Chair: Saadi A. Simawe, Grinnell College

Chair: *Robert Olson, University of Kentucky

Diane E. King, American University of Beirut
Iraqi Kurdish Aghas in the New Century
Anna Secor, University of Kentucky
Kurdish Migrants in Istanbul: Identity, Politics and City Life
Carl T. Dahlman, University of South Carolina
Transnationalism, Governance, and Kurdish Refugee Migration to the United States and Britain
Amir Hassanpour, University of Toronto
State-Building and Nation-Building in the Kurdish Diasporas of Europe and North America

Discussant: Shahrzad Mojab, OISE-University of Toronto

***Sponsored by the Kurdish Studies Association***

Chair/Discussant: Paul M. Cobb, University of Notre Dame

Steven Judd, Southern Connecticut State University
A Faqih for Two Regimes: al-AwzŒ'i`s Legal Advice to the `Abbasids
Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University (Ohio)
The Awraq of al-Suli: A New Edition
*Hugh Kennedy, St. Andrews University
The Military Entourage of the 'Abbasid Caliphs (9th Century)
Julia Bray, St. Andrew's University
'Abbasid Court Mythology
Nadia Maria El Cheikh, American University of Beirut
The QahramŒna in the Abbasid Court: Position and Functions

Chair: Chris Toensing, Georgetown University

Mona L. Russell, MIT
Patriarchy in the Classroom: Competing Hegemonies in Egyptian Education, 1882-1922
*Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Patriarchy Under Construction: "Fatherhood" in the Revolutionary Era
James Whidden, Dalhousie University
Patriarchy in Transition: Politics & Culture, 1919-1926

Discussant: Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, Georgetown University

Chair: Sabri Sayari, Institute of Turkish Studies

Yesim Melek Oruc, Bilkent University
Political Learning in Recent Turkish Politics
Sabri Sayari, Institute of Turkish Studies
Political Learning and Democratization: The Changing Leadership Style of Bulent Ecevit
Birol A. Yesilada, Portland State University
Political Learning in Turkish Politics: The Case of Suleyman Demirel
*Metin Heper, Bilkent University
Devlet Bahçeli and Politics of Harmony

Discussant: Marcie J. Patton, Fairfield University

***Supported by the Institute of Turkish Studies***

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

Salah-Dine Hammoud, US Air Force Academy, Colorado
Learners of Arabic and the Use of Technology: Reaction and Impact on the Language Learning Process
Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Oklahoma, Norman
The Acquisition Order of Subject-Verb and Noun-Adjective Agreement by Learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language
Hussein Elkhafaifi, University of Utah
Listening Comprehension and Anxiety in the Foreign Langauge Classroom: The Case of Arabic
Mahdi Alosh, The Ohio State University
Teacher Development for the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTs): An Arabic Perspective

Discussant: Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair: *Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University

Ilan Peleg, Lafayette College
Israel's Domestic Challenge: The Rights Revolution in the Jewish Republic
Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University
Israel and the Arab World in the Wake of the "Aqsa Intifada": The Egyptian and the Syrian Cases
Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Israel and Hizballah in Lebanon: Reverberations in the Israeli-Palestinian Arena
Angelika Timm, Free University of Berlin
The European Union and Israel under Ehud Barak: The Impact of the al-Aksa Intifada
Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University
The Impact of the Intifada on Israel's Relations with the United States and Russia

Discussant: George E. Gruen, Columbia University

***Sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies***

Chair/Discussant: Ussama Makdisi, Rice University

Yucel Yanikdag, The Ohio State University
The Remembrance of the Ottoman Great War in Turkey
James L. Gelvin, UCLA
Before Collective Memory: The Great War and the Politics of Remembrance in Pre-Mandate Syria
Eugene Rogan, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Exile and Memory of the First World War
*Najwa Al-Qattan, Loyola Marymount University
Safarbarlik: Remembering the Great War in Syria
Marilyn Booth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Babies or the Ballot?: Women's Political Aspirations and Constructions of the Great War in Egypt

Chair: *Eleanor H. Tejirian, Columbia University

Alberto M. Fernandez, Independent Scholar
In the Year of the Martyrs: Anti-Coptic Violence in Egypt, 1988-1993
David Nissman, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Christians in Contemporary Iraq: Do They Have Any Influence in Political Life?
Bernard Sabella, Bethlehem University
Comparing Palestinian Christians on Society and Politics: Context and Religion in Israel and Palestine
Eleanor A. Doumato, Brown University
Ethnic Identity in a Faith-based Community: The Revival of Syrian Orthodoxy East and West
Susan Pattie, University College London
The Interaction of Middle East and Mid-West in Armenian Religious Life

Discussant: Reeva S. Simon, Columbia University

Chair: Mootacem B. Mhiri, Penn State University

Canan Habib, Penn State University
Jews and Turkification: The Challenges of Integration in Liz Behmoras' Novel Kimsin Jak Samanon
Ayo Abiba Coly, Penn State University
At Home in the World: The Roots and Routes of Assia Djebar
Najat Rahman, James Madison University
Rashid Al-Daif's Dear Mr. Kwabata: Personal Memoirs as Interventions in National History
*Mootacem B. Mhiri, Penn State University
Tunisian Jews (Re)locate Home and Culture on the WWW

Discussant: Deborah A. Starr, Cornell University

Chair/Discussant: *George T. Scanlon, American University in Cairo

Donald S. Whitcomb, University of Chicago
Excavations at Hadir Qinnasrin: Late Antiquity and Early Islam in Northern Syria
Thomas Leisten, Princeton University
Molded Wares in 13th Century Syria
Scott Redford, Georgetown University
Excavations at Kinet, A Crusader/Armenian Port Town

Chair: Sherifa Zuhur, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Thoraya Obaid, UNFPA
Asma Khader, Human Rights Advocate/Lawyer
*Mahnaz Afkhami, Foundation for Iranian Studies

Discussant: Val Moghadam, Illinois State University

Referee: *Virginia H. Aksan, McMaster University

Walter G. Andrews, University of Washington
Metin M. Cosgel, University of Connecticut
Merlijn Olnon, Leiden University
Mark L. Stein, Saint Mary's College

*panel organizer