, Sven Knutsson: Future Rainfall

0678 Trends and Climate Change North of Iraq

Russian Foreign Policy and the Syrian Conflict 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ16 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Joshka Wessels: Pax Obama or Pax Putin ? Syria, Russia and the United States

1088

Ali – Granmayeh: Russia and the Middle East: Seeking political gain in a volatile region

1015

Nikolay Kozhanov: Syria and the Russian foreign policy on the Middle East: Changing the Accents

0575

0835 Rania Mohamed Abdul Wahab: The Russian Role in the Syrian Crisis

Israeli security, diplomacy and strategy in a changing Middle East 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 FZ17 Moderators: Simon Waldman; D: TBA; Organized by European Association of Israel Studies

Jacob Eriksson: Security, territory, and peace: a re-assessment

0517 Carly Beckerman Boys: The United States and Israel in a changing Middle East: diplomacy and domestic politics

James Worrall: Releasing terrorists: prisoner exchanges, deterrence and prospects for peace La construction du vivre-ensemble en situation de conflit 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G101 Moderators: Abdelhamid Hénia; D: Imed Melliti

Abdelkader Zghal: Les raisons et les enjeux de l’énigmatique rencontre parisienne entre l’islamiste Ghanouchi et le Bourguibiste Caïd Essebsi

Mounira Chapoutot Rémadi: Comment vivre ensemble dans une société pluri-ethnique et pluri-confessionnelle ?

0414 Mohamed Merimi: Conflits à Djerba (Tunisie) en 1746: incursion malékite en situation ibadhite

Mustapha Tlili: Gestion d’un conflit en milieu maraboutique (2ème moitié du 19e s.)

Inès Mrad Dali: Cohabitations et conflits: dissensions entre le Char' tunisien et le consulat britannique en période post-esclavagiste (1880) Turkey’s foreign policy projection and regional ramifications 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G102 Moderators: Moritz Pieper; D: TBA

Moritz Pieper: Turkey’s foreign policy towards Iran’s nuclear programme as advocacy for a counter-hegemonic security culture

Octavius Pinkard: Syrian-Turkish Relations Through the Prism of Security Culture Convergence and Divergence

0344

Thomas Volk: Turkey´s Historical Involvement in Middle Eastern Alliances

Lisel Hintz: "Take It Outside!": Turkey's National Identity Contestation in the Foreign Policy Arena

Secularism vs. Islamism 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G104 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Barbara De Poli: Arab revolts and civil state: a new term for old conflicts between Islamism and secularism

0775

Carimo Mohomed: A different epistemological approach when studying Islam and Politics

0513

Vanja Mosbach: Understanding Muslim space in the making - excerpts from conversations with Muslim social

1440 actors in Sweden

Behnoush Farzan: European Islam, the future of Islam and its effects in Iran

1151

Mohamed Fadil: Le religieux à l'épreuve du politique: Sécularisation de l'islamisme au Maroc (le PJD/MUR (1996-

0624 2012))

Politics of Space 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G106 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Garcia Moises Garduno: Ecology of knowledge and cultural translation in the Midan: how practice in the public

0704 space becomes theory for new revolutionary experiences

Hugo Leal: Space invaders: heterotopias of resistance in the middle east and north Africa

1098

Duygu Cihanger: The Meaning, Form and Function of Public Spaces in the Middle East: Seeing Beyond the

0727 Planned-Squares in Cities

Ghazal Abbasy Asbagh: Spatial Politics of (r)Evolution in Tehran: a case study

1452

Sectarianism in the Middle East II 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G107 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Ranj Alaaldin: Shi’a solidarity: the loyalty and mobilisation of the Iraqi Shi'a during the Iran-Iraq war

0560

Alam Saleh: Politicized Identities, Securitized Politics: Deconstruction of Sunni-Shi’a Politics in Egypt and Beyond

0316

Simon Mabon, Sossie Kasbarian: Bahrain: Politics from Above and Below

0969

Nationalism and Identity in Modern Egypt 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G108 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Marina Romano: Egyptian liberal nationalism. memoirs and autobiographies in a postcolonial perspective

0927

Hiroko Miyokawa: The Establishment of the Coptic Museum

0325

Domenico Torre: The ancient relics (1912). Pharaonic past, identity and nationalism in a Luṭfī al-Sayyid’s article

