Chair: Fred H. Lawson, Mills College

Karen Pfeifer, Smith College/MERIP
The Price of Victory: Kuwait's Economy since 1991
Anne Marie Baylouny, University of California, Berkeley
Kinship Associations as Welfare NGOs in Liberalizing Jordan
Karla J. Cunningham, SUNY Geneseo
Jordanian Information Technology: An Economic Safety Valve or Real Economic Change?
Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University
Between Global Flows & Territorial Control: Tourism, State Building, and the Politics of Reterritorialization in Tunisia and Jordan
Mehran Kamrava, California State University, Northridge
The Politics of Weak Control: State Capacity and Economic Semi-formality in the Middle East

Chair: Carol J. Riphenburg, College of DuPage

John M. Willis, New York University
Tribe and the Specter of Indeterminancy, Aden 1850-1915
Anthony B. Toth
Taxation and Tribes: Building the Saudi State
Vincent Wilhite, The Ohio State University
The Collapse of the Qasimi Imamate

Chair: Abdelwahab Hechiche, University of South Florida

Avraham Sela, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Identity, Society and Politics: Conflicting Arab Approaches toward Peace with Israel in the 1990s
Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute
The Great Game as Reflected in Russian Media: Nasir al-Din Shah's Visit to Russia in 1873
Marwan M. Kraidy, American University
The Struggle for Lebanese Television, 1984-2002: National, Regional and Global Forces
Becky Schulthies, University of Arizona and Aomar Boum, University of Arizona
"Al-Jazeera": Heteroglossia of Voices?
W. Flagg Miller, University of Chicago
Shifty Character in the Yemeni Cassette Industry: Circulation and Specular Anxiety

Chair: Jeannie Sowers, University of Iowa/Princeton University

Joy Farmer, UCLA
How Political Competition Affects the Adequacy and Ethnic Biases of Public Service Provision in Lebanon
Paul Kingston, University of Toronto
The Hidden World of Governance: Disability Activism in Postwar Lebanon
Mark David Luce, University of Chicago
Education in Afghanistan: Past Successes and Strategems for the Future
Stephen Dalzell, University of California, Santa Barbara
Housing-Policy Reform in Egypt: The Role of Advocacy Coalitions

Chair: Adel S. Gamal, University of Arizona

Paul Losensky, Indiana University
Portraits of Pir Panjal: The Semiotic Range of Mountains in Classical Persian Poetry
Sharif S. Elmusa, American University in Cairo
The Ax of Gilgamesh: An Environmental Perspective on an Epic
Abbas Karakaya, Indiana University
The Changing Image of Anatolia in Cahit Külebi's Poetry

Women and Legal Reform in the Middle East (P017)

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)

Chair: Elizabeth W. Fernea, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Diane Singerman, American University

Donna Lee Bowen, Brigham Young University
Moroccan Government Support for Women's Autonomy: A Comparison of the Cases of Contraception and Personal Status Law Reform
Stefanie Nanes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fighting Honor Crimes in Jordan: A Citizen Campaign against Article 340
Selin Sol, University of Maryland
Changes Above and Below: Recent Reforms of Turkish Civil Code in the Context of State-Society Relations
Lama Abu-Odeh, Georgetown University Law Center
The Trouble with Equality: Comparing Tunisia and Egypt
Rima Pavalko, University of Maryland
Within Borders: Transnationalism and Women's Legal Rights in Egypt

Studies of the Classical Islamic Wazirate (P021)

Chair/Discussant: Hugh Kennedy, St. Andrews University

Maurice Alex Pomerantz, University of Chicago
The Wazirate of al-Sahib b. 'Abbad
Neguin Yavari, Columbia University
Nizam al-Mulk, Ja'far al-Barmaki, and the Ideal Vizier
Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago
Was the Fatimid Amir-al-Juyush in Fact a Wazir?
Munir A. Shaikh, UCLA
"He of the Two Wazirates": The Statecraft of Ibn al-Khatib in the Golden Years of Nasrid Granada

Problems of Science and Modernity in the Middle East (P031)

Chair: M. Sukru Hanioglu, Princeton University
Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, New York University

Jane H. Murphy, Princeton University
Demonstrating What?: The Problems of Enlightenment Science in French-Occupied Egypt
Nancy Gallagher, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Dialectics of Saint Simonianism in Egypt
Berrak Burcak, Princeton University
From Empire to Republic - Transition, Continuity and Change: The Role of the Idea of Science in the Shaping of Modern Turkey
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania
Confining Pestilence: Hygiene and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
Marwa Elshakry, Princeton University
Sanctifying Science: Natural Theology and Divine Providence in Modern Egypt and Greater Syria

Chair: R. Stephen Humphreys, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Chase Robinson, Oxford University

Shauna Huffaker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sufi Constructions of the Companions of the Prophet
Christopher Wright, University of California, Santa Barbara
Christian and Muslim Apocalypses of the Seventh and Eighth Centuries
Thomas Sizgorich, University of California, Santa Barbara
Born in the Borderlands: Late Antiquity, Early Islam and the Limits of Community

Confronting Past and Future: The Armenian Case (P064)

Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies

Chair: Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA

Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Armenian Memories of Life and Conflict in the Ottoman Empire
Rubina Peroomian, UCLA
The Challenges of the New Century to Capture the Genocide in Art and to Encompass the Echoes of the Surviving People's Collective Psyche
Joyce Apsel, New York University
Human Rights and the Internet: Pedagogical Challenges
Henry Theriault, Worcester State College
Denial, Absolute Positivism, and a Response from Ibn Khaldun
Dikran M. Kaligian, Boston College
The Role of the American Media in the Armenia Case

Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies

Chair: Alice C. Hunsberger, Institute of Ismaili Studies

Majid Mohammadi, SUNY - Stony Brook
The Civil Rights Movement in Iran: 1996-2002
Ali-Reza Alavitabar, Bonyan Daily
Political Parties after Khordad 2
Elahé Sharifpour-Hicks, Human Rights Watch
Challenges to Human Rights Monitoring in Iran
Mohsen Kadivar, AFTAB Monthly
The Velayat-e Faqih and Democracy

Chair: Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj, Binghamton University
Discussant: Peter Gran, Temple University

Malek Abisaab, University of Akron
From South Lebanon to Najaf to Moscow: The Quest of Husayn Muroeh
Nazeeh Richani, Kean University
Historical Dialectics in the Writings of Husayn Muroeh
Rula Abisaab, The University of Akron
Prophecy Writ Small: Early Islam in Muroeh's Historical Narrative
Nada Saab, American University of Beirut
Historical Materialism and the Sufi Discourse

Chair: Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: William Granara, Harvard University

Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley
The Sufi Way of Narration in the Short Stories of Ahmed Séfrioui
Irene Siegel, University of California, Berkeley
Sexing the City: Mapping Identity in Muhammad Barrada's "Mudhakkirat Safar"
Marie-Therese Ellis, University of California, Berkeley
Modes of Performance in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de Sable
Sandi Milburn, Princeton University
Showing Not Telling: Mohamed Choukri's "Cinéma Vérité"
Noha M. Radwan, University of California, Berkeley
"Baraqish": When the Novel Writes History

Sponsored by the Institute for Palestine Studies

Chair: Salim Tamari, Bir Zeit University

Camille Mansour, University of Paris
Rashid Khalidi, University of Chicago
Raef Zreik, Harvard University
Khalil Hindi, Brunel University

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