MESA ANNUAL MEETING 2014 Mariott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C November 22-25, 2014

The following listing of CMES- and Harvard-affiliated speakers was compiled from the MESA Preliminary Program PDF. Since MESA does not update this version, there may have been last minute changes since it was posted that we were unable to include. For the most current information on times and locations of these panels, visit the following link and select the Online Program: http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/annual-meeting/program.html

Pages i-iii Harvard affiliate listing with session times

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

Harvard Faculty: . Ahmed, Asad (Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology) – Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Alkyam, Sami (Preceptor in Arabic) – Sun, 2-4 . Mohensi, Payam (Visiting Assistant Professor, Government) – Tues, 11-1 . Rabb, Intisar (Professor of Law) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Ragab, Ahmed (Richard T. Watson Professor of Science and Religion, Divinity School) – Tues, 1:30- 3:30

Harvard Students: . Abi-Rached, Joelle (History) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Andani, Khalil (Divinity, NELC) – Sun, 4:30-6:30/Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Anderson, Paul (NELC) – Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Arbel, Tal (History) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Arslan, Ceyhun (NELC) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Balikcioglu, Efe (History/MES) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Burton, Elise (History/MES) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Hagerdal, Nils (Kennedy School) – Sat, 5:30-7:30 . Liew, Han Hsien (History/MES) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Noy, Avigail (NELC) - Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Quinn, Meredith (History) – Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Schwartz, Katherine (History/MES) – Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Schwerda, Mira Xenia (HAA/MES) – Sat, 5:30-7:30 . Vodopyanov, Anya (Government) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 i

Current Visiting Researchers, Affiliates in Research, Fellows & Associates: . Mestyan, Adam (Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Roy, Sarah (CMES Associate) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Schayegh, Cyrus (Affiliate in Research) – Sat, 5:30-7:30

Harvard CMES Alumni/ae: . Balbale Krasner, Abigail (PhD, History/MES) – Sun, 11-1 . Bet-Shlimon, Arbella (PhD , History/MES) – Sun, 11-1/Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Bulliet, Richard (PhD , History/MES) – Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Casale, Giancarlo (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 11-1 . Cirpa, H. Erdem (PhD, History/MES) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Gelvin, James L. (PhD, History/MES) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Gottreich, Emily R. (PhD, History/MES) – Sat, 5:30-7:30 . Hashemi, Manata (MA, MES) – Sun, 11-1 . Kanna, Ahmed (AM, MES) – Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Karakaya-Stump, Ayfer (PhD, History/ MES) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Lockman, Zachary (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce (PhD, History/MES) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Marglin, Jessica M. (AM, MES) – Sun, 2-4 . Mathew, Johan (PhD, History/MES) . Nakissa, Aria (PhD, Anthro/MES) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Safran, Nina (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 11-1 . Tusalp Atiyas, Ekin (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Volk, Lucia (PhD, Anthro/MES) – Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Voll, John O. (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 5-7 . Wilkins, Charles L. (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 11-1 . Yaycioglu, Ali (PhD, History/MES) – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Zarkar, Rustin (AM, MES) – Mon, 11-1

Other Harvard Alumni/ae: . Ahmad, Ahmad Atif (PhD, NELC) – Sat, 5:30-7:30 . Alexander, Elise (MA, Divinity) – Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Ben-Yehoyadda, Naor (PhD, Anthro; former CMES Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow) – Sun, 2-4 . Bishara, Amahl (BA) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Bowen Savant, Sarah (PhD, HIST) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Brustad, Kristen (PhD, NELC) – Mon, 2:30-4:30

Other Harvard Alumni/ae Continued: . Calderwood, Eric (PhD, RLL) – Sun, 2-4 . DiMeo, David (PhD, Comparative Literature) – Sun, 2-4 . Foster, Angel M. (MD, HMS) – Tues, 1:30-3:30 . Halperin, Liora R. (BA, NELC) – Mon, 11-1 . Jiwa, Shainool (MA, NELC) – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Naaman, Erez (PhD, MA, NELC) – Mon, 5-7 . Pearlman, Wendy (PhD, Government) – Sat, 5:30-7:30, Mon, 11-1 . Reinhart, A. Kevin (MA, PhD, Religion) – Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Rosefsky Wickham, Carrie (BA, Social Studies) - Mon, 2:30-4:30 . Sheffield, Daniel (BA, MA, NELC) – Sun, 4:30-6:30 . Yom, Sean (MA, PhD, Government), Mon, 8:30-10:30

Past CMES/Harvard Affiliates: . Al-Masri, Khaled – Tues, 8:30-10:30 . Anderson, Lisa – Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Benam Cigdem, Hajipouran – Tues, 8:30-10-:30 . Cammett, Melani C. – Sun, 4:30-6:30/Mon, 5-7 . Dana, Karam – Mon, 5-7 . Havlioglu, Didem – Tues, 11-1 . Parsons, Laila – Mon, 11-1 . Philbrick Yadav, Stacey – Sun, 11-1 . Shafir, Nir – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Sharif El-Tobgui, Carl – Sat, 5:30-7:30/Mon, 8:30-10:30 . Tomass, Mark – Sun, 8:30-10:30 . Tracy Samuel, Annie – Tues, 11-1

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Program

5:30-7:30PM Saturday November 22

(3644) Morocco During the 1940s: (3651) The Kurds and the Changing (3679) Political Institutions and the Global Imperatives and Local Re- Middle East Political Map Contestation of Shi‘i Doctrine with sponses Organized by Michael M. Gunter the Rise of the Būyids 4th/10th - Organized by Alma Rachel Heckman and 5th/11th Centuries David Stenner Supported by Organized by Edmund Hayes Ahmed Foundation Sponsored by for Kurdish Studies Chair: Mushegh Asatryan, Independent American Institute for Researcher Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Chair: Robert W. Olson, U Kentucky Discussant: Tozun Bahcheli, King’s Col London Mohammad Sagha, U Chicago–Political Legitimacy, Religious Doctrine, and Sec- Chair: Emily R. Gottreich, UC Berkeley Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Ahmed Foun- tarian Identity: Applying Social Network Analysis to Buyid Baghdad Alma Rachel Heckman, UCLA–Vichy Rule dation for Kurdish Studies–Are the Kurds Edmund Hayes, U Chicago–The Political as Catalyst: Moroccan Jewish Political Missing the Boat? and Institutional Role of Charismatic Bābs Participation and the Development of the Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Techno- in 4th/10th Century Moroccan Communist Party logical U–The Syrian Kurds & the Chang- Mohammed Allehbi, U Chicago–The David Stenner, UC Davis–Talking ing Middle East Political Map Ṭālibid Syndics of Baghdad: Representatives Revolution but Appeasing the Colonizer: Diane E. King, U Kentucky–The Kurd- of a Community in Transition Nasser’s Refusal to Support North African istan Region of Iraq and the Changing George Warner, SOAS U London–The Nationalism Middle East Political Map ‘Kitāb Ithbāt Al-Waṣiyya’ Attributed to Samir Ben-Layashi, Sciences Po, Paris– Nader Entessar, U South Alabama–Secur- Al-Mas‘ūdī: Knowledge Production and The Colonial Social Hygiene Project in the itization of Kurdish Demands in Iran Sectarian Identity in Tenth Century Aftermath of WWII in Morocco Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col–Kurdish Imāmism Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale U–Global De- Identity and Diaspora Politics: Re-Posi- ployment and Local Effects: Morocco’s tioning Dissent (3694) Mapping Middle Eastern Colonial Soldiers in the 1940s Daniel J. Schroeter, U Minnesota–Mo- (3664) Minorities and Formations of Literatures hammed Ben Youssef and the Jews of the Modern Arab State Organized by Gretchen Head Morocco During Vichy Organized by Fadi Dawood Linda Istanbulli, UC Berkeley–Rewrit- (3645) Visualizing Modernity in the Discussant: Orit Bashkin, U Chicago ing Egypt’s National Narrative: Idris Ali’s Nineteenth Century: Photography Beneath the Poverty Line and Print Culture from the Middle Fadi Dawood, SOAS U London–The (Un) Anna C. Cruz, UC Berkeley–(Re)Creating Cordoba: Mapping Nostalgia, Memory, East Makings of Iraq: The Campaign for an and the Imagination Organized by Mira Xenia Schwerda and Independent Assyrian State (1921-1932) Aria Fani, UC Berkeley–Mapping Absence Hala Auji Karene Sanchez, Leiden U–The Catholic Minority of Palestine and Its Political in Missing Soluch Gretchen Head, UC Berkeley–Contest- Chair: Cyrus Schayegh, Princeton U Mobilization (1918-1960) ing the City in Contemporary Tunisian Discussant: Ami Ayalon, Tel Aviv U Vivian Ibrahim, U Mississippi–The Black Book Affair: Makram Obeid, the Copts and Women’s Writing Stephen Sheehi, Col of William and the Wafd Party in 1940s Egypt (3708) Transmutations of Shari’a: Mary–“The Motive Behind This Portrait”: Fashioning and Refashioning of Ottoman Arab Photography and the Me- Roundtable Islamic Law in the 19th - 20th Cen- diation of Class Anxiety (3668) Studying Contentious Politics Radha Dalal, Virginia Commonwealth tury Egypt and Social Movements after the U, Qatar–Intertextual Representations Organized by Samy Ayoub Arab Uprisings of Modernity: Max Fruchtermann’s Postcards and the Sultan Abdül Hamid II Organized by Charles Kurzman and Chair: Ahmad Atif Ahmad, UC Santa Photo Albums Frederic Volpi Barbara Mira Xenia Schwerda, Harvard U–The Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, George Spectacle of Death: Photographic Depic- Chair: Steven Heydemann, US Inst of Peace Washington U tions of Executions in the Qajar Era Hala Auji, American U Beirut–Power in Charles Kurzman, UNC Chapel Hill Samy Ayoub, U Arizona–Rethinking the Ephemeral: The Diverse Politics and Jeff Goodwin, New York U Premodern Legal Authority in the 20th Aesthetics of Printed Arabic Pamphlets James Jasper, Graduate Center, CUNY Century Egypt from fin de siècle Beirut Farhad Khosrokhavar, Ecole des Hautes Tarek Elgawhary, Princeton U–Ulama of Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris the Code: 19th Century Jurists Who Codi- Frederic Volpi, U St. Andrews fied Muslim Personal Status Laws Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U

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Ahmad Atif Ahmad, UC Santa Barbara– (3726) Historicizing and Comparing (3859) Reverberations of Conflict: Egypt’s 9 Constitutions in 90 Years Resecularization in Turkey, Egypt, Impacts and Outcomes of Violence Aaron Spevack, Colgate U–Reverence and Iran Organized by Christina Sciabarra and Realism: The Persistence of Pre- Organized by Yasuyuki Matsunaga modern Islamic Law in Contemporary Chair: Leila O. Hudson, U Arizona Egyptian Law Mohammed Moussa, Independent Discussant: Dylan Baun, U Arizona Scholar–Muhammad Al-Ghazali and the (3713) Social Media and Pedagogy of Islamic Tradition: Towards an Indigenous Jonathan Barsness, U Tennessee–Pol- Middle East Studies Secularity? itical Competition, Insurgency, and Post- Organized by Ranjit Singh Naser Ghobadzadeh, Australian Catholic 2003 Violence in Iraq U–Re-examining Shiite Political Theology Nils Hagerdal, Harvard U–Ethnic Cleans- Sponsored by to Promote Secularity ing as Military Strategy: Lessons from Committee for Undergraduate Umut Azak, Okan U–Resecularization in Lebanon Lyndall Herman, U Arizona–The Evolu- Middle East Studies (CUMES) Turkey after June 2013: Is a New Secular- ism Possible? tion and Current Position of the Respon- Yasuyuki Matsunaga, Tokyo U Foreign sibility to Protect Doctrine: A Middle Chair: Nabil Al-Tikriti, U Mary Washing- Studies–Will Historicizing Deseculariza- Eastern and North African Based Case ton tion Help the Iranian Postrevivalists? Study Discussant: Jeff VanDenBerg, Drury U Christina Sciabarra, U Arizona–Ballots (3802) Exploring Middle Class Expe- to Bombs: Elections and Cycles of Vio- Kimberly Katz, Towson U and VJ Um riences in the Region: Subjectivities, lence in Post-Invasion Iraq Amel, U Southern California–On Develop- Strategies, and Ambivalences Felisa (Farzana) Hervey, U Arizona– ing a Teaching Module on Arab Social Organized by T. Deniz Erkmen and Translating Conflict: Contemporary Media Ozlem Altan-Olcay Women’s Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart U–Social Media Engages Islam: An Instructor’s Chair/Discussant: Waleed Hazbun, (3870) What’s in a Genre?: New Ap- Brief American U Beirut proaches to Ottoman Intellectual Rachel T. Howes, CSU Northridge–The History Arab Spring as a Framework for Teaching Ozlem Altan-Olcay, Koç U–In the Market Organized by M. Sait Ozervarli and a Middle East Survey Course for US Citizenship: Class Distinctions and Helen Pfeifer Edward Webb, Dickinson Col–When and Insecurity in Turkey How to Incorporate Social Media into Hanan Kholoussy, American U Cairo– Chairs: Helen Pfeifer, Cambridge U and MES Courses: Hard-won Lessons Mubarak’s Marital Woes: Middle-Class M. Sait Ozervarli, Yıldız Technical U Ranjit Singh, U Mary Washington– Navigations of Neoliberalism Discussant: Tijana Krstic, Central Euro- Teaching Social Media and ME Politics T. Deniz Erkmen, Özyeğin U–Stepping pean U (3721) From House Politics to the into the Global: The Meaning of Working in a Transnational Corporation in the Sara Nur Yildiz, St. Andrews U/Orient- Politics of Housing Narratives of Turkish Professionals Institut Istanbul–Commentary Writing Organized by Geoffrey Hughes and Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill U–Neo- and Intellectual Genealogies of Religious Bridget Guarasci liberalism, Middle Class Disaffection, and Texts in the Early Ottoman Tradition the Politics of Youth in Sudan M. Sait Ozervarli, Yıldız Technical U, Discussants: Asef Bayat, U Illinois Istanbul–Kalām Texts in the Ottoman Urbana-Champaign and Farha Ghannam, (3849) Panayır Stories: A Multidisci- Intellectual Context: An Overview of the Swarthmore Col plinary Study of the Turkish Fair as a Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries Social and Cultural Institution Helen Pfeifer, Cambridge U–Ottoman Geoffrey Hughes, U Michigan Ann Organized by Roger A. Deal Biographical Dictionaries: Roots and Arbor–“Houses are Alive”: The Persis- Routes tence of Bodily Metaphors in Talk About Derin Terzioglu, Bogazici U–İlmihals, Housing in Contemporary Jordan Chair: Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst U Discussant: Meltem Turkoz, Işık U Their Authors and Audience in the Early Bridget Guarasci, Oberlin Col–Environ- Modern Ottoman Empire mental Futures: Building Houses amidst Environmentalism Along the Great Rift Y. Ozan Say, Bridgewater State U– Valley in Jordan Panayırs of Imbros: Building Community Yazan Doughan, U Chicago–We Said it and Placemaking on an Aegean Island Right in His Face: The Spatial Politics of Aysun Aydin, Middle East Technical U Fearless Masculinity in Jordan’s Protest and Hale Yılmaz, Southern Illinois U Car- Movement bondale –The Panayır in Turkish Films Fida Adely, Georgetown U–Space, Place Roger A. Deal, U South Carolina Aiken– and Home in Amman, Jordan: Re-Gender- Panayır Entertainments in 1930s Turkey: ing Space The Pehlivanköy Example

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(3908) Reading the Politics of Digiti- (3926) Lebanese Spaces and Places (3985) New Approaches to Palestin- zation ian/Israeli Studies Organized by Sean E. Swanick and Sha- Chair: Ghenwa Hayek, Claremont McK- ron C. Smith enna Col Chair: Richard Cahill, Berea Col

Sponsored by Owain Lawson, Columbia U–“Our Nation, Steven Wagner, U Oxford–“Palestine Middle East Librarians Association Predestined by Nature”: Constructing is but a Small Section of the Great Arab (MELA) National, Natural, and Touristic Spaces in Fatherland”: British Signals Intelligence, Mandate Lebanon Anglo-Saudi Relations, and the 1939 Sana Tannoury Karam, Northeastern U– White Paper Policy for Palestine Chair: Sharon C. Smith, MIT Gendering the Working Class: Contest- Rebecca Granato, Al Quds Bard Col–The ing Power in the Lebanese Communist Trope of the Hunger Strike: How Bobby Sumayya Ahmed, UNC Chapel Hill–And Discourse, 1920-1945 Sands is/of the Palestinian Narrative We Keep a Copy: Digitization, Ownership Zeina Maasri, American U Beirut/U and Colonial Memories Brighton–Locating the Nation: Changing (3986) Investigations into Arabic Walid Ghali, Aga Khan U–Constraints on Imagescapes in 1960s Lebanon Tourism Teaching and Learning Manuscripts Digitisations in Egypt Promotion Michael A. Toler, MIT–Can the Cloud Maria Bashshur Abunnasr, American Make it Rain?: On the Social and Political Chair: Gergana Atanassova, Ohio State U U Beirut–The Oral History and Memory Implications of the Digital Revolution in of Ras Beirut: Exceptional Narratives of East-West Relations Mahmoud Azaz, U Arizona–Acquisition Coexistence Alexander Nagel, Smithsonian Inst–Let- of the Definite Marker in Plural Arabic Zachary Cuyler, Georgetown U–Build- ters and Cups from Persepolis: Lessons Noun Phrases by Adult L1 English-L2 ing the Earth: The Technopolitics of from an Archival Odyssey in the Context Arabic Learners the Trans-Arabian Pipeline in Lebanon, of the Digitization of World Cultural Heba El Ramly, American U Cairo–The 1950-1975 Heritage Effect of Input-based and Output-based Chantal El Hayek, MIT–Stars of Two Na- Sean E. Swanick, McGill U–Politics of Feedback on the Short Term Develop- tions: The Place de l’Étoile and Colonial Digitization: Islamic Materials and the ment of AFL Learners’ Interlanguage Radial Planning Digital Divide Ola Hashad, American U Cairo–The Peda- gogical Value of Corpus-Based Instruction (3945) Women, Education, and Em- (3921) Islamic Thought in the 21st in Foreign Language Classrooms: Perspec- powerment Century tives from the Users Chair: Lucy L. Melbourne, Saint Augus- Chair: Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, Brandeis U tine’s U Thematic Conversation Evan Siegel, New York City Col of Tech- Hoda Yousef, Franklin & Marshall Col– nology–An Analysis of Sheikh Mohammad Answering Amin: Early Responses to and (3991) Ottoman and Turkish Studies: Montazeri’s Newspaper, Peyam-e Shahid Reformulations of “The Women Ques- What’s Happening? Usaama Al-Azami, Princeton U–Liberal tion” Organized by Virginia Aksan Ideals and Islamic Law: Limiting Appeals Mohamed Sallam, U Minnesota–Com- to Scripture in Modern Islamic Political peting and Contesting Constructions of Session Leader: Kent F. Schull, Bingham- Thought ‘Modern’ Womanhood: A Vertical Case ton U, SUNY Zoe LeBlanc, Vanderbilt U–Lawmaking Study Examining the Effects of Interna- and Prohibiting in International Islam: tional Development Discourse on Mar- Virginia Aksan, McMaster U A History of Supranational Islamic Fiqh riage and Education in Rural Upper Egypt Robert Zens, Le Moyne College Academies and Islamic Legal Authority Hengameh Fouladvand, Ctr for Iranian Chris Gratien, Georgetown U in the Late Twentieth Century and Early Modern Arts–Iranian Feminist Art: No Howard Eissenstat, St. Lawrence U Twenty-First Century Delicate Flowers! Halil Ibrahim Yenigun, Istanbul Com- Kendra Taylor, Pennsylvania State U– merce U–The Political Ontology of Liberal Voices and Counterstories of Empower- Islam: A Critique of Contemporary Islamic ment Among Rural Women in Morocco Democracy Theories Natasha Ridge, Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Abdullah R. Lux, Independent Scholar– Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research– Doctrines of Al-ajal Al-maḥtūm and Al- Education and the Reverse Gender Divide ajal Al-makhrūm or Al-ajal Al-mu‘allaq: in the Gulf States: Embracing the Global The Problem of Fixed and Variable Ajal Ignoring the Local (Terms/Lifespans) in Contemporary Shi‘ite Thought

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Today’s Affiliated Meetings Sargon Donabed, Roger Williams U–Eth- Roundtable nic Shifts in an Ecclesiastical Community: (3725) Studying the Persian Gulf 7:30-9am A Visual Dialogue of Jacobite Nomen- Beyond State and Security Middle East Outreach Council clature in 20th and 21st Century Israel/ Organized by Arang Keshavarzian Board Meeting Palestine Park Tower Suite 8223 (L) Sponsored by 8-10am (3714) Authoritarian Statebuilding Association for Gulf Arabian MESA's Committee on Academ- in the Arab World ic Freedom Meeting Organized by Shamiron Mako and Jason Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) Park Tower Suite 8212 (L) Brownlee 8:30-10:30am Chair: Arang Keshavarzian, New York U Chair/Discussant: James L. Gelvin, UCLA Middle East Law & Governancy Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve U Business Meeting Shamiron Mako, U Edinburgh–Authori- Rosie Bsheer, Yale U Park Tower Suite 8216 (L) tarianism and Statebuilding in Iraq: Toby C. Jones, Rutgers U 9-11am Framing the Role of Exclusionary Institu- John M. Willis, U Colorado Encyclopedia of Women and tions Islamic Cultures Editorial Board Jason Brownlee, U Texas Austin–The (3728) Discovering and Reinterpret- Training Fiscal Politics of Egyptian Statebuilding, ing Key Sources of Ismaili Thought Wilson A (M) 1876-1879 and History 12:30pm-2pm May Darwich, U Edinburgh/German Inst Organized by Paul E. Walker Center for Arabic Study Abroad of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)–Monar- Consortium Luncheon chical Authoritarianism: Wahhabism as Chair: Farhad Daftary, Inst of Ismaili Lebanese Taverna Restaurant (2641 National Identity in the Saudi Kingdom Studies Connecticut Ave. NW) Adria Lawrence, Yale U–Democratic 5-6:30pm Citizens, Crown Subjects: Monarchy and Shainool Jiwa, Inst of Ismaili Stud- International Institute of Islamic State-Formation in the Middle East ies–Realpolitik & Sectarian Strife: A Re- Thought Reception appraisal of Fatimid Rule in Syria During Park Tower Suite 8219 (L) (3717) Gender and Women in North the Reign of the Fatimid Imam-Caliph 8:30-10:30pm Africa Al-‘Azīz bi’llāh (365-386/975-996) American University in Cairo Organized by Andrea Khalil Shiraz Hajiani, U Chicago–The Conver- Reception sions of Hasan-i Sabbah Chair: Andrea Khalil, Queens Col, CUNY Maryland A (L) Paul E. Walker, U Chicago–A Newly Discussant: Val Moghadam, Northeastern U Discovered Treatise from the Earli- est Fatimid Period on the Relationship Samia Errazzouki, Georgetown U–Po- (3685) From Margin to Mainstream: Between the Burden of Alms Dues and litical Economic Liberalization and the Geographical Transformation of Access to Ta’wīl-based Knowledge and the Politics of Women’s Empowerment in Daʿwa Community in Rural and Urban Morocco Nadia E. Jamal, Inst of Ismaili Studies– Histories of the Other from WWII Sherine M. Hafez, UC Riverside–The Esoteric Explorations of the Sharī‘a, the to the Arab Spring Revolution Shall Not Pass Through Path to the Divine: A Fatimid Exposition Organized by Sargon Donabed Women’s Bodies: Egypt, Uprising and Gender Politics (3736) Maghrebi Visual Culture and Chair: Sargon Donabed, Roger Williams U Loubna Hanna Skalli, American U– the Politics of Memory Discussant: Paul S. Rowe, Trinity West- Young Women and Social Media Against Organized by Anna Cavness and Patricia ern U Sexual Harassment in North Africa M. Goldsworthy miriam cooke, Duke U–Writing Revolu- Mark Tomass, Harvard U–MarginAl-ization Chair/Discussant: Dina Al-Kassim, U tion, Extreme Uncertainty, and the Syrian British Columbia Civil War Jacques Rouyer Guillet, SOAS U London– David Prochaska, U Illinois Urbana- Gefilte Fish vs. Shish Kebab: The Wester- Champaign–Approaching Maghrebi nisation of Oriental Jews in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Visual Culture 1948-1967 Patricia M. Goldsworthy, Western Paul S. Rowe, Trinity Western U–From Oregon U–Postcolonial Re-exposures: The the Inside, Looking Outside: Alternative Moroccan Afterlife of French Colonial Story Telling Initiatives Among Palestin- Photography ian Christians Mariam Georgis, U Alberta–Nation and continued next page Identity Construction in Iraq

