Candidates for President-Elect
Roger Michael Ashley Allen
Clement Moore Henry



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Service to the profession: MESA: Albert Hourani Book Award Committee, 1993; Language and Literature editor, MESA Bulletin, 1980-87; MESA Nominating Committee, 1979; Research and Training Committee, 1969-73. Other Service: Editorial Board, Asian & Middle Eastern Literatures, 1997- present, Executive Editor, 1999-present; Board member, American Institute of Maghribi Studies 2000-03; Fellowship Selection Committee, American Research Center in Egypt, 1996; Editorial Board, Journal of Arabic Literature, 1991-96; Book Editor, Al-`Arabiyya (AATA), 1990-95; Co-founder and co-editor, Edebiyat, 1976-91; Chair, Fulbright Middle East Evaluation Committee, 1983-86; American Association of Teachers of Arabic: Governing Board, 1972-75, 1984-87; President, 1977.

Awards & Grants: American Institute of Maghribi Studies, 2008-09, 1999-2000; Friars Senior Honors Society, University of Pennsylvania Faculty Award 2005; University Rector’s Distinguished Lecturer and University Medal, Helsinki, Finland, 1994; American Research Center in Egypt, 1975, 1971, 1970; Lindback Foundation Award for distinguished teaching, 1972; American Council of Learned Societies, 1971.

Publications: Books, Selected Studies & Editions: Ibrahim al-Muwaylihi, Complete Works (ed. in Arabic), Cairo 2007; Introduction to Arabic Literature, Cambridge, 2000 (Arabic ed. 2003); Muhammad al-Muwaylihi, Complete Works (ed. in Arabic), Cairo 2002; The Arabic Literary Heritage, Cambridge, 1998; The Arabic Novel, 1982 (Arabic ed. 1986), 2nd ed. Syracuse, 1995 (Arabic ed. 1998); Modern Arabic Literature, New York, 1987; A Period of Time 2nd edition: Oxford, 1992. Selected Translations: Najib Mahfuz, Khan al-Khalili, 2008; Najib Mahfuz, Karnak Café, 2007; Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, In Search of Walid Masoud, 2000; `Abd al-rahman Munif, Endings, 1988 & 2007; Ben Salim Himmich, The Polymath, 2004; Najib Mahfuz, Autumn Quail, 1985 & 1990; Najib Mahfuz, Mirrors, 1977 & 1999; Najib Mahfuz, God’s World, 1973.

Selected Chapters: “Arabic Literature,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chicago, 2006, online; “The Cairo Trilogy” [Naguib Mahfouz] in Storia del Romanzo, Turin, Italy: Guido Einaudi editore, 2001; “A different voice: the novels of Ibrahim al-Kawni,” in Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997; “The Early Arabic Novel” and “The Arabic Novel Outside Egypt,” in Modern Arabic Literature, Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1992; “Arabic Teaching in the U.S.A.: past practice, current context, & future trends,” in The Arabic Language in America, ed. Aleyya Rushdi, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.

Selected Articles: “Arabic: Flavor of the moment, whence, why, and how?” Modern Language Journal 91, 2007; “Rewriting Literary History: the case of the Arabic novel,” Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 38 no. 3, 2007; “Translating Arabic Literature,” Translation Review no. 65, 2003; “Literary History and the Arabic Novel, World Literature Today, Spring 2001; “Proficiency and Arabic: Curriculum, Course, and Classroom,” Al-`Arabiyya, Vol. 23 nos. 1 & 2 1990; “Arabic Literature and the Nobel Prize,” World Literature Today, Spring 1988; 201-3; “The Novella in Arabic: A Study in Fictional Genres,” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 18 no. 4, Nov. 1986.

Clement Moore Henry
Professor of Government and Middle East Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1987-present; Elie Halévy Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, 1986-87; Director and Visiting Professor of the Business School of the American University of Beirut, 1981-84; also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1984-86; University of Michigan, 1973-80; University of Algiers, 1976-77; St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the American University in Cairo, 1968-73; University of California, Berkeley, 1963-69. Education: Ph.D., Political Science, Harvard 1963; MBA, University of Michigan 1981; AB summa cum laude, Harvard 1957.

Service to the Profession: MESA: Albert Hourani Book Award Committee, 2004; Program Chairman, 1990 (co-chair) and 1978; Editorial Board, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1975-80; Member of Board of Directors, 1975-78. Other Service: Conseil d’orientation scientifique de L’Année du Maghreb, 2004-present; Editorial Board, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2007; Consultant, United Nations Development Program, Governance in the Arab Region (www.undp-pogar.org), 2002-present; Board member, American Institute of Maghrib Studies, 2001-04, 1987-90.

