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2007 Program
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19
2:30PM-4:30PM
(NP11) Architecture and the Urban Landscape
Chair: Hengameh Fouladvand, Center for Iranian Modern Arts, New York
Babak Rahimi, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Urban Space, Collective Mourning and State Formation: The Case of Postrevolutionary Tehran
Lizabeth A. Zack, University of South Carolina Upstate
Bucolic Towns and Blocks of Cement: Environmental Protest in Jordan
Samar Saremi, McGill University
Identity of Revolution: Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art 1970-1980
Negin Djavaherian, McGill University
Classical Persian Mystical Poetry and Space of Architecture: From 'Attar's The Speech of the Birds to the Poetic and Spiritual Journey through Contemporary Architectural Creation
(NP31) Colonial Policy
Chair: Peter Gran, Temple University
James Goode, Grand Valley State University
Challenging French Policy in the Middle East: James Breasted and American Archaeology, 1919-1935
John M. Willis, University of Colorado
Making Yemen Indian: Rewriting the Boundaries of Imperial Arabia
On Barak, New York University
Information Networks, Techno-Political Chronotopes and the Late Nineteenth Century Egyptian Press
Jonathan Wyrtzen, Georgetown University
Imagining the Nation in Morocco: French Colonial Policy, Arabo-Islamic Nationalism, and Berber Resistance Poetry in the Interwar Period
Martin Bunton, University of Victoria
The Cadastral Survey of Egypt, 1892-1907
(NP52) Constructions of Turkish Nationalism and Identity
Chair: Pinar Batur, Vassar College
Hale Yilmaz, Southern Illinois University
From Vahdettin to Oguz: Turkish Nationalism, Language, and Naming and Renaming of Ships
Umut Ozsu, University of Toronto
'Receiving' the Swiss Civil Code: The Socio-Legal Reconfiguration of 'Womankind' in Early Republican Turkey
John M. VanderLippe, SUNY New Paltz
The Morrison Incident and the Limits of Turkish-American Relations
Joshua Hendrick, University of California, Santa Cruz
Marketized Islam: A Network Approach to New Islamic Activism in Turkey
(P017) Authorial Models and Ancestral Voices
Supported by the ILEX Foundation
Chair: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University
Discussant: Louise Marlow, Wellesley College
Wen-Chin Ouyang, SOAS, University of London
The Carnivalesque in Kitab al-aghani: Poetry and Poets in Adab
Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University
Pre-Modern Arabic Philologists and the New Literary Critics
Olga M. Davidson, Wellesley College
Interlace and Inquisition in Nezami's Khosrow and Shirin
Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego
Heteroglossia and the Sense of an Ending in Persian Diaries: Notes on E-ternad al-Saltaneh and 'Alam
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
Classicizing and the Question of Influence: The Evidence from Persian Poetry
(P019) Gender and Sexuality in Ottoman Studies
Organized by Didem Havlioglu
Chair: Selim Kuru, University of Washington
Discussant: Walter G. Andrews, University of Washington
Dror Zeevi, Ben Gurion University
Sex and Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire
Didem Havlioglu, University of Utah
Reading Early Modern Ottoman Women Poets' Voice
Ozgen Felek, University of Michigan
The Image of Women in Ottoman Dreamworks and Dream Interpretations
Burcu Karahan, Indiana University
From French Decadence to Ottoman Pornography: Mehmet Rauf's Bir Zambak'in Hikayesi
(P023) Israeli Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of the Israel-Hizbollah War
Organized by Robert O. Freedman
Chair: Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University/Johns Hopkins University
Oded Haklai, Queen’s U
The Refocusing of Israeli Domestic Politics after the Second Lebanon War
Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University
Israel and the Arab World after the Israel-Hizbollah War
Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University/Johns Hopkins Univ.
Israel and the United States after the Israeli-Hizbollah War
Pierre Atlas, Marian College
Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution after the Israel-Hizbollah War
Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Gaming for Peace in the Aftermath of the Israel-Hizbollah War
(P028) New Sources and Perspectives in the Study of Modern Libya
Organized by Claudia Gazzini
Chair: Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, University of New England
Discussant: Lisa Anderson, Columbia University
Claudia Gazzini, St. John's College
Law and Society in the Tripoli Medina (1895-1935): A Study Based on the Islamic and Colonial Court Records of Tripoli
Abdullah Ibrahim, Libyan Studies Center, Tripoli
Voices from the Camps: Using Oral History to Reconstruct the Experience of the Italian Concentration Camps in Cyrenaica and Syrtica (1931-1933)
Amal Obeidi, Gar Younis University, Benghazi, Libya
Political Elites in Libya: An Exploratory Study of Elite Formation from 1969 to 2007
Marco Boggero, Yale U
Omar El-Mukhtar: The Formation of Memory and the Case of the Insurrection Group that Bears His Name
(P034) Re-Centering the Hijaz in the Medieval Islamic World
Organized by Paul E. Walker and John Meloy
Chair: Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College
Michael Bonner, University of Michigan
What Happened at 'Ukaz?