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Nancy Demerdash, Princeton U–Decolo- Umayyah Cable, U Southern California– (3860) Commerce and Intercommu- nizing Patrimony: Institutions, Nation- Palestinian National Cinema in Diaspora: nal Relations in Ottoman Border- hood and the Construction of Heritage in Film Festivals and Diasporic Identity lands Bourguiba’s Tunisia Politics Organized by Murat Yasar and Maryna Anna Cavness, UC Irvine–Visual Genealo- Suraya Khan, Rice U–Beyond the Ab- Kravets gies of an Algerian Vernacular stractions: Hisham Sharabi and an Arab- Nouri Gana, UCLA–Defeat and Dissent in American Intellectual Generation Murat Yasar, SUNY Oswego–Religious the Cinematic Discourse of Nouri Bouzid Synthesis Through Trade: Islamization of (3836) Arrested Development?: the Circassians in the 17th Century North (3743) Social Approaches to Leba- Problems of Industrialization in the Caucasus nese Shi’i History Late Ottoman Empire Mehmet Kuru, U Toronto–Changing Ur- Organized by Robert J. Riggs and Pascal Organized by Elcin Arabaci ban Pattern of İzmir: 17th Through 20th Abidor Centuries Chair/Discussant: Sherry Vatter, CSU Maryna Kravets, U Toronto Mississauga– Chair: Mara Leichtman, Michigan State U Long Beach The State of the Economy and the Foreign Discussant: Rola El-Husseini, CUNY Trade in the Eighteenth-Century Crimean Graduate Center Elcin Arabaci, Georgetown U–Symptoms Khanate of Industrial Revolution in Late Ottoman Emre Erol, Leiden U–Heartland into Pascal Abidor, McGill U–Class and Class Bursa Borderland: The Transformations of the Conflict in Jabal ‘Amil before and During Erol Ulker, Istanbul Kemerburgaz U– Ottoman County of Foçateyn in the Early the Establishment of the Lebanese State Foreign Capital, Allied Occupation, and Twentieth Century Samer El-Karanshawy, Qatar Faculty of Class Politics in Istanbul: Constantinople Islamic Studies–Ja‛far Al-Muhajir and the Tramway and Electric Company (Istanbul (3861) Powering Resistance, Fueling Reproduction of ‘Amili Nationalism Consortium) Conflict: Energy and State-Society Nabil Hage Ali, Georgetown U–The Can Nacar, Koç U–Negotiating Power: Relations in the Middle East Islamic Revolution in Lebanon: A Per- Foremen in the Late Ottman Empire Organized by Jeanene Mitchell spective on the Internal Differentiation Kadir Yildirim, Istanbul U–Proleteri- Among Various Religious Groups in the anization of Dispossession: Companies, Chair: Jeanene Mitchell, U Washington Shi‘i Community Technology Transfer and Porters in the Jean-Michel Landry, UC Berkeley–En- Late Ottoman Empire Jeanene Mitchell, U Washington–Renew- gaging the Tradition, Challenging the able Energy Investment in Azerbaijan Establishment: The Teaching of Shi‘a Ju- (3857) The Act of Writing in the and Its Effects on Local Climate Change risprudence at the Hawza of Mohammed Early Modern Ottoman Empire Adaptation Measures Hussein Fadlallah Organized by Nir Shafir and Oscar Agu- Ayse Nal, U Washington–Local Environ- Robert J. Riggs, U Bridgeport–Ayatollahs irre Mandujano mental Movements in Turkey: The Case Online: Virtual Marjas and Their Actor- of Rize Networks in Lebanon Carlos Grenier, U Chicago–Writing a Esra Bakkalbasioglu, U Washington– Frontier Canon: The Works of Ahmed and Breaking the Infrastructural Dependency: (3780) Insiders/Outsiders: Arab Mehmed Yazıcızade Solar Panels as New Tools of Resistance American Transnational Engage- Efe Balikcioglu, Harvard U–Poetry in the Michael Degerald, U Washington– Il Faut ments, Tensions, and Identities Text: The Use and Function of Poetry in Defendre Saddam?: Oil, State Racism, and Organized by Matthew Stiffler, Arab Rawandì’sRāhat Al-sudūr and Yazıcızade Iraqi State Biopower in the 1980s American National Museum ‘Alì’s Translation of the Same Work in Tevārìkh-i Âl-i Selçūk (3862) The Islamist Parties in North Sponsored by Oscar Aguirre Mandujano, U Washing- Africa and Their Strategies of Nor- Arab American Studies Association ton–The Merits of a Poet: The Role of Tal- malization (AASA) ent and Education in the Making of the Organized by T. Jeremy Gunn Ottoman Intellectual Nir Shafir, UCLA–A Book on How to Discussant: Driss Maghraoui, Al Akh- Chair: Louise A. Cainkar, Marquette U Write a Book: “Instructions to Authors” wayn U and the Question of Authorship in Louise A. Cainkar, Marquette U–Home- Seventeenth-Century Istanbul Saloua Zerhouni, Mohamed V U–Is- land Imaginings of Palestinian Youth in lamist’s Participation in Morocco and the US Diaspora Egypt Kristine Ajrouch, Eastern Michigan U– Amal Idrissi, Moulay Ismail U–The Transnational Activities and Identity: An Political Speech in the Moroccan Party of Arab-American Experience Justice and Development (PJD): Normal- Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State U– ization or Instrumentalization? Transnational Commitments: Arab Amer- T. Jeremy Gunn, Al Akhawayn U–Islamic ican Activism and Palestinian Solidarity Parties of North Africa and Secularism

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Djallil Lounnas, Al Akhawayn U–The Par- (3883) New Approaches in the His- Gergana Atanassova, Ohio State U– adox of the Moderate Algerian Islamists tory of Iranian Urban Space Feedback During Interaction in the in the Post Arab Spring Organized by Saghar Sadeghian and Arabic Language Classroom: Do Learners Fatemeh Masjedi Understand It? (3871) Engaging Orlando Patterson’s “Social Death” of Slaves or What Chair/Discussant: Ranin Kazemi, Kansas (3916) Unfinished Uprisings: Reflec- is Islamic About Slavery in Muslim State U tions on Egypt from Above and Societies? Below Organized by Mary Ann Fay Farzin Vejdani, U Arizona–Everyday Pe- titioning in Revolutionary Iran: Municipal Chair: Peter Gran, Temple U Chair: Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U Governance, Ordinary Iranians, and Urban Conflict, 1906-1911 Soha Bayoumi, Harvard U–“Doctors of Christine E. Sears, U Alabama, Hunts- Fatemeh Masjedi, Zentrum Moderner the Revolution”: Egypt’s Political Upris- ville–“Tyranical Masters is the Turks”: Orient–Women Mojahedin Transforming ings and the Limits of Medical Neutrality Mediterranean and Ottoman Context of the Urban Public Spaces in Tabriz During Sara Salem, Inst of Social Studies–The Barbary Captivity the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 2011 Egyptian Uprising: Shifts and Power E. Ann McDougall, U Alberta–“What 1906-1911 Struggles within the Elite is Islamic About Slavery in Muslim Saghar Sadeghian, Sorbonne Nouvelle Mohamed Elgohari, New York U–The Ul- Societies?”: Revisiting Cooper Through Paris 3–Tabriz New Catholic Church: A tras Political Role and the State in Egypt Concubinage in Southern Morocco and Construction of Urban Constitutional Mariz Tadros, U Sussex–The Politics of Mauritania (19th -21st C) Crisis (1906-1912) Unruly Uprisings in Egypt Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State U–Passive Sahar Hosseini, U Wisconsin Milwau- Yasmeen Daifallah, U Massachusetts Men and Compliant Women: Islam and kee–Sculpting a Modern-Persian Identity Amherst– The Changing Fate of the State: Slavery in the Making of Race and Sex in in the City: Memorializing Ferdowsi in a The Conceptual Trajectory of “the State” South Africa Public Square of Tehran in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Political Diane Robinson-Dunn, U Detroit Mercy– Writings French and English Orientalisms and the (3890) The Arab Spring Uprisings: Study of Slavery in North Africa and the Rebellion, Revolution, and Litera- (3936) Turkish Politics in the Repub- Middle East: What are the Connections? ture lic Organized by Youness Elbousty (3881) Failing to Imagine Carto- Chair: Metin Heper, Bilkent U graphic and Discursive Borders Chair: Susan Chenard, Gateway Com- Organized by Emine Rezzan Karaman munity Col Reuben Silverman, UC San Diego–How to Get Ahead in Turkish Politics: Mustafa Chair: Janet Klein, U Akron Tovmasyan Tovmasyan, Yale U–Harem, Sarigul, Factionalism, and the Republican Discussant: Sabri Ates, Southern Meth- Sacred Frontiers, and Mernissi’s Revolu- People’s Party odist U tion of Women’s World Janicke Stramer, U Nevada Reno–The Ef- Sarab Al Ani, Yale U–Literature: The fects of Politicization on Regime-Change: Emine Rezzan Karaman, UCLA–Nei- First Step to Awareness that Leads to The Case of the Turkish Military and ther Persian nor Kurdish: Imposition of Rebellion Labor 1960–1980 Osmanlilik in the Kurdish Frontier and Youness Elbousty, Yale U–Revolution Berk Esen, Cornell U–Nation-Building, Making of the Ottoman-Persian Border and Narrative: Shukri’s Al Khobz Al-Hafi State-Capacity, and Regime Consolidation: Seda Altug, Bogazici U–State, People and Muhammad Aziz, Yale U–Sufi Aspects in Kemalism in Comparative Perspective Violence in the Making of the Turco- Mahfouz’s Literary Work Journey of Ibn Huseyin Levent Koker, Atilim U–Lan- Syrian Frontier Fattouma guages of Politics and the Constitution: Dilan Okcuoglu, Queen’s U–Control and Theoretical Implications of the Debate on Resilience in Kurdish Geography: Case (3896) Learning Arabic in and the Turkish Constitution Studies of Van and Hakkari Outside the Classroom: The Role of Elizabeth Nolte, U Washington–Untime- Interaction ly?: Literature of Bureaucracy and Ahmet Organized by Gergana Atanassova Hamdi Tanpınar’s The Time Regulation Institute Chair/Discussant: Kassem Mohammed Wahba, Georgetown U

Emma Trentman, U New Mexico–Inter- action and the Development of Linguistic Fluency During Study Abroad in Egypt Maimoonah Al Khalil, King Saud U–Sec- ond Language Motivation and Noticing of Recasts in Task-based Interaction

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(3946) The Politics of Language and (3978) Rethinking Ibn Taymiyya’s Thematic Literary Production Circle Conversation

Chair: Esra Tasdelen, U Chicago Chair: Dale J. Correa, New York U (3994) Reframing the Debate About Secularism in the MENA Shaadi Khoury, George Washington U– Rebecca R. Williams, U South Alabama– Region; or, What We Talk About Al-Hilal in 1919, the Journal of the Arab Ibn Kathir, Methodology, and Pragmatic When We Talk About Religion Academy of Damascus in 1928, and the Compromise Organized by Ajay Singh Chaudhary Nahda’s Contentious Language Debate Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion Veli N. Yashin, Columbia U–The Sov- U of the Negev–Historiography in the Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Columbia U ereign and the Author: Ahmad Faris Al- Service of the Mufti: Ibn Taymiyya on the K. Soraya Batmanghelichi, Leiden U Shidyaq and the Political Somatology of Origins and Fallacies of Ziyarat Elizabeth Marcus, Columbia U the Late-Ottoman Empire Cole Bunzel, Princeton U–Reading Ibn Suzanne Schneider, New York U Rehenuma Asmi, Allegheny Col–Qur’anic Taymiyya: A Disputed Treatise on Fight- Arabic Literacy and Critical Pedagogy: ing the Unbelievers and Its Modern A New Look at the Pedagogy of Qur’an Reception Schools Rodrigo Adem, U Chicago–Ibn Taymīya Nicholas Walmsley, Indiana U Blooming- and the Historical Contingency of Ortho- ton–Glossing Nava’i: Navigating the Cen- doxy tral Asian Sprachbund with Nineteenth- Century Dictionaries Catherine Jean, U Florida–Expanding Studies of Orientalism: New Approaches to Representation Suha Kudsieh, Col of Staten Island CUNY– The Two Editions of Al-Tahtawi’s Travel Account to Paris: The Making of Docile Bodies in Modern Egypt

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(3658) Tribes in Yemen: The View from Within SPECIAL SESSION Organized by Najwa Adra (4007) ISIS and the Future of Iraq and the Levant Sponsored by Organized by David Siddhartha Patel American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) Chair: David Siddhartha Patel, Brandeis U

Chair: Najwa Adra, New York U David Siddhartha Patel, Brandeis U Discussant: Charles Schmitz, Towson U Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U London F. Gregory Gause, Texas A&M U Mohammed Sharafuddin, U Sana’a–Po- Diane E. King, U Kentucky etry and Tribalism in Yemen Adil Mujahid Al Sharjabi, Sanaa U–The Joshua Landis, U Oklahoma Future Political Role of Yemeni Tribal Sheikhs in Light of the Expected Out- comes of the National Dialogue Confer- This session will present an overview of the past summer’s violent clashes ence between Israeli and Hammas forces and the ensuing destruction in Gaza. Abdul Karim S. Alaug, Sana’a U–Tribal- Representatives from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) and ism in the Yemeni National Dialogue the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) will provide an “on-the-ground” Conference analysis of the destruction and human toll of the 50-day war in Gaza. Scholars will further place the recent violence in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian (3660) Algerian Dissident Writers of conflict. French Expression: Opening Books, Opening Minds Organized by Valerie K. Orlando

Chair: Valerie K. Orlando, U Maryland Ryan Rittenberg, U Pennsylvania–The (3675) Arab Gulf Labour Markets Valerie K. Orlando, U Maryland–Reflec- Form and Content of Islamic Legal His- and Migration: Challenges, Data, tive or Restorative Nostalgia ? in Camus tory Policies dans le Narguilé (2011) by Hamid Grine: Organized by Imco Brouwer Resisting the Algerian Postcolonial Mas- (3673) Social Mobilization and ter Narrative Authoritarian Learning in the Post- Chair: Imco Brouwer, Gulf Research Ctr Robert Mortimer, Haverford Col–His- Arab Uprisings Period Discussant: Philippe Fargues, European tory and Memory in Boualem Sansal’s Rue Organized by Frederic Volpi and Steven U Inst Darwin Heydemann Mildred Mortimer, U Colorado–Trau- Nasra Shah, Kuwait U–Perceptions and nd matic Memory in Maïssa Bey, Puisque mon Chair: Charles Kurzman, UNC Chapel Hill Aspirations of 2 Generation Non-Emir- coeur est mort [Since My Heart is Dead] Discussant: Frederic Volpi, U St. Andrews atis in the UAE: Comparison with Recent Mary B. Vogl, Colorado State U–Radi- Migrants cal Ruptures: Tahar Djaout’s Essays on Steven Heydemann, US Inst of Peace– George Naufal, American U Sharjah– Algerian Art The Future of Authoritarianism in the The Data Dilemma: The Case of the GCC Arab World Countries (3667) Infinite Data, Finite Results: Jillian M. Schwedler, Hunter Col CUNY– Hend Alsheikh, Inst of Public Admin- Organizing and Classifying Knowl- Rethinking Time and Space in the Arab istration–Active Labor Policies in the edge in Medieval Islamic Law Uprisings Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Organized by Elias Saba Frederic Vairel, U Ottawa–Understanding Francoise De Bel-Air, Gulf Labour Self-limited Mobilizations: Insights from Markets and Migration Programme–The Chair/Discussant: David S. Powers, Morocco Nitaqat Campaign of Saudisation of the Cornell U Hesham Sallam, Stanford U–Protest Labour Force in Saudi Arabia: A New Kind Movements, Formal Politics, and the of “Demographic Engineering?” Elias Saba, U Pennsylvania–Evolving Dif- Paradoxes of the Egyptian Revolution ference: Legal Distinctions in the Hanafi Francesco Cavatorta, Universite Laval– Tradition From Victim to Hangman?: The Tunisian Mariam Sheibani, U Chicago–Khilāf Troika and the Rise of Salafism Literature: The Systematization of Legal Disagreement Matthew Keegan, New York U–Crosspol- linations: The Literature in the Law, the Law in the Literature

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(3681) Settler-Colonialism and the Andrew Robarts, Rhode Island School Dana El Kurd, U Texas Austin–Survey Study of Zionism: Erasure, Transfer of Design (RISD)–Nowhere to Run To, Experiment on Saudi Arabian Repression: and Assimilation Nowhere to Hide: State, Society, and Epi- Public Expression and the Religious Police Organized by Arnon Degani demic Disease in the Ottoman Balkans Joshua Stacher, Kent State U–Regime- Ranin Kazemi, Kansas State U–The Envi- Making: State Violence as a Constitutive Sponsored by ronmental Causes of the Tobacco Protest Process in Egypt Palestinian American in Nineteenth-Century Iran Rachel A. Sternfeld, U Texas Austin–From Research Center (PARC) Yaron Ayalon, Ball State U–Natural Repression to (Relative) Permissiveness: A Disasters and the Fall of the Ottoman Study of Press Freedoms in Egypt Empire Chair: Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA Joseph D. Lombardo, The New School– Roundtable Discussant: Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne Eppur Si Muove: Italian Capital, the Envi- Inst for Social Research ronment, and the Kurdish Struggle (3784) From State of the Masses to State of the Martyrs: Interdisciplin- Susan Slyomovics, UCLA–“The Object of (3748) Liminal Bad Girls of the Arab ary and Regional Perspectives on Memory” and Settler Colonialism Studies World Libya 16 Years Later Organized by Jacob A. Mundy Honaida Ghanim, Palestinian Forum Organized by Elizabeth Bishop and Na- dia G. Yaqub for Israeli Studies–Judaization and De- Chair: Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U Indigenization: Settler-Colonialism in East Jerusalem Sponsored by Association for Middle East Wom- Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State U Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Mada Al-Carm- Mietek Boduszynski, Pomona Col el–The Zionist Left and Settler-Colonial- en's Studies (AMEWS) Salwa Sheibany, Virginia Commowealth U ism in Marj Ibn ‘Amer: Land, Population Doris H. Gray, Al Akhawayn U and Property Chair: Florence Martin, Goucher Col Arnon Degani, UCLA–Non-Statist and Discussant: Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel (3804) Ethnographic Inquiries of Bi-Nationalist Zionism as Settler-Colonial Hill Poverty in the Middle East Agendas Organized by Manata Hashemi and Ra- Rula Quawas, U Jordan–Madness-ism in nia K. Sweis (3719) What If You Have Too Many Pillars of Salt: Speaking from the Place of Letters?: Predicaments of Printing in Revisionary Badness Discussant: Ted Swedenburg, U Arkansas Egypt Hanadi Al-Samman, U Virginia–Surviv- Organized by J.R. Osborn and Natalia ing Multiple Wa’d: Samar Yazbek’s A Yasemin Ipek Can, Stanford U–Fantasies Suit Woman in the Crossfire of Deprivation: Lebanese Youth Dreaming Sherifa Zuhur, Inst of Middle Eastern, a ‘Decent Life’ Nasreen AlKhateeb, Through the 4th Islamic & Strategic Studies–Breaking Bad Rania K. Sweis, U Richmond–Child Life Wall–Muhammad Nadim’s 1948 Memo on Baladi: Ludicrous Ladies to (S)heroines of Histories in Ethnography: Reflections on Moveable Type: Arabic Print Culture at the Egyptian and Syrian Revolutions NGOs, Homelessness and Childhood in the Crossroads Randa Kayyali, American U–“Jihad Jane” Egypt J.R. Osborn, Georgetown U–Printed as “Good” American and “Bad” Arab Girl: Manata Hashemi, UC Berkeley–Work Letters, Printed Script, Printed Arabic: Navigating Feminisms, Citizenship and and Honor: Poverty and Morality Among Methods of Mechanical (and Digital) Gendered Strategies of Acceptance Youth in Iran Reproduction Anita Fábos, Clark U–New ‘Bad Girls’ of Maia Sieverding, UC San Francisco–As- Bentley Brown, Georgetown U–Arabic Sudan: Women Singers in the Sudanese pirational Identities and Schemas of Type in the Digital Age: Have Dialects Diaspora Change: An Intergenerational Study of Paved the Way for Change? Popular Class Women in Cairo Natalia Suit, UNC Chapel Hill–How Do (3761) Regime Formation and Sur- You Print the Quran?: Technology and vival: Coercion, Co-optation, and (3805) Cities of Promise: Re-imag- Religion in Modern Egypt Conversion ining Community in Modern Urban Organized by Steven T. Brooke Space (3733) Nature and Society: Environ- Organized by Sarah El-Kazaz mental Roots of State Formation in Chair/Discussant: Stacey Philbrick Ya- the Modern Middle East, 18th-20th dav, Hobart & William Smith Cols Chair/Discussant: Diane Singerman, Century American U Organized by Yaron Ayalon Steven T. Brooke, U Texas Austin–Is- lamist Social Service Provision and Amy Mills, U South Carolina–The Politics Discussant: Alan Mikhail, Yale U Regime Stability in Egypt of Mobility in Early Twentieth Century Matt Buehler, U Tennessee–Co-optable Istanbul Zoe Griffith, Brown U–A Fine-Grained Coalitions?: The Success and Failure of Sheila Crane, U Virginia–Housing as Bat- History: Socio-Politics of Rice Cultivation Left-Islamist Alliances in Tunisia, Mo- tleground: Planning Strategies & Ephem- in 18th-Century Ottoman Egypt rocco, and Mauritania eral Tactics in the Battles of Algiers