0918

Alessia Melcangi: Identity question in Egypt: the Coptic community from the age of Sadat to the Mubarak regime

0615 (1970-2011)

Tracing Islam in Balkans 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G109 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Marko Vekovic: Political functions of religion - case study of jihadist warriors from ex - Yugoslavia in Syria's civil

1444 war

Bogdana Yordanova Todorova: Islam in Bulgaria - in the past and present

0145

1297 Anahit Kartashyan: Revival Of Islam In Korça Studies on the Politics of Literature: Translations and Critical Discourse Analysis 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G201 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Yasmine Aly Salah El Din: The self and the other: Will the twain ever meet?

0409

Neslihan Demirkol: Reading the 19th Century Ottoman Literary System under the light of patrons: How patronage

1385 influenced the flow of translation from European languages and the new Turkish literature

Kaveh Ghadery: Translation; a Medium for Imposing Power and Ideology

1348

Hale Işık Güler, Yasemin Erdoğan: The representation of gender in political discourses: a critical discourse analysis

1394 of government public addresses in Turkey

Contemporary social movements in the middle east and beyond 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G202 Moderators: Victoria Tahmasebi Birgani; D: TBA

Victoria Tahmasebi Birgani: Women’s Dissent in Iran: The Intersections of Ethics, Politics and Gender

Peyman Vahabzadeh: The New Turn of Social Movements in Iran? Preliminary Observations

0851

Hossein Mesbahian: The Political Struggle for Recognition and Identification in Iran

Mojtaba Mahdavi: Towards a Subaltern Modernity? Making Sense of Post-Islamist Movements in the Middle East.

The Arab world at crossroads 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G206 Moderators: Mahjoob Zweiri; D:TBA

Mahjoob Zweiri: The Arabs and the three Awakenings: What went Wrong?

Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk: The Arab ‘Revolutions’: Are they a Fourth Wave of Democratization in the 21st Century?

0506

Adnan M. Hayajneh: The Arab Spring and Regional And International Powers: Winners and Losers in the Middle East

Houchang Hassan Yari: Iran's Proxy Wars in the Middle East And Syrian Crisis

Writing identities on the margins of Arabness 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G207 Moderators: Monica Rius Pinies; D: Zuhur Dalo

Ana Bejarano: Electronic Literature and Gender: Egyptian Women Bloggers' Construction of Identity

Elia Romo Terol: On the fringe of the literary canon: Jamil Almansur Haddad, a bullet sleeping in the woods

1100 Christina Stephano De Queiroz: Contact and separation: literary conversations across the borders of identities

Erica Consoli: Joseph in Andalusia: Representations of Arabs in Palestinian poetry

Ahmad Diab: Transnational Palestinian Identity Through Spoken Word Poetry

Female Leadership in Islam - New Perspectives and Discourses on Receptions in Past and Present 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G208 Moderators: Elif Medeni; D: TBA

Doris Decker: «There were many who were ready to follow the lead of a woman» Female Policies in early Islam illustrated by Muhammad’s wife Umm Salama

Elif Medeni: The Revival Of The “Living Sunna” – A Contribution To The Discourse On Female Leadership

Doris H. Gray: The Many Paths To Gender Justice In Morocco

0933 Liselotte J. Abid: An Inquiry into Concepts of Female Leadership in Islamic Theological High Schools for Women in Iran.

Anwar H. K. Al Kahlidi: Bint al-Huda’s Re-conceptionalization of Hajj as a Means of Raising the Status of the Iraqi Daawa Network

Understanding state and society through pathology: Ottoman and post-Ottoman notions of disease (18th-21st century) (part 2) 22.08.2014 11:30-13:30 G204 Moderators: Philippe Jean Michel Bourmaud; D: TBA

Cihangir Gündoğdu: Luigi Mongeri and Etiologizing “Oriental Insanity” in the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire

Gülhan Balsoy: Infertility and Being a Proper Woman in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ottoman Advice Literature

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Seçil Yılmaz: Diagnosing Shame: Medical and Non-Medical Perspectives on Syphilis in the Late Ottoman Empire

