MiddleMiddle EastEast StudiesStudies AssociationAssociation 4646thth AnnualAnnual MeetingMeeting NovemberNovember 17-2017-20

Preliminary Program

Denver, in the Middle Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

2012 will be MESA's first annual meeting in Denver. Why Denver, you ask? MESA seldom meets in the middle of the country and Denver is sort of in the middle. It is the largest metro area near the middle with the exception of Kansas City. Denver has 600,000 residents in its city limits, but 2.5 million live in the metro area. Denver is easy to get to: 3 airlines use it as a hub–Frontier, Southwest and United. East coasters will be able to find direct flights and west coasters will have distance to travel on their side. Denver offers a clean, safe, and vibrant downtown with an impressive arts and culture scene. World class museums, art galleries/districts, theater, music, and splendid examples 1550 Court Place of Victorian architecture are some of the things that make Denver CO 80202 Denver memorable. Our conference hotel also happens to 303 893-3333  800 325-3535 enjoy a fabulous location on Denver's 16th Street Mall–a tree- http://www.sheratondenverdowntown.com/ lined,16-block pedestrian promenade, closed to traffic except for free shuttle buses that run up and down it. The 16th Street Mall has a good feel, and shopping, dining, public art, and Rates/Reservations walkable proximity to most attractions are just a few of the Cutoff Date $179 single/double perks it offers. October 22 $199 triple Why Denver, you ask, again? The Denver Sheraton $219 quad Downtown Hotel has enough sleeping rooms and meeting https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/MESA2012 space to permit MESA to meet (plus room tax of 14.85%) under one roof. There is no need to use a convention center, ALERT: Hotel Booking Scams which helps to hold down costs. Many cities don't offer that, but Denver does. When the MESA has learned that a housing company or wholesaler hotel was sold to its current NOT affiliated with MESA has been contacting attendees to owners and branded a Sheraton book hotel rooms for the 2012 annual meeting. These compa- in 2008, it underwent a $70 nies may actually put people at risk for credit card and iden- million renovation that was tity theft. We do not recommend doing business with them. completed in November 2009. All housing for the MESA 2012 annual meeting is handled 16th Street Mall It looks marvelous! directly by the Sheraton’s Group Reservations Department. A MESA 2012: 200+ sessions complemented by a four-day link to the Sheraton reservation page for MESA attendees is film festival and bustling book bazaar, all happening in the listed above. For further information, please go to mesana.org, middle of the country, sort of. See you in November. click on the annual meeting logo, and then on hotel. Registration Book Bazaar

To preregister for the MESA 2012 annual meeting, complete the registration form We are calling it a Book Bazaar, as this year's located on the back page of this program and return it along with payment to the MESA exhibit is located in an open area adjacent Secretariat. If paying by credit card save a stamp and register online via MESA’s website. to registration and meeting rooms. Arguably Pre-registration is recommended as onsite registration rates are higher. The preregistration the largest display of Middle East studies deadline is October 15, 2012. titles anywhere, MESA’s annual book bazaar will include old and new friends–university Category Preregistration Onsite presses, small publishing houses, indepen- dent book sellers, and even artisans shar- full/associate $110 $130 ing their talents. All will gather in Denver student member $70 $90 for a three plus-day festival of books. The student non-member $90 $110 book bazaar will be open 3:30-7:30pm Other non-members $140 $160 on Saturday (Nov. 17), 9-6 Sunday and Monday (Nov. 18-19) and 8-12 on Tuesday (Nov. 20). Visit MESA’s website for a list of exhibitors. Travel/Ground Transportation You don’t have to rent space to exhibit at the MESA meeting. For $40 per title, publi- The Denver International Airport (DIA) is a hub for three airlines: United, Southwest, and cations can be placed on view in MESA’s Frontier. The airport is 30-45 minutes from the downtown. For ground transportation, Cooperative Book Display. This is an ideal MESA has teamed up with SuperShuttle. Roundtrip shared van service is $38 (or $22 each arrangement for individuals, independent way). Taxi services on Yellow Cab will cost $51 each way, with a $3.50 gate fee from the authors, and small presses with few Middle airport. East studies titles. Reservations can be made by calling SuperShuttle at 1-800-258-3826 (group code: MESA1) If you would like additional information about or going to https://www.supershuttle.com/default.aspx?GS=MESA1. exhibiting at MESA 2012, please visit MESA’s website or contact Shirley Nellson at snell- [email protected] or 520-626-7133.

Roommates The Scoop on Thematic Conversations and Roundtables If you are interested in sharing a room at the Thematic Conversations offer an alternative place to pose new questions for research, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel during explore new trends and approaches to old questions, meet like-minded scholars, and engage the MESA annual meeting, please visit in open academic exchange in an unstructured space. The conversations have a session MESA’s website at http://mesa.arizona.edu/ leader and discussants who set the agenda for the conversation. They are (un)structured annual-meeting/roommates.html. MESA to provide for maximum participation from those in attendance, and there are no formal maintains a “roommates wanted” page on its presentations. Seating is limited to 30 people. website where those wanting to share rooms can find each other. Roundtables promote informed discussion and debate concerning the current state of scholarship in particular fields, work currently in progress or the particular problems Child Care involved in the employment of new approaches, new models, etc. The roundtable format lends itself to open discussion in an atmosphere where participants provide their points of view and engage the audience in active discussion. Participants do not prepare papers and MESA can help parents find a local provider do not lecture to the audience. Seating is restricted to 25-30 maximum. and will reimburse half of the cost of day care services up to a maximum of $200 for the conference. Upon request, the Secretariat will be happy to post contact information of parents who want to share sitting services Panel Chairs Invited during the meeting. For further information, please contact Shirley Nellson at snellson@ Volunteers are invited to chair non-preorganized panels at the MESA 2012 annual meeting. email.arizona.edu or 520 626-7133. For a list of available panels, please visit MESA’s website at mesana.org, click on the 2012 logo, and then on “panel chairs.” Email your choices to Mark Lowder at mlowder@email. arizona.edu. Before you volunteer, please note that MESA membership and annual meeting pre-regis- tration are required of all meeting participants.

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Monday, November 19 v 1:00pm-2:30pm v Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Room TBA

The members meeting is an annual meeting of the membership open to all members Sample Agenda and guests. Voting is restricted to full and student MESA members. The meeting mainly consists of reports (see agenda at right). Where members play an important role is in voting for the Nominating Committee and on any resolutions that are being presented. I. Call to Order A member in good standing can add names to the list of people who will be invited to II. Report of the Executive Director run for the Nominating Committee, to augment those proposed by MESA’s Board. III. In Memoriam and Moment of Silence IV. 2012 Election of Officers Results Quorum V. Nominating Committee Vote and Call for A minimum of 35 voting-eligible members must be in attendance for votes to be taken. Names Failing that, the meeting can be held but votes cannot be taken. VI. IJMES Report VII. RoMES Report Resolutions VIII. Committee on Academic Freedom Report When important issues are before the membership, resolutions are sometimes presented IX. Unfinished Business (if tabled from last at the business meeting. Resolutions can originate from MESA’s Board or from the meeting) membership. For resolutions to be acted upon at the 2012 Members Meeting, they X. New Business must be in the hands of the MESA Secretariat by October 21, 2012. Instructions for XI. Adjournment submitting resolutions can be found in MESA’s Bylaws which are posted on MESA’s website at mesana.org.

Tools for Paper Presenters

Upload Your Paper to myMESA by Oct. 15 Planning for Your Presentation Please upload a copy of your paper to the myMESA system so that The best way to combat nerves is to be prepared. Remember, the your co-panelists, especially the chair/discussant, will have access people in the audience are there because they want to hear what you to it. No one else will be able to view your paper except for your have to say. Prepare a summary of your paper for your presentation, co-panelists. Papers need not be the final copy; drafts are fine. There which should last for no more than 20 minutes. Typically, 10-12 is no suggested paper length. Your topic and your depth of coverage double-spaced typed pages will take 20 minutes to read. Practice should determine its length. Plan to present a truncated version of and time yourself to make sure your presentation will fit in the your paper at your panel. allotted time. Be as dynamic as you can; a little humor goes a long way. Shy away from monotone presentations that will put the 1. Log-in to myMESA (http://mymesa.arizona.edu). audience to sleep. A skilled presenter will achieve a balance between 2. Click the “Annual Meeting” button. reading the text and making eye contact with the audience. Most of 3. Click the “Paper Abstract” button (shows up once you click the all, relax and enjoy your moment. annual meeting button). 4. Click the “Submit/Update full paper” button. 5. Under “Upload your attachment” click the “browse” button. No Show Policy 6. Locate your file on your computer by navigating to the directory We understand that things come up at the last minute that prevent where the file is located. a participant from attending the meeting. As a courtesy to your 7. Once the name of your file appears in the box next to the co-panelists, please notify MESA if you cannot attend the meeting. “browse” button, click the If you are scheduled to participate in the annual meeting in any “Save and back to abstract” button. capacity and you don’t show up and haven’t informed the MESA 8. Your file has now been uploaded. Secretariat, you will be considered a ‘no-show’ and will not be 9. Log-out. eligible to participate in the next year’s meeting. A no-show is someone who is not physically present at his/her panel at the Want to upload a newer copy later? Repeat above. conference and hasn’t notified the MESA Secretariat beforehand.

MESA 2012 Preliminary Program u Page 3 Presidential Biography Fred M. DonnerBiography University of Chicago Photo by Jan Stürmann

eople sometimes ask me how I be- My Middle Eastern interests under- nomadic element had been crucial in Pcame interested in the Middle East went a long, slow evolution following helping shape the development of Mid- and Islamic history. After all, I’m not my first enthusiasms of the mid-1960s. dle Eastern societies and civilizations. from a Jewish family, and I’m the child In my undergraduate years, I was torn My dissertation, and the first book that neither of a diplomat nor of an oil com- between the study of the ancient Near grew out of it (The Early Islamic Con- pany executive—these being the three East and the medieval Islamic world; quests, 1981), focused particularly on most common factors that led young but by the time I had finished my BA, the role of pastoral nomadic groups in Americans of my generation to develop I had decided to pursue graduate work the early Islamic expansion process and, a curiosity about the Middle East, some- in medieval Islamic history, particularly in particular, their relationship to the times coupled with the experience of social history, which at the time was nascent Islamic state. living or at least visiting the region in just beginning to be explored by Islamic I submitted my conquests book to their youth. historians. During a year of study at the the publisher just as the first wave of I actually think that my ‘discovery’ University of Erlangen, in Germany, I revisionist scholarship on early Islamic of the Middle East came about because developed an appreciation of the power history appeared—enshrined especially I was the beneficiary of a liberal arts and usefulness of strong philological in John Wansbrough’s Qur’anic Studies education. I began college intending to training—but also realized that the and Patricia Crone’s and Michael Cook’s study chemistry and took a heavy dose questions I was most deeply interested Hagarism (both 1977). These works of science and math courses during in were historical ones, not philological challenged fundamentally the reliability my freshman and sophomore years. ones. (In recent years, however, I have of the traditional narrative sources, on But—fortunately—I was also required become aware that in my own work, it which my own work and that of most to take courses in other areas—beyond is historical arguments that have strong others in the field had hitherto been music, in which I was already interested: philological grounding—that is, in based. It was too late to try to rewrite history, the social sciences, and the arts. which the historical phenomena I want my book on a different basis, but the By chance, more or less, I enrolled in to explain are visible in words and their question of the sources and their reli- courses in ancient art and then in me- usage in texts of the time—that always ability was obviously one that I had dieval art, which unexpectedly brought strike me as most compelling. So that to confront more ambitiously before I an awareness of, and kindled in me a early philological training obviously had could undertake further historical work fascination with, the culture and his- a deep impact.) on the early Islamic period. On reflec- tory of the ancient and Byzantine Near As I mulled over the large question tion, it seemed to me that the tradi- East. At the same time, I was finding of what made the historical evolution tional sources were indeed more com- my studies of science and math less and of Near Eastern societies distinctive, or plex and less easily tapped for historical less satisfying. Most important of all, at least different from that of Europe, “facts” than had usually been assumed, I asked myself: What do I really want it dawned on me that one likely factor as scholars like Wansbrough, Cook, to do, day by day, in my life? I decided may have been the presence in the Near and Crone were saying, but it did not that I did not want to spend my life in East—from remote antiquity almost seem to me that they were so compro- a lab somewhere, but rather in a line of to the present—of pastoral nomadic work that allowed some scope for travel, groups. Unlike in Europe, where pas- and for the use of foreign languages, as I toral nomads were rarely found, in the had enjoyed studying Latin and French Near/Middle East, various nomadic Presidential Address in high school. The study of the Middle peoples had sustained, regular contact East—whether ancient, medieval, or with settled populations and developed Sunday, November 18 – 7:00pm Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel modern—obviously met these require- a complex array of social, economic, ments; and I have never for a minute political, and linguistic relations with regretted my decision. them. My hunch was that this pastoral

Page 4 u MESA 2012 Preliminary Program mised that they should be completely was mostly very early, it made sense Middle Eastern studies without the discarded as evidence. Working out my to try to address the question of the wise and warm mentorship of Professor arguments, however, took a long time— earliest community’s self-conception John Marks (1923-2009), who inspired almost two decades—and the results of as a community mainly on the basis of in me a fascination with the ancient my efforts only appeared in print in my what the Qur’an said about the matter. Near East, served as my model for what book Narratives of Islamic Origins: the When I did so, I discovered that some a sane university professor should be, beginnings of Islamic historical writing verses in the Qur’an implied that the and became a good friend? Or without (1998). (This long period of gestation, original community may have included the fascinating lectures of a very differ- incidentally, is evidence in favor of the any monotheist who was sufficiently ent Princeton Professor, the thoroughly tenure system at American universities, righteous, including pious Christians or Germanic Kurt Weitzmann (1904- now being called into question by some; Jews; hints from other sources suggested 1993), then at the pinnacle of his career without the security of tenure, I would that Islam, as a religious confession dis- as one of the world’s greatest historians probably never have been able to pro- tinct from other monotheisms (in par- of Byzantine art? During my studies at duce this book.) A key turning-point in ticular, from Christianity and Judaism) Erlangen, I profited not only from the my thinking came around 1988, when may have emerged from this original rigorous philological training there but it dawned on me that the earliest Islamic “Believers’ movement” only toward the also from the enthusiastic teaching and community was not, in fact, concerned end of the first/seventh century. These iconoclastic outlook of Günter Lüling, with history—that is, it did not try to ideas, which are still being debated by whose courses on the Qur’an first made legitimize itself in historical terms—but colleagues, were first put forward in clear to me how far that text was from rather set itself apart through its focus the article prepared for the workshop, being an “open book.” As a graduate on piety and righteous behavior. This, “From Believers to Muslims” (eventu- student, I was blessed to have Professors of course, then raised the question of ally published in 2001), and formed the Roy Mottahedeh and Avrom Udovitch how and when a properly historical underpinning of my most recent book, to guide me and stimulate my think- outlook did, in fact, become rooted in Muhammad and the Believers: at the ing about social history, Islamic law, the Muslim community, for as is well origins of Islam (2010). The continuing and many other things. My scholarly known, Islamic civilization developed uncertainty about the actual nature and odyssey would have been very differ- a powerful historical origins narrative evolution of the earliest community of ent—or might not have started at all— to legitimize itself. It was, indeed, the Believers/Muslims makes clear that reli- without their deep learning, willingness very power of Islam’s historical view of ance on actual documents from the first to question established points of view, its own origins that had made it dif- century AH, scarce and difficult to use and encouragement. In singling out ficult for me, and has made it difficult though they may be, will be of crucial these exemplary teachers, of course, I for many others, to perceive the actual importance to clarifying such questions. slight scores of others who also con- character of the earliest movement. It is encouraging to see that a consider- tributed in fundamental ways to my Wrestling with the question of the able number of today’s younger scholars training. The fact is that all of us in the various sources for Islam’s beginnings are devoting renewed attention to such academy, in Middle Eastern studies no also led me to look more and more things as papyri, inscriptions, coins, less than in other fields, are parts of a closely at the Qur’an as a possible and other contemporary artifacts of the vast cumulative enterprise involving source, and to wonder just what kind first/seventh century, a trend I hope will thousands of individual interactions of movement earliest Islam actually had continue. and the intergenerational transfer of been. These reflections opened the way At the outset of this reflection on the slowly acquired methods and truths, so for the most recent phase of my work, evolution of my career, I noted that it that our collective understanding of our which has been devoted to exploring can in a sense be seen as the product subject gradually grows in sophistica- the ideological and communal concepts of a liberal arts education, in which tion and accuracy. We perpetuate this that seem to have motivated the earliest the insistence on becoming familiar process each time we teach a class, make Muslims. I was invited to prepare, for a with a wide variety of disciplines can comments on a paper, give a lecture, workshop on “Concepts of Communal sometimes lead the student in totally or advise a student. Being part of this Identity in Late Antiquity and Early unexpected directions—as in my case. process has, for me, been an exhilarat- Islam” in 1994, a paper on concepts of But before closing I would also like ing ride and I will be content if I can communal identity in the earliest Islam- to underscore the importance in the provide for my students and colleagues ic community. Having become by this process of important teachers, who for even a fraction of the guidance, support, time convinced, first, that the tradition- me—as for most of us, I suspect—are and intellectual stimulation I have been al narrative sources were likely to give often the real magnets that attract us fortunate enough to have received from a portrayal of the earliest community to certain fields, or are the sources my teachers and mentors over the years. that was distorted in as yet undetected of inspiration that fire us to pursue ways, and second, that the Qur’an text something. Would I have discovered