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Nancy Y. Reynolds, Washington U in St. (3833) China and Japan in Middle Josie Hendrickson, U Alberta–Al-Wahra- Louis–Opportunity in Aswan: Provincial East Studies: State of the Fields ni’s Unsolicited Advice to the Moriscos Urban Consumption and Mobility in Post- Organized by Shuang Wen colonial Egypt (3852) Empires, People, and Power Sarah El-Kazaz, Princeton U–‘Possessing’ Chair: Hanan Kholoussy, American U Cairo in Ottoman Iraq: New Approaches the City’s History: Heritage Preservation Discussant: Hyunhee Park, John Jay Col of to the 19th Century and Assembling Power in Istanbul and Criminal Justice CUNY Organized by Kearby Chess Cairo Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore Col–The Qingguo Xue, Beijing Foreign Studies U– Chair: Walter G. Andrews, U Washington Making and Unmaking of a Heterotopic Development and Challenges: A Brief His- Discussant: Arbella Bet-Shlimon, U Space: Reflections on Midan Al-Tahrir tory of Arabic Literature in China Washington Shuang Wen, Georgetown U–Two Gaps: A (3818) Out of the Box & On Line Brief Survey of China Studies in Egypt Kearby Chess, U Washington–Cholera Organized by Dalal Aboel Seoud in the Time of Empire: Imperialism and (3842) Narratives of Body, Soul and Public Health in 19th Century Baghdad Chair: Dalal Aboel Seoud, American U Sex in the Late Ottoman Empire Camille Cole, Yale U–Restoring the Gar- Cairo Organized by Secil Yilmaz den of Eden?: William Willcocks and the Remaking of Southern Iraq Lisa J. White, American U Cairo–Morphol- Discussant: Sara Pursley, Princeton U Rachel Elizabeth Brown, U Washington– ogy in the Online Elementary and Interme- Mapping the Social: Kinship Networks diate Curriculum Gulhan Balsoy, Okan U–Masculine Anxi- and Ottoman Reform Hanan Hassanein, American U Cairo–De- eties: Conceptions of Impotence in Late Idan Barir, Tel Aviv U–The Mystical and veloping Dyslexic Students’ Grammatical Ottoman Medical Writings the Mundane: Sufis and Urban Growth in Competence Through Blended Learning Nefise Kahraman, U Toronto–Medical Hamidian Kirkuk, 1876-1908 Shahira Yacout, American U Cairo–AFL Spectacles in the Late Ottoman Empire: Students’ Perceptions Regarding Arabic Mazhar Osman’s Hysterics on Stage (3922) The Armenian Genocide Online Learning Secil Yilmaz, Graduate Center CUNY– Dalal Aboel Seoud, American U Cairo– Diagnosing Shame, Healing Fear: Manuals Chair: Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT Blended Learning: Infusing Thinking Skills for Young Men on How to Protect Them- in the AFL Curriculum selves from Syphilis in the Late Ottoman Arda Melkonian, UCLA–Gender-Based Empire Survival Options During the Armenian (3830) Conflict, Displacement and Seyma Afacan, U Oxford–Man, Not a Ma- Genocide the Transformation of Kurdish Iden- chine, Not an Animal: Psychology (İlm-i James Helicke, Ohio State U–Turkey’s tity in Turkey: Negotiating Linguistic Ahval el-Ruh, 1911/12) by Filibeli Ahmed First Human Rights Movement: Minori- and Religious Identity(ies) Hilmi as a Critique of Scientism ties, Multiparty Politics and the Cold War, Organized by Mehmet Kurt 1945-1955 (3843) Muslim Subjects and Clients Sanket Desai, U Arkansas–Just Keep the Sponsored by in the Pre-Modern Christian Medi- Sheep Thieves Away: Minority Challenges Kurdish Studies Association (KSA) terranean to Iraqi Nation-State Building, 1933-1945 Organized by Abigail Krasner Balbale Doris Melkonian, UCLA–The Plight of Ar- Chair: Christian Sinclair, U Arizona and Brian Catlos menian Genocide Orphans in Muslim Homes Russell A. Hopkins, U Akron–Assyr- Gulay Turkmen, Yale U–United in Reli- Chair/Discussant: R. Stephen Hum- ians in Hashemite Iraq: Mass Violence as gion, Divided by Ethnicity: The Failure of phreys, UC Santa Barbara State-Building Islam as a Supranational Identity in the Kurdish-Turkish Conflict in Turkey Abigail Krasner Balbale, U Massachu- (3947) Jews and Christians: The 19th Mehmet Kurt, Selcuk U–Between Radical setts Boston–Rex Lupus, uasallus regi Century Islam and Kurdishness: An Ethnography of Ildefonso: Vassalage and Clientage across Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey Religious Lines in Twelfth-Century Iberia Chair: Susanne Dahlgren, National U of Yesim Mutlu, Middle East Techni- Mohamad Ballan, U Chicago–“Zafadola Singapore cal U–Negotiating Kurdishness Through Amicus Mei”: Vassalage, Friendship and Language: The Case of Internally Displaced the Construction of Imperial Sovereignty Frank Castiglione, U Michigan Ann Kurdish Youngsters within the Education in the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris (ca. Arbor–Dragomans, Non-Muslims, and System in Turkey 1148) Intra-Imperial Space in Nineteenth Cen- Birgul Yilmaz, SOAS, U London– Lan- Brian Catlos, UC Santa Cruz/U Colorado tury Istanbul guage, Identity and Conflict in Turkey: Boulder–The Survival of Muslim Minori- Secil Uluisik, U Arizona–Overlapping Language Rights and Activism as a Catalyst ties in Latin Christian Lands: A Question Networks and Non-Muslim Provincial of Democratization, Political Negotiation of Convenience Elites in the Ottoman Empire During the and Resistance Fariba Zarinebaf, UC Riverside–Muslim 19th Century: The Case of Chorbadjis Absence/Presence in European Ports and the Capitulations continued next page

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Mohammad Gharipour, Morgan State Thematic Professional Conversation U–Identity and Architecture: Jewish Holy Development Spaces in Isfahan, Iran Workshop Elektra Kostopoulou, Rutgers U–Con- (3995) World War I in the Middle fined in Constantinople: The Life and (4004) Public Intellectuals: Taking East Letters of Cassandra Karatheodore Research Outside the Academy Organized by Elizabeth F. Thompson Organized by Suad Joseph (3955) Modern Iran: Pahlavi Infra- Session Leader: Elizabeth F. Thompson, structures and Politics Supported by U Virginia Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Mustafa Aksakal, Georgetown U Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley State U Cultures (EWIC) Ellen L. Fleischmann, U Dayton Michael Provence, UC San Diego Heidi Walcher, U Munich–Linking Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis Charles D. Smith, U Arizona Donkey Tracks to Nuclear Power Plants: Melanie S. Tanielian, U Michigan Ann Developing the Karun River Route Since It is increasingly important for scholars Arbor the 1870s to educate outside the academy--to take Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale U Nikolay Kozhanov, St. Petersburg State U– their research results, their theories, and Yigit Akin, Tulane U Allied Occupation of Iran in 1941: Reasons their methods to the media, to the com- Yucel Yanikdag, U Richmond and Pretext for the Abdication of Reza Shah munities in which they circulate, to K-12 Mikiya Koyagi, U Texas Austin–Living teachers, to NGO’s and to appropriate Along the Railway Routes: Enmity and government agencies. Research founda- Engagement in Lorestan During the Early tions require effective dissemination to Pahlavi Period our publics in language, styles and venues Brian Mann, Eastern Illinois U–Develop- that are accessible; legislators link univer- ment Arrested?: David E. Lilienthal, the sity budgets to the impact of its research Khuzistan Development Program, and the outside scholarly circles; merits and pro- Arabs of Iran motions are enhanced by the attention the research receives publically; and the society calls upon academics to give back to the public good. Organized by the Edi- tors of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC), this workshop trains graduate students and young scholars in public outreach work. We will use examples of how to use research to challenge and refigure public representations of Islam, Arab and Muslim Americans, the Middle East, and Muslim women. The workshop will discuss communicating with the media, preparing materials and training for K-12 teachers, working with NGO’s, writing for appropriate government agencies. The workshop will also introduce new scholars to writing for EWIC and offer opportunities for publishing in EWIC. The workshop leader is Suad Joseph, General Editor of the EWIC. She is Distinguished Professor of Anthropol- ogy and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is joined by the Editors of EWIC.

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(3643) Israel, the United States and (3699) The Social Lives of Things: (3709) Identity, Lieux de Mémoire, a Changing Middle East Commodities and Culture in Colo- and Cultural Memory in Early Islam, Organized by Robert O. Freedman nial Algeria Part I Organized by Muriam Haleh Davis Organized by Elizabeth Urban Sponsored by Association for Israel Studies Sponsored by Sponsored by American Institute for Maghrib Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Chair/Discussant: Robert O. Freedman, Studies (AIMS) Johns Hopkins U Discussant: Tayeb El-Hibri, U Massachu- Chair: Susan Slyomovics, UCLA setts Amherst Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv U–Israel and the Arab World – Who’s First - Syria, Egypt or Arthur Asseraf, Oxford U–Gunpowder Scott Savran, Nazarbayev U–Bahram V Lebanon? and News: Information as an Explosive Gur: The “Arab” Sasanian King Ilan Peleg, Lafayette Col–Israel, Netan- Social Commodity, 1881-1918 Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U–Reviv- yahu & the Palestinians: Is the Third Terrence Peterson, U Wisconsin Madi- ing Memory: Miskawayh and the Pre- Term the Charm?! son–Quitting Colonialism Cold Turkey: Islamic Past Under the Buyids Rami Ginat, Bar Ilan U–The Israeli-Egyp- Cigarette Boycotts and Anticolonial Elizabeth Urban, Williams Col–The Two tian-American Strategic Triangle: A Reas- Youth Activism on the Eve of the Algerian Faces of Abu Bakra: What’s in an Identity? sessment in Light of the Arab Uprising War D. Gershon Lewental, U Oklahoma–Hero Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U–Israel Muriam Haleh Davis, New York U–“The and Trickster in Early Islamic Histori- and the Gulf Cooperation Council: New Country of Quality”: OFALAC and Stan- ography: The Case of the Qādisiyyah Opportunities for Cooperation? dardization of Agriculture in Algeria, Narratives Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv U–Iran and Israel: Post 1958-1962 2013 Elections Darcie Fontaine, U South Florida–Alge- (3711) Through the Poet’s “I”s: rian “Regroupments” and the Politics of Authorship and the Creation of Roundtable Humanitarian Aid Literary Selfhood in the Persian Pen (3669) Place and Space in Middle Name East History: Bridging the ‘Modern/ (3705) Re-Inserting North Africa in Organized by Dominic Parviz Brook- Premodern’ Divide the Mediterranean shaw Organized by Matthew Hal Ellis and Organized by Jessica M. Marglin, Daniel Chair: Domenico Ingenito, UCLA Zayde Antrim Hershenzon, and Naor Ben-Yehoyada Domenico Ingenito, UCLA–The Takhallus Matthew Hal Ellis, Sarah Lawrence Col Chair: Joshua Schreier, Vassar Col as a Marker of Poetic Performance Asher Kaufman, U Notre Dame Discussant: Molly Greene, Princeton U Justine Landau, Inst for Iranian Studies– Amy Mills, U South Carolina The Best Way Out: Taxalloṣ and the Art of Dana Sajdi, Boston Col Daniel Hershenzon, U Connecticut–Ran- Naming in Medieval Persian Lyric Poetry Karen C. Pinto, Boise State U soming Muslims: North African Captives Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, U Oxford– Zayde Antrim, Trinity Col and Their Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean Pointing at the Feminine: Gendered Self- (3678) Outside(rs) Looking In: Ex- Jessica M. Marglin, U Southern Califor- Naming in Early Qajar Poetry Paul E. Losensky, Indiana U–A Self- ternal Influences on State and Civil nia–The Extraterritorial Mediterranean: Consular Courts and Connectivity in Enclosed Commentary: Metapoetics in Society in the Arab Uprisings Nineteenth-Century Morocco the Signature Verse in the Early Modern Organized by Laurie Brand Eric Calderwood, U Michigan Ann Ar- Persian Ghazal bor–“The Daughter of Granada and Fez”: Chair: Laurie Brand, U Southern Califor- Al-Andalus in the Moroccan Nationalist (3756) Rule of Experts?: Revolutions, nia Imaginary Doctrines, and Interventions in the Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Harvard U–A Middle East Laurie Brand, U Southern California–Arab Maghreb’s Modern Mediterranean Organized by Osamah Khalil Diasporas and Home State Political Devel- opment: Theorizing the Relationship Osamah Khalil, Syracuse U–Modernizing Philippe Fargues, European U Inst–Emi- the Arab Mind: Constructing Traditional gration and Revolt in Arab Countries Society and Expertise in the Middle East, Hugh Roberts, Tufts U–Ideological 1951-1973 Perspectives and Political Strategies of Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, UC Merced– External State-Level Actors in the Arab The Limits of Accommodation: Iraq, the Uprisings Baath, and the Rise and Fall of Modern- ization Theory, 1958-72 continued next page

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Waleed Hazbun, American U Beirut– (3809) Identity, Language, Media, Aimee Genell, Yale U–Ahmed Muhtar American Myth-Making in Middle East: and Memory: Kurds in the US Dias- Paşa in Egypt: Ideas of Imperial Gover- The Uses of Modernization Theory pora nance from the Edge Seth Anziska, Columbia U–Israel, the Organized by Christian Sinclair Elizabeth Williams, Georgetown U–From United States and the 1982 War in Leba- World Exposition to Tractor Competition: non Sponsored by Ottoman Technocrats’ Participation in Tahani Mustafa, SOAS U London–The Kurdish Studies Association (KSA) the Emergence of Scientific Agriculture Paradox of Security Sector Reform: The Dale Stahl, Columbia U–From Efendi to Case of the Occupied Palestinian Ter- Aynur de Rouen, Binghamton U SUNY– Mühendis: The Transformation of the ritories Coming to America: Kurdish Diaspora in Turkish Political Elite the United States (3773) The Mandate for Syria and Stan Thangaraj, City Col of New York– (3906) Of Conflict and Text: Criti- Lebanon in Global Perspective Navigating Empire(s) Through Religion cal Explorations on the Spaces and Organized by Reem Bailony and Culture: Muslim Kurdish American Significances of Political Posters, Women and Challenging Power(s) Graffiti and Street Art in the Making Sponsored by Christian Sinclair, U Arizona–Infusing and Unmaking of Political Violence, Syrian Studies Association (SSA) Media Rhythms into the Diasporic Space: Part I Kurds and Media Production in the US Organized by Kevin M. DeJesus, Johnson Chair/Discussant: Michael Provence, UC Amir Sharifi, CSU Long Beach– The Role and Wales U San Diego of Heritage Language in Identity Con- struction Among Diasporic Kurds in the Chair: Eric Bordenkircher, UCLA Benjamin Smuin, UC San Diego–Global- United States Discussant: Beshara Doumani, Brown U izing the Local: Speaking to the State and Acts of Citizenship in the Early Twentieth (3864) Where Does the Intellectual Maryam Shariati, U Texas Austin–Poster Century Middle East Stand?: Politics, Islam, National- Politics: A Visual History of the Iranian Idir Ouahes, U Exeter–Internationalism ism and Knowledge Production in Revolution & Welfarism at the Outset of the Syrian Turkey Courtney Dorroll, U Arizona–March of Mandate (1920-1925) Organized by Alev Cinar the Penguins: Visual Rhetoric & Gezi Park Edward Falk, UC San Diego–Self-Orien- Protests in Turkey talism and the Mahjar: Art and Politics in Alev Cinar, Bilkent U–Locating Political Karin Gwinn Wilkins, U Texas Austin the Syro-Lebanese Diaspora Theory: Merging of Western Intellectual and Faegheh Shirazi, U Texas Austin – Reem Bailony, UCLA–Lebanese National- Traditions with Islamic Thought Mapping Political Discourse of the Iranian ism and the Syrian Revolt of 1925: South Okan Doğan, Bilkent U–Scholars, Intel- Green Movement Lebanon and Its Transnational Links to lectuals, and the Media: The Armenian Yusuf Sarfati, Illinois State U and Lisya the Mahjar Issue and Making History in Turkey Seloni, Illinois State U –Linguistic Land- Ilker Ayturk, Bilkent U–Right-Wing In- scape of Gezi Park Protests in Turkey: A (3806) Photographs in Novel Digital tellectuals in Cold War Turkey: The Case Discourse Analysis of Graffiti Contexts of the Aydinlar Ocagi Organized by Lucie Ryzova and Michelle Dilek Cindoglu, Mardin Artuklu U–Social L. Woodward, MERIP/Jadaliyya Stratification and Knowledge Production in the Age of Neo-Liberalism: A Compara- Discussant: Rebecca L. Stein, Duke U tive Analysis of Global South and Global North Academies Pelin Aytemiz, Baskent U–Digitally- Modified Photographs of the Deceased (3887) Modernizing Bureaucrats and in Commercial Photography Studios in Globetrotting Technocrats: Net- Turkey works of Expertise in the Late Otto- Shireen Walton, U Oxford–Picturing Iran man Empire and the Early Turkish Online: Photo-Blogs and the Enchant- Republic ments of Digital Technologies Organized by Elizabeth Williams and Elisabetta Costa, U Col London–Reconfig- Aimee Genell uring the Intimate and the Public: Social Media Photography in Southeast Turkey Chair/Discussant: Mustafa Aksakal, Lucie Ryzova, U Oxford–Long Live the Georgetown U Martyr: The Afterlives of Vernacular Digi- tal Photographs in Revolutionary Egypt Michael Christopher Low, Columbia U–“Hot Provinces”: Osman Nuri Paşa and the Articulation of the Hamidian Colonial Experiment on the Arab Frontier

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(3932) Identities and Minorities in (3957) Nation, Identity, and Public Professional Egypt, Part I Opinion Development Workshop Chair: Nivien Saleh, Thunderbird School Chair: Hedi BenAicha, American Public (3912) Converting Dissertations and of Global Mgmt U System Publishing Books Organized by Ziad M. Abu-Rish Hussein Omar, U Oxford–Minority as Yuksel Sezgin, Syracuse U–How Non- Microbe: Sectarian Political Thought in Muslim Democracies Engage Shari‘a: Les- Sponsored by Late Khedival Egypt sons for Democratizing Muslim Nations MESA Graduate Student Organization Naglaa Hussein, Howard U–Egyptian Samuel Solomon, D3 Systems–After the and versus African Novel: Critical Responses Coup: Egyptian Public Opinion in the to Muhammad Khalil Qasim’s “Ashaman- Summer of 2013 Arab Studies Institute doura” and Abdurrahman Al-Sharqawi’s Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State U– “Al-Arad” Identity Crisis?: Political Opposition and Chair: Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio U Yaron Shemer, UNC Chapel Hill–Re- Identity Politics in Jordan thinking Jewish Cosmopolitanism, Brandon Gorman, UNC Chapel Hill– Bassam Haddad, George Mason U Belonging, and Nostalgia in the Post-1952 Shari’a, Democracy, and the Limits of Sur- Kate Wahl, Stanford U Press Revolution Egyptian Cinema vey Research in the Arab World: Lessons Maria Marsh, I.B. Tauris Jeffrey Culang, CUNY Graduate Cen- from Tunisia Nicolette Van Der Hoek, Brill ter–The Construction of Minorities and Ekrem Karakoc, Binghamton U SUNY Boundaries of Inclusion in Colonial Egypt, and Talha Köse, Istanbul Sehir U–Emi- This panel workshop will feature rep- 1908-1923 grant Families and Support for Islamist resentatives from some of Middle East David DiMeo, Western Kentucky U–The Parties in the 2011-2012 Egyptian Parlia- studies' leading academic publishers, Nubian-Egyptian Novel: The Quest for mentary Election providing early career scholars with Identity in the Works of Idris Ali Camelia Suleiman, Michigan State U– insights into the submission, review, and Mourad Takawi, U Notre Dame–Salva- The Arabic Language and the Post Arab- publication process for book manuscripts. tion by State Alone: An Inquiry into the Spring Citizen: A View About Egypt Presenters will also share some of the Political Theology of Patriarch Tawadros most effective strategies for transitioning II (3966) Modern Arabic Literature, from a dissertation to book manuscript, Criticism, and Identity Formation as well as some of the most common mis- (3954) The Production of takes that get in the way of a successful Oriental(ist) Knowledge Chair: Mohammad Salama, San Fran- submission process. cisco State U Chair: Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, U (3925) World War One and Its Af- Denver Shaden M. Tageldin, U Minnesota–Mi- termath gration and the Estrangement of Modern Hazem Salem, U Denver–Beyond Narra- Arabic Chair: Weston F Cook, Jr, UNC Pembroke tives of Divergence Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State Dwaa Osman, Georgetown U–Challenges U–Criticism Between the Sacred and the Pahumi Nevila, U Michigan Ann Arbor– of Building a Knowledge-Based Economy Profane: Qur’anic Exgesis in Muhammad “Jeanne d’Arcs of the Near East”: The in the GCC Ahmad Khalafallah American College for Women and Alum- Michael Bevers, Indiana U–Clash of Sami Alkyam, Harvard U–The Rape of nae Activists During World War I Rhetorics: “Othering” and the Cycle of the Female Body as an Allegory for the Rashed Chowdhury, U Manitoba–Russian Violence Rape of a Nation: Exposing the Ugliness of Military Refugees in Istanbul in the 1920s Kosar Karimi Pour, McMaster U–Map- Dictatorship in Ṭā’ir Al-Kharāb Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois U– ping the Intellectual Structure of Middle Amal Amireh, George Mason U–Con- Cemal Pasha, Zionism and the Alleged Eastern Studies: An Author Co-citation structions of Feminist Subjectivities: Rep- Expulsion of the Jews from Jaffa in April Analysis resentations of Mothers in Arab Women’s 1917 Alex Boodrookas, New York U–Food for Autobiography Books: Grain Aid, Area Studies, and the Chip Rossetti, U Pennsylvania–An Invita- Weaponization of American Research tion to Create Meaning: The “Participat- Libraries ing Reader” in Muḥammad Khuḍayyir’s Tanya Kane, Texas A&M U at Qatar–What Fiction Archival Research?: Cultivating an Archi- Valentine Edgar, Columbia U–Not val Culture in Qatar Everyone Returns: The Risks of Travel in the Novels of Taha Husayn and Mahmud Ahmad Al-Sayyid

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(3972) Palestinian Identities: Then (3981) Representing Otherness, Thematic and Now Negotiating Difference Conversation

Chair: Nancy L. Stockdale, U North Chair: Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana U (4001) On Line Teaching Texas Organized by Dalal Aboel Seoud Ryan J. Lynch, U Oxford–Genre and Al- Nora Stel, Maastricht School of Manage- Baladhuri’s Kitab Futuh Al-Buldan in Early Chair: Dalal Aboel Seoud, American U ment and Utrecht U–‘The Children of the Islamic Historiography Cairo State’: How Palestinians from the Seven Marika Chachibaia, Tbilisi State U–The Villages Negotiate Sect, Party and State Palestinian Anti-Chalcedonian Hagiogra- Shahira Yacout, American U Cairo in Lebanon pher of the Fifth Century Rasha Essam, American U Cairo Torsten Janson, Lund U–From Camp to Ahmad Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech Campus: Palestinian Identity at Lebanese U–Tracking the ‛Aqida Subgenre in Medi- Universities eval Islamic Literature Marwan D. Hanania, Stanford U–The Boris James, Ifpo/INALCO–The Kurdish Battle of Karameh and Palestinian-Jorda- Case Through Medieval Arabic Literature: nian Dynamics Revisited An Ethnonym Among the Ethnonyms Hind Ghandour, Swinburne U of Tech- Andrew Magnusson, UC Santa Barbara– nology–Citizenship Space: Conceptual- People without a Book: Contesting the izing Palestinian National Identity of Taxation of Zoroastrians in Early Islamic Naturalized Citizens in Lebanon History Melanie Meinzer, U Connecticut–The Impact of Foreign Aid on Political Con- sciousness in Palestinian Education Harel Chorev, Tel Aviv U–Re-Networking Palestine: Disintegration and Integration of British Mandatory Palestinian Society

(3973) Issues of Gender in the Mod- ern and Premodern Middle East

Chair: Ibtesam Alatiyat, St. Olaf Col

Nayel Badareen, U Arizona–Can a Woman become a Mujitahid?: The Case of Morocco Rosemary Admiral, U Illinois Urbana- Champaign–Negotiating Marriage in Marinid Morocco Alyssa Gabbay, UNC Greensboro–Fati- ma’s Khutba: An Early Case of Female Religious Authority in Islam Fatemeh Orouji, U Tabriz–The Method of Education for Women in Safavid Ha- rems Arezou Azad, U Birmingham–‘Living Happily Ever After’: Fraternal Polyandry and ‘the House’ in Early Islamic Bactrian Society

