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2007 Program
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19
5:00PM-7:00PM
(NP03) Language Pedagogy and Linguistics
Chair: Hussein M. Elkhafaifi, University of Washington
Sara Hillman, Michigan State University
Acquiring Arabic as a Foreign Language: The Role of Learner Beliefs, Motivation, and Social Networks
Mohssen Esseesy, George Washington University
Evolution of Arabic Prepositions into Interclausal Subordinators
Siham Serry, American U in Cairo
ACTFL Guidelines and Cultural Competence: A Study on Arabic Language as a Foreign Language
Suzanne Massoud, The American University in Cairo
A Communicative Based Syllabus
Ghassan Husseinali, Yale University
Planning and Implementing Portfolios in Arabic Classes
(NP19) Enduring Authoritarianism or Democratization from Below
Chair: Oliver Schlumberger, German Development Institute (DDE)
Dina Shehata, Georgetown University
Islamists and Non-Islamists in the Egyptian Opposition: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation
Arnaud Lenfant, National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium
Building an Islamic Movement under a Secularist Authoritarian Regime. A Case Study from Syria
Sean Yom, Harvard University
Advocating Democracy but Supporting Autocracy: America's Commitments in the Middle East
(NP20) Feminism in Contemporary Egypt and Turkey
Chair: Agnieszka Paczynska, George Mason University
Rabab el-Mahdi, American University in Cairo and Sameh Naguib
A Feminist Movement in Egypt? Different or Non-Existent
Helen M. Rizzo, American University in Cairo and Katherine Meyer, The Ohio State University
New Waves of Dissent in Egypt: The Anti Sexual Harassment Campaign
Esra Birinci, University of Chicago
Egyptian and Turkish Feminisms Compared: The Cases of Nawal al-Saadawi and Adalet Agaoglu
(NP42) Past and Present Islamic Views on Governance
Chair: John Calvert, Creighton U
Sara Nimis, Georgetown University
The Concept of Dustur in the Work of Sayyid Qutb and Mohammad al-Awwa
Delia Cortese, Middlesex University, London (UK)
A Dream Come True: Empowerment through Dreams in the Late Fatimid Period
Dragos Stoica, Concordia University
From Camera Obscura to the Light of Islam. An Analysis of the Modern Muslim Polemics against Ideological Otherness Case Study: Abu al-Alla Mawdudi and Saiyyd Qutb
Farah Kawtharani, McGill University
The Crisis of Modernity in the Thought of an Islamist Thinker: Hassan al-Turabi and the Islamic State
Ovamir Anjum, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Politics, Reason, Justice and the Critique of the Classical Legacy in the Thought of Ibn Taymiyya
(NP53) Forms of Palestinian Resistance: Past and Present
Chair: Yong-Bin Lee, Seoul National University
Polly Pallister-Wilkins, SOAS, University of London
Ruptures in Palestinian Nationalism and Resistance: The Beit Sahour Tax Strike
Nadia G. Yaqub, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reading Gender and Modernity in Palestinian Political Cartoons
Omar Tesdell, University of Minnesota
Cartographic Confrontation: Maps as Palestinian Resistance and Knowledge Production
Rena Barakat, University of Chicago
A Different Kind of Arab Jerusalem: the Jerusalem Fallah, the Hebron Jerusalemite and the Buraq Revolt, August 1929
Jane Power, Simon Fraser University
Settlers vs. the State: Making British Labour Policy in Palestine and Northern Rhodesia, 1941 - 1947
(P013) Performing Identity: Middle Eastern Film, Dance, and Music
Organized by Danielle van Dobben
Chair: Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona
Kamran Talattof, University of Arizona
Persian Dance in Pre-Revolutionary Movies: Seduction, Sin, and Salvation
Sandy Marshall, University of Arizona
Keepin' It Real or Frontin?: Issues of Hegemony, Cultural Imperialism and Authenticity in Palestinian Hip-Hop
Eric McCoy, University of Arizona
Latin Flavor in Turkey: An Exploration of the Rise of Salsa Dancing in Istanbul
Danielle van Dobben, University of Arizona
Islam and Modernity: Dance and Sexuality in the Late Ottoman Empire
(P042) Organized in Honor of Fanny Colonna–Circulating People, Circulating Things, Circulating Ideas in the Mediterranean from Ottoman Days to the Present
Organized by Randi Deguilhem
Chair : Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence
Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona
Narratives of Reform and Piety: Muslim Princes and Catholic Missionaries in Pre-Colonial Tunisia
Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence
Circulating Ideas: The 19th Century Ottoman Public Schools and the Modernization of the Empire
Fanny Colonna, CNRS, EHESS, GTMS, Paris
Trans-Mediterranean Migration: Colonial Mixing and Questions of Identity (19th-20th Centuries)
