NOTE: THE FOLLOWING PANEL WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 FROM 8:30AM-10:30AM
Palestine in Comparative Perspective (NP01)

Chair: Charles D. Smith, University of Arizona

Gordon Peake, Oxford University
Policing Peace: Learning from Experiences in the Palestinian Authority and Kosovo
Rex Brynen, McGill University
Reconstructing Afghanistan: Lessons from Donor Assistance to Palestine
Robert Bowker, Australian Defence College
Palestinian Refugee Political Mythologies and UNRWA
Umut Uzer, University of Virginia
De Facto State versus Quasi-State: A Comparison of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Palestinian National Authority

Chair: Amira El-Zein, Georgetown University

Sri Mulyati, McGill University
A Study of the Fath al-'Arifin of Shaykh Ahmad Khatib Sambas of Borneo
David L. Martin, International Language Institute
The Topology of the Search for the Water of Life in the Land of Darkness According to the Versions of Ferdowsi, Nezami, and Sohrawardi
Joseph Lumbard, Islamic Research Institute
The Role of Philosophy in the Work of Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali
Jawid A. Mojaddedi, Columbia University
The Significance of the Biographies of Sufi Women

Chair: Moneera Al-Ghadeer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Christopher Stone, Williams College
Ziyad al-Rahbani's Re-construction of Lebanon
Ann Lucas, UCLA
Rethinking Traditional Music in Iran: Modernity and Cultural Authenticity in Traditional Persian Art Music
Wendy S. DeBano, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Bulbuli kih khamush shud" ["The Nightingale that Fell Silent"]: Music, Memory and the Negotiation of Meaning in an Iranian-American Context
Montserrat Rabadán, University of Chicago
Rai Music or Melting Pot: Its Social and Cultural Significances

Chair: Carel Bertram, California College of Arts & Crafts

Z. Pamela Karimi, University of Arizona
Tehran: The Virtual Islamic City
Najib B. Hourani, New York University
Urban Redevelopment in the Age of Globalization
Ebru ustundag, York University
Rights to the City: Rearticulating Space as a Political Strategy in the Turkish Urban Studies

Chair: Marc Baer, University of Pittsburgh

Naila Kaidbey, Burbank CA
Beirut in the 18th Century According to a Christian Orthodox Historian Ibn Trad al-Bayruti
Charles Wilkins, Harvard University
Guildsmen, Soldiers, and Provisioning Officers in Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700
Metin Cosgel, University of Connecticut
Ottoman Taxation in Palestine, Syria, and Transjordan in the Sixteenth Century
Eunjeong Yi, Seoul National University
The Nature and Use of Tradition in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul Guilds
Alan Mikhail, University of California, Berkeley
Something's Brewing: Coffeehouses and Society in the Ottoman Empire

Constructing Discourse/Counter-Discourse in the Maghrib (P008)

Sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies

Chair: Richard Serrano, Rutgers University

Jenine Abboushi, New York University
Feminism, Islamism: Manifestations in Morocco
Miriam Cooke, Duke University
Growing Up Jewish in Francophone Tunisia
Mustapha Kamal, University of Chicago
Hassan II and Pan-Arabism
Richard Serrano, Rutgers University
Teaching French Children about the Wars of Algeria: Dakia, fille d'Alger and Midi pile, l'Algerie
Susan Slyomovics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adab al-sujun: Moroccan Memoirs from Kenitra Central Prison

The Arabic Linguistic Tradition: Methodology and Paradigm (P011)

Chair: Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Oklahoma, Norman

Solomon I. Sara, Georgetown University
Sibawayh's (Distinctive) Feature System and ?idgham
Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Instrumentation and Considerations in Data Collection
Simon M. Mauk, Georgetown University
The Semitic Linguistic Paradigm: The Case of Arabic and Hebrew?
Shukran Fazlioglu, Marmara University (Istanbul)
Language as a Road to the Being: Analysis and Practice of Arabic in the Ottoman Period