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Mohammed Al-Duais, Foundation for SPECIAL SESSION Endangered Wildlife–Bridging the Gen- eration Gap to Protect Nature in Yemen: (4006) Abandoned Yet Central: Conservation of Nature Through Culture Gaza and the Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Stephen Steinbeiser, American Inst for Yemeni Studies–Conserving Built Heri- Organized by Sara Roy tage and Landscapes in Yemen: Political and Cultural Considerations for Sustain- Chair: Sara Roy, Harvard University ability Katherine Hennessey, American Inst for Chris Gunness, UNRWA, Office of the Commissioner General, Jerusalem Yemeni Studies and Sana’a U–Cents and Brian Moore, UNRWA, Gaza Field Office (Cultural) Sensibility: How Transnational Bill Corcoran, American Near East Relief Aid (ANERA) Political Agendas Condition the Content Ilana Feldman, George Washington University of Contemporary Theater in Yemen Brian Barber, University of Tennessee Susan Akram, Boston University School of Law (3715) Identity, Lieux de Mémoire, and Cultural Memory in Early Islam, This session will present an overview of the past summer’s violent clashes Part II between Israeli and Hamas forces and the ensuing destruction in Gaza. Organized by Antoine Borrut and Sarah Representatives from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) and Bowen Savant the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) will provide an “on-the-ground” analysis of the destruction and human toll of the 50-day war. Scholars will Sponsored by further place the recent violence in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Middle East Medievalists (MEM) and examine the prerequisites for a sustainable resolution of the conflict. Chair: Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U Discussant: Steven C. Judd, Southern Connecticut State U

(3663) Language Policy and Educa- Melis Sulos, Graduate Center CUNY–(Re) Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah, U Mary- tion in the Arab World: Issues and Formulating Turkishness: The Intellec- land–The Bab Al-Rahma: From Hauts Challenges tual Life of Afet Inan Lieux de Mémoire to the Edge of the Organized by Abdellah Chekayri Elise Burton, Harvard U–Nationalist Sacred Biology: The Persistence of “Aryan” Iden- Antoine Borrut, U Maryland–Remem- Chair: Mohamed Maamouri, U Pennsyl- tity in Iranian Genetic Research bering Karbalāʾ: The Construction of an vania Ceyhun Arslan, Harvard U–The Rivalry Early Islamic Site of Memory Discussant: Atiqa Hachimi, U Toronto Between the Poet and the Doctor: The Peter Webb, SOAS U London–The Battle Trope of Sickness in Late Ottoman Litera- of Dhū Qār: A Shifting Landmark in Mus- Mohammed Dahbi, Al Akhawyan U–The ture lim Memories of Pre-Islam Functions of Arabic in Moroccan Class- Caroline Tee, U Bristol–The Technical rooms Sciences and the Purposes of God: Theory (3759) Ismāʿīlī History in the Early Abbas Benmamoun, U Illinois–Arabic and Practice in the Hizmet Movement in Modern Era Dialects as Resources for Improving Turkey Organized by Daniel Beben the Teaching and Learning of Standard Arabic: Implications for Language Acqui- (3698) Yemen’s Cultural Crisis: Ca- Chair: Khalil Andani, Harvard U sition and Language Policy tastrophe or Opportunity? Abdulkafi Albirini, Utah State U–Lan- Organized by Stephen Steinbeiser Asif Rawji, U Cambridge–The ʿUyūn Al- guage Attitudes in Relation to Arabiciza- Akhbār and Ismāʿīlī Historical Writing in tion in Education Sponsored by the 9th/15th Century Abdellah Chekayri, Al Akhawayn U– American Institute for Yemeni Daniel Beben, Indiana U–Rethinking the The Arabic Language Continuum: What Studies (AIYS) Kalām-i pīr and Its Role in the Central Standards are in Place for Writing Arabic Asian Ismāʿīlī Tradition Spoken Varieties? Chair: Stephen Steinbeiser, American Shahrad Shahvand, Harvard U–Āghā Khān Maḥallātī and the Tārīkh-i ‘Ibrat- (3677) The Modern Life Sciences in Inst for Yemeni Studies afzā the Middle East Discussant: Sheila Carapico, U Richmond Organized by Elise Burton Anne Regourd, CNRS–It Looks Good on Paper: Conserving Zabid’s Manuscripts Joelle Abi-Rached, Harvard U–“The and Intellectual History Insane in Some Remote Lands”: Mad- ness and Civilization in the fin-de-siècle Levant MESA 2014 Preliminary Program u Page 25 4:30-6:30PM Sunday November 23

(3769) The Remaking of Modern Asef Bayat, U Illinois Urbana-Cham- (3792) Israel Studies in the Arab Turkey 1945-1960: Cultural Trans- paign–Urbanity of Insurrections: Space World formation and Populist Democracy and Politics in Middle Eastern Cities Organized by Johannes Becke Organized by Nick Danforth Kevan Harris, Princeton U–Land Reform and the Longue Durée: Iranian Social Discussant: Elie Podeh, Hebrew U of Chair: Ryan Gingeras, Naval Postgradu- Mobility from the Ground Up Jersusalem ate School Diane Singerman, American U–Residents Discussant: Hale Yılmaz, Southern Il- and Municipalities: Renegotiating Politi- Hassan A. Barari, U Jordan–Israelism: linois U Carbondale cal Space and Public Goods in Cairo Arab Scholarship on Israel, a Critical As- Lisa Wedeen, U Chicago–Virtual Space sessment Nick Danforth, Georgetown U–Mid-Cen- and Uncertainty: Reflections from Syria Mostafa Hussein, Brandeis U–Israel tury Modernities in Democratic Turkey Studies in the Arab World Between Two Sarah-Neel Smith, UCLA–Art Beyond the Dictums: ‘Whosoever Learns People’s State: Bülent Ecevit and the Democrati- Roundtable Language Avoids Their Plot’ and ‘Know zation of the Turkish Art Market in the Your Enemy’ 1950s (3786) Expansive Pedagogy: New Johannes Becke, U Oxford–Hebrew in Matthew Goldman, U Washington Sources and Approaches to Teach- Beirut: Studying Israel in the Last Arab Seattle–Populist Promises and Inflated ing the History of the Early Modern Frontline State Dreams: Explaining the Success of the and Modern Middle East Hebatalla Taha, U Oxford–The Politics Democrat Party in 1950s Turkey Organized by Sarah Abrevaya Stein and of ‘Normalisation’: The Israeli Academic Can Bilsel, U San Diego–The Ballad of Ali Julia Phillips Cohen Centre in Cairo of Keshan: Migration and the Shantytown Amr Yossef, American U Cairo–Egyptian in Turkish Epic Theater Chairs: Julia Phillips Cohen, Vanderbilt Israelists: The View from Israel U and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA (3776) Writing Revolution: Literature (3868) The Politics and Poetics of and State Violence in the Postcolonial James L. Gelvin, UCLA Transgression in the Late Ottoman Maghreb Alan Mikhail, Yale U Empire Organized by Brahim El Guabli and Jill Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York U Organized by Vangelis Kechriotis Jarvis Heghnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis Chair: Eyal Ginio, Hebrew U Jerusalem Chair: Valerie K. Orlando, U Maryland (3788) The Sahara in Focus: Discussant: Kent F. Schull, Binghamton Discussant: Aomar Boum, UCLA Frontier-hood, Imperialism, and the U SUNY Transnational Brahim El Guabli, Princeton U–Moroc- Organized by Eileen Ryan and Mostafa Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi U–Longing can Years of Lead: Prison Memoirs and the Minawi for Satanic Verses: Greek Satirical Press Translatability of Collective Pain in Istanbul in the Second Constitutional Lucie Knight, Princeton U–Algerian Chair: Lisa Anderson, American U Cairo Period Women at War: From Independence to Discussant: Jens Hanssen, U Toronto Murat C. Yildiz, UCLA–Creating New and Civil War Challenging Old Conceptions of Bourgeois Emily Drumsta, UC Berkeley–Old Amal Ghazal, Dalhousie U–The Empire Masculinity: The Male Body in Late Otto- Wounds, New Words: Bridging the in the Sahara: WWI in the Maghreb, Pan- man Istanbul Nation-as-Woman Paradigm in Ahlam Ottomanism and Mzabi Independence Burcu Karahan, Stanford U–Women Mustaghanimi’s Dhakirat Al-Jasad Eileen Ryan, Temple U–Memory and of Nature: Pleasure Seekers of Ottoman Jill Jarvis, Princeton U–Amnesty/Amne- Identity in Colonial Libya Literature sia/Arris: Yamina Mechakra and Algeria’s James N. Tallon, Lewis U–Contesting the Fictions of Justice Libyan Hinterland 1900-1912 (3873) The Archive: Collections and Naïma Hachad, American U–The Return Mostafa Minawi, Cornell U–The Ottoman Counter-Collections of the Suppressed Body in Moroccan Government and the Sanusi Order in the Organized by VJ Um Amel Prison Narratives: Radical Encounters, Context of the ‘Scramble for Africa’ Gifts, and Performances of Justice Matthew Hal Ellis, Sarah Lawrence Col– Sponsored by Bedouin Mobility and the Emergence of Middle East Librarians Association an Egypt-Benghazi Borderland (3785) Space, Solidarity and Identity (MELA) in the Modern Middle East Organized by Kevan Harris and Kevin Mazur Chair: Roberta L. Dougherty, Yale U Library Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, American U Discussant: Melani C. Cammett, Brown U Cairo Kevin Mazur, Princeton U–The People Joy Amina Garnett, The Bee Kingdom– Want the Fall of the Governor: Neighbor- The Bee Kingdom: An Accidental Archive hood Politics in the Capital of the Syrian Revolution

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Tammi Moe, Qatar Unified Imaging Thematic (3948) Activism, Feminism, and Project–A Sand Castle in the Tide: Qatar’s Conversation Agency Primary Sources Kelly Stedem, UMAM Documentation (3913) Perspectives of Memory and Chair: Roberta Micallef, Boston U and Research–UMAM Documentation and Identity Regarding the Iraqi Invasion Research of Kuwait Loes Debuysere, Ghent U–The Tunisian Hana Sleiman, American U Beirut–Ar- Organized by Christopher Ohan Women’s Movement at the Crossroads of chives of the Palestinian National Move- Class, History, Politics and Ideology ment: A Battle over the Production of Session Leader: Farah Al-Nakib, Ameri- Lina Kassem, Qatar U–State Feminism, History can U Kuwait Local Activists, and CEDAW in Qatar: Nadia von Maltzahn, Orient-Institut Conflicting Approaches to Strengthening Beirut–“Archivisme is a Local Disease” Conerly Casey, Rochester Inst of Tech- Women’s Rights nology Dunya Deniz Cakir, National U Sin- (3877) Kurdish Imaginations - Imagi- Christopher Ohan, Texas Wesleyan U gapore–The Critical Theory of Islamist nations of Kurdishness Women Activists in Contemporary Organized by Marlene Schafers and Turkey Susan Benson-Sokmen (3933) Identities and Minorities in Najla Al Khulaifi, Northwestern U Qatar– Egypt, Part II Female Engagement and Participation in Chair: Sophie Richter-Devroe, U Exeter the Arabian Peninsula: Majlis Al-Hareem Chair: Nivien Saleh, Thunderbird School in Qatar Marlene Schafers, U Cambridge–Acquir- of Global Mgmt ing a Voice and Leaving Traces: Imagina- (3976) Sovereignty and Leadership tions of Kurdish Female Subjectivities Lina Beydoun, Lebanese American U–The in the Premodern Middle East Susan Benson-Sokmen, U Toronto– Challenge of Minority Rights in Egypt: Imagining the Non-State: Historical Religious Discrimination, Sectarian Vio- Chair: Malissa Taylor, U Louisville Production in Turkey’s “Fourth Most- lence, and State Inaction Kurdish City” Avishai Ben-Dror, Open U Israel– Imag- Jonathan Brack, U Michigan Ann Arbor– Elif Ege-Tatar, U at Buffalo–A Feminist ining a New Egypt?: Rethinking the Biog- “The Shaykh Who Made Me Khan”: Sufi Account of Kurdishness: Everyday Lives raphy of Raūf Bāšā Ritual, Mongol Sovereignty and “Mazda- of Young Kurdish Women in Istanbul Gregory Hoadley, UC Berkeley– Re-Inter- kite” Conspiracy in Fourteenth Century Veronica Buffon, U Exeter–Imagining preting the “Coptic Census”: Contesting Iran and Sense of Belonging in Diyarbakır: Statistics and State Power in Egypt Justin Stearns, NYU Abu Dhabi–Intel- when ‘Health’ and Kurdishness Encounter lectual History and Political Context in Political Conflict and Biomedical Domain 17-18th Century Morocco Anoush Tamar Suni, UCLA–An Armenian (3941) Migrants and Movements in Daniel Sheffield, Princeton U–The Lord Past in a Kurdish Present: The Politics of the New Syria of the Planetary Court: Cosmic Aspects of Remembering and Forgetting Millennial Sovereignty in the Thought of Chair: Angela Joya, U Oregon Āẕar Kayvān and His Followers (3886) Social Media, the Digital Ar- Maryam Moazzen, U Louisville–Muham- chive, and Scholarly Futures Dina Matar, SOAS U London–Mediated mad Baqir Khatunabadi: The First Safavid Organized by Ted Swedenburg Narratives: Political Activism and Identity Mulla-bashi (Head of Religious Scholars) Struggles in Syria and the Bread Riot of 1715 Chair/Discussant: Elliott Colla, George- Ali Hamdan, UCLA–Beyond Lesser Syria: Javad Abbasi, Ohio State U–Rashid-e town U Spaces of the Syrian Civil War Tabib: What Happened for Rshid Al-Din May Farah, American U Beirut and Jad Fazl Allah Hamadani’s Medical Expertise Negar Mottahedeh, Duke U–When You- Melki, American U Beirut–Media Use in During his Political Career in Ilkhanid Tube Algorithms Curate the New Wave Times of War Administration Ted Swedenburg, U Arkansas–The New Ihsan Cetin, Namik Kemal U–Challenges Social Media Archive of Maghrebi Popular to the Integration of Syrian Refugees Liv- Music ing in Urban Turkey Rebecca L. Stein, Duke U–The Perpetra- Otared Haidar, U Oxford–The Narra- tor’s Archive: Israel’s Occupation on tives of the Syrian Wars: Women’s Voice YouTube Between Containment and Resistance Amahl Bishara, Tufts U–A Popular Digi- Omar Dahi, Hampshire Col–The Refugee tal Archive of Resistance: Facebook Posts Crisis and the Making of the ‘New Syria’ of Protests and Arrest Raids

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(3979) Poetics of Creation (4000) Sunnification of Ottoman (4002) Of Conflict and Text: Criti- Ideology and Polity, 16th to 17th cal Explorations on the Spaces and Chair: Pardis Minuchehr, George Wash- Centuries Significances of Political Posters, ington U Organized by Murat Menguc, Seton Hall U Graffiti and Street Art in the Making and Unmaking of Political Violence, Annie C. Higgins, U Jordan–The Qasida Chair: Guy Burak, New York U Part II in the Sphere of the Sura Discussant: Derin Terzioglu, Bogazici U Organized by Kevin M. DeJesus, Johnson Raymond Farrin, American U Kuwait– and Wales U Ring Structure in Sura 9: Repentance Nabil Al-Tikriti, U Mary Washington– Emphasized Greatness Denied: Firdevsi-yi Rumi on the Chair: Eric Bordenkircher, UCLA Han Hsien Liew, Harvard U–The Caliph- Cusp of Ottoman Sunnism Discussant: Beshara Doumani, Brown U ate of Adam: Sunni Exegetical Commen- Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Col of Willam taries on the Qurʾānic Term “Khalīfa” and Mary–Sheikh ul-Islam Ebussu‘ud (d. Elisa Pierandrei, Journalist and Educa- 1574) and the (Re)Invention of Ottoman tor–Mapping Current Dissent in Cairo Sunnism Through Graffiti and Street Art H. Erdem Cipa, U Michigan Ann Arbor– Rebecca Gulowski, U Augsburg–Analys- Alea Iacta Est: The Shahqulu Rebellion of ing Graffiti Traces: Towards the Iconogra- 1511 and the Sunnification of Ottoman phy of Conflicts and Violence Ideology Ashley Toenjes, Illinois State U–This Tijana Krstic, Central European U– Wall Speaks: Graffiti and the Construction Situating Ottoman Sunnification in the of Transnational Space in Palestine “Age of Confessionalization”: Preliminary Christoph Guenther, U Leipzig–The Remarks on the Dialogic Aspects of Con- Visualization of an “Islamic State in Iraq fession-Building in the Ottoman Empire and greater Syria”: Religio-Political Con- flict Mediatized

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Today’s Affiliated Meetings (3648) Oil and Discourse in the Gulf Stephen E. Tamari, Southern Illinois U Region Edwardsville 7:30-8:30am Organized by Arbella Bet-Shlimon Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn, American U Shar- Meeting of Officers of MESA's Af- jah filiated Associations Chair: Dina Rizk Khoury, George Wash- Dagmar A. Riedel, Columbia U Park Tower Suite 8212 (L) ington U Nicola Ramsey, Edinburgh U Press 9-11am Discussant: Robert Vitalis, U Pennsylva- Middle East Center & Program nia Roundtable Directors Meeting Arbella Bet-Shlimon, U Washington–The (3691) Proficiency Testing and Turk- Maryland A (L) Political Anxieties of Iraqi Oil Since the ish 11am-1pm 1920s Organized by Roberta Micallef Western Consortium of Middle Mona Damluji, Wheaton Col–The Cin- East Centers Meeting ematic World of Oil Modernity Sponsored by Park Tower Suite 8224 (M) Roger Stern, U Tulsa–Peak Oil Discourse American Association of Teachers 7-8:45pm and the Folklore of US National Security of Turkic Languages (AATT) Journal of Middle East Women's Policy Studies Editorial Board Meeting Rosie Bsheer, Yale U–Infrastructures of Chair: Roberta Micallef, Boston U Wilson B (M) Petro-Modernity in Saudi Arabia 8:30-10pm Jeannette E. Okur, U Texas Austin Association for Middle East (3656) Imagining Death and the Erika H. Gilson, Princeton U Women’s Studies Reception Afterlife in the Middle East (c. 500- Ercan Balci, U Illinois Wilson A (M) 1700 CE) Nilay Sevinc, U Michigan, Ann Arbor 8:30-10:30pm Organized by Ali Yaycioglu and Patricia Feride Hatiboglu, U Pennsylvania Lebanese American University Blessing Reception (3730) Long-Term Consequences of Coolidge (M) Chair: Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford U Colonialism 9-10:30pm Organized by Adi Greif Harvard University CMES Recep- Torsten Hylen, Dalarna U–New Meanings tion to Old Rituals: The Emergence of Mourn- Chair: Adria Lawrence, Yale U ʿ Virginia B (L) ing Rituals in Shi ite Islam Discussant: Sean Yom, Temple U Roy Vilozny, Hebrew U Jerusalem–Death in Medieval Shiite Thought: Approaching David Siddhartha Patel, Brandeis U– the Undesired Lines in the Sand?: Border Dynamics in Jochen Sokoly, Virginia Commonwealth the Middle East U Qatar–The Burial Fabrics of Fatimid Adi Greif, Yale U–Impact of Imperialism: (3641) Elite Change after the Arab Egypt: The Funerary Context of Early Gender in Syria and Iraq Spring: Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Islamic Tiraz Textiles Emma Hayward, U Pennsylvania–Colo- Yemen Peter Wandel, The David Collection–Im- nial Legacies and Judicial Institutions in ages of the Islamic Afterlife as a Way of Organized by Dina Bishara and Holger Lebanon and Egypt Promoting Conversion: A Study of Five Albrecht Anya Vodopyanov, Harvard U–Origins Recently Disclosed Miniatures from a and Long-term Effects of Distributive In- 15th Century Central Asian Mirajnama Chair: Lisa Anderson, American U Cairo stitutions on State-Society Relations and Cristelle Baskins, Tufts U–Writing the Discussant: Ellen Lust, Yale U Contention in MENA Dead in Qazvin, Shiraz, and Rome Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse School of Dina Bishara, U Oxford and Nadine Economics–The Cotton Boom and Slavery (3670) Is There a Need for a New Abdalla, SWP Berlin–Changing Patterns in Nineteenth Century Egypt of Elite Recruitment in the Egyptian Primary Source Reader for the His- Transformation tory of Pre-Modern Islamic Civiliza- (3737) Religious Inclusivity and Civi- Holger Albrecht, American U Cairo–Cain tions? lizational Identity: Expanding Iranian and Abel in the Land of Sheba: Elite Con- Organized by John Curry Identities Along Religious, Ethnic, flict and Political Transition in Yemen and Gender Lines Virginie Collombier, European U Inst– Sponsored by Organized by Lior Sternfeld New Elites and the Reality of Power in Committee for Undergraduate Post-Qaddafi Libya Middle East Studies (CUMES) Chair/Discussant: Mohamad Tavakoli- Targhi, U Toronto Chair: Thomas A. Carlson, Oklahoma State U Lior Sternfeld, U Texas Austin–Iran is My Homeland, Jerusalem is My Qiblah: Edgar W. Francis IV, U Wisconsin Ste- Iranian Jews Between Zionist and Iranian vens Point Identities Page 30 u MESA 2014 Preliminary Program 8:30-10:30AM Monday November 24

Shaherzad Ahmadi, U Texas Austin–The (3793) Saudi Arabian Urbanities: (3834) Law, Contestations and Pub- Iran-Iraq War and Subaltern Subjectivi- Histories of Civic Engagement and lic Formations in Turkey ties Urban Everyday Life in Changing Organized by Daniella Kuzmanovic and Menahem Merhavy, U Texas Austin– State Settings Andrea Karlsson The National Appropriation of Religious Organized by Ulrike Freitag Symbols in Iran: Quranic Exegesis in the Chair: Sune Haugbolle, Roskilde U Service of Iranian Identity Sponsored by Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky U– Association for Gulf Arabian Daniella Kuzmanovic, U Copenhagen–In Baha’is of Iran, 1941-1979 Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) Quest of Balance: Law, Ethics, and Jour- nalism in the Columns of Abdi Ipekci (3745) Green Tangle: A Multidisci- Defne Over, Cornell U–Struggles around Chair: Peter Mandaville, George Mason U plinary Approach to Mediterranean Freedom of Expression in Turkey: Con- tinuity in Judicial Pressure over Public Political Ecologies Ulrike Freitag, Zentrum Moderner Expression Between 1980-2014 Organized by Chris Gratien and Graham Orient, Berlin– The Al-Falah School in Joakim Parslow, U Washington–‟If Only Auman Pitts Jeddah: Civic Engagement for Future I Had Been His Lawyer ...”: Political Trials Generations? and Public Lawyering Ideals in Turkey, Chair: Elektra Kostopoulou, Rutgers U Zina Sawaf, Graduate Inst of Develop- 1970-1980 Discussant: Kyle T. Evered, Michigan ment and International Studies–Women Andrea Karlsson, Lund U–The Liberal State U and Genealogies in Urban Saudi Arabia: Public and Prefigurations of a New Public Remembering for the Sake of the Nation Sphere Robert Greeley, Middlebury Col–The Claudia Schröder, Zentrum Moderner Rule of Law and Local Capacity Orient–In the Service of the Community?: (3840) Violence, Politics and the Chris Gratien, Georgetown U–Stamps Civic Engagement Among Commercial State in Morocco on the Pine: The World of Late Ottoman Entrepreneurs, Government Officials and Organized by Driss Maghraoui Forests Civil Servants in Dammam and Al-Khobar, Hande Ozkan, Transylvania U–Negoti- 1940s-1970s Discussant: Abdeslam Maghraoui, Duke U ating the State and Making Subjects in Annemarie Van Geel, Radboud U Nijme- Turkey’s Forests gen–Everyday Life and Women’s Urban Driss Maghraoui, Al Akhwayn U–The Graham Auman Pitts, Georgetown Activities in Saudi Arabia: Negotiating Makhzen in 19th Century Morocco: Be- U–‘Because You Ate the Bread and Were Sex Segregation and “Mixing” Between tween Physical and Symbolic Violence Full’: The Maronite Patriarchate and the Men and Women in University Education Environmental Origins of Lebanon Abdelmajid Hannoum, U Kansas–Hogra, Structural Violence or Symbolic Vio- (3820) Governing Urban Informality: lence? (3790) Coping with Setbacks and From Colonial to Neoliberal Cairo Abdelhay Moudden–Visualizing the Reflecting on the Future: Islamist Organized by Mohammed Ezzeldin and Painful Past: Struggle over Political Le- Thought in the Aftermath of the Shehab Ismail Arab Spring gitimacy in Morocco Aomar Boum, UCLA–Telling Histories of Organized by Aria Nakissa and Carl Chair/Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, Ameri- Violence: Hassan II and His Opposition Sharif El-Tobgui can U Cairo in Moroccan Newspapers in the Era of Mohammed VI Chair: Intisar Rabb, Harvard Law School Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Queen’s Mustapha Qadery, Mohammed V U–The U Belfast–Homes of Modernity: European Glaoui’s in Tribal Land: Violence and Ovamir Anjum, U Toledo–Recognizing Influences on the Architecture of Home French Colonial Rule in Morocco Secularism: Between Islamist and West- in Cairo at the Turn of Twentieth Century ern Academic Discourses Momen El-Husseiny, UC Berkeley–An (3847) Left Behind Democracy Ahmad Z. Obiedat, U Virginia–Taha Architecture of the In-Between: Modern- Organized by Rita Stephan ‘Abd Al-Rahman’s Political Mysticism in izing Egyptian Peasant Space, 1940-1952 Response to Secularist and Islamist Move- Shehab Ismail, Columbia U–“Dens of Discussant: Tamer Sorek, U Florida ments Misery and Squalor”: Governing the Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, Brandeis U–Fiqh Slums in British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922 Asaad Al-Saleh, U Utah–Serving the Re- Discourses and the July 2013 Military Jon Argaman, U Pennsylvania–Planning gime: Buthaina Shabaan and the Legacy Coup in Egypt for Disaster: Risk-Management, Visibility, of a Public Intellectual Siding Against the Aria Nakissa, U Winnipeg–Abdelwahab and Informal Settlements in Cairo Syrian Revolution Elmessiri and Contemporary Arab Dis- Mohammed Ezzeldin, City U of New Theresa Hunt, New Jersey Inst of courses on Secularism York–Thuggery Revisited: Neoliberalism, Technology–Launching Revolutions and Abdullah Al-Arian, Georgetown U SFS- Violence and Revolution in Egypt Q–From the Ashes of Rabaa: History and Challenging the State: Egyptian Women’s the Future of the Muslim Brotherhood Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaigns Jan Feldman, U Vermont–Twice Mar- ginalized: Tunisian Women Prisoners of Conscience Find Their Voice continued next page MESA 2014 Preliminary Program u Page 31 8:30-10:30AM Monday November 24

