Chair: Nehemia Levtzion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Said Ennahid, Al-Akhawayn University
Muslim Shrines and Archaeological Sites: A Study of the Archaeology of Sacred Landscape in Northwestern Morocco
Bettina Dennerlein, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies
How to Venerate Saints: Competing for Religious Authority in 19th Century Morocco
Hussein Fancy, Princeton University
Waiting for the Barbarians: The Kahina and Barbarism from Rome to Islam
Lucy Stone McNeece, University of Connecticut
Defying Historical Gravity: Forms of Resistance in Contemporary Tunisian Writing and Film
Margaret Rausch, University of Kansas
Moroccan Berber Women's Religious Chants and Societal Transformation

Chair: Kathryn M. Yount, Emory University

Marina De Regt, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
Agents of Change?: Female Yemeni Health Care Workers and the Politics of Modernity
Jennifer Olmsted, Occidental College
Is There a Feminization of Poverty in Palestine?
Barbara Lethem Ibrahim, Population Council
Negotiating Participation: Young Women as Community Leaders in Rural Egypt
Rania Salem, Population Council
Negotiating Participation: Young Women as Community Leaders in Rural Egypt
Kimberly Hart, Indiana University
Mothers, Daughters and Weaving in Western Turkey

Chair: Negin Nabavi, Princeton University
Discussant: Asef Bayat, American University in Cairo

Roxanne D. Marcotte, Tehran University
The Limits of Freedom in a Religious Government
Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut, CNRS-Monde Iranien and University of Paris 8
The Political Impacts of Iranian Youth's Individuation: How Family Matters
Hooshang Pazaki, Drury University
Sociological Perspectives on Drug Use in Iran: A Discussion of Laws and Policies
Maziar Behrooz, Bridgewater State College
Social Democracy in Iran: Reflections and Prospects

Sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association

Chair: M. Asim Karaömerlioglu, Bogazici University

Elisabeth Özdalga, Middle East Technical University
Johannes Kolmodin: The Last Dragoman
James H. Meyer, Brown University
The Discourse of Embeddedness: The Muslims of Russia and the Journal "Turk Yurdu", 1908-1914
Elif E. Aksit, Binghamton University
From the Cariye to Girls' Institutes

Rethinking Family in Past and Recent Time (P013)

Chair: James A. Reilly, University of Toronto
Discussant: Marlee Meriwether, Denison University

Beshara Doumani, University of California, Berkeley
Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860
Kenneth M. Cuno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Divorce and the Fate of the Family in Egypt
Diane Singerman, American University
The Cost of Marriage in Egypt, Poverty and Legal Contestation
Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam/ISIM
Debating the Family and the Law

PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING PANEL WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 FROM 11:00AM-1:00PM
From Classical to Post-Classical: The Arabic Qasida and the Interplay of Genres (P005)

Chair/Discussant: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University

Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
The Qadisa: The Disintegration and Generation of Genres
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University
From Court Panegyric to Prophetic Praise: A Study in Generic Tension
James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley
Between Qasida and Maqama: Zajal #87 of Ibn Quzman
Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah, UAE
The Qasida and the Post-Classical Poetics of Prose

Borders and Borderlands from the Maghreb to Mesopotamia: Toward a New Kind of Ottoman Frontier History (P014)

Chair: Victor Ostapchuk, University of Toronto
Discussant: Mark L. Stein, Muhlenberg College

Thomas A. Sinclair, University of Cyprus
The Ottoman Arrangements for the Kurdish Principalities of the Lake Van Region of the Sixteenth Century
Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
The Safavid-Ottoman Frontier: Iraq-i Arab as Seen by the Safavids
Colin Heywood, SOAS, University of London
A "Forgotten Frontier?": Algiers and the Ottoman Maritime Frontier in the Early Eighteenth Century
Gábor Ágoston, Georgetown University
A Flexible Empire: Administrative Strategies and Local Power-holders on the Ottoman Frontiers, 1550-1700

Do the Right Thing: The Legitimation of Authority in the Early Muslim World (P034)

Chair: Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard University
Discussant: R. Stephen Humphreys, University of California, Santa Barbara

Heather N. Keaney, University of California, Santa Barbara
Confronting the Caliph: Comparing Complaints against 'Uthman b. 'Affan in 'Abbasid Chronicles
Stuart D. Sears, American University in Cairo
Distinguishing Piety: Religion and Government in Documentary Sources of the Early Muslim Period
Deborah Gerber Tor, Harvard University
The Caliphs and the 'Ulama: Religious Legitimacy, Leadership, and the Role of Jihad in the Early 'Abbasid Period
Farooq Hamid, University of Pennsylvania
Lessons for the Heedful Heart: History and Exile in Khaqani's Qasida Poetry

Views of the Other in Israeli and Palestinian Textbooks (P036)

Sponsored by the Palestinian American Research Center

Chair: Philip Mattar, Woodrow Wilson Center

Fouad M. Moughrabi, Qattan Foundation
The Politics of Palestinian Textbooks
Issam Nasser, Institute for Jerusalem Studies
Overview of Palestinian Textbooks
Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University
Debating Palestinian Democracy: The Effort to Write a New National Curriculum
Ruth Firer, Hebrew University
A Comparative Study of Israeli and Palestinian Social Studies Textbooks
Elie Podeh, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Imagining the Arab in Israeli History Textbooks
Ilan Peppé, Haifa University
The Silencing of Critique: The Case of History Textbooks in Israel

Chair: Charles Butterworth, University of Maryland
Discussant: Louis J. Cantori, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Emad Shahin, American University in Cairo
Moderation and Radicalism of Political Islam
Iliya Harik, Indiana University
Between Islam and Democracy
Robert Kevin Jaques, Indiana University
Islamic Legal Interpretations and Responses to the September 11 Attack
Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University
State and Political Islam in Afghanistan and Post-Soviet Uzbekistan

Conversion and Identity: The Assyrians, Armenians, and Georgians (P082)

Sponsored by the Assyrian Academic Society

Chair: Wolfhart Heinrichs, Harvard University

Eden Naby, Harvard University
Recognition: The Key to Group Identity Maintenance
Werner Arnold, University of Heidelberg
The Relations between Christians and Moslems in the Western Neo-Aramaic Speaking Minority in Syria
Mathijs Pelkmans, Amsterdam School of Social Science Research
The Shifting Frontier between Islam and Christianity: Contents and Dynamics of Religious Change in Post-Soviet Ajara
Hovann H. Simonian, University of Southern California
The Hemshin of Northeast Turkey: Muslim Armenians or Armenian-Speaking Turks?

Chair: Bruce Borthwick, Albion College Alwyn R. Rouyer, University of Idaho

Jan Selby, Lancaster University
Manuel Schiffler, World Bank
Kenley Brunsdale, Middle East Center for Peace and Economic Cooperation

Referee: Peter Mandaville, George Mason University

Oussama Cherribi, Dutch Parliament
M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
Mine Ener, Villanova University
Setrag Manoukian, Università di Milano-Bicocca

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