Chair/Discussant: M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah

Soner Cagaptay, Yale University
State and Turkishness in Interwar Turkey
Howard Eissenstat, UCLA
Anatolianism: The History of a Failed Metaphor of Turkish Nationalism
Zeynep Turkyilmaz, UCLA
The Republican Civilizing Mission: The Case of Mountain Flowers in Dersim/Tunceli (1937-1950)
Carole Woodall, New York University
The Drinking Issue: Defining Urban Space in the Early Turkish Republic

Chair: Robert H. Hewsen, Rowan University (Emeritus)
Discussant: Dickran Kouymjian, California State University, Fresno

Abraham Terian, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary
Church-State Relations at the Dawn of Kingship in Cilician Armenia
David Bundy, Christian Theological Seminary
Collision of Cultures at the Synod of Sis (A.D. 1243)
S. Peter Cowe, UCLA
Ecclesiology as Theory and Institution in the Doctrinal Debate with the Latins (1316-1340)
Christina Maranci, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Word and Image in the Armenian Alexander Romance

Chair: Charles G. MacDonald, Florida International University
Discussant: Sarah D. Shields, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Khaled Salih, University of Southern Denmark
Self-Rule, Civil War, and Attempts to Rescue a Golden Opportunity: Ten Years of Kurdish Rule in Iraqi Kurdistan
Michael Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam
The Political Economy of Iraqi Kurdistan
Diane E. King, American University of Beirut
Honor in a De Facto State: Kinship and Gender in Iraqi Kurdistan
Maggy Zanger, American University in Cairo
From Kalashnikov to Keyboard: Iraqi Kurdish Media Comes Down from the Mountains
Shak B. Hanish, National University
The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in Iraqi Kurdistan
Charles Michael Brown, University of Utah
Settling Scores with the Ba'th: Is a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Viable in Iraqi Kurdistan after Saddam Hussein

Sponsored by the Middle East Medievalists

Chair: Abraham L. Udovitch, Princeton University
Discussant: Fred M. Donner, University of Chicago

Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Regis University
The Economics of State Formation in Early Islamic Egypt
Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University (Ohio)
Themes of al-Balawi's Sirat Ahmad ibn Tulun
Jos van Lent, Leiden University
A Date with Samuel: Locating a Key Apocalypse within the Egyptian Historical Context
Petra Sijpesteijn, Princeton University
A Pilgrim's Tale from Early 2nd/8th Century Egypt
Lennart Sundelin, Princeton University
Arabization and Islamization in the 9th-10th Century Egyptian Countryside

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies

Chair: Marilyn Booth, Brown University
Discussant: Amal Amireh, George Mason University

Melani McAlister, George Washington University
The Politics of Sisterhood: American Feminists and 'the Muslim Woman', 1978-1991
Marcia C. Inhorn, University of Michigan
Egyptian Mothers of Test-tube Babies: Gender, Islam, and the Globalization of New Reproductive Technologies
Mary N. Layoun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
In the Wrinkles and Folds of Gendered Culture across Globalized Borders and Boundaries
Marella Bodur, Carleton University
Feminisms, Difference and Citizenship in Turkey

Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant College/Brown University
Gregory Gause, University of Vermont
Agnieszka Paczynska, George Mason University
Nicola Pratt, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Robert J. Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania

SPECIAL SESSION
Afghanistan and the 'War on Terror'

Chair: Juan R.I. Cole, University of Michigan

Larry P. Goodson, Bentley College
U.S. Foreign Policy toward Afghanistan, 2001-2002
Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University
Impressions from the Field: Contemporary Afghanistan
Shah Hanifi, University of Michigan
Rhythms and Ruptures in the Economy of Afghanistan
Juan R.I. Cole, University of Michigan
Pakistan's Foreign Policy toward Afghanistan

Referee: Jonathan Friedlander, UCLA

Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York
Reeva S. Simon, Columbia University
Amaney Jamal, Columbia University

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