Manal Al-Natour, West Virginia U– James H. Meyer, Montana State U–Turks Hacer Topaktas, Istanbul U–“Tayinat” Women “in the Crossfire”: The Syrian across Empires: Marketing Muslim Iden- System as a Status Indicator in Ottoman Revolution 2011 tity in Russia and Istanbul Bilateral Relations Samaa Gamie, Lincoln U–The Egyptian Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Columbia U– Berna Kamay, Boğaziçi U–Ottoman Revolution and the Feminist Divide: The Migration Debates in Habsburg Bosnia Conduct of Public Diplomacy in Europe, Feminist Rhetorics of the Revolution Herzegovina, 1878-1914 1839-1876 Steven Hyland, Wingate U–“A Resplen- Thematic (3850) Integrating Dialect in the dent Assembly of Patriotism”: The 1908 Conversation Arabic Curriculum: Evidence from Young Turk Revolution, Syrian Émigrés (3903) Historical Ethnography of the Classroom and Belonging in Northwestern Argentina Palestinian Circulations Organized by Mahmoud Al-Batal Devi Mays, Jewish Theological Seminary– When the ‘Citizenship Question’ becomes Organized by Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos Chair: Mahmoud Al-Batal, U Texas Austin the ‘Minority Question,’ or Ottoman Jew- Discussant: Sonia Shiri, U Arizona ish Émigrés Between the Ottoman Empire and Turkey Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, CIDE Cecilia Baeza, Getulio Vargas Foundation Lama Nassif, U Texas Austin–To Inte- grate or Not to Integrate Dialects: Voices (3876) Contested Voices: Gender, (3904) Contesting Secular-Mod- from Arabic L2 Learner Speech Narrative, and Subversion in Arab Nesrine Basheer, U Texas Austin–Are American Women’s Writing ernist and Islamist Thought: Global They Confused?: Evidence from Arabic L2 Organized by Pauline Homsi Vinson and Dynamics, Local Politics and Muslim Student Writing Elizabeth Claire Saylor Intellectuals in a Changing Arab Caroline Najour, U Texas Austin–Teach- World ers’ Voices: Analysis of Teachers’ Speech Sponsored by Organized Nadia Oweidat in Integrated Arabic Classrooms Arab American Studies Association Chair: John O. Voll, Georgetown U William Hussman, U Texas Austin– Inte- (AASA) grating Dialect in the Arabic Classroom: Students’ Perspectives Monica L. Marks, U Oxford–Re-Elaborating Chair/Discussant: Lisa Suhair Majaj, Islamism in a Post-Authoritarian Transi- Independent Scholar (3854) On Set: Middle Eastern tion: How Local and Global Factors are Cinema, Space, and the Ethics of Shaping the Ideological Evolution of Tuni- Elizabeth Claire Saylor, UC Berkeley– sia’s Ennahda Looking Subversive Sisterhood: Love Between Organized by Katie Logan M. Amine Tais, Georgetown U–Rethink- Women in the Arabic Novels of ‘Afifa ing Islam in Tunisia Today: Olfa Youssef Karam Chair: Blake Atwood, U Texas Austin as an Example Pauline Homsi Vinson, Diablo Valley Bader Mousa Al-Saif, Georgetown U– Col–Gendered Spaces of Narration: Arab Katie Logan, U Texas Austin–Costuming The Role of the ‘Ulama Network & the American Women’s Writing and the Fig- Egyptian State in the Articulation & Space: Visual Engagements with Jordan in ure of Scheherazade in Diaspora Contemporary Cinema Production of Religious Reform in Mid- Carol Fadda-Conrey, Syracuse U–Re- Twentieth-Century Egypt Anna Ziajka Stanton, U Texas Austin– thinking Arab Masculinities: Intersections Ritual Spaces, Uncanny Places: Cin- Nadia Oweidat, Oxford U–Secularism is of Race, Religion, and National Origin in the Solution: The Argument for Separat- ematic Representations of Loss in Ḥusayn the Arab American Novel Kamāl’s Chitchat on the Nile ing Religion from Politics in the Thought Rachel Norman, UNC Chapel Hill–Lan- of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd Drew Paul, U Tennessee–The Illusion of guage Games: Restructuring Power and the One-Way Mirror: Filming the Check- Gender in The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf point in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention Golbarg Rekabtalaei, U Toronto–Con- (3899) Creativity and Renewal in Ot- testing Tehran: Early Cinematic Visions toman Diplomacy of a City in Transformation Organized by M. Akif Kirecci (3856) Ottomans Abroad?: Compar- Chair: M. Akif Kirecci, Bilkent U ative Studies in Ottoman Migration from the Americas to Afghanistan Eleanor Lovinfosse, Bilkent U–Ottoman Organized by Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular Diplomacy Between Pragmatism and Islamism: German Emperor and Shahs’ Discussant: Isa Blumi, Georgia State U Visit to Istanbul M. Akif Kirecci, Bilkent U–Preamble to Faiz Ahmed, Brown U–The Sultanis of Chaldiran: War of Letters Between Selim I Kabul: Ottoman Expatriates in Afghani- and Shah Ismail stan, 1902-1923 Fulya Tiryaki, Bilkent U–Renewing the Image of the Other: 18th Century Otto- man Sefaretnames Page 32 u MESA 2014 Preliminary Program 8:30-10:30AM Monday November 24

(3923) Religion in the Late Ottoman (3939) Expressing the Modern in the (3960) Social Movements and Con- Empire Maghreb tentious Politics

Chair: Emine Ö. Evered, Michigan State U Chair: Nizar F. Hermes, Princeton U Bahar Tabakoglu, New School For Social Research–Working Class as a Social Con- Ayse Betul Tekin, Columbia U–Muham- Ghada Mourad, UC Irvine–Transgression, stituent of Religious Politics: Comparative mad Abduh’s Approach to History of Postcolonial Arab Modernity, and Exile: Reflections on Turkish and Indian Cases Religions The Case of Mohamed Leftah Albana Dwonch, U Washington–Youth Zeynep Oktay, École Pratique des Hautes Touria Khannous, Louisiana State Citizenship, Digital Media and Personal- Études–Kaygusuz Abdâl and the Doctrine U–Images of the Black in Maghrebian ization of Contentious Politics of the Abdâls of Rûm Literature Ashley Anderson, Harvard U–Labor Riza Yildirim, TOBB U of Economics and Colette Apelian, Berkeley City Col & Unions Between Incorporation, Coopera- Technology–Penetration of Shi’ite Ideals Centre Jacques Berque–Stickers and tion and Conflict: The Case of Morocco into the Ottoman Realm Eyelashes: Automobile Decoration in Dilshod Achilov, East Tennessee State Bill Hickman, UC Berkeley–Who Really Moroccan Cities U–Explaining the Nexus Between Islam, Wrote the Ottoman Turkish Story of Hal- Sandra G. Carter, U Houston Victoria– Islamism, and Collective Contentious laj? Cinematic Women in the City of Darkness: Politics in the Middle East Waleed Ziad, Yale U–Connecting Shikar- Casablanca pur, Kabul, and Yarkand: The Transmis- Annick Durand, Zayed U–Tangier’s In- sion of Sufi Popular Authority in the ternational Zone as a Space of Libertarian Great Game Buffer States Utopia in William Burroughs’ Interzone Dr. Vefa Erginbas, Providence Col–Otto- man Sunnism Contested: Ahl Al-Baytism in Ottoman Historical Writing to 1650

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(3646) Economies and Politics of Eirik Hovden, Austrian Academy of Sci- Lev Weitz, Catholic U America–Property, War in the Middle East ences–Ideal and Pragmatic Tax Law in Gender, and Interreligious Marriage in Organized by Laleh Khalili Medieval Zaydi Yemen Abbasid Iraq Ingrid Hehmeyer, Ryerson U–Written Chair/Discussant: Rochelle Davis, versus Archaeological Evidence: The (3744) The Rule of Law in Contem- Georgetown U Example of Water and Wastewater in porary Arab Societies Medieval Zabid, Yemen Organized by David Mednicoff Lisa Bhungalia, Syracuse U–Economies Daniel Mahoney, Austrian Academy of of War: Aid and the Liberal Encounter in Sciences–A Cultural Heritage Text from Chair: Gwenn Okruhlik, National U Sin- Palestine Early Medieval South Arabia gapore & AGAPS Laleh Khalili, SOAS U London–War and Discussant: David Mednicoff, U Massa- the Making of Logistics and Transport (3684) Medieval Islamic Polemic: chusetts Amherst Infrastructure in the Gulf Hagiography, Biography, and Sec- Toby C. Jones, Rutgers U–Toxic War in tarianism Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law–The the Middle East Organized by Nancy Khalek Plasticity of International Human Rights Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, Columbia Frameworks in Arab Transitions Global Center Paris–Master Peace: Vio- Chair/Discussant: Nancy Khalek, Brown U David Mednicoff, U Massachusetts Am- lence, Techno-Politics and Expertise in herst–The Rule of Law in the Arab Gulf: Post-Civil War Lebanon Mohammad Ghandehari, Inst of Imam- Contested Meanings and Social Change ite Studies–Purloined Excellence of the Sheila Carapico, U Richmond–Articula- (3649) Intellectual Exchange Be- Companions: The Theft of Fadāʾil in the tions of National and International Legal tween the Ottoman Empire and Rivalry Between the Early Shīʿite and Understandings South Asia Sunni Narrators Najam Haider, Barnard Col/Columbia U– Chair/Discussant: Giancarlo Casale, U The Post-Rebellion Life of Yahya b. ‘Abd Roundtable Minnesota Allah (d. 187/802-3) (3763) Between Militarism and Is- Nebil Husayn, Princeton U–Enmity for Guy Burak, New York U–Mapping Out ‘Alī and His Family: The Discourse Be- lamism: Feminism in the Crossfire? the Legal Landscape of the Post-Mongol tween Anti-Alid and Anti-Shī‘ī Organized by Mariz Tadros and Hoda Islamic World: A Proposal for an Analyti- Adam Gaiser, Florida State U–“Paradise Elsadda cal Framework is beneath the Gleaming Swords”: Ibadi Irfana Hashmi, Whittier Col–From the Depictions of the First Kharijites Sponsored by Indian Ocean to the Eastern Mediter- Matthew S. Gordon, Miami U–Piety and Association for Middle East Wom- ranean: Al-Azhar and the Movement of Legitimation: Ahmad ibn Tulun in Al- ens Studies (AMEWS) Muslim Scholarly Elites Balawi’s Sira Nur Sobers-Khan, Museum of Islamic Chair: Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS U London Art, Doha (Qatar)–Innovation, Com- (3710) Religiously Mixed Families in mentary and Translation: Scientific the Medieval Middle East: Intermar- Hoda Elsadda, Cairo U and Religious Knowledge Between the riage and Its Consequences Mariz Tadros, U Sussex Ottoman and Mughal Empires (16th-18th Organized by Christian Sahner and Lev Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS U London Centuries) Weitz Nicola Pratt, U Warwick Tuna Artun, Rutgers New Brunswick– Sondra Hale, UCLA From Najaf to Hyderabad: Reading Otto- Sponsored by man Alchemical Works in the Turn of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) (3783) Algeria: Laboratory of Mod- Twentieth-Century Deccan ern Warfare Chair: Antoine Borrut, U Maryland Organized by Jacob A. Mundy and Brock (3654) Making Yemen’s Islamic Discussant: Nina Safran, Penn State U Cutler History: Engineering, Monuments, Taxes and Stimulants Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, Vander- Chair: Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco bilt U–Jews and “Apostates”: Geonic Discussant: Robert P. Parks, Center for Literature on Conversion Maghrib Studies in Algeria Sponsored by Uriel Simonsohn, U Haifa–Matrimony American Institute for Yemeni and Apostasy: Christian, Islamic, and Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U–An Algerian Studies (AIYS) Jewish Legal Concerns over Religiously- Way of War?: Framing the Conversation Mixed Unions in the Classical Islamic Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State U–Algeria: Discussant: Nancy Um, Binghamton U Period France’s Nuclear Policy and Trans-Arab Christian Sahner, Princeton U–Mixed Resistance Daniel Martin Varisco, Independent Marriage, Conversion, and Violence: In- Brock Cutler, Radford U–Against Scholar–Coffee and Qat in Yemen: The sights from Christian Hagiography in the Nature(s): War and Modernity in Nine- Historical and Literary Evidence for Their Early Islamic Period teenth-Century Algeria Introduction Page 34 u MESA 2014 Preliminary Program 11AM-1PM Monday November 24

(3787) Microhistories of Palestine (3821) Online Space for Collective Roshanak Kheshti, UC San Diego–On the Organized by Liora R. Halperin and Dissent: Reconstructing Gender Threshold of the Political: The Sonic Per- Mark Sanagan Discourses in Egypt formativity of Rooftop Chanting in Iran Organized by Angie Abdelmonem, Sara Mameni, UC San Diego–Conceptual- Chair/Discussant: Laila Parsons, McGill U Vickie Langohr, Helen Rizzo, and Nicole izing Loss: Transnational Feminism and Khoury the Iranian Revolution Rosemarie M. Esber, Arabicus Books & Nima Naghibi, Ryerson U–From Guilt Media–The Tantura Massacre of 1948 Sponsored by to Shame in Nahid Persson’s My Stolen Liora R. Halperin, U Colorado Boulder–A Association for Middle East Wom- Revolution Microhistory of Jewish-Arab Conflict in en's Studies (AMEWS) Late Ottoman Palestine (3858) Spaces of Movement: An Mark Sanagan, McGill U–Violence, Land Chair: Soraya Altorki, American U Cairo Architectural Critique of Globality and the Law in Ṣaffūriyya, 1932-1935 Discussant: Vickie Langohr, Col of the in the Middle East Shay Hazkani, New York U–Fighting Holy Cross Organized by Vahid Vahdat Zad, Texas for Palestine, Even if My Parents Say No: A&M U Egyptian Muslim Brothers Writing from Angie Abdelmonem, Arizona State U– Palestine, 1948 Understanding Taharush El-Ginsy: Chang- Ashley Dimmig, U Michigan Ann Arbor– ing Conceptions of Sexual Harassment in Sarmatism, Orientalism, and the Third (3815) The Question of Revolution Egypt Reich: The Afterlife of Ottoman Imperial in Syria Amel Fahmy, HarassMap–Crowdsourc- Tents in Europe Organized by Thomas Vladimir Broend ing Data on Sexual Harassment in Egypt: Farshid Emami, Harvard U–Shopping What Works and What Doesn’t? Mall in Translation: From US Suburbs to Discussant: Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Helen M. Rizzo, American U Cairo–So- Pahlavi Tehran (1960-79) Forest U cial Media, Political Opportunity and the Adeeb Daoud Naccache, Technion–An- Anti-Sexual Harassment Campaign in toine Tabet’s Garden Mansions Housing Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U– Post-2011 Egypt Project in Haifa at the Crossroads of Changing Meanings of Fear: Syrian Refu- Nicole Khoury, American U Beirut–Reli- Empires: 1937-1945 gees Narrate the Revolution giously Gendered: Political Discourse in Jeremy Ledger, U Michigan Ann Arbor– Thomas Vladimir Broend, Roskilde Asmaa Mahfouz’s YouTube Call for the Imagining the Mediterranean in Tripoli: U–“We are Looking for a New Revolu- 2011 Egyptian Revolution Decoding the Nautical Chart of Ibrāhīm tion”: Ideology and Identity Among Syrian Al-Mursī, 865AH/1461 CE Activists (3835) Imagining and Enacting the Anne-Marie McManus, Washington Urban in Turkey and Morocco (3874) Symbolic Power, Contesta- U in St. Louis–Theorizing Revolution: Organized by Timur Hammond tion, and Authority in Turkey and Documentary Film and New Sociologies Beyond of Syria Chair/Discussant: Gökçe Günel, Columbia U Organized by Nicole Watts Adam Baczko, EHESS, Gilles Dorron- soro, Sorbonne U, and Arthur Quesnay, Timur Hammond, UCLA–Telling Istan- Chair: Resat Kasaba, U Washington Paris Sorbonne U–Social Capital and the bul’s Story Through Its Sahabe: Halid bin Discussant: Quinn Mecham, Brigham Genesis of Social Institutions in the Syr- Zeyd, Eyüp, and a Blessed City Young U ian Revolution Janell Rothenberg, UCLA–Experiencing the City, Port, and Zone of Tangier Senem Aslan, Bates Col–‘Soon the Whole Danielle van Dobben Schoon, U Ari- World Will Speak Turkish:’ International zona–Sulukule as an Assemblage: Romani Turkish Olympiads and the Making of a Identity and the Making of Istanbul National Image Elizabeth Angell, Columbia U–Infra- Hootan Shambayati, Florida Gulf Coast structure as Performance: The Material U–Imagining Democracy: The Interna- Politics of AKP Governance in Istanbul tional Environment and the Re-branding of Turkey’s Image (3848) Racial Melancholia and the Ceren Belge, Concordia U–The Rules of Pleasures of Obstinate Attachments Difference: Honor and National Identity Organized by Sara Mameni in Turkish Criminal Courts Nicole Watts, San Francisco State U– Chair: Negar Mottahedeh, Duke U State-Society Relations and Struggles for the Symbolic Legacy of Suffering in Dina Al-Kassim, U British Columbia– Halabja White Impurities: Memory’s Craft in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Blanches Traverses du Passé

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(3918) Parliaments and Power in the (3967) Aesthetic Politics in Elite and Thematic Middle East Mass Culture Conversation

Chair: M. Akif Kirecci, Bilkent U Chair: Somy Kim, Boston U (3993) Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Islamic Charities Luai Allarakia, U Houston–The Con- Rustin Zarkar, New York U–A Mural Organized by Mona Atia and Benoit sequences of Miscalculated Electoral Erased: Contestations of Public Space in Challand Manipulation in Autocratic Regimes: Elec- Mashhad tions to Kuwait’s Majlis Al-Ummah Sadam Issa, Michigan State U–Women’s Session Leader: Mona Atia, George Wash- David Waldner, U Virginia–Parties, Po- Cartoonists and Palestinian/Arab Nation- ington U larization and Democratic Development alism: An Exploratory Study of Omayya in the Middle East Juḥa’s Cartoons Gizem Zencirci, Providence Col Annette Ranko, GIGA Inst of Middle East Reem M. Hilal, Allegheny Col–Who’s the Benoit Challand, New York U Studies and Mazen Hassan, Cairo U– Terrorist?: The Use of Hip Hop to Chal- Inter-Elite Trust and Fragility of Transi- lenge the Image Special Session tions: A Comparison Between the Party Anna Levett, UNC Chapel Hill–“The Elites of Egypt and Tunisia Revenge of Joyous Laughter”: Surreal (3998) The US Congress and the Alireza Raisi, Kent State U–Parliamenta- Humor in Two Middle Eastern Films Middle East ry Politics and Democratic Reform in Iran Organized by Michelle Upton, Al- , George Wash- (3971) The “Youth” as Subject and Abdul-Wahab Kayyali Monitor ington U–Why Parties in Morocco?: The Agent in Politics and Media Development and Strength of Political Supported by Parties Under Monarchy Chair: Hedi BenAicha, American Public Al-Monitor Jessica Doyle, U Col Dublin–State-Led U System Civil Society and Problems of Democracy This panel will address the role of Con- Niki Akhavan, Catholic U America–Fam- gress in US policy toward the Middle (3938) Usage of Contemporary Ara- ily Affairs: New Media, the State, and East, as well as the impact of the changes bic in the Digital Age Women in Iran in the Congress following the November Ariana Marnicio, Baker Inst for Public 2014 elections. The speakers will focus Chair: Nathaniel Greenberg, Northern Policy–Advancing HIV Preventative on the intersection of politics and policy, Michigan U Health Care for Young People: The Jorda- including the roles of outside experts, nian Example foreign governments, interest groups Dris Soulaimani, New York U Abu Dhabi– Russell Lucas, Michigan State U–Youth, on policy, and the interactions between Arabic or Latin: Language Ideologies and ICT, and Protests: Middle Eastern Con- the legislative and executive branches in Script Selection texts in a Global Perspective policy development. Two reporters from Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State U– Didem Turkoglu, UNC Chapel Hill–Dis- Al-Monitor and two Congressional staff Performing Lived Experiences: Challenges cussing Politics on Facebook: Turkish members are the proposed panelists for to Narrative Construction for Arabic Politics, Club Model and Rowdy Delibera- this special session. Heritage Speakers tive Talk David Henen, American U Cairo–Code Joel Rozen, Princeton U–Insurgent Switching on Online Social Networks in Innovation: Teaching Enterprise in Post- Egypt Revolutionary Tunisia Yasser Elshami, American U Cairo–The Haizam Amirah-Fernandez, Elcano Language of Contemporary Egyptian Royal Inst–The Population Pyramids of Newspapers Opinion Articles: Revisiting Egypt: Youth Bulge, Security, and Politi- Badawi’s Model cal Implications Attention (3952) Sectarian Radicalization and (3982) Ottoman Power and Practice Violence I in the 17th Century MESA Members...