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wAIYS–American Institute for wAMEA–Association for Middle Yemeni Studies East Anthropologists wAl-Monitor Saturday, 11/17 Saturday, 11/17 Monday, 11/19 Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Governor's Business Meeting, 1-3pm, Directors Reception, 7:30-9:30pm, Plaza Square 10 (Plaza-C) Row I (Plaza-L) Ballroom E (Plaza-C) General Meeting, 7-9pm, Plaza Court 4 (Plaza-C) wAATA–American Association of wAMEWS–Association for Middle Teachers of Arabic East Women’s Studies Saturday, 11/17 Saturday, 11/17 Executive Board Meeting, 9am- Board Meeting, 3:45-4:45pm, Plaza 12nn, Plaza Court 2 (Plaza-C) wAMIDEAST–America-Mideast Court 1 (Plaza-C) 50th Anniversary Panel, 1-2:40pm, Educational & Training Services Business Meeting, 7-7:30pm, Plaza Ballroom A (Plaza-C) Saturday, 11/17 Governors Square 9 (Plaza-C) Business Meeting, 2:40-3pm, Plaza Education Abroad Academic Dinner, 7:45-9:30pm, Governors Ballroom A (Plaza-C) Consortium Business Meeting, Square 10 (Plaza-C) 50th Anniversary Reception & 5-6:30pm, Governors Square 9 Monday, 11/19 Poster Session, 3-4:30pm, Plaza (Plaza-C) JMEWS Editorial Board Meeting, Ballroom A (Plaza-C) Sunday, 11/18 2:30-4pm, Plaza Court 1 (Plaza-C) Arabic Advisory Board Meeting, 7-8:30am, Director's Row G (Plaza-L) wAATT–American Association of wAMCA–Association for Modern Teachers of Turkic Languages and Contemporary Art of the Saturday, 11/17 wAUC–American University in Cairo Arab World, Iran and Turkey Business Meeting, 10-11pm, Tower Monday, 11/19 Monday, 11/19 Court C (Tower) Reception, 7-9pm, Plaza Ballroom D Members Meeting, 7-9pm, Plaza (Plaza-C) Court 1 (Plaza-C) wAIAS–American Institute of Afghanistan Studies Sunday, 11/18 wAASA–Arab American Studies Board Meeting, 2-4pm, Plaza Court 4 Association (Plaza-C) Saturday, 11/17 Business Meeting, 11am-1pm, Plaza wASPS–Association for the Study Court 4 (Plaza-C) of Persianate Societies Saturday, 11/17 wAIIrS–American Institute of Board Meeting, 2-3pm, Director's Iranian Studies wAGAPS–Association for Gulf and Row G (Plaza-L) Saturday, 11/17 Arabian Peninsula Studies Business Meeting, 3-4pm, Governor's Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Plaza Court 6 Saturday, 11/17 Square 9 (Plaza-C) (Plaza-C) Board Meeting, 11am-1pm, Directors Sunday, 11/18 Row F (Plaza-L) Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Governors Business Meeting, 2-4pm, Tower Square 11 (Plaza-C) wAIMS–American Institute for Court B (Tower) Maghrib Studies Saturday, 11/17 wCASA–Center for Arabic Study Board Meeting, 9am-1pm, Governor's wAIS–Association for Israel Studies Abroad Square 10 (Plaza-C) Saturday, 11/17 Saturday, 11/17 Business Meeting, 2-4, Director's Row Reception, 7:30-9pm, Tower Court A Governing Board Meeting, 7:30- J (Plaza-L) (Tower) 10:30pm, Director's Row F (Plaza-L) Sunday, 11/18 Consortium Luncheon, 12-1:30pm, Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant (Downtown) - 500 16th Street, Denver CO 80202

MESA 2012 Preliminary Program u Page 7 wEWIC–Encyclopedia of Women MEOC–Middle East Outreach wTAARII–The American Academic in Islamic Cultures Council Research Institute in Iraq Monday, 11/19 Sunday, 11/18 Saturday, 11/17 Editors Training Meeting, 8:30am- General Meeting, 8-10am, Plaza Board Meeting, 1-3pm, Plaza Court 5 2:30pm, Director's Row G (Plaza-L) Court 2 (Plaza-C) (Plaza-C) Nuts & Bolts Workshop for Monday, 11/19 Outreach Coordinators, 10:30am- Reception, 7-9pm, Governor’s Square 12:30pm, Plaza Court 3 (Plaza-C) 9 (Plaza-C) wIJMES–International Journal of Board Meeting, 4-6pm, Governor’s Middle East Studies Square 9 (Plaza-C) Monday, 11/19 Editorial Board Meeting, 4-5pm, Plaza Court 5 (Plaza-C) wMESA–Middle East Studies wTSA–Turkish Studies Association Association Saturday, 11/17 wISIS–International Society for Saturday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 12:30-2:30pm, Plaza Iranian Studies CUMES meeting, 3-5pm, Plaza Court Court 6 (Plaza-C) Saturday, 11/17 8 (Plaza-C) Reception, 7-8pm, Grand Foyer Board Meeting, 4-6pm, Director’s Sunday, 11/18 (Tower) Row F (Plaza-L) Committee on Academic Business Meeting, 8-10pm, Tower General Meeting, 6:30-8pm, Plaza Freedom Meeting, 1-3pm, Directors Court C (Tower) Court 3 (Plaza-C) Row F (Plaza-L) Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Governor’s Monday, 11/19 Square 10 (Plaza-C) Affiliate Officers Meeting, 7-8:30am, wWestern Consortium of Middle Governors Square 9 (Plaza-C) East Centers Sunday, 11/18 Meeting, 11am-1pm, Plaza Court 1 jmews wPARC–Palestinian American (Plaza-C) wJMEWS-Journal of Middle East Research Center Women’s Studies Saturday, 11/17 Monday, 11/19 Board Meeting, 11am-3pm, Tower Editorial Board Meeting, 2:30-4pm, Court D (Tower) Plaza Court 1 (Plaza-C) Gathering, 3:30-5pm, Grand Foyer (Tower) wKSA-Kurdish Studies Association Saturday, 11/17 wSAS–Society for Armenian Studies Membership Meeting, 2-4pm, Plaza Saturday, 11/17 Court 4 (Plaza-C) Executive Council Meeting, 2-4pm, Plaza Court 2 (Plaza-C) Membership Meeting, 4:30-6:30pm, wMECPD–Middle East Center & Plaza Court 4 (Plaza-C) Program Directors Sunday, 11/18 annual meeting, 9-11am, Governors wSociology of Islam Square 16 (Plaza-C) Sunday, 11/18 Reception, 6-7pm, Plaza Court 1 (Plaza-C) wMEM–Middle East Medievalists Saturday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 3-4pm, Tower Court A wSSA–Syrian Studies Association (Tower) Saturday, 11/17 Business Meeting, 4-5pm, Tower Court Board Meeting, 2-3pm, Plaza Court 1 C (Tower) (Plaza-C) Business Meeting/Panel Discussion: “Perspectives on the Syrian Uprising”, 3:30-5:30pm, Plaza Court 3 (Plaza-C)

Page 8 u MESA 2012 Preliminary Program MESA ’12 FilmFest Preview For 2012, here is a small sample of Jack Shaheen to be what the committee has chosen to ’12 FilmFest Guest Speaker screen to date: Join MESA FilmFest in welcoming Jack G. Shaheen to this year’s fun in Denver. Dr. Shaheen will host a film screening, a discussion, and introduce MESA attendees to the exciting visual exhibit, “A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture.” Keep checking the FilmFest page for details and schedule of events (http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/annual- photo courtesy Cinema Guild meeting/filmfest.html). Al-Halqa: In the Storyteller’s Shaheen is currently a Distinguished Visiting Scholar photo courtesy of NYU Circle at New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute and The Hagop Kevorkian The age-old world tradition of storytelling Center for Near Eastern Studies. He is the recipient of two Fulbright teaching awards, is still practiced in Morocco. Follow Zoheir the University of Pennsylvania’s Janet Lee Stevens Award, the American Arab Anti- and his father (Abderahim El Maqori) as he Discrimination Committee’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Archangel Michael award prepares for his debut, not only keeping [from the Greek Orthodox church], and the Pancho Be Award. His extensive collection up the tradition, but also making the craft of visual material provides valuable documentation of the representations of Arabs and th st relevant to a new generation. Muslims in U.S. popular culture and mass media from the late 19 to the 21 century.

A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture

The “A is for Arab” exhibit will be located in the lobby photo courtesy of Seventh Art Productions entrance to the MESA FilmFest. The exhibit and Dr. Sha- heen’s attendance at MESA FilmFest is sponsored by: The The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Afghanistan Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. If you remember the film, “The Boy Who For a short video on the background of the collection, Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan,” you visit: www.apa.nyu.edu/SHAHEEN/. won’t want to miss this. Filmmaker Phil Grabsky followed Mir from age 8 to 18. The film covers the highs and lows of photo courtesy of NYU events personally and nationally. Film Sponsors Still Needed See your name (or logo) in lights! Support great film offerings at MESA FilmFest. You may sponsor a particular film, or simply show fiscal support and enjoy the satisfac- photo courtesy of Icarus Films photo courtesy of California Newsreel tion of contributing to one of MESA’s most Fragments of a Revolution Manuscripts of Timbuktu popular activities. Contact: Nadia Hlibka, The film takes us to the summer of 2009 Featuring commentary by African [email protected] for information. and the events leading up to the Green scholars, rich reenactments and an Movement and the months that followed original musical score, this documentary that summer’s tragic outcomes for so critiques the limited view of Timbuktu Watch for the many in Iran. The events unfold through as “any distant or remote place.” The the eyes and words of a few exiled and film also highlights the plight of tens of Film Schedule local Iranians as they trade YouTube thousands of manuscripts that need care The schedule and list of accepted films will videos, Skype calls, and emails. Viewers and housing. The discussion is even more be posted on the website by mid-Septem- become part of this very secret and poignant now given the events of this ber: http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/annual- intimate process. summer. meeting/filmfest.html. MESA 2012 Preliminary Program u Page 9 Program5:30-7:30PM Saturday November 17 Unstable Objects: Shifting Genealogies SPECIAL SESSION of Art, Artists, and Images in the Middle East Organized by Nancy Um

Chair/Discussant: Heghnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis The Emergence of New Media Carel Bertram, San Francisco State U– Supported by Al-Monitor Thawing the Frozen Images of Ottoman www.al-monitor.com Anatolia: Armenian Pilgrimages of “Return” David Simonowitz, Pepperdine U–Red Chair: and Black Rivers Redux?: The Uprooting Andrew Parasiliti, Al-Monitor of an Iraqi Family of Calligraphers and the (Gendered) Politics of Cultural Sophie Claudet, Al-Monitor Spaces Barbara Slavin, Al-Monitor Nancy Um, Binghamton U–The Sultan Alqassemi, Barjeel Art Foundation So-Called “Indian Wedding Chair”: Jean Aziz, Journalist and Writer (based in Lebanon) Unresolved Narratives of Dispersal in a Laura Rozen, Al-Monitor Cosmopolitan Woodworking Tradition Hala Auji, Binghamton U–Arabic Books This special session will address how new media is affecting the politics and in Flux: The Early Publications of The media of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Western coverage of American Syria Mission (1836-1860) the region. The panelists will examine the relative influence of traditional (television and print) media and e-media, and consider whether there is a new Remembering the First World War in synergy between regional and international media and what this all means for the Middle East political discourse. Organized by Pheroze Unwalla

Chair/Discussant: Benjamin Carr Looking Beyond National Borders and The Transformation of the Palestinian Fortna, SOAS, U London Cultural Boundaries: Transnational Peasantry: Capitalism, Reform, and Connections and the Reform of Resistance in the Late Ottoman and Yigit Akin, Col of Charleston–“Damn Islamic Education, 1820-1950 British Mandate Eras You, Enver Pasha!”: Popular Perceptions Organized by Hilary Kalmbach Organized by Charles Anderson and Remembrance of War and Death in the Ottoman Empire Chair: Nadya Sbaiti, Smith Col Chair/Discussant: Michael Gasper, Pheroze Unwalla, SOAS, U London– Discussant: Michael Laffan, Princeton U Occidental Col Triumph from Trauma, Neglect to Adulation: Selective Remembrance of Archana Prakash, U Illinois Urbana Erik Freas, Borough of Manhattan the First World War in Modern Turkey Champaign–Producing “Useful” Experts: Community Col CUNY–Ottoman Reform, Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois U–Once The Egyptian Student Missions to Islam and Palestine’s Peasantry Upon a War: Memories of World War France, 1826-1849 Charles Anderson, New York U–British One in Palestine Hilary Kalmbach, U Oxford–The Rule and the Decomposition of the James L. Gelvin, UCLA–Collective Transnational Reach of Cairo’s Dar al- Palestinian Peasantry Memory and Nationalist Narrative: On Ulum, 1890-1950 Rana Barakat, Birzeit U–Where the the Possibility of Recounting a “Syrian Mike Farquhar, London School of Rural and the Urban Meet: Politics of Experience” of the First World War Economics and Political Science– Peasant Resistance under British Rule in Transnational Connections and Early Palestine Saudi Educational Reform: The Ma’had Munir K. Fakher Eldin, Birzeit U–The Ilmi Sa’udi in 1920s Mecca Politics of Landholding in British-Ruled Miriam Younes, U Basel–Changing Palestine, 1921-1948: Land Reform and Transnational Patterns and Connections the Impoverishment of a Rural Society within the Shi’ite Hawzas of Najaf in the Early 20th Century

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Qiyan Courtesans and Concubines: Roundtable Tunisia’s Forgotten Literary Avant- Their Impact on Early Islamic Society Garde Organized by Kathryn Hain Re-Interpreting Islam and Organized by Douja Mamelouk Nationalism in Iran Organized by Sponsored by Eric Hooglund Kimberly Katz, Towson U–Urban Space Middle East Medievalists and Anti-Colonialism in the Maqamat of Supported by Tunisian Salih Suwaysi Al-Qayrawani Center for Middle Eastern Studies Chair: Kathryn Hain, U Utah Douja Mamelouk, U Tennessee–Ali Lund University Discussant: Matthew S. Gordon, Miami U Du‘aji and Al-‘Alam Al-Adabi: A Voice of the Tunisian Avant-Garde under Chairs: , Sheffield Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve Reza Zia-Ebrahimi Colonial Rule Hallam U and , Lund U U–Music and the Figure of the Qiyan in Eric Hooglund Lotfi Ben Rejeb, U Ottawa–“Between the Response to a Question Concerning Two Worlds”: Mahmoud Aslan and Music by Al-Ajurri (d. 970) and the Reza Arjmand, Lund U the Boundaries of Identity in Colonial Censure of Instruments of Diversion by Kevan Harris, Princeton U Tunisia Ibn Abi’l Dunya (d. 894) Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon, U Pernilla Myrne, U Gothenburg, Political and Ideological Reform in Alabama Birmingham–Portrait of Sweden–Qiyan: Cultural Achievements the Modern Shi’i Muslim World Tunisian Avant-Garde Writers and and Self-Representation Organized by Zackery Heern Artists in Mahmoud Beyram Attounsi’s Majied Robinson, Edinburgh U–The Satirical Newspaper “Al Shabab” (29 Concubine in Statistical Context: A Chair/Discussant: Michaelle L. October 1936-12 March 1937) , Wake Forest U Prosopographical Analysis of the Arab Browers Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, U South Genealogical Tradition Carolina Upstate–Albert Memmi’s , Murray State U–Usuli Nerina Rustomji, St. John’s U–Are Zackery Heern Legacy in Tunisia and beyond the Houris Heavenly Concubines? Shi’ism and the Eighteenth Century Mediterranean World Islamic Reformation , U Bridgeport– Additional Content and Alternative Robert J. Riggs Telephony and Turkish Reconceptualizing the Foundation Assessment: Widening Horizons in the Modernization: Social History of of Lebanese and Iraqi Shi’i Political Arabic Language Classroom Telephone since the Ottoman Era Reformism: Muhammed Rida Al- Organized by Peter Glanville Organized by Burce Celik Muzaffar’s Muntada Al-Nashr Supported by Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentucky U– Supported by University of Maryland Arabic Flagship The Liminal Identity of the Reformist TUBITAK Theologian Sayyid Asad Allah Kharaghani Chair/Discussant: Valerie Burce Celik, Bahcesehir U–New , U Toronto– Anishchenkova, U Maryland Arshavez Mozafari Perspectives on Social History of Turkey: Khomeini’s Kashf Al-Asrar and Satan’s What Do Technology Studies Offer? Conceptual Transcendence Kevin Burnham, Appalachian State U– Kaya Ozkaracalar, Bahcesehir U– Phonetic Training for Learners of Arabic Telephony and Modernity, the Case of Summer Loomis, U Texas Austin– Compromise, Confrontation or Turkey: Problems, Findings, Directions Formative Feedback and Informal Transformation?: Implications of the Mahmut Cinar, Bahcesehir U–Reading Assessment: Techniques to Encourage Rise of Islamist Political Power Manuscripts: The Telephone, Modernity Better Speaking Organized by Bjorn Olav Utvik and Progress in Discourses Peter Glanville, U Maryland College Derya Tarbuck, Bahcesehir U– Park–Using a Learner Record in a Mixed- Chair: Dag Tuastad, U Oslo Reflections on Oral History: The Level Class Experiences of the Ownership and Non- , U Oslo–Maronite Laila Familiar, U Texas Austin– Kai E. Kverme Ownership of the Telephone in Istanbul Teaching Culture in the Arabic Politics, Islamism and the Church: and Ankara Conflicting Views on the Future of Classroom Gulengul Altintas, Bahcesehir U– Lebanon Nesrine Basheer, U Maryland College Reflections of Oral History: The Park–The Linguistic Dimension of Pinar Tank, Peace Research Institute Experiences of the Ownership and Non- Cultural Competence: Expanding the Oslo–The AKP and Turkey’s Kurds: No Ownership of the Telephone in Kayseri Domain of Spoken Arabic Kurdish Spring in Sight? and Diyarbakir Bjorn Olav Utvik, U Oslo–The Ikhwanisation of the Salafis: Piety in the Revolutionary Politics of Egypt Albrecht Hofheinz, U Oslo–“Why Do You Hate Us?”: Social Media and the Muslim Brotherhood

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Memory and Gender: Representations Music and Performance Thematic Organized by Sandra G. Carter Conversation Chair: Carmen M.K. Gitre, Seattle U Teaching the Arab Uprisings Sandra G. Carter, U Houston Victoria– Organized by Ann Witulski The Video "Tihya", Raissa Fatima Ida Meftahi, U Toronto–The Bio- Tabaamrante, and New Technologies of Political Economy of Cabaret Dancing in Session Leader: Ann Witulski, U Florida Memory Twentieth-Century Iran Roberta Micallef, Boston U–A Gendered Maureen Jackson, Harvard U–The Lara Dotson-Renta, Quinnipiac U Examination of Armenian Post-Memoirs Music Marketplace of a Mediterranean Sumayya Ahmed, UNC Chapel Hill Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown U– Port Heidi Morrison, U Wisconsin La Crosse Contemporary Turkish Popular Poetry Houda Abadi, Georgia State U–Mediated Elisheva Cohen, Portland State U and the Emotions of Memorialization Resistance: Performing Protests in Emine Hosoglu Dogan, U Utah & Morocco Istanbul Sehir U–Profiles of Late Katherine Hennessey, American Ottoman Women Institute for Yemeni Studies–Performing Freedom, Personifying Dissent: Theater Roundtable on the Arabian Peninsula in the Wake of the Arab Spring Out of the Classroom and into the Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, INALCO- Field: Designing Study Abroad Sorbonne Paris Cité–Shikhat?: The Right Programs to the Gulf States to Perform with Dignity Organized by Sharon Nagy Armenians in the Modern World Chair: Sharon Nagy, DePaul U Serife Eroglu Memis, Hacettepe U– Larry Brown, Oman Center for Aleppine Armenians during the Last International Learning Decades of the Nineteenth and the First Quarter of the Twentieth Centuries States, Markets, Media, and the Doris Melkonian, UCLA–Genocide Environment Narratives that Challenge Female Gender Norms Chair: Bassam Yousif, Indiana State U Arda Melkonian, UCLA–Types of Intervention during the Armenian Shima Bozorgi, Monterey, California– Genocide Iran in the Era of Environmental Movements Annemie Vermaelen, Ghent U–The Uneasiness of Local Knowledge: Eco- Political Interventions in Wadi Araba, Jordan Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Columbia U–Seepage and Statecraft: Contours of Pollution in Post-Oslo Palestine Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Skidmore Col– Changing Agricultural Environments: Markets, Small Farmers and the Conservation of Traditional Wheat in Turkey Katharina Lenner, Free U Berlin–The Uneasiness of Local Knowledge: Eco- Political Interventions in Wadi Araba, Jordan