Awards & Grants: United States Institute of Peace 2008-09; American Institute of Maghrib Studies, 2007, 2003, 1998, 1988, 1987; Fulbright Fellowships 1992, 1991, 1976-77; American Research Center in Egypt 1971-73; Rockefeller Foundation 1965; Ford Foundation, 1960-62.

Publications (under the name of Clement Henry Moore before 1995): Selected Books: The Politics of Islamic Finance, co-edited with Rodney Wilson, Edinburgh University Press, 2004; Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2001, with Robert Springborg; The Mediterranean Debt Crescent: A Comparative Study of Money and Power in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey, University Press of Florida, 1996; paperback edition, American University in Cairo Press, 1997; Tunisia since Independence: The Dynamics of One-Party Government, University of California Press, 1965; Greenwood, 1982; Images of Development: Egyptian Engineers in Search of Industry, MIT Press, 1980, 2nd edition with epilogue: Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1994; Politics in North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Little, Brown, 1970; Oil in the New World Order, University Press of Florida, 1995, co-edited with Kate Gillespie; Authoritarian Politics in Modern Society: the Dynamics of Established One-Party Systems, Basic Books, 1970, co-edited with Samuel P. Huntington; Tunisia: the Politics of Modernization, Praeger, 1964, co-authored with C.A. Micaud and L.C. Brown.

Selected Chapters: “Population, urbanisation and the dialectics of globalisation,” chapter 3 for Robert Hefner, ed., Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 6 (in press); Reverberations in the Maghrib of the “Global War on Terror,” in Yahia Zoubir and Haizam Fernandez eds., North Africa: Politics, Region and the Limits of Transformation, Routledge, 2008, pp. 294-310; Tunisia’s “Sweet Little” Regime, in Robert Rotberg, ed., Worst of the Worst: Dealing with Repressive and Rogue Nations, Brookings Institution Press, 2007, pp. 300-323; The Clash of Globalizations in the Middle East, in Louise Faucett, ed., The International Relations of the Middle East, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp.105-130; The United States and Iraq: American Bull in a Middle East China Shop, in Betty Glad and Chris J. Dolan, eds., Striking First, Palgrave, 2004, pp. 65-73.

Selected Articles: “The Dialectics of Political Islam in North Africa,” Middle East Policy, 14: 4 Winter 2007, pp. 84-98; “Prisoners’ Financial Dilemmas: A Consociational Future for Lebanon?” American Political Science Review, 81:201-218 (March, 1987); ““The Neo-Destour Party of Tunisia: A Structure for Democracy?,” World Politics XIV, 1962: 461-82.

Beshara Doumani
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-present; Assistant then Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1989-97. Education: Ph.D. Georgetown University, 1990; M.A. Georgetown University, 1980; B.A. Kenyon College, 1977.

Service to the Profession: MESA: IJMES Editorial Board, 1999-2007; CAFMENA, 2005; Chair, CAFNA, 2006-07. Other Service: Council Member, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, 2007-present; editorial board, Journal of Palestine Studies, 2002-present; editorial board then contributing editor, Middle East Report, 1980-present.

Awards and Grants: Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, 2007-08; President’s Fellowship, University of California, 2007-08; Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, 2006-07; Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2001-02; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1997-98.

Publications: Books: Editor, Academic Freedom After September 11, 2006; editor, Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender, 2003; Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, 1995. Selected Articles and Book Chapters: “My Grandmother and Other Stories: Histories of the Palestinians as Social Biographies,” Jerusalem Quarterly, 2007; “Palestine Versus the Palestinians? The Iron Laws and Ironies of a People Denied,” Journal of Palestine Studies, 2007; “Le contrat salam et les relations ville-campagne dans la Palestine ottomane,” Annales HSS, 2006; “Between Coercion and Privatization: Academic Freedom in the Twenty-First Century,” in Beshara Doumani, ed. Academic Freedom After September 11, 2006; “Scenes From Daily Life Under Occupation: The View From Nablus,” Journal of Palestine Studies, 2004; “Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes Between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860,” in Beshara Doumani, ed. Family History in the Middle East, 2003; “Endowing Family: Waqf, Property Devolution and Gender in Greater Syria, 1800-1860,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1998; “The Political-Economy of People-Counting: Jabal Nablus, Circa, 1850,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1994; “Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into History,” Journal of Palestine Studies, 1992.

Hoda Elsadda
Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Manchester, 2005-present; Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, UK, 2006-present; Professor of English Literature, Cairo University, 2000-05. Education: Ph.D. English Literature, Cairo University, 1988; MA English and Comparative Literature, The American University in Cairo, 1982; BA English Literature, Cairo University, 1978.

Service to the Profession: MESA: IJMES editorial board, 2005-present. Other Service: AMEWS Newsletter editorial board, 1999-2003; Advisory Committee, The Anna Lindh Euro- Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, 2004-08; Associate Editor, Online Edition of the Encyclopedia of Women in Muslim Cultures, Brill, 2006-present; The Literature Committee, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2003-06; reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, 2005-present; founding member of the Women and Memory Forum (WMF) in Egypt.

