PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING PANEL HAS MOVED TO SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 FROM 8:30AM-10:30AM
From Classical to Post-Classical: The Arabic Qasida and the Interplay of Genres (P005)

Chair: Yudian Wahyudi, Harvard University and IAIN Sunan Kalijaga

Relli Shechter, Ben-Gurion University
Egyptian Advertising in an Age of Globalisation, 1890-1914
Michael Gasper, New York University
Revitalizing Egypt through Civilizing Peasants
Noor-Aiman Khan, University of Chicago
Expatriate as Patriot

Chair: Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst University

Sholeh A. Quinn, Ohio University
Royal Authority under the Safavids and Mughals: The Kingship of 'Abbas I and Akbar
John Walbridge, Indiana University, Bloomington
A British Spy in a Deoband Geometry Class
Ertugrul Okten, University of Chicago
The Relations of Abd al-Rahman Jami and "a Unified Islamic World"
Caroline G. Sawyer, SUNY College at Old Westbury
Influence of Iranian Philosophy on a Naqshbandi Leader of Mughal India, Ahmad-e Sirhindi

Chair: Poopak Taati, Montgomery College

Gabriele Marranci, The Queen's University of Belfast
Outside the Conflict: Muslims in Northern Ireland and Their Identity Construction
Alexander Flores, Hochschule Bremen
The Emigration of Christian Arabs: A Debate in Lebanon
Karin van Nieuwkerk, ISIM
Time and Migration: Changes in Religious Celebrations among Moroccan Immigrant Women in the Netherlands
Youngsun Moon, University of Texas at Austin
20th Century Contact: Between the Middle East and Japan
Asya El-Meehy, University of Toronto
From Integration to Prevention: The Dynamics of Iran's Refugee Policies

Struggling with the Nation: Intellectual, Cultural and Ideological Currents in Iraq during the Interwar Period (P025)

Chair/Discussant: Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University

Orit Bashkin, Princeton University
A Representation of an Iraqi Intellectual: The Career and Works of Mahmud Ahmad al-Sayyid (1903-1937)
Peter Wien, Center for Modern Oriental Studies-Berlin
The Representation of Germany in Iraqi Press 1933-1941
Eric Davis, Rutgers University
Pan-Arab and Iraqist Concepts of Political Community in Inter-War Iraq
Shakir Mustafa, Boston University
Al-Jawahiri's Public Poems: The Politics of Poetry Recital
Michael Eppel, University of Haifa
The Politics and Context of the Collective Identities in Hashimite Iraq in the Interwar Period

Chair: Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
Discussant: Nicole Watts, University of Washington

Arda Ibikoglu, University of Washington
Strategies in Flux: The Eastern Front during the 'Nationalist Struggle' in Turkey, 1919-1920
Hande Solakoglu, University of Washington
Dictating Democracy: A Political Role for Military, Turkish Case
Elif Andac, University of Washington
When Does Political Islam Turn Violent? Economic and Political Inclusiveness and Violent Opposition: A Comparative Look at Turkey, Algeria and Iran
Ceren Belge, University of Washington
Is Religious Politics Declining in Turkey?
Brian Mello, University of Washington
(Re)Evaluating the Impact of the Turkish Labor Movement (1960-1980)

Chair: Ilana Feldman, Columbia University
Discussant: Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA

Robert Blecher, Stanford University
Alternative Medical Networks: Indigenous Medicine and the State in Syria, 1920-1958
Elliott Colla, Brown University
Nation, Novel, and Reception, Or: How "Zaynab" Did Not Become the First Egyptian Novel Until Much Later
Ilana Feldman, Columbia University
Not Exactly Experts: Understanding Government Practice in Gaza, 1948-1967
Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
Middle East History Through Lefebvre-tinted Spectacles

Chair/Discussant: Godfrey Cheshire, Independent Scholar

Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University
Primitives Circulating the Globe
Mazyar Lotfalian, New School
On Role Playing, Ghosts, Prosthetics and Audience Reception in "Kandahar" The Movie
Naghmeh Sohrabi, Harvard University
Where's the Cinema's Home?: Defining Iranian Cinema
Ramyar Dagoberto Rossoukh, Harvard University
An Anthropology of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
Hamid Naficy, Rice University
Making Films with an Accent: Iranian Émigré Cinema

Chair: A. Holly Shissler, University of Chicago
Discussant: Samia Serageldin, Duke University

Janet Afary, Purdue University
The Sexual Politics of Mulla Nasreddin
Monica Ringer, Williams College
The Culture of Progress: Civilizational Prerequisites of Modernity in the 20th Century Iranian Women's Press
Mona L. Russell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Commodifying Identity: Women and Egyptian Advertising, 1922-1952
A. Holly Shissler, University of Chicago
The Woman Question in Ottoman Thought: Individualism, Family Structure, and the Idea of Progress

Chair: Donald Quataert, Binghamton University
Chair: Matthias S. Klein, UCLA
Discussant: Thomas Kühn, New York University

Brant Downes, Stanford University
Constructing Salonica's Waterfront: An Ottomanist Vision of Modernity
Patricia Singleton, UCLA
Crisis in Reform: Egyptian Education in 1872
Matthias S. Klein, UCLA
Two Railroads, One Locale: Shaping Modernity in Ottoman Syria

Chair: Mervat F. Hatem, Howard University

Omaima Abou Bakr, Cairo University
A Gender-Sensitive Reading of Qur'anic Exegesis
Denise A. Spellberg, University of Texas at Austin
Conceptualizing Islam in Early American Thought
Mervat F. Hatem, Howard University
The Fraternal Construction of Modern Islamic Government in 'A'isha Taymur's "Nata'ij al-'Ahwal"
Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan
"We Are Not What You Think": Current Debates on Islam and Islamism in Contemporary Turkey

Eberhard Kienle, SOAS, University of London
John Sfakianakis, Harvard University
Bassam Haddad, Georgetown University
Steven Heydemann, Social Science Research Council

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