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TODAY’S AFFILIATED MEETINGS Iran’s Changing Geopolitical Debate: Emotions and Culture: Anxiety, Love, An Inside-Out Narrative and Desire in the Ottoman Empire 7-8:30am Organized by Mohammad Organized by Oscar Aguirre AMIDEAST Arabic Advisory Homayounvash Mandujano Board Meeting Directors Row G (Plaza-L) Chair: Houman Sadri, U Central Florida Chair/Discussant: Walter G. Andrews, U 8-10am Discussant: Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida Washington MEOC General Meeting International U Plaza Court 2 (Plaza-C) Oscar Aguirre Mandujano, U 9-11am Mohammad Homayounvash, Florida Washington–The Emotions behind Middle East Center & Program International U and Reza Sanati, Florida Conquest and Conversion: The Poetic Directors Meeting International U–From “Neither East or Framework for Epic Frontier Narratives Governors Square 16 (Plaza-C) West” to the Far East: The Intersection Zeynep Seviner, U Washington–Objects 10:30am-12:30pm of Iran’s Energy Export Strategy with Its that Talk: Desire, Envy and Commodities MEOC Nuts & Bolts Workshop Nuclear Industry as Literary Devices in Mai ve Siyah for Outreach Coordinators Ozum Yesiltas, Florida International Anat Goldman, U Washington–Anxiety Plaza Court 3 (Plaza-C) U–The Role of Ethnic Movements in the and Identity Formation in 19th Century 11am-1pm Formation of a Democratic Iran Orientalist Paintings Western Consortium of Middle Arash Reisinezhad, Florida Elizabeth Nolte, U Washington– East Centers Meeting International U–Islam and Social Historical Anxiety and Literary Plaza Court 1 (Plaza-C) Movement: Religious Opportunities and Representations of the Ottoman Empire 12nn-1:30pm Constraints CASA Consortium Luncheon Naisy Sarduy, Florida International Beauty in Persian Poetry: Personal, Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant U–Iran and the Other America: The Social, and Political Responses (Downtown) 500 16th Street Forgotten Narrative and Roads Not Taken Organized by Dylan Oehler-Stricklin 1-3pm Nima Baghdadi, Florida International MESA's Committee on Academ- U–State as a Unitary Actor?: Iran Chair/Discussant: Ahmet T. ic Freedom Meeting Shaping an Anomaly Karamustafa, Washington U St. Louis Plaza Court 2 (Plaza-C) 4-6pm Decentering Muscat: Makran, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington U St. MEOC Board Meeting Zanzibar and the Omani Empire in the Louis–Men, Women, and God: Sa’di’s Governors Square 9 (Plaza-C) Indian Ocean, c. 1800-1964 Vision of Love and Beauty in His Ghazals 8:30-10pm Organized by Fahad A. Bishara and the Gulistan ASPS Reception Paul E. Losensky, Indiana U–“From Governors Square 11 (Plaza-C) Sponsored by the Effulgence of Silences”: Emanation, Association for Gulf & Creativity, and Aesthetics in the Poetry Arabian Peninsula Studies of Sa'eb Tabrizi Roundtable Matthew Thomas Miller, Washington Chair: J. E. Peterson, Tucson, Arizona U St. Louis–Aesthetic Homonormativity Martin B. Dickson and His Legacy Discussant: Mandana E. Limbert, City U in Medieval Persian Sufism: A Cultural after Twenty Years New York Poetics of Sufi Homoeroticism in the Organized by Ilker Evrim Binbas Biographical Traditions of Fakhr Al-Din Fahad A. Bishara, Harvard U/Col ‘Eraqi Ilker Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, U of William and Mary–Paper Routes: Dylan Oehler-Stricklin, Washington London Inscribing Law and Commerce across the U St. Louis–Between Beauty and Pain: Cornell Hugh Fleischer, U Chicago 19th-Century Indian Ocean Nature as a Medium of Self Realization Judith Pfeiffer, U Oxford Thomas F. McDow, Ohio State U– in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad Kathryn Babayan, U Michigan Forging New Passages: African Mobility Kaya Sahin, Indiana U to Arabia and Beyond, 1856-1895 Vera Basch Moreen, Independent Ameem Lutfi, Duke U–Sea, Soldiers Scholar and Sovereignty: Reading Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean through Baloch Mercenaries Hafeez Jamali, U Texas Austin– Shorelines of Memory, Sediments of History: Britain, Oman, and the Shifting Geographies of Trade in the Mekran Coast 1862-1905

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Oil, Islam and Institutions: Rethinking Hoda El Shakry, New York U–The Poetic Representations of Rebellion and War the Causes and Consequences of Landscape of Islamic Thought: Creation Women’s Political Empowerment in and Existence in the Literary World of Carol Bardenstein, U Michigan– the MENA Mahmud Al-Mas’adi Transfiguring Violence: Aestheticized Organized by Lindsay J. Benstead Luke Leafgren, Harvard U–Zaidan’s “Backward Glances” at the Lebanese Historical Novels: Creating Community Civil War Thirty Years After Chair: Ellen Lust, Yale U Out of Conflict Ikram Masmoudi, U Delaware–Fiction Discussants: Anya Vodopyanov, and the Unofficial History of Iraqi War Harvard U and Val Moghadam, Authority and Popular Contention in Poets Northeastern U North Africa Kevin Jones, U Michigan–‘A Horizon Lit with Blood’: Poetry, Protest and the Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State U– Chair: Hamid Rezai, Columbia U Promise of National Liberation in Iraq, Voting the Platform or Providing Wasta: 1948-1956 Exploring the Impact of Institutional Brock Cutler, Radford U–Environmental Arash Afghahi, New York U–Poetry and Setting on Voter Preferences for Female Affairs: Disaster and the Border in the Politics of Identity: The Evolution of Candidates in the Maghreb Nineteenth Century Algeria Winter as a Trope Bozena Welborne, U Nevada Reno– Abdullah Al-Arian, Wayne State U–Back Hamad Obaid Alajmi, Indiana U–Al- Security in Numbers: Exploring the to the Future: Islam and Popular Revolt Hujayjah’s Poetry Inciting Her People to Relationship between Women’s Political in Egypt (1968-2011) Fight Representation and Personal Security in Isabel Schaefer, Humboldt U Berlin– the Middle East and North Africa Civil Society Associations in Tunisia State and Civil Society in Modern Dawn Nowacki, Linfield Col–Explaining before and after the Revolution Turkey Quota Types for Women’s Representation Minor Allison, U Texas Austin– in Muslim Majority States Boundaries and Power: Asserting Central Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State U Sarah Bush, Temple U and Eleanor Gao, Authority by Defining Landscapes in U Michigan–Women’s Representation Historical and Contemporary Morocco Hulya Arik, York U–‘Religious’ vs. in Jordan: How Quotas Work in an Hazem Kandil, UCLA–Back on Horse?: ‘Secular’ Embodiment: Construction of Authoritarian Setting The Egyptian Military between Two the Female Body and Sexuality between Revolutions Political Discourses in Turkish Military Ideology, Political Culture and Families Authoritarianism in Ba`thist Iraq and Palestine: The Mandate and Its Neslihan Kaptanoglu, American U– Syria Aftermath Turkey and the EU in the Middle East: Organized by Joseph Sassoon The Limits on Europeanization of Chair: Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph- Turkish Foreign Policy Chair/Discussant: Peter Sluglett, Macon Col Faruk Yalvac, Middle East Technical U– National U Singapore Hegemonic Depth and Turkish Foreign Mezna Qato, U Oxford–Lessons in Self- Policy Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown U– Determination: Historiographies of Pinar Kemerli, Cornell U–Refusing to Ideology and Culture in Ba`thist Iraq Palestinian Pedagogical Emancipation Become Pious Soldiers: Turkey’s Islamist Bassam Haddad, George Mason U–The (1948-1958) Conscientious Objectors Radicalization and Ruralization of the Laura Goffman, New York U–“Under Masaki Kakizaki, U Utah–Testing Ba`th Party the Strenuous Conditions of the Modern the “Social Movement Society” Fanar Haddad, National U of Singapore– World”: Organizing Arab Education in Thesis in Turkey: Is Protest becoming From beyond the Grave: The Legacy of Mandatory Palestine a Conventional Mode of Political the Ba’ath between Ideology and Power Fredrik Meiton, New York U–Electrical Participation? Power: Infrastructural Concessions in Modern Arab Intellectuals Early Mandatory Palestine The Politics of Language Nicholas E. Roberts, Sewanee: U the Chair: Asaad Al-Saleh, U Utah South–Building a Palestinian Islam: Chair: Salah-Dine Hammoud, U.S. Air Britain and the Establishment of the Force Academy, Colorado Yoav Di-Capua, U Texas Austin–The Supreme Muslim Council in Mandatory Great Intellectual Odyssey of Husayn Palestine Ivan Panovic, U Oxford–Another Word Muruwwa Laura Fish, U Texas Austin–Publicized on the Wall: Graffiti in Cairo in the Nadav Samin, Princeton U–The Violence: Photographed Realities of Service of the Revolution Oracle of Al-Wurud: Hamad Al-Jasir’s Palestine Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State U– Genealogical Correspondences, 1992- Examining the Work of Ideology in the 2000 Educational Domain: Language Attitudes and Use among Moroccan Youth

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Kian Alavy, U Arizona–Language and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Literature in the Homeland Project of the Azerbaijan Democrat Party in Iran Teaching Middle Eastern Studies: Promises, Pitfalls and Practicalities Mohamed ElSawi Hassan, Amherst Col– Organized by June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart U “Speak That I May See You”: A Linguistic Reading of Defining Moments of Egypt’s Sponsored by Military Council during the Revolution MESA's Committee for Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Dris Soulaimani, UCLA–Orthographies and Language Ideologies: Selecting a Chair: Chad G. Lingwood, Grand Valley State U Script for Berber in Morocco Discussants: Noor-Aiman Khan, Colgate U and Ranjit Singh, U of Mary Washington Christians and Others in Muslim Societies Edgar W. Francis IV, U Wisconsin Stevens Point Victoria Hightower, North Georgia Col & State U Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U Ed Webb, Dickinson Col Jeff VanDenBerg, Drury U Phil Dorroll, Emory U–Sacred Violence Jeffrey Macris, U.S. Naval Academy in Sacred History: War and Peace in Jane H. Murphy, Colorado Col Arabic Christian Apologetics Bryant "Tip" Ragan, Colorado Col Mehmet Ali Dogan, Istanbul Technical U–American Missionary Activities in The inaugural panel for the newly reconstituted Committee for Mardin Undergraduate Teaching and Learning in ME Studies (CUMES) will focus on Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore Col–The common challenges and opportunities experienced by educators in teaching Death of the Archbishop: Religious ME Studies courses in undergraduate, non- research 1 institutions. Ritual and Political Power in Turn-of- the-Century Alexandria, Egypt Abed Al-Rahman Tayyara, Cleveland Transitioning Law: Islamic Law and State U–The Representations of the Its Relation to Other Legal Systems Paulicians in Early Islamic Sources Charles L. Wilkins, Wake Forest U– Ihsan Alkhatib, Murray State U–Shari’a Aspects of Integration and Segregation Law and American Family Courts among the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Hania Abou Al-Shamat, U Florida– Communities of 17th-Century Ottoman Receptivity to Legal Change: Merchants’ Aleppo Adjustment to the New Commercial Laws and Courts in Egypt, 1883-1949 Thematic Conversation Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei, UC Santa Barbara–The Contemporary Debate over Neoliberal Urbanizations in the Arab Islamic Family Law World (Year 2) Vardit Rispler-Chaim, U Haifa–Islamic Organized by Ala Al-Hamarneh Law and People with Disabilities: Between the Terminology and Social Session Leader: Ala Al-Hamarneh, U Reality Mainz

Andrew Gardner, U Puget Sound Nadine Scharfenort, U Mainz Diane Singerman, American U Christopher H. Parker, Ghent U Farah Al-Nakib, American U Kuwait

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SPECIAL SESSION Ottoman Inter-Confessional Dialectics in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries Organized by Scott Rank How the Arab Uprisings Have Made us Rethink Chair: Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central What We Knew about the Arab World European U Discussant: Bedross Der Matossian, U Lisa Anderson, American U in Cairo Nebraska, Lincoln What Have the Arab Uprisings Taught Us about the Nature of Governance in the Arab World Scott Rank, Central European U– Joel Beinin, Stanford U Rethinking Late Ottoman Religious What Have the Arab Uprisings Taught Us about Sectarianism: Christian-Muslim Polemics Social Mobilization in the Arab World and Common Discourses of Religious Nathan J. Brown, George Washington U Truth (1867-1915) What Have the Arab Uprisings Taught Us about Alyson Wharton, Mardin Artuklu U, the Diffusion of Global Norms Turkey–Armenian Church Buildings of Human Rights and Democracy to the Arab World in Diyarbakir and Gaziantep and the Suad Joseph, UC Davis Expression of Local Identity in the What Have the Arab Uprisings Taught Us about Second Half of the 19th Century Gender and Gender Politics in the Arab World Asli Gur, U Michigan–Transformation Carrie Wickham, Emory U of the Educational Field, Alternative What Have the Arab Uprisings Taught Us about Social Imageries, and Their Impact on the Evolution of Political Islam in the Arab World the Confessional Group Relations in the Asli Bali, UCLA Ottoman Empire (1840-1880) What Have the Arab Uprisings Taught Us about Foreign Intervention in the Arab World The Long Shadow of Lyautey: Long- term Effects of French Colonialism on It has been almost two years since Muhammad Bouazizi’s self-immolation and the Contemporary Morocco subsequent spread of uprisings and protests throughout the Arab world. These Organized by Moshe Gershovich uprisings and protests have not only affected the lives of millions of those living in the region, they compel those of us researching and teaching about the region Chair/Discussant: John P. Entelis, to reassess our research agendas and rethink the way we present the Arab world Fordham U to our students. They have also expanded the public role of MESA members who have increasingly been called upon by media and others to explain and contextu- Spencer Segalla, U Tampa–The alize events. The purpose of this panel is to assemble experts to explore how the Lyautist Urban Planning Legacy, the uprisings have transformed our understanding of the recent history of the region, Reconstruction of Agadir, and the and what the uprisings might teach us about a number of specific topics, from the Moroccan Modern diffusion of global norms of human rights beginning in the 1970s and their recep- Paul Williams, U Nebraska at Omaha– tion in the region to the expansion of the realm of political Islam to include cur- Christian Communities in Morocco from rents responsive to those norms, and from the transformation of the civic order the Protectorate to the Present in the Arab world during the past three decades to the transformation of the role Moshe Gershovich, U Nebraska at of the United States in the region in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq and the Omaha–Inadvertent Unifiers: French global economic crisis of 2008. Military Policies and the Transformation of the Moroccan Countryside Mohamed Daadaoui, Oklahoma City U–The Legacy of Maréchal Lyautey and the Modernization of the Makhzen in Morocco Stacy E. Holden, Purdue U–Contested Memories in Colonial Morocco: The Construction of Hubert Lyautey’s Mausoleum in Rabat, 1935

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Gender, Intersectionality, and the PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Politics of Social Change Organized by Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U Academic Writing for the Media London Supported by Sponsored by British Council Association for Middle East Women's Studies Sheila Lalwani, Special Advisor to the Publisher, Foreign Policy

Katherine Natanel, SOAS, U London– Although well-researched, academic writing can often seem inaccessible to Living in the Garden of Perhaps: many in the media and the general public. Academic research can offer impor- Ordinary Life as an Obstacle to Political tant insight to the broader public, but the gap between academic and main- Change in Israel stream media writing styles keeps many scholars from publishing in popular Leyli Behbahani, SOAS, U London– media. Journalist and academic Sheila Lalwani, Merrill School of Journalism, Transnational Iranian Feminist Activism University of Maryland, and Special Advisor to the Publisher, Foreign Policy, will and the Politics of Location offer guidance on writing for the mainstream media, from choosing the ap- Marta Pietrobelli, SOAS, U London– propriate tone and style to identifying news outlets to pitch. She will cover the Empowerment, Gender and Social following topics, among others: Change in the Context of Women’s Political Participation in Jordan • What are editors and news outlets looking for? Ozlem Caliskan, SOAS, U London– • How do you pitch a story to editors? Intersection of Differences in Anti- • How can an academic argument be crafted into effective messaging in a media Militarist Feminist Organizing in Turkey context? • What changes must be made when writing an article for wide dissemination? Roundtable The Americans are Coming: Assessing the Impact of the Expansion of U.S. Nancy Khalek, Brown U–Leveraging the Mona L. Russell, East Carolina U– Study Abroad in the Arab World Sahaba: Discourses of Orthodoxy and Bordering on Illicit Organized by Allison Hodgkins, U Sunni Revival Sarah Thomsen Vierra, UNC Chapel Jordan and Stephen Bush A. Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech U–The Hill–A Space Apart or a Part of Society?: Role of Ibn Sa’d’s Tabaqat in Ibn Asakir’s Turkish Mosques in West Germany in Chair: Ann M. Lesch, American U in Cairo Tarikh Dimashq the 1970s and 1980s Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith Col–Did the Katherine N. Yngve, American U Beirut Crusades Change Jerusalem’s Religious Finding Islam in Cyberspace: Hip Hop, Stephen Bush, CIEE Symbolism in Islam? Video Games, Armageddon and Wiki Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest U Apostates Cara Lane, AMIDEAST Education Abroad The Making & Breaking of Boundaries Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco in the Arab World in Africa, Europe and the Middle East Ozlem Altan-Olcay, Koç U Organized by Mona L. Russell Chair: Vit Sisler, Charles U in Prague Elena D. Corbett, Penn State Erie Discussant: Jon W. Anderson, Catholic Discussant: Shane E. Minkin, U America The Muslim World in the Age of the Swarthmore Col Crusades: History, Religion and Culture Anders Ackfeldt, Lund U–“I Am in the Service of Counter Crusading and Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington–Making Malcolm X”: Muslim Hip-Hop Video Sunni Revivalism, Part 1 Race into Place on the Frontier Zones Clips Online Organized by Suleiman A. Mourad and of Northeastern Africa in the Late 19th Vit Sisler, Charles U Prague–Playing James E. Lindsay, Colorado State U Century with Religion: Representation of Islam in Matthew H. Ellis, Sarah Lawrence Col– Video Games Sponsored by Drawing a Line in the Sand?: Ottomans, Goran Larsson, U Gothenburg– Middle East Medievalists Italians, Bedouins, and the Making of the Wikiislam and Apostasy: The Public Talk Egyptian Western Border Crisis, 1902- about Islam and Heresy in Cyberspace Chair: Warren C. Schultz, DePaul U 1916 Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra U– Sarah Shields, UNC Chapel Hill– Really and Virtually Armageddon Bound: R. Stephen Humphreys, UC Santa Manufacturing Collective Identities: Online Christian and Muslim Apocalyptic Barbara–Ideological Mobilization in the Contesting Territories in the Interwar Scenarios Age of the Crusades: The Evidence of the Middle East Manuscripts

