Panels and Events

SPECIAL SESSION (S005)
Panel #001 Middle East Map Walk: An Experiential Approach to Middle East Studies
Hyatt Regency

Large-scale maps can become tools for broadening perspectives and understanding of Middle East issues. A display of Defense Department maps, covering the entire land area of the Middle East at a scale of 1:500,000 (eight miles to an inch), will introduce conference participants to possibilities for scholarship, teaching, and deepening their personal understanding of the region. These maps can give a sense of "facts on the ground" in a way that readings, photographs, and lectures cannot provide. Conference participants will be invited to kick off their shoes and explore an enormous (40' x 50') composite map of the Middle East, experimenting with a number of hands-on exercises. Participants will then engage in a "brainstorming" session exploring how to apply these maps to their own research and teaching needs. The session will be led by Paul W. Blank of the Department of Geography at Humboldt State University.

Panel #002 Displacement, Migration and Return (NP08)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Ali Akbar Mahdi, Ohio Wesleyan University

Nathalie Peutz, Princeton University
"Return to Culture": Deportation, Alienation, and Recognition in Somaliland
Nadir Sugur, Anadolu University
Immigrant Workers in the Textile Industry in Turkey
Diane E. King, American University of Beirut
Traffickers of Diasporic Consciousness: Return Migrants in Iraqi Kurdistan
Elizabeth Picard, CNRS-France
Managing Identities among Expatriate Businessmen across the Syrian Lebanese Boundary
John Chalcraft, University of Edinburgh
The Micropolitics of Migration: Syrian Workers in Lebanon since 1990
Natasha Iskander, MIT
Transnational Government and Contest: Morocco's Policies Toward Its Emigrants

Panel #003 Iran Since Revolution (NP13)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Hooshang Pazaki, Drury University

Roxanne D. Marcotte, The University of Queensland
Religious Freedom in Islam: An Iranian Discussion
Mehran Kamrava, California State University, Northridge
The Conservative Religious Discourse in Post-Khomeini Iran
Gunes Murat Tezcur, University of Michigan
The Determinants of Islamist Political Worldview in Iran
Mirjam Kuenkler, Columbia University
The Rise and Fall of an Opposition Movement: Why Iran's Reformers Failed

Panel #004 Nationalism and Islam (NP23)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Joseph G. Rahme, University of Michigan-Flint

William Ochsenwald, Virginia Tech
Islam and National Identity in the Hijaz, 1926-1939
David Commins, Dickinson College
Wahhabism as a Regional Religious Culture
Khaled Helmy, Harvard University
The Common Historical Origins of Political Islam & Christian Democracy: The Rise of the Modern State and the Structure of Religious Response
Jonathan Wyrtzen, Georgetown University
Moroccan Visions for an Islamic Political Order: Allal Al Fassi and Abdessalam Yassine

Panel #005 Openness, Conflict, and Competitiveness (NP25)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John's University

Sedef Akgüngör, ISIK University
Regional Integration, Subsector Competitiveness and Sustainable Development
Sema Kalaycioglu, ISIK University
Economic Consequences of Political Instability in the Middle East
Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University
Tourism, Terrorism, and Security: The Fragility of Global Travel Spaces in the Middle East

Panel #006 State Building and Institutional Change in the Middle East (P015)|
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Bruce Rutherford

Chair: Diane Singerman, American University
Discussant: Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University

Ellen Lust-Okar, Yale University
Institutional Reform under Authoritarianism
Bruce Rutherford, Colgate University
Constitutionalism and Democracy in Egypt
Michael Herb, Georgia State University
The Parliament, the Ruling Family and the Issue of Democracy in Kuwait
Melani Cammett, Brown University
The Politics of Private Sector Development: Comparative Insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia
Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross
Muslim-Majority Countries and the "Democratic Deficit": Is Gender Discrimination the Causal Link?

Panel #007  Literary Diseases in Persian Literature (P021)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by M.R. Ghanoonparvar

Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Persian

Chair/Discussant: Michael Beard, University of North Dakota

M.R. Ghanoonparvar, University of Texas at Austin
Sores Which Slowly Erode the Mind
Firoozeh Khazrai, Princeton University
Literary Disease and the Disease of Literature in H. Goshiri's "Shazdeh Ehtejab"
Faridoun Farrokh, Texas A&M International University
The Nexus of Disease and Social Dysfunction in the Fiction of Goli Taraghi

Panel #008 Translating Gender?: Travel, Consumption and the (Post) Colonial Politics of Transnational Feminisms (P045)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Rabab Abdulhadi

Chair: Rabab Abdulhadi, University of Michigan
Discussant: Ella Habiba Shohat, New York University

Shouleh Vatanabadi, New York University
Exploring Iranian Feminisms on the Site of Figurative Language
Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University
Searching for the "Correct?" Word: Reflections on Translating "Gender" in an Arab Context
Minoo Moallem, San Francisco State University
Transnational Feminist Theories and the Postcolonial 'Middle East'
Amal Amireh, George Mason University
Lost in Translation: Palestinian Women's Disappearing Act

Panel #009 The Works of al-Ya'qubi: Texts and Translation (P047)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Matthew S. Gordon

Sponsored by Middle East Medievalists

Chair: Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University (Ohio)
Discussant: Chase Robinson, Oxford University

Lawrence I. Conrad, University of Hamburg
The Form and Function of the List in the Ta'rikh of al-Ya'qubi
Sidney H. Griffith, Catholic University of America
The Presentation of Biblical Personae in the "Tarikh" of al-Ya'qubi
Lutz Richter-Bernburg, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Al-Ya'qubi's Greeks: Hellenism in Tahirid Khorasan
Fred Donner, University of Chicago
The Saqifa Episode in al-Ya'qubi's "History"
Camilla  Adang, Tel Aviv University
The Biography of the Prophet in the Ta'rikh of al-Ya'qubi
Andrew Marsham, University of Cambridge
Islamic Kingship in al-Ya'qubi's "History"

Panel #010 Islam, Health and the Body: Technologies of Life and Death in the Middle East (P065)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Diane M. Tober and Debra A. Budiani

Chair: Diane M. Tober, University of California, San Francisco

Corrine Fortier, CNRS-EHESS-College de France
Gamete and Milk, Womb and Back or the Making of the Body in Islam and in Mauritania
Marcia C. Inhorn, University of Michigan
Making Muslim Babies: Ethnographic Reflections on IVF in Sunni Egypt and Shi'ite Lebanon
Diane M. Tober, University of California, San Francisco
Shi'ism, Pragmatism and Modernity in Iran: Organ Donation, Family Planning, and Shifting Islamic Discourse
Beth Kangas, Wayne State University
Contending with Ambiguity and Hope: The Shari'a and the Medical Imaginary in Yemenis' International Medical Travel
Debra A. Budiani, Michigan State University
Sheikhs, Labs, Doctors and Bodies: The Egyptian Transplant Theater
Alex Balasescu, UCI/EHESS
Time, Space, Dress, Fashion and Aesthetic Authority in Tehran

Panel # 011 Culture in Upper Egypt (P099)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Nicholas Hopkins

Chair/Discussant: Nicholas Hopkins, American University in Cairo

El-Sayed El-Aswad, Tanta University
Upper Egyptians in the Media, Literature, and Reality
Reem Saad, American University in Cairo
The Production and Consumption of Upper Egyptian Crafts
Mohamed H. Abdel Aal, Cairo University
The Impact of the 1992 Tenancy Law in Upper Egypt
Hania Sholkamy, American University in Cairo
Child Rearing and Identity in Upper Egypt
Peter Gran, Temple University
Modern Coptic History as Social History

Panel # 012 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Bi-national or Federal Option in Palestine-Israel: Prospects and Feasability (TC008)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Christa Bruhn

Moderator: Christa Bruhn, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sunday, November 21
Panel Session II

Panel #013 Consumption and Representation (NP06)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, University of Pennsylvania

Petra Kuppinger, Monmouth College
Dining in Style: Dominance and Discipline in Colonial Cairo
Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Radical Sheik and the Missing Martyrs
Amal Sachedina, Columbia University
The Construction of the Middle East: An Analysis of a Museum Exhibit
Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dress Across Cultures: The Power of Arabian Robes

Panel #014 Gender and Sexuality in Literature (NP10)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Abbas Kadhim, University of California, Berkeley

John Maier, SUNY College at Brockport
Vestiges of Entrance Marriage in Mohammed Mrabet's "The Dark Bird"
An-Chi Hoh, The Library of Congress
War and Nationalism in Contemporary Short Stories by Kuwaiti Women
Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Benedictine University
Royal French Women in the Ottoman Sultans' Harem: The Political Uses of Accounts from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries
Nathalie Khankan, University of California, Berkeley
To Make a Poem Poemy: Reading and Translating Saadiyya Mufarrih

Panel #015 SPECIAL SESSION
Islam and Political Violence: The 'Ismhouse' of Language (S001)\
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Daniel M. Varisco

A special joint session of the American Anthropological Association and MESA

Donald K. Emmerson, Stanford University
Between Demonization and Denial: The Useful Diversity of Islamism
Robert Hefner, Boston University
Media and Political Representations of Religious Violence in Indonesia
Daniel M. Varisco, Hofstra University
Islam as an Ism: The Rhetoric of Representing Violence in Islam
Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Martyrdom as Religious Experience
Richard C. Martin, Emory University
Islam and Violence in the Modern World: A Divisive Debate in Scholarship Today

Panel #016 Power and Culture: The Origins, Impact, and the Aftermath of the Ottoman Experience in WWI (P023)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Mustafa Aksakal and Yucel Yanikdag

Chair: Angelo Georgakis, Westmont College
Discussant: Peter Sluglett, University of Utah

Mustafa Aksakal, Monmouth University
The Ottoman July Crisis: The Great War as Great Opportunity
Erol Koroglu, Sabanci University
From Propaganda to National Identity Construction: Turkish Culture and the First World War
Yucel Yanikdag, Virginia Commonwealth University
War, Medicine and Social Darwinism: The Great War and the Making of the Turkish Nation
Cemil Aydin, Ohio State University
Negotiating with the New World Order: Ottoman Leadership in the Aftermath of WWI

Panel #017 Representing Refugees: Voices of and Voices for Palestinians (P042)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery St.

Organized by Kimberly Katz

Chair: Kimberly Katz, Towson University
Discussant: Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas

Rochelle Davis, Stanford University
Taking Refuge in the Past: Memory and the Flight from Jerusalem in 1948
Fatmeh Kassem, Ben Gurion University
Voices That Deserve to Be Heard: History & Memory of Palestinian Women from Lyd
Jihane Sfeir-Khayat, IFPO/INALCO/CEMAM
Palestinians in Lebanon: The Birth of the "Enemy Within"
Laleh Khalili, Columbia University
'Telling My Brother's Story': Hizbullah and Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Kimberly Katz, Towson University
Same Symbolic Representation, Different National Meaning: Official and Artistic Representations of Palestinian Refugees in 1964 and 2002
Diana Allan, Harvard University
Mythologizing the Nakba: 1948 Narratives in the Production of Collective Identity and Cultural Practice among Palestinian Refugees in Beirut

Panel #018 Middle Eastern Music and Globalization (P060)
***TIME CHANGE***Panel will convene at 8:00 a.m. at Peet's Coffee & Tea (located in the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero across from the Hyatt Regency...look for the clock tower)

Organized by Susan Ossman and Sylvia W. Önder

PAPERS MAY BE READ BY REMAINING PANELISTS

Chair: Susan Ossman, Georgetown University
Discussant: Virginia Danielson, Harvard University

Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown University
Turkish Music Crosses Over: Tarkan, Sertab, and Davut
Maya Mikdashi, Georgetown University
Pop Goes the Arab World
Shereen Abdel Nabi, Georgetown University
Media and Gender in Arab Music
Julia Choucair, Georgetown University
Popular Music and the Politics of Identity

Panel #019 Re-reading the Moriscos (P061)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Lourdes Maria Alvarez

Chair/Discussant: Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Catholic University of America

Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Catholic University of America
"Crass Forgeries," Syncretism or Religious Idealism?: The Moriscos and the Sacromonte Plomos on the Eve of the Expulsion
Anjela Cannarelli Peck, Emory University
Re-reading Communal Sacrifice through the Aljamiado Legend "The Hadith of the 'Fortress of Gold' and the Story of the Snake with 'Ali Ibnu Talib"
Catherine E. DeLong Malloy, Catholic University of America
Gender and the Sacred: Another Tale of Solomon
Marya Teresa Green Mercado, University of Chicago
Love Magic: Inter-communal Relations in Sixteenth-Century Spain

(ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 AT 1:30PM)
Panel # 020 Secularism, Religious Nationalism, and the Public Sphere in Comparative Perspective (P063)
Boardroom, Holiday Inn Select, 750 Kearny Street

Organized by Srirupa Roy

Discussant: Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo

Alev Cinar, Bilkent University
Courtroom Scenes in Turkish Film: Secularism and the State as the Dispenser of Justice
Maha Yahya, MIT
Building City and Nation: Urban Architecture in the Public Sphere
Srirupa Roy, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Seeing a State: National Commemorations and the Public Sphere in India and Turkey

Panel #021 Late Sasanian Iran: The Literary, Sigillographic and Numismatic Evidence (P068)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Touraj Daryaee

Chair/Discussant: Michael G. Morony, UCLA

Zeev Rubin, Tel Aviv University
The Financial Affairs of the Sasanian Empire in the Wake of the Reforms of Khusraw Anushirwan
Carlo G. Cereti, Universite di Roma "La Sopienza"
Geographical References in the Zoroastrian Tradition
Parvaneh Pourshariati, The Ohio State University
"The Four Generals of the Sasanian Empire":  Recent Sigillographic Evidence and Centrifugal Forces in Late Sasanid History
Touraj Daryaee, California State University, Fullerton
The Coinage of Yazdgird III in Sistan (Year 20): Who Was Minting Them?

