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2008 Program
Session X
Tuesday, November 25
8:30am-10:30am
(NP06) Imagining Identities in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Chair: Carolyn Goffman, DePaul U
Elif Andac, U of Kansas–Understanding the Dynamics of Assimilation and Diversity in Nation-Building: Institutionalized Diversity in Mardin, Turkey
Michael Ferguson, McGill U–Towards a Social History of Afro-Ottomans: Preliminary Results for the Case of Crete
Devrum Umit, Columbia U–“Holiest of Faiths” is in Conflict with American Evangelism: Sultan Abdulhamid II Counters American Protestant Missionaries (1876-1909)
Günay Göksu Özdogan, Marmara U, Istanbul–From Ottoman Millet to Lausanne Minority in the Republic of Turkey: Armenians Torn between Communal Survival and Civic Action for Democratic Rights
(NP15) Religious Authority Contested, Part I
Chair: Qamar-ul Huda, US Institute of Peace
Gavin Brockett, Wilfrid Laurier U–Buyuk Cihad and the Origins of the Turkish Islamist Press
Meir Hatina, Hebrew U–The Governance of the Jurist: A Sunni Version
Henri Lauziere, Princeton U/Northwestern U–The Origins, History, and Meanings of the Salafiyya
Ahmed Ibrahim, Georgetown U–Gamal Al-Banna’s New Jurisprudence: A Utilitarianist or Liberalist Approach to Legal Reform?
(NP23) Allegory and Metaphor in Classical Arabic Literature
Chair: Majd Yaser Al-Mallah, Grand Valley State U
James T. Monroe, UC Berkeley–Some Remarks on The Book of Kalila wa-Dimna
Ailin Qian, U of Pennsylvania–The Maqâma of Poesie and the Talking Parrot
Annie C. Higgins, Wayne State U–Verse and Obverse: Qatari’s Coin and the Economy of Living
Ching-Jen Wang, U of Pennsylvania–The Trickster in Hamadani’s Maqamat-a Jungian Reading
Thomas Hefter, U of Chicago–Undermined Pseudonymity in the Works of al-Jahiz
(NP48) State and Society in Egypt
Chair: Susanne Olsson, Sodertorn U, Sweden
Evrim Gormus, U of Washington–Amr Khaled: From Islamist Polity to Personal Piety
Omneya Ragab, American U in Cairo–Corporate Social Responsibility: An Engine for Sustainable Development or a Legitimate Conservation of the Status-quo?
Kevin Koehler, U of Tuebingin and Jana Warkotsch–The Politics of Protest Mobilization in Egypt: Kifaya, Worker’s Strikes, and the Dynamics of Contentious Action
Yasser El-Shimy, Boston U–Castles of Sand: The State, the Ulama and Society in Modern Egypt
(NP49) Islamism and Secularism in Turkish Politics
Chair: A. Uner Turgay, McGill U
Sena Karasipahi, Texas A & M U–Islamist Politics and the Rise of the “Muslim Democrats” in Turkey: The Case of Justice and Development Party
Feryaz Ocakli, Brown U–Moderate Islam and Kurdish Politics: Political Party Strategies in Eastern Turkey
Kerem Oktem, St. Antony’s Col, U of Oxford–Limits of Tolerance: Turkey’s Alevis and the AKP
Ete Hatem, Middle East Technical U–Performing Islamist Politics in a Secular State: The Case of AKP in Turkey
Tolga Koker, Yale U–Caught In-Between: Islamists, Secularists and Turkish Public Opinion
(NP51) Global Communications and Public Diplomacy
Chair: Deborah L. Wheeler, US Naval Academy
William Youmans, U of Michigan–Reporters with Borders: US Media Coverage of Al-Hurra and Public Diplomacy in the War on Terror
Foad Izadi, Louisiana State U–Soft Power Factors in US-Iran Relations
Hatim El-Hibri, New York U–We’re All American under the Skin: Reality TV and Cultural Diplomacy
Hayat Alvi-Aziz, US Naval War Col–The Risks of Dependency on the US in the Use of Medical Diplomacy in the Middle East
Yesim Kaptan, Indiana U–The Marketing of Nationalism in a Global World and Cola Turka Commercials
(P013) Challenging Culturalism: Materialist Approaches to Islamic History
Organized by Ulrika Martensson and Steve Tamari
Discussant: Elton Daniel, U of Hawaii
Hoda Elsaadi, American U in Cairo–Marriage and Divorce of Early Islamic Egypt: A Study of Arabic Papyri of the 7th to the 11th centuries
Michele Campopiano, U of Utrecht–Muasama Land Tax: Legal Theory and the Balance of Social Forces in Abbasid Iraq (VIII-X Centuries)
Ulrika Martensson, Norwegian U of Science and Technology–Rule of Law and Centralised Tax System: Al-Tabari’s Remedy for the Abbasid State
Steve Tamari, Southern Illinois U at Edwardsville–Materialist Tendencies in Islamic Thought and the Grand Narrative of Islamic History
(P030) Occidentalizing the Gulf and the Impact on Education, Culture and Women
Organized by Mary Ann Fay
Chair: James Onley, U of Exeter
Discussant: Gwenn Okruhlik, Trinity U
John Willoughby, American U–Let A Thousand Models Bloom: Western Alliances and the Making of the Contemporary Higher Educational System in Gulf Arab Countries
Fatima Badry, American U of Sharjah–Importing Western Curricula to the Arab Gulf: Linguistic and Cultural Identities in the Balance
Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U–Post-Colonial Modernity and the “Woman Question”: The Case of the United Arab Emirates
Eleanor A. Doumato, Brown U–Gulf Women’s Empowerment: The Paradox of Democratizing Reforms under Authoritarian Regimes