Philippe Jean Michel Bourmaud: Constructing a social disease in colonial and international contexts: alcoholism in the Middle-Eastern mandates Arab Spring: Social Movement and Identity 22.08.2014 14.30-16.30 F 14 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

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0757 the Arab Spring

Özgür Sarı: Reading "Arab Spring" within the Theories on New Social Movements

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Marianne Aringberg Laanatza: The Arab Spring and the Actions and Reactions of the Minorities

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Tourisme religieux et pèlerinages dans le monde arabe et musulman: Enjeux multiples 22.08.2014 14.30-16.30 F 16 Moderators: Katia Boissevain, co-chair: Justin McGuinness; D:TBA

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Justin Mc Guinness: Spirituality staged: the case of an annual Sufi festival in a North African historic city.

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Norig Neveu: Le développement du tourisme chiite dans le sud de la Jordanie, objet de contestation locale

Michel Boivin: The issue of Shiite Religious Tourism in the Sufi sanctuaries of Pakistan

Middle Eastern Migrants in the World 22.08.2014 14.30-16.30 F 17 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Dalia Abdelhady, Dan Erik Andersson, Matthew Clare, Verena Gruber, Caner Ulug, Marie Stahlschmidt, David Jackobsson: Perceptions of socioeconomic integration of Middle Eastern immigrants in Europe: Comparing

1434 national discourses and subjective experiences

Gözde Somel, Güçlü Tülüveli: Ottoman Immigrants in Cuba

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Mehrdad Mark Mozayyan: Persian students in 19th century Europe

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Partitions, Borders, and Convergences: Gender, Sexuality, and the Embodiment of Difference 22.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 09 Moderators: Frances S. Hasso; D: Elif Ekin Akşit Vural; sponsored by the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

Elyse Semerdjian: Sexing the Hammam: Gendered Discourses on the Ottoman Bathhouse

Shouleh Vatanabi: Soft Power and Gendered Orientalism: Paradoxes of Turkish TV Series’ Beyond Eastern Borders

0494 Frances S Hasso: “Civil” and “Space” as Gendered Fields of Meaning and Practice in Egypt

Halide Velioglu: Bend the Tango, Straighten the LGBTI: Queer Tango in Istanbul

Alevis in Turkey 22.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 14 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Mehmet Bardakçi: The AKP government’s Alevi initiative: walking a tightrope between democracy and identity

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Aysegul Uygur Doğan: To What Extent Religionalization of Alevis Fit into a Model of Post-secular Society in

1212 Turkey?

Ceren Lord, Besim Can Zırh: A Nascent but Reluctant Minority of the ‘Middle East’: Remapping the sectarian map

0553 and the Alevis of Turkey in the Wake of the Syrian Crisis

Didem Doganyilmaz: Alevism at the center of religious freedom discussions in laic turkey

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Ecological Geopolitics 22.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 15 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA

Sebastiano Andreotti: Depletion of Groundwater and Demographic Growth: An Assessment of Two Long-Term

1143 Threats to Yemen’s Stability

Slawomir Raszewski: Iran, Israel, Turkey and the energy in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Sabrina Joseph, Brigitte Howarth: Ecological Realities, British Environmental Perceptions and Natural Resource

1031 Development in Arabia: the case of the Trucial States and Oman, 1930s-1950s

Cinema in MENA 22.08.2014 14.30-16.30 FZ 16 Moderators: TBA; D: TBA

Nina Fischer: Exploring Jerusalem communities: Nati Adler’s "Hats of Jerusalem" (2005)

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Fakhri Haghani: Between realism and representation: cinema and society in the Middle East and North Africa

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Anahita Arian: The American Hegemony in the Discipline of International Relations: Consequences for Studies on

0899 Iranian Foreign and Security Policy

Simon Mabon: Sovereignty's Sorites Paradox

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Ahmed Ali Salem: A Critique of Failing International Relations Theories in Middle Eastern Tests

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Miloud Barkaoui: Of (neo)orientalist reflexes and citizen revolts: the united states and MENA’s new paradigm shift

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The impact of U.S. and regional actors on Arab uprisings 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 B Hall Moderators: Ibrahim G. Aoudé; Organized by Ibrahim G. Aoudé; Sponsored by the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES); Joseph Alagha: "The future of the Arab uprisings: Democratization without democrats"

