Egypt,
1882-1952 (NP19)
Chair: Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., Penn State University
Yoav Di-Capua, Princeton University
The 'Abadin Research Archive and Its Historiographical Significance
Lucie Ryzova, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
Egypt: Popular Politics at the Close of the Monarchy
Jennifer Derr, Stanford University
Modern Medicine as Meta-Narrative: Epidemic, Public Health and Resistance
during the Cholera and Malaria Outbreaks of the 1940s in Egypt
Barak A. Salmoni, Harvard University
Historical Consciousness for Modern Citizenship: Egyptian Schooling and
the Lessons of History under the Constitutional Monarchy, 1923-1952
Eve M. Troutt Powell, University of Georgia
Living with Slavery: Transforming Identities in the African Slave Trade
in Egypt
Islamist
Resistance and Accommodation (NP37)
Chair: William Ochsenwald, Virginia Tech
Quintan Wiktorowicz, Rhodes College
Ideological Rationality and al-Muhajiroun
Frederic M. Wehrey, Department of Defense
The Psychological Strategy of the Lebanese Hizballah
Robert D. Lee, Colorado College
Conflict to Collaboration? The Interplay of Religion and Politics
Jeff Kenney, DePauw University
Islamist Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Egypt
Najib Ghadbian, University of Arkansas
Islamists and the State in Syria: From Confrontation to Reconciliation?
A Joke For
All Seasons: Humor and Society in Iran (P001)
Organized by the ILEX Foundation
Chair: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Washington
Discussant: Louise Marlow, Wellesley College
Ulrich Marzolph, Enzyklopaedie des Maerchens, Goettingen
Persian Humor in the International Context
Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego
Despots of the World Unite!: Satire in the Iranian Constitutional Press,
"The Majalla-ye Estebdad" (1907-1908)
Paul Sprachman, Rutgers University
The Role of Suppression in the Development of Persian Humorous Literature
Olga M. Davidson, Brandeis University
From Mirrors for Princes to Humor for the Pulpit
al-Andalus:
A Decade of New Research on the Art & archaeology of Islamic Spain,
Parts II (P007+)
Sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art and
Barakat Trust
Chair: Heather Ecker, Columbia University
Discussant: Jerrilyn Dodds, City University of New York
Miriam Ali de Unzaga, University of Oxford
The Enigmas of the 'Pendón de las Navas de Tolosa'
Rebecca Bridgman, Southampton University
Ceramic Production & Consumption in Almohad Seville: A Scientific
Study
Valerie Gonzalez, School of Architecture of Marseille-Luminy
In the Art of the Alhambra, Perception is the Medium
María Judith Feliciano, University of Pennsylvania
Mudejarismo in the New World, or the Myth of Islam in the Americas: The
Case of 16th C. Mexican Ceramics
Jennifer Roberson, University of Minnesota
Visions of al-Andalus in 20th C. Mosque Architecture in Spain
The Impact
of September 11 on Israeli Domestic and Foreign Policy (P010)
Sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies
Chair: Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University
Discussant: George E. Gruen, Columbia University
Ilan Peleg, Lafayette College
Israeli Politics under Sharon, 2001-2002: The Linkage between the
International and Domestic Agendas
Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University
Israel's Relations with the Arab World in the Wake of the September 11th
Events
Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University
U.S.-Israeli Relations after September 11
Stefanie Hoffman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Russian-Israeli Relations after September 11
Elite
Change in the Arab World, Part II (P028)
Chair: Volker Perthes, German Institute for International and
Security Affairs
Discussant: Bradford Dillman, Koç University
Saloua Zerhouni, German Institute for International and Security
Affairs
Elite Change and Political Transformation in Morocco
Ahmad Badawi, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Structure and Change of the Politically Relevant Elites in Palestine: A
Methodological Approach
Steffen Erdle, German Institute for International and Security
Affairs
The Political Economy of Authoritarian Reform: Elite Change in
Contemporary Tunisia
Sonja Hegasy, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies
Mohammed VI: King of Divine Right?
