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2008 Program
Session III
Sunday, November 23
11:00am-1:00pm
(NP22) Ecstasy and Violence: Themes in Classical Arabic Poetry
Chair: Dalia Eltayeb, U of Toronto
Jocelyn Sharlet, UC Davis– Violence and Its Alternatives: Bathhouses and Birds in the Poetry of al-Sari al-Raffa’
Ali Hussein, U of Haifa–Thematic, Functional and Narrative Idiosyncrasies in Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Arabic Poetry
Sheila Sheereen Akbar, Indiana U–Mu’aradat al-Muwashshah: Rewritings of Form and Practice
Raymond K. Farrin, American U of Kuwait–Invitation to Ecstasy: The Khamriyya of Ibn al-Farid
(NP32) Marriage and the Family: Case Studies
Chair: Angel M. Foster, Ibis Reproductive Health
Sara Pursley, CUNY Graduate Center–Family, Sexuality and the Uses of Time: The Iraqi Personal Status Law of 1959
Martin Latreille, Inst de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain–What If There Were No Lineages?: FBD and 'Close' Marriage in a Tunisian Peasant Community
Heidi Morrison, UC Santa Barbara–The Race to Become an Adult versus the Child Entering the Psychological Family: Changing Notions of Childrearing and National Identity in Egypt, 1900-1950
Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman, Open U of Israel–Jewish Polygamy in Yemen and in Palestine
(NP33) Middle East Economics and Finance
Chair: Bassam Yousif, Indiana State U
Robert Olson, U of Kentucky–Turkey’s Relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), 2003-2007: New Paradigms?
Sema Kalaycioglu, Isik U– GCC and the Turkish Economy
Akli Khenous, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor–Evaluating the 1980s Algerian Economic Reforms and Their Impact on Unemployment and Economic Growth
Brian Mann, U of Texas at Austin–Arab Tribes and Persian Communists: The Abadan Oil Workers’ Strike of 1946
Kristin Smith Diwan, American U–Islamic Finance and Islamist Mobilization in the Petro-Welfare States
(NP40) French Colonialism in North Africa
Chair: Joy A. Land, U of Connecticut, Stamford
Joshua Schreier, Vassar Col–Civilizing and Conquest: Indigenous Jews and Military Strategy in 19th Century French Algeria
Colette Apelian, Woodbury U–Negotiating the City: Revisiting Urban Preservation in French Colonial Morocco (1912-1956)
Amal Ghazal, Dalhousie U–The ‘Arab’ Berber: Salafi Berbers and the Making of Algerian Nationalism
Muriam Haleh Davis, UC Irvine–“Amis du Progrès”: Muslim Subjectivity in Colonial Algeria and Contemporary France
Roger Deal, U of South Carolina Aiken–Celestin Bonnin: A Frenchman in the Ottoman Police
(NP61) Music, Experience and Identity
Chair: Hengameh Fouladvand, Center for Iranian Modern Arts
Reem Hilal, U of Wisconsin-Madison–Constructing an “Outlandish” Narrative of Self: The Role of Music in Muslim Experience
Daniel Gilman, U of Texas at Austin–Popular Music and National Identity: The Case of “Shababiyya” in Egypt
Laurence Moftah, American U in Cairo–Ragheb Moftah and Coptic Music
Galeet Dardashti, U of Texas at Austin–“Sing us a Mawal”: The Politics of Culture-Brokering Palestinian-Israeli Musicians in Israel
(NP65) Seeing Society under the Late Empire and Early Turkish Republic
Chair: John M. VanderLippe, New Schl for Social Research
Hale Yilmaz, Southern Illinois U–Petitions and Petitioners in the Social History of the Early Turkish Republic
Pinar Ozyurek, U of Chicago–The Formation of Children as Recognized Modern Subjects during the Tanzimat Era: The Analysis of the Ottoman Children's Journals (Mumeyyiz (1869) and Arkadas (1876))
(P014) Café Riche: Reflections on 100 Years of a Modern Egyptian History
Organized by Roger Owen
Chair: Roger Owen, Harvard U
Discussant: Hanan Sabea, American U in Cairo
Dina K. Hussein, Georgetown U–Reading Modernity through Café Riche (1908-): Serving Modernity, Catering to the Intellectuals and Closed to the Masses
Alia Mossallam, American U in Cairo–Making Sense of the 1960s: Riche as a Space for the Construction of an Alternative National Imagination in Egypt
Hoda Baraka, American U in Cairo and Mohamed Fahmy Menza, American U in Cairo–Downtown Cairo and Cafe Riche: The Sailing Vessel
Lina Attalah, American U in Cairo–Remembering Riche: An Oral History Perspective
(P016-I) Authoritarianism, Opposition and Elections in the Middle East, Part I: Electoral Authoritarianism in the Middle East
Organized by Nathan J. Brown and Lisa Blaydes
Chair: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford U
Discussant: Samer Shehata, Georgetown U
Lindsay Benstead, Princeton U–Legislative Representation as Bargaining in Multiple Arenas: How Incumbent Preferences Shape Member Behavior
Nathan J. Brown, George Washington U–Elections without Democracy: Semiauthoritarianism and Voting in the Arab World
Tarek Masoud, Yale U–Why Do Important Social Movements Seek Representation in Powerless Legislatures?