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Palestine and the Arab Revolutions Social Histories of the Oil Industry in Political Economy of the Arabian Organized by Sherene Seikaly Modern Iran Peninsula, Part I Organized by Kaveh Ehsani Sponsored by Sponsored by Palestinian American Research Center Touraj Atabaki, International Institute Association for Gulf & and Jadaliyya of Social History–The Making of the Arabian Peninsula Studies Abadan Oil Refinery Chair/Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, Maral Jefroudi, International Institute Chair: Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch American U in Cairo of Social History–The White Revolution and Oil Workers of Khuzestan: Stephen Steinbeiser, American Taheer A. Araj, American U in Cairo– Perceptions, Appropriations and Institute for Yemeni Studies–The Role of Does the Road to Freedom Begin in Experiences Law in Yemen Cairo?: Palestinian Political Activism in Jamaseb Soltani, International Institute Jim Krane, Cambridge U–The Politics Egypt of Social History–The Last Migration: of Energy Policy in the Gulf Arab States: Halla Shoaibi, American U–The Arab Industrialization of Nomads in the Shortage and Reform in the World’s Revolutions: Rethinking Women’s Iranian Oil Industry Storehouse of Energy Activism in Palestine Peyman Jafari, International Institute Gwenn Okruhlik, Qatar U/Brookings Fadi Quran, Birzeit U–The Rise of a New of Social History–The Impact of Doha Fellow–The Politics of Distribution: Generation of Palestinian Revolutionary Revolution and War on the Iranian Oil State Building and Sect in the Arabian Agents Industry Peninsula Noura Erakat, Georgetown U– Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U–The Urban Life Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate Palestinian Refugees and the Arab of Oil: The Built Environment and Daily School–The Political Economy of Spring: Legal Regimes, Durable Life in Khuzestan’s Company Towns Corruption in Yemen Solutions, and Outstanding Questions In the Shadow of the Cold War: Egypt: 18th-20th Centuries Islam and Nationalism: Trans- Modern Art in the Arab World disciplinary Perspectives, Global Organized by Sarah Rogers and Saleem Chair: Vivian Ibrahim, SOAS, U of Dialogues Al-Bahloly London Organized by Leif Stenberg Sponsored by Catherine Orsborn, U Denver–Shifting Supported by Association for Modern and Identities in Colonial Egypt: A Case Study Center for Middle Eastern Studies Contemporary Art of the Arab World, on Religious Groupism Lund University Iran and Turkey Hanan H. Hammad, Texas Christian U–Colonial Hybridity: The Colonial- Chair/Discussant: Umut Ozkirimli, Jessica Gerschultz, U Kansas–Mutable National Struggle over Prostitution after Lund U Form and Materiality: “Interweaving” the British Invasion of Egypt Art and Politics in the New Tapestry of Sara Nimis, Miami U–Sufi Ritual in Leif Stenberg, Lund U–The Syrian State Safia Farhat, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Eighteenth Century Egypt: Political and Official Islam Maria Laskiewicz, and Jagoda Buic Implications of Diverse Ways to God Reza Arjmand, Lund U–”Education of Sarah Rogers, Darat Al Funun–The Shaden M. Tageldin, U Minnesota– Intimate” and “Management of Desires” American U Beirut and the Formation of Fénelon’s Gods, Al-Tahtawi’s Jinn: as Part of Nationalist Project in Egypt the Modern Lebanese Artist Comparison, Translation, and the and Iran Saleem Al-Bahloly, UC Berkeley–The Compulsion to Realism Catharina Raudvere, U Copenhagen– Politics of the Modern Artwork in Cold Andrew Jan, UCLA–Sufis, Bakris, Personal Loss and Collective War Iraq and Pashas: The Bureaucratization of Memory: Public Muslim Rituals in the Religion in Nineteenth-Century Cairo Commemoration of War Victims in Sarajevo Spyros A. Sofos, U Oxford–Who are the European Muslims?

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Mobilizing Identities in Modern Cities in Transformation Thematic Turkey Conversation Chair: Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois U Sources and Resources for Middle Chair: Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State U Eastern American Studies (Year 2) Domenico Copertino, U Milan-Bicocca– Organized by Pauline Homsi Vinson F. Michael Wuthrich, U Kansas–Three Gentrifiers, Preservationists and the Paradoxes in the Development of Changing Urban Landscape of Damascus, Session Leader: Gary David, Bentley U Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey Syria Can Ozcan, U Utah–Forgetting the Past, Zia Salim, San Diego State U/UC Santa Anan Ameri, Arab American National Remembering the Future: An Analysis Barbara–Building Community? Housing Museum of the Socio-Spatial Strategies of Early Compounds in Bahrain Lutfi Hussein, Mesa Community Col Modern Turkish Republic in Istanbul Arash Sedighi, SOAS, U London– Pauline Homsi Vinson, Independent and Ankara Changing Perspectives of the Modern Scholar Fatma Betul Cihan-Artun, U Massachu- City: Jahan-Nama Tower and Nazvhvan Germine Awad, U Texas Austin setts Amherst–Framing Rumi: The Natural Park in Esfahan Louise A. Cainkar, Marquette U Politicized Representations of Mawlana Gretchen Head, UC Berkeley–Writing Rita Stephan, U.S. Census Bureau Jalal Al-Din Rumi in Modern Turkey Casablanca’s Bidonvilles: Muhammad Zifzaf’s Muhawilat ‘Aysh Poetics of Protest and Alienation: Contemporary Arabic Poetry and Fiction

Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State U–Islam and the Construction of National Identity in Ahmad Shawqi Dominic Coldwell, U Oxford–‘Popular’ Poetry Revisited: Situating Shaikh Imam and Ahmad Fu’ad Nigm’s Audience(s) Alya El Hosseiny, New York U–I Am The People: Poetics of Populism in Egyptian Revolutionary Poetry Benjamin Smith, Harvard U–‘Ala Al- Aswani’s Shikaghu Read against the Prose of the Mahjar

Sufis and Their Worlds

Chair: Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana U - Purdue U Ft. Wayne

Side Emre, Texas A&M U–Being a “Fususi”: Muhyi-i Gülseni’s (d. 1603/1604 C.E.) Intellectual World and Defense of Ibn Al-Arabi Ata Anzali, Middlebury Col–Some Reflections on the Early Developments of the Zahabiyyah Sufi Order John Dechant, Indiana U–Zayn Al-Din-i Taybadi and the Construction of Sacred Space in Khurasan

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Iranian History- The Minorities’ The Palestinians: Representation and Geographies of the Modern Nation Version Accountability State: Spatial Approaches to Organized by Lior Sternfeld Organized by George Bisharat Nationhood and Ethnicity in the Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Chair: Kamran S. Aghaie, U Texas Supported by Turkey Austin Journal of Palestine Studies Organized by Ipek K. Yosmaoglu and Discussant: Juan Cole, U Michigan Amy Mills Chair/Discussant: George Bisharat, UC Mehrdad Amanat, Independent Hastings Col of the Law Discussant: Ian R. Manners, U Texas Scholar–Empowerment and Persecution: Austin (Emeritus) Non-Muslim Communities in the Osamah Khalil, Syracuse U–”Who Constitutional Period (1905-1921) are You?”: The Politics and Limits of Ipek K. Yosmaoglu, Northwestern Aaron V. Sealy, U Michigan–Writing the Representation and Accountability U–Violence of the Map, Silence of the History of Shi’ite Nationalism in Iran as Nimer Sultany, Harvard U–The People: Thematic Maps, Ethnography if Minorities Mattered Palestinian Citizens in Israel and the Visual Representations of Ethnic Haideh Sahim, Hofstra U–From Khalil Shaheen, Palestine Center for Homogeneity Isolation to Participation: Jewish Policy Research and Strategic Studies– Kerem Oktem, U Oxford–Manufacturing Contribution to the Making of Modern Reform Movements in the West Bank Monochrome: Ethno-Territoriality and Iran and Gaza Strip the Transformation of a Multi-Ethnic, Lior Sternfeld, U Texas Austin–The Diana Buttu, Consultant–Talk to Me! Multi-Religious Ottoman Province into a Revolution’s Forgotten Sons: The Islamic “Turkish” City Revolution and the Jewish Community Post-Ottoman Citizenship Discourses Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Col of William in the Arab Levant and Mary–Cadastral Mapping and the Roundtable Organized by Lauren Banko Politics of Citizenship in Tanzimat Izmir Amy Mills, U South Carolina–Urbanism Cosmopolitanism and Modernity in Sponsored by and Nationalism in Satirical Journals of the 20th Century Middle East Syrian Studies Association Republican-Era Istanbul Organized by Andrea L. Stanton Chair: Shira Robinson, George Yemen after Saleh Deborah Starr, Cornell U Washington U Organized by Charles P. Schmitz Tsolin Nalbantian, Leiden U Discussant: Will Hanley, Florida State U Kevin W. Martin, Indiana U Sponsored by Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver Benjamin Thomas White, U American Institute for Yemeni Studies Birmingham–Refugees and Nationality New Approaches to Non-Muslims and in 1920s Syria and Lebanon Chair: Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U Law in Islamic Societies Lauren Banko, SOAS, U London– Discussant: Michael C. Hudson, Organized by Lev Weitz and Jessica M. Nationality, Citizenship and Rights: National U Singapore Marglin Palestinian Counterdiscourses and Practices, 1920-1930 Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and Chair: David S. Powers, Cornell U Hilary Falb, UC Berkeley–“Are They William Smith Cols–Fragmentation and Discussant: Marina Rustow, Johns Educating Their Pupils for a World in Reintegration?: Yemen’s “Opposition” in Hopkins U which They are To Be First or Second?”: the Wake of the Change Revolution Government Schools and Citizenship in Kamilia Al-Eriani, Monash U– Lev Weitz, Princeton U–Analogy and the Mandates for Mesopotamia (Iraq) Reactionary Responsible Friendship?: Tradition in East Syrian Law: A Dispute and Palestine Reflections on the Yemeni Revolution over Cousin Marriage Seda Altug, Boğaziçi U–Debating Abdullah Hamidaddin, Kings Col Tamer el-Leithy, New York U–The Syrianness in French-Syria (1936-1939) London–The Huthis Biography of a Coptic Alley in Cairo: Susanne Dahlgren, Helsinki Collegium Coptic Families and Property in Muslim for Advanced Studies–The Future of Courts (1430-1580 A.D.) South Yemen: Between the Devil and the Jessica M. Marglin, Princeton U–The Deep Blue Sea Word of a Dhimm?: Jews’ Testimony in Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U–Yemen’s Moroccan Shari‘a Courts, 1850-1912 Post-Hydrocarbon Economy Mark Wagner, Louisiana State U–Inter- Sophia Pandya, CSU Long Beach– Communal Violence and the Shari‘ah in Women, Religion, and Yemen’s Arab Twentieth-Century Yemen Spring

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The Muslim World in the Age of the Faith-Based Conservative Activism in Politics and Literature Intertwined: Crusades: History, Religion and Culture Turkey: Fethullah Gulen as a Social The State Meets the Citizen in the in the Service of Counter Crusading and Movement Modern Arab World Sunni Revivalism, Part 2 Organized by Joshua Hendrick Organized by Caroleen Sayej Organized by Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith Col and James E. Lindsay Chair: Joshua Hendrick, Loyola U Caroleen Sayej, Connecticut Col– Maryland Engaging the Authoritarian State Sponsored by Discussant: Howard Eissenstat, St. Waed N. Athamneh, Indiana U– Middle East Medievalists Lawrence U Committment and Identity in Selected Poems by Darwish Chair: Zayde G. Antrim, Trinity Col Alexander R. Arifianto, Arizona Muhammad Masud, Illinois State U– Discussant: Paul M. Cobb, U State U–Globalization, Moral Authority The Politics of Children’s Literature in Pennsylvania Leadership, and Progressive Islamic Egypt Discourse: The Fethullah Gulen Paul E. Chevedden, UCLA–Apocalyp- Movement and the Nahdlatul Ulama in Rethinking Elections in Authoritarian ticism in the Service of Politics: ‘Alī Comparative Historical Perspective States: Insights from the Periphery ibn Ṭāhir Al-Sulamī’s Response to the David Tittensor, Centre for Dialogue, Organized by Malika Bouziane and Crusades La Trobe U–Gülen’s Schools and the Anja Hoffmann James E. Lindsay, Colorado State U– Changing Nature of Islamic Mission: Jihad Propaganda in Damascus: Scholars, Exploring the Teacher-Student Dynamic Naoual Belakhdar, Hertie School of Rulers, and the Masses Fulya Apaydin, Institut Barcelona Governance–Rethinking Elections, Konrad Hirschler, SOAS, U London– D’Estudis Internacionals–Soft Power a Boycott and Protest in Algeria The Earliest Documented Arabic Book la Turca?: Limits and Opportunities of Anja Hoffmann, Free U Berlin– Collection: The Profile of an Endowed Turkish Influence in Central Asia and Moroccan Elections and the Referendum Library in 13th-Century Damascus Sub-Saharan Africa on the New Constitution: Close Husnul Amin, International Islamic U Encounters from the Middle Atlas The Kurds in Syria: Past, Present and Islamabad–Market-Based but Socially Malika Bouziane, Free U Berlin– Future Conservative Post-Islamism: A Case of Celebrating a National Wedding: Organized by Christian Sinclair Gullen Movement in Pakistan Elections in the Periphery of Jordan Hala C. Abou-Zaki, EHESS/IRD/ Sponsored by Content Based Arabic Second CEMAM–Celebrating Local Elections Kurdish Studies Association Language Instruction (CBI): Issues and in the Palestinian Refugee Camp of Practical Considerations, the CASA Shatila after the Syrian Withdrawal from Chair: Shayee Khanaka, UC Berkeley Experience Lebanon in 2005 Organized by Iman Aziz Soliman Sebastian Maisel, Grand Valley State State of the Field: Agriculture and U–Identity Building among Yezidis from Sponsored by Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1870-1952 Syria: Discourses of History, Homeland, Center for Arabic Study Abroad Organized by Aaron G. Jakes and Exile Matt Flannes, U Arizona–Kurdish-State Chair: Iman Aziz Soliman, Center for Chair/Discussant: Sherene Seikaly, Relations in Syria: A Precarious Balance Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) American U in Cairo Eva Savelsberg, European Center for Kurdish Studies–Old Borders, New Nadia Harb, CASA, American U in Aaron G. Jakes, New York U–Floating Concepts: Some Remarks on How to Cairo–The Role of Task Design in Towards Crisis: Gresham Life Insurance Respect Kurdish National Rights in a Content-Based Instruction: The Case of and the Mortgage Boom in British Egypt Unified Syria Palestinian Literature Course Samantha Iyer, UC Berkeley–The Christian Sinclair, U Arizona– Sayyed Daifallah, CASA, American U in Fictitious Commodity of Land and Assimilation and Arabization: Language Cairo–Role of Students in Developing a Egypt’s Grain Market, 1890-1939 and Linguistic Identity amongst Kurds Content and Language Curriculum Eric Schewe, U Michigan–State in Syria Hebatalah Salem, CASA, American U in Securitization of Agriculture and Supply Cairo–Challenges of Teaching Authentic in Egypt, 1939-1952 Arabic in the CBI Curriculum: The Case Jennifer Derr, Bard Col–The Evolving of Colloquial Literature Properties of the Colonial State: Mahmoud Al-Batal, U Texas Austin– Practicing Colonial Rule through Preparing Students for Content-Based Agriculture in Egypt’s South Instruction Abroad: Curricular and Pedagogical Issues

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Political Economy of the Arabian Thematic Peninsula, Part II Conversation

Sponsored by The Arab Uprisings: Media Association for Gulf & Representations of Women & Youth Arabian Peninsula Studies (Year 2) Organized by Therese Saliba Chair: Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch Session Leader: Therese Saliba, Evergreen State Col Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U-Qatar–State-Building and Political Suad Joseph, UC Davis Consolidation in Qatar Bahar Davary, U San Diego Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern Linda Steet, SUNY Geneseo U in Qatar–The Politics of Legitimacy: A Sarah Gualtieri, U Southern California Case Study of Qatar Sang Hyun Song, U Utah–Saudi Arabian Oil Policy as a Swing Producer in the 1980s Debra Shushan, Col of William and Mary–Prestige at Home and Abroad: Qatar’s Bold Foreign Policy in a New Middle East Martin Hvidt, U Southern Denmark– Economic Diversification in the GCC Countries: Past Record and Future Trends

More than Meets the Eye: Spaces, Places, and Monuments

Chair: Jacqueline Armijo, Qatar U

Karen A. Leal, Harvard U–An Ottoman Egyptian Obelisk in New York: An Examination of Shifting Landscapes in the Gilded Age Helga Tawil Souri, New York U– Contradictory Space(s) of Resistance: Hizballah’s Mleeta Museum Amaya Martin, U Notre Dame–The Umayyad Mosque in the Cathedral of Cordoba: Presentation of Its History and Spatial Organization to Visitors Tamir Sorek, U Florida–The Distinctiveness of the Collective Narrative of the Palestinians in Israel

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SPECIAL SESSION Laila Taraghi, U Arkansas–Competing for Relevance: Iran’s Internal Struggle to Define the Arab Uprisings Bridges of Understanding: Janet Alexanian, UC Irvine–Politicizing The Contribution of Muslim Cultures lives: The Construction of Iranian Youth to American and European Societies as Global Symbol Jairan Gahan, U Toronto–The Presence Supported by of the (In)visible: Prostitution in Iran, British Council from Brothels to Streets Elika Pourbohloul, UCLA–Virtual Participants TBA Gateways to Iranian Cultural and Intellectual Production Islam and Muslims have played a significant role in the historical develop- ment of both the United States and Europe. The vast contributions of Muslim Migration and (Non-)Citizenship in societies and scholars to science and other fields remain largely unrecognized Arab Gulf States: Policies, Practices, in Europe and the United States. The history of European (and “Western”) and Negotiations achievements in the fields of culture, the arts, humanities and sciences is of- Organized by Imco Brouwer, Gulf ten written with hardly any reference to Muslim culture and influence. Such a Research Center reductionist and incomplete view of history has been successfully challenged by years of scholarship. How can this misperception be addressed? Panelists Organized under the auspices of will offer their views on this question, among others: Gulf Labor Markets and Migration Program of the GRC • How can a deeper knowledge of the common historical roots shared by Mus- (Jeddah, Geneva, Cambridge) lim, Christian and Jewish cultures lead to a better understanding of the rich and the EUI (Florence) and complex identities that make up European and American societies today? • What are some innovative ways of improving public knowledge of Muslim- Chair: Gwenn Okruhlik, Qatar U/ non-Muslim interactions, exchanges and cross influence in the fields of sci- Brookings Doha Fellow ence, the arts, and humanities historically and in the present time? Will such innovative ways impact how teachers and students engage with the content? Noora Lori, Johns Hopkins U–State • How can academic knowledge of shared histories and common cultural roots Formation and the Construction of permeate our understanding of the world today and influence current debates “Citizens” and “Noncitizens” in the in relevant ways? United Arab Emirates Gianluca Paolo Parolin, American U in Cairo–(Non-)Naturalization Policies in the GCC Member States Blurring Nationalism and Religion in Simon Jackson, European U Institute, Zahra Babar, Georgetown U–Inclusion/ the Early 20th Century Middle East Florence–Sacred Infrastructure: The Exclusion: Citizens and Migrants in the Organized by Ahmet Serdar Akturk Maronite Church as Institutional State of Qatar and Matthew Parnell Shareholder in Mandate-Era Economic Neha Vora, Texas A&M U–Indians in Development Dubai: Impossible Citizens Sponsored by Syrian Studies Association Globalization, Modernization and The United States and the Middle Social Change in Contemporary Iran East: The End of the American Chair: Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington Organized by Soheyl Amini Century? Discussant: Joel Gordon, U Arkansas Organized by Osamah Khalil Supported by Ahmet Serdar Akturk, U Arkansas– Salve Regina University Chair: Nathan Citino, Colorado State U Many Faces of Religion: Kurdish and Mazda Publishers Discussant: Osamah Khalil, Syracuse U Nationalism in French Mandatory Levant Chair: Soheyl Amini, Salve Regina U Waleed Hazbun, American U Beirut– Matthew Parnell, U Arkansas–What is American Efforts to Navigate the “National Unity?”: Religion, Egyptian Mojtaba Mahdavi, U Alberta–Modernity Changing Regional Order in the Middle Nationalism and the 1919 Revolution from Below: Making Sense of Post- East Stacy Fahrenthold, Northeastern U– Islamism in Iran Brandon Wolfe-Honnicutt, Stanford Men of the Nation, Men of the Cloth: Soheyl Amini, Salve Regina U–Social U–The Antimonies of American Global Lebanese Diasporic Nationalism and the Movements in the Age of the Internet: Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Church, 1919-1932 The Contested Space Emergence of the Second Bathist Regime in Iraq continued next page