Fabienne Le Houerou, CNRS, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence
The Circulation of African Refugees in the Arab World: Refugees from Darfur (Sudan) in Cairo
(P047) Death and Rebirth: Explorations of Transference in Armenian Literature from Medieval to Modern Times
Organized by Tamar Marie Boyadjian
Chair/Discussant: Myrna Douzjian, University of California, Los Angeles
Tamar Marie Boyadjian, UCLA
Lament for the City: Characteristic Qualities of the Genre of the Medieval Armenian City-Lament
Janelle M. Pulczinski, UCLA
Suicide as a Rite of Passage in Lewon Shant's Ancient Gods and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Talar Chahinian, UCLA
Narrativizing the Genocide: A Case for Figurative Representation
Lilit Keshishyan, UCLA
Rewriting the Author: A Look at Aghassi Ayvazyan's Sayat Nova, Gogol, and Van Gogh
(P061-II) Arab Diaspora and Collective Memory, Part II: Arts in Displacement
Organized by May Telmissany, University of Ottawa
Chair/Discussant: Rachad Antonius, University of Quebec in Montreal
Malek Khouri, University of Calgary
Memory, and the Reconciliation of Diasporas: Cinematic Trace of Arab National Identity in the Film Forget Baghdad
Michael A. Frishkopf, University of Alberta
Patterns of Literary and Music Consumption and Production in the Arab Diaspora of North America
Mahmoud Eid, University of Ottawa and Aliaa Dakroury, Carleton University
Direct from Homeland to Home: Arab Diasporic Media and the Passage from Al-Watan to Canada
Eman Haram, Visual Artist, Montrèal, Canada
Exiles without Narratives
(P066) Flux in the Construction of Social Categories in the Ottoman Empire
Organized by David Mason
Chair: A. Uner Turgay, McGill University
Discussant: Amelia Gallagher, Niagara University
Faika Celik, McGill University
At the Margins of Poverty: Beggars in Ottoman State Policy and Public Morality (1550-1750)
Eliza Tasbihi, Montreal, Canada
Mevlevi Literature and Its Importance during the Later Ottoman Period: The Case of Anqaravi and His Commentary on Rumi's Mathnawi
Emrah Sahin, McGill University
Travelogues as a Source to Understand Ottoman Islamism: Mirza Abdurrahim Efendi's Islam in America, 1893
David Mason, McGill University
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the Ottoman Empire: Detective Stories and Westernization
(P086) Intellectual Mobilities in and Around the Middle East
Organized by Susan Ossman
Chair: Susan Ossman, UC Riverside
Discussant: Gareth Stanton, Goldsmiths, University of London
Kay Dickinson, Goldsmith's College, University of London
The Travels of Arab Cinema and Scholarship
Susan Ossman, UC Riverside
Intellectual and Academic Fault Lines: Scholarly Migrations and the Changing Map of the Middle East
Yves Gonzalez-Quijano, Gremmo-Universite Lumiere Lyon 2
Imagined Mobilities: Working on the Arab World at the Age of the Internet
Nabiha Jerad, University of Tunis
Intellectual Mobility between the East and the West: What are the Differences?
Fatima Badry, American U of Sharjah
The Shifting Sands of Arabness
(P087) Maghrebian Authors of French Expression at the Crossroads of Past Memories and Present Challenges
Organized by Valerie K. Orlando and Mary B. Vogl
Chair: Valerie K. Orlando, University of Maryland, College Park
Mildred Mortimer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Leila Sebbar: La Seine was Red: Unearthing Hidden History
Valerie K. Orlando, University of Maryland, College Park
Les Conspirateurs sont parmi nous: Confronting the Demons of the Moroccan Past in the Work of Touria Oulehri
Mohammed Hirchi, Colorado State University
Metropolitan Delusions: French Dream and the Art of Denunciation
Lucy Melbourne, Saint Augustine’s College
Reinscribing Patriarchal Erotic Discourse in Morocco: Bahaa Trabelsi’s Novels as Contemporary Gender Parables
(P095) The Sociology of Saudi Politics: New Insights from Field Research
Organized by Steffan Hertog
Chair: Gregory Gause, University of Vermont
Discussant: Bernard Haykel, Princeton University
Stephane Lacroix, Sci-Po - Paris, France
The Double-Edged Role of Islamic Networks in Saudi Politics
Thomas Hegghammer, Princeton University
The Sociology of Saudi Jihadism
Amelie Le Renard, Sciences Po, Paris
Young Women and Space in Riyadh: Changing Ways of Life without Breaking Norms
Steffan Hertog, Princeton University
The Sociology of the Saudi Rentier System: A Society of Intermediaries
(P106) Ottoman Cyprus
Organized by Antonis Hadjikyriacou,and Marios Hadjianastasis
Chair/Discussant: Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Matthew Lubin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Ottoman Sources on the Ottoman Conquest of Cyprus: The Formation of a Campaign History?