Ritual, Law
and Society in Early Islam (P044)
Chair: David S. Powers, Cornell University
Discussant: A. Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth College
Gerald Hawting, SOAS, University of London
Animal Offerings in Muslim Rituals: Yawm al-Nahr and Id al-Adha
Leor Halevi, Texas A&M University
Rites of Mourning: Women's Laments and the Reaction of Islamic Law
Uri Rubin, Tel Aviv University
On the History of the Islamic Direction of Prayer (qibla)
Baber Johansen, EHESS, Paris
The Burial Prayer Over the Executed Persons as a Symbolic Recognition of
Their Legal Personality
PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING PANEL WAS ORIGINALLY
SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 FROM 8:30AM-10:30AM
Classical
Arabic Poetry: Origins and Intersections (P052)
Sponsored by the Middle East Medievalists
Chair: Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Everett K. Rowson, University of Pennsylvania
Sam Liebhaber, University of California, Berkeley
Writing and Epigraphy in the Pre-Islamic Nasib: Historical and Literary
Dimensions
Adriana Valencia, University of California, Berkeley
The Construction of Space in the Mu'allaqa of Labid b. Rabi'a
Raymond Farrin, University of California, Berkeley
The Poetics of Persuasion: Abu Tammam's Panegyric to Ibn Abi Du'ad
Shamma Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley
The Abbasid Manner and Its Influence on the Hebrew Poets of al-Andalus
Jocelyn Sharlet, University of California, Davis
The Poetics of the Hero in Classical Arabic and Persian Panegyric
Iran and
Africa (P066)
Discussant: Diana Wylie, Boston University
Houchang E. Chehabi, Boston University
South African-Iranian Relations: The Early Years
Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town
The Reception of Ali Shariati's Work in South Africa
Behnaz Mirzai, York University
The African Slave Trade in 19th Century Iran
Roland Henwood, University of Pretoria
The Oil Factor in South African-Iranian Relations
Rising
Identities and Nationalisms in Late Ottoman, British Mandate and Jordanian
Jerusalem (P067)
Chair: Rochelle Davis, University of Michigan
Discussant: Ellen Fleischmann, University of Dayton
Abigail Jacobson, University of Chicago
Living Together in One City and One Country: Intercommunal Relations
between Sephardi Jews and Arabs in Ottoman Jerusalem
Salim Tamari, Bir Zeit University
Biography and Identity: The Demise of Confessionalism in Two Jerusalem
Lives (1910-1938)
Rochelle Davis, University of Michigan
Nationalizing Education: The Arab College in Jerusalem
Kimberly Katz, University of Notre Dame
Legitimizing Control in a Built Environment: Jordan's Renovations of
Jerusalem's Holy Places
Gender and
Islamic Texts (P072)
Discussant: Omaima Abou Bakr, Cairo University
Bouthaina Shaaban, University of Damascus
Male Interpretation of the Text and the Islamic Law Concerning Women
Mohammad Serag, American University in Cairo
Women and the Text and Interpretation
Sara Scalenghe, Georgetown University
Medical Discourses on the (Gendered) Body in Ottoman Syria
Richard Cahill, Westmont College
Sheikh Sha'arawi's Book "The Muslim Woman"
John L. Iskander, Georgia State University
Public Texts and the Condemnation of Shaykha Manal
Iraqi
Documents at the IRDP: Span, Potential and Implications (P078)
Chair: Hassan I. Mneimneh, Iraq Research and Documentation Project
Discussant: Faleh A. Jabar, University of London
Hassan I. Mneimneh, Iraq Research and Documentation Project
The IRDP Datasets: Structure and Access
Rend Francke, Iraq Foundation-IRDP
Iraqi Politics and Society through the IRDP Datasets
Kanan Makiya, Brandeis University/IRDP
Facing Iraqi History
Robert G. Rabil, Iraq Foundation-IRDP
The Iraqi Opposition: From Disunity to Unity?
Writers of
Conscience (P084)
Chair: Kamal Abdel-Malek, University of Alberta and Peter
Gran, Temple University
Discussant: Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah,
UAE
Afaf Al-Bataineh, American University of Sharjah
The Rights of Women in Aziz al-Sayyid Jassim's Works
Hager Ben Driss, Qirawan Faculty of Arts, Tunis
Women Issues and Literary Strategies
Nabil Cherni, University of Manouba, Tunis
Dissent and Politics of Discourse
Saadi A. Simawe, Grinnell College
Monologues of the Seventies: The Sufi Issue and the Underlining Dissent
Anwar Tlili, Birmingham University
The Cultural Dynamics in Aziz al-Sayyid Jassim's Works
ROUNDTABLE
From
Bayts to Bytes: New E-Resources for Middle East Researchers (RT006)
Sponsored by the Middle East Librarians
Association
Chair: David G. Hirsch, UCLA
Ebrahim J. Louri, Arabian Gulf University
Lutz Wiederhold, University of Halle
Lewis Shaw, Militant Islam Internet Resource
Jumaa Al Qubaisi, National Library, Abu Dhabi
thematic
conversation
Insiders/Outsiders to the Study of Women and Gender in the Middle East and
the Issues of Dialogue/Agency (TC006)
Session Leader: Sherifa Zuhur
John O'Connell, University of Limerick
Fatima Sadiqi, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Femme, University of
Fes
Moha Ennaji, University of Fes
Sam Kaplan, Ben Gurion University of Negev
Nancy Elizabeth Currey, University of California, Santa Barbara
Careers
Beyond Academia: Experiences and Tips from Professionals (S008)
Chair: Diane Singerman, American University
Michele Durocher Dunne, U.S. Embassy Cairo
Eric Goldstein, Research Director, MENA–Human Rights Division
Judy Barsalou, Director, Grant Program, U.S. Institute of Peace
Michael Van Dusen, Deputy Director, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars
Questions about the MESA 2002 program may be directed to Mark Lowder at mlowder@u.arizona.edu.