Panel #022 Opportunities through the U.S. Department of Education: Building Middle East Studies Capacity and Expertise
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Christine Corey

Chair: Christine Corey, U.S. Department of Education
Discussant: Anne H. Betteridge, University of Arizona

Benjamin Braude, Boston College
Garay Menicucci, University of California, Santa Barbara
R. Kirk Belnap, NMELRC, Brigham Young University
Jonathan Friedlander, UCLA

Panel #023 International Influences on State Building and Political Liberalization in the MENA Region (P073)
Organized by Abdulkader Sinno

Chair: Roger Owen, Harvard University
Discussant: Amaney Jamal, Princeton University

Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana University
Does It Matter Who Builds the State?: How Outside Intervention Affects Regime Stability
Marie-Joelle Zahar, Université du Montréal
A Blessing or a Bane?: Foreign Intervention and State-Building in Lebanon
Khalid Medani, Oberlin College
Globalization and Its Discontents: The Role of Informal Markets in State Formation and State Collapse in Sudan and Somalia
Heidi Rutz, Naval War College
One-step Forward, Two Steps Back?: Anti-terrorism Measures and the Implications for Political Liberalization

Panel # 024 Gender and Discourse in Nineteenth Century Egypt (P080)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Mervat F. Hatem

Chair: Mervat F. Hatem, Howard University

Omaima Abou-Bakr, Cairo University
Men in the Qur'an: Modern and Pre-modern Perceptions
Mervat F. Hatem, Howard University
Gender in the Discursive Map of the 1890s and the Development of a New Paradigm for Egyptian Women's History
Hala Kamal, Women & Memory Forum
Discourses on Women's Education in Late 19th Century Egypt
Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University
Discourses on Gender and Nation: Ambivalence in Abdallah Al-Nadim's Al-Ustaz
Hoda Elsaadi, Cairo University
Changing Attitudes Toward 'Mad Woman' in the 19th Century

Panel #025 Writing a Literary History of the Ottoman Empire (P083)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Hande Solakoglu

Chair/Discussant: Walter G. Andrews, University of Washington

Selim S. Kuru, University of Washington
Reading Ottoman Turkish Literature from the Margins
Mehmet Kalpakli, Bilkent University
Writing the Literary History of 'Nazire'
Gottfried Hagen, University of Michigan
Ottoman "Heroic" Narratives: Problems of Genre, Form, Function
Didem Havlioglu, University of Washington
Making of a Women Poet in Traditional tezkire Rhetoric and Re-writing Ottoman Women's Literary History
Hande Solakoglu, University of Washington
Western Histories of Ottoman Literature

Panel #026 Egyptian Youth and Social Change (P091)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Alyce N. Abdalla

Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota
Youth Employment in Egypt: Demographic, Educational and Institutional Aspects
Russanne Hozayin, American University in Cairo
Agentic Potential and Literacy Achievement among Adolescent Girls in Upper Egyptian Villages: Assessing Program Impact
Nadia Zibani, Population Council
Listening to Parents, Understanding Their Dilemmas: Case Study in Rural Upper Egypt
Hania Sobhy, Egypt Education Reform Program
Egyptian Youth and Social Change: Youth, the New Religiosity and the Discourses of Amr Khaled
Alyce N. Abdalla, Population Council
Assessing the Impact of Social Intervention: Lessons from an NGO Youth Program
Diane Singerman, American University
The Economic and Social Context of Marriage for Egyptian Youth

Panel #027 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Meeting the Needs of a Neglected Region: A Newly Established Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa Region (TC001)
Meeting in the Park Hyatt Grill at 333 Battery Street

Organized by Sandy Sufian

Moderator: Robert J. Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania

Sunday, November 21
Panel Session III
11:00am-1:00pm

Panel #081 Subjects of Knowledge: The Production of Knowledge in the Middle East (P064)
***TIME CHANGE***Sunday, November 21, 11:00 a.m., Holiday Inn Select, Boardroom (lobby level), 750 Kearny Street

Organized by Omnia El Shakry

Discussant: Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College

Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis
From Ethnographic Realism to Social Engineering: The Problem of the Egyptian Peasantry, 1925-1945
Michael Gasper, New York University
The New Falah, Colonial Identity and the Modern State
Dana Sherry, UC Davis
Caucasians and Kavkaztsy: The Caucusus Branch of the Russian Imperial Geographical Society and the Production of Local Identity, 1850-1865
Joshua Schreier, Vassar College
Teaching Civilization: French Reformers, Indigenous Jews, and Midrashim in Colonia Algeria, 1830-70
Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis
Constructing the "Other" in the Early Modern Ottoman World: Narratives on the Far East and the Far West

Panel #028 A People's History of MESA, Part I
Hyatt Regency

Moderator: Lisa Anderson, Columbia University

Richard T. Antoun, Binghamton University (MESA President 1983)
Richard N. Frye, Harvard University (Emeritus), MESA Vice-President 1974)
Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot, UCLA (Emerita), MESA Vice-President 1975; President 1979
Howard A. Reed, University of Connecticut (Emeritus), MESA Board of Directors 1978-80

MESA will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2006. As part of the commemoration, MESA members are contributing to an oral history of the organization. Past-President Lisa Anderson will interview four long-term members about the lore, the issues, the challenges, and the fabulous moments of the early years.

Panel #029 Gender in the Middle East (NP11)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Mirjam Kunkler, Columbia University

Simonetta Calderini, University of Roehampton, London
The Motives Behind Female Patronage: Elite Women at the Fatimid Courts
Delia Cortese, Middlesex University-London
Sitt Al-Mulk Re-visited: Life and Deeds of a Fatimid Princess
Hugh Kennedy, University of St. Andrews
Attitudes to Homosexuality at the Early Abbasid Court
Mona Hassan, Princeton University
The Islamic Scholasticism of an Early Female Jurist

Panel #030 Palestine: Collaboration and Resistance (NP26)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Richard Cahill, Westmont College

Michael N. Shaikh, Monterey Institute of International Studies
The Enemy Within: Collaboration Under Occupation–the Experience of Palestine Confronting the Past and Facing the Future
Ibtisam Ibrahim, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Palestinian Women Bombers: Are They Really Different?
Rhoda Kanaaneh, American University
On the Wrong Side of War: Arab Soldiers in the Israeli Military
Laetitia Bucaille, Bordeaux 2 University
The Palestinian Impossible Strategy of Martyrdom

Panel #031 Gift Giving and Hostage Taking: Modes of Exchange in Islamic Societies (P013)
Hyatt Regency

Supported by the ILEX Foundation

Chair: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University
Discussant: Mohsen Ashtiany, Columbia University

Olga M. Davidson, Brandeis University
Models of Gift-Exchange and Practices of Hostage-Giving and Hostage-Taking in Ghaznavid Texts
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Independent Scholar/Baltimore
Intercultural Gifting and Object Exchange during the Reign of Shah 'Abbas I
Finbarr Barry Flood, New York University
The Raja's Finger and the Sultan's Belt: The Gift, the Body and the Problem of Cross-Cultural Translation
Mohammad J. Mahallati, McGill University
The Concept of the Gift in the Qur'anic Scripture

Panel #032 Armenian Immigrants in California: Assimilation and Identity (P026)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Anny Bakalian

Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies

Chair: Anny Bakalian, City University of New York

George Kooshian, Los Angeles Unified School District
The Armenian Immigrants of Pasadena, California: One Hundred Years
Claudia Der-Martirosian, UCLA
The Economic and Social Integration of Armenian Iranians in Los Angeles: Analysis of 2000 US Census
Diana Vartan, Independent Researcher
Making Home in California: Psychological Adaptation of Armenian Immigrants
Matthew Jendian, California State University, Fresno
Armenian–To Be or Not to Be: Generational Perspectives Regarding the Definition of Ethnic Identity

Panel #033 Responses to State Terror: Twentieth-Century Iran's Political Prisoners (P034)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Afshin Matin-asgari

Chair: Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, San Marcos
Discussant: Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach

Touraj Atabaki, Utrecht University
Are They Coming for Me?: Everyday Lives of Caucasus Iranians during the 1930s Stalinist Purges
Afshin Matin-asgari, California State University, Los Angeles
Understanding Modern Iran's "Ideological Renegades"
Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State University
Reflections on Iran's Political Prisons during the Montazeri Years (1985-88)
Reza Afshari, Pace University
The Ayatollah and the Novelist, Sharhrnush Parsipur as a Political Prisoner

Panel #034 Reclaiming the Past: Modes of Engaging the Tradition in Arabic Poetry (P044)
Organized by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

Chair: James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Yaseen Noorani, University of Edinburgh

Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
The Politics of Nostalgia in Arabic Poetry
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University
Reprising Poets Past: Intentions and Techniques
Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, Kyoto Notre Dame University
A Double Imitation in the Siniyyah of Ahmad Shawqi
Muhsin J. al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah
The Rumiyyah in Modern Arabic Poetry

Panel #035 Life in the Frontier: Narratives of Self and Other in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond (P059)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez

Chair: Gábor Ágoston, Georgetown University

Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez, Georgetown University
Sexuality in the Early Modern Iberian-Ottoman Frontier: Fray Diego de Haedo's "Topografia E Historia General de Argel"
Kahraman Sakul, Georgetown University
Frontiers into Borders on the Danube in 1740: Pragmatic Diplomacy of the Border Committees and the Parallel Diplomacy of the Local Janissaries
Gunhan Borekci, The Ohio State University
When Budun Falls: An Anonymous Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Nasihatname and Narratives of Military Defeat in the Frontiers
Rita S. Guenther, Georgetown University
19th Century Russian Ethnography, Science and the Ottoman 'Other'

Panel #036 Strategic Interaction and Middle East Politics (P066)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Lisa Blaydes

Chair: Julie E. Taylor, Princeton  University
Discussant: Heidi Rutz, Naval War College

Sean Foley, Georgetown University
Sheikhs, Shi'ites, and Satellites: Strategic Interaction and the Arab Gulf States
Jennifer De Maio, UCLA
The Politics of Negotiating Peace: The Strategic Interaction of Third Parties in Managing Conflict in the Sudan
Lawrence Rubin, UCLA
Is Hosting Holy Warriors Wholly Helpful?
Lisa Blaydes, UCLA
Bargaining over Political Space: State-Civil Society Relations in Egypt

Panel #037 Beyond Denial and Deniability: Revelation and Constructing the Public Sphere (P069)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson

Chair: Jon W. Anderson, Catholic University of America

Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College
Interrogation: Disclosure, Deniability, and Concealment in the Middle East
Susan Slyomovics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shahadah: Public Testimony in Morocco
Mustapha Kamal, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Civilized Alternative
Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
The Politics of Rumination: Qat Chews and Public Spheres in Yemen

Panel #038 Arab-Americans and September 11 (P086)
Organized by Sawsan Abdulrahim and Evelyn Alsultany

Chair/Discussant: Sondra Hale, UCLA

Louise Cainkar, University of Illinois-Chicago
The Government Moves Inside the Mind: Internal Policing as a Response to the Post-9/11 Treatment of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S.
Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
Guilty By Association: Arabs, Muslims, and the War on Terror
Evelyn Alsultany, Stanford University
Selling Citizenship Post-9/11: Representations of Arab- and Muslim-Americans in Non-Profit Advertising
Sawsan Abdulrahim, University of Michigan
Agency and Constraint in Arab-Americans' Interactions with the Census Race Question

Panel # 039 Perspectives on the Policies and Politics of Middle Eastern Refugees (P088)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Rochelle Davis

Chair: Rochelle Davis, Stanford University
Discussant: Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University

Ben Herzog, Yale University
'The Elephant in the Room' - The Politics of 'Refugees' in Israel
Are Knudsen, Chr. Michelsen Institute
Islamism in the Diaspora: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Shahira Samy, University of Exeter
Towards a Solution to the Palestinian Refugee Problem: The Role of Refugee Participation
Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate School
Refugee Absorption and Urban Planning in Palestine
Kathleen Howard Kinawy, Bowling Green State University (retired)
Sudanese Refugees in Egypt: Victims of Interagency Politics and Policies or Independent Agents

Panel #040 Innovative Approaches to Teaching about Islam in the Pre-collegiate Classroom (P090)
World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street

Organized by Laurence Michalak

A special panel for K-12 teachers and other scholars. This session will run from 11:00am to 1:30 pm.

Sponsored by the Middle East Outreach Council, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley, Office of Resources in International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley, and Schools Program of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. Partially funded by a grant from the Al-Fallah Program of CMES at UC Berkeley.