Ellen Lust-Okar, Yale U–The Impact of Elections on Social Organization in the MENA
(P027) Public Dilemmas, Private Spaces in Middle Eastern Cinema
Organized by Nadia G. Yaqub
Chair: Nadia G. Yaqub, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Josef Gugler, U of Connecticut–Fundamentalism on Screen
Yaron Shemer, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill–Screening Terrorism in the Cinemas of the Middle East
Michael J. Rulon, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill–The Veil as Public Space in Ferid Boughedir’s A Summer in La Goulette
Nadia G. Yaqub, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill–Forbidden Marriages, Forbidding Marriage: Love and Politics in Palestinian and Israeli Documentary Films
(P036) Politics, Culture and Communication in the Contemporary Middle East: Contestations and Struggles for Power
Organized by Dina Matar and Lina Khatib
Dina Matar, SOAS, U of London–Syrian Broadcasting: The Battle for Regional Power and Culture
Lina Khatib, Royal Holloway, U of London–The Politics of the Image in the Middle East
Helga Tawil Souri, New York U–The In/Visible Politics of Arab Film
Marwan M. Kraidy, U of Pennsylvania–Nationalism, Gender and Reality Television: Superstar, Star Academy and the Lebanon-Syria Media War
(P041) Everyday Political Engagements: State-Society Relations in the Middle East
Organized by Amaney A. Jamal
Chair: Lisa Anderson, American U in Cairo
Michael Herb, Georgia State U–Political Participation, Rentier Labor Markets, and Economic Diversification in Kuwait and the UAE
Melani Cammett, Brown U–The Politics of Welfare in a Plural Society: The Spatial Logics of Service Provision in Lebanon
Mirjam Künkler, Princeton U and Roja Fazaeli, Trinity Col Dublin–Female Ulama in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Agents of Change or Preservation?
Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U–The Limits of Political Culture: Support for Political Authority in the Arab World
(P048) Israeli Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy after the Annapolis Conference
Organized by Robert O. Freedman
Chair/Discussant: Robert O. Freedman, Johns Hopkins U
Pierre Atlas, Marian Col–Israeli Domestic Politics after Annapolis
Oded Haklai, Queen’s U (Canada)–Patterns of Israeli Settler Resistance after Annapolis
Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv U–Israel, Syria and the Palestinians after Annapolis
Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv U–Israel and Iran after Annapolis
Elli Lieberman, Baltimore Hebrew U–Israel-Hezbollah Deterrence Equation: Has Deterrence Been Restored?
(P049) Male Writers, Female Characters in Turkish Literature
Organzied by Burcu Karahan
Chair/Discussant: Walter G. Andrews, U of Washington
Kemal Silay, Indiana U–The Ottoman Poet-Lover and the Gaze
Burcu Karahan, Indiana U–The Ideal Woman and the Femme Fatale: Reading Archetypal Female Characters in Nam¦k Kemal’s Novels
Hulya Yildiz, U of Texas at Austin–Representation of Fallen Women in Early Ottoman Turkish Novels
Abbas Karakaya, Indiana U and Sinem Siyahhan, Indiana U–The Crossroads of Gender and Politics: Female Characters in Ahmet Altan’s Novels
(P057) Forgers of Administration
Organized by Marc Aymes and Benoit Fliche
Chairs: Marc Aymes, Zentrum Moderner Orient and Benoit Fliche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Discussant: Will Hanley, Florida State U
Mehmet Safa Saracoglu, Bloomsburg U of Pennsylvania–Reading into Untrue Stories and Ignored Details: Curious Correspondences from the Vidin County Councils in the 1860s and 1870s
Jeanne Hersant-Menares, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg– The “Self Forging” of Turkish Administration as Regards the Settlement of Western Thrace Turks in Turkey
On Barak, New York U–Bottom Line Justice: Forging Signatures in Yawmiyat Na’ib fi al-Aryaf
(P080) Material Development in AFL Classes
Organized Raghda El-Essawi and Dalal Aboel Seoud
Chair: Raghda El-Essawi, American U in Cairo
Nevenka Korica, American U in Cairo–From Handouts to a Coursebook: A Case of Advanced Media Arabic (Course Book for Reading Arabic News)
Raghda El-Essawi, American U in Cairo–A Framework Using Media to Develop Successful Teaching Material for Introducing Vocabulary in AFL Classes
Dalal Aboel Seoud, American U in Cairo–Some Material for Enhancing AFL Students’ Learning Acquisition in Reading and Writing through Thinking Skills
Inas Hafez, American U in Cairo–Some Material for Teaching Spoken MSA for Intermediate AFL Learners
(P090) Reinterpreting the 1948 War in Palestine
Chair/Discussant: Salim Tamari, UC Berkeley/Bir Zeit U
Lawrence Davidson, West Chester U–Truman and Palestine - 1948
Ilan Pappé, U of Exeter–The Vicissitudes of Israeli Historiography on 1948
Walid Khalidi, Inst for Palestine Studies–Was the Yishuv on the Defensive in the 1947-48 Palestine War?