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Lisa Bhungalia, Syracuse U–Landscapes Heather Ferguson, Claremont McKenna The Spatial Production of Identities in of Security: U.S. National Securitization Col–Between Ethics and Politics: The the Turkish Republic through Aid in Palestine Elaboration of a Critical Mode in Organized by Zeynep Kezer, Kimberly Steve Niva, Evergreen State Col– Ottoman Administrative Genres Hart, and Alison B. Snyder Deterritorializing War: America’s Sabrina Peric, U Calgary–Mining, Special Operations and the Dark Arts of Writing, Archiving: An 18th Century Chair: Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle U Networked Warfare in the Middle East Friar on the Edge of Empires and Beyond Ekin Tusalp, Harvard U–The Katiban in Anna Secor, U Kentucky and Banu the Seventeenth Century: Intersections Gokariksel, UNC Chapel Hill –The Arab American Studies at the of Genre, Identity and Ethos in Ottoman Fashionable Veil, the City, and the Crossroads Bureaucracy Subject Organized by Pauline Homsi Vinson Kimberly Hart, Buffalo State Col–Rural Roundtable Anatolian Mosque Tales: Construction, Sponsored by Destruction, Reconstruction New Strategies and Methodologies for Arab American Studies Association Deborah Durham, Sweet Briar Col–A Teaching of Modern Armenian Site (Cité) on a Hill: Aging, Class and Organized by Barlow Der Mugrdechian Chair: Pauline Homsi Vinson, Citizenship in a Turkish Retirement Independent Scholar Home Chair: Kevork B. Bardakjian, U Discussant: Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle U–Edge of Michigan State: The Making of an Internal Border Rita Stephan, U.S. Census Bureau–Social in Early Republican Elazığ (Turkey) Barlow Der Mugrdechian, CSU Fresno and Economic Characteristics of the Alison B. Snyder, U Oregon–Re- Ani Kasparian, U Michigan Dearborn Arab American Population positioning the Iconic Avenue: Istanbul’s Sally Howell, U Michigan Dearborn–A Istiklal Caddesi Takes on Its Next New Colonial, Revolutionary, and Tale of Two Disciplines: Arab American Life Contemporary Libya: Emerging and Muslim American Studies at a Research Crossroads Seeing the Political: Gender and Organized by Mia Fuller Yasmeen Hanoosh, Portland State U– Visual Culture in the Middle East and Discursive Inclusions and Exclusions of Sponsored by Its Diasporas Arabness: Chaldean American Studies at American Institute for Maghrib Studies Organized by Tahereh Aghdasifar the Crossroads Randa Kayyali, George Mason U–A Sara Pursley, CUNY Graduate Center– Chair: Mia Fuller, UC Berkeley Compatible Match: Interdisciplinarity, Nation, Gender, Time in Jawad Salim’s Discussant: Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, U Cultural Studies and Arab American Monument to Freedom New England Studies Tahereh Aghdasifar, Emory U– Matthew Jaber Stiffler, Arab American Masculinity in Crisis?: Making Sense of Stephanie Malia Hom, U Oklahoma– National Museum–Self-Orientalism and the Majid Tavakoli Case Technologies of Mobility: Militarism and the Dilemma of Scholarly Critique Elizabeth Harrington, New York U– Pacification in Italian Colonial Libya Recognizing Women: Photography and Angelo Caglioti, UC Berkeley–Making Authors and Archives: Transforming Feminism from Iran Environmental Knowledge, Producing Subjectivities in the Seventeenth and Isabella Archer, UNC Chapel Hill– Colonial Libya Eighteenth Centuries Searching for a Sense of Belonging: Eileen Ryan, Columbia U–Italy and the Organized by Nir Shafir and Sabrina Gender and Identity in the Photography Sanusiyya: Negotiating Authority in Peric of Lalla Essaydi Colonial Libya Claudia Gazzini, Northwestern U–Trial Discussant: Dana Sajdi, Boston Col The 1967 Watershed: The Arab-Israeli by Error: Justice and Reconciliation in Conflict in the Aftermath of the June Post-Qaddafi Libya Nir Shafir, UCLA–The Virtues of War the Days: Abdulghani Al-Nabulusi’s Organized by Avi Raz Narration of the Self through His Diaries and Letters Chair/Discussant: James L. Gelvin, UCLA Tuna Artun, Princeton U–Forty Years of Disappointment: Osman Bilani’s Majmua Avi Raz, U Oxford–The Bride and and 18th Century Alchemical Texts as the Dowry: Israel’s Foreign Policy of Ego Documents Prevarication in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War

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Olivia Sohns, Cambridge U–Hostage Understanding Cities Thematic to Fortune: President Johnson’s Arab- Conversation Israeli Policies after the June 1967 War Chair: Karam Dana, Harvard U Assyrians and Minority Studies Shay Malki, Ben Gurion U the Negev– Organized by Fadi Dawood From Radicalism to Pragmatism: Marika Snider, U Utah–Urban Egyptian Intellectual Discourse towards Morphology of Aylah, Jordan Session Leader: Fadi Dawood, SOAS, U Israel, 1967-1977 through Digital Tools and Virtual London Hillel Gruenberg, New York U–“You’re Reconstructions Still Here Too!?”: Continuity and Change Alexandra Sprano, New York U– Sharokin Betgevargiz, Savannah Col of in ‘Israeli-Arab’ Policy after 1967 Multiculturalism and Nation: Gaziantep Art and Design as a Case Study Sargon Donabed, Roger Williams U Ottoman Vassals in the North and Satoshi Kawamoto, U Tokyo–The Nicholas Al-Jeloo, U Sydney Their Interactions across the East Making of Ottoman Neighborhood: Hannibal Travis, FIU Col of Law European Steppe Frontier A Case Study of Sixteenth-Century Organized by Murat Yasar Istanbul John M. Willis, U Colorado–Mending Murat Yasar, U Toronto– Scattered Hearts: The Companions’ Internationalization of the North Graves and the Interwar Movement for Caucasus as a Borderland: Islamization Islamic Unity versus Christianization and the Sultan versus the Tsar Love, Emotion, and Sexuality in Maryna Kravets, U Toronto–Ransom Literature and Exchange of Captives on the Crimean-Muscovite Frontier: A Case Chair: Sanaa Riaz, Ashford U Study from 1649 Sait Ocakli, U Toronto–Crimean Kifah Hanna, Trinity Col–Returning Khan Islam III Geray’s Approach to to the Roots: Desire in Lebanese War the Struggle for Hegemony in Eastern Literature Europe Alexander Jabbari, UC Irvine–The Sexual Aesthetics of Modernity: Formulations of ‘Alid and Shi‘i Homoeroticism, Nation, and the Modern Communal Identity in the Formative in Persianate Literary Criticism Period of Islam Jedidiah Anderson, Indiana U– Language and Sexuality – Lebanon: A Chair: Dale J. Correa, New York U Case Study using Linguistic Corpora Shervin Emami, UCLA–Rumi, Alyssa Gabbay, U Washington–Heiress Farrokhzad and Tavalodi Digar to the Prophet: Fatima, Fadak, and “Rebirth” Female Inheritance in Islam Torsten Hylen, Dalarna U–Revenge or Classical Arabic Poetry and Prose Martyrdom!: The Story of the Penitents as a Link to the Early Development of Chair: Majd Yaser Al-Mallah, Grand Shi‘ism Valley State U Aaron Hagler, U Pennsylvania– The Echoes of Fitna: Developing Ailin Qian, U Pennsylvania–The Virtues Historiographical Interpretations of the of Al-Saymari Battle of Siffin Ali Hussein, U Haifa–Mulayh Ibn Al- Michael Dann, Princeton U– Hakam: The Man through His Poetical Hagiography of Slave-Women: The Output Mothers of the Imams in Imami Cory Jorgensen, George Washington Historical Memory U–“Doin’ the Dozens” in Umayyad-Era Basra Richard A. Serrano, Rutgers U–The Heart’s Rubble of Jamil Buthaynah’s Reconstructed Diwan

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2012 Presidential Address

Fred M. Donner University of Chicago

2012 MESA Awards Ceremony

Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2012, including presentations of the following awards:

Albert Hourani Book Award Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards MESA Mentoring Award Jere L. Bacharach Service Award MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize

immediately followed by the MESA Dance Party

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TODAY’S AFFILIATED MEETINGS Roundtable Will Smiley, Yale Law School–Fatwas and Treaties: Childhood, Conversion, 7-8:30am Palestinian Refugees and and the Ottoman Negotiation of Islamic Meeting of Officers of MESA's Af- International Protection and International Law Organized by filiated Associations Nell Gabiam Snjezana Buzov, Ohio State U–Fatwas Governors Square 9 for Franciscans: Whose Jurisprudence? Chair: , Western U 8:30am-2:30pm Randa R. Farah Selma Zecevic, York U–Amr, Zayd and EWIC Editors Training Meeting Hind at the Sharia Court of Ottoman Directors Row G (Plaza-L) Richard Wright, United Nations Sarajevo: The Use of Fatwas in Family 2:30-4pm Kristine Beckerle, Yale Law School Disputes over Inheritance (1802-1804) JMEWS Editorial Board Meeting Nell Gabiam, Iowa State U Plaza Court 1 (Plaza-C) History and Community: The 7-9pm Archival Imaginations: Producing the Armenians of Lebanon and Syria American University in Cairo Past in the Contemporary Middle East Organized by Barlow Der Mugrdechian Reception Organized by Mona Damluji and Rosie Plaza Ballroom D (Plaza-C) Bsheer Chair: Barlow Der Mugrdechian, CSU 7-9pm Fresno Chair: , Columbia U AMCA Members Meeting Rosie Bsheer Discussant: Kevork B. Bardakjian, U Plaza Court 1 (Plaza-C) Discussant: Ussama Makdisi, Rice U Michigan 7-9pm , Smith Col–Ghosts in the TARRII Reception Nadya Sbaiti Vahram Shemmassian, CSU Governors Square 9 (Plaza-C) Machine: The Politics of Archiving in Northridge–Exodus of Musa Dagh 7:30-9:30pm Lebanon Armenians from the Sanjak of Al-Monitor Reception Mona Damluji, UC Berkeley–Beg, Alexandretta to Anjar, Lebanon in 1939 Borrow, and Steal: Navigating the Real Plaza Ballroom E (Plaza-C) Ara Sanjian, U Michigan Dearborn– and Virtual Spaces of Iraqi Archives Armenians and the Lebanese Civil War Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi, of 1958 Columbia U–Resisting the Replacement: Documenting the Revolution: The Ohannes Geukjian, American U Beirut– Print Culture of Tahrir Square Reflections on Tehran’s Embodied An Ignored Relationship: The Armenian Organized by Elias Saba Archives Diaspora in Lebanon and Conflict Resolution in the Civil War Period 1975- Supported by TahrirDocuments.org Public Discourse in 20th Century Iraq 1990 Organized by Fadi Dawood Chair: Elias Saba, U Pennsylvania Revisiting the Turkish Model: Chair/Discussant: , UNC Discussant: Murad Idris, Cornell U Sarah Shields Democracy, Minorities and Human Chapel Hill Rights Cameron Hu, U Chicago–Practicing Organized by Ayca Alemdaroglu, , Harvard U–The Memory in Revolutionary Egypt Arbella Bet-Shlimon Stanford U and Asli Z. Igsiz, U Arizona Emily Drumsta, UC Berkeley–Li-l- Construction of a Civic Identity in Kirkuk in the Twentieth Century and the Present Sabr Hudud: Colloquial Poetry and the Discussant: Vangelis Kechriotis, Rhetoric of Patience in Egypt Alda Benjamen, U Maryland College Park– Boğaziçi U Levi Thompson, UCLA–Symbol and Contextualizing Assyrians in Iraq’s History , SOAS, U London–The Tahrir Square: The Struggle for Fadi Dawood Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Dartmouth Revolutionary Legitimacy Formation of the Assyrian ‘Warrior Race’ Col–Is There Any Room for Apology?: Alexander Winder, New York U–Accu- in Mandatory Iraq Republic’s Dersim Question, Education sation, Blame, and Rumor in Tahrir Elad Giladi, Hebrew U Jerusalem–The Policies and Maternal Colonialism Other Shi’a and the New Iraq Square: Excavating Hopes and Anxieties Hayrunnisa Goksel, Northwestern U– in the Egyptian Revolution Ethnicity “Versus” Gender: Women’s Between Legal Theory and Practice: Narratives of Peace and Violence in Ottoman Fatwas, Society, and Politics Turkey in the Early Modern Era Organized by Will Smiley

Chair/Discussant: Snjezana Buzov, Ohio State U

Joshua White, U Michigan–Fatwas and the Birth of Early Modern Ottoman Maritime Law

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Gender and Entrepreneurship in the Carine Allaf, Columbia U–The Colette D. Apelian, Berkeley City Col– MENA Region Patriarch as an Enabler: Women and Locating Culture: What the Morocco Organized by Eric Hooglund the Completion of Higher Education in Mall Says about Moroccan Identity Jordan Today Sponsored by Sanaa Riaz, Ashford U–Urban Response Denes Gazsi, U Iowa–“Arabs of the Coast Middle East Critique to the Post-9/11 Politico-Educational and Islands” on Social Media: Signs of Environment: The Patronization of Life from Neglected Huwala Arabs in Chair: Eric Hooglund, Lund U Private Islamic Schools in Karachi Iran’s Gulf Region? Hale Yilmaz, Southern Illinois U Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver–The Jennifer Olmsted, Drew U– Carbondale–Between Turk and Muslim: BBC and Its Children: Palestinian and Entrepreneurs and Arab Spring: Children and the Qur’an Courses after Egyptian Broadcasting in the Middle Historic Grievances and Future Policy the 1928 Alphabet Law East, 1934-49 Preferences Lydia Kiesling, U Chicago–Admin- Hadi Salehi Esfahani, U Illinois istrative Humanism: Marshall Hodgson’s Contested State-Society Relations Urbana-Champaign–Do MENA Vision for Education Governments Regulate Male- and Benjamin Isakhan, Deakin U–The Iraqi Female-Run Firms Differently? New Readings of Old Sources for Federation of Oil Unions: Protests and Roksana Bahramitash, Montreal– Medieval Islamic History Public Power in Post-Saddam Iraq Women’s Entrepreneurship in Iran: Nadine Kreitmeyr, U Tuebingen– Challenges and Opportunities Chair: Ghadda Jayyusi-Lehn, American Young Social Entrepreneurs and Youth U Sharjah Empowerment: The Role of Youth Revisiting the Early Generation of Organizations in Egypt and Morocco Francophone Maghrebian Writers and Maxim Romanov, U Michigan–Social Asya R. El-Meehy, Arizona State Artists: Are They Relevant Today? History of the Muslim World in the U–Citizenship and Targeted Social Organized by Mildred Mortimer Digital Age: Making Sense of 25,000 Protection in Egypt and Jordan Biographies from Al-Dhahabi’s History of Gregory Hoadley, UC Berkeley–The Discussant: Lucy L. Melbourne, Saint Islam Social Life of Data: Statistical Reform in Augustine’s Col Nassima Neggaz, Georgetown U–The Egypt Fall of Baghdad under the Mongol Valerie K. Orlando, U Maryland–Driss Invader (656 AH/1258 AD): Stories and Networks of Merchants and Trade Chraïbi and the Making of a Literary Histories Revolution: Le Passé Simple and Its Rahaf Kalaaji, U Chicago–Ruler or Chair: Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col Author’s Legacy to Moroccan Writing 50 Rebel?: The Portrayal of ?Abd All?h b. Al- Years Later Zubayr in Classical Islamic Scholarship Mary Momdjian, UCLA–At the Mildred Mortimer, U Colorado Mimi Hanaoka, U Richmond–The Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Boulder–Mouloud Feraoun, Le Fils Umma on the Peripheries: Comparative Rethinking Trade and Mercantile du Pauvre/The Poor Man’s Son: A Constructions of Identity in Early Islamic Networks in 19th Century Aleppo Retrospective Persia and Anatolia Omar Cheta, New York U–By What Mary B. Vogl, Colorado State U– Ghadda Jayyusi-Lehn, American Standard?: The Dynamics of Market Discourse on Maghrebi Arts: A U Sharjah–Reading Classical Arabic Standardization in Mid-Nineteenth- Semicentennial Legacy Sources: Al-Mutasim’s Army and Its Century Egypt Fawzia Ahmad, Community Col of Characterization Secil Uluisik, U Arizona–Merchant Denver–An ‘Ecrivain-Frontalier’: Networks in the Ottoman Balkans during Mohammed Dib’s Textual Identity Modern Media and Contemporary the Nineteenth Century: The Case of the Culture Gümüþgerdan Family Nation, Islam, and Education Andrea Shaheen, U Arizona–“Turath- Thematic Chair: Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst U ing” the Present: ‘Arada Bands in Conversation Damascus, Syria Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism and Hayal Akarsu, New York U–“Daru’l Gizem Zencirci, Amherst Col–Abstract Racism as Ideological Formations Hikme”’s Project of Medrese Education Intimacies: New Media Technologies and (Year 2) in Turkey: Islamic Critique of Secularism Charity Organizations in Turkey Organized by Stephen P. Sheehi and Reinstating Islamic Tradition and Rebecca Joubin, Davidson Col– Authority Embattled Masculinity: Prison and Session Leader: Stephen P. Sheehi, U Iris Seri-Hersch, IREMAM–Mapping Marriage Metaphors in Early Syrian South Carolina History Teaching in Late Colonial Sudan Television Drama, 1960s-1970s (1945-1956) Peter Gran, Temple U Eve Troutt Powell, U Pennsylvania