Chair: Laurence Michalak, University of California, Berkeley

Louisa Moffitt, Marist School
Useful Videos about Islam
John O. Voll, Georgetown University
Music and Popular Culture as Resources for Teaching about Islam
Asifa Quraishi, University of Wisconsin
An Introduction to Islamic Law for Teachers of Pre-Collegiate Classrooms
Munir A. Shaikh, Council on Islamic Education/UCLA
Muslim Spain: Teaching about Religious Pluralism and Our Shared Heritage

Panel # 041 The Sense of the Sacred in Traditional Religious Consciousness and Modern Ideological Discourse (P101)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Josef W. Meri

Chair: Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies

Reza Shah-Kazemi, Institute of Ismaili Studies
Defining without Confining: Reflections on a Prophetic Usage of Sacred Space
Nina Safran, Penn State University
The Sacred and Profane in Islamic Cordoba
Josef W. Meri, Institute of Ismaili Studies
Sacred Spaces and Holy Places in Traditional Religious Consciousness
Mohammad Jozi, Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Meaning of 'The Sacred" in the Thought of Imam Ali

Panel #042 ROUNDTABLE
Teaching Women and Islam in the American Classroom (RT005)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University

Chair: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Georgetown University

Barbara Stowasser, Georgetown University
Teaching About "Women in Islam" By Way of the Tafsir Literature
Mary Ann Fay, American University
The Post-Colonial Classroom: A Comparative Approach to Teaching Women and Islam in the U.S. and the Middle East
Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, Georgetown University
Teaching Muslim Women's History
Amaney Jamal, Princeton University
Measuring Islam and Gender Equality in the Arab World
Asma Barlas, Ithaca College
Teaching About Women and Islam
Val Moghadam, Illinois State University
Feminist and Sociological Approach to Teaching Women in Islam

Panel #043 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Reconstructing Public Spheres in Iraq (TC003)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Peter Mandaville

Moderator: Peter Mandaville, George Mason University

Sunday, November 21
Panel Session IV
2:00pm-4:00pm

Panel # 044 SPECIAL SESSION
(S005) “When We Have Nothing Left to Give”:
A Panel in Memory of Edward W. Said
***TIME CHANGE*** 4:00pm-6:00pm, Room A, Hastings College of the Law, 198 McAllister Street)

Organized by Gabriel Piterberg

Chair: Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA

George Bisharat, UC Hastings
Remembering the Future
Beshara Doumani, UC Berkeley
Of Marble, Cinder Block, and Limestone
Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
The Conscious Pariah versus the Sovereign Settler
Salim Tamari, Ramallah
Ishaq Shami and the Predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine

Reading from Mahmoud Darwish, Speech of the Red Indian

Wadie Said, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Tampa, Florida
Edward Said: Personal Reflections on His Life in Politics

Panel #045 Lebanon in the Sectarian Imagination (NP18)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Hussam S. Timani, University of Redlands Sami E. Baroudi, Lebanese American University

Sami E. Baroudi, Lebanese American University
Lebanon’s Maronites’ Many Voices: The Divergent Perspectives of President Camille Chamoun and Patriarch Paul Meouchi during the 1958 Lebanese Crisis
Bassel Salloukh, American University of Sharjah
Recycling the Republic: Lebanon's Post-War Confessional Sectocracy
Anh Nga Longva, University of Bergen
The Linguistic Dimension of Sectarian Identities in Lebanon
Kristin Shamas, University of Oklahoma
Telecommunications in South Lebanon: Micro Social Contact in the Context of Globalized Networks
Asher Kaufman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Formation of Greater Lebanon Reconsidered

Panel #046 Reform and Revolution in the Ottoman Provinces (NP30)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Howard Eissenstat, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

Silvia Marsans-Sakly, New York University
Between Imperial Garrisons and the Rule of Revenue: Root Causes of Tunisia's 1864 Revolt
Farid Al-Salim, University of Arkansas
The Provincial History of Palestine in the Late Ottoman Era 1876-1918
Milena B. Methodieva, Princeton University
Union In-Progress: Young Turk Groups in Bulgaria and the Development of Turkish Nationalism, 1890-1908
Gokhan Cetinsaya, Istanbul Technical University
The Politics of Reform in Iraq under Abdulhamid II, 1878-1908
Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago
Aspects of Pluralism in the Iraqi Public Sphere
Anthony Gorman, SOAS
Subaltern Socialists: Radical Politics in Egypt before the First World War

Panel #047 Turkey in Transition (NP42)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Pinar Batur, Vassar College

Scott Morrison, Columbia University
Europe from a Fringe: One Islamist's Thoughts on Turkey and the EU
Haldun Gülalp, Bogazici University
Dilemmas of Citizenship: The Bahai Community in Turkey
Hasan Kosebalaban, University of Utah
Globalization and Transformation of Islamic Identity in Turkey
Yorgo Pasadeos, University of Alabama
Election Coverage in the Turkish Daily Press
Elif Andac, University of Washington
Transnational Foundations in Turkish Nationalism: Path-Not-Taken or Ideology in Transition?

Panel #048 Muslims in New York City (P022)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Louis Cristillo

Discussant: Louis Cristillo, Columbia University

John Graham, University of Calgary
Social Services for Muslim Communities in NYC
Ali M. Gheith, Columbia University
Adapting Western Psychotherapy for the New York City Muslim Communities
Markus Dressler, Hofstra University
Between Sharia and Mysticism: Boundary Construction in New York Sufism
Hisham Aidi, Columbia University
Muslim Youth "on the Haqq!": Islam, Identity and Cultural Syncretism

Panel #049 Mahmoud Darwish: A Modern Arab Poet (P024)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Najat Rahman and Hala Kh. Nassar

Discussant: Hala Kh. Nassar, Yale University

Najat Rahman, James Madison University
The Lyric in Mahmoud Darwish's Work: Threatened Longing and Perpetual Search
Sinan Antoon, Dartmouth College
I Am Not Myself: The Fractured Subject in Mahmud Darwish's Poetry
Jeffrey Sacks, Columbia Univesity
Opening, or, "The Force of Language"
Robyn Creswell, New York University
Mahmoud Darwish: Poetic Historiography
Amira El-Zein, Tufts University
Palestine as a Metaphor: Land and Language Are One

Panel #050 Educating Imams (P037)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and Thijl Sunier

THIS PANEL WILL BE HELD. THE PAPER BY JANE SMITH WILL BE READ, AND THE PAPER BY YVONNE HADDAD WILL BE PRESENTED.

Supported by the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University

Chair: Thijl Sunier, University of Amsterdam
Discussant: Martin Van Bruinessen, Utrecht University/ISIM

Jonathan Birt, Islamic Foundation
The 'Ulama, the Literate Masses and the Search for Authentic Islam in an Age of Disembodied Knowledge
Frank Peter, ISIM, Leiden
Training Imams in French Islam
Nico Landman, Utrecht University
Islamic Higher Education in the Netherlands on the Crossroads of Academic Traditions
Jane Smith, Hartford Seminary PAPER WILL BE READ
Training Muslims for Chaplaincy at Hartford Seminary
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Georgetown University
Imam Training: Is American Paranoia Justified?

Panel #051 Mapping Subjectivities in Modern Middle Eastern Literatures (P038)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Kari Neely

Chair: Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
Discussant: Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan

Valerie Anishchenkova, University of Michigan
Shifting Spaces and Fragmented Subjectivities in Somaya Ramadan's "Awraq Al-Narjis" ("Leaves of Narcissus")
Khaled Al-Masri, University of Michigan
Mapping Subjectivities: Urban Life and Female Sexuality in Alawiyya Subuh's "Maryam of Tales"
Kari Neely, University of Michigan
Vicarious Reenactments of Traumatic Memory: Experiencing Armenian Displacement through Beiruti Civil Unrest
Yasmeen Hanoosh, University of Michigan
Chaldeans in America: The Shifting Spaces of an Iraqi Minority's Discourse

Panel #052 Gendered Progress: The Causal Function of Family Structure in Middle Eastern 'Modernities' (P055)
Organized by Monica Ringer

Chair: Mary C. Wilson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

A. Holly Shissler, University of Chicago
Reform, Family Life, and Economic Development in Late Ottoman Thought
Oyku Potuoglu-Cook, Northwestern University
A Laboratory Abroad for Modernization: Ottoman Participation in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Sarah Gualtieri, Loyola University, New Orleans
Women in the Formation of a Syrian Trade Diaspora in the Americas, 1878-1924
Monica Ringer, Amherst College
Contested Leadership: Zoroastrian Women's Organizations in mid-Pahlavi Tehran

Panel #053 Restoration, Ideology and Islamic Architecture (P071)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Richard Turnbull

Chair: Jere L. Bacharach, University of Washington

Bernard O'Kane, American University in Cairo
Architectural Conservation in Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia: Competing Ideologies
Richard Turnbull, Fashion Institute of Technology
Case Studies in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Restoration: Dynastic Monuments in Bursa
Heghnar Watenpaugh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Return of the Past: Heritage and Urban Preservation in Syria
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, San Francisco State University
Fatephur Sikri–Modernity's Heterotopia: An Effective History of the Resurrection, Restoration and Representation of a Mughal Monument
Nadania Idriss, SOAS
Royal Architectural Patronage and Restoration Campaigns at the End of the XIX Century: Abbas Hilmi II (1892-1914)

Panel #054 New Leadership and the Prospects for Change in the Arab World (P072)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg

Chair: Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant College
Discussant: Michael Herb, Georgia State University

Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg, Drury University
Old Wine in New Bottles?: Leadership Change and the Analysis of Arab Politics
Najib Ghadbian, University of Arkansas
Old Guard Frost Nips Damascus Spring
Jean-Francois Seznec, Columbia University
What Defines Policy Making in Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia: Personality or Position?
Scott Greenwood, California State University, San Marcos
Leadership, Continuity, and Change in Jordan and Morocco, 1999-2004

Panel #055 Egyptian Cultural Studies: Rethinking the Nahdah (P081)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Chair/Discussant: Peter Gran, Temple University

Mona L. Russell
Selling History: Commemoration & Celebration in Egyptian Advertising, 1922-1952
Lital Levy, University of California, Berkeley
Arab-Jewish Writers in the Nahda and Beyond

Samah Selim, Independent Scholar
Translation, Popular Fiction and the Nahdah in Egypt
Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston
The Europe Trained Nahdawi as Organic Intellectual
Ayman El-Desouky, SOAS, University of London
Teleology or Typology?: Ancient Egypt in the Writings of al-Tahtawi and Mubarak
 

Panel #056 What Kind of Humans Do States Make?: Modern Values and the Formation of Political Subjectivities in Israel, Palestine, and Iran (P089)
Organized by Lori A. Allen

Chair: Shira Robinson, Stanford University
Discussant: Elliott Colla, Brown University

Shira Robinson, Stanford University
Guns, Coffee, and Tractors: The Making of "Non-Jewish Folklore" in 1958 Israel
Rebecca Luna Stein, Duke University
Invasion, Occupation, and Other Tourist Practices
Lori A. Allen, University of Chicago
Martyr Funerals, Bodies, and Humans in the Palestinian Intifada
Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University
Kiarostami: Modernist, Humanist, Le Magnifique
Narges Erami, Columbia University
"Marriage by Another Name": An Institution of Holiness in a Shi'ite City

Panel # 057 ROUNDTABLE
Re-Writing the Ottoman Woman: Narratives of Modernization and Gender at the End of Empire (RT002)
Hyatt Regency

Carolyn Goffman, DePaul University
The Young Turks and New Ottoman Womanhood through an American Lens
Reina Lewis, University of East London
Writing a Modern Self: Ottoman Women, Modernization and Narrative
Teresa Heffernan, Saint Mary's University
Cosmopolitanism, the Racialized Nation, and Women's Bodies

Panel #058 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Islamophobia in the Academy (TC007)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Anila Daulatzai

Moderator: Anila Daulatzai, Johns Hopkins University

Sunday, November 21
Panel Session V
4:30pm-6:30pm

This panel is jointly sponsored by MESA and the American Anthropological Association. It originally was to have been presented at the AAA meeting San Francisco. AAA moved its meeting to December dates in Atlanta, and thus the participants have chosen to present it at MESA. We welcome them. This session will be held at the Hyatt Regency.

Anthropology Beyond Baghdad: A Roundtable
Organized by Daniel Varisco

Chair: Daniel Varisco, MES President, Hofstra U

Robert Fernea, U of Texas at Austin (Emeritus)
Diane King, American U of Beirut
Amal Rassam, Queens College (Emerita)
William Young, Linguist
Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College

Presenting but not on the program:
Peter Reiss, Consultant, Development Alternatives, Inc.
McGuire Gibson, U of Chicago

The experience of American anthropologists in Iraq has been limited over the past several decades, but the American military involvement in Iraq has created opportunities for ethnographic, applied and archaeological fieldwork in Iraq. This session brings together anthropologists, archaeologists and Iraqi scholars with experience in Iraq to assess the situation on the ground and discuss the potential for future research. The primary focus of the panel is the pragmatic and ethical issues that arise for future anthropological study by Americans in the country rather than the ongoing political debate over American military occupation in Iraq. As a jointly sponsored AAA and MESA panel, the panelists address an issue of relevance both to anthropologists in general and to all scholars who have a research interest in Iraq and the Middle East.