Award and Grants: Yale World Fellow, Yale University, 2003; Visiting Fellow, The International Centre for Research on Women, Washington D.C., 1997; scholarship, Oxford University UK, 1985-87; scholarship, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1980.

Publications: Books: Significant Moments in Egyptian Women’s History, co-authored with Emad Abu Ghazi, The National Council for Women in Egypt, 2001 (in Arabic; English translation, 2001); Women Pioneers of the Twentieth Century: Critical Essays, ed. WMF, 2001 (in Arabic); Women’s Time and Alternate Memory, edited with others, WMF, 1998 (in Arabic). Selected Articles: “Imaging the ‘New Man’: Gender and Nation in Arab Literary Narratives in the Early Twentieth Century” in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Spring 2007; “Gendered Citizenship: Discourses on Domesticity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,” in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 4:1 2006; 2001; “Discourses on Women’s Biographies and Cultural Identity: Twentieth Century Representations of the Life of Aisha Bint Abi Bakr,” in Feminist Studies, Spring 2001.

Shahla Haeri
Director of Women’s Studies Program and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University. Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles, 1985; MA, Human Development, Harvard University, 1977 and Anthropology, Northeastern University, 1973.

Service to the Profession: MESA: Nominating Committee, 2003, 1998; Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards Committee, 1994; Other Service: advisory committee, WSRP, Harvard Divinity School 2008-11; Nobel Women’s Initiative; Associate Editor, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; Society for Iranian Studies, council member1986-89; International Consultant, UNDP, UNESCO, Kabul University & Ministry of Women’s Affair Afghanistan, 7-8, 2006.

Awards and Grants: The Humanities Foundation, Boston University 2008-09; Harvard Divinity School 2005-06; Fulbright Uzbekistan 2002-03; American Institute of Pakistan Studies, 1997-98, 1991-92; Iranian Senior Fellowship, St. Antony’s College, 1996; Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1989-90; Social Science Research Council, 1987-88 & 1981-82; Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, 1986-87; Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University 1985-86.

Publications: Books: No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women, Syracuse, 2002; Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage Mut’a, in Iran, 4th printing 2006. Selected Articles & Book Chapters: “Sacred Canopy: Love & Sex Under the Veil,” Journal of Iranian Studies, forthcoming; “Religion, Women, and Political Agency in Iran,” Contemporary Iran: Studies in Society, Economy, and Politics, forthcoming; “Resiliency & Posttraumatic Recovery in Cultural and Political Contexts: Pakistan Women’s Strategies for Survival,” Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 2007; “Iran’s Invisible Candidates,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Winter 2006; “Obedience versus Autonomy: Women and Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan,” The Globalization Reader 2004; “Women’s Body, Nation’s Honor: Rape in Pakistan,” Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female Public Space in Islamicate Societies, 1999; “Temporary Marriage and the State in Iran: An Islamic Discourse on Female Sexuality,” Social Research, 1992. Video Documentary: Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002.

Frances S. Hasso
Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies, Oberlin College, 2000-present, tenured 2005. Education: Ph.D., Sociology, 1997; M.A., Sociology, 1994, and Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies, 1995, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1990; B.A., International Relations, UCLA, 1987.

Service to the Profession: MESA: Program Committee, 2007. Other Service: co-founder, at times co-chair, American Sociological Association (ASA) Caucus on Transnational Approaches to Gender and Sexuality, 2000-present; ASA Sex and Gender Section Nominations Committee, 2005-06; editorial board member, Gender & Society, 2005-07; proposal reviewer, Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; peer reviewer, IJMES, American Journal of Sociology, etc.

Award and Grants: Residency Fellowship, Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, The Netherlands, June 2008; SSRC inaugural conference on Inter-Asian Connections, Dubai, UAE, February 2008; Rockefeller Residency Fellowship, UC Riverside, 2004; American Sociological Association/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award, 2003; Palestinian American Research Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2000; ACOR USIA/CAORC Fellowship, 2000, declined; Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies, 1996; SSRC/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship, 1995.

Recent Publications: Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan, Syracuse Univesity Press, 2005; “‘Culture Knowledge’ and the Violence of Imperialism: Revisiting The Arab Mind,” MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 7, Spring 2007: 24-40; “Comparing Emirati and Egyptian Narratives On Marriage, Sexuality, and the Body,” in Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation, eds. Emory Elliott, Jasmine Payne, and Patricia Ploesch, Palgrave Publishers, 2007; “Problems and Promise in Middle East and North Africa Gender Research,” Feminist Studies, vol. 31, no. 3 Fall 2005: 653-678; “Discursive and Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers/Martyrs,” Feminist Review Issue 81, November 2005: 23-51.