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Petitioning the Sultan in the Ottoman Ali Modarres, CSU Los Angeles–Reading Armenia in Dialogue with the Near Empire Yazd East, 8-15th Centuries Organized by James E. Baldwin and Andrew Gardner, U Puget Sound– Organized by Alison Marie Vacca Lale Can How the City Grows: Urban Form and Sustainability in Doha, Qatar Sponsored by Richard Wittmann, Orient-Institut Society for Armenian Studies Istanbul–Getting One’s Grievance Heard: Breaking Commitment: Cause and Challenges and Strategies of Petitioning Dissent in Contemporary Arabic Chair: Sergio La Porta, CSU Fresno the Imperial Council in Ottoman Istanbul Writing Discussant: Michael Bonner, U Basak Tug, Istanbul Bilgi U–Petitioning Organized by Tarek El-Ariss Michigan Conversion: Non-Muslims in the Imperial Council and Early-Modern Chair: Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Qatar U Michael Pifer, U Michigan–The Ottoman Courts Heteroglossic Stranger: Literary James E. Baldwin, Queen Mary, U Angela Giordani, U Texas Austin–Poetic ‘Interaction’ in Medieval Armenian, London–Petitions, Law and Politics in Dissent: Shi’r’s Challenge to the Post- Persian, and Turkish Literature Ottoman Egypt Colonial Arab State Alison Marie Vacca, U Michigan– Lale Can, City Col of New York–Spiritual Zeina G. Halabi, UNC Chapel Hill– Towards an Islamic Arminiya: Qur’anic Subjects, Material Demands: Central Requiem for the Intellectual: The Failure Exegesis and the Sectarian Milieu Asian Petitioners in the Ottoman of Enlightenment in Rashid Al-Daif’s Sergio La Porta, CSU Fresno–Networks Empire, 1865-1914 Paving the Sea of Knowledge: Texts and Communication Drew Paul, U Texas Austin–Rewriting in Late 14th C. Armenia Roundtable Home: New Forms of Commitment in Christina Maranci, Tufts U–Sundials Palestinian Literature without Frontiers Rethinking Gender in the ‘Arab Benjamin Koerber, U Texas Austin– Spring’ Wasla: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Social Aspects of the Fatimid Organized by Nicola Pratt “Connection” Experience Sponsored by Tarek El-Ariss, U Texas Austin– Organized by Paul E. Walker Association for Anatomy of Scandal Supported by Middle East Women's Studies From Monarchy to Republic: New Institute of Ismaili Studies Insights on Iranian Foreign Policy Chair: Hoda Elsadda, Cairo U Organized by James F. Goode Chair: Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U London Chair: John W. Limbert, U.S. Naval Caroline Seymour-Jorn, U Wisconsin Academy Delia Cortese, Middlesex U–Women’s Milwaukee Discussant: Malcolm Byrne, National Contribution to the Transmission of Doris H. Gray, Florida State U Security Archive Sunni Learning in Fatimid Egypt Nicola Pratt, U Warwick Simonetta Calderini, U Roehampton Amy Kallander, Syracuse U James F. Goode, Grand Valley State U–A –“Leading from the Middle”: Shi’i Microcosm of International Tensions: Debates on Female Prayer Leadership Challenges to Sustainability of The War in Dhufar, 1971-1976 during Fatimid Times Livelihoods, Urban Identity, and Barin Kayaoglu, U of Virginia— One Shainool Jiwa, Institute of Ismaili Development in the Middle East and Country’s Meat, Another Country’s Studies–Kinship Camaraderie and North Africa: A Panel in Honor of Poison: Change and Continuity in Contestation: Fatimid Relations with the Michael E. Bonine (1942-2011) Turkish-Iranian Relations from the Cold Ashraf in the 4th/10th Century Organized by Anne H. Betteridge War to the Present Paul E. Walker, U Chicago–Fatimid Claudia Castiglioni, Johns Hopkins U– Public Pronouncements: The Chancery Chair: Anne H. Betteridge, U Arizona Through Thick and Thin: West Europe as the Voice of a Shiite Dynasty Discussants: Jere L. Bacharach, U and Iran from the Golden Rush of Washington and Dale F. Eickelman, the Seventies to the Outbreak of the Dartmouth Col Hostilities with Iraq (presented by James F. Goode) Paul J. Kaldjian, U Wisconsin Eau Abbas William Samii, U.S. Department Claire–Remotely Local: Reverse of State–Ideology in Iranian Foreign Remittances, Food, and Survival in the Policy City Aomar Boum, U Arizona–Ostrich Feathers, Trans-Saharan Trade and European Capitalism in North Africa

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Popular Mobilizations and Political PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Sociabilities in the 1950s Arab World Organized by Ziad M. Abu-Rish and Rosie Bsheer Social Media for Scholars Supported by Discussant: Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U British Council Ziad M. Abu-Rish, UCLA–Economic Regimes, Social Conflict, and State Kara Hadge, Head of Digital Media, British Council (USA) Formation in Lebanon: 1943-1958 Rosie Bsheer, Columbia U–Making With the proliferation of social media use for professional purposes, scholarly History, Remaking Place: Oil and Social conversations are no longer confined to journal publications and face-to-face Movements in Saudi Arabia conferences. Social media tools such as Twitter and LinkedIn offer many oppor- Ahmed Dailami, St. Antony’s Col, U tunities for engaging with others in academia and following the latest conver- Oxford–Risky Business: Oil and the sations in one’s field, while the proliferation of academic blogs has provided “Question” of Labor in the Arab Gulf alternate outlets for publishing brief scholarship and commentary. Pandora O’Mahony-Adams, Columbia U–Mobilizing Popular Anti-Colonialism: This workshop will provide an introduction to using social media tools such as The Egyptian State and African Politics Twitter and LinkedIn, blogging best practices, and suggested applications of in the 1950s these media for scholars. After a brief presentation, the workshop leader will take questions from participants. Taking Place: Media Objects, Media Histories, and Middle East Studies Youniss El Cheddadi, UC San Diego/ Islam and Political Discourses Organized by Peter Limbrick San Diego State U–Students and Host Families in CLS Arabic Programs Chair: Tugrul Keskin, Portland State U Chair: Peter Limbrick, UC Santa Cruz Khaled Al Masaeed, U Arizona–Insights from Speaking Sessions in the Critical Esen Kirdis, Rhodes Col–The Rise of Michael Allan, U Oregon–Facing the Language Scholarship Program in Fes, Islamic Political Parties: Origins and Camera: The Place of Palestine in a Morocco Strategies History of Film Form Norman Cigar, Marine Corps U–Islamic Peter Limbrick, UC Santa Cruz– Political Economy of Perspectives on Weapons of Mass Documentary, Ethnography, Fiction: The Environmentalism in Turkey Destruction in Saudi Arabia: The Ethical, Radical Post-Independence Realities of Organized by Murat Arsel Legal, and Practical Dimensions and Moroccan Cinema Implications Laura Marks, Simon Fraser U– Chair/Discussant: Murat Arsel, Institute Jibreel Delgado, U Arizona–Salafi- Fabulation and Imaginal in “Je Veux of Social Studies Jihadists, Islamist Democrats and Voir” Monarchical Authoritarianism in Post- Hatim El-Hibri, New York U– Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu, Boğaziçi U– 9/11 Morocco Ungovernable and Politically Problems and Prospects for Genuine Aurelie Daher, Princeton U–Hezbollah Contagious: Visual Genealogies of ‘the Participation in Water Governance in Facing the Lebanese State: A Special Case Arab Street’ Turkey of Political Islam in Power Bengi Akbulut, U Manchester–Seeing Christopher Anzalone, McGill U– Effective Language and Culture from Below: A Gramscian Political Landscapes of Mahdism: Millenarian Learning in Immersive Environments: Ecology of Two Local Environments in Shi‘ism in Modern Iraq The CLS Arabic Programs Abroad Turkey Organized by Sonia Shiri Hande Paker, Bahcesehir U and Fikret Adaman, Boğaziçi U–Effectiveness of Chair: Sonia Shiri, U Arizona Environmental Organizations: Myth or Discussant: Ghazi Abuhakema, Col of Reality? Charleston Ceren Soylu, U Massachusetts Amherst– The Political Economy of a Conservation Ghassan Husseinali, George Mason U– Plan: The Case of Uluabat Lake, Turkey The Role of Study Abroad Experience in Duygu Avci, Institute of Social Studies– Reshaping Language Learning Beliefs Politics of Resistance against Mining: Sonia Shiri, U Arizona–Language A Comparative Study of the Mining Socialization in Unstructured and Semi- Conflicts in Intag, Ecuador and Ida, Structured Environments in CLS Arabic Turkey Programs

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Networks, Narratives and Politics of Israel: Two Years after The Arab Migration Spring Organized by Robert O. Freedman Attention Sara Chehab, Zayed U–Exploring the Antecedents of Expatriate Acculturation Sponsored by MESA Members... in the UAE Association for Israel Studies Moren Mirza, U Ottawa–Diasporas Get Networked: The Assyrian Diaspora’s Chair: Robert O. Freedman, Johns Tactics and Strategies through Hopkins U MESA Transnational Advocacy Networks David Alvarez, Grand Valley State U– Ilan Peleg, Lafayette U–Israel’s Reaction Environments Inherited & Aspired to in to the Arab Spring: A Domestic & Members Contemporary Moroccan Literature of International Explanation Clandestine Migration Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv U–Israel and the Meeting Kristen Biehl, U Oxford–Living Arab World: Two Years after the Arab Together in Diversity: Views from a Spring Globalizing Migrant Quarter in Istanbul Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U–Israel, 1-2:30pm Joyce Van De Bildt, Tel Aviv U–Once Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Uprisings Room TBA a Moroccan, Always a Moroccan?: King Mohammed VI’s Policy towards Moroccan Citizens Residing in The See page 3 for details. Netherlands from 1999 until 2011

Thematic Conversation

Spaces, Networks, Institutions: Men, Women, and Islamic Authority in the Twentieth Century (Year 2) Organized by Hilary Kalmbach

Session Leader: Hilary Kalmbach, U Oxford

Abbas Amanat, Yale U Jonathan E. Brockopp, Penn State U Rozaliya Garipova, Princeton U Michael Driessen, John Cabot U Ann Witulski, U Florida

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The Kurdish Spring Dorthe Engelcke, U Oxford–Family 1962-2012: A Half Century’s Organized by Michael M. Gunter Law Reform in Morocco and Jordan: A Perspective on the Yemeni Civil War Comparative Approach Organized by Asher Orkaby Supported by the Katja Zvan Elliott, U Oxford–Morocco’s Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies Family Law Reform and Its Effect on Chair: J. E. Peterson, Tucson, Arizona Society Discussant: Bernard Haykel, Princeton U Chair: Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological U Arabic Literature and the 1960s Gregory D. Johnsen, Princeton U–The Organized by Muhsin J. Al-Musawi and Siege of Sanaa and the Building Blocks of Mohammed M.A. Ahned, Ahmed Elizabeth Holt a Nation Foundation for Kurdish Studies–The Asher Orkaby, Harvard U–The 2011 Kurdish Spring in Iraqi Kurdistan Chair: Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Qatar U International History of the Yemeni Civil Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena Col– Discussant: Tarek El-Ariss, U Texas War, 1962-68 Transnational Kurdish Protest Patterns Austin Jesse Ferris, Independent Scholar– Robert Lowe, London School of Origins and Consequences of Egypt’s Economics–Kurdish Responses to the Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Columbia U–So Decision to Intervene in the Yemeni Civil Syrian Uprising of 2011-2012 Much Difference among Iraqi ‘Sixties’ War Nader Entessar, U South Alabama–The Generation? Kurdish Spring: The Aftermath in Iran Mara Naaman, Williams Col–With an The Chain of Islamic Charity: Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Ear to the Street: Khairy Shalaby and Contemporary Practices and Evolving Technological U–The Kurdish Spring in Ibrahim Aslan Revisited Discourses the Aftermath of the Arab Spring Yasmine Ramadan, Columbia U–Urban Organized by Elvire Corboz and Benoit Space, Surveillance, and the State: Challand Roundtable Reading the City in the Literature of the ‘Sixties Generation’ in Egypt Mona Atia, George Washington U– Turkic Languages and Assessment Yasmine Khayyat, Columbia U–Memory Islamic Economic Practices and the Organized by Roberta Micallef in Ruins: Appropriating Atal in Modern Project of Development Sponsored by Lebanese Poetry and Fiction Sara Lei Sparre, U Copenhagen–‘Make American Association of Teachers of Elizabeth Holt, Bard Col–“Bread or a Change and Change Yourself’: Charity Turkic Languages Freedom?”: Cultural Cold War and the and Youth Voluntarism in Egypt ?iw?r (1962-67) Plot Benoit Challand, New School for Social Research–Hizbiyya or Political Chair: Roberta Micallef, Boston U Contemporary Islam in a Global Subjectivity?: Debating Islamic Charities Cultural Context: How We Teach in in Arab Countries Zuleyha Colak, Columbia U the Humanities Elvire Corboz, Princeton U–Charity and Ercan Balci, U Illinois Organized by Ahmed Idrissi Alami Loyalty: The Islamic Supreme Council of Feride Hatiboglu, U Pennsylvania Iraq (ISCI) and the Symbolic Politics of Umida Khikmatillaeva, Indiana U Discussant: Gamze Cavdar, Colorado Patronage State U Marie Juul Petersen, Danish Institute Family Law Reform and Political for International Studies–From Change Mohammed Hirchi, Colorado State U– the Umma to Humanity: Shifting Organized by Dorthe Engelcke Teaching about Islam in a Multicultural Conceptions of Aid in International Sponsored by Context: New Alternatives and Muslim NGOs Association for Challenges Middle East Women's Studies Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue U–Islam and Islamic Culture and the Teaching of Arabic Literature in Translation Chair/Discussant: Ibtesam Alatiyat, St. Amy Lewis, Colorado State U–Teaching Olaf Col Religion in a Political Science Classroom Touria Khannous, Louisiana State Nicole Khoury, Arizona State U–Family U–Teaching Race and Islam in the Protection Bill in Lebanon and the Public American College Classroom: Morocco as Sphere a Case Study Hind Ahmed Zaki, U Washington–State Law and Its Discontents: Formal and Informal Gender Regimes in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon

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Tunisian ‘Exceptionalism’?: Situating Mapping Spaces of Inclusion and Making the Most of Intensive In- the 2011 Revolution and Its Aftermath Exclusion: Sociability in Ottoman Country Language Study in the Context of North African Syria Organized by Kirk Belnap Regional Reform Organized by Elyse Semerdjian Organized by Daniel Zisenwine Supported by Sponsored by National Middle East Language Sponsored by Syrian Studies Association Resource Center American Institute for Maghrib Studies Discussant: Dana Sajdi, Boston Col Chair: Kirk Belnap, Brigham Young U Discussant: Gregory W. White, Smith Col Discussant: Madeline Ehrman, Foreign Helen Pfeifer, Princeton U–Meet Me in Service Institute, retired Daniel Zisenwine, Tel Aviv U–On the Majlis: Sociability and Ethnicity in the Threshold of New Politics: The Sixteenth-Century Damascus Joshua Taylor, Brigham Young U– Tunisian and Moroccan 2011 Elections in Heghnar Watenpaugh, UC Davis– Intensive Arabic Study and Project Historical Perspective The Coffeehouse: Architecture and Perseverance: Training, Coaching, and Michael J. Willis, U Oxford–Leader, Sociability in the Ottoman City Environmental Considerations Follower or Outlier?: The Experience Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman Col–Nudity Dan Dewey, Brigham Young U–Social of Tunisia’s An-Nahda Party in and the Dhimmi Woman: Regulating Networks, Language Use, and Language Comparative Regional Perspective Co-Confessional Bathing in Eighteenth Acquisition during Study Abroad Doris H. Gray, Florida State U–Women’s Century Aleppo Andrew Smith, Brigham Young U– Rights and Political Change in Tunisia, Astrid Meier, U Halle-Wittenberg–An Intensive Arabic Study and Project Morocco and Algeria Ottomanization of the Countryside?: Perseverance: A Qualitative Analysis of Monica Marks, U Oxford–Between Village Bathhouses in Ottoman Syria Students’ Experience Imprisonment and Empowerment: (Damascus, Aleppo, Hama) Heather Shelley, Brigham Young U and Understanding Islamist Women’s Marianne Boqvist, Swedish Research Edith Dean, Brigham Young U –Study Participation in Tunisia, Libya, and Institute in Istanbul–Hospitality Abroad as a Gendered Experience: Egypt Unlimited or Confined?: Imperial American Women in Cairo Imarets on Ottoman Syrian Highways Re-Configurations in State-Society Palestine: Separation, Discontinuity Relations: The Comparative Politics Historical Writing in Early Islam and Social Movements of Power and Protest in Turkey and Organized by Antoine Borrut Beyond Chair: Arturo Marzano, European U Organized by Nicole Watts Sponsored by Institute Middle East Medievalists Chair: Resat Kasaba, U Washington Sharri Plonski, SOAS, U London– Discussant: Hootan Shambayati, Florida Chair: Fred M. Donner, U Chicago Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel, the Gulf Coast U Discussant: Chase Robinson, CUNY Struggle over Land, and the Politics of Graduate Center Space Senem Aslan, Bates Col–Political Mercy: Maia Carter Hallward, Kennesaw State Comparing Turkish and Moroccan Steven C. Judd, Southern Connecticut U and Jamil Al Wekhian, Kennesaw Amnesties State U–Was Al-Zuhri an Umayyad Court State U–Examining the Relations Ceren Belge, Concordia U–Dismantling Historian? between Identity, ‘Peace’ and Activism Turkey’s Juristocracy: AKP and the Sean Anthony, U Oregon–Maghazi and in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Transformation of Legal Power in Imperial Ideology in Late Antique Syria: Nadim Bawalsa, New York U– Turkey Ibn Shihab Al-Zuhri as a Case Study Identifying from Afar: Palestinian Berna Turam, Northeastern U–Politics Rana Mikati, U Chicago–Slave to Emigrant Narratives before 1948 of Space: The University Campus, Scholar: The Career of Al-Walid b. Ahmad Amara, New York U–Colonial Freedom and Democratization Muslim Legal (Dis)Continuities in Palestine: The Joakim Parslow, U Washington– Antoine Borrut, U Maryland–Court Negev Lands Exceptional Justice and Ambiguous Astrologers and Historical Writing in Elizabeth Brownson, UC Santa Barbara– Transitions in Turkey and Egypt Early Islam “He Left Me without Maintenance Nicole Watts, San Francisco State (Nafaqa)”: Gendered Strategies to U–“Sulaimaniya Spring”: Protest and Negotiating Maintenance Disputes in Authority in the Kurdistan Region of Mandate Palestine Iraq

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Contested Politics of Gender and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Sexuality