(P032) Identity and Integration: The Dilemmas Facing Contemporary Christian Communities in the Middle East
Organized by Fiona McCallum
Chair: Peter Mandaville, George Mason U
Fiona McCallum, U of St. Andrews–Syrian Secular Nationalism versus the Jordanian Neo-Millet System: Constrasting Approaches to the Integration of Christian Communities
Una McGahern, Durham U–Writing the Palestinian Christians of Israel: The Relationship between Israeli Sociology and Minority Policy
Alexander Henley, U of Edinburgh–Militating against Integration: Maronite Identity, the Church, and Lebanon
Nicholas Al-Jeloo, U of Sydney–Fitting into the Mosaic: Assyrians in Post-War Iraq between Secular Nationalism, Federalism and a New Segregated Society
(P034) Manifest Destiny in Israel?: An Ideological and Historical Reassessment of the Settlement Project
Organized by Rebecca Steinfeld
Seth Anziska, Columbia U–From ‘Illegal’ to ‘Obstacles to Peace’: American Policy & Israeli Settlements, 1981-1988
Frerik Meiton, U of Oxford, St. Antony’s Col–From Herzl to Gush Emunim: Israel and Its Settler Movement
Rebecca Steinfeld, U of Oxford–Settler Ideology Redefined: The Case for "Zionized Judaism"
(P037) Memories and Narratives of Cosmopolitan North Africa
Organized by Mario Ruiz
Chair: Shaun T. Lopez, U of Washington
Shaun T. Lopez, U of Washington–Sport and the City: Cosmopolitan Leisure in Colonial Egypt
Mario Ruiz, Hofstra U–Between Memory and Desire: Cosmopolitan Egypt and the Traffic in Women and Children
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams Col–Lost Cosmopolitanism: Literary Recollections of Casablanca and Contemporary Migration Politics
Elizabeth Crouch, U of Washington–In Search of Lost Algiers: The Pieds-Noirs and Anti-Cosmopolitanism in Colonialist Memory
(P040) Iranian Women’s Employment: Myth and Realities
Organized by Roksana Bahramitash
Roksana Bahramitash, Université de Montréal–Veiled Economy: Gender, Class and the Informal Sector in Iran
Goli Rezai-Rashti, U of Western Ontario–Women, Higher Education and Employment Opportunities in Contemporary Iran
Zohreh Niknia, Mills Col (Oakland, CA)–Iranian Immigrant Women Labor Market Strategies: A Complex and Entangled Process
(P045) 20th Century Palestinian Diaries as Social and Cultural History
Organized by Thomas M. Ricks
Discussant: Salim Tamari, UC Berkeley/Bir Zeit U
Thomas M. Ricks, Independent Scholar–Palestinian Schools during the Mandate: The Diaries of Khalil Totah
Kimberly Katz, Towson U–Highlighting a Palestinian Diary from the Margins: Comparative Historiographies
Issam Nassar, Illinois State U–Under Israeli Occupation: The 1949 Diary of Jiryes Salti of al-Baqa’a, Jerusalem
(P091) Political Power beyond the Regime
Organized by Christopher Parker and Nida Alahmad
Chair: Christopher Parker, Ghent U
Discussant: Robert Vitalis, U of Pennsylvania
Nida Alahmad, New Schl for Social Research–Two Years and Multiple Sites of Violence (Iraq: 1987-1988)
Christopher Parker, Ghent U–Tunnel Bypasses and Minarets of Capitalism: Amman as Neoliberal Assemblage
André Bank, Free U Berlin–Beyond the Regime ‘Paradogma’: The Iraq War and local Politics in Jordan
Koen Bogaert, Ghent U–Public Resistance in a Neoliberal Environment. Evidence from Morocco
Sami Zemni, Ghent U–Control through Development. Neo-liberalizing Development and Poverty Alleviation in Morocco: The Case of the National Initiative for Human Development (NIHD)
(P097) Entertainment Industries and the Recent Wars in the Middle East
Organized by Minoo Moallem
Chair: Ella Shohat, New York U
Caren Kaplan, UC Davis–Viewing Iraq: The Colonial and Postcolonial Politics of Aerial Perspective
Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley–Governmentality, Masculinity and Iran-Iraq War Movies
Sima Shakhsari, Stanford U and Niki Akhavan, Catholic U of America–Blogger Wars, Cybergovernmentality, and the Production of Gendered Subjectivities in Weblogistan
(P131) New Trends in Modern Lebanese History and Historiography
Organized by James A. Reilly
Chair: Martin Bunton, U of Victoria
Ziad AbiChakra, U of Arizona–Solid Disagreement: The Contested Space of Lebanon’s World War I Martyrs’ Statues
Malek Abisaab, McGill U–Warmed or Burnt by Fire?: The Lebanese Maronite Church Navigates French Colonial Policies, 1935
Jennifer Dueck, U of Oxford, Corpus Christi Col–Battling for Coexistence: Muslim-Christian Relations in Lebanon
James A. Reilly, U of Toronto–Nation and Community in Historiography of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifiyya
(TC002) Teaching the Teachers, Training the Trainers: Professional Development for Arabic Teachers
Organized by Maggie Nassif
Session Leader: Mahmoud Al-Batal, U of Texas at Austin
Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American U in Cairo
Mahmoud Abdalla, Michigan State U
Maggie Nassif, Brigham Young U
Raghda El-Essawi, American U in Cairo
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