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2008 Program
Session VII
Monday, November 24
11:00am-1:00pm
(NP09) Fiqh and Gender
Chair: Marcia Hermansen, Loyola U, Chicago
Soraya Saatchi, Wayne State U–Ijtihad: Independent Reasoning and the Empowerment of Women
Saadia Yacoob–Women and Law in the Pre-Modern Middle East: Reconstructing the Lives of Female Jurists (faqihat)
Simonetta Calderini, Roehampton U, London, UK–Contextualizing Arguments on Women Imams in Classical Islamic Sources
Hina Azam, U of Texas at Austin–Identifying the Victim: God vs. the Woman in Islamic Rape Law
Marion Holmes Katz, New York U–Women’s Mosque Attendance and the Construction of Gender in Islamic Law
(NP11) Beliefs Contested
Chair: Mohammad Hassan Khalil, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Matthew S. Gordon, Miami University (Ohio)
Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Catholic U of America–On Almoravid Jurists, Sufi Opposition, a Poisoned Eggplant and Ibn Qasi’s Revolt
A. Nazir Atassi, LouisianaTech U–Did Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Ma’in Obstruct the Spread of Ibn Sa’d’s Tabaqat?
Abed al-Rahman Tayyara, Cleveland State U–Al-Dinawari’s Historical Writing and the Shu’ubiyya Controversy
Heather N. Keaney, American U in Cairo–Tabari, Taha Husayn and the Future of History in Egypt
Bella Tendler, Princeton U–Accusations of Sexual Deviance in Early Islamic Heresiographies
Adam Gaiser, Florida State U–What Do We Learn about the Khawarij and Ibadiyya from Their Coins?
(NP26) Narratives of Incarceration and Escape
Chair: Kamran Talattof, U of Arizona
Marco Boggero–Omar al-Mukhtar and the Construction of a Martyrdom Narrative: Shakib Arslan and the World Islamic Congress
Nima Naghibi, Ryerson U–The Politics of Compassion: Iranian Women’s Prison Narratives in English
Nadine A. Sinno, U of Arkansas–Prison, Madness, and Women’s Space in Two Contemporary Arabic Novels
Amalia S. Levi, U of Maryland–Memory Keepers, Identity Shapers: Tracing Sephardic Women in American Archives
Zjaleh Hajibashi, U of Virginia–Iranian Cinema: Behind the Bars
(NP64) Film Studies
Chair: Elena Andreeva, Virginia Military Inst
Sumru Yildirim, Izmir U of Economics–12th September 1980 Military Coup in Turkish Cinema
Ahmet Serdar Akturk, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville–Filming the (Im)possibility of Reconciliation: Charting New Ground in Turkish Cinema
Hossein Khosrowjah, U of Rochester–The Good, the Bad, and the Singular: Representations of the Afghan in the Iranian National Imagination
Narges Bajoghli, U of Chicago–The Outcasts: Reforming the Internal “Other” by Returning to the Ideals of the Revolution
(P010) Ideologies of Nation and Nationalism: The Peoples of the Ottoman Empire after 1908 and 1923 and Beyond
Organized by Sima Aprahamian
Chair: Hasan Kayali, UC San Diego
Discussant: Erol Ulker, U of Chicago
Sima Aprahamian, Concordia U–Contesting Ideologies and Their Impact on the Peoples of the Ottoman Empire
Nefissa Naguib, U of Bergen–The Weight of Memory: The Case of a Private Armenian Photo Collection in the Diaspora
Rubina Peroomian, UCLA–The Growing Consciousness of Ethnic Identity: A Challenge to the Presumedly Homogeneous Society--The Case of Armenians
(P020) Ottoman Identity: from Osman to the Young Turks
Organized by Christine Isom-Verhaaren
Chair/Discussant: Howard Eissenstat, Seton Hall U
Linda T. Darling, U of Arizona–Ottoman Identity in the Formative Period
Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Benedictine U–The Ethnic Identity of Ottoman Naval Forces in the 15th and 16th Centuries
Karen A. Leal, St. John’s U–Alexander Mavrocordatos and Dimitrie Cantemir: Orthodox Christian Ottomans or Ottoman Orthodox Christians?
