Session II
Sunday, November 23
8:30am-10:30am

(NP10) Interreligious Dynamics in the Middle East

Chair: Ali Bakr Hassan, Ohio State U

Dorota Rudnicka-Kassem, Jagiellonian U–Promoting a Peaceful Coexistence: John Paul II and the Middle East
Mohammad Hassan Khalil, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign–Was Rashid Rida Really a Religious Pluralist?: Reassessing Rida’s Discourse on Salvation
Sarah E. Tunney, New York U–Magical Interreligious Encounters: The Use of Magic by Muslims and Jews as Expressions of Piety in Mamluk Egypt
Sebastian Maisel, Grand Valley State U–The Relevance of History in the Construction of Yezidi Identity in Syria: Two Case Studies from the Jazira and Kurd Dagh
Valerie J. Hoffman, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign–Islam, Human Rights and Interfaith Relations: Some Contemporary Egyptian Perspectives

(NP53) Contending Iranian Discourses

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

Mojtaba Mahdavi, U of Alberta–Three Forms of Public Religion in Iran: Re-Examining Discourses of Ali Shariati, Abdolkarim Soroush, and Ayatollah Khomeini
Ahmad Soltani Nejad, Tarbiat Modares U–Spatial Analysis of Political Participation in Iran using GIS Case study: Presidential Elections from Khatami to Ahmadinejad (1997-2005)
Nadia von Maltzahn, Oxford U, St. Antony’s Col–Syria and Iran: Shared Values? - Cultural Themes between the Two Allies
Afshon Ostovar, U of Michigan–Ideology and Militancy through Revolution and War: Political Islam and the Iranian Sepah-e Pasdaran (1979-89)
Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Georgetown U– Islam, Ideology, and Realism: The Iranian Case

(NP55) New Perspectives on International Relations

Chair: Hayat Alvi-Aziz, US Naval War Col

Debra Shulman, Col of William and Mary–Arab Foreign Policy in Crisis
Federico Velez, Zayed U–Protecting the Gulf from Nasser: Great Britain and the Challenge of Arab Nationalism
Lawrence Rubin, UCLA–Ideology, Power, and Threat Perception: Why States Fear Islamist Regimes
Stacie L. Pettyjohn, U of Virginia–US Policy toward the PLO and Hamas: Isolation or Engagement?
William Jordan, US Department of State–From Murphy to Kouchner: An Examination of the 1988 US and 2007 French Efforts to Help Lebanon Elect a President

(NP58) Palestinian Contentions

Chair: Charles D. Smith, U of Arizona

Paul Scham, U of Maryland, College Park–The Utility of the Study of Israeli and Palestinian Historical Narratives for Making Peace
Julie M. Norman, American U–The Activist and the Olive Tree: Reframing Nonviolent Resistance in Post-Oslo Palestine
Itamar Radai, Truman Inst-The Hebrew U of Jerusalem–The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian-Arab Middle Class under the British Mandate (1920-1948)
Gary Fields, UC San Diego–Enclosure: Landscape in Palestine in an Historical Mirror

(NP62) Islamic Urbanism, 19th-21st Century

Chair: Pinar Batur, Vassar Col

Hanan Hammad, U of Texas at Austin–Landladies and Industrial Transformation in Egypt
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Istanbul Bilgi U–Building a New Elite in an Old City: Urban Construction Activities of a New Bourgeoisie in Istanbul in the Late Nineteenth Century
Mohamed Elshahed, New York U–Cairo and the Question of Urban Duality in Literature

(P005) SERMEISS in the Field: Heritage and Identity from Casablanca to Cairo
Organized by Lisa Pollard

Sponsored by the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar

Chair: Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State U
Discussant: Lisa Pollard, U of North Carolina, Wilmington

Robert Hunter, Indiana State U–Marketing Exotica: Edith Wharton and Tourism in French Morocco, 1917-1919
Donald M. Reid, Georgia State U–Hassan and Sami Gabra: The Politics of Egyptian Egyptology in the Semi-Colonial Age, 1922-56
James A. Miller, Clemson U–Being Out There: Directing CEMAT, 2003-2006
Caroline Williams, Independent Scholar–The Historic Cairo Restoration Program (HCRP): Recent Observations