Saadet Gulden Ayman: "The American approach to the Syrian conflict and the US-Turkey differences" 1152 Rami Siklawi: "Hamas & Hizballah in the wake of the Syrian crisis"

Seif Da’na: "The curve of American power, Israel, and the Arab uprisings"

IV. Shi'i Moharram Rituals: Meanings and Interpretations 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 D Hall Moderators: Mohd Faizal Musa; D: TBA Ali Banuazizi: Martyrdom and the Sacralization of Political Violence

Karen Ruffle: Purified by Blood: Bloody Matam and Salvific Purification in South Asian ʿAzadari Ritual

Edith Szanto: The End of Mourning: Pious Bodies, Affective Economies, and Sacred Space 0606 in Contemporary Iraqi Arbaeen Practices

Liyakat Takim: Muharram Rituals in the Khoja Shi’i Community

Jabbar Rahman: From Javānmardān to Heiat

The Antinomies of Ottoman Reform 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G101 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Ufuk Adak: From Mahbes to Hapishane: Ottoman Prison Reform in Izmir in the Late Ottoman Empire

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Cem Emrence: Lost in quarantine

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Melis Hafez: Morality and Modernity: Islamization of Work Ethics, Protestantization of Islam, or a Third

1388 Approach?

Politics in the Gulf II 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G102 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Dorota Scislewska: A friend's enemy does not have to be own foe – the foreign policy of Oman under the reign 0953 of Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said

Kevin William Gray: Gradations of Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates 0813

Marta Saldana: Rentierism and Political Culture in the United Arab Emirates 1333

Mohd Afandi Salleh, Mohd Fauzi Abu Hussin: Arab gulf countries’ engagement in ASEAN countries: a review 0433 of investment trends and future opportunities

Arab Spring: Towards a Political Transition? 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G104 Moderators: Ferran Izquierdo; D: Laura Feliu Ferran Izquierdo: Political transition or reorganization of power?

0804 Mouldi Lahmar: L’autre transition en Tunisie: les honneurs, les richesses et les valeurs Eva Wegner: Party-voter congruence in the Middle East and North Africa after the Arab Spring

Iñaqui Gutiérrez De Terán: Where is my state ya `azizi?: contending elites and re-emerging civil society in transitional Libya

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Senem Kaptan: Eviscerated soldiers: The unmaking of Turkey’s military elite

The Middle East as a Global Strategic Challenge – Outlook in 2030 and Japan's Foreign Policy 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G107 Moderators: Eiji Nagasawa; D:TBA Mari Nukii

0929 Eiji Nagasawa

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Toru Onozawa Espaces Publiques, Urbanisation et Pratiques Quotidiennes 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G108 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Debache Samira, Benzagouta Yasser Nassim: Les places publiques urbaines entre marginalisation et ré- 0466 appropriation

Naouel ACHOUR-BOUAKKAZ: Faire la ville et pratiques spatiales des habitants: une approche par le genre 0308

1276 Spiga Sassia, Spiga Yacine, Haoui Samira: Réalités et utopies de l’urbanisation saharienne en Algérie Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G109 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Rahim Habibeh: Meeting Rumi and Assisi: The Paradigm for peace and inclusion today 1473

Tuomo Melasuo: Mali and Sahel – Challenges for Peace and Conflict Research 1454

Alexander Y. Zhukov, Stanislav V. Mezentsev: Re-visiting Middle Eastern state policies towards the 'North- 1328 South' crisis in Sudan prior to its separation

Studies on Contemporary Arabic: Grammar and Language Structure from a Comparative Perspective 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G201 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Karolina Jaworska: Propositional repetition in Media Arabic 1287

Mahsn Majidy: The phonological assimilation of Arabic loanwords in Sorani Kurdish 1453

Aleksandra Paulina Kijewska: Arabic demonstrative iyyā in comparison to particle et in Modern Hebrew - 1109 comparative study of function and usage

Magdalena Zawrotna: Body-related dysphemisms and euphemisms in Egyptian Arabic 1201

Turkey's Foreign Policy I 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G202 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Erhan Kelesoglu: The Problem of Palestine in Turkish Foreign policy and Turco-Palestinian Relations 1133