Panel #059 Families and Households (NP09)
Hyatt Regency

Alan Mikhail, University of California, Berkeley
Doctoring Women: Qasim Amin and the Egyptian Family
Douglas Brookes, University of California, Berkeley Extension
Upstairs, Downstairs in the Ottoman Palace
Kimberly Hart, Indiana University
By Arrangement or by Romance?: Agency and Marriage in a Turkish Village
Mary Elaine Hegland, Santa Clara University
Grandparents in Iran and Tajikistan

Panel #060 Islamist Mobilization (NP15)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Weston F. Cook, Jr., University of North Carolina, Pembroke

Michael J. Willis, Al Akhawayn University
Islamism in Morocco: The End of the Moroccan Exception?
Emrullah Uslu, University of Utah
Militant Islamist's Transformation Journey in Turkey: From Local Hizbullah to Global Islamic Terror
Jakub Kaikietek, Emory University
Beyond the State: The Structure of Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Hamas
Matthew Johnson, University of Texas at Austin
Lebanon's Hizbullah and the Rhetorical Weapons of a Transformed Resistance
Rachel M. Scott, SOAS, University of London
Islamist Attitudes towards Christians in Egypt: An Analysis of Thought and Political Context (1970-2003)

Panel #061 Sunni/Sufi/Shi'i (NP39)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana University-Purdue University

David Pinault, Santa Clara University
Contemporary Pakistani Views of Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb
Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago
Imperial Rhetoric: The Public Voice of a Medieval Shiite Dynasty
Rachel T. Howes, Cal State Northridge
The Political Strategies of Shi`is in Eleventh Century Iranian Courts
Christoph W.M. Marcinkowski, Columbia University
Persian Influences in Classical Malay Literature

Panel #062 Cultural Politics of Muslim Youths in the Middle East (P007)
Organized by Asef BayatTexas

Supported by International Institute for Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM)

Chair/Discussant: Shahnaz Rouse, Sarah Lawrence College

Asef Bayat, Leiden University/ISIM
Subversive Accommodation: The Cultural Politics of Youths in Iran
Ayse Saktanber, Middle East Technical University
Negotiating Muslim Identity and Youthfulness: The Cultural Dilemma of Muslim Youth in Turkey
Linda Herrera, Leiden University
Cultural Agency of Youth: Negotiating Morality in Egyptian Education
Mounia Bennani-Chraibi, IEPI University of Lausanne
Moroccan Youth and Religion
Nikola Tietze, Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung
Young Muslims in France and Germany: Youthfulness, Religiosity and Recognition

Panel #063 Discord and Cooperation in the Gulf (P020)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Matteo Legrenzi

Chair: Gwenn Okruhlik, University of Texas
Discussant: Frauke Heard-Bey, Centre for Documentation & Research, Abu Dhabi

Gregory Gause, University of Vermont
September 11, The Second Gulf War and the Problems of American "Hegemony" in the Persian Gulf
Fred H. Lawson, Mills College
Exploring the Links between Territorial Disputes and Enduring Rivalries: The Case of the Hawar Islands
Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv University
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): The Endless Quest for Regional Security
Matteo Legrenzi, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
GCC Economic Integration: The Long Road Ahead

Panel #064 Arab Women Living on the Borders and Making Spaces (P053)
Organized by Fatima Badry

Chair: Mary Ann Fay, American University
Discussant: Frances Hasso, Oberlin College

Fatima Badry, American University of Sharjah
Learning on the Periphery: Acquiring Social and Cultural Identities through Migration
Afaf Al-Bataineh, American University of Kuwait
Producers or Products of Writing: The Voices of Arab Women
Lena Jayyusi, Zayed University
Modernity's Contested Boundaries: Describing, Inscribing, and Transcribing Arab Women
Rima A. Sabban
Negotiating Gender Borders in Arab Oil Universities: The Case of United Arab Emirates
John Willoughby, American University
Crossing Employment Boundaries: Arab Women and the Drive to Nationalize the Gulf Workforce

Panel #065 The Right of Return and Prospects for a Just Peace (P056)
***TIME CHANGE*** 2:00pm-3:50pm, Room A, Hastings College of the Law, 198 McAllister Street

Organized by Vida Samiian

Chair: Vida Samiian, California State University, Fresno
Discussant: Joel Beinin, Stanford University

Issam Nassar, Institute of Jerusalem Studies
Representing the Nakba and Exile: Reflections of the Photography of 1948
Ilan Pappé, Haifa University
The Right of Return, Statehood and Reconciliation
Omar Barghouti, Tel Aviv University
Denial of the Palestinian Refugees' Rights: Relative Humanity and Moral Inconsistency
Bashar Tarabieh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Outside the Margins of Refugee Discourse: Syrians in and Outside the Golan Heights
Janet Kestenberg Amighi, Montgomery Community College
The Key to the Family Home: What will it open?

Panel #066 The Detroit Arab American Survey and the War on Terror: Initial Findings and Implications (P074)
Organized by Amaney Jamal

Chair/Discussant: Lisa Anderson, Columbia University

Sally Howell, University of Michigan
Arab Diasporas/Arab American Ethnicities: The Transnational Practices of Arab Detroit
Amaney Jamal, Princeton University
Arab Americans and Political Confidence after 9/11
Ann Chih Lin, University of Michigan
Civil Liberties and the Political Predispositions of Arab Americans
Andrew J. Shryock, University of Michigan
Locating Crisis and Community: The DAAS, the War on Terror, and the Contradictions of Empire in Arab Detroit
Ron Stockton, University of Michigan at Dearborn
The Clash of Civilizations: An Analysis of the Political, Ideological, Religious and Social Bases of Belief
Mark A. Tessler, University of Michigan
How Much Difference Does Context Make: A Comparison of the Political Attitudes of Ordinary Citizens in Palestine and Jordan of Those of Arab Americans of Palestinian and Jordanian Origin

Panel #067 Theater and Society: The Poetics of War (P094)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Dina Amin

Chair/Discussant: Holly Hill, John Jay College-CUNY

Dina Amin, University of Pennsylvania
Dramatic Articulations of (Anti-)War Fantasies
Gordon Witty, Temple University
War and the Family in Nagib Surur's Trilogy
Barbara Romaine, Swarthmore College
Bard of a Bygone Era or Evolving Dramatic Satirist?: The Role of the Hakawati in the Arab Experience of War
Torange Yeghiazarian, Golden Thread Productions
Saying Our Peace in the Theater of War
Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward, Ocean College
Staging War Trauma and the Healing Process

Panel #068 Subalterns, 'Ulama, and Transnationals: Shi'ite Ethnic Entrepeneurs and the Production of Nationalism in Lebanon (P098)
Cornell Hotel, 615 Bush Street, contact R. Abisaab at the Cornell Hotel for further info. 415-421-3154

Organized by Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr

Chair: Rula Jurdi Abisaab, McGill University
Discussant: Juan Cole, University of Michigan

Malek Abisaab, McGill University
Lebanese Shi'ites and National Identity: The 1936 Uprising of Bint Jubayl
Max Weiss, Stanford University
Between Reformism and Revolution: Muhammad Jawad Mughniyya on the State and Political Authority
Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr, University of Chicago
Sectarianism versus Nationalism?: Shi'ites and the Lebanese State

Panel #069 "I Can't Move–I Must Already Be Moving": Maps, Everyday Life, and the Drawings and Un-drawings of a "Muslim World" (P105)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Richard Baxstrom, Naveeda Khan, and Sylvain Perdigon

Chair: Steven C. Caton, Harvard University
Discussant: Stefania Pandolfo, University of California, Berkeley

Richard Baxstrom, Johns Hopkins University
A Web of Worlds to Get Lost In: Local Cartographies of the State and the Spiritual in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University
Roads to Death: Braving Bustrips on the Motorway in Lahore, Pakistan
Sylvain Perdigon, Johns Hopkins University
Maps of Despair and Desire: Palestinian Refugees at Checkpoints in Beirut, Lebanon
Anila Daulatzai, Johns Hopkins University
Mapping Refugees: Technologies and Terminologies of Expulsion at the Border of Afghanistan and Pakistan
 

Panel #070 ROUNDTABLE
Innovative Approaches to Using Video for Language Learning (RT004)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Kirk Belnap

Sponsored by the National Middle East Language Resource Center at Brigham Young University

Guliz Kuruoglu, UCLA
Turkish Tutor: Web-based Listening Comprehension Modules
Jeremy Browne, Brigham Young University
Structuring a Course around a Commercially Available Movie
Kirk Belnap, Brigham Young University
The Use of An Annotated Feature Film to teach Egyptian Arabic and Culture
Mehdi Khorrami, New York University
Shmuel Bolozky, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Using a Feature Film in the Classroom: Methodological Considerations
Martha Schulte-Nafeh, University of Arizona
A Curriculum and Materials for Language Proficiency Development Based on a Novel and Accompanying Film

Panel #071 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Revitalization of Research in Afghanistan (TC004)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by M. Siddieq Noorzoy

Moderator: M. Siddieq Noorzoy, University of Alberta

*****

Session #072
MESA Presidential Address

7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
St. Patrick's Catholic Church, 756 Mission Street

"Scholarship in the Shadow of Empire"

Laurie A. Brand
University of Southern California, MESA President 2004

followed by the

MESA 2004 Awards Ceremony

with presentation of the

2004 Albert Hourani Book Award
2004 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards
2004 MESA Mentoring Award
2004 MESA Service Award
2004 MESA Academic Freedom Award

*****

Monday, November 22
Panel Session VI
8:30am-10:30am

Panel #158 Representing Authority in Timurid and Safavid Iran (P082)
Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart Street
***TIME CHANGE***Monday, November 22, 8:30am-10:30am
Organized by Sholeh A. Quinn

Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College
"On Kings Real and Spiritual: The Overlap between Religious and Political Power in Late Medieval Iran
Paul Losensky, Indiana University
Drinking from the Cup of Kowsar: Images of Shah Tahmasp in the Cupbearer's Song
Sholeh A. Quinn, Ohio University
The Evolution of Kingship in Safavid Iran
Kishwar Rizvi, Barnard College/Columbia University
Marking the Sacred Landscape: Abbas I and the Shrines at Ardabil, Ahar and Kalkhoran

Panel #073 Practicing Ottoman Law (NP27)
Hyatt Regency

Sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association

Chair: Linda T. Darling, University of Arizona

Bogac Ergene, University of Vermont
Written and Oral Documentation in Ottoman Legal Practice
Mafalda Ade Winter, University of Tübingen
Commercial Tribunals and Conflict Resolution in Late Ottoman Syria
Himmet Taskomur, Harvard University
Law and Villagers in a Western Anatolian Town (Isparta) in Late Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire
Anna Mirkova, University of Michigan
The Politics of Land Ownership in Eastern Rumelia (1878-1885)

Panel # 074 Poetic Spaces (NP28)
Hyatt Regency

Firoozeh Papan-Matin, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Love Poetry of Ahmad Shamlu
Margaret Braswell, University of Maryland-College Park
Jaccottet and Maulpoix: Two Contemporary French Poets Travel to the "Orient"
Ian Campbell, Georgia State University
Urban Space in Two Moroccan Novels
Sima Daad, University of Washington
Urban Structures in Modernist Persian Poetry: A Phenomenological Reading of Ahmad Shamlu and Forugh Farrokhzad's Depiction of Spatial Elements

Panel #075 Sites of Resistance (NP37)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Chair: Stuart Schaar, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Maha Nassar, University of Chicago
Nationalism through Verse: The Emergence of Palestinian-Israeli Resistance Poetry, 1957-60
Eran Livni, Indiana University
Folk Music as a Socialist Realist Manifesto in Ruhi Su’s Devrimci (Revolutionary) Music
Negin Nabavi, Princeton University
Habl Al-Matin: Mapping a Changing Political Culture in Iran of the Constitutional Period
Ghada A. Janbey, Oklahoma City, OK
Rethinking Frantz Fanon's "Revolutionary Literature" within the Context of Palestinian Writing

Panel #076 Sufism: Love and Sects (NP38)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Qamar-ul Huda, College of the Holy Cross

Talia Gangoo, University of Michigan
Portraits of the Self: Rumi and Iqbal's Notions of Self-Hood
Cyrus Zargar, University of California, Berkeley
Volitional Death and an Existence More Real: Theoretical Suggestions in Kubra's "Aqrab al-Turuq ila Allah"
Joseph Lumbard, American University in Cairo
The Development of Love in Early Sufism
Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University
Muhammad or Bayazid? Rumi on Prophets and Saints

Panel #077 Visualizing Culture (NP44)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Paul J. Kaldjian, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Fayeq S. Oweis, San Francisco State University
Arab Cultural Mural in San Francisco: The Role of the Community
Damla Isik, University of Arizona
Questioning "Authenticities": Networks of Meaning in the Production and Consumption of Carpets and Kilims
A. Ipek Türeli, University of California, Berkeley
"Positive Nationalism": My Coke Beats Yours
David Simonowitz, UCLA
Return to the Pond: The al-Ghadir Mosque Revisted

Panel #078 Dis-Aggregating Islamism: The Sources and Dynamics of Intra-Movement Contention (P010)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham

Chair/Discussant: Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate School

Anne Marie Baylouny, Naval Postgraduate School
Oslo and Militarized Islam: Implementing Disaster in Palestine
Mohammed M. Hafez, University of Missouri-Kansas City
By Reason and Faith: Rationality and Religion in Palestinian Suicide Bombings
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Emory University
Pro-Democratic Learning in Islamist Groups: Lessons from Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait
Quintan Wiktorowicz, Rhodes College
Framing Jihad: Al-Qaeda's Struggle for Sacred Authority

Panel #079 Beyond Boundaries: Discourses of Community, Identity, and Sexual Transgression in Middle Eastern Cultures at Home and in Diaspora (P012)
Organized by Aysha Hidayatullah and Huda Jadallah

Chair/Discussant: Nadine Naber, University of Michigan

Huda Jadallah, University of California, Santa Barbara
Challenging Misrepresentations: Queer Arab Americans and Their Families Speak
Sima Shakhsari, Stanford University
Iranian Queer Diaspora and Politics of Representation: Homan and the Discursive Construction of the Iranian Hamjensgara
Frances Hasso, Oberlin College
Bodies and Desires in Production: Reflections on Emerging Relationship Forms in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Prophet's Umm Walad: Sexual Prescriptions & the Legacy of Mariyah the Copt
Sylvia W. Chan, University of California, Berkeley
"Prior Circumstances": White Women, Black Women, and the (Un)Veiling of Islam

