Chair: Frank Tachau, University of Illinois at Chicago

Sami Emile Baroudi, Lebanese American University
Spiritual Authority versus Secular Authority: Relations between the Maronite Church and the State in Post-War Lebanon
Kevin W. Martin, Georgetown University
The Politics of Martyred Urban Notables: `Adnan al-Malki and the Posthumous Construction of Professional Identity
Dov Waxman, Bowdoin College
A Comparison of Political Responses to the Crisis of Identity in Israel and Turkey, 1980-2000
Sultan Tepe, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ummah vs. Nizam-i Alem: The Two Competing Conceptions of Islamisized Public Sphere in Turkey
Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Weaving Iran into the Tree of Nations: The Globalization of Modernist Islam

Chair: Shouleh Vatanabadi, New York University

Carmen Sue Cross, Georgetown University
Mountainous Journey, Difficult Journey: Fadwa Tuqan's Poetic Odyssey
Jon Armajani, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Active Female Sexuality, Space, and Veiling in the Works of Fatima Mernissi
Ian H. Munro, William Jewell College
Navigating the Unstable Textual Landscape: Representations of History and Identity in Five Autobiographical Texts by Arab Women
Wail S. Hassan, Illinois State University
Negotiating Identity in Anglophone Arab Women's Fiction
Richard Alan Popp, Georgetown University
Nasib Aridah: His Unknown Works and Influence within the Mahjari Community

Art and the Creation of the Nation (NP12)

Chair: Magnus Bernhardsson, Hofstra University

Sarah Rogers, MIT
The Baghdad Group of Modern Art: A Nationalistic Approach to Artistic Representation
Stephen Sheehi, Duke University
Early Arab Photography: Capital and the Creation of the Libido in Lebanon
Michelle L. Woodward, MIT
Between Orientalist Tropes and Images of Modernization: Photographic Practice in the Late Ottoman Era

Chair:  Hayat Alvi, American University in Cairo

Amin Kamaruddin, Bonn University
Al-AlBani's Weakening (Tad'if) of Bukhari and Muslim's Sahih: A Critical Study on His Method
Taysir Nashif, United Nations
Perspectives on the Traditional and Rational Schools Regarding the Understanding of the Holy Qur'an and the Prophetic Sunnah
Scott C. Lucas, Mount Holyoke College
Beyond the Authenticity Battle: Towards a History of the First Two Centuries of Hadith Transmission
Qudsia Mirza, University of East London
Islam, Gender and the Reconstruction of Legal Rights
Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University
Classifying the Friends of 'Ali: A Study in Shi'ite Historiography

Chair: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv University

Bogac A. Ergene, University of Vermont
Costs of Court Usage in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia
Maryna Kravets, University of Toronto
The Islamic Legal System of the Crimean Khanate: A Reconstruction
Najwa Al-Qattan, Loyola Marymount University
Beirut 1848, Beirut 1868
Huseyin Yilmaz, Harvard University
The Law of Government in Ottoman Reformist Thought

Chair: Steven Heydemann, Social Science Research Council

Eva Bellin, Harvard University
The Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: A Comparative Perspective
David Waldner, University of Virginia
Urban-Rural Coalitions and Regime Durability in the Middle East
Steven Heydemann, Social Science Research Council
Why is the Middle East Still Authoritarian?
Dina Shehata, Georgetown University
The International Dimensions of Authoritarianism: The Case of Egypt

Chair: Murat Somer, Koc University
Discussant: Selim Kuru, University of Washington

Turan Kayaoglu, University of Washington
Role of Systemic Factors in Construction of Modern Citizenship: A Comparative Study
Senem Aslan, University of Washington
"Citizen Speak Turkish!"
Isik Özel, University of Washington
Daughter of the Republic
Ali F. Igmen, University of Washington
Educating the Public with the Journals of Peoples' Houses: "Uludag", The Journal of Bursa Peoples' House
Tuna Ali Kuyucu, University of Washington
6-7 September Riots: A Window to Turkish Nationalism

Chair: Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis
Discussant: Sondra Hale, UCLA

Mary Elaine Hegland, Santa Clara University
Iranian Women Creating Public Space: Iran and the U.S.
Lara Deeb, Emory University
Public Piety: Women's Islamic Community Service in the Southern Suburbs of Beirut
Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan
Enclave versus Mainstream: Political Participation of Arab Immigrant Women and Men
Zeina Zaatari, University of California, Davis
'Mothers' of Society: Southern Lebanese Women
Helen Rizzo, American University in Cairo
Divisions among Women's Groups: What Does It Mean for Democracy and Feminism in the Middle East?

Chair: Lama Abu-Odeh, Georgetown University Law Center
Discussant: Raef Zreik, Harvard University

Chair/Discussant: Irene Markoff, York University

Amelia Gallagher, McGill University
Shah Ismail Safavi: Alevi Perspectives
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Harvard University
A Critical Account of the Emergence and Normalization of the Category of "Syncretism" for Defining the Kizilbash/Alevi Belief System
Aykan Erdemir, Harvard University
A Critical Reassessment of Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Alevis
Mark Soileau, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Performance Approach to the Study of Alevi Identity
Refika Sarionder, University of Heidelberg
Alevi Associations: Political Publicity and the Transformation of the Religious

Chair: Kate Gillespie, University of Texas at Austin

Kate Gillespie, University of Texas at Austin and Liesl A. Riddle, George Washington University
Firmographic and Demographic Changes in the Istanbul Textile Industry in the Twentieth Century
Lisa Seidman, Cornell University
Post Anti-Globalization: Textile Employment Dynamics in Denizli, Turkey
Melani Cammett, Brown University
The Fashion Race: North African Apparel Exports and the Global Battle for Market Share
Ahmed Tolba, George Washington University and Moataz El-Said, George Washington University
The Egyptian Textile Sector: Advantages and Challenges in the Global Trade Environment

Chair: William M. Blair, Princeton University
Discussant: Elizabeth B. Frierson, University of Cincinnati

Ahmet Salih Bicakci, Tel Aviv University
From Dersaadet to Bukhara-i Sherif: Brotherhood versus Rivalry
Ahmet Seyhun, McGill University
Ottoman-French Diplomatic Relations on the Eve of the First World War
F.A.K. Yasamee, University of Manchester
Turkey's Road to 1914 Reconsidered
Mustafa Aksakal, Princeton University
Ottoman Public Opinion and War in 1914
Michael A. Reynolds, Harvard University
The Ottoman Drive on the Caucasus in 1918: The Panturkic-Panislamic Moment or Imperial Politics as Usual?

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

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