2007 Meeting Program

Saturday, November 17
5:00PM-7:00PM

(NP08) Identity and Nation in Contemporary Maghrebi Literature and Film

Chair: Hedi BenAicha, Curry College

Shaden M. Tageldin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Which Qalam for Algeria?: Wars of Colonialism, Liberation, and Language in Djebar’s L’Amour, la Fantasia and Mustaghanami’s Dhakirat Al-Jasad
Jordan Sudermann, Independent Scholar, Portland, OR
Unpacking Colonialism and Identity in Jean Genet
Irene Siegel, University of California, Berkeley
Forgetting as a Path to Remembering: Intertextual Subjectivity and the Work of Edmond 'Amron El Maleh
Angelica M. DeAngelis, Arab Open University Kuwait
The Myth of the Prodigal Son in Ismaël Ferroukhi's film Le Grand Voyage
Louisa Matmati, University of Annaba, Algeria
Transgressions in Assia Djebar's Writing

(NP10) Sufi Saints and Guides

Chair: Dina Le Gall, Lehman College, CUNY

Shiraz Sheikh, University of Toronto
Rumi's Introduction to the Mathnawi: A Case Study for an Analysis of the Fenarian Synthesis
Lourdes Maria Alvarez, Catholic University of America
Shuhshtari's Guide for Novices: The Risala Ilmiyya fi al-Tasawwuf
Sibel Erol, New York University
Recontextualizing Seyh Galip's Beauty and Love
Saeko Yazaki, University of Edinburgh
Al-Makki's Contribution to Early Sufism: His Influence on al-Ghazali and the Mystical Image of the Heart
John L. Iskander, U.S. Department of State
Making a Saint of al-Shaykh al-Sha`rawi

(NP24) Legal History

Chair: Madeline C. Zilfi, University of Maryland, College Park

Ibrahim Halil Kalkan, New York University
Prostitution in the Late Ottoman Empire
Karen M. Kern, Hunter College, City University of New York
I Will Slander You and You Will Be Imprisoned for Fifteen Years.' Gender, the Law, and Milk Marriage in Ottoman Birecik
Iris Agmon, Ben-Gurion University
Were the Sharia Courts Bypassed by the Reformers of Tanzimat?
Avi Rubin, Ben Gurion University
Public Prosecution during the Late Ottoman Empire: The Voice of the State
Kent F. Schull, University of Memphis
Children and Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918

(NP26) Art and Politics

Satoshi Kawamoto, University of Tokyo
Court Ceremonies of Rum Seljuk and Their Spaces
Karin Ruehrdanz, Royal Ontario Museum
Adjusting to Changing Legitimization Strategies: The Bukharan Court Atelier in the Later 17th Century
Darin N. Stephanov, University of California, Los Angeles
Crowns, Swords, Thrones and the Like - Symbolic Deployment of Regalia in the Defense of Autocracy in the Late Ottoman and Russian Empires

(NP34) Andalucian Perspectives

Chair: Allen Fromherz, University of Qatar

Dalia Eltayeb, University of Toronto
Andalusian Women between Fact and Fiction and the Question of Imagined Identities
Eric M. Staples, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moriscan Corsairs: Contested Identity in Seventeenth Century Morocco
Catherine E. DeLong Malloy, Catholic University of America
The Lead Books of the Sacromonte: A Study of Language as Power
Josie Hendrickson, Emory University
Prohibition of the Pilgrimage: A Fatwa from Late Nineteenth-Century Fez
Lutz Richter-Bernburg, University of Tübingen, Germany
Franks, Slavs and Other Denizens of the Exotic North: A View from Umayyad al-Andalus
Justin Stearns, Middlebury College
Placing al-Andalus in History: Andalusi Historical Self-Representation

(NP43) Security Concerns in the Middle East

Chair: Kemal Silay, Indiana University

Haggai Ram, Ben-Gurion U
Constructing Palestine and Lebanon as Zones of Emergency: Israeli Images of the Iranian Threat
Oren Barak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Assaf David, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Why the Security Sector in the Arab States is Understudied and What Can Be Done About It
Naomi Weinberger, Colgate University
International Contributions to Promoting Human Security in Palestine
Carolyn Smith, Ohio State University
The Kurds, Turkey and NATO: Did NATO Obligations Decrease Turkish Military Attacks against the Kurds?
Thomas W. O'Donnell, University of Michigan
The Political Economy of Iranian Oil: U.S. Sanctions and Iran's Nuclear Gamit