Panel #080 Policing Islam (P032)
Organized by Thomas Abowd

Chair: Thomas Abowd, Wayne State University
Discussant: Juan Cole, University of Michigan

Loren D. Lybarger, California State University, Chico
Policing Palestinian Islamism: Repression, Resistance, and the Re-Structuring of Identity in the Post-Oslo Period
Thomas Abowd, Wayne State University
Landscapes of Security and Terror: Muslim-Americans in a Post-9/11 US
Atef Said, American University in Cairo
Muslim Activism in Egypt in the Aftermath of 9/11: State Actions and Activist Reactions
Najeeb A. Jan, University of Michigan
The Politics of Blasphemy: Controlling Islam and Islamicizing Control

Panel #081 Subjects of Knowledge: The Production of Knowledge in the Middle East (P064)
***TIME CHANGE***Sunday, November 21, 11:00 a.m. Holiday Inn Select (lobby level), 750 Kearny Street

Organized by Omnia El Shakry

Discussant: Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College

Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis
From Ethnographic Realism to Social Engineering: The Problem of the Egyptian Peasantry, 1925-1945
Michael Gasper, New York University
The New Falah, Colonial Identity and the Modern State
Dana Sherry, UC Davis
Caucasians and Kavkaztsy: The Caucusus Branch of the Russian Imperial Geographical Society and the Production of Local Identity, 1850-1865
Joshua Schreier, Vassar College
Teaching Civilization: French Reformers, Indigenous Jews, and Midrashim in Colonia Algeria, 1830-70
Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis
Constructing the "Other" in the Early Modern Ottoman World: Narratives on the Far East and the Far West

Panel #082 Gender, Social Change, and the State in Early Republican Turkey (1920s-1930s) (P077)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Faith Childress and Kathryn Libal

Chair: Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
Discussant: Nicole F. Watts, San Francisco State University

Senem Aslan, University of Washington
The Idols of Modernity: The First Beauty Contests in the Early Turkish Republic
Faith Childress, Rockhurst University
A Foreigner at Home and Abroad: Education, Nationalism, and Zekiye Eglar
Kathryn Libal, University of Kansas
Reconsidering Early Republican Feminism and the Dissolution of the Turkish Women's Union, 1935
Hale Yilmaz, University of Utah
Women's Dress Regulations in Turkey and the Case of Ismail Efe of Odemis, 1938

Panel #083 Tourism in the Arab World after September 11 (P093)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Günter Meyer

Chair: Günter Meyer, CERAW/Mainz University

Günter Meyer, CERAW/Mainz University
Perspectives and Results of a Global Research Network on Arab Tourism
Ala Al-Hamarneh, CERAW/Mainz University
"Islamic Tourism" in the Arab World after 9/11
Christian Steiner, CERAW/Mainz University
Strategies of Transnational Companies in the Arab Tourist Industry after 9/11
Andrea von Sarnowski, CERAW/Mainz University
Coping with Crises in the Small-Scale Tourist Sector of South Sinai

Panel #084 Comparisons and Connections: Northern Ireland and the Middle East (P097)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Niall Ó Murchú

Chair: Steven Heydemann, Georgetown University
Discussant: Brendan O'Leary, University of Pennsylvania

Shelley Deane, Dartmouth College
Bargaining Out of Necessity: Comparing the Oslo and Belfast Agreements as Minimal and Maximal Peace Bargains
Niall Ó Murchú, Western Washington University
Wagging the Dog: British Rule and Ethnic Politics in Palestine and Northern Ireland
Gordon Peake, International Peace Academy
The Basra Beat: The Police Service of Northern Ireland and Iraqi Police Reform
Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego
Decolonization and Its Discontents: Class and Citizenship in Palestine/Israel, South Africa, and Northern Ireland

Monday, November 22
Panel Session VII
11:00am-1:00pm

Panel #118 Recovering Missing Voices: Mine Ener (1965-2003) and Her Work (P018)
Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart Street
***TIME CHANGE***11:00am-1:00pm (previously scheduled from 5:00pm-7:00pm)

Organized by Amy Singer

Chair: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross

Khaled Fahmy, New York University
Disease and Destitution in 19th-Century Egypt
Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia
Women's Charity and the Fate of Liberalism in the French Levant
Dror Ze'evi, Ben Gurion University
Hard and Soft Social Categories in the Ottoman World: The Poor as Example
Beth Baron, City University of New York
Toward a History of Children's Welfare
Juan Cole, University of Michigan
The Sadr II Bloc as a Movement of the Poor in Post-Baath Iraq

Panel #085 SPECIAL SESSION
Between Iraq and a Hard Place: American Studies in the Middle East
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Melani McAlister, George Washington University and Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

With the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many scholars in the Middle East began arguing for an expanded commitment to studying the United States, knowing that United States studies in the Middle East will necessarily be an enormously complex enterprise. This session will bring together scholars who are working or teaching American studies at several Middle Eastern universities to discuss the politics and prospects for the work ahead.

A joint session of MESA and the American Studies Association (ASA) held at the ASA meetings in Atlanta (November11-14) and at MESA. Made possible by a grant to ASA from the Mellon Foundation

Chair: Ahmad Dallal, Georgetown University
Discussant: Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Manar el Shorbagy, Director of the Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Cairo, Egypt
Mohammed Dajani, Director of the American Studies MA program at al-Quds (Jerusalem) University , West Bank
Marwan Obeidat, Associate Professor of American Literature, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
Mounira Soliman, Professor of English, University of Cairo, Egypt
Patrick McGreevey, American University of Beirut
Helen Rizzo, American University in Cairo

Panel #086 Colonial Processes in the Middle East (NP04)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Hadi Sultan-Qurraie, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Institute
Russian Settlements in Iran in the Early 20th Century: Another Phase of Colonization?
Devrim Umit, Columbia University
Influence of American Protestant Missionaries on Relations between Turkey and the United States, 1917-1924
Don Matthews, Oakland University
Colonial Control and the Discourse of Sectarianism and Arab Nationalism: Palestine, 1931-1936
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, San Marcos
Global Discourses and Networks in the Early Twentieth Century Iranian Women's Press

Panel #087 Islam and the State (NP14)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Miriam Lowi, The College of New JerseyMarion Boulby, Trent University

Julie E. Taylor, Princeton  University
The Price of Islamicization: What Egypt Can Learn from Pakistan
Joseph Nevo, University of Haifa
Islam and Professional Associations in Jordan
Tamer Balci, Claremont Graduate University
Origins of the Turkish-Islamic Synthesis
Berna Turam, Hampshire College
Transitions in Turkey and Iran: Affinities and Dissent between State and Islam

Panel #088 Language and Linguistics (NP17)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, University of Washington

Vesselina Naidenova, University of Arizona/Cornell University
Between Universality and Parameterization: A Contrastive Linguistic Study of Pre- and Postposing of Subordinate Adverbial Clauses in Modern Standard Arabic and English
Naima B. Omar, University of Kansas
Text Regulations and Sites of Ideology
Mohssen Esseesy, George Washington University
Grammaticalization in Arabic: The Evolution of Auxiliaries
Salah-Dine Hammoud, US Air Force Academy, Colorado
Recent Developments in Language Policy in Morocco
Mahmoud Abdalla, Wayne State University
Effects of Arabic Discourse Types on AFL Readers
David John Mehall, Georgetown University
Cross Training from Modern Standard Arabic to Iraqi

Panel #089 Liberalization and Political Change (NP19)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Emile A. Nakhleh, Potomac, MD

Anthony Billingsley, Macquarie University
Political Succession in the the Gulf: A System Under Strain?
Mohamed Daadaoui, University of Oklahoma
Between Confinement and Co-optation: The Monarchy, Islamists and the Process of Liberalization in Morocco
Ali Burak Guven, University of Toronto
Peasants, Bankers and the State: Sources of Institutional Variation in Neoliberal Turkey
Gaye Muderrisoglu, University of Michigan
The Role of Dual Alliances on Turkey's Political Economic Development
Dina Shehata, Georgetown University
Liberalized Autocracies and Contending Hegemonies in Egypt and in Jordan

Panel #090 Viewing Modernity Through Literature (NP33)

Chair: Marion Boulby, Trent University

Lital Levy, University of California, Berkeley PAPER RELOCATED
Arab-Jewish Writers in the Nahda and Beyond
Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan
To Write in a Silent Language?: Yiddish as a Double Cultural Agent in Israeli Literature and Culture

Panel #091 Variety and Versatility in Islamic Law (NP43)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Chair: Shaun Marmon, Princeton University

Khaleel Mohammed, San Diego State University
The Fiqh Maxims
Eli Alshech, Princeton University
"Do Not Enter Houses Other Than Your Own": The Evolution of the Notion of a Private Sphere in Early Sunni Islamic Thought
Jonathan E. Brockopp, Penn State University
Sahnun b. Sa'id and the Meaning of the Mudawwana
Khalid Blankinship, Temple University
Right of a Wife to Divorce in the Maliki School against an Abusive Husband's Will
Intisar Rabb, Princeton University/Yale Law School
When Did "Rights of God" become the Rights of Society?: The Evolution of "Huquq Allah" in Sunni Juristic Discourse

Panel #092 International Relations of the Maghreb in the Era of Globalization (P017)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Yahia H. Zoubir and Haizam Amirah-Fernández

Sponsored by the American Institute of Maghrib Studies

Chair: Yahia H. Zoubir, Thunderbird Europe
Discussant: Mark A. Tessler, University of Michigan

Yahia H. Zoubir, Thunderbird Europe
France, the United States, and the Maghreb in the Era of Globalization
Haizam Amirah-Fernández, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid
Spain's Foreign Policy Towards the Maghreb
Azzedine Layachi, St. John's University
Interstate Relations in the Maghreb: Common Interests, Distinct Pursuits

Panel #093 (Re) Construction, Gender and Transnationalism in the Middle East (P019)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Nadje Al-Ali and Anita Fabos

Chair/Discussant: Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo

Cilja Harders, University of Bochum, Germany
Feminist Perspectives on War and Reconstruction in the Middle East
Nadje Al-Ali, University of Exeter
Transnational Migration and Gender: The Case of Iraqi Women Migrants
Nicola Pratt, University of Birmingham, UK
Where Have All the Women Gone?: Gendering Reconstruction in Iraq
Anita Fabos, University of East London
Transnational Marriage Strategies in the Sudanese Diaspora
Riina Isotalo, University of Helsinki
Transnationalism and Return Migration: A Gendered View
Sari Hanafi, Shaml Center
The Impact of Social Capital on the Eventual Repatriation Process of Refugees: Study of Economic and Social Transnational Kinship Networks in Palestine/Israel

Panel #094 Rethinking Reform, Reforming Narratives of History in the Muslim Mediterranean, 18th-early 20th Centuries (P049)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Julia Clancy-Smith

Chair: Charles D. Smith, University of Arizona
Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona

Bettina Dennerlein, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Trajectories of Reform in the Muslim Mediterranean and Beyond–A Moroccan Experience: Abu al-Qasim az-Zayyani (1734/35-1833)
Dyala Hamzah, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Discourses of Legitimation in the Reforming Muslim Mediterranean: The Singular Voice of the Egyptian `alim Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Rajabi (d. 1829?)
Odile Moreau, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
The Itinerary of an Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Arif Kemal Bey, Ottoman Instructor
Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence (France)
Medicine, Journalism and Social Activism in Late 19th Century Damascus: A Typological Look at Dr. Salah al-Din al-Qasimi (1887-1915)

Panel #095 Historical Perspective on Music of the Persian-Speaking World (P070)
Organized by Ann Lucas

Chair: Afshin Marashi, CSU-Sacramento
Discussant: William O. Beeman, Brown University

Harold Powers, Princeton University
Kashmiri Maqams
Amir Hosein Pourjavady, UCLA
Songs of the Safavid Court
Ann Lucas, UCLA
Traditionalists and Modernists: The Intellectual Face of Iranian Classical Music 1850-1978
Hafez Modirzadeh, San Francisco State University
Musical Diasporic Relationships in Early Iran, North Africa, and Spain

Panel #096 Text and Image: Antique Tradition and Islamic Innovation in the Greco-Arabic Herbal (P078)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Jaclynne J. Kerner

Sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art

Chair: Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Discussant: Priscilla P. Soucek, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Maria Mavroudi, University of California, Berkeley
The Textual Tradition of the Vienna Dioscorides
George Saliba, Columbia University
Dioscuridus Arabicus: The Arabic Translations of Dioscorides
Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Text and Context of the Illustrations from a "Dioscorides" Manuscript of 1224
Jaclynne J. Kerner, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Image of the Hakim in 'Scientific' Manuscript Illustration

Panel #097 The Other Sex: New Histories of Sexuality of Islam (P096)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Moulouk Berry

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

Chair: Moulouk Berry, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Discussant: Mervat F. Hatem, Howard University

Moulouk Berry, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Rethinking Sexuality in Contemporary Lebanese Muslim Shi'i Legal Writings
Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman College
Deconstructing Honor: The Case of Prostitution in Ottoman Aleppo
Rita Stephan, University of Texas at Austin
Sexuality in the Writings of Nawal al Sadawi and Ghada al-Samman
Susanne Dahlgren, University of Helsinki
Illegitimate Encounters, Segregation and Changing Public Sphere in Aden, Yemen
Ejaz Akram, American University in Cairo
Bliss of Heavens in Earthly Relationships: A Spiritual Approach to the Study of Sexuality in Islam