(P031) The Diversity of Yemeni Poetry
Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco

Sponsored by the American Institute for Yemeni Studies

Chair: Najwa Adra, Hofstra U

Lucine Taminian, The American Academic Research Inst in Iraq–Making Scholars: Noble Science and Poetry in Early Twentieth Century Yemen
Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra U–The 14th Century Almanac Poem of ‘Abd Allah ibn As’ad al-Yafi’i
Yosef Tobi, Haifa U–Yemeni Arabic, Hebrew and Judeo Arabic Poems as Historical Source: A Comparative Study
Sam Liebhaber, Middlebury Col–Rhythm and/or Beat: Reviewing Arabic Prosody in Light of Mahri Oral Poetry
Flagg Miller, UC Davis–A Poetics of Alienation: Yemeni Poetry in the War on Terror
Najwa Adra, Hofstra U–Oral Poetry, Women’s Empowerment and Literacy in Yemen

(P053) Slaves and Freedmen/Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt
Organized by Kenneth M. Cuno

Chair: Arthur Goldschmidt, Penn State U
Discussant: Khaled Fahmy, New York U

Emad Helal, Suez Canal U–Mohamed Ali’s First Army: The Trials of Building a Complete Slave Army 1820-1824
Kenneth M. Cuno, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign–African Slaves in Nineteenth Century Rural Egypt: a Preliminary Assessment
Terry Walz, American U in Cairo–Habashis, Sudanese, Barabra and Egyptians: Living Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Cairo as Shown in the 1847 Census
Liat Kozma, Hebrew U–Black, Kinless and Hungry: Manumitted Female Slaves in Khedival Egypt
Eve M. Troutt Powell, U of Pennsylvania–Slaves’ Bodies, Captured on Film: Photographing Sudanese Slaves in Egypt and Sudan

(P058) Translated Turks: Tanpinar, Karasu, Tekin, Pamuk and the Politics of Rendering Otherness
Organized by Erdag Göknar

Chair: Erdag Göknar, Duke U
Discussant: Walter G. Andrews, U of Washington

Aron Aji, St. Ambrose U– Othering the Other: Translational Structures in Bilge Karasu
Erdag Göknar, Duke U –On Translation and Transliterature in Tanpinar and Pamuk
Maureen Freely, U of Warwick–Misreading Orhan Pamuk
Saliha Paker, Bogazici U–Latife Tekin’s Swords of Ice: A Poetic and Political Manifesto?

(P068) Teaching the Persian Heritage Language Student: Integrating Essential Language Skills
Organized by Susan E. Benson

Chair: Susan E. Benson, U of Washington
Discussant: Firoozeh Papan-Matin, U of Washington

Mehdi Marashi, U of Utah–Integrating Reading and Speaking Persian at the Advanced Level
Latifeh E. Hagigi, UCLA–Teaching Persian Writing to the Persian Heritage Students
Francine T. Mahak, U of Utah–Integrating Culture and Engaging Heritage Students in the Persian Language Classroom
Susan E. Benson, U of Washington –Teaching Listening Comprehension to Persian Heritage Language Learners

(P096) New Approaches to the Muslim Conquests
Organized by Sarah Bowen Savant and Fred Astren

Chair: Michael G. Morony, UCLA
Discussant: Fred Donner, U of Chicago

Jens Scheiner, Freie U Berlin–A New Approach to Deconstruct Conquest Narratives - isnad-cum-matn-Analysis and Fictional Narration
Maged S. A. Mikhail, CSU, Fullerton–Memory and History of the Conquest of Egypt
Fred Astren, San Francisco State U–Jewish History in Conquest Narratives of Early Islam
Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U–Remembering Violence in the Conquest of Iran

(P099) Displacing Borders: Iraq’s Post-2003 Forced Migration, Part I
Organized by Shamiran Mako, Nabil Al-Tikriti, and Geraldine Chatelard