Adi Greif, Yale U–Gender Equality and Public Intellectuals: Taking Research Outside the Academy Kin-Based Groups Mohammadreza Hashemitaba, AKU- Supported by ISMC–’Sin … Right Here on My Face’: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Rhinoplasty in Tehran Mija Sanders, U Arizona–LGBT Civil Session Leader: Suad Joseph, UC Davis Rights Activism in Diyarbakir Sonia Ahsan, Columbia U– It is increasingly important for scholars to educate outside the academy--to Misrecognizing Honour: Honour Effect take their research results, their theories, and their methods to the media, and Honour Killings in Afghanistan to the communities in which they circulate, to K-12 teachers, to NGO’s and Angel M. Foster, U Ottawa & Ibis to appropriate government agencies. Research foundations require effective Reproductive Health–Exploring the dissemination to our publics in language, styles and venues that are acces- Journey of Emergency Contraception in sible; legislators link university budgets to the impact of its research outside Jordan scholarly circles; merits and promotions are enhanced by the attention the research receives publically; and the society calls upon academics to give back Minorities and Government-Subject to the public good. Relations across Eurasia Organized by the Editors of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Jehan Saleh, U Edinburgh–Before (EWIC), this workshop trains graduate students and young scholars in public Hizballah: Communism and the Lebanese outreach work. We will use examples of how to use research to challenge and Shi’a refigure public representations of Islam, Arab and Muslim Americans, the James Helicke, Ohio State Middle East, and Muslim women. The workshop will discuss communicating U–“Susceptible to Communist with the media, preparing materials and training for K-12 teachers, work- Subversion”: Turkey and Minorities in ing with NGO’s, writing for appropriate government agencies. The workshop the Early Cold War will also introduce new scholars to writing for EWIC and offer opportunities Zeyneb Hale Eroglu Sager, Harvard for publishing in EWIC. The workshop leader is Suad Joseph, General Editor U–Chinese Muslim (Hui) Intellectual of the EWIC and Past President of the Middle East Studies Association. She is Thought and Transnational Networks in Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the Era of Modernization (1920-1949) the University of California, Davis. She is joined by the Editors of EWIC. Beeta Baghoolizadeh, U Texas Austin– From Fellows to Foreigners: The Qajar Experience in the Ottoman Empire Transhistorical Accounts of the Thematic Conversation Laurent Dissard, U Pennsylvania– Environment Rescue Excavations at Keban in Eastern Whither the Iranian Diaspora (Year 3) Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Turkey (1966-1975): Submerged Villages Organized by Amy Motlagh, American Benedictine U on the Sidelines of Archaeological U in Cairo Laboratories Paul Love, U Michigan–A Micro-Ecology Frances Trix, Indiana U–Turks of Session Leader: Mohsen Mobasher, U of Medieval Ibadism: The Island of Macedonia: Ottoman Remnant People Houston-Downtown Endangered since Independence Djerba Victor Taki, U Alberta–The Role of Zohreh Niknia, Mills Col Environment in the Accounts of Russo- Philip Grant, Independent Scholar Ottoman Wars Persis M. Karim, San Jose State U Samuel Dolbee, New York U–Peasants, Pests, and Pine Trees: State Power and Environmental Control in Late Ottoman Syria Marina Tolmacheva, Washington State U–Environment and Human Geography in the Sailing Instructions of Ahmad Ibn Majid (15th Century)

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Security States in the Social Realm: Lisa L. Wynn, Macquarie U/Ibis The Experience of War: Ordinary Beyond Authoritarianism Studies Reproductive Health–Like a Virgin: Ottomans and Prolonged Conflict Organized by Paul Amar Hymenoplasty and ‘Urfi marriage in Organized by A. Holly Shissler Egypt Chair: Lisa Anderson, American U in Rania Salem, Harvard U–Secret Marital Discussant: A. Holly Shissler, U Chicago Cairo Unions among Youth in Cairo and Discussant: Rania Kassab Sweis, Minya: The Paradox of Licit Aspirations Kent F. Schull, Binghamton U–Interned Georgetown U and Illicit Behaviors on the Isle of Man: Ottoman Citizens in British Concentration Camps during Kevan Harris, Princeton U–Grey Who Supports Political Islam and Why? World War One Capitalism in the Islamic Republic: Social Organized by David Siddhartha Patel James N. Tallon, Lewis U–The Security Pensions and Precarious State- and Lisa Blaydes Experience of Ottoman Soldiers in the Building in Iran CUP’s War of Centralization Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara– Chair/Discussant: Stacey Philbrick Melis Hafez, UCLA–Moralization to Militarized Social Justice and Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Cols Militarization?: Reading the Balkan Wars Religionized Human-Security Politics in through the Body of the Political Subject Today’s Egypt Lisa Blaydes, Stanford U– Val Moghadam, Northeastern U–Social Disaggregating Support for Islamist Subversion and Synthesis in Later Rights and Economic Citizenship in Light Parties and Candidates in Egypt Islamicate Intellectual History of the Arab Spring: Reflections on Egypt, Michael Robbins, U Michigan–Voting Organized by Judith Pfeiffer Morocco, Tunisia for Islam: Support for Ennahda in Melani C. Cammett, Brown U–Welfare Tunisia Judith Pfeiffer, U Oxford–An Early Regimes in the Middle East: Comparing David Siddhartha Patel, Cornell U–The 8th/14th Century View on Islamicate Tunisia and Lebanon History and Future of Electoral Islamism Intellectual History: Rashid Al-Din’s Lawrence Rubin, Georgia Institute Taxonomy of Scholars in the Kitab Al- Roundtable of Technology–Examining Islamic Sultaniyya Activism in the Jewish State: The Islamic Matthew Melvin-Koushki, U Oxford– The Current State of Arab American Movement in Israel Subversion and Synthesis in 15th Studies from Graduate Student Century Islamicate Occult Philosophy: Perspectives Genealogies of Dissent: The Making of The Lettrism of Kashifi and Davani Organized by Randa Kayyali the Tunisian Revolution Ilker Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, Sponsored by Organized by Nouri Gana U London–Riddling the Universe: Arab American Studies Association Mu‘amma and the Quest to Decipher the Supported by Cosmic Order in the Timurid Empire MLA Division on Ertugrul Okten, U Oxford–Remapping Chair: Randa Kayyali, George Mason U Arabic Literature and Culture the Spiritual Landscape: Further Explorations into Jami’s Nafahat Al-Uns Karam Dana, Harvard U Chair: Kenneth J. Perkins, U South Matthew B. Ingalls, U Puget Sound– Nicole Khoury, Arizona State U Carolina Loyalty in Form and Treachery in Rawan Arar, UC San Diego Discussant: Amy Kallander, Syracuse U Substance: A Critical Reading of a Late- Medieval Muslim Legal Commentary Forbidden Love, Illicit Sex: Emma Murphy, Durham U–The IMF, Unsanctioned (Extra) Marital Structural Adjustment and the Roots of “Each Story is a Treasure House”: Practices in Modern Egypt Discontent Didacticism, Allegory, and Organized by Hanan Kholoussy and Nouri Gana, UCLA–Collaborative Interpretation in Classical Persian Rania Salem Revolutionism Literature William Granara, Harvard U–Arabic Organized by Austin O’Malley Chair: Judith E. Tucker, Georgetown U Literary Criticism in Colonial Tunisia: Discussant: Beth Baron, CUNY Graduate Voices of Dissent Chair: Franklin D. Lewis, U Chicago Center Sabra J. Webber, Ohio State U– Discussant: Paul E. Losensky, Indiana U Will Hanley, Florida State U– Performing the Tunisian Revolution Relationships Outside Marriage, beyond Cameron Cross, U Chicago–Knowledge, Law, and without Remedy in Turn-of- Fair and Foul: The Haft Paykar the-Century Alexandria Interprets Itself Hanan Kholoussy, American U in Cairo– Jane Mikkelson, U Chicago–The Sufi Governing the Private Affairs of Public Pathology of Love Officials: Marriage and Masculinity in Interwar and Post-Mubarak Egypt continued next page

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Theodore Beers, U Chicago–Linearity Language and Identity in the Arab Matteo Di Giovanni, Yale U–The Spirit and Hierarchy in the Haft Paykar World: Media, Society and Language of Knowledge in the Flesh of History: Austin O’Malley, U Chicago–Moralizing Change Philosophy and Politics in Almohad Voices and Interpretive Confusion Organized by Francesco L. Sinatora Spain Dale J. Correa, New York U–Hear, Moments of Politicized Violence: Chair: Francesco L. Sinatora See, Speak, and Do: Perception and Nationalism, Sectarianism and Production of Community in a Hanafi Memory in the Modern Middle East Nadine Hamdan, Georgetown U–From Theory of Testimony Organized by Orit Bashkin “Let Me Finish” to “Eat Shit”: How a Lebanese Political Talk Show on the Thematic Chair: Ipek K. Yosmaoglu, Conflict in Syria Went Sour Conversation Northwestern U , Georgetown U– Francesco L. Sinatora Writing, Publishing and Translating Discussant: , Rice U The Language of the New Media: A Study Ussama Makdisi Iran at the Crossroads: Politics, on Contemporary Arabic Diglossia History and Academics , Princeton U–“Shaykh Salih , Georgetown U–Translating Max Weiss Anny Gaul Organized by Maggie Nassif Al-‘Ali” between Local Uprising and Tolerance: The Rhetoric of Muhammad Nationalist Revolt VI of Morocco Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, National , Haverford Col–The Zainab Saleh Middle East Language Resource Center Double Execution of Saddam Hussein Politics of the Environment , Vanderbilt U– Julia Phillips Cohen Michael Beard, U North Dakota Rethinking Communitarian Violence in , CSU San Marcos– Scott Greenwood Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers U Late Ottoman Istanbul Politics of Water Scarcity and Climate Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine , U Chicago–When Change in the Arab World: Lessons from Orit Bashkin Kamran Talattof, U Arizona Nationalism Collides: The Farhud, Iraqi Jordan Ghazzal Dabiri, Columbia U Jewry and Politicized Violence , Georgia State U–“We Nadine Sinno Kamran Rastegar, Tufts U Want 5 Troops Dead for Each Tree They Arab Spring, Artistic Awakening?: Cut Down”: Lamenting Green Carnage in Art, Resistance and Revolution Arab Women’s War Diaries Organized by Jennifer Pruitt and Dina Matthew Weiss, National U Singapore– A. Ramadan Light a Candle or Curse the Darkness?: The Politics of Freshwater Scarcity in Sponsored by the Middle East Association for Modern and Ozan Emrah Aksoy, CUNY Graduate Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Center–“Wake Up” and “Nomad”: Iran and Turkey Competing Visions of Turkish and Kurdish Environmentalism in the Music Chair/Discussant: Elliott Colla, of Tarkan and Aynur Dogan Georgetown U Jeanene Mitchell, U Washington– Cooperation between Scientific and Jennifer Pruitt, Smith Col–The Global Policy Communities in Black Sea Street: The Rise of Cairene Street Art, Regional Environmental Governance: A 2011-2012 Case Study of Turkey Dina A. Ramadan, Bard Col–When Artists Become Martyrs: Understanding Epistemology in the Islamic Egyptian Art after “Revolution” Philosophical Tradition Anne-Marie McManus, Yale U– Demanding Images: Documenting Deina Abdelkader, U Massachusetts Revolution in Syria Lowell–Faith, Reason, and Contemporary Christiane Gruber, U Michigan–”King Political Thought of Kings of Africa”: Racializing Gaddafi John Walbridge, Indiana U– in the Visual Output of the 2011 Libyan Suhrawardi’s Peripatetic Works and Revolution Illuminationism Roxanne D. Marcotte, Université du Québec à Montréal–Abu Al- ‘Abbas Al-Lawkari (d. after 503/1109) on the Intellect

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Forgotten Legacy: Palestinians in A Software for Supporting, Refractions of the Quran in Islamic Kuwait Facilitating, Enhancing Usage of Religious Discourse Organized by Mai Al-Nakib Arabic Conjunctions Organized by Raghda El-Essawi Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity U–Human Sponsored by Rights and Islam: Mesbah Yazdi vs. Association for Gulf & Chair: Raghda El-Essawi, American U in Hossien Ali Montazeri Arabian Peninsula Studies Cairo Dalia Abo Haggar, Harvard U–The Queen of Sheba, the Hoopoe, and the Chair/Discussant: Ann M. Lesch, Raghda El-Essawi, American U in Cairo– Ant: A Structural Analysis in Surat Al- American U in Cairo From Punctuation to Conjunctions Naml Azza Hassanien, American U in Yousef Casewit, Yale U–Natural Shafeeq Ghabra, Kuwait U–Palestinians Cairo–Using Appropriate Connectors Phenomena as a Gateway into the in Kuwait Revisited Appropriately Celestial Realm: The Sufi Tafsir of Ibn Mai Al-Nakib, Kuwait U–Kanafani in Rasha Essam, American U in Cairo– Barrajan Kuwait: A Clinical Assessment Learners’ Attitudes towards a Writing Rania Al-Nakib, U London, Institute of Software Colonial and Post-Colonial Discourses Education–Palestinians and Educational Shaema Essa, American U in Cairo– “Beginnings” in Kuwait Conjunctions: Usage and Frequency Donald Holsinger, Seattle Pacific U– Farah Al-Nakib, American U Kuwait– Albert Camus and the Tragedies of Shiber’s City: Palestinian Urbanism in Russian and Soviet Strands in Arabic Modern Algeria Kuwait Literature Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, U Organized by Margaret Litvin and Denver–Morocco from a Colonial to a Perspectives on Female Agency in Spencer Scoville Post-Colonial Era: The Socio-Political Classical Fiqh Environment through a Grandmother’s Organized by Scott C. Lucas Chair/Discussant: Alexander Knysh, U Autoethnography Michigan Annick Durand, Zayed U Dubai– Chair: Samy Ayoub, U Arizona Through the Looking Glass: Politics of Discussant: Judith E. Tucker, Margaret Litvin, Boston U–Letters to Colonial Narrative in Joe Orton’s Diaries Georgetown U Tolstoy: Arab Writers Between Prophesy and Mohamed Choukri’s For Bread Alone and Fiction Arturo Marzano, European U Institute– Marion Holmes Katz, New York U–Re- Masha Kirasirova, New York U– Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism of Imagining Gender Roles in the Islamic Ferdowsi, Omar Khayyam, and Lahuti: Radio Bari (1934-43): An Unsolvable Marriage Contract Soviet-Iranian Rivalries over Persian Contradiction Nayel Badareen, U Arizona–Deciding Literary Heritage Aurelie Perrier, Georgetown U– on Behalf of the Woman in Shi’i Spencer Scoville, U Michigan– Frenchmen in the Sahara and Bedouins Jurisprudence MaHabbat Al-waTan: Shifting in Paris: Imperial Encounters and Hina Azam, U Texas Austin–Monetary Allegiances in Khalil Baydas’ Russian the Construction of Masculinity in Awards for Rape Victims in Islamic Law Translations Nineteenth-Century Algeria Scott C. Lucas, U Arizona–“You are Alyn Hine, SOAS, U London–Kulthum Divorced If/When/Every Time You cAwdah/Klavdia Ode-Vasilyeva: Life in Political Change in the Arab Spring Wish”: The Power of Arabic Particles in Translation Classical Islamic Law Chair: F. Michael Wuthrich, U Kansas Turkish Politics during the Cold War: Roundtable Anti-Communism, Islam and the Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State U–Parties Impact of the USA after Revolution: The Social and Animal Studies in the Middle East: Organized by Ilker Ayturk Ideological Origins of Political Parties in Opening the Cage to Inquiry the Middle East Organized by Heidi Morrison Ilker Ayturk, Bilkent U–Right-Wing Geoff Martin, U Guelph–Cooptation, Dilemmas in Cold War Turkey: Mümtaz Continuity, and the Diffusion of Chair: Heidi Morrison, U Wisconsin La Turhan’s Yol Collective Action: Kuwaiti Civil Society Crosse Ryan Gingeras, Naval Postgraduate after the Arab Spring School–Istanbul Confidential: Heroin, Daryl Carr, UT Austin–Why Not Jordan?: Alan Mikhail, Yale U Espionage and Politics in Cold War A Comparison of Jordan and Syria using Richard Wittmann, Orient-Institut Turkey, 1945-1960 Three Theoretical Frameworks Istanbul Gavin Brockett, Wilfrid Laurier U–Turks Suraiya Faroqhi, Istanbul Bilgi U and International Islam: The World Sarra Tlili, U Florida Muslim Congress, 1949-52 Kristen Stilt, Northwestern U

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Development and Reform in the Late Paths to Conversion: Taxes, Politics, Perspectives on Iran across Time Ottoman Empire and Beyond and Love Delbar Khakzad, U Toronto–Futural Chair: Roger A. Deal, U South Carolina Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion Concepts in the Iranian Constitutional Aiken U the Negev–The Historiography of the Revolution and Their Manifestation in Islamization of the Middle East in the the "Sur-i Israfil" Newspaper James Ryan, U Pennsylvania–A 7th-15th Centuries Gregory Aldous, U Wisconsin Madison– Revolution in Between: Mehmet The Shah and the Qizilbash in Early Zekeriya and Sabiha Sertel’s Illustrated Claudia Yaghoobi, UC Santa Barbara–A Safavid Iran Press, 1918-1928 Comparative Study of the Significance of Navid Fozi-Abivard, Middle East Nora Barakat, UC Berkeley–Rethinking Love in Shaykh San‘ān and Abelard and Institute, National U Singapore– Ottoman Reforms of the Early Twentieth Heloise’s Religious Transgression Historicities of Iranian Political Century: Animal Theft in the Provinces Rachel Friedman, UC Berkeley– Legitimacy: The Case of President and Central Attempts to Identify Religious Longing in the Ghazal of an Ahmadinejad’s Nationalist Discourse Animals Andalusi Muslim Convert Geoffrey F. Gresh, National Defense U– James Casey, Princeton U–Anxious Ramazan Hakki Oztan, U Utah– Shaken but Not Stirred: Iran, Pakistan Ambivalence: New Borders, Old Fears, Ottomans Turned Mormon: Mormon and Their Balochistan Border and Confronting Modernity in Post- Mission to the Ottoman Empire, Hengameh Fouladvand, Center for Ottoman Syria 1880s-1920s Iranian Modern Arts, NY–The Role of Aykut Mustak, Sabanci U–To Figure Literary Writers in the Emergence of a Pasha Household: Muhsinzade State-Society Relations in Modern Visual Art Criticism in Iran: The Households and Their Expenses Revolutionary Egypt Case of First Modern Artists and Print Elizabeth Williams, Georgetown U– Media Cultivating Land, Negotiating Change: Chair: Gamze Cavdar, Colorado State U Mahyar Entezari, U Texas Austin–The The History of an Ottoman Agricultural Other Theocracy: The Islamic Republic School Gennaro Gervasio, British U in Egypt/ of Iran’s Discourse on the Islamic Hakan Karpuzcu, Princeton U– Macquarie U, Sydney–The 2011 Egyptian Emirate of Afghanistan Ziya Gokalp’s Islamic Legal Reform: Revolution and the Making of Subaltern Reconfiguration of Sharia, Family and Subjectivities Thematic Muslim Subjectivity in the Late Ottoman Shawki El-Zatmah, Loyola Marymount Conversation Period U–The Politics of Disenchantment: The New Perspectives on Studying Gender Altras Phenomenon in Egyptian Soccer in the Middle East (Year 2) , New York U– Construction of Collective Identities Magda El-Ghitany Organized by Katherine Natanel Debating Salafism in Post-Revolutionary , FRIAS–Language, Religion Egypt Abbas Poya Session Leader: Leyli Behbahani, SOAS, and Nationalism: The History of U London Nationalist Narratives in Afghanistan Modern Divides in the Middle East: , U Pennsylvania–The Harkis: Alon Tam Political Parties, Political Movements, Katherine Natanel, SOAS, U London On Memory Work, Identity, and the and Representation Marta Pietrobelli, SOAS, U London Politics of Belonging Ozlem Caliskan, SOAS, U London Ahmadov Ramin, U Cincinnati– Chair: K. Cyrus Homayounpour, George Nationalism, Secularism, and Islam: Washington U Azeris in Azerbaijan and Iran Shay Hazkani, New York U–“The Arabs Daniela Melfa, U Catania–Old Cleavages are Our Brothers, Not the Ashkenazi in New Tunisia: The Challenge of Jews": Shapiong an Arab Jewish Identity Identity Issue in Israel, 1948-1959 Rola El-Husseini, CUNY Graduate Anthony Edwards, UT Austin– Center–Sunni Political Parties in Postwar Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali’s Project of Lebanon Arabization Sebnem Gumuscu, Sabanci U–To Represent or to Proselytize?: A Comparative Study of Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia

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The Shi’ite Ghulat in Historical and Relli I. Shechter, Ben Gurion U– Palestinian Counter-Maps and Comparative Perspective Consumerism and Islamism: Egyptian Counter-Strategies Organized by Sean Anthony and Saudi Arabian Trajectories during Organized by Linda Quiquivix the Oil Boom Era Chair: Paul E. Walker, U Chicago Salim Tamari, Institute for Palestine Discussant: Sean Anthony, U Oregon The Arab Spring: Authoritarian Studies–Ottoman Cartography and the Reincarnation, Transition, or Shifting Ethnography of Palestine Mushegh Asatryan, Institute of Ismaili Revolution Linda Quiquivix, UNC Chapel Hill–The Studies–A New Source for the Study of Organized by Amaney A. Jamal Cadastral Map and the Destruction of Early Shi’a Ghulat the Common Rodrigo Adem, U Chicago–Isma’ili Chair/Discussant: Jillian M. Schwedler, Omar Tesdell, U Minnesota– Doctrine: Sources and Context U Massachusetts Amherst Reimagining the land: Questions Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Institute of of Representation in Palestinian Ismaili Studies–Re-Emergence of the Elizabeth R. Nugent, Princeton U– Cartography Early Ghulat Ideas in the Post-Mongol Egypt’s Revolutionary Moment: The Nora Akawi, Independent Scholar–Atlas Iran?: Textual Evidence from the Hurufi Effect of Military Bureaucratization and of Palestine 2.0 Works Institutionalization Bella Tendler, Princeton U–New Ellen Lust, Yale U–Social Networks, State, Society and Identity in the Evidence for the Survival of Libertine Clientelism and Elections in the Context Cinema Rites among Some Nusayri ‘Alawis of the of Change Nineteenth Century Kevin Mazur, Princeton U and Amaney Kaveh Bassiri, U Arkansas–Friends/ A. Jamal, Princeton U –The Arab Spring Enemies on the Border: National Identity MESA beyond the Middle East: in Comparative Perspective in Iranian War Cinema Revisiting and Reimagining the Area Michael Hoffman, Princeton U–How Ozde Celiktemel-Thomen, U Col Studies Paradigm Much Do the Youth Really Matter?: London–Cinema Regulations during the Organized by Scott S. Reese Examining Cohort and Generational Hamidian Era Differences in the Arab World Robert Lang, U Hartford–Sexuality and Chair: Scott S. Reese, Northern Arizona U Jason Brownlee, U Texas Austin– the Police State in Férid Boughedir’s Contestation and Repression in the Arab “Halfaouine” (1990) Carl W. Ernst, UNC Chapel Hill Uprisings Yaron Shemer, UNC Chapel Hill– Julia Clancy-Smith, U Arizona Corrective Histories: The Ashkenazi Nile Green, UCLA The Ottoman, Iranian, and Russian Benchmark of Mizrahi Memory in Michael Laffan, Princeton U Revolutions in Comparative and Cinema Connected Perspective Jeannette E. Okur, U Texas Austin– Capitalism and the Material Organized by Houri Berberian Goat Herders and Grape Gatherers: The Transformation of Islam in the Portrayal of Anatolian Mountain Village Modern Era Chair: Monica M. Ringer, Amherst Col Women’s Interaction with the Natural Organized by Leor Halevi Environment in Contemporary Turkish Yektan Turkyilmaz, Duke U–A Film Discussant: Gregory Starrett, UNC Revolution within the Revolution: Re- Charlotte Making the Ottoman-Armenian Political Precious Commodities: Water, Oil, and Representation, 1908-14 the Environment in the Middle East Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt U– Serpil Atamaz, TOBB ETU–Women and Gramophones, Cell Phones and the Revolution in Qajar Iran and Ottoman Dale Stahl, Columbia U–Building Dams, Qur’an: Modern Instruments and Ritual Turkey Building States: Water, Development and Concerns in Salafi Fatwas from Egypt Farzin Vejdani, U Arizona– Politics in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin and Saudi Arabia Representing Ottoman and Iranian 1920-1975 Nancy Y. Reynolds, Washington U St. Constitutional Revolutions in Literature, Shohei Sato, Waseda U–Between Water Louis–Islam and Commercial Marketing Visual Culture, and History and Oil: An Environmental History of the in Mid-Twentieth-Century Egypt Houri Berberian, CSU Long Beach– Buraimi Oasis Dispute, 1952-1955 Bettina Graef, Zentrum Moderner Connecting Revolutions: Armenians Mari Luomi, CIRS, Georgetown U Orient–Ideological Responses to and the Ottoman, Iranian, and Russian School of Foreign Service in Qatar– Capitalism at the Beginning of the Cold Revolutions Qatar’s Natural Sustainability: Plans, War in Egypt Perceptions and Pitfalls continued next page

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Barbara Boloix-Gallardo, Washington Teaching Arabic at Home Andrew Magnusson, UC Santa U St. Louis–The Absence of Water and Its Barbara–Out of Context: The Consequences: Droughts and Epidemics Shahira Yacout, American U in Cairo– Prophet Muhammad’s Charter to the in Al-Andalus and the Maghreb (13th- Teaching Language and Content through Zoroastrians 15th Centuries) the 25th January Egyptian Revolution Toru Miura, Ochanomizu U–Waqf Lizabeth A. Zack, U South Carolina and Subsequent Political Events Activity of Grass-Roots Level in 16th Upstate–Scheming to Save the Dead Sara Hillman, Michigan State U– Century Damascus Sea: The Decline of the Dead Sea as an Conversational and Canned Joke-Telling Environmental Problem in the Arabic Language Classroom The Impact of Political Change: Inside Marie Alienor van den Bosch, David DiMeo, Western Kentucky U– and Out Princeton U–The Politics of Public Teaching Arabic Literature through Investments in Arab Rentier States Student Engagement Techniques Yasmine Farouk, Cairo U–Saudi Arabia Hazem Osman, Defense Language and the Political Empowerment of Center and Periphery in the Ottoman Institute–What Telecollaboration Brings Islamists in the Arab World: The Case of Empire to Arabic Students?: Intercultural Saudi Arabia’s Relations with Egypt Communicative Competence Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee State Chair: Yaron Ayalon, Emory U Mohammad T. Alhawary, U Michigan– U–From Bahrain to Bukit Bintang: The Input Frequency and Acquisition of Gulf’s New Strategic Partnership with Zoe Griffith, Brown U–Politics and Arabic as a Foreign Language Malaysia Family in Ottoman Tripoli Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, London Ayelet Zoran-Rosen, New York U– Women’s Agency School of Economics–Changing Patterns Mechanisms of Incorporation in the of Gulf States’ Engagement in South- Ottoman Empire: The Emergence of the Manal A. Jamal, James Madison South Frameworks Bosnian-Ottoman Elite U–Beyond Exception: Women and Jaclyn Kerr, Georgetown U–Comparing Fatih Artvinli, Bakırköy Hospital Democracy in the Arab World Episodes of Intra-Regional Revolutionary for Psychiatry, Neurology and Gholam R. Vatandoust, American Contagion: The Context and Prospects Neurosurgery–Opening the Closed U Kuwait–Iranian Women and the of Early and Late Uprisings of 1989 and Doors: 1893 Cholera Epidemic in the Continuing Struggle for Gender Equality 2011 Toptasi Lunatic Asylum and Civil Rights during the Presidency of Michiel Leezenberg, U Amsterdam– Mr. Ahmadinejad Turkish Landscapes: Kurds, Political From Coffee House to Nation State: The Neveser Koker, U Michigan–”Betwixt Parties, and European Union Emergence of New Public Languages in and Between?”: Rethinking Religion Possibilities the Ottoman Empire and Women’s Agency in Late Ottoman Rashed Chowdhury, McGill U–An Society through Ladies’ Own Gazette Chair: Christian Sinclair, U Arizona Ottoman Soldier and Diplomat in the Betul Argit, Independent Scholar–A Sahara: Sadiq Al-Mu’ayyad’s Journey to Slave Concubine’s Rise to Political Doug Jones, Rutgers U–Turkey’s Critical Kufra in 1895 Power: Rabia Gülnus Emetullah Valide Need for a New Constitution Sultan (1640-1715) Iklim Goksel, Independent Scholar– Re-Enchanting Social and Cultural Ilhan Yildiz, Karatekin U–Violence From Global to Local: Cittaslow and Landscapes: Modern Arabic Fiction against Women in Modern Turkey: Politics of Identification in Turkey Beliefs, Thoughts and Traditions Filiz Kahraman, U Washington– Hanadi Al-Samman, U Virginia–Buried Sumeyye Kocaman, UCLA– Rethinking the Democratization Effect of Cities, Resurrected Histories, and Representations of Religion: Ottoman the EU on Turkey: Labor, Kurdish Rights Rhizomatic Narrative in Hoda Barakat’s Women at the Turn of the Century and the ECHR The Tiller of Waters Solen Sanli, Santa Rosa Junior Col– Jamila Davey, U Texas Austin–Unruly Documentary Sources for the Study of Hegemony and Neoliberal Populism in Voices: Reimagining Ideal Muslim Law: Waqf, Archives, and Contracts Turkey: An Analysis of JDP’s Rhetoric Women in Assia Djebar’s Far from Madina and Policies Hilla Peled-Shapira, Bar-Ilan U–The Chair: Nicolas Trépanier, U of City and the Beast: The Relationship Mississippi between Intellectuals and the Authorities as Reflected in Mid- Kristina Benson, UCLA–Lost in Twentieth-Century Iraqi Literature Translation: Muslim Marriage Contracts Noha M. Radwan, UC Davis–A Century in American Courts of Fictional Intellectuals Garrett Davidson, U Chicago– Zaki Haidar, U Pennsylvania–Re- Children Should Hear and Be Heard: Enchanting Literary Mount Lebanon Hadith Attendance Registers and the Role of Children in Medieval Hadith Transmission Page 40 u MESA 2012 Preliminary Program 11AM-1PM Tuesday November 20

Thematic Conversation

Memory and Identity in a Post- Conflict Gulf Organized by Christopher Ohan

Session Leader: Christopher Ohan, American U Kuwait

Ildiko Kaposi, American U Kuwait Conerly Casey, Rochester Institute of Technology

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The Transformation of Political Islam Ahmet Bekmen, Istanbul U–The Semih Celik, European U Institute– Organized by Francesco Cavatorta Restructuring of the State Power and the Ottoman State and Society during New Authoritarianism in Turkey Famine: The Case of Ankara in 1845 Supported by Baris Alp Ozden, Yildiz Technical U– The Germany-based Governing Poverty: The Transformation Jews, Muslims and Christians in Gerda Henkel Foundation of Social Welfare and Politics in Turkey Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine: Ece Oztan, Yildiz Technical U–Gendered New Perspectives for Research Chair: Francesco Cavatorta, Dublin City U Paths of Neoliberal Citizenship: Family, Organized by Abigail Jacobson Community and Gender in Turkey Francesco Cavatorta, Dublin City U–The Chair: Ami Ayalon, Tel Aviv U Complex Field of Islamism in Tunisia and Seasons of Activism and Dissent: Discussant: Salim Tamari, Institute for the Transformation of Ennahda Preludes to the ‘Arab Spring’ Palestine Studies Vincent Durac, U Col Dublin–Islamism, Organized by Annie C. Higgins Democracy and Human Rights in the Andrew Patrick, NYU Abu Dhabi– Arabian Peninsula: The Case of Yemen’s Discussant: Christopher Stone, Hunter Confession over Community: Forced Islah Party Col CUNY Decisions in 1919 Palestine Paola Rivetti, Dublin City U–Translating Noah Haiduc-Dale, Waynesburg U–The Democracy and Human Rights: Elena D. Corbett, Penn State Erie– Al-Bahri Affair: An Interpretation of The Iranian Islamic Human Rights Building against Disaffection: The Case Religious Violence Commission as a Tool of Legitimacy for of Jordan’s Maqamat Jonathan Gribetz, Rutgers U–“To the Regime Annie C. Higgins, Col of Charleston– Respond to the Lies Hurled at the Emanuela Dalmasso, CIES-IUL–From Regime Change and Self Exchange: Israelite Nation”: Methodological Theory to Practice?: The Party of Justice Shurat/Kharijite Women’s Activism in Challenges in the Study of Jewish Arabic and Development in Morocco Early Islam Religious Apologetics in the Fin de Siècle Caroline Seymour-Jorn, U Wisconsin Abigail Jacobson, Brandeis U–Jews from Sexual Identity and Identity Politics Milwaukee–Women Writing the Middle East Descent and Jewish-Arab in Arabo-Islamic Cultures Revolution Relations in Mandatory Palestine Organized by Maya F Boutaghou, John C. Eisele, Col of William and Mary– Liora R. Halperin, Princeton U– Florida International U ‘Ana MaZluum: Melodramatic Outrage Resituating the Yishuv in Its Arabic and Depictions of Social and Political Speaking Context Chair: Olivia C. Harrison, U Southern Injustice in Egyptian Popular Films California Christa Salamandra, Lehman Col Literary Performance Discussant: Sofian Merabet, U Texas CUNY–Prelude to an Uprising: Syrian Organized by Elliott Colla Austin Fictional Television and Socio-Political Critique Chair/Discussant: Elliott Colla, Janell Rothenberg, UCLA–Queer Georgetown U Identities in Place and Text: Reading Famine and Starvation in the Modern Abdellah Taia in Tangier Middle East: Environmental Causes, Samuel T. England, U Wisconsin Olivia C. Harrison, U Southern Social Crises, Political Consequences Madison–Moroccan Stage Lights on California–Sex and Politics in Ahlam Organized by Ranin Kazemi ‘Abbasid Literature Mosteghanemi’s Algerian Trilogy Lara Harb, New York U–Wonder and Sofian Merabet, U Texas Austin– Chair/Discussant: Zachary Lockman, Muhdath Poetry Gender, Identity, and Violence: The New York U Katrien Vanpee, Georgetown U– Formation of Queer Subjectivities in Nabati Poetry as National Duty: Poetic Beirut at the Intersection of Fiction and Melanie Tanielian, U Michigan–‘Do Expressions of Tribal, National and Ethnography Mothers and Fathers Devour Their Regional Allegiance in Qatari and Children?’: Death and Survival of the Emirati Praise Poems (3034) The Political and Social Agenda Family during the Lebanese Famine of the Justice and Development Party (1914-1918) in Turkey Ranin Kazemi, Yale U–Famine, Food Organized by Ahmet Bekmen Protest, and Political Participation in Iran, 1850-1905 Chair/Discussant: Seda Altug, Boğaziçi U Ozge Ertem, European U Institute– Bread Riots in Eastern Anatolia (1879- Ismet Akca, Yildiz Technical U–Justice 1881): Social Conflict, Communal and Development Party’s Neoliberal Boundaries and Political Legitimacy Populism: Democratic or Authoritarian?

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Roundtable Bodies in Motion, Bodies in Pain: Susanne Ramadan, Yarmouk U–The Between the National, Corporeal, and Environment and Its Effect on Arabic From Empire to Nation?: New Beyond in Contemporary Iran as a Foreign Language Acquisition at Directions in the Study of Late- Organized by Neda Bolourchi Yarmouk University in Irbid City Ottoman Borderlands Organized by Matthew H. Ellis Supported by Shari’a across Context Columbia University , Sarah Lawrence Col Matthew H. Ellis Rozaliya Garipova, Princeton U–The , Princeton U Zachary Foster Discussant: Setrag Manoukian, McGill U Transformation of Sharia in the Russian Alexander Balistreri, Princeton U Empire , U Washington Barbara Henning G.S. Nikpour, Columbia U–On Pain and Halim Rane, Griffith U–The Political Punishment: The Political Prisoner and Sociology of Maqasid in Contemporary Global Print Cultures from the Midde Iranian Modernity Islamic Thought East to South Asia Neda Bolourchi, Columbia U–Terror Sarra Tlili, U Florida–The Inviolable Organized by Sebouh Aslanian & Torture: Building the Sacred Nation- Rights of Animals: The Notion of State “Hurma” and Its Impact on Animal Discussant: , Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Seema Golestaneh, Columbia U–The Welfare in Islam U Toronto Emergence of the Mimetic Body: Luke Yarbrough, Princeton U–A Transfigurations of Subjectivity and Significant New Source for Early Juristic Afshin Marashi, U Oklahoma–Print- Memory in Contemporary Sufi Ritual Views on Non-Muslim Officials Patronage: Parsi Textual Philanthropy Farbod Honarpisheh, Columbia Fachrizal Halim, McGill U–Making of and the Revival of Zoroastrianism in U–Fashioning a New National Body the Shafi’i School of Law: Legacy and Early 20th Century Iran through a Cinematic New: Ethnographic Contribution of Al-Nawawi (d. 631- Sebouh Aslanian, UCLA–A Reader Documentaries of the Iranian New Wave 76/1233-77) Responds to Joseph Emin’s Life and and the Discourse of Authenticity Adventures: Notes toward a “History Thematic of Reading” in Late Eighteenth Century Cold War Dynamics Conversation Madras , UCLA–The Jihadnama and Disciplining a Religious/Secular Nile Green Chair: Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col the Book of Mormon: Muslim Printing Divide: “Secular States” (Year 2) Organized by Gregory Starrett and on the Industrial Frontier , Yale U–U.S.–Arab Victor McFarland Joyce Dalsheim Mitch Fraas, U Pennsylvania– Relations and the 1973-74 Oil Embargo Readers, Scribes, and Collectors: The Fahed Al-Sumait, Gulf U for Science and Dissemination of Legal Knowledge in Session Leader: Andrew J. Shryock, U Technology–A Rhetorical Tightrope: U.S. Michigan Eighteenth-Century British South Asia Political Discourse on Arab Democracy following the Cold War Gregory Starrett, UNC Charlotte Historical Methodologies for Study of , U.S. Department of Nabeel Khoury Loren Lybarger, Ohio U Athens the Medieval Maghrib State–The Arab Cold War Revisited Organized by W. Matt Malczycki Samuli Schielke, Zentrum Moderner Pinar Dost-Niyego, French Institute Orient for Anatolian Studies Istanbul–A New Assaf Harel, Rutgers U Christine D. Baker, U Texas Austin– Reading of Turkish-American Relations Joyce Dalsheim, UNC Charlotte The Pre-Fatimid Isma’ili Da’wa in during the Cold War: U.S. Postwar Plans the Maghrib: Exploring the Role for Turkey of Heterodox Movements in the Reem Abou-El-Fadl, U Oxford– Islamization of the Middle East Neutralism Made Positive: Egyptian Renata Holod, U Pennsylvania–The Anticolonialism on the Road to Bandung Making of Sectarian Space: Ibadi Jerba and the Shape of Its Settlement Learning Arabic Overseas W. Matt Malczycki, Auburn U–Long before the Aghlabids: Center-Periphery Akiko M. Sumi, Kyoto Notre Dame U– Relations 122/740-138/755 Arabic Acquisition and Interest in Arabic Culture among Japanese University Students Emma Trentman, U of New Mexico– Factors Affecting Out-of-Class Arabic Use during Study Abroad in Egypt Hany Abdul Galiil Fazza, Aarhus U– Arabic Heritage Learners in Denmark: Realities and Visions MESA 2012 Preliminary Program u Page 43 MESA 2012 Registration Form Complete and return to the MESA Secretariat by no later than October 15 for preregistration.

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