Asad Qadri Ahmed, U of Chicago
The Shifting Politics of a Hijazi Elite Family: The Zubayrids during the Umayyad Period
Sandra Campbell, San Diego State U
Rebuilding the House of God
Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago
The Abbasid-Fatimid Rivalry for Control of the Holy Cities and the Hijazi Response
John Meloy, American University of Beirut
Mecca as Sultanate: Making History at the End of the Mamluk Period
(P061-I) Arab Diaspora and Collective Memory, Part I: Narratives of Homeland and Exile
Organized by May Telmissany, University of Ottawa
Chair/Discussant: Rachad Antonius, University of Quebec in Montreal
Walid El-Khachab, York University
The Sufi Exile: Conceptualization of Ghorba and Modern Subjectivity
Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown U
Redefining Identity through Language in the Literature of the Diaspora
Stephanie T. Schwartz, University of Ottawa
Double-Diaspora Experiences in Naim Kattan's Farewell, Babylon and Sami Michael's Refuge
May Telmissany, University of Ottawa
Difference, Displacement and Memory: Literary Narratives of Al-Shatat
Iman Mersal, University of Alberta
Eliminating Diasporic Identities
(P085) Modern Encounters with the Pre-modern in Islamic Law
Organized by Junaid Quadri
Chair: Anver M. Emon, University of Toronto
Walter Young, McGill University
Defining Casuistry in Islamic Law
Robert Stewart, McGill University
Be Leery of Too Much Theory: Reconsidering Islam and Minority Religious Group Rights through a Focus on Long-Term Shari'a Praxis
Jose Abraham, McGill University
The Compulsion of Modernity and Legal 'Reform' in Kerala: The Case Study of Vakkom Moulavi (1873-1932)
Junaid Quadri, McGill University
Transformations of Tradition: A Hanafi Jurist's Appropriation and Naturalization of Reformist Epistemological Themes
(P090) States of Representation, States of Discourse in Contemporary Syria
Organized by Alexa Firat
Discussant: Annie C. Higgins, Wayne State University
Faedah M. Totah, Virginia Commonwealth University
Remembering and Forgetting: Urban Development in Damascus
Nell Gabiam, University of California, Berkeley
Palestine Before the Golan: The Politics of Development in Syria's Refugee Camps
Edith Szanto Ali-Dib, University of Toronto
Shi'i Children's Books: The Formation of Twelver Shi'i Identity, Community and Practice
R. Shareah Taleghani, New York University
On the Question of 'Truth Claims': Contemporary Syrian Prison Literature and Human Rights Discourse
Alexa Firat, University of Pennsylvania
Looking In, Looking Out: Formations of a Literary Discourse in Syria after 1967
(P113) Arabic as a Heritage Language: Current Issues
Organized by Ghazi Abuhakema
Chair: Christopher Stone, Hunter College, CUNY
Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, U of Washington
Linguistic and Cultural Needs of Arabic Heritage Learners
Ghazi Abuhakema, Montclair State University
Heritage and Non-Heritage Students in the Arabic Language Classroom: A Challenge or Blessing?
Zeinab Ibrahim, American University of Cairo
Investigating the Heritage Students Culture
Jehan Allam, American University in Cairo
Heritage Students: What Can Be Offered?
Hana Zabarah, Georgetown University
Heritage Speakers of Arabic: A Survey at Georgetown University
(P117) Film and Politics in the Middle East
Organized by Josef Gugler
Chair: Josef Gugler, University of Connecticut
Discussant: Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
Josef Gugler, University of Connecticut
Middle East Cinemas: Modes of Production, Political and Cultural Critiques, and Aesthetics
Eric J. Egan, University College Dublin
New Voices, New Directions?: Recent Trends in Iranian Cinema
Rini Cobbey, Gordon College
Under the Surface Contrasts: Self-Reference and Reform in Under the Skin of the City
Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford
Politicsploitation in Contemporary Egyptian Films
Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Oxford University
Political Poetics in the Films of Elia Suleiman
(P120-II) People, Practices, and Meanings in Shi'i and Sufi Rituals, Part II: Challenging Social Hierarchies and Gender Identity and Segregation
Organized by Mary Elaine Hegland
Chair: Ashraf Zahedi, University of California, Berkeley
Ingvild Flaskerud, University of Tromsoe
"Hitting Many Targets with One Arrow": Women's Agency in Gender-Specific and Gender-Mixed Ceremonies in Shi'i Iran
Mary Elaine Hegland, Santa Clara University
Moharram Practices in Aliabad, Iran: Challenging Political, Religious, and Gender Hierarchies and Power Monopolization
Negar Mottahedeh, Duke U
Ta’zihey’s Transvestite Effect
Margaret J. Rausch, University of Kansas
Sufi Ritual Practices and Gender Equality: Shaykha Fariha and Her American Sufi Order
Special Session
(P136) Writing the Oral History of Modern Iraq
Organized by Dina Rizk Khoury
Chair: Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
Nadje Al-Ali, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, U of Exeter
Memory, Experience and Truth: The Challenges of Oral Histories
Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
Telling War Stories: War and Remembrance in Iraq
Lucine Taminian, The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq
Excavating Memory: The Challenge of Recording the Oral Histories of Iraqis
(RT007) Rethinking Nationalism and Inter-Communal Relations in Late Ottoman Palestine
Organized by Abigail Jacobson
Chair: Salim Tamari, UC Berkeley/Bir Zeit University
Louis Fishman, CUNY, Brooklyn College
Yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Chicago
Abigail Jacobson, Interdisciplinary Center & Tel Aviv University
Roberto Mazza, SOAS
(TC004) Building Linkages between Civil Society and Constitutionalism in Iran
Organized by Mirjam Künkler, Columbia University
Session Leader: Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse University
Kaveh Ehsani, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ardeshir Amir Arjomand, UNESCO, Iran
Fatemeh Sadeghi, University of Tehran
Ali Rezaei, U of Calgary
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