Supported by the University of Exeter

Discussant: Joseph Sassoon, St. Antony's College, Oxford

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

(P128) The New Arab Gulf: Economy, Society, and Foreign Policy
Organized by James Onley

Chair: James Onley, U of Exeter
Discussant: John Willoughby, American U

Mei Zhang, Shanghai Inst for International Studies–Dubai: An Emerging Developmental State in the Middle East?
Christopher Davidson, U of Durham–The Hidden Costs of Dubai’s New Economy
Gerd Nonneman, U of Exeter and Steve Wright, Qatar U –The Emergent Foreign Policy of Qatar
James Onley, U of Exeter–The Cultural Transformation of Bahrain

(P129) Informality, Persistence, and Political Change in the Middle East
Organized by Wendy Pearlman

Chair: Steven Heydemann, US Inst of Peace
Discussant: Tarek Masoud, Yale U

Diane Singerman, American U–Informal Networks Revisited: The Normative Positioning of Informality and Questions of Efficacy in Collective Life
Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U–Emigration as an Informal Political Mechanism: The Case of Lebanon
Manal A. Jamal, James Madison U–Globalization, Migration and Tiered-Citizenship in the UAE
Bassam Haddad, George Mason U–The Role of Informal State-Business Networks in Resilient Authoritarianism in Syria

(P133) The Algerian War of National Liberation Revisited: Competing Narratives, Contested Memories, and New Historical Approaches
Organized by Ryme Seferdjeli

Chair: Hugh Roberts, Society for Algerian Studies
Discussant: William B. Quandt, U of Virginia

James McDougall, SOAS, U of London–Counter-Insurgency’s Grand Designs: Developmental Imperialism and the French Re-Conquest of Algeria, 1954-62
Hugh Roberts, Society for Algerian Studies–A Lost Victory: The Confiscated Historiography of the Algerian War
Ryme Seferdjeli, U of Ottawa–Rethinking the History of Women in the FLN: Competing Narratives and Contrasting Historiographies
Martin Evans, U of Portsmouth, UK–Bitter and Contested Memories: Remembering the War of Liberation in Post-Colonial Algeria

(P134) Breaching Boundaries: Negotiating Memory - and More - in Popular Culture
Organized by Nahid Siamdoust

Chair: Sune Haugbolle, U of Copenhagen
Discussant: Lisa Wedeen, U of Chicago

Bilgin Ayata, Johns Hopkins U–The Battle for Memory in a State of Amnesia: (Re)Creating Collective Identity through Tears and Fears in Popular Turkish TV Shows
Nahid Siamdoust, St. Antony’s Col, Oxford U–In and Out of Tune: Islam as a Contested Idiom in New Iranian Music
Rachael Marks, Simmons Col–Embodied Memory and the Representation of Palestinian Nationalism: An Examination of Children’s Films Produced in the West Bank
Shahla Talebi, Arizona State U–Through the Labyrinth of Silences and Official Memory: Nomads of Culture in Post-Revolutionary Iran

(P147) Perceptions of the Ottoman Legacy in the Balkans and Middle East
Organized by Christine M. Philliou

Chair: M. Sükrü Hanioglu, Princeton U
Discussant: Nur Bilge Criss, Bilkent U

Christine M. Philliou, Columbia U–The Paradox of Perceptions: Interpreting the Ottoman Past through the National Present
Ipek K. Yosmaoglu, U of Wisconsin-Madison–Fighting the Specters of the Past: Dilemmas of the Ottoman Legacy
Edin Hajdarpasic, U of Michigan–Out of the Ruins: Reevaluating the Ottoman Legacy in Bosnia

(RT002) Marketing Muslim Women: The Material and the Spiritual in Religious Consumption
Organized by Ellen McLarney, Duke U

Sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies

Chair: Ellen McLarney, Duke U

Faegheh Shirazi, U of Texas at Austin
Amira Jarmakani, Georgia State U
Marjorie Kelly, American U of Kuwait
Nancy Gallagher, UC Santa Barbara
Noor Al-Qasimi, New York U
Anne Meneley, Trent U