Panel #098 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Martinis, Marxists and Mullahs: Were the 1950s a "Golden Age" in the Middle East? (TC005)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by John M. VanderLippe

Moderator: Magnus Bernhardsson, Williams College John M. VanderLippe, SUNY-New Paltz

Monday, November 22
Panel Session VIII
2:30pm-4:30pm

Panel #099 Contemporary Media (NP07)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Chair: Roni Abusaad

Helga Tawil, University of Colorado, Boulder
Bantustan Media: The State of Palestinian Television
Ece Algan, University of Iowa
The Development of Commercial/Local Broadcasting in Sanliurfa (Southeast Turkey): Challenges Following the End of the State Media Monopoly
Michelle Woodward, Independent/MERIP
Trends in Photographic Style and the Depiction of Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts, 1948-2004
Deborah S. Akers, Miami University, Ohio
Human Rights in Saudi Arabia: Voices from Within

Panel #100 Religious Texts and Shifting Contexts (NP31)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Hayrettin Yucesoy, Saint Louis University

Asma Afsaruddin, University of Notre Dame
Of Political Authority and Authoritarianism: The Diachronic View
Justin Stearns, Princeton University
Containing Contagion in the Hadith Commentaries
Richard Serrano, Rutgers University
Glossing the Qur'an with Jamil and al-Mutanabbi
Rainer Brunner, University of Freiburg/IAS Princeton
The Role of Hadith as Cultural Memory in Shiite Islam
A. Nazir Atassi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chronological Ordering of the Quran: A New Attempt
Shari Lowin, Stonehill College
Narratives of Villainy: Nimrod, Titus, and Nebuchadnezzar in the Hadith and Midrash

Pabnel #101 Women, Youth, and Modernity (NP46)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Marcie J. Patton, Fairfield University

Angel Foster, Harvard Medical School/IBS Reproductive Health
What are Physicians Learning about Reproductive Health?: Exploring Medical Education in Tunisia, Lebanon, and Egypt
Donna Lee Bowen, Brigham Young University
Mobile Phones, Gender and Generational Dynamics: New Patterns of Behavior among University Students in Morocco
Lucie Ryzova, University of Oxford
Laila the Bourgeois: Mass Culture and the  New Woman in Egypt
Benjamin C. Fortna, SOAS, University of London
Serious Fun: Children's Reading Materials in the Late Ottoman and Early Turkish Republican Period
Nayereh Tohidi, California State University, Northridge
Women, Politics, and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

Panel #102 Correspondence and Compilations: Letters, Anthologies and Sufism in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic History (P002)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by John J. Curry

Chair: Stephen F. Dale, Ohio State University
Chair/Discussant: Jane Hathaway, Loyola College-Maryland

Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana University-Purdue University
Rhetoric, Form and Audience in the Correspondence of Abu Hafs 'Umar al-Suhrawardi
Amina Steinfels, Mount Holyoke College
What a Sufi Shaykh Can Do for a Historian: A Letter from Barani to Jalal al-din Bukhari
John J. Curry, Ohio State University
Insights on the Psychology of a Medieval Ruler: The Correspondence and Dreams of Murad III as an Historical Source
Tijana Krstic, University of Michigan
Prophecy, Politics and Tropes of Conversion in the Papasname, a 17th Century Tract by a Priest Turned Dervish

Panel # 103 SPECIAL SESSION
The Human Cost of Israeli Occupation and the Role of Academia in Framing a Just Peace (S002)
***TIME CHANGE*** 12:00nn-1:50pm, Room A, Hastings College of the Law, 198 McAllister Street

Organized by the Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Chair: Susan Slyomovics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussants: Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley; Karen Pfeifer, Smith College; Mahmood Ibrahim, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Panel #104 The Rahbani Nation: Popular Culture and Identity Formation in Contemporary Lebanon (P004)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Christopher Stone

Chair: Elise Salem, Fairleigh Dickinson U
Discussant: Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford

Kristen Brustad, Emory University/RRAALL
Bema Enno: Politics and the Language of Ziad Rahbany
Ken Habib, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Negotiation of Tradition between Generations: The Collaboration of Fairouz and Ziad Rahbani
Rima Semaan, Emory University
Space/Nation in the Poetic World of the Rahbani Brothers
Christopher Stone, Middlebury College
From Ba'labakk to Bayt al-Din: Ziyad Rahbani-Fairouz's "Current Monopolizer"?

Panel #105 Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop
The Art of Writing Research Proposals
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies; conducted by Suad Joseph

Join Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis/founder and first president of AMEWS, as she leads this workshop designed to familiarize scholars in the humanities and social sciences with the increasingly all-important professional skill of writing research proposals. Suad Joseph has taught proposal writing for 25 years and run workshops for graduate students at the University of California, Davis and American University in Cairo, for faculty at American University in Cairo, American University in Beirut and University of California, Davis; as well as for public service agencies in Lebanon and the United States.

Panel #106 Turkish Modernity and Its Conflicting Ethos: Critical Perspectives on Turkish Social and Political Thought (P016)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Devrim Sezer

Chair/Discussant: Hasan Bülent Kahraman, Sabanci University

Simten Cosar, Baskent University
Tradition and Modernity in Turkish Political Thought: Women at the Cutting Edge
Devrim Sezer, Carleton University
The Idea of Europe in Modern Turkish Communitarianism: A.H. Tanpinar and P. Safa on Europe and Tradition
Aylin Ozman, Hacettepe University
Deconstructing Woman in Turkish Political Thought: A Critique of Masculinity
Ozgur Emrah Gurel, University of Toronto
Cultural Romanticism in Turkish Political Thought: H.Z. Ulken on Authenticity, Community and Modernity

Panel #107 The Middle East after "Enduring Freedom" and "Iraqi Freedom": US Security Priorities and Regional Countries' Geopolitical Concerns (P035)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Barak A. Salmoni

Discussant: Feroz Khan, Naval Postgraduate School

James A. Russell, Naval Postgraduate School
US Security Strategy in the 21st-Century Middle East: Fork in the Road?
Kleanthis Kyriakidis, Naval Postgraduate School
Terrorism and Lessons Learned from a Wrong Diagnosis
Soner Cagaptay, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Turkey's Value to the US after the Iraq War
Barak A. Salmoni, Naval Postgraduate School
What Have You Done for Us Lately: Egypt and American Regional Initiatives

Panel #108 Beginnings and Intention in the Arabic Novel (P041)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Jonathan Smolin

Chair/Discussant: William Granara, Harvard University

Ariel Moriah Blumenthal, Harvard University
Autobiography as Beginning Intention
David DiMeo, Harvard University
Sonallah Ibrahim and the Post-Iltizam Novel of Disappointment
Fares Alsuwaidi, Harvard University
Going Native: Representations of the Desert in the Arabic Novel
Jonathan Smolin, Harvard University
Abusing Authority in the Arabic Police Novel

Panel #109 The Family and Law (P058)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Kenneth M. Cuno

Chair: James A. Reilly, University of Toronto
Discussant: Nikki R. Keddie, UCLA

Leslie Peirce, University of California, Berkeley
Getting Married: Social Obstacles, Legal Solutions
Kenneth M. Cuno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sharia Court Regulations in Late 19th Century Egypt: The Effect on Marital Relations
Louise Halper, Washington & Lee School of Law
Gender, Family and Law: "Legal Realism" in Tehran
Alisa Perkins, University of Texas at Austin
The 2004 Reform of the Moroccan Code of Personal Status: An Ethnographic Approach to Gender, Citizenship and Social Change

Panel #110 Schooling the Mandate: Gender and Education in Greater Syria, Palestine, and Iraq (P075)
Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart Street

Organized by Ellen L. Fleischmann

Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia

Martina Kamp, Carl vonOssietzky University Oldenburg
Enlightening the Elite?: Women's Education in Mandatory Iraq
Nancy L. Stockdale, University of Central Florida
"To Omit Any Lesson but the Scripture": Curricula, Imperialism, and Faith in British Girls' Schools in Palestine
Inger Marie Okkenhaug, University of Bergen
Gender and Anglican Education in Mandatory Palestine
Ellen L. Fleischmann, University of Dayton
Creating 'Responsible' Female Citizens: American Missionary College Education in Mandate Lebanon
Nadya Sbaiti, Georgetown University
Gender, Education, and National Society: The Maqassed Foundation of Beirut

Panel #111 Populist Authoritarianism in the Middle East: The Syrian Case (P079)
Organized by Kevin W. Martin

Sponsored by the Syrian Studies Association

Chair: Steven Heydemann, Georgetown University
Chair/Discussant: Joshua M. Landis, University of Oklahoma

Kevin W. Martin, Georgetown University
"Deliver Us from Foreign Economic Aggression": Al-Sharika al-Khumasiyya and Adib al-Shishakli–Private-Sector Development under a Populist Authoritarian Regime
Bassam Haddad, Georgetown University
The Challenges and Contradictions of Economic Transformation in Populist-Authoritarian Regimes
N.T. Anders Strindberg, Princeton and Damascus Universities
From Challenger to Unchallengable: The Evolving Ideological Framework of the Syrian Ba'th
Steven Heydemann, Georgetown University
Adaptive Authoritarianism Reconsidered

Monday, November 22
Panel Session IX
5:00pm-7:00pm

Panel #112 Classical Arabic Literature: Pre-Islamic and Islamic (NP03)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Joseph T. Zeidan, The Ohio State University

Clarissa C. Burt, USNA
al-Shammakh's Happiness Lost: Between al-Nabighah and Ka'b bn Zuhayr
Raymond K. Farrin, University of California, Berkeley
Strengthening the Ties: Jamil and the Poetics of Submission
Majd Al-Mallah, Grand Valley State University
Ceremonial and Politics in al-Mutanabbi's Panegyric Poetry
Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University
The Qasida in Action

Panel #113 Remaking the Past (NP34)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Daniel Crecelius, California State University, Los Angeles

Roger L. Martinez, University of Texas at Austin
In the Name of God: Authority and Accommodation in Early Medieval Iberian Islamic Coinage
Michael Bracy, University of Arkansas
Modernist Lessons from the Past: Expressing Civic Duty and Responsibility in 'Filastin'
Afshin Marashi, CSU-Sacramento
Ceremonies of Memory: Culture and Commemoration in Reza Shah's Iran
Mark Sedgwick, American University in Cairo
Scripturalist and Sufi Revival in Late Pre-modern Islam
Meltem Türköz, University of Pennsylvania
Name Claims in Turkey and the Ethnography of the State-Society Boundary

Panel #114 Trends in Regional Diplomacy (NP41)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Octavius Pinkard, Christopher Newport University

Oliver Bast, University of Manchester
Peace Aim Diplomacy of a Small Power: A Reappraisal of Iran's Foreign Policy, 1917-1921
Banafshe Keynoush, Tufts University
Iran-Saudi Relations: From Ideological Confrontation to Pragmatic Cooperation
Michael Penn, University of Kitakyushu
Japan and the Iraq War: A New Beginning?

Panel #115 Shrines and Pilgrimage in Islamic Central Asia (P003)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organzied by Jo-Ann Gross

Chair: Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey

Beatrice Forbes Manz, Tufts University
The Shaykhs of Jam and Their Shrine
Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
Shrines and Shaykhs of 14th-15th Century Khuttalan and Hisar
Devin DeWeese, Indiana University
From Bukhara to Madina: A 12th-Century Pilgrim's Progress
Robert D. McChesney, New York University
Pilgrimage as Renunciation and Tourism in the Late 17th-Century: The Case of the "Farewell" Hajj of 'Abd al-'Aziz Khan in 1681

Panel #116 Israeli Foreign Policy since the Road Map (P005)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Robert O. Freedman

Sponsored by the Association for Israel Studies

Chair/Discussant: Joel Migdal, University of Washington

Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University
Israel and the United States
Mark Rosenblum, Queens College
The American Jewish Peace Movement and Israel
Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University
Israel and the Arab World: Between a Cold Peace and a Cold War
Efraim Inbar, Bar Ilan University
Israel and India

Panel #117 The Impact of the JDP (AKP) on the Turkish Political System (P031)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Frank Tachau

Sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association

Chair: Frank Tachau, University of Illinois at Chicago
Discussant: Birol A. Yesilada, Portland State University

Metin Heper, Bilkent University
The Justice & Development Party and the Secular Establishment in Turkey
Sultan Tepe, University of Illinois at Chicago
A New Phase in Turkish Politics?
Ersin Kalaycioglu, Sabanci University
Turkish Party System at the Crossroads: AKP Challenge
Ali Carkoglu, Sabanci University
The New Generation Pro-Islamists in Turkey: The Justice and Development Party in the November 2002 General Election and March 2004 Municipality Elections

Panel #118 Recovering Missing Voices: Mine Ener (1965-2003) and Her Work (P018)
Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart Street
***TIME CHANGE***11:00am-1:00pm (previously scheduled from 5:00pm-7:00pm)

Organized by Amy Singer

Chair: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross

Khaled Fahmy, New York University
Disease and Destitution in 19th-Century Egypt
Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia
Women's Charity and the Fate of Liberalism in the French Levant
Dror Ze'evi, Ben Gurion University
Hard and Soft Social Categories in the Ottoman World: The Poor as Example
Beth Baron, City University of New York
Toward a History of Children's Welfare
Juan Cole, University of Michigan
The Sadr II Bloc as a Movement of the Poor in Post-Baath Iraq

