Islamic and
Classical Arabic Texts: Revisions and New Research (NP10)
Chair: Kathryn M. Coughlin, Georgetown University
Dagmar Riedel, Indiana University
Knowledge is Power: A Comparison of Two Seljuq Encyclopedias
Hussam S. Timani, California State University, San Marcos
Al-Mawardi's Ahkam al-Sultaniyya in Modern Islamic Discourse
Clarissa C. Burt, American University in Cairo
The Rhetoric of the 'Adhilah in Classical Arabic Poetry
Kevin van Bladel, Yale University
The Eighth Century Islamic Conquest of Afghanistan in Light of the
Bactrian Documents
Firoozeh Papan-Matin, Santa Monica College/UCLA
'Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani's Apology: Faith and Heresy
Zeki Saritoprak, John Carroll University
Comparing and Contrasting the Mathnawis on Love: The Mathnawi of Nursi
and the Mathnawi of Rumi
Conversion:
Individual versus Community in the Islamic World (NP26)
Chair: Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Catholic University of America
Heidi A. Walcher, SOAS
Slavetrade and Slavery in Qajar Iran
Tamer el-Leithy, Princeton University
Between Assimilation and Resistance: New Evidence on Conversion Practices
in Mamluk Society
Himmet Taskomur, Harvard University
Converts as Critics: Religious Polemics of Jewish and Christian Converts
in the 116th and 17th Century Ottoman Empire
Islam and
Political Institutions (NP35)
Chair: Mohammed M. Hafez, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Michael J. Willis, Al Akhawayn University
"Beards and Ballots": Morocco's Islamists and the Legislative
Elections of 2002
Michael J. Reimer, American University in Cairo
Control of Urban Waqfs in Transjordan: The Case of al-Salt
R. Quinn Mecham, Stanford University
Out of Virtue, a Promise of Light: The Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey
Gamze Cavdar Yasar, University of Utah
Why are Not Islamists Taking Over Regimes?: Cases of Egypt and Turkey
Manufacturing
National Identity in Early Republican Turkey (NP39)
Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley State University
Tulin Kabacaoglu Ural, Mimar Sinan University/Yildiz Teknik
Universitesi
Gender and Gender Relationships in Early Republican Turkish Novel
Ilker Ayturk, Brandeis University
The Sun-Language Theory: Nationalism, Religion and Language Reform in
Ataturk's Turkey
Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Boston University
History and Archaeology in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic
Meltem Türköz, University of Pennsylvania
Names, Authenticity and Membership: Public Debate After the Turkish
Surname Law
Conflict
and Engagement in the Provinces of the Late Ottoman Empire (NP48)
Chair: Weston F. Cook Jr., University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Milen V. Petrov, Princeton University
The Anti-Nationalists: Pro-Imperial Social Groups in Late 19th Century
Ottoman Bulgaria (1856-1876)
Malissa Taylor, New York University
A Sense of the Past: Historical Narrative in Nineteenth Century Damascus
Pinar Senisik, Bogacizi University
Serbian Uprisings in Comparison to Other Ethnic Uprisings in the Ottoman
Balkans in the 19th Century
Silvia Marsans-Sakly, New York University
Fomenting Rebellion: The Networks of Tunisia's 1864 Revolt
al-Andalus:
A Decade of New Research on the Art & Archeaology of Islamic Spain, Part
I (P007)
Sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art and
the Barakat Trust
Chair: Cynthia Robinson, The University of New Mexico
Discussant: D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Glaire D. Anderson, MIT
The Cordoban Munya: Umayyad Estate Culture and the Roman Past
Sophie Makariou, Louvre Museum
Panel within a Panel–"Perspectives on the Pyxis of Al-Mughira":
The al-Mughira Pyxis: Images and Texts
Francisco Prado-Vilar, Princeton University
Panel within a Panel–"Perspectives on the Pyxis of Al-Mughira":
Al-Mughira's Pyxis Revisited: Unraveling the Images in the Mind of a Prince
Mariam Rosser-Owen, University of Oxford
The Iconography of 'Amirid Poetry & Its Petrification on 'Amirid
Marbles
States of
Belonging: Mediation and Community in the Gulf (P020)
Chair: Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Brown University
Discussant: David Commins, Dickinson College
Mandana E. Limbert, University of Michigan
Genealogy, Race and the Politics of Becoming Arab in Oman
Sharon Nagy, DePaul University
Shisha, Starbucks and Sexual Stigma: Coffee Houses in Bahrain
Mary Ann Tétreault, Trinity University
Press Coverage of Women's Rights in Kuwait
Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Brown University
Messages of Hate?: Constructs of Belonging and Not Belonging in the
Religion Curricula of Saudi Schools
Gwenn Okruhlik
On Meaning and Memory: Citizenship and Identity in Saudi Arabia
Elite
Change in the Arab World, Part I (P027)
Chair: Volker Perthes, German Institute for International and
Security Affairs
Isabelle Werenfels, German Institute for International and Security
Affairs
The Concentration of Political Power through the Atomisation of Political
Life: Elite Change and Strategies in Algeria in the 1990s
Gamal Abdelnasser, German Institute for International and Security
Affairs
Beyond Mubarak
Rola El-Husseini, German Institute for International and Security
Affairs
Warlords, Billionaires and Notables: Lebanon's Post-war Elite
Iris Glosemeyer, German Institute for International and Security
Affairs
Dimensions of Elite Change in Saudi Arabia since 1990
Arab
Engagements with Race in the United States: Multidisciplinary Approaches
(P053)
Chair/Discussant: Melani McAlister, George Washington University
Sarah Gualtieri, Loyola University of New Orleans
Strange Fruit?: Syrian Racialization in the Jim Crow South
Rabab Abdulhadi, New YorkUniversity
"White" or Not?: Displacement and the Construction of (Racialized
& Gendered) Palestinianness in the U.S.