Chair: Cheira Belguellaoui, DePauw U Chair: Weston F Cook, Jr, UNC Pembroke MESA

Richard Nielsen, MIT–Jihadi Radicaliza- Yasir Yilmaz, Purdue U–From ‘gute Members tion of Muslim Clerics Nachbarrschaft und Freundschaft’ to the Jerome Drevon, Durham U–Mobilising Second Siege of Vienna Meeting Egyptian Fighters for the Syrian Jihad Charles L. Wilkins, Wake Forest U–The 1-2:30pm Andrea Plebani, Catholic U of the Sacred Emergence of Ottoman Military Grandees in Room TBA Heart–Al-Qaida in Iraq: Origins, Evolu- 17th-Century Aleppo: Three Case Studies tion and Peculiarities from Abu Musab Amaya Martin, U Notre Dame–The Ot- Al-Zarqawi till Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and toman Authorities and the Franciscans: See page 4 for details. the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham A View of Jerusalem in the Seventeenth Century Page 36 u MESA 2014 Preliminary Program 2:30-4:30PM Monday November 24

(3652) The Balkan Wars and Its Af- (3697) Bridging the Rupture of 1948: Damla Isik, Regis U–Vakıf as Intent and termath: A Centennial Perspective The “Decolonization” and Erasure Practice: Charity and Poor Relief in Con- Organized by Ryan Gingeras of Mandate Palestine temporary Turkey Organized by Jeffrey D. Reger and Leena Seyed Ahmad Mirtaheri, Florida In- Chair: Ryan Gingeras, Naval Postgradu- Dallasheh ternational U–Understanding Muslim ate School Economy: The Case of Shi’ah Economy Discussant: Tolga U. Esmer, Central Sponsored by and the Practice of Waqf European U Palestinian American Research Kim Shively, Kutztown U–Sanctifying Center (PARC) Economy: Hizmet and the Purification of Eyal Ginio, Hebrew U Jerusalem–Ottoman Wealth POWs’ Writings on the Balkan Wars Chair: Zachary Lockman, New York U Ramazan Hakki Oztan, U Utah–Beyond (3762) Cosmology and Authority: Discussant: Shira Robinson, George Narratives of Consensus: Ottoman Intel- Washington U Ismāʿīlī Philosophy in the Medieval lectuals, Decision-Makers, and the Balkan Period Wars (1912-1913) Jeffrey D. Reger, Georgetown U–Up- Organized by Khalil Andani Ryan Gingeras, Naval Postgraduate rooting Palestine: Olive Groves, Mass School–Empire’s End in Rumeli: Local and Dispossession, and Peasant Resistance, Chair: Daniel Beben, Indiana U Imperial Impression of Macedonia after 1945-1955 the Balkan Wars Hilary Falb Kalisman, UC Berkeley– Khalil Andani, Harvard U–Reconciling Isa Blumi, Georgia State U–The Oc- Learning Exile: Palestinian Students and Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology: The cupation Effect: The Consequences of Educators Abroad, 1940-1958 Neoplatonic Qur’anic Exegesis of Nāṣir-i Temporary Regimes in Ottoman Albania/ Leena Dallasheh, New York U–Defying Khusraw Western Balkans, 1912-1917 the Rupture, Affirming Presence: Pales- Paul Anderson, Harvard U–Echoes of tinians in Nazareth Surviving 1948 the Gnostics: ‘Kitāb Kanz Al-Walad’ of Al- Thematic Ḥāmidī and the Incorporation of Mythic Conversation Rephael Stern, Princeton U–Israel’s Post- colonial Predicament and Its Contradict- Cosmology into Ismāʿīlī Thought (3682) Seen and Heard: Making Vis- ing Jurisdictional Claims in 1948 Davlat Dadikhuda, McGill U–The Ismāʿīlī ible Assyrians and Middle Eastern and Al-Ghazali on Infallible Instruction Minorities Roundtable (Al-Ta’lim) Organized by Sargon Donabed (3701) Islamists in Power in the (3765) Domestic Slavery in the Me- Arab Spring: Conflict and Compro- dieval Middle East Session Leader: Sargon Donabed, Roger mise in Egypt and Tunisia Williams U Organized by Craig Perry Organized by Vickie Langohr Fadi Dawood, SOAS U London Sponsored by Chair: Vickie Langohr, Col of the Holy Erin Hughes, U of Edinburgh Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Cross (3693) Morality in Islamic Law and Chair: Shaun E. Marmon, Princeton U Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Emory U Legal Theory Discussant: Madeline C. Zilfi, U Mary- Nadia Marzouki, CNRS Paris land Organized by Omar Farahat Nathan J. Brown, George Washington U Monica L. Marks, U Oxford Chair/Discussant: A. Kevin Reinhart, Thomas J. MacMaster, U Edinburgh–Be- fore They Were Rich: Domestic Slavery in Dartmouth Col (3718) Neoliberal Politics of Charity the Arabia of Muhammad in the Middle East Omar Farahat, Columbia U–The Central- Karen Moukheiber, American U Beirut– Organized by Damla Isik and Gizem ity of Morality to the Classical Ashʿarī Islamic Law and Sexual Ethics: Debunking Zencirci Concept of Legal Capacity the Roles and Positions of Slave Women? Junaid Quadri, U Illinois Chicago–Ha- Craig Perry, Emory U–Household Slavery Chair: Gizem Zencirci, Providence Col bituation in the Law: A Consideration of and the Honor of Free Jewish Women in Discussant: Mona Atia, George Washing- Ethical Concepts as Found in Works of Medieval Egypt ton U Fiqh Hannah Barker, Rhodes Col–Domestic Dale J. Correa, New York U–Making Slaves in the Mamluk Marketplace Zeynep Atalay, St. Mary’s Col of the Best of Limited Resources: Akhbār California–“Civil Society is the Rising Cur- Al-Āḥād and the Moral System of God’s rency in Politics Today”: Transnational Ḥikma Charitable Giving and Neoliberalism Sohaib Khan, Columbia U–Efficiency Gizem Zencirci, Providence Col–Pro-Poor Matters: Fashioning Moral Subjectivi- and Pro-Market?: Market Islam and New ties in Neoliberalism and Modern Islamic Politics of Islamic Generosity in Turkey Banking and Finance

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(3807) Narrating the “Global” Middle Johan Mathew, U Massachusetts Amherst– (3851) Transatlantic Maghreb: East: Migration, Securitization, Ur- Janus Spaces of Capital: Ports, Bandars and Comparative Contexts and Transna- banism and Hyper-Consumerism Arabian Nodes of the Indian Ocean World tional Frames Organized by Nadine Sinno Lindsey Stephenson, Princeton U–Port Organized by Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Cities, Hinterlands and Networks in the Purdue U Chair/Discussant: Ken Seigneurie, Simon Northern Persian Gulf Fraser U Matthew MacLean, New York U–The Chair: Roger M.A. Allen, U Pennsylvania Politics of Development and the Transfor- Discussant: Mohammed Hirchi, Colorado Amira Jarmakani, Georgia State U– mation of Space in the Northern Trucial State U Securityscapes in Desert Romances: The States, 1965-1970 Sheikh-Hero as Gated Community Stacy E. Holden, Purdue U–The Cold War Ahmed Kanna, U the Pacific–Terroristic (3813) Personnel and Patronage: in Barbary: Re-Casting the Tripolitan War Youth and Piratical Urbanism: MENA Cit- Getting Ahead in the Ottoman in Kenneth Roberts’s Lydia Bailey ies in Contemporary Urban Theory System Lara Dotson-Renta, Quinnipiac U–Arab Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech–Lebanon, Organized by Linda T. Darling and Migrations: Transnational Maghrebi the Land of Milk and Honey, Tabbouleh, Christine Isom-Verhaaren Legacies in Latin America and Coke: Orientalist, Local, and Global Brian Edwards, Northwestern U–Sexual- Discourses in Alexandra Chreiteh’s Always Chair: Assef Ashraf, Yale U ity in Circulation: Abdellah Taïa and the Coca-Cola Discussant: Serdar Poyraz, Missouri Coming Out of Moroccan Fiction Lucia Volk, San Francisco State U–Arab- State U Silvia Marsans-Sakly, Fairfield U–Joined boy and Arab Queen: Narratives of Devi- Together, Torn Asunder: The Regency of ance and Victimhood of Arab Youths in Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Benedictine Tunis and the USA, Portrait of Civil War, Germany U–Ottoman Corsair Patrons and Clients: 1861-1865 One Path to Naval Leadership (3811) Materials and Methods for a Ekin Tusalp Atiyas, Işık U–“The Bazaar (3863) Across Time and Space: Changing Arabic Classroom of Eloquence”: Ottoman Scribes and Their Religious Authority and Knowledge Organized by Corinne Stokes Patrons in the Seventeenth Century Transmission in Pre-Modern and Linda T. Darling, U Arizona–Beneficia- Contemporary Islam Chair: Kristen Brustad, U Texas Austin ries of Patronage?: Retinues and Follow- Organized by Josephine Gehlhar ers in the Ottoman Army Muna Rehman, U Texas Austin–Cultural Baki Tezcan, UC Davis–Those Who Did Chair: Gudrun Kraemer, Free U Berlin Proficiency in the First-Year Arabic Class- Not Fit In: Ottoman Ulama from the room: A Survey of Learners’ Needs at the Margins Miriam Ovadia, Free U Berlin–Reas- Secondary & Post-Secondary Level Murat Menguc, Seton Hall U–Mahmud serting the Authority of the Sources of Michael Turner, U Texas Austin–An In- Paşa Angelovic (1420-74) and His Histo- Revelation: Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya’s tegrated Moroccan and Modern Standard rians Criticism Against Rationalist Definitions Arabic Curriculum of ‘Certain Knowledge’ Anthony Edwards, U Texas Austin–An (3826) Governing the Family in Josephine Gehlhar, Free U Berlin–On ‘Arabic’ Composition: Teaching the Turkey Establishing Authority: The Case of the Rawābiṭ in the Arabic Language Class- Organized by Elif Babul Ottoman Tahāfut Tradition room Olly Akkerman, Free U Berlin–The Priscilla Cunha, U Texas Austin–A Theo- Chair: Hikmet Kocamaner, U Arizona Transmission of Ismāʿīlī Manuscripts retical Framework for Secondary-Level Discussant: Jenny White, Boston U from Yemen to Gujarat Arabic Curricular Materials Antonia Bosanquet, Free U Berlin–From Corinne Stokes, U Texas Austin–“Never Zeynep Korkman, U Arizona–“Children Indifference to Recognition: The Chang- Just Pictures”: Visual Material in the are Blessings”: Neoconservative Family ing Reception of Aḥkām ahl Al-dhimma Arabic Classroom Values, Neoliberal Capital Accumulation, Since the 14th Century and the Occult (3812) Conceptualizing Spatial Elif Babul, Mount Holyoke Col–Protect- (3879) Security for All: The Evolu- Transformations in the Gulf and the ing Women and Preserving Families: tion of the Egyptian Ministry of Arabian Peninsula Women’s Rights and Masculinist State Interior Organized by Matthew MacLean Protection in Turkey Organized by Eric Schewe Berna Ekal, EHESS–Dealing with Violence Chair: John M. Willis, U Colorado Against Women by Replacing the Family: Chair/Discussant: Ilana Feldman, George Discussant: Arang Keshavarzian, New The Public Women’s Shelters in Turkey Washington U York U Asli Zengin, U Toronto–Queer Claims on “Real Family”: Abandonment, Disowning, Aaron G. Jakes, New York U–Egypt’s Moain Sadeq, Qatar U–Society and Daily and Transgender Deaths in Turkey Colonial Interior: Agrarian Development Life Practices in Qatar before Oil Industry and the Reinvention of the Village Head- man, 1890-1914

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Casey Primel, Columbia U–Towards a (3953) Sectarian Radicalization and Nafiseh Sharifi, SOAS U London–Moving Perfect Order: Debt, Surveillance and Violence II Beyond Resistance: Politics of Sex in Iran Regulation in Colonial Egypt, 1898-1912 and Women’s Narratives of Embodiment Eric Schewe, U Michigan Ann Arbor–To Chair: Christina Hellmich, U Reading, UK Amirhossein Teimouri, Texas Woman’s Preserve the Material Foundation of the U–Islamic Republic of Iran: Increasing Country: The Egyptian Ministry of Inte- Ihsan Alkhatib, Murray State U–Leba- Complexities and the New Order of Intel- rior in the “Liberal Era,” 1930-1950 nese Shia-Sunni Relations and the Rise lectuals Dina Rashed, U Chicago–From Fusion to and Persistence of the Shaykh Al Aseer Aghil Daghagheleh, Rutgers, State U Independence: The Egyptian Ministry of Phenomenon New Jersey–Movementizing the Election: Interior and Institutional Change Under Yousef Baker, CSU Long Beach–Nation(s)- “Contentious” Meanings of “Conven- Nasser and Sadat State(s): Competing Sovereignties and tional” Politics in the Iranian Presidential Sectarianism in Post-Invasion Iraq Election of 2013 (3905) Natural Resource Politics and Hamad Albloshi, Kuwait U–The Huthi Climate Change in the Middle East Insurgency and the Shia Revival (3969) Film: Identity/Politics and North Africa Marko Gagić, Univesity of Belgrade–An- Organized by Scott Greenwood sar Allah: The Protectors of Zaydi Islam Chair: Carole Barnett, Jacksonville U or Seed of Sectarian Violence in Yemen Caroline Boules, George Mason U–Cli- Evren Ozselcuk, York U–The Critique of mate Change Policy and Adaptation in (3956) Politics and Publics after the Scientific Vision in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Agricultural Systems in Northeastern Arab Uprisings Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Tunisia Ali Papoliyazdi, U Tehran–Radicalization Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Skidmore Col– Chair: Francesco Cavatorta, Universite of Anti-Modernism in Iranian Pre-Revolu- Counting Trees, Forgetting Forests: The Laval tionary Cinema: A Representation of the Narratives About Forest Conservation in Traditional Society’s Outrage Turkey in 2000s Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins U– Meir Walters, Georgetown U–Co-opting Scott Greenwood, CSU San Marcos–Natu- Governing Uncertainty: The First Interim Criticism: The Politics of Commercial ral Resource Mismanagement, Climate Governments in Tunisia and Libya in Comedy in Egypt Change, and Ruling Bargains in the 2011-2012 Rebecca Joubin, Davidson Col–The Poli- Middle East Noha Aboueldahab, U Durham–The Use tics of Gender and Dignity in Post-Upris- Gregory W. White, Smith Col–Water, and Abuse of Criminal Prosecutions: How ing Syrian Television Drama Climate Change, and Tourism: The Hydro- the Arab Spring is Shaping Transitional logical Dimension of Morocco’s Economic Justice (3974) Early Arabic Poetry I Development Strategy Mohammad Yaghi, U Guelph–Testing the Moderation Argument: The MB and Nathaniel Miller, U Chicago–A Compara- (3931) Kurdishness, Identity, and Ennahda in Post Revolutionary Egypt and tive Analysis of Migration Imagery in the Memory in Turkey Tunisia Early Poetry of Tamīm and Hudhayl Adham Saouli, U Edinburgh–The Arab Jamila Davey, U Texas Austin–Journey- Chair: Dilan Okcuoglu, Queen’s U Uprisings and State (Re-)Formation in ing Beyond Representationalism in Al- Syria and Iraq Shanfará’s Lamiyyat Al-ʿArab Nisa Goksel, Northwestern U–“We Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State U– Cory Jorgensen, George Washington Lost Our Identities and We Lost Our Gender Stereotypes and Support for Fe- U–“Team Collusion” in Umayyad-Era Language”: Kurdish Women’s Activism male Candidates in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt Flytings Poetry Against War, Violence, and Forced Migra- and Jordan tion Sarah Weirich, Rutgers - State U New Muna Guvenc, UC Berkeley–Making Jersey–Archives, Blackmail, and Corrup- Claims of Kurdishness: ‘Alternative’ Ur- tion: The Politics of Public Memory and ban Projects in Diyarbakir, Turkey Governance in Tunisia Gozde Ege, U Washington–The Kurdish Movement and the Politics of Memory: (3965) Countermovements in the Remembering Armenians in Van, Turkey Islamic Republic Mucahit Bilici, John Jay Col CUNY–Kurd- ishness at Peace with Islam: Indigeniza- Chair: Shadee Abdi, U Denver tion and the Kurdistani Approach to Post- Conflict Articulations of Kurdish Identity Hossein Zahed, U Texas Dallas–State and in Turkey Civil Society Relations in Iran During and Lydia Shanklin Roll, U Kentucky–“Here after the Reform Era We Live Our Culture”: Claiming Kurdish- Hosna Sheikholeslami, Yale U–Intellec- ness in Urban Turkey tual Threats to Critical Thinking in Iran: An Exploration of Three Contemporary Theoretical Currents

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(3662) Polymath Sufis, Historians, Roundtable Hikmet Kocamaner, U Arizona–The and Learned Men: Cultural, Intellec- Impact of Television Broadcasting on tual, and Political Networks in the (3690) Documenting the Arab Up- Secularization and the Transformation of Early Modern Ottoman World risings Islam in Turkey Organized by Side Emre Organized by Anaïs Salamon Thomas Maguire, U Chicago–Heard but Not Seen: The Inclusion and Participation Ahmet Tunc Sen, U Chicago–A Natural Chair: Anaïs Salamon, McGill U of Women in Islamic Satellite TV Philosopher at Work in 15th-Century Yasmin Moll, New York U–Translating Ottoman Court: Husam b. Shams Al-Din Johanna Sellman, Ohio State U Islam: The Cultural Politics of Subtitling Al-Cilani (d.>1495) and His Astrological William J. Kopycki, Library of Congress in Transnational Islamic Television Corpus Roberta L. Dougherty, Yale U Library Christopher Markiewicz, U Chicago–The Nancy Y. Reynolds, Washington U in St. (3758) Beyond National Cartog- Roots of Idris Bidlisi’s Theory of Kingship Louis raphies: Space, Place and Time in and the Making of an Ottoman Ideology Jaleh Fazelian, Washington U in St. Louis Palestinian Literature of Rule in the Sixteenth Century Christopher Micklethwait, St. Edward’s U Organized by Refqa Abu-Remaileh Side Emre, Texas A&M U–On the Cusp of Divine Truths and the Everlasting Quest (3704) Society and Sasanian Legacy Sponsored by in Early Islam for Knowledge: The Intellectual World of Palestinian American Research ş Organized by Alison Marie Vacca Muhyi-i Gül eni (d.1606) Center (PARC) Pinar Emiralioglu, Sam Houston State U–The Ottoman Enlightenment: ‘Geog- Discussant: Michael G. Morony, UCLA raphy’ and Politics in the Eighteenth Chair/Discussant: Michelle Hartman, Century Robert Haug, U Cincinnati–Tūrān Tri- McGill U John Curry, U Nevada Las Vegas–The Sufi umphant: Abū Manṣūr Ṭūsī’s Shāhnāma and the Captain: How the Nasuhi Order and the Ghaznavid’s Victory over the Joseph R. Farag, Queen Mary U London– Survived a Late Seventeenth-Century Sāsānian Social Order Nakba, Naksa, Intifada: Aesthetics and Crisis Alison Marie Vacca, U Michigan Ann Politics in the Exilic Palestinian Short Arbor–Local Elites in Armīniya in the Story (3687) Dressing and Undressing for Umayyad and Early ‘Abbāsid Periods Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Von Humboldt the Nation in the Post-World War I Foundation–Longing for Haifa in Haifa: The Arab Cultural Heritage in Palestinian Middle East (3727) Exploiting Mobile Technology Narratives Organized by Ahmet Serdar Akturk and Computational Lexicography to Enhance Arabic Pedagogy Nora Parr, SOAS U London–Inter-textuality and the Borderless Novel: Creating a Chair: Joel Gordon, U Arkansas Organized by Jack Halpern Space for the Imagination of Palestine Discussant: Sarah D. Shields, UNC Chapel Ahmad Diab, New York U–Intimate Oth- Hill Chair: Karin C. Ryding, Georgetown U ers: Representations of Arabs in Palestin- ian Poetry Sevgi Adak, Leiden U–Clothing and the Jack Halpern, The CJK Dictionary Inst, Amal Eqeiq, Williams Col–From Haifa Debate on Secular National Identity in Inc.–Applying Mobile-Assisted Language to Ramallah (and Back): New Routes for Turkey: The Dress Law of 1934 Technology to Transform Arabic Peda- Palestinian Literature Ahmet Serdar Akturk, Georgia Southern gogy Karen McNeil, The CJK Dictionary Inst, U–Kurdish Nationalism and Clothing (3777) Musical Politics in the Inter- Reform in the Post-Ottoman Era Inc.–Arabic Corpus Lexicography: The war Maghrib Sivan Balslev, Tel Aviv U–Dressing and Oxford Arabic Dictionary as Case Study Organized by Jonathan Glasser Impressing Hegemony: Dress Reform and Miled Faiza, Brown U–Arabic-English Hegemonic Masculinity in Interwar Iran Dictionaries: Past, Present and Future Hilary Kalmbach, U Sussex–From Turban Bilal Maanaki, U Virginia– Digital Tools Sponsored by to Tarboush: Dress and the Construc- for Mastering Arabic Verbs American Institute for Maghrib tion of Egyptian National Identity in the Studies (AIMS) Interwar Period (3749) Transnational Islamic Televi- sion in the Middle East: Continuity Mary Youssef, Binghamton U SUNY– and Change Praksa, or Breaking Rule(s): Aristophanes, Organized by Tuve Floden Tawfiq Al-Hakim, and Egypt’s “First Broadway-Style” Musical Comedy Chair/Discussant: John O. Voll, George- Chris Silver, UCLA–“Arab” Singers, town U French Citizens: Algerian Jewish Musi- cians in the Interwar Period Tuve Floden, Georgetown U–Media Jann Pasler, UC San Diego–Colonial Radio Preachers as Popular Storytellers: Leader- and the Power of Music from Morocco to ship Theory, Social Development, and Tunisia Stories of the Prophet Muhammad

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Jonathan Glasser, Col of William and (3808) Intellectual Underpinnings of (3845) Iron Women: From Revolu- Mary–What is an Author in Interwar Hodgson’s Islamicate Venture tions to Reforms Algeria?: Recorded Music, Copyright, and Organized by Shiraz Hajiani Organized by Rita Stephan the Problem of the Common Chair/Discussant: Shiraz Hajiani, U Chair/Discussant: Nicole Khoury, Ameri- (3791) Syrian Armenians in the Chicago can U Beirut Crossfire: The Syrian Uprising and the Future of a Shrinking Minority Michael J. Bechtel, U Chicago–Teaching Maro Youssef, U Texas Austin–Algerian Organized by Elyse Semerdjian Hodgson Women Navigate Through Authoritarianism Kyle Bellows, U Chicago–The Historian as Namie Tsujigami, U Tokyo–Saudi Sponsored by Theologian Women’s Negotiation of Power and Space Syrian Studies Association (SSA) Lydia Kiesling, UC Berkeley–The Peda- Through Driving Campaigns gogy of Hodgson Rita Stephan, Georgetown U–Fighting on and Three Fronts: Syrian Women’s Struggle Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) (3832) Archivally Cosmopolitan and for Rights Locally Modern: New Scholarship on Nelia Hyndman-Rizk, UNSW–New Chair: Bedross Der Matossian, U Ne- Late Ottoman Smyrna/Izmir Media/New Feminisms: The Lebanese braska Lincoln Organized by Maureen Jackson Women’s Movement Goes Online in the Discussant: Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman Col Arab Spring Discussant: Vangelis Kechriotis, Boğaziçi U Mounira Maya Charrad, U Texas Austin– Keith David Watenpaugh, UC Davis– Gender in the New Constitution of Tunisia Between Armenian Refugee and Syrian Malte Fuhrmann, Turkish German U– after the Arab Spring Citizen: The Colonial Origins of Syria’s Smyrna/Izmir as the Ottoman Experi- Contemporary Sectarianism mental Ground in Modernity (3846) Spring Confronts Winter: Ohannes Geukjian, American U Beirut– Dina Danon, Binghamton U–A Modern The Publics and Counterpublics of The Syrian Armenian Diaspora and Con- “Kehillah”: The Jews of Late Ottoman the Arab and Iranian Uprisings flict: Analyzing Patterns of Influence Izmir Organized by Nahid Siamdoust Simon Payaslian, Boston U–The Arme- Elena Frangakis-Syrett, Queens Col nian Community in Syria: The End of an CUNY–Modernity from Below: The Orien- Discussant: Miriyam Aouragh, U West- Ethno-Religious Community? tal Carpet Manufacturers Ltd of Izmir minster Harout Ekmanian, Civilitas Foundation– Maureen Jackson, Research Scholar–The Armenian Diasporan Community System Social Economy of Music-Making in an Nahid Siamdoust, U Oxford–The Revolu- Tested in the Syrian Uprising Empire at War: The Case of Smyrna/Izmir tion Strikes Back: The Islamic Republic’s Counterrevolution, or Operation ‘Plant (3795) Gezi Park Protests: Debating (3837) Municipal Politics and Policy Doubt’ the Terms of Politics, Democracy Reforms in the MENA Region Marwan M. Kraidy, U Pennsylvania–Cre- and Participation Organized by Marion Boulby and Janine ative Insurgency: The Body in the Arab Organized by Sebnem Yardimci-Geyikci A. Clark Uprisings Joel Parker, Tel Aviv U–The Sound Af- Sezin Öney, Bilkent U–Despite/Due to Discussant: Melani C. Cammett, Brown U fects of the Syrian Uprising Politics: Narratives of the “Gezi Protes- Walter Tice Armbrust, U Oxford–A Wall tor” Parliamentarians Marion Boulby, Trent U–Hamas Women in Bulaq, an Allegory of Mubarak Teoman Ertugrul Tulun, Bilkent U–Re- in Municipalities: Patriarchal Politics Kira Allmann, U Oxford–Back to Nor- visiting Social Movement Theories In the Mona Harb, American U Beirut–Decen- mal?: Digital Textuality, Activist Histo- Light of Gezi Park Protests tralization and the Politics of City Strate- ries, or How the Arab Uprisings Will Be Sebnem Yardimci-Geyikci, TED U–Civil gies: Lessons from Lebanon Forgotten Unrest in Turkey: A Party Politics View Janine A. Clark, U Guelph–Decentraliza- Meral Ugur Cinar, Bilkent U–Can Money tion, Elite Displacement and Municipal (3888) The Nexus of Sect and Citi- Buy Freedom?: Discourses on Economic Elections in Morocco zenship in the Modern Middle East Development and Democracy in Turkey Ellen Lust, Yale U–Rupture or Continu- Organized by Paul Sedra ity?: The Formation and Performance of Local Councils in Post-2011 Tunisia Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest U– Sectarianism and Opposition in Syria: Reading and Reception of Ghalioun’s Question of Sectarianism and the Problem of Minorities Paul Sedra, Simon Fraser U–Egypt’s Copts and Personal Status Law: A Lever for Factional Interests? Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col–Conceptual- izing Sectarianism in Iraq