(P099) Displacing Borders: Iraq’s Post-2003 Forced Migration, Part II
Organized by Shamiran Mako, Nabil Al-Tikriti, and Geraldine Chatelard
Discussant: Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U of London
Nabil Al-Tikriti, U of Mary Washington–Catch Basins, Evangelicals, and the Homogenization of Iraqi Milletnicity
Shamiran Mako, Wilfred Laurier U–Right of Return in Transitional Iraq: Normative and Legal Implications
Michael Youash, Iraq Sustainable Democratic Project–Iraqi Refugees and IDPs: Factoring in the Experience of Assyrian Christians
Kathryn Libal, U of Connecticut and Scott Harding, U of Connecticut–Humanitarian Alliances: Local and International NGO Partnerships and the Iraqi Refugee Crisis
Geraldine Chatelard, French Inst for the Near East (IFPO)–Drivers of Global Dispersal: A Longer Term Perspective on Current Forced Migration from Iraq
Hannibal Travis, Florida International U–US Law and Policy with Respect to Iraqi Refugees, 2003-2008
Isis Nusair, Denison U–Gendered Bodies/Gendered Wars: Iraqi Women Refugees in Jordan
Didem Danis, Galatasaray U–Abstaining from a Refugee Crisis: Turkish Policy Towards Iraqi Flight
Ray Jureidini, American U in Cairo–Flight into Egypt: Why Do Iraqi Refugees Go the Long Way?
(P111) Arts of the Book in the Islamic World: Rethinking Categories
Organized by Emine Fetvaci, Boston U
Chair: Persis Berlekamp, U of Chicago
Christiane J. Gruber, Indiana U at Bloomington–Questioning the “Classical” in Persian Painting: Models and Problems of Definition
Aysin Yoltar-Yildirum–Ottoman or Safavid: Examining Qurans Endowed by Selim II and Rustem Pasha
Nina Ergin, Koc U–Rock Faces, Opium and Wine: The Consumption of Persian Manuscripts as a Category of Inquiry
(P122) Questioning Perceptions of Tunisian Women
Organized by Nadia N. Mamelouk
Chair: Odile Moreau, Montpellier III U
Discussant: Julia Clancy-Smith, U of Arizona
Nadia N. Mamelouk–“La Femme d’aujourd’hui”: Changing Representations of Tunisian Women in “Leïla: revue illustrée de la femme” (1936-1940)
Alyson Jones, U of Michigan–Gender and Genre Onstage: Changing Perceptions and Participations of Women Musicians in Tunisia
Douja Mamelouk, Georgetown U–Tunisian Women Return the Gaze: A New Man Emerges
(P126) Islamic Revival and Reform in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Organized by Younus Mirza
Chair: Ahmad Dallal, Georgetown U
Discussant: Dana Sajdi, Boston Col
Nassima Neggaz, Georgetown U–Islamic Revivalism in West Africa: The Reform Movement of Uthman Ibn Fudi
Kifayat Ullah, Georgetown U–Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi: A Precursor of Modern Islamic Movements
Younus Mirza, Georgetown U–The Prohibition of Grave Worship in 18th Century Islamic Thought
Sara Nimis, Georgetown U–Secularism and the ‘Ulema’ in the Biographical Writings of ‘Ali Mubarak
(TC004) Conducting Research in the Gulf: Assessment, Challenges and Future Directions
Organized by Moulouk Berry
Session Leaders: Moulouk Berry, U of Michigan, Dearborn and Frances S. Hasso, Oberlin Col
Manal Jamal, James Madison U
May Seikaly, Wayne State U
May Al Dabbagh, Dubai Schl of Government
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Field Research: What You Should Know before You Go
Organized by May Farah
Chair: May Farah, New York U, Graduate Student Representative to MESA’s Board
Rochelle Davis, Georgetown U–ethnography and oral histories
Bassam Haddad, George Mason U–in-depth interviewing
Richard Martin, ARCE–sensitive topics and locations
Nadya Sbaiti, Smith Col–archival research
Zeena Zakharia, Columbia U–surveys/interviewing
This panel is aimed at graduate students about to embark on their field research. Professors from different disciplines–history, political science, education, anthropology–will discuss their fresh experiences in the field and provide insights and observations that aren’t always evident or anticipated. The director of the American Research Center in Egypt will also be on hand to discuss sensitive topics and locations. A Q&A period will follow presentations.
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