Michelle Hartman, McGill University
Stevie, Zora and Abdel-Haleem: Writing "Blackness" in Arab
American Poetry
Nadine Naber, American University in Cairo
A Place from Which to Shout: On Radical, Arab American Feminist Practice
Azerbaijani
Literary Culture and Persian and Other Cultural Traditions (P086)
Supported by the International Society of
Azerbaijani Studies
Chair: Evan Siegel, Fordham University
Hasan Javadi, George Washington University
Azerbaijani Translations of the Shahnamah
Rahim Raisnia, University of Tabriz, Iran
Rasulzade and Aghaoghlu between Panturkism and Iranism
Nemat Rahmati, Universitat Hamburg
Problems of Bilingual Azerbaijani Grammar Books
Fikret Rzayev, Baku State University
Azerbaijani Literature's Impact on Leo Tolstoy's Writings
Transgressions
Lived and Studied: The "Vulgar" and Subversive in Middle East
Popular Culture (P087)
Nadya Sbaiti, Georgetown University
"Contest"ed Territories: Ya Layl Ya 'Ayn and the Vulgar Nation
Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
Who's Who?: Re-casting Palestinian and Israeli "Identities"
Roberta L. Dougherty, University of Oxford
Beyond the Fringe in "Dance-Istan": The U.S. Middle Eastern
Dance Community
Nader K. Uthman, Columbia University
Zii'! (Broadcast It!): Reading the Construction of Cultural Negotiation
in the Egyptian TV Show "Hidden Camera"
Leah Ida Harris, Georgetown University
Zii'! (Broadcast It!): Reading the Construction of Cultural Negotiation
in the Egyptian TV Show "Hidden Camera"
Discussant: Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford
Co-Chairs: Leah Ida Harris, Georgetown University and Nader K.
Uthman, Columbia University
Roundtable
What Are We
Using?: A Discussion of Current Turkish Teaching Materials (RT007)
Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers
of Turkic Languages (AATT)
Chair: Erika H. Gilson, Princeton University
Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown University
Gottfried Hagen, University of Michigan
Selim Kuru, University of Washington
Suzan Özel, Independent Scholar
Ayla Algar, University of California, Berkeley
Ralph Jaeckel, UCLA
Imagining
Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Nexus of World History and Area Studies
(TC004)
Referee: Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council
Bruce Grant, Swarthmore College
Paul Manning, American Councils for International Education
Sada Aksartova, Princeton University
Cynthia Buckley, University of Texas at Austin
Marianne Kamp, University of Wyoming
SPECIAL
SESSION
Islam,
Globalization and Feminist Networks (S002)
Sponsored Women's Learning Partnership for Rights,
Development, and Peace
Miriam Cooke, President, Center for the Study of Muslim Networks, Duke University
Gendering Muslim Networks
Asma Khader, Director, Sisterhood is Global Institute, Jordan
Mobilizing National Networks for Advocacy
Mahnaz Afkhami, President, Women's Learning Partnership for Rights,
Development, and Peace
Learning Partnerships: Collaborating for Change in Muslim Societies
Valentine Moghadam, Illinois State University
Transnational Feminist Networks and Women in the Muslim World
Thoraya Obaid, United Nations Assistant Secretary General/Executive
Director, UNFPA
Reproductive Health Networks in the Middle East
Questions about the MESA 2002 program may be directed to Mark Lowder at mlowder@u.arizona.edu.