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(3907) Natural Resources and (3920) Slavery in the Islamic World (3975) Early Arabic Poetry II Political Conflict: Middle Eastern Environmental Disputes and Their Chair: Ceyda Karamursel, U Pennsylvania Chair: Annie C. Higgins, U Jordan Impact in a Changing Region Organized by Kevin M. DeJesus Tara Stephan, New York U–“Captivity is Erez Naaman, American U–Collabora- Harder Than All”: Captives and Ransom tive-Interactive Composition of Arabic Chair: Kevin M. DeJesus, Johnson and in the Jewish Communities, 1000-1300 Poetry in 4th-5th/10th-11th Century Wales U Michael Ferguson, McGill U–State versus Court Settings Private Care of Emancipated African Chil- Myriam Sabbaghi, U Chicago–The Court Allison Hartnett, U Oxford–Against the dren in Late Ottoman Izmir Poet and the Princess: Deconstructing Flow: Stakeholder Dynamics and Informal Shaun E. Marmon, Princeton U–“I Parī-Khān Khānum’s Power of Literary Institutions in Jordanian Water Gover- Bought Her and I Named Her”: Names, Patronage in the Safavid Court nance Ethnicity and the Experience of Enslave- Pernilla Myrne, U of Gothenburg– Wom- Zohra Ismail-Beben, Col of William and ment in Mamlūk Society en’s Eloquence and Oral Culture in Early Mary–Problems of Collective Action and Philip Issa, U Texas Austin–An Obstruc- Arabic Literature Natural Resources in Rural Tajikistan tive Debate: Islam, Slavery, and Moder- nity (3984) Modern Sufism (3917) Perilous Peacemaking: Israe- li-Palestinian Relations Since Oslo (3961) U.S. Interventions Chair: Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver

Chair: Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota Chair: Shea Garrison, Tulane U Philip J. Murphy Jr, UC Santa Barbara– Annihilation in God or Just a Party: Sufi Elie Podeh, Hebrew U Jerusalem–Missed Benjamin Schuetze, SOAS U London– Ritual & Performance in Fez, Morocco Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: ‘The Special Forces Experience’: An Edith Szanto, American U Iraq, Sulaim- The Case of the Arab Peace Initiative Analysis of US Security Assistance to Jor- ani–Contesting Charismatic Authority: (2002-2014) dan at the Example of the King Abdullah Qadiri Sufism in Iraqi Kurdistan Maia Carter Hallward, Kennesaw II Special Operations Training Centre State U–Choosing to Negotiate Under Nida Alahmad, European U Inst–Il- Sub-Optimal Conditions: The 2013 Israeli- luminating a State: State-Building and Thematic Palestinian Negotiations Electricity in Occupied Iraq Conversation Hayat Alvi, US Naval War Col–US-Egyp- Rima Othman, U Ghent–Reading Be- (3990) The Funding of Middle East tian Security Cooperation: Counter-Ter- tween Military Lines: A Conversation Studies post-9/11 Between Israel and Gaza rorism Operations with the “Frenemy” Organized by Christopher Stone, Hunter Gabriele Mombelli, U Florence–The Matthew Kelly, Independent Scholar– Col CUNY Palestinian National Authority Security The United States, the Middle East, and Sector: An Operational Overview the Imperialism Question Jonathan H. Shannon, Hunter Col CUNY Karam Dana, U Washington–Twenty Samer M. Ali, U Texas Austin Years after Oslo: What Do Palestinians Joel Beinin, Stanford U Think? Joshua Stacher, Kent State U Andrew Barwig, Department of State– “New Blood” in Israel’s Knesset: Elite Circulation and Parliamentary Resilience

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(3650) Identity and Conflict in the Alya Karame, U Edinburgh–Visual Mani- (3774) Arab Intellectual Thought: Contemporary Middle East festations in Qur’ans of the 10th and 11th Other Directions, Part I Organized by William Mark Habeeb Centuries: A New Role? Organized by Muhsin J. Al-Musawi Meredith Quinn, Harvard U–Towards a Chair/Discussant: William Mark Habeeb, Social History of Ottoman Books Chair: Tarek El-Ariss, U Texas Austin Georgetown U Kathryn Schwartz, Harvard U–Trans- Discussant: Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Colum- formed Meanings: Manuscript to Trea- bia U Omri Nir, Ben-Gurion U–The Use of Na- sure, and Print to Civilization in 19th c. tional and Religious Identities in Current Khedivial Cairo Boutheina Khaldi, American U Sharjah– Sunni-Shiite Conflict in Lebanon Aziz Al-Sayyid Jasim’s Critique of Sufism Isabella Alexander, Emory U–Black by (3723) The Manifold Quest for Free- in Modern Arabic Poetics Nationality: Assimilation, Nationalism, dom at the Close of Ottoman Rule Hilla Peled-Shapira, Bar-Ilan U–Break- and Xenophobia at the Maghrebi Border Organized by Ami Ayalon ing Taboos in Iraq: The Case of Gha’ib Nicholas Al-Jeloo, U Sydney–Provinces Tu’ma Farman for Minorities: Re-Mapping Iraq’s Internal Ami Ayalon, Tel Aviv U–Freedom of Ex- Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Columbia U–A Boundaries pression after 1908, Its Joys and Hazards Genealogy of Aziz Al-Sayyid Jasim’s Elise Alexander, Harvard U–Conflict and Yuval Ben-Bassat, UC Berkeley–Reflec- Theorem Ethnic-Religious Diversity: The Case of tions on the Constitutional Discourse in the Syrian Jezireh Ottoman Petitions after the Young Turk (3775) Theories of Language in the David Tal, U Sussex–The Many Faces of Revolution Arabo-Islamic Intellectual Tradition: the Arab-Jew Fruma Zachs, U Haifa–To Vote or Not to Theology, Logic, Balagha Vote: Women Debating Their Rights in Organized by Margaret Larkin (3659) The Arab Spring and the the Arab Press, 1890-1914 Quest for New Politics in Egypt and Bedross Der Matossian, U Nebraska- Chair: Margaret Larkin, UC Berkeley Tunisia: Beyond the Islamist and Lincoln–Debating the Limits of Freedom Secularist Divide in the Ethnic Press after the Young Turk Rachel Friedman, UC Berkeley–Al- Organized by Mervat Hatem Revolution of 1908 Bāqillānī’s Theological Contribution to i‘jāz Al-Qur’ān Discourse Chair: Dietrich Jung, U Southern Den- Roundtable Abdallah Soufan, Georgetown U–Ibn mark Taymiyyah’s Theory of Language and His (3751) Oral History in the Middle Theological Project East: Promises, Pitfalls, and Perils Hamza Meddeb, European U Inst–Of Am- Margaret Larkin, UC Berkeley–Al- bivalences and Reivention of “Republican Organized by Nicola Pratt Rummānī’s Taṣrīf and Its Implications for Islam” in Tunisia the Study of Iʽjāz Al-Qur’ān Mulki Al-Sharmani, U Helsinki–Islamic Nancy E. Gallagher, UC Santa Barbara Pei-Chen Tsung, UC Berkeley–Al- Feminism in Egypt after July 3, 2013 Nadia Jones-Gailani, U South Florida Jurjānī’s Al-Risāla Al-shāfiya and the Mervat Hatem, Howard U–Youth, Labor Nicola Pratt, U Warwick Historical Contours of I‘jāz Discussion and Gendered Voices in the Face of the Sophie Richter-Devroe, U Exeter Asad Ahmed, UC Berkeley– Neutralizing Egyptian Counterrevolution Lucia Sorbera, U Sydney the Metaphor: Developments in Pre- Nadia Marzouki, CNRS Paris–The Role of Gennaro Gervasio, British U in Egypt Modern Arabo-Islamic Logic Compromise and Dialogue in the Tunisian Thematic (3781) Visual Knowledge in Motion: Democratic Transition Conversation Reframing the Creation of Cultural (3688) Book History & the Middle (3766) Pre-Ottoman Technology in Practices in the Modern Middle East, East Islamic History Turkey and Iran Organized by Kathryn Schwartz Organized by Karen C. Pinto Organized by Melania Savino

Chair: Dagmar A. Riedel, Columbia U Session Leader: Karen C. Pinto, Boise Chair: Nadia Radwan, American U Dubai Discussant: Nelly Hanna, American U State U Discussant: Haytham Bahoora, U Colo- Cairo rado Boulder Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia U Frédéric Bauden, U Liege–Al-Maqrizi’s Abigail E. Owen, U Oregon Elahe Helbig, U Bonn–Making Visible: Collection of Opuscules: A Unique Ex- Stuart J. Borsch, Assumption Col Photography as Visual Knowledge at the ample of Book Production in the Mamluk Edge of the 19th Century Iran Period Martina Becker, Forum Transregionale Elise Franssen, U Liege–How Useful a Da- Studien, Berlin–Visionary Accidents tabase of Manuscripts Ownership Marks Nadia Radwan, American U Dubai–From Can Be?: Presentation of a New Project “Atelier” to “Marsam”: The Transformation and Case Studies in the Practice of Visual Arts in Egypt at the beginning of the 20th Century continued next page

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Melania Savino, KHI, Max Planck Inst– (3875) Anthropology of Everyday Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser U–Recon- Exploring Visual Knowledge: The Cre- Contradictions and Mediations in sidering Autonomy in Late Ottoman Gov- ation of Archaeological Museums in the Turkey’s Kurdistan ernance: The Case of Yemen, 1872-1919 Turkish Republic Organized by Firat Bozcali, Omer Ozcan, Assef Ashraf, Yale U–Provincial Politics Dilan Yildirim, and Cagri Yoltar and the Early Qajar State (3782) Post-Colonialities and Femi- Nora Barakat, UC Berkeley–Rethinking nisms: The Challenge of Orientalism Chair: Janet Klein, U Akron Legal Pluralism: Late Ottoman Admin- Organized by Ariel Sincoff-Yedid istration and Land Politics in Hamidian Firat Bozcali, Stanford U–Materials and Syria Discussant: Melinda Brennan, Indiana U Moralities of Smuggling: Moral Economy of the Kurdish Border-Trade across Tur- (3928) Biopolitics, Public Health, Ariel Sincoff-Yedid, Indiana U–De-Essen- key and Iran and Morality in Turkey and Iran tializing Standpoint: Reconsidering the Cagri Yoltar, Duke U–A Tale of Two Orientalist Legacy in the Study of Islam, Strikes: Moralities of Kurdish Struggle Chair: Abdulhamit Arvas, Michigan State U Gender, and Sexuality and Municipal Labor Politics in Turkey’s Masha Kirasirova, New York U Abu Kurdistan Ayse Toksoz, U Washington–Of Consent Dhabi–Middle Eastern Women in Soviet Omer Ozcan, U Texas Austin–Smuggling Forms and Fingerprints: Patient’s Right to Archives: New Sources and Questions at “Peace”: The Peace Process and “Smug- Privacy in Turkey Merve Kutuk, SOAS U London–In Defense gling” in a Border Town of Turkey’s Kurd- Emine Ö. Evered, Michigan State U– of Identity: A Muslim Feminist Perspec- istan Medicine over Morality: Medicalized tive Dilan Yildirim, Harvard U–Disobedient Arguments in the Debate over Alcohol in Melinda Brennan, Indiana U–Disciplin- Mountains and Rivers of Revolt: Insur- Early Republican Turkey ing Strangers: The Figure of ‘Terrorist’ as gency and Counter-Insurgency by the Ghiabi Maziyar, U Oxford–Punishment an Anti-Progressive Tale Other Means in Turkish Kurdistan & Treatment in Iran’s Drug Policy: The State, the NGOs and the Private Sector (3803) Merchants in the Ottoman (3900) Commerce and Obligation Kyle T. Evered, Michigan State U–Map- Empire in the Indian Ocean and Mediterra- ping Provinces and Populations: Socio- Organized by Suraiya Faroqhi and Said nean, c. 1850-1950 Medical Geographies of the Early Turkish Salih Kaymakci Organized by Fahad A. Bishara Republic Yasin Tunc, U Wisconsin Madison–Trav- Chair: Gabor Agoston, Georgetown U Chair: Fahad A. Bishara, Col of William eling Biopolitics: Mental Hygiene Move- Discussant: Ariel Salzmann, Queen’s U and Mary/Harvard U ment and Disciplining the Mind, Turkey, 1920-1950 Tommaso Stefini, Bogazici U–Ottoman Omar Cheta, Bard Col–Merchants, Bu- Hajipouran Benam Cigdem, Boston Merchants in Dispute with the Republic reaucrats and the Question of Commer- U–Between Europeanization, Biopolitics of Venice in the Early Modern Era: To- cial Debt in the Nineteenth Century and Islam: Securitizing Public Health in ward a Reappraisal of the Bilateral Nature Will Hanley, Florida State U–Egypt’s Turkey of the Capitulations Petty Moneylenders as Makers of Interna- Suraiya Faroqhi, Istanbul Bilgi U–Acem tional Law (3934) Missionaries and Converts Tüccarı in the Ottoman Domains Fahad A. Bishara, Col of William and Uzeyir Serdar Serdaroglu, Istanbul U– Mary/Harvard U–The Most Enduring Ob- Chair: Heather N. Keaney, Westmont Col An Ottoman-English Merchant in Tanzi- ligation: Debt, Personhood and Commerce mat Era: Henry James Hanson and His in the Nineteenth-Century Western Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst U–Convert- Position in Ottoman Commercial Life Indian Ocean ing Missionaries: Shifting Missionary Said Salih Kaymakci, Georgetown U– Fadzilah Yahaya, Washington U St. Lou- Perspectives on the Kemalist Regime The Sultan’s Merchants, the Merchant’s is–Powers that Bind: Tracing the Impact Aurelie Perrier, Georgetown U–The Sultan: Beratlı Avrupa Tüccarı in the Last of Powers of Attorney in the Indian Ocean Conversion of the First Mauresque: Gen- Years of the Classical Age (1835-1839) from 1880-1970 der and Religion in 19th-Century French Sedat Albayrak, Marmara U–Legal Algeria Disputes of Musta’man Merhcants at the (3924) Qajar and Ottoman States: Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Dartmouth Col– Sharia Courts of Istanbul in 17th Century Visions and Structures “Muslims Should also Enjoy Freedom of Religion”: Muslim Converts Between Leila Pourtavaf, U Toronto–Re-imagin- Protestant Missionaries and the Ottoman ing Domesticities: Affective Bonds and State (1856-1877) Familial Relationships in Nasser Al-Din Devrim Umit, Karabuk U, Turkey–The Shah’s Harem American Protestant Missionary Network Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State in Late Ottoman Era U–Iran at War: An Examination of the Military Aspect of the Second Russo- Iranian War

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(3940) Space, Gender, and the Civil Kaveh Hemmat, U Chicago–Poetry, Au- (3970) Monarchy and the Modern: War in Lebanese Literature thorial Presence, and the Construction of a New Research Findings Public in the Khaṭāynāmah (Book of China) Chair: Mohammad Salama, San Fran- Chair: Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, Costal cisco State U (3959) Art, Performance, and Poli- Carolina U tics Maya Anbar Aghasi, Lebanese Ameri- Susan Kippels, Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al can U–The Narrating Eye: Identity as a Chair: Nadia G. Yaqub, UNC Chapel Hill Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research– Structure of Vision and Its Problems: Etel The Status of Arab Migrant Teachers in Adnan’s Sitt Marie Rose Mahnia A. Nematollahi Mahani, Leiden the United Arab Emirates and Qatar Khaled Al-Masri, Swarthmore Col–The U–The Path to Salvation: Poetry of Sacred Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City U– Limits of Masculinity: Sexuality and Male Defense During the Iran and Iraq War Of Monarchs and Protest Movements: The Disability in Alawiyya Subuh’s Dunya (1980s) Case of the February 20th Movement in Kifah Hanna, Trinity Col–Writing the Maral Yessayan, Dartmouth Col–Staging Morocco Body in Lebanese War Literature Modernity: Dance, Dress, and Political Zahra Babar, Georgetown U SFS-Q–Arabs Judith Naeff, U Amsterdam–Imagining Legitimacy and Asians in Qatar: Who Does the Dirty Imminent Erasure in Beirut Samer Al-Saber, Davidson Col–Permis- Work? Samira Aghacy, Lebanese American sion to Perform: Il/Legal Censorship in Leila DeVriese, Hamline U and Heleanna U–Gendering Spatial Trajectories in the Jerusalem Mathioudis, Hamline U–A Tale of Two Contemporary Lebanese Novel Upa Mesbahian, King’s Col London–Song Monarchies: A Comparative Study of Con- of the Revolution: The Politicization of a tentious Spaces and Renegotiation of the (3950) Energy Economy, Energy Love Song Social Contract in Morocco and Bahrain Politics: Oil, Phosphates, Nuclear Gayatri Kumar, New York U–Of Expats (3962) Logics and Legitimacy in and NRIs: Subject Formation at the Inter- Sang Hyun Song, U Utah–The Structural State Formation section of State Logics in Oman Changes in the World Oil Market During the 1980s and Their Influence on Saudi Aaron Faust, Independent Scholar–The Oil Policy Creation of Husseini Ba’thism Claudie Fioroni, Graduate Inst of Inter- James Hollo, Northwestern U in Qatar– national and Development Studies–Re- Material Needs and Cultural Retention: shaping Rulers-Ruled Relationship in Legitimation Strategies in Qatar and the Jordan: Privatization and Protests at the UAE Phosphate Mine Company Kocijan Bojana, Central European U–A Noah Haiduc-Dale, Centenary Col–Fish- Tool for Regime’s Survival? Pluralist ing in Oil: Traditional Sustenance in a Discourse in Non-Democracies: Compara- Resource Economy tive Analysis of Leaders’ Discourse in the Reza Yeganeh, UC Irvine–Iran’s New Middle East Generation of Oil and Gas Contacts: A Jessie Moritz, Australian National U– Historical Mistrust vs. Actual Needs for Nationalism, Loyalty and Dissent: A Com- Foreign Investment parative Study of Reformist Movements Vittorio Felci, Lund U– Western Europe and in Bahrain and Oman Since 2011 the Origins of the Iranian Nuclear Program Trevor Johnston, U Michigan Ann Arbor–Divide and Distribute: Spatial Seg- (3951) Medieval Maps, Music, and regation and Authoritarian Distribution Mysticism in Qatar Ilyas Saliba, Social Science Center Berlin Chair: Rebecca R. Williams, U of South & Humboldt U–The International Dimen- Alabama sion of Authoritarian (In)Stability?: Con- ceptualizing and Tracing the Effects of Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve U–Con- Authoritarian Learning During the Arab cerning Music and Musical Instruments: Uprisings References to Music in a 15th Century Col- lection of Anti-Sama‘ Treatises Pooriya Alimoradi, U Toronto–Two Kinds of Wisdom in Suhrawardi’s ʿAql-i Surkh and in Zoroastrian Literature Nader Sayadi, U Wisconsin Milwaukee– An Interpretation of Medieval Islamic Geographical Representations: Two Types of Settlement Network in Al-Istakhri’s Al- masalik wAl-mamalik

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(3680) Texts and Contexts in Pre- Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver–Audio (3778) Breaking Shakles of the Tra- Modern Shi’ism Quality and Technological Innovations: ditional Classroom Organized by Mushegh Asatryan Marketing Radio Sets and Gramophones Organized by Raghda El-Essawi in Lebanon and Palestine, 1930s-1940s Chair: Sean Anthony, U Oregon Camron Michael Amin, U Michigan Hebatalah Salem, American U Cairo– Discussant: Najam Haider, Barnard Col/ Dearborn–Creating Private and Public Beyond Classroom Borders Through Com- Columbia U Radio Space in Mid-20th Century Iran munity Learning: Challenges and Benefits Ziad Fahmy, Cornell U–Listening to the Laila Al-Sawi, American U Cairo–Class- Bella Tendler, Yeshiva U–The Nuṣayrī Streets: Noise, Sounds and the Cries of room Swap: From Passive to Active (ʿAlawite) Wine Drinking Ritual and the Street Hawkers in Interwar Egypt Learning Iranian Milieu Rasha Essam, American U Cairo–Ad- Mushegh Asatryan, Independent Re- (3739) Reframing Refugees: Im- dressing Complexities of Teaching Arabic searcher–The “Ghulat Corpus” and Its migrants and Settlement Policies in Online Authors the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Raghda El-Essawi, American U Cairo– Samer Traboulsi, UNC Asheville–If Rice Republican Turkey Flipping the Traditional Classroom Were a Man: Twelver and Ismā‘īlī Recep- Organized by Vladimir Troyansky tion of Early Imāmī Ḥadīths (3794) Challenging Definitions of Hussein Abdulsater, American U Beirut– Chair: Michael Reynolds, Princeton U Sovereignty: Domestic Politics, Sectarian History and the Straitjacket of Discussant: James H. Meyer, Montana Political Ideologies and International Theology State U Law in the Middle East from 1974- 2014 (3716) The Art of Islamic Media: Vladimir Troyansky, Stanford U–Writ- Organized by Caroleen Marji Sayej Technology and the Sacred ing Refugee Voices into History: North Organized by Ellen McLarney Caucasus Immigrants in the Ottoman Chair: Sabri Ates, Southern Methodist U Empire Ellen McLarney, Duke U–Islamic Adab: Owen Miller, Columbia U–Interpreting Caroleen Marji Sayej, Connecticut Col– Technologies of Imagining and Envision- Violence in Ottoman Cilicia From the War on Terror to the Shiite ing the Sacred Ella Fratantuono, Michigan State U–Un- Crescent: How Grand Narratives Trans- Hatim El-Hibri, New York U–Mleeta and settling Environments: Health and Mobil- late into Grand Strategies Mediation: The Hizballah ‘Museum of the ity Among Ottoman Immigrants Michael Gasper, Occidental Col–‘I Resistance’ and the Aesthetics of Open Ellinor Morack, Hebrew U Jerusalem– Worked for the Militia’s Civil Authority Secrets “For the Benefit of the State and the and the State’: Narratives of Sovereignty Narges Bajoghli, New York U–The Basij People”: The Politics of Property Com- in Wartime Lebanon and Revolutionary Guards as Media Mak- pensation in Izmir, 1925-1928 Dalia Fahmy, Long Island U–The Rise and ers Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood: Mapping Jeanette S. Jouili, Col of Charleston–Id- (3753) Subaltern Narratives of the the Political Behavior of an Islamist Party han on Auto-Tune?: British Islamic Hip Uprisings in North Africa: Views Hussein Banai, Occidental Col–Sovereign Hop and Controversies on Using Modern from Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia Pariah: Iran’s Prerogatives as an Islamic Sound Technologies Organized by Lucia Sorbera and Genna- Republic Wazhmah Osman, Temple U– Conflict- ro Gervasio ing Visions: TV, Islam, and the Afghan Roundtable Culture Wars Chair/Discussant: Holger Albrecht, (3810) New Approaches to the American U Cairo (3731) Making Sense of Sound in Study of Lebanese Shi’ism Organized by Mara Leichtman Middle Eastern History Lucia Sorbera, U Sydney–Writing a Organized by G. Carole Woodall and Feminist History of the 2011 Egyptian Chair: Rola El-Husseini, CUNY Graduate Andrea L. Stanton Uprisings: Ethnography of a Continuing Center Revolution Discussant: Deborah A. Kapchan, New Sami Zemni, Ghent U and Koenraad Pascal Abidor, McGill U York U Bogaert, Ghent U–The Arab Revolts and Robert J. Riggs, U Bridgeport Their History: Geographies of Protest in Samer El-Karanshawy, Qatar Faculty of G. Carole Woodall, U Colorado Colorado Morocco and Tunisia Islamic Studies Springs–Listening for Early Jazz in 1920s Gennaro Gervasio, British U Egypt–The Rola El-Husseini, CUNY Graduate Center Istanbul Egyptian Revolution(s) and the Emer- Mara Leichtman, Michigan State U Ida Meftahi, Pennsylvania State U– gence of New Subaltern Subjects Historicizing the “Piety” of Sound and Stephen Urgola, American U Cairo– Movement on the Post-Revolutionary “University on the Square: Document- Iranian Stage ing Egypt’s 21st Century Revolution,” A Community-Based Archival Project Habib Ayeb, U Paris 8 à St. Denis – Revo- lution in Tunisia: From Marginality to