Kent F. Schull, U of Memphis–Conceptualizing Difference during the late Ottoman Empire: The Committee of Union and Progress and its Annual Prison Population Surveys
(P025) Modern Political Discourse and Medieval Arts of Persuasion: Continuities and Discontinuities
Chair: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia U
Discussant: Louise Marlow, Wellesley Col
Scott C. Lucas, U of Arizona–Defining Sunnism: The Contributions of Abu Dawud and Ibn Maja
Sebastian Gunther, U of Gottingen–“We Have to Learn from Our Predecessors:” Averroes and Aquinas on Religious and Liberal Education
Ramzi Rouighi, U of Southern California–Masking Politics: The Medieval Caliphate and the Modern State
Neguin Yavari, New Schl for Social Research–The Scaffolding of Good Kingship in Medieval Islamic Political Thought
(P029) Colonial and Postcolonial Development: Health, Humanitarianism, and “Knowledge Economies”
Organized by Sherene Seikaly and Hanan Kholoussy
Chair: Nadya Sbaiti, Smith Col
Discussant: Omnia ElShakry, UC Davis
Sherene Seikaly, Georgetown U–“Food for All Under Control”: Nutrition and Colonial Development in Palestine
Hanan Kholoussy, American U in Cairo–Decolonizing Development: The Medicalization of Marriage in Semi-Colonial Egypt
Ilana Feldman, George Washington U–From Relief Work to Development Assistance: CARE in Gaza, 1955-1967
Fida Adely, Georgetown U–Developing Knowledge for the Knowledge Deficient: Educational Development
(P060) Arab Thought in the Post-Liberal Era, 1939-1975
Organized by Yoav Di-Capua
Chair: Will Hanley, Florida State U
Discussant: Gretchen Head, U of Pennsylvania
Yoav Di-Capua, U of Texas at Austin–The Arab Experience of Existentialism
Alexa Firat, U of Pennsylvania–Writing Reality: Socialist Realism in Syria 1953-1973
Elizabeth Kassab, U of Balamand, Lebanon–Arab Critique in the Late 1960s-Early 1970s
Michaelle Browers, Wake Forest U–Muhammad al-Husayn al-Kashif al-Ghita: Between Najaf and al-Azhar
(P084) Kurdish Political Identity in Comparative Perspectives
Organized by Gunes Murat Tezcur and Murat Somer
Chair: Gunes Murat Tezcur, Loyola U Chicago
David Romano, Rhodes Col–Strategic Choices of the Iraqi Kurdish Leadership
Murat Somer, Koç U–Islam, Nationalism, and Democracy in Turkey’s Post-2007 Kurdish Conflict
Deniz Gokalp, Syracuse U–Caught in the Snare of Violence, Political Islam and Ethno-Nationalism: The New Kurdish Politics in Turkey
Gunes Murat Tezcur, Loyola U Chicago–The Challenge of Kurdish Nationalism: Promises and Limits of Electoral Politics
Mural Yuksel, Koc U–Forced Migration and the Making and Unmaking of Alevi Kurdish Identity in Turkey: The Case of Dersim
(P110) Rethinking ‘Ilm: Science and Society in Egypt and Syria, 1875-1950
Organized by Matthew H. Ellis
Chair/Discussant: Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv U
Aaron Jakes, New York U–‘The Duud Abides’: Colonial Power, Agricultural Science, and the War against Nature in Egypt
Karam S. Nachar, Princeton U–Science and Politics in the Thought of Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar
Matthew H. Ellis, Princeton U–Science, Society, and Struggle in the Writings of Ismail Mazhar
Leonard Wood, Harvard U–Egyptian Legal Education and the Social Sciences
(P120) The Gulf and US Foreign Policy
Organized by Christian Koch
Abdulaziz Sager, Gulf Research Center–Outlining the Parameters for Future GCC-US Relations
Mustafa Alani, Gulf Research Center–The GCC Security Environment and the Requirements for future US Policy
Christian Koch, Gulf Research Center–The Changing International Relations of the Gulf and the Implication for the New US Administration
Giacomo Luciani, Gulf Research Center–The GCC and Energy Policies in Europe and the USA
(P139) Early Modern Istanbul Reconsidered: Communication, Urban Space, and Knowledge
Organized by Nukhet Varlik and Pinar Emiralioglu
Pinar Emiralioglu, U of Pittsburgh–Recasting the Center of the World: Istanbul in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Geographical Consciousness