Zoltan Egeresi: Turkey and the middle east: a neo-Gramscian approach 1355

Birsen Erdogan: Turkish Foreign Policy Discourse on Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Humanitarian 0987 Intervention During and After Arab Spring

US Foreign Policy in the Middle East 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G204 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Robert Mason: US - Saudi Relations during the Arab Revolutions 0183

Radoslaw Tomasz Bania: Syrian crises of 1957 and 2013 and their consequences for the U.S. Middle Eastern 0993 policy

Peshawa Muhammed: U.S. and Iraqi Kurds: Unstable Friends 1003

Kamal Osman Salih: Sudanese-American Animosity 1989 - 2014: An Evaluative Analysis 0534

Ulkar Imamverdiyeva: From “Iraq war” to “Pivot to Asia”: the role of the Arab Spring 0833

Daily Life in Iran 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G206 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Behnaz Nazeri: Examination of the Relation between Satellite Serials, Familial Serials in GEM TV channel (Lale Devri, Ask ve ceza, Ask i mamno, Mohtasham yuz eil, Yer gok ask) with relation between wife and 0420 husband in Iran

Soheila Farzi Molan: Swing Past and Present: Memory and Perception in Tehran Aged Care Homes 0714

Gholamreza Moghaddam, Ali Hatami: Religion in Iranian’s life style 1278

Islam and Islamic Communities 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G207 Moderators: TBA; D:TBA Maryam Mary Moghimi, Hamid Nakhaei: The Type of Study Religion in Kerman 0451

Carmen Garratón Mateu: Autour de l’islam chez les Berbères du nord de l’Afrique: l’exemple Kabyle aux XIXe 0256 et XXe siècles

Keri Leigh Hughes: Conversations with Arabs: the experiences of Muslims from the Middle East in the United 1417 States

Katarzyna Wiktoria Sidlo: Muslims and ex-Muslims of Jordan: different perceptions of morality 1396

Masculinity and Islam 22.08.2014 14:30-16:30 G208 Moderators: Jonas Otterbeck; D:TBA

Jonas Otterbeck: Negotiating Islamic masculinity in contemporary Islamic pop music

Johan Cato: The understanding of Islamic masculinity in Swedish politics

Erica Li Lundqvist: Sin Management: Tactics to stay in line with God and the expectations of being a Muslim 0639 and a (gay) man in the Lebanese context

Spyros Sofos and Roza Tsagarousianou: Reconfiguring Islam: Debates on gender and sexuality among European Muslims

Egypt in transition: A balance-sheet 22.08.2014 17:00-19:00 B Hall Moderators: Gamal M. Selim; D:TBA; Organizer: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES) Sponsored by: International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES)

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Ibrahim G. Aoudé: Egypt between January 25 and June 30

Michael Mulligan: The 2014 constitution and Egypt's obligations under international law

Amany A. Khodair: The Egyptian spring: Women's friend or foe?

Lawrie Phillips: Filming revolutionary and post-revolutionary Egypt: The struggle for survival and credibility

V. Shi'i Moharram Rituals, Performances--Ta'ziyeh and Sermons 22.08.2014 17:00-19:00 D Hall Moderators: Mariam Abou Zahab; D: TBA

Sabina Guerrieri: Modernity on Stage

Samer El Karanshawy: Texts, Interpretation and Commemorating Imām Husayn.

0607 Mozafar Shirazi: Comparative Semiotic Study of Ta’ziyeh Performance in the Region of Bushehr and the Central

Plateau of Iran

Khalid Sindawi: Color Semantics of Women's Clothing in Ashura Day Rituals: Karbala Province as a Case Study

Arab Spring: Towards a Political Transition? 22.08.2014 17:00-19:00 G202 Moderators: Ferran Izquierdo; D: Laura Feliu

Ferran Izquierdo: Political transition or reorganization of power?

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Mouldi Lahmar: L’autre transition en Tunisie: les honneurs, les richesses et les valeurs

Eva Wegner: Party-voter congruence in the Middle East and North Africa after the Arab Spring

Iñaqui Gutiérrez De Terán: Where is my state ya `azizi?: contending elites and re-emerging civil society in transitional Libya