Panel #119 Gender and Politics among Lebanese Shi'i, Palestinian, and Iraqi Women (P046)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Sherifa Zuhur and Lara Deeb

Chair: Amal Amireh, George Mason University
Discussant: Joyce Wiley, University of South Carolina Spartanburg

Lara Deeb, Harvard University
Whose Piety, Which Morality?: Gender at the Center of Debate in the Southern Suburbs of Beirut
Sherifa Zuhur, US Army War College
Who Speaks for Women of the Biqa'?: Waiting, Watched, and Seeking Shafa'a
Rola El-Husseini, Yale University
Contemporary Shi'a Writings on Women: An Analysis of the Works of M.H. Fadlallah and M.M. Shamseddine
Maria Holt, University of York
Narratives of Struggle: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Violent Conflict on Shi'i and Palestinian Women in Lebanon
Joyce Wiley, University of South Carolina Spartanburg
The Changing Environment for Iraqi Shi'a Women

Panel #120 Methodological Problems in the Study of Gender (P084)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Karen Bauer and Behnam Sadeghi

Chair: Barbara Stowasser, Georgetown University
Discussant: Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan (COMMENTS WILL BE READ; NOT ATTENDING)

Karen Bauer, Princeton University
Naqisat Aql wa Din: The Applicability of Tafsir for Understanding Gender Relations
Julie Meisami, University of Oxford (retired)
A Question of Genre?: Representations of Women in Medieval Muslim Histories and Mirrors for Princes
Amy Motlagh, Princeton University
Gender, Genre and the Nation-State: Some Reflections on Reading Iranian Women's Literature
Behnam Sadeghi, Princeton University
How Law Does Not Mirror Values: Two Case Studies in Women in the Public Space
Lucienne Thys-Senocak, Koc University
Beyond Public and Private: Interpreting Ottoman Architecture

Panel #121 The Cultural Politics of Dress and Fashion (P092)
Organized by Annelies Moors

Chair: Annelies Moors, ISIM/University of Amsterdam

Jeni Allenby, Palestine Costume Archive
Re-inventing Cultural Heritage: Palestinian Traditional Costume and Embroidery since 1948
Annelies Moors, ISIM/University of Amsterdam
Islam and Fashion on the Streets of San'a, Yemen

Panel # 122 ROUNDTABLE
The Prospects for Kurdish Nationalism since the 2003 Iraqi War (RT001)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Michael M. Gunter

Sponsored by the Kurdish Studies Association

Chair: Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University

Brendon J. Cannon, University of Utah
Kurdish Territorial Designs and the Turkoman of Northern Iraq
Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University
Developments in Kurdish Nationalism since the 2003 Iraqi War and the US-Turkish Strategic Alliance
Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
Kurdish Nationalism since the 2003 Iraqi War
Gareth Stansfield, University of Exeter
Towards Federalism or Secession?: Kurdish Governance in Northern Iraq
Mohammed M.A. Ahmed, Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies
Kurds in the New Iraq
M. Hakan Yavuz, University of Utah
John Measor, University of Exeter
David Romano, McGill University

Panel #123 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Devotion, Emotion, and Politics: Sufi Groups in Contemporary Urban Life (TC006)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Catharina Raudvere

Moderator: Catharina Raudvere, Lund University, Sweden

Tuesday, November 23
Panel Session X
8:30am-10:30am

Panel #124 Land and Power in Israel/Palestine (NP16)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Chair: Michael R. Fishbach, Randolph-Macon College
Discussant: Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego

Geremy Forman, University of Haifa and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Law and the Historical Geography of the Galilee: Israel's Litigatory Advantages during the Special Operation of Land Settlement
Manal Jamal, McGill University
The Limits of Civil Society in Palestine: "Bringing Politics Back In"
Amnon Aran, LSE
Globalization and Israeli Foreign Policy Towards the PLO: A Proposal for a Paradigm Shift
Leila Farsakh, Harvard University
The Road to "Bantustanization" in West Bank and Gaza Strip

Panel #125 Mapping Identity (NP20)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Jeffrey R. Callen, UCLA

Hania Maraqa, MIT
From Village Peasants to Camp Refugees: Analogies and Disparities in the Social Use of Space
Annie C. Higgins, College of William and Mary
Streets of the Refugee Camp: Memorial Posters in the Palestinian Diaspora
Amy Mills, University of Texas at Austin
Streets of Memory: The Istanbul Mahalle and the Landscape of Neighborhood Life
Lucia Volk, San Francisco State University
Monumental History: The Re/Construction of Beirut's Martyrs Memorial

Panel #126 Modern Legal Debates (NP22)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Ali R. Abootalebi, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman, Open University of Israel
Jewish Mysticism and the Legal Status of Yemeni Jews
Robert P. Parks, University of Texas at Austin
Local Power, State Management and the Impact of Agrarian Politics on the Development of National Property Rights in Algeria and Tunisia
Roxane Peyser, Georgia State University
The Impact of Political and Judicial Reform on Women's Rights in Morocco
Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego
Considerations on the Concept of Rights in the 20th Century Legal Thought in Iran
Nick Foster, SOAS
Unstoppable Forces and Immovable Objects?: Islam and International Commerical Law

Panel #127 Political Economy of Democracy (NP29)
Hyatt Regency

Teresa Burns, Claremont Graduate University
Democracy, Economic Growth and Income Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa: Income Inequality Matters
Helen Rizzo, The American University in Cairo
The Relationship between Gender Equality and Democracy: A Comparison of Arab versus Non-Arab Muslim Societies
Khalid al-Yahya, Harvard University
Human Capital, Empowerment, and Democratic Governance in Public Bureaucracies: The Middle East in Comparative Perspective

Panel #128 Revisiting Early Modern Ottoman History (NP32)
Hyatt Regency

Slobodan Ilic, Eastern Mediterranean University
'Abdullah Bosnavi, a 17th Century Ottoman Upholder of Wahdat al-Wujud
Gavin Brockett, University of Northern British Columbia
Commemorating Constantinoples Conquest 500 Years Later: Turkish National Identity and Its Ottoman Heritage
Robert Labaree, New England Conservatory
Patterns of Control in the Ecology of Ottoman Music
Mark Stein, Muhlenberg College
Ottoman Observers of Ottoman War
Karen Alexandra Leal, Harvard University
From Mezbur to Mesfur, Sakin to Mütemmekin: The Emergence of a Non-Muslim Specific Discourse in Late 17th Century Istanbul

Panel #129 Whose Heritage? Whose Environment? (NP45)
Stacey's Bookstore, 581 Market Street

Chair: Waleed Hazbun, Johns Hopkins University

Talinn Grigor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
'Orient Oder Rom' Debate: The 1901-(re)Invention of 'Iran's Cultural 'Heritage'
Laura Strachan, McMaster University
The Success and Sustainability of the Wadi Rum Protected Area: Multiplicity in Opinion, Experience and Positioning
Heather M. Alden, University of Texas at Austin
National Parks in Egypt's South Sinai Penninsula
Jeannie L. Sowers, University of Iowa
Environmental Controversy and Authoritarian Rule: The Politics of Egypt's Toshka Project
Howyda Al-Harithy, American University of Beirut
World Heritage: A Redefinition

Panel #130 Tripoli from the Mamluks to the Ottomans: Patterns of Social History, Architecture, and Hinterland (P009)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by John L. Meloy

Sponsored by the Syrian Studies Association

Discussant: Beshara Doumani, University of California, Berkeley

Albrecht Fuess, University of Erfurt
From the Sea to the Foothill: The Dislocation of Tripoli by the Mamluks after 1289
John L. Meloy, American University of Beirut
Mamluk Tripoli and Its Hinterland
Stefan Winter, Université du Québec a Montréal
The Alawites of Tripoli Province under Ottoman Rule, 16th-18th Century
Stefan Weber, German Orient Institute Beirut
Changing Patterns: Urban Life and Architecture of Tripoli during Mamluk and Ottoman Rule

Panel #131 Rethinking Family and State in the Middle East (P029)
Park  Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Mounira Maya Charrad

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies

Chair: Mounira Maya Charrad, University of Texas at Austin

Val Moghadam, Illinois State University and UNESCO
Family Law and Women's Economic Citizenship
Mounira Maya Charrad, University of Texas at Austin
States and Family Law: In Search of A Typology
Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis
The State of Family in the State
Yesim Arat, Bogazici University
'Play It Again Sam!": Civil Code Amendment in Turkey

Panel #132 Women in the Literature of the Medieval Islamic World: Perceptions and Realities (P033)
Organized by Niall Christie

Chair/Discussant: Kate Lang, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Maya Yazigi, University of British Columbia
Your Mothers' Memory: Women's Exploits in the Genealogical Tradition
Sandra Campbell, UCSB
A Woman and Her Memorable Words: Asma' bint Abi Bakr and the Early Islamic Past
Marla Segol, Carleton University
Qasmuna and Her Sisters
Niall Christie, University of British Columbia
Women and Warfare in the Muslim Literature of the 6th/12th Century Levant

Panel #133 Vernacular Strains: The Dialectics of Colloquial Arabic in Pre-Modern and Modern Egyptian Literature (P051)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Margaret Larkin

Chair: Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley

Pierre Cachia, Columbia University
Pulp Stories in the Repertoire of Egyptian Folk Singers
Noha Radwan, University of California, Berkeley
Salah Jahin and the Quest for Freedom
Marilyn Booth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ataturk as 'Antar?: Performing the Sira Sha'biyya in Egyptian Dialect Poetry
Margaret Larkin, University of California, Berkeley
Popular Arabic Poetry in the Mamluk Era: The Azjal of Khalaf- al-Ghubari
Mona El-Sherif, University of California, Berkeley
Language and Political Subversion in Ibn Daniyal's Tayf al-khayal

Panel # 134 Reform and Development in Saudi Arabia: Through the Lens of Primary Sources (P057)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Gwenn Okruhlik

Chair: Patrick J. Conge, University of Arkansas
Discussant: Jean-Francois Seznec, Columbia University

Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Brown University
The Momentum of Education Reform in Saudi Arabia: Is It Moving Forward?
Toby Jones, Stanford University
The Dogma of Development: Techno Politics and Sectarian Violence in Saudi Arabia
Stephane Lacroix, Sciences-PO, Paris
The Saudi Political-Intellectual Field and the Emergence of an Islamo-Liberal Trend
Robert J. Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
A Tale of Two Saudi Dissidents
Gwenn Okruhlik, University of Texas
Struggles for the Soul: Building a Nation in Arabia
Greg Gause, University of Vermont

Panel #135 Dynamics of Culture in the Gulf Arab States: Part I (P067I)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Muhsin J. al-Musawi

Organized under the auspices of the American University of Sharjah/Journal of Arabic Literature

Chair/Discussant: Bassel Salloukh, American University of Sharjah

Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, University of London
Notables, Immigrants, and Ma'tams in Pre-Modern Bahrain
James Onley, American University of Sharjah
Gulf Arab Headdress before Oil: A Study in Cultural Diversity and Hybridity
Nada Mourtada Sabbah, American University of Sharjah and John Fox, American University of Sharjah
Cultural Reality for the New Gulf Arab Society
Ahmed Kanna, Harvard University
Preliminary Notes on the Phalansteries Project: Aspects of Urban Utopia in the Built Environment of Dubai

Panel #136 ROUNDTABLE
Re-Orienting the Turks in Academe: Where is the Fit? (RT006)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Erika H. Gilson

Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages

Chair: Erika H. Gilson, Princeton University

Edward J. Lazzerini, Indiana University
Marianne Kamp, University of Wyoming
Cigdem Balim, Indiana University
Uli Schamiloglu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Roberta Micallef, University of Utah
Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown University

Tuesday, November 23
Panel Session XI
11:00am-1:00pm

Panel #158 Representing Authority in Timurid and Safavid Iran (P082)
Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart Street
***TIME CHANGE***11:00am-1:00pm (originally scheduled for 1:30pm-3:30pm)
Organized by Sholeh A. Quinn

Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College
"On Kings Real and Spiritual: The Overlap between Religious and Political Power in Late Medieval Iran
Paul Losensky, Indiana University
Drinking from the Cup of Kowsar: Images of Shah Tahmasp in the Cupbearer's Song
Sholeh A. Quinn, Ohio University
The Evolution of Kingship in Safavid Iran
Kishwar Rizvi, Barnard College/Columbia University
Marking the Sacred Landscape: Abbas I and the Shrines at Ardabil, Ahar and Kalkhoran

Panel #137 CURRENT EVENTS SESSION
(S009) Communities Under Siege in Iraq, Palestine and Sudan
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Panelists will lead a discussion of the current situation of communities in the three regions. They will examine the sources and effects of violence and the regional and international responses or lack thereof.