Ibrahim K. Sahin, Tulane U–Urban Space and Imperial Performance in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul
Nukhet Varlik, U of Chicago–Plague, Medicine, and the State in Early Modern Istanbul (1520-1600)
Betul Basaran, St. Mary’s Col of Maryland–Immigrants as Part of the Social Fabric and Urban Space in Istanbul during the Late 18th-Century
(P145-II) North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of Transformation, Part II
Organized by Yahia H. Zoubir
Chair: Yahia H. Zoubir, Euromed Marseille, Ecole de Management
Haizam Amirah-Fernandez, Elcano Royal Inst–The EU’s Dilemmas in its Southern Neighborhood: Does Anyone Know What to Do?
Clement M. Henry, U of Texas at Austin–The Art of Association in Algeria: The Case of the Union Generale des Etudiants Algerien
Gonzalo Escribano, UNED–Prospects of Economic Reform in the Maghreb: From Stabilization to Modernization
Louisa Dris-Ait-Hamadouche, U of Algiers–Women in the Maghreb: Stereotypes and Realities
Yahia H. Zoubir, Euromed Marseille, Ecole de Management–The United States Strategic Interests in the Maghreb: Democracy Promotion or Securitization of Economic and Military Requirements?
(RT012) Rethinking Islamism in the Middle East: Reform, Participation, and Engagement
Organized by Peter Mandaville and Frederic Volpi
Chair: Peter Mandaville, George Mason U
Nathan J. Brown, George Washington U
Charles Kurzman, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joshua Stacher, Kent State U
Frederic Volpi, U of St Andrews
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, Emory U
(TC005) GIS (Geographical Information System) in Middle East Studies: Present Research and Future Possibilities
Organized by Amy Singer
Session Leader: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U
Ann Evans Larimore, U of Michigan
Gábor Ágoston, Georgetown U
Victor Ostapchuk, U of Toronto
Kay Ebel, Georgetown U
(S003) SPECIAL SESSION
Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library (AMEEL): Looking Toward the Future
Supported by the Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library, Yale University Library
Chair: Ahmad Dallal, Georgetown University
Simon Samoeil, Near East Curator, Yale University Library
Steven Schlosser, Senior Scientist and VERUS Product Manager, NovoDynamics Inc.
Joed Elich, Islamic and Middle East & African Studies Acquistions Editor, Brill Publishers
Elizabeth A. S. Beaudin, Manager, International Special Digital Projects, Yale University Library
This purpose of this special session is to inform and familiarize the academic audience at MESA about the AMEEL project. We will explain our work to date, covering topics such as selection, copyright, and the technical challenges related to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) conversion of Arabic text. We will give a demonstration of search and retrieval from the full text digital repository, which holds digitized journals from the Middle East. We will present the project’s vision statement to the audience and discuss the sustainability plans to form a consortium of interested stakeholders and partners. We hope to engage the audience in a dialog about the project and its future, guided by a set of questions on the interests of Middle Eastern scholars.
(S004) SPECIAL SESSION
Models of Co-existence: A Universe of Possible Solutions in Israel/Palestine
Organized by Sandy Tolan
Chair: Sandy Tolan, U of Southern California
Joel Beinin, American U in Cairo
Juan Cole, U of Michigan
Beshara Doumani, UC Berkeley
Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate Schl
Nadim Rouhana, George Mason U
This session will explore a range of plans, proposals, and dreams, both historic and current, and will include various would-be solutions of two-state, one-state, federation/confederation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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