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(3867) Urbanism and the Politics of (3902) Nationalism and Islam in (3935) Crime, Law, and Punishment: the Mandate Period, Local versus Post-Revolutionary Iran: Discourses The Ottoman and Egyptian Cases Imperial Interests of Development and Defense Organized by Harrison Guthorn Organized by Annie Tracy Samuel Chair: Roger A. Deal, U South Carolina Aiken Stephen Pascoe, La Trobe U Australia– Ariane Tabatabai, Harvard Kennedy Creating a Modern Capital: Damascus School–Religion and Nationalism in Iran’s Dilyara Agisheva, Georgetown U–Crimi- Under the French Mandate Nuclear Narrative nal Law in the 19th Century Ottoman Till Grallert, Free U Berlin–To Whom Eric Lob, Florida International U–The Empire Belong the Streets?: A Private Tramway Iranian Construction Jihad: Islam and Deniz Dolek Sever, Middle East Techni- Company, the Municipality, and the Nationalism in Post-Revolutionary Devel- cal U–Crime and Public Order: Istanbul, Populace of Late Ottoman Damascus and opmental and Political Discourse 1914-1920 Their Competing Claims over the Mean- Annie Tracy Samuel, Harvard Kennedy Ali Atabey, U Arizona–The Socioeconom- ing of “Public” Places School and Tel Aviv U–Sacred Defense: Is- ics of Punishment: Ta’zir in the Ottoman Harrison Guthorn, U Maryland–The lam and Nationalism in the Iran-Iraq War Legal Culture Electrification of Amman: Local Interest Payam Mohseni, Harvard U–Indigenizing Nefertiti Takla, UCLA–Gendered Crimi- versus Foreign Machinations Islam: The Nationalist Dimension of the nal Justice and Nation-State Formation in Noah Hysler Rubin, Bezalel Academy Islamization of the Social Sciences in Iran Interwar Egypt of Art and Design–Planning Palestine: British and Zionist Plans for Tiberius and (3919) Palestinian Resistance: (3943) New Horizons of Diaspora Nathanya Spaces and Standpoints Migration I

(3872) From Divan to Pera: The Chair: Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota Henriette Dahan Kalev, Ben Gurion U– Transformation of Ottoman Litera- Women’s Strategies of Migration from ture in the 19th Century Timothy Seidel, American U–Narrating the Maghreb to France and to the UK Organized by Didem Havlioglu Nonviolence: Postcolonial Interrogations Jessica Emami, George Mason U–Persia of Resistance in Palestine on a Platter: The Nostalgic Cultural Didem Havlioglu, Istanbul Sehir U–En/ Oren Kroll-Zeldin, California Inst of Imaginary of Sima Kabab House Gendering the Author: The Subcurrent Integral Studies–“There is No Choice Navid Fozi, National U Singapore–Emer- of Ottoman Women’s Writing in the 19th But to Live”: Struggle and Resistance for gent Pluralism in a Fragmented and Century Palestinians in Jerusalem Polarized Diaspora: The Politics of Iranian Zeynep Seviner, U Washington–Modest Maya Rosenfeld, Hebrew U Jerusalem– Diasporic Identity Formation in Malaysia Means, Grand Ambitions: The Making of The Movement of Palestinian Political Denise Jenison, Kent State U–“American the Modern Ottoman Author Prisoners and the Struggle Against the Is- Citizens of Arabic-Speaking Stock”: The Fatih Altug, Istanbul Sehir U–Reception raeli Occupation: A Historical Perspective Institute of Arab American Affairs and and Appropriation of Giritli Aziz Efendi’s Sharri Plonski, SOAS U London–Tran- Questions of Identity in the Debate over Muhayyelat in the Nineteenth Century scending Bounded Space: The Struggle Palestine Mehmet Uslu, Istanbul Sehir U–Ottoman for Land and Space by the Palestinian Eren Tatari, Rollins Col– Comparing the Armenian Novel and Zabel Yessayan Citizens of Israel Political Integration of Turks, Moroccans Julie Norman, McGill U–Prisoners Di- and Palestinians in Orlando (3893) Public Opinion in the Middle lemma?: Prison-Based Resistance and the East Diffusion of Activism in Palestine Organized by Yael Zeira Maryam Griffin, UC Santa Barbara– Movement as/and Non-Movement in Discussant: Amaney Jamal, Princeton U Palestine

Peter Krause, Boston Col–The Impact of (3929) Kurdistan(s) in Conflict Education on Attitudes About Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East Chair: Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, Costal Chantal Berman, Princeton U–Revo- Carolina U lutionary Coalition Fragmentation and Post-Revolutionary Protest: Evidence Daniel Meier, CNRS-PACTE–Disputed Ter- from a Protest Survey in Tunisia ritories in KRG: A National Identity Issue Yael Zeira, U Mississippi–International Zeki Sarigil, Bilkent U–Inter-ethnic Tol- Recognition and Popular Support for erance in Turkey: Turks vs. Kurds Violence Kawa Morad, U Exeter–(Dis)Placing Devorah Manekin, Arizona State U–Car- Bodies: Syrian Kurdish Refugees in Iraqi rots and Sticks: Policy Instruments and Kurdistan Public Opinion in the Israeli-Palestinian Thomas Schmidinger, U Vienna– Rojava Conflict (Syrian-Kurdistan) as a Borderland in Civil War

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(3963) The State, Property, and (3980) Exploring Social Practices in Thematic Development the Medieval Middle East Conversation

Chair: Bilal Humeidan, Allegheny Col Chair: Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, (3988) Knowledge Production in the Queen’s U Belfast Middle East: Writing, Publishing and Bessma Momani, U Waterloo–Arab Gulf Translations Investments into Non-Inclusive Urban Najm Al-Din Yousefi, CSU Chico–Confu- Organized by Maggie Nassif Development in the Middle East: Social sion and Consent: Land Tax Laws and Exclusion and Frustration Policies of the Early Islamic State (640- Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, Binational Sarah Ghabrial, McGill U–Law of the 810 CE) Fulbright Commission in Egypt Land: Women’s Inheritance Rights in Sharon Silzell, U Texas Austin–Sanc- Algerian Colonial Courts, 1880-1930 tity and Sacrilege: Qur’an Codices in the May Telmissany, U Ottawa Somia Zenasni, U Tlemcen–Arab Twelfth-Century Material Landscape Hoda Elsadda, Cairo U Maghreb Countries: Implications of Fi- Maxim Romanov, Tufts U–Exploring Michael Beard, U North Dakota nancial Integration in an Era of Economic Islamic Written Legacy: Computational and Political Stress Reading of Hadiyyat Al-’Arifin (4003) Arab Intellectual Thought: Sylvie Janssens, Ghent U–The “State” of Eve Krakowski, Yale U–Reconstructing Other Directions, Part II Property in Azraq, Jordan Dhimmī Court Practices Under the Fati- Organized by Muhsin J. Al-Musawi Joe Florence, Cornell U–The Authori- mids and Ayyubids: The Case of Judicial tarian Dilemma in the Age of Financial Certifications (Thubūt) Chair: Tarek El-Ariss, U Texas Austin Globalization: Elite Coalition Politics in Munther Al-Sabbagh, UC Santa Bar- Discussant: Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Colum- the Middle East and North Africa bara–The Business of Companionship: bia U Re-evaluating the Significance of “Suhba” (3964) Contestations and Disrup- Business Relations in the Late Medieval Aziz Shaibani, Baylor Col of Medicine– tions in Urban Space Near East The Advent of Psychology in Iraq: Nuri Jafar’s Theory of Originality Mervat Youssef, Grinnell Col–The Chang- (3987) Ottoman Transformations at Annie Greene, U Chicago–Multi-lingual- ing Face of Tahrir Square: The Egyptian the End of an Empire ism and Multiple Modernities: Ma’ruf Uprising and the Contestation over Public Al-Rusafi, the Private Press, and the Iraqi Space Chair: Sara Scalenghe, Loyola U Maryland Nahda Maayan Hilell, Tel Aviv U–“Disrupting Elliott Colla, Georgetown U–I Used to the Social Order”: Palestinian Women in Elizabeth Wolfson, Brown U–Encounters Be a Communist: Re-Reading Al-Sayyab’s Public Spaces During the Mandate Period with Modernity: Photography and Educa- Memoir Alma Khasawnih, U Washington Se- tional Reform in the Late Ottoman Period attle–Re-articulating Citizenship and Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth U– History: Graffiti Art as Site of Negotiation Morality in the Age of Nation-States: Can in Cairo’s Arab Spring We Talk About Islamic Work Ethics in the Craig Larkin, King’s Col London–Jabal Ottoman Long Nineteenth Century? Mohsen in War and Pieces: The Urban Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv U–Beneath Geopolitics of Lebanon’s Alawi Enclave the Mustache: A History of Facial Hair in the Late Ottoman Middle East Sinan Dincer, Leiden U–Tailoring Sub- jecthood: The Ottoman Case

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Roundtable Ricardo Rene Laremont, Binghamton U (3816) Re-Imagining the Nation in SUNY– After the Fall of Qaddafi: Political, the Arabian Peninsula (3642) Technology in the Online Economic, and Security Consequences for Organized by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell and and On-Ground Middle East Studies Libya, Mali, NIger, and Algeria Natalie Koch Classroom Organized by Kristi N. Barnwell (3754) New Narrative Dimensions of Sponsored by the Arab Uprisings Association for Gulf Arabian Kristi N. Barnwell, U Illinois Springfield Organized by Nathaniel Greenberg Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) Somy Kim, Boston U Victoria Hightower, U North Georgia Chair: Suha Kudsieh, Col of Staten Island Chair: , Trinity U Jill Crystal, Auburn U Mary Ann Reed Tetreault CUNY Discussant: Neha Vora, Lafayette Col

(3683) Women, Gender and Mascu- Said Graiouid, U Mohammed V & School linities in Post-Colonial Tunisia Natalie Koch, Syracuse U–“Building Glass for International Training–Between Refrigerators in the Desert”: Urban Sus- Organized by Amy Kallander Nashwa and Ihbat: Emotional Perceptions tainability and Nationalism in Qatar of the Arab Uprisings Martin Ledstrup, U Southern Denmark– Discussant: Nouri Gana, UCLA Omar Al-Ghazzi, U Pennsylvania–Omar The ‘When’, Not the ‘What’, of Emirati Al-Mukhtar in the 2011 Uprising: Reimag- National Identity Simon Hawkins, U Arkansas Little Rock– ining the Libyan Anticolonial Moment Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern U Covered Ambiguities: Undermining the Ken Seigneurie, Simon Fraser U–The Qatar–Re-Imagining Al Zubarah: Compet- Religious–Secular Clothing Binary in Forms and Implications of Discursive ing National Narratives in Qatar and Tunisia Hybridity in the Levant Today Bahrain Douja Mamelouk, U Tennessee Knox- Alexa Firat, Temple U–New Papers on an Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee State ville–Narrating Revolution: Contesting Old Theme: Awraq and the Re-formation U–“No Woman, No Drive”: Telfaz11, the Masculinities of the Syrian Writers’ Collective Saudi Arts Movement, and National Iden- Amy Kallander, Syracuse U–“Women Nathaniel Greenberg, Northern Michi- tity in the Twenty-First Century and Social Evolution”: The Centrality of gan U–Abu ‘Ayadh: l’homme révolté [or Scott Weiner, George Washington U– Women to Narratives of Tunisian Moder- the Discourse on Terrorism in Tunisia] Family First: Nation Building and the nity Endurance of Authoritative Kinship in the Claire T. Oueslati-Porter, Florida In- (3814) Beyond Borderlands: Trans- Arab Gulf ternational U–Managing Masculinity: A regional Networks of Violence, Political Economic Approach to Gender Entangled Sovereignties, and (3822) Middle East Studies in Latin and Class in an Export Processing Zone State-Formation in the Ottoman America: An Interdisciplinary Per- Factory in Binzart, Tunisia Mediterranean on Land and Sea, c. spective Jessica Gerschultz, U Kansas–Gender, 1600-1900 Labor, and the “Decorative” in École de Organized by Camila Pastor de Maria y Organized by Tolga U. Esmer and Will Tunis Iconography Campos and Marta Tawil Smiley (3720) Human (In)Security in the Gilberto Conde, Col of Mexico–50 years Leslie Peirce, New York U–Internal Maghreb: Power, Governance, and of Middle East Studies at Mexico’s CEAA Frontiers in Anatolia and the Reign of the Limits of Democratization Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, Violence CIDE–Historical Anthropology of Middle Organized by William Lawrence Joshua M. White, U Virginia–Subject- East Studies in Latin America hood and Illegal Human Trafficking in the Paulo G. Hilu Pinto, Federal Fluminense Yahia Zoubir, KEDGE Business School, Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean: U–Brazilian Orientalism and the Institu- France–The Dynamics of Security Rela- “Slave Laundering” Networks Between tionalization of Arab Studies in Brazil tions in North Africa: The Effects of the the Balkans and North Africa Marta Tawil, Col of Mexico–The Study Arab Revolts Tolga U. Esmer, Central European U– of the Middle East by International Rela- Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Tel Aviv U–In- Criminals’ Policing Empire: Trans-region- tions Scholars and Students in Mexican security on the Periphery: Socio-Econom- al Networks of Violence, Governance, and Universities ic Grievances and the Amazigh Movement Confessional cum Ethnic Boundaries in in Morocco the Ottoman Nineteenth Century Astrid Evrensel, UNOAU–Elections and Molly Greene, Princeton U–Looking for Unconstitutional Changes of Government the Balkan Bandit in North Africa in the Post-Arab Revolts: Will Smiley, Princeton U–Privateers, Bel- A Practitioner’s Perspective ligerents, and Neutrals: International Law William Lawrence, George Washington and Maritime Networks of Violence in the U–Responsibility to Protect, Subalternity, Ottoman Aegean, 1770-1830 and Human (In)Security in Libya and Beyond Since 2011

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(3825) Understanding Syria’s Politi- Jennifer Derr, UC Santa Cruz–Troubling (3930) Egyptian Collective Identity: cal, Social and Strategic (Dis)Order: Medical Practice: Bilharzia in Egypt Be- Imagination and Practices An Interdisciplinary Reflection from tween Two World Wars the Social Sciences Hibba Abugideiri, Villanova U–Does Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U Organized by Leila Marie Rebecca Vig- Empire Always Strike Back?: Complicat- nal and Marwa Daoudy ing Egyptian Agency in the Making of Adam Mestyan, Harvard U–Arab Monar- Colonial Medicine chical Patriotism, 1831-1914 Chair/Discussant: Fred H. Lawson, Mills Tal Arbel, Harvard U–Self-Government Zeinab A. Abul-Magd, Oberlin Col/Amer- Col for the Fittest: Stuart C. Dodd and the ican U Cairo–Militarizing the Nation: Internationalization of Public Opinion Army, Business, and Revolution in Egypt Reinoud Leenders, King’s Col London– Research Il-kwang Sung, Tel Aviv U–Inventing The Syrian Uprising and the Origins of Islamic Hero: The Sultan Qutuz in ‘Ali Violence (3855) Challenging Places: Carto- Ahmad Bakathir’s Novel Wa Islamah Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown U–Reality graphic and Affective Re-Mapping in Levi Thompson, UCLA–The Modern Cri- Meets Theory: Syria’s “New” Interna- Social and Environmental Projects sis in Najib Mahfuz’s Al-Qahirah Al-Jadidah tional Relations Organized by Kate McClellan and Emily (Cairo Modern) Yasser Munif, Emerson Col–Participa- McKee tory Democracy and Nation Building in a (3937) Representations of Religion, Liberated City in Northern Syria Discussant: Mandana Limbert, Queens Gender, and the Other in Modern Matthieu Rey, Col of France–Long Term Col CUNY Iranian Literature and Film and Short Term Syrian History in the Current Events Karen Culcasi, West Virginia U–Disor- Chair: Firouzeh Dianat, Howard Com- Leila Marie Rebecca Vignal, Rennes-2 U, dered Ordering: Mapping the Divisions of munity Col France–Territorial Dynamics of the Syr- the Ottoman Empire ian Conflict Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Colum- Kenza Oumlil, Al Akhawayn U–The bia U/Bard Col–Greening Palestine Absent Presence of Masculinity in Shirin (3841) Peripheral Lebanon: Recon- Jessica E. Barnes, U South Carolina–Nile Neshat’s Film Women Without Men sidering Narratives and Dynamics Futures: Modeling the Impacts of Climate Claudia Yaghoobi, Georgia Col and State of the Early Independence Period Change U–Despised, Yet Desired: Temporary (1943-1955) Emily McKee, Northern Illinois U–Turbu- Marriage in Ebrahim Golestan’s ’Esmat’s Organized by Ziad M. Abu-Rish lent Waterworlds: Re-Mapping Rights and Journey Responsibilities Along the Jordan River Mehrak Kamalisarvestani, U Arizona– Linda Sayed, Columbia U–Education and Kate McClellan, Mississippi State U– Literary Representations of the Interac- Re-Configuring South Lebanon in the Sacred Natures: Mapping Islamic Land- tion Between Questing for Modernity and Nation-State scapes in Jordan and Lebanon’s Hima Family Crisis in Post-Revolutionary Iran Dylan Baun, U Arizona–The Gemayzeh Conservation Movement Incident of 1949: Conflict over Physical (3942) The Politics of Health and and Imaginary Space in Beirut (3927) The AKP in Turkish Politics Social Policy Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio U–Public Utilities, Foreign Concessions, and the Chair: John M. VanderLippe, New School Angel M. Foster, Ibis Reproductive Political Economy of Early Independence for Social Research Health–Reproductive Health and Rights Lebanon in Post-Revolution Tunisia Tsolin Nalbantian, Leiden U–Citizenship Gamze Cavdar, Colorado State U–AKP Shabnam Masoumzadeh, Golden Gate and National Belonging: Lebanese Press Governments and Women in Turkey U–Children Out of Wedlock and Birth Coverage of Armenian “Repatriation,” Derya Kömürcü, Yildiz Technical U and Registration Obstacle in Iran 1945-1948 Fulya Atacan, Yildiz Technical U–Party Ellie Bartels, National Defense U–Stra- and Youth Organization: The Case of the tegic Provisions of Goods and Services in (3844) Material Science: Rethinking JDP and the RPP in Turkey Hezbollah’s Resistance Ideas and Practice in the History of Mine Eder, Bogazici U–The Politics Science and Medicine in the Middle of Social Spending Under AKP Rule in East Turkey Organized by Ahmed Ragab and Jennifer Derr

Chair/Discussant: Sherine Hamdy, Brown U

Ahmed Ragab, Harvard U–The Tale of New Medicine: Medical Encounters in the Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century Middle East

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(3944) New Horizons of Diaspora (3958) Ottoman, Iranian, and Arab (3983) States, Revolutions, and Migration II Intellectual Currents Violence

Amy Malek, UCLA–Strategically Mobiliz- Chair: Abdurrahman Atcil, İstanbul Þehir U Chair: Pinar Batur, Vassar Col ing Iranian Culture: The Development of Diasporic Citizenship in Toronto and Serdar Poyraz, Missouri State U–Beşir Konstantin Ash, UC San Diego–Identity, Beyond Fuad (1852-1887), the First Ottoman Collective Memory and Civil Conflict Eda Dedebas Dundar, U Nevada Reno– Philosophical Materialist: His Life, Works Participation: Evidence from a Survey The Immigrant Food and “Trans-mem- and Ideas Experiment in Lebanon ory” of Home in Diana Abu-Jaber’s The Karim Barakat, Duquesne U–Al-Jabri’s Mehair Kathem, SOAS U London–The Po- Language of Baklava and Elif Shafak’s Honor Rational Historicism litical Economy of NGO Aid in the Middle Cyrus Contractor, U Houston–Telling Aaron Scott Johnson, Missouri Valley East: A Case Study of Sadr City NGOs and Retelling Karbala: The Transnational Col–The Neglected Ottomanism of Ali Maria-Louise Clausen, Aarhus U–Can Effect of the Use of Shi‘a Narratives on Suavi Effendi Decentralization Save the State in Yemen Political and Social Participation Amongst Ekin Enacar, U Chicago– We Laugh at – and What Kind of State? Shi‘as in the United States Our Misery: Satirical Press in the Otto- Remi Piet, Qatar U/UNEP–Determinants Noha Ghaly, U New Mexico–International man Empire and Iran (1907-1911) of Qatar’s Foreign Policy: Objectives, Pro- Muslim Students in U.S. Higher Education cesses and Institutions (3977) Religious and Philosophical Julia Choucair-Vizoso, Yale U–The Ties (3949) Transnational Cultural Pro- Issues that Bind: Rethinking Ruling Coalitions in duction Iraq and Syria Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown U–Con- Chair: Zeynep Seviner, U Washington structing the Shariʿa Beyond the Text: A Thesis of Decline Suncem Kocer, Kadir Has U–Kurdish Avigail Noy, Harvard U–Some Clarifica- Cinema as a Transnational Homeland tions on the Term Bayān Mohammed Hirchi, Colorado State U– Abbas Poya, U Erlangen Nuremberg–The Tangiers and the Dynamics of the Border- Concept of Justice in Medieval Islam land in the Era of Globalization Erica Machulak, Notre Dame U–Imagina- Anders Ackfeldt, Lund U–Staging Islam tions Translating ‘Imagination’: Arabic in Music Videos: The Case of “Paid in Science in Medieval Western Culture Full” Emann Allebban, McGill U–From Avi- Isra Ali, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey– cenna to ‘Abduh: Uses of Proofs of God in Adaptation: Cultural Alliances and Televi- Medieval and Modern Thought sion Production in Israel and the United States Robert Lang, U Hartford–Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir: Whose Trauma?

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