(P014) Blurring the Lines: Nationality and Public Space in British Egypt
Organized by James Whidden

Chair/Discussant: Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Will Hanley, McGill University
Foreign and Local Traffic in Turn-of-the-Century Alexandria
Carmen M.K, Gitre, Rutgers University
Acting Egyptian: Theater and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cairo
Shane Minkin, New York University
The Graveyards of Imperialism: British Cemetaries in Alexandria, Egypt, 1917-1972
James Whidden, Acadia University
Out of Place: Egyptians in Foreign Schools

(P026) The Crowded Field of Political Contestation in Turkey
Organized by Nicole Watts

Chair: Resat Kasaba, University of Washington
Discussant: Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College

Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University and Gilles Dorronsoro, Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
Electing Mehdi: Local Politics and Social Coalitions in 1970s Diyarbakir
Elise Massicard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS
Negotiating Pressures from Above and Below: Local Party Politics in Adana
Emre Öngün, IREMAM
Self-Limited Radicalism: Left-Wing Politics and the Lawyers of the Istanbul Bar Association
Hootan Shambayati, Bilkent University
Elections and the Militarization of Politics in the Middle East

(P051) Old Muses, New Voices: Remaking and Reclaiming Iran in the Emerging Literature of the North American Iranian Diaspora
Organized by Persis M. Karim

Chair: Persis M. Karim, San Jose State University
Discussant: Nasrin Rahimieh, UC Irvine

Amy Motlagh, Princeton U
Towards a Typology of Iranian-American Life-Writing: Nahid Rachlin and the Story of An Iranian Woman Caught between Two Cultures
Jasmin Darznik, Princeton University
A Second Exile: The Legacy of Forough Farrokhzad among Writers of the Iranian Diaspora
Nima Naghibi, Ryerson University
Exotic Autobiography Or the Making of New Subjectivities?: The New Generation of Diasporic Iranian Women's Memoirs
Babek Elahi, Rochester Institute of Technology
Iranian(-American) Literary E-Zines: Virtually Reinventing Cultural Identity

(P059) Reading Places: Space in Modern Arabic Fiction
Organized by Nader K. Uthman and Yasmine Ramadan

Chair: Dina  Ramadan, Columbia University

Elizabeth Holt, Columbia University
Encountering French Genderings of Space in Arabic Narrative Fiction: 1870-1914
Noha Radwan, Columbia University
Nubian Fiction Beyond Damning the Dam
Yasmine Ramadan, Columbia University
Yusuf Idris and the National Imaginary: The Geographic and Linguistic Spaces of Cairo
Nader K. Uthman, Columbia University
A Storied Exile: Displacement and Subjectivity in Modern Arabic Fiction

(P074) Resistance and Compliance: Protestant Education and the Complexities of the Ottoman World
Organized by Nancy L. Stockdale and Carolyn Goffman

Chair/Discussant: Ellen Fleischmann, University of Dayton

Emine O. Evered, Michigan State University
Local and Imperial Perceptions of and Responses to Missionary and Foreign Schools in Territories of the Late Ottoman Empire
Carolyn Goffman, DePaul University
Challenging the New and Noble Vocabulary: Student Resistance to Protestant Educators
Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas
Contradiction and Control: Nazareth and the Arab-British Missionary Encounter, 1848-1918
Elizabeth Brownson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Protestant Missions, Education and Political Influence in Palestine from the Late Ottoman Period to the British Mandate

(P080) Roles of Intellectuals in Medieval Muslim Societies
Organized by Tsugitaka Sato, Waseda University, Tokyo, Takeshi Yukawa, and Kentaro Sato