Chair: Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Sondra Hale, UCLA
George Irani, Royal Road University
Eden Naby, Assyrian Academic Society

Panel #138 Constitutions and Contemporary Legal Institutions (NP05)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Hootan Shambayati, Bilkent University

Carol J. Riphenburg, College of DuPage
Afghanistan's Constitution: Success or Sham?
Heidi A. Walcher, School of Oriential and African Studies
The Evolution of Republicanism--from the Constitutional Revolution to the Islamic Republic of Iran
Richard H. Dekmejian, University of Southern California and Zaid Eyadat, University of Southern California
Modeling Consociationalism as an Alternative Path to Democracy: Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq
Tamir Moustafa, University of Wisconsin
The Rise and Fall of Constitutional Power in Egypt
Ceren Belge, University of Washington
Limits of State Power: Enforcing Revolutionary Laws Locally

Panel #139 Media and Representation (NP21)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Chair: Bahiyyih Maroon Watson, University of California, Santa Cruz

Roger Deal, University of Utah
Murders in the Rue Taksim
Magdy El-Shamma, UCLA
Contextualizing Cosmopolitanism: Togo Mizrahi and Egyptian Film
Basak Tug, New York University
Cultural Translation as a Constant conversation between Intellectuals and Everyday Life
Sharon Maftsir, Tel-Aviv University
The Representation of the Effendi in the Egyptian Cinema of the 30s and the 40s

Panel #140 Texts, Interpretation, and the Memory of the Past (NP40)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Andrea Flores-Khalil, City University of New York

Dagmar Riedel, Indiana University
Education and Cultural Memory: Methodological Problems of Research on the Intellectual and Social History of Medieval Islamic Societies
A. Azfar Moin, University of Texas at Austin
The Dream in Islamic Historiography: Decoding Political and Moral Commentary in al-Mas'udi's History of the Abbasids
Maged S.A. Mikhail, UCLA
The Arab Conquest of Egypt Reexamined
Racha el Omari, Yale University
Ibn ‘Asakir and al-Ash’ari’s Students: A Biographical Study

Panel #141 Social Histories of the 19th-Century Judicial Reforms in the Ottoman Empire (P001)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Iris Agmon and Avi Rubin

Chair: Eugene Rogan, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Chair/Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, New York University

Avi Rubin, Harvard University
Rationalization in the Ottoman Nizamiye Courts at the Late 19th Century
Jun Akiba, Chiba University
Bringing Order to the Land of the Tribes: Ottoman Judges in the Arab Frontiers
Liat Kozma, New York University
Redefining Murder: "Honor Killing" in the Khedival Legal System, 1852-1882
Iris Agmon, Ben-Gurion University
The Culture of Reform at the 19^th-Century Sharia Court of Jaffa

Panel #142 Divergent Perspectives on the U.S. War on Iraq (P006)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Rolin G. Mainuddin

Chair: Rolin G. Mainuddin, North Carolina Central University
Discussant: Gregory Gause, University of Vermont and Peter Bechtold, Foreign Service Institute

John Creed, College of Charleston
Israeli Perspectives on the U.S. War in Iraq
Nader Entessar, Spring Hill College
Too Close for Comfort: Iran and the U.S.-Iraq War
Jefferson Gray, University of Chicago
Wondering Who's Next: Saudi Arabia in the Shadow of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Robert Olson, University of Kentucky
Views from Turkey on the U.S. War against Iraq
Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State University
The Odd Couple: Comparing Jordanian and Syrian Responses to the U.S. War on Iraq

Panel #143 From Zanzibar and Beyond: Themes in the Modern History of Islam and Arab-Muslims in East Africa (P011)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Amal N. Ghazal

Chair: Mandana Limbert, Queens College, CUNY Amal Ghazal, University of Alberta
Discussant: Scott S. Reese, Northern Arizona University

Valerie J. Hoffman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
'Ali al-Mundhiri and the Defense of Ibadism and Islam in Zanzibar
Amal N. Ghazal, University of Alberta
The Other Andalus: The Arab Elite in Zanzibar and the Making of an Arab-Muslim Identity (1870s-1930s)
Anne K. Bang, University of Bergen, Norway
My Generation: Network Transmission from One Generation to Another in a Hadrami Family in Zanzibar, ca. 1900-1950
Thomas "Dodie"  McDow, Yale University
Kinship and Commerce among Omani Migrants in the East Africa Interior, 1820-1905

Panel #144 Women in Ottoman Bosnia (P036)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Amila Buturovic

Chair: Madeline C. Zilfi, University of Maryland, College Park

Nenad Filipovic, Princeton University
The Moral Economy of a Female Crowd in 18th C. Bosnia
Amila Buturovic, York University, Toronto
Love and/or Death?: Conflict Resolution in the Traditional Bosnian Ballad
Snjezana Buzov, University of Pittsburgh
Bosnian Muslim Women in Public Space
Selma Zecevic, Columbia University
Bosnian Women at Local and Imperial Courts of Law
Kerima Filan, University of Sarajevo
Women as Founders of Pious Endowments in Bosnia
Mirna Solic, University of Toronto
The Influence of Sevdah and Folk Elements on the Poetry of the Croatian Poet Luka Botic

Panel #145 Spaces of Transition in Post-Revolution Iran (P043)
Organized by Norma Claire Moruzzi

Chair: Asef Bayat, Leiden University/ISIM
Discussant: Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo

Kaveh Ehsani, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Periphery and Its Nation: Provincial Urban Iran in Revolution and War
Arang Keshavarzian, Concordia University
In the Shadows of the "Shams al-Amareh": The Location and Dislocation of the Tehran Bazaar
Mohammadreza Ghassemzadeh Eskandari, Clark University
Blooming Deserts?: Deadlocks in Environmental and Development Policy in Post-Revolution Iran
Norma Claire Moruzzi, University of Illinois at Chicago
Creating a Feminist Space and a Feminist Voice: The Iranian Women's Magazine "Zanan"

Panel # 146 Dynamics of Culture in the Gulf Arab States: Part II (P067II)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Muhsin J. al-Musawi

Organized under the auspices of the American University of Sharjah/Journal of Arabic Literature

Chair: George N. El-Hage, Columbia University
Discussant: Muhsin J. al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah

Mona Mikhail, New York University
Khaliji Societies and the Literary Imagination
Hager Ben Driss, Qirawan Faculty of Arts, Tunis
Women Narrating the Gulf
Muhammad Salama, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Taking Down the Tradition: Salma Matar Saif's Fiction and the 'Gulf' of Culture
Kamal Abdel-Malek, American University of Sharjah
Modern Re/Creations and Arab Heritage: Theater in the Arabian Gulf

Panel #147 Poverty, Responsibility, and Expertise in Turkey during the 2001 Economic Crisis (P087)
Organized by Esra Ozyurek and Dicle Kogacioglu, Brown University

Discussant: Resat Kasaba, University of Washington

Koray Caliskan, New York University
Making Farmers Backward, Again: Economic Crises as Seen from a Village in Turkey
Nejat Dinc
From Economic Crisis to the Legitimation Crisis: When Neo-Liberalism Meets Environmentalism in Turkey
Dicle Kogacioglu, Brown University
Between Law and Justice: Urban Poor in Turkey
Esra Ozyurek, University of California, San Diego
"It Felt Just Like the Earthquake": Nature, State, and Global Connection during the 2001 Economic Crisis
Cihan Tugal, Northwestern University
"Poor People Don't Do It": The Restricted Engagement of Construction Workers in Collective Action

Panel # 148 From Che Guevera to Umm Kulthoum: Masculinity and Identity in Middle Eastern Nationalism (P100)
Park Hyatt, 333 Battery Street

Organized by Angelica Maria DeAngelis

Chair/Discussant: Nancy L. Stockdale, University of Central Florida

Amy Cyr, University of California, Santa Barbara
Performance of Self and Nation: Musical Constructions of Identity in Twentieth-Century Egypt
Sheila O'Rourke, University of California, Irvine
Shoot Me in the Heart: Competing Masculinities and the Turkish National Narrative
Rhimou Bernikho-Canin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Foreign Protection and the Jews in Nineteenth Century Morocco
Angelica Maria DeAngelis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sins of the Fathers: Re-membering Harkis in the "Year of Algeria in France"
Mashey M. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
Across the Wall Ga(y)ze: Israelis and Palestinians

Panel #149 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
New Perspectives on Mandate Palestine (TC009)

Organized by Martin Bunton

Moderator: Martin Bunton, University of Victoria

Tuesday, November 23
Panel Session XII
1:30pm-3:30pm

Panel #150 Arabs and the American Experience (NP01)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Ghada Osman, San Diego State University

Nir Yehudai, University of Haifa
The Endorsement by the Arab-American Community of Palestinian Characteristics during the Second Half of the 20th Century
Heather Hoyt, Arizona State University
Arab Women's Texts in the Classroom: Anticipating Student Experiences
Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York and Anny Bakalian, City University of New York
Middle Eastern American Mobilization: An Unexpected Consequence of the Post-9/11 Backlash
Jonathan Glasser, University of Michigan
Arabic on the Plantation: Writing, Slavery, and Conversion in 'Umar Ibn Said's 1831 Autobiography
James Goode, Grand Valley State University
From the Bekaa to the Grand: The Lebanese Community of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1890-1940

Panel #151 Between History and Literature (NP02)
Hyatt Regency

George N. El-Hage, Columbia University
Ghada al-Samman's "Beirut '75": An Autobiographical Interpretation
Christoph W.M. Marcinkowski, Columbia University
Persian Influences in Classical Malay Literature
Wail S. Hassan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Multilingualism in Ahdaf Soueif's Fiction
Julie Hakim Azzam, University of Pittsburgh
Narratives of History in the Contemporary Arab Novel
Ipek Celik, New York University
Language as Land: Kurdish and Palestinian Literatures in Discursive Resistance

Panel #152 Identity and Gender Politics (NP12)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State University

Metin Yuksel, University of Chicago
The Question of Difference and Women in Turkey in the 1990s
Sri Mulyati, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah
Islamic Discourse on Women in Indonesia
Marella Bodur, Carleton University
The Limits of Social Movement Politics: Feminisms and Democracy in Turkey
Sofian Merabet, Columbia University
Constructions of Queer Identities in Beirut
Ashraf Zahedi, Stanford University
Political Eclipse of Leftist Iranian Women: Rethinking Ideology

Panel #153 NGOs and Civil Society (NP24)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Pete W. Moore, University of Miami

Shany Payes
Palestinian NGOs in Israel: The Struggle for Civic Equality during the al-Aqsa Intifada
Farid Senzai, Oxford University
U.S. Promotion of Democracy and Civil Society in Egypt
Paul Kingston, University of Toronto
The Reconstruction of Lebanon's 'Mediated' State: NGOs, Civil Society and the Micro-Foundations of Elite Power in Postwar Lebanon

Panel #154 Rituals of Mourning and Renewal (NP35)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Mysoon Rizk, University of Toledo

Ikran Eum, KAMES
The Impact of Globalization on the Wedding Industry in Cairo
Babak Rahimi, European University Institute
The Shi'a Healers: An Ethnographical Study of the Bardina People of the Port-city of Bushehr, Iran
Marion Holmes Katz, New York University
Ritual and Time in Medieval Islam
Bridget Blomfield, Claremont Graduate School
The Azah Ritual
Guilnard Moufarrej, UCLA
The Liturgical Reform of the Maronite Church: Music, Tradition, and Cultural Adaptation

Panel #155 Shaping U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East (NP36)
Hyatt Regency

Chair: Roupen Avsharian, American Military University

Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University
Christian Zionism: A Case Study of US Policy Formation on Israel
Duncan L. Clarke, American University
The Bush National Security Strategy Report and the Middle East: Origins, Process and Implementation
Michael J. Reimer, American University in Cairo
The King-Crane Commission 75 Years Later: A Reassessment
Annita Lazar, Lancaster University
The New Enemy in the New World Order

Panel #156 Medieval Islamic Historiography (P025)
Hyatt Regency

Organized by Hayrettin Yucesoy

Chair: Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago

Steven Judd, Southern Connecticut State University
al-Zuhri in Islamic Historiography
Hayrettin Yucesoy, Saint Louis University
A Supra-Lunar Look at Medieval Islamic Historiography
Eric J. Hanne, Florida Atlantic University
The Uninvited Ally: Dubays b. Sadaqa in Saljuq-Abbasid Historiography
Burhan Koroglu, Marmara University
Hermetism in Medieval Islamic Imagination: An Examination in Heresiography and Biographical Dictionaries
Huseyin Yilmaz, Harvard University
The Vizier as Intellect in Government: Envisioning the Vizierate in 16th Century Ottoman Political Theory

Panel #157 Scenes of Social Discipline: Approaches to Egyptian Film Music (P030)
Organized by Joel  Gordon

Chair: Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas
Discussant: Elliott Colla, Brown University

Roberta L. Dougherty, University of Oxford
Music, Women, and Leisure: Piano Sheet-music and the Amateur Musician in Early 20th Century Egypt
Martin Stokes, University of Chicago
The Nightingale's 'Appointment with Love': Notes on Abd al-Halim Hafiz, Rudolph Valentino, and Female Listenership
Joel  Gordon, University of Arkansas
The Slap Heard Round the (Arab) World: Social/Paternal Discipline in 2 Abd al-Halim Musicals
Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford
Anywhere but Here: Music and the New Conventions of Location in Egyptian Visual Culture

Panel #158 Representing Authority in Timurid and Safavid Iran (P082)
Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart Street
***TIME CHANGE***Monday, November 22, 8:30am-10:30am
Organized by Sholeh A. Quinn

Shahzad Bashir, Carleton College
"On Kings Real and Spiritual: The Overlap between Religious and Political Power in Late Medieval Iran
Paul Losensky, Indiana University
Drinking from the Cup of Kowsar: Images of Shah Tahmasp in the Cupbearer's Song
Sholeh A. Quinn, Ohio University
The Evolution of Kingship in Safavid Iran
Kishwar Rizvi, Barnard College/Columbia University
Marking the Sacred Landscape: Abbas I and the Shrines at Ardabil, Ahar and Kalkhoran

Panel #159 THEMATIC CONVERSATION
Gender and Reproductive Health in the Middle East and North Africa: Exploring Future Directions in Research, Education and Health Services (TC002)
Organized by Angel Foster

Moderator: Angel Foster, Harvard Medical School/IBS Reproductive Health