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2007 Program
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19
8:30AM-10:30AM
(NP01) Classical Arabic Genres and Styles I
Chair: Adel S. Gamal, University of Arizona
Bilal Orfali, Yale University
The Art of the Muqaddima: In the Works of Abu Mansur al-Tha'alibi (d. 350-429/961-1039)
Ailin Qian, University of Pennsylvania
Saj' and the Chinese Rhymed Prose
Annie C. Higgins, Wayne State University
Mulayka's Lament: A Woman's Response to War Losses in Shurat (Khariji) Society
Maya Yazigi, University of British Columbia
The Kitab al-Ansab of `Abd al-Karim al-Sam`ani: Revolutionizing a Literary Genre
(NP13) Muslims in Canada: Identity and Family Law
Chair: Josiane Le Gall, CSSS Bordeaux-Cartieville-St. Laurent
Jean-Mathieu Potvin, McGill University and Anne Saris, UQAM
Family Dispute Resolution among Muslim Minorities in the West: Analysis of a Case Study of Muslim Women, Religious Counsellors and Other Actors in Montreal
Richard C. Foltz, Concordia University
Muslims of Montréal: A Distinctive Context within a Global Reality
(NP29) Media and Education in Egypt
Chair: Mohssen Esseesy, George Washington University
Karem I. Said, American University in Cairo
Disciplinary Confluence: Egypt's State Education and Neoliberal Workplace
Mehmet Ozan Asik, Middle East Technical University
Contesting Religious Educational Discourses and Policies in Egypt
Ziad A. Fahmy, Cornell University
Media Capitalism, the Phonograph and Egyptian National Identity, 1904-1919
(NP61) Minority Communities: Identities and Conflicts
Chair: Lina Kassem, Zayed University
Steven C. Dinero, Philadelphia University
Pressed to the Margins: Negev Bedouin Identity Development in a Post-Nomadic Town
Sargon Donabed, University of Toronto
Ethno-Cultural and Religious Identity of Syrian Orthodox Christians
Matthias Lehmann, Indiana University
Sephardim before Zionism: Sephardi Identity between Nation. Millet, and Ethnicity
Rachel Scott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Shar'ia and Personal Status Law: Egypt's Coptic Minority
Paul S. Rowe, Trinity Western University
Crosses on the Nile: Building Coptic Civil Society in Mubarak's Egypt
(NP63) Water and Land
Chair: Hoda Baraka, American University in Cairo
Leena Dallasheh, New York University
Land Rights and Citizenship in the Naqab (Negev)
Stephen Gasteyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Tahreer Abed Araj, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Layering Access-Palestinian Community Management of Water Resources in Context
Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu, McGill University
Decentralization and Democratization: The Case of Water User Associations in Turkey
(P003) The Use and Abuse of Narrative: Constructions and Subversions of Medieval Islamic Authority
Organized by Christine Baker
Chair: Denise A. Spellberg, U of Texas at Austin
Nerina Rustomji, St. John's University
Reinforcing and Extending the Fear of Hell: Narrative Authority and Audience Reception in Ibn al-Jawzi's Kitab al-qussas wa-l-mudhakkirin and al-Qadi's Daqa'iq al-akhbar fi dhikr al-janna wa-l-nar
Anver Emon, Toronto, Canada
Narrative and Identity in Islamic Law: The Non-Muslim and the Islamic State
Christine Baker, University of Texas at Austin
Rebellion and the Rise of the Fatimids: The Crafting of Foundational Narratives
Allen Fromherz, University of Qatar
The Lady of Victory: Tribal Feuds, Perceptions of Legitimacy and the Social Status of Women in the Islamic Near East
A. Azfar Moin, University of Michigan
Emperor Akbar and His Historian Bada'uni: Messianism, Heresy and Historical Narrative in Mughal India
(P037) Turkish-Armenian Relations in the Late Ottoman Empire
Organized by Richard Antaramian and Fatma Müge Göçek
Chair/Discussant: Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan
Ani Degirmencioglu, Vienna University
Revisiting 1908 and 1909: Reconsidering Historiography by Providing Masses with a Voice
Erol Koroglu, Bogazici University
How to Differentiate between the National Movement and Nationalist Ideologies: A Hrochian Approach to the Late Ottoman Era Turkish Nationalism
Richard Antaramian, University of Michigan
Armenians and the Provincial Administration in the Vilayet of Ankara
Yektan Turkyilmaz, Duke University
The Route from Conflict to Catastrophe: The Violent Collapse of Coexistence in Eastern Anatolia, November 1914-April 1915
Hulya Adak, Sabanci University
Aesthetics of Trauma and National Identity in Contemporary Armenian-American Fiction
(P045) Imagining the Couple in Middle Eastern and North African Literature and Film
Organized by Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
Chair/Discussant:Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
Aouicha Hilliard, Randolph-Macon College
Mohammed Dib's Le Sommeil D'Eve: An Anatomy of Love
Sandrine F. Teixidor, Randolph-Macon College
Is Love a Struggle? The Impossible Relationship in The Lovers of Algeria
Mine Eren, Randolph-Macon College
Is Masculinity in Crisis? A Discussion of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Distant (2002) and Climates (2006)
Florence Martin, Goucher College
What's Love Got to Do With It? Couples in Selma Baccar's Khochkhach (2006)
(P050) Beyond ''the Cresent and the Cross'' Metaphor: Rethinking the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman-Habsburg Imperial Encounter
Organized by Tijana Krstic
Chair/Discussant: Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago
Ebru Turan, University of Chicago
The Renaissance, the Roman Legacy, and the Ottoman-Habsburg Imperial Rivalry (1520-1540)
Marya T. Green Mercado, University of Chicago
The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry Viewed through the Prism of Apocalyptic Prophecy
Tijana Krstic, Pennsylvania State University
Confessionalization and the Ottoman-Habsburg Imperial Encounter in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
Pinar Emiralioglu, University of Pittsburgh
Visualising the Center of the World: Geographic Knowledge in the Service of Ottoman Imperial Propaganda in the 16th Century
Baki Tezcan, University of California, Davis
The People of the West and Their New World: The Spanish Habsburgs and the Search for a New Epistemology in the New Report
(P062) Before Nationalism: Land and Loyalty in the Middle East, Part I
Organized by Steve Tamari
Chair: Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
Discussant: Thabit Abdullah, York University
Ulrika Martensson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The Promised Land: The Material and Analytical Significance of the Sawad in al-Tabari's (d. 923 CE) History of the Messengers and the Kings
Zayde Antrim, Trinity College
Watan before Wataniyya: Loyalty to Land in Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria
Boris James, French Institue for the Near East, U of Paris
The Tribal Territory of the Kurds through Arabic Medieval Historiography: Territorial Categories, Spatial Dynamics and Sense of Belonging
Nabil Al-Tikriti, University of Mary Washington / USIP
Was There an Iraq Before There Was an Iraq?
