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2008 Program
Session IX
Monday, November 24
5:00pm-7:00pm
(NP20) Nationalism, Sexuality, (Neo)Orientalism
Chair: Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore Col
Wazhmah Osman, New York U–The Politics and Spectacle of Gender and Sexuality Rights: Afghanistan and Iran on the World Stage
Amal Amireh, George Mason U–Between Nationalism and Globalization: Representations of Arab Masculinity in Arab Popular Culture
Mahiye S. Dagtas, U of Toronto–Constructions of Modernity and Religious Subjectivities in Turkey
Iman Abdulrazzak, U of Michigan-Flint–Orientalism and Geraldine Brooks’ Nine Parts of Desire
Omaima Abou-Bakr, Qatar U–Inside the Neo-Imperial Harem: Contemporary Women’s Memoirs and Islamophobia
Minoo Derayeh, York U–Hijab-i Batini (Esoteric Veil) versus Hijab-i Zahiri (Exoteric Veil): Iranian Women Liberated or Oppressed
(NP27) Teaching Arabic in an English Context, Teaching English in an Arabic Context: Pedagogical Issues
Chair: Maysa Hayward, Ocean Col New Jersey
Jeremy L. Palmer, U of Arizona–Student Perceptual Change Regarding Spoken Arabic after Living in Country: New Data about Acculturation and Linguistic Competence in Study Abroad Programs
Ilham Nasser, George Mason U–Teaching and Learning under Occupation: The Case of English Language in Palestine
Gerald E. Lampe, National Foreign Language Center–Culture Proficiency Guidelines, Testing, and Training with an Arab Culture Focus
(NP57) In and About Palestine
Chair: Ala Al-Hamarneh, CERAW/Mainz U
Suheir Daoud, Coastal Carolina U–The Trapped Palestinian Minority in Israel: Between Citizenship and Nationalism
Omar Tesdell, U of Minnesota–Development, Religion and Modernity in Israel-Palestine
Timothy Seidel, Mennonite Central Committee–Development, Religion and Modernity in Israel-Palestine
Polly Pallister-Wilkins, SOAS, U of London–The Wall as a Representation of Power in Israel and an Alternative Discourse
Adina Friedman, George Washington U–Unraveling the Right of Return: IDPs, the Invisible Link
Ghada Al Madbouh, U of Maryland–“Coexistence with Them is Possible but Partnership is Not”: An Inquiry into the Struggle between the Palestinian Authority Fatah’s Elites and Hamas over Governance
(NP67) Historiographies
Chair: Nurten Kilic-Schubel, Kenyon Col
Will Smiley, U of Cambridge–Interest and Identity Formation in Eighteenth Century Syria
Nahid Mozaffari, New York, NY–The History of Slavery in Iran: Methodological Problems and Gaps
Tia Wheeler, U of St. Andrews–The Foundations of Early Timurid Historiography
Michael J. Reimer, American U in Cairo–An Egyptian Nationalist’s View of Ottoman History and Young Turk Politics: Muhammad Farid’s Tarikh al-Dawlah al-`Aliyah al-`Uthmaniyyah
Josh Hoffman, UC Santa Barbara–Creating a Usable Past: Egyptian History Textbooks in the 1920s and 1930s
(P002-II) Dreams in Islamic Societies, Part II: Through the Lens of Mystical Tradition
Organized by Ozgen Felek
Chair: Alexander Knysh, U of Michigan
Discussant: Carl W. Ernst, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jonathan G. Katz, Oregon State U–Dreams and Their Interpretation in Sufi Thought and Practice
Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana U-Purdue U, Ft. Wayne–Behind the Veil of the Unseen: Dreams and Visions in the Classical Sufi Tradition
Ozgen Felek, U of Michigan–(Re)creating Image and Identity: The Self-Fashioning of Sultan Murad III through Dreams and Visions
Meenakshi Khanna, Indraprastha Col for Women, Delhi U–The Dreams and Visions of an Uwaisi Sufi in Awrangzeb’s Shahjahanabad
(P007) Interrogating the Francophone Feminine Imaginaire at the Crossroads of the New Millenium: Contemporary Writing and Film from the Maghreb and Mashreq
Organized by Valerie Orlando
Chair: Valerie Orlando, U of Maryland, Col Park
Joelle Vitiello, Macalester Col–Post-Colonial Identity and Gender in Tunisian Cinema and Theater
Carine Bourget, U of Arizona–Kaidakunna ‘Adhimoun Revisited: Farida Benlyazid’s Keid Ensa and Assia Djebar’s La beauté de Joseph
Valerie Orlando, U of Maryland, Col Park–Feminized Borderless Nations in Contemporary Francophone Novels of the Maghreb & the Machreq
Margaret Braswell, U of Maryland, Col Park–Mother and Adulteress: Village Housewife as Heroine in the Poetics of Lebanese Author and Poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata
(P012) Modernizing Religion
Organized by Monica Ringer