Marios Hadjianastasis, University of Birmingham
Upheaval and Consolidation: Cyprus in the Late 17th C. and the Boyacioglu Incident
Antonis Hadjikyriacou, SOAS, University of London
Economic Opportunity on an Ottoman Island: The Case of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus, c.1779-1809
Marc Aymes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre d'Histoire du Domaine Turc (Paris)
Lost in Translation: Observing a More-Than-One-Language Administration
(P112) Gender and Empire
Organized by Martina Rieker and Shahrzad Mojab
Chair: Shahrzad Mojab, University of Toronto
Discussant: Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo
Haifa Zangana, London, United Kingdom
Women Living under Military Occupation in Iraq
Nadeen Z. El-Kassem, University of Toronto
The Pitfalls of a 'Democracy Promotion' Project for Women of Iraq
Nahla Abdo, Carelton University
Imperialism, 'Culture Talk', and Palestinian Women Resistance
Sedef Arat-Koc, Ryerson University
Turkish Feminism, Civil Society and the European Union: Empowered Voices, Silenced Issues
Penny Johnson, Birzeit University
Rights at Last?: Dilemmas of Global and Local Agendas Addressing Violence against Palestinian Women
Mariz Fikry Tadros, American University in Cairo
The Elusive and the Illusionary: Donors' Empowerment Agenda in Perspective
(P120-III) People, Practices, and Meanings in Shi'i and Sufi Rituals, Part III: Negotiating Individual Meaning, Expression, and Practice in Specific Contexts
Organized by Mary Elaine Hegland
Chair: Mary Elaine Hegland, Santa Clara University
Karen Ruffle, University of Miami
The Saddest Story Ever Told: The Women of Karbala as Epic Heroines in South Asian Shi'i Devotional Literature and Performance
Amy C. Bard, University of Florida
Humor and Ritual Critique in South Asian Muharram Rites
Anne H. Betteridge, University of Arizona
Caught Among the Unbelievers: How Pilgrimage Shapes Shi'i Understandings of Sectarian Difference
Ashraf Zahedi, University of California, Berkeley
Negotiating Public and Private Rituals: Filipina Converts' Perceptions about Shiite Rituals
Erika L Friedl, Western Michigan University and Reinhold Loeffler, Western Michigan University
Mourning at Nouruz, Iran 2006
(P122) Refugees, Relief Workers, Expatriates, and Locals in Istanbul during and after World War I
Organized by Elizabeth Frierson
Chair/Discussanr: Jenny B. White, Boston University
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, New York University
Western Woman the Mediator: Constantinopolitan Armenians and Turks in 1920s
Maribeth Mincey, University of Cincinnati
Missionaries, Expatriates, and Discourses of Charity in WWI Istanbul
Michelle Semancik, University of Cincinnati
Reconstructing Tradition, Memory, and Modernity in Istanbul before and after World War I
Elizabeth Frierson, University of Cincinnati
The Shadow City of Istanbul: Refugees before and after World War I
Special Session
(P139) Iraqi Libraries and Archives in a Time of Invasion, Chaos, and Civil Conflict: Status and Prospects
Organized by Jeffrey B. Spurr
Saad Eskander, Director-General of the Iraq National Library and Archive
The Reconstruction and the Modernization of the INLA:
Political Hurdles and Security Challenges
Nabil Al-Tikriti, U of Mary Washington/USIP
Cultural Devastation and the Devaluation of Iraqi Society
Shayee H.A. Khanaka, UC Berkeley
The State of Libraries in Kurdistan
Jeffrey B. Spurr, Fine Arts Library, Harvard U
Good Intentions, Stymied Efforts, and Dimmed Hopes:
Efforts to Rehabilitate Damaged Iraqi Libraries and Archives
(RT008) Doing Research in Libya: Problems and Practicalities
Organized by Claudia Gazzini
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, University of New England
Habib Hesnawi, Libyan Studies Center, Tripoli
Mahmud al-Dik, Libyan Studies Center, Tripoli
Claudia Gazzini, St. John's College
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