(P073) Minding Others: Intelligible and Post-Orientalist Egyptian History
Organized by Wilson Chacko Jacob
Chair: Wilson Chacko Jacob, Concordia University
Discussant: Mario M. Ruiz, Hofstra University
Michael Allan, University of California, Berkeley
Re-fashioning Moral Subjects: On the Rhetoric of Failure in Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Education
Michael Gasper, Yale University
The Power of Representation: The Middle Class and the Making of the Future in Late Nineteenth Century Egypt
Wilson Jacob, Concordia University
The Subject of Egypt: A History of Gender, Sexuality, and the (Post)Colonial
Samera Esmeir, University of California, Berkeley
Juridicial Humanity: The Human between Ethics and Law in Colonial Egypt (1882-1936)
(P078) Techno-Politics in the Modern Middle East: Insights and Questions from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia
Organized by Cyrus Schayegh
Chair/Discussant: Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
Toby C. Jones, Rutgers University
Authoritarian Effects: Social Science, Technology and the Making of Saudi Arabia
Katayoun Shafiee, New York University
What Kind of Social World Does an Oil Industry Build?: The Case of Anglo-Iranian Oil and the 1933 Concessionary Crisis
Cyrus Schayegh, American University of Beirut
The TVA in Iran: Technopolitics and the US-Iranian Planning of the Dez Dam, 1950s
Jennifer Derr, Stanford University
Colonial Nuts and Bolts: The 1902 Aswan Dam and the Local Embodiments of Colonialism in Upper Egypt
Max Weiss, Princeton University
Lebanese Water and Power: Hydro-Politics, Technical Planning and the Litani Dam Project
(P079) From the Outside Looking In: Foreign Policy Perceptions of the Middle East
Organized by Noa Schonmann
Chair: Marc Lynch, George Washington University
Noa Schonmann, Oxford University
Israel's Periphery Pact: Constructing a New Middle East
Michael J. Willis, Oxford University
Balancing Act: Moroccan Foreign Policy and the Middle East
Joshua Walker, Princeton University/Council on Foreign Relations
The Shadow of the 'Strategic Alliance' on Turkey's Middle East Policy
Seth E. Anziska, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
Forging a Two State Solution: US Foreign Policy Toward Israel and the Palestinians, 1976-1980
DOUBLE SESSION--(Part II "Secularism, Gender, and Islam" will be held at 11am)
(P104) Liberty, Equality, and Islam
Organized by Ellen McLarney
Discussant: Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley
Qudsia Mirza, University of East London
New Directions in Islamic Gender Equality
Ellen McLarney, Duke University
Women's Emancipation in Islamic Writings
Amy Freeman, Hunter College, CUNY
Modern in Morocco: The Trouble with Women's Freedom
miriam cooke, Duke U
Nazira Zayn al-Din between al-Azhar and John Stuart Mill
Vickie Langohr, College of the Holy Cross
The Democratic Deficit and Gender: Do Attitudes Toward Women's Role Affect Levels of Democracy?
(P129) Sharing Sanctity: Veneration of the Family of the Prophet as Non-Sectarian Social Praxis
Organized by Stephennie Mulder and Teresa Bernheimer
Chair: Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Teresa Bernheimer, University of Oxford
Alids and Shi'ites: Early Tombs and Shrines of the 'Alid Family in the Eastern Islamic Lands
Stephennie Mulder, University of Pennsylvania
Eclectic Ecumenism: Sunnis and Shi'is as Patrons of the 'Alid Shrines in Damascus
James Allan, Oxford University
Royal Patronage of the ‘Alid Shrines of Iraq
May Farhat, American University of Beirut
Between Conflict and Assimiliation: The Mashhad Shrine in the 11th and 12th Century
(RT005) Orientalism, Racialization, and the Politics of Knowledge Production about the Middle East
Organized by Thomas P. Abowd and Amira Jarmakani
Chair: Thomas P. Abowd, Wayne State University
Amira Jarmakani, Georgia State University
Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan
Sunaina Maira, University of California-Davis
(TC009) Occupied Spaces
Organized by Elizabeth Frierson
Session Leader: Elizabeth Frierson, University of Cincinnati
Carolyn Goffman, DePaul University
Teresa Heffernan, Saint Mary's University
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