Chair: Takeshi Yukawa, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Junichi Taniguchi, Kyoto Women's University
The Ulama and Political Power
Nobutaka Nakamachi, Japan
Medieval Arab Historiography and Social Practice: Al-'Ayni and His Chronicles
Kazuo Morimoto, University of Tokyo
Al-Samhudi on the 'Ilm and Nassab': A Reading of the Jawahir al-'iqdayn
Kentaro Sato, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Introduction of the Nativity of the Prophet Muhammad (al-mawlid al-Nabawi) in al-Maghrib: Non-Muslims and an Intellectual in 13th Century Ceuta
Kazuhiro Shimizu, Japan
The Craft of Knowledge: Islam and Knowledge According to State Secretaries

(P082) Christians of the Middle East: Interrogating Identities from Orientalism to the Diaspora
Organized by Hakem Rustom, London School of Economics

Chair: Anthony Shenoda, Harvard University

Magi Abdul-Masih, St. Mary's University
Jesus, a Palestinian Jew? Christian Theology and the Palestine/Israel Conflict
Hakem Rustom, London School of Economics
Armenians in Turkey / Christian-Turks in France: Reflections on the Turkish-Armenian Migration to France
Adel Iskandar, University of Texas at Austin
Indigenizing Orientalism? Reflections on the Mediated Self-Portrayal of Coptic Orthodox Christian Identity

(P088) Afghanistan: Cultural Transformations in War, Displacement, and Reconstruction
Organized by Zuzanna Olszewska

Chair/Discussant: Wali Ahmadi, University of California, Berkeley

Zuzanna Olszewska, University of Oxford
Two Kinds of Exile: Visions of Afghanistan in Refugee Poetry in Iran
Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University
Women, Displacement, and Clandestine Afghan Schools in Iran
Sarah Kamal, London School of Economics and Social Science
Gender and Media Reconstruction in Afghanistan
Antonio De Lauri, University of Milano-Bicocca
Power and Authority in Formal and Informal Justice

(P099) The Implementation of Federalism in Iraq: The Internal Debate
Organized by Reidar Visser

Liam Anderson, Wright State University
The Federal Constitution of Iraq in Comparative Perspective
Reidar Visser, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Federalism and the Iraqi Shiites: The Non-Sectarian Trends
Fanar Haddad, University of Exeter
Misconception of Iraqi Nationalism: Baghdad, Federalism and National Identity
Ronen Zeidel, Haifa University
Sunni Resistance to Federalism in Iraq: A Bridge Over Stormy Water?
Joost R. Hiltermamn, International Crisis Group
Do Iraqis Favor Partition? A Field-Based Approach

(P111) Mediterranean at Large: Islam in a Transhistorical Context
Organized by Nouri Gana

Chair: Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
Discussant: Michael Bonner, University of Michigan

Adnan A. Husain, Queen's University
A Faithful Sea: Placing Islam in a la longue durée of Mediterranean Religious Culture
Nabil I. Matar, Florida Institute of Technology
The Arab in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Ariel Salzmann, Queen's University
Huntington Does Braudel: Moriscos, Migration and the Early Modern Mediterranean Reconsidered
Nouri Gana, UCLA
Andalusian Demarcations: Modalities of Cultural Coexistence in Multilingual Arab Literature

Special Session
Debating The Arab Human Development Report 2005: Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World
Organized Frances S. Hasso

Azza Karam
The UNDP Arab Human Development Report: An Outcome or Process?
Hossneya M.H. Gad, Birzeit University
What is New in the Arab Human Development Report on Women?
Fida Adely, Georgetown University
Education as Crisis and Cure: Woman and Education in the Arab Human Development Report
Frances S. Hasso, Oberlin College
Empowering States and Neo-Liberal Transnational Governance Rather than Women: Comments on the Arab Human Development Report 2005
Heba R. Ezzat, Cairo University
Women, Islamism, and the Future of Democracy in the Arab World
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
The Dangers of the Circulation of a Transnational Dialect of Rights

Thematic Conversation
Teaching Arabic Post 9/11: Opportunities, Challenges and New Trends
Organized by Maggie Nassif

Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, Brigham Young University

Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American University in Cairo
Maysa Abou Youssef Hayward, Ocean College, NJ
Ghassan Husseinali, Yale University
Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University
Ghassan Husseinali, Yale University