Chair: Monica Ringer, Amherst Col
Discussant: Janet Afary, Keddie-Balzan Fellow, UCLA
Farzin Vahdat, Vassar Col–Islam and Modernity in the Discourse of Sayyid Qutb
Ercument Asil, U of Chicago–Re-Imagining Islam in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire : Namik Kemal’s Mudafaaname and Its Context
A. Holly Shissler, U of Chicago–The Moral Community and the Modern World: Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s Modern Religion
Monica Ringer, Amherst Col–Creating the Modern Citizen: Zoroastrian Religious Reform and the Secular Project
(P035) Three Decades After Revolution: Social Change and Social Transformation in Contemporary Iranian Society
Organized by Roksana Bahramitash
Chair: Roksana Bahramitash, Université de Montréal
Discussant: Frances S. Hasso, Oberlin Col
Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U–Political Discourses in Post-Reform Iran
Paola Rivetti, U of Siena, Italy–The Iranian Student Organization (Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat): From Revolution to Evolution
Golbarg Bashi, Columbia U–Truth Not Self-Evident: Women’s ‘Human’ Rights Movement in Iran
(P039) Under Western Eyes: Arab Performances and Dissident Politics Since 9/11, Part II
Organized by Hala Kh. Nassar
Chair: Edward Ziter, New York U
Discussant: Batool Samir Khattab, Ain Shams U
Edward Ziter, New York U–Independent Theatre and Civil Society in Damascus
Margaret Litvin, Yale U–Shakespeare as Trojan Horse? Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Post-9/11 Odyssey
Rania Jawad, New York U–Palestinian Theater: Self-Representation and History-Writing
(P043) Issues in the Political Economy of Contemporary Egyptian Business Enterprise
Organized by AbdelAziz EzzelArab, American U in Cairo
Chair: Khaled Fahmy, New York U
Discussant: Robert Vitalis, U of Pennsylvania
Kismet El Husseiny, American U in Cairo–The Genesis of the Mortgage Law
SeifAllah Rabie, American U in Cairo–The Privatization Controversy in Egypt: The Case of Banque Du Caire: An Issue of Principle or a Flawed Process?
Francesca Ricciardone, American U in Cairo–Gendering Worker Contestation in Egypt
Bushra A. Tobah, American U in Cairo–Social Responsibility for Social Legitimacy: A Critical View of CSR in Egypt
(P063) Research in Contemporary Morocco: New Anthropological Notes on a Changing World
Organized by Charis Boutieri and Cortney Hughes
Chair/Discussant: Shana Cohen, U of Sheffield
Kristin Pfeifer, Max-Planck Inst for Social Anthropology–The Amazigh Woman in the Process of Amazigh Identity Construction: In Between Praxis and Discourse
Charis Boutieri, Princeton U–Moral Panic about a 'Bled Schizo' and How To Teach in a Morocco of 'Two-Speeds'
Cortney Hughes, UC Irvine–A New “Conception” of Development in Morocco: Reproductive Health Care, Motherhood, and the Reconstruction of Womanhood
Claire Nicholas, Princeton U–Tracing Anthropological Objects: Recovering Disciplinary Histories for a Contemporary Approach to Moroccan Craftsmanship
(P081) Mass Mediations and the Construction of Egyptian Identities
Organized by Magdy El-Shamma’ and Ziad A. Fahmy
Michael Frishkopf, U of Alberta–The Dawr and the Construction of Egyptian Identities: A Song Cycle in Six (Social) Movements
Ziad A. Fahmy, Cornell U–Media Capitalism, Colloquial Egyptian, and the 1919 Revolution
Lucie Ryzova, St. John’s Col, U of Oxford–Intimate Albums: Vernacular Photography among Mid-20th Century Egyptian Youths
Magdy El-Shamma’, U of Alberta–Cairo 30/Egypt 66: State Capitalism, Artists, and National Identity in Film
Walter Armbrust, U of Oxford–Egyptian National Cinema?
(P092) Children of Empire: Locating Youth in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Era
Organized by Emine O. Evered
Chair/Discussant: Kent F. Schull, U of Memphis
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, New York U–Armenian Children as Reservoirs of Memory, Pain, and Hope (1918-1924)
Emine O. Evered, Michigan State U–Children at the Empire’s Margins: Orphans in the Late Ottoman Era
Benjamin C. Fortna, SOAS, U of London–Children, Reading and the Market in the Late Ottoman Empire
(P100) Sufism, Legitimacy and Disease in the Ottoman Empire
Organized by John J. Curry, Sean Foley, and York Norman
Chair: Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee State U
John J. Curry, U of Nevada, Las Vegas–Illness, Disease and Affliction in Sufi Hagiography: Literary Trope or Evidence of Ideological Evolution?
Birsen Bulmus, Georgetown U–Ottoman Notions of Plague: From Mysticism to Social Action
Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee State U–Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya, Legitimacy, and Plague in the Ottoman Empire
York Norman, Buffalo State Col–The Hajj, the Quarantine, and Political Legitimacy under Abdulhamid II
(P112) Sijillat: New Directions in the Use of Islamic Court Records
Organized by Claudia Gazzini
Shauna Huffaker, U of Windsor–Documenting Al-Darb Al-Ahmar: The Cairo Notariate and Constructions of Neighborhood
James E. Baldwin, New York U–Ottoman Military Justice and the Shari’a Courts: Cases from 17th/18th-Century Cairo
Elizabeth Brownson, UC Santa Barbara–Gendered Strategies for Negotiating Child Custody Disputes in Mandate Palestine
Claudia Gazzini, Oxford U–Tripoli Jews in the Shari’a Court
Christian Sassmannshausen, Free U of Berlin–Negotiating Marginality: Islamic Courts and the Representation of Social Order in Late Ottoman Tripoli
(P116) The Global Spread of Saudi Islamism: Wahhabi Masterplan or Accident of Globalisation?
Organized by Thomas Hegghammer
Chair: Marc Lynch, George Washington U
Discussant: Bernard Rougier, Sciences-po, Paris
Thomas Hegghammer, Harvard U–The Saudi Mobilization to the 1980s Afghan Jihad
Stephane Lacroix, Sci-Po-Paris–The “Export of Wahhabism”: A Deconstruction
Laurent Bonnefoy, IREMAM–Salafism in Yemen and Its Saudi Sponsors
Norman Cigar, Marine Corps U–Abd Al-Aziz Al-Muqrin: A Blueprint for Al-Qaida’s Insurgency
Naveed S. Sheikh, Keele U– Pax Wahhabica Revisited: Modus Operandi and Locus Operandi of Riyadh’s Islamic Imperialism
(P136) Identity, Politics, and Conflict in the Middle East
Organized by Andrew Spath
Discussant: Atul Kumar, Rutgers U
Andrew Spath, Indiana U–Sectarian Mobilization and Demobilization in Refugee Populations: Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria
Tim Knievel, Rutgers U–External Interventions & Ethnic Tensions in Post-Conflict States: A Comparative Case Study of Lebanon and Bosnia
Evren Yalaz, Rutgers U–Women as Objects or Subjects? The Headscarf Controversy in Secularist and Islamist Discourses in Turkey
Brian Humphreys, Rutgers U–The Anbar Awakening: Sectarian Identity and the Changing Narrative of Conflict
(RT010) Advanced Turkish: What to Do about Grammar?
Organized by Erika H. Gilson
Chair: Erika H. Gilson, Princeton U
Pelin Basci, Portland State U
Ercan Balci, U of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Ender Creel, ILR
Suzan Ozel, Indiana U
Etem Erol, Columbia U
SPECIAL DOUBLE SESSION
Linguistic and Cultural Exchange in the Wider Persianate Cultural Sphere, Part II
Organized by Franklin D. Lewis
Chair: Franklin D. Lewis, AIIrS/U of Chicago
Sara Nur Yildiz, Deutsche Orient-Institut, àstanbul–R‰vandi’s Instructions in Adab: The Development of a Persian Literary Culture at the Seljuk Court in Konya
Rahim Ra’isnia, U of Tabriz, Iran– ‘Aziz ebn Ardeshir-e Astarâbâdi and His Bazm o Razm
Kioumars Ghereghlou, Ferdowsi U, Mashhad, Iran–Ìrifi Rumi’s Persian Mathnavi Entitled ShŒhnŒma-ye Suleym‰ni
Ferenc Csirkes, U of Chicago–The Turkish Poets of the Shah: The Status of Turkish Language and Literature in the Safawid Realm
Bahriddin Aliev, Inst of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Dushanbe–Sayyido Nasafi, The Poet from Mavaraunnahr
Hassan Lahouti, Islamic Azad U of Mashhad, Iran–Rumi's Masnavi and Its Commentary Tradition in the Indian Subcontinent
Hajnalka Kovacs, U of Chicago–Bedil’s Sâqi-nâma: Toward an Understanding of the Use of Metaphor and Imagery in the “Indian Style”
In the Venture of Islam (v3: 49-50), Marshall Hodgson speaks of “the Persianate flowering” of Islamicate culture at the court of Husayn Bayqara in Herat and subsequently in Safavid Persia, which he compares to the Italian Renaissance. This Persianate efflorescence “set the fashion elsewhere,” particularly in the domains of the Mughal and Ottoman empires, not only in the fields of painting and architecture, but of course in the cultivation of Persian as a vehicle of literary, scholarly and scientific expression. This special double session will explore the processes by which this transnational Persianate cultural tradition was created and sustained over the 13th through the 18th centuries of the Common Era, and the role that non-native Persian-speakers (especially speakers of Turkic languages) played in helping shape and expand this Persianate efflorescence.
SPECIAL SESSION
(S009) Change and Continuity in Lebanon
Organized by Bassam Haddad
Chair: Bassam Haddad, George Mason U
Rola el-Housseini, Texas A&M
Michael Hudson, Georgetown U
Augustus Richard Norton, Boston U
Maya Mikdashi, Columbia U
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