Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John's University

Musa Gasimov, Baku State University
Role of the United States in the Conquest of Independence by the South Caucasus (November, 1917)
Yahia H. Zoubir, Thunderbird Europe
Algeria in American Foreign Policy: 'Pivotal State' or Sporadic Ally
Bradford Dillman, Koç University
Dilemmas in American Foreign Policy in the Maghreb
Philip A. Schrodt, University of Kansas
Evaluating the Effects of Individual and Systemic Factors in U.S. Mediation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1979-2002
Eric Drew Cooper, University of Central Florida
Insight from Minurso: Understanding Multinational Peacekeeping Operations

Chair: Michael Provence, Southern Methodist University

Steven Galpern, University of Texas at Austin
Sterling and British Imperialism in Iran, 1946-1954
Louis Fishman, University of Chicago
Political Division in Jerusalem: Arab Notables versus the Local Ottoman Administration
Joshua Schreier, Vassar College
Jews, Muslims, Women and Marriage: The Boundaries of France in 19th Century Colonial Algeria
Nady Abdal-Ghaffar, CEDEJ
Emergency Laws in Occupation Egypt

Minorities Inside Israel (NP30)

Chair: Steven C. Dinero, Philadelphia University

Ibtisam Ibrahim, Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania
Divisiveness along Religious Lines: Israel's Differential Policies in the City of Shafa-amr, Western Galilee
Marion Boulby, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Israeli, Islamist and Feminist?: Current Impacts on All Fronts
Sherry R. Lowrance, University of Texas at Austin
Ethnic Mobilization in the Jewish State: The Role of Palestinian Identity in Arab Protest

Chair: Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest University

Rehana Ghadially, Indian Institute of Technology
Women Pilgrims: Bonds and Boundaries in a South Asian Muslim Sect
Sean Riordan, American University in Cairo
Gender and the Regulatory Discourse of Hisba in Almoravid Andalucia
Yossi Rapoport, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sources of Patriarchal Authority in the Late Medieval Near East: From Repudiation to Regulation
Teresa A. Thomas, Fitchburg State College
Orientalist Perceptions of Nazira Jumblat and Veiling: An Examination of Leadership Among Elite Women in the Druze Community
Angel Foster, Harvard Medical School/Oxford University
Femininity, Sexuality, and Empowerment: The Sleeping Child in Contemporary Tunisia

Rural Cultures, Urban Understandings, Global Meanings: People and Place in Turkish Ethnography (P015)

Supported by the Institute of Turkish Studies

Chair: Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown University

Discussant: Mark Glazer, University of Texas - Pan American

Yucel Demirer, The Ohio State University
On Being an Ethnographer in Turkey: Past, Present, and Future
Chris Dole, Harvard Medical School
Persuasive Geographies: Legitimacy, Identity, and Religious Healing in Urban Turkey
Paul J. Kaldjian, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
'Wearisome' or 'Indispensable': Istanbul's Neighborhood Bazaars, Place and Food Security
Anna Secor, University of Kentucky
Gendering the Urban: Migrant Women's Work and the Production of Modernity in Istanbul
Hande A. Birkalan, Yeditepe University
Lessons from the Field: Ethnography beyond Academic Dichotomies

Chair: Ahmad K. Moussavi, ISTAC

Discussant: Rasool Nafisi, Strayer University

Ahmad K. Moussavi, ISTAC
The Justification of Popular Rituals by Akhbari Scholars in Safavid Shi'ism
Amir H. Zekrgoo, ISTAC (Kuala Lumpur)
Shi'ite Elements in the Arts of the Safavid Period
Karim D. Crow, ISTAC
The Critique of Philosophy by Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi: Soul and Intellect
Zailan Morris, Universiti Sains Malaysia - Pinang
Mulla Sadra's Conception of 'Ilm and 'Ulama'

Bethany J. Walker, Oklahoma State University
Mamluk Investment in Transjordan: A "Boom and Bust" Economy
Ellen V. Kenney, New York University
Building Trade in Mamluk Syria: The Commercial Architecture of Tankiz al-Nasiri
Kristen Stilt, Harvard University
Regulating Mamluk Cairo
Warren C. Schultz, DePaul University
The Troublesome 15th Century: Problems in Mamluk Monetary History

New Approaches to the Pre-Modern History of the Ottoman Empire (P037)

Chair: Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis
Discussant: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University

Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis
Ottoman Military Rebellions Revisited: A Limited Monarchy Not in Name but in Practice
Douglas A. Howard, Calvin College
Genre and Myth in the Ottoman Nasihatname: Ayn Ali Efendi's Kavanin-i Al-i Osman (1609)
Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
The Poetics of Ottoman Historical Writing: Preliminary Thoughts
Jane Hathaway, The Ohio State University
The "Children of the Arabs" (Awlad al-'Arab) in Ottoman Egypt: A Rereading
James Grehan, Whitman College
Popular Culture and the Power of Words: Oaths, Curses, and Insults in Ottoman Damascus (17th-18th Centuries)

Chair: Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York
Discussant: Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan

Helen Hatab Samhan, Arab American Institute Foundation
Challenges to Arab American Identity after 9/11
Hussein Ibish, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Post-9/11 Anti-Arab Discrimination in American Immigration Policy and Practice
Jen'nan G. Read, Rice University
Mistaken Identity: The Consequences of Discrimination against Arab and Muslim Immigrants
Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York
Ethnic Mobilization: Middle Eastern Organizational Response to the Backlash
Anny Bakalian, City University of New York
Ethnic Mobilization: Middle Eastern Organizational Response to the Backlash

20th Century Persian Literature: A Retrospective (P071)

Sponsored by the Society for Iranian Studies

Chair/Discussant: Faridoun Farrokh, Texas A&M International University

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Washington
Generational Esthetics: Episodic Discourse and the History of Modern Persian Poetry
M.R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
Climbing the Staircase of Persian Fiction
Zjaleh Hajibashi, University of Virginia
EYES and "I"'s: The Impact of Socio-politics on Self-representation
Houra Yavari, Center for Iranian Studies
Forugh Farrokhzad and "The Holiness of the Heart's Affections"

Power, Influence, and Intrigue: Court Politics in the Medieval Islamic World (P079)

Chair: Michael Bonner, University of Michigan

John P. Turner, Swarthmore College
Court Politics and the Wielding of Power: The Shadowy Figure of Ishaq b. Ibrahim
Nadia Maria El Cheikh, American University of Beirut
Servants at the Gate: Eunuchs during the Reign of al-Muqtadir
Eric J. Hanne, Florida Atlantic University
A Double-Edged Sword: The Abbasid Wazirate of the 11th-12th Centuries
Rachel T. Howes, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Soft One and Hard Politics: The Role of al-Mustansir's Mother in the Fatimid Court of the Eleventh Century
Stephen C. Cory, University of California, Santa Barbara
Singing His Praises: The Use of Biography as Political Propaganda in 16th Century Morocco

SPECIAL SESSION
Is there a Crisis in Middle East Academic Publishing? (S003)

Chair: Joel Beinin, Stanford University

Lee Sigelman, Editor, American Political Science Review/George Washington University
Michael Grossberg, Editor, American Historical Review
Marigold Acland, Cambridge University Press
Mary Case, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication, Association of Research Libraries

THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Teaching Arab Women's Literature in English Translation (TC002)

Session Leader: Therese Saliba, Evergreen State College

Amal Amireh, George Mason University
Terri L. DeYoung, University of Washington
Mary N. Layoun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lisa Suhair Majaj, Independent Scholar

Questions about the MESA 2002 program may be directed to Mark Lowder at